#curse of the chosen

[five-crows-in-a-trenchcoat]

What is your favorite graphic novel? :3

Ok so. It’s called Geis/Curse of the Chosen by Alexis Deacon and consists of three books; a matter of life and death, a game without rules, and the will that shapes the world. It’s what got me into the whole ‘death game’ minigenre that lead to me reading the hunger games, maze runner, then eventually playing danganronpa and then your turn to die (yippee!!! yahoo!! yttd!!)

The whole thing is lovingly hand drawn in charcoal with a really charming and unique artstyle;

and it follows the story of Io (the girl in the blue dress) in a contest to become the next chief after their current one dies. It brings the contract element and crazy trials of yttd, the active murder and openness of the trial grounds that the hunger games has, and a bunch of medieval magic that’s really something unique.

I wish it were more well known bc it’d definitely have at least a small fandom, but it really only gets around by word of mouth from a very select few who know of the series. I don’t think you can get the series anywhere for free, but the first two books are probably only a 30-60 minute read each and I’ve photographed every page of them.. so if you wanted to say.. dm me on discord.. I can send it to you there :>

you guys should all read it you wanna read it so bad

[thenextcelestialchapter]

Elise: Okay Io! Now that you've found a GF... You've just got to tell everyone she's your cousin!

Io: ...Wait, what?

Elise: Sorry, that's just how it is. People will think it's less weird if you say you're cousins!

Io: ...That absolutely makes it 1000% WEIRDER!

Elise: Well Homophobia is freaking weird, innit? 9_9;;

[goldyluna]

artur we need to cook

The way I laughed seeing it!

Artur would be like 🐀

"But I can't cook, Eloise, I learned bookkeeping"

[opens-up-4-nobody]

Something something Merlin is Arthur's bane.

[fuzzypuppybuddie]

2 am hollowheadss

[little-fae-hero]

Linked Universe, The Chosen Hero

My headcanons/aus

Art by Atro

Colored version.

Long talk/Ideas under the cut. Warning for dark themes, sickly appearance and death visions (Note: I may stuff over time but nothing will be delete from the list).

Twilight. Wind. Legend. Hyrule. Four. Time. War. Wild.

Sky (Skyward Sword). Other Nicknames: Hylia’s chosen, Sleepyhead, Cloud, Birdbrain, First knight, Skyloftan.

Titles: Hylia’s Chosen Hero, The Hero Reborn, Hero of Skyloft.

God who has claim over his soul: Hylia

Part of First’s soul: Caring/kindness (biggest piece)

Note: While he is technically called the ‘first hero’ he wasn’t actually the first hero. The first one while saving humanity was wounded, and died. However the first hero was scrapped from history, so by all accounts Sky is the ‘first hero’. He’s also the ‘first hero’ by a time travel and the grandfather paradox.

History:

Link was just a boy on Skyloft, he was in the knights academy along with his best friend Zelda and his rival known as Groose. They are bonded with Loftwings which are considered half of their soul. Link gets a weird dream, is woken up and then has to go looking for his Loftwing, Red. Link eventually finds his Loftwing and wins the race, officially graduating and Zelda gives him her sailcloth.

A tornado pulls Zelda out of the sky, Link tries to help her but it is seemingly useless. When Link wakes up, he’s called by a mystery figure who lures him down to a secret place, where the Goddess sword is located. He meets the spirit in the Goddess Sword, her name is Fi and she was given the task of helping the chosen hero defeat the Demon known as Demise, she offers that if Link takes this adventure he will find Zelda as well.

Eventually during this adventure Link learns the truth, that Zelda is Hylia reborn, that this was a long plan coming and just exactly who he is. Despite everything he still goes after to save her, having to forge the Master Sword to make sure it can actually be strong enough to kill the demon. After facing and killing the demon, Demise uttered a curse, to always be reborn and that the ones with the goddess blood and the hero spirit can never know peace. Link says goodbye to Fi but has to grapple with what he’s learned, he still loves Zelda and his new quest is to settle on the surface and have a family with Zelda for as long as his body will allow.

Death: Happened soon after his second child with Zelda. Suddenly his soul was becoming too much for his body and burned him from the inside out. He died out on a walk, Zelda did her best but couldn’t get his heart to start again.

Interesting stuff/Headcanons:

Link learns about his past and gains memories back after his first temple. He kept trying to push and go forward so Fi had to push him into the water to save him.

Basically his soul was burning up his body.

He does have a slight breakdown after this and is left with a burn scar over his heart.

After the final battle, Sky is lit with lighting scars crawling up his body. Most are seen on his neck, but some hint up to his face.

Sky talked a lot with Fi and really grew to care for her, she was the only person who would talk about the past with him. He still talks to the sword even if he won’t get an answer.

He learns a lot of songs and a lot of stories that he shouldn’t know. He knows history that has been lost to ages and will forever stay lost.

Sky falling asleep isn’t natural, it was a safety measure done by Hylia, to try and keep his soul from burning out like the last hero.

So if he sits down for too long without something to do, he will fall asleep.

He also suffers from visions and dreams about the future. Some are vague but others are not. He knew he was fated to die before Zelda’s hair even turned gray.

The prophetic dreams come from the father of his soul, and his connection to time. Sky has the dreams cause he has the biggest soul piece.

Sky tries to stay on the positive side because 1) it’s in his nature and 2) if he didn’t he probably would have broken down by now.

Sky has come to terms that Zelda isn’t Hylia, she may have some memories but Hylia couldn’t be bound in a mortal form (at least not like in the games), she is just what Hylia thinks are her best parts (you can think like Zelda is a daughter or offshoot of Hylia).

Zelda and Sky both deal with an identity crisis and bond over it. Zelda does try to find ways to stop Sky’s visions from coming true.

He keeps a feather from his Loftwing in his hair, so he can always be connected to Red.

He took up woodworking and whittling to keep himself awake when he sits down.

Unlike the others, he seems to be the only one experiencing the curse, it could be because he has a bigger piece of the original soul.

He can play the harp, specially he still carries around and uses the goddess harp.

He can cook, he just often doesn’t because he would doze off while something was cooking.

Just because Sky is sleeping doesn’t mean he’s resting, so he has bags under his eyes despite the amount of sleeping he does.

The bags combined with his pale skin that never seems to get darker, gives him a gaunt appearance at times.

His visions have also allowed him to see what the others deal with on their adventure (as well as their deaths). He mainly tries to come across as someone you can talk to.

Sky adores birds, he doesn’t understand why all the others seem to hate them.

Sometimes he feels a bitter envy for the other heroes, not knowing their fate, not knowing the burning feeling digs into his chest.

Sky is very protective of Fi and the Master Sword, he doesn’t understand how someone like Time sees it as a curse.

Sky can actually feel/see the other hero’s spirits or the broken part. Sometimes his mind screams at him to do something, but he doesn’t know what. (it’s like a faint greenish glow)

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[taygra5shaon]

CHILDREN OF BHAAL🫀🫀

there is a lot of red...

[drenched-in-sunlight]

where are all the cats in dark souls 3 ???? 😢🐱

[waerlogart]

Something I drew after the second trailer for Elden Ring was finally released at Summer Game Fest. Posting it again because it got lost in the aether at some point.

The other Soulsborne protags (and Wolf) welcoming the Tarnished. :)

[loggingsight]

素敵な年始（らくがきをすること）を過ごした

[illmoraineakoi]

Happy First/18th Birthday, Mitsi!

We're so happy for you to be apart of the character roster, and here's to hoping you'll come back to us in the future ^-^

It's actually kinda crazy how much I didn't want Mitsi to be the new character, back when AvA11 was being teased, and now she's easily one of my faves. I love her to bits, I fell in love with her instantly. She's just got such an adorable design and her personality is so heartwarming. I want to see more of her so bad, I really do hope she comes back so she can have a happy 'end', alongside Victim.

Fun Fact: I knew what poses I wanted everyone in this picture to have...except for Mitsi herself. Oh well, it worked out in the end.

[You can't tell bc of the party hat, but Alan's cursor is, in fact, fucked up and asymmetrical. And yes, it physically pained me to do it.]

Bonus Non-Face version:

[five-crows-in-a-trenchcoat]

tell me about your favorite graphic novel that no one knows exists

It’s geis/curse of the chosen by Alexis deacon; so I’ve already sent my basic summary in response to goldyluna’s ask but I’ll talk abt my favourite characters here ^^ (without spoilers)

I think my top 5 (in order of appearance) are io, judge joyce, law, eloise and malmo. My descriptions are all absolute ass but I just woke up so idc

Io is the protagonist of the story; she’s the daughter of the kite lord and an absolute girlboss. She’s a strong protagonist but she’s not invincible and she does take a lot of hits and experiences many of The Horrors. For someone who can’t be older than 15 though, she’s pretty capable.

The judge is the judge. Also pretty girlboss. She’s kinda like a stern teacher but she’s really clever and caring, and for all the things she knows she doesn’t treat anyone like they’re a fucking moron

Law is a bird. He’s spunky and a silly fella

Eloise is the court magician, who gets her hands pretty deep into what’s going on around the place alongside her alongside her friends (they don’t all last)

And Malmo is an absolute cocksure cunt which I love him for. Absolutely peak.

[thenextcelestialchapter]

Me in the Io dress/Crowgate Gown that my bratty ass kid turned down. WHATEVER now I don't have to work more to alter it! I might be two times too old to play Io but at least I can pass for her dad! XD;;;

I don't do tights/stockings whatever but thankfully I had a pair of pants that more than less matched the gown. Close enough. XD

[goldyluna]

geis yes or no

Geis hell yeah

I just finished the second book and it was so good! The art is beautiful, the story is really engaging and the characters are so awesome—io, the judge, law and artur are definitely my favs for now!

Absolute must for death game enjoyers!

Thanks for introducing me to it and letting me read it <3333

[sexhaver]

finished watching The Order with Bailey and like. okay i know we're all used to shows and games shoehorning in vaguely "leftist" groups with asinine or outright evil goals as the Morally Gray Antagonists, but the subtext here was like

magic requires sacrifice so the "establishment" magicians, i.e. The Order, all cut their palms with knives or sacrifice their lifespan or something to cast spells

but this grassroots movement starts up that has found a way to cast magic for free! and they're using it to heal people and keep talking about "bringing magic to the people" and "freeing magic from the grasp of tyranny"! yayy!

oh no! it turns out this is causing "Tartarus Portals" to open up which are essentially bombs that kill anyone nearby!

okay so this is just a standard "silly leftists, nothing is actually free, you don't understand the sacrifices required" throughline?

oh wait no the grassroots org knows about this and is deliberately casting magic for free to open up more portal bombs until the big one that causes an apocalypse as a form of accelerationism with no clearly defined endgame plan other than, and i quote, "there's a type of tree that only grows after forest fires. [...] i am that tree"

the leader of The Order asks for total administrative power (i.e. the ability to do whatever she wants with no oversight or vetoes) from the council in order to fight the grassroots org, gets denied, and responds by murdering one of the council members in a way that pins the blame on the grassroots org, causing the survivors to vote to give her absolute power

she then shoots the leader of the movement dead during negotiations, which was of course justified because she (grassroots leader) was going to essentially suicide bomb both of them

the grassroots org is literally named Praxis

[embraceweird]

Gilear's speech after having his luck returned had me in tears 😢

The arc this man has had. From having Fig use magic to make Gilear feel better to him genuinely loving his life curse and all!

He has his daughter, his partner, and his STEPSON what more does one need 💛