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Nothing will dispell the "the curtains were just blue" myth faster than writing something yourself, because the amount of pretentious symbolism i am putting in my silly little fanfics is ridiculous. I mean SO much with these words, literally every single one of them. This fic has twenty five typos and zero correct uses of punctuation but if there's curtains you bet your ass I put thought into what colour they were.
#writing#fic writing#like this is stuff i'm doing for fun with my perfectionism meter turned down as far as i can get it#and i am still thinking about it A LOT#talk to me about how in red string fic jgy perceives the memory block both as syrup and as mud but nmj thinks it feels like blood#it's just a thing in their heads that mentally feels kind of thick and sticky but they both made something different of it#it's about issues with cleanliness / lies as a way to craft an illusion of a better lopking world vs the constant violence nmj lives in
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#OH NO THE IDOL BEAM HAS HIT EVERYONE EXCEPT THE MEANEST ONES IN THE CLAN 🤣#can u imagine.... the absolute catty group energy coming out of these 3 if they had to sing together...#the idol beam bazooka is one of aster's fave weapons of ???profit#rei and kuya hate standing beside each other so dante always has to be in the middle#everyone who attends any of their shows will get their memory instantly wiped after the event#whether it's by illusory magic or fiery explosion (fire comas don't completely erase the memory but they'll certainly distract)#or father directly clawing someone's eyes out#actually i wouldn't put it past kuya to just make an entire illusion out of the thing#so he wouldn't have to move at all or put any effort into the silly song and dance.#he sittin backstage with the catering table while the audience screams for the fake show happening on stage#kuya the pioneer of IRL MMV projection magic. incredible#actually u kno what. aster hits them with the idol beam#and every show is just the three of them playing UNO#that would still bring in money#the drama. the intrigue. the competitive spirits flaring and tables being flipped. what a spectacle#nu carnival#nu carnival aster#nu carnival dante#nu carnival kuya#nu carnival rei
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Nobody gave Greygold the 'How to Squid' Manual. And even if they had one (it's probably integrated in their brain like a squid tutorial)-gonna adamantly ignore it. Adapt on the fly instead. In the middle of an invasion. No better way to learn babeeeeeey~
Maybe all the other tiny-tentacled Tavs insta-figured out how to cerebral-armor. But. Greygold has... different priorities.
#bg3 spoilers#bg3#baldur's gate 3#bg3 fanart#bg3 comic#illithid tav#greygold#squid greygold#The only time I'm allowing major creative license#because even though it was a fun joke in the beginning and drawing this outfit is a nightmare#sometimes.... you gotta honor your character's personal obsessions....that you personally gave them#I'm sure Greygold figured out how to don on cerebral armor underneath it all at one point#do you ever think cerebral armor is just another word for memory foam armor? wearing the memory of your armor's AC?#Or do you think it's reverse illusion for other squid tavs#actually wearing real armor but the cerebral armor is an illusion#besides ....you know game-mechanic out-of-time reasons
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OOH YEAH BABY ITS THE SURGERY EPISODE BABY!!! ME AND THE HOMIES NEED SOME NEW FACES FOR OUR NEW PLAN, AND WHO BETTER TO GET THE JOB DONE THAN THE TWO MOST EVIL PEOPLE WE'VE EVER HAD THE MISFORTUNE OF HAVING OUR LIVES VIOLATED BY? I MEAN IT WOULD BE FUNNY. IT WOULD BE FUNNY.
#jrwi fanart#jrwi show#cw blood#cw gore#jrwi suckening#jrwi suckening spoilers#vex waylin#viv waylin#MY FAVORIT EP!! HAVNT SEEN IT IN FOREVER THO BC WELL. IM BUSY. SO BEAR W ME IM RUNNIN OFF ALOTTA MEMORY FUMES#ALSO EDIT BC FUUUCK I HADMORE TAGS BUT TUMBLR FUCKEN ATE EM. OH WELL. MY DMS R OPEN IF U WANNA UNLOCK RAMBLES.#I LOVE THE WAYLIN TWINS SSSOO FUCKING MUCH IM SO!!! CURIOUS ABOUT THEM!!! WHO WERE THEY WHEN THEY WERE HUMAN? HOW LONGVE THEY BEEN ARND?#I LOVE IT WHEN PPL SAY ITS LIKE THESE TWO WERE MADE FOR MMEE BC YES!! YES!! ITS EVERYTHING I COULD EVER WANT FROMA CHARACTER!!!#I LOVE THEIR RED WHITE N BLACK COLOR SCHEME. I LOVE HOW THEYRE BOTH SO INTELLIGENT AND GENIUS N YET THEYRE DUMB AS FUUUUCK#COOOMICAL SUPER VILLAINS. OOH ILL GET YOU NEXT TIME SHAMIA SHAMAI!!! HOW DARE YOU FOIL MY PLAN!! MY PLANS OF MUTILATING AWAKE N ALIVE PPL#COMICAL AND YET. GENUINELY HORRIFYING. VIV CAN MAKE UR BONES EXPLODE JUST BY THINKING ABOUT IT. VEX CAN BECOME SOUP#WHY DONT WE TALK ABOUT THAT MORE? THE TURNING INTO RED MEAT SLIME?? METAL AS FUUUCK. I ALSO LOVE HOW SCARED THEY GOT SO QUICKLY#THIS LIL FUCKEN RRRRRAT COMES IN. AND WELL. HES JUST LIKE ALL THE OTHERS. WE FUCK HIM UP N TOSS HIM INTO THE SUN N LET HIM BURN#SURE HE HAD ONE MORE TRICK OF REBELLION UP HIS SLEEVE BUT THE SUN HAS TAKEN HIM NOW. ITS FINE. WE'RE FINE. HEY IS THERE SMTH IN THE CEILING#OHHH WE KILLED HIM ONCE N HE CAME BACK. WE KILLED HIM AGAIN N TOOK HIM APART BUT THEN HES BACK?? HE GETS AWAY AND THEN. COMES BACK. AGAIN.#WE CANT GET RID OF HIM. THAT FOUL SHAMIA SHAMAI. A MOUSE IN OUR KITCHEN. FUUUUCK HES GONNA SPREAD DISEASE! KILL IT! KILL IT!! AAAUUGH FUCK!#I LOVE THAT THE WAYLIN TWINS AGREED TO HELP THE BLONDE TWINS MOSTLY ON THE BASIS OF 'IT WOULD BE FUNNY' BUT ALSO#OOHHH WE ARE SO CLOSE TO REACHING SOMETHING TO MAKE HIM NNEEVER FUCK WITH US AGAIN. HIS ILLUSIONS WILL HAUNT US NO LONGER#THEY WERE SSSOOO PARANOID W ALL THE CAMERAS AND BOMBING THEIR OWN LAB AND RUNNING AND RUNNING AND GETTING AWWAY FROM THIS FUCKEN! MOUSE!!!!#OHHHH I THINK IM RUNNIN OUTA ROOM so ill talk about da art real quick.BEEN WORKIN ON THIS FOR A WHIIILE.ALOTTA THESE were started when the#ep came out.so OLD!! BUT DONE!!and im very very happy w my colors n gore n EXPRESSIONS!! the top right corner comic keeps making me chuckle#I ALSO rly love the lil convo between arthur n viv.theyre SO CUTE TOGETHERR they should go ona museum date together or somethin#they need more time to just talk abt da World together.ALSO CAN I BE PETTY.I MADE ARTHUR UGLY CORRECT-STYLE#THESE BOYS KNOW NOTHING OF UGLY.I MADE THE VAMPIRIC FLESH EVOLVE N ROT N BLOSSOM AND THERE IS SQUIRMING WITHIN THE TENEBRAE#UHHH IEAH THIS GUY W A ROTTED N DISTORTED FACE WALKS INTO MY BIKE STORE IEAH IM SCREAAAMIN LIKE WADDA HELL!! MONSTOR!!!
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This isn't a theory or anything, just based on vibes alone. If Bells Hells do happen to seek out other prime deities for guidance or boons, the Moonweaver would be so juicy for Dorian...
#everything he lets people see is by his own design#she is the goddess of illusion#he has gotten romantic vibes from someone since early in the campaign (so far unrequited)#(according to the FIRST 4 sided dive episode ffs)#she is the goddess of hidden love#they both share the chaotic good alignment#he feels as if the hells are drifting#as if his feelings have never really mattered#he knows he's on borrowed time regarding grieving#her commandments include seizing your own destiny and protecting yourself from despair and forging new memories#(also as a purely selfish/ship driven symbolism: we would have big moon/little moon and will telling orym to not live in his shadow)#(cue dorian being blessed by the goddess of Catha(Will)'s light)#anyway i just think it would be neat#but i don't really think they're gonna go hunting for gods to help them VM style nor does dorian NEED a god's help but i digress#dorian storm#critical role spoilers#campaign 3#dorym#ramblings
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Nope, it isn’t. Oh Tommy…
#dream smp#painted illusions#c!tommy#c!wilbur#rozoodles#comics#we’re still in dream land#or well more like repeating a past memory
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Hello everyone!!
Anyone who knows my past on here knows I'm a huge Super Paper Mario fan, and it was my hyperfixation for a long, long time. my longest finished fanfiction for so long was Memories and Illusions, a continuation of the story of Super Paper Mario after the events of the game.
For a long time, this fic was only fully published on Amino. However, I am offically archiving Memories and Illusions, along with all of my other Mario fanfictions, to Ao3! To celebrate, I really wanted to redraw the main image for Memories and illusions, and seeing the growth made me really happy :')
M&I will be posted one chapter a day for a week, and then the rest of my fics will be moved over one by one as I have the time! I want to thank everyone who supported me through writing it back then, and support my writing and art now. Reblogs are really appriciated, even just to show off the art ;;
Read Memories and Illusions on Ao3 here!
Old artwork and without the title below the cut!
August 2019:
June 2024
#super paper mario#Super Paper Mario fanfiction#the bleck crew#bleck crew#Found family#post-canon super paper mario#Luigi#O'Chunks#nastasia#mimi#Dimentio#memories and illusions#Mario fanfiction#writers on tumblr#writeblr#ao3#sams art#digital art#okay that's enough tags I am so excited hehehe
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also yall we need to step back from the harryvision and understand that kim, at his core, is a loser (affectionate) like everyone else. so much out there wants to portray him as limitless patience, great cook, super organized, good handwriting, nice tasteful living quarters etc and that's fun to contrast him to harry but well i am here to RUIN that we need to take off the du bois glasses and appreciate kim for the weirdguy that he is. he has horrific fits of road rage and harry genuinely fears for his life riding along with him and witnessing the generational curses this man is capable of unleashing upon the stupid little fucks that cut him off on the 8/81. he has never had the time or space or budget to learn to cook so he lives off deli sandwiches and butter noodles and the occasional grab-and-go fruit. he writes so much so frequently with such awful handwriting that he has invented a new form of shorthand and the moralintern is contacting him to create a cipher system for them. he has no resources to furnish and maintain a nice flat so it's like a slightly gentrified r/malelivingspace but with a table for his sewing machine and there's scrap fabric and thread and half-pinned half-hemmed pants strewn about the place. there are absolutely a bunch of shitty mockups of his old wirral character in the backs of his notebooks and he hasn't played it in years but if he ever picks it back up then his minmax high int high dex definitely-not-a-self-insert sidhe artificer is READY. everyone add your weirdguy kim thoughts NOW 👇
#the 'kim is so cool and confident etc' illusion shatters the moment martinaise is over and harry knows him outside of the one case#harry will be starry eyed about him for a long time regardless. but harry knows More now#harry like kim i dont know how to cook for myself please help :(#kim comes over. they attempt a dinner. the vegetables turn out undercooked but burnt somehow. the pasta is limp.#the chicken gives them food poisoning.#'are you... bad at cooking?' harry asks. kim pulls the eyebrow. they drop the conversation and harry never asks again#harry decides to try out wirral with a local group and tells kim. kim goes full nerd mode#kim walks him through character creation and gives him a full rules rundown from memory#introduces him to the prominent ttrpg settings and lore. it's a literal 8 hour conversation#at the end of it kim says 'and that's the basics' and harry gives him a Look and kim is like ah. i may have told on myself a bit there.#anyway that ends in harry DEMANDING to see kim's wirral character#kim (embarrassed) (proud of his character) (ashamed) (really wants to talk about his character) (needs help with backstory details)#anyway they end up workshopping their characters together.#kim at the end is like 'hm maybe your guy can be in mine's backstory' and harry goes '😣👉👈 is this first base...'#kiwipost#harry du bois#kim kitsuragi
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i love how fraught and complicated discourse around various utena characters ‘dying’ is when anthy is literally stabbed to death eternally by a million swords imbued with human hatred. and then utena gets stabbed to death by them also. like. ‘death’ is incredibly interesting in rgu because most of the time it’s this ambiguous figurative thing that has interesting implications re: ohtori as a closed-off world one can escape. we are all trapped in our coffins. mamiya is the only named character with a grave. nemuro memorial hall functions as one all the same. ruka is implied to have died in the hospital— was he dead all along? who was the boy we saw for these two episodes? is this dead boy the same boy, or is this just another coincidence from the shadow girls, cutting like a knife? it’s heavily implied that akio and anthy murder kanae by poisoning her, adding to the previous implication that they were poisoning mr ohtori too, but there are no perceptible consequences of this. kanae’s absence is not felt. she’s fed an apple slice. what happens to the bodies? we know what happened to the 100 boys, but what about everyone else? and so on and so forth. ‘death’ is a tricky thing in utena, i think it’s constantly functioning on figurative and literal levels in very different ways for very different purposes. dios died. dios was dying. dios didn’t die. he grew up. etc etc
#what am i trying to say here?#idk! think about all of the pieces you have#dying is complicated in ohtori in countless different ways#and i find it boring to see so much ‘this character is dead and that’s it’ stuff#when death is used farrrrrrr more figuratively than some ppl give credit for#and i think the movie too does wonderful things with death#and what ‘dying’ really means#being disbelieved. being forgotten. being rejected. haunting despite this#much more interesting to think about wrt commentary on abusive relationships than it is#to think about what?? oh me when my brother died but plot twist he’s alive and can walk on this road all cool. like?????#akio doesn’t have the power to make himself revenant#he THINKS he does and he absolutely has power when he’s alive and he imbues that power with such meaning that it does live on after him#but ANTHY. anthy is the one struggling with herself and her feelings and the impact of trauma and abuse (that power!!) in aou#he’s dead? he died? she brought him back through her memories? or she’s left him (metaphorical death) and he’s haunting her??#all such interesting interpretations#i haven’t mentioned touga bc i don’t have the energy today. if dead and just illusion of others memories then why active. why awful#like in aou akio is only Obviously scummy when he’s alive. his illusory self is based upon anthy’s love for him#if anime!touga is nothing more than nanami/whoever’s memories of him before he died……. why does he actively choose to suck again and again#like nanami wouldn’t do that. unless it was meant to be a subconscious thing like ooo he’s dead all along but that’s not what her arc is#it’s not ‘he’s been dead all along’ literally or figuratively. it’s ‘he’s unsafe and i don’t want him’#sigh. once again i am asking people to think about nanami and touga’s dynamic through touga’s eyes#it’s so interesting to me how people forget to consider his motivations or feelings on ANYTHING#like sure his motivations and feelings are scummy but they’re interesting!!!!! they intrigue me!!!!#compel me even#anyway ignore how i said i didn’t have the energy for this and then typed it all out anyway#dais.txt
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Day 1: Apollo
Interpretation notes and trivia under the cut!
His interpretation for my work is based very much around the concept of his manifestation as the Radiant God of the String. Because of this, quite like Hecate, he’s triple-fold and occupies three major spaces; the string of Fate and therefore prophecy, the bowstring and therefore distance and destruction and the lyrestring and therefore music and order. He’s a somewhat melancholy figure all things considered - Fate and following Fate’s tennants is something that he struggled a lot with as a child and even now as a more mature deity, the only solution he’s truly found is to take things one day at a time. Very diligent and fastidious, he’s a hard worker and tends to put his everything into completing any task set before him which also tends to work to his disadvantage since he’s prone to becoming tunnel-visioned until he’s finished what he said he would finish. His family orchestrated his winter breaks because he had the nasty habit of working himself sick when he was still very young.
Apollo is generally represented by circles in my work - priests of Apollo will be marked with at least three circles on their face and usually wear triangular jewellry (typically earrings or necklace charms) to reflect the triple-nature of their god. His favoured colour is a rich, deep blue and while he typically wears elaborate eye paint, he rarely uses face powders. Wears gem-toned blues for his lips unless in mourning where he will leave himself unadorned and unpainted out of respect.
Some quick trivia:
Was born identical to Artemis even though they were born (years) apart. Had brown hair, wolf’s ears and fangs and horns when he was a child but never manifested those features again after his penance for slaying Python. If he’s very stressed or angry, sometimes his fangs will show. The brown of his hair grew out to blond naturally as he developed and matured as a god.
Proficient in all instruments but has always especially preferred stringed instruments. Truly unmatched with a kithara but only uses it for special occasions and official meetings. Generally prefers his lyre for every day usage
Really good at sewing and braiding strings together due to the exercises he had to do while under the tutelage of the Moirai sisters. Can’t weave since Athena banned him from touching a loom but he does like watching her spin. The one time she caught him trying to replicate her patterns with a needle and thread, she complained to Zeus that he had broken his oath. He teases her about that even now.
Was the last of the Twelve to learn how to read and write because he hates letter systems and finds it too arbitrary. Prior to the collaboration that resulted in written letter systems, everyone was perfectly fine with remembering the important stuff and encoding the rest in artistic format such as tapestries, pottery, furniture and jewellry. Apollo himself has a truly formidable memory since he’s been composing and immortalising the events and histories of the world in song since he was very young. He finds written books very dull but Clio’s very insistent about written histories being important and convenient so reluctantly, he’s given permission for his songs and poems to be -gags- transcribed and written down.
Is only called Apollo by his parents, Artemis and Dionysus. Hermes rarely calls him by name in general and the others, including other siblings like Ares and Athena, have always called him Phoebus. Interestingly, Zeus usually calls him Phoebus but will call him Apollo when they are alone or when he’s being especially serious. Apollo is completely comfortable with either name but he does see Phoebus as a bit more formal than Apollo. (Despite his best efforts, both Calliope and Clio also still stubbornly call him Phoebus though he’s fairly sure it’s mostly because they know it bothers him.)
#ginger rambles#pursuing daybreak posting#apollo#Despite how sparkly the doodle of him is he's actually a pretty serious guy LMAO#Apollo's a lot of fun tbh - he's surprisingly set in his ways and can be very traditional which always catches the younger gods off guard#Hermes is the one who decided to invent a written system because he was completely fed up with having to sing elaborate messages#Apollo's memory is also such that he can recall/replicate things after seeing how it's done but he has to physically do the action#to properly remember it. He sees writing as unnatural and a degree of separation away from#the spontaneity and beauty of storytelling poetry and music so he was really upset about being forced to adapt to it#If I had to describe his personality in one word it would be 'illusive'#Apollo is something different to everyone in his life and while they're all equally genuine they're also equally confusing#He's not even the same type of father to his sons - each of his children have a wildly different experience with him as their dad#Super fun I enjoyed doing this next up is Mr Princey prince himself
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Ya probably won't see this till after the ask a thon, but I had to share this cus I wanna share it. It's funny
Regardless of canon, in a Steve Saga SMP, Memory would be the one people forget is on the server. Not because he uses his powers (they're allowed tho), but because Memory's the quiet one.
He just randomly scares them unintentionally when he speaks in chat or dies to smth (it's like a mix of them having their Steve powers, but also act like a player, so they can still die but they respawn.)
So cus of that, this is how the galaxy fam is on the SMP
Memory: the quiet one who's doing whatever and scares everyone half to death on the server when speaking/dies to smth somehow/goes to someones base (he knows where everyone is even tho nobody told him)
Time: the only serious one, having to deal with Elemental being stupid.
Elemental: "what happens if I use a stack of TNT on Illusions dirt hut?" *Elemental_theelementbender blew up* (The hut isn't even used by Illusion anymore lmao)
Illusion: following Sabre around cus he's the only one willing to help Illusion figure out what to do (somehow everyone else knew what to do as a player-like entity, but not Illusion lmao)
Galaxy: fishing til nightfall and just stays in a hole in the ground
Void: laughing at everyone accidentally dying to something (mostly Galaxy cus he just fishes all the time and gets too into it)
The mix of canon probably and noncanon. *Funny evil laugh*
I 100% agree with Memory being the quiet one that people forget is around.
btw, you have slain me with the mental image of Illusion following Sabre around. That's so precious to me. Illusion gets to learn how to play Minecraft from Sabre.
F in the chat for Elemental dying. Hopefully he gets back to his death location before all the pumpkin pies he had despawn.
Thank you for sharing!
#asks#shadow-genesis-yay#the galaxy family#steve saga#memory steve#time steve#elemental steve#illusion steve#galaxy steve#void steve#tss!time steve#tss!elemental steve#tss!galaxy steve#tss!void steve#wholesome#scenarios
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May i have Buddy sleeping in the bunk or maybe enjoying the company of his friends. :) thank youuu
when its crew manage to get the mask on under the helmet it can more reasonably get out of the clunky suit and into some jammies. comfy
#asks#lethal company#masked#my art#lethalcontracts#oc: buddy#+ the Vaguest Illusion of another crewmate looking at it (in my Brain it's Five checking on it#but I spose it could reasonably be imagined as any of them. I refuse to give its crew proper faces/designs)#I drew the bunks from memory. if they're inaccurate no they're not <3
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Y'know… sometimes, I think I should just share my Thoughts exclusively in drawings instead of tryna write 'em out & ending up posting analyses as long as the Empire State Building is tall… 🤔
A Love Letter to TMATM + the Rest of Bendy by Domino Effect Part 4/8:
“A Fitting Prison”
“Fatherhood”
1 • 2 • 3 • [You are here] • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8
#bendy and the ink machine#batim#batim fanart#bendy and the dark revival#batdr#batdr fanart#bendy in nightmare run#binr#the illusion of living#tiol#dreams come to life#dctl#bendy: the lost ones#bendy: tlo#the mug and the maiden#bendy fanart#fanarts#my fanart#my artwork#toon bendy#henry stein#allison pendle#nathan arch#the memory of joey drew#audrey drew#batdr heidi#batdr big steve#batdr porter#wilson arch#ink demon's eve
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#red bull has been such a big part of his journey i can’t imagine the betrayal he must feel#how will the memories not be tainted#every single part of this is so fucked up idk what to#like what do i do with all this#we watch sport for a lil bit of heart and soul that’s not easy to come by irl#what red bull did was basically telling us there IS no heart and soul. not even in sports. esp not in sports. it’s all an illusion#none of this is remotely ok#tribute posts make me sick bc i don’t get why everybody loves him so much but nobody could protect him a lil better#anything would’ve been better than this#*
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Illusion Steve, who's bad at compliments: I like your name.
Memory Steve, who's bad at receiving compliments: Thanks, I got it for my birthday.
#thank you for your submission!#and thank you for making a quote inspired by rrff!#steve saga#memory steve#illusion steve#incorrect steve saga quotes#incorrect quotes#source: internet#submission
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Lil project ive been doing:
I've been making dress up “dolls” of TSS characters w fem and masc vers. Rn I have
-Rainbow
-Elemental
-Time
-Galaxy
-Void
-Memory
-Illusion
-Plague
Don't think I can show the bases, they nakey but rb w outfits for me to draw them in :3
May make more bases another time
#steve saga#favremysabre#the steve saga#art#digital art#rainbow steve#elemental steve#time steve#galaxy steve#void steve#memory steve#illusion Steve#plague steve
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