#the chronicler aroiis

[aroseofice]

@icerosesummerbracket The sillay!! 

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"Still Alive" from Portal is such a Radiance song <3 and it's also a song that fits a certain other character with white hair and light magic but if I voice any suspicions of him his fans will crawl out the walls like weevils to swarm me so I'm sending this on anon like I'm in the witness protection program

I DO know that one. hold on brb I'm gonna listen to it and consider.

Hm. I think I want some elaboration cause I don't see it

Anyway to the whole entire rest of your ask, *gasps* you don't mean The Chronicler do you?? but he's just a silly helpful guy! /j don't worry I won't let the fans swarm you like weevils.

[aroiisbelladonna]

@icerosesummerbracket Updated my design of The Chronicler!

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Do any of you guys remember the theory that the reason why The Chronicler said "My name? You already know my name." was because his name is Chronos and he is the god of time. Because I sure remember

That's a good theory but I also just think it'd be funny if it's cause his name really is just The Chronicler. Yes the The is part of his name. it's like Sonic THE Hedgehog. that's his full name.

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Obviously the Chronicler is Rose in the future after he transitioned /j

Okay explain where the second eye came from then huh /j

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I saw a clip of the trailer at like three in the morning and couldn't sleep for the rest of the night. I haven't even gotten around to the rest of the leak yet but. What are they planning with the Chronicler holy shit

I know right, showing the Chronicler with the white roses, white roses- they Have to be planning something

[aroseofice]

@icerosesummerbracket My design for the Chronicler! :3 I haven’t added his cane or any cloak details get- but I thought y’all could appreciate the lineart for now :3 

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just wanna add more chronicler propaganda even if the poll’s not even up yet

who else has a steampunk aesthetic and only shows up to give plot relevant info. deus ex machina personified. it’s so funny.

and that reveal??? that actually explained the deus ex machina logically??? i’m not gonna spoil it for people that haven’t finished yet but. trust me many stories don’t do it well but this one does.

the chronicler just has so much swag

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The Chronicler in bed kicking his legs and giggling as he does everyone's horoscopes

The Chronicler making flower crowns for everyone out of flowers that May Or May Not have thematic relevance to their arcs

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Am I the only one who ships Currant with the Chronicler? It's just, the way Currant talks about him when taking the kids to meet him for the first time... I mean, it could be just the author getting a little too wordy with exposition, but I think it's way cuter to imagine it's just Currant being enthusiastic as heck about The Chronicler. Like hey kids have you heard about my crush-- ahem this incredibly important person who is so wonderful and special and his smile lights up the room-- no, who's got this super amazing book of prophecies?..

Also funny that both of them wear glasses. Just saying you could get a lot of shippy scenarious out of that! Theyre both in the glasses store and they reach out for the same pair and their hands accidentally touch... Or that trope where characters accidentally put on each other's clothes except it's literally just their glasses...

I can see it, I can see it

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Hey so. I just realized something. You know how The Chronicler(tm) has a book of prophecies. Like. if he has all the prophecies like DOES HE KNOW EVERYTHING. THAT WILL EVER HAPPEN? IS THAT SET IN STONE? Because Rose's prophecy was like in the MIDDLE of the book and he had a couple other books what does that MEAN. and the glowing. bottles and all? the ones that he didnt let Rose see. why the FUCK were they whispering this man brings more questions than answers I'm gonna go crazy.

I only know about this bc I care way too much about lore but Prophecies! Don't! Work! Like! That! Actually! He may be keeping track of things that have already happened, but he doesn't know everything that WILL ever happen, because prophecies are almost completely unreliable, in that they're so hard to read they don't really make sense until you're looking back after the prophecy has come to pass. like sure, WE can see why the prophecy makes sense, after reaching the end, but that's because we're applying the prophecy lens to the events after the fact. If you try to decide what a prophecy "really means" before it happens and act accordingly, you're pretty much asking for disaster.

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The way that the Chronicler has so little fans is SO annoying to me like. He's just a silly little guy!! He's a wacky uncle!! He has huge round glasses!! He tripped over one of his own stacks of books!! If he was any more popular he would be a tumblr sexyman!! He's even gay!!

(Well I hc him to be anyways. I love him so much I love goofy guys with ulterior motives who have an astrology theme who live in observatories in the void and have freckles in the shape of constellations. I love how he looks like a, quote, "younger guy" but still has white hair and a bushy mustace. And most of all, I love his purple eyes because it reminds me of that one tumblr scam. HEY IM REMINISCING AND WHY DOES HE KIND OF LOOK LIKE ROSE I NEVER NOTICED??? Anyways. I love his mysterious ass.)

love it when the chronicler said "it's chronicling time" and made a chronicle of the whole entire universe

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okay but like, where my chronicler stans at?? guy's not only important as Hell to the story but also disabled, like, king behavior

truly, king shit

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confession time: i actually really liked when everyone drew the chronicler as a bookish twink 😭

NORMIE SPOTTED (/j)

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This seems like a good time for an occ ask- so here is the text/script from my epic "Radiance and the Chronicler are siblings/twins" non-canon au comic (that I'm still not finished with lawl)

We were born the mirror image of eachother

Always together

Never apart

One day I said to him

"I think I want to live forever"

And he looked at me

"Okay"

"Then I will follow you"

"And live forever too"

"Until you get tired of living"

"And then I will welcome you into the great beyond"

"Where stars like us sleep."

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When I was younger, I used to stare into the sun.

The village people thought I was strange- that we both were strange- but I was beautiful and he was quiet and so nobody really minded. I was the talker. I was the child that everybody cooed over- the one who was allowed to read out announcements, the one who was asked to sing solos in church sermons. He was the thinker- burying himself in book and learning and the stars, always the stars.

We were different in a lot of ways, but our mutual fascination with the sky is what kept us close and bonded. Me with the sun, and the expanse of blue, and the whispy white clouds, and how beautiful and bright it was in winter, how it could blind the unworthy. Him with the stars, and the movement of the heavens, and the darkness with the billion pinpricks of light and the clear, clear skies of summer. We were hand in hand- unable to be separated by a whispering rumor or a delicate accusation of alienity, dreams of the sky and ambitions of starlight keeping our fingers firmly interlocked.

When he disappeared, I was the last to see him. Because I disappeared the same day.

Hand in hand, we had leapt off the balcony at the break of dawn, and we left our crumbled shadows behind.

He's gone now. I don't know where he is. To be honest, I've never looked- the darkness of the night was never bright enough so I could see. I hope he's happy though. I know he can see me.

I will live to explode in a brilliant supernova and encompass this universe with my light, and then a long time after that.

And he will live along with me.

[^ I wrote that snippet in 5 mins btw] GOD I JUST LOVE THEM SO MUCH. These collective ocs of ours make me go crazy. I love aus of ocs their always so fun

oh this hits hard, thank you for sharing <3

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Anti Chronicler propaganda: Your fave eats babies (GREEK MYTHOLOGY JOKE DON'T @ ME)

I mean who knows, maybe he does eat babies- as the wisest theorists say, if it doesn't say in canon that it didn't happen, then it's always at least 1% possible that it did /j