#and so do their companions

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

There's something to be said about Nine and Twelve as parallels, about them being these seeming grumps with hearts of gold who must relearn optimism while being fundamentally kind at the end of the day, and Eleven and Thirteen as parallels, as these lonely tinkerers who travel with multiple companions at the same time but push people away before they get too close because they are creatures built on grief, and Ten alone, as something that is all and none of the above, who starts out as a creature born of love but who loses said love and is willing to die and must find grounding but loses said grounding and declares himself the Time Lord Victorious because if he cannot have love he has to have something, anything, he can call his own, and about how all five of them are shaped, fundamentally, by their grief and their guilt over the Time War and being the last of their kind and how every companion leaves them and they will always, always be the last one in the TARDIS, always be the last one surviving, no matter what, and yet all of them, at the end of the day, die to save someone. Die to be kind, just one more time. Because that is what ties them all together. That is what makes them the Doctor.

#it's just something i've been thinking about when writing eleven and thirteen #ninth doctor #tenth doctor #eleventh doctor #twelfth doctor #thirteenth doctor #hi i'm having a lot of feelings about my favorite tragic hopeful kind afraid angry protective LONELY alien today #it's about how they stole a TARDIS and ran away from home #about how they've always been running #and then the Time War keeps them running #and so do their companions #the companions that push them to be kind also push them to be cruel #because they are both the source of hope and tragedy at the end of the day #and i'm fine #i'm not crying you're crying #doctor who #meta

[thelesbianthespianposts]

imagine: you get your memories back after years of amnesia to find out your whole species is dead and earth doesn’t exist anymore. that the only thing left of your culture is your weird ex and his busted honda civic that barely even works that he stole from the government when he was 13. And he’s been taking members of an alien species for trips in his honda civic and they’re all like “woah it’s so cool” and you get upset because it’s NOT COOL it’s a honda civic, the turn signals don’t even work “wow it can go up hills” yeah OF COURSE IT CAN GO UP HILLS EVERY CAR COULD DO THAT. but they’ve never seen a car before so everything it does is the coolest thing ever. And your ex’s only tool is a fucking screwdriver which is somehow also cool to this dumbass alien species even though it’s a fucking screwdriver so you just look like an idiot screaming about how none of this is even cool it’s actually really shitty but your whole planet is gone so you can’t even prove it but also you’ve had a constant drumming sounding in your head since you were 10 slowly driving you insane. I would become evil too.

#This metaphor might have gotten away from me #Whatever #the master #toschei #doctor who #tardis #the doctor #Companion: wow it can actually fully reverse and go backwards! #The master: *seething bc EVERY CAR CAN DO THAT* #I would be so mad if the only thing left of my culture was my ex and his terrible car #That he doesn’t even have a license to drive #Tensimm #J watches drwho #I really wanna draw this but I don’t have any artistic ability due to there being no apples in my brain #Plus your ex kinda wants to fuck the car

[bara-izu]

The party does a little arson, as a treat.

#halion sunblaze #so guess who finished Astarion's companion quest? #i will do a serious comic later right now i am processing the story TTvTT #bg3 spoilers #baldurs gate 3 spoilers #baldurs gate spoilers #bg3 tav #astarion #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #gale of waterdeep #shadowheart #astarion x tav #tav x astarion

[julijbee]

in awe of the beauty of the world

#art #tes #skyrim #sort of anyways. hes from skyrim so that is how i will classify what is going on here #teldryn sero #tes fanart #i fucking love this guy #sidetracked my quests to give him a walking tour of skyrim after his deeply endearing reaction to the college of winterhold #as someone who never used companions in all my years of playing this game i was thrilled to learn everyone likes this guy as much as i do #also he gets extra points because chitin and netch armors have my heart #the goggles send me joyous places #anyways the state of my sketchbook ever since i descended back into my tes fixation is pretty catastrophic #what with the amount of vivec happening. so look forward to that at some point i guess #ash yams.. hackle-lo.. goggles.. kwama egg.. sujamma.. cup... we are making tinctures tonight

[dex1o]

"This isn't 'trivial'!"

#that 2/2 feeling #that scene will always feel like a break up to me #was gonna do a companion piece with akechi #but his hair is so annoying god bless #p5r #persona 5 #ren amamiya #akira kurusu #akeshu #shuake

[artharakka]

Nightingale (2022)

Palestine sunbird over the Dead Sea (2023)

#these are companion pieces on purpose #it is so unbelievable how one war and colonizer is so easy to condem and the other is ''complicated and both are at fault but'' #nightingale is the national bird of Ukraine #and Palestinian sunbird of Palestine #this is still not my activism #that I try to do elsewhere

[jel-jel-jel]

So no Marina?!?!

#my art #splatoon #side order #splatoon spoilers #agent 8 #pearlina #my current theory is marina did an oopsie and shes the one who made this world #and thats why it doesnt seem like shes a companion this game #because shes like a secret (accidental) antagonist whos high off digital godhood or smth #she just wanted a perfect world with her pearlie where nothing changes and theyre together forever 🥺🥺🥺 is that so evil? #anyway im terrible at predicting the plot of these games lol but its a fun idea regardless #i just think marina not being shown is just SO COOL like..... girl what did you do..

[elminster-big-naturals]

astarion being a magistrate before he was murdered is so funny to me. imagine showing up to court to pay a fine for double parking your horse or whatever and the guy dealing with you is some wretched limp wristed elven fop who takes one look and sentences you to seven years hard labour for having ugly shoes and a flat ass.

#bg3 #other companions : you can't judge me! #astarion: legally speaking im actually the only one in this room qualified to do so. #baldur's gate 3 #astarion

[yesokayiknow]

man the fact that martha jones would take one look at clara oswald and say Absolutely Fucking Not really makes me want to put them together like post s9!clara is visiting earth when she has a run in with unit and accidentally kidnaps her and can't manage to get her back to earth. aka clara spends several months trying to seduce her except she's clara so martha's like what the actual fuck is wrong with you. stop that

#where's the immortal me well they said i'm not fucking dealing with this. call me in a year #clara: girls like it when you threaten genocide for them right????? #martha: no. also please stop asking if you can kill people for me. #this is funnier to me if it's pre the stolen earth btw #jack's like so what've you been up to since i last saw you and she's like one of the doctor's future companions kidnapped me. #yeah it was a whole thing. wbu #also martha manages to make great breakthroughs in dealing w her ptsd bc she just looks at what clara's doing and does the opposite #doctor who #clara oswald #martha jones

[i-like-media]

Hundreds of people have said it before me, but it's really so powerful Donna's first WILLING adventure with the Doctor is an insanely emotionally moving one with a very deep message that arose from her compassion (The Fires Of Pompeii)

Even if you don't know Catherine Tate is known for her wit and comedy, Donna herself is introduced as a very comical character. Her theme is comical, her actions and sass is meant to be read as comical and both Runaway Bride and Partners In Crime have a totally different narrative structure because of it. Like, both episodes having a lot of humour based around an unexpected scenario forcing both to improvise in funny and chaotic DIY ways.

When you first watch these two episodes you have no reason to believe their run together is going to be anything else! So it was such a brilliant decision to have the episode right after she joins the Doctor be one in which SHE'S pushing a moral dilemma onto the Doctor. To be all fun and games until she learns people are going to die and the Doctor plans to do nothing about it. To then also KEEP on pushing the subject DESPITE the Doctor, this alien she at this point still knows very little about, speaking about the world and time with a sense of authority like there Truly Really is nothing they could do.

The fact that the character who's introduced to us as the comic relief IMMEDIATELY turns around and tells the Doctor he's guilty of the death of a teenager and everyone around him if he refuses to help at all... That's such a powerful move.

#like showing empathy for someone who will die is something every companion would do. but Donna made it her whole business to tell the doctor #he is WRONG and rubbing it in so heavily as to why standing by would make him guilty... that is something few dare to do #no one tells donna noble what she can and cant do and what is and isnt right. shell always be the judge of that #donna noble #the doctor #tenth doctor #10th doctor #doctor who #doctor who analysis #analysis #episode analysis #the fires of pompeii #runaway bride #partners in crime #talkies

[spursthatjinglejanglejingle]

My courier whenever Lily sees an enemy and yells "DON'T WORRY PUMPKIN GRANDMA'S GOT YOU"

#it's so hard for me to do other companion quests than just lily's and veronica's i love them they're my best friends #fallout new vegas #fnv #lily bowen #🪼

[daeyumi]

💫🌟 From the Heavens (Eclipse the Moon) 🌙✨

[Cycle of the Stars]

#zelda #legend of zelda #zelda au #loz au #au zelda #zelda fanart #daeyumi art #princess zelda #cycle of the stars #cycle of the stars au #okay remember when i said that there were originally supposed to be companion pieces to that au link piece i posted a while back? #probably not lol #but anyways this is one of those pieces #i finally started working on them again! #and like yeah there’s prob gonna be a gap in quality from the link one to the other 3 but that’s a good thing right? #i mean hopefully i’ve improved lol #ah anyways sry for the ramble lol but i’m v happy to get back to this idea #it’s been a minute #prob gonna do ganondorf’s piece next so stay tuned like next month maybe

[jeeaark]

If Greygold was a companion, what would be the best way to initiate a romance with them? Would they go for the “L” word early or an Act or two later?

The "L" word was lube, right? Right? Else showering Durge/Tav with kisses Gomez-Addams-Style is the alternative.

Maybe the Nat 20 romance isn't the best way for Tav/Durge, but it sure is for Greygold. You just know Greygold scared that Dream Guardian away the first time and has been low-key obsessed with that armor since

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #durge #greygold #bg3 fanart #bg3 comic #Sometimes I have to make Greygold's idea of a good time sould like its wild stuff in order to make a really REALLY dumb joke #But truly they just wanna cuddle the SHIT out of anyone who goes out of their way to get that dream guardian armor for them #everyone thank the anon for the “L” word joke #and the silliest thing I have ever drawn #what are you doing to me guys- got me drawing durgexgreygold fluff and I still don't know jack about durge howdidthishappen lskdjdklj #I suppose Greygold's favorite type of folk are dorks who are complete disasters with mushy bits- tough coconut shell or not #so. every companion in this game

[eskla-aeredale]

they've found some markers :)

#my art #comic #portal #portal 2 #atlas #p body #atlas and p body #companion cube #the idea here is since p-body was built later her programming might be a little bit more advanced in some aspects #for example motor coordination and creative thinking #so yeah because of this she can draw curved or chaotic lines and atlas cannot #maybe if he tries really hard he can do it too lol

[bg3-npc]

PLEASE THERE ARE OTHER COMPANIONS

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #wyll ravengard #karlach cliffgate #gale dekarios #shadowheart #lae'zel #bg3 wyll #bg3 karlach #bg3 gale #bg3 shadowheart #bg3 lae'zel #astarion is a good character but GOD I'm starved for content #of LITERALLY EVERY OTHER COMPANION #there was a Karlach surge but not for long #wyll and karlach fans are doing you both so dirty #mine #that old guy in the front

[krembruleed]

Lae'zel References

uncompressed + unedited full size images on google drive here

#lae'zel #lae'zel bg3 #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 references #im about to do one of these for all the origins + companions so if yall aint want to see any more block this tag -> #krem's ref renders