#metallic crimson

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Solf J Kimblee, just bored and wants to talk for the sake of talking: I want it on the record

Roy Mustang, for the bit, and also to fuck with Kimblee, getting out a notepad: Go on

Solf J. Kimblee, pausing: Ok, I know you know that's just a phrase. But now I'm intrigued and do want you to commit to this bit with me.

Roy Mustang, a cunt of a man: Go on

Kimblee, even pettier cunt: I want it on the record that I enjoyed every second of what I did in Ishval. *goes on to reminisce in vivid detail*

Mustang, writing things furiously down all while keeping the notepad away from Kimblee's view: I am going to use these notes against you when you stand trial.

Kimblee: There are higher chances of my dying before your becoming Fuhrer President.

Mustang, writing down: Major Kimblee, on the record still, indicated that he will murder me before facing trial for his soon to be considered war crimes.

Kimblee, sputtering: You're worse than any nosy reporter if that's how you take my statement out of context! Mustang, that is not what I said!

Mustang, writing down: Major Kimblee is now becoming hostile, thus proving that he is not a man with all of his mental fascilities in check. To whom it may concern, if I die, blame Major Solf J. Kimblee for my murder.

Kimblee: Unbelievable! I'm getting rid of those notes.

Mustang, cont: Major Kimblee, as indicated still on the record, has now claimed he will destroy evidence of his mental instability and his threats on my person.

Kimblee, raising his hands in disbelief: Mustang, stop writing things down! I am off the record.

Mustang, cont: He claims he is off the record, but this is a lie. I will continue to get relevant information to build a full proof case against him-

Kimblee wrestling him for the notes. Mustang still writing shit down and trying to kick Kimblee away: My time is nigh. Major Kimblee has attacked me. My days are numbered. O woe! Tell my Team to prosecute Major Kimblee if I do not live to see -

Riza Hawkeye enters the office.

Kimblee and Mustang stop fighting.

Riza Hawkeye: I want it on the record that you two are loud enough to be heard from the end of the corridor.

Kimblee steals the notes back and checks to see what Mustang wrote. He throws the notepad at Mustang and scowls: I cannot believe you!

Mustang is wheezing now.

Riza bends down to pick up the notepad and inspect it. It's just a recipee for Gracia's pie he wrote out.

[fumifooms]

Memes specifically for the Metallic Crimson universe which is an AU fanfic written by @tombraxas , read it here!! https://archiveofourown.org/works/37498201/chapters/93585343 

[tennesseebedward]

technically a bit early but happy crimsonversary @tombraxas

[marejadilla]

Rosso Emerald Crimson (Rosso Art), “Red Locks”, 2022, oil and metal leaf on panel, 70x45 cm.  Italian born, Rosso has been living in London, UK.

[shrimpricebowl]

art dump II

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ah!!! oc jumpscare!!! i should post them more....maybe

(they have been collecting dust for months)

[juicedpeachy]

a modern hualian doodle for you ❤️

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Red • Fallen Angel • One More Red Nightmare • Providence • Starless

Spotify ♪ YouTube

[cr1ms0n4nd-ac3]

YOOO!! LETS VOTE THE EEPIE TOKENS, THEY DESERVE IT ‼️

Link:

[soapdispensersalesman]

Doing visual research for this "black on crimson" style that rock/metal bands used in the "Gen X Soft Club" era, is there a name for this specific style/aesthetic?

Help me out Aesthetics Wiki/CARI peeps lol

[viina-art]

Listen to me. Look into my eyes. If gothic romance sounds at all appealing to you, you SHOULD be listening to Blackbriar.

They do this very soft gothic symphonic metal, they're wonderful live, and their vocalist honestly has an insane voice. The most consistent themes in their music are love, music, and flowers, and they have a lot of songs inspired by folklore, myths, fairytales or classical literature!

My favorite songs of theirs must be Cicada, We Make Mist and Deadly Diminuendo, and they released their new single Floriography today!!!

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Kimblee, mentally tallying up all the horror Edward is putting him through: What if I just blow up a child ?

Captain Wens, hard of hearing on account of serving w Kimblee in Ishval: What THE FUCK did you just say???

Kimblee: WHAT IF I JUST EXPLODE A CHILD? *miming clapping and exploding someone w alchemy*

Captain Wens: Oh thank fucking god that’s what you said!!! Yeah, go for it.

Kimblee, processing what just transpired, horrified: CAPTAIN IS THAT THE KIND OF MAN YOU THINK I AM????

Captain Wens, standing up and leaving.

Kimblee: Wens???

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY METALLIC CRIMSON

technically a bit early but happy crimsonversary @tombraxas

[metal-sludge]

CRIMSON GLORY (1983 - present) | METAL FORCES, September 1991.

[shrimpricebowl]

ocs or something (stuff since... august??)

ive been thinking about making a proper illustration for them since all of these are just meant to conceptualize their relationships with others but. im Kinda Tired so maybe.. soon??? ive been wanting to share them for a while so here they are!

bglg.gngkjfm Refsheets and infodump!!! yay!!!!

nicknamed "petals," it was a pink eel lizard that was every citizen's friend and especially close with the city's iterator. it was constantly fed and taken care of by the ancients. also being dressed up during festivals, the blanket on its back kept changing and being embroidered to fit the occasion.

its frills and body were always painted cyan, while its face with yellow. its favorite food was squidcadas because of course it was

an inseparable trio of slugpups from gourmand’s clan who deviated from the path during migration and now work together to survive. they are nameless and don’t desire to be as they all swiftly move on to the next area to explore.

an iterator who nearly never shuts up about everything that is happening. cheerful yet pragmatic, he shares and obtains ideas and hints of the solution from other iterators. their overseers and broadcasts can go the farthest out of the group just for the sole purpose of keeping up to date with their neighbors.

crimson’s city is full of festivals and celebrations, naturally making it bustling and noisy especially at night. its citizens were close to each other and also mostly included crimson to create unique holograms such as fireworks from his overseers. they are also sometimes dressed; their antenna sometimes adorned with flowers or lights, and their cloak changed and designed to reflect the occasion. he also enjoyed rambling about whatever to the city's friend and being replied with it dozing off.

the oldest iterator and leader of the group. resourceful and strategic, they guide their group in making decisions about their communities’ states and welfares… when the ancients still existed. 

flora’s city is small but rich in greenery influenced by the surrounding environment. despite the abundance of resources flora’s can had, it eventually fell due to it not being maintained. the severe overgrowth caused many plants to cover the can and clog the pipes; gradually absorbing the water and causing slag to build up, frying the superstructure and collapsing

there are 2 more iterators in the group but im Still fixing them so!!!!! um...

their group resides in a very water-filled area. most if not all the regions they are located has water EVERYWHERE aside from flora's ...like imagine the pacific ocean but bigger and also walkable

[whiteboardartstudios]

Goodbye, Gendaen

fan art for @mtqcomic

Thoughts and LONG ramble under the cut! (includes spoilers!!!)

A while ago (like last week maybe?) I realized that I've been following this comic for almost a year, and I still haven't drawn Mysta yet! I figured that with the recent end of Chapter 3 and that *huge* lore drop (I was NOT expecting that oh my goodness the theory wheels are turning in the void that is my brain) now would be a pretty good time to draw her! So that's where this came from! :D

I thought that it would be fun to draw Mysta looking sort of like a knight? Partially because it makes for cool posing and composition but also because I think that if she was in D&D she would be a paladin due to the whole "Hero sent by Destiny" thing (I considered sorcerer or warlock as well, but her moveset is mostly melee at the moment so I thought that paladin fits better. Plus this opens up the possibility of Gendaen being an Oathbreaker paladin, depending on how that whole situation with the Crimson went. (also now I kind of want to put the main cast of mtq in D&D even though I don't actually know a lot about D&D ToT. I think Eth would be a ranger maybe multiclassed into something magic-related, because rangers have a favored enemy mechanic that gives them advantages on fighting a certain type of enemy, which could be Crimson enemies for D&D Eth. Yele is (kind of obviously) a druid because of the whole dryad thing, and Zaïl is definitely giving rogue energy to me.)) Anyways, D&D-related sidetrack aside – hello??? End-of-chapter-3 lore drop? (/positive) I have SO many questions. First of all, what happened to convince Gendaen to switch sides? For someone who allegedly spent his entire life trying to cleanse the Crimson, it would've taken one heck of a worldview-upending revelation to get him to join it. With the information we currently have, it seems pretty clear that Gendaen isn't mind-controlled or corrupted or anything – not just because of the reasons Eth gave in page #169, but also because from all the interactions we've had with Nelun Soma'o/Gendaen, he seemed to be pretty chill? I pointed out in my first fan art post that it doesn't seem as if Nelun Soma'o is being built up to be a villain character and is instead more of an antagonist with a slight mentor role, and I think that still kind of holds up now. Gendaen definitely wants Mysta to help him and/or the Crimson with something, and as Yele said in that recent comic, things aren't really adding up. I'm still slightly suspicious of the Order of Learning as well (insert person pointing at conspiracy theory board meme here lol), since you would think that if Gendaen and Eth are really close then Gendaen might have told Eth about the whole Crimson situation, right? On Page #250 (which is marked as 150??? probably a typo but idk) Gendaen says that he didn't want Eth to be roped into this whole situation, which could be a reason for keeping him in the dark – though if he knew Eth really well then he might have suspected that Eth wouldn't just let him disappear and would go searching for him. Another possible reason (in my theory) if the Order is evil or something and Gendaen learned something that he shouldn't have learned, maybe he knew that Eth wouldn't believe him because of his loyalty to the Order? I may just be connecting random dots and calling it a picture here but *something* is going on and until we get more clues on what that may be, I'm sticking with this theory lol :P EDIT, I was rereading Gendaen's character sheet and it says there that he has a strong code of honor and fights for the underdogs (not the exact phrasing but it's close). 👀 does that mean the Crimson is in some sort of underdog position? 👀

Anyways back to the drawing a little, I gave both Gendaen and Mysta a sort of braid-like element in their designs to sort of tie them together a bit visually (Mysta's is on the sides of her head, which is kind of hard to see so I added a little ribbon to show that parts of her hair is tied back, and Gendaen's is in his golden hair accessory thingy). I think that there's definitely some sort of correlation between Gendaen's disappearance/switching to the Crimson and Mysta being sent to Sol Ybberia, and I also think that both of them are going to play an important role in whatever happens in the future, hence the braids (to show that their destinies are kind of intertwined, as the two Heroes of Sol Ybberia). I also thought that it would be fun to put Gendaen in a stained glass window instead of actually physically being present, because up until the Nelun Soma'o reveal, all the things we know about Gendaen are basically all from Eth's recollections of him, which for me definitely paints a bit of a "Character haunting the narrative" kind of vibe. I also think that with the Nelun Soma'o reveal, the somewhat glorified (for a lack of a better word – I think Eth might be a little biased when it comes to Gendaen, considering that Gendaen has been missing for about 5 years, if my math is correct? 5 years feels like a long time to me and I think that if a person important to me has been missing for that long then my impression of them would definitely start warping to how I want to remember them/who I wanted them to be and I might start unintentionally ignoring the things that doesn't quite match that image in my head. Speaking of/case in point, Eth's reaction to the Nelun Soma'o reveal!) image of Gendaen that we had got thrown in a metaphorical blender with our idea of the Crimson at the time, and it just makes things a whole lot more complicated in a very interesting way. (If you look at the bottom right of the image you can see Nelun Soma'o's cloak coming out of stained-glass Gendaen's cloak, which I thought would be a fun little detail to include). Hence, the stained glass is kind of the "perfect Hero who disappeared to advance the plot" Gendaen and we can see Mysta kind of splitting the glass with her Rotted Fork from a composition point of view, referencing that huge lore bomb she dropped a couple of pages ago and how that changes our (or at least my) perception of Gendaen as a character entirely. I really do like the plot twist, as I think it makes Gendaen a more 3-dimensional character with more complicated motivations and narrative significance, as before I mainly knew him as "predecessor to Mysta" and "one of Eth's sources of motivation", but now he my understanding of Gendaen also extends to things about Gendaen himself and not just about his role in relation to other characters (for example, "Gendaen is helping the Crimson for reasons currently unknown" or "Gendaen is planning something that involves Mysta??? and he's in the Void??? And apparently Mysta is supposed to jailbreak him out at some point in the future?" He definitely has something planned behind the scenes, I don't know what it is and I want to find out).

MORE THINGS about Gendaen (can you tell that he's my favorite character at the moment ToT), what's up with those last words? If I'm correct (and I think I am, I scrolled all the way back to the page where the gods were introduced just to check this ToT), Nomù is Compassion? How is compassion related to Gendaen's alliance with the Crimson? I mean, when you think of the Crimson, compassion definitely is NOT the first value that comes to mind. Right now it seems that to me, Gendaen's plan with Mysta and the Crimson and the Void is connected to Nomù somehow? (the "I won't disappoint you" is definitely interesting). I don't have a lot of thoughts or theories on where this might be going, I just thought that it was something interesting to metaphorically chew on for the next while. It definitely seems like it has some sort of narrative significance, at least.

There might be more things that I wanted to talk about, but I can't really think of them off the top of my head right now (it might be due to the fact that it's currently quite late in my time zone ToT I am sleepy) so that's all from me for now :D (Also dropping the version of the drawing with just the lineart here because I think it looks really cool)

I hope you have a really nice day and/or night! :D

*a starry rift in space opens up in front of me and I faceplant into it like it is a mattress* (gotta make that dramatic exit!) [Image ID: The first image is a colored and rendered image of Mysta from the Mysta's Terrarian Quest webcomic standing in front of a stained glass window of Gendaen. She is holding the Rotted Fork spear from Terraria, and she has a determined expression on her face. The stained glass shows Gendaen with his back turned to the audience, and one closed eye is visible. His cloak is flowing to the right of the image, where it emerges out of the stained glass as it fades from green to dark grey. Crimson vines, green trees, and white clouds surrounds Gendaen in the stained glass. Outside of the glass portrait, real crimson vines are creeping along the stone walls that the portrait is on, framing the portrait and Mysta in the middle. A red light source is shining down from the upper right corner of the drawing. End ID.] [Image ID: The second image is a work-in-progress version of the first image without any color and only some minimal shading, with all shades being in monochrome. Mysta's lineart is noticeably darker compared to the line art of the background. End ID.]

EDIT: Forgot to add image ids, they're here now TwT

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Thanks for the tag! Tagging @tennesseebedward @fuu-miku @skaelds @punknerdmusings and whoever else wants to!

In the Northern parts of Amestris, there’s a man as tall and wide as a mountain. They say that he came from a boulder that fell from Mountain Briggs, and that the people of the North brought him to life by waking him up. 

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To grow up in the North is not nearly as easy as it is in the South; not nearly as big of an honour as it is in Central; not nearly as morbid as it is in the East; and not nearly as daring as it is in the West. 

To grow up in the North means that you have to hold on tightly to an almost-forgotten time. 

Six Sentence Swednsday

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Li Shuwen’s deep voice made Waver jerk a bit, looking up at the bank to see the redhead slide down next to him.

“Apologies, Caster’s Master had been in a heavily populated area. I had to drag him off so not to cause a scene,” the man apologized before he shifted the bundle in the purple shirt a bit. “I also have claimed these for you, Master.”

Einzburn’s gasp registered in his head before Waver even realized what was being presented to him.

A perfectly severed arm, from just below the shoulder on down with three command seals still glowing faintly on the hand.

Tagging uhhhh @tombraxas @spacerocksarethebestrocks @ssoundwavee + anyone who wants