#fatestwine paean

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my contribution to this bullshit fdakhfd

@ghosts-and-glory

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babe wake up its time for bullshit

also i think its important to add this screenshot to this post cuz the irony is fucking hilarious

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I FINALLY FINISHED IT

im so late to this but we IGNORE THAT

edit: I GOT TOO EXCITED AND FORGOT TO ADD THE REFS FUCK

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ITS DONE GUYS I FINALLY FINISHED IT IM SO LATE BUT WE BALL

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Do you have any blorbos or ideas to share?

floodgates: open

yes!! i have a bunch of aus im working on though im assuming u mean cotl specific (the others are undertale/deltarune and homestuck related if theres any interest)

the main one im working on right now is fates twine, (which ill explain in more detail in a second) but i have two others. a pirate esque essentially dnd campaign au story which ive named tears in a bottle. im still figuring out designs for that one but nari is a critter the size of the lambs hand so thats funny. its called tears in a bottle cuz the lamb and the others in the pirate crew go to raid a lost city, and the statue in the middle of said city (which is of shamura. the bishops are all archfey in this au so theyre cool) is weeping golden tears into a bottle which contains nari. only the lamb can see these god tears and nari.

i also have ideas for a madoka magica x cotl au but i have no designs and not enough ideas to talk about it currently.

but then theres fates twine. fates twine ("fates twine binds the hearts of you and i" is the full name, fates twine is my shorthand) is a prequel au which starts when the old gods are still around, and out of the bishops only shamura has their crown. it explores what would happen if the lamb (who is named mara) found the red crown before nari could, and fought against their ascension. they actually meet nari when hes still a mortal because of this and they become friends. shenanigans ensue. (narinders name as a mortal here is paean. i thought it would be cool to link him to the demon he always becomes in game) i have a bunch planned and have like 4,000 words worth of scenes written for it. but they're all for different parts of the fic so it's not currently postable. the closest image i have for mara around the time they find the crown is this little sketch for a scene i made

they dont typically wear the crown they usually have it as a ring on their finger to hide they have it but for that scene they do.

this is a bit of an older design and artstyle but this is mara when theyre a bit older. this is. the only coloured drawing i have of them rn but im gonna work on more soon.

this is their current design at that age. the other lamb there is omen, their little sister. i have a whole page of doodles of her that im gonna post tomorrow probably. shes one of my favourite fates twine characters i love her sm lolol

and these are sketches of mara post them becoming a cult leader!! so yeah nari does still get the crown and ascend instead of them eventually and they become the last lamb and all that but its about the interesting things that them being the true god of death causes. so yeah. you also get one (1) paragraph draft snippet of the first chapter bc im feeling silly

so yeah!! yap over

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Character design details? Oh do tell!

me looking at this ask with the biggest eyes (sorry this took so long to answer i didnt have time to sit down and type this out until now)

okok so

jootrena right

(if you dont know who jootrena is this is her)

shes like literally my fav fates twine character and she doesnt show up for so long but i need to talk about her

ik you didnt ask about story stuff but i have to give context so that infodump is also here

fates twine (my fic) spoilers past this point, obviously. if you dont want those click off.... (in future ill be tagging all fates twine spoilers under #fatestwine spoilers!! so if you dont want those feel free to filter the tag)

..... okay so. jootrena shows up after narinder has ascended. by this point yngya (the god of seasons as told in the cotl lore tablets) has stopped existing and so have seasons, and the achlys family (maras family [my lamb]) are instead deaths disciples; mara being naris head disciple.

jootrena comes from anchordeep. she was a doctor who was forced to flee her village for trying to heal the sick, since there that's considered heresy since illness is a divine punishment from kallamar.

she ends up finding achlys village and ofc mara accepts her. they understand what it's like to be cast out like she was, and ofc they also understand how important someone like her is, since they were sick for such a large part of their life with no hope of surviving until... something happened :3

jootrena absolutely despises kallamar for this, and very heavily leans into narinders resurrection stuff when that comes around. She wears things like fishing line hook piercings in her ear and fishnet around her tail. These are a way of silently protesting the kind of treatment she went through and eventually a silent way to support narinder after his imprisonment.

Her camellias are, first of all, placed on her as a tribute to the nickname Mara gave her, as they like to give people they're close to nicknames of flowers that represent them. (This started from a point in their life where they had to use sign language, and would use flowers as a way to address people through sign!!)

And second of all, of course, they represent how she's a healer.

(And while this just came to me now, and was originally just cool placement, the camellias coming off the fishnet on her tail could represent how despite all she's been through, she's free in achlys village. and she can be who she really wants to be and help the people she wants to help!! which is cool)