#raia ark

[puduchiquito]

hola mi gente

[tsamired]

once you actually go looking, ARK's lore is full of great character dynamics, and you dont even have to look far! so i thought itd be funny to use an incorrect quote generator with them this will go well

heres the generator btw 🏳️‍🌈Incorrect Quote Generator🏳️‍🌈 ― Perchance Anyways

Meanwhile in an alternate universe where Rockwell confronted Helena about her alliance with Mei and his alliance with Gaius

Meanwhile in an alternate universe where the element war never happened (actually i might make this an au this seems really fun)

Meanwhile in an alternate universe where everything was much more chaotic

Meanwhile in the canon universe

Meanwhile in an alternate universe where Santiago had access to coffee while coming up with the MEK

Meanwhile in an alternate universe where Dahkeya was slightly edgier

Meanwhile in an alternate universe where Nosti never sunk and everything was fine because canon makes me sad

Meanwhile in an alternate universe where... no actually this ones canon

Meanwhile in an alternate universe where Rockwell and Timur are closer friends

Once again this one is just canon (well, except for the whole Nosti thing)

Canon 2: Electric Boogaloo

Meanwhile in that no-element-war-au i mentioned earlier

Canon 3: Electric Beegalee

Canon 4: Electric Borgalor

Canon 5: Electric Bigalive

Ok. This one doesnt make sense with their characters at all but. I felt the need to include it because WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN

anyways

Canon 6: Electric Bigalix

Canon 7: Electric Begaleven

[auduux]

I'm starting an ark the animated series hate club

I wanted note accurate lore not whatever tf that shit was, Wazhui and Mei Yin's giga wasn't even in it

[umbrace-rambles]

Finished Watching Ark TAS last night and you would expect I would be super happy about getting MORE lesbian content than in canon but I can't with good conscience be happy for the sudden Helena and Mei stuff. Why the FUCK did they do that

[great-its-mj]

I have so much respect for Raia because if I had to watch the love of my life die to save me, I too would steal his killer's children and raise them to do my bidding

[arkrys]

Okay, so I have about 700 hours on ARK but I dont know SHIT about the story. I just watched the animated series, but I want to know everything about Meiyin, Helena, and Diana! From my understanding Meiyin has dated both? Please give me the lore!!!!

hi!!! you have come to the right address for this! i absolutely love the lore and have for years. the lore is told through the explorer notes on each map

lore: meiyin and helena meet on the island and after a little while they become really good friends. but they’re not in a relationship. they both complete the island as they win from the overseer. but where helena gets sent to scorched earth, meiyin gets sent to aberration. helena meets some new friends here like raia. meiyin spends some time alone in the caves but eventually shes helped out by a team when she’s in trouble. this is where she meets diana. so they have loads of bonding time and a mutual admiration for each other but eventually they both start to feel more for each other, the notes are so cute. diana makes a necklace for mei, mei calls diana after a tangerine etc. so we get to extinction. in the mean time meiyin and helena reunite and also have loads of great moments but it’s still friendship. there are people who ship them from the lore tho. but helena is going to ascend around this part of the lore. eventually diana dies BUT she comes back and then she and meiyin kiss and officially become gfs and they start unraveling the mysteries of the arks together

show: diana isn’t here yet. i’m not sure if the show will do a season on scorched earth/aberration but me personally i think so. because at the end of part 1 of the series they show bob coming back, he’s laying in the desert with a jerboa which hints at scorched earth. which is where helena goes. so they might also do aberration along with that.

helena and meiyin meet in the show and immediately hit it off which is really cute. but you watched this so no need to explain. my point is basically the show isn’t an immediate translation of the lore. they’ve changed a lot of things but keep the lore as a guide. in this case meiyin and helena are together instead of waiting for diana to arrive in the show when they’re on a different map (if they even will introduce her. but i think they will since they are also introducing santiago. he has worked with diana)

OKAY so i don’t know every detail from the top of my head so i am really sorry if there are any mistakes. if someone wants to add anything, please do!! and for more questions ur always welcome:)) and obviously i love talking about them with others! thanks for your ask:)

[spyrkle4]

Modern/College Ark AU bc why not

I can’t believe im typing this XD this game has become my newest hyperfixation 

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-Santiago and Diana share a lot of their classes together and are basically study buddies

-Mei Yin is the captain of the fencing team and she met Diana after one of the tournaments and Diana wanted her autograph XD

-Santiago 100% teases the hell out of Di for her crush and she hates it

-Mei Yin still has her tames in the form of them being regular pets, like Wuzhui and the other raptors are like bearded dragons, Ao Yue is maybe a timor monitor, Shi is one of those large dog breeds that look scary but he’s a softie, and Xiao is still a goat that probably has a neon glow-in-the-dark collar

-The Demon King is basically this pet komodo dragon and everyone is Terrified of it like, and the rumors go crazy abt why the fencing team captain has one of those

-Nerva is from the rival fencing team and he and Mei Yin have this intense rivalry the matches between them usually get lot of tickets bc woah they are intense

-Helena is at the same college of the gang but she takes more biology classes, though she does share a computer class with Santiago

-Raia and John are present in this AU but as Helena’s cool adoptive parents that have 1 cat and 3 dogs (the sabertooth and the wyverns respectively)

-The dogs are various mixed breeds and their name in the AU are Ember, Thunder, and Venom (to reference them being wyverns in the original Ark)

-Oh yeah Rockwell is also around but as a professor, he’s Helena’s favorite professor 

-Professor Rockwell is just your good ol’ natured science grandpa that gets a little too intense in terms of lab experiments but he’s not obsessed or anything hahaha

-Diana doesn’t like him bc in her opinion he gives too much homework XD

(more under the cut)

-Santiago sometimes crashes over at Helena’s house bc his home is Complicated (he doesn’t like talking about it but his friends can tell he doesn’t like living in his household)

-He stays over so much at this point Raia and John are like “yeah this is our kid now”

-Jokingly Helena will refer to Santiago as “little brother” bc she’s taller than him and he acts like he hates it but secretly finds it funny (they’re about the same age)

-the grad students are just freshmen and basically gremlins, Trent is also on the fencing team, Rusty as well and he and Trent have a friendly rivalry

-Emilia shares one of Santiago’s classes, he is surprised that she looks up to him

-Helena @ Boris at some point: What’s with this... sassy lost child?

-Boris is probably in the same biology class as Helena that’s taught by Rockwell, she is a little Afraid of this freshman who gets way too into Mad Scientist Mode

-Imamu has introvert energy so he doesn’t rly approach anyone but his friends, bit of a mystery how they all became friends in the first place (Helena would wonder abt that bc she’s nosy)

-Skye is also here as a video game enthusiast who wants to design dinosaur survival games (oh there goes the 4th wall) and Helena, a dinosaur nerd is happy to help them

-I feel like Skye is the only person outside of the grad student friend group to be buddies with Imamu, they just vibe 

-The core four (Helena, Mei Yin, Diana, and Santiago) all do movie nights at probably Helena’s house bc they can all fit onto the couch and pet all the dogs

-Mei Yin hates horror movies bc she never knows when there’s gonna be a random jumpscare (she’s not terrified of the plot, just the jumpscares), 

-Santiago is one of those people who laughs during the scary part bc horror movies don’t scare him (and it just scares the others bc they’re like “oh god what’s happening now”)

-Helena is a big fan of animal movies (esp found family ones), Diana is a sucker for Disney Princess movies and she 100% introduced Mei Yin to Mulan (I feel like she’d enjoy that movie) 

-they all get popcorn everywhere and it drives John crazy bc he’s the one who usually cleans it up but doesn’t complain bc he doesn’t want to ruin the kids fun

-Raia probably low-key adopts all of Helena’s friends (idk she just has Mom energy okay???)

-Athena and Archimedes are the school mascots that are usually Feral if any student tries to touch them, Rockwells the one who handles them and was Genuinely Surprised that they didn’t hiss or screech when Helena approached them

-Helena had been dubbed “the animal whisperer” by the school for that

-Radar is still Helena’s pet, she still rides around on her shoulder, even in class (and that’s when people started calling her a modern disney princess)

-Helena is confused bc the gossip bc she thinks if anyone is a disney princess it’s Mei Yin (who owns like 50 animals and is cool at fencing)

-Santiago probably takes part in some of the school gossip bc he’s nosy and it’s usually wild and hilarious most of the time

[finallypureelement]

Was looking at the description for the ARK: animated series, and they had a list of the characters we'll see in the show, and Diana wasn't mentioned. Which is kinda odd because I feel like she's pretty important so I hope they didn't exclude her

[nexter2nd]

My favorite thing about ARK lore is that literally every character except for the lesbian couple dies

[speckeltail]

81, ARK

81. “We’re in the middle of athunderstorm and you want to stop and feel the rain?”

John held the reins to the big cat as Raia swanned around in the rain, safe for now from the flooded sea that the lowlands had become. She tipped her head up to the sky and laughed-- not at him-- and shook her head. 

“It’s beautiful, John. Why won’t you enjoy our home with me?”

[spyrkle4]

👀 I see some lore doodles

doodles

[vampyricangelx]

Since we’re pretty much half way through this Ark story mode run, I decided to take a couple screenshots of all of my favorite tames that I’ve had so far. In order from top to bottom:

First would obviously have to be my direwolf, Artemis. She & her packmate Apollo were bred up on a previous server from a pretty beefy line of wolves. Through swamps, forests, caves, the desert, and even a little bit of Aberration, she’s been my main ground mount for most of the series. 

Valya, my pteranodon, was my main flying mount for the longest time. With her, I hunted down all of the (non cave/underwater) notes on the Island and just generally got from one place to another with speed. 

Solona, one of my argentavis. She was bred from one of our early days argentavis lines but has been my weight bird on both the Island and Scorched Earth, carrying ankies and doeds full of useful materials to and from base. 

Talvikki, my yutyrannus. Bred for stamina, I’d say she’s the leader of our armies and a must have for the snow cave on the Island. She’s buffed our Island armies and our rex army for the alpha manticore and led the charge down into the depths of the Tek cave on our way to ascension. 

Raia, my other argentavis. Bred for battle and named after my favorite character from the Scorched Earth notes, she’s been my go to bird for wyvern egg hunting and fought the gamma and beta manticore. 

Razikale, my lightning wyvern. Named after one of the old gods from the Dragon Age series, she’s been my one and only wyvern (because the trench has been stingy with its egg offerings). With her help, I tracked down all of the notes that weren’t in caves on Scorched Earth and just had lots of fun shooting things with lightning lol She’s a pretty good titanosaur and giga slayer. 

JP, my shinehorn. This little guy has been a light amongst the darkness of 2 Aberration servers, keeping away the nameless and helping me take down reapers. He will join me in the upcoming Rockwell fight along with my drake and our army of megalosaurus. 

Lusacan, my rock drake - named after one of the old gods from Dragon Age. Like JP, he’s been with me on both this Aberration server and a previous one. He was born from a max level egg we found on our first trip down to the trenches, kept safe in a single player world until we started Aberration on the cluster (well, brought in after we managed to nab some eggs first). He & JP have helped me find all the notes and artifacts on Ab and Lusacan will be my mount in the upcoming Rockwell fight. 

[thunder-rolled-a-seven]

No More Time

Ark: Survival Evolved / Scorched Earth

Characters: Rockwell, Nasrin

Notes: I think about what Rockwell did to that one Scorched Earth tribe way too much. I like to think that the "timid, desert flower" Nasrin and her baby survived; that she ended up becoming another Raia with baby in tow, but knowing Ark they both very likely did not. Thanks Rockwell, you piece of shit.

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"At last," he sighs, leaning his head until the base of his sweat-matted hair met his back, "Freedom."

Sheltered beneath the withered boughs of arid-spawned trees, the day's most celebrated warriors laid scattered and stiff over rough spun rugs and large wooden tables. With a single sip, each man and woman forever surrendered their existence to the endless desert. No one, not even the most cunning hunter, had struggled, for none had suspected death to come from within their oasis home.

Sir Edmund Rockwell could not have been more pleased. It was a just reward for those primative miscreants, a prize for their insuferrable hubris. How bold the fools for thinking they had the upper hand - for thinking he was theirs to corral and control like one of their beasts of burden. The man stands tall over his handiwork, clucking his tongue at the thicket of contorted forms - their jaws blossoming with silent, foam gnarled screams. If only they had valued his intellect from the beginning, he muses, drinking deeply of his own freshwater goblet, this bloated death could have been avoided.

Without opposition, the scholar makes haste to leave, packing his leather bound studies and the precious Edmundium upon one of the tribe's larger mounts. Death attracted unsavory creatures, and he peferred to keep the heavy stink of decay off of his dust saturated clothes. Already the vileness filled his tent and pinched his nose, the sour fruit of his murder carried in by the hot, evening wind. So after one last look at his gilded cage, he strides towards the unforgiving sun.

And comes face to face with a woman, the chieftess Nasrin, and the infant child he had guided into this perilous world not long ago.

His hooded eyes linger upon the sleeping babe tucked carefully within the nest of silk cloth upon his mother's arms. The boy held a look of concentration upon his newly formed brow: dreaming, no doubt, of milk and not the shadows behind the camp's sudden silence. Nonetheless, those little hands held a rebelious lock of his mother's dark hair as if he knew within his infantile dreams that his father was gone.

Submerged within an itching silence, Rockwell realizes then that he had never bothered to learn the child's name.

Frowning, he shakes his head, and pushes past the woman's willowy form. He is sure she protested the collision of shoulders, but his thoughts were already battling another conscience. Someday, not today - he vehemently vowed to himself - he would study the social-psychological affects this strange wilderness had on human children. Tonight, however, he would continue his search of the remaining Obelisk keys, that laid scattered to the land.

"Wait-"

"What," he whirls, snapping before she finishes her plea. "What could you possibly want?"

She flinches. Rockwell had never been overly kind to anyone save that single flame of intellect amongst the darkness of savagery - Helena, dear Helena, that traitorous snake - but he had always been gentle to the soft spoken flower that was Nasrin. The sudden unveiling cruelty in his studious eyes now frightened her and confirmed the suspicions growing within her heart. "You killed them..." Her question quivers on the air like a taut pulled string.

Or statement, Rockwell hums. Surely, she was not so dull.

A glimpse of yellowed teeth flashes between his cracked lips. "Oh?" He whispers and turns away.

A hand brushes against his back, nervously and harmlessly, yet his skin recoils as if she branded him by iron. Grimmacing, he turns back around, and is struck by the sheer desperate absurdity of her expression, the searching in her unsteady eyes. He almost chuckles at her forlornness, but arches a brow instead. "Why...you, want me to stay?"

She says nothing, but her clenching jaw told him what he wanted to hear.

He licks the backs of his teeth. Had she forgotten her sorrows and the love, if it was indeed love, that she had held for her former husband, whose broad, able body now slumped uselessly over the high table? Or had she taken a fancy to his distinguished, gentlemanly demure? The thought was flattering. Indeed, he nearly blushes beneath his sun tanned skin, preening himself with contrived implications until-

Until he remembers the child.

His tongue wells with imagined bile, and he is tempted to spit like an improper man. He scowls, brushing her away. Typical, he thought. The weak always thronged to the strong. "You waste my time, little woman. Farewell."

But she steps forward, panick bruising the softness of her dark face. She holds the boy closer to herself as if that bundle was the last buoyant board of a rapidly sinking ship. "But," the young woman strains, "what are we going to do?"

Her exhausted voice echoes within his chest, but he is already steps away. Nonetheless, Rockwell pauses and looks back into those imploring eyes. To her question he answers with a tone of cold, academic finality, for he had no more time to waste.

"Survive."

[norulesontheark]

It amuses me that Raia draws everyone in Egyptian clothing, even people who definitely wouldn’t be wearing it. It’s like that’s all she can draw, if she drew their actual ARK clothes it wouldn’t look as good. She can draw an assault rifle though.

I’m pretty sure her bae there never had a goatee like that either.

[spyrkle4]

Ark hcs I have about the survivors: Scorched Earth

this post the sequel lets go

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-The other great city (not Nosti) was from the first survivors who came to Scorched Earth, some of the survivors ended up becoming the first few settlers in Nosti tho

-That city wasn’t destroyed by the obelisks there was a civil war that happened during a rly nasty heat wave 

-One of the things ppl did in Nosti was do all sorts of contests with their pet Jerboas, like sand digging, finding treasure, racing, etc, it’s part of why Raia was very close to Radar, who reminded her of the good times n.n

-John didn’t have any Jerboa’s but sometimes he would spoil some of the bby ones with treats and extra pets, he denies any claims that he does this bc he has a reputation or something

-John is also a cat person, he spoils his sabertooth rotten, he’s one of those ppl that go “psppspspsps” @ cats

-He also unironically enjoys mantis meat, John enjoys it out of spite tbh bc those bugs gave him grey hairs  

-Raia on the other hand enjoys meat from terror birds or argentavis’ (she likes bird meat) 

-When Helena was living with her she didn’t eat the arggies as much bc Helena loved them (and she had Athena) and got upset at the idea of eating meat from the same bird species that was her travelling companion back on the Island 

-There were some citizens of Nosti that were visiting another town/on an expedition when the Incident happened

-After Nosti fell a few other towns split into caravans, thinking the Obelisk was angry at them for too many people sticking together

-Raia actually knows abt other ppl of Nosti that weren’t in town when it got destroyed, but she never reached out to them because she couldn’t help them like she used to : (

(more notes under the cut)

-Timur wasn’t rly afraid of Anything in the desert ark, but he was Slightly Intimidated by Wali Al Aswad and her wyvern squad, since the Burning Phoenix clan didn’t know how to tame wyverns

-Raia didn’t know about the Burning Phoenix clan but if she did... she’d throw hands

-Burning Phoenix clan has their name because Timur managed to tame a phoenix and united a group of survivor’s under it’s banner

-Helana got her info about phoenix’s from a lone survivor she saw with one who used to be a Burning Phoenix clan member, they never told her where they learned how to tame a Phoenix from

Helena: So how’d you learn how to tame one of these buggers?

Former Burning Phoenix: uhhhhhhhh... internet?

Helena, internally: we have no internet tho... wut...

(She didn’t push it, Helena might be a curious cat but she knows when to not push someone) 

-Nasrin was one of the few Burning Phoenix members that didn’t die from the poisoned feast (she was taking care of her kid), she knew it was Edmund that did it but by the time she buried the rest of the clan, the tribe’s prisoners were released, Edmund had already escaped the Ark

-Idk what I’d think happened to Timur’s kid, but maybe the rest of the clan Ascended and ended up on the Island or something, that’d be funny bc Nasrin is just Full of Anger @ the old man that killed her husband and most of the tribe and found out he was well respected on this ark

-It would make her so mad and she would be “>:C”

-If she ended up on the island I think she and Isabelle would be great friends (now back to Scorched Earth, I already did a post on the Island)

-Raia 100% knew Edmund was up to something and was hiding his true colors, but didn’t axe him bc Helena still trusted him, she did try to subtly warn Helena by saying that her friend might be different from his time in the desert

-Helena assumed she meant that Edmund was going thru a Hard Time and then decided she’d do her best to be there for her friend!! (Raia, internally: you are too kind for this cruel word,,,)

-Radar, Helena’s Jerboa would hiss @ Edmund if he got too close, Helena was very confused abt her pet’s behavior and usually told Radar not to hiss at her friend

-Raia 100% saw no problem bc she saw Radar having good instincts

-This is based off of the Ark videos from NeddyTheNoodle but I like the idea of Radar following Helena while she does her notes on the Scorched Earth creatures 

-Okay so the Ark wiki describes Helana and Raia’s relationship as Raia seeing Helena as the kid she never had with John and now I imagine at one point when Raia was telling Helena to be careful esp in Wyvern Trench Territory Helena in deadpan tone went “yes Mom” 

-She felt bad when Raia started tearing up a lil’ thinking she upsetted her but actually Raia reassured her she was fine

-Raia I think would occasionally cut down the wyvern population in the Wyvern Trenches because she hates those flying creatures and if she saw any of them away from the trench ohhhhh it was On Sight 

-Helena’s notes while on Scorched Earth seem to mention Raia has killed the Manticore, I imagine she’s done it a few times so people can get out of the desert ark 

-I think Helena found some of the notes John wrote, she never mentioned it to Raia but internally lost her mind when realizing that when John was saying the name Raia, he was referring to Wali (cue her having an “omg omg omg” moment while her and Edmund were getting off of Scorched Earth)

-Helena at some point found the caravan group she got separated from and managed to reassure them she did not get crushed to death by an angry rock golem

-Speaking of rock golem I bet they’re Helena’s least favorite creature bc I hc she died from a rockslide, she doesn’t remember but gets this Super Uncomfortable feeling when around them

-Raia agrees with her bc she also gets that feeling around rock golems too (she didn’t die from a rockslide, but there was this earthquake in her old home and a falling roof hit her on the head and she got knocked out and didn’t wake up :C)

-And yeah... she def was having some PTSD flashbacks when Nosti got destroyed by a sandstorm earthquake

-Speaking of that, the earthquake that pulled Nosti into the sands also formed the Wyvern Trenches 

-Okay I wanna end this on a wholesome note so I like to think that after Helena left the desert, Raia kept her dossiers and even made copies so she wouldn’t lose them, Radar sometimes hid a few copies in weird places which explains some of the spots you find the dossiers in

[speckeltail]

red roses

meme: fic titles

Roses don’t grow on the Scorched Earth. They just don’t! There’s soil by the oases, but everywhere else is sand and that rare fertile earth is better used to grow food.

John should have known that Raia would have no idea what Valentine’s Day was! He really should have.

Somewhat reflective walk through the patrol routes, plucking the prettiest wildflowers, finally presenting them to Raia and getting a kiss on the cheek...