#the lost guardian au

[darkrosekit]

The Lost Guardian Lore

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Update: “Hunter” is no longer considered an mobian, due from being killed and revived throughout his life, especially amount of times his trauma keeps adding into his piles, slowly drifting into pure insanity, he sure does have friends and a family, but it wasn’t enough for him no matter how many times his friends tried to save him, trying to get “Knuckles” back once he was, but it only prevails no matter how hard the heroes try, “Hunter” could never be the same again, or be rehabilitated even therapy doesn’t save him, “Hunter” has gone through even more torture and pain, especially being upgraded and experimented on, with robotic parts just a little, at this point there’s no saving Hunter from his enteral hell of misery, and being used and manipulated numerous times, and history repeats itself, eventually “Hunter” is starting to embrace it what he is, a (**Monster**, **Man Eating beast**, **A Demon**) “Hunter” has given up completely ever going back to normal, “Starved” made sure that’s whatever he has done to knuckles, he could never turn back, so “Hunter” would be even more aggressive and dangerous then he ever could be, no matter how much“Hunter” wants happiness, he’ll never receive it, after all no one wants to be friends with a **Monster**.

**Hunter’s Lost Control**: Whenever he loses control of himself, he’s gonna black out, let his instincts take over, and start a bloodshed massacre throughout the forest, killing and devouring anything he could lay his eyes on, while enjoying what he has done, doesn’t even feel shame or guilt, “Hunter” has finally **accepted** his fate as an true **apex predator** throughout mobius, starved has finally succeeded, “Hunter” is most prized possession for starved, his greatest creation and achievement, hell “Hunter” doesn’t even act like “Knuckles” whatsoever, i suppose the beloved master emerald guardian everyone once loved as a hero, has finally disappeared, there’s no signs of him ever returning, “Hunter” is also half mindless, yet somehow “Hunter” still has little bit of humanity within him, just challenging to reach for it, not only that whenever he’s in this mindless state, he’ll act crazed and deranged.

What’s more messed up is, “Knuckles” was only **13** years of age, when he first been captured, been molded, altered, through starved’s vision, “Knuckles” didn’t grow up properly, he was molded into adult’s body, with a mindset of a child, everything that’s happened to him, was forced upon him. **The Experimentation**: Knuckles statues, underworks of creating an perfect weapon, code name: Hunter, “Knuckles” has been kept under surveillance for over a year, conducting experiments, research, studying on few wild life of nature, **Father nature**: most cruelest thing ever to exist, “**The Doctor**” had his henchman captured types of predators to apex predators, of the nature and its ecosystem, occasionally getting DNAS of dangerous animals, **Ground,** **Sky,** **Oceans,** **Blood,** **Senses** **Great senses of hearing,** **And lastly it’s abilities,** doesn’t matter what wild animal is it, as long it has their qualities, “**Starved**” always has his medical tools and surgery knowledge, “Knuckles” had his limbs removed, molding them something more of an adult, had his eyes, stomach, occasionally bones, replaced with something much more durable and stronger, “Knuckles” had his arms, legs, stomach cut open and snitched back together, **Starved** also had to cut his veins and muscles, to perfect it into his vision, when that’s done, he snitched them back together, “Knuckles’s” stomach has been replaced with hyena’s digestive system, so he wouldn’t ever get sick or diseases when consuming raw flesh and bones, especially the organs, Eyes has been replaced of a wolf, including great senses of smell, strength of a grizzly bear.

Serums And Mixers: All the serums are made each differently, it can cause bad sides effects when consumed, “Knuckles” had to drank and syringes placed upon him, against his will, especially amount of **vials,** **Test tubes,** **Beaker,** and lastly **Flask** been used with various of DNAS, unknown mixers, and substances, sometimes drugs being used.

**Daily Routine**: “Knuckles” has to gone all throughly being cut open torn apart, forced to drink unknown substances and mixers, a lot of blood work and tests, even being electrocuted, snitched, sometimes going through starvation experiments, so the instincts and primitive urges could be activated, throughout his DNA and blood stream into his brain.

The experiments would continue to conduct, and continuously being manipulated by those who wants to use him as a tool, “Hunter” doesn’t even know what the hell is his purpose nor know how to live just like anyone else, all he can do is continue traveling to other universes, waiting for something to happen, doesn’t even have a place to stay, “Hunter” mostly acts like an actual wild rabid animal, he cannot eat anything, other then meat, flesh, blood, and bones, starved made sure “Hunter” would get sick or painful starvation if he ever decides to eat normally just like everyone else, his instincts is even more deadly mainly he relays and lets his instincts guide him, throughout his whole life, at this rate living is just never ending torture for him, whenever he dies and goes to hell, that’s his only salvation, Paradise lastly freedom, meaning “Hunter” can do anything what he wants and how this is beneficial for him considering he’s a masochist, finds a thrill of continuing being punished so harshly.

**Hunter’s Personality**: Stoic, straight forward type, can be extremely brutally honest, apathetic, a total jerk and a ||dick||, he would be extremely rude and insulting for those he isn’t familiar with, takes a lot of time and patience for “Hunter” to open up for anyone.

[princeanxious]

Hi! I was wondering about your Lost Guardian au from ages ago, do you think you’ll ever plan on updating it and if not, could someone else take up the fic?

So heres the thing. If someone wants to write a fic *inspired* by The Lost Guardian, i’m not gonna stop them, and i’d probably feel super honored so long as the inspiration was correctly credited!

As for ‘taking up the fic,’ the short answer is no.

I have active drafts and the rest of the story already planned out to its finish, notes, even a branch-off fic set post-story that will likely go up on my nsfw blog if i ever get around to editing it. The Lost Guardian hasn’t been abandoned, it’s simply on hiatus. (And yes, i recognize 3 almost 4 years so far is a really fucking long hiatus. The Chapter 9 draft doc was made in december of 2020, and last edited in July 2022)

I started writing that fic whilst still in highschool, a time where I was 17 and didnt have to worry yet about getting my license or maintaining a part time job, i had an over abundance of freetime even partially to my detriment, the fandom was booming and I had plenty of feedback, and this fic was (and still *is*) a story im proud of.

But i’m 22 now, working a full time job to pay rent and account for a number of minor ‘disabilities’(best word i have for them atm) that I cant ignore or push to the side nor treat poorly, from the lasting effects on my body of stunted growth to celiac/glutent intolerance to adhere to that directly determines how easily my body functions for the week, to dealing with glasses i cannot afford to break and taking care of teeth i cannot afford to fix, taking care of my mental health and using the free time i have to do what brings me the most joy at that time.

The sanders sides fandom has heavily quieted down with the season finale hiatus and I’d like to think I did pretty well for going six long years dedicated solely to that without cracking under the silence, because *I knew* when I caved to something else it’d be a long while before I had the drive to come back with any sort of resolution to my active works. Thats just how my hyper fixations work. I cannot focus on multiple at once, it’s too much to process simultaneously and takes away my enjoyment bc I tend to watch/consume things repeatedly to catch every little detail i missed. And it doesn’t help when one loses steam because their content barely breaks 100 notes(80% of which are likes, 15% are reblogs with the occasional comment, and 5% are self-reblogs) when back in the height of it all, a few thousand notes was pretty average interaction. This blog still has about 11.5k followers, almost all of which came from the height of the fandom period. So for now i’ve moved onto the FNAF DCA fandom, bc it is fresh and new to me.

I know you didn’t mean to poke the bear here, I get it, but like.. C’mon. Any other fic of mine likely wouldn’t have gotten the same reaction in full but, still. I’ve had to answer this question a handful of times over the years at the point, which might be why this response feels so charged, and i’m sorry.

I don’t mean to come off as snippy or rude, but it *is* kind of invasive to offer to finish one’s creative work when it’s taking too long and theres very little payback for it. I’ve got adhd, delayed satisfaction isn’t a thing I experience. Just guilt that it wasn’t finished in a way for me to post it in time before I broke and lost all motivation to share it.

In my head, TLG has been long finished and held the ending for years, theres just been no energy to put in the effort of finish writing it for others to read. I’m still trying to get my life together to change that, don’t get me wrong, but the American economy is literally in shambles so who knows how or even if i’ll manage that. Call me selfish for being content with only mentally having my creative story’s ending and a collection of rambles and notes to show for it, but at the end of the day, it’s still my story, and i dont feel comfortable with people trying to ‘take up the mantle’ to finish it, when they don’t know how it ends.

I’m glad you like it enough to want to, though, I really *really* am. I’m just sorry I haven’t been able to finish it for you all. And i just don’t know when that will be, I just know that I *want* to do so, however long it takes.

[tangledinink]

We’ve seen a Leo visit and a Mikey visit; can we see a Raph visit?

They bring him stuff all the time! When he's able to, he'll request certain things or tools from them or ask them to do research to him. Which can sometimes be, like... a lot. But honestly, none of his brothers even mind, because it's times like these when he's acting the most like himself and has the most clarity. Which is so much better than when he's confused and upset and doesn't understand what's going on...

[kiruamon]

Don't wake me up AU - Sketch dump

Like promised a bunch of sketches for this au. Aaaaalso you can find some side notes between the pics. If you want to know more about this au check out the introduction post if you like. I use dwmu au as a tag for this au if that helps anyone to find it easier.

Taking a stroll with Sun in a whimsical dream full of stars.

The rings on Moon's cap give of a soft glow just like his little lamp.

Uh... well... a lot of eyes... I was thinking that maybe this could be like a gimmick that comes into play when Moon gets very upset.

Oh-oh. Your mood is making the dream realm shift and it's affecting Sun. (Slowly transitioning into Moon.)

Not in a good place at all. Lashing out at Sun but also feeling sorry for it afterwards.

If your whole world revolved around colors and shapes. How devastating it must feel if that's taken from you?

Not so great first meeting with Moon. And you totally misinterpreting the situation. Oops.

Getting some comfort from your grumpy but soft boyfriend dream guardian.

He does have a pretty smile when he shows it.

Back in reality there is someone there for you too.

Touching Eclipse's face for the first time with his consent. The rays feeling so familiar to someone you know... Also the bells on his cap and wrists are not only letting you know where he is but also that he is there which feels comforting in itself.

As scary as things might seem with these three at your side you will be alright.;)

[seinnens]

Roleswap!AU where Lost Kin takes up the task of defeating The Radiance instead of The Knight, who never managed to make it out of the Abyss...

[baylardian-1]

some doodles of Neelix/Guardian inspied from @elephant-in-the-pride-parade's fic Lost and Found. :)

he's a hologram version of their brother who died on the planet they were born on lol (via soft canon lore acquired from the short story On the Rocks)

id wanted to do a crumb of an age progression for the lizards' body shape since the triplets are around 3 in the fic i think.

[anotherrosesthatfell]

Help-

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[itsamenickname]

Okay, so if you recall in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, there's this one specific episode called, "Do You Princess Toadstool Take this Koopa...?" where Bowser's mom makes an appearance so that she could see her son marry Peach (and eat the wedding cake afterwards).

Which got me to think about this one interesting question:

If we're assuming that Bowser's mom is canonically alive in the Mario universe, do you think that Bowser's mom would be supportive of her son's relationship with his arch-enemy's brother or do you think she would do everything in her power to try to convince Bowser to dump Luigi and go after Peach instead (assuming that Bowser would be the one to tell her that he's dating Luigi)?

[brown-little-robin]

story time!

What Happened to Dimple

In late summer, Ritsu got very ill. He couldn't keep any food down and he was too weak to walk. Their limited food supplies were running out in the middle of nowhere, and Dimple was the only functional person in the group. Ritsu was out of it, and obviously Mob, a zombie with no goals except "eat whatever is in front of me" and "hang around with little brother", was little help on the finding-new-food front.

So Dimple had to find some way to keep Ritsu alive.

Before starvation set in, Dimple decided to intervene. It played out okay at first. He tied Ritsu to a tree (tied ropes around his torso, knotted them behind the tree trunk so Ritsu couldn't reach) and took Shigeo with him to go acquire some food from whoever passed by on the road they're traveling on first.

(he took Shigeo because he couldn't leave him with no able-bodied guardian—better to be safe than sorry, especially because. y'know. they're on the edge of starvation, and Shigeo is a zombie. but obviously Ritsu, dehydrated and dizzy, interpreted this as "Dimple Might Be Finally Stealing My Brother" despite Dimple trying to explain.)

(Ritsu didn't really protest, though. he was too weak to do much and also he didn't want to get eaten. he just let it happen. he hoped Dimple would come back. he hoped he was just being paranoid.)

the first food source they ran into, unfortunately, was a group of humans traveling with a cart. Dimple didn't really have qualms about stealing, but he tried asking peacefully first, using his "power over the zombie" (e.g. he convinced Shigeo to take a few steps back and Shigeo obliges him) to demonstrate that they could be a major threat. (he was bluffing, of course. Shigeo wasn't being "held back" by Dimple, he's just vibing.) and he was given food! food and water and even toilet paper and a blanket!

so then Dimple returned to their camp with Mob and the supplies, but the people they stole from were a trap—a convoy that deliberately draws people in so they can gauge parties' strength before stealing from them in return. Dimple and the Kageyama brothers got attacked by one (1) guy with a gun, because that's about all the firepower the convoy thought they needed to risk on this little group.

Dimple could've just given up the supplies and tried again. But the thing was, Ritsu didn't really have enough strength in him for that.

If Ritsu didn't get food and water and rest here, he really might have died. Also, they'd have to give up their ammo, which was what they were planning to trade for food in the next settlement they come to.

Dimple looked around. He looked at Shigeo, a half-baked plan to get Shigeo to Do Something forming, and saw him kneeling by Ritsu, eyes half-lidded, looking unresponsive. but Dimple knew Shigeo's body language by then, and he saw how his shoulders were subtly hunched over toward Ritsu, and instantly Dimple knew that the kid's patience had run out. going away from Ritsu with Dimple had been a big concession and now Shigeo was done.

So. Dimple took the supplies and lured the guy with the gun a little way away from the boys, and then he just straight-up attacked the guy. not with a gun, because he was forced to leave the guns in the camp with Ritsu.

Dimple dropped the supplies and made a move. He got shot, and it was Loud. but it just grazed his shoulder, so he managed to drag the guy away from the supplies. Dimple's goal was to prevent the boys from seeing any more death, and he succeeded.

Ritsu, meanwhile, heard that gunshot.

He'd been sleeping most of the time Dimple was away. He was a little more alert by the time Dimple got back, although still physically wiped. He heard that gunshot and froze. And then, doing rapid calculations and realizing that he was danger if Dimple was dead, he started fighting the ropes. He had to get away he had to get Shigeo away he had to RUN.

He fought the ropes silently at first, and then, slowly, his brain progressed from the logical "if Dimple is dead we're in trouble because that man knows our location" to "Dimple is dead, Dimple is dead". he started making a horrible cry as he tried to get free. He wasn't crying, exactly, didn't let himself relax that much, he was just making this kind of frustrated, despairing wail sound.

Shigeo had been watching Ritsu thrash and wriggle in increasing certainty that something was happening, but he didn't know if it was good or bad. The sound, though, the sound was bad. So he tried to help.

He helped by just pulling on the ropes, first, which broke Ritsu's ribs.

but he stopped when Ritsu made a pain sound and, for one of the first times Ritsu has seen him do this as a zombie, did something related to tool use. he went to the supplies and brought Ritsu a knife.

so the Kageyama brothers survived! yay!

[moonlight-dragon]

𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐮𝐧𝐳𝐞𝐥 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑

𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝟒: 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫

A soft light rising above the level meadow, behind the bed. He takes her in his arms. He wants to say I love you, nothing can hurt you but he thinks this is a lie, so he says in the end you’re dead, nothing can hurt you which seems to him a more promising beginning, more true

𝐀 𝐌𝐲𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 - 𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐆𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐤

Landscape orientation *:・ﾟ✧

+ the before-any-coloring, or as I like to call it, one the lost Jackunzel concept art(s) *:・ﾟ✧

[ask-the-rpg-3]

@keksalot404 The mighty return

[darkrosekit]

Hunger

[watcher-servant]

Counter guardian ARC final classification.

Due to rethinking this, I decided to change his servant class. This time, I just put it down to 3 choices. Now, if you're wondering why I didn't put the regular knight and cavlary classes, it is due to him not fitting entirely in them. Also, i put a video to give a quick summary of the pretender.

[megatraven]

jumanji astoria au

[yuridovewing]

anon here yeah no dw i do believe maple is a bad person who doesnt want to improve herself, my point more so is that people will say that stuff about maple while also saying the opposite about equally bad male characters. like clear sky did not improve and did not want to but he redeemable because. he was sad about his sister dying so he can murder all he wants. its not that i dont think maple is a bad person its moreso that im annoyed by the double standards built around her (just like how basically every woman in the series is treated with absurd double standards by both the fandom and authors)

ahhh okay, sorry if my response was kinda odd, i'm very sleepy and it's hard for me to tell tone when i am slkdfjsdlf. i see what you mean now! yeah the double standards around mapleshade are batshit insane. even back in the day before TBC the writers thought ASHFUR was better than her. the guy who didn't even have the sympathetic exile backstory, he just did all that atttempted murder on his own, but its ok bc hes sad...... like to act like there's no double standard here is to be deliberately obtuse.

(i also pointed out in my MSV liveread that even within her book theres a huge double standard with appledusk. he gets exposed and his wife immediately forgives him after two seconds and everyone coddles him and gives him the tiniest slap on the wrist and then tell his side chick to go kill herself basically. and this disparity isn't really pointed out, like yeah it's a point that mapleshade was treated so harshly but... lbr it's a pattern where the mollies are treated much more harshly than the toms. and we even see it in the fandom where ppl just make up shit like "she emotionally abused him")

i'm still holding out on my evil prediction that we're gonna get a scene with dead dad jayclaw and frostpaw abt how he hates his bitch wife and he's the good parent frostpaw had all along and the fandom will eat it up and make "uwu sweet dad" art of him and make up ideas like "his wife abused him for the funsies"

[vocalovely]

WOULD YOU BE DOWN FOR A RWBY CROSSOVER AU WITH VOCALOID IN IT

I'M NOT SUPER INTO CROSSOVERS BUT IF I WAS I WOULD LOVE IT /genuine

Unless it's crossover art but it's just not the AU trope for me ^v^ people make some really cool stuff with it tho