#cure sunfire

[kirric-the-fan]

Got distracted putting together the outfit of another of the Cure Royales.

This time it's Cure Sunfire, the Firebird cure. If Steady's outfit is inspired by Cure Black, then Sunfire's is by Shiny Luminous.

Now I wasn't expecting to go yellow on the skirt, but this was what worked.

[justporo]

Like a cat in the afternoon sun

A/N: Idk, I just vomited up this drabble because I needed to get into a writing headspace I guess. It's not proofread because I need to get to other stuff but hope you enjoy a short drabble about Astarion enjoying his time in the sun. ~~~

Astarion lay relaxedly in the grass. Arms behind his back, to prop up his head to better soak up the warm rays of sun on his face. His legs angled and one ankle placed on the knee of the other leg. He drew lazy circles with his foot up in the air.

You could swear you could even hear a delighted sigh and see him take in a deep breath before he loosened it with his chest visibly falling slowly. He'd told you he didn't need to breathe once. But it seemed that filling his lungs with air before letting it all out again with a contented hum still had as much of a relaxing effect on a vampire as it had on you.

Just a few weeks back you would have never thought to see him like this - soaking up the sun like a cat lazing about in the afternoon. But Astarion had made leaps with feeling comfortable around you and the others - maybe even trust you.

At first his eyes had always seemed to flit around, watch everything and everyone to always pick up on possible threats as early as possible. He was still terribly scared and distrustful mostly. Of course he was. Your adventure was far from over and your quest for a cure far from done. Not to mention that freeing him from his master had climbed up very high on your list of priorities too, now that you knew of the horrors he'd had to endure before all this.

But somewhere in between he had found these moments to take a break, however short and small it might be. Just some room to breathe. A spot to bask in the warm daylight he hadn't felt on his skin in more than 200 years.

And a way to open up, let you in - if only a little, one small step at a time.

You tiptoed over to him, careful not to disturb his moment of peace and knelt down next to him while paying attention to not announce yourself by blocking out his precious sun.

It was delightful to see him like this. A warm feeling filled your chest as you watched him enjoy a quiet moment. If it was up to you, you'd find a way to always offer him moments like this.

In a sudden urge you felt you leaned over and pressed a kiss to his lips.

The vampire hissed and immediately went to push himself up, eyes flying open. But he relaxed again when he realised it was just you. He simply clicked his tongue in disapproval and sank back down again and closed his eyes once more.

That also might have been part of the process: some time ago you might've had a dagger between your rips now.

"You're blocking my sunlight, you little scoundrel," Astarion said in annoyance but with a smirk that told you that he was just messing with you.

"Sorry," you simply said and watched how the vampire observed you with one of his ruby eyes opened again.

"It will probably happen again," you continued when he had just closed his eye and settled in for sunbathing again. Lightning quick you pressed another kiss to his lips.

But this time the rogue was prepared and his arms quickly grabbed you and pulled you to his chest and held you there. You yelped.

"Rude!" the vampire exclaimed and wrapped his arms around you.

"I fear you need to be punished for your crimes," Astarion continued and wiggled you around in his arms until you were snuggled up against his side, your head resting in the crook of his neck.

"Oh?" you simply made as you tangled your legs with the vampire's.

"Yes, laying with me until we have to keep going to teach you not to disturb a vampire enjoying his rare moments of sun," Astarion explained and squeezed you close to him to show you that there would be no getting away.

"Sounds fair," you replied and snuggled a little closer still while you felt the rumble of Astarion's soft laughter shake through your body.

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[fallenaphelion]

Greetings Demon Slayer fandom! I will preface this by saying I’ve never watched the show or read the manga, but I’m obsessed with the characters and thus my brain has produced Ideas™️!

And thus, I give you an unholy combination of Demon Slayer and specifically the universe of Kimetsu Gakuen! I’ve been given the thumbs up by people who have watched the anime, so I think I’m doing good! Maybe. Possibly. There’s a chance.

Anyway-

Class 1-A and Aizawa and All Might (And Present Mic for reasons) take a field trip to Shiri Island to visit Kimetsu Academy for a bit, because Headmaster Ubuyashiki and Principal Nezu have struck a deal. There, they meet Class 1-1, who they are supposed to train with, and their homeroom teacher, Tomioka Giyuu.

Class 1-1 Roster (Hero Names subject to change)

Tanjiro: Sunfire

Zenitsu: Lightning Rod

Inosuke: Boar King

Aoi: TBD

Kanao: Serendipity

Genya: Buckshot

Muichiro: Mistwalker

Yuichiro: Moonshadow

Sabito: Jackrabbit

Makomo: TBD

Senjuro: Blaze

Hakuji: Frostfist

Rui: Threadmaster

Gyutaro: Mantis

Ume: Futodama

Teachers

Gyomei: Stoneheart: Ethics Teacher

Sanemi: Zephyr: Math Teacher

Giyuu: Wavebreaker: Homeroom Teacher

Obanai: Serpentine: Science Teacher

Kanae: Gossamer: English Teacher

Uzui: Flashbang: Art Teacher

Rengoku: Inferno: History Teacher

Mitsuri is not yet a teacher, as she only just graduated, but her Hero Name is Heartstring.

As for Shinobu, she’s part of Kimetsu’s Big Three, alongside Murata and Yushiro.

Now, onto the storyline so far!

So, classes meet, and apparently Giyuu and Aizawa have the exact same teaching style. It’s honestly a little disconcerting for their students, seeing basically a clone of their homeroom teacher from another school.

Now, I am a fan of Erasermic, so obviously that a thing here, and it’s 100% the reason why Yamada is present, but I also have plans. See, Class 1-1 has been on a mission since the start of the semester, and they are not giving up easily. Their mission, you may ask?

Getting Mr. Tomioka and Mr. Rengoku together. (Rengiyuu shippers rejoice)

It’s been… Less than successful thus far, unfortunately.

What about the villains, I hear you asking. What are they up to?

So-

Demon abilities aren’t actually the same as quirks. One of them is a result of experimentation in an effort to cure a genetic condition, and the other is a result of evolution. Not that All for One is aware of this. He’s been hunting after Muzan’s “quirk” for the past few centuries, and is the whole reason demons haven’t expanded beyond Shiri Island.

They’ve been taking potshots at each other since the dawn of quirks, and while the heroes are getting their slice of life parent trapping experience, the villains are in an all-out war with each other. So much so that they don’t even have time to deal with the heroes.

I’ll post more about this AU if ppl are interested in hearing more.

[raayllum]

Do you think have a probability of Sol Regem have a redemption?

That's a good question! To be honest, Idk but I lean towards no, overall.

Redemption arcs are usually kicked off by events that create epiphanies (and subsequently remorse) but with only two seasons left, idk if Sol Regem would be prioritized to have that kind of time in the story? Especially when 1) he's working with Karim who decidedly wants to get humans out of Lux Aurea and 2) hates humans already to begin with and seems pretty apathetic (thus far) towards everyone else.

Apathetic characters can be great and have their place, but they usually tend to be more limited and more passive since for a character to actively engage and change within a story, they have to have something to be engaged in, even if it's more of just an external goal rather than also having an internal one

That said, there's two main paths I could see Sol Regem's arc going:

1) Aaravos and Sol Regem had beef back in the day (aka Aaravos was involved in whatever caused Sol Regem to "lose [his] hope" and that's also why the staff enraged Sol to the degree that it did). This causes him to eventually Reluctantly/angrily ally with our main team in a way in order to help defeat Aaravos (potentially after Karim's shenanigans inadvertently led to all his army becoming corrupted, and making him possibly switch sides too). I'd consider this more of a change of heart / alliance of convenience than an actual redemption arc (his wants and perspectives haven't necessarily changed) but perhaps he'd be able to let some of his bitterness go.

2) Karim's sun seed ritual goes terribly wrong and Sol Regem, along with the bulk if not all of their Sunfire army, are infected / corrupted with dark magic from Pharos by proxy. The last time we had a purification healing ritual at the 'sunforge' we got an eclipsed and corrupted sun, and Viren's army being turned specifically into "sun and dark magic" monsters. Given that Pharos has always walked Viren's path politically (disgruntled brother mage to the monarch turned flat out usurper) this would align with S3 in particular. Furthermore, if Zubeia is healed of the dark magic corruption, it means we no longer have big scary corrupted archdragon, and that just feels like a good thing to have on hand for Stakes/story possibilities (perhaps Karim and Janai teaming up to kill a corrupted Sol Regem; how's that for symbolism?). There could also be some hope that if they can inject him with whatever mushroom stuff Zubeia had, they could cure him (humans and elves working together?).

Something along #2 is probably what I'm leaning towards, but I could see #1, or even both (i.e. 1 following 2 if Sol Regem is corrupted, cured, and then an ally).

[stardust-in-my-mind-blog]

male case no: 9 - michael

in ninth grade the high school allowed kids

from the bible school to kind of transfer into

the public schooling current and I remember how the school

literally buzzed with excitement to meet this new

flush of fresh energy to the scholastic environment

I remember three in particular one grade above me

there was jared and chandler and michael

if there were any others I don't really remember them

jared was the badboy I briefly flirted with

and ironically dumped him for smoking mary jane

how the tables have turned, my friend

chandler was just really charismatic and tall and mutual friends

he kind of had that owen wilson thing going on

angelic but also you know not to fucking trust him

and you're sad about it because you really want to

and then there was michael another angelic tall blonde man

that every damn girl drooled over who wore pooka shells

and drove a red sunfire and sang really well

he kind of had an innocent platinum heath ledger thing

like in a knight's tale with the confident awkwardness

I never liked blondes so I wanted nothing to do with him

plus I think I was dating a guy named joshua at the time

we were romeo and juliet in a play that my class wrote

but my archetype of juliet was the nerd girl becoming a swan

which really kind of bothers me for how accurate that is

and the teacher mr. stuart was a total creep but he was brilliant

and he'd get mad at me because he kept saying

that my costume on stage read 'nerd barbie'

and that would really fuck with the transformation

and I remember thinking that it wasn't my fault

that I happened to have a finely developed aesthetic

and couldn't regress to looking ugly on stage yet

even for the optics of the situation this old guy wanted

but instead I just mimicked she's all that

I ended up having art class with michael

and he was really good at drawing and sat behind me

so I had a habit of looking behind to see what he was working on

and found out ken pooka shell barbie church boy had some wit

back then I was surprised by this but to be honest

when your parents are super religious you have to build

really strong dysfunctional masks to survive it

at least that was one cycle I never had to break

I have a feeling michael was used to girls drooling

and I was only interested in his artwork

so it likely caused some sort of polarity in his teenage brain

that made me seem like some sort of challenge

and boys only want love if it's torture

and I really enjoy giving out misery if someone can take it

and both of us seemed to have a kink for self-deprecation

so after a few months he invited me to a church thing

and the town was small and it was the biggest one

and I happened to like going to it so I agreed

and I can't really remember him outside of messaging

and church events but it was kind of fun bagging

the ultimate bachelor in the school without wanting it

and then he dumped me because he went to church camp

and I can quote this because he asked me for a blowjob

and I was real comfortable with the abstinence clause

of our church approved relationship and that went a bit

past just making out and heavy petting so I declined

and he told me as though to convince me

"all these girls at church camp wanted to do things with me

but all I wanted was for it to be you"

and I remember being like way less interested after he said that

my desire didn't have anything to do with other people's desires

and so he let me know he was no longer interested

and it was annoying but better than other-girl-pressured head

and I remember thinking that his shell necklace

actually looked really stupid in the midwest

because we aren't anywhere close to the ocean

but it did kind of ruin me for christian guys

until I married an preacher's son opera singer alcoholic

and that like cured me completely from seeking out that side

of the masculine spectrum because at the end of the day

they always seemed so mad at me for wanting autonomy

and I happen to be really bad at adhering to those standards

[chronicallylatetotheparty]

Seriously!

Everything about Viren's backstory proves the opposite of what they're saying about Dark Magic. They're telling us one thing while showing us another.

Viren betrayed his mentor? No, his mentor betrayed Viren first when he was going to let a child die in order to preserve his oh so important sense of moral purity. Let me repeat that:

He was going to let a child. Die.

This isn't like Claudia healing Soren's paralysis. Where curing someone of a disability jumps headfirst into ableism. This is a life threatening condition.

Viren comes back home and why does Soren's mother refuse to help? Because he had a facial difference. Like, I hope I don't need to explain why making facial differences a mark of evil is bad for real people who actually have to live with said differences.

Frankly the fact that Dark Mages are demonized because they risk being "burned" every time they cast a spell proves nothing except how shallow and cruel this world is.

Viren didn't start off as a power hungry despot. He started as a father desperately trying to keep his firstborn alive.

"Oh but Dark Magic corrupted him!"

Finnegrin didn't need any dark magic to corrupt him. Neither did Anak Arow. Or the former Sunfire Queen. All of these characters were corrupted by the power they held over people weaker than them.

Why does it only count as corruption when it's Dark Magic?

The writer's are desperately trying to portray Dark Magic as inherently evil. That Dark Magic is what led Viren to becoming evil.

Except we literally don't see that. Viren didn't become evil because of some nebulous force.

Viren became a bad person because he chose to be.

Viren chose to become a bad father. Viren chose to pit his children against each other. Viren chose to betray King Harrow.

Viren chose to save the people of Katolis at great cost to himself.

The writer's insistence on moralizing while the characters they wrote use Black Magic to save lives shows that they haven't unlearned anything about the imperialist ideology they were raised in.

That's not me being hyperbolic. All the writers are white and were raised in an imperialist nation. It colors everything about the Dragon Prince. Not least of which is their inability to acknowledge genocide even when they wrote it into the world's backstory.

I had a whole post written up and tumblr ate it so I'll just sum it up with

the supposed distinction between dark and primal magic is blurrier than ever, while the narrative is insisting harder than ever that dark magic is evil, and the only reasoning given remains "Why? Just trust us, it's bad!"

[shit-for-you]

Tofu, my child. Such cute ears you have!

[oliveofthenight]

Mmmmm I’ve become empassioned by this once again, and I’m sorry I’m so obsessed with the Tidebound and Earthbloods and literally no other species of elves when it comes to The Dragon Prince. I can kinda pass off my obsession with Earthbloods being like “oh, I took the quiz and I got Earth haha gotta know everything about the primal source I’m supposedly connected to.” But Tidebounds, I got nothing. They just interest me because we know next to nothing about them! Even less than the elusive Startouch elves! And like, we haven’t seen them at all in the journey at this point! Or in the beginning scenes with the war! And isn’t that interesting? I mean I have my own theories that Earthblood and Tidebounds didn’t really want the war or to get involved with it- Earthbloods because I believe their morality is not quite as uptight and centered as say that of a Sunfire or Moonshadow and so they didn’t really want to fight the humans who haven’t done anything to them, and Tidebounds because they wanted to protect their people and only their people and joining in the war would cause them to lose people, so instead they just holed themselves up in their homes- but that do be for another day. I want to talk about the potential powers these two have.

If we remember from that very same “Which Primal Source are You?” Official quiz on the website, one question in particular identifies what sort of powers you would want. Some of the answers based on what we know from the show are obvious. Questioning why we can only have one is Dark Magic, seeing the future is Startouch, flight is Skywing, fire is Sunfire, make yourself invisible is Moonshadow. We know those are related to their respective primal sources. Which comes down to raising the dead and heal any wound answers. There’s only two sources those can be, either Earth or Ocean. And I have my suspicions as to which one is which.

Healing any wound is Earth, Raising the dead is Ocean.

And to me, it seems obvious why. Raising the dead just...isn’t natural. Like it literally isn’t apart of nature’s cycle for the dead to be reborn(we are not going to be talking about phoenixes at this time, they’re a special magical case.) The natural cycle is to be born, live, die, and from your death new life comes in. There is no part where you are supposed to come back to life. For Earthbloods to be necromancers would be to go against the very primal source they’re connected to, it would be so contradictory for those connected to nature go against the natural order of life. It would make no sense.

But for the Tidebounds, it makes perfect sense that they are the necromancers. A very large pillar of who they are fundamentally is community. The people they are connected to are so important, their loved ones and neighbors are everything to them. And you want to tell me, that the group who’s whole thing is being connected to the people around them are just...going to let them die and stay dead? Nah, nah, I don’t believe it. Tidebounds, if they were humans and had no magic, absolutely strike me as the kind of people who if their loved ones die they will go all Frankenstein on the world and do anything in their power to revive them. Making deals with magical beings, turning to science, anything to return their loved one back to their arms. Add in that they have magic, and I 100% believe that if their loved ones die they use their magic to bring them back to life. And I feel like this is sort of further supported by the fact that community is something Moonshadows and Tidebounds, according to the Spellbook anyways, have in common. And Moonshadows have connections to life and death, and do have a thing with spirits and the spirits of their loved ones. And I believe that to be because Moonshadows value community. And if you apply the same concept to Tidebounds, who community is even more important to them than it is to the Moonshadows, it would make sense that they also would have connections to death and the spirits but because connection to community is stronger, it gets taken a step further for them. They can bring any member of their community back to life. Tell me the puzzle pieces don’t fit perfectly there.

Which leaves healing any wound for the Earthbloods which does also make sense. Healing is a far more natural part of life that nature is very often apart of. Before the times of modern medicine, it was herbs that did the trick of curing ailments and nature is something that constantly heals. When a forest is scorched, there’s always the tiniest bit of life left that helps heal the forest and bring it back from the brink of death. Animals get hurt and wounded all the time, but those injuries do eventually heal. Even rocks, I think currently I’ve got the mind of molten ones in particular, get made in the heat and remade should there be imperfections, or get molded with other rocks to be stronger.

In my brain, it just makes sense that this is how it is. And I will die on this hill for now.

I have seen the wiki file with the answers and I have concluded that with no explanations as to why those answers were given those points: it makes zero sense how the point system reacted in that person’s testing, at least looking at who these species of elves are from a plot/characterization standpoint. Earthblood’s seem curious, sure, but they don’t strike me as curious enough to go “why should I only have one power?” Especially when all other answers code them as pacifists/hippies pretty much. And dark magic being necromancy, while it makes slightly more sense, still doesn’t add up. The only spell we’ve seen that is slightly dipping into necromancy is that spell Viren did with the Moonshadow elves, but that is far from the base component of dark magic, just one spell. Dark Magic’s whole thing is that it draws its power from dead things, they don’t bring the dead things back to life, which is what necromancy is. And plus, Dark Magic takes from multiple sources of magic, they don’t just choose one, they take from all of them. In what world does it not make sense for that source to be “why do I only have to choose one?” Any dark mage would ask that question if you ask me, that’s something I could imagine Viren himself asking! So, until we see canon Tidebounds and Earthbloods and what they do, I’m inclined to believe my theory.

[beautifulterriblequeen]

Hi this is amazing and I loved reading it!

I don't have anything that can definitely help point to one or another of your theories, but I have got a few bits and bobs lying around that I can toss on the info pile:

Possible (but unlikely) unknown s1e5 spell

This refers to Viren walking into his study with his corruption face on at the beginning of the episode, right?

Viren visited Runaan in his cell the night before for fun magical experimentation reasons, to let off some steam at getting thwarted by Amaya during his attempt at a coronation the evening before.

I feel I should remember a different source that specifically confirms Runaan got tortured on his birthday but it's eluding me rn. I have this from a former storyboarder though:

Whatever Viren did to Runaan between E4 and E5, it either went on long enough or became powerful enough to trigger his corruption face.

Neat.

Fake Aspiro Frigis, already corrupted, unclear but since it’s a standard primal spell I’m tentatively saying it’s Aaravos (though notably Viren does not have the Aaravos possession eyes, here)

This is from the Storm Spire when Viren traps Rayla in ice? Ohoho have I got a treat for you! Check this out:

The first few frames of that scene show Viren dropping some sparkly bits from his hand. Since he doesn't have his primal stone, but he did just cast a Sky spell that looks identical to the one he used on Lain and Tiadrin, it's possible that he's crushing a small magical stone full of Sky magic.

Alternately, it's something that has let him steal a bit of power from the Storm Spire itself, since it's the Sky Nexus, but we have no lore on something like that to my knowledge.

I'm leaning toward "magic Sky rock getting crushed like moon opals do" because we'd already seen moon opals getting crushed, and there was already existing lore that stones existed for other primal sources, but that's just a guess.

The extra facet here that I mentioned is that in literally his next scene, the corruption is completely gone, with no explanation.

I got nothing to add to this one except a possibility: the Sunray Monarch butterflies that Viren uses to restore his glamour in his study probably also live freely in the Sunfire areas of Xadia, which is where Viren and the armies were going. Maybe he nabbed one on the sly.

Okay I lied I have one thing to add, just because it's super cool:

My favorite thing, currently, about dark magic is a ToX detail revealed in the Tale of the Frozen Barrow, which was a holiday-themed adventure played through over three 2-hour episodes, described as being full of fun canon details (like holiday food traditions!). The fun dark magic detail is this: if a character experiences dark magic corrruption trauma, which is the more permanent form of corruption stress, then they will literally see weaves of dark magic in the air. They can see spells, interact with them, follow them to their origin, whatever they want. It's an incredibly useful bonus skill, which disappears once they cure their corruption trauma.

Considering that Viren looks different than every other dark mage in TDP and ToX - he has his gray-splattered skin while they all have black-and-white hair - I am enjoying the theory that he is deliberately keeping his corruption trauma for the extra benefits it gives him, at the cost of... whatever it costs him. Which is probably a lot.

Breakdown: Visibility of Viren’s corruption, when & why

Pictured: this is sexy, and no I will not be accepting constructive criticism

This is something I’ve wanted to do for a while, because it’s stuff where the parts that stick out in my memory definitely suggest a pattern, but I couldn’t talk about that pattern because I didn’t know if there were obvious contradictions that I just didn’t remember. Basically, I did a speed-run of scrubbing through the entirety of s1-s3 for every scene where Viren uses dark magic (i.e. not the primal stone). There were actually a lot fewer of these than I thought there would be, though maybe I shouldn’t be so surprised given that we’ve spent the past several days detailing how thoroughly useless Viren is in a lot of situations where magic would have helped a lot, actually.

Anyway, the goal was to investigate a few things:

When does Viren get his corruption face on, and is there a pattern as to why that occurs

What is the nature of the Relic Staff, based on its use in spells

If there is any connection between the two

Keep reading

[abidos]

tdp season 3 (III)

The final piece about my first impression about season 3.

Dark Magic

So, I’ve finally gotten to my favourite topic in TDP, the morality and ethics of dark magic, I already wrote a piece about this before, and not much has changed. If anything, what we see seems to merely confirm some ideas I already had.

We still have no idea why humans such as Harrow, Sarai, Callum and now also Soren seem to be prejudiced against dark magic and the show addresses the issue by not addressing it at all. On the other hand, I do think it’s confirmed now that the discrimination by elves and dragons is the result of hubris, contempt and having a chip on their shoulder the size of an adult thunder dragon.  I do hope the irony wasn’t lost on anyone of a queen on a golden throne, in a gigantic golden city that drains resources for kilometres in their vicinity; accusing humans who developed dark magic to not die of “taking what doesn’t belong to them”. I mean, wow.

Besides, the Sunfire elves have this whole “pure of heart” test, that boils down to whether or not you have used dark magic, because apparently, as long as you don’t use dark magic, you can’t be bad? Not to mention that they are willing to execute in an extremely excruciating and painful way anyone who turns up, solely for having used dark magic. Ok, nothing wrong with that attitude…

But let's get back to the human attitude towards dark magic. As I’ve already covered often enough, human’s aversion to dark magic never gets explained beyond rather ridiculous claims about “it will cost us more in the end” and “it’s a shortcut”. In the fandom a lot of people argue that dark magic is bad because you kill animals, but the humans in tdp use leather and eat meat, so it’s hard to understand why it’s ok to kill an animal to have sturdier boots but bad if you do it to cure someone’s tetraplegia or feed 100,000 starving people. And of course, the fact that practising dark magic is bad for the practitioner’s health doesn’t make it ethically objectionable. On the contrary, the fact that dark magic users are willing to sacrifice their wellbeing for the benefit of others makes them heroes.

An interesting part of human attitude towards dark magic is revealed in Viren’s need to hide his true appearance. We thought it was because he didn’t want people to know, but season 3 shows us that at least the people close to him, Harrow and his children, do know. And yet he needs to hide how he truly looks. You can put it down to vanity, but if that were the case, why does Aaravos go out of his way to make sure Viren looks normal when his children come to visit? And remember in my section about Soren, how I pointed out that the breaking point for him is watching his father do dark magic? Soren knows his father is a dark mage, and he knows that he has done more powerful magic than the one he uses on the prince. But actually having to see it is the problem. And that is why Viren changes his appearance because he knows he is only tolerated as long as people are not confronted by what he is. And it is so hypocritical. If Viren were a master swordsman, who saved 100,000 people by killing one creature in an incredible feat of martial prowess, he would be encouraged to display his scars proudly. But because he is a master mage he has to hide the physical mark of the sacrifices he has made in Harrow’s service and for Katholis.

The fact that people have issues with witnessing dark magic and its consequences, more than with its practitioners or knowing that something that appears normal is the consequence of magic, tells us that the problem with dark magic is not a rational or an ethical one, but an emotional or instinctual one. This is why, when asked why they object to dark magic, people are unable to come up with a rational justification. Emotional responses are ingrained by society while we grow up. So I’m headcanoning that the dominant religion is against dark magic, and even though it doesn’t have enough influence to actively persecute dark mages (at least in Katholis), it is still able to generate this low level but pervasive prejudice. And this is why we don’t see any other (openly) dark mages, not even in the courts of the other kingdoms, or why some people seem unjustifiable predisposed to distrust Viren and condemn dark magic, despite all the lives that it has saved.

[kirric-the-fan]

Full lineup of my oc's, the Cure Royale's:

APOLOGIES FOR THE LAYOUT, TUMBLR KEEPS MUNCHING THE FORMATTING! Cure colours added until I can stop it messing things around. (Now fixed!)

The Princess, & Cure Signet (red)

Cure Steady (green), & Cure Swift (blue)

Cure Sunfire (Orange/yellow), & Cure Surface (purple)

Spoilers for their backstory below the cut

Sailor Moon, but instead of running from the dark kingdom, the princess (in this case, Chiyoko), has been sent forward to avoid a particularly deceitful and underhanded prince who wants her power related to the Heart Kingdom and will stop at nothing to get control of it. The Queen saw how much the situation will make her daughter miserable if she had stayed, and sent her to the future instead, to a time where she could be free and thrive on her own terms. To a time where she would have a choice to whether to take up her birthright or not.

She also sends her four closest friends, allies, and guardians, Cure Steady, Cure Surface, Cure Swift, and Cure Sunfire along with her. The four cures, noted knights and guardians of the princess, volunteered to remain with her and protect her. The Queen also fulfilled their longstanding wishes to have a chance to become friends with the princess on a level footing. The Queen also tried to send other loyal members of the court who volunteered for the same task, but the magic was disrupted by the prince, and she was only able to get two of them through: Toupe, a lowly hairdresser-fairy, and Percivalance, a knowledgeable, but cowardly retainer who is very much out of their depth in the modern world.

So as it was, no-one who knew what was going on was there when Chiyoko turned 14 and got the first of her magical powers after an extremely normal and uneventful childhood. She misinterprets the powers as a magical girl thing instead of a 'hey so you're actually a princess', and ends up becoming a precure herself, protecting the town from the forces of Wilding, a malevolent plant-like creature who has taken root in the ruins of the old Heart Kingdom and is now intruding into Earth.

Cure Steady, Cure Swift, and Toupe quickly join her side, but with their knowledge of the past incomplete, they have to look for the princess, and try and uncover exactly what happened to the Heart Kingdom, to try and figure out what's really going on.

Unfortunately it turns out the Prince followed her to the modern day, and while he seemed to be an ally at first, or had maybe turned over a new leaf, he was actually behind all the troubles that had been caused, and was still intent on taking the Heart Kingdom's power for himself.

Thankfully Cure Sunfire, and later Cure Surface, who had been keeping an eye on the prince from the shadows, joined the team, eventually banding together to see the prince off for good.

Themes: obligations, predetermined destinies vs self-determination. The importance of choice. Evolution, growing up, family (both lost and found family)(and looking at the absolute mindfuck that essentially having two lives and families is.)

Change

Chiyoko, the princess, and the lead cure is the embodiment of change in this tale. While the prince constantly wants her to become a carbon copy of her past self, both Chiyoko and the Queen want her to make her own choices.

But Chiyoko constantly struggles with what those choices should be. Even from her hair, which changes colour to her moods once she gets her powers and needs to be almost constantly covered up by Toupe, to her Cure forms, where she can take on various different cure forms, taking a while to settle on her 'Super' form, as a symbol of how she wishes to help and protect people like the superheroes in modern stories, she always seems to face difficult choices.

But her friends are there to support her, and here, and now, she has the ability to make that choice. And ultimately shapes her own happiness and freedom because of it. (and this extends to the whole team that got flung forward in time. They all gain their own sort of freedom, and their happy ending is here.)

(Then another villain comes along and throws it all into disarray, but that's where my second team, The Memory Cures come into play. And that's a whole other story.)

[multiverseforger]

Kyle Gibney is a mutant who manifested a feral mutation during puberty; this mutation granted him enhanced physical abilities and an increased rate of regeneration. He also suffered from a bestial freakish appearance, which prompted his parents to throw him out of their house. Living on the streets, he was kidnapped by the conspiratorial Secret Empire and subjected to mind- and body-altering experiments. The experiments had the consequence of making him psychologically unstable, and in particular prone to violent and animalistic behavior. During this time, he became acquainted with Dr. Valerie Cooper, a United States government official who was unaware of the Secret Empire's true nature or activities. He was freed by Wyre, the man who had unwittingly been the source for the genetic material that was used in the Empire's experiments.

Gibney (now Wild Child) was detained by the military and given over to the custody of Canada's secret Department H, who oversaw the formative Alpha Flight team. The Flight member Walter Langkowski, wanting to protect the youth from the military, placed him in the trainee team dubbed Gamma Flight. After Alpha Flight and its trainee groups were officially disbanded, Gibney was recruited to join the first Omega Flight team, a group of professional criminals. Alongside Omega Flight, he battled Alpha Flight and was defeated.[4] Alongside Omega Flight, he battled Alpha Flight again in the West Edmonton Mall, and was defeated by Madison Jeffries.[5] Afterwards, he committed a series of murders, which ended when he battled and was captured by Wolverine after he severely injured and almost killed Alpha Flight member Heather Hudson.[6]

Wild Child was subsequently pardoned under unrevealed circumstances and given membership in the new Gamma Flight.[7] Alongside Gamma Flight, he battled Alpha Flight.[8] However, he then aided Gamma and Alpha Flight against Llan the Sorcerer's forces.[9] When Gamma Flight was disbanded soon after that, he went berserk over his deprecated status and attacked Pathway, another trainee. Gamma's leader Nemesis teleported him away during a fight with Heather Hudson (then Guardian) and Wolverine, and he was captured by Wolverine.[10] Department H would later help him overcome his psychological problems and cure his mental illness, train him in unarmed combat, and place him as a special operative of the Canadian government assigned to Alpha Flight under the codename Weapon Omega. Alongside Alpha Flight, he battled Diablo.[11] He joined Alpha Flight's "Core Alpha",[12] met the second X-Factor team,[13] and prevented the mind-controlled Omerta from assassinating Italy's head of state.[14] He also fought a Wild Child doppelganger during the Infinity War.[15] He was attacked by Wyre but rescued by Alpha Flight.[16] He searched for Nemesis, and was held prisoner with her by Rok, but they were then rescued by Weapon X.[17] He defeated Wyre in personal combat; he then learned about his true origin, and changed his codename to Wildheart.[18] He aided Alpha Flight in combat with the Wrecker.[19] He also became romantically involved with his teammate Aurora.[volume & issue needed]

His appearance eventually deteriorated back to his initial feral form, which prompted him to leave Alpha Flight and Aurora. He followed Valerie Cooper to the United States, where he joined the government operated team X-Factor. There he began a romantic relationship with his teammate Shard. His feral teammate Sabretooth frequently attempted, with little success, to convince Wild Child to become a hunter and killer like himself. He remained with the team until his body began mutating towards a more feral form. He eventually degenerated to a near-mindless state and was recruited (either willingly or via brainwashing) by the new Weapon X team.[volume & issue needed]

As part of his draft, Wild Child was paired with Sabretooth to try and recruit Sunfire to the program. The Japanese mutant refused and badly burned Sabretooth. When Wild Child mocked his burns Sabretooth viciously sliced through Kyle's vocal cords and threatened to kill any Weapon X medical staff who would operate on him, making sure that he would remain mute.[20]

His past flame, Aurora, was also recruited into the team but she was not herself. After the Weapon X upgrades she became cocky and aloof, snubbing the ugly Wild Child and even engaging in a relationship with the horribly disfigured Director of the program. This became fuel for the fire when Brent Jackson attempted to undermine the authority of the Director Malcolm Colcord. Using Aurora's attitude toward him as motive, Jackson convinced Wild Child to join his splinter group.[volume & issue needed]

DecimationEdit

Wild Child was seen on a terminal screen as one of the mutants depowered after M-Day.[21] His energy signature was found within the entity known as The Collective, along with the energy signatures of many other depowered mutants.[22]

Post-DecimationEdit

Wild Child recently demonstrated that his powers had returned as well as previously erased memories. He even managed to best Wolverine in a quick fight. He is now looking like his old Wildheart persona.[23]

Wild Child appeared once more in conflict with Wolverine aiding Omega Red and attempting to kill Logan. He was doing so under the order of the enigmatic Romulus. His plan consisted of dropping Logan into molten steel; however, he was interrupted by Omega Red. While Wild Child and Omega Red battled each other, Logan managed to flee. Omega Red succeeded in distracting Wild Child and thus was able to impale him on his coils before throwing him into a vat of molten steel.[24]

[ask-ethari-anything]

Another question? Do you dye your hair? Runaan an Ralya have white eyebrows and yours are dark? Do you do it to blend in? Are you a different kind of moon elf?

No, love, it’s nothing like that. I’m a Moonshadow through and through. All Moonshadows have naturally white hair, but some of us have shadow brows. Moon brows, shadow brows. It’s very easy to fall into a duality mindset when so much about us is either/or. I don’t know how the Sunfires do it with their many colors of hair!

Rayla used to rub dirt in her brows when she was tiny because both her parents have shadow brows and she wanted to match them. Luckily, her parents cured her of that quickly--no one likes dirt falling in their eyes. But when she came to live with Runaan and me, she was well pleased to see that Runaan had moon brows like she does.

[raayllum]

So based on the fact that the mushroom mage is using earth primal spells to attempt to heal Zubeia, do you think that the great orb of lux Aurea needs to be healed rather than just purified and the Earth Primal might be required to do so?

if the mushroom mage / earth magic can heal Zubeia's corruption, it would stand to follow it can also cure the sunfire / lux aurea corruption as well... which is good since if Karim gets his way, his people won't even have the sun seed as a future hope to hold onto. So yeah, I'm saying yes!

[blue-rose-89]

The Dragon Prince Wondercon interview.....

I know it’s late but I discovered that the series creators have done an interview during Wondercon a few days ago.

I will bullet point the interesting stuff if you don’t want to listen to the interview.

-Janai (the Sunfire elf that fought against Amaya) will play more of a role in Season 3

-It’s implied that Harrow knows more about the Aaravos mirror than Viren because ‘a key’ was passed down to him by one of his ancestors. The writers have hinted that we’ll learn more about her at some point.

-They continue to remind us that dark magic is shortcut magic.

-Callum’s relationship with Claudia is complicated now that they’ve seen each other’s ugly side when using Dark Magic.

-They hinted that Soren is going to ‘go through some stuff’ after being cured of his paralysis.

-Curing Soren with Dark Magic hurts Claudia more than Soren because of how far she went just to help him.

-Using Dark Magic can hollow a person out overtime. Viren’s ‘dark form’ is a reflection of that and Claudia will go through the same thing if she’s not careful.

-We will learn more about Rayla’s childhood and what it was liked to be raised by Runnan in Season 3.

-As the true heir to the throne, Ezran will be learning the responsibilities of being a King.

Season 3 is going to be interesting.

[voltronprincess]

𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖊𝖈𝖗𝖊𝖙 𝖎𝖘 𝖆𝖑𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖞 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓 𝖞𝖔𝖚

(please do not use this edit if you choose to do your own voltron/tdp crossovers)

born both a startouch and sunfire elf (and infused with moonshadow magic upon birth), allura is put in a sleep by her father, the startouch king alfor, when the war begins. a powerful archmage, alfor hides her in the temple of the moon nexus to protect her from the dark sorcerer and perishes protecting the dragon king. altea falls and its land is absorbed into duran. upon waking, allura learns of her father’s death at the hand of viren and the division of lands. allura cannot access all the powers of each arcanum, but is determined to master them, especially startouch magic since it connects to all arcanum which she does not have access to otherwise. she can connect to the sunfire “light mode” which produces healing and moon arcanum to manipulate her camouflage and shifting abilities.

first version: allura is found and awoken by runaan and the moonshadow elf assassins who insist she must help them kill the king. she agrees, believing this will end the war, but abandons the mission under way to help rayla escape. hearing rumors she seeks out aaravos in hopes he can teach her the mastery of her magic.

second version: allura is found and awoken by callum, led to allura’s secret resting place by ezra who follows the animals. allura learns from lujjane of her father’s passing and a first distrusts rayla and the princes, but agrees to travel with the egg and protect it with her strong powers. as they go through their adventures she realizes the honesty of the princes and error in her belief of lies. 

𝐚𝐮 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞: the dragon prince

for the FULL verse backstory/information and a more voltron/paladin centric version read under the cut!

𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓫𝓲𝓻𝓽𝓱 𝓸𝓯 𝓪 𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓼 ⁂

King of the Startouch elves, Alfor’s kind were small in numbers even before the war. A powerful Archmage, Alfor spent years studying alchemy and his connection to the Startouch arcanums, which fueled a power to command all arcanums. Straying from the tradition of marrying another Startouch elf, Alfor “was the star who fell in love with the sun”, loving the Sunfire elf Melenor and marrying her although some frowned upon this union. 

Since they were different sub-species it was difficult to produce an heir. Alfor sought a cure to their inability to bear children not only to birth an heir to Altea, but the family they longed for. Despite being an apprentice to the most powerful mage, Alfor was not powerful enough to change their hardship himself. He sought out help from the other magic kingdoms and the Moonshadow elves responded. 

A folktale existed that if an individual found a Balmera and perform a sacred ceremony (of good magic), the Balmera would gift a rare Primal stone which could be used in various ways, particularly in a Moonshadow ritual that would alter Melenor’s inability to birth children. Startouch and Moonshadow elves are the most likely to find Balmera since the species came to the world from space and their Primal Sources are stars and moons. After two years of searching Alfor found a Balmera who searched his heart for a pure motive and deemed him worthy of the rare blue crystals. 

Setting up the ritual at the Moon Nexus with the blessing and assistance of the Moonshadow elves, the royal couple sat together in a circle of Balmeran crystals. The moon’s Primal Source connected the Melenor’s inner Sun Primal and Alfor’s Stars, combining a trinity Source which Allura would be born with. Because of their help, Alfor and Melenor became indebted to the Moonshadow elves, a debt that would pass onto Allura.

𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓯𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝔀𝓸 𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼 ✦✧✦

Melenor passed away when Allura was young and Alfor never re-married. Allura otherwise grew up in peacetime, beloved by her father and people. When it was discovered humans were commanding dark magic, Alfor sided with Xadia. He knew his daughter, powerful with her born Source power, would be in danger from the human and dark sorcerer. Despite her protests, Alfor enchanted Allura into a cryo sleep, encasing her in ice using his Archmage-Startouch command of the Ocean Primal. Hiding her away in the temple of the Moon Nexus and on the Guardian of the Moon Nexus, Lujjane, to protect her. 

Returning to Xadia, Alfor attempted to protect the dragon king and prince egg, but was killed by Lord Viren when he refused to join the dark mage’s side. With its king dead and princess missing the kingdom Altea fell with the death of Alfor and Thunder. The land was absorbed into Duran while the remaining Startouch elves going into hiding in Xadia, thus their rare sightings. 

from here allura’s story line after awakening splits into the above mentioned TWO versions ⇧

𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓹𝓪𝓵𝓪𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓿𝓸𝓵𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓷 °▴•＊‧。

In this branch of this verse, Alfor used Balmera Primal stones to power his Voltron lions. He built them with the help of Sunfire elves (they create Sunforged equipment and weapons). Using alchemy and archmage power, Alfor infused each of the five lions with one Primal source: fire (red), ocean (blue), earth (green lion connected to nature and yellow lion connected to stone, minerals and earth) stars (black). Powered by Balmera crystals and Primal sources, the lions chose their paladins with Alfor piloting Red. Dragons were wary of Voltron, but since it was used for good, they allowed it to exist.

The original paladins perished during the battle of humans and dragons. The lions directed themselves to their Nexus’ for safety, protected by the Guardians, whom Alfor commissioned to keep the lions secret from all who sought them unless they were led by Allura. With the paladins dead, Voltron was believed to be perished and although elves and humans alike searched for the lions, they were unable to locate them.  

Nine years later, each originating from their own kingdoms, the second paladins join together to find Shiro after his quest with the Holts lead to their disappearance. Lance discovers the Blue lion which follows its homing beacon to Allura. Once she’s awoken by the humans, Allura is wary of them, particularly Shiro who was corrupted by dark magic of an unknown mage. Trusting her father’s creation in its selection of Lance, Allura helps everyone locate their lions. Once Voltron is formed they assist humans and magic folk. Allura’s ultimate goal to end the war and destroy the dark sorcerer who began it. 

She searches for Aaravos in hopes he can teach her the secret to controlling her Sources. In her quest she reunites with the royal Moonshadow Elf Lotor, a relation of Runaan.