#surprise lore drop lol

[bluetorchsky]

Calypso Bells was recruited by Sir Wilford IV himself, but not many Toppats really took to her presence, especially when some started to find out about her mind reading powers as she started her job as a bartender.

Fast forward in time, Calypso has gotten older but hasn’t been able to expand her pool of “friends”. Some she can call her mutuals or acquaintances, she has two kids she’s taken under her wing (becoming their unofficial mother), and she does more than being a bartender. She sometimes helps out on missions, or helps to gather intel with some of the Toppat scouts.

But no one really wanted to approach her to just chat. Everyone wanted something from her and in return, she wanted something back. Until she met Accordion and Violin. She did get off the wrong foot with the couple, not making the greatest of impressions when she used her powers to hurt Violin, making up rumors to try and fill her pockets. But when she got into trouble and was on the verge of being thrown out, the husbands bailed her out.

What stunned her was that they asked for nothing in return, as they were just doing their jobs. It made her rethink about how she used her powers, especially after one late night conversation with Accordion, reprimanding her for what she did to his husband and to those who just joined the clan.

It took some time for her to gain their trust and apologize, but she now considers them to be her only friends and the only people she can trust with her secrets. She takes care of them and their family, just as they take care of her and her family.

It might be them against the world sometimes, but they’ll always have each other’s backs since no one else seems to. They’ll all learn to open up a bit more to others, especially those they call family, and make more connections with some other clan members. It seems like Thomas Chestershire and Geoffrey Plumb are good candidates to start with…

[genericpuff]

my unabridged thoughts on 278-279:

[the-nysh]

Do you think we'll ever learn the connection between God and Saitama? For me I think that's the biggest chekov's gun of the manga (since in the wc isn't fully developed)

Hmm…it’s true that the wc has barely scratched the surface while the manga’s been steadily setting things up with multiple linked arcs (with the cubes, more corrupted individuals, etc) showing how god(no ID) is likely the series’ endgame Big Bad behind the scenes.

Personally I’m hoping his connection to Saitama remains unlinked - where it’s important to me that Saitama’s just a regular guy who’s earned his power thru hard work + willpower - cause if he’s some special ‘chosen one’ by god or whatever, then all his personal achievements thus far would feel invalidated (and I wouldn’t want to see that.) So I prefer a Saitama who’s accidentally pissed off god by breaking his set rules (the limiter) into a forbidden realm of power that god himself can no longer directly control. Where Saitama’s now a free-roaming wildcard and anomalous threat to the balance of the world in opposition to god’s existence without ever even knowing about it. All that good fun stuff~

The story’s early throwaway line “it’s as if a god resides in his body” with respect to Saitama’s power (way back during his hero test) could hint or foreshadow many things to come, but whatever it is, we’ve also seen just how hostile and increasingly desperate god seems to be towards destroying him and humanity (along with unsealing himself - I’m sure Blast knows far much more about it he’s yet to reveal), and finding all the more vessels (victims) to exploit as a means + power conduits towards that goal.

The wildest speculation I’ve seen on that front would be if god’s aiming to mentally break Saitama to become the perfect physical vessel to finally advent into this world’s dimension. Orrrrrr that god -is- a future version of Saitama from an alternate time/worldline. And that would be O.O;;; ???? (almost encroaching into looping convoluted orv territory there) along with the whole Saitama -is- the world’s doomed god-level threat from the prophecy. I’ve seen all such related ideas brought up by fans before! So whatever the truth actually is (which for now is a big maybe and we shall see), at the rate the two stories (manga + wc) are going, we’ll probably receive more god coverage and lore answers from the manga all in due time long before the wc ever gets to it. :’D

[akkivee]

nabbing from twitter lol

who in hypmic:

caught ur attention first: ichiro

first fav: ichiro and jakurai

current fav: kuukou💜💜💜

first least fav: samatoki-sama lol

least fav now: ?????

fav division: bat 💜💜💜

fav ship: ichikuu, riodice, mtrOT3

fav song: kaigen and osaka billion dreams for fav stage song even tho no one asked LOL

fav media: drama tracks and manga

fav official art: i have a lot lmao but these came to mind

[navy-the-tiger]

So I've had this idea in the back of my head for literally years but I was too nervous to do anything about it. Then I found @sonic-fankid-showdown and realized the cringe culture is dead and started thinking about it more and worked up the courage to free them from my brain. I gotta thank you so, so much for that.

Idk if I'm going to get into the tourny but regardless feel free to ask questions about them! They are just baby so they wouldn't be answering directly but y'know

Info about them under the cut lol

Did you know that the Biolizard can reproduce asexually, and those purplish pink orbs you attack during its boss fight are its eggs? Really morbid when you think about it, but it's canon.

I have a headcanon that these eggs spawn as a defense mechanism, like, "oh no I'm about to die, better make sure I live on through offspring, maybe use them as shields and weapons too. Nothing wrong with that at all" and then it's just. Bam. Eggs spawn out of thin air. Yippee.

Since the Biolizard is Shadow's prototype, it's possible he inherited this ability as well. But maybe it's more recessive, like the threshold to trigger the spawning is higher, he's gotta be at death's door, and instead of spawning a bajillion orbs you get 1 (one).

So one day Shadow gets gravely injured and??? What the crud?? There's suddenly an orb here???????? Surprise!

That's their name. Surprise. Shout-out to @mushroom-for-art for the name idea!

[anarchypumpkincowboy]

I love casually dropping insane random lore about myself to my friends and they’ll just go “wait pause go back WHAT? Theo I’ve known you for four years how did you never tell us this” and then I’m just like “i thought I did” or “it never came up🤷”and then we continue playing dnd

[sysig]

Spoiled rotten (Patreon)

[asteria7fics]

Seeing people give their ocs my actual legal name is wild. Like tf you mean I did all that?? Oh no you're talking about your self-insert okay that's cool.

[nosygay]

sentimental bitchery is ruining the wishlist i think bc as my gift default I do love collecting necklaces but nowadays like 90% of the time im just wearing my locket and/or archangel medallion as if they were fused to my neck at this point

[starlit-roses-ships]

folks is it too much to create a whole ass new alien (species? race?) in a series with established extraterrestrials just bc you wanna give your s/i cool powers

[welcometoteyvat]

first impressions are it’s not that bad (finished everything with 7/8 of the stella reward things) but I should’ve invited more characters earlier on lmao. also TIL i don’t have enough pyro/electro/anemo off field supports on my account and literally only 2 well built electro

[sobredunia]

Welp. Can't say I wasn't expecting that. I'll get to the kitchen and begin to cook smth for him

Idk I'm bored lol. Whoever wins might get a backstory-y drawing

[renonv]

F1 Au lore drop bc I wanted to draw these two

The cuntiest, and meanest couple of Formula 1

More on them below ⬇️

Romano and Natalya are husband and wife in this au 🙏 they met through Ivan (who’s another F1 driver) who introduced Nat to Romano because she’s a ballerina and Romano mentioned wanting to learn dancing lol.

Upon meeting eachother they realized they have lots in common, like both are/have to be extremely closeted (and repressed in Romano’s case) and have media and family that’s constantly pressing on them for relationship status updates. They are also almost never home due to having to travel a lot for work.

So it made perfect sense to them to fake date, fake elope, and fake marry.

Now the two of them have a wonderful secretly open relationship where Natalya gets to have girlfriends, and also have a part time job of encouraging Romano to explore his sexuality and get some boyfriends. And over the years of playing husband and wife, they actually have grown really close as friends 🥺 They both come through to support each other at work whenever they have the time ( like in the drawing above, and Natalya will most of the time go along with Romano’s silly requests like mentioning the copious amounts of straight sex the two of them have).

ALSO, important note. Antonio, although a big fan of Romano’s, has completely failed to realize that his crush has a fucking wife. It was a big surprise to him when Francis and Gilbert dropped that fun little factoid the night they ran into Antonio leaving Romano’s hotel room.

More on that later :3c

[akkivee]

more proof kuukou and fumiya should be meta besties, they are the windows to each other’s worlds lol

[meanbossart]

LORE ASK COMPILATION: "Still not banging Halsin, Squid Games, Sun King, Failing at love quizzes, Bottoms, Tops, and Cats" Edition

He didn't, Halsin wasnt around for act 3, too busy healing land and saving ghost children or something!

THANK YOU/I'M SORRY, I'm surprised there isn't more Bhaalist Dark Urge/Spawn Astarion stuff out there. Don't get me wrong, I love a good evil power couple, but who can resist the good ol'heartbreak of a vicious unending cycle brought on by your own senselessness!

That wasn't something I was interested in previously just because acquiring the slayer form isn't part of his canon, but I've been looking at enough fromsoft games' monster designs that I might be a little inspired to try LOL

Also I am just a fan of the canon design and never before thought it needed altering. But I'll let it cook ;)

God damn it.

DU drow was VERY antagonizing towards the emperor since the moment he dropped the facade, which made the attempt ESPECIALLY hilarious - that poor guy is so, so lonely.

I don't recall the exact wording in-game, but once the emperor took his shiny squid pecs out and shot his shot, DU drow recoiled and called him disgusting. After having the visions of Stelmane forced upon him to make whatever baffling point the emperor was trying to make, DU drow smugly asserted that he had finally let the mask slip and their very terrible date ended with the Emperor enforcing their reluctant need for one another, for the time being.

In-prose, that would honestly be pretty much it. DU drow would have reacted with absolute revulsion at the prospect of being hit on by a mindflayer, and taken the Emperor's (miscalculated) moment of lashed-out vulnerability as a win - as proof that he was exactly as duplicitous as he always assumed the Emperor to be.

I can assure everyone that I am as entertained by the thought as the rest of you and it is in the cards for future art, I just have... So many prompts... I have at least 5 different mini-comics I want to make, BESIDES singular pieces, BESIDES the fanfic... I wish I had more time and more hands.

But DU drow's unlikely semi-success as a parental figure is hilarious to me. I think about it constantly.

I haven't entertained that thought much because its antithetical to DU drow's character. Whether "good" or evil, he wouldn't allow Astarion to ascend because of his fear of no longer being needed and his reluctance to watch his partner be consumed by out-sourced power and changed into something he despises. Realistically, in a world where Astarion is allowed to ascend they could only break up and inevitably kill each other soon after.

That said, I am fascinated by the Sun King and the implications that path has for his character. So far that is an arc that I can only really see Astarion taking on alone, though - that might change in the future, might not. We'll see!

IF I CAN MAKE IT NOT ENTIRELY MISERABLE, I JUST MIGHT.

He got 2 out of 3 questions wrong - which is to say he was way too honest and Astarion didn't like that.

Except for the "when is he the happiest" question, which he correctly answered with "when he's neck deep in gore".

This is not even a lore-embelishment, this is actually how that scene went for me and I cackled about it for ages.

He would love to get tied up for old-times' sake. I doubt he knows much about fancy knots but Astarion might (though I might be in a minority that doubts his enforced "sex life" was actually that interesting at all.)

Thank you so much!

You are mostly correct. Bhaalist drow, both pre and post tadpole would be much more keen on the idea of having people around who fulfill their every desire - EXCEPT for killing. That is a joy they take on for themselves.

"Canon" DU drow values his independence a lot, on the other hand. He's neutral on the idea of slavery (what a sentence) and wouldn't be opposed to temporary servicing, but the idea of having someone around waiting for orders doesn't attract him at all, or at least would get on his nerves quick. He much preffers to do things himself and makes sure that other people see how much he does not need assistance.

The answer is yes, basically LOL.

DU drow both adores and despises Sceleritas presence and he doesn't know why. It very much reflects the type of relationship they used to have prior to DU drow's memory loss, and it's one of those things that he has conflicting feelings about but not any context for them.

I sadly doubt that the boys would become parents during Shadowheart's lifetime (it's for the best, they have a lot of work to do before I would trust them not to drop a baby), but honestly she strikes me as really liking kids as long as she doesn't have to, well, have them LOL.

And thank you so much for enjoying them and humoring me!

I think it is less about bottoming-topping and more about enjoying a more submissive role during sex, as well as in other scenarios. He believes that giving control away is, in a way, a show of devotion that goes both ways - his own for the willingness to do so, and his partner's for not taking advantage of it despite his wanting them to do so.

With one-night-stands (which he occasionally had pre-tadpole) he would still bottom without any of the submissiveness. This is because he didn't have the capacity to understand what it was about bottoming that attracted him, and led him to feeling constantly unfulfilled and frustrated (he just isn't build for no-strings-attatched type of arrangements, lol.)

This means that he really could operate either way depending on the partner as long as he got that fix of docility, whether it be from the bottom or top.

I think of Astarion as being similarly versatile but leaning more in the opposite direction when it comes to power-dynamics - though it being less about dominance itself and more about being pampered and catered to - and, of course, getting to do what he wants. Though he's willing to try most things a partner is particularly enthusiastic for just to see how he feels about it.

That said with DU drow he does prefer to top for a plethora of reasons.

I didn't have this piece of lore thought-up at the time, but I should have made them look like the lady he lost his virginity to.

Him and Astarion were gobbling those things up until the emperor reveal, then they both quit it cold-turkey after DU drow stomped the astral-tadpole dead (and back then you didn't have to roll any dice to do it, because otherwise we would have weird veiny DU drow to deal with for sure because he would NOT have suceeded that save.)

DU drow's feelings towards animals is a constant in every iteration of his character. They are organic little pieces of art wandering about the world that act upon their own laws and regulations, ones which humanoids aren't privy to - except for when they intrude into that world through magic and try to understand it through their overly-complicated systems and concepts. If a cat made the temple it's home, it can stay.

[loafbud]

What is a sea lurker please I have no idea what it is

sea lurkers are an abomination horror boss salmonids that i created!

(i hope u dont mind the long lore dump, anon LOL!!!-)

sea lurkers are night mode/occurence-specific boss salmonid that appear in their own wave: Sea Lurker Mode! — this mode (and the egg basket) always occurs at low tide

the objective of the occurence is to splat the approaching sea lurkers that get near the shore; sea lurkers drop 3 eggs each, while golden ones drop 5 or 7… getting TOO close will result in one bringing the player underwater with them or chomping at/swinging their bodies at the player (or simply just stare at the player)

sea lurkers dont leave the waters, so the farthest they go is right along the shore, swinging their bodies and stretching to reach the nearest player

strategy: all weapon ranges work, but in terms of easier managing w/ sea lurkers, long range weapons are ur best bet to keep a safe distance! for shorter range ones, its best to ink the shore that the sea lurker is closest to and swim to catch it off guard (these salmonids can get jumpscared, they have a quick surprised animation which leaves a brief window of opportunity to splat them)

(fun fact: when there’s a crew wipe or when the time runs out during this mode, all remaining sea lurkers will do a wiggle dance, the red mist building until the screen fades to black w/ the “THATS A WRAP!” tape transition)

(fun fact 2: there’s a chance that whenever a sea lurker may not attack and just stare at the nearest player, very rarely it might start talking in salmonid, trying to have a conversation with the nearest player— if the player hides in their ink, turns their back on them, or walks away, it shrieks in anger from being ignored and will either slink back underwater or thrash its body to attack)

and that’s about it!! i know i answered a similar ask in the past with the same type of info-dump response, but i cant find the other ask 0|-<