#calus

[sabbathism]

the Verticality of Devotion

my piece for the @finalityzine ! so proud to have been a part of this and to be featured alongside so many powerhouses of art

[crispy0nion]

hey it's the mailman. yeah i have more text posts. no i won't run away this time i promise

[soultheta]

Misery Loves Company!

[thisdastampdoesnotexist]

[reindork-games]

Season Of The Fishy

[mordyy]

[theforsakenprince]

really really love how Destiny handles the topic of redemption and redemption arcs, because Destiny doesn't even bother with the question of "Have they earned it?" and instead asks "Do they want to change?"

For all the chances Calus has been given to turn back on the path he's on by us and even his own daughter who he abused, he never does. He's stuck in his ways and adamant that he's correct and dies for it, forgoing all the chances he's been given. Savathun was given a literal second chance with becoming a lightbearer, but chooses not to change a single thing.

Meanwhile, Eramis seems to be taking that chance (albeit very slowly lmao). She's at the other end with Calus during Beyond Light, but the deeper she finds herself in with the Witness, she starts to realize this isn’t what she wanted at all (personally I believe it started with seeing her dead eliksni friends being turned into scorn as a “gift” but it could easily be a multitude of things) and she takes the hand that Eido and Mithrax hold out to her. She’s done horrible things, of course, but it wouldn’t be a redemption if she hadn’t. Eramjs just needed to realize what she’d done and have the capacity to change.

[tacticalgrandma]

This bit keeps sticking with me, when it comes after the Witness's "We know pain. Our purpose is its end," which comes after Rohan's "Pain reminds us that we're alive, that we're still fighting." Lightfall starts off with the Witness being this unstoppable, untouchable force, that unmakes Ghosts and Guardians with a literal flick of its wrist. And then the rest of the expansion sets up why it just kind of sucks at what it's pretending to be.

Osiris defines the Light as being the physical, and doesn't just link the Darkness with the immaterial—he links it with thought, memory, emotion, soul. The Witness is a being of Darkness, and Darkness is the nature of being alive. Darkness is emotion, fear is Darkness, pain is Darkness. The Witness speaks and portrays itself as emotionless, above it all—but Calus makes it angry. Mara and Eramis see its sadistic wrath, turning Eramis's friends into Scorn in punishment. Rhulk's lore book shows it blatantly manipulating a deeply disturbed and unstable person, playing on his anger and pain. The Witness is not a deity, it is not a force of nature. It is a being of emotion that does not wish to be emotional, that sees emotion as weakness and vulnerability. It has all of existence at its fingertips and Calus is more creative, more imaginative than it, just because he lets himself want.

The Witness gave us Stasis, the element of control. It could not anticipate or defend against Strand. Calus, this narcissistic, hedonistic, failure hit on a weak point of the Witness. It can't accept, it has to control, and being alive means letting go sometimes. It is afraid of pain and failure and it sees that fear as failure. It fights the river.

[spartanlocke]

[lavenderarts]

Feeling pretty much back to normal so I finished off these refs for Amara I've had in the drafts for a hot minute!! Really dig this style of ref layout

Good evening to evil women only

[savyir-genesizz-the-wizard]

my army of nonbinary homunculi, guardian

[vendrudale]

Ohno

[thefirstknife]

that other ask reminded me - I remember hearing somewhere that Calus' forces on the Leviathan were original mindless (or near-mindless) clone soldiers, does that hold true for the Shadow Legion?

Yeah, a lot of the Calus' forces were clones! Not all, but a decent chunk of them, both in the past with Loyalists and then with the Shadow Legion as well.

Let's revisit one of the most messed up lines back from Haunted about the Royal Baths on the Leviathan, aka the cloning facility:

The Crow: I'm picking up something weird under the — wait. This isn't water. It's a protein slurry. There's Cabal DNA mixed in this and — Calus: Ah, yes. I suppose calling these "baths" is a bit of a misnomer. They are built atop a cloning facility where my Loyalists are engineered. What you are standing in is the liquefied remains of failed experiments, which was fed to their unborn kin. The Crow: I suppose that makes sense. I can't imagine anyone willingly serving you.

Yeah.

[soultheta]

Disciples, in terms of Chadness:

[torobatl]

Happy pride month :)

[flowers-of-io]

The Young Wolf, explaining how to capture the various Vanguard's Most Wanted: Had to take on Ghaul and Eramis with brute force. Marched Nokris and Calus here at gunpoint. Omnigul was enticed by the prospect of a singing contest. I chloroformed Praksis in his lab. Variks caved into peer pressure, Spider caved into Glimmer pressure… and I just asked Savathûn nicely.