But right now Vanessa wasn't impressed with Jimena's bold rescue. "You hit them with the car," she said. "Maggie told us that we should never use the tools of the Atrox. Violence only feeds Followers and makes them stronger. They become invincible when we choose evil as our defense."
"That's old school," Jimena said, unmoved by Vanessa's comments.
― Lynne Ewing, The Final Eclipse
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I had to give him these bad boys lmAO
Based off the brain blast this post gave me
Hi @naffeclipse I present thee ye boy and also @just-a-drawing-bean a late birthday gift :)c Detective AU by Sunnys-aesthetic ! (Image ID and Version without glasses below the cut :D)
[ ID: A bust shot of Sleuth Jesters Eclipse coming in from the right at a slight angle. He’s staring at the viewer, eyes half lidded with a giant smirk on his face that shows off all his teeth. The hand on the left holds a cigar between the index finger while the one on the right is pinching round gold rimmed glasses with red lenses. He holds them so they are just hovering below his eyes. /END ID]
oh yeah I can just edit extra stuff under the cut and yall will still see it from reblogged posts LETS GOOOO-
‘I’m a wanted man’ by Royal Deluxe is the song that was mostly on repeat as I was drawing this dude I wish I recorded my progress while I made this so I could do a video w/ the song in the bg. Sobs sobbing on the ground.
Also here’s this creature
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An '81 Oldsmobile sped down the street. Music pounded from inside, a heavy techno beat that vibrated through Vanessa and made the Followers turn. The car swerved, and its wheels bounced over the curb and onto the sidewalk. The bumper plowed through the inky shadows. Hellish screams filled the night as the shape-shifters scattered, only to return and hover in a menacing cloud.
Tymmie dropped the hamburger and held on to Vanessa. She wrenched herself free from his grip and ran toward the car. Spectral hands tried to catch her by the feet, but she hurtled over them.
The passenger-side door flew open.
"Get in!" Jimena yelled.
Vanessa threw herself onto the front seat and shut the door before the shape-shifters could sweep inside.
― Lynne Ewing, The Final Eclipse
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I've been musing over a few thoughts inspired by this ask about a mafia-ish style of Apex Polarity without it being too close to Pearl Eye, and after watching a few videos of Orcas hunting their prey (which included dolphins), landed on a sort of Mafia inspired Apex Polarity AU
Also not to add another Y/N to Orclipse's growing collection but this Y/N is a white-beaked dolphin. Look! They're so beautiful!
Sirens are cunning, brutal, and take everything with teeth and claws. The strongest kill and maim at a whim. As a siren who's not particularly strong, though incredibly agile, with a tail streamlined and dark gray with white patches, fins curved and mostly black, you're somewhere at the bottom. You're doing your best to survive and avoid trouble. You pick your battles and you pick your escapes, and most importantly, you stay alive.
But then you do something really stupid: you venture where you shouldn't have.
You don't usually swim so far up north but you're hungry, and the thought of a few tasty squids distracts you from the silent waters and vast, blue emptiness. You realize a bit too late that you're not the only one hunting.
You catch the first orca siren in the distance as a dark figure, and then another. Two who immediately cut through the water, charging straight for you like shadows. Though you turn tail and bolt, you quickly spot them in the corner of your vision. They easily keep pace, their size and strength overwhelming as they flank you on both sides, wide grins flashing their deadly teeth. You can hardly look at the mismatched color of their eyes as you dodge and weave, diving down only to be cut off by one with midnight blue colors at the tip of his flukes, and shooting off to the left just to almost be snatched by the black-bone claws of a siren with bright yellow fins framing his head.
They're toying with you. You know that for a fact in how they just barely keep back, corraling you onwards, draining your already spent energy, and picking at your panicking pulse. You have no choice but to avoid the edges of their jaws and the tips of their talons, and swim in the direction they want.
You near a field of ice floes floating on the water, and though you cut into the jagged structures dipping into the sea, the orca sirens never lose you. A desperate need for air pushes you onward. One small drop of hope still burns in your chest. Despite the aching of your muscles, you steal a gulp of oxygen and dip back down once more, charging away—
Only to run smack into a third orca siren.
This one grabs you, his burning red and orange colors filling your vision. The other two orcas join to help their kin keep you in place long enough for you to truly regret ever venturing here. Between the three of what you can only assume are brothers, hands hooked over you shoulders, claws clutching your wrists, and palms pressing into your hips, you're a fish caught in a net.
You brace for a voilent end. It never arrives. Instead of digging into your sweet meat, the sirens offer you a deal. The tips of sharp fingertips trace your jawline and the soft inside of your arms and down your slick tail while they explain.
You keep watch for human ships and report back when they're getting close, and in exchange, you get the best food you can imagine, the entire Arctic Ocean to swim, and anything else you'd like. The best benefit? You're under their protection. Of course, they expect utter loyalty from you. You are no one else's. Failure to devote yourself to this work and the brothers would mean a grisly fate, but hey, you're nothing if not eager to not be torn apart. So you agree.
You have a few questions about this whole arrangement, struggling to understand why they, powerful orca sirens, bother with a smaller fish like you when they could rip you limb from limb and be done. What's with the human ships? Why task you to this? Are you just fodder so they can keep their fins nice and unscabbed? They reassure you that they'll explain in due time (the sunny one booping your nose, much to your chagrin), but for now, all you know to know is that the human ships are a problem, and you are their solution for it. You've never really encountered humans before, but they've never really encountered sirens, or so you thought.
The burning red one lets you go, but you don't slip away too far before he tugs on your flukes and tells you to follow him. It's not a request. The darker blue one leaves for a moment, jetting away as the other two guide you to a nice resting place on an icy shore. They introduce themselves, and then their brother reappears with a squid in hand, half dead, and an insistence that you eat—they could tell during the chase that you didn't have all your energy.
And that's how you unwittingly join a very powerful pod of orca brothers who may or may not be teasing and taunting you simultaneously.
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