#or the dark artifacts

[flamingpudding]

*hisssss* My comfort human!

Nightwing stared, he turned his head staring at Zatanna in a way that clearly spelled the question: Are you seeing what I am seeing?

Zatanna only gave him a shrug with a smile before focusing back on the meeting, leaving Nightwing to turn back and stare. He wasn't the only hero in the room with that reaction. There were a couple others too that reacted similarly. Only Batman appeared to be able to hold his pokerface.

Right before them was Constantine trying to explain to them all how their goverment basically fucked them over, while a 'ghost' teen was clinging to the man's shoulders glaring and hissing at them all. Worst of all Constantine was acting like the kid wasn't even there. Like there was no a white haired, black and white dressed teen hugging the man around his shoulders while glaring at them with glowing Lazarus green eyes.

"Uhm John? What's with the kid?" Green Lantern finally asked interrupting another one of the magicans rants about how screwed they were to which the Brite only glared at the hero.

"Ignore him."

"But..."

"IGNORE him."

"Maybe we should remove the child from this meeting before we continue?" Superman offered good naturally and Constantine looked pretty much done with them all, Nightwing noted. The blond waved with his hand as if telling them to 'go on try it'.

The heroes exchanged glances. Before Superman moved forward reaching out to remove the teen....

...and promptly got bitten. Nightwings eyes widened as he noticed the teen actually broke kryptonian skin!

The teen then proceeded to hiss at them while clutching onto Constantine protectively. The magican only let out a suffering sigh and muttered something about never touching a core again.

"My comfort human! Get your own!"

[balladofbells]

Jace Herondale:

[blistexenthusiast]

19th century lover's eye

[d8tl55c]

[blogfanreborn777]

Tesham Mutna Sword by Manuel Castañón

[lae-zels]

the dark urge, dragonborn bhaalspawn

[poetpony6890]

Kit climbing into bed with Kieran

Kieran: Can’t sleep?

Kit: no

Ash climbing in on the other side a few moments later

Kieran: can’t sleep?

Ash: no

Adaon coming in the room

Kieran: can’t sleep?

Adaon: no the barns on fire

[pumpkster]

[rin-hanarin]

「Forgiveness for a sinner」

[cortanas-wielder]

Quick reminder that Ty is canonly wearing Kits necklace for protection

[rhiannons-bird]

Any good tsc adaptation would need horror

It’s not just set dressing but a feature

(It’s been ages since I’ve seen the CoB movie but from what I remember I do appreciate what they did there, at least with some of the demons)

Looking back on my time with this series I realise I always enjoyed these elements a lot; they were part of the reason it fascinated me so much. Because a lot of ya lit at the time was supernatural and featured ‘creatures of the night’ but mostly didn’t really deliver on the premise. Meanwhile, I was obsessed with the chills I got from TMI when I was 12, and never succeeded in resurrecting that feeling until I started reading actual horror lit as an adult.

Some personal highlights were:

- The disgusting demons in TMI (some of my core memories are the Abbadon fight in CoB and the Raum demons in CoA)

- Agramon & the massacre in the silent city

- The clockwork creatures in TID

- Overall the way the fae are portrayed, some of the descriptions in CoA still haunt me

- Lilith’s snake eyes aah I loved it

- Malcolm with his silly little Hands of Glory, also later on: the state his resurrected corpse was in, so disturbing, amazing, 10/10

- The Belial possesion scene in ChoT

[weirdmageddon]

heres the original pic i took an hour to edit btw i hope it’s convincing at a glance

[balladofbells]

Ty blackthorn: *resurrecting Livvy*

Kit Herondale:

[blistexenthusiast]

blue & purple glass Venetian intaglios

[transingthoseformers]

Raf asking "What's a Quintesson?" And Ratchet was there for the Quintesson's arival and all the slag they did is explaining exactly what they did. Describing the pericope of the horrors. Fowler is blinking then swearing because oh fuck the threat is now asking for help with a worse threat. Megatron isn't even turning his nose up at help from the humans...

Calling all reinforcements to Earth because it's bad.

Yep yep yes exactly

Ratty was there for their initial arrival, and the horrors that came with it

If they thought earth was a battleground before wowwweee will things get worse

It's gonna be so bad before things get better

Fowler's going to have a hell of a time explaining this one to the government

[witchlingcirce]

One thing I genuinely really like about the last hours and the dark artfices is that you can see how different Cassie’s original plans for the series were.

Btw all this information is stuff you can find on her tumblr from like 2010 and above!!!

Like for TDA in particular, Julian was meant to be really heavy smoker, Cristina’s name was Carmen and she was definitely going to have a very different personality (Cassie mentioned how this ‘Carmen’ liked to dye her hair), Livia was going to tell people her name was Olivia because she thought Livia was odd, AND there was meant to be another blackthorn! Who was originally going to be around 5 I think? And her name was Ariadne!!

Now the last hours is one where you can 100% see the major differences in how the characters and story was originally planned. I don’t know how long Cassie had actually planned this series for, but it was definitely a longggg time.

One major difference is definitely just the characters in general. If you look at James in the midnight heir his personality is so drastically different, there was meant to be alot more characters (I.E, Charlotte and Henry where meant to have daughters which I wish we got!!!). Not to mention appearances were very different as well!!!

Anna was going to have green eyes, and Christopher was going to have longer hair (look at that pony tail!).

Another example of this!!! I don’t think I could make who half these characters, and ngl looking at this feels so cursed!!

I think it’s meant to go Alastair, Alexander Lightwood (Gabriel and Cecily’S youngest son), next to him is either Cecily or most likely an earlier conception of Anna, Lucie and Cordelia, James and Matthew, behind them is Jesse and Grace I think! I than… Charles and Christopher??? Very odd duo. On the boat is herongraystairs, and than next to them I think is meant to be more lightwoods? I presume whoever they were would be our now Thomas, Eugina and Barbara. And I could not tell you for the life of me who was behind them.

I think the last hours is especially fun to look at because they have a decent amount of old fanart!!! Looking at white Alastair and Cordelia feels so… like it doesn’t even seem like it could be them!

TLH was also her series most impacted by covid!!! And she had planned to give the series a more tragic end, so I’m really curious what her original plan for that in particular was. I have theory’s something was meant to happen with Matthew but that’s just me.

I really enjoy seeing the difference in the original plan and what we got! Seeing the earlier stages feels so weird!!

(All lovely drawings done by Cassandra Jean)