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Destinytober24: Day 8 - Harmonica
You know who else cheats at cards?
Link to Ao3 if you prefer to read it there
When the sky is darkening, the fire crackling, and one is alone and missing one's ghost, the only sensible thing to do is pull out a harmonica and serenade the universe, like a whale singing its solitude out to the open sea.
Cayde-6 is doing this now.
It is the in-between time. The Witness has not yet been killed. The Vanguard is preparing for what may be its final operation. Crow is out scouting. Zavala is learning Stasis from Ikora, and Cayde has been left with his own thoughts, for however long that will last.
A Hunter's journal lies open on one of the salvaged folding chairs by the fire. It shows a map of the Blooming, sketched in a careful hand with clear labels of landmarks and concentrations of hostile troops.
The fire is spitting, a new log having recently been added. A small pot of something edible is near enough to the flames to be kept warm but not close enough to char.
And Cayde... Cayde is warding off the loneliness with a sad song. He tells himself that if Sundance is in the Traveler and the Traveler is all around him, then she can probably hear the music. So he plays for her. He plays to tell her he misses her. That he knows she misses him too.
It isn't so much a sound behind him as a feeling. A creeping feeling. The sensation that he is no longer alone. He stops playing and tilts his head, listening. Not Crow. He makes too much noise. This is someone quieter. The eerie sensation increases. It feels inexplicably... Hive.
Cayde stands and spins around, Ace drawn. Three green eyes glow in the darkness above a larger sphere of Soulfire at the other end of the path leading up to the campsite.
As his finger depresses the trigger, he hears the gunshot from a different direction. Cayde retains his grip as the barrel of his gun is knocked aside.
Solar. Different angle. Two of them.
Cayde tumbles back out of the firelight, seeking the shadows to avoid the next shot. But the next shot does not come. He rolls again and comes up on one knee with a tripwire grenade armed and blinking in one hand, his weapon readied in the other.
The Hive eyes have ducked behind a rock. He can see the faint glow. He waits a moment for the grenade timer to run down so that it will detonate as soon as it lands and prepares to toss.
"Cayde!" a voice calls out.
Feminine. Low. Familiar. Pissed off.
"Eris?" Cayde stands up. "Eris Morn?"
"Yes." She confirms with an oh-so-familiar tone of complete exasperation.
"Well I'll be damned."
Cayde tosses the tripwire grenade behind him, holstering his hand cannon as the device explodes harmlessly on the beach.
A hand holding a globe of Soulfire emerges from behind the rock, followed by the distinctive three glowing eyes. And then, as she comes closer to the fire, the tear-streaked face of Eris Morn above the outline of her chitinous pauldrons, strings of beads glinting in the firelight, becomes visible.
"Sorry," Cayde says, flippantly. He isn't very sorry. A little sorry, maybe, but not that sorry.
He steps closer to the fire, his arms out, ready for yet another hug in a long string of hugs from people he's been dead to for years.
Eris steps closer to him as he stands, his arms still out, the awkwardness of the situation increasing as he awaits an embrace that does not come.
Instead, Eris leans in and holds out her Ahamkara bone like a flashlight, peering intensely at him. Her outstretched hand hovers inches above his skin as her three green eyes bore into him, examining him as though he is a science experiment. She looks closely at one outstretched hand, up one arm, walks around behind him, peers down his other arm and finally leans up on her tiptoes to scrutinize his face.
Cayde-6 leans back slightly as her hand hovers over his faceplates. Eris steps forward and continues until her fingertips are just inches away from the tip of his horn before withdrawing her hand.
"It is you," she intones.
"Yeah, it's me." Cayde's arms are still out, waiting for a hug he is no longer certain is coming.
Eris tilts her head.
"How?" she asks.
"It's... complicated."
A shadow to the side steps into the firelight. The second shooter.
Cayde's eye-lights blink in surprise. Of all people...
"Now that's a face I didn't expect to see. How are you still here?"
The Drifter shrugs as he continues to walk toward the fire. "I might ask you the same thing, brother."
"And you," Cayde turns back to Eris, still examining him intently, his arms still out awkwardly. "I figured you'd be a Hive god by now."
"I was," Eris says nonchalantly as she makes another slow circuit around him, peering at him over her ball.
"I think he wants a hug, Moondust."
"What?" Eris pauses, giving the Drifter a confused look before looking back at Cayde again. "Oh."
Cayde raises his arms a little bit.
"Very well" Eris turns and places her Ahamkara bone on top of the open journal on the chair before clumsily reaching up to provide Cayde with the most graceless and uncomfortable hug he's ever received as he looks down in exasperation at Eris' rock on his map.
Cayde and the Drifter make eye contact. The Drifter smirks and sits down in an unoccupied chair, lounging back like he owns the place.
Cayde raises a finger, about to say something when Eris steps back and places both of her hands on his shoulders, gazing at his face intently.
"Have you been on the Moon?" she asks.
Distracted from what he was about to say, Cayde looks at her quizzically. "What? Uhmmm... you mean before or after I died?"
"After," Eris says, her voice insistent.
"The Guardian and I did go looking for a ghost there for Micah."
"No. After you died but before you returned. While you were dead. Have you been on the Moon?"
She speaks with the intensity that only Eris Morn can summon, focused on a confusing detail that means nothing to him, and it's as though all the years have dissipated and they're back in the Vanguard office and she's once again being frustratingly cryptic and weird, up to and including having her damn rock on his damn map.
It's oddly comforting, the exasperation. Like an old familiar blanket.
"No, Eris," Cayde says, with a gentleness he never had with her in the past. "I wasn't anywhere. I was... with Sundance... somewhere inside of here... before here became... whatever it is now."
"Hmmm..." Eris releases his shoulders and turns away, staring into some unidentified point in the darkness out beyond the light of the fire. "Troubling, but... not unexpected."
Yup. Same Eris.
"Someone wanna clue me in here?" Cayde asks looking to the Drifter, of all people, for clarity.
"Apparently a ghost of you... not like a guardian ghost, a ghost ghost.... has been pestering her on the Moon for years," the Drifter says, tumbling a coin across his knuckles. "She's been tryin' to figure out this whole time whether it was a pyramid phantom twisting her memories or actually you. That's one of the reasons she wanted to come see ya."
"Yes," Eris turns away from both of them and reaches out a hand in front of herself, her fingers combing empty air. "Of all the nightmares that have been sent to torment me, yours has been the most confusing."
Cayde feels a pang of guilt. "Wasn't me. I mean, I figure I tormented you enough while I was alive. Seems unfair to keep doing it after I'm gone."
"Yes," Eris intones and nods. "It did seem like far more effort than you would have troubled with."
Another pang of guilt.
"Look... Eris," Cayde steps toward her. "I don't know if you got my message after I died but um... I am sorry about your ship."
"My ship?" Eris turns back to him, confused.
Her three eyes blink slowly and then narrow. "My ship." Her mouth twists into a snarl.
"Easy, Moondust. You got a Tomb ship now. You don't need that old thing."
"She has a Tomb ship?" Cayde stares at the Drifter in disbelief.
"Yeah," the Drifter answers gleefully. "Reclaimed from the Lucent Hive. The inside is bigger than the outside. It's wild."
"You seriously have a Tomb ship?" Cayde asks her.
"Yes," Eris intones, as though it was a simple boring fact that was not remarkable at all. "Your light is... different."
She never was much of a conversationalist. Same old Eris.
"Yeah," Cayde says. "No powers either... just the gun... And no Sundance... I don't even care that much about the powers but... I miss her... a lot..."
"Yes." Eris says, her own voice now gentle. She lays a hand on Cayde's arm.
"It hurts," Cayde says bluntly in a way he knows she will understand.
"It does," she agrees, once more staring into his eyes with her own.
"Now I know what it feels like..." He places his own hand on top of her own.
"It is not a feeling I would wish to share with anyone."
"Yeah," Cayde says quietly.
The Drifter's misshapen ghost appears over Eris's shoulder. Both Eris and Cayde look at it for a moment, and then over at the Drifter.
The coin disappears and he sits up nervously from his slumped position.
"What?" he asks them.
The Drifter's ghost bumps into Eris gently, blinking red then blue then red again, before floating away into the darkness beyond the firelight. It emits its single tone from a lighter spot a short ways away and looks back at them, its shell open and spinning.
"Hmmm...." Eris follows it. Cayde follows Eris. The Drifter shrugs, stands up, and saunters after everyone else.
The Drifter's ghost continues moving until it leads them to a crack in the ground pouring out brilliant white light. It hovers over the crack and emits its tone again.
Eris catches her breath. "Is it... one of them?" She asks, looking at Cayde.
"Cracks in the Traveller?" Cayde asks. "Yeah."
Eris walks over and kneels down next to the crack in the ground. The Drifter's ghost settles into her open hands. She tilts her head, listening.
"You know, Ikora did the same thing." Cayde says.
The Drifter stands next to her. "Eris?"
Eris's hand flies up, palm flat. "Hush."
The Drifter looks back at Cayde. Cayde shrugs.
"You just gonna sit there on the ground like that, Moondust?" His hand reaches out to touch her arm just below her pauldron.
Eris hand flies up and grips his wrist tightly.
"Be. Silent," she commands him, giving his hand a small shake with each word.
The Drifter's ghost floats up from Eris' lap and bumps into his chest, nudging him back.
He takes a step back and the ghost floats back down into Eris's open hands.
The Drifter's hands raise up, palms up in a gesture of surrender as he steps back further. "Oooookay."
"Is that your ghost?" Cayde leans over and whispers.
"I think she's gonna be a while," the Drifter whispers back, not answering the question.
"Yeah, Ikora sat there for a couple hours the first time she saw it too."
"Alright then."
Both turn and walk back to the fire.
Cayde sits down on the chair next to where Eris' Ahamkara bone is sitting on his journal. The Drifter takes a seat as well.
"So uh... are you and Eris..."
The Drifter is silent. He leans back and his coin once more starts to flip across his knuckles.
"I mean, I'm not going to pry but... I've only ever seen you look at one other person like that..."
Still silent, the Drifter shrugs.
"And you're still here," Cayde continues. "That... that really is a surprise... I figured you'd be long gone by now."
"Yeah well," the Drifter keeps his coin tumbling as he talks, "Decided I wanted to stay after all."
"Have to admit... I did not see that one coming... does make a bit of sense though."
The Drifter is silent for a few more moments as the coin walks across his knuckles and the fire licks at the logs. Then he leans forward and the coin disappears.
"How long you figure you got?"
"I don't know," Cayde says quietly. "It... doesn't feel like a long term thing."
"Might not be long term for any of us, really, depending on how this fight goes."
Cayde nods.
The Drifter shrugs. "Feel like losing at cards?"
The practised grin with a glint in his eyes is back and Cayde finds the offputting man oddly comforting in this moment, much in the way Eris being frustratingly obtuse was comforting earlier.
Shifty scheming Drifter is still shifty scheming Drifter, and that, too, feels weirdly soothing to Cayde in a world where everything else seems to have moved on without him.
"Lose?" Cayde asks, his elbows resting on his knees. "I seem to remember the last time we played I wasn't the one with no pants on."
"If you call seein' me without pants on winning, sure." The Drifter winks. "Didn't know you felt that way, brother." His eyes sparkle in the firelight.
Cayde laughs and shakes his head. Yup. Still Drifter.
"Shut up and deal."
The rogue Lightbearer reaches into his coat with a wide toothy grin and pulls out a dark glass bottle. He places it on the ground between them.
"Ooooh," Cayde reaches out, curious, and picks it up by the neck. He brushes off some dust to get a look at the label. "Ooooh," he says again, this time leaning back and nodding in appreciation. "All right, you have my attention."
A deck of cards appears in the Drifter's hands.
"Uh... hmmm..." Cayde pats at his pockets. He wasn't resurrected with any glimmer.
His hands come across a lump. It's not a question of value, but the spirit of the thing. That'll do. He pulls the object out and holds it up.
The Drifter raises one eyebrow and then nods, shuffling the deck with easy familiarity.
Cayde tosses his harmonica next to the bottle on the ground between them.
The metal instrument glints in the light of the fire as two rogues sit down to do what rogues do best: see which one can out-cheat the other at cards.
Link to the entire month's worth of prompts on Ao3, posted daily.
#destinytober24#destinytober#destinytober 2024#destiny 2#cayde-6#the drifter#eris morn#the drifter's ghost#drifteris#the-final-shape#the drifter/eris morn#drifter/eris#ao3#fanfiction#writing#harmonica#imonthemoonitsmadeofcheese#cs member writing
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Yes. Extensively.
Also Drifter never lets anyone see his ghost unless absolutely necessary, is deeply paranoid someone will kill it and therefore him, yet he pulls it out and tells it to stay and watch over Eris while he goes scouting for Screebs.
The Drifter's ghost has killed to protect him in the past. I think he leaves it to watch over her with the full expectation that it will kill to keep her safe as well.
He trusts his ghost to look after her and trusts her with his ghost. That's massive Drifter character development there in that one action when we see all the problems he's had with his ghost in the past.
Eris is the best thing to ever happen to Drifter's relationship with his ghost.
actually i just had a thought. how do we feel about the eris "i'm only alive because my ghost sacrificed herself for me" morn and drifter "i irredeemably fucked up my ghost and now it doesn't even talk" lastname dynamic? has anyone ever thought about that?
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im just a big fan of silly, nonverbal, genderless, sometimes homicidal, feral little protagonists
#i wanted to color but i didnt want to shade so flat color time#ultrakill#v1 ultrakill#hollow knight#hk ghost#dead cells#dead cells beheaded#hyper light drifter#hld drifter
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Red Dead Revenge (low honor Arthur)
#Watched my dad and twin play rdr2 as good Arthur and now I'm playing it myself as bad Arthur. Which I'm enjoying#Just feels like it fits him. If anyone has seen high plains drifter I'm playing it like that in my mind#(if not pls go watch it for a good cowboy ghost film) but I love the idea of Arthur being vengeful spirit#Coming back to do it all again with the knowledge somehow. So he's not being nice this time cuz fuck them all#Enjoy dressing him up in all red too tho anyway#red dead redemption 2#Red dead redemption#Rdr#Rdr2#Arthur Morgan#fan art#art#sketch#character art#Cowboy#Western#Read dead 2#Red dead
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Some hyper light drifter and utdr doodles...and also the other little guys that snuck in
#hyper light drifter#utdr#undertale#deltarune#drifter#kris dreemurr#noelle holiday#dess holiday#frisk dreemurr#chara dreemurr#ralsei#susie deltarune#ghost hollow knight#v1 ultrakill#the beheaded dead cells#fanart#my art#crossover#Okay so! Lots of stuff lmao#first of all I love u drifter he is very fun to draw! Recently finished the game and it's so good#currently playing dead cells also which is why that other guy is there#also also moving to deltarune#a quick dess design! I wanted to try making a design for her and that's what came out#mostly inspired by Rudy's design :P
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bonus:
#destiny 2#destiny the game#destiny 2 memes#destiny osiris#caiatl#destiny drifter#brother vance#destiny ghost#the witness#cogito-4
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remember how i said i would start artfight refs? very funny!
i finished this instead. some of the art here is old, some is brand new. i just wanted to celebrate some of my favorite indie games :]
#dead cells#the beheaded#hollow knight#little ghost#hyper light drifter#the drifter#oneshot#niko#undertale#frisk#return of the obra dinn#rain world#celeste#nefarious#nefarious crow#cult of the lamb#OH BOY that was a lot#sorry for any tag spam#my art#if one of these isnt indie#congrats on becoming an honorary indie game
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trans!soap taking his baby and running away from his rich abusive husband
(cw angst, financial abuse, single threat of child abuse, single mention of transphobia)
he's owned soap for years, since he was a teenager; paid for his medication and all his surgeries and tied them so deeply, soap’s lost hope of ever getting away. he gets even worse when soap falls pregnant. he was always controlling; blowing up at him if he spent too long out of the house or did something without telling him. but he becomes utterly possessive during the pregnancy
soap knows it has nothing to do with his safety or the baby's
he knows he sees his baby as an investment; another being he can control and hold over him
he gets worse and worse but there’s nothing soap can do. there's been nothing he can do for a long time. then a few months after the baby is born, soap doesn’t watch his tone closely enough and his husband threatens to drop his baby in punishment for it
soap doesn't think. he doesn't plan
he takes his baby and runs
he sneaks out of the servant's quarters of the sterile mansion he's been forced to live in for almost a decade and walks down the street without a backwards glance; his baby the only thing in his arms. he knows all of his husband's cars have trackers, all of them in his name since he never lets soap drive or go anywhere by himself, so he walks far enough to be out of view of the mansion's cameras and steals one. it doesn't have a car seat and all he can do is clutch his baby to his chest as he drives
he doesn't know where he's going beyond away
he doesn't know what he's going to do; he doesn't have any money, no supplies for his baby, he doesn't even have water for himself so he can reliably breastfeed him. he's terrified his husband will find them; he’s always felt omniscient, always everywhere and seeing everything he did. if he didn’t have eyes somewhere, he paid someone who did and they always dutifully reported back to him
soap just keeps his eyes forward. just keeps driving and driving, lost to the road and numb until the low gas light pops up on the dash and it all hits him at once
he turns into a gas station he can't pay for, in a car he stole, and parks behind it and his baby immediately starts getting fussy
he can't even call him by his name sometimes; too afraid to get attached, too afraid to lose him. as if he doesn’t love him more than life itself
even throughout his pregnancy, as happy as he was to finally have a baby, he didn't know if he could carry to term and that fear just let his husband dig his claws in even deeper; paying for extra scans he could never hope to pay for, favours on top of favours so he would aways owe him and isn’t he such a loving husband? taking soap in when his parents kicked him out for being trans, looking after him for all these years? you can’t even take care of yourself john, you’d still be a woman without me, john, what is this tantrum about john-
soap tugs his shirt up to let his baby feed, drops his head back and cries
he can't stop it; wails loud and uncontrolled, chest heaving with his sobs enough that it sways his baby, occasionally breaking his latch and he can't even do this right-
he can't save him
a light knock sounds on the window and soap flinches, curling over his baby to protect him from his huband's cruel hands
but it's not his husband outside the window
soap blinks tears from his eyes and looks at the large stranger standing beside the car. a neck gaiter covers his mouth and it should be off-putting… but something about him stops the feeling in its tracks. the stranger takes a half-step back and lifts a chilled and sealed water bottle, pressing it towards the window
soap quickly swipes his face clean and rolls down the window. "sorry 'bout that," he apologises with a choked laugh, the careful front he’s built over the years cracked and bleeding
the stranger gives a dismissive but somehow not diminishing shrug. "long day?" he asks
"could say that," he gives a shrug of his own and pats his baby's back as he makes a disgruntled noise, unconsciously swaying him
he politely keeps his gaze up on his face. "looks like you could use a break."
soap's breath hitches, anxiously darting his tongue out over his bottom lip. "could say that," he repeats uselessly and takes the water with a quiet “thanks,”; his throat dry and screaming for it after crying so hard
the stranger hums, watching him down the bottle and soap doesn’t notice his eyes drifting to the backseat and footwell of the passenger side. doesn’t notice the slight tension in his fists at what he sees. "how long you been runnin', lad?"
soap freezes, the water settling in his stomach like a stone. he swallows thickly and the bottle falls from his lips
"not long enough."
the stranger just nods, looking idly back down the highway
"you know, this place is connected to a garage,” he starts, nodding back to a building attached to the station without taking his eyes off the road. “lotta people drift through 'ere on road trips; too many to keep track.”
soap frowns slightly, shifting his hold on his baby
“funny thing is, plenty of 'em just abandon their car when they break down. like yours,” he adds and finally turns back to him with a pointed look. “got a whole junkyard of 'em. just rustin' away. be pretty easy to convince me to trade ya one."
soap’s mouth parts in a gasp as he realises just what the stranger’s saying. "how easy?" he whispers
he shrugs and even with his face hidden beneath the gaiter, he doesn’t feel afraid. "i'd say this car'd be a good deal. would blend right in with the rest of ‘em; no one’d ever notice it. what say i take it off your hands?"
soap's breath shudders out of him, his whole body going limp with relief. his baby's eyes fall shut with a satisfied hum and for the first time he can remember, he feels the gentle touch of hope
"i think we can work something out."
🧼💀
ghost owns the service station soap pulled into. he wanted something quiet and isolated after he retired and you can’t get much quieter than a backwoods servo surrounded by forest. he hasn’t had anyone pull in in days so he’s quick to notice soap’s car. he’s also quick to notice soap's subsequent breakdown in one of the cameras. the sight of him crying, desperately clutching a baby like they’re all he has left in the world, is so familiar he felt sick with it
he knows someone running when he sees it
if he didn't check on him, if this lad disappeared one day and the baby along with him, he'd never forgive himself. the lad doesn't even have a baby bag or car seat with him, and the personalised sticker on the back window of a lady and a dog is a dead giveaway that the car is stolen
but the lad is terrified. and when he startled him, he didn't turn. didn’t lift his arms to protect himself. no
he covered his baby
like he was afraid he'd be hurt
that's enough for ghost
🧼💀
i'd wanna set this in the 80's or 90's, just to make it even harder for soap to get away from his husband. he's a trans man with a newborn; he has no one to run to and no resources to help him. his husband's bought and paid for everything for him since he was 17; a few whirlwind weeks of unbelievable dates and extravagant gifts and he was living in his mansion, getting married the day after his 18th birthday. he thought it was love. thought he was being looked after and cared for the way he’s always wanted
he was in pain and alone and naive enough to believe the first person who came along and promised to make it better. nothing's in his name, not his insurance or his meds, he doesn’t have a bank account or savings; other than a birth certificate, nothing even ties him to his baby. his husband could take his world away from him with a snap of his fingers and he made sure soap always knew it
he never had a chance of getting away
but ghost is ex-military
he doesn’t know the lad’s story, doesn’t know the details of what he’s running from. he doesn’t need to know
he decided he was helping him the second he pulled into his service station
#what up i had a nightmare about an eldritch horror trying to steal my baby and john mcclane from die hard shooting it to protect me#i woke up freaked out and decided to torment soap with it to feel better#thats literally the only reason this exists#that and the thought of soaps super hairy chest but thats besides the point#anyway#i was going to have ghost be a drifter after retiring but i like the idea of him being the unlikely safe person living out in the woods#ghost moves soap into the little one bedroom cabin he built behind the station#its hidden by the trees and kept warm by a fire. he gives soap and the baby the bedroom and sleeps out in the living room#he keeps watch out the window for whoevers after soap#he doesnt find out who it is for a while; soaps been burned and reluctant to trust anyone#but they gradually heal each other; ghost gives soap someone to trust and soap helps ghost heal his truma by giving him someone he can save#soap starts to work in the service station despite ghost telling him he doesnt need to but he wants his independence back#he finds he likes working and ghost cant take that from him when hes so obviously happy cleaning and shelving stock#soaps husband comes looking for him but ghost still has his contacts and calls a whole militia down on his head#each one of them with favours in the government if not outright political immunity; money means nothing in the face of them#they just threaten him; lets him know soap is protected now#at least; thats what ghost tells soap 😉#coming out of my cage and ive been doing just fine.txt#we’re a team. ghost team#ghostsoap#soapghost#ghoap#john soap mactavish#soap cod#simon ghost riley#ghost cod
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Small Destiny doodle dump + wip for a bigger drawing I’m working on
#destiny 2#destiny the game#destiny art#osiris#saint 14#destiny o14#o14#ghost#destiny ghost#digital art#Osiris try not to get bullied by Bungie challenge (impossible)#I cannot escape the destiny brainrot it’s officially consumed me#certified ‘‘dat my favorite‘‘ moment#drifter sold me illegal firearms outside of Waffle House at 3am and now the ATF is after me#for legal reasons that last tag is a joke#whaalless
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quick doodle of indie game fellas on my math notebook :p
doing homework at night rn wish me luck
#dead cells#the beheaded#hollow knight#hk ghost#hk knight#hyper light drifter#the drifter#hld drifter#doodle#traditional#fanart#pinkaniart
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I love indie games.
#hyper light drifter#blasphemous#hollow knight#dead cells#hk fanart#Hld fanart#Blasphemous fanart#dead cells fanart#the beheaded#the penitent one#the drifter#hollow knight ghost#indie games#zoan art
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Destinytober24: Day 15 - Together
Link to Ao3 if you prefer to read it there
"That is ridiculous." Eris intoned in the far back corner of Eido's Potion workshop. "Why is it called Chill Touch if it is neither a touch attack nor does cold damage?"
"Ya got me there, Moondust, I have no idea. These rules are like a millenia old at this point. Fuck if I know what the hell they were thinkin'. I'm still casting it, though."
He turned to his ghost. "Roll to hit."
Saint-14, Eido, and Eris all watched the Drifter's misshapen ghost as it levitated, wiggled and then dropped the twenty-sided die on top of the shipping crate they were using as a table. No one trusted the Drifter to touch the dice, but his ghost was deemed honest enough to not cheat, or at least, if it were going to do so, it would not be cheating in the Drifter's favour.
The die skittered across the surface and came to rest with the number 17 on top.
"Oooh. That's nice." The Drifter grinned. "That should hit."
"It does," Scribe Eido of the House of Light tried to keep the disappointment from her voice as her four eyes peered over the top of her DM screen.
"Alright, alright, alright. Damage time. Ghost?"
The Drifter's ghost levitated an eight-sided die and let it rattle across the table, coming to rest near the first one it had rolled. The number on top was a 1.
The Drifter's ghost emitted its single tone.
"Ugh. Well at least he can't heal for a turn," the Drifter dipped a thin triangular chip into a small bowl of Saint-14's seven layer dip and ate it.
"Hmmm… you are correct," Eido said, one hand holding a data pad, another hand manipulating the datapad screen, a third hand marking down damage on a paper behind her screen, a fourth hand adjusting a small statue of a tree on the table in front of them. "That is one of the effects of that spell. Unfortunate."
"For you, sure," the Drifter replied with his mouth full. "Not for us."
Saint laughed and sipped from his drink. Several potions burbled in flasks and twisted tubing behind him. Globes of glass terrariums containing various plants dangled above them as light filtered down from several skylights in the ceiling. One of the city cats had wandered into the workshop and was rubbing up against Saint-14's leg, purring as he scratched it behind its ears.
"That's all for me." the Drifter concluded. "My turn's done. You're up Three-Eyes. Go mess 'em up."
The small diorama on the table was briefly cast in a green glow as Eris leaned forward, examining their miniature battlefield.
"Can you not relocate elsewhere?"
"I already moved," the Drifter explained, eating another dip covered chip. "Can't move again till next turn."
"Your position is exposed and you only have eight hit points."
"Yeah well, they can always miss."
"They are unlikely to miss. Your armour class is very low."
"I'm a wizard. That's normal."
"If all three assailants hit you it is likely you will die."
"Do not worry Eris!" Saint said warmly from across the table. "I will heal him!"
"Besides," the Drifter added. "They can't kill me if you kill 'em first, so go get 'em, Moon Druid of Vengeance."
"Hmmm… very well. I will attack by throwing my spear at the leader." Eris picked up the 20 sided die and rolled it. It landed on a 7.
"Oh…" Eido said, attempting and failing to hide her delight. "That is a miss."
Eris frowned. "I see."
"And you spear has landed… here." Eido reached out two of the three fingers on her upper right hand to place a small glass token on the map. "You will need to retrieve it before you can attack with it again. Would you like to do anything else on your turn?"
"That is frustrating. I am unused to such a simple action failing."
"We're first level characters," the Drifter said through a mouthful of chips. "It's normal to miss."
"I will move between the assailants and the Drifter," Eris said, picking up her small game piece and placing it next to the Drifter's. "I believe that should enable him to use me as partial cover against two of them."
"You sure you wanna do that?" the Drifter asked.
"I have more hit points than you."
"By two."
"That should be enough to make a difference."
"Awww… that's sweet, but this ain't me, this is Lanlar the Magnificent, and he's a bit of an asshole."
"Strange, I thought you about follow up on your statement by making an argument regarding a difference between yourself and your character… not a similarity."
The Drifter's Ghost expanded and its eye went wide.
"Ooooh!" The Drifter put his fingers up to his lips and winced as he pulled away from Eris in a mock flinch.
"Ha! Ha! Ha!" Saint slapped the table in delight, causing all of the miniatures to bounce slightly but not fall over.
Eido giggled.
"Wow, Three-Eyes…" the Drifter said, leaning back with an admiring smile. "Wow."
Link to the entire month's worth of prompts on Ao3, posted daily.
#destinytober24#destinytober#destinytober 2024#destiny 2#drifteris#playing d&d#eris morn#the drifter#the drifter's ghost#scribe eido#saint-14#the drifter/eris morn#drifter/eris#ao3#fanfiction#writing#together#happy#imonthemoonitsmadeofcheese#cs member writing
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DE did such a good job writing the hex that i genuinely cannot bring myself to even consider doing a reset just to get a few more interactions
ive grown too attached to them. it doesnt feel worth it just to get a few other chats out of them, not because id have to grind it all back up but because i know their fears and worries and they confided in me and it feels so unfair!!! my drifter went thru enough hellish loops why would they do it to a place they consider home!!
DE why would you do this to me!!!
#andro talks#warframe 1999 spoilers#prompted by me reaching bestie status with lettie#and being heartbroken over the fact we wont chat anymore#shes my favorite hex to talk to and it sucks so bad that i wont be able to chat with her anymore#DE WHY ARE THERE NO MORE BESTIE CHATS#LETTIE COME BACK DONT LEAVE ME!!#like sure i can just read what other people post but its not the same!!!#thats not my drifter talking and having moments with the hex!!#DE i am begging on my knees give us random chats past bestie status once in a while so it doesnt feel like we got ghosted
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They are having fun
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Does anyone have an audio clip of that time Ghost impersonated Drifter? I need it.
#baede-6#Destiny Ghost#destiny#destiny 2#destiny the game#The Drifter#personal baede 6 business#It was one of the funniest and cutest things Ghost has ever done and I need it on my blog.
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my six fanarts! was posting it on X, inst and VK and chose these guys! had a nice experience doing this challenge 😁
#honkai star rail#jing yuan#star wars#thrawn#destiny 2#drifter#dark souls 3#nameless king#cyberpunk 2077#johnny silverhand#cod mw2#simon ghost riley#six fanarts
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