#sharky lore

[alphaclxwn]

my dad is a wicked girlie through and through

he's using defying gravity to drown out his wife's voice so he doesn't have to listen to her telling him to not ignore traffic laws

[catsharky]

So while I'm unlikely to have enough time to get another whole comic out before the new year, I recently got hit by the urge to just draw some random facts about Ember that I'm not sure will ever end up showing up in a comic.

I tend to forget that all of her comic appearances so far have given a pretty shallow idea of what she's really like, so I figured this might be a fun way to flesh her out a bit more.

No idea how many of these I'll end up doing. I have a bunch in mind but I doubt I'll actually get through all of them.

If anyone has anything specific they'd like to know about her, let me know! I can't promise I'll be able to do a piece of art to answer it, but who knows.

I am also planning on answering a bunch of asks some time soon, I just keep getting derailed by other things.

[sharkiegorath]

i love dress-up dark souls

[obaewankenope]

🐭 for slightly intimidating

BC you seem really knowledgeable about many things and that's intimidating to me

Awww. I'm so sorry I never replied to this until now but fifjtjtk I'm not really that intimidating am I?? (*has sudden flashback to uni where most of my classmates avoided me unless in groups because they also said I seemed intimidating and intense when I thought I was just awkward*) but omg thank you for being brave enough to tell me!!

Do you want a random shark fact? I can give you a random shark fact? Will that make me seem less intimidating or more? 🤔 [thinking emoji]

Imma give you one anyway!

If sharks get flipped or turned upside down so they're essentially on their backs in the water, they go into a trance like state called "tonic immobility". It can last typically around 15 minutes and usually is initiated by stimulating their sensory booper-snooters and then turning them over since they kinda get that overload of info through their ampullae of Lorenzini which I talked about here! It's actually really cute to see but also is used by predators like Orca to make hunting sharks for their livers easier (I am sad) which is nature I guess but how mean of the penguin-themed dolphin!

Here's a little video on the topic 😁 [grin emoji]

[lulu2992]

I'm in the process of putting together a FC5 lore document (that is very geared towards the specific existence of my deputy so I'm duct taping the canon together very crudely), and I've been reading up on your blog (not in chronological order, i dont get how tumblr works anymore) because your thoughts are very helpful ! Thank you for being such a wonderful person and FC5 fan, you've really made my experience with enjoying this game so much better, so bless your whole existence

I wanted to share with you something I found in my research that I remembered as I was reading your ages post from all the way back in 2018: Pre-2002, it's possible that America had no real enlistment criteria based on age, meaning child conscription was possible due to the (takes deep breath) Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (OPAC). In 2000, they had only signed the treaty but were still pushing for to send 17y.o.'s to war; today, America still recruits as young as 17y.o., they just don't send them to war just yet. I'm thinking that if we go by the dates we've been given, Jacob could have been recruited when he was as young as 16, because the first Gulf War is dated to the beginning of 1991. What are your thoughts?

Oh wow, thank you so much!! And I’m glad my blog has been helpful :D

I didn’t know about the OPAC, but if we want Jacob to be born in 1974 as the Playasia Blog says, that would make sense!

@anna-elizabeth-jason had another interesting theory that could also explain why his dog tags say “JAKOB SEED”: if he was born in 1974 and too young to join the army, he might have lied about his age, and if he did, I think he may have received some help.

In The Book of Joseph, we learn that he went to juvie and joined the military “once he served out his sentence” because it was either “the army or a life of crime” for him, but the book also says “the teachers believed in him” and “some reports praised his sense of honor and leadership skills”, so if he wasn’t 17 yet when he was released, I believe it’s possible those teachers made sure he could enlist anyway. They probably didn’t want him to end up on the street (ironically, he eventually did) and I doubt Jacob liked the idea of going back to the orphanage or being adopted again, so the army sounded like the best option to them. In any case, if some documents were hastily falsified to allow him to enlist despite being too young, that may be the reason his name was apparently incorrectly spelled “Jakob” during his military career.

To be honest, the spelling mistake on his dog tags is most likely an oversight that doesn’t mean anything, but if we want to find a logical explanation for everything, I like this theory!

In the end, we don’t know his canonical age since the game never reveals it, but we can imagine he’s simply over 44 and that’s why he fought in the first Gulf War. After all, Absolution (even though it’s only semi-canon to me) implies Joseph is already in his fifties so that would mean Jacob is ever older. The OPAC and/or the possibility of him lying about his age are interesting hypotheses if we want 1974 to seem less absurd as his year of birth, though :)

[musicfeedsmysoul12]

Penny glanced at Izuku and away, looking very red. He sighed, shaking his head.

“If you're dating my dad I don't mind Penny,” Izuku said.

“What?” the soul in front of Izuku said.

“Yeah hold on sir,” Izuku turned to Penny. “Look- its not that weird. Demons don’t age like humans do, and they're immortal. Dad and Bel are like mid twenties. Dad’s been raising me since I was eight, and he hasn't aged. He's just… Dad. He's matured but hasn't like aged.”

“Still you're older then me,” Penny said, tugging on her hoodie string.

“Actually I chose to stop aging at nineteen,” Izuku said. “I really debated on if I wanted to share a demon lifespan but Sharkie was aging like a human and she's my best friend so…”

“Hell yeah,” Sharkie cackled, walking by to give Izuku a high five.

“Your father is a demon? We can date the demons here?” the soul in front of Izuku asked.

“Yeah you can,” Izuku blinked upon seeing no file. “Huh, you don't have a file.”

“Yeah I'm here to ask about the therapy programs,” the soul shrugged.

“Ah, level one is the softer ones but I do often do a few sessions on level two. But if you're on either level those demons won't date you. Patient-doctor boundaries,” Izuku said.

“Nah that's chill. My ex was my therapist, don't want to think about that,” the soul walked off.

“Well that's disturbing,” Izuku said before he turned to Penny. “Look Penny- it wont be weird for me. I don’t see you as a mother, or anything. You’ll be my friend still.”

“Thanks Izuku. I just… Oh I dunno. I guess its just a little strange?” Penny said.

“I mean how different is it from people getting married again when they have adult kids?” Izuku asked. “Other then the whole demon thing.”

“I think most people would be weird about parents marrying their friends.” Penny said.

“Like I said, the age stuff isn't a big deal given how ages work down here. I mean, if I was aging like demons do it would be a bit different, our relationship I mean. But I'm not. Its fine,” Izuku shook his head. “Just… no details.”

“Thanks Izuku,” Penny gave him a soft smile. “So… any info on your own dating life?”

“Really rather not right now.” Izuku said back. Penny nodded, letting the conversation go as they got back to work.

[wheredidalltheusersgo]

Little doodle from my steely dan lore

He's a single dad to Illuso, and somewhere along the line, he meets Devo, and they form an alliance. That alliance leads to a bond much closer than anything they could have imagined, and the three of them are almost like a family. Up until the events of Stardust Crusaders.

[sharkyrandom]

ANSWER

I was doing this sht yesterday

But I gave up for the moment

[sharkologydesign]

When I lost you the first time.

Miguel O'Hara had a wife, once.

The pain of loss comes as witness, to bare testimony, to the realness of love. In the sorrow of death is the proof of it; of the bonds that exist beyond our reality, beyond the spacetime, matter and energy that makes our world real.

Miguel meets her again. And again.

But now she's a Spider-Woman, too.

Is it a curse?

Could it possibly end differently this time?

[starlit-lion]

My favorite Victorian ghost man, Thaddeus Acker! He belongs to @sharkiethedork 💛

[sharky-the-idiot]

say hi to my child who is also @lilacthebooklover (aka @lilac-gold)'s child :3 hehe hi pomegranate I love you

[alphaclxwn]

kitten i must confess that daddy wants to kill himself.

[catsharky]

(Spoilers for Astarion's romance in Act 2)

I would have liked to do something for terrible comic day, but a stubborn migraine put the kibosh on that, so instead have something vaguely in the spirit of it. I tend to prefer to only post clean, finished work and this is decidedly not that.

This is an unfinished comic I started back in October that I unfortunately stalled out on while it was still in the roughs/planning stage. I was a little disappointed that during the post-Araj conversation you have with Astarion, you only got to choose one question to ask before the conversation moved on, and I wanted to try and combine a few of them into a single back and forth (I also originally just wanted to set up a joke and then it grew legs and ran off in a totally different direction😭)

No idea if I'll ever end up finishing this! I'd like to, it's just a question of whether I'll actually get around to it. Only time will tell.

If anyone's interested, I've also included an alternate, scrapped version of page 9 under the cut and some Ember Lore/rambling about what I was going for with this comic that probably doesn't come across properly thanks to where it cuts off

After finishing this page, it ended up just not feeling quite right. Not only did it put too much of the focus on Ember too early (I wanted to keep the spotlight on Astarion's feelings for a while longer) but her reaction came across too vulnerable, and was reading as her being upset to find out that Astarion hadn't been invested in the relationship when they slept together. I wanted the reader to be able to initially make that assumption because that's how Astarion is taking her reaction, but it leaned a little too heavy in that direction.

Ember was aware from the start that Astarion wasn't interested in a romantic relationship. She's been having one-night stands for over a decade, she knows what it looks like when someone's not looking for long-term. Her mistake was believing that he was trying to string her along without realizing she knew what he was up to. So she's not upset that he was using her, she's upset that there's a chance she hurt him by allowing it to continue despite knowing something was off.

Eventually I'll do some proper stuff about Ember's early days with the party, and her life in general before the events of the game!! Just gotta finish all the other stuff I have ongoing first 🙃

[vpofcookies]

[ctorres74]

PARTIALLY FUSED TO A COMPUTER? is this what Sharkie gets up to while I’m not talking to him.

Who's... Sharkie? Wait, that's the radioactive weed person, isn't it?

[brain-r0tten]

ponifies your blorbos

I can't design cutiemarks nor choose good pony names, anyway-

my boy Eddie plays DND so of course it had to be a dice

and as for Steve I didn't really know what to put except that he'd make a good babysitter

other ideas for Steve's cutiemark was a crown (cuz yk King Steve) suggested by Sharky

and my roomie's addition to Steve's lore

he also came up with Billy's name as Hot Stuff and Argyle's as Devil's Lettuce asdfghjk