#oc tag: crystal

[snowy-squids]

Summer festival…

Something I forgot to give a proper post, inspired by some older art. I like drawing night scenes a lot…

[this-is-specifically-for-art]

I love coal i need 17 more dogs now

[archfey-edda]

Double-edged swords

[dizzybizz]

how long since the last magma dump

[norigohan]

hanboks (1) (2) (3)

bonus old version of the quartet:

[shimamom]

Crystal Age ch. 71: Lapis Lazuli

NAMICOMI / WEBTOON / GLOBALCOMIX

[skybristle]

rbs > likes

the ancient heroes for my original story / crk au twin moths! made with [and some of these guys are designed by] @floppa-whoppa and @ratiosilence . nothing bad ever happens to them i prommyyyy [LIE]

+ bonus speedpaint below because i find it funny i started doing precalc hw halfway through drawing this and its just in there. flashing warning. plus i thought it would be fun and some people might wanna see my process... im rlly proud of this drawing

[snowy-squids]

My goobers!

From left to right: Violet/3, Abigail/4, Cherry (Friend of the group and Abigail’s partner), Samantha/8, Fishfry/Lil Buddy (hard to see but he’s at Samantha’s feet), Mike/Neo 3, Callie, Marie, David (Abigail’s twin brother), Crystal (Octavio’s granddaughter who ends up with the group after the events of Side Order)

They all have dedicated tags in my pinned post, and ToyHouse bios that can be found here!

SPLATOON JUMPSCARE PLEASE UPLOAD A LINEUP OF YOUR SPLATTY AGENT OC’S (If you got sum!)

Heres my own gib gabs! Now lemmie see yours >:3

(from left to right: Little buddy, Neo Three, Eight, Captain Three, Four)

[teapopp]

doodle went a lil too far gguys

[koukouture]

I will forever think about this now because yeah this applies to an astounding amount of characters in ffxiv whom you could see their friendship with WoL as more of a convenience and how they use WoL as a tool. I think Aymeric is obviously guilty of it (bc of the above image) but I also think to some extent the Crystal Exarch is guilty of this (yeah ik it's not for HIS benefit but he still did kinda use WoL and he would not have taken it well if WoL stopped being a hero)

So many characters that are "friends" with WoL kind of only see them for what they can do. I think to some extent even the Scions are like that. Actually come to think of it, the Scions are the most egregious case of this because WoL is their champion. After we killed Ifrit that solidified WoL as something to be used and thrown at any danger that came at the world.

A lot of characters The Exarch included only know WoL as the hero. For what they can do for everyone else and it makes me insaaaannnneee. Likes yes OBVIOUSLY Exarch/G'raha admires the WoL as a hero and sure he got to know us for a time- but he just thinks that we are the hero from the books. WoL is inspiring; they give people hope and they give people the strength to push on but that's all he knows them for. Listen, I'm still on post Shadowbringers, but so far Exarch has done nothing but sing our praises as hero and yeah I'm sure he has good intentions but it's still a little dehumanizing that to him that's all WoL is. Everyone is free to make their WoL's relationships with the other characters whatever the hell they want ofc, but I kinda read a lot of the characters this way just because it's so easy to water down one person for only cherry picked parts of their whole personality. Celebrities are the best example of this but we also to this to the people around us every single day.

I think Aymeric and WoL's relationship has also sort of been put into question with this moment (for me at least) because now I'm thinking "Oh my god, Aymeric did extend his friendship to WoL for either his own gain or for that of Ishgard's" and it's not a rag on him I love Aymeric but he is a politician. I don't doubt he admires WoL for all they've done for Ishgard, but I also don't think that if Aymeric hadn't pushed us we wouldn't have ended the Dragonsong war. I wouldn't say he manipulated us, but he didn't exactly have any qualms about making us battle on the Steps of Faith for Ishgard- yk, the closed off nation that's pretty hostile to outsiders- despite not knowing us for super long at that point. He thought that we could get it done and was like "Sure. You can fight for my country" and yeah I think Alphinaud's handling of the whole thing was also to blame- but Aymeric being okay with letting an outsider deal with things that should be handled by the Temple Knights is kinda sus to me now lmao. Like you are in charge of Ishgard's military shouldn't YOU have dealt with this???? Okay lol.

Listen, obviously I still love Aymeric and Exarch/G'raha but I think the potential that they only see WoL for their deeds is great and would make for an interesting hurdle to get over in a relationship. Actually, you can literally just slap this onto almost any character you want to ship with your WoL and it will be an interesting point of tension. The possibility that they only love WoL for being the hero and not in spite of it.

Anyways I need to thibk about this more bc I just finished the little Elidibus plot of Shadowbringers which is sort of about how heroes are remembered and how history can easily twisted and/or forgotten so uh yeah. I have lots of thoughts and I am very normal.

[beebfreeb]

Autism for the win! I made up a wraith, and its name is Liquid Crystal Display. Feed it 100 yellow pikmin yummy electricity? Please?

[snowy-squids]

Octopus yuri for 8/8…

[read-write-thrive]

I would love to hear more about the 'Charles’s best-friend’s-brother elaboration' :D

Absolutely!! So I say elaboration bc it’s basically me making a fic out of this post of mine where I talk about Charles getting into ska punk from a friend’s older brother (and definitely having a crush on him but Charles doesn’t know that at the time ofc)

The whole idea came about when I was doing research for what concerts Charles could’ve realistically gone to (which I listed out in a different post here) and started realising that Charles is actually a few years too late for the peak of 2nd wave ska but dies just before 3rd wave ska begins!!!! I’ve seen some people try and have it as his dad getting him into the music when he was a kid but 1. I hate his dad and 2. His dad would’ve been too early for 2nd wave imo. So, to split that time difference, I came up with the best friend’s brother idea! I was also playing around with Charles having cousins who were into ska punk, or maybe running with some older friends, but this way I get to also explore unknowingly bi baby Charles 🩷💜💙

As for what I’ve got so far: I’ve got about 600 words and a vague outline and that’s about it 😅 I’ve written an intro from Charles’s POV (the whole fic will be third person limited---I��m trying to practice Charles’s voice!) as well as the beginnings of the scene where the DBDA (specifically Crystal) ask about how Charles got into ska punk and he ends up having some Realisations iykwim

With the outline I’ve also got the names and ages of the best friend and his brother, so Neville Brown (born 1973) and Roger Brown (born 1969) are in their early stages!!! I chose Brown since the original inspiration was Hobie Brown from ATSV, and then Neville is after Neville Staples from The Specials and Roger is after Ranking Roger from The Beat. I’m not super well versed in the subculture/genre (so if these people or bands are problematic someone lmk lol) but I am in a class on Punk culture this upcoming semester so I’m hopeful that will translate well for this fic!!!

Tysm for asking !!!!!!!!!! (and sorry that this is like a whole wall of text lmao I haven’t talked about this one much !!)

[crystaljewe]

Doodle pages P1

Minor sketches of @idkdema and @ahbasta09 :D

[the-travelling-witch]

Something wrong, vice housewarden?

Jamil immediately put her on cleaning duty. Kalim immediately took her off cleaning duty. (And yes she will use this knowledge against him).

i really wanted to draw @viperbunnies’s oc oz, bc look at him, he’s so round and squishable (affectionate). so what’s better than one oz? two (?) ozs!! i gave carmilla sharper eyes and a heart curl for distinguishing purposes but, in actuality, she would create a perfect illusion. (i want her to be the reason people at nrc do the sci-fi/ fantasy thing of asking questions only the real person would know especially after becoming friends with ruggie lol /j)

i hope i did your sweet summer child justice <3

[norigohan]

optical illusion