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*pops up from the void*
So I sorta have been listening to the song Scylla on loop and this just feels like a Betrayed song.
The whole beginning with Odysseus quietness and Eurylochus confessing to the wind bag could be either Henry having called Reginald expecting him to pick him up or maybe shortly after with Thomas maybe confessing to something.
Dmitri feels like the role of Scylla here, though not directly attacking but knowing what his guards can do.
(Dmitri would probably notice a big giant red Airship next to his Wall and at least get to watch the festivities, and running the Wall means sometimes putting your honor and faith to the side for survival)
(or somehow surprise Terrence, either as a ghostly visage or watching in secret somewhere could be the role of Scylla, seeing Reginald realize what it takes to lead the Toppats)
Ody telling Eurylochus to get six torches lit up, not telling him about how those torch bearers would be sacrifices for Scylla could be Reginald telling Wilhelm, Sureshot and Ahnoldt to get to the drill pod for their so called rescue mission, knowing that he wasn't coming back for them.
There is that moment of silence as everyone gets to the Wall, Reginald knowing what happens next will be ugly but in order to survive and keep his leadership, it must be done.
While there aren't six torch bearers here to get eaten by a monster, Wilhelm, Ahnoldt, Sureshot, Henry and possibly Wallace and Smith are six Toppats that in some way or another won't be making it home because of Reginald.
Just as Ody and his crew faces Scylla's monstrous form and Odysseus tells them to row for their lives, Reginald has the team launched to the Wall's cafeteria, Ahnoldt yelling for Henry to get to the Airship with his scooter.
And just as Scylla starts taking down the torch bearers, the Wall guards get to work attacking Ahnoldt and his team as Henry jumps towards the Airship with his scooter, Reginald catching him and sealing his fate.
Finally just as Ody and Scylla have their little duet about being the same, Henry falls and Reginald heads back inside the Airship, maybe he takes a glance at the Wall to see Dmitri (or Terrence whether it actually be actually him or a visage) and see that he isn't as different as he once thought, or he looks down at Henry's body one last time, noting that they were the same in a way.
Either way, the deed has been done and Odysseus' crew and the Toppats have been doomed.
#mod lizzy rambles#scylla#the betrayed#thsc#its a neat song#*insert the i am a monster rawr rawr rawr song for reg here*#sorry for all the rambles recently my brain doesnt quite want to write fics but also doesnt quite want to draw#so we are here
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Every day is harder, sanity seems farther
#Caption is lyrics from Murphy's Law by Honey Revenge! Which is a song that really makes me think of Stanley </3#And thinking about Stanley makes me want to chew on concrete 👍👍#this techncially being a frame I'd use in a Stan annimatic im working on of said song but I thought it'd make a neat piece on its own#also hopefully I'll come back and clean this up later but I am terrible at finishing paintings soooo#gravity falls#stanley pines#grunkle stan#young stanley pines#GF fanart#fan art#fanart#digital art#artists on tumblr#my art
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finally giving fem danyal her own au and fulfilling my 'danny is an animal whisperer' agenda at the same time: mother of monsters danyal 2.0
i say "2.0" because TECHNICALLY 'mother of monsters danyal' is an au I made back in June for Dark fem!Danyal (who I promptly named Layal). However, I haven't posted much for her yet, and I like the "mother of monsters" premise too much to leave it only to Layal. Plus Danyal in that au was going to become the mother of monsters anyway, just with significantly less world domination and mass extinction.
'Animal whisperer' Danny has been something I've been thinking about since my latest DP 'wolfpack au' post and it's! So fun to think about, and who no better to assign the idea to than Danyal Al Ghul? Who comes from a family infamously known for their love of animals and nature?
Fem Danyal is just purely self-indulgent. *gestures wildly at her* i just lomvb,,, her,,,, I've only really mentioned her in context of the 'Things in Threes' au/my first Danyal al Ghul au with the facial scar, but she's!!! I love her. She deserves her own au <33
So kill three birds with one stone! Make a post about it.
Anyways, Danny has a large lair. Similar to cult leader danyal, her lair is a giant mountain region resembling nanda parbat with a big temple/palace-like area built into the mountain. It's large, it's overflowing with natural flora, with its own mini-floating islands hovering over some areas, and it's also completely empty.
Danny takes one look at her lair upon first meeting, -- noting that it looked relatively smaller from the outside -- and promptly, with the elegance of an Al Ghul, goes "What the hell??" Because yes, while she does enjoy her own solitude and privacy, this is a bit ridiculous.
For heaven's sake, there's even a massive lake in there! What's she going to do with all this space? Can she make it any smaller? Why is it so big in the first place? This looks borderline like one of the mega-islands!
She finds out later that apparently, the amount of ectoplasm a ghost has can have an effect on the size of their lair. And since she has such a large core, her lair reflects that. Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff, it's bigger on the inside so it doesn't take up "too much space" on the outside. Don't worry about it too much.
Danyal isn't totally opposed to having such a large lair, she's just... a bit baffled by it. It feels like so much wasted space is all. All this flora and no fauna to enjoy it with. It's practically eerie.
She decorates her temple-palace area, transforming rooms to match her needs as she sees fit. In the center of the inner gardens is a massive tree that she likes to climb, with twisting, winding branches. Sam and Tucker have honorary rooms, even if they can't safely leave the specter speeder for long periods of time, even with proper safety equipment. So does Jazz. Ali (Dani) has one too, but he can actually use that one, and Danny brought him to her lair so he could decorate it himself.
She has a personal garden, but for the most part she lets the flora exist as it is. Too much space to cultivate it en masse anyways.
Skip to a few weeks later, on her next visit to Clockwork. She developed a habit of going to see him semi-regularly just because. She enjoys his wisdom, and he has a lot of stories to tell, and when he's not being the cryptic and esoteric timekeeper, he's a bit goofy.
(pushing my dadwork agenda here,,, i think Danny deserves to go 'hey, Lord Clockwork, do you want me to buy you something' while she's at walmart, only to receive a singular glowing sticky note that says 'cucumber gatorade'.)
(She insists on referring to him with his proper titles even for the most mundane of things because it's proper, but Clockwork sees a future where she eventually calls him "Cee" and by all things in existence is he determined to get there. Anyways,,,)
On her next visit to Clockwork, just as she is about to leave, Clockwork stops her and goes; "Ah, I have something for you. Hold out your hands."
Danny does as such, and Clockwork doesn't give out things often, so her curiosity has spiked to the highest levels. He turns away from her for a moment, using his staff to summon whatever it is he needs, and when he turns around.
He drops a fish into her hands. Granted, a fish in a small glass tank. But a fish nonetheless. A small one, roughly about the size of her finger, with a blue-black, eel-shaped body and four sets of glowing eyes. She can see thin, almost translucent, but spiny fins down its back and the start of bioluminescent markings. It's swimming around in circles in its small container.
"Lord Clockwork." Danyal says all too calmly.
"Yes, Danyal?"
"What is this?"
"That is an adolescent leviathan, Danyal." She’s transfixed onto the tank, but she doesn’t need to see Clockwork’s face to hear the smile he’s stifling.
The myriad of emotions that runs through her all at once threatens to overwhelm her, and she can’t tell if the feelings are negative or positive. So she carefully closes her eyes to breathe in through her nose.
“Clockwork.”
“Ah, I see you’ve dropped formalities.”
She ignores that.
“Why have you given me an adolescent leviathan?”
She's expecting the trickster to look amused when she opens her eyes. Instead, he just looks endeared. "I know you're fond of animals," he says, "and you always look amazed when you come across an animal of the realms. So I thought you might enjoy taking care of the young beast, it's mother is dead so it has no one to care for it."
Oh.
"But, if you don't like it," Clockwork's hands reach out for the tank, "I can simply take it back--"
Danyal shifts the tank out from his reach and hugs it possessively. "I never said that. How do I care for it?"
And so clockwork gives her a list, and when Danyal returns to her lair, she sets up a large tank in her room for the leviathan to swim in -- it's much too small for the lake right now, she thinks. She'll feel better if it's somewhere she can find it. She names him Suhā.
Suhā grows quickly, and by the end of the mortal month she transforms one of the rooms into a large pond for him to swim around in. He's a very loyal beast, recognizing her as it's mother of some kind. Danyal takes great care ensuring that her beastie gets quality care, and Suhā swims to the surface to see her when he senses her in the room.
It spirals from there. Somehow, Pandora catches wind that Clockwork gave her a leviathan, and so the next time Danyal visits the Greater Athens, she gives her a baby chimera. It's eyes are still sealed shut, Danyal can't bring herself to say no. She names the little beastie Firas.
Frostbite hears about it too, and not to be outdone, gives her an animal she's never even heard of. Infinite-realms born, apparently. A fox-like creature with two small horns like an impala, four eyes, and tall legs. The name isn't something she's quite sure how to write down, and she's positive that her friends won't be able to comprehend it. She names her Eira.
Getting the three of them used to each other was... interesting. Suhā tried to eat Firas when Danyal first introduced the two, and they've hated each other ever since. Firas and Eira are seemingly getting along. Her island already feels full enough with the three of them on it.
Of course, that's not the end of it. With her luck, she begins stumbling across other monsters. Realms-borne or otherwise. An injured hydra in the Grecian islands that, through lots of trial and error, Danyal is able to rehabilitate and heal. It routinely comes to visit her afterwards.
A griffin with a broken wing that she moves permanently to the island that likes to keep to itself, but tends to come down when she's near. It gets along best with Firas.
A panther-like monster from the Shades Woods that had six legs and three tails, with ends that reminded her of a venus flytrap. It stuck around the heavy foliage and she can only make out where it was when she saw its golden eyes reflect.
She befriends a young indrik with its leg injured, and much like the hydra it follows her back to her island, and stays there in the mountains. It comes out when she's alone, much like her other beasts.
She receives two more leviathan -- one from clockwork, and one she finds herself while exploring the deeper and darker recesses of the Ghost Zone. It was huddled against the carcass of its mother, and she managed to befriend and get close enough to it to bring it back to her island. Suhā is fully grown by then, with a head bigger than Danyal herself and he still likes to stick her head out of the water for nuzzles when she's near.
He's not very happy with his new siblings, but he's not trying to eat them when she's not looking. So she calls it a win in her book.
And it's not just large beasts either; smaller animals begin popping up when she's not looking. Bird-like creatures and small mammals, and she swears she saw a doe (or something resembling a doe) grazing in the forest while she was walking by.
She takes back with her a lone snake egg once, and it grows so big it wraps around her island and sleeps with its massive head on the mountain beside the temple, like some smaller breed of Jörmungandr.
And on and on it goes. Some of the beasts she comes across never step foot onto her island, some of them follow her back, while others she has to carry back. Not all of the ones that follow her stay, and Danny rehabilitates the injured and releases them when they're fully healed.
It's hectic, and busy, and frankly she loves it. Some of her rehabilitated beasts return to visit her, or to have their children somewhere on the island, or whatever it is they need to do.
She becomes a bit infamous for it. She goes to visit Dorathea once, and as she's walking through the streets she can hear some of the denizens whispering while she walks past.
"Is that her?"
"Her highness' friend? Yes--"
"--that's the one--"
"--Mother of monsters--"
Danny's not sure how to feel about that.
Although, she can't say she's opposed.
Danyal Al Ghul, Mother of monsters, raiser of beasts. It has a nice ring to it.
#danny fenton is not the ghost king#dpxdc#dp x dc#dpxdc crossover#danyal al ghul au#dpxdc prompt#fem danny fenton#fem danyal al ghul#mother of monsters danny#if anyone wants to hear about Layal specifically I'd be HAPPY to tell you about her. she's inspired by the song 'scylla' from epic#you can't leave me with dark danny for too long i give him depth if i do. anyways i gave layal mommy issues. she has a complicated view on#danyal and both loves and hates her in equal measure. she killed her out of mercy. she's her mother her sister her other half.#she despises her. she misses her. she'll never see her again. she sees her every time she looks in the mirror. she's 24. she's 10 years old#can you tell that i made layal during a time where i was thinking about the 'dan is danny's kid' dpdc trope bc that's exactly what happened#*holds dad!clockwork up like potato.* 'i just think he's neat :)'#i am incapable of making things only cracky. i must make it meaningful in some way or another.#MMMM i have to cut it off here before it gets too looooNNGGG.#if this flops i'll be sad :((#i just think the idea that danyal has her own little world on her island is neat. she's got dragons and wyrms and serpents and giant wolves#and griffins and one time there's a sphinx although she doesn't stay permanently. Danyal has a blast answering her riddles though.#that panther is based off the dnd displacer beast. there's little salamanders and gazelles with three eyes. there's more sea monsters than#just suhā and the other two leviathans but i couldnt think of any. im obsessed with the sea serpents if you havent notice LMFAO.#there's pegasi and a manticore and a ton of infinite realms monsters that are just an assortment of animals slapped together#the shades woods are a mega-island idea that i had. they're where a bunch of the “shades ghosts” are from. Its this large forest area with#megaflora trees similar to the redwood forest with canopies so thick and wide that no light can reach the bottom. so all of the native faun#living there have adapted to live in the shadows. there are a few villages that live in tall tree houses like the ewok villages that outsid#ghosts can go visit. the panther that's from there is very fond of danyal honestly. anyways yEAH ANIMAL WHISPERER DANNY.#her beasties are all animals up until she's like. 19. where she promptly steals an infant minotaur from a Legends Islands near Pandora#he wasn't being treated well okay!!! she couldn't stand by and watch. his name is asterion. he's a year old. and she'll kill for him.#i dont have enough tags to talk about Damian or her family >:T. just know that i am leaning into her assassin bg as usual :)
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the catholic rejection of it all
#one piece#op#trafalgar law#monkey d. luffy#gear 5 luffy#song is big god by florence and the machine#religious symbology? in my shounen anime protagonist? it's more likely than you think#im 24 years old it's the end of 2023 it's MY turn to finally make a cringe amv for christmas#to be clear. i dont think law sees luffy as his god. but i definitely think he's helped law regain some faith#i.e. catholicism (yeah hardy-hah one piece character is an ex-catholic its all very silly but let's take it unironically for a second)#it would've drilled into law as a child to believe in one true cause (that cause being god). and that will supposedly carry him through lif#give hope purpose etc. but a lot of former catholics choose instead to find that in something else. in law’s cause:#the freedom and hope corasan gave him#the freedom that luffy brings. the will of D. the goodness in the people around him#it's a transfer of faith that feels real and tangible#it's a neat concept and I don't see it talked about much#CJ's op watch-through#corasan#donquixote rosinante#sun god nika#CJ's edits#op analysis#amv
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#02.06.23#3372#im not rly asmuch into eloi now ironically so eh#but hey go check that song out anyway tho its still neat(and french)
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hiiii ! would you be interested in song recs that may or may not fit your characters?
YES PLEASE!
I'm always lookin' for more jams to add to their playlists so if y'all have any suggestions or songs that you associate with them I'd love to hear 'bout 'em! 💖🙏
#daily dork#abd illustrates#heartless#also! its just really cool to hear that the thought of like “oh this is a ___ song” would even cross ur mind for any of my characters! QwQ#thats so neat ty
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yeah so i'm falling for @weevmo's Guys... they're so neat! i dig their vibes and can't wait to see what Corduroy Stew is all about <3
#fuckkkkk theyre so SHAPED!!!#i can feel myself getting So attached#if anything happens to them... i will simultaneously wail and cheer#nimrod is so cute. nimmy. the nimster. id love to toss birdseed on the ground for him to peck at. pigeon coded tiny man#lulu being a sock puppet trainer THATS SUCH A NEAT IDEA ARE YOU KIDDING IM OBSESSED#now im curious as to if sock puppets are like Animals or if they're as sapient as the others...#but yes im already looking directly at lulu she seems Fun as fuck#oughhhhh and wb. listen. Listen. im a sucker for handsome Head Empty characters and he seems like one of those#i also like characters with many hidden internal problems and wb seems like one of those too <3#i hear that the three of them are siblings and that is Such catnip to me...#scribble garnish#dont know what else to tag this as! huh!#BUT YEAH THIS ALL SEEMS NEAT THEYRE COOL i Will be following this project to see where it goes#so far it has great characters a sprinkling of Intrigue bomb art (which. ofc it does its weevmo cmon guys)#and a neat song that i sweAR TO FUCK REMINDS ME OF SOMETHING. THIS HAS BEEN BOTHERING ME FOR DAYS#the jingle is just vaguely familiar enough to make me Writhe in the agony of Unknown Knowns#but yes! i hope you all go check out weevmo's blog if you havent already! Good Stuff All Around!!
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and the war has been over for years since you gave up.
#kingdom hearts#kh#kingdom hearts birth by sleep#aqua kingdom hearts#kh aqua#my coworker played this song like 3 times in an hour and its such an aqua song to me. this was fun to figure out!!!#working with such a tiny little canvas was fun. and figuring out how to imitate the viewfinder was neat#anyways in general the way water is used metaphorically in kh is so interesting#but especially SPEICIFICALLY with aqua. its in her fucking naaaame#and theres so many ways its related to her. im too tired to think of them rn but you get me
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In his Corocoro interview, Karasuyasabou mentioned that when writing the lyrics for Showtime Ruler, aside from reading the stories in the game himself, he also looked at fanworks to learn what people thought about Rui and his character. He describes the lyrics as being "created together with the Wandasho fans".
#project sekai#songs#i have posted this previously in a compilaton i did about commissioned songs & creation process but i think it's neat#so i'm posting it on its own
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Whose Jean Paul Valley :•0? ~Canary
hes so wild
This will be the ultra abridged version, but basically he starts off as this com sci grad student and his dad (dressed liked a crusader and bleeding out) barges in to his dorm/shit apartment and is like... GO TO SWITZERLAND!! and dies
anyway in switzerland its revealed that he comes from a long line of guys that have been conditioned and trained to act as/be Azrael for the catholic(?) cult Order of St. Dumas. This whole training-conditioning thing is called The System, and it turns out Jean Paul has already been through that in his childhood and now that the previous Azrael is dead (his dad) it can be activated.
Its sort of like an alternate personality that is incredibly violent and 'righteous' and whatnot. And it turns out he was a test tube baby that got experimented on to give him physical enhancements. All this was repressed tho and he had no clue.
His debut got him involved w/ Batman and he takes up the mantel at one point after Bruce breaks his back. He does an awful job cause hes predisposed to being awful. Im p sure he was made batman in response to readers being like "batman should be dark, work alone, and be so mentally ill". And the writers went oh ill show you mental illness. He stops being batman and stuff but thats who he is at the way beginning. I'm still learning my Azrael/Jean Paul lore so I can't speak too much on it. Take this w a grain of salt
heres a random collection of panels/pages cause theyre fun:
#i love him tho#hes Foolsocracy bait#i love his 2022 mini(?) its so fun#plus azrael in his head is like.. a huge 'biblically accurate' type angel there. so neat#very random assortment of panels/pages here but its what ive been able to find searching his name up LMAOOO#i wanna learn more abt him i feel so new to him rn#so idk if everything ive said makes sense/is correct#but i tried#the first 2 panels r him as batman. Azbat if u will#the loser ever#jean paul valley#asks#dc#canary-song#does this make any sense lucian??? 😭😭😭😭#thank u for indulging me anyway#a man can be something so tortured……
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hi tumblr im here to sacrifice my son to you
meet colorbar. i hate him (aff)
He’s not a new oc (ive had him like… maybe a little under a year or over half a year….) but this is my first real post abt him on thmblr…. He’s so cool…..
He’s pretty much just a tv-based error mettaton. woo!!! (Oh also hes datibg the swap!ink papyrus in his ‘verse)
og ask-error art: (by crayon queen . duh)
#stardrawsthings#art#undertale au#mettaton#colorbar mtt#mtt#mtt au#mettaton au#error mettaton#colorbar#yes his name is based on the ghost n pals song#i think its neat!!!!!#knockoffverse#ask error#error#error sans#redraw#eyestrain#Maybe?????#Idk
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the crittering continues...
#psychonauts#psychonauts 2#razputin aquato#dion aquato#donatella aquato#bug#its cartoon bug but#insect#just in case#my art#if you couldnt tell by the first doodle what song was playing as i drew idk what to tell u#im getting a better feel for how i draw the characters (and their creature designs by extension)#which is neat#super fun to draw#still fighring out everyones designs but im getting there!!#q
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Something about how Heart is being compared to mythology, Minds referencing the bible & Soul being the one to use both of those things
#its so fun to my brain. its interesting to me#idk if that actually means anything i just find it neat#Heart being referenced as Juno [the greek moon goddess]#Mind referencing the bible [he does it mainly in TME but also the whole judgment & punishment talk as well]#then there's Soul with the end of Dream & all of Two Wuv [also a couple extra lines in TSE NMtK & such]#this has probably been said before but i still find it interesting#also to add in. Whole does none of those things really#not including some songs since they're more CJ centric/not Whole based [if that makes sense]#but Whole is much more literal non-metaphorical way of explaining things/singing#the most he talks about anything that's a metaphor is like the Time Machine bits in TMR#THO whats also kinda fun is that when he sorta talks less literal. its in the back & forth part in TWWaY#like showing all separate parts of HMS are there but as one person#again idk if im making sense#im rambling now but its interesting to me#chonny jash#moss post
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#song mingi#mingi#ateez#photos are a mess as usual#its ok i can make it work Princess#he's just never neat is he#something is always Chaos Themed
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greencousins but lloyd is "you have so much to do" and morro is "and i have nothing ahead of me"
#im talking about a tiktok audio btw#its a mitski song but i foung the clip im thinking of is a tiktok edit#I SAW THIS FOR AZULA AND ZUKO AND IT RUINED ME FOREVER.#hey i just realized azula starts with an a and zuko starts with a z thats neat#morro wu#morro ninjago#lloyd ninjago#lloyd garmadon#lego ninjago#greencousins
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make your choice
Digory didn’t think much on making choices. The whole world would be over when his mother died anyhow.
Of course, this didn’t keep him from being curious or adventurous. It was exciting to meet new people, exciting to go exploring and to speculate about whatever mischief his Uncle Andrew was up to. Being a lively young boy was perhaps the best distraction from being a boy about to lose his mother.
Going after Polly was so obviously right that it might as well not have been a choice at all. What else could he do? It was easy to be righteous in the face of an evil old magician who said things like "Ours is a high and lonely destiny."
Yet once they were there in that rich, in-between place, with all the worlds there were splayed out before them— ((Make your choice, adventurous stranger)) Well. What sort of lively young boy would he be if he turned back now?
Digory could feel the bell’s magic ((strike the bell and bide the danger)) beginning to work on him. There was no use in resisting. He felt tendrils of magic sinking deep beneath his skin, laying claim to any free will he’d ever had. He said as much to Polly, but she wasn’t listening.
Polly said ((or wonder till it drives you mad)) that he looked exactly like his uncle when he said that.
Jadis’s whole world had ended. Everyone had died, and she’d just gone to sleep. She might have stayed sleeping forever if he hadn’t woken her. Sitting outside his mother’s sickroom, Digory wondered ((what would have followed if you had)) if that was really so shocking. Hadn’t he been preparing for just such an end? Were Charn and Mabel Kirke so different?
Narnia was not an end. It was a beginning.
And face to face with the Lion, Digory was forced to admit that the bell had not been magic. Nothing had caused him to strike it. Make your choice, the writing had said. Digory had chosen.
I’ve spoiled everything. There’s no chance of getting anything for mother now.
The enormous Lion asked him, "Son of Adam, are you ready to undo the wrong that you have done?" and Digory sputtered his maybes.
"I asked, are you ready?" the Lion said again.
At that very moment, an ultimatum flashed through Digory’s mind. If I salvage your beginning, will you prevent my end? If make amends, will you save my mother? He thought of refusing, of holding his choice hostage until his future was secure. Could the Lion be bargained with? Could Digory twist his arm, as he'd twisted Polly's?
But what Digory said was, "Yes."
Jadis conjured such lovely visions of the future. His mother's face would lose its gray sheen and she would say, Why, I'm beginning to feel stronger. There would be no more morphia, no more of the terrible drawn look about her when she slept. She would rise from her sickbed, vibrant and whole ((Come in by the gold gates or not at all)) rise and walk to the door and fling it open and then Digory would go running into her arms.
He gasped as though he'd been mortally wounded. Perhaps he had been in a way. After all, had the gate not said ((take my fruit for others or forbear))?
Jadis ((for those who steal and those who climb my wall)) called Digory the Lion's slave. Years later, he would think back over all that those words implied. The Witch seemed to think that Digory had no will, if he was willing to subordinate himself to Aslan.
But was it not Aslan who made Digory realize his own culpability ((shall find their heart's desire and find despair)), and in the same breath gave him a way to repair it? Had not Aslan given his will back to him?
And at the foot of the tree, Aslan gave Digory his future back as well.
He was old, but now he is young again, watching as the stars fall headlong across the black of the world-that-was. The world is ending at last, but Digory does not fear such things any longer.
#'let's get some half-finished stuff done and posted before the Inklings Challenge' challenge#i'm not 100% satisfied with this but I quite like all the concepts. we'll see#i actually have a bunch of these type of character study things from back in the day that i'd like to keep revisiting#anyway. i have always always always been fascinated by the writing on the bell#curiosity would totally be MY fatal flaw in a fairytale/myth so i can absolutely see where Digory is coming from#like of course he has to strike the bell. of course#but the way it gets frames in relation to Choice and Will and Responsibility is just really cool#a neat counterpoint to all the stories of those overcome by curiosity whom the narrative justifies#it was your fault. you need to own that#curiosity for its own sake is not inherantly a good thing#and then of course i can't write about Digory without pulling in the dymanic with his mom's impending death#that is by far the most compelling aspect of MN it is the linchpin of the whole thing#so yeah#founded in song#the magician's nephew no longer#narnia#leah stories#pontifications and creations
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