#magic sword. cool staff. sorted

[sadlazzle]

reached malenia. u guys rlly didn’t gas her up for nothin huh. this bitch really hasn’t known defeat

[artbysconnor]

The DnD party from Wildlife SMP in Episode 1! I just couldn't help trying my hand at these designs, since it combines two of my favorite things currently (Dungeons and Dragons and the Life Series) . Lizzie - Goliath Champion Fighter

BigB - Halfling Circle of Dreams Druid

Ren - Fairy College of Lore Bard

Jimmy - Half-Elf Oath of Redemption (Or Oath of Glory?) Paladin

See below for design notes!

Lizzie:

I knew Lizzie would be a Goliath, and was torn between giving her a martial class or making her a War Cleric. In the end, party composition won out, and she ended up a Champion Fighter, but I kept the half skirt design from her cleric thumbnails and gave her a big ol' mace. Given her pink hair is so iconic I didn't want to go full bald, so I made her hair long along the scalp and tied into two buns and a ponytail (not realistic, but it works in the drawing so I'm sticking with it!). I tried to put butterfly wings in her tattoos by her eyes, and added some flowers to further the fairy vibes on her armor and bring in the light blues from her skin as well.

BigB:

I probably was the least sure about what race and class I wanted to go with for BigB. He fluctuated between a Twilight Cleric and a Druid, and between Gnome, Dwarf, and Halfling. I ended up going with a Halfling to match his easygoing attitude, and leaned into his association with the Pale Garden as perhaps a caretaker and watchful hand over the Fey-like landscape as a Dream Druid. I knew I wanted his staff to reflect that by containing a creaking heart, but I also made his armor woven bark from the exteriors of the black and white trees, with flickers of the orange creaking magic within it, and kept his palette somewhat subdued and faded compared to his more saturated normal palette.

Ren:

Our bard Ren is probably the least detailed here on account of scale, but I put just the same amount of thought into his clothes, too! I wanted to work in little details that make use of materials that would be big for his small racial size as a fairy, such as a button for a poleyn, sewing pins for tuning pegs on his lute, and oversized ribbon ties on his costume. The main costume (a doublet and flouncy pants) is inspired by flashy, slashed Renaissance fashions - I think they suit a bard with a bragadocious energy like Ren. I added a tiny 'wolf pelt' as a cape that was probably a rat or perhaps an ermine, and his sunglasses are cut and polished crystal.

Jimmy:

Jimmy, our normal-sized normal man, was always a paladin in my mind. I wanted to put him in predominantly pretty heavy plate armor, almost like he's trying to protect himself at all costs, and pull in references to canaries and birds with the wing motif and feathered plume on the helmet and cloak clasp (and sword, which is now hidden behind BigB). The gold linear details both reinforce the pieces and provide a flash of yellow in his design to balance the cool blues and silvers, and his unpictured shield in my mind has the image of a great golden bird being pierced through the heart by an arrow or spear of some sort - a tragic house crest that Jimmy seeks to bring to glory.

[felassan]

Just poring over some of the new images. ◕‿◕

I like the overall shape of the dragon, its wings and silhouette, like it's maintaining this theme, two. It particularly reminds me of the DAII cover, with the figures of other characters being present in the dragon's wings. the pattern in the background gives the impression of a sunburst or explosion/outwards burst of energy (there's been lots of that going around in promo images for DA:TV over the years hasn't there). :D chunks of rock float around, which by now is associated with Fadey stuff (floating rocks in the Fade), the barrier (Veil) crumbling in key arts, and reality warping in places like Arlathan Forest. the dragon, open-mouthed, golden-eyed and ready to breathe fire, recalls the dragons on the Dragon Age vinyl arts, two, especially with its general position, and the dragon in this screenshot/scene. in the background at the bottom you can even see a hint of the 'concentric circles' pattern that represents the Veil.

I love that this group shot truly does include the whole team, including Assan and Manfred. I wonder if they will come into the field too if we select Davrin or Emmrich to come out with us respectively? We saw Assan capably fighting darkspawn in the character trailer, and in this image Manfred is helping fend the monsters off. Does Manfred carry Emmrich's stuff in his lil backpack..? 🥺 and I wonder what the purpose of Manfred's goggles are. Visually they set him apart from other skeleton/undead-type enemies and make it so you don't have to peer into empty the eyesockets of a skull, but also they're green (necromancy magic color) and we see Emmrich doing magic on them here. Are they part of the enchantment keeping him animated? also happy to see Varric in this one even though he is not one of the 7 companions. also, Bianca is still here. RIP

Taash looks so cool. :D Even her weapons are gold. her upper body armor in this piece has the aesthetic to me of like a dragon's ribbed armored chest and underside. I like that her weapons are unique generally, and from each other too. her dual-wielding like this as [I presume] a warrior differentiates her from Rook who if a warrior would be sword and shield or twohanded. her gauntlets look like they have dragon teeth or spines on them (the sticky-out parts that are not scale-like).

Davrin is at Rook's right hand. ♡ the floating triangles near Bellara show that she is using her magical device. I wonder what the white sphere part of Neve's wand/staff is. like, in this particular image it gives me the impression of a big pearl. Lucanis' eyes are glowing, like we see here, in that way that seems to hint that something interesting is going on there. overall it's cool to see all the team and cast together like this, working together heroically to stave off doom.

some of the monsters the group are fighting at least are red lyrium darkspawn. the ones with 'shark fin'-shaped headpieces are the same kind as the one at that link. are the rest all darkspawn too (there are different types of darkspawn ofc), or are there some walking dead mixed in there? (lol at the one Varric has just shot in the face). the non-sharkhead ones seem to be these guys from concept art. the prominence of darkspawn in this key art give the impression that we will fight a lot of red lyrium darkspawn in this game and that the threat they pose, including the Blight, is a significant part of the game's storyline.

at the center of it all and at the forefront is Rook. in a nice bit of poetic mirroring (the Wolf and the Rook), they too stand on a rocky outcropping, also with the knife - just like this. the knife is blue here.. blue lyrium influence? the very ground on which they stand bursts with energy. I wonder if Rook's outfit here is sort of their default, iconic look, like the Champion of Kirkwall armor for Hawke etc? I love that they have a cape and the point of their helmet gives them a bird-like feel. (omg.. we can have capes in this game fr). they have the Veilguard symbol on their chest. and could they be canonically left-handed..? :)

[howlingday]

Jaune: Making my way down a dark cellar towards the basement of the school to find a weapon or staff I can use to channel my mana. Apparently, not having one of these can reduce your spell. Casting efficiency by upwards of seventy percent only. dragons and deities can use magic without these items and not suffer a loss in efficiency. As I reached the bottom, I see a vast network of buildings, support beams, and towers. It goes on for what appears to be hundreds of miles and is hundreds of feet up. My best guess is that they use some type of magic to do this. I'm looking through all these weapons that are also cool. You have giant great swords. You have spear swords. You have regular sword, swords and more swords so cool.

Come to me.

Turning his head to the left and looking over. He sees an old chest that's falling apart from rotten wood rusted locks and what smells like dead rodents. He had no idea what was calling him, only that it did getting up and making his way over, opening the chest. He found a cool sort inside. Picking It up, he felt something strange and went through it as it transformed into a scythe.

What do you think any thing to add to it.

Honestly, nothing I can really add to it. I think it's fine as it is. Might even be better than what I provided.

[katyspersonal]

I don't believe I am going to make much SOTE progress today, especially since this traitor @fantomette22 is apparently asleep/busy and can't help me right now -_- So yeah, some extra stuff before bed

1) It is interesting to think of an implication of this item.. damn, apparently there WILL be places where you are stuck but can't teleport or something? :p Okay then.. Sacrificial Twig + this shit it is, then?

2) They continue with the "monkeys are trying to comprehend magic" lore!

! Onze is the Demihuman swordsman I fought in the Belurat Gaol earlier! The sword is dropped by a Demihuman Queen you fight in Cerulean Coast! I mean, yeah, even in the base game there was a Demihuman in Weeping Penunsula who used a Glintstone Staff, but damn..

3) Miyazaki: Yeah DLC area map will be like the size of Limgrave :)

Also Miyazaki:

Me: Girl you ok? 💀💀💀

4) I love the woman with Sulyvahn's blades, but I can't defeat the woman with Sulyvahn's blades ;-;

Maybe eventually.....

5) WAIT gdhyyf it is like, a symbol of moon and flame or something?????

This is adorable gfhgfhgggb I know it makes sense, but aww

6) I already screamed about it at Fantomette, but

HOLY SHIIIIIT SHE WAS FUCKING RIGHT ABOUT DRAGONS FASCISM THIS WHOLE TIME WHEN WE QUESTIONED WHY WOULD DRAGON COMMUNION BE A THING IF GODWYN BEFRIENDED ANCIENT DRAGONS THE ANSWER IS THAT ANCIENT DRAGONS FUCKING HATED GREYOLL-TYPE DRAGONS I REPEAT THEY HATED THE "IMPURE" OFFSPRING OFF THEIR SPECIES WHAT THE FUUUUUCK AAAAAAA

7) There is a new Carian Knight! And it is a big deal since they were "no more than a dozen"! Cool!!!

And it is a girl! However I am curious.. Moongrum, Moonrothyll... why their names start with 'moon'? Are they siblings? Or maybe Carian Knights had ancestry thing going on so those born with expectation to be raised as Carian Knight had 'moon' names in advance? Or they assume 'moon' name as new one upon entering a service (least likely since we already can recall exception)? Arghhhh

8) Okay this was actually an important one for me personally! So basically @jarognieva asked me whether I've met Queelign and I said I had no idea who it was. So greeeat, I've missed an invader -_- She said he was at Belurat and I checked but he never appeared, so I assumed he is one of those invaders that vanish after the boss of the area is defeated. (Who thought it was a good idea? I bet I've missed a cool drop... ;-; ) However, she added that he also invades in another place but she would not tell where! I didn't mind that and continued exploring the DLC as usual. So, after defeating that red bear beast at last (horaaaay!!!), I decided to check a distinct building on that map, and GUESS WHO I'VE MET?????

THE FUCKING GUY HIMSELF LOL!!! OF COURSE HE HAS A FUCKING PETRUS HAIRSTYLE LMAOOOOOOO GGJHJGJJ

So basically bro talked shit (that all 'graceless' shall meet death in Messmer's flame), that already made me REALLY want to kill him as if this cursed hairstyle wasn't enough gghghg . And he also called us 'graceless heathen' upon death lol. But it ACTUALLY clicked when he dropped an item, like:

Okay all 6 of you already had enough of my lunatic ravings about how much I abhor this specific type of attitude, as well as my theories on Messmer's motivations being rooted in purism of religious kind when anon asked about my expectations for him (I haven't met him yet so schhhh). But it is.. more than that. Miyazaki hates this sort of people too, especially he consistenyly bullies clerics in his works. Just.. read this description

Like not only this gave me some STRONG hatred for this character already, but also reminded me of one of the reasons I ended up loving Miyazaki's works so much to begin with. Shit like this just makes me feel understood, and without exagerration, reading this gave me HUMANITY RESTORED effect after I was feeling low because of a certain spoiler 😔 Honestly.. I don't care how many dramatic blonde twinks he will do dirty with a random plot twist, but as long as he addresses his disdain for this kind of people in his works I'll always love his games. Like I know it sounds oddly emotional but you need to be familiar with his other works to understand vfhgjbghb My faith in him as a creator straight up got restored, it is a personal detail for me!

9) So I figured that Ascetics are dropping pieces of their set.. I had suspicions, yeah, but now I am just sad ggjhhhjj I don't want to grind these guys *ends up doing it anyway probably*

10) For some reason I am starting to really like that hornsent guy who drafts maps of Miquella's crosses! Knowing Soulsborne tho I guess I just need to wait for something bad to happen to him -_-

11) Some people (all two of them) legit thank me for showing these item descriptions because they can't play the DLC themselves, but the players they watch don't stop to read items lore! Okay.... I guess I'll continue, heheh;

[blueskittlesart]

Hello! Just a quick question do you have any helpful hints on combo weapons for TOTK?

gibdo bones seem broken at first but don't use them on anything except arrows because they break after one hit. other than that my general rule is to sort inventory by highest attack power and then just fuse the strongest horn or whatever to whatever the fuck im holding. i have seen a lot of success with lizalfos tails attached to polearms. basically makes a whip. im also partial to boss boko horns bc theyre easy to get but strong as fuck. don't even bother picking up stalkoblin arms, the highish base atk may entice you but they're flimsy as shit and will only survive like 3 hits. double-weapon fusions seem cool at first but are lame in practice. the second you get a magic rod or staff fuse a ruby to it, ice puzzles are so so so easy when you can just hold your little stick near them until they melt. hoard octo balloons and bomb flowers like your life depends on it because fusing them to a shield and then sheildsurfing lets you enter bullet time from flat ground which is cracked as hell. the second the master sword recharges in your inventory fuse your strongest shit to it bc otherwise you will try to equip it mid-battle and forget that it's only like twice as strong as it could be. thats all ive got

[daily-fantasy-ideas]

Had a new idea for a kind of bastard spellcaster, the Invoker:

Invoking the power of other beings is not something particularly strange in the world of spell-casting, there are in fact numerous (typically at least somewhat religious) varieties of spellcasters whose primary method of casting involves invoking the abilities of some higher power.

Now invokers on the other hand are seen as different. Unlike with the other invocative casters, there is no exchange or communication between the one invoking and the one whose power is being invoked.

To do this invoker requires a remnant of some powerful thing (most often biofacts are used), for example, a mythic hero's strand of hair, a dragon's scale, the fragment of a legendary sword, or a divine's blood droplet suspended in glass.

In order to invoke the power contained within the remnants collected most invokers use a three-staged magical device.

Stage one is the holder where the remains physically go, they're often suspended within an open casing of some sort so they can be swapped in and out with ease.

Stage two is a connector inscribed with the words of rituals that connect the remains to the final stage of the device.

Stage three is the casting head, this is from where the invoked power is sent out and made a tangible force in the world

An example of one of these devices could be a traditional-looking wizard staff with the remnants placed at the top, with the ritual words inscribed upon the shaft of the staff, with a sharpened point acting as the casting head at the staff's base.

An alternative example could be could involve a waist bag-esq holder for the remnant with an inscribed leather cord connecting the holder to a swand acting as the casting head.

Additionally, while most people upon gaining new knowledge and experience of the world increase their own power and become stronger and better people for it, invokers can instead pour this developmental potential into the remnants they possess to increase the power and number of feats remnants are able to perform.¹

Further, if needed an invoker can also pour their own life force into a remnant to give it a temporary boost.²

Additional idea stuff I couldn't add in the main text.

¹ Yes that is just me saying they can level up the remnants instead of themselves, but it's a bit of a gamble as they might not get something good from it (at first at least).

²Yes that is just me saying they can sacrifice health for more powerful abilities, but again it's a gamble but one which can be rerolled if the invoker has placed levels into certain skills. The amount of health sacrificed is also proportional to the power boost gained.

The particular method of invocation used by invokers is descended from a school of assassination spells that sapped people's power at range to either weaken or kill them.

Invoking too much from one entity into short of a timespan can weaken the entity's power temporarily.

Invoking the power of just like some normal guy can drain them so much power that they die.

The things that the remnants are taken from might become aware that their power is being invoked.

Invocation can go massively wrong and the invoked power can turn explicitly against the invoker.

Sometimes the things being invoked will attempt to take revenge against the invokers, by either destroying them or manipulating them with the promise of more power.

Some invoked entities are actually just fine being invoked, as the invoker might actually be spreading their will.

Some people technically fall under the label of invoker but they gain the permission of those who they invoke, these types of invoker are more rare and less disliked and more simply seen as weird.

There can be remnants of intangible things such as forces, these too can be invoked.

The dead can be invoked.

The invoked power of most dead things is generally less potent than the invoked power of those that live.

This idea was created entirely because the word "invoke" sounds cool to me, everything else just kinda spiralled out from that

[cmdonovann]

ive been really into skyrim lately so i wanted to put together some FITS (aka what i think the qb characters would wear as skyrim characters). little explanations under the cut.

jack: carved nordic armor, steel sword, and just one of those standard wooden guard shields (i think i based it on the guard shield design from the pale). why? idk i feel like hes pretty basic when it comes to video games. he would play the civil war storyline, from both sides, and actually enjoy it.

beth: daedric armor and dwarven warhammer. idk beth just feels like a warhammer gal to me, and the brassy color of the dwemer weapons fits with the colors i associate with her. also the daedric armor is a) cool as hell, and b) requires a daedra heart to forge, so like, kinda haunted? and thats her vibe imho. she probably also dabbles in conjuration magic occasionally.

paul: adept mage robes, circlet, and steel dagger. i think he would be partially a magic user (primarily destruction and alteration, occasionally restoration and conjuration... he'd do it all) and partially a stealth player who assassinates people with daggers lol. but he wears the mage clothes cuz he likes the color better than the assassin outfit. the circlet is enchanted.

hatch: elven light armor/hunter armor (i ref'd both for this) and elven bow & arrows. he is extremely patient, the sort of person who just sits around waiting for the enemy to wander into his sights. i think he is also very much a stealth player, but not really an active one. he just sneaks around for the sake of not having to interact with anyone. he doesn't kill if he doesn't need to. he'll go into a bandit camp, take anything valuable, and leave without even being noticed.

will: winterhold college archmage robes and the staff of magnus! okkkkkkkk this one was self indulgent, i admit. its no secret that i adore the college of winterhold and basically every quest associated with it, but in my defense, i think will would like it too. he would be obsessed with the lore behind the eye and staff of magnus, probably. plus it just looks dope as hell. he probably also does a lot of alchemy.

[freysfiction]

After reading all your lore, I have to say I'm super intirgued to know more about the world of Tirras Savehys! Your art is amazing and I love reading the accompanying writing!

The lore about Versihillin Staff is probably my favorite! I LOVE mage stuff, and negation magic is always a cool concept to explore! Are you able to share more about how the Verdishil mages preform their feared magic?

Ahh, thank you so much!! It's quite fun building a world!

The Verdihsil Warriors are a unique one. All of those who successfully pact with Verdihsil are tattooed - typically on the arms. It's those tattoos, along with a 'conduit' of sorts, that allow his Anti-Magic to be utilized. For his swordsman, that conduit is their sword. For his mages, it's their staff. The overall design of the tattoos are unique, but the flow is usually similar - the "contracting" symbol somewhere and the rest of the design flowing from there. One example:

The mages have it a bit harder than their swordsman counterparts, however, as spellcasting is a "force of will", as scholars put it. And, because Verdy's magic is a 'negative' energy, trying to force-will such spells takes a lot of practice!

The Verdihsil Warriors are often employed as mage hunters for these abilities, keeping other spellcasters in check.

Whew, that was longer than I thought it'd be... but I hope that answered your question!

[harpagornis]

MTG Analysis: Archons part 2

a while back I wrote an extensive article on the archons of Magic: The Gathering. Since I don't feel like making a fool reboot (and I can't add more images to that article) I've decided to make a sequel article dealing with the archons we haven't reviewed yet.

Archon of Coronation

Released in Commander Legends this archon hails from the plane of Fiora. Given what a political clusterfuck that plane is, I don't know what the archons political stance is, but I suppose they support whoever's in charge (currently Marquesa).

This is the first archon with an actual bird steed (unless we count Ornitharch's flock of birds?) which makes it stand out quite a lot. I also like the pure black face, so eerie for a White card. I guess it could be mask like a robber's mask, which makes it funnier in my opinion.

Archon of Cruelty

Introduced in Modern Horizons 2 this one is the first non-White, mono-Black archon, which I quite dislike since it plays into the whole "Black if evil" shenigans. As we previously discussed, Archons represent the cruel side of White mana, so this makes even less sense flavourfully.

The design at least it's interesting, with a hooved carnivore like a mesonichian with bat wings as steeds. The exact plane where it lives is not clear, but judging by the Bolas horns it might either be from the Meditation Realm (which would make it the only living thing besides the imprisoned dragon twins there) or Amonkhet, which has no precedent for archons but enough for angel-fuckery. Maybe Bolas meddled with it and that's why it's mono-Black?

Guardian Archon

(Apologies for image quality, it was the only large pic I could find without the card)

Debuting in Strixhaven: Commander, this owl ridding archon has a quill-end like shield, which I find it quite adorable for a sinister force of violent order. The pen might be mightier than the sword... which is why its a shield instead of a weapon. Clever girl/boy/non-binary!

Archon of the Wild Rose

We return to Eldraine with this imposing white-stag riding archon. Like previous Eldraine archons it looks quite luminous and ghostly and we actually have a reason why! Accroding to the D&D tie-in monster manual, Eldraine archons are actually deceased knights. They live at the boundaries of the wilds, marking the border between the human and fae realms. Human knights often pick up a fight with an archon in order to expand the humans' domain, which is fruitless as the archons don't get to decide where the boundaries are. Silly humans.

The return to Eldraine also introduces the card Archon's Glory, showing an archon flaring before what I assume is one of Ashiok's nightmare thingies. Not much to say except it looks pretty cool.

Ezrim

We conclude this sequel with the second legendary archon, Ezrim. From Ravnica, Ezrim started as an Azorius archon, before quitting because the other archons were apparently too much for him. He then went on to found a truth cult (ironic considering mythological archons are all about keeping the illusion of the material world) until it grew into a detective agency. He is a major character in the Murders at Karlov Manor storyline; not a lot of quirks but has quite a presence. We also see through him that an archon and steed can momentarily seperate... which he uses to file paperwork. Neat.

I like the use of browns in his depiction, like a very subdued gold. Besides the trenchcoat - working wonders to hide his face btw - he wilds a blue staff, which I assume he uses to unvield the truth. His steed is some sort of sharp toothed bull with two tails and four wings; it isn't described in detail in the story, I'm assuming because either the final design wasn't ready when it was written or because it's simply not easy to described

And that's it for now

Creative has made Archons quite a rare creature type, and have played quite a bit since we last sank our teeth, subverting both the MTG rule as White's bad side and the mythological role as masters of illusion.

Let's see what the future holds.

[aberooski]

Because I think about this far too much:

Yu-Gi-Oh GX characters as Final Fantasy classes in the context of my fic Sons of The Stars.

With explanations that might only actually make sense to me unless you've read the fic and played the FF games akaksk

Jaden - Thief

Fights with daggers/other short swords ninja sword if ur playing FFXII 👀 he doesn't ever actually steal anything except Jesse's heart 😏 but otherwise aligns well with the class imo. He's got the energy yet seriousness a lot of Thief characters in FF have Locke, Yuffie, Rikku, Zidane, etc, he's clever and agile, and he fights mainly for self defense and only if he has to. He tends to try a lot of stealth to get out of having to fight. Sneaky little man.

Alexis - Knight

Standard sword class, similar to Warrior. Fights with a two handed greatsword, and she chose to train herself to fight so that she could defend. That way she would be able to protect Atticus even though she'd left her station as princess of their dimension and was living in hiding on her own. She still cared about her people and wanted her brother to be safe, knowing there were people who wanted the royal family dead and gone. She'd rather protect the crown than be the crown in that sense.

Chazz - Warrior

Standard sword class similar to Knight. Fights with a one handed sword, but he didn't choose. He's been trained to fight to be a soldier for many years because of his family, and is being trained to fight to fight. Unlike Alexis, it was all about the glory for him because there was no other choice. He gained favor with Crowler, chancellor of their dimension, being so young and yet so highly skilled, which only ultimately put more pressure on him by his family to be the greatest warrior in their entire dimension. A feat which he attained by the time of the fic, when the J-Squad was only 17 years old.

Bastion - Black Mage

Not a dedicated Black Mage since he uses spells like Protect and Shell during the fic and even a standard Cure spell, but his main source of defense is his magic. His main elemental type would be water cuz water dragon ofc but he's only seen casting Thundara, Blizzara, and Thundaga during the events of the fic. And obviously as a Black Mage, he carries around a cool wizard staff 😌

Jesse - Summoner

Fairly straightforward, his main source of combat is summoning his Crystal Beasts and providing support to the others on the field.

Hassleberry - Berserker

Again. It's Hassleberry so pretty straightforward. He manages to never lose control in SoTS he loses it in OUAD though but very much has the capacity to. Having suffered for 2 years pre-fic as a military experiment in his and Jim's dimension after the accident with his leg left him with his animalistic side due to the dinosaur bone in his leg, and their scientists attempting to strip him of his humanity in order to weaponize him because they're fucking terrible people. Thx for breaking him outta there Jim 😭 Though he also aligns a little with the Monk class as well since like characters like Yang, Sabin, Tifa, Zell, and Snow, who in tradition FF job systems would fall under that class, his weapon is his fists 😌

Jim - Beastmaster

He'd also potentially fall under FFV's Chemist class since he's a scientist of sorts in the fic, or maybe even Geomancer dipping into his archeology and paleontology guy stuff. But factoring in Shirley, I'd sooner class him as a Beastmaster/Tamer.

Axel - Freelancer

Guy's a mercenary, he can do anything. If he had a weapons specialty, he'd be a Gunner/Machinist he literally gives Jim a gun before the final battle with Yubel, but he's a jack of all trades. He just kinda does whatever he feels like it or whatever is best to get the job done.

Bonus since he's extremely important to the fic but isn't actually a party member:

Syrus - White Mage

Sy actually was originally supposed to be an actual party member since he's my favorite character oh wow, I wonder why he's so important to the plot, like the fate of the entire universe hinges upon his safety 🤔 but it just didn't really end up happening, and considering his position in the fic it unfortunately makes sense to me that he isn't. But whether in the context of this fic or in canon, or literally any context, Sy is the team White Mage. Stereotypically a very weak and squishy, low defense/low attack class which I mean... yeah. But I've always thought he'd have a very strong magic stat which most White Mage's do Rosa, Porom, Aerith, Garnet, Eiko, Yuna (literally the strongest magic stat in FFX), Vanille and if he was able to be a party member he'd the team healer. Who can also tear holes in the space time continuum to open portals to travel through dimensions 😌

[weaselle]

i can't even pick, i was everything, i was infinite imagination i was anything i wanted to be all the time; my friend would want to pretend to be space pirates and i would want to play sword and sorcery and i would be like "okay lets be space pirates and i'm an elf with magic but all the things that make me a magic elf are actually because i'm a pointy eared alien from a forest planet with weird technology"

or i would get my "little people" (gi joes and star wars figurines and for some reason zorro and the lone ranger and some other toys with a healthy component of animals thrown in) and i would have them act out so many adventures and stories

when i was an animal I was usually a puma, but there were hundreds of times i chose to be some other creature -- many aquatic creatures in pools of course. Sometimes mythical creatures or dinosaurs. Very occasionally an insect or bird

even like, mowing the lawn. I had a whole world built out where i was part of a space colony and our main food source was a sort of thick mossy algae we grew in giant patches and the scenario was we were getting attacked and i had to use the push harvester (lawn-mower) to get all the algae harvested so we could withstand a space siege, keeping cool under pressure while ignoring heavy fire -- and to keep from getting bored from that i would sometimes switch it to the Lawn Olympics, with imaginary commentators narrating my special techniques in amazement.

car rides were all kinds of things, but a recurring favorite (at night, especially foggy nights) was that I was in a fighter-scout submarine, exploring a sunken civilization (whether atlantean or alien varied) and also for a little while i would imagine being in a space ship cruising through the remains of a giant celestial cyborg, full of giant shards of circuit board all lit up..

My best friend and I rode bikes that were at various times speeder jets, and horses, mech suits, motorcycles, mad-max style jet ski things, mythical creatures, and our bodies as transformers (i mean they are mostly vehicles anyway, so that was a stroke of genius, playing transformers and when we "transformed" we just hopped on our bikes - chef's kiss)

any stick was a sword, a gun, a wizard staff, an elf's bow, a cyber spear (you know, where you can do computer things with it and also it shoots lightning, but you can still totally stab things with it)

i was a spy, i was a vampire, i was a robot. For a while I had this book about trolls

which i used as a field guide to play troll-anthropologist, and i would pretend to infiltrate troll culture and learn their ways a la Jane Goodall / Dian Fossey.

i was a plethora of gods, godesses, cthulic nightmare creatures. i traveled through time, i crossed dimensions. I dueled dragons, i hatched dragon eggs, i hatched from a dragon's egg.. i made up sooooo many aliens. And super powers! So many. I wanted to be a werewolf so bad i researched old books and found a literal list of ingredients for a potion as part of a spell to turn into one (but I had to give up because i couldn't figure out how to ethically procure a human child's liver)

I used to put on a back pack and sunglasses and breathe through a bic pen cap and pretend the house was a shipwreck and i was scuba diving. The backpack can be weighted and tightened to feel like a pretty good scuba tank, sunglasses made passable diving goggles while creating a nice dim deep water effect when worn indoors, and the bic pen cap made a very satisfying darth vader-y scuba breathing noise and felt sufficiently like breathing from an air hose of some kind.

Anyway, the depths of my pretend game cannot be viewed through the lens of a simple poll

[captainautismo]

Including the pencil drawing because I feel like my inking always looks bad. Ignore the ghost of his rifle please.

This is Tomohiro Takeda, later Tomkage Takeda, also known as Minamoto-no-Tomohiro formally in Japan and Tómas Takeda in Mexico.

Tomokage started as an idea I thought would be cool and started fleshing out as I wrote about him more. I thought a serape and a charro sombrero would suit his ronin look, paired with the sword and the scabbard. I promise the rifle's on his horse and his revolver's on his right hip. I also initially planned for him to have a noh mask Netsuke attached to his belt next to his sword. If you're interested in what I've written about him, I've linked to my AO3 on my account. Tomo's history under the cut bc I like writing about him.

Tomokage was the adoptive son of a minor samurai of the Niwa clan in the Nihonmatsu province, Kiyomori Takeda. Though Tomokage was raised with an education in Western history and culture in light of the country's emergence from isolation, Kiyomori insisted on a traditional education alongside it, leaving Tomokage with a strong connection with the more traditional ideal of a samurai. Tomokage devoted himself mostly to training in martial arts and studying poetry and classical literature, partially out of passion, and partially out of an effort to isolate himself. Tomokage has a sort of "Don Quixote" relationship to Samurai, obsessed with the idea of them moreso than the reality, though he experienced a long period of disillusion during the Boshin War and following his desertion to Mexico in 1868 when Imperial Forces took Edo.

Tomokage worked briefly as a fisherman on the coast of Sonora where he arrived before taking an opportunity to work on a ranch further into the desert, owing to his affection for horses. It was not long after he started ranching that he started attending local services ran out of an old, small mission, mostly converted into a hospital, where he took a Christian name and joined the small staff at the hospital, finding it the closest to a Buddhist lifestyle available after he left Japan. After an incident in town wherein Tomokage killed three soldiers, he resolved to leave and start work as a caravan guard, where his story starts proper.

Tomokage, unbeknownst to him before the start of his story, is half Kitsune on his mother's side, who gave him to his father in the first place. Though this is a boon to him after the start of his story, namely the fact that he can only be killed by a strike to the heart, it has mostly caused him trouble, namely in the form of his troubled mental health and occasional episodes wherein he tends to wander, particularly when under stress, in crowded environments, and near nature. His episodes are paired with a phobia of dogs and a profound lack of social and speaking skills. Most are surprised to hear him sound just as stilted in his native language as in Spanish. This resulted in Kiyomori's deep concern for the family name.

After the start of the story, Tomokage officially changes his name from Tomohiro owing to his new "lord," Tezcatlipoca, Nahua god of darkness, magic, and vengeance. Tomokage's loyalty is absolute in this regard, though he seems not to entirely understand the foreign god's nature.

[sayakxmi]

[Magi reread; special edition] Episode 3: Magician of Creation [Part 1]

I swear, sometimes Magi is called just magician of creation, and sometimes it's magician of world creation, and tbh the latter is a mouthful, but sounds so much cooler.

Hole in the sky.

It's a reference to something, except I don't remember what I'm referencing, just know that I am referencing it.

It might be Pokemon, actually.

Good news, everybody. Jamil dies in this episode.

"When you get your flute back, can you introduce me and Ugo?" I'm still so salty it hasn't happened. Don't worry, guy, I'll fix it in that rewrite.

The perspective in this series never ceases to amaze me. To be fair, Aladdin and Alibaba stand a bit lower, but still, man.

I wanted to focus on Aladdin getting wrecked but

Morgiana did a cool spin after killing Aladdin.

Jamil: -appears- Me: oh, just die already

His going on his dumb classist spiel, literally nobody cares.

Don't get excited, Jamil. You're about to be put in your place.

"I can't believe I was scared of this guy." He doesn't say it here, tho we can probably asume it's what he's thinking. What he actually ends up saying is "You must've seen something awful." and then goes to talk how it's too late to go back, cuz it's the dungeon, and they're all putting their lives on the line etc. But it's still kinda interesting. In the manga Alibaba actually mocks Jamil, then talks how it's a dungeon, but in the anime he almost comes off as if he's actually feeling sorry for the guy.

On a semi-related note, I really like this expression. Idk why. I feel like this is how Alibaba feels about 98% of the cast. They're all fucking weirdos, how did he get himself involved in any of this?

I can't believe Aladdin's dead.

Damn, that was some jump. Very fancy, 10/10. I've mentioned that I love Balbadd's Royal Swordplay? And also, again, Jamil, why are you telling him what you're gonna do? I know you're dumb, but seriously.

Aww, yes.

AWWW, YESSSSS

In the manga he barely avoids it, in the anime he sort of counters her.

That actually looks pretty cool.

Alibaba just got wrecked, nobody's surprised. But do you ever think how much of this series is Alibaba getting wrecked?

As I was saying. But also, in the anime he's trying to protect himself, as much as he can at least, while in the manga I got the impression that he couldn't move. Which was, frankly, pretty understandable given how hard he was hit.

Somebody give her a break.

Also I've suddenly remembered that Jamil is voiced by the same guy Aomine from Kuroko no Basuke's voiced. Aomine was way cooler.

Also, what's up with the most importantTM members of a King's Household meeting them through trying to kill them (whether they wanted to do it or not). Makes me wonder if the Kous also had such Funny first meetings with them, lmao.

Also, that's a very cool moment - as Morgiana raises the sword, it transitions into the staff raised by Aladdin, 10/10.

Wheee.

That's a pretty nice shot, actually.

Ok, but, like, in the anime Alibaba at least sits up (with Aladdin's help). In the manga he was laying on the floor for a bit there. Like, a chapter or two.

Deoxyribonucleic acid-coded if you ask me. Missing em, nitrogenous bases, but close enough.

He looks like a magical girl.

Notre Empire playing again. Man, was it seriously playing So Often?

Letz gooooo

Gdi, I'm a corvid at heart, I see shiny stuff and I'm just OMG this is so pretty. But this is so pretty :/

Finally! Aladdin being done with Jamil's bullshit!

This does look pretty cool.

You know, it's kind of hilarious when you have these two serious as shit, and then there's Alibaba like "what the actual fuck is going on". Mood.

And with this optimistic shot we're ending this post, becaues I'm almost at the photo limit.

Ok, but you gotta admit, it looks cool. RIP Morgiana.

[floral-poisons]

twst characters: their genshin visions & weapons

this happens to be another shower thought i had. my brain is so hyperactive with its imagination. i cannot deal with constantly thinking about twisted wonderland aus.

anyways so this is me assigning members of the twst cast their genshin vision and what their weapon would be. for people who don’t know, genshin impact (genshin for short) is an open world gacha game created by mihoyo. it’s got intricate character designs and a pretty cool stories. visions are basically elemental powers and all of the playable characters have a vision of some sort. there are 7 visions:

pyro (fire)

anemo (air)

hydro (water)

electro (electric)

cryo (ice)

dendro (flora)

geo (stone)

genshin also features 5 weapon types:

swords

claymores / great swords

polearms / lances

bows

catalysts

now with that intro done, i’m just going to assign the twst cast their vision and weapon. you can feel free to tell me if you think a character would be something else. i’d love to hear about it!

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dire crowley

unknown. no one has any idea. but we do know crowley is a catalyst user. he never seems to use his vision though.

ashton vargas

no vision but uses a claymore as a weapon.

mozus trein

cryo catalyst. probably a scholar who studied at the famous at sumeru academia, a famous institute in arcana arts and historical documents.

divus crewel

geo sword. is definitely an alchemist similar to albedo. probably studying to try to manufacture a vision. elemental ability is similar to albedo’s.

sam

anemo catalyst. is a merchant who travels frequently (i know i said this in my high fantasy au head canons) and probably uses his vision to help move around easier.

DIASOMNIA

malleus draconia

dendro polearm. but because malleus is already strong, i believe he would have a delusion like childe. the delusion is basically a second (fake) vision. his delusion would be pyro and shockingly, malleus would be able to use a catalyst in his delusion state too.

lilia vanrouge

electro polearm. his elemental burst has something to deal with bats, probably made of pure electro energy. i think lilia can also pass as a healer too.

silver

electro sword. he doesn’t even really need his vision because his swordsmanship skills are already really well polished. but his elemental burst is scary powerful.

sebek zigvolt

anemo claymore. probably does some really intense dps (damage per second). i think his elemental burst would involve wielding a claymore out of pure anemo energy.

HEARTSLABYUL

riddle rosehearts

pyro catalyst. but on top of that, i think riddle would have a delusion much like childe and malleus. his delusion would probably be electro.

trey clover

anemo polearm. elemental burst is probably similar to lumine/aether’s anemo burst.

cater diamond

cryo bow. very sneaky with his shots of cryo. i imagine his elemental burst would be similar to keqing’s since his signature spell involves creating clones of himself.

ace trappola

pyro sword. his elemental burst definitely involves large ass flames and extending his sword’s reach with pure elemental energy.

deuce spade

geo catalyst. his signature spell involves magic bouncing back on his enemies so his elemental burst is probably a massive shield that causes attacks to bounce back onto the enemy.

POMEFIORE

vil schoenheit

electro catalyst. this man has the PRETTIEST elemental burst to ever exist! does some really extreme damage too.

rook hunt

hydro bow. elemental ability is similar to childe’s where he can form a sword made of pure hydro energy. works as a perfectly complement to vil.

epel felmier

cryo sword. given three elemental strikes of cryo. i feel like his elemental burst might involve a bird of some kind. probably a healer.

SAVANACLAW

leona kingscholar

geo polearm. creates a shield. elemental burst involves strikes of geo that cause his enemies to freeze. might be a little op. but listen this man’s signature spell involves him turning anything he touches to sand so...

ruggie bucchi

hydro bow. elemental ability would probably be similar to xingqiu’s and his burst involves creating a whirlpool of some kind.

jack howl

geo claymore. his elemental burst looks similar to razor’s (because of their wolf connection).

OCTAVINELLE

azul ashengrotto

hydro catalyst. his elemental burst is definitely big and does some big time damage. probably similar to mona in regards for money. his vision does further damage when combined with jade and floyd’s.

jade leech

cryo sword. his swordsmanship is elegant. plus his vision is a perfect complement with his brother’s.

floyd leech

pyro claymore. i know floyd would be so ecstatic to wield a giant sword. naturally his vision goes hand in hand with jade’s.

SCARABIA

kalim al-asim

geo polearm. he gives me polearm vibes. i would say his ability provides a shield and his burst creates a wave of geo to crystalize his enemies.

jamil viper

pyro catalyst. elemental burst probably involves some sort of snake. extremely talented with his catalyst.

IGNIHYDE

idia shroud

pyro catalyst. catalyst is the only weapon because it doesn’t actually require idia to use a melee weapon.

[magic-hcs]

✨✨Halloween with the boys!✨✨

Costumes!

Time to cast some magic and see what we’ll get!✨

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(UT)

Sans: I’d think, if he puts a tiny bit of effort in it he’d go as a ghost. Otherwise he’ll just go as himself with maybe drawn on a white shirt with a black marker: “png. costume not found”.

Papyrus: Papyrus has been brainstorming about this for a few months. He's been excited for this for a long time (ever since he found out this was a thing) and he wants to do good. So he decided to go vampire. And he went all out with this. He made the costume himself (with some slight aid from Sans because measurements and sorts are a bitch to do) and it looks really good!

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(UF)

Red: Red is not all that much of a fan of dress up, so the best Charon can get out of him is just Red with a different jacket, fake blood on a red shirt (come on, Red, really?) with a butcher knife. So he’s going as a serial killer/butcher.

Charon: For the longest time Charon couldn’t pick what he wanted to go as. He didn’t want it to be lame. So he’s been struggling until one day he got an idea. Getting armor wasn’t so hard since Undyne liked to keep spare platings so he could easily use that or get Red to make some. Because no way was he going to use plastic. He painted it black and red with some cool patterns on it. Charon even manifested a bone attack that looks like a long sword. Charon goes as a dark knight.

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(HT)

Bear: Bear and Bean wanted to match. Purely because it's fun. There won’t be anything all too creepy, or anything with knives. Something basic they could pull off pretty well. Bear is putting quite some effort into this costume. Purely because it’s nice to pretend to be someone else then who he really is. It’s relaxing and fun. Bear acquired some black paint to paint his bones, with the help of Bean he made some cool feathery designs with the furry fabric they bought specially for this. Since Bean often makes both of their clothes it wasn’t hard to make the entire costume. Bear even painted a yellow plastic duck beak he got at a dollar store entirely black. He looks real cool in his crow costume.

Bean: After a bit of searching on the internet for some ideas, Bean finally found the perfect costume. One that doesn’t have any “fake gore” or stains or anything that makes Bean uncomfortable. And this costume in particular does Bean’s long, lanky stature a favor. Bean often makes both his and Bear’s clothes so he got a few tricks up his sleeves. He got a few coats and jackets that are a bit worn out so he can easily use them for the bases. Create some tears to use pieces of the other clothes as patches. Put an extra layer on the coat where the stuffing will stick out between the layers. Create a ragged looking hat and follow a few makeup tutorials and Bean is ready to shine. Bean is going this Halloween as a scarecrow.

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(US)

Sky: Sky couldn’t choose between so many options. So he let his brother pick for him. The result was one of the least scary or Halloweeny, but still fun to do nonetheless. Sky refused to just buy a completely finished costume at a store. However, since he’s not all that great in tailoring he does buy a dark colored coat that fits him. The decorations and details on the cloak he does himself. Some of the patterns were an idea from Syrup. Sky used a magic attack as his staff instead of the usual wooden one. Sky also already had a hat he sometimes uses in his D&D games which he could wear with his costume. This Halloween, Sky goes as a sorcerer.

Syrup: It isn’t Syrup if he doesn’t go as something goofy. Syrup can create his own costume like how he helped out designing Sky’s costume for this Halloween, but that would take so much effort. Nah, he’s grabbing a cheap costume from a dollar store. It’s a mixture of yellow and orange and it covers his entire body. There are some wires inside the fabric to keep the form standing. Even so it still sags a bit but to Syrup it makes it even more goofy. What is Syrup going as? Well if you thought it was a pot of honey, then you would be wrong. That’s what he was last year. Nah, Syrup is a pumpkin this Halloween.

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(SF)

Razzle: Razzle made his own costume. He looks like he’s floating with the long cloak. The hood hides his face in shadow except the lavender flaring eyelight, revealing his socket and some of his teeth vaguely. Razzle manifested a long bone attack with a sharp blade sticking out at the end like a scythe. He’s quite a terrifying reaper.

Coal: Coal is a fan of those anti heroes in the comic books he reads. But he doesn’t want to wear anything too tight or too difficult to make. So he went to brainstorm a bit with Mastiff and found the greatest costume ever. After going to the store with his twin and goofing off some, Coal found the perfect spiked jacket and boots. Coal decided against tight pants so instead of leather he went for black jeans with chains on it. With a little training with both Mastiff and Razzle, Coal managed to make it look like his head is set ablaze with yellow fire -which in actuality is his magic which has been formed into looking like flames. Coal is going as Ghost rider

Mastiff: Mastiff wanted to do something on the nose and fitting. Funnily enough, he didn’t want to acquire and have the costume look so easy. But Mastiff isn’t really the tailor of the three brothers - that would be Razzle - so imagine this poor boy having his phalanges stuck together with glue and patches of fake fur sticking to his bones and clothes. He would have to ask Razzle for help with this one…

Did he actually go ask Razzle for this favor?

Short answer would be; yes.

The long answer however: Stubbornness had kept him quiet about his costume predicament for a long while, until Halloween was just a week away. So after stalling the inevitable, Mastiff finally relented and went to Razzle for help.

The costume isn’t exactly how Mastiff would’ve imagined it - but that’s due to the limited time frame both he and his brother had. It does look real good however. Cool black, furry ears with amber colored tips sit on top of his furry hoodie’s hood. A black fluffy tail also with an amber colored tip sticks out his pants. Mastiff is going as a wolf this Halloween.

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Thank you for participating in this spell, I hope it was to your satisfaction!