#beasts of sky and sea

[yinjiyang]

Beasts of Sky and Sea

@heartsurpluss // Dion

If there was even an ounce of strength left in his body, he might consider pushing away from the safety of another's arms. He might consider thrashing against the show of comfort, screaming until his lungs crumbled in his chest about what he does and doesn't deserve.

Had he even one single breath of power to lift himself, he would.

But he doesn't.

Foreign arms hold him tight, in all their warmth and safety and promise. "I've got you. I'm not letting go."

Yes, so it seems. And Dion deserves none of it.

"What's happening?" He asks in lieu of protest, because what he feels is unimportant in the midst of pure and utter chaos. What he feels is unimportant in the face of danger, in the face of his people --

Or to anyone, at all, ever, for any reason at all.

"I need - I have to -" but the words fade in the back of his throat. He can hardly keep his head up or his eyes open, and he has no choice (he never has a choice) but to put his trust and faith in the arms that hold him and the man that whispers comfort to the far reaches of his battered soul.

"I'm not letting go."

And his heart, oh how it cries.

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       Following the fall of Oriflamme's mothercrystal, the once calm sea surrounding Drake's Head became an impassable tempest.  An insult to injury following the horrors that befell the people within the Empire capital's walls.  Could one really call this a triumph?  Felling the mighty Bahamut?  The death of an Empire?  The reveal of Ultima's influence?  Though knowing they must leave, a trio of heroes would find journey treacherous.  And just how had a wounded prince found himself within the tumultuous currents bathed in fallen aether?   The reasons were unknown; that was certain was that he had been separated from allies in the wake of his fall.

       Yin had felt it--Leviathan had felt it.  He felt the echoes of the fallen mothercrystal before, but none so resonant as Drake's Head, the mothercrystal of Light, the dragon of the skies had fallen.  In a world before time, Leviathan had once considered Bahamut his mirror, a divine beast of light and sky to balance his seas of darkness.  Perhaps that was why he took this one so personally, perhaps that was why the shattering of the blooming crystal had shattered the wyrm's own spirit--he could not control it, the pain of the loss bursting forth in a maelstrom of chaotic tides, gales, and torrential downpour.  Survivors of Oriflamme's Massacre could not determine if it was the wind howling or truly some new horrible monster bellowing cries of a sorrow so agonizing one may swear its spirit had been ground to dust.  

       It had been nigh centuries since Leviathan had transformed and Yin made no efforts to suppress it, knowing full well that the pain had to be released, knowing it was easier to just live as one with their shared misery.  A disturbance in the water may have easily gone unnoticed amid the uncontrollable crashing of waves--and it would have, had there not been that one...tiny...spark accompanying the body that sank below the surface.  Immediately, Leviathan recognized it, latched onto it like a tiny flicker of hope igniting an entire flame, a beacon lit within the darkness as he swam toward it at furious speed, snatching the fallen prince gently within his jaws and rushing to the surface, ultimately to the shore to gently place him upon the banks.

       As Leviathan regressed to his human state, the storms began to calm, his arms wrapping around the torso of Dion LeSage to drag the prince further onto land until he collapsed backward, holding the man's back to his chest, patting a palm carefully but firmly over his sternum to draw out any water that did not belong in those lungs and, once life had been confirmed, just...completely broke down, hugging the prince so very tightly as he rocked slowly, gently, as though echoing a kinder tide.  "I've got you, you're highness.  I've got you..." he murmured, broken but hopeful through his tears.  "I'm not letting go."  And he wouldn't, oh no, he wouldn't.

      Once Dion spoke--a question, just a simple question--what was happening...Yin did not know precisely how to respond.  "...you survived..." he managed to answer.  "...and I am...very happy you did..."  He did not bother to ask if the man was all right, or if he could stand; he already knew the answer.  Instead, he carefully shifted his position to stand on his own, lifting the prince within his arms, keeping his promise still not to let him go.  "We need to get you some place warm and dry..."  Because in Dion's weakened state, the last thing he needed was to become sick from the wet and cold.

[markerslinger]

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[piplupcola]

A compiled a lot of the other studio's characters into one poll because there weren't a lot of options between them, some studios only had kids in their movie, some studios also don't exist anymore (RIP Blue Sky) I probably missed a lot of them but these are the ones I could find.

[allovertheatlantic]

oh i wish i was the moon / so that i might be with you / one more time / i wish i can disappear / because i know i can’t stay here / with or without you

hannibal (2013 - 2015), 306 “dolce” ; 309 “and the woman clothed with the sun…” ; 311 “...and the beast from the sea”, created by bryan fuller / happy (2016), mitski / i wish i was the moon (2021), ewan j phillips

[gilfrespecter]

Listening to coinstar by the growlers and thinking about mel so hard I get nauseous

Ridiculous stream of conscious in the tags apologies but not really

[jammiedoggo]

Little sailors

Description: Across the journey through the sea. The team crew's companion pets is on balcony on front deck, feeling breeze from windy and sunny weather.

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[spearxwind]

Hi Alex! I was wondering, since there's leviathans of all fuck off sizes, are there other species in this world? Like Wyverns that can fly above and swan dive to say hi to their leviathan buds?

Hiya! There arent any dragons if that is what youre asking, nor any other massive species.

Besides the leviathans and all the regular sealife, fauna in CD is mostly avian (primarily seafaring birds and jungle fowl on the islands)

There are some bigger birds around but they are nowhere near as big as the leviathans are. I think the max size for birds would roughly be around cutter class sized (the smallest leviathan class), and those DO dive for fish like ospreys, though leviathans might chomp at them if they get too close (the same would happen with wyverns too)

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As a note, there's a non-lore adjacent reason for it too, it's that I do not want the focus to shift away from the ocean and the leviathans. If I made giant flying things there would have to be logistics around that and I would not want them to interfere with what I already have.

Though now that I'm thinking about it, it could be really swag to have hunters who ride on big birds (I am immensely biased), though as much as I like it idk if I can make it work without pulling too much focus from the CD vibe haha

[ivyssaigasdoodles]

Maisie Brumble doodle from Sea beasts 🪸

[askvectorprime]

Dear, Vector Prime.

Is there any Cybertronian that transforms into pearl oyster?

Dear Mollusk Multitasker,

One comes to mind: the Predacon, Hardshell, who served as part of the crew of the Wave Breaker under general Shockaract and alongside the likes of Waterlog and Sky-Byte. She was known for being particularly concerned with jewelry, which she used both to adorn her body and dazzle her foes on the battlefield. Unfortunately, she went down with the Wave Breaker when it sank beneath the waves of the Quicksilver Sea.

In other realities, Hardshell was instead known as Margarita, and was a friend of fellow shellformer Destron, Dead End, before joining Gigatron's Destrongers. She was left behind to oversee the theft of energy from an aquatic world before the Destrongers traveled back in time to Earth, circa the year 2000.

[hauntingblue]

Just thought about something for a second: shanks is so fucking sketchy. He warned shirohige about blackbeard and to stop ace and look at what happened. Also now he is talking to the gorusei about luffy (probably about his fruit (joyboy/nika if I assume right) bc he was the one who found it) and now imu is after him, shirahoshi (poseidon) and vivi (who knows something about the weapon mariejoa holds bc of her family's history with the place), blackbeard is still a menace but because of having two fruits or because of being a d? Both? And what does that make him a menace at ancestral weapon level (like the others)? I have so many questions. Why does shanks like luffy but still warns the gorusei about him. Why do they respect him. Why did they let him stop marineford. Why is he so powerful. Why is he a yonkou. Shanks is key to all this and I DON'T KNOW WHY

[fancyhats-and-fennelsbuds]

Umpteenth rewatch of The Sea Beast.

My heart clenches everytime i come to hear the lines "You dishonour me, my Boy." Followed by an as much painful "...i don't know you."

Wowie Man... Augustus dumpster fire the III

[goddess-of-graphite]

The Great Notes App Exodus: Gothic Dragons

Gotham has always been protected by a Dragon, even before it was ever Gotham.

There was a way about the land Gotham stood upon, that was all twisted magics and darkness and feral energy that never quite fit in man’s modern world. America had but one Guardian Dragon - except for Gotham, which was near a law and country unto itself.

Gotham was a sanctuary for the supernatural, but it was not kind. Those non-humans who risked its dark streets were the brave, or the foolish, or the terribly desperate. Gotham was a dark city, and it’s people adapted or were driven out.

(But should a threat ever come for her, all of Gotham would rise up in response.)

So Gotham had its own Guardian, but the Dragon guarded the world outside from Gotham’s brutality just as much as it shielded Gotham from those that would rend her apart.

But, of course, Dragons were only so many, and new blood must be brought in - human blood, as it often was, and so the trend of Dragon blood “skipping” a generation emerged.

And the bloodline of the Guardian Dragons of Gotham withered, bit by bit, because it is far easier to kill a human of dragon blood than it is to kill a Dragon of human descent.

(And Bruce Wayne has never hated this truth of the world more - because his parents had been Skipped, human, and if they had been dragons, they’d still be there with him.

But they weren’t.

It was just Bruce, a fledgling Dragon, and the butler left to care for him.)

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Although Gotham had only ever had one Guardian Dragon, it had at one time had a whole lineage of Dragons capable of taking up the mantle. As the Dragons intermarried, however, more and more lines broke off with human kin, occasionally producing dragons.

But the Guardian Line had been reduced to one untrained hatchling. And that hatchling didn’t much care if it was a Dragon or a dragon that was Guardian of the city, just that there was someone to Guard it.

The problem is, of course, that the hatchling needs training - but he cannot get that in Gotham.

So he leaves.

He comes back ready to pull his city back from the brink, by force if (when) necessary.

Here’s the thing - Bruce is no Dragon, because for all that he is the last of the Guardian line he doesn’t adhere to the rules of that duty.

A Guardian’s duty is to the supernatural beings they protect.

Bruce has already decided that that is not enough. Human or Magical Being, if no one else will step in, then he will.

Bruce might have been the Gotham Dragon, but that didn’t mean he was the only dragon in the city.

The thing about dragon blood is that it tended to turn up dragons unexpectedly in families that had been mostly human. A dragon ancestor could have human children, and their children have human children, and then a dragon. It was a recessive trait when introduced into human bloodlines, and especially if it was paired with yet more human lines, but it also was tellingly stubborn - a human may only have a single draconian ancestor hundreds of years back, but they could still unexpectedly turn up a dragon hatchling.

It was just sheer dumb luck that a bunch of said unexpected hatchlings turned up within the span of the same generation.

[eleanorjusticenature]

[wolfvirago]

@crownshattered / @crownshattered-moved- midna and robin - from this.

Even if Robin wanted to reveal her true feelings, she didn't exactly know what they even were yet. She knew, deep down, that she wanted Midna safe and sound. It just felt like she was being stupid by envisioning that end goal as the three of them together in Hyrule.

This world had nearly killed the Twilight Princess before. Robin had run through the chill of rain trying to save her friend, aiding her brother by slaying the monsters that impeded their path to the castle tower. But that had been back then.

The shifter snorted at Midna's little comment. Right. Even if she was going to be genuine and bare her heart out to the princess, she was going to get the usual sass in return. It should have been expected.

"The night time has always been easier for you to handle, yeah?" Robin changed the subject softly, looking from imp to the sky, watching the stars dazzle and shimmer.

Just then... A light. Streaking across the night. Robin gasped quietly, and like a child, beamed as she looked to Midna again.

"A shooting star! C'mon, make a wish."

[hellenhighwater]

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Icarus: The Sun, The Sky, The Sea.