A mate of mine introduced me to this old cartoon. HOW HAD I NEVER HEARD IT BEFORE?!
Its called the "Baskervilles". You got this guy called the Boss who has made an Underworld theme park, were bad is good, and vice versa. Basically like the Addams family? Monster side characters, skeletons vampires etc, gross food scary plantlife.
The Boss comes off as man who loves to inflict misery. In the most minute irratating detials. An itch you cant scratch, soap in your eye, ripping your pants, etc etc
So of course making a couple of GOOD little monsters like Drake and Peter laugh against there will, the most foul use of tickle torture, I'm sure would be right up his alley. The feather is even plucked from Peter's own wings!! Oh the humanity! And it wont long till its Drakes turn.
Spyro is one of my most longstanding fandoms (even I’d rather not... partake... in it...) and The Eternal Night GBA is also my favorite game from the series, though the console version is still a banger! It was only fair to honor it this Spyro Community Day.
Through days or ages, a blur in time,
I faced a truth, no reason to climb
No escape from the dark embrace
A realization, I'm trapped in this space
Whether days or a century's swell,
In this realm, where shadows dwell
No running away, no elusive flee
Learning to live, a haunting decree
Embracing the shadows, I find my way
In the eternal night, where I must stay
A chapter unfolds, no escape, no sleight
Learning to live in perpetual night
~ One Hundred Days of Purgatory
As much as I don't want to be - I am still defined by my past. We all are, in a way, aren't we? A tragedy that is done without any remorse to our poor little souls...
Yes, of course I am changing, growing and learning. Things get better. Sometimes they do, some things, not everything. But I often feel like I may be tired and just... done... before I reach my goals. Repeatedly feeling so powerless breaks the spirit, you know? It's hard to fight it, I still fight, but some days are harder than others. Torture even. It presses down on you, like a heavy weight and when it gets bad in my mind I enter a cold, dark night. A different state of mind. That's how I would describe it. It's always the same... it won't go away, it always comes back to haunt me.
I wish I was better, stronger... but I'm already so tough in that regard, I think I am, I can take a lot.
I had to…
You know, for some reason I'm reminded of the line in Nirvana's version of "Where did you sleep last night?" that goes "In the pines, in the pines, where the sun don't ever shine…". It's weird, if you know what the song is about. It goes on with "I would shiver the whole night through…" I used to listen to it when I was feeling down in my youth. It's because Kurt Cobain's voice could carry a painful sadness that I can absolutely relate to, and that's what I feel when I listen to that song, what I feel now. I feel the grief of someone who suffers a lot in silence, in the dark… in the pines, where the sun never shines, where you shiver all night long. Maybe forever.
One day it'll be... for all of us. An eternal night.
In the land of Celestia, a sacrifice was made for the greater good. A character, a wise king, gave up his immortality to save his kingdom from an eternal night. He traveled through enchanting realms, each with their own history and culture, until he found the key to restore the light. With his last breath, the king sealed away the darkness forever, and Celestia flourished under a new dawn. This is the summary of your work so far:
Does she have a normal kingdom with citizens? What do you mean when you say that she makes the kidnapped people her children? how does she kidnap the children? 😰
She has an entire graveyard to play with. The eternal night is giant.
Filled with monsters and outcasts. Only the desperate try to make a life for themselves. It is unknown how many people live there, but as an estimate. It's close to 50-100k. Which isn't a lot.
What I mean is that she send her Lilibuel to steal children from the bordering villages and tribes along the Fell mountains and [redacted for spoilers] them until [redacted] occurs in which case she [redacted].
Happy Spyro Community Day! Imma post my actual art in a bit, but to start off, a dual mix of my favorite track in the entire series that I made a while ago <3
Thinking about setting off on a quest to turn the world to eternal night. Not particularly because I wish to see all the kingdoms of man crumble, though that would be a bonus, but mostly because my curtain is slightly too short for my window and a beam of sun often hits me in the face long before I am willing to be awake.