#is hootsie not considered Torbeks family :(

[dannydevitosthiccdog]

Torbek's drawing

All credit goes to the TheGreat_Andini on twitter. I just made it digital, the best I could, anyway.

I'd buy a framed print of Torbek's art if the Avantris shop sold it.

[luna-the-cretar]

I NEED the Krew to actually TALK about what happened in episode 46. (Spoilers under the cut)

And I don’t mean them mentioning that it happened but “it’s all fine now because they’re alive!” Because I imagine that shit scarred all of them, one way or another. Frost especially.

I don’t care HOW the conversation happens, but it does need to happen. They each need to have that closure, rather than letting those thoughts and feelings swirl in their minds for all eternity. And I don’t just mean in fanfic or whatever. No, it needs to happen sometime in canon, when they have a moment to talk about it in-depth (so probably post-canon, all things considered).

I just…I need Frost to tell them how it felt, watching as all his friends fall around him, and how he couldn’t do anything. I imagine he still gets nightmares about it, especially for the first few nights after the fact, and I imagine he wakes up from those nightmares and probably goes and cuddles up next to Gricko (after making sure he’s breathing. Even if, logically, Frost KNOWS that Gricko is alive and breathing—he’s snoring, shifting around, whatever—he still needs to check. Just in case), as if to confirm to himself that, yes, they’re here. Theyre alive. He’s not alone.

I need Torbek to talk about how he feels like he’s not good enough in battle. How he kicks himself for not being able to control the Witchlight better, for not being able to bring out the Other. Because maybe, just maybe, if he was somehow able to bring out the Other in that fight, maybe they would’ve had a chance (they still wouldn’t, it would still end the same, and Torbek knows it deep down, but he kicks himself all the same)

I need Gricko to lament about how he thinks he’s not a good enough healer. He’s supposed to keep his friends from dying, and he couldn’t even do that right. Maybe if he had gotten to Gideon sooner, maybe if he had realized that Gideon was already long gone before he pumped his last spell slot into him. How he regrets that Hootsie wasn’t spared. Maybe if he had told her to run sooner, faster, maybe, just maybe, she would’ve made it out alive. Maybe. Or, at the very least, he wouldn’t have had to hear her yelps right before he fell unconscious himself. He’s supposed to be her father, he’s supposed to protect her. But he didn’t. Couldn’t. Just like he couldn’t protect his friends.

I need Kremy to tell Gideon how it felt to watch his best friend, his husband, get ripped apart before his very eyes, and being unable to stop it. Unable to help in any way. How he couldn’t imagine ever living in a world without Gid. After all, what’s the point of living when your reason for waking up each day is long gone? Someone else could pay his debt, surely.

I want Gideon to lament about just how useless he feels. With the mixture of being unable to help Twig in episode 41, turning into a stupid useless dancing mushroom (where he was the slowest because he traded the rhythm in his step away, and his friends had to help push him along), losing some of his fire (sure, he gained it back, but for several hours he felt colder. Weaker.), and then being the first one down during the Jabberwock fight? He’s supposed to be the strong one, the fighter, yet time and time again his friends are the ones protecting him. Keeping him alive while he keeps throwing himself into danger. He could’ve killed the Jabberwock, surely. With the help of Torbek, sure, but it would’ve died! It just got the jump on him, is all.

I just…I need them to talk, when they get the chance to. They deserve that much. To reassure themselves and their friends that everything is okay. They’re alive, and they’re not going to just abandon each other. Not again. Even if they feel weak, or useless, or like they could be so much more if they were just better. They all know now what it feels like to lose their family, their best friend, the love of their life, their everything. And I don’t think they’ll ever let themselves or each other experience that again. Not for a very long time, at least.

[alvaro-notstarrs]

Ignore my cursed ass Gricko, I half-assed this doodle ,:(

Remember when Nikkie said how long hootsie had been in the fey wild and even the kid she was talking as went "Yeah I've been here for a long time. Yeah there was an owl bear here like, a long time ago" But how long WAS Hootsie there for? Torbek was in the feywild for FIVE YEARS. And Hootsie got taken before him, how old even is hootsie? Also, the time that she was taken from the toy factory couldn't have been that long, because even when they teleport to the desert through the mushroom rings, not too much time had passed when they got back, so at most, Hootsie got away from the toy factory like, three weeks ago? Almost no time at all passed for Gricko and the rest of the gang, but Hootsie was taken away from her family for more than FIVE YEARS, and owl bears live for about twenty. We know Gricko got Hootsie from the carnival about seven years ago if I recall correctly, when she was still just a baby. So let's say Hootsie was in the feywild for only five years (despite it definitely being longer), Hootsie would be about twelve. I don't know how long owlbears are cubs for, but it can't be that long considering they only live for twenty years. Hootsie was cooped up in a toy factory with a bunch of enslaved children and a small dragon. Wow this is sad ,:0

[opheliajupiter99]

A Word to the Wise Pt.4

Things were truly getting grim for the gaggle of carnies at this point. Gricko was still near catatonic from trauma, Hootsie dead, and now, Gideon missing in the dead of night, his chain marks leading into the forest the only evidence of him left behind. They of course followed the trail, to try and see where it led, but quickly found that after a few feet, the trail stopped, as if the Genasi had been lifted into the air, or somehow vanished mid-drag.

Even stranger was that there were no footprints, to indicate somehow had physically dragged the Genasi, despite the fact the trail clearly indicated that. How would someone even drag him in the first place? The man was immense, not to mention how violently he'd no doubt react to someone trying to capture him, all things considered.

The camp is in shambles at this point, Kremy trying to keep his wits and calm everyone down, even as tears flowed down his cheeks, flowing too freely for him to effectively hide them. Torbek was on the verge of a panic attack, which only elevated the others anxiety, considering what could potentially be unleashed if he felt too threatened, which was only doubled by Twig beginning to crack as well.

Frost, as expected, showed the least response visually. Unlike Kremy, he didn't actively try to show little emotion, it just kind of happened. Yes, he was taught to control his emotions and do his best to not let them get out of hand, but even with that, he had what many might dub a 'resting bitch face' - or at least what Gideon might dub it. Inside though, his mind was only little above the others in terms of cracking.

He was of the highest magical prowess among them, and yet despite that, despite the kind of responsibility that came with, despite his constant efforts to keep them all safe, his found family was crumbling at the seams. In truth, most of the damage thus far was already caused when he peered into Gricko's mind and beheld Hootsie's fate. The sound of her last little hoot still echoed in his ears, as he quietly stared off into the fire while the others bickered and sobbed.

He was growing worried that they couldn't best whatever was going on - but he was rather ashamed that, that wasn't even what scared him most. What scared him most, was the idea that whatever had come to butcher them all one by one...would leave him for last. That he'd have to watch each and every one of his family die horribly, before his own time came. Or even worse...perhaps the beast wouldn't kill him at all; simply leave him all alone, as he begged to be reunited with his lost kin.

This thought couldn't help but consume him as he drifted off to sleep. After everything that had happened, he fully anticipated a gruesome nightmare, but...he didn't expect what happened instead*

He slept remarkably peacefully, and awoke sometime the next morning, sitting up in his cot and rubbing his eyes, before opening them. His eyes widened, and his face was stricken with panic-*

Every single cot around him was empty. Kremy's was torn slightly, stuffing poking out from claw marks, as if he'd tried in vain to fight back, Torbek's was coated in splatters of Witchlight, along with shards of shattered glass, Gricko's left with little struggle at all, which was somehow more chilling, like he'd simply surrendered to be with his dearest daughter, and Twig's was torn apart so violently that it was little more than shreds of scattered fabric and stuffing, Pigtunia nowhere to be seen either.

He....was alone. Nothing but the faint embers of the dying fire, and utter, deafening silence. His heart pounded, as his panicked gaze darted around, trying in desperation to find any sign of them, but to no avail. In fact, gazing around only enhanced his dread, as his eyes caught on Hootsie's cot, which was now in front of his own, despite its usual placement beside Gricko's.

He let out a sob, putting his paws over his eyes, bursting into tears. Who even -was- he without his family?! Just some pompous, sagely fool that had only to offer the world knowledge nobody gave a flying fuck about! Facts and wisdom that meant his only true friends would be some dusty library or wizard's tower, damned to be interacted with only out of sheer necessity, those that finding him searching for any excuse to leave as quickly as they had arrived.

He sobbed violently, clutching his head so tightly his claws began to dig into the sides of his head. He sobbed - then the sobs turned to deranged cackling, letting his head go as his arms hung limply at his sides, fingers-stained crimson, as both tears and blood flowed freely down his face as he stared up at the sky, bellowing, humorless laughs filling the air around him, as the weight of his fate fully fell upon him.

As his mind unraveled, he saw the cot before him twitch out of the corner of his eye. He looked towards it, still softy giggling under his breath as he stared. The cot, now that he looked closer at it, didn't look empty at all...and then-

The lumpy cot began to heave, up and down, as if something was breathing beneath the blanket, and he heard a tiny, hooting voice sobbing, muffled beneath the blanket. This sent him into another fit of giggling sobs, hugging himself tightly as tears flowed anew; he knew what was happening now. He was losing his mind; he could feel it. He pondered if his friends were even gone at all, or if they were clustered around him right now, watching him giggle-cry at nothing.

Then suddenly, with a sharp tear as fabric split apart, sending a puff of stuffing into the air, the cot split open, like oversized prey bursting forth from a snake's stomach. A tall, slim figure pulled itself free from the remnants of the cot, tuffs of fluff falling from its form as it stood to its full height.

A clown.

A tall, slender clown stood before the broken Tabaxi, his arms and legs almost comically long, like a stilt entertainer at a circus, while his middle was somewhat rounded, poofy like a clown suit. His form was white, with multicolored polka dots dotted all over, what appeared to be just a suit so firmly clung to his form, that it looked more like its flesh than an actual costume. Its hands were clown gloves, puffy and bright white, but the fingers were long, coming to a clawed point, looking almost like the spindly legs of a spider, as the beast clacked them together.

It knelt down, getting its painted face, with wide, pupilless eyes, and a lipsticked mouth full of razor-sharp teeth, right up to his own. Frost just stared back, breathlessly giggling as his reddened eyes stared right back into its; its gaze so empty, so soulless, and yet somehow, also filled with immersible glee.

"J-Just...j-just do it!" The poor sorcerer says between mad giggling. The clown giggled in return, the sound shrill, like the feral cackle of a hyena. He grabbed the back of Frost's head tightly, leaning in further, to the point Frost could see nothing but the clown's horrid visage.

"No, no, silly Frosty! We're not done playing our game yet! There's so much more FUN to be had!!"

The carnies woke in the morning once more, but this time, Frost remained his cot. However, they were unable to wake him, no matter how much they begged from tears. While Gricko was traumatized but conscious, Frost was now, full blown catatonic, unclear if he was even registering everything that was happening around him, just lying there, his slowly rising and falling chest the only indication he was alive at all.

After all, killing him now would spoil the fun.

[complete-idiot-in-love]

Once Upon a Witchlight: Episode 46 (SPOILERS AHEAD)

This episode was SO DAMN ROUGH, BE WARNED GUYS!! LITERALLY ALMOST CRIED FROM IT FR FR

I'M NEVER GOING TO EMOTIONALLY RECOVER

OH NO, TECHNICAL ISSUES WITH THE BEAN FOOTAGE

Haha Andy and Gary Goodberry! Yes!!

ANDY GOT ROASTED BY GARY

Gary has had four wives confirmed /j

Andy is so gender, like bro give me some fr fr

Hootsie plush is so cute

Andy get off ya phone, Nikkie is DMing /j

Blue roses? Like the ones in Twig’s eyes?

OH FUCK, THERES A JABBERWOCK STATUE

Blue and red roses mixing together? I wonder what that's for

Jabberwocky vs Jabberwock debate, personally I don't care which they say cause it's literally a one letter difference.

These dudes can do either so much in one in-game day or absolutely nothing in one in-game day, no in-between lmao.

“Torbek feels bad about eating all those cookies now” Bro don’t feel bad, she practically force-fed ya like five of ‘em

I love Nikkie’s cool ass leather jacket this episode, girlboss fr fr

Torbek has IBS, that's totally something he'd have with how much of a garbage disposal he is, bro eats rubber hoses, feathers, dirt, literal trash water, basically anything he can get ahold of and expects nothing bad to happen

GRICKO STOP, IF TORBEK PUKES I'M GONNA PUKE FR FR (I HATE PUKING SOUNDS)

Frosty totally is a weird trick or treater, bro gets excited over black licorice and math

Old man frosty needs his glasses to read, such an old man

“This must be what Gricko feels like all the time” BUUUUURRRRRRNNNNN!!!!

Torbek can't read (T-T) I would definitely read to him :(

I bet money that the Vorpal sword is the one Skabatha wrote about in the wanted poster for that “Billy of the feywild” guy

WE NEED A HERSHEY PARK ONESHOT FR FR

Gideon being coaxed to try and rip the sword from the stone is so funny, i'm surprised they didn't call him a bitch lmao

Vandalizing private property is more important to Kremy then the multiple times they've ALL done indecent exposure

Father divorce arc 2: electric boogaloo /j

Torbek drinks water like a dog, bro just sticks his whole face in it

YOOOOOOOO NAT 20 FOR PULLING THE SWORD OUT OF THE FOUNTAIN YEEEEEES

My fire dad is so cool!!

“Im not afraid of this” Famous last words from Gricko considering what i’ve heard happens at the end of the episode

Torbek back at it again with the “alleged” public masturbation charges

Polycule watches Gideon masturbate and have done it before /j these dudes are so dumb, but I love em

My S/I would be grossed out at the idea though

Take “getting head” to a whole new level /j

Andy’s hair is so gender, I wish I had hair half as good as his fr fr

When they all started singing kiss from a rose I legitimately choked on my pomegranate seeds because it caught me so off guard

Gideon ranting about final fantasy is so funny because i can see my S/I being like “What the fuck are you talking about, Gid?”

ANOTHER NAT 20, GIDEON IS REALLY PUTTING THE FIRE IN FIRE GENASI THESE PAST FEW EPISODES

OH GOD, THE FOUNTAIN IS CUMMING ITSELF AFTER LOSING ITS HEAD

PUT YOUR PANTS BACK ON GIDEON

“Help me guhlump” Suggestive Kremy + Gideon moment

ANOTHER NAT 20??????? OMFG

Richie doing the “Okay, Okay” to Nikkie is SO DAMN FUNNY, TWINS FR FR

Gricko chasing Torbek around with the Jabberwock head is so family coded

TRY PAINTING THE ROSE ON THE SWORD PURPLE FOR GODS SAKE

I love it when Torbek gets all smart and talks with big words

B&E is a family activity, They all take my S/I for their first crime and end up at an ice cream parlor

Gricko is a good dad, so supportive of Hootsie and all her stuff

Kingdom hearts reference yessss

Torbek once again references Agdon Longscarf again with the whole “Take it from Torbek, you can't get red out of blue” thing

Ooooo, who's the little girl???

SHE'S PLAYING WITH KNIGHTS MADE OF METAL, GLASS, WOOD, CLAY AND BONE!!! THAT'S THEIR THINGS FROM THE BEAN FOOTAGE!!!! ALSO SHE'S HAVING THEM FIGHT A STUFFED JABBERWOCK?? FORESHADOWING???

Ah yes Kremy, insult the mysterious child to her face

SHE'S SO CUTE, I LOVE MORGANA (Persona 5 reference???)

She’s sus tho, why is she in the desert??

Gricko… Hootsie would absolutely destroy the toys, don't let her play w them

Gideon being very brutal to the poor girl >:(

Her grandmother doesn't want her to see the prince anymore??? VERY SUS

Torbek making friends is nice :)

OH MY GOD SHE KILLED GIDEON, HE'S A MARIONETTE TOO

SHE TURNED TORBEK INTO WOODY, WE GOT TWO SOUTHERN MEN NOW

Keep the snake in your pants Torbek, please

OH GOD SHE’S TURNING EVERYONE INTO DIFFERENT THINGS

CHUCKLES IS BACK, YAAAAAAAAA YYY!!!!

Torbek stepped on his “snake” lmao

FROSTY’S A MIME YESS, TWO CLOWNS!! NOW ALL WE NEED IS KREMY TO BE SOMETHING AND THE WHOLE FAM WILL BE TRANSFORMED

Also my S/I would be freaking TF out about everyone being turned into weird things, like three seconds away from a mental breakdown freaked out

Derek is too good at being a mime, bro really has 100+ different skills

KREMY AND GRICKO, STOP BEING MEAN TO THE BABY GIRL

MACHO MAN GIDEON SAVAGE!!

TRANSFORM MY ALLIGATOR DAD MORGANA, MAKE HIM SUFFER

MR. POTATO HEAD KREMY WITH A BROOKLYN ACCENT LMAO

OH FUCK, SHE KILLED CHUCKLES

Kremy shitting out a new mustache and new top hat made me literally choke

PRINCESS GOBLINETTE!!!!

She's changing mime frost, i really liked that one 

Torbek lost his damn snake omfg

If I was also changed, I’d want to be a squishmallow fr fr. I love those fuckin things

FROST IS A KEN DOLL, OMFG SHE'S HAD KENOUGH

YAY BRET’S BACK!!!!

“Let's find out, can you open your ass?” HHSHSHSHSAHAHAHAA YESSS

Bret’s house and Torbek’s “snake” is in Kremy’s house lmao

“It's hiiiiiiiiiiigh time we come up with a plan” OVERWATCH REFERENCE FROM TORBEK??

I love goblinette so much, mikey does such a funny girl voice

Twig has her eyes back!

“Whattya think fellas, we whack grandma?” MOBSTER POTATO KREMY LMAOOOOO

Has Twig always been a puppet??? Or is Morgana just being a lil silly and thinking OUR Twig is HER Twig cause she’s a BROWNIE!!

Gideon and Torbek immediately trying to summon Bullyjugs is so damn funny, fuckin pervs! /j

Torbek being shoulder deep in Kremy’s ass lmao “There ain't no eyeballs in this ass!”

Chaotic polycule fr fr, I love these goofy bitches

IS MORGANA TASHA? NIKKIE SAID “You cannot see that boy anymore Ta- I mean Morgana, you cannot see him!” AND SHE HAS SISTERS LIKE THE FOUR HAGS AND IS THE BABY!!

I really like cowboy Torbek, He is very funny and the accent is really nice

TWIG IS A PERSON, NOBODY OWNS HER >:(

YAY, TWIG IS COMING WITH DA PARTY!

“Make like a tree and get da fuck out of here” HA

OH FUCK, WE’RE IN AN HOURGLASS AND NIKKIE IS USING HER BAVLORNA VOICE (I don’t think its Bavlorna though) WE’RE GONNA GET CRUSHED BY SAND

OH FUCK, THE JABBERWOCK

The Jabberwock figure looks so cool!!!! Whoever painted it did a really good job

NATURAL 20 FOR INITIATIVE FROM GIDEON!! SOMEBODY CHECK HIS DICE FR FR /J

“I'm last with a 13” Nah Andy, I rolled a damn 12 with a +0 so I’M last (I like to roll for shits n giggles uwu)

NAT 20 FOR KREMY ON A DEX SAVE AGAINST THE JABBERWOCK (I rolled a 16)

HOOTSIE GOT A NAT 20 TOO!!!!

38 POINTS OF DAMAGE TO ANYONE WHO GOT A 17 OR LESS??? BRO I’D ALREADY BE DEAD (My constitution is 17 with a modifier of +3, idk if I’d actually be dead but it would be hella funny to imagine I take one attack and boom I’m dead)

I think at max, I’d have 43 health so while alive I’d be VERY HURT (5 health remaining)

FROST AND I ARE ALREADY DEAD AND GRICKO IS CLOSE BEHIND, BRO WE’RE FUCKED

Why the hell does it want the chess pieces????

Good idea using cure wounds on Frost, he’s waaay too OP to let die.

Frost using magic circle on Fey creatures just gives me a funny/sad idea of since satyrs are technically fey creatures, my S/I being left for dead outside the circle with the Jabberwock by accident.

DAD N0000000, GIDEON DIED!!!

TWO AUTO DEATH FAILS FOR GID NOOOOOOO

*Ominous jazz starts playing* I love my alligator dad

“Come get me ya big bitch” Kremy protecting his family!!!

JDDJSJJSDDJ (T-T) TORBEK TRYING TO REASON WITH IT MAKES ME SO SAAAAAD, PROTECT THAT MAN AT ALL COST FR FR

GIDEON FUCKIN DIED

KREMY NOOOOOO, BOTH MY DADS AND I ARE DEAD

GRICKO IS TRYING TO SAVE HIS DAUGHTER AND TELLING HER TO RUN AHAHAAAAAAAA (T-T)

FROST TRYING TO STOP IT AND HE'S CRYING, THE MAN WHO NEVER SHOWS EMOTION IS CRYING

BEATING TORBEK WITH KREMY’S DEAD BODY, WHY NIKKIE WHY???

KREMY FUCKIN DIED, IM SO SAD

TORBEK IS TRYING TO GET GOREBEK OUT TO PROTECT HIS FAMILY, HAHASASHFKSHFN (T-T)

WE’RE ALL SO FUCKED MAN, SO DAMN FUCKED

TORBEK IS DEAD, NOOOOOOO MY GIRLFAILURE BESTIE!!!!

“Torbek burbled in his pants” “I heard they do that” ANDY, GIDEON STOP TALKIN BOUT DEAD PEOPLE SHITTING THEMSELVES

DON’T YOU DARE KILL HOOTSIE NIKKIE, I SWEAR TO THE GODS

GRICKO GOT A NAT 20 BUT NIKKIE DREADED IT

HOOTSIE GOT A NAT 1 AND GOT FUCKIN KILLED, MY HEART NOOOOOO

WE’RE ALL SO DEAD

THE JABBERWOCK KILLED ALL OF US AND TOOK OUR COMMUNICATORS, WHAT A DICK

Nikkie is gonna rip Mace’s iPad in half haha /j