#katana Gargoyles

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[sidesketchestuff]

“A true *eyerolls* bEAcon of vIRtUE, a beloved ruler!” -Junior Official Fu Yao, TGCF Donghua, also Ep 1

Literally me seeing him in the first episode: He’s just like me fr!!!

-Another TGCF!Garg I had fun creating but it took a while to sketch and color! I hope his color scheme isn’t overwhelming!

-Fu Yao’s the first Gargoyle to have 2 pronged wingtips instead of three or one. This is actually a thing in Gargoyles and some do have this trait in the show.

-His horns are inspired by a certain snarky crimson youth Gargoyle and his beak… do I really need to say the reference?

I’ve finished the first quarter of TGCF Gargoyles. The next batch will take some time since I’m trying to write more before school starts. So keep ur eyes peeled!

[shellsweet]

Stone by day, warriors by night, we were betrayed by the humans we had sworn to protect, frozen in stone by a magic spell for a 1000 years. Now, here in Manhattan, the spell is broken & we live again! We are defenders of the night, we are #Gargoyles!

Happy 30th Anniversary🌙

✨️ 10/24/94 - 10/24/24 ✨️

[straysketches]

"Timedancer" fam doodles -- my version of Tachi, the design I think she'll have closer to canon, and a few 'Tana doodles I added color to

[chordsykat]

I just can't quit these two :3 Brooklyn and Katana again.

I'm finishing up the commissions on my plate this week and can take on a few more. If you are looking to get a commission, now's the time to get ahold of me. :)

[vicky82gargoylesfan]

https://x.com/GeorgeKambadais/status/1708898913594249580?s=20

[orsonfoe]

20240603 katana blue pencil sketch

blue pencil practice sketches of katana. please show support at PATREON or KO-FI

Posted using PostyBirb

[servicereward]

something i've also been enjoying within the expansion of the organized crime world of gargoyles is it sets up an "area of expertise" for each of the trio, so to speak.

Lex, loves technology -> sworn enemy of the pack, beneficiaries of mutate science and cyberorganic implants

Broadway, loves detective stories -> now has a whole organized crime world to muck around in for mysteries

Brooklyn, hates being in charge -> ferried through time at the whim of a magical object to solve problems in different eras, still struggles with leadership when he needs to command those closest to him

[furiarossa]

Here they are! New York's most loved beaked family! (Or most hated. Or maybe, well, the only beaked family in New York).

A ballpoint pen sketch fanart for Gargoyles ;)

This work is available to purchase as print, posters, stickers and other cool stuff HERE on Redbubble!

[Oh, and a lot more of our Gargoyles fanarts: Here’s the Gargoyles tag!]

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[jadegretz]

Elisa Maza: Vigilante of the Urban Jungle by Jade Gretz

The gargoyle bells of the Manhattan Clan echoed through the night, a mournful knell amidst the chaos. Elisa Maza, her face etched with a warrior's resolve, stood atop the Chrysler Building, the wind whipping at her auburn hair. Below, the city writhed in the throes of a nightmare.

Demona, the malevolent demon queen, had unleashed her most unholy forces upon New York. Grotesque gargoyles, twisted parodies of the Gothic protectors, swarmed the streets, their eyes burning with a malevolent red light. Packs of feral hellhounds, their slavering jaws dripping with demonic ichor, tore through the city like living nightmares.

Elisa, clad in her black and gray bodysuit, her stone skin shimmering in the moonlight, was a lone beacon of hope amidst the encroaching darkness. Goliath, her stone gargoyle mate, lay unconscious at her feet, his powerful body riddled with wounds inflicted by Demona's elite guard, the Pack.

Grief threatened to consume Elisa, but she tamped it down, channeling it into a steely resolve. Goliath, her love, her protector, couldn't be dead. Not yet. Not when the city, their city, needed them most.

A guttural roar echoed from the surrounding skyscrapers. The Pack, hulking figures clad in crimson armor, descended upon her like a plague of locusts. Leader Xanatos, his eyes gleaming with a manic glint, stood amongst them, a cruel smile twisting his lips.

"Elisa," Xanatos rasped, his voice like nails scraping against stone. "Your little gargoyle friends have fallen. Now, it's your turn."

Elisa, her eyes blazing with defiance, brandished her katana, its blade glowing faintly with a magical light. "Never," she snarled. "Not as long as I draw breath."

The battle commenced in a whirlwind of steel and shadow. Elisa, a whirlwind of fury, danced around the Pack's brutal attacks. Her katana, imbued with ancient magic, cleaved through their armor with chilling ease.

But the Pack were relentless. Xanatos, a master tactician, used their numbers to his advantage. One by one, he wore Elisa down, her movements becoming sluggish, her bre …(see the rest of the story at deviantart.com/jadegretzAI). For more supergirl, chun li, batgirl, tifa, lara croft, wonder woman, rogue and much more, please visit my page at www.deviantart.com/jadegretzai - Thanks for your support :)

[peacehopeandrats]

Secret Santa 2024!

Wonderful, warm winter greetings to  @chipedteacupchat, who was my giftee this year and provided me with a prompt that I simply had an amazing time working with. It was a pleasure to talk with you through the weeks and build your answers into the prompt you had given me. I don't often get to make a heroBelle and having her do her own thing to save Rumple had me writing in structures I'd never attempted before. Thank you for encouraging me to stretch my wings. (totally didn't mean the pun.)

Chapters: 5/5 Fandom: Once Upon a Time (TV), Gargoyles (Cartoon) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Belle/Rumplestiltskin | Mr. Gold, Goliath/Elisa Maza, Coldfire/Coldstone (Gargoyles), Angela/Broadway (Gargoyles), Brooklyn/Katana (Gargoyles) Characters: Belle (Once Upon a Time), Rumplestiltskin | Mr. Gold, Gideon (Once Upon a Time), Goliath (Gargoyles), Elisa Maza, Matt Bluestone, Brooklyn (Gargoyles), Broadway (Gargoyles), Lexington (Gargoyles), Hudson (Gargoyles), Katana (Gargoyles), Angela (Gargoyles), David Xanatos, Puck | Owen Burnett, Anton Sevarius Series: Part 22 of Growing Up Summary:

While visiting the Gargoyles in New York during the holidays, Rumplestiltskin is captured. Belle and the Gargoyles must race against time to find him before his captor finds a way to use the Dark One's powers in his experiments. While the Gargoyles end up having to rescue two of their own, Belle finds Rumple facing his old fears and addictions. She must convince him to leave the past behind and join her on their continued quest for a brighter future.

[wuekka]

Waitwaitwait...Timedancer arc of Brooklyn time traveling, landing in ancient Japan, meeting Katana, falling in love and having a family...Still isn't a real media? There's a whole spin-offs worth of story, that still doesn't actually exist? Even though there's new Gargoyles comics?? And "new comics" treat the story as canon?!

Like "oh boy, I can't wait to read about how Katana joined the Manhattan clan from ancient Edo", that story doesn't exist...Why are Gargoyles comics like this??

[shellsweet]

I got something special for Gargoyles fans tomorrow! 👀

[straysketches]

'Tana 💙

[mimeparadox]

Things that bug me about the current Gargoyles comic

It’s been more than one year in canon, and we still haven’t seen the clan grapple with the implications of living with Xanatos. This was an issue in the previous comic, where Elisa seemingly has no problem going to a party hosted by the person who ruined her brother’s life, but it’s especially glaring here, given that the current series shows us that the gargoyles still suspect him of being capable of doing things like kidnapping Maggie, and that, thanks to recent development, they now have independent resources which make Xanatos not their only choice.   

All of the romantic relationships—including, shockingly, Goliath and Elisa—are utterly devoid of the chemistry necessary to actually make them shippable. Broadway and Angela are about to get gargoyle-married, and we’ve gotten precisely zero fun scenes between them since they’ve gotten together. Broadway and Katana have been a thing for more than a real-world year and I have no idea why.

Despite the doubling of the Manhattan’s clan’s numbers and their vastly different circumstances, the comic has done very little to establish what the dynamics between its various members are. This, at least, was also the case in the cartoon, but, with the additional numbers, it is especially egregious.

Brooklyn has come out of a Young Justice-like time gap—except decades long—and he’s…exactly the same as before? His “focus” issue, rather than gives us any insight into his time travels and how they've changed him, treats him as if he hadn’t actually spent decades having adventures on his own and not having to rely on Goliath. 

Goliath is a cop. GOLIATH. IS. A COP. Even if this weren’t the most tone-deaf development possible in twenty-fucking twenty-three, that we don't see the offer made, discussed, or accepted beggars belief. TELL THE ACTUAL FUCKING STORY.

The series just seems to have a phobia for character-building interactions in general. The discussion where a half-dozen very different characters come to agree that Xanatos kidnapped Maggie, based entirely on vibes? Off-panel. The encounter between Toni Dracon and Broadway and Lexington? Off-panel. All the discussions between Goliath and Elisa about everything? Off-panel.

The sophomoric trial of Goliath arc, which misunderstands the court system, how lawyers work, and the history of the trials it’s meant to hearken to; makes everyone we're meant to root for seem incompetent; and ultimately has no interest in its own actual consequences. Like, gargoyles can totally be arrested for vigilante action now, right--or for everything a cop decides to arrest them for?  That is what it means for laws to apply for them, correct?

All the various continuity porn bits, there not because they make sense, but entirely of a misguided belief in the effectiveness of going "you remember this". The most glaring of these is the inclusion of “we are gargoyles” into every opening monologue in volume three, simply because the phrase is part of the season 2 opening.

A preponderance of what I call writing for the wiki: a focus on establishing facts simply for the sake of being able to say they've been established. The most egregious example of this is the introduction of the non-Dracon crime families, in a scene that has them all speaking equally stiltedly in order to ensure that we know every character's name, allowing them to be added to the wiki. The latest issue, Gargoyles: Quest #3, while actually one of the better ones, is full of this kind of writing, spending most of its page time letting us know exactly where the various Illuminati members rank within the organization, while telling us very little else. Meanwhile, Elisa reaches the end of her suspension from the NYPD, and not only was nothing actually done with it, the scene were we learn this does nothing to establish anything beyond the fact that, well, her suspension is over. What, then, was the point?

The series cannot actually be said to be about the Manhattan Clan.

[vicky82gargoylesfan]

5 page preview for Gargoyles issue 10, out tomorrow

Katana is narrating, Elisa admitted to everyone she’s loves Goliath, eek!!!! Can’t wait for tomorrow.