#i also loved fynch

[nyphren]

i finished lightfall like two weeks ago and tbh i was expecting it to be waaaaay worse. bc its not bad.

like, speaking as a player who got into the game less than a month ago, who knows more or less what happened in d1 and in the vaulted content, it was... fine

know whats kinda bad?

shadowkeep.

shadowkeep is... rough. im dragging my brother through it rn and its a Time. the campaign quests are okay, i guess, but the whole ~forge an armor piece by piece~ is boring and the "do this bounty", "do events two dozen times", "kill things" between campaign missions are SO painful. especially because i have almost NO context re: who these nightmares are. i never met crota. i never met taniks. i only know who these people are bc i watched a 4 hour summary of destiny's story. none of this mattered or made much sense to me.

i love the atmosphere on the moon, tho. and eris is great.

but i distinctly remember finishing shadowkeep and going "thats it?" and "are all the campaigns going to be like this????" and feeling dread because ffxiv is my main game and i had a very different idea of what a campaign should be bc i had already bought beyond light. which im really glad i did bc i went on to play it out of spite and it was much better. witch queen was fantastic. and lightfall was good.

so for me, it's witch queen -> ligthfall -> beyond light -> shadowkeep.

lightfall does have "this couldve been an email" vibes and the final boss fight is a huge letdown if compared to witch queen's but i dont think the story/campaign is a bad as ppl make it out to be tbh

[starside-selfships]

new comfort character: fynch (d2 twq)

[whaalless]

My silly titan guy but with a different armor preset I’ve been using for a little while

I finished the forsaken campaign and got stasis a few days ago and I liked it a lot but I wish lightfall pulled more from it since it had loads of potential.

Im at the point in my art journey where I feel confident in experimenting with trying out new styles and brushes to see what I like and stuff I’m not a huge fan of which is cool but it’s also why my stuff has been less consistent lately. It’s also nice to use new brushes after using the same one for 2 years now lmao

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Also bonus doodles + some wips I’m working on + goofy memes I mashed together (my humor sucks I’m sorry 💀)

I think Cayde-6 and Rodimus would be best friends and goof off together

[telestoapologist]

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hallowed be thy ween🔞 // 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴!

4. What general Spicy Headcanons do you have?

Immaru knows plenty of dirty shit, but I think if you got him in bed for a more "heartfelt" experience, he'd be a deer in the headlights or just really uncomfortable. I also don't picture him being the real vocal type unless you do something that really gets to him.

Safiyah definitely made Zavala moan and whimper. She could absolutely turn that man into a puddle at her touch if she wanted.

Kridis's affections for Eramis were probably one-sided and I can imagine she probably shamefully whacked off to her once or twice.

5. Are your Guardians Sexually active?

Canonically, Reef's more sexually active than Sundog tbh (which isn't a lot tbh); Sunny because, again, they're worried about attachments, as well as their own performances. I can't help but wonder if their work keeps them too busy, too, to where they're just too burnt out or sad some of the time sdfgsgfd.

6. Do you have any pairings or ships, both Canon or not?

dude i'm ngl i love all the canon pairings. they're sooo good. here's the non-canon ships i also like though:

drifteris / driftspider / drifthool

eris/ikora

osiris/rohan

saint/misraaks

joldren (? i think this one is implied to be canon but i'm also not sure)

young wolf x crow

candal

eris/drifter/elsie polycule

glint/immaru

ghost/fynch

calus/young wolf warlock

amanda/niik

crode

my friends ocs x their pookies

me x caiatllllll :3

[a-driftamongopenstars]

for new time's sake;

i wanted to wish everyone in the destiny fandom a happy 2023 ♥ i hope it brings peace, comfort and happiness to all! here is a highly fluffy little ficlet with some soft guardian x crow included :) also on ao3

The Guardian's heart swells for the first time in a long while with warmth that they forgot they could feel. It's a strange sensation of safety, of love and comfort, one that comes with family. And it doesn't need to be one that connects you through blood - it can be one that you have found, have chosen.

They watch Saint-14's back as he cooks by the stove, dancing slightly to the music coming from Geppetto the Ghost, hovering nearby. Beside him is Osiris, talking in a quiet voice, but it is something pleasant, not at all about doom and work. Saint is chuckling in his deep voice, and Osiris is smiling.

Crow is busy with the tree, putting up some finishing touches, tinsel here, ornament there. Shiny glass spheres reflect the multitude of lights that are wrapped in strings around the tree, and Glint is happily bobbing around it together with Fynch in a strange kind of round dance.

When Crow turns to pick up another ornament from the box, he notices the Guardian and smiles. Warmth reflects in each other's eyes, and the Guardian knows - Crow feels the same sensation that they do. Of home.

Informally invited Empress Caiatl is sitting near Ikora and Eris as they discuss the traditions of gift giving. Ones that the Empress tells are quite different from what the Earth dwellers do, and the exchange of stories leaves either party amused and curious. Commander Zavala listens to them, too, pouring hot tea in small cups and filling up bowls with sweets and candy for after dinner time.

In the crowded space, arranged on one of the top balconies, with sofas and cushions and tables and stringlights, Eido sits in the company of Misraaks, engaged in quite a lively conversation with Mara Sov. The Queen has been a surprised invitee to the festivities, yet her acceptance of the invitation felt to all interested parties as a chance to begin melting that iceberg that has grown over the centuries between the many.

Last to arrive, with only a couple of hours to spare before the final ring of the clocks of this year are Elsie and Ana Bray, with Rasputin in tow.

The Guardian welcomes them all. What takes place now seems so impossible only a few years ago. And here, with their friends by their side, the whole world seems so much bigger and so much stronger.

"Ready?" Crow asks them quietly as the clock hand begins to move in its final minute of the year. The Guardian looks at Crow, sliding their hand in his. Crow's eyes shine so brightly even in this already brightly lit space. And as everyone begins the countdown, the Guardian leans down to kiss him just as voices erupt in a happy welcome of the brand new year.

[not-that-syndrigast]

I also want to do this

[soulventure91]

🎮🐶🧐 for whichever of your ocs you're feeling like talking about

oc details! | let's do my lil hive bb Vox! will include some spoilers for her planned fic arc but she's a good bean.

🎮 VIDEO GAME CONTROLLER — what are three of your oc’s favorite hobbies?: Pre-Raising, Vox loves to learn and eat (both kinda intrinsic to being an acolyte morph) as well as explore but obviously those aren't really hobbies. It's not until after she's Raised and had her memories restored that she really uncovers a love of reading history (especially as related to Guardians), working with animals (feeding the pigeons in the Tower but also training a wolf pup that bonds to her after Vox's training in the Iron Temple), and (of course) eating new styles of food! Vox especially likes spicy dishes even if she sweats under her carapace if it's too hot.

🐶 DOG FACE — does your oc have any pets?: SUPER unofficially but yes! Saladin takes on training Vox after she's Raised (dies during the story run of Season of the Risen's Moon Battleground; Vox volunteers to scout when Crow goes MIA but is killed when the Lucent Wizard boss recognizes her), and part of Vox's duties in the Iron Temple is feeding and taking care of the wolves! One of the mama wolves has a litter of pups at the time, and one of the pups bonded to Vox! She doesn't have a name for the pup of yet but it's one of the things she needs to be right yanno?

🧐 FACE WITH MONOCLE — is your oc more logical or emotional?: Oh Vox is 200% emotional. She might be Savathun's biologically but Vox is also strongly influenced by Sagira (since Vox was "born" with Sagira's Light after Xivu's High Celebrant crushed Sagira) as well as being Fynch's new Guardian. It makes her a natural foil to Saladin when she's in training, and gives Vox some very fun counterpoints to Osiris after he wakes from his coma. At least until Osiris goes back to normal and Vox goes 'oh that's where I get it'.

[thefirstknife]

What are your speculations for next season now it's just over 2 weeks away?

No clue honestly!! It's actually really exciting, there are so many possibilities. Outside of it being about bringing Savathun back, I genuinely have no clue what the rest of the setting could be like. Are we going back to the Throne World for more content about that and the Lucent Hive? More Fynch maybe as well?

Or is the location going to be somewhere else? I can see a possibility of the Nine being involved (with several hints to them this season), or perhaps the Dreaming City. We still have the curse to deal with! But it's also likely that it will be something we did not expect at all.

A lot of it depends on the showcase. The TFS showcase is on the same day as the season releases. I'm not sure if we'll get any other hints about the next season prior to that, although it might be possible they tell us the name and show key art again, like for Deep, but I wouldn't bet on it too much. The thing is, the showcase has to show us a lot more about TFS, including the location we're going to and likely some additional information about the portal. And the whole reason we need Savathun back is to tell us how to get through the portal.

Which means this can go two ways. One, the TFS showcase tells us more and Savathun is rezed at the start of the season and she immediately tells us what we have to do, so we don't have to pretend for 3 months that we didn't just learn everything from the showcase. Two, the showcase doesn't actually tell us enough about the portal or the location and the biggest things remain a secret and the season is about us trying to rez Savathun the whole time and we only learn about the portal at the very end, giving us a bombastic cliffhanger ending to the season, with only one season left until TFS.

I gues some middle ground is possible as well. We start with trying to find Immaru and convincing him to help us. In the middle of the season we succeed and Savathun is rezed and then she tells us the big news (big mid-season cutscene/reveal) and we spend the rest of the season fighting off enemies trying to prevent us from learning more. Or honestly, something entirely different. However, I definitely think they'll want to use Savathun as much as possible. She is very popular, her VA is doing an excellent job and the writing team knows that people want to hear her talk to us more.

The next season also brings a huge question for the final one, because the final season has to have something truly wild for us to do if we learn everything about the portal from Savathun in the next (and by proxy from the showcase). There are so many options for this and we really won't know anything conclusively until the showcase. I'm super excited that they went back to giving us little teases about future seasons, but not too much and not too little. Just the sheer impact of knowing that it's going to be about Savathun is a huge teaser, but we still don't know enough to say what's gonna happen and I love hearing everyone's ideas.

[fmab]

who are your favorite d2 characters and what class do you play and what's your favorite planet to be on and do you play pvp or do nightfalls and are you solar void arc or stasis

if it's ok to ask

i love to see people who like d2

omg HELLO... oh man i have a variety of fave d2 characters bc everyone is SO SO FUN and interesting : ) like for real if i listed all of them itd be too many. but to name a few, Misraaks, Eramis, Eido, Banshee-44, Crow, Immaru, Savathun, Drifter, Eris, Ikora... and mORE...

tbh its easier to say who i dont like. Cringe of me I know but Mara Sov just doesnt do anything for me shes ok but just. Okay. Also I dont like Fynch im putting him in a box and shaking it. I wish the game let you kill Clovis Bray with rocks.

ALso <3 RN i just play hunter, im really liking arc so much, but i have to try out warlock and titan so bad..... I dont play pvp because im a coward and SO so scared BUT.. maybe one day ill get into it <3

My fave planets/areas in the game are Currently Europa, Savathun's throne world, and even tho its no longer accessible, Venus! I played a bit of Destiny 1 years and years ago so it feels so nostalgic to me..

i absolutely dont mind answering asks like this so wahoo!

[8caliberwarlock]

Relationships✨

Outside tower edition. (Only Jacent’s rn cause I’m lazy and the other take too long!)

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Eris: He appreciates her relationship with Ikora, also thinks her rock looks mighty edible. Also didn’t know she was a hunter.

Osiris: Thinks he's a silly old man, respects him greatly as he is the mentor of Jacent's mentor. Jacent actually kept Sagira a whiles after defeating Savathûn.

Shaw Han: Every time Jacent passes through the cosmodrome he flirts with Shaw Han and genuinely thinks he’s really cute. (Refuses to get rid of the sniper Shaw Han gave him)

Devrim Kay: Ikora taught Jacent to use magic, Devrim taught him to use his sniper. Jacent’s respect for him is unrivaled.

Lord Saladin: Still has no idea what the iron banner actually is and with that barely knows who Saladin is.

Ana: Loves talking science with her, finds her to be a good friend and nice person to hang and chill with.

Clovis: Finds distain in his ego but tolerates it only because he has to.

Exo stranger: “Something feels so familiar about her, I just can’t place it…”

Mara Sov: She wouldn’t let Jacent eat the worm familiar and he’s still a little salty about it.

Crow: Hot topic is missing an employee. Honestly doesn’t like him a whole lot, thinks he dresses like a minced garlic clove.

Petra: Doesn’t know a whole lot about her but he sees her position as Queen’s Rath respectable.

Fynch: At first meet Jacent emidiately deemed Fych better than the ghost he had. Devotes a great amount of his time to learn more about ghosts because of Fynch.

Nimbus: “This guy, is awesome!” Desperately wants to try one of the “hover board thingies”

[thumbsart]

Oh hey an Excuse To Draw My Blorbos.

My two main Guardian OCs: Ajax/Eijaks, House Lightbearer and his Ghost Praxis/Praksis, and his buddy Alara Twice-Risen, and her Ghosts Chang'e and Sothis. Alara and Sothis were featured in the Destinytober art I posted earlier this month.

Alara

Former Corsair, first death occurred during the Reef Wars (Ajax was the one who did it, but it was a mutal kill. Plus neither of them remember, so like... who cares?).

Scarring on her right arm and left eye from the wounds caused during said first death. (This is basically just a personal headcanon that those wounds remain as a scar).

Tattoo on left arm: the Gambit symbol mixed with the Hunter logo (super snakey), and then the Planestrider emblem as a sleeve tattoo.

Hunter, favours Solar Light.

Spends a lot of her time in Awoken territory, to the point that some of the Corsairs forget she's not the same person they knew during the Wars.

Kind of mad Crow got his memories back, spent a lot of time fucking around with Deepsight seeing if she could pull the same trick (she could not; all she got was a headache)

Gee Alara, how come the Light lets you have two Ghosts? (It's a bunch of meta reasons basically)

Sothis

Found Alara in the Reef.

Wears Crimson Days shells because she loves romance novels.

Has killed before (transmatted a big rock onto a screeb).

Was not around during the events of Beyond Light, was incredibly mad at Alara after hearing she was involved with it.

Enjoyed Sagira sharing her body a little too much.

Chang'e

Found Alara in the Cosmodrome, thought she was a New Light.

Shaw Han has never let them live this down.

Not too fond of Stasis, much more intrigued by Strand and Deepsight though.

Exclusively wears the really spherical shells.

Eijaks

Former House of Wolves Vandal. As above, first death occurred in the Reef Wars.

Resurrection-scarring on the back of his head because he was kicked off a large drop. Also has scarring on lower arms from where they were docked (being raised grew them back).

Titan (per Vanguard designation, refers to himself with an Eliksni word loosely meaning "Buccaneer"), favours Arc Light.

Party trick: charging Thunderclap with one set of arms while shooting with the other.

Armour is a mixture of House of Wolves armour (some in Wolves colours, some in Awoken colours), Titan Marks with House of Light emblems, and cloaks (originally worn to conceal lower arms, now kind of just for the fashion).

Runs an art class in the Botza District during his downtime.

Praksis

Did not realise his Guardian was an Eliksni when he raised him.

Got over it pretty fast after reaching the Vestian Outpost.

Eye-lights turned purple and curved as a result of integrating Servitor technology.

Has a collection of shells made in Eijaks' art classes.

A few meta-notes under the cut cause its a lot more rambly and full of Opinions.

So the main inspiration for Alara (beyond the obvious of her just being my main Destiny PC) was centred around the nature of Ghosts and so on. For as important as they are, we kind of don't know a lot about them! And I think that's cool! I expect Final Shape might give us a little more information but I doubt the mystery will be fully dispelled.

So, the biggest questions I have are essentially; do Ghosts get to choose who they raise? Obviously they can choose not to raise their guardian; just look at Fynch. But can they choose who their guardian is? So in a thematic sense, Alara is basically a stress test of these questions. What if a Guardian had two Ghosts, who both independently chose to raise them from death at different points in time? How can you explain that within what we know of Guardians and Ghosts.

However, there's another element behind this. And that is, pretty bluntly, I stopped playing D2 for about a year, and I got back into it with New Light. I briefly changed platforms but essentially kept my Guardian the same in terms of look. So, when I merged the accounts with cross save... it was kind of like two different guardians with different stories of how they were raised becoming one.

As for Eijaks, thats much more simple. I just really like Eliksni. But also like, we know that Ghosts aren't limited to raising humans (just look at the lucent brood). So, I started thinking about what an Eliksni Guardian could be like.

Also as a note on his naming; I thought it would be fun to give him a Guardian-ish name that wouldn't sound out of place, but also could be a valid Eliksni name. Thus, Ajax/Eijaks.

HEY D2 TUMBLR OC ENJOYERS!

Do you have a Destiny OC? I draw them all the time- I'm known for my Exo OCs! I want to see YOURS! Any race, species, be it casual "just a dude" or the 7th son of Oryx, I want to see them! Tell me about them!!! I want to draw them, I specialize in Exos but I REALLY want to learn more about the community on here. Be it big or small, please don't be shy!! I want to know sooo much. You can even submit a whooole block of text and only ingame screenshots if you're not the artistic type. Examples of my D2 OC art here:

[planet4546b]

claim my place beneath the sky, but i won’t be here for long

[image id: a 2 panel comic of savathun from destiny 2. in the first panel, sathona, oryx, and xi ro stand together on a small raft that is cresting a wave, with an endless sea stretching out before them. oryx is pointing up towards the stars, and his sisters are looking in the direction he is pointing. in the second panel, savathun stands alone at the edge of an ocean that stretches towards the horizon. she is facing away from the camera, and looking up towards the traveler in the sky above her, which is shrouded by clouds. threads hang off her shoulders. the first page reads ‘no brothers left’ and the second reads ‘and they’ll be no more after me’. end id]

[telestoapologist]

replaying wq on my hunter. i love ghost’s snotty little professional voice when addressing fynch. “are you with the vanguard? 🤨”

also like… hate on fynch all u want but i’m so glad he called our ghost out on his judgmental behavior. like yeah some of it is warranted but other times i wanted to grab him and shake him around like a snowglobe.

[tempestswing]

Okay so I'm out here thinking. Fynch is a pretty neat character but there's only so important a role they let ghosts have in destiny. He's going to need a guardian to stay relevant to the story in upcoming seasons, and we know from Osiris' and Shin Malphur's lore that ghosts can re-bond, as it were.

So here's Fynch's options, once we get him out of the throne world:

- Eris Morn.

She lost her ghost to the hive, I've seen a lot of people suggest she takes one back. But I'm not sure how I feel about it, there's already so much Hive about her, would she really want a hive ghost too?

- Cayde-6.

Guys I love and miss cayde but he's not coming back im sorry to tell you this

- Osiris

I will be annoyed if Sagira just gets replaced by Fynch, but it could be a good plot point if handled well.

- Us

You heard me right. The Young Wolf themselves. We've seen our grave in season of the Dawn, in the corridors of time, so it is safe to assume our ghost fucking dies at some point (probably at the end of lightfall). That's probably also around the time the throne world will be vaulted, so Fynch becoming our ghost at the start of Final Shape isn't unreasonable.

Or maybe Fynch will just bring back his Knight (i believe the fandom calls him Ken?) If we ever get Savathun and her Brood as allies against the Witness. I genuinely approve of her traveller protection plan for the throne world, it just would have doomed humanity. If she was chill with us transporting the last city in there alongside the traveller I'd be all for it.

[theultimatepumpkinpie]

I love Fynch and I would protect him with my life if I could but I don't actually play the game

Also I guess I'm just live blogging the witch queen now; don't mind the pauses my attention span in woefully short

Apparently Witch Queen starts out as Destiny 2's version of Warframe's Second Dream but on the opposite team.

'Oh mars came back out of some time distortion thing and now this one bitch has been driven out of hiding and is vulnerable ya know just like that time lua came out of the void and the tenno were vulnerable or like that time deimos came out of the void because the heart was in danger or that time the zariman came out of the void and was attacked'

[a-driftamongopenstars]

some random wq thoughts so far:

savathun has impeccable taste and aesthetic

us, building an alliance with Caiatl and her people is just so important to me

something else is at play entirely that we are not aware of yet (but I also haven't gotten very far, so it may have been revealed already?)

the soundtrack is absolutely gorgeous and probably the best one so far. those Oryx motifs? give me more.

I don't know what bungie did with cinematics but it's a glow up if I've ever seen one. everything looks so so good and camera angles are fantastic.

I love fynch, I think we'll be friends, he's trying so hard and I love how he just floats.

that guardian who helped me find a region chest without mic use, I hope you have a stellar week