#pwhau

[cocoabats]

Finally finished first part of the big prologue comic for the pwhau \o/ Huge HUGE thank you to @ahalliance who let me steal some of their dialogue for this comic!

Hopefully the second part wont take two months but i cant promise anything

edit: it didn't! [part 2]

[peppersaltss]

Ｗｉｔｈ ａ Ｃｒｏｏｋｅｄ Ｓｍｉｌｅ. . .

Pale White Horse AU by Cocoabats :D

[some-spinner-in-june]

do your best to change the story, and watch them all die anyways

web weave on the wonderful pale white horse au by @cocoabats, @ahalliance, @lunarblazes, @lioncrown, @aeolidi, and others

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credits:

against silence, frank bidart || @/cocoabats || against silence, frank bidart || @/cocoabats || the crux, rosanna warren || past loves linger like phantom limbs, jaysflight || orange juice, noah kahan || @/cocoabats || forgive me my salt, brenna twohy || orange juice, noah kahan || @/cocoabats || @/miiilowo || ruin and rising, leigh bardugo || past loves linger like phantom limbs, jaysflight || the gods show up, michael kinnucan || @/cocoabats || fleurs du mal, charles baudelaire || @/cocoabats || what could have been, sting || past loves linger like phantom limbs, jaysflight || @/supreme-leader-stoat || unknown || how to write a love letter to your brother, chris abani || @/cocoabats || past loves linger like phantom limbs, jaysflight || @/cocoabats || @/starpeace

[hermigeddon]

There Can Only Be One

[reaoreo]

made a little thing

[foolofatook001]

“Tell to me, Tam Lin,” she said, “Why came you here to dwell?”

“The Queen of Faeries caught me, when from my horse I fell. And at the end of seven years, she pays a tithe to Hell— I so fair and full of flesh, I fear it be myself.”

("Tam Lin," Fairport Convention version)

Here’s the thing— Martyn knows how this kind of story is supposed to go.

The plucky hero goes into the heart of the enchanted wood, and through a bit of cleverness and the virtue of their pure heart, they rescue the victim from the horrible entangling grasp of whatever evil faerie creature has them. Now, he wouldn’t say he’s got a pure heart, necessarily, but he is certainly clever, and, well— he’s made several forays into the enchanted wood, as it were, and gotten away unscathed each time. 

But what do you do when the victim refuses to leave with you?

He’s tried reason. He’s tried logic. He’s tried gifts. He’s tried impassioned pleas. Ren still keeps going back to the Shadow Lady. He keeps insisting he’s not enchanted and that “his Queen” wouldn’t take away his free will, which is unfortunately exactly what someone enchanted and without free will would say, so he can’t really take Ren’s word for it. 

He’d love to work with Ren, really he would. (He’d love to get into that very solid and defensible tower with a proper moat and everything, too.)

He just doesn’t want to take on a fae as well. 

The Shadow Lady has extended her reach far, and though Martyn knows she’s got limits on her power, the sight of her doing something to Ren to make him harmless to her when he went red— something with enough magic to black out the sun in the middle of the day and nearly knock Martyn to the ground with the pressure— well, he’s pretty sure that speaks for itself. Grian had warned them about her, early on in the game, and though Grian is lost to the red names now, his warning still holds water, at least in Martyn’s mind. 

Maybe the problem is that he’s thinking about this as the wrong kind of story. Maybe this isn’t one where the clever hero spirits away the innocent victim from the faerie queen, leaving her to curse his name from afar. 

Maybe he’ll have to take up dragon-slaying. 

[ririwithrice]

WHAT TJE PWHAUS JSISBDJDN

[cocoabats]

Some of my favourite frames from my pwhau animation :}

[cocoabats]

Part 2 of the prologue for the pwhau, finally finished! Once again huge thank you to @ahalliance who let me steal some dialogue for this comic!

[part 1]

[cocoabats]

been working on big thing for pwhau lately :}

[cocoabats]

Pale White Horse AU Masterpost

aka the 3rd life au where Scar dies early and Grian joins Dogwarts

by @cocoabats @lunarblazes @ahalliance @lioncrown @aeolidi and multiple other people of the hermbi discord server

Tags:

#pale white horse au (main)

#pwhau asks (asks)

#pwhau (main + asks + fanart + other art)

Overviews: 1 2

Animation

Fics:

"past loves linger like phantom limbs" by jaysflight

"Down they fell" by IfIGet20

Comics:

Prologue part1 part2

History of Monopoly Mountain

Ren and Skizz talk

Impulse and Grian

The Red King falls (the first post of this au)

The End

[cocoabats]

Where do I read the PWHAU???? It looks so good but I just can’t find it anywhere???? People where saying ao3 but it’s not on there!!!

here's the masterpost where you can find everything!

[cocoabats]

hm. the willow maid by erutan is very pwh-martyn-and-grian-core

ANON IM SO ILL ABOUT THIS

[cocoabats]

Okay okay, if it's not diving too deep into spoiler territory (or you want to save it for later you can ignore this) but, what would Scott and Jimmy's reactions be as their ally comes rolling up with Ren?

This is a very fun ask plus it sparked some more angst writing in our pwhau chat so thats always welcome :}

Scott and Jimmy are VERY angry at Grian. Scott as the only person with the braincell somewhat figures out what Grian wants to do and at some point they have a talk about it. He's not impressed.

Things changes after Jimmy is killed. In Scotts eyes Grian not only has done NOTHING but help their enemy, he also was one of the people fighting them when Jimmy was killed.

So they have a confrontation during one of the battles, Grian doesnt know why Scott suddenly actually wants him dead, they fight, Scott throws it in his face that he's done nothing, that he got comfortable.

Grian loses his green life to Scotts sword straight through his back.

[cocoabats]

"Grian-- why would you do this?"

". . ."

"Gri-"

"You took away who I cared about most. I thought it fitting I do the same."

"No, no.. We saved you-"

"I never asked to be saved."

"But surely you didn't want to be with him, you always said-"

"I know what I said, but I also was the one that said I owed him my first life. He didn't make me make the vow, I made it on my own."

"But- the diamond swords--"

"Netherite is stronger than diamond."

^^^^^^ my thoughts whenever I see the Pale Horse AU and it rots my brain

godddddd netherite is stronger than diamond!!! anon!!!!!!! anon you cant do that to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cocoabats]

I stopped the animatic right on time and- THE HANDS!! THE LIGHTNING IS HANDS GIVING THE CROWN TO MARTYN

yeeee i had lots of fun with that one >:} (hmmm wonder who these hands belong to,,,,,, who could give the hand his crown,,,,hmmm)