#darquesse

[a-gae-af-racoon]

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I am not sane about this new art.

The next three reprint covers by Matt Taylor dropped! Out on June 5th!

[greykolla-art]

Comic scene from DEATH BRINGER under the cut✌️

Better start reading the books so you can look at my cool art!

Darquesse casually poking into the magic that holds Skulduggery together. My girl is such a menace 💕

[whimsylueur]

"If she was trapped in somewhere like this," Valkyrie said, "that'd be it, though, wouldn't it? There'd be no chance of talking to her, of getting her to control herself or anything like that?"

"That would be impossible. The only reason Argeddion hasn't escaped is because he's been kept in an artificially induced coma. We can't allow him to wake up - ever. With Darquesse, it would be even more important to keep her sedated. If you give someone like that a moment of consciousness, she'd kill you and everyone else."

"Well," Valkyrie said, frowning, "that sucks."

Lament looked surprised. "You'd prefer the alternative?"

"No," she said quickly. "No, I was just thinking, from her perspective that sucks, not from our... Never mind. Could we have a copy of the plans?"

"I don't see why not," said Lament. "But do you have enough people to monitor her? Do you have anyone who'd be willing to give up the rest of their life to spend with her?"

"I would," Skulduggery said.

Imagining an instance where they actually brought this plan to life is so depressing, it does amazing things to my brain chemistry.

Anyway peep my mad man poetry in the tags x

[beaniebopp]

the holy trinity

[nicstylus]

The CreaturesTM + a couple of normal people with questionable morals + an almost god + an actual god

And Tesseract :]

[dykemcqueen]

normal. normal. feeling normal about them

[n14-4cko]

Darquesse and Val during phase one

[dravencroft]

Stephanie, Valkyrie, Darquesse.

"And who are you? Nothing but a collection of spare parts."

[beigetiger]

Cannot stop thinking about how Skulduggery has sort of peaked in his abilities. He’s four hundred, the Death Bringer, and one of the most powerful Elementals ever. That’s quite a lot to his name.

I’m also thinking of how Valkyrie is just getting started. She’s BABY to the other sorcerers, and yet she’s already practically on his level. I’m obsessed with the idea that she’ll just…keep going. Godhood is inevitable for her, she’ll just keep losing more and more of her humanity until she’s no longer even a sorcerer. She’ll outgrow the world some day. And Skulduggery will love her anyway.

There’s a lot to be said about the religious aspect of this series and I find it all extremely fascinating, both how the sorcerers view religion and how it’s wrapped up with the characters and their arcs. Valkyrie already has a religion dedicated to one of her aspects and Skulduggery is kind of the Death Bringer, and yet neither of them view each other in an explicitly religious way (although there could be an argument made for them worshiping each other in less of a generally religious and more of a mutual adoration sense).

Not much analysis going on here, I’m just thinking about them. Might write more on this later when I’m slightly more coherent and have fewer other things to do.

[fictional-gods-tournament]

Round 1

Characters' info under the cut

Darquesse

No domain

Propaganda:

literally created the universe(again)

Lain Iwakura (wiki)

Domain: The Wired

[nevermindigotthis]

Darquesse

[greykolla-art]

Come back after you’ve at least finished Death Bringer.✌️

Look at these COOL VILLAINS! 💗

[whimsylueur]

This is how I imagine Valkyrie’s Aura-vision, just Skug surrounded by his beautiful crimson red magic/soul.

I drew it also because I was inspired by Seasons of War, Chapter 22.

Literally read this whole chapter guys, it highlights everything I love about Skulduggery and Valkyrie’s dynamic. Just effortlessly authentic, yet deep and critical. Sneak a few jabs and banter and, well, that’s just true love I reckon.

“I don’t know if there is such a thing as destiny. The rational side of me is keen to dismiss the notion - but we work with magic. We work with concepts that routinely defy explanation until a new explanation is found. And then we encounter another concept that defies explanation all over again. So I don’t know if fate is secretly driving us behind an illusion of free will, but I would like to think that I’m responsible for myself, and I find no comfort in the idea that I’m being guided by an unseen hand.”

They slowed to a stop at the bedroom she’d chosen.

“What about you?” Skulduggery asked. “Do you believe in fate, or do you believe in yourself?”

Valkyrie frowned. “I’m not sure I believe in either.”

“Then you’re experiencing an existential crisis.”

“Will it be better by the morning?”

“Most likely.”

“Good,” she said, and kissed his cheekbone. “Goodnight, Skulduggery.”

“Goodnight, Valkyrie.”

She went into her room, and listened to his footsteps, slowly getting fainter.

Just a dead warrior and his Valkyrie.

Source for the first image:

[beaniebopp]

remember, you are one

[nicstylus]

for the dialog thing... mortal coil I think? where skug hugs val after she admits she sealed her name. 'that must have been very hard' or something.

I was actually planning on doing the bit where he was gently insulting her the whole time but maybe some other time :P

[dykemcqueen]

first pass val + darquesse