#trust the abyss

[milktrician]

(what the. who threw a wife plot device in the middle of a peak lord meeting)

i thought about this bit at the end of the airplane extras the other day. bro why are you looking at your coworkers like that rn

[tk-duveraun]

SY transmigrates but the system tells him he's going into SQQ and he gives that a hard pass, so it drops him in the body of a little demonic lizard in the Endless Abyss and then says "well since you right want to participate, you're on your own" and leaves him.

Which, rude.

So SY is an Abyssal Lava Gecko. They live in lava floes and nest in caves made by air bubbles forming in the lava and then cooling enough to solidify into walls. They don't need to eat, they photosynthesize off of the intense heat, but if they do eat, they produce venom powerful enough to paralyze a heavenly demon.

They're also all of 4 inches long.

Nevertheless, SY starts cultivating furiously so that wren LBH gets dropped in the Abyss, he's powerful enough to survive outside of the lava without starving or getting eaten himself.

He succeeds.

Sort of.

He finds the crater from LBH falling in, conveniently for him, it's next to a river of lava. This is less convenient for LBH who is unconscious and getting crispy.

As a lizard, he licks LBH's face to wake him up. He doesn't wake LBH up, but ingesting HD blood pushes him past his cultivation bottleneck!

Yes!

He transforms into a human!

...

He's only 4 inches tall.

[consultingfujoshi]

yea this hits

[secriden]

ok OK HEAR ME OUT THO-- what if... because Liu Qingge was never meant to survive past the qi deviation in PIDM, he's the only non-transmigrator character who can see the influence of the system on the world?

i'm thinking it plays out something like this: lqg emerges from the Ling Xi caves to find he can see these... strings of what looks like energy flowing around. he can't really tell what it is, and at first he thinks its a new quirk of his latest breakthrough but when he rushes to help defend Qiong Ding Peak from the demon invasion, he realises that certain people have these auras of energy around that are especially pronounced. like he's mostly preoccupied with fighting off the demon invasion but distantly he notices that lbh has this golden glow (ie. protagonist golden halo) around him although its threaded through with dark red energy. curious. sqq also has this inexplicable dark energy around him that occasionally flashes bright blue when he seems to freeze and go absent minded. even stranger.

when mqf comes along, lqg asks about possession and mentions the strange energy but mqf assures him that they'd already tested it and that there's nothing wrong aside from the new poison in sqq's system. yqy also acts as if everything is normal even though everything is clearly NOT normal because sqq is acting very weird. but also all his weirdness happens around these pulses of blue and lqg starts wondering sqq's being forced into acting the way he is.

(yqy also has a dark aura about him although its different from sqq's. it's also very reactive towards sqq like they're tied together somehow and lqg finds it very disturbing.)

in this situation, i think sqq and lqg would have way more interactions because lqg's suspicious of sqq but also worried?? cuz he can tell that sqq is being manipulated/affected in some way. he starts hunting for monsters/beasts that help with fighting off possession or curing curses but none of them seem to have any effect. he notices the almost unnatural way sqq will act in contrary ways and how they're always attached to that same pulse of blue that only lqg can seem to see. he notices the weird way the aura's clash when sqq interacts with lbh or yqy and starts feeling protective because he can tell sqq is trying to cause as little harm as possible.

he starts wondering why no one else seems to care that something is clearly not alright with sqq. even if they can't see the aura and the energy bursts, surely its obvious just from what they know about sqq. he starts to become angry. then he becomes determined. because if no one else can see that some unknown entity is hurting sqq, then its just going to have to be lqg that saves him.

[zombieslab]

hater duo thursday

[ihatebrainstorm]

back briefly just to say: if Astro Bot wins GOTY 2024, I will draw Astro receiving a Rodimus star aboard the Lost Light bc I can

[pagangoose]

Seawatt would obviously have an electro vision and be a catalyst user

Evbo would be hydro sword.

Electro charged toxic doomed yaoi. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk

and uhhhh EMF (throws dart at my brain) polearm dendro??? Or geo idk

[kg-clark-inthedark]

Another short fan comic I made for @uncontrol-freak’s dh fic, Abyssal. This one’s for chapter 16! I was given a few chapters to choose from when I said I wanted to draw more for the fic, and I couldn’t pass up a dramatic Void scene :)

If you like corvosider, dark themes, and fics with regular updates that keep you on your toes, then I highly recommend checking this story out (and leaving nice comments while you’re at it)

[aromanticasterisms]

no but actually. the parallels to other Twins in different nations of teyvat in relation to the traveler and their desire to reunite with their own sibling makes me a little bit bonkers. like.

diluc and kaeya as what the traveler has and fears, after we will be reunited [separation born from conflict that seemingly cannot be mended; they both care for each other but ultimately their opposing ideals mean they cannot be at each other's side in the same way that they used to, and no longer have the close bond they once did]

ei and makoto as what the abyss sibling experienced [a crushing loss not just of one's twin but the last remaining friend they had and the safety and security of their nation, coming out the other side traumatized, cold and jaded and making decisions that will ultimately hurt the people they claim to want to protect for the sake of an unattainable goal]

and lyney and lynette as what the traveler and the abyss twin used to have before they were separated [never apart for long, home is wherever we are together], what the traveler wants [their separation brief and quickly amended, continuing to be inseparable after they reunite], and also the choice they'll have to make [the twins being together in an organization the traveler inherently doesn't trust - does the traveler want to be by their sibling's side badly enough to throw their lot in with the abyss, and turn their back on everyone else they've met on their journey so far?]

[howlsofbloodhounds]

How do you have so many ideas about the chromatic crew??? My only thoughts about them only come to me in the shower 😭😭

Obsession.

[mcytegg]

Bacon: Just come like— just come like, vaguely close. We're not gonna jump you!

Ro: Somehow, I don't believe that! Trust— trust is hard to build and you have lost our [Ro and Planet's] trust.

[ladyaryawolf]

Talking about Daemon and Aegon and I'm really so upset with HBO. Not surprised. Truly upset.

Because we see clearly Aegon II loving Jaehaerys. We see his love for his trueborn son. We see Aegon grieving for Jaehaerys. We see him filled with wrath. We see him sobbing. Mourning his dad son. To the point that even if you don't like him. You pity him. I felt his pain. And I despise that man.

Tom made a great work with it. Ngl.

But Daemon? We were robbed of every interaction he could have with any of his children. We dont see him near Aegon III, nor Viserys II. The connection he should have had with Jace and Luke? Non-existent. We don't see him near Baela nor Rhaena, and it is truly a crime for me. Rhaenys seems to be the only parental figure these two had.

They deleted every scene Daemon is with the girls (especially the one where he comfort the twins after Laena's death) turning him into a distant parent who doesn't care with his children's pain and only cares about himself and a little about Rhaenyra.

Baela said herself she even may hate him.

And what is the reason for it? Because he is ruthless? And have a "dark past"? He is not afraid of spill blood?

Aegon II was a serial rapist. Even in the show. He couldn't care less with his bastard children. He gladly watched his bastard children fight till they died or have been severely injured.

Why does he deserve to be seen as "a good parent" and mourn, and sob, while Daemon doesn't even have a line with neither Baela, Rhaena, Aegon nor Viserys? It's unfair.

I really feel bad for Matt. It can't be easy dealing with show runners painting your character in a bad light every chance they have for personal reasons of all things.

They could give us a good scene of Daemon bonding with his children, just one, but they had a preference to show Alicent riding Crispin, and I'll forever be bitter about it.

[tetsuskei]

this made me want to walk off the nearest twenty story building because, yeah, they’re correct.

[burinazar]

it’s National Coming Out Day! unfortunately none of Ganja-tai are ever Coming Out of that hole. 😞

[aiden-aka-neru]

My first poly ship… sigh DIDNT expect it to be in Mashle XD

[sevi007]

WIP! Working on a thing for Tales of the Abyss (It was SUCH a terrible idea to draw from this point of view, but dammit, I' spent too much time now to go back on this decision XD )

Thanks to health and time reasons, at the rate I'm going, I might finish it this year lmao