#the franks

[fauxridium]

Heres the pieces i did for @cypher-zine vol. 2! Red being the video game boy and cyber being a nuisance to go along with my bfs fic he did for the zine!

[blueiscoool]

Merovingian Gold and Garnet Fibula in the shape of a Rooster European · ca. 500 - 600 A.D.

[mechanical-magician]

Doodled the leaders of each crew

[dragonmarquise]

Wren's Very Long BRC Relationship Headcanons Post

Emphasis on very long, there's a lot of them listed here. Not just romantic ships, but also friendships, rivalries, and even exes!! Some of these I only did a little blurb about, others have a paragraph in their own right, lol

Like I mentioned last night, I want to write at least some oneshots of some of these (especially some of the romantic ships, you can probably guess which ones 😈), but I don't know where to start since I have given myself Too Many Options. :u

So if there's a particular one you want me to ramble about, feel free to send in an ask! If anything I encourage it, since I'm hoping it'll help push me in the right direction to eventually write some fics about these. One relationship per ask please, and note that some of these I'll have a lot more to say than others!

Friendships:

In general, I think in each crew, the crew members get along with each other well enough to call each other friends. Probably the only exception is Veronica of FUTURISM, given I made her the one teammate that the rest don’t like. :u

Bel, Mesh, and Shine are the kind of people who try to be friends with everyone, or at the very least make a conscious effort to get along with everyone in the Bomb Rush Crew!

Mesh & Cueball in particular as friends is one I wanna point out here! Cueball starts out being suspicious of Mesh, because he doesn’t realize Mesh is just being nice. Poor Cueball has no friends outside of DOT EXE, and even then he didn’t get along with them better until after Eight Ball’s death and Cueball leaving that crew to join BRC. Him and Mesh eventually become pretty good friends, and that leads to him getting along better with the rest of the crew too!

Eventually Mesh and Cueball also become friends with Sai too! Sai being my Devil Theory OC who joins BRC. He was kinda in the same situation as Cueball, being suspicious about people being nice to him, but they win him over eventually. :P

Rise, Shine, and Rave in particular end up being a trio of besties~

And the “Core 5” members (Tryce, Bel, Felix, Vinyl, and Solace) are besties too!!

I’ve mentioned this in the past, but all 4 Devil Theory members were friends for a long time before forming their crew, and still remain best friends!

Rivals:

Daishō vs. Tryce, mostly the former trolling the latter, such as specifically putting graffiti over Tryce’s own pieces. Tryce tries to not let it get to him, emphasis on “tries”.

Sai vs. Red, as a friendly rivalry where they fight each other in sparring matches. Note, Red is a separate person from Felix in my headcanons after the events of the game (I’ve changed how Red exists in my headcanons since the last time I talked about him; long story short they find a writer’s cyberhead mind that’s in need of a new cyberhead, and Felix had been rebuilding the Red cyberhead for himself as a replacement for his old mask, so…)

Rietveld vs. Nunchaku (Nunchaku being another Devil Theory OC, she’s a trans butch lesbian!), this one is kind of a one-sided thing on Rietveld’s part. Basically at one point Bel has a crush on Nunchaku, while Rietveld had a crush on Bel, and thus thinking a rivalry is gonna happen. But thankfully for Rietveld, Nunchaku turns Bel down (Nunchaku is more into other butches). The “rivalry” basically fizzles out after that, especially once Rietveld was finally able to ask Bel out. :P

Okay, so now getting into the romantic ships, I'm breaking them up into 3 sections, one with just canon characters, the second with canon characters paired with one of my OCs, and the last being canon x OC with the OCs in this case being ones I haven't even drawn yet, lol...

Romantic (Only canon characters):

DJ Cybr x Felix; Cylix, Cyber Kings, whatever you want to call it! I like to think both of them keep shuffling their feet on it for a long while, with flirting from DJ going over Felix’s head sometimes, and one being convinced the other just wants to be friends, etc.

Bel x Rietveld (inspired by some of @supraandhergoreshia's doodles of them, like this, and this, and also this one, and this really cute one ;u; )

Shine x Coil (inspired by some of @monkiinart's art of them together, such as this, and this one, also especially this one ahh)

Mesh x Solace (inspired by KOMAP's art of them!! Like this, and this, and this! There's more doodles of these two on KOMAP's Xitter too :> )

Romantic (Canon x OC):

Rise x Sai (Devil Theory spring palette), fake dating turned into real dating oh no, lol

Bō (Devil Theory winter palette) x Cueball, computer nerds dating each other, though also as Cueball puts it, “Nerd boyfriend? Jock boyfriend?? Pfft,” *gesturing towards Bō* “Get yourself a man who can do both!!”

Vinyl x Nunchaku (Devil Theory summer palette), butch lesbians together!!

Daishō (Devil Theory autumn palette) x Vela (Eclipse spring palette), or rather Hiro x Sara (i.e. their respective real names), since each of them don’t know the other is a writer… yet

Quatorze (14-ball DOT EXE) x Jūrō (10-ball DOT EXE), though that’s a given since they’re a married couple. Together and still in love, even after going full-cyber!!

Escher x Cinco, old man yaoi basically lol. And I do mean actually old man, Cinco is in his 60s, and I imagine Escher is either around the same or in his 50s at the very least.

Nyx (FUTURISM spring palette) x Aquila (Eclipse summer palette), as discussed in a previous post of mine!

Veronica x Faux, but they weren’t actually dating, she just had a major crush on him. She swears she’s over him after the whole Project Algo thing, but nah, she’s lying, #1 Faux stan right here lmao

Romantic (With OCs that I haven’t even drawn/talked about publicly yet, lmao...):

Rave x Cuervo, he’s a former member of the Umbra Apex crew I made a long while ago

Red x Cress, I’m not even sure how much I can say about this character without spoiling for future potential fics. Red meets them under very unusual circumstances, I’ll say that much.

Lyra (Eclipse autumn palette) x Cherry, an OC who works in New Amsterdam as a tattoo artist. I actually have a few ideas for “new NPCs” for the game to add additional features and minigames, Cherry being one of them.

Michael (Franks autumn palette) x Monica, OC who runs this sort of skate/stunt park for writers in Millennium Mall. She’s also one of the “new NPCs” I mentioned before. Her skate park would basically be a minigame area for getting high scores in exchange for stuff you can display at the hideout. Also-also she’s Tryce’s aunt :P

Exes:

Rise and Faux, absolute disaster of a relationship, not even in a fun way. My version of Faux makes for a horrendously selfish boyfriend, lmao. After the relationship finally ended, Faux referred to Rise as “an egotistical uppity bitch”, and Rise still refers to Faux as “the most insufferable white boy I’ve ever had the displeasure of dating”.

Sai and Daishō, they dated back in secondary school (i.e. roughly high school), because they figured they love each other platonically as best friends, so why not romantically? Unfortunately, things get awkward real fast for two reasons: First, Daishō realizes he’s definitely straight (Sai in comparison is bi), and second, despite the previous point Daishō actually forced himself to keep up the relationship because he really didn’t want to break Sai’s heart. The truth came out eventually and they managed to talk things out and go back to being best friends. Which is probably a miracle that they were able to stay as friends at all, considered what happened and how awkward things got for them for a while there.

Tryce and Bel, the idea being that they tried dating when they were younger (they were not friends previously, so this was something arranged via a dating app or something), but then Bel realizes she’s a lesbian and they have an amicable break up and stay friends afterwards. They only went on one or two dates at that point, and found they got along but just not in a romantic way (and also, again, Bel is a lesbian). So then, this is a far less awkward version of Sai and Daishō’s temporary romantic relationship. :u

Other:

Twoson (2-ball DOT EXE) + Fourside (4-ball DOT EXE) will flip flop on what exactly their relationship is, and give different answers every time either of them is asked. Best friends, friends with benefits, romantic, queerplatonic, etc. They definitely have a deep relationship and care about each other, with Fourside in particular being very protective of Twoson if things get ugly. Still, neither of them likes putting any particular label/definition to what’s going on between them.

[marquisegallery]

There was a big winter mod for Bomb Rush Cyberfunk a while ago, and I'll be surprised if there isn't one for the summer too. I ended up thinking of some designs for a potential summer mod. Of course, it's all about swimsuits!!

Originally I was just going to draw summer ideas for Rise, Vinyl, and Bel in my normal style. But then I kept getting frustrated over anatomy and posing. So then I switched to my toon style and ended up drawing a lot more designs lol

For colors on the swimsuits, I tried to pick ones that are more different from their usual outfits. Well, for the most part. Also I used one of my Devil Theory OCs instead of Generic Devil Theory, but speedos probably suit the generic guys too. Maybe. :P

Anyways, it was a lot of fun coming up with and drawing these ideas! Even with just the gradients for lighting and shading, I think these turned out pretty good. :D

[theancientwise]

The reasons why I LOVE the FRANKS in "Vikings"

Any more questions?

(I'm sorry, Vikings fans, but in the Paris arc i had no sympathy for the Norses: not for the twins, neither for Bjorn, nor for Lagertha; i'm not saying they are bad characters, but here they were indeed enemies, who wanted to harm innocents people and needed to learn humility so much. So i'm sorry, but watching the Franks beating them was very satisfying for me. I mean no offence to all of you, and if i have offended you, i sincerely apologize).

[dungeonlust]

Art by • Frank Frazetta

[mearchy]

my favorite genre of fictional character is like "i am terrifying to almost everyone, i'm very good at killing, i can endure anything, i've become exceptionally good at playing into my reputation, and if you try to give me positive social interaction i will react with confusion and cower in a corner like an abused animal. and i may try to shoot you. but there is also a chance i may imprint on you like a feral dog receiving its first loving touch! good luck."

[liberty1776]

The Barbarian Heirs To Rome: Warlords Of The West

[dommnics]

Happy Wicked release day! Hope to see it myself in theatres real soon. Very exciting times!!

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[percyjackson-post]

Okay, hear me out: The seven decide to do a trauma candy salad on Piper’s social media, and within a day it becomes her most liked post and starts 6 new conspiracies.

Percy: Hey, I’m Percy Jackson, and when I was 12, I accidentally blew up the gateway arch, and there was a nation-wide manhunt for me because they thought I was a terrorist. I brought Reese's Pieces.

Annabeth: My name is Annabeth, and when I was 7 years old, I ran away from home and lived on the streets with two other kids until one of them was murdered in front of me. I brought starbursts.

Leo: Hi! I’m Leo, and my mother died in a warehouse fire, but my entire family blamed me for her death, so I was put in foster care. I brought skittles!

Piper: I’m Piper, and my dad was held hostage, and his kidnappers tried to blackmail me, so I brought the m&m's. 

Jason: My name is Jason and I was abandoned in the woods and raised by wolves. I brought some Swedish fish.

Frank: I’m Frank, and when my mom died, my grandmother kicked me out of the house and told me to go to California. After I came back to ask her about our family history, the house burned down and she vanished. I brought some gummy bears

Hazel: When I was 13, I died. I’m putting in life savers :)

Part 2!

[obsessioncollector]

Common Frank Bidart banger (from "In the Ruins," in Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016)

[blueiscoool]

A 1,300-Year-Old Warrior’s Weapon Filled Grave Found in Germany

Digging into the millennia-old cemetery in Germany, archaeologists didn’t expect to find much. Grave robbers had come through centuries ago, carrying off who-knows-what and taking it who-knows-where.

Except the looters missed something — and archaeologists weren’t going to repeat that mistake.

It was a round, metal chunk sticking out of the dirt that first caught the attention of archaeologists in Ingelheim, excavation leader Christoph Bassler said in an Aug. 4 news release from the City of Ingelheim.

The metal chunk was part of a shield, Bassler said. The artifact was unearthed between two looted graves, making it hard to link it to a specific burial.

So archaeologists kept digging — and stumbled on an untouched grave.

The 1,300-year-old grave belonged to a warrior, the release said. The 30- to 40-year-old man was buried in the seventh century with almost every type of weapon used at the time.

A double-edged spatha sword measuring about 3 feet long was placed under his right arm, archaeologists said. This sword was likely his most prized possession. By his left arm, he had a broad seax, a short, heavy sword used for slashing. The grave also had a knife, lance, bronze scabbard and belt, the release said.

Based on the style of his shield and weapons, the warrior was likely a Frankish man, archaeologists said. His skeletal posture indicated he was buried in a now-disintegrated coffin.

The Franks “forcibly settled” what is now southern Germany beginning in the sixth century, according to Britannica. They maintained control of Franconia – a territory that included Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Munich – until the eighth century when another royal dynasty took control.

The 1,300-year-old warrior was not a professional soldier, archaeologists said. Modern-day standing armies did not exist during his lifetime. Instead, he likely cared for his own equipment and followed his leader into battle.

His cause of death is unknown, but he might have died from illness or a battle-inflicted injury, the release said. Archaeologists noted the violence-themed burial goods would make the latter cause of death unsurprising.

The artifacts were removed from the grave for cleaning and further study, city officials said.

Ingelheim, also known as Ingelheim am Rhein, is about 330 miles southwest of Berlin.

By Aspen Pflughoeft.

[mechanical-magician]

BOMB RUSH CYBERFUNK HEADCANONS: FRANKS EDITION

MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD

Headcanon Directory >>

> As we know, Versum Hill is their turf. They're base is that basketball court, which they're chill with people coming to play some skremish rounds :]

> However, below ground through a manhole is their exclusive hideout. This is also the location of Flesh Prince's workshop

> The group is comprised of 5 members: Ab, Femur, Pec, and Bicep. Flesh Prince is their leader.

> The other 4 members are all grown adult men in their 30s, listening to the whims of a 16 year old kid

> They know about Prince's story (see Flesh Prince headcanons through the above directory) and honestly, they've adopted him as their collective son

> That being said, Prince still absolutely calls the shots.

> They all met Prince one way or another through his underground body manipulation business. Prince will do procedures no one else will, and gets paid a pretty penny to do it.

> Most of the respect for Prince however, comes from the fact that he does it right. He takes genuine care, and demands regular check ups with his clients to ensure that everything is going smoothly.

> Also, if you want a part from a specific... donor. He's got connections to make that happen.

> A seller once tried to sell him the arm of a famous recently deceased baseball player, and when Prince figured out that it was just some regular person's arm, he threw a FIT. "I've been waiting 3 DAMN WEEKS FOR THIS AND YOU BRING ME A FRAUD?! My boy Pec has been patiently waiting without an arm for a month and you WASTE MY TIME WITH THIS?! I oughtta take your HEADS and make MINCEMEAT outta the LEFTOVERS!!!"

> Needless to say, Prince cares deeply for his boys

> They care for him too!

> After an incident where Prince had an allergic reaction and his epipen broke, the members of the crew decided that they should all always have an epipen and inhaler on them so something like never happens again. Prince doesn't know about this agreement

> Prince is the only one who lives at the base. Though sometimes some of the others will crash there for the night

> overall, they're one of the more chill gangs to hang with!

[batman-gif]

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