#skulduggery pleasant black and white

[nevermindigotthis]

Forgive me, for I have sinned…. Yeah… uhm… Sexy Serpine? Sorry 😅 (is that Skulduggery‘s Skull? …maybe) (who is he flirting with looking at? Your guess is as good as mine. Mevolent maybe???)

[nicstylus]

"Rainbow Cleaver" in honor of pride month :]

[whimsylueur]

Inspired by the Requiem Ball attire Skulduggery and Valkyrie are described wearing.

I completely ruined this trying to colour it. Hopefully I can replace it with a digital version asap because I love when Valkyrie gets to dress up and I want to bring the ideas to life properly.

Skulduggery Pleasant Book 6: Death Bringer

The dress was long and slinky, strapless, silk and chiffon. Her shoes were gorgeous.

She stepped into the living room and Skulduggery, wearing the sharpest tuxedo she had ever seen, complete with black gloves and a white scarf, tilted his head to her.

“You’re late,” he said.

“I’m beautiful.”

“You’re always beautiful.”

“I’m always late, too.”

[silverior968]

Larrikin Fetter? I DO know her!

[Image ID: A digital portrait of Larrikin Fetter from Skulduggery Pleasant, drawn as a chimeristic black person with golden brown skin and freckles. Their hair is 3a textured, partially ginger and partially brown as a result of chimerism. Their eyes are hazel, and they are smiling happily. Their hair is tied in a ponytail with a yellow handkerchief, and they have a gap between their upper front teeth. They have a dimple on their left cheek. They're wearing a white uniform. The background is yellow, and the artist's signature, Silverior968, is overlayed over the image in yellow. / End ID]

[rogha]

I do believe that more books, especially magical action adventure kids books like Percy Jackson, Lockwood & Co, Skulduggery Pleasant, Artemis Fowl, and lots of other ones could be adapted into very successful animated series that avoid a lot of the pitfalls of live action versions - actors aging out of roles faster than you make make the show, expensive CGI effects, a higher threshold for suspended disbelief… Apart from the fact that I have an animation degree and I love animation, there really are lots of sensible reasons to adapt those kinds of stories to animation. But I think one thing people who are in the business of adapting those works seem to be really not engaging with it as a possibility for the most part is because they do want to tell diverse stories with diverse casts. I think there’s a kind of tension there where you can cast a person of colour in as a white character because you can say ‘this person was just the best actor who auditioned’ and you have kind of deferred the question of diversity in the story to being like, a meritocracy or as a result of the actor rising above. I don’t mean to like, say that actors who’ve managed this aren’t incredible performed who didn’t have to do that. But if Percy Jackson was an animated series and Annabeth was black in the series, the people in charge of the show would have to stand over that choice with a kind of firm recognition that it was their choice, that telling a diverse story mattered to them, rather than put a kind of burden of excellence on an actor they are putting under an enormous amount of scrutiny.

[re-1124c41]

The ward was nearly silent. Outside, beyond the closed door, there were quieted sounds of machinery and voices, of trolleys rattling by and footsteps dutifully following them. With the window cracked open, there was a soft breeze rustling the sheer curtains and tickling over his arms. On the bedside stand, a whiteboard and marker sat next to a vase of flowers and several well-wishing cards.

There was a low hum of the monitor on the other side of the bed, a near imperceptible drip of the fluid in the IV bag feeding into the catheter at his elbow.

A gentle knock on the door, before it creaked open and someone peeked inside. It was enough to stir him from dozing into wakefulness.

He wouldn’t have recognized the man, if not for his hat and his suit. Something painful in his heart clenched as the visitor stepped quietly into the room. He tried to swallow, opened his mouth to speak as the man approached, but no sound came. The bandage at his throat was too tight, the injury too painful, to even utter a greeting.

“Good evening, Desmond.” Skulduggery Pleasant said softly. His face was a sloping sort of oval shape, with wide brows and light brown hair combed back. “I hope I’m not intruding.”

Desmond sighed and let himself deflate back into the pillows. He shook his head a little, and Skulduggery nodded.

“I’m very sorry for what happened,” Pleasant said sympathetically. “I hope the prognosis, however, is a positive one.”

Resignedly, Desmond nodded and reached for the whiteboard his wife had left at his side. He scribbled a short message, the catheter in his arm and the medication in his system making his handwriting sloppy.

They say I’m lucky. He wrote. They say it missed my jugular. Apparently I’m concussed too.

“Then I promise to keep this as brief as I can. You need rest if you’re going to make a fully recovery,” Skulduggery said sagely. “I wanted to see you, to make sure you are going to be all right.”

Desmond used the hem of the blanket he was tucked into to wipe the board clean. It left a black smear and residue on the cloth, but he didn’t care – he was already writing again.

Thank you for coming. I think I’m concussed.

“Yes, that is quite apparent, yes.”

Have you seen my wife? I’m worried about her. I don’t want her to be mad I missed Alice’s dance recital.

“I spoke with Melissa earlier, whilst you were in surgery,” Skulduggery replied gently “She’s not mad, she just very worried about what happened to you.”

The next question took Desmond a moment to put into words; finally, it felt best to take the most obvious approach.

Where is my daughter, Skulduggery?

Skulduggery was silent as he considered the question. Almost too quiet, Desmond felt, for comfort. He couldn’t have been certain, and he put most of it down to the concussion and the amount of hallucinogenic medication he was on, but the memories of the incident were…

Terrifying. They were awful, horrible memories that he wished, more than anything, were just conjuring’s of his badly bruised mind.

Skulduggery reached into the collar of his white shirt and a moment later, the face he was wearing shifted and melted away, receding back to reveal the polished white skull underneath. Desmond watched the process with fascination – once, the whole ordeal had frightened him. But now it was more of a morbid curiosity. Where did all that skin go?

“She is safe,” Skulduggery said eventually. He sat on the edge of the hospital bed, looking down at the hat in his hands. “She…she asked me to come and see you.”

Please bring back my little girl, Desmond found himself scrawling the words without a second thought. Please. I need to see her.

“I don’t think that’s a very good idea right now,” Skulduggery replied gently. “She is going through something beyond anything I’ve ever witnessed, and until we know what we’re dealing with and how to make things right, I’m afraid that it’s better if she stays at a safe distance.”

Desmond could feel the tears dripping down his cheeks. His hands were trembling and there was nothing he could do to stop them. So it was real. The feathers, the screaming.

The blood.

Skulduggery reached over, somewhat awkwardly, and put a gloved hand over Desmond’s. “I am sorry, Desmond.”

Swallowing back more tears, Desmond scribbled again.

What will happen to her? Is she a monster?

“No,” Skulduggery said quickly. “She is…changing. There are things happening greater than you or I, and she made choices – she took the brunt of the forces at play to protect those she loved. For the greater good, but it has caused her a lot of change, and suffering. She never meant to hurt you.”

Can you protect her?

Skulduggery was still. “I can try.” He cleared his throat, and stood. “I’d better go, and leave you to rest.”

Wait, Desmond’s silent plea caught Skulduggery’s attention as he waved a hand to stop him leaving. I need to ask something of you. Please.

“Anything.”

He hurriedly scrawled his request, having to backtrack and smudge out a few mistakes along the way, but finally, he turned the board back to the skeleton.

You must have something magic to make people forget. I don’t want my family to be burdened by my daughter’s disappearance having anything to do with my situation now. My Stephanie is not to blame. Please, there has to be something you can do to make us forget.

For a while, Skulduggery seemed to think on it. Then he replaced his hat on his skull, reached into his collared shirt, and a new face, different to his previous one, flowed up over the bone. This one had black hair and deep-set eyes.

“I might have something that could work. You’ll need to give me a day or two to modify it, and there’s no guarantee it will even be successful as it’s untested on erasing events after the fact. But I can try.”

Desmond nodded along, before scrawling again. Let me be your test subject.

“I wouldn’t want to expose you to any possible side effects, Desmond,” Skulduggery began, but Desmond waved him away, and pointed at his scribbles again. Defeated, the skeleton wearing the false face sighed. “Very well. Give me some time, and I’ll be back.”

-:-

It took longer than a few days – in fact, it took nearly two and a half weeks, but true to his word Skulduggery returned. It was the morning that Desmond was being discharged, finally able to go home with his bereft family. Melissa was still tearfully speaking with the police, Alice clinging to her side and her hand clasped tightly in Desmond’s as he sat beside them in a wheelchair.

The next thing he knew, Skulduggery was stepping through the big automatic doors into the hospitals main foyer. It was the walk that gave him away; so purposeful, so dignified. Relief washed through Desmond at the sight of the skeleton detective – although, he was a little cloudy as to why he was so relieved. Since his concussion had eased and he’d regained a little more of his senses, he couldn’t quite grasp the details of that conversation he’d had two weeks ago.

He had had to erase all the things he’d written on the whiteboard – the doctors theorized it would likely take a few months until his vocal cords healed well enough for him to speak again, and even then, it would likely mean another few months following that in speech therapy.

“Edgely’s,” Skulduggery greeted them all kindly, and Melissa just about threw herself at the detective in a rage, demanding answers. How dare he be so absent when their family was so distraught? How could he live with himself when Desmond nearly died and Stephanie was gone?

Her grief came out so venomous, it felt sharp to Desmond even though it wasn’t aimed his way. He hated when things drove his beautiful wife to such fury.

Skulduggery was pressing something between his hands, saying words that didn’t quite make sense to Desmond’s ears. Suddenly Melissa stopped her wrath and listened, confused. Alice was squeezing his hand tightly, completely wrapped with the words Skulduggery spoke. Something about a mugger, with a knife, hiding out in Grimwood. That sounded like it made sense, Desmond’s addled mind decided. Someone who hadn’t meant to hurt him, just tried to rob him and it all got out of hand so quickly, someone with enough remorse to call an ambulance before fleeing the scene.

Stephanie’s panicked eyes were fading from the picture. Like an oil painting that was having something new painted over the top. She wasn’t gone – well, she was, but she had gone on a case. Off saving the world again. Different colours changed the shape of the scene. A blurred face hidden by a dark mask. The flash of a blade, painted over claws covered in blood. That’s right, wasn’t it?

Whatever was in Skulduggery’s hands was glowing a beautiful soft lavender, brightest at its core. Desmond marveled at it as the skeleton’s deep voice seemed to captivate even the police officers standing around them, two of them no longer trying to physically restrain Melissa from attacking Skulduggery. Her eyes were clouded, uncertain. Then they cleared, and she was nodding along like it was all perfectly simple.

All of a sudden it was over, Skulduggery pocketing the thing he’d been holding onto. He was here to wish them well, to bring them his deepest condolences once again about the horrible mugging gone wrong just the other day. That they were doing everything in their power to track down the person responsible and bring them to justice.

Relief was the first of many things Desmond felt. Thank goodness Skulduggery had come to see them, to reassure them they were going to be safe. The skeleton detective was saying something about posting someone on guard around the Edgley house for a few days, just to be sure. Grimwood had already been locked down and safe guarded against any other potential intruders. They were on the case, hunting down the mugger so that this would never happen again.

Everything was going to be all right. Desmond gave his little girls hand a squeeze, and she looked down at him and smiled. He couldn’t crane his neck back very far without putting painful pressure on the healing wound across his throat, still heavily bandaged, but she reached down and wrapped her arms around his shoulders in a big hug.

Shortly after, they left the hospital, Desmond successfully discharged and sent home with a lap full of painkillers and anti-inflammatory medications. A follow-up appointment scheduled with the doctor for next week to check on his throat injury. Melissa drove them home in a subdued silence, Alice in the backseat staring idly out the window. Skulduggery had given him a plain white envelope when they had parted ways with the detective in the parking lot, and as the girls had been fussing about getting all of Desmond’s things from his hospital stay packed into the boot, the skeleton had passed him the envelope with the instructions that it was only to be opened when he contacted Desmond that it was safe to do so.

Desmond was still confused by that instruction. Why wouldn’t it be safe to open the envelope at any other time? Why did he have to wait? Surely, he reasoned with himself, if Detective Pleasant had said so, then it was to be done.

And then their eldest daughter vanished. Stephanie had disappeared, as if into thin air, barely a week later, with no trace or sign left behind. Grimwood was completely deserted – even the blood on the pavement outside the front entryway had been power-washed clean. Where he’d had that run in with that mugger, where his injury had occurred.

The heartbreak was immeasurable. He felt like he’d rather the pain of his throat being slashed all over again, if it would stop the pain and sorrow in his heart. Oh, how Melissa and Alice cried. There were many nights of lost sleep in the following weeks, many visits from the police and many more from Skulduggery, promising that everything and anything that could be done to find their first born child would be done. But their beautiful dark-haired daughter was gone.

Still, Desmond held onto the envelope, like whatever was within it held all of the answers to the universe, answers he somehow knew he wasn’t ready for. Answers beyond his comprehension of the world.

But curiosity won out eventually. It didn’t take all that long, really, for Desmond’s resolve to wear thin. He lasted several months, lasted through many trips to the doctors and through many sessions of speech therapy. Through the long days of bereavement and through the many hours of holding his sobbing wife, of cradling his youngest daughter until she cried herself to sleep. The envelope sat in the back of his sock drawer, where he’d forgotten about it many times already; some times from the outstanding circumstances and some times because he had thought it such a good hiding place, surely no one would find it. Until he had come across it in search of a pair of socks with no holes in the heels, and he had remembered. And the curiosity had started chewing at his mind again.

Finally, one night when Melissa had gone to fetch Alice from a slumber party that their daughter had wanted to come home early from, Desmond took the mystery envelope and taken a walk down to the pier. It had been one of Stephanie’s favourite places to spend her teenage years, if he was remembering right. It gave him some comfort facing the prospect of opening the envelope he’d been made to promise he wouldn’t dare peek into until he was told he could.

He had considered calling Skulduggery, to double check if it really was all that serious that he not open it, but had reasoned that if the sly detective really hadn’t wanted him to look inside it, he wouldn’t have given Desmond the envelope in the first place.

So he sat on a rock, running his thumb over the white folded piece of sealed card, and tried to imagine what was inside.

Then, he slipped his thumb under the seal, and gingerly tore the envelope open. Into his hand fell a long, dark grey feather, speckled with white. It was beautiful.

The night of the incident came flooding back to him, almost knocking him right off the rock he’d perched on. Getting out of the car at Grimwood several months ago now, hearing the sounds of pained cries and retching. Seeing his eldest daughter, blood and dark matter running down her arms, vomiting into the plant pot on the front step by the door. The panic in her eyes, the way her teeth bulged and grew sharp. The thudding in his chest as he felt so torn – to run screaming from the horrible scene, and to run closer, to bundle his baby girl up into his arms and try and protect her.

The way she’d shoved him away, the strange gurgle he made, echoing in his ears, as his breath suddenly went all strange and something hot went running down his neck and stained his shirt. The way he’d fallen back against the car, the way Stephanie had been screaming and crying. She had fallen to her knees in front of him, blubbering and saying she was sorry, she was so sorry -

The sirens overhead, waking in the ambulance. Opening his eyes to the ward after the emergency surgery. Who had called the ambulance? The tears as his wife and daughter came running in on the heels of the doctors.

Desmond was shaking. It was a splash of salty sea-spray over his face that brought him back, found his feet under him. Somehow he’d stood up in his shock, stumbled right to the edge of the pier, still clutching the feather, as if he were ready to cast it into the sea.

Oh, he remembered now. The conversation with Skulduggery. He had wanted to forget, and he had ruined it. Whatever the skeleton detective had done, Desmond had gone had ruined it for himself. Oh, you stupid man.

He took a step back, let himself plonk back down onto the rock, and held the feather close. He couldn’t stop the sobs as they shook his whole body. His daughter had turned into a monster, and now she was gone. And he would have given anything to forget all over again.

[skulduggery-pleasant-bp9]

Playing with a Coroner and a Detective is not wise - Skulduggery x Male!Reader Universe

WARNING!: Working on corpses, a bit graphic, cutting bodies, mention of murder, cursing AND MORE ! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED !!!

Part 10 – M/n’s Workplace

They arrived at Grimwood and M/n opened the second garage, for Skulduggery, to park his car in. M/n parked his own car in the main garage and then got out with Ghastly. They waited for Stephanie and Pleasant in the living room.

Soon enough they arrived.

“Follow me. Sister, you shut up about it, otherwise I will make you regret your life.”, M/n said, still a bit coldly.

She perked up that he even talked to her.

“Of course, Bubba. I...I owe you that much for my outburst earlier.”, she said softly.

“I told you, that it’s fine. Now let’s go. I am curious if they work.”, M/n said and then speed walked away.

The others followed and Stephanie was very confused, while Skulduggery turned his head to Ghastly in questioning.

“What is he talking about ?”, he asked the tailor.

“He said he bought something not long ago. Something that projects illusions over your body and makes you look different. He wants to try them out on us, so we can follow him.”

“Then I should call Kenspeckle.”, Skulduggery said.

“That you should.”, Ghastly agreed.

M/n stood in front of a wall and ran his hand over a certain area, then the wall slid to its right and a small entry was granted. He turned to the other three.

“Get in already. Down the staircase and open the big steel door.”, M/n instructed.

Skulduggery went in first, then Stephanie and Ghastly. M/n followed after them and closed the entrance. He pulled out his phone and turned on the flashlight, he gave it to Ghastly, who gave it Stephanie, who in turn gave it Skulduggery, to light the way.

“Why no Magic ?”, she asked.

“Because this is a house that is inflammable and I don’t want that.”, M/n answered.

“Oh...”

“Yeah, oh.”

Soon enough they reached the door out of steel and Skulduggery opened it. They entered the room and M/n turned on the lights. Stephanie’s and Ghastly’s eyes widened, in shock and awe. This was looking like a laboratory for everything that is technological.

On the left of the room were closets made out of steel, that raked up to the ceiling of the room, with big and many compartments, which had doors and keyholes, so they were locked too. On the right of the room were a lot of machine parts, big parts and two doors that led to god knew where. In the back in the center of the room, was a big desk. It was messy with papers, tools, screws and nuts. There was a small lamp too and a big, cold white glowing lamp in the middle of the ceiling too, illuminating the while room. It was beautiful and messy at the same time.

“Here I put all the stuff together, that I order from the industries.”, M/n explained.

“So you order all the things and just have to piece them together ?”, Stephanie asked.

“Yeah. It is like building Lego. You get a package, all the parts and a blueprint. All you have to do is put it all together and read the blueprint correctly. Easy.”, M/n said, shrugging his shoulders.

“Huh.”

M/n pulled, out of his pants pockets, a pair of keys and pulled out one of the many he had on the chain. He went to the closets and then they all saw him squinting. He grunted in frustration.

“Stupid eyes...”, he muttered under his breath.

He went to the desk, unlocked the left drawer on it and got out a pair of glasses. Then he went back to the closets and followed the labels with his finger, reading them all and that continued for a bit, until he found the right compartment. He unlocked it and got out two small, black, round buttons.

Ghastly and Stephanie looked at them bemused, while Skulduggery pointed at the items in his hands, with his head crooked to the side, letting confusion ebb in his voice.

“And these are supposed to hide our actual looks ?”

“Yes. Now don’t start crying and mocking them. These things are really good. I tried them out once, but I ain’t a Mage, nor am I a Skeleton, so we have to see how they work on you two.”, M/n said.

“You gotta be joking.”, Stephanie groaned.

“I am dead serious. Now, Ghastly, put one on your cheek and press this button.”, M/n instructed and pointed at a small button on the side of the big button.

Ghastly took one and looked at it in suspicion. Then he pressed it to his face and it surprisingly stayed on his left cheek, then he pressed the small button. It turned green slightly and in a flash an illusion fell over Ghastly.

Stephanie stared in shock at the tailor, while M/n smirked in triumph. The illusion was almost flawless. It leaked a few scars, nothing M/n can’t program. He turned to Skulduggery.

“Your turn.”, he said.

“Does it work ?”, Ghastly asked.

“Ghastly, you look almost like someone entirely else. Some scars are flickering through, but otherwise, it is a perfect disguise.”, Stephanie told him.

“A small issue, that, I can reprogram. No worries. This Baby will run perfectly, Ghastly.”, M/n said kindly.

Skulduggery did the same as Ghastly did and soon an illusion fell over the Skeleton, but it had a few flaws. One of his empty eye sockets glitched through and one of his hands was still bone. M/n clicked his tongue. He can fix that.

“Alright you two, leave them on and come with me. The red door is where we are going. Sis, you stay here.”, M/n said.

“Why ?”, she asked.

“Very tiny space.”

“Oh...”

“Yep. We’ll be back in a bit.”, M/n told her and then unlocked the red door.

He led the two men inside there and then entered himself, locking the door behind himself too.

“Welcome back, Corrupted.”, a robotic male voice answered.

“Hello, Iron. Did you miss me ?”, M/n asked.

“Very funny, Sir.”, the robotic voice replied dryly.

“Do we have to know who Iron is and were ?”, Ghastly asked worried, looking around everywhere.

“Iron is an AI that I created a while ago. He is mostly turned off and still in development, but until now, it is functioning just fine. Iron is my security system and my personal computer for a lot of things. He calculates everything flawlessly, to make sure I am making no mistakes, he calibrates all dangers, before I do something stupid and more. Don’t worry, he can only see us through a small camera, that can’t be hacked.”, M/n explained calmly.

“You made Iron ?”, Skulduggery asked.

“From scratch, yes. Without help.”, M/n confirmed.

“Starting all systems, Sir.”, Iron said.

The lights turned on and Ghastly and Skulduggery saw a lot of monitors and a big keyboard in the room. M/n sat down in his chair and then waited for the monitors to turn on, which they soon did.

“Thank you, Iron. I need the connections to the two buttons on the two males’ faces. As you can see, I need to reprogram and adjust them.”

“Of course, Sir. Starting search for Buttons...”

Soon they were shown on the monitors.

“Starting connection to their softwares...”

After a few minutes, they were inside their systems and M/n instantly got to work. Ghastly thought it was uncomplicated, but as he saw the strings of coding, he grew a bit dizzy. How did this Teenage boy handle all of that ?

Ghastly’s was the first one. The illusion flickered, got pulled and stretched, until everything sat perfectly and then the textures were changed. After he saved everything, Ghastly was stable. Then M/n went to Skulduggery’s illusion projector and did the same. After a while, the illusion sat and there was no glitching, flickering and buzzing anymore.

“Iron, save everything and then shut everything down.”

“Understood, Sir.”

With that M/n got up from his chair and walked over to the two disguised Mages. He smiled in triumph.

“You both will LOVE the designs.”, M/n stated proudly.

Then he unlocked and opened the door again, leading them out of the room. They spotted Stephanie and as she looked at the three, her jaw dropped in shock. M/n grinned.

“The blueprints and instructions really do wonders, when you understand them, eh, little Sister ?”, M/n asked teasingly.

“Are these two really still Ghastly and Skulduggery ?”, she asked her Brother.

“They are.”, M/n assured.

“Do we look that different ?”, Ghastly asked.

M/n chuckled, took off his glasses and then left their sides. The two men were too scared to face each other. M/n pulled out a big full body mirror from behind the left closet in the back. They looked and stared at their reflections in shock.

“What the...”, Ghastly started.

“Hell...”, Skulduggery ended.

M/n smirked proudly.

Ghastly had silver hair, his skin tone was lighter, his face had no scars and he actually looked handsome. He liked that face and smiled after his moment of shock.

Skulduggery had blond hair, his skin tone was almost like Ghastly’s just a bit darker, his face had no scars, but freckles here and there, his eyes were a soft green tone, his nose fit the face perfectly, it wasn’t too sharp, nor too round and it was all over his body, as he found out. He took off one of his gloves and even there he had skin and fingernails. It had been so long since he looked human...

Stephanie started at them and then at her Brother.

“You are a genius, you know that ? They look awesome !”, she said with a big grin.

“I know I am perfect. Thank you, Sister. I needed that Ego boost.”

She hugged her Brother tightly and he returned the hug.

“I...wow...this is amazing.”, Ghastly said in awe.

“Impressive...”, Skulduggery said in shock.

“Don’t get used to them. Remember, only 12 hours battery, then they need to be charged and that means you will have your old looks back. They aren’t made to hide your true selves from you. They are made for cases, such as this one. We go to my workplace, ask some questions, inspect the bodies if they are there and then leave. An undercover mission, nothing more.”, M/n reminded the two men.

Ghastly frowned at that reminder.

Yeah...not like he could keep that miracle and hide his scarred face... Would have been too good to be true...

M/n noticed Ghastly’s sadness instantly and tsked softly.

“Ghastly, just because you have a scarred face, doesn’t that mean, that you are ugly. In the end, looks don’t matter. It depends on who you are on the inside. If someone can’t see your worth on the inside, then they aren’t worth it. Trust me. You don’t look all that bad.”

“You think so ?”, Ghastly asked.

“I KNOW so. You are handsome in your own special ways. A face is only a small piece of the whole thing and almost unimportant. Personality counts. The person you are on the inside, is what counts. You could be the most handsome looking man, but with a disgusting personality or attitude, no one would want and love you. You get what I mean ?”

“I...I get it. Thank you, Corrupted.”

M/n smiled and patted Ghastly’s shoulder.

Then Skulduggery whipped out his phone and called someone. He left the room and went up the stairs as he talked with someone, while the other three slowly followed after the Skeleton.

“Now then...I need to make you fake IDs and then we should be alright.”

“What will be my name ?”

“Yuri. Yuri Jonathan.”, M/n told Ghastly.

“Skulduggery ?”

“Sammy Thorn. Cause he is a lousy skeleton and a thorn in my ass.”, M/n joked.

Ghastly chuckled.

“What about Kenspeckle ?”

“I’m unsure. Maybe Lucius Avery.”

“Your Sister ?”

“Lumi Jackson.”

Then Skulduggery came back to them in the hallway.

“Kenspeckle is coming, after a lot of convincing.”, he informed.

“Good.”, M/n replied.

Then he boy left and went to his own room, got out the things he needed and made the fake IDs for all four of them. After he was done with all four of them, the door was knocked on and Skulduggery let an older man inside, who seemed a bit grumpy. He seemed very untrusting to Skulduggery. Probably because he wasn’t a Skeleton anymore.

M/n smiled at the man kindly.

“Hello, you must be Dr. Kenspeckle Grouse. I made you all fake IDs, so you can get in, in case they will ask for IDs. My name is Corrupted. My Sister over there has not chosen a name yet.”, he introduced.

The older male looked at M/n with intrigue. He then stretched out his hand, for a shake. M/n gladly accepted and shook the man’s hand.

“That is correct. I am Dr. Kenspeckle Grouse. That sounds perfect. Then I think, you need this, right ?”, Kenspeckle asked and gave M/n a small picture of himself.

M/n took it and smiled brightly.

“Yes, thank you so much. With that we have a picture too, so we don’t have to worry, but we should disguise you a bit. I can alter the picture a little bit. Please follow me, Sir.”, M/n said.

He led Kenspeckle away and after a few minutes came back, with a man in white hair, blue eyes and he looked younger than he really was. He was in slight shock.

“Impressive, isn’t it ?”, Ghastly asked Kenspeckle with a smile.

“So it really was you two. Also an illusion, eh ?”, the older man asked.

“Yes, exactly.”, Skulduggery confirmed.

“Now we have to go. Everyone to the Pontiac Firebird. We are leaving.”, M/n said and led them all to the garage.

-Time skip-

They arrived at M/n’s workplace and he quickly led them all inside and ran to his Boss’ office with them. He knocked at the office door and a man opened it. He had a bald head, a small, yet neat black beard and dark blue eyes. He looked at M/n in shock and let him and the other four people inside.

“Corrupted, what are you doing here ? You have vacation.”, the man said.

“I’m sorry Boss, but I have a few questions. I got a visit at my house from two Detectives yesterday evening. They told me that two people went missing and they heard that I am a Coroner. They wanted me to ask, if you got any new people in here, in the last three days and if yes, if I can take a look at them. Apparently they suspect a murder on two men and I am known for my successful work. They introduced these three men to me and this girl is an apprentice of Mr. Avery. They are supposed to be my team and help me.”, M/n quickly explained in a big lie.

Skulduggery was impressed how flawlessly he lied.

The man stared at M/n in shock and then at the other four people. He sighed.

“I will need your IDs then.”, M/n’s Boss said softly.

They got out their fake IDs and gave them to him. The man checked them and then nodded and gave the IDs back to them, got up, opened the door and turned back to them.

“Follow me then.”, was all he said as he left.

The others followed him and M/n knew exactly where they are going. The mortuary room. As they entered it all, the four people, could see were big closet like things with big doors. Big compartments. The Boss of M/n went to the first few and pointed at them.

“These are the ones that came in recently and at the tenth door, the corpses of the past three days are over. I will clear out the room for you and sent the others on other tasks, so you have the room all to yourselves, Corrupted. Be careful and I hope you find, what you are looking for.”

“Thank you. Mr. Xavier.”, M/n thanked.

“You are welcome. Now I will be leaving.”

With that the man left and M/n got, out of a drawer, a pair of keys. He unlocked all ten doors, opened them and pulled out small platforms, where dead bodies laid on. Then he looked at Ghastly and Skulduggery.

“You know your small community best, so tell me who we are looking for.”, M/n demanded.

They looked over the ten corpses and soon enough saw two men. Two male Mages.

“I think that is them.”, Ghastly said and pointed at the two next to each other.

“That is them. They were known to be very good spies.”, Skulduggery confirmed.

“Alright, so number seven and eight are the ones. Okay. Ghastly get the cart over there, I will get the other one. I will put seven on your cart and eight on mine. Then you will follow me and we will start the inspection.”, M/n instructed quickly.

They jumped into action and M/n was quick to load the corpses on the carts. He led the four then to the laboratory that was a few steps away. Mr. Xavier stood in front of the closed doors of the lab.

“That’s them ?”, he asked.

“Yes, Sir. I am forbidden to share information with you. They said it was extremely important to only inform them, as they were from a secret organization.”, M/n informed.

“That is fine. You get such cases sometimes. Do what you have to and don’t tell me anything. Just tell me when you are finished and leaving.”

“I will, Boss.”

With that the man went out of their way and M/n rushed into the lab with the other four. As soon as the doors closed, M/n locked them and looked at them.

“Okay, we are inside and we have the bodies. Now we can work.”

“What are Skulduggery, your Sister and me going to be doing ?”, Ghastly asked.

“My Sister will listen to me and look away whenever I tell her to. You will take notes, Ghastly and Skulduggery can help a bit with giving tools. Maybe he will spot some things, which we, Kenspeckle and me, can’t spot.”

They nodded and M/n and Kenspeckle got out the tools, while he told his Sister to get out blank sheets of paper for Ghastly to write on and a pen. She rushed around and got him the things. He took them and then waited. The two Doctors prepared everything and then inspected the bodies from the outside first.

“Body eight has, some bruises on the left arm and chest. Seems like he was in a fight.”, M/n informed.

Ghastly noted it down.

“Body seven, scratch marks on the right leg, seems to be of fingernails and his right arm was burned.”, Kenspeckle informed.

“Which stage ?”, M/n asked.

“Second degree.”

Ghastly noted the information down. The two inspected the back too and saw that he must have slammed against something harsh. His back was showing bruises.

“Okay...let us check the eyes...”, M/n said.

Kenspeckle nodded and opened them. They had wide eyes as they saw the dead men’s eyes.

“What is it ?”, Ghastly asked.

“I....I’ve never seen this before...”, M/n muttered.

“Nor did I...”, Kenspeckle replied.

“What is it ?”, Stephanie asked.

“Their eyes are filled with black. No speck of white or anything. They are utterly black.”, M/n answered.

“We need to run tests on that.”, Kenspeckle told M/n.

“I know that.”, he replied dryly.

He was not amused to run tests on eyes... Kenspeckle carefully removed the eyes and put them on a small sample glass. M/n took one of each from him and then they went to inspect it closer with the Microscope. Skulduggery stood behind M/n and looked over his shoulder at the eyes.

“I fear we have to cut one of the eyes open and see if the black spread in there.”, Kenspeckle stated.

“What would that mean, if it spread ?”, M/n asked the Doctor.

“It would mean that Necromancy was used on them.”, he answered.

“Oh...Oh yay...”, M/n mumbled out unamused.

[luvnotpercival]

Hi, I’m Perci or Ink (she/he/they) Sometimes the hyperfixation takes over causing a severe reblogging spree. I do a fuck ton of fanart here, so beware!

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PODCASTS -> The Bright Sessions, Welcome to Night Vale, The Lost Cat Podcast, Archive 81, The Magnus Archives, The Magnus Protocol, Rusty Quill Gaming, Malevolent, Wolf 359, The Penumbra Podcast, Within The Wires, Stellar Firma, The Elysium Project, I Am In Eskew, The White Vault, Old Gods Of Appalachia, The Adventure Zone, Within The Wires, The Silt Verses, Liars & Leeches, Dreamboy, The Black Tapes, The Deca Tapes, Dungeons And Daddies, SAYER, The Night Post, TANIS, The Dead Letter Office of Somewhere Ohio, The Department of Variance Somewhere Ohio, Sherlock & Co,

SHOWS, BOOKS and ANIME -> The Mandela Catalogue, Supernatural, Good Omens, Metal Family, Discworld, Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy, Twin Peaks, The Bad Batch, Hadestown, The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Sander Sides, Daniel Thrasher, House M.D., Sherlock, Six Of Crows, Saiki K, Chainsaw Man, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures, Batman: The Animated Series, LUCIDS (Web Series), Skulduggery Pleasant, Jujutsu Kaisen, One Punch Man, Tokyo Ghoul, Rivers Of London, Mob Psycho 100, Prodigal Son,

[evilestgentleman]

The Bracket

Round 3 is underway, links to all current and previous polls beneath read more

Round 3

Group 1 26/6

Dorian Gray vs Elias Bouchard

Shelly De Killer vs Gustavo Fring

Essek Thelyss vs Dracula

Hannibal Lector vs Jean Descole

Group 2 28/6

Ty Betteridge vs Jin Guangyao

The Gentlemen vs Babenon Dosal

The Phantom of the Opera vs Count Dooku

James Moriarty vs Kristoph Gavin

Round 2

Group 1 19/6

The Master vs Dorian Gray

Elias Bouchard vs Peppermint Butler

Silco vs Shelly De Killer

Gustavo Fring vs Elim Garak

Group 2 20/6

Hannibal Lecter vs Toffee

The Gentleman Ghost vs Jean Descole

Sebastian Michaelis vs Essek Thelyss

Doc Scratch vs Dracula

Group 3 21/6

The Gentleman with the Thistledown Hair vs Ty Betteridge

Jin Guangyao vs Jigsaw/John Kramer

Dr Jekyll vs The Gentlemen

Babenon Dosal vs Luxord

Group 4 22/6

Spy vs The Phantom of the Opera

Viren vs Count Dooku

James Moriarty vs Scar

Kristoph Gavin vs The Penguin

Round 1

Group 1

The Master (Robert Delgado portrayal, Doctor Who) vs Dennis Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)

Dorian Gray (The Portrait of Dorian Gray) vs Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)

Ghirahim (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword) vs Elias Bouchard (The Magnus Archives)

Fate (Death and Taxes) vs Peppermint Butler (Adventure Time)

Group 2

Silco (Arcane) vs Swain (League of Legends)

Billy Flynn (Chicago) vs Shelly De Killer (Ace Attorney)

Gustavo Fring (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) vs Captain Hook (Peter Pan)

Elim Garak (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) vs Sinestro (DC/Green Lantern)

Group 3

Xu Wenwu (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) vs Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs (1991))

Elijah Mikaelson (The Vampire Diaries, The Originals) vs Toffee (Star vs. the Forces of Evil)

Skulduggery Pleasant (Skulduggery Pleasant) vs The Gentleman Ghost (DC)

Jean Descole (Professor Layton) vs Lucifer (The Sandman)

Group 4

Gabriel (Good Omens) vs Sebastian Michaelis (Black Butler)

Lysandre (Pokemon XY) vs Essek Thelyss (Critical Role)

Doc Scratch (Homestuck) vs Aro (Twilight)

Moriarty (Sherlock Holmes) vs Dracula (Dracula)

Group 5

Togami Byakuya (Danganronpa) vs The Gentleman with the Thistledown Hair (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell)

Saruman the White (The Lord of the Rings) vs Hubert von Vestra (Fire Emblem: Three Houses) (vs Ty Betteridge (woe.begone))

Jin Guangyao (Mo Dao Zu Shi/The Untamed) vs Ferdinand (Granblue Fantasy)

August Ruthven (The Case Study of Vanitas) vs Jigsaw/John Kramer (Saw)

Group 6

King Dice (Cuphead) vs Dr Jekyll (Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde)

The Gentlemen (Buffy) vs Griffith (Berserk)

Emet Selch (FFXIV) vs Babenon Dosal (Critical Role)

Luxord (Kingdom Hearts) vs Horde Prime (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)

Group 7

Spy (Team Fortress 2) vs Tywin Lannister (A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones)

Señor Senior, Sr. (Kim Possible) vs The Phantom of the Opera (The Phantom of the Opera)

Walter Strickler (Tales of Arcadia: Trollhunters) vs Viren (The Dragon Prince)

Count Dooku (Star Wars) vs Lestat (Interview with the Vampire)

Group 8

Gentle Criminal (My Hero Academia) vs James Moriarty (Fate/Grand Order)

Scar (The Lion King) vs Magneto (X-Men)

Kristoph Gavin (Ace Attorney) vs Zaroff (The Most Dangerous Game)

The Penguin (Batman) vs The Spider (The Spider and the Fly)

[canine-stimz]

Vaurien Scapegrace (Skulduggery Pleasant) with themes of feathers, knives/cutting, and pen writing requested by @ratmans-notebooks

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[Image ID: A set of nine images arranged in a three by three square.

Image 1: A gif of kinetic sand being cut into slices by a large knife.

Image 2: A close-up gif of glittery gold ink being drawn onto black paper.

Image 3: A gif of someone slicing a black and white striped soap bar

Image 4: A gif of someone panning the camera upwards to show numerous black feathers

Image 5: A still picture of Vaurien Scapegrace looking downwards.

Image 6: Someone extending a white paper wing, similar to a fan

Image 7: A gif of someone cutting a red bar of soap

Image 8: The word "Bang!" Being written in black ink on white paper

Image 9: A black mound of kinetic sand being cut in half to reveal multicolor sand in the middle

/End ID]

[nevermindigotthis]

Sooo, I know canon Mevolent is blond, but I like the dark haired version from Dead Men Walking too.

[nicstylus]

Skulduggery Pleasant Book Cover Redesign ✩ Master Post ✩

Here are all my covers in one place, all the thoughts and notes about each one and a link to the original post :] I had so much fun making these. Out of every project I've done, this is the one that wins 'most time spent' for sure. I'm so stoked with how they turned out!

Please read, I spent so long on this post... It's interesting I swear :]

Book One - Sceptre of the Ancients

Completed: ~ May 27th 2024 Links: Tom's Cover - Reddit Post (Ver 1.0) - Tumblr (Ver 1.0) (Ver 2.0) Changes made (besides character design/expressions):

Added the Book of Names to fill the empty space in the background

Repositioned Skulduggery and Serpine

Redesigned the Sceptre and changed it's lighting from white to black/purple

Changed the outfits of China and Serpine

Enlarged background flames

Notes:

Skulduggery's outfit: Grey suit, white shirt, black tie

Skulduggery is snapping with his right hand- summoning fire instead of already holding it

"Ghastly Black???" Yes, I draw Ghastly as a POC with asymmetrical scars. Yes, I'm aware he is not described as such

This is actually Version 2 of SOTA. I had to redo Serpine and Skul because I hated how they turned out the first time the more I looked at them.

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Book Two - Playing with Fire

Completed: April 20th 2024 Links: Tom's Cover - Reddit Post - Tumblr Post Changes made:

Redesigned the Grotesquery and repositioned it's... arm? Tentacles? whatever.

Swapped Tanith's Katana for a straight sword*

Changed outfits of Vengeous and Tanith (and Skulduggery's tie)

Added orangey light and sparks to fill the background

Notes:

Skulduggery's outfit: Black suit, blue shirt and black tie

This is the first time I've drawn the Grotesquery, and I still have to google the spelling every time I try to type it...

*I know that Tanith uses a katana, but 1) I think thats stupid purely out of spite (and reasons that make sense) and 2) I absolutely despise trying to draw curved blades

Worth noting again that I don't actually see Tanith like this in my head- but this version of her is more fun to draw imo. Here is how I see her.

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Book Three - The Faceless Ones

Completed: April 26th 2024 Links: Tom's Cover - Reddit Post - Tumblr Post Changes made:

Repositioned Skulduggery and fixed his anatomy

Swapped Valkyrie's black jacket for the jacket with red sleeves

Fixed Fletcher*

Added water reflections on the undersides of the Sea Hag and the Cleaver

Added more water splashes near the title

Notes:

Skulduggery's outfit: Navy suit, white shirt, ??? tie

I dont know that I ever want to draw the Sea Hag again- Tom definitely captured 'ugly creature' better than I did

*Fletcher done with Zero (!!) tracing :D (I mean all of it was but... It's a bad joke ok)

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Book Four - Dark Days

Completed: April 28th 2024 Links: Tom's Cover - Reddit Post - Tumblr Post Changes made:

Added the Faceless Ones portal to fill the background

Added Scapegrace and Thrasher to the zombie hoard

Brightened and added more detail to the zombies

Changed outfits of Sanguine and China

Notes:

Skulduggery's outfit: Black suit, white shirt, red tie

China <3 Billy Ray :] ...Jack :/

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Book Five - Mortal Coil

Completed: May 5th 2024 Links: Tom's Cover - Reddit Post - Tumblr Post Changes made:

Repositioned Skulduggery and fixed his anatomy

Added the Remnants flying/swirling around to fill the background

Replaced The Torment (?) with Kenspeckle Grouse*

Repositioned the headless horses

Redesigned Tesseract's mask

Swapped Valkyrie's black jacket for the jacket with red sleeves

Swapped the strange light in Valkyrie's hand for Necromancy and Fire

Fixed the lighting (esp on Tesseract) to favour the Dullahan's lantern

Changed the outfits of Tesseract, Dr Nye, and the Dullahan

Added hands reaching out of the Dullahan's carriage

Notes:

Skulduggery's outfit: Black suit, seafoam shirt, blue tie

*I'm aware its 'officially' the Torment on the Percival cover, but Kenspeckle won the 'who would you put here?' vote by a landslide on both reddit and tumblr so here he is in all his glory

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Book Six - Death Bringer

Completed: May 6th 2024 Links: Tom's Cover - Reddit Post - Tumblr Post Changes made:

Increased the purple lighting to fill empty space*

Redesigned Lord Vile

Redesigned Wreath's cane**

Changed Skulduggery's outfit

Made Valkyrie throw shadows instead of.. point at nothing?

Added the carved scars onto Melancholia

Increased shadows

Notes:

Skulduggery's outfit: Black suit, purple shirt, purple tie

*The official DB cover has suuuuper pretty flames on it, with the pink and purple lighting- I tried to replicate that as best I could, and actually liked how it turned out more purpley

**Solomon's cane turned into more of a staff/sceptre because I forgot was a cane oops- it would hurt to lean on :D

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Book Seven - Kingdom of the Wicked

Completed: May 12th 2024 Links: Tom's Cover - Reddit Post - Tumblr Post Changes made:

Enlarged the Universe background to fill empty space

Repositioned Skulduggery

Redesigned Mevolent's armour and exposed his face

Redesigned the Godkiller Sword

Redesigned Argeddion (added hair!)*

Put Kitana in Valkyrie's jacket as she takes it in the book

Swapped Mevolent's empty hand in favour of him holding Darquesse's head by her hair

Notes:

Skulduggery's outfit: Brown suit, cream shirt, ??? tie

This is my least favourite Phase 1 cover (and P1 book if I'm being honest) so I wasnt excited to work on this one- But! I think it turned out really well.

*I can't actually remember if Argeddion had hair or not in the story, but he looks bald on the cover and it looked strange to me

I really like how the stars and such turned out here :]

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Book Eight - Last Stand of Dead Men

Completed: May 26th 2024 Links: Tom's Cover - Reddit Post - Tumblr Post Changes made:

Added the Pyramid of the Brides of Blood Tears to fill empty space

Repositioned Ravel to face away*

Changed outfits of Ghastly, Saracen and Ravel

Added golden skull cufflinks to Skulduggery

Notes:

Skulduggery's outfit: Blue pinstripe suit, white shirt, ??? tie (and the golden skull cufflinks!)

*I decided to have Ravel facing away for two reasons: 1) To hide his eyes and 2) Because he's a BACKSTABBING BIT- yeah

Is the Yellow mist: Sand from the Brides? The Golden Eyes effect? You decide!

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Book Nine - The Dying of the Light

Completed: July 20th 2024 Links: Tom's Cover - Reddit Post - Tumblr Post Changes made:

Darkened and enlarged clouds to fill empty space

Added Devastation Day imagery behind Darquesse

Repositioned China and Valkyrie to show the red daggers and Meryyn Sigil tattoo respectively

Repositioned Sanguine raise his sunglasses to expose lack of eyes

Enlarged Tanith to fill space

Changed the outfits of Skulduggery, Tanith, and Valkyrie

Swapped Tanith's Katana for a straight sword

Turned the plain/random blue light near China into glowing sigils

Notes:

Skulduggery's outfit: Black suit, dark grey shirt shirt, black tie

You can see the bones in Valkyrie's right hand because her lightning is so bright.

The sigil tattoos under China's eyes and on her left wrist are glowing, because she is actively wielding her magic red daggers.

This is my favourite one. Part of that is probably because it turned out the best (I had 8 9 other ones to practice on haha)

I love how the Title looks like smoldering embers. Really gives that apocalyptic feel that most of the book gives imo

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Overall notes and thoughts:

I struggle with drawing kids/ young teenagers, but I think I did a good job of making Val look like shes growing up

Her eyebags get bigger/darker with each new cover lol

Skulduggery is wearing a different outfit in each cover! It starts with just the shirt, then the tie, then by Mortal Coil he's wearing a completely different suit each time (I really like this detail)

The Dying of the Light was definitely the cover that changed the most as I worked on it, and it also turned out to be my favourite

The Dark Days changed the least (although Playing with Fire and Last Stand of Dead Men both stayed relatively the same as well) On to Phase Two (after a break but they'll happen at some point) :D

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[leaf-sam]

Introducing: Skulduggery Pleasant Oc

Names: Kea Ves (taken) , Kassandra Silva (given)

Magic: Adept (Vitakinesis)

Species: Human

Gender: female

Birth: 30/04/1938

Age: 84 (since the SP series ended in 2022)

Location: Germany

Sexuality: questioning, but for sure ace and 💫women💫

Relations: Kaveh Fade (brother), Marga Silva (mother, dead), Timo Silva (father), Ash Nova (mentor)

Occupation: professional lifesaver

General interests: scar collecting, experimenting with powers, sharks, horror movies

Music: anything that makes her feel badass(no,not taylor swift)

Books: The 'Scythe' series

Fav school subjects: biology, english and chemestry

Looks: freckles, white hair (orginal haircolor: light brown), wolf cut, septum, several ear piercings, green-brown eyes

Clothing: long black coat with patches, blaco cargo pants, white sleeveless top

other infos: is right-handed

About her: "I like long movie evenings and general chilling with my blähaj. And no, just because I can heal you doesn't neccessarily mean that I will, especially not when it's just a scratch!"

[silverior968]

Shudderkin propaganda for @sp-fanclub 's ship wars. You might notice that this is a polished version of one of the drawings from my last propaganda post :]

[Image ID: A digital drawing featuring two smaller drawings of Anton Shudder and Larrikin Fetter from the Skulduggery Pleasant series, the first having them pictured from the waist up, the second from the shoulders up. The background is dark shades of red and blue. The drawings feature somewhat painterly rendering and soft lineart. The drawing to the left has Larrikin, depicted as a chimeristic black person with golden brown skin, hazel eyes and ginger-and-brown curly hair, pictured from behind, their face obscured. They're embracing Anton, depicted as an irish-eastern asian man with dark spots under his eyes, a gaunt face and black hair with gray streaks, who is crying, his eyes squeezed shut and hands holding tight to the back of Larrikin's shirt. His hair is cut short and his face is pressed against Larrikin's shoulder. His clothes are all black. Larrikin has his hair in a ponytail with a yellow handkerchief, and is wearing a loose white shirt. He has a glowing golden halo behind his head. The second drawing has Anton pictured from the behind, obscuring his face. Larrikin is pictured from the front now, one of his hands on Anton's shoulderblades and the other in his hair. They have a serene smile on their face, and their pupils are glowing, shedding golden light on their face. The halo is still in place. The artist's signature, Silverior968, is overlayed over the image./ End ID]

[burning-sol]

anyways my early plural characters would be like. "ahah!! the character but they have the EVIL side" except not always?? its been a wacky history. i blame skulduggery pleasant first and foremost, and the mlp fandom, and undertale, and whatever else i must have watched. anyways i then proceeded to write this entire post and put in too much labour to not post it so i curse thee.

the first was my sona character who i made before anything. (based on stuff from my real life) they had an evil black snake. then i added a white cat that was meant to be good like it were the opposite of the snake before turning out to also be evil but just in a different way. and then there was a grey wolf i added which i think was meant to appear evil but was actually good unlike the other two bitches.

there was my mlp alicorn oc who was a result of an evil bad pony basically shoving dead souls inside of them that were from different times and places, for experimenting reasons. this included a serial killer and i think some others?? but the only ones i remember clearly are my ocs icicle blossom (child) and shining meadow (caretaker) who actually knew eachother when they were alive.

they came from a time where tldr an alicorn ruler was driven to 'madness' and so the pony citizens started a war against her. shining meadow didn't agree with the ruler, but for some reason there weren't enough resources for the resistance?? so shining meadow joined the queen's side but sent food and money back to icecicle blossom. but one day between a misunderstanding and a fucked up pony soldier, icicle blossom ended up being killed, but i don't thinking shining meadow found out until the ends days. shining meadow had ended up becoming a general at some point (because why not) so basically not only did she find out all her efforts were for nothing, to cap off her despair she got fucking GUILLOTINED not long after <- none of this is altered in retrospect, this was legit the story and like yeah i still wasnt in highschool yet. so anyways, neither of THEM were evil, meadow was just morally grey and blossom was just an innocent kid.

then i made original human characters where several of them made pacts with demons. if you summoned a demon and performed an act of great pain then you could make a wish in exchange for your soul. my main character was a child whose parents wanted a wish and didn't love their child enough to not be utterly cruel, so they performed the ritual wishing for eternal life but forcing the "act of great pain" part on their child. except they fucked up the contract with their wording so the demon just ended up killing them for fun (they didn't make themselves immune to murder). so yeah then that character has a demon attached to them. which is EVIL but they're a demon so you can't rlly blame em. i forgive the big bird demon they did nothing wrong other than everything they did wrong.

and ig in current day i DO have a system oc, but im not gonna talk abt em because they don't have any story yet. but they do have an alter that's just a big rat and so that means that they're clearly superior to all these other posers.

anyways, big fan of vyncent sol. big fan of lucy elfen lied. big fan of peter and exandroth. big fan of nightmare moon. big fan of frisk and chara. big fan of probably some other characters i forgot. if this post made you cringe you can press a big red button that vaporises me its on your lef-- **i am turned to dust**