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[marine-paint]

Do you have a summary for the GALE LORE so far? I just walked in here and it is exciting but my scrolling power is weak

Okay (rubs hands together until i get rugburn) strap in because this is gonna be a Lot.

technically the start of my involvement in the lore (and also the start of lore gale’s descent into madness) is when moth (@moth-yknowtheartist) pretended to act like they’re Moth But Wrong (as a sort of puppet history reference with the substitute) as a big and me being the only one to point out “hey guys moth is acting weird!!!” “moth” (which is the name that we’ll be using for the moth impersonator for now) claimed that they wanted to “make music” which was basically a euphemism for murder. gale, oblivious, obliged. the “instruments for making music” was a shovel, a crowbar, latex gloves, and a big jug of molasses. obviously not musical instruments!!! but “moth” insisted that it was experimental music so gale had no choice but to brush it off.

at this point they knew something was up but they couldn’t put their finger on it, but what fully tipped him off to the fact that Oh Shit This Is A Full On Murder Scheme was “moth” conversing with the scientist (@watcherwatts) and this made gale Very Stressed!! imagine being told by someone who you thought was your friend that you were making music and then see them conversing with a moth-looking scientist about who knows what. you’d probably be freaked out too!!

then gale lore officially starts. in the first leg of gale lore, gale is just sitting around waiting for asks. from here, “moth” torments gale behind the viel of anon just for funsies. gale, however, is not amused. this is around the time when the traveler (@andrewryder) starts doing the traveler things. the appearance of the traveler is also around the time where the Chess Metaphors start. you can check out moth’s post for the full rundown of basically everything including everyone’s role as chess pieces. but the gist of it is that gale Starts Out as a pawn. i repeat: Starts Out. this will be important later.

This, my friend, is when things Start to go off the rails. you heard me right. Start to go off the rails.

the next leg of gale lore is when gale was waiting for the items he got conned into buying for “moth”. here, thief (@foundthethief) tries reaching out to gale about “moth”’s whole murder scheme. gale gets intimidated out of trying to go at first but goes anyway, just to try and hear theif out. this would prove to be useless as gale is too afraid and too stubborn to switch sides.

later, they have an encounter with the traveller. they have a hilarious back and forth where gale refuses to properly answer the question “do you remember being born?” and instead toes around the question. eventually gale caves in and answers the question (for chess metaphor reasons) and leaves them a book titled fate. finally, gale moves forward. This is where the pawn promotion finally happens and gale turns into a QUEEN.

the next leg of gale lore is a bit wild. gale gets a new look (sick!) and the time of peep’s murder is fast approaching. the things gale ordered are coming soon and “moth” is waiting in anticipation. for a brief period an impersonator of “moth” tried talking to gale. gale snapped at the impersonator and forced anon to turn off using their new powers. also gale has powers now!!! what??? but hang tight because it’s only gonna get more insane beyond this point.

gale and “moth” also have a conversation together. it starts out relatively normal, but it quickly veers into the topic of “moth” leaving. gale is understandably very distressed at this because, even though “moth” was Not Great towards gale, they still cared about him. they also didn’t want a repeat of moth’s (the real one) death. these complex feelings culminated into a breakdown which heavily influenced gale’s decision to finally quit. hooray!!!! except oh noo because now he’s on “moth”’s kill list. the event also causes some serious interference which prevents “moth” from reaching gale through asks.

the traveller approaches gale once more urging him to open up the book. gale refuses at first but eventually relents, and the book offers some advice. gale doesn’t understand it but keeps it close anyway.

while the traveller and “moth” agree to track gale down and kill him, gale is busy watering down the molasses and cleaning out the jug. gale Knows about the interaction (this will become a constant for poor gale) and rushes with their plan, leaving the latex gloves and empty molasses jug on the table and just booking it with the shovel and crowbar.

while gale is running for their life in the nearby forest, the traveller and “moth” pick the lock to gale’s house and break in. while they’re there they find gale’s book. gale Knows about them finding it and he freaks out.

while gale runs through the forest, they turn invisible!!! what!!! this actually proves to be very useful later when they have a run in with “moth” at the lake. “moth”, who is in the process of grieving the recent loss of the traveller (sad! well there’s othe-) has a talk with gale, and eventually they come to a truce. the agreement was that “moth” would not kill gale until after they bring the traveller back.

(imagine me taking a deep breath before continuing)

on the way back, gale figures out a new name for “moth”, which ends up being acher! transgender rights and whatnot. also on the way back, acher and gale hatch a plan to try and repeat the events that happened when gale first quit to try and see if there is a pattern to gale’s new powers. the plan was for acher to piss off gale enough to recreate the feelings that set off the interference last time. and it works! but it works a little too well because acher’s system gets overwhelmed to the point of needing a restart. both gale and acher agree to maybe Not do that again. also gale is finally visible again! hooray!!!

acher and gale finally reach gale’s house, they have a brief discussion about gale’s powers, again. it leads to them hatching another plan which is the same as last time: make gale distressed enough to force the powers out. that totally won’t go horribly like it did last time!

the gist of the plot was for acher to put gale in a life or death situation with a knife to his throat while interrogating them to force the information out (forcefully triggering gale’s new Knowing ability) and it works, unfortunately. they get the information needed, up until they answer the question where andrew and the traveller (whom i will call ryder now) are. after getting that answer, acher presses further on the matter and gale has no choice but to answer, basically having the information sucked out of them. gale gets upset that acher didn’t do what they agreed and acher drops gale while apologizing. acher starts grieving over the now realized death of ryder, and gale offers some sympathy. they briefly talk once more before acher says she has to leave and urges gale get some rest. gale does not get some rest.

at this point gale starts reaching out to other people (all of them dead). they talk with andrew and convinces them to talk with ryder. they talk with ryder but doesn’t really seem to get anywhere with them before the transmission cuts off.

however, moth starts talking from hell, and gale starts talking with them instead. gale offers to be a guide, similar to the one dante had in dante’s inferno. also the hell moth is in is basically a corporate hell with 8 restaurants and a chuck-e-cheese (chuck-e-cheese is NOT a restaurant and anyoNE WHO SAYS OTHERWISE IS FUCKING WRONG) which is meant to reflect the 9 circles of hell in dante’s inferno.

gale also starts answering questions and admits to moth that acher may have tried killing gale before they truced. moth is understandably upset with this.

while moth is still traversing through a literal hellscape, gale is slowly becoming less and less human! uh oh! gale never really had the chance to deal with the mortifying ordeal that they are no longer fully human up until now, and that terrifies him. at first he gets egged on by anons to abandon their humanity and go full nonhuman magic mania. moth, however, stepped in and they have a very sweet moment and gale agrees to not use their power because it makes him upset.

(gasps for breath)

any questions

[fishsinsareacknowledged]

Sometimes Nikto feels like he's underwater. Unable to breathe, unable to think. Just wanting to survive, drowned out by the waves.  His eyes sting from his own lack of sleep and his lungs feel rotten from the inside. But then there's you. Slowly, surely. You make him feel less like he's in the abyss of the ocean and more like he's in a bathtub. Getting his back scratched by your hands and sponge feels something just short of heaven.

You weren't the sun no, you were just his dingy bathroom light, the same one that he's had for years. Reliable, nothing could go wrong with you, it was just the way you were made. So he wont blame you when you shy away from him when he comes in uninvited. He wont blame you when you nearly kill him when he tries to sneak his way back into your arms after a long mission.

He just cant blame you when you accidentally spend over 50 with his card. He can't even when you try to brush it off, sneaking an american 50 next to his foreign cash collection. He simply can't blame you when you slice his hand, he did try to sneak up on a person living alone in his few months absense.

"It's me, its me", he tries to usher when your breathing grows faster. His chest squeezed when you wrap your arms around him. Fear and guilt shed into tears that he wipes away with a bleeding palm.

"Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, I'm sorry."

"Not your mistake, come to bed with me?", he'll never blame you. He just can't.

He'll just laugh when you spill the alchohol all over his palm, kissing up to your neck when he drowns his pain away. Patting your hair with a clean hand while he lets you take care of him. He only has one of you, he can't lose that.

[malrie]

sdfjsdkf i've pretty much done so extensively here and marginally here and in fear of yapping more than i already do let me just explain my jason villain theory and only that..ish.. i don't have all the receipts/quotations from the book bc i'm lazy but anyone can factcheck me lol. but. the GIST of it is that you can easily read jason as percy's foil simply because that's how we're introduced to him - as a literal equivalent of percy jackson. but rather than an equivalent it always felt like he fell more into being his antithesis instead.

you've covered it in your original post plenty, that jason is what you'd call an industry plant (lol). he's given the tools, he's set up in ways that plenty of demigods (especially in the big 3) are usually not, what w the patron goddesses lupa + hera and being looked to for leading since he was extremely young bc of his dad, etc. essentially, yeah. he can't fail. and he doesn't really. he does everything right. child soldier employee of the year award yayyy. so it bears weight that percy, who was quite literally set up to fail from the start because of his circumstances, worked (arguably) twice as hard as jason did over the course of his books to receive just as many accolades as jason did on his own time at camp jupiter.

plenty of times in the books, people's perception of jason/their anecdotes never really matches up when you read his perspective or any of the other seven. it isn't natural charisma to be charismatic only when called for, which he is. and in moa when he and percy meet, it always feels like he's taking percy's lead when they do the goofy machismo thing. he's fine with mirroring himself to people's expectations bc that was what he was raised for.

now all of this combined canonically builds to nothing. but seeing it altogether really feels like the perfect kind of build for a resentment that we never see in him. and the first thing that locked me into this as an actual theory is the entire hercules-piper-jason interaction with the cornucopia in moa. i just reread that and was struck with how strangely riordan worded certain things, specifically:

Hercules was a bitter, selfish jerk. He'd hurt too many people, and he wanted to keep on hurting them. Maybe he'd had some bad breaks. Maybe the gods had kicked him around. But that didn't excuse it. A hero couldn't control the gods, but he should be able to control himself. Jason would never be like that. He would never blame others for his problems or make a grudge more important than doing the right thing.

this chapter was interesting because someone (guy with horn forgot his name sawry) directly told piper to be wary of sons of zeus/jupiter. it ended up that this warning really was nothing at all for her and jason's arc, because in the end he was the one to die saving her. but read the two paragraphs again!! why is the structure so odd and foreboding!! riordan picks up plot points and drops them in hoo at his leisure all the time, but the direct jump from the last line of that paragraph chiding hercules's anger against the world versus jason's ability of self-control felt SO jarring to me on my reread since it felt too emphasized. and i realize it's because his arc is built around the idea that he is the embodiment of control, so the thought of its natural opposite - chaos - isn't far behind.

if jason "lost control" (whatever that entailed) that would be a true completion of his coming of age arc. and i think it was such a lost opportunity that we never received it - in either him defecting from either camps in some way or an actual refusal of the call trope (also notably something percy has been known to have done once or twice, but never jason). and lastly, it would be a direct rejection of what his life was originally given up for - the gods and fate and the society that raised him to be like this. he would finally be able to choose something for himself in a way that mattered to him. jason probably being a terrifying evil villain for our protags to face is just icing on the cake.

anyway have any of you ever thought about how Jason was raised by wolves and then an army and told he had to be the best so he became the best, made himself the best using his experiences and power, who has to prove himself time and time again to the people who made him, and then he meets Percy Jackson who, with almost none of Jason’s training, without having been raised and molded into a leader, is better than him

Percy Jackson, who had a childhood, who had a mom, who seems all the better for it. Jason can finish his quests and missions and get a pat on the back and congratulations for bringing honor to the Legion and nothing else because that’s what’s expected of him, while Percy gets hugs and cookies and tears of relief and so much love because people had been hoping he’d succeed, not because it meant victory, but because it meant he'd live.

all of the things Jason’s gone through to make him that perfect leader and soldier feel like they were all for nothing because he looks at Percy Jackson and sees that perfect leader and soldier and none of the things that made Jason good are what made him great

[sm-baby]

Is Jillz also sentient in that drawing? Cuz if she is, it's gotta be gut wrenching to see her big brother like that.

None of the siblings are sentient

[cybernightart]

Oc/ OC character design rant

I'm rewriting and redesigning so much of my OC's lore and designs that alot of them are essentially different people, and I'm happy about that.

And I'm at the point where one of my OCS where everything was going smoothly until I feel like I've just hit a brick wall at full speed, I have his personality I have his name I have his backstory I have everything of how we integrates in with the rest of the characters except I don't know what he looks like. I've only just realized after years I never fully settled on a design for him and was just always rapidly switching between very different looking designs.

So now I'm having to come up with a design that I like and the only things that I have to work from are:

.His name is Tyler Frost

. He/him

.He is very tall like almost 7 ft

.He has a magical healing ability that he can use to heal people's wounds and see their injuries and becomes a doctor to sort of hide the fact he has this ability while still being able to help people

. while he's really good at using his healing ability, he absolutely sucks at using the second ability which he got from his other parent, being ice magic! (a lot of ice pack related jokes get made because of this combination of healing ability and Ice ability)

. he is also really strong and likes to work out alot, he actually ends up meeting his boyfriend at the gym.

So he's kind of built like a polar bear, because he is absolutely massive and also doesn't get cold. And while he is big and cuddly he is also very dangerous when he wants to be, because who's going to mess with someone who knows where every single one of your most vulnerable places is on your body.

I know I want to give him white hair, and very light icy blue eyes but apart from that I have no idea.

For his skin tone I'm debating between two, either frosty cool white where his skin looks like snow White (his white as snow), or going along with the built like a polar bear thing, he's got really dark skin because polar bears under their white fur have really dark skin (I would have to double check exactly what colour polar bears typically have cuz I don't remember that off the top of my head)

His fashion sense is probably chaotic sleep deprived medical student ,because that's what he is during the main plot. But at the same time his fashion sense would also be crossed with like a gym bro.

So he is simultaneously the healthiest guy and the most unhealthy guy, because while he is getting a proper amount of exercise and is eating good things, he is also consuming far too much caffeine and gets little to no sleep. With the only reason he is actually eating healthy foods being since he forgets to make himself food, his boyfriend ends up making him food when he's making his own lunch. and since his boyfriend is vegetarian (due to medical reasons he physically can't eat meat) he unintentionally ends up making him vegetarian food as well.

It is so infuriating, because I have such a clear picture of him in my head but at the same time he is just a blurry unknown figure of a person, with certain features being crystal clear .

I have other OCS who have this problem, but the issue is he is a main character and the main OC while the other ones aren't so they're not as relevant and immediately needing designs. And I can't draw artwork of him and his boyfriend Jaymes together until I actually know what he looks like >:/

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