#i havent drawn myself this much before

[skullmercy]

ive been too mean to myself lately

[bunnieswithsunglasses]

I'm positive this has been done before but my brain would not let me sleep until I drew it.

[pickled-flowers]

Realizing I barely write in French anymore hm

[jinbeisluffy]

Me and my friend hung out for a few hours yesterday and yapped about op way too much so now i wanna contribute more sexuality hcs but for side characters instead of any specific group. you can have ur own hcs these r just mine

ace - TRANS TRANS TRANS TRANS TRANS you will believe in transmasc ace agenda. he is so trans, what are you doing walking around shirtless CONSTANTLY if not to flex your top surgery scars. he’d beat up anyone as a kid who called him a girl hes known this for a WHILE. sexuality wise hes gay, hes gay and theres not a hint of asexuality in him because hes a freak and unapologetically loves men openly. gay icon in the op world

law - i havent seen law being shipped with a woman once and i find that really funny and telling of what people think of him. and theyre correct, hes a gay man. difference between him and ace is that he’d rather die than admit he even likes people so yk. cis but he did ace’s top surgery

sabo - i have never before seen a character so very much be aromantic without being an implied aromantic character. hes not repulsed by romance its just that hes preoccupied with overthrowing the government and supporting his brothers at all times, he has other things to worry abt. gender, could be anything and could honestly fluctuate depending on the day. at the very least, he fist fights transphobes on the daily and in a modern au would hangout at iva’s drag bar and fight anyone who acts weird

yamato - if you dont think yamato is a transman i want you to get away from my blog okay thanks. that isnt a hc, thats a fact and ppl who disagree are weird in my eyes. sexuality wise, he could honestly like ANYONE, but he just finds himself drawn to men more often than not (ace) so if you were to ask him he’d just say “oh men are cool, women are pretty but you know i cant find myself drawn to them” and he thinks hes normal get a load of this guy

kaku - most proudly bisexual guy to exist. i think he started to think more to himself about things during his time at water 7. he could also be okay with it and live his life that way without any shame because he wasnt an assassin working for the government there, he was kaku so yk, he could actually openly be with whoever he wanted. gender, cis man but if you talk about him using they/them only he’d just laugh and not correct you

lucci - hah gay. him and kaku probably got married in water 7. cp9 questioned kaku for marrying lucci, meanwhile pauile just questioned to himself how things would work cause of the pigeon. lucci is such a gay man, he fucking trans too dont ask me how i know i just know. Ai can sniff out my fellow transguys from a mile away alright

kalifa - oh i love it when women hate on men but the second a woman shows up she acts all flirty and confident. totally heterosexual of you kalifa. no but shes such a man hating lesbian, she always has been and could probably be due to men’s treatment of her during childhood which made her really not like most of them. i need to write out a backstory for her damn. oh and shes trans trust me on that one

koby - sometimes a lot of op characters will be inlove with luffy and never get their feelings returned, and one of those people is koby. yeah hes gay, and asexual he just kept discovering stuff like that when training under garp cause garp is so okay with everything, and then we incorporate more moments between him and helmeppo like in the live action where they sit and talk about stuff. koby realises hes gay and sighs. “that explains a lot…”

buggy - gaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy he doesnt like women he cant bring himself to he had his first tragic yaoi relationship as a teen and never looked back. gender is whatever you want it to be baby. freaky as all hell my GOD every time im reminded of the cross guild and what they do to buggy i just know. theyre so freaky

shanks - bisexual icon but hes been hung up on the same ex (buggy) for so many years that other romances are less prioritised cause “omg what if buggy comes back:}” get over it man he aint coming back for u. trans man, look at him and his pussy yeah thats a trans dude hell yeah

Said friend i yapped with is —> @brooks-heart-sunglasses pookie 🤞

[pan-annigans]

Jay x Nya: best ship!!!

Zane x Pixal: they are soulmates and no one can say otherwise.

Kai x Skylor: the two of them balance each other well, plus seeing Kai get all lovey-dovey around Skylor is just cute.

Lloyd x Akita: Akita likes Lloyd for himself and isn’t interested in his status as the Green Ninja, she just might be the one person he could be with without having to worry about keeping up appearances.

Cole x Vania: they’re just great together (as lovers or as friends), their dynamic is sweet and both admire and encourage each other with just simple honest words.

hi!! thank you so much!

I'm going to post art for all of these, along with a few of my thoughts on the ships that have been sent to me. Just for funsies :)

Fun fact, I used to hate Jaya. I thought it was really forced in the canon, and Jay's really obsessive behavior that is the catalyst for all of the events in Skybound always really bothered me? But tumblr has completely turned me around on this ship. They have their moments in canon, but in fanon they're really wonderful. thanks tumblr <3

these two...... 🥺they are really good i will admit. I'm a big fan of glaciershipping myself and I tend to prefer it over pixane, but these two are so lovely to each other and i totally see the appeal. I just wish pixal wasn't so sidelined in the canon fr what were they doing with her character??? let her be around more often let her and zane be sweet together. please smh

SKYLOR ALSO HAS NOTHING TO DO MOST OF THE TIME-- honestly this show sidelines like all of its female characters so hard. but these two are great toooo theyre sweeeet 😊 i just wish skylor was used for more than cameos. i like that she's the only one that can consistently shake kai's ego it's a great dynamic

lloyd and akita!! i'm gonna be so real with you guys i forget about akita so often ;v; which is a shame... i give her the award for most sidelined female character because she existed for half a season. but she and lloyd are sweet! I don't tend to ship lloyd with anyone personally, but i do love that they meet under the circumstances of "lloyd is in a world where his name and status mean nothing so he has no pressure to perform". it's a fantastic break for him. holy shit he deserves it

im gonna be so honest with all of you um. i actually. havent seen MotM yet. i was in the middle of my rewatch, and i got up to the point i stopped, right before MotM, and then Netflix changed their watch policies. and then of course i got busy

but from what i've seen of these two in fanon they seem alright! I usually prefer them in other wlw or mlm ships because of ONE ninjago vine compliation thing i saw with the two of them as this one tiktok and i've never been able to think of them as a couple since then. But they seem like they have a lovely friendship, whether that ends up turning to romance or not!

Thank you so much for sending me an ask, this was a lot of fun and I got to draw a lot of characters that I've never drawn before! To those of you who have sent me asks and reblogs and comments on the original post, I will be working through all of them in chronological order from when I received them in my activity tab :)

[loopscereal]

heres a batch of drawings from fnafhstober over in twitter .

ive been doing, and hope to continue doing them all traditionally because i havent drawn traditionally in a WHILE and im hoping it might teach me to live with mistakes or how to hold my pen properly again, or SOMETHING. its been nice tho cause drawings come out a lik faster when its just pen, pencil, eraser, and smudging pencil thingy and not ten billion layers and layer modes and colors and unique pens and textures and (this is a joke i love digital i love you so much…)

you today was fav ship, and you may notice my entry is suspiciously vacant…. that is because i was too much of a coward to draw the pair i like ToT

i MIGHT hear you think “oh loops isnt it lowynn and the poly nightmares? isnt that one what you and pia ship? joysgi? megooy? youve posted all of those before, whats the problem with posting it now? youve done it before”

you dont know me……. i have my own demons……….. (made this stuoid thing myself out of the blue months ago and now pia just has it deal with it)

[ganondoodle]

Hello 👋

Swallowing my nerves at last to send you an ask! I was just wondering, what inspires your designs? Are their inspirations in stuff like movies or games? Or just things you come up with yourself?

i .. honestly its kinda hard to tell, sometimes i just randomly think of something, like some detail, or color combination and try to incorporate that into a design somehow; it can come from anywhere, like the color scheme of a pithaya/dragonfruit is something i have been wanting to make a design with for ages but havent come up with anything good in all those years ;O;

im a very easily fascinated by color, espeically in nature, like sometimes i just stop and stare at something like i froze in time bc i just woooooooooooooah color! i probably look like a weirdo doing that though

its really hard to pinpoint anything specifically, the most is probably .. other artists? i guess? which always makes me nervous bc my memory is shit in most areas of life and i worry myself to pieces whether i unintentionally "stole" an idea and just dont remember and think it was my own, it goes further that sometimes i see something that makes me want to draw a similar concept but dont bc i dont want to 'steal' even if that couldnt be further from my intention (have been accused of that before ..)

that said for my ocs specifically .. most are rather old and have just kinda evolved out of their awkward first iterations (shargons first iteration was a hauro-howl- copy that was really just some human covered in feathers .. another oc was once a hellboy copy but in green- havent drawn nor redeisgn them in ages lol), the biggest inspirations for them is a mix of animals, bonus if you dont see them often- im a big shark, whale and sea creatures in general nerd so i tend to take from them as a priority but always trying to be less directly animal and mostly just .. features that work together

Eadrya is one of the newer OCs- i started to write but then looked at my folders and oh they are from 2017 .., i even made a design timeline for them how much they, and my art, have changed back in 2020, so thats also way outdated now lol (they apparently started as a whale .. thing? its like a pokemon evolution lol)

this is them now (i like this sketch still, though shargons design is now also outdated lmao)

this ones from early 2023 so also outdated now but you get the point

for demons i try to be a bit more wild on shapes and colors while still adhering to the rules of how they work (humanoid form, demon form, animalistic, one element each and more or less made to fit that, 4 arms is very common, look to be bost scary and wild but also something that would make you stop in tracks and stare in awe and fear if you crossed paths)

often times designs just kinda .. happen, i have maybe the idea ok i wanna make something with a white and red pattern also moose or those big horned cows are cool and kinda scary so maybe sth akin to that (though this one is technically a redesign too- its also pretty much entirely different)

for non demons but still non human i go for a much more restrained design, mainly inspired directly by an animal and giving the color scheme a good spin, plus adding unconventional body shapes, like ki'ita is also a good example, her old idea was just orca anthro pirate and just by making the white green instead in her most recent redesign already adds that little spin to it

that can have its pitfalls though, as i often fall into the big arm small head small legs scheme over and over xD

alot of it is trial and error, deciding on the colors can take me hours bc im always searching for my little rule of having one contrast color that shows up in very few places to draw attention to it (like with Eadrya its those bright yellow eyes and thingy at their tail)

and that is all about myy own ocs, when its fandom stuff it works kinda similar though, either in the connections i wanna draw or just thinking it further- like how deities in destiny work also just kinda .. happened like an ever derailing train

like for demise i was at first really just im gonna give him horns bc horns are cool and he got those on the starting mural in the game- so how his hair work? well maybe it isnt hair actually and just unbound energy, im making him a deity too and fit hylias design to his so, yeah, then so how does it work, ok he gotta have a skeleton still, but what if his entire actual body is made up of pure magical energy with its core in the ribcage? with the core in the ribcage >:3c and the scales you see are just like cooled down lava as an armor bc his thing is fire and earth !! the normal blood? is a thin layer of skin imiated from mortals to keep the scales together and flexible so if he ACTUALLY gets hurt hed bleed magic that looks more like lava and any normal blood you see is just the armor- so why does he have a skeleton still instead of being just energy? maybe its gotta be bound to something OH and what if all of the deities started as mortals like a mirror to the trio later on and the gods cannot have direct influence to the worlds so they needed a right hand that is neither god nor mortal but both by killing a mortal by whatever their element will be (demise burned, hylia drowned etc) and their skeleton and spirit is kept but put into a body of magic- OH what if their spirit core is like almost piloting their bodies like a mech in a way bc if youd look close youd see that every strand of magic is actual a hand of their spirit so it makes it more weird and other bc hed be able to reach out with thousands of burning claws of all shapes and sizes like the beheaded forest god at the end of mononoke- SO if hed lose and arm or something all those strands would untangle and rearrange his bones back together-OH MY GOD the whole armor idea works so well for ghirahims dark armor so what if demise had two swords once and lost one and since has forged an armor similar to his own for ghirahim out fo fear of losing him t---

and that all is a process that happens over several weeks and months not rarely while i am drawing something mindlessly and suddendly *have a thought* and omg that makes so much sense-

so "what" inspires my designs? an ever derailing train of thought about making cool thick monsters that arent the evil thing to get rid of for once? cool color schemes? idk it just kinda happens??

[qloof]

On this very day. What has binded you so much onto Masamune? What did he do that you take him everywhere? /lh

my rewatch of metal masters in like 2020 changed the trajectory of my life for real. that stupid green idiot was so comical and cringe and endearing his story and writing and character really stuck to me and 15 year old me saw a bit of myself in him and then proceeded to add a little more of myself to him and it all went downhill from there. he's quite the easy guy for me to project onto and still have it be reasonable/in character? (at least...i think it does..) if that makes sense. i also saw how he was generally perceived by different parts of the mfb fandom and i will not lie i related to being perceived the same way in certain aspects in real life. i went "he's just like me fr" once and look where i am now. it's a little funny because when i was younger i really loved tsubasa and the whole reason i got back into mfb was because of tsubasa but my brain took a complete 180 and attached itself to a totally different character.

before the revived Beyblade obsession, the previous thing i was into was minecraft streamers and while they were entertaining there's like a line of things between things that you can and can't do with them like you can fictional characters. and i think because the last time i was really into fictional characters was like…when i was 12 (even then i was mostly absorbed into my OCs) i just went ham. i haven't loved a fictional character as much as i love masamune before. he hasn't let go of my brain and although it's a little silly this guy really does help me get through the days and helps me reassure myself. i think about him a lot every day and sometimes i'll just go "no way…masamune kadoya" in my head whenever i think about him😭😭😭 drawing him being silly and happy brings me so much joy !! putting him into situations is incredibly fun !! ive met my best friends and partner through loving this guy !!! woagghh !!!

there are still lots of things i want to draw that i havent yet and i hope to get to them eventually. some things i havent drawn because theyre way outside my skill level right now and others because i fail to defeat executive dysfunction very often. there are...many thoughts i have about masamune and one of them is about how much money he owes me for living in my head. it's gotta be at least a million dollars atp. if i wasn't so awful at putting all my thoughts into words i probably wouldve written so many things about him honestly but i dont think in words im afraid (one reason why im primarily an artist helpppp). i honestly do not know where i would be without mr number one blader masamune kadoya. i joke about kinning but like lowkeyyyyyyy

ANWYAYS I WENT ON LIKE AWHOLE ESSAY OOPS i didnt know if this ask was asking for a joking or actual response, but a response you have gotten !!

[chaoslinych]

AW YEAH I'VE MADE TEXT FOR THIS

I. I don't even know why I couldn't write it, I just kept forgetting

(and I can't NOT write a text, I LOVE TO TALK AND I DO IT TOO MUCH, adhd autism is real)

AND BASICALLY I CAN DO GOUACHE, uh, could do it before?

literally a year ago when I've started this blog I suddenly switched to digital out of technical reasons (easier to draw more complex things this way), but before this I would draw with gouache a lot, I STILL REALLY LOVE GOUACHE, I have a lot of it, and sometimes I still get the urge to do

something

sometimes I need to remind myself what is it

AND YES, THE CLADERY HEIR, a "redraw" of her in-game portrait for fun (just because I drew her before, and this is a direct reference, without support like this I feel myself even more clumsy, but even like thus I didn't risk to draw her coat)

maybe someday I'll draw the other ones, that would be nice, I'm especially looking at the mechanic and the magician, ACTUALLY I LOVE THIS TRIO BECAUSE. THEY'RE THE ONLY THREE WHO WEAR GREEN (read as viric) OUT OF OFFICERS AND THEY'RE ALL. FUCKED UP. TWO ARE CONNECTED TO FINGERKINGS AND THE OTHER ONE HAS SO MANY FUCKING PROBLEMS WITH A SIMILAR KIND OF THEME. AND SUDDENLY SOMEHOW THEY ALL CONNECTED WITH FUCKED UP ENGINES??? I LOVE THEM (but more often its actually a quartet, because canoneer is a good feiend for mechanic, but he's red, but red is a complementary color to green, okay he fits here) ((AND THE FUCKING SCHOLAR IS GREEN. WHY)) (((and a duo of the heir and the magician is fun because hehe they're barking at each other)))

sometimes I actually look at the magician because I have oil paints. water-mixable oil paints "COBRA"

THIS IS GONNA BE SO FUCKING FUNNY IF I DO IT SOMEDAY (but so far I havent drawn him at all yet, but I'm gonna need to)

[floofanflurr]

Hi floof! I hope you're having a great day today!

I haven't sent in an ask in a while so I thought maybe I should

Underverse 0.8 part 1 recently released, have you heard of the series, and what do you think about it if so? If you do like it, would you like to draw an xtale papyrus?

I should probably say please, but also its like a suggestion... help how does social-ing work? Xd

Pretty Please?

Hi tumbling!!!!!! I always love ur asks 🎉 :D THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT DAY TOO!!!

Underverse is so cool! I struggle to understand it but i love it so much.... I STILL HAVENT WATCHED 0.8 PART 1 YET THO!! I desperately need to. In the meantime!!!!! :D xtale Papyrus!!! I've never drawn him before which is a crying shame. I kinda wanna try to draw him with his scythe next...

As for socialing..... um. hmmm. ...Cross your fingers and hope??????? ....SORRY IM NOT THE BEST MYSELF.

[ranfordgallus]

"proship dni" like ur not drawing weirdass gore of children's show characters based on real living human beings.... proshippers are ur fandom cousins no matter how much u deny it 😝

I feel like the difference between me and proshippers is that i dont draw the kratt brothers with their intestines out (literally i mostly draw the kratt brothers covered in blood and the MOST gore ive done is euther stoner martin projectile vomiting blood (which i dont take seriously and i made that as SATIRE) and stoner chris with a severed head (also not made seriously, stoner AU is not meant to be serious, its a satire AU i made)

and in krattsatrophe chris eye was damaged along side his chest but its not so fuckin deep that his organs are showing because thats too gruesome for me to draw the kratt brothers that way so its mostly just a scar, i dont draw gore of the kratt brothers all the time and its just them LIKE I SAID...covered in blood the most gore ive done isnt insane, mostly just slight gore

You acting like me drawing cartoon gore of the kratt brothers ironically and proshippers shipping the kratt brothers unironically are the same thing?

Before you asked "well the krattastrophe has gore but its a serious AU?" Yes it IS a serious AU! but i did that because its for the loooreee....remember i never draw the kratt brothers with their brains sticking out because thats too gruesome for me to do that, but when i DO have to draw that its for the lore! But...minus the brains sticking out part nd more like getting their eye clawed of by a cougar for example or one of their arms torn off which....thats the limit ill go from there....*cough*

"ok but you draw zach getting killed and HIS intestines are out!!" YES I DID! thats...because its also for the lore in the comic, but also the difference between me drawing gore of fictional characters and proshippers shipping fictional characters is that i DON'T romanticize gore (in fictional characters or irl obv) and proshippers romantisizes incest, pedophilia, etc (in fictional characters....i hope) which is...disgusting obviously

Plus....i havent drawn "kratt brothers ""gore""" for a long time...i think the last time i drew "gore" of them was 2 months ago when i drew stoner Chris's head being severed by one of zachs robots...sooo yeah, i dont draw gore that much but when i do its mostly just my ocs

Sorry for the lengthy reply i just wanna explain myself thoroughly lmao

[libbytwq]

The amount of people who feel honored when i like or reblog something of theirs is crazy lowkey, its kinda awesome tbh lmao i feel honored too bahaha

Yall are so sweet <333 i love all of you so much :]

anyway im sorry for the stunning lack of art as of late, unfortunately school is gonna skin me alive ("high school is killin me" /ly /ref) and marching band and drama and the other kind of drama (irl,, dw im fine im just getting bullied and harrassed by one or two people itll get itself sorted out eventually i have support im good(ish)) so i just havent been able to draw shit

i have art planned tho,, will i be able to get it all drawn before monday where auditions begin and officially starts my increased lack of online activity? Probably not

Everything will be incredibly slow but i will truck thru it 👍 i must feed you the smgl:e content as much as i need to feed myself, i have too many ideas brewing and i cant get them all out at once (i could via an info dump,, but wheres the fun in that? You think im just gonna give you all the lore all at once on a silver platter without having you all figure it out for yourself? Pfftt)

anyway this post started as a silly sentence of things i noticed and it turned into an update post i yap too much oop

ight lets see if i can successfully tackle my ask box tomorrow 🔥

k bye ily pookies <3 /silly /plat

[spooky-drusilla]

Hey guys!

I haven't been in here for over two years I think?? I dont even know if the people I used to talk to are still active or not and I definitely am not keeping up with shadowhunters stuff (i dont even think I finished reading sobh? Jesus.)

Anyway. Even if none of my friends are here anymore ig I just wanted to come back for a little bit and see what is going on. My life changed so much these last two years and Ive been so caught up in what was going on around me that when things finally calmed down I thought "what the hell did I used to do to fill time before?" until I remembered. Ah right, tumblr. And fanart and shadowhunters.

I havent drawn in so long Im absolutely rusty, unfortunately. And I think my english is probably the worse it has ever been :( I also made the fatal mistake of telling some of my friends the name of my account here and it embarassed me so much for some reason?? I think especially bc I made my posts years ago and I dont know what holds up and what doesnt anymore. Plus its a fandom account. But I did tell them that, if they dont like it then its really on them 🤷‍♀️

If any of my mutuals are still here, how are you? How is your life going? Is tsc still a thing to you? (Btw I dont even know when twp is being published, but just so you guys know that im still absolutely reading it. I didnt spend years of my adolescence waiting for it just to give up on the last second🙏)

And thank you so much for being my friends during the pandemic!! I only recently realized how important that was to me. I mean, I knew I liked being in here even if it was a hellish website, but I dont think I realized how much of my life this place has shaped, especially how much more confidence I acquired towards my art and towards myself. Thank you guys so much, really❤️❤️❤️

[spacedlexi]

saw your reply about wanting to draw s1 and s2 art more often, would literally die for Lee and Carley in your style... i skim through your stuff often as well, probably one of my top three fav styles, and cant wait for your post s4 clemvi story, i know ill enjoy that as much as i do your art. have a nice holiday and happy new year friend :)

ive drawn lee before so if you mean more in a shippy sense then.. possibly? (im partial to both lee/carley and lee/lilly myself 😏 like i see it) i need to draw carley anyway im making a promise to myself to draw the ladies from the other seasons at Least once..because i love them and they get no attention (except for when theyre getting yelled at amirite). fucked up women of twdg my beloveds

so much kenny nick and luke art out there i will bring balance to the ecosystem 😔🙏

byut shdfkshjkd 🥺💕 THANK YOU!!! im excited to finally finish it and im making illustrations to go with it as well i just havent decided how many to do yet. i hope you have a happy new year too anon!!

[gayteddy]

2024 was a really terrible year but a few really good things happened that made it all worth it. and so im glad that ive been able to survive and continue living and i hope 2025 is a little easier to get through but regardless we will all be okay<3

commence nightly teddy journal

the year started out really rough with me being in and out of work and then finally getting fired in early summer. and honestly the second half of the year truly felt three times as long i feel like its been a full year if not more since i got fired. not a couple months.

got denied for disability + reapplied and am now halfway through the process again.... reconnected with my step mom which? was not Terrible. a very loaded thing to be sure but. im okay with our relationship right now. i guess. JKLFDJGKDFJG

i started working with my current therapist this year too and shes been so wonderful. i feel like ive been able to make a lot of meaningful progress on processing stuff and its helpful for me to have a Scheduled Time to sort of ground myself every week. its easy for me to get caught up in my thoughts if i dont have "a reason" to lay everything out.

my younger brother became homeless and temporarily moved in with us this year which. has been very stressful and upsetting. and kind of triggering as well. i wont go full vent in here but ive been homeless before and so it brings up a lot of bad memories. but hes doing okay and working on getting a job + housing.

i didnt Meet alynn this year but we got together at the very end of last year and being able to be with him for this year has been amazing. ive learned a lot about myself through our relationship and have been able to do so many creative things with him and jude its been a dream.

me and jude hit 5 years this year too which is so crazy. i will truly never understand people who complain about their partners or talk about how hard it is to live with them bc living + being with jude has always been the most natural thing in the world to me.

stella turned 2 this year! getting her was the best decision ever she brings me so much happiness and joy every single day. shes my precious baby and i adore her so so so much.

and finally and possibly the biggest thing that happened this year. i started a new pain medication that also works as an antidepressant and finally came out of a depression i didnt even know i was having. for the last like 3 years ive struggled to do anything creatively. i havent written or drawn and ive struggled to interact with my interests at all. and i just kind of assumed i had changed as a person and that was who i Was now.

and so breaking out of that literally changed my entire view on life. im creating art again. im drawing and writing and Talking. im making new friends. im talking to existing friends more. this is truly the best note 2024 could possibly end on. i feel full of hope for next year and for the things ill be able to do.

im scared for this upcoming year but im hopeful too. because i know even if more bad things happen ill still have the good things too.

[forlorn-crows]

Just wanted to say I absolutely LOVE Lady of the Lake and I've reread it so many times that I should be lowkey ashamed haha BUT

I'm also very curious about Nyneve's interactions with other ghouls like Delta or Dew. How did Dew find her?

You can absolutely take this as an opportunity to ramble about it if you want :)

okay so. i admit that technically the ghoul i call Water in my fic i guess is Delta? im terribly bad at tracking who's who in the water ghoul 'lore'. but Terzo called his bass player before Mist 'Water' so thats what i went with. so please call him whatever you'd like lmao.

for anyone who needs a refresher, this is sort of all i've established about Nyneve's past interactions w/ghouls or otherwise:

Uh, how long has it been? Since you’ve met a ghoul, I mean. Rain isn’t sure what to do with himself—what to do with his hands, his limbs, any of it. He dangles in front of her like a worm on a lure, and he supposes he is one, in a way. A slice of life outside the murky waters she inhabits. But he knows he’d be her catch of the day, not the other way around. 

Many years, Nyvene says wistfully. I can sense those who venture into the water at any depth, as well as those close to the shore. But the ones who seem most closely aligned to you have never traveled as far as yourself. They were surface dwellers. Rain gives her a confused look. Not all are drawn to the depths, and that is perfectly fine for a being such as myself. But I did begin to wonder who would come next.

Dew had been telling the truth, then. Who was before me?

His name was simply Water. He was quite robust in his search, perhaps a little impatient. But he was kind to me. So I cannot fault him too much. She seems wistful, reminiscent. Rain realizes he doesn’t know much about the water ghouls before him and Dewdrop, let alone any of the ghouls that came before their current pack. 

How many before him?

Many, she says simply.

Rain swallows, more bubbles escaping his gills. How, uh—how old are you, exactly?

Hm, age is a funny thing. That can’t be good. I have existed for a long time, longer than your congregation. 

So, we didn’t, um, create you?

No, my child. Though, the dark magick running more frequently through these lands has been . . . refreshing, to put it simply.

You’ve always been here? In this lake, I mean. 

Well, as long as I can remember, yes. She chuckles.

so, you'll notice, and as a gentle reminder, Dew and Mist did not interact with her. to me, they are not a deep-water alignment as Rain is. that's not to say Dew never meets her. because he does. but he didn't interact with her prior to Rain.

i think water ghouls, and ghouls/demons in general, have more specified alignments within the elements they are 'made' of/from. just water itself can be saltwater, freshwater, deep sea, rivers/streams, storms, ice, and things of the like.

so not all of them will have desired to go to the bottom of the lake (i think its pretty deep, think some of the deeper american great lakes depth despite its overall size). the elder ghouls may have passed down the knowledge about her, and some, like Water i think, dont. maybe theyre a little selfish about her, feel like theyve been 'chosen' and that everyone else should have to discover her too. with Water (again, Delta, w/e), it was turbulent with the new summonings, the changing of ghouls and even elements. there simply wasnt time to be like 'oh yeah also theres a big tentacle lady in the lake if you want to have a fun time' you know? not his fault.

so Nyneve's def had a relationship with many a ghoul, but it hasnt been linear. it hasnt all been water ghouls either, but i think the interaction of other elements has come and gone throughout time. i havent decided if any of the 'more recent' ghouls beyond the others mentioned have met her, or just know of her.

certainly there'd be urban legends passed around amongst humans that live in the surrounding areas, so they may have heard about something in passing. esp if any of those humans happened to become siblings of the church. but humans that do know of her have never truly known who she is, and mainly just call her varelse, creature. a monster.

the poem at the end you may have noticed uses her real name, Nyneve. so we can assume someone more personally familiar with her wrote it. scribbled it in some tome somewhere about local myths and legends, or historical drafts about the abbey itself.

she's very mysterious and not even i know everything about her, haha! dark magick gone rougue, some creature that crawled up from the depths, or something created by some long forgotten god.

all this to say, Rain had to introduce Dew to Nyneve. once he got over the fact that he'd have to tell everyone else about her, considering hed come home with sucker marks all over with no real logical explanation. i think Mountain is the first one he tells, but Dew is the first one he introduces.

i really appreciate that you enjoy LOTL so much; apologies for taking a little bit to answer this, but thanks for stopping by xx

if you havent already read about Nyneve and Rain, and this sparks your interest, you can do so here:

⋆｡˚🪼🫧˚｡⋆｡˚🪼🫧˚｡⋆｡˚🪼🫧˚｡⋆｡˚🪼🫧˚｡⋆｡˚🪼🫧˚｡⋆｡˚🪼🫧˚｡⋆｡˚🪼⋆