#three-crowned

[egophiliac]

gargoyle Mal is everything I've ever dreamed of and more. his little raincoat! his umbrella! I hope he really does have big ol' stompy rainboots to splash around in puddles in. I hope they have little faces on them.

(Twst please give me Malleus having a rainy day adventure, this is everything I need right now)

[magpiepaws]

Imagine you find out about this godlike character called "The Chosen One, Angel of Death" and you go to the source media it's a fucking stick figure

Anyways go my biblically accurate stickman fanart

[the-one-with-spider-brainrot]

I don’t have a clever caption for this it’s just brothers being brothers

[snackcraving]

Now the old king is dead, long live the king

[sugarandspicer]

ok I need to know: has Eliot Spencer tried the curly girl method and how did it go? because I am convinced that his hair is naturally curly and I need them to stop straightening it/brushing it out. every time it gets wet, it gets wavy and I just… ::fans self:: imagine if his hair looked like this ALL THE TIME

FURTHERMORE, what am I supposed to do with the knowledge that sometimes this man puts tiny little beads in tiny little sections of his hair just because. he likes to feel pretty.

[undead-knick-knack]

Icon Behavior™️

[fizzlo-and-the-cubes]

chay would love dungeon meshi i will not be entertaining counter-arguments + adult ver. chayanne

[olrinarts]

cotltober Day 19: Reveal the True Form (happens a few minutes before day 17: corruption)

1 / 2 / 3 / ficlet conclusion

Turns out day 17 wasn't what it looked like on the surface

In other words, my brain gave me context for it and here we are:

in essence, the Lamb & the Red Crown cooked up the plan to 'betray' Narinder as a last ditch effort to spare both him AND the Lamb, and afterwards, once they could explain, the Lamb intended to abdicate the Crown back to him. Unfortunately (and reasonably, in a way), Narinder took it extremely personally, to the point of remaining with the cult but pointedly refusing to have literally anything else to do with the Lamb or the Crown, both of whom he blames for it

This leaves the Lamb stuck as the God of Death, which they are not equipped to handle, and the only person who could give them any real help would pay an arm and a leg to kill them personally (or so they believe). They can't do the job, and though the Red Crown hates it, it's the job of the Crown to make sure its domain is in capable hands

Meanwhile, Narinder's been in the cult, seeing what the Lamb built for him, and how much they'd clearly intended to have him take over - and that means something went wrong. So he already suspects the Crown was behind the betrayal, though he believes the Lamb must have been deceived too, as they were clearly as devoted as he'd believed they were before the betrayal

The only way the Red Crown can see to get Narinder to take possession of it again is to trick him into it, so the Lamb agrees to let the Crown take over so it can fight Narinder and intentionally lose, even though both of them know doing so is going to essentially unmake the Lamb's soul, the way it would have been if the sacrifice had succeeded

Narinder realises shit's about to go down last minute, but he doesn't get there in time

and that's where we are now :)

[catscough]

[meerabanerjee]

Dru and Ash from the TLKOF chapter

[egophiliac]

giving the people what they want (jokes about spreadsheets)

anyway, Twst continues to prove that it is aimed at me specifically by giving us not one, but now TWO extended scenes of characters being incredibly difficult about signing an NDA. you just don't get this anywhere else.

[elsaspants]

Calico Critters is at SDCC.

I made the most important purchases of my life.

[liketheinferno2]

These aren't full ref sheets but I was trying to take some clear pictures of Hephaistos for later art reasons and then got side tracked doing all of the Pandaemonium bosses so here they are in order. Also for anyone following who doesn't play FFXIV and knows it as the catgirl game, enjoy this instead? VISUAL SPOILERS obviously.

Asphodelos

Warder of the Condemned: Erichthonios

Mythic Creation: The Hippokampos

Mythic Creation: The Phoinix

(+ familiars)

Hemitheos: Hesperos

(+ sexy fanfic redesign by Nemjiji)

To be brutally honest I never really liked either of these designs compared to every other Hemitheos we get, I think the really brutal black and red of the Phoinix is weakened by gold accents, but I still am always down for gay vampire surf rock. The Savage version kind of looks like Ultimalius as well if you've played XVI.

Abyssos

Mythic Creation: Proto-Carbuncle

Hrgrhhgrhrgrh

Hemitheos: Hegemone

^ My favourite detail on this is you can see the parasite's outlines in her robes and in her legs, then right through the eye holes on the mask to wrap around the torso. I'm convinced this version of Hegemone is functionally an ant being piloted by a cordyceps infection.

Hemitheos: Agdistis

She's very big

Perfect Imperfection: Hephaistos

I'm probably biased by Abyssos being the first raid I was there for day of release but these really are all fantastic. It's also when the story abandons all pretense of not being (at least partly) about family abuse and is loudly using the body horror and shackle motifs to talk about that. It's great. Hephaistos specifically is constantly bulging and twisting in and out of different forms like a highly unstable chimera and the more I look at these the more I notice parts that just should not be there. He's giving everything.

As for the Savage design It's a hard thing to rate as such but my favourite part is the veins that grow down from the eyeholes in his mask like bloody tears.

Thanks Abyssos I love you

Anabaseios

Mythic Creation: Kokytos

Dæmoniac Dungeon: Pandæmonium

It's really hard to communicate how huge this nasty tumor crab I zoomed out as far as physically possible in the game engine and subsequently ended up at a goofy angle staring up his nose.

Ephemeral Justice: Themis

Best boy. The double ended lance and second pair of arms are fantastic for this character.

Theos: Athena

In.. almost every final fantasy adventure you're fighting the real villain not at the very end but a little beforehand, the big iconic end boss is often more a metaphorical figure representing everything wrong with that first person's ideals. Athena cut out the middle man and became her own JENOVA.

I do like the moth angel, especially the hollow body full of dubious orbs, but with her eyes closed all the time it gives off the impression of this not even being the true body but some kind of anglerfish lure in the shape of a fairy... which might be true because this exists:

I really really love her twitchy anemone feelers and how the moth body ends up grafted to the rest of it waist down.

Anyway there's the gang I did not specifically intend for this to be design reviews I just wanted to have clear photos because when you actually see them in game there's other things to focus on. In hindsight I can appreciate more the theming of each tier and then the series as a whole, but my only (extremely obvious) observation for now is that every character Athena had a personal hold over is decorated in chains somehow and so I should have seen the Hegemone thing coming lmao. Heph and Aggy are still my favourites I don't think that's changing any time soon. I'm also noticing that Anabaseios is now just old enough for random DF parties to fuck up severely and I find that fun so I'm going to go fight the crab mansion now.

[daily-smol-silm]

If you still take request, good old Angbang?

Day #116 - Dark lords on a dark throne

Well I certainly can't say no to angbang, can I?

[wesleysjournal]

Dreamy sigh

[varpusvaras]

The Alderaanian Royal Guard gets really protective of the Coruscant Guard. Like. Really protective. At some point the people start treating the Corries better if only because they know that there is always an Alderaanian somewhere in the vicinity. Sometimes it's the Senator himself. Once or twice it was the Queen. But there is always at least one member of the Royal Guard there. Somewhere. For people who say they are pacifists, they seem really bloodthirsty.

After a while, people are starting to figure out that they might've been just supressing any murderous intents up until now, and it's better if you don't tempt them too much.

(The word got out at some point that Fox was dating the Queen and the Senator and that it was serious. The Royal Guard immediately turned on the Prince treatment. Fox bluescreened the first time one of them opened a door for him.)