Had art block but the solution was a cute girl in a cute pose akskskks
I didn't expect when coming back to the creepy pasta fandom after 4/5 years to Nina being so loved and in most peoples main group of pastas and I love it so much. She's so cool I love her
hi! idk if you explained this already, but what/who are zalgoids in your au? Or rather how did they become zalgoids? sorry if that didn’t make sense lol, btw love your art!! <3
hi! so, IN MY AU, zalgoids are anything infected by zalgo. To get infected, you either need to die/on your last breath, and zalgo chooses to infect you. OR you need to be bitten by lazari when she's in her zalgoid form.
all zalgoids are stuck in the slender forest so long as the proxies keep the pages around. the 'ink' on those pages is slendy's inky vomit, which is gross BUT it physically traps zalgoids. sometimes there are 'containment breaches' when people mess with the pages, WHICH IS WHYYY the proxies/slendy get so heated about the pages.
zalgo usually takes eyes as a form of 'payment' for reanimation. he has an obsession with "having eyes everywhere" and his own body is littered with them.
all of his attempts at reanimating humans failed. he's only managed to properly control animals in the forest - so there are several zalgoid wolves, coyotes, bears, even rats littered about.
zalgo usually takes the form of a wolf or a goat, cuz his demon form is easy to spot n takes a lot of energy.
i'll talk about the individual zalgoids underneath the cut! lulu, ann, jack, dina, and lazari!
lulu died of hypothermia in the forest. a hazing ritual from the sorority she was joining made her jump into the freezing lake and while walking back, she collapsed. the group dug her a shallow grave and ran off. zalgo 'reanimated' her at the cost of her eyes , but lulu is REALLY weak, lethargic, and still thinks shes going back to her dorm
ann used to be a redroom 'dominatrix nurse' who tortured victims for money. one of her 'fans' found her location, dragged her to the abandoned hospital, and dismembered her on camera. during a patrol, kate stumbled on the scene and killed the man. meanwhile, zalgo infected anns corpse - this time, taking only one eye and fucking with the other. but anns also useless because she thinks shes always on camera and the hospital is a labyrinth for her.
while jack was being sacrificed to the cult, they were using slendy's goop on him in the forest. so when he lost his eyes, was force fed meat, and losing consciousness cuz he couldnt breath, zalgo tried to infect him early. since he was still alive during it, it messed up the whole infection process + the slendy goop in his eyes made it painful for zalgo. jack is TECHNICALLY a zalgoid, but zalgo has no control over him + he had no eyes to take...
dina became a zalgoid when lazari bit her. they grew up in the same cult, dina was the center of it - and while sneaking out, lazari was sick and attacked her. dina then dragged lazari to the forest to kill her (as the 'divine judge angels' she believed she had the right to kill anyone she judged unworthy). but... lazari tore out dinas throat..... so when zalgo infected dina's body, she quickly became a strong zalgoid! she's actually useful, actually wants to kill the proxies, actually wants to escape - but most of her hate is directed towards lazari, and zalgo wants lazari alive
and of course, lazari is a zalgoid. when her mother was in the cult, she was infertile - which basically made her a cult failure. she was deemed a useless woman for not bringing children into the world. so she prayed to anything - including demonic forces - and zalgo preyed on her when she did a ritual in the forest. so lazari is born!
the zalgoid strengths go: lulu -> ann -> dina -> jack -> lazari
but lazari is the easiest to appeal to, and the proxies + jack already did, so she's mostly harmless! good ally to have (when not hungry)
Thanks so much for the waiting! I know we kinda hype up the chapter too much but I hope it can live up to y'all guys expectations
Once again thanks so much to maru for doing the flat colors and also for being an amazing writter and friend in general
I’ve been thinking a lot about Laurence’s eyes changing color and then I was cooking on a gas stove and then I saw the flames. And they were Blue. They reminded me of Laurance’s eyes. And then I started thinking.
What if all Shadow Knight’s eyes change color? And that has some sort of link to their internal power level? Like how effective their soul is as fuel for whatever necromancy they’re experiencing?
And it wouldn’t just have to be limited to the red (low tier/cooler flames) to white (high tier/hottest flames) color spectrum because different materials can cause different flame colors. For example, cesium and potassium create purple hued flames, like Sasha’s eye color. But then the question becomes what causes different souls to act as a different material?
I don’t know yet! Maybe magicks in the soul could act as a sort of differing fuel source, or maybe feelings when turned could influence it, I dunno! Open to anyone’s thoughts though!
Anyway of course this then leads to a sort of built in caste system with the Shadow Knights. Bottom of the barrel, weak, disposable, would be shades of red. This is where I imagine Zenix may actually land, just...add to his Issues. Then it goes to orange which may be moreso the norm/standard color most knights have, yellow, and then white which is the most powerful and revered.
And then it comes to blue flames, they only occur when there’s a differing material, or when minimal soot and carbon dioxide are at play, so in a way you could say blue flame occurs when the flame is...pure. Irene’s blessing could not reverse what happened to Laurance, but it could purify it.
Do you have any thinky thoughts/ideas for the White Sands au? I just think it’s really cool <3 /p
God is like my favorite au and I have so many ideas and world building 😭 sadly I've called out of my flower husbands hyperfixation hopefully I'll get back to it one day. I'm very glad you think it's cool and feel free to ask any other questions! It may even help want to write for it again