#eoc asks

[echoes-of-courage]

wait, so who all knows about forge’s split & stuff? can he still choose to split, or no? if so, how often does he utilize the ability?

At the beginning of the comic?? No one. Though, Collector has his suspicions. Mask also has suspicions, but those are unrelated to splitting. The “I didn’t get a purple one” comic is set at some ambiguous point in the future. Forge can split at will, and while the colors can work together just fine, he prefers not to use the four sword’s powers too much. He has a complicated (if dependent) relationship with the four sword, and he won’t bring it up unprompted, but if he really needs to use its abilities, he won’t hesitate to reveal them.

He also keeps a very firm “no touching” rule with his sword around the other heroes, but it doesn’t bring too much attention since he’s not the only one who forbids an item of theirs being touched.

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[paradoxbeta]

[cerame]

I’m a really big fan of mask because my favorite game is majoris mask so could you please Draw him some

Yes of course!

Mask might be in his edgy teenager phase, but he’s still pretty dang cool.

A few notes on Mask:

Is legally required to be friends with his Zelda

Spends most of his time at Lon Lon Ranch

Has had the same hairstyle since he was a kid

Still has the masks and very much respects them

Alternates between the biggoron sword and the gilded sword in combat, depending on the situation

He lost his eye sometime after the events of Majora’s Mask

Knows very few dances, but Kamaro’s dance is definitely one of them

[boyfridged]

i’ve been thinking a lot about what is so unique and appealing about 80s robin jay’s moral standing that got completely lost in plot later on. and i think a huge part of it is that in a genre so focused on crime-fighting, his motivations and approach don’t focus on the category of crime at all. in fact, he doesn’t seem to believe in any moral dogma; and it’s not motivated by nihilism, but rather his open-heartedness and relational ethical outlook.

we first meet (post-crisis) jay when he is stealing. when confronted about his actions by bruce he’s confident that he didn’t do anything wrong – he’s not apologetic, he doesn’t seem to think that he has morally failed on any account. later on, when confronted by batman again, jay says that he’s no “crook.” at this point, the reader might assume that jay has no concept of wrong-doing, or that stealing is just not one of the deeds that he considers wrong-doing. yet, later on we see jay so intent on stopping ma gunn and her students, refusing to be implicit in their actions. there are, of course, lots of reasons for which we can assume he was against stealing in this specific instance (an authority figure being involved, the target, the motivations, the school itself being an abusive environment etc.), but what we gather is that jay has an extremely strong sense of justice and is committed to moral duty. that's all typical for characters in superhero comics, isn't it? however, what remains distinctive is that this moral duty is not dictated by any dogma – he trusts his moral instincts. this attitude – his distrust toward power structures, confidence in his moral compass, and situational approach, is something that is maintained throughout his robin run. it is also evident in how he evaluates other people – we never see him condemning his parents, for example, and that includes willis, who was a petty criminal. i think from there arises the potential for a rift between bruce and jay that could be, have jay lived, far more utilised in batman comics than it was within his short robin run.

after all, while bruce’s approach is often called a ‘philosophy of love and care,’ he doesn’t ascribe to the ethics of care [eoc] (as defined in modern scholarship btw) in the same way that jay does. ethics of care ‘deny that morality consists in obedience to a universal law’ and focus on the ideals of caring for other people and non-institutionalized justice. bruce, while obviously caring, is still bound by his belief in the legal system and deontological norms. he is benevolent, but he is also ultimately morally committed to the idea of a legal system and thus frames criminals as failing to meet these moral (legal-adjacent) standards (even when he recognizes it is a result of their circumstances). in other words, he might think that a criminal is a good person despite leading a life of crime. meanwhile, for jay there is no despite; jay doesn't think that engaging in crime says anything about a person's moral personality at all. morality, for him, is more of an emotional practice, grounded in empathy and the question of what he can do for people ‘here and now.’ he doesn’t ascribe to maxims nor utilitarian calculations. for jay, in morality, there’s no place for impartiality that bruce believes in; moral decisions are embedded within a net of interpersonal relationships and social structures that cannot be generalised like the law or even a “moral code” does it. it’s all about responsiveness. 

to sum up, jay's moral compass is relative and passionate in a way that doesn't fit batman's philosophy. this is mostly because bruce wants to avoid the sort of arbitrariness that seems to guide eoc. also, both for vigilantism, and jay, eoc poses a challenge in the sense that it doesn't create a certain 'intellectualised' distance from both the victims and the perpetrators; there's no proximity in the judgment; it's emotional.

all of this is of course hardly relevant post-2004. there might be minimal space for accommodating some of it within the canon progression (for example, the fact that eoc typically emphasises the responsibility that comes with pre-existing familial relationships and allows for prioritizing them, as well as the flexibility regarding moral deliberations), but the utilitarian framework and the question of stopping the crime vs controlling the underworld is not something that can be easily reconciled with jay’s previous lack of interest in labeling crime. 

[ragnar0c]

🖋 Tank please >:))c

Tank.

The guy who is a “massive alcoholic” got a private education, lives in a mansion alone, and has enough money to be at the bar all day. No, he’s not in debt at all, not even on his tab. In fact, whenever he leave the bar, his table is spotless.

He does have a job, if not a hobby on the side. On the guild’s days off he’s never around. And if he is it’s only because Enid’s around. Why did he even become an adventurer when he’s literally all set and claims to hate it anyway 🤨? Why’s he hang out with Enid too.

The “Monk” who knows how to pick locks, end a fight instantly, and has the mouth of a sailor. In fact, Enid’s a little too familiar with sailors and can differentiate pirate gangs.

Drunk who seems too good to be true and Monk who seems a little insidious… Something is wrong with the both of them and they always hide what. But maybe that’s why they like each other. ⭐️

[definitelyimportantpost]

theres an umineko character named kanon so every time you tag something "official kanon post" im always like no way kanon

Does Umineko Kanon also die fighting a very large catfish

[sycamorality]

8 9 18 go

just answered 8

9. worst part of canon

i. really. dislike inv's whole "find a mate" in the dating sim. um. i have Opinions. also saint's,,, thing??? whatever it is. i like saint! dont get me wrong! i just,,,, weh??? what are you??? why is this frozen rag of moss god^2

18. it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...

NGI, HF, HR and UU. those four chatlog iterators. sure theres so little on them but like!!! make silly ocs out of them!! give them designs! give them names!!! they deserve more attention :[

ALSO survivor and monk's third sibling. i think they deserve attention too

[lepospondyl]

any ocs youre particularly find of? 👀

IM SO SORRY ITS BEEN A YEAR AND A HALF SINCE YOU SENT THIS ASK but i finally have the motivation to actually talk about some of my ocs. ive been rotating some eo5 ocs in my head for a while now and am slowly figuring out how to actually write them. veshal is toxic yuri because venn (blade master masurao) would do literally anything for ashal (cannon dragoon) except for allow her to continue her religious duties while ashal unknowingly takes advantage of venn's bending over backwards for her to an unhealthy degree to cope with the fact that she'll most likely never be welcome in her hometown ever again (or at least as long as shes still in a relationship with venn). if nothing changes eventually theyll intertwine so closely that they destroy each other completely and utterly like binary stars going supernova. northeron is toxic yuri because northe (phantom duelist fencer) and vijay heron (omnimancer warlock) hit each other with folding chairs for fun

[couldyouforgivemeforthatpain]

someone needed to slap me in the face and spit in my eyes four months ago and scream. “being in a musical is the worst idea for yourself that you could’ve come up with! ever!”

[purity-town]

Ask responses below the cut! Lots of thoughts on Terraria lore and Purity Town worldbuilding -- mostly focusing on the Crimson, the war, and Guides.

Reasons why I chose Corruption over Crimson, off the top of my head:

Artistic reasons: Chris was always going to lean towards magenta & dark blue weapons/armor where possible as a nod to the nebula pillar coloration, and I felt that it was easier to work with those colors against a purple/gray/brown background than a red one. Similarly, the purple of demonite matches the Corruption colors, making it easy to tie a visual connection between demonite and the shadow orbs' evil energy.

Personal reasons: My first world was a Corruption one, and I tend to favor Corruption in general as I like the music more.

Practical reasons: It's much, much easier to draw worms and the various other Corruption enemies than it is to draw the Crimson enemies, as the Crimson enemies are far more complicated in appearance and poses. Plus all the blood and brains puts me in an awkward spot as I don't want to run into issues with any of the websites I post the comic to.

Lore reasons: While the Brain of Cthulhu does very nicely match up with Moon Lord's actual design, it doesn't have a Mech boss associated with it, and I didn't want the Destroyer to feel like it came out of nowhere; I felt it was easier to justify the EoW being related to evil/Moon Lord in some way than the Destroyer existing in a Crimson world. The Corruption's shadow orbs also naturally tie into the idea of the "ancient spirits of light and dark" being released from the underworld, as the Crimson doesn't really convey the "dark" side of things that well. Also, the Crimson is generally associated with health while the Corruption is associated with mana, and since Chris is a mage I wanted to lean into the magic side of things.

As for my ideas with the Crimson:

Theme-wise, the blood and gore is easy to relate back to the same consuming, flesh-melding energy of blood moons. (While blood moons already have a link to Corruption/Crimson in the form of corrupt/vicious animals, the Crimson just makes more sense.) The massive skeletons in the background bring up similarities with bone serpents and wyverns/phantasm dragon, and the eyeballs with the EoC/WoF/True EoC.

Where the Corruption is more of the culmination of sin and dark thoughts and eldritch energies that twist whatever they come into contact with, the Crimson is a growing, living being that spiraled into wild mutation from eldritch energy. The Corruption naturally grows over time through additional sins giving it the power to spread, while the Crimson grows by actively consuming more and more living material; contamination vs. infection; acidic vs. corrosive.

The Crimson is a hive mind, of the sort where each new mind adds its knowledge and input to the collective, and likewise has its will overridden by the majority. At the core of it all is the Brain of Cthulhu -- intelligent, but not something that can be reasoned with or spoken to; the sort of being whose mind is so fundamentally different from a human's that anyone who comes into contact would be left mentally shattered. Much the same way one who stares into the darkness seeking to study the eldritch and bizarre could be left broken.

Where the Corruption chasms are worm tracks, I've always interpreted the Crimson chasms as a heart and the arteries spreading out from it. Or maybe the tendrils of a spreading infection? Not really sure!

Side note, the general theme (flesh/blood) and many of the monsters (face monster, crimera, blood feeder, etc.) also tie very well into the Wall of Flesh and its hunger. The justification for the WoF being so...flesh in the comic is that Andrew is a human*, and so the WoF's form is influenced by what his soul knows (flesh and blood body), mixed with lots and lots of eldritch energy giving it the visual ties to the EoC/Moon Lord in the eyes/mouth. But it's not as natural of a link as "the WoF's form is steeped in overflowing Crimson energy locked away in the center of the earth."

Instead of shattering, I imagine it would just poof into a particularly liquid-looking red smoke. Something to combine it being an immaterial/magical collection of energy with it being bloody and gory. Less of the sharp/shattered/sparkly look of shadow orbs, and something more organic and primal.

As for Crimson hearts...I suppose it's the other side of the coin of shadow orbs. Keeping with the theme of Crimson being vaguely health/damage-related while Corruption is mana-related, where shadow orbs are pustules of evil and eldritch magic, I could imagine Crimson hearts as concentrations of the life energy that's been consumed by/generated within the Crimson. Something that pulses with the hearts and minds of the countless creatures that have been incorporated into the Crimson before. Hence the panic necklace; something that fills you with adrenaline and the vitality to push forward and run for your life when hurting (compared to the band of starpower boosting your ability to channel magic).

BAD. Really, really, really bad.

The most obvious reason was all of the general destruction that the world had suffered at that point. Land masses ripped apart or twisted/distorted. Civilization shredded, infrastructure destroyed. What wasn't outright blasted to bits was warped beyond recognition or so corrupted there was no hope of salvaging what had been there before. Loss of homes means exposure to the elements, and loss of farmland means starvation; many societies crumbled or were staggered by the loss of vital industries and resources.

The main surviving communities were small subsets of what were once larger cultures. They were the ones lucky enough to have enough resources nearby to be self-sustaining -- cities had it the worst, requiring resources to be brought in from elsewhere, while more remote communities tended to be affected the least. Andrew, for instance, grew up in a very small community out on the plains, and while they did have contact with other communities, trade was limited to only specialty goods. Everything else came from the local area.

On top of the physical loss of land and infrastructure, there was also the loss of knowledge. The people who stood up to fight were the most powerful mages and strongest warriors, trying to hold back the destruction and stop the eldritch power contaminating the world; when they died, their knowledge of the world died with them. Similarly, Dryads were far more common back then, with people relying on them to interpret the weather, bless the crops, protect them from harm, and purify any imbalance of good and evil. So even the folks who did survive had to suddenly adjust to having no Dryads to fall back on.

Then, just when they thought the worst of it was over -- that their world had ended and was something new and scary, but stable -- the first Blood Moon rises and everything goes to Hell in a hand-basket once more (albeit only for a night). So now, rather than the night being a time for mages to practice their craft, the inherent chaos of the dark is now dialed up 1000% (even moreso during blood moons). Hence the push for some folks to try and find solace beneath the earth -- building the underground cabins, establishing the Dungeon, and the Lihzahrds locking themselves within a temple away from the sky.

The world was finally given a chance to breathe again once most of the eldritch magic, and in equal measure the divine hallow, was locked away in the core of the world. But by that point the old world was already a distant memory. It's been 500 years since the war, around 450 since most magic was locked away, and what did remain from before the war gave the world a significant boost in recovery. Old magic items and technology can be studied and recreated, and while technological/magical advancement is a bit uneven from region to region depending on their level of development and general population, the Guides have worked hard sharing everything they know between them to rebuild.

Purity Town, and the smaller villages immediately surrounding it (in the desert, snowy mountains, etc.) has such a low population/is so remote that they don't have much in the way of established governance. Various NPCs arguably have varying levels of authority within their specialization: Heather is the go-to for healing, Malik is the local monster hunter, and so on, but it's all very informal. The individual villages probably all have people who handle day-to-day things -- there are various random folks who live in the region to fill out each village outside of the established NPCs -- but it's just something going on in the background to keep the place running.

Guides aren't really meant to be politicians either, but they do often fall into a default leadership role since they're the go-to advice guys!

They're meant to preserve and share knowledge of the world, its languages, and its cultures; a reaction to the vast majority of that knowledge having been lost in the wake of the war 500 years ago. So Guides are out there fielding questions like "how do I make this medicine/when do I harvest this plant/is this edible/etc.," but they also are expected to know enough about situations like weather/celestial events such that they can give advice no matter what crops up. Extend that attitude to a more general "this person knows how to handle Problems, so let's default to whatever they tell us whenever we run into Problems," and you end up with Guides often taking pseudo-leadership or advisory positions.

Andrew is in something of a weird spot, as he took over for a much more established/respected Guide after she retired and threw him into it, and is not particularly good at commanding authority or dealing with people in the way she could, even though he tries to be nice. But he's extremely, extremely knowledgeable, even compared to other Guides due to having been around for long enough to pick up so much knowledge, so at least he can fulfill that aspect of the job easily enough and the townsfolk trust him to do so.

Tangentially related, but the lack of solid governance is specific/unique to Purity Town's remoteness. With a small enough population, folks rely on the cooperation and skills of others much more, and any disputes would be worked out among the townsfolk proper.

The world isn't fully settled, but there are some locations with enough of a population to be considered actual kingdoms (see: Princess NPC) with established government (see: Tax Collector). Chris' hometown, which sees a lot of ship traffic/trade, has a proper government, local guard, etc. along with their own Guide. Purity Town is just particularly out there! But it's still been around for long enough to have seen some trade, built up some skills among the residents, and establish basic infrastructure so that residents can live comfortably. Like comparing a small town in the modern day to a remote village in medieval times, residents still enjoy a relatively high standard of living, despite being a scattered and remote population.

The world hasn't recovered to where it was pre-Moon Lord, but it's certainly not a post-apocalyptic wasteland anymore!

[homemadehaunting]

From the river to the sea

hey all! firstgrave here

I was somewhat recently banned on tumblr for “targeted harassment”. the post that got me banned? a post in which I said Israeli settlers and former IDF soldiers had actively engaged in ethnic cleansing and genocide. 

I attempted to appeal the ban but have gotten nowhere, and I do see this as the final reason in why I should stay away from tumblr as a whole. I am no longer interested in coming back to tumblr, and will be making no future efforts to do so.

however, some important updates I want to give: many people whom I was mutuals with were there for my entire law school journey, the passing of the bar, and my entrance into the career of public defender. this is something I’ve been dreaming of and working towards for years now. 

in october, the union which represents the office of public defenders I work with, and the majority of public defenders in NY entirely, proposed a resolution on the genocide in Palestine, reinforcing the rights of union members to speak out against apartheid and ethnic cleansing and calling for an end to Israeli occupation. in response, four Zionist members of the union have commenced a lawsuit in attempt to get an injunction against the union members voting on the resolution. the union has now filed a motion to move the case to federal court, thus removing it from the jurisdiction of conservative Long Island state court judges, but also to have the action deemed as an unconstitutional infringement on free speech. 

since the lawsuit was filed, a supervisor at my office has cursed out myself and the 8 new attorneys I was hired with, telling us to “get the fuck” out of her office if we don’t support Israel, and we do not deserve to work there if we do not agree with her. so now we are also in the process of filing a union grievance and EOC claim against the supervisor. this has put us at significant odds against management and we may very well lose our jobs over this (we are at-will employees for the first 3 years of our contract, so while discriminatory firings are illegal, it would be near impossible to prove in this instance.) I am likely to lose my dream job that I have worked years to reach over this. 

The attempts to silence any and all people who speak out against the atrocities being committed with our tax funding cannot be ignored. When we look back at the atrocities of history and wonder how they were allowed to occur, it is because many people feel more comfortable turning a blind eye to the suffering of those “other” to them, and those that do care are faced with coordinated censorship campaigns armed with threats of loss of employment, homelessness, incarceration, violence, and even death. 

In the time all of this has occurred, thousands of men, women, and children have been senselessly and brutally massacred by Israeli forces, aided by other world powers. The US is actively and happily funding the genocide of Palestinians, as well as Britain, Canada, and other imperial nations. Babies have been abandoned and denied humanitarian aid, cities have been leveled, and families have been devastated. 

Attached here is the proposed resolution of the legal aid union. I stand by it wholeheartedly, and ask others to share it as well. There is no excuse for silence or complacency in the face of genocide. Those who are not in Palestine, have not witnessed and experienced the horrors in which every Palestinian citizen has been forced to endure, do not get the benefit of turning a blind eye. 

May we see a free Palestine in our lifetimes. 

[echoes-of-courage]

what’s artisan’s relation with ravio? are they buddies? pals? begrudging customer and con artist merchant? And where is ravio in terms of echoes of courage? Is he in artisan’s house?

After the events of A Link Between Worlds, the rifts between Hyrule and Lorule closed, and Artisan hasn’t seen Ravio since then. Sure, he was annoying for a bit, what with the house-stealing and his renting policies, but Ravio became a dear friend and reliable presence during Artisan’s journey. He hasn’t had the opportunity to really reflect on what Ravio means to him now, after everything is said and done, but he keeps Ravio’s now-dormant bracelet on out of fondness and nostalgia. They could’ve been…. well, at this point, who knows? It’s a missed opportunity, but Artisan has never been one to wallow over the past.

Every Link has a reason to go through portals like the one that showed up in the prologue. While Artisan did partially step through because of moral obligation and familiarity with portals, there may be a spark of hope that he’ll get to see his old friend.

That being said, Commander did meet Ravio during the war but never saw his face. Like with most visitors across time and space, though, Commander heard plenty about this strange merchant’s hero, his golden reflection.

[paradoxbeta]

WHO IS EOC? i am very curious now!!!

>:) okay SO

tumblr picture formatting is utter garbage and i dont want these to take up too much space so im cramming these drawings into one row (or not if this crapsite breaks on me, because it seems to be REALLY fighting me on this, so if it ends up not making a nice little picture row know that i tried my best). but this is effigy of composure!

he has a couple problems, but the big one is that his superstructure has a terrible parasite situation. the parasites are flat, thin, and able to make it into grooves and pipes the inspectors cant reach. flushing out doesnt do much to dislodge them and they breed faster than they can be killed, so theyve happily made their homes in this sheltered, food-rich haven (to the obvious distress and horror of the host iterator). originally the concept for these parasites were much closer to centipedes and had the placeholder name "synapcipedes," but ive since started leaning more towards an obvious tapeworm motif for them because its gross and i enjoy it morbidly. it also has some pretty cursed implications if you think about it for too long which i have decided are funny/really disgusting/so stupid that they have to stay. i still flipflop between considering them centipedes vs tapeworms though and i dont think thatll ever be rigidly defined. the ambiguity is nice to toy with

on the top 10 list of "things that are not fun" having turbo worms has to be somewhere up there, so eoc has it *rough,* and kind of sort of eventually barrels off into the deep end because of it. his futile attempts to clean his own structure are frustrating enough, and the constant feeling of bugs crawling all over the inside of his body (which only gets progressively worse with time) does no favors either. however, the real big reason why he mentally declines is just because there's a ton of centi-worm things eating like fire through his neurons and other what-have-yous that iterators need to think and function. i think if he only got hit with one of these 3 things then he might have been able to hang onto his sanity, but with the triple combo he doesn't really stand a chance of doing much except stalling his functional death. which is good on him because if i was an iterator and my overseers told me i had a structure infestation, my mental health would have just preemptively swan dived off a bridge before anything even happened

anyhow, exponential parasite population growth meant exponential increase in all this other fun stuff, which means the time from the beginning of the infection to the time eoc is considered officially gone is startlingly short (for iterators, at least). it still took quite the while because losing your marbles is a loonnnng process, but still, yikes. its unfortunate because eoc was a real jokester pre-everything, and a cool guy to talk to. he was one of those people who could come up witty comments for anything like hed been ripped from the script of a sitcom. oh yeah, also, should have mentioned this earlier, but he ends up accidentally amassing a scavenger cult mid-insanity which goes hilariously bad because he's barely aware it's happening. nothing really works out for this poor iterator.

tldr: eoc gets parasites, they erode his brain, he goes nuts about it, (accidentally amasses a cult,) dies

[cerame]

Do you have more art for the Collector ? Those were my favorite games, so I'm always looking for more of that.

Yes! Well actually I had to draw these just now, but enjoy!!

About his accessories: Collector’s Zelda gave him the cloak as a joke after he came back from his overseas travels, and he can’t bring himself to throw it out, so he only wears it rarely. His feathers are the roc’s feathers he comes across, and among his jewelry are, naturally, a strength bracelet and a moon pearl.

[redladydeath]

Okok RAM thoughts

Someone at the hotel asked Vox to replace one (1) broken cable in the TV set they have. Vox gets the broken cable out and then promptly forgets what he was doing and takes the whole thing apart. No one can figure out how to put it back together and Vox is nowhere to be found. Nifty ends up throwing the "mess" away. Alastor is the only one who is not upset at losing the TV (Vox will whine about it later and then insists it's not his fault that it's gone)

Alternatively: they forget to unplug it and Vox immediately gets electrocuted when he puts his hand into the wires. Everyone else is shocked but he just gets back up saying "Tasty" and goes right back to work on it (it's still not unplugged)

-eoc

fytddbkojuyrdcbiy

Charlie tries to very gently explain to Vox that she’s disappointed that they don’t have a TV anymore. She’s not disappointed in him, he did his best!!!! but they really needed that TV. However, regardless of how nice she is about it, this immediately sets off Vox’s latent RSD and people-pleasing, and the next time she sees him, he’s stolen a whole ass 85-inch flatscreen for the hotel. She tries to tell him that she really appreciates the effort, but that stealing is kinda, sorta against the rules of the hotel, but he’s already forgotten that he stole it and doesn’t understand why he’s getting this lecture. Vaggie tells her to just throw in the towel and send money to whatever store he took it from.

For the second one, I’m not sure Vox is capable of being electrocuted, but that mental image is hilarious. I’m picturing him working on it, electricity coursing through his body, as he cheerfully tells Angel Dust about how this is just like that time he was electrocuted to death at his old job! Angel does not want to be hearing about this; Vox already makes him super uncomfortable and hearing him talk so openly about his death (a sort of taboo in Hell) just feels wrong. Why did Vaggie have to choose him for Vox-monitoring duty today?

[ragnar0c]

🖊 + El for the OC gushing ask game !

ELLL!!!!

(below the cut)

There’s a bit of a joke with her. I had made her when EO untold came out. I loved Highlander I named him Elisah (pronounce El-lie-sah), but one thing that saddened 11 y/o me back then was that….. There wasn’t a female protagonist option. So I made a woman highlander, El. Funny he got the feminine name and she got the masculine one. El is Elisah’s younger cousin, who dreams of being a hero like him.

Little does she know at first, she surpassed him and just needs to kill a god for herself to understand.

I drew her in a LOT of comics when I was that age. In the comics, El was the easily irritable voice of reason. Now, she has a softer side outside the labyrinth. The biggest twist about her is that when not exploring she likes to wear cottagecore clothing despite having huge muscles, she doesn’t often like to show them off like. Someone else. (ALOPE)

Yes, she works out. And she’s big. But she likes little things. Clothes and stuff. She’s just a girl who is bad at expressing herself with words (way too blunt), so she shows her softer side in her fashion and often… she likes to change things up when she feels as if they’re stale. Vs the rest of the guild who clings onto familiarity. Hence this

joke (still in character). Though she IS the most likely to retire and wander after the plot finishes. She just likes new experiences, despite how 😐 she may seem, they unlock new sensory things for her. And that is her priority.