#but he was supposed to

[greeenchrysanthemums]

Just binge-read the entirety of the GG rivals lore and it’s so up my alley. Medieval royalty AU with compex morality, questionable alliances, bittersweet relationships, and most importantly; women with swords? Sign me up!

Anyways, I have an actual question too lol. Aside from Etho, did any other characters activley fight in the war? From what I understand most other characters either had more guardian-like positions, jobs entirely outdide of the battle, or became knights after the war was over, etc. But was anyone other than Etho activley and regularly in the battlefield?

I'm glad you are liking it so far!

As for your question, there were actually two major conflicts between Wintertide and Coral Crest.

Out of the main cast the only ones who were actively on the battlefield during the first war were Etho and Skizz; and Skizz was a combat medic, which meant that he did very little fighting, if any at all. He would either treat people at the base camp, or he would do first aid directly on the field if the person could not be moved safely. It was actually during his time on the battlefield that he lost his ability to fly after being caught in an explosion while trying to treat someone and losing part of one of his wings.

After 7 years, a truce was made, and the fighting was put on pause. During this time Etho left the army.

8 years later the truce was broken, and war broke out again. By this point Gem had joined the army and was already a knight, and a skilled one at that, so she actually did fight in this one. Scott did as well, and to a lesser extent so did Impulse. Impulse was still mostly stationed within the capital or the castle itself, though. This conflict lasted a much short amount of time than the other had, only 2-3 years compared to the previous 8, so their active combat experience is definitely not as extensive as Etho's, but it is there.

Fighting in the war and showing unmatched leadership/strategic skills, as well as being the one to make the peace negotiations that would eventually create the next truce, was actually what got Gem her royal commander position.

None of the Coral Crest characters we know were ever actively on the battlefield other than Lizzie herself, and she did no fighting. She went onto the battlefield to do peace negotiations towards the ennd and that was it. It was the same for Joel. He is Lizzie's guard, so where she goes, he goes, and he only fights if her life is in danger.

[teaboot]

Sometimes I think a lot about my mom's cat

My mom's cat is a common domestic shorthair we found on the side of the road as a kitten

Regular cat, not a maine coon or one of those massive breeds. His mom was smaller than a loaf of bread

But in a sort of a Clifford The Big Red Dog situation, he grew super fast, and really really big, and took a super long time to stop growing

Worried that she was overfeeding him, she eased back his portions, but he stayed a massive round baby

When he started having kidney problems, she took him to the vet.

The vet took a look at him and said, "holy fuck, what are you feeding him", checked the nutritional listings on his chow, and told her "Yeah, maybe he's reacting badly to the amount of grain in this, try a meatier diet"

So my mom wound up special-ordering this specific high-protein prescription cat food made of like. Kangaroo meat or some shit that cost like sixty bucks a bag

And, as typical act two in an episode of House, he somehow got worse on the fancy specialized stuff that was supposed to be Primo Athlete Olympic Feline Blend

Like. WAY worse. His guts were inflamed and his kidneys were shutting down and he was all sore and HE WAS STILL HUGE, just miserable and sad

So shetook him back to the vet, where they had to help him pee (he was apparently close to bursting and had some kind of blockage too) and went "Yeah no this is NOT normal and we don't know what's going on, we're gonna do some tests but in the meantime you should go back to what he was eating before, at least that wasn't actively killing him" so she did

And he still wasn't great, but he also improved

And so they take his blood and do an ultrasound and a couple g's later she gets a call back like "this is gonna sound crazy, but we want you to put him on a low-meat diet. Just the least amount of protein and iron and shit. We need you to find the grainiest, filler-iest dollar tree kibble available and give him some of that bad bad shit"

And my mother is a woman of science. So she did

And he GOT BETTER

His energy picked back up, inflammation went down, he started drinking normally again, got back to pissing like a fuckin champion

And so it turns out that out of all the random ass freeway bonus cats we possibly could have scooped out of a ditch, WE got the one-in-a-million freak of nature with a SPECIFIC genetic defect that means a paleo protein free range diet is essentially poison and he THRIVES on cheap ass garbage

Like. He medically NEEDS junk food

I dont really understand how that works, but i cant argue with results.

If we had four of him, they'd outweigh my mom. And he's FINE

Also blind, but that's unrelated

Im not using him as a symbol or a metaphor or anything. I just keep catching myself thinking about my mom's Big Fucking Cat

[kiryuing]

[wolfythewitch]

My beautiful princess

[qiinamii]

new guy in the Express

bonus:

adding more to the whimsy

[soapbbox]

Like does the high guard know about what’s been going on or

Technically a continuation of this

[kuronekoartsblog]

I offer you: Tim Drake being absolutely demolished in a way or another for being good at videogames, both by his opponent and his own teammate

Recently this is the only thing capable of pumping some dopamine in my ADHD brain so this is what u get lol

More to come!

[evgar]

nicky loves putting flowers in his mama's hair, naturally whenever rio is around she makes sure to grow the prettiest ones for them

[bleepzip]

heartless?

[lazylittledragon]

some beach babes i started while i was on holiday <3

[magentasnail]

I'm absolutely obsessed with the book of bill, best thing i've ever read and it no joke gave me actual nightmares !! 100/10

[aficionadoenthusiast]

jason's 13 years at the super disciplined camp and several years as a leader of said camp mean it is very unlikely that he is any shade of feral, except for maybe a few minor idiosyncracies that all camp jupiter kids have because they all spent time at the wolf house, but since they all have these traits, they might be considered cultural rather than feral. however, annabeth chase, who was famously left alone until she was seven and was raised by an ancient greek horse man that used to live alone on a mountain, a barely sober god of mental illness, several other mythical beings based on animals, and approximately 37 different traumatized, exhausted, and desperate teenagers at an unregulated summer camp where she learned how to be scary by studying greek monsters, would definitely be somewhere near feral.

[mynnthia]

was talking with a friend about how some of dunmeshi fаndom misunderstands kabru's initial feelings towards laios.

to sum up kabru's situation via a self-contained modernized metaphor:

kabru is like a guy who lost his entire family in a highly traumatic car accident. years later he joins a discord server and takes note of laios, another server member who seems interesting, so they start chatting. then laios reveals his special interest and favorite movie of all time is David Cronenberg's Crash (1996), and invites kabru to go watch a demolition derby with him

[nipuni]

"I am a higher dimension life form, I am a complex space-time event"

A step by step process of this will be available at my Patreon next month, you can find prints of my work at my Store 😊

[dovewingkinnie]

i liked when dr harley sawyer was messing with u like a mouse type of guy to put u in a maze and watch u collect seeds

[gin-juice-tonic]

remembering one of the times i was getting evaluated by a therapist to determine if i was "really trans" or not or whatever and he was like "so if you transitioned to male, how would you dress differently?"

and i was like "i.. dont know. I wouldnt?"

and he looked at me blankly and wrote something down and said "really? you wouldnt wear anything more masculine?"

and i realized i'd given the wrong answer so I just said "I would... wear... suits?"

and he smiled and wrote something else down like "ah! yes"