#shockwave lambert

[thepiratefish]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEEEEAAASSEEE ASK ME ABOUT MY ELEMENTALS HEADCANNONS IM SO SICK ABOUT THEMM I NEED TO TALKK

[gilliontidestriderchampionoftheu]

nightmare nightmare nightmare

reminder my commissions are open :D

[alkalineleak]

@seraphex yeah hes silly (u can tell i havent drawn in 2 weeks but thats ok)

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

HI. MACKERELMORE. nhw trickster. killington. amity. the chaos zone. deadwood. new and funny and interesting ways to slaughter people. tide clone shit. bonesaw boiling the failed clones alive. muse. trickster using muse to do shit like u just saw in killington. the wards seeing the trickster using muse to execute people in ways Like That. holds up mic!!!!!!!!!!!!

GOD. THERES SO MUCH GOOD FUCKING FOOD FOR NHW IN THE CHAPTERS I READ EARLIER. fuck. god. shit. okay.

starting with the trickster bc i feel like when i get into tides stuff ill talk for 10 years. ohhhhh my god dude as soon as they walked into a town called fucking KILLINGTON ????? i was like. god thats a joke trickster would make huh!!!!! hed think thats so fucking funny. (and it is. but only to me who has the advantage of seeing this as a narrative and not a real event i am experiencing. fucking hilarious shit. killington??!?!?!?!? killington. ) i have a lot of thoughts about the shit he did to Amity before he escaped and like. yeah. fuckin yeah. i dont think he wouldve killed Everyone in the city (gotta have. puppets to play with and also like. people who hes not controlling to chase around and hunt for sport) (this is fucking terrifying and awful! this is so bad! like catastrophically so!) but i definitely think when the wards go to amity (because i want them to do that so bad at some point) i think it will be in sort of a similar state to this with like. bodies strung up like decorations. graffiti made from fuckign. ash and blood and paint all mixed together. really obviously placed traps. etc etc etc. jsut like. evidence that this place is like his fucking playground! horrifying!

anyway yeah also muse holy shit. muse has to singlehandedly raze at least one fuckign town. for sure. dude dude like that fucking video jack had where they had everyone gathered together before they started killing them? that but with trickster and muse? and its . more fucking scary because instead of 200+ slaughterhouse 9 clones its literally JUST trickster and muse. and whatever random handful of puppets trickster is controlling around the edge of the crowd for extra sets of hands.. aauogaouguguhhghhhgh. i need them to do horrific shit.

OKAY. CLONE TIME. CLONE TIM.E . OUGHGHHGHGH TIIIIDE. TIIIIIIIIDE. how many failed clones do you htink there were. how many failed clones to make tide and magma. do you think they know about the failed clones. they got fucking BOILED ALIVE. do u think tide and magma ever see any of the other clones before theyre ready and they have to look at their own fucking faces (face?) and think about that. i still have that post abt the lambert family in my drafts god i need 2 finish that but. in my mind tide and magma are the oldest (technically magma is the oldest but tide was like. a year or less after him so theyre closer in age) and then it was. seismic and whirlwind at the same time so theyre twins. and then shockwave. and then elle. so i think tide and magma have that Eldest Sibling bond where they have. Issues that are parallel to each other. and a LOT of that comes from being endbringer juniors and a lot of that comes from being clones. but where magma got closed off and aloof about it tide like. desperately clung to kindness bc he doesnt like when people are scared of him. anyway im getting distracted. FUCKING CLOOOOOONE SHIT. CLONE LORE. WORM CLONE LORE. THE WHOLE LIKE. either implanting false memories from other people or needing to raise them from scratch????? thats fucking insane. oh my god. what the fuck kind of memories do u think they got. obviously a lot from dr lambert but like. man. do u think the endbringer thing is like baked into their fucking memories. its in their dna. i didnt quite understand the bit about bonesaw trying to give them their powers but if altering memories can alter what sorts of powers they get...... do the endbringers have dna. do u think tide and magma got endbringer dna in them. that would be sick (both in the sick meaning cool way and in the im gonna make myself sick way). actually that brings up the point. are the endbringers even organic??????????? or are they constructs?????????? since they were confirmed created by someone/something....... man. MANY THOUHGST HEAD FULL. HAVING A LOT OF EMOTIONS ABOUT NHW TIDE. bonesaw boiled the failed clones alive. i dont . i dont think tide and magma were ever *kids* (which is like. ow.) but like. god im just imagining the part in trigun where vash and knives find whats left of tesla. holy shit dude. do you see my vision here

[cator99]

The culture shockwaves sent by Katy Perry I Kissed A Girl Lady Gaga Adam Lambert and scene-emo subculture coalescing all at once made it sooooo easy to be a lesbian in 2008-2009 literally some of those girls I was dating were straight up not even gay it was kind of a high we were winning for a second there until the dysphoria wars that subsequently transpired and tore lesbianism asunder........ 2011 was our Tower of Babel I fear........

[oceansand-tides]

Anyways. The time for me is running out. Have fun watches your siblings get picked off one by one. Tide Lambert.

The phone begins to glitch, raising into the air for a few seconds. Glitching similarly to the glitches is spider verse before shutting off and dropping back into Tides hand, a little warm.

-⏱️

*Again, probably should go to WATCH for this, but also, made his brother's involved. More or less, rational thought has been thrown out the window. He puts the phone into his pocket and I guess we're visiting Shockwave and El!*

[cybertron-after-dark]

What are the humans like in wayward sparks? Are there any notable ones?

They're not necessarily as prominent in the story as they tend to be in any canon series that includes them, but they're definitely there. The bots spend the first arc just trying to survive on earth until they find a way home, and they have quite a few run ins with the locals. Most of which are relatively unhinged, many of which are not very friendly, because they crash in an itty bitty, rural new england mountain town called Ironwood, wayyyyy out in the sticks. Most residents aren't particularly afraid to fire at will when giant robot aliens decide to show up.

Least alien-friendly would be Rusty Williams, a local logger with one hell of a trigger finger for anyone and anything on his property he sees as a threat. Aliens, government agents asking a few too many questions, cops, whatever. All of them only get one warning.

Fortunately for the stranded Cybertronians, gunshots aren't really fatal or even particularly damaging long-term for giant robots that can put themselves back together if they sustain enough damage to fall to pieces. Unfortunately, they still do enough damage to tear through their outer armor layers and that tends to hurt like a bitch.

In the very least, there are plenty of humans around with their heads screwed on right that won't try to blast anything that looks at them funny. Like Rusty's Daughter, Crystal.

That said, Crystal is an elusive type. A middle schooler Going Through It, trying REALLY hard to be edgy so people stay away (hence the $2 Spirit Halloween horns headband), she'd really prefer to spend her free time hiding in the woods where nobody can perceive her. Thats been a little more difficult ever since a bunch of giant robots started stomping around out there and all they know about her is her dad is super cringe, so she's pretty scared of a bad first imprsssion.

She'd be lying if she said she didn't want to be friends with them (which she does lie about frequently because ew, genuine feelings), especially the Decepticons, because she thinks they're cooler, but she also knows her dad would flip his lid if he knew.

Also interested in approaching the Resident Aliens, is Marie Lambert.

Marie's only just recently moved into Ironwood. It's been a rocky transition to say the least. Her dad's a biologist, a real science-y type, and he moved out to the boonies to be closer to the wildlife. Marie's plenty used to being out in the sticks, camping trips with her dad were a regular occurrence before the move, but it's a little hard to get used to the new place when there aren't very many kids her age around. And the ones that are there aren't exactly very welcoming to flatlanders showing up taking over the place.

But in the very least, Marie makes ONE friend when she finds Crystal out in the woods. And a few more when they find what the adult residents of Ironwood have been telling them to stay the hell away from.

They don't approach them straightaway (mostly because their first encounter consists of watching Shockwave scare away Bumblebee, and Shockwave skulking off when he realizes he spooked the Autobot), but the next day at school they start Planning. They HAVE to know more about the robots, and they're willing to pool their resources and information to make that happen. They figure if there's two sides and they don't play nice with each other, it's easiest for one girl to pick one side and they tell each other whatever they can find out.

This begins several beautiful friendships

Marie chooses to gather info on the Autobots. Mostly because, well, they seem less scary and potentially friendlier. She tries the polite thing (which she's hoping will result in the least possible chance for things to go off the rails) and knocks right on their door. The bots aren't really sure how to respond to a very small, very shy alien critter that showed up right at their door to ask what they are and if she can hang out. Marie isn't sure if any of this was a good idea.

They turn out to be pretty welcoming, especially because organics that aren't actively shooting at them are a nice change of pace.

She gets especially close with Bumblebee. Hes comforting. Makes her feel like everything's going to be okay. She gets pretty anxious, and he's good at keeping her grounded. So far, anyway...

On Crystal's side, it's been... Well, it's been different.

The cons would not admit it on their deathbeds but good lord did Crystal scare the slag out of them when they first realized she was there. She snuck right on aboard their crashed ship and nobody noticed her for about 15 minutes.

After the initial scare, and a bunch of big bad giant robots scrambling around because there is a Tiny Squishy Critter in their Space and they do NOT know what to do about that, Crystal starts in trying to get answers. Answers most of the cons aren't particularly willing to give out (other than Shockwave, who is just very excited at the opportunity to make a new friend).

Megatron eventually deems her more or less harmless. She isn't really causing problems or hurting anyone, she doesn't appear to be hostile (other than hissing at Lugnut when he got too close), and he can't really fault the little gremlin for her curiosity. An ally in a foreign world can be very very valuable when you're stranded, so he lets her stay, "as long as she doesn't get in the way."

Marie and Crystal meet up at school during lunch to share notes. It gets confusing trying to keep track of everything when the two sides give conflicting information so often. The girls try to keep an open mind. Hard to remember things about someone you don't like, but they can't really figure out which version is true for any given story, but they're hoping if they spend enough time with their robot friends, they'll figure it out together.

Maybe they can even help the bots and the cons make up. It's just a silly fight, after all.

It's not like anyone's going to get hurt, right? They're all good people.

[councilblr-voting-rights]

Here is the update on the No1 Councilblr Understander bracket!!

So I have compiled the nomination results and am ready to post polls!! Above the cut is a list of polls for contested titles (aka characters with more than one nominee), that will all take place starting 10AM AEST. After these polls conclude everyone will be thrown into one big bracket!!

Tuesday Apr 25th: Chip, Ashe Winters, Exandroth, Kian Stone, Alastyr Cross, Ayva Ferin, Malenia Ferin, Cantrip, Chungus, Richie Sanders

Wednesday Apr 26th: Jay Ferin, Dakota Cole, Peter Sqloint, Rolan Deep, Flynn Gustwind, Mark Winters, Ashe's Mom, Rachel Rand, Sarah Thompson, Tide Lambert

Thursday Apr 27th: Gillion Tidestrider, Vyncent Sol, Rumi, Timothy Rand, Kasper, Caspian, Captain Lizzie, Grayson, Min, The Elders

Friday Apr 28th: William Wisp PT1, William Wisp PT2, Thanatos, Br'aad Vengolor, Kroe Wyse, Abstinence Boy, Alphonz, Amanda Rinn, Niklaus Hendrix

Saturday Apr 29th: William Wisp PT3, Drey Ferin, Harlem Shade, Zuen, Rebecca Jones, Edyn Tidestrider, Pretzel, Ram, Strider, Reuben Price

Below the cut is the list of nominees and their nominations.

@unwitnessprotection

Chip, Drey Ferin, Ashe Winters, Dakota Cole, Vyncent Sol, William Wisp, Cantrip, Mark Winters, Ram

Doug, Ghoul, Mallard Conway, Everyone Relating to the Spirit World, Unwitness Protection Program, Willow Wisp

@seraphex

The Elders, Ashe Winters, Dakota Cole, Vyncent Sol, William Wisp, Harlem Shade, Alphonz, Cantrip, Chungus, Grayson, Mark Winters, Min, Ram, Strider, Tide Lambert, Ashe's Mom, Peter Sqloint, Rumi, Thanatos

Thanatos (OG)

@burning-sol

Gillion Tidestrider, Ayva Ferin, William Wisp, Exandroth, Peter Sqloint, Rumi, Thanatos, Zuen, Kian Stone, Rebecca Jones, Sarah Thompson

Aona, Tristan

@scucharlie

Chip, Gillion Tidestrider, Exandroth, Peter Sqloint, Rumi, Thanatos, Zuen, Kian Stone, Rolan Deep, Timothy Rand, Rachel Rand, Rebecca Jones, Richie Sanders, Sarah Thompson, Br'aad Vengolor

Rymir, Jesse, Sylnan Vengolor

@spacedustmantis

Gillion Tidestrider, Kian Stone, Timothy Rand

@willotstreet

Jay Ferin, Drey Ferin, Edyn Tidestrider, Captain Lizzie, Ashe Winters, Dakota Cole, Vyncent Sol, William Wisp, Abstinence Boy, Kian Stone, Rolan Deep, Timothy Rand, Rachel Rand, Rebecca Jones, Richie Sanders, Sarah Thompson, Flynn Gustwind

Aslana, Ms Gilbert

@biblicallyaccurateandrogynoussex

Chip, Jay Ferin, Gillion Tidestrider, Caspian, Edyn Tidestrider, Captain Lizzie, Niklaus Hendrix, Pretzel, Ashe Winters, Dakota Cole, Vyncent Sol, William Wisp, Alphonz, Chungus, Grayson, Min, Ram, Strider, Tide Lambert, Peter Sqloint, Rumi, Thanatos, Kian Stone, Rolan Deep, Timothy Rand, Alastyr Cross, Flynn Gustwind, Kasper, Kroe Wyse

Goobleck, Alphonze, Gryffon, Marshall John, Ollie, Queen, Strangle Macock

@rumiracle-whip

Ayva Ferin, Edyn Tidestrider, Ashe Winters, William Wisp, Abstinence Boy, Mark Winters, Exandroth, Rumi, Rebecca Jones

@the-albatross-sails

Chip, Jay Ferin, Gillion Tidestrider, Amanda Rinn, Malenia Ferin, Niklaus Hendrix, Reuben Price, The Elders

@navysealt4t

Jay Ferin, Gillion Tidestrider

@misty-lilies

Chip, Niklaus Hendrix

@asteraeliana

Aster, Lunadeyis, Aster Aeliana

@girlbossjackie

Dakota Cole, William Wisp, Harlem Shade, Rumi, Kian Stone, Kasper

@enby-ralsei

Ashe Winters, Dakota Cole, Vyncent Sol, William Wisp, Kian Stone, Rolan Deep, Timothy Rand, Rebecca Jones

@herethereverywhere

Drey Ferin, Vyncent Sol, Rachel Rand

Jason King

@alkalineleak

Gillion Tidestrider, Caspian, Edyn Tidestrider, Ashe Winters, Mark Winters, Ashe's Mom

Literally Everyone from the Undersea, Shockwave

@enderspawn

Chip

@glamjrwi

Gillion Tidestrider, Edyn Tidestrider

@phantom-does-a-thing

Dakota Cole, Vyncent Sol, William Wisp

@twinkfromconvergence

Alastyr Cross, Flynn Gustwind, Kasper, Kroe Wyse

@snailvee

Reuben Price

@mochitoaster

Amanda Rinn, Exandroth, Rumi, Kian Stone, Timothy Rand, Kasper

@atomicraft

Jay Ferin, Gillion Tidestrider, Caspian, Captain Lizzie, Niklaus Hendrix, Dakota Cole, Mark Winters, Exandroth, Kian Stone, Rolan Deep, Rebecca Jones, Sarah Thompson, Br'aad Vengolor

@pretzel-the-frogtopus

Pretzel

@polypd

Vyncent Sol

@transatos

Thanatos

@apple-the-bluebird

Gillion Tidestrider, Malenia Ferin, William Wisp, Mark Winters, Tide Lambert

Finn Tidestrider

@oli-disaster

William Wisp

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Hannah Ray Lambert

Published: Sep 10, 2024

For the second year in a row, Harvard University's "abysmal" free speech climate earned it the lowest ranking among 251 colleges and universities scored by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).

“This year, however, Harvard has company. Columbia University ranks 250, also with an overall score of 0.00,” reads the report released Thursday.

New York University, University of Pennsylvania and Barnard College rounded out the bottom-five colleges, according to the report.

FIRE, a pro-First Amendment nonprofit, worked with College Pulse to survey tens of thousands of students about the free speech environments on their college campuses for its annual College Free Speech Rankings.

“We’re trying to provide an indication of where students can get the best experience in college in terms of being exposed to a diverse set of views,” FIRE’s chief research adviser Sean Stevens told Fox News Digital.

A Barnard spokesperson told Fox News Digital the college is “committed to protecting academic freedom and freedom of expression, and to fostering environments where students, faculty, and staff can engage in open and respectful dialogue.”

Barnard has adopted the Chicago Principles, a free speech policy previously endorsed by FIRE, and this school year a faculty committee will develop “a Barnard-specific framework,” the spokesperson continued.

Harvard, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania did not respond to requests for comment Wednesday.

The universities that ranked poorly all experienced incidents in which speech was censored, suppressed or shouted down, Stevens said.

Since FIRE started ranking schools in 2020, the bottom-five colleges and universities have been “consistently bad performers,” he added.

“They rarely stand up for speech,” Stevens said.

“When a controversy arises, the speech typically gets punished. A speaker gets disinvited. A faculty member gets sanctioned in some way, or a student or student organization does.”

The poor performers share another notable trait, according to FIRE’s analysis.

“Most of the students are very upset with how the administration has responded to protests over the past year,” Stevens said.

Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel and the war that followed “sent shockwaves through American college and university campuses,” according to the FIRE report. Protesters occupied the South Lawn at Columbia for about two weeks in April before police broke up the encampment.

After the start of the encampments, researchers noticed a large increase in the percentage of Columbia students who said they self-censor in classroom discussions or in conversations with professors or other students.

At the other end of the free speech spectrum, the University of Virginia earned the top ranking. Michigan Technological University, Florida State University, Eastern Kentucky University and Georgia Institute of Technology rounded out the top five.

The full rankings can be viewed here.

Stevens noted that the schools that performed well tended to have fewer controversies overall and, when controversies did arise, administrators typically defended speech rights.

He said he hopes parents and prospective students use FIRE’s ranking tool to make better-informed choices. The tool also provides a look at the liberal-conservative ratio on campuses, and a deeper look at student attitudes toward free expression.

“Experiencing open inquiry and that process, having to grapple and have their views challenged” sets students up to be better “adult citizens in our country, once they graduate,” Stevens said.

FIRE and College Pulse surveyed students at 257 schools in total, but excluded six from the main rankings and gave them “warning” ratings.

The private colleges, which include Pepperdine University, Hillsdale College, and Brigham Young University, all “have policies that clearly and consistently state” that they prioritize “other values over a commitment to freedom of speech,” according to the FIRE report.

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Executive Summary

For the fifth year in a row, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a nonprofit organization committed to defending and sustaining the individual rights of all Americans to free speech and free thought, and College Pulse surveyed college undergraduates about their perceptions and experiences regarding free speech on their campuses.

This year’s survey includes 58,807 student respondents from 257 colleges and universities. Students who were enrolled in four-year degree programs were surveyed via the College Pulse mobile app and web portal from January 25 through June 17, 2024. 

The College Free Speech Rankings are available online and are presented in an interactive dashboard (rankings.thefire.org) that allows for easy comparison between institutions. 

Key findings:

The University of Virginia is this year’s top ranked school for free speech. Michigan Technological University, Florida State University, Eastern Kentucky University, and Georgia Tech round out the top five.

Harvard University is this year’s bottom ranked school for free speech for the second year in a row. Joining it in the bottom three are Columbia University and New York University. All three of these schools have an “Abysmal” speech climate. The University of Pennsylvania and Barnard College round out the bottom five and each has a “Very Poor” speech climate.

All of the bottom five schools experienced a number of controversies involving the suppression of free expression. They also received significantly lower scores than the top five schools on “Administrative Support,” “Comfort Expressing Ideas,” and “Tolerance Difference,” which measures the strength of students’ favoritism when it comes to allowing liberal or conservative speakers on campus.

Since 2020, UVA, Michigan Tech, FSU, North Carolina State University, Oregon State University, Mississippi State University, Auburn University, George Mason University, Kansas State University, the University of Mississippi, the University of Chicago, and Claremont McKenna College have all consistently performed well in FIRE’s College Free Speech Rankings.

A majority of students (55%) said that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is difficult to “have an open and honest conversation about on campus,” a record high for a topic on this question in the five years we have asked it. At least 75% of students on 17 of the campuses surveyed responded this way to this question.

The percentages of students who said shouting down a speaker, blocking other students from entering an event, and using violence to stop a campus speech is at least “rarely” acceptable all increased since last year. 

A majority of students said that six of eight hypothetical controversial campus speakers should “probably” or “definitely” not be allowed on campus.

Student concerns about self-censorship have declined. This year, 17% of students said they feel like they cannot express their opinion on a subject at least a couple of times a week because of how students, a professor, or the administration would respond. Last year, this percentage was 20%, and in 2022 it was 22%.

[sparkysunrises]

Hey shockwave! What do you think of the heroes after everything

Would you still be one of you had the choice?

Of course!! I loved being a hero! I mean- I didn't have much of a choice while working eith doctor lambert since I was made for it but- I-I still would have loved to!

[mwezina]

The Tower & FE3H

The Tower represents destruction. Upon all the hopes and dreams of mankind (the tower itself), a fork of thunder strikes, destroying the power and authority that people have placed upon it. An unstoppable force of God or nature has occurred, and nothing could have prevented it. At the same time, the location of the tower seems to foreshadow that something catastrophic would happen -- what did they think would happen when they built a tall tower upon a mountain? 

However, The Tower also represents a necessary destruction so that better things can be built in its place. The thunder has dethroned the crown, asking the people to rethink authority and preconceived notions, giving way to an awakening of new insights. 

The crest associated with this card is the Crest of Charon. Charon is the ferryman of Hades, bringing passengers from the world of the living to the underworld. He’s considered a psychopomp of Greek mythology. So his duty is to transport souls from one world to another, whether on a boat or otherwise. He is typically depicted as having flashing eyes and an angry demeanour. This is likely a reflection of how people at the time felt about death. 

The Lightning Dragon is a strange one, since it is so similar to the Storm Dragon. When I did my research on what Lightning could represent, it led me back to the god of thunder, lightning, and storms. My only thought is that the god of thunder has a strong relationship to his brother, the god of wind. Perhaps the relationship is important somehow. 

I imagine the Lightning Dragon to be like a twin to the Storm Dragon, only that the Lightning Dragon crackles with electricity instead of being a foreboding shadow over the land. 

Instead of connecting this card to a person, I will connect it to an event. The Tragedy of Duscur. The assassination of King Lambert. While well-meaning, King Lambert was targeted for his massive reforms and hopes of peace with Faerghus’ neighbours. He was struck down by other nobles and forces beyond human comprehension (Agarthans). This reflects the destruction found within The Tower card, and the shockwave of effects felt by the royal family, the people of Duscur, and those truly loyal to Lambert. 

Charon being a bringer of death matches well with this event. So many lives were claimed as part of this event. Not only that, but the Charon family played a large part in the aftermath as well, bringing Christophe to justice for an attempted assassination on Lady Rhea and as a result being accused of plotting the assassination against the late king. 

Finally, the parallel to the Lightning and Storm Dragon can be found in both these events being catastrophic for the regions they affected. Edelgard’s war put the continent into a state of prolonged turmoil and may end with the Agarthans taking their final revenge upon Nabateans. The Tragedy of Duscur ended with the death of many Duscurians, and nearly the destruction of the Faerghan royal family. 

I do think it’s interesting to note that the two darkest cards of the major arcana also correspond with the two characters that suffered Agarthan experimentation, Edelgard and Lysithea. So perhaps these cards can also be connected to the underlying “rot” of Fòdlan in some way.

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[thepiratefish]

once when mark got drunk with the elementals he tried flirting with shockwave, the only sober one, who then pointed him over to tide. tide doesnt let him live this down

SHOCKWAVE MENTION

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Sorry I'm normal now trust (is not) I really like Shockwave :3

OHH the idea of Mark and shockwave though......... heheeeee that's fun that very fun..

And Tide not letting him live it down is thr GREATEST thing ever

[alkalineleak]

Also wait do u have ashockwave design i suddenly thought of him and needed to know. Good evening

i dont and im SO sad about it................ i have an IDEA of a tide design that im slowly working out though hold on. let me open aggie. what i DO know and can tell you right now is i imagine shockwave as a bundle of sharp and jagged shapes. his shoulders are all joints and his hands are like an old tree. i also want his hair to be more shaped and jagged in the same way so itll definitely be in a protective style thats more on the shorter side, but i havent decided which !!!! im thinking some sort of micro twist ? just to have a lot of movement while having a contained more sharp shape !

which will ALSO contrast a lot with tides hair which are goddess braids since i liked the flowing movement of water + since they r colored synthetic ends it will actually EMULATE how water looks !!!!!!!

anyways here what i have like. as some drafts ? im using tide to compare him to shockwave. with shockwaves ACTUAL design i gave used inspo from hazmat suits and the silly archetype of a mad scientist like large gloves and clothing !! so i gave him a drapping coat thingy which would HEYY !! more places to hide conductice material!! i also wanted to vaguely take a spider theme bc hes so spidery body type wise. i want him to look like he Crawls. i also tried to give it more of a square edgy thing. So combining these i hoped the tucked in sleeves gave more of a square shape and the dangly gold bits would add some visual unease. its a first draft so its.rough but hey !! thats what 1st drafts r for. it came out vaguely cowboy ish DJDJDJ

and then going with actual BODY designs instead of color work

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

@intertexts NHW ELEMENTALS !!!!!! this will be added onto later when i learn More Things. but i want 2 talk about them:

first of all. age from oldest to youngest: Magma -> Tide -> Whirlwind/Seismic (twins) -> Shockwave -> Elle. this is important 2 me.

they are all still clones, so this doesnt really matter, but this is the order they were made/"born" in. so for the sake of trying to make at least ONE aspect of their whole thing somewhat normal... they still see their family/sibling dynamic through the concept of older/younger siblings.

Magma and Tide specifically are different. They were each created individually to directly counter the first two endbringers. magma was built to go up against Behemoth (pyrokinesis, immunity to radiation, immunity to heat/lightning etc) (possible Brute/Blaster classification? ros help me out w the powers please ily) and tide was built to go up against Leviathan (ability to breathe underwater, hydrokinesis, increased mobility in water etc, possible Mover/Blaster? Mover/Shaker?) . I'm just starting Sting 26.2 right now as I type this so I'm gonna hold off on speaking to the actual LOGISTICS of the endbringer stuff until I learn more (and go insane abt it) but I've been almost toying with the idea of them actually having endbringer dna built into them? if that's even a thing? or DEPENDING on how cauldron makes their serums, using Behemoth and Leviathan as a base for their individual serums. I DUNNO. ILL FIGURE THAT ALL OUT LATER. WHATEVER GO MY SCARAB. anyway. obviously Dr. Lambert was used as like... the base? I guess? for their clones. we don't get to learn a wholeeeee lot about him in canon so for now I'm gonna say he's fully just an employee of cauldron. whatever.

so timeline wise, I'm thinking Behemoth existed for a couple years before magma was actually created. the endbringers were still a new threat, nobody knew how to deal with them yet. cauldron figures out cloning tech the year before Leviathan emerges. They make magma, he becomes a really important fixture in Behemoth fights, so how convenient is it when Leviathan emerges a few months later and all of the sudden magma's "brother" shows up for the second attack. since there was a long time between Leviathan and Simurgh, I think most of the rest of their siblings were actually created in that span of time. The mindset here is that... nobody knows cauldron exists, nobody knows cauldron creates capes, much less human cloning. the fact that two heroes show up with eerily similar abilities to the two endbringers draws a lot of eyes, and that's something they don't want. seismic, whirlwind and shockwave were created not as endbringer counters, but as damage control. it's a lot easier to believe a family of capes with elemental powers exist than it is to believe the wild crazy conspiracies about the connection between capes and endbringers.

tide and magma have a Lot of issues about being created as endbringer counters. that puts so much pressure on their heads and i think they feel every loss as. extremely personal and their own responsibility and if they had just done a little better they should have been able to stop it. I think the two of them started out really close, but as they matured and as their individual ways of dealing with these things started butting heads I think they drifted apart more than they wanted to. Magma, even though he was only around for a year or so longer, had been in more fights, suffered more losses, he was like... the guinea pig of this whole thing. all of the expectations fell onto him at first, and even now he's STILL seen as the leader of the elementals. He had that classic eldest daughter syndrome burnout and I think he becomes very... closed off and aloof about the whole business. he's not friendly. he's here to do his job and do it right and not spare anyone else's feelings. he hates that he was created as a tool but he's also accepted that thats What He Is . tide on the other hand. hoooough. man. tide. tide HATES that people are scared of them. the intimidation factor is great in a fight when the image of power is useful but in everyday life? that shit sucks! they already don't have civilian lives (or maybe they do? ros we should talk about this. do the elementals get 2 have lives outside of being capes. ugh), so everyone who knows him knows him as Tide. Tide, the one who saves people from Leviathan. Tide, the one who is expected (and REQUIRED) to be at every single endbringer attack, who has seen so much death and destruction and has felt hopeless so many times... he just wants to help people. being kind costs so much. I mean he'll pay it but goddamn. tide spends so much of his time and energy actively choosing to be kind and make himself Not Scary . I think out of all of them tide is the one who most wants to have a normal life. which I think is why he took to the position of being the wards' mentor so quickly and enthusiastically. if he can't have a normal life by fucking god he's gonna do his best to make sure these kids get to have at least a little bit of their childhood.

you may notice I did not talk about Elle or shockwaves death at all in this post that is on purpose because i HAVE NOT figured it out yet and I'm waiting until I get further into worm to work that out in my mind some more. anyway ending this on an extremely painful note i think tide and shockwave were really close because out of their siblings they were the two that actively went out of their way to push past their status as tools/weapons in a way that benefitted other people (whirlwind also did this but instead of helping people he got angry and spiteful and. started working for Overlord. so. yeah). also I think since shockwave was the youngest (and BEHAVED like the youngest) tide had a lot of those big brother "I need to make sure you don't go through the same things I did" feelings, moreso than he felt for seismic and whirlwind

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My take on the Elementals from PD!!

This was a really fun challenge to try and make all of them look distinctive and unique while all basically using the same exact face :D 

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JRWI Prime Defenders, The Elementals Oneshot vague spoilers

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