#silver eyes warrior

[mollyrocker]

Erm what the sigma im actually kinda obsessed with inanimateclan

Come to my beckoning call wc x ii fans i need to find community in other fandoms atp😭

Also bonus lightbulb and brush i like how this lightbulb came out better than the other lol

[fillmargarin]

They got married in ever after

[catsoftheclans]

stormfur

[smewduck]

shes a little sensitive about that, i wouldn't bring it up :[

closeup:

[bestworstcase]

...you have instilled A Thought in me, do we even know that Tock was sent by Salem? Afaik there's never been any in-text evidence beyond the assumption that Salem wanted to wipe out SEWs, and I'm not aware of any word-of-god that she was an agent of Salem? Like, our only two "data points" on Salem hunting SEWs is Tock, who we only know was working for someone, and the hound-man, who we know literally nothing about.

I'm about as convinced as can be that Salem has, in fact, spent most of her time just chilling in exile, but I struggle to fully square that with hunting SEWs - what if even that is just another thing Ozma blames on her out of paranoia?

we do, per her amity arena card:

Tock was a proud faunus. She was a predator, a born hunter. It wasn't enough to merely have the green scales, she was a CROC. That meant she needed a nasty bite. It was a tad uncomfortable at times, sure, and took a lot more flossing than she liked, but the looks on her victims' faces when suddenly facing her sharpened metal teeth was worth it. every. time. Master Salem did always warn her, though, to finish her prey before her invulnerability wore off. After all, her aura shattering after those heart pounding sixty seconds was a dangerous price to pay. Still, she could never give up playing with her food, as that was the privilege of a predator, and nothing made Tock feel more alive …than dancing with Death.

and in all fairness to ozma: he’s not the one who proposed that salem has been hunting down silver-eyed warriors. maria’s father* believed that… well, “how could such powerful bloodlines be so rare, unless something was actively seeking to destroy them?” and ruby hears that and goes “salem.”

(*who cannot have been ozma, because maria was among the first generation of huntsmen and her father an old soldier who would’ve been a contemporary of the king of vale)

two obvious flaws in that reasoning:

sometimes a trait is just rare. silver eyes seem to originate from ozma when he has children with partners other than salem, and we know of… two. out of all the lives of his that we’ve glimpsed (four in the lost fable, three in the infinite man, the hermit-wizard, the king of vale, ozpin) only one had children. say it’s been four thousand years and ozma reincarnates, on average, once per century: that’s forty lives. if we’re shown a rough approximation of how often this man has reproduced, he’s only had children in four of them. across four thousand years. no shit they’re rare!

silver eyes are a genetically heritable trait that marks people born with them as destined to “lead the life of a warrior,” to live and die fighting grimm. “unless something was actively seeking to destroy them” YOU MEAN LIKE THE MONSTERS? THE MONSTERS THAT SILVER-EYED WARRIORS ARE LEGENDARY FOR HUNTING? again, no shit it’s a rare trait! warriors, famously, are a lot more likely than most to die young.

add in that oz seems happy to recruit silver-eyed warriors and must know there’s a kernel of truth in the stories, but really doesn’t seem to know much of anything useful—man didn’t so much as mention ruby’s eyes once in v5, he was more concerned with getting her proficient in hand-to-hand combat—and it what it really looks like is that the myths appeal to him as symbols. silver warriors are pure, incorruptible, destined heroes… smaller, more honest souls… et cetera.

it’s the actual silver-eyed warriors going “i can do WHAT NOW with my eyes!? how can this power be so rare, so obscure?”

anyway. our data points are:

maria, a legendary silver-eyed huntress whom salem definitively sent tock to assassinate something like 40-50 years ago

hound guy (??????????)

hazel saying of silver-eyed warriors “we’ve dealt with their kind before,” which might be in reference to hound guy.

summer rose, who joined salem.

not a data point strictly speaking, but worth taking into account: silver eyes are said over and over again to be very rare, so salem logically can’t be offing them by the score, nor keeping dozens locked up in a laboratory somewhere. there just aren’t enough of them!

also not strictly a data point: two empty seats at salem’s table, one of them accounted for by summer rose. if summer is working for salem of her own volition, then salem isn’t averse to working alongside silver-eyes; ergo, her problem with them must be with what most of them do, which is kill grimm.

salem is grimm. the grimm have been her only real companions for thousands of years. it is also fairly obvious at this point that grimm are not mindless soulless killing machines, because they keep behaving like emotional beings with a high degree of social organization and far more individuality than they’re given credit for. salem—

—cares about them. it tracks that she’d assassinate silver-eyed warriors who gained the kind of prominence maria did. i think it’s probably worth noting that the one absolute certainty it-is-what-it-looks-like data point in regard to salem killing silver-eyed warriors is… a legendary huntress who had nothing to do with ozpin or his conspiracy but went around calling herself the grimm reaper.

ignoring ozma’s imaginary shadow war whilst living in exile doesn’t necessarily mean salem wasn’t doing anything bad at all; just that whatever she got up to didn’t have anything to do with him.

that she targeted maria rather than anyone affiliated with oz in and of itself is an implication that she wasn’t paying much attention to him at the time; conversely, there hasn’t been so much as a hint that salem ever sent anyone to assassinate summer, ozpin’s token silver-eyed warrior, in the years before summer found her. and then hound guy is just a pile of question marks punctuated by an empty chair and me squinting at the lovecraft story very hard; if nothing else, the sixth empty seat at her table and the implied timeline of cinder being the impetus for that experiment gives me pause.

[google-drawings-warriors]

Featherwhisker's friend :)

[gourdlycatgen]

The rogue named Bane is a ginger amab cis cat with a ticked tabby coat and a half white body. The pronouns this cat uses are all. This cat has long, messy fur and silver eyes. This cat hates trees, and likes kits. The cat is kind and abrasive. The cat wouldn't notice a dog coming too close. This cat has moderate scarring.

[simbasomba]

SilverSand for the soul

[short-wooloo]

Thinking about how in every Volume since V5 Ruby has used her eyes' power at least once per Volume and she hasn't done so yet in V9

[nymphilily]

I think my love for Cielomort stems not from any attachment to Cinnamoroll, but rather this kick I've been in of falling in love with every CV. Shimazaki Nobunaga I come across

[diaryofamadsunwukongfan]

Tales of Light Eyes

Before the world's perdition, mankind lived in a golden age under the guidence of Lux. Than, the Devil created a witch to tempt mankind away from the light. The witch taught mankind that love was weakness, that hate was virtue. To undo the witch's wily ways, Lux became a man. That man was named Ozma. Ozma travelled the world, spreading the way of light and life, the virtues of peace and togetherness. Every time a child of man converted, Ozma purified their soul of all darkness, turning their eyes bright like the midday sun. These bright eyed folk, who had accepted Lux's truth, were warriors that defended all of mankind from the forces of shade, whenever they be Grimm or Faunus. Ozma then gathered an army of his warriors, and they made war with the witch. The witch challenged Ozma to a duel, and he accepted. But the witch was a lier, and would never fight fair. She cheated during their duel, and slew Ozma. The Shade had one the battle that day, and threw the world into endless depravity. But soon, a day of judgement will come, Ozma will walk the Earth again and slay all Grimm, all Faunus, and the Witch once and for all! - The Book of Light chapters 66:6, first written in Vale.

Long ago, in the days when the twin devils ruled the Earth, humanity lived lives of full of fear for their creators. The Hidden One, that devil that stole the life away from all living creatures while unseen. The Burning One, that devil that demanded absolute loyalty as he endlessly created created dangerous creatures like lions, tigers, and bears. Oh my! Humanity lived in fear in deed! But then one day, everything changed when a single women challenged the Devils authority. She taught mankind how to hide from the Hidden One, so that death would never find their families. She taught mankind how to create fire, so that mankind needn't rely on the Burning One for warmth. This angered the twin devils. The Hidden One shattered the moon, a reminder that no matter how much mankind prayed, he would never answer. The Burning One shattered the woman, who had turned mankind away from him. He then created the last thing he would ever make, the demons with silver eyes. These demons look like mankind, but they are apart from mankind. Just like wild beasts, the demons with silver eyes only have a blinding light for a soul, no balance of light and shade like real men. Just like wild beasts, the demons with silver eyes hate all children of man, attacking at us blindly and disappearing as soon as they strike. Death! Death for all the demons with silver eyes, the last punishment of the Burning One! - A myth recovered from a rural cult in Anima.

Everyday, humankind harasses faunuskind. Humankind is jealous of faunuskind because humans are born incomplete, lacking animal traits that help us survive the wild. Humankind is jealous of faunuskind because the faunus were born first, which makes us older and wiser. Humankind is jealous of faunuskind because we have a god that cares for us, and humankind has none. One day, tired from the persecution, the god of Animals broke the moon that the humans ignorantly prayed to. As the moon shattered into pieces, it's tears fell down to earth and became humans with moonlight eyes. The humans with moonlight were the only friends of the faunus, and they used their eyes to scare away the Grimm that were always scared of the light. Faunuskind loved the humans with moonlight eyes, but they were childish and always caused a mess playing pranks on people. Faunuskind shooed the moonlight eyes away from their home, hoping to teach them manners. But oh God!!! Mankind killed every last one that had moonlight eyes for daring to make friends with the faunus! Now, whenever a faunus child cries and no one knows why, their mother says they are crying because they can't play with the humans with moonlight eyes. - Faunus fairytale, origin unknown.

[bug-the-chicken-nug]

Thinking about how I would rework silver eyes and honestly I think itd be cool and fun to just lean further into the Sharingan comparison and give it actual stages of progression, instead of it being an all-or-nothing thing that in turn mandates that Ruby has to be completely incompetent at using it in 80-90% of situations, or else the conflict would be over.

So in my AU, it has ten stages. (Nine, in general practice. The last is more of a mythical/worldbuilding thing that probably isn't real.)

Each stage both unlocks a new thing it can do, and can improve what you've unlocked in previous stages. (In DnD terms, kind of like getting the choice to perform a basic spell at a powered-up higher level) Each stage is mastered with training, and you cannot unlock the next if your mind and Aura aren't strong enough. But each time, either intense emotion, or a sort of "epiphany" moment of self-actualization, is still needed as the "final trigger" to progress to a new stage.

All of its abilities are a form of "magic", and do not directly use Aura, but still tie into it. Instead, the eye abilities accumulate "Tarnish", a new cost for the ability. Its only remedy is time and rest. Tarnish is lasting strain upon the user's mind and soul, chaotic dissonance in their Aura that causes the user's maximum Aura capacity to progressively weaken the more they use these. Along with this, the user's emotions become increasingly dulled. High Tarnish also causes physical pain, tingling, numbness, and has additional, increasingly worse effects on consciousness, critical thinking, and motor function.

However, the Tarnish generated by lower stages of the eyes is minor, generally dissipating over time faster than it builds up. Still, Tarnish always dissipates much slower than Aura can recharge. Past a critical point, it no longer dissipates at all. If one stops just before this point, it can still take over a month to fully recover, and will leave you effectively unable to do anything Aura-based for several days.

After the critical point, the user becomes an emotionless and powerless husk. Forever.

This in turn is actually perfect for the creation of Salem's Hounds. A fully Tarnished being results in a more powerful Hound than any alternative. The reason why is not well understood. Anyway!

Stages: Part 1: Pre-Beacon Unlocks

Stage 1, Ward: Cannot do harm. Weak Grimm recoil from the light, but the range only extends a few meters from the user.

Awakening Trigger: Ruby learning of her mother's death as a small girl.

Stage 2, Stun: Immobilizes and overwhelms the senses of weaker Grimm for several seconds, and also causes mild burns. The light is also disorienting for normal, non-supernatural reasons against humans at close range.

Awakening Trigger: Bullying at Signal (Cliche, but I really want a better actual reason why Ruby starts out awkward and self-conscious, and of where she picked up the idea that she'd prefer to be "normal".)

Stage Three, Gaze: Any Grimm that should be hidden or obscured can be clearly seen through any obstacle, as if faintly glowing silver. Weak points can be picked out as particularly bright areas on a Grimm.

Awakening Trigger: Bullying Part 2, Electric Boogaloo

Stage Four, Petrify: Can encase one target up to mid-level, such as an Ursa Major, in stone, or fully petrify them. Requires several seconds or more of sustained focus. Ruby herself remarks that it's often impractical, unless she's restrained. This is also the first stage to be able to cause rapid Tarnish buildup.

Awakening Trigger: When she stands up to her bullies at Signal without Yang.

She is at Stage Four when she arrives at Beacon.

Stages Part 2: Beacon/Post-Fall Unlocks

Stage Five, Scour: Any Grimm-produced substance within a few yards is rapidly destroyed and nullified. This includes slime, ooze, toxins, acid, projectile attacks, and even their elemental attacks, but it only works for a few seconds at a time. It can also weaken Grimm defenses and erode their armor, but does not kill outright.

Awakening Trigger: Entrance Exam

Stage Six, Ray: The eyes produce a beam that causes Instant disintegration of one or two small to mid-size Grimm, and causes the skin of larger targets to "boil" like hot tar, doing great harm.

Awakening Trigger: Volume 2

Stage Seven, Luster: The Silver Eyes equivalent of the three-tomoe Sharingan, the furthest you'll normally get. Users briefly gain an altered silver Aura, essentially making all of their attacks and their very touch "super effective" against Grimm. Watch out for all the Tarnish, though...

Awakening Trigger: End of Volume 2

And Now We Get Spicy...

Stages Part Three: Refinement

After this point, the user must be both sufficiently powerful and directly witness a great loss (This need not be death, but often is), to unlock the "Refined" Silver Eyes (basically Mangekyou Sharingan). Unlocking Refinement is very strenuous upon the body and soul. Passing out or going comatose after it is first attained is common, as the user's first time inevitably generates high levels of Tarnish. It is also possible for someone to permanently "fail" their Refinement and get stuck at Stage Seven instead, if they face a great tragedy before they're physically and emotionally prepared for it.

But once Refinement is attained, "Ward" becomes passive, and works on Grimm up to mid-level, such as an Ursa Major or Manticore. However, the default radius is still only a few meters. This would potentially add some logic to why exactly Ruby just walks around with Relics, since she can now cancel out their attractant properties without any significant effort, and it would also help explain her moments of overconfidence and recklessness.

As for active abilities:

Stage Eight, Smite: What Ruby canonically does with her eyes. A powerful area-of-effect blast that can kill or petrify all Grimm in the area.

Awakening Trigger: RIP Pyrrha

Stage Nine, Sanctify: Objects, buildings, and places can become infused long-term with the ability to repel, or at greater levels of investment, actively harm Grimm. Effectiveness can build cumulatively, but scales down in inverse proportion to the total size of what is Sanctified. Handheld weapons, for instance, can become extremely damaging to Grimm for centuries, if sanctified by many at a time, or given many years to be imbued with power. An entire place/area is much harder. Ideally, it is meant to be used by entire groups of SEW. Ruby herself can only safely Sanctify something like a large house for a day or so, but maintains a permanent low-level effect on Crescent Rose. Can briefly "stack" with Luster for some Real Bonkers Finishing Move Shit.

Awakening Trigger: During V6

Stage Ten, Salvation: An ability detailed only in legend. Allegedly, the ability to "purify" a Grimm without killing it, turning it against all of its brethren. In some legends, this even bestows it Aura. What this process would truly entail, or how this stage is actually reached, is unknown. Sources tend to be somewhat contradictory of one another.

Awakening Trigger: N/A

[ritz-writes]

5, 6, 7 for the fic writers ask please :)

5: have you ever made a playlist about something you were writing as an elaborate means to procrastinate when you could have been actually writing and if yes drop a link, son

Technically yes. I wrote a multichapter fic throughout middle school and high school, and my friend made a playlist for it and I added songs to it as well. But I'm not associated with that account anymore, so, alas, I will not be sharing the link 😔

6: do you have any kind of consistent writing schedule or just hoping for the best?

My honest reaction to reading that was "Oh my god, I fucking wish." 😭 I'm constantly struggling with writers block, and am currently unmedicated for hella adhd, so I only write when my brain lets me. Or a fixation grabs me by the throat hard enough lmao

7: tell us about the plot of the first fanfic you ever wrote

Omgg, that'd be my first Warrior Cats fic. I won't list any names cuz, like I said before, I don't want to be associated with my old online accounts (not for anything bad, I just find my younger self cringy and don't want my current persona attached to it. If you recognize any of this, no you dont <3), but I'll give the basic plot. I had just started reading the series and very much misunderstood a lot of it as a kid, so I just made Shadowclan flat out evil and killing other cats 😭(they also lied to their clan and said Riverclan killed two of their own?? But like... how would they lie about that cuz I think people would notice if two of their warrior were killed, but I digress) The main character was a loner who joined Thunderclan, then got amnesia and was taken in by Shadowclan. She eventually is given an apprentice, a bunch of stuff happens that I honestly can't remember, then she and her apprentice flee to Thunderclan. She gets her memories back as soon as she crosses the border cuz of some prophecy stuff that I never really worked out. I was 100% winging that fic chapter by chapter and had no idea where I was going with it. I also thought 200 words was Very Long, so I think lil me would be proud to see shes written a 33k long fic 😌

[faeryworlds]

TAG DROP PART 1

[blizzardstarx]

old (2022) oc art dump

halfmask, blizzardstar, and gingerstar v

eclipse and gingerstar my lesbian cats <3 v

aura and i forgot her name the silver bengal

and paw anatomy

[gourdlycatgen]

The head defender clan cat named Thriftspark is a silver afab unlabeled cat with a bengal tabby coat and a half white body. The pronouns this cat uses are they/them + nounself. This cat has patchy, fluffy fur and pale yellow eyes. This cat dislikes tracking, and loves patrolling. The cat is protective and abrasive. The cat stares without realizing. This cat has few scars and an oriental body. This cat will be exiled after being framed.