#ask clover and friends

[askcloverandfriends]

Is Clover dead right now?

They seem to be alive and well.

#undertale yellow #undertale yellow clover #ask clover and friends #ask clover

[northstarscowboyhat]

Cool down doodle from last night. I think the greatest tragedy with older!Clover is they probably grow to about 6'1. But because their family is mostly giant monsters, they assume they're short.

#undertale yellow #uty #clover #north star #uty starlo #dalv #uty dalv #uty clover #Lucky Clover AU #I should probably make that its own tag but I kind of want a more creative name for it. Hm. #Yes I HC that Clover ends up taller than Dalv. He's a 5'2 short king struggling with his tall friends. #the cowboy hat draws #Also I'm so flattered about the love this design + AU received thank you guys! #I'll get to drawing for those asks as soon as I can

[howlonomy]

Wait... Does Mo know Clover's back? Does Mo know his favorite customer is around town again!?

MO’S MOST LOYAL CUSTOMER IS BACK!!!!!

#asked and answered #monster clover au #mcau art #chocolate gravel is a reference to cocoa pebbles. btw #theyre just rocks that are brown #mo…. my best friend mo………..

[radioroxx]

Hi hi hi, omg I love your art it makes me so happy to see it. I'm in love with the polycule you've made of all the main characters, it's so great.

I have a request if you're still doing them! Could you show Ceroba trying to teach Martlet how to cook? This bird can work a bench but she can NOT work a grill. 😩

(EHEHEH TYYY GLAD U LIKE IT <33)

heres some cringefail martlet for u enjoy ✌️✌️ its midnight goodnight gang

#asks #undertale yellow #uty ceroba #uty martlet #roxx art #PERSONALLY. i think martlet could be a decent cook #however i will take ur word for it #my friend says: it should be the two of them teaching CLOVER to cook. would be cute lol #BUT ANYWAYS. GIRLIES. ENJOY

[babybinko]

Been playing Payday 2 again a lot lately and I wanted to draw some of the character's faces as practice.

#Payday 2 #payday #jacket #sokol #clover #hotline miami #Jacket hotline miami #Sokol payday 2 #clover payday 2 #Jacket payday 2 #I WISH I FINISHED A JIMMY DRAWING HES MY BABYGIRL I JUST COULDNT GET HIM RIGHT #my friend did not like my jacket drawing 😭😭😭 he wanted me to make him a gross old wojak like the in game model #i wanted to make him drive (2011) and my OTHER friend agreed with me. #the first friend insisted sokol wasnt silly and cute like ??? he can be smart and skilled and kill people and still have a boyish energy #hes got that boyish twink charm he does shit asking chains to take him to a sports game like a little kid #bro he has a reservoir dogs specific line where he says “I have flutters in my tummyplate!” like hes maybe a little immature and silly #my art

[ballpitbee]

I’m now thinking of Clover in a tight dress, dude- 😓

#nick toxide #franky foreman #clover e koh #clover belongs to my friend euclidzone on twitter! #oc #ocs #asks #franky wiseguy

[dark-nymph3t]

IM GOING AFTER YOUR BOOP BADGES LMAOO NOW GIVE THEM TO ME /J

GO AND GET YOUR OWN BOOP BADGES YOU ARENT GETTING MINE

Kids these days, just thinking they can go and take your hard earned boop badges ugh

#ask #ask box #ask response #friend ask #friend response #Clover <3

[onecherrypotato]

Sorry for rapid fire Uty/ flowey content. Was just slowly going insane dissecting songs that relate to clover and flowey’s friendship with @snailvine

Don’t mind me!

Spoilers

One of the songs I went crazy about. Spring and a Storm by tally hall

#undertale yellow #flowey undertale #uty fanart #I’m fine guys #:) #just fine #I want clover to be okay and then be friends forever with flowey #is that too much to ask #Youtube

[ask-flapjack-and-friends]

You seem like an interesting group of animals. Got names?

#ask flapjack and friends #toh #palisman #ask #askblog #toh ask #toh askblog #toh ask blog #toh flapjack #flapjack toh #ghost toh #toh ghost #toh emmiline #toh clover #clover toh #stringbean #toh stringbean #boscha #Boscha toh #toh boscha #owlbert #owlbert toh #toh owlbert

[acacia-may]

So, before you hit your romance limit, can I request my two Black Clover OC ships? Solid x Rosette and Fuegoleon x Lital. You probably need to read their profiles first, if you haven't yet. I have a tag My Black Clover OC ☘️, hope it will help you. And to give some platonic bond too, Acier & Nozel and Finral & Gauche too?

Hi there Vilandel, and thank you so much for the ask! I'd be delighted to share some thoughts with you. 💕

Solid x Rosette

I am so happy you sent in this ask and told me about Solid x Rosette because this ship is absolutely my cup of tea (and not just because they're not super gooey and romantic. [A/N: Me neither Sosette] though I do have an affinity for more pragmatic couples who are very devoted to each other even if they're not super traditionally romantic and/or are more private about their affections). The big appeal here for me is that I've always had this intense fascination with arranged marriage to lovers. I have no explanation for this, but it's an absolutely fascinating dynamic to me and something I really enjoy exploring. I'll admit that maybe I'm biased because I also chose the arranged marriage to lovers dynamic for my own Black Clover OC x CC ship, but I think it just fits the nobility and strict social order of the Clover Kingdom so perfectly in my opinion and works so incredibly well for the story you've created for Sosette.

I love the idea of Solid entering this arranged marriage because "it's what you do," but then finding himself engaged to someone kind and perceptive enough to see beyond his haughtiness to realize he isn't just a shallow snob. He is moved by the fact she trusts him, and she brings out the best in him by believing it's there. Then he has his little panic moment of "Oh no! I fell in love with my fiancee!" This is the good stuff! Also, Rosette is super cool in her own right, and I adore her (and her friendship with my girl Charmy! YES!!). I love that she's so calm, collected, and perceptive. Also she's a detective? That's so awesome (and the Poirot reference had me squealing). Also, her glass magic sounds super interesting! I'll admit I never really thought of Solid Silva as a romantic being before, but Rosette's profile and your little one shot about them sold me. They're canon now. I don't make the rules.

Lital x Fuegoleon

Lital sounds lovely as well, and her backstory is really compelling (especially the story of her adoption which was so moving and so wholesome). I love the slow burn nature of her relationship with Fuegoleon, their long history with each other, and how they bonded over being on the same magic knights' squad. I'll admit I'm not as feral about it as Sosette (seriously, I just adore that ship now), but it seems like a very sweet pairing and I'd definitely be on board for it too!

Some Platonic Bond Thoughts Too? I'm So Spoiled! 😁 Thank you so much for this! Platonic relationships are truly my real passion, so it means a lot to me to be indulged to ramble about them as well.

Mother and Son: Acier and Nozel Silva

The bond between Nozel and Acier is so incredibly compelling to me. It's nice to see such a healthy and wholesome mother and son relationship, and the series does such an incredible job of showing just how much Nozel's love for his mom and his desire to make her proud and live up to her legacy has motivated and affected him. I adore them.

Finral and Gauche Friendship

I don't think I've ever really thought about this one before, but as soon as I read your ask, I had this very vivid thought of them bonding over gushing about how much love their younger siblings (I'm sure Langris would hate that...but luckily he's not there 😂😅). That said, it's a little hard for me personally to imagine that Finral wouldn't get on Gauche's nerves, so I'm not sure I can see them as besties in the same way as Gauche and Gordon for instance, but I do like the concept of an unlikely friendship between them and them bonding over their roles as big brothers. 😊

#thank you for the ask! #Sosette is my new Black Clover OC x CC OTP #I keep collecting them #but I really shouldn't be surprised about that seeing as my friends are so talented! Of course I adore their ships 💖 #solid x rosette #fuegoleon x lital #acier silva #nozel silva #finral roulacase #gauche adlai #acacia's ramblings #answered asks

[askcloverandfriends]

Question for this iteration of Flowey:

Would you rather play The Sims or Rollercoaster Tycoon

No contest for this one...

...but which Sims Game do you think he's played?

#undertale yellow #ask flowey #ask clover and friends #i like to think chara and asriel found the sims in the dump once #i think they would have enjoyed it

[chromatasia]

Another idea from someone is that the human souls were saving the lost souls of monsters that they knew from their journeys during the true pacifist fight with god asriel as well

OUGH… CLOVER HELPING CEROBA MARTLET STARLO AND DALV’S SOULS… AHEEM AHEEM WHIMPER THEY WANT JUSTICE FOR THEIR FRIENDS…

#ough clover undertale yellow my good friend clover undertale yellow #ask/answer #undertale yellow

[howlonomy]

I'm sure you've gotten a lot of similar responses, but your Monster Clover is so good, and I'd love to see more!!! (Take your time of course!!)

Moreso, I really love how you do expressions, you really made Clover and Flowey scrunkly!

bwaahh thank you!!! heres some more flowey and clover since its been a while since we’ve seen em :]

i like to think flowey is really into youtuber/influencer drama and its literally the only way clover knows whats going on on the internet

#monster clover au #asked and answered #undertale yellow #clover uty #flowey the flower #theyre kind of shitheads together tbh #i think they would make actually good friends when flowey isnt being a manipulative little shit #my art #mcau doodle

[stuffyflowers]

undertale yellow fans when a character makes a morally grey/imperfect decision or has a reasonable outburst based on their current emotional state

#*sniffling* you’re all so stupid…. #anyway context is me watching shayys flawed pacifist video and the comments are about what you’d expect #“starlo is so unreasonable and emotional here” you killed his best friend. “clover was justified” she was his best friend. you killed her #“she literally asked you to” she was in a state of extreme grief and depression at the time. #the general attitude towards ceroba in the comments is. eugh. can we actually talk about how complex she is rather than flattening her down #to “she killed her own child” and nothing more. #tbf these r the same ppl who were 1) misgendering clover and 2) confused on the symbolism of cerobas mask (she LITERALLY says “for chujin… #for kanako…” I think you miiiiiiight just be stupid. sorry)

[rheakira]

What nicknames do Clover and Robin call each other? Either as friends or in a romantic way

They actually didn't call each other many nicknames for a while! In fact, Clover once called Robin "Robbie" as a joke once and it made them grimace so hard with disgust that Clover never did it again. 💔

When they get older, they get more sappy and lovey-dovey with nicknames. It makes people around them absolutely sick.

#RK Chat #Clobin #Gun Apron #When they get older Robin starts calling Clover 'honey' and 'dear' #Clover's more showy and likes to call Robin 'Darling' and 'Sweetheart' #Their friends and family think its adorable but they're WAY too persistent and it gets exhausting #Ceroba once asked Starlo if she was this annoying when Chujin was still around to which he loudly groaned 'yes absolutely'

[tiny-cloud-of-flowers]

Okay. As intended: the Clio rambles. This is probably going to be very long and disjointed, but hopefully that is tolerable.

To try and sum them up:

Clio will now have pointed ears once she becomes a Spirit, and I've figured out a way to justify this in the context of what those mean in this series.

I'm fairly confident that I now know when Clio becomes a Spirit, and the circumstances surrounding her doing so. The only thing I'm still slightly missing is how she would actually know how to do it, but the game doesn't exactly explain that when it happens later on to another character, so..

Her story now follows that of the canon KHUX player quite closely, including the bluff at the final battle. A main deviation is that she would have still been hesitant, but ultimately did accept the invitation to the Dandelions, so she comes back with Ephemer and Skuld to gather survivors instead of being one.

The one thing I still don't know at all is how things end - whether I leave Clio in KHUX, or bring her forwards, and if so how and how far.

Okay, now for the actual rambles. Suggestions/comments/criticism/etc. is very much encouraged, because right now I do feel like I'm talking to the wall a bit.

What first started things off, I think, was me trying to justify porting the pointed ears that Clio has in FFXIV back to her original KHUX iteration, because they look cute on her. Both games have characters with these ears, but they mean different things in each one. In FFXIV they're just a natural trait of any Elezen - or Lalafell, but Clio's specifically are because she's half-Elezen there. Conversely, in Kingdom Hearts, they're quite specifically gained from exposure to darkness (or in most characters' cases from being possessed by Xehanort - it's just that he himself is implied to have gained them from darkness exposure in the first place, since he doesn't have pointed ears or golden eyes yet in Dark Road).

Now, Clio is very much not someone who feels the need to use darkness - she has strong light in her heart, and wields it valiantly. So, it wouldn't make very much sense or be very in-character for her to start falling to darkness and gain them as a result of the effect it has on her heart and body. However, as part of the story of my selfship, Clio becomes Aria's Chirithy Spirit (since she was never given one like she should have been, and Clio becoming hers allows her to survive the story). Chirithies are known to be tied to their individual Keyblade wielders, in that if the wielder dies or falls to darkness then so does the Chirithy - so, since Aria is already technically fallen to darkness by virtue of being a Heartless, it makes sense that Clio would also appear to be affected by that darkness (though I don't think she herself would actually become corrupted by it, necessarily - it just looks like she might be). Therefore, I can use that as a reason why Clio has pointed ears, implying darkness exposure, but is still very much a Keyblade wielder of light!

That was the first thing, which then led into the even more rambly part of more general story logistics - specifically, the idea of Clio taking the place of the player in KHUX, but also things like how when and why Clio becomes Aria's Spirit, and what her doing so would mean for her own Chirithy.

To the first part (Clio taking the role of the player): it would be a nice way of giving her more plot importance, as well as making the game’s story itself more important to my selfship’s story. Clio is absolutely the sort of person to make friends with lots of people regardless of their Unions, after all, and it can be fun thinking about how she might interact with the main cast. It also makes the final battle in particular much more fitting: Clio can pull off the trick of being possessed by a true Darkness much more convincingly given that she actually has a supply of darkness to safely draw from - Aria’s.

However, some details would have to be taken into account; firstly, the fact that the player canonically refuses to become a Dandelion, whereas Clio definitely is, to the point that her being one is how Aria is able to reunite with her and make it back to Daybreak Town, as I’ve previously written. However, what I could do in theory is say that, because the two things I wrote as follow-ups to that first piece were both in the Darkling AU, then Clio escaping the war with the Dandelions is also only the case in that AU, leaving the default version of events to line up better with the player’s story in canon where they refuse to join for the sake of those who were not chosen to become Dandelions (which for Clio would absolutely include people like Aria).

This can then in theory lead on to the other big thing I still need to work out, which is how/when/why Clio becomes Aria’s Chirithy/Spirit. For the when and the why.. if Clio is already friends with Skuld and Ephemer like the player is by the time the Keyblade War breaks out, then maybe she can go with them to try and rescue people from the battlefield once it’s all over.. and come across Aria there, as she had been bearing witness to the war but became injured after trying to step in to defend her Nobody counterpart. In the Darkling AU, Aria simply escapes into the realm of darkness at this stage, allowing her injuries to heal and being determined to find her way back to Clio (though being in that realm for too long is what then turns her more into a Darkling). Here, though.. maybe she can be rescued and brought along to where the Dandelions escape to (like the player is in canon, ironically), but is too injured to wake in a world so filled with light, and so Clio decides to (and is somehow able to) dive into her dream - thus becoming a Spirit, in the same way that Riku does much later on? So, that potentially sorts out the Chirithy logistics (albeit I'm not quite sure what would happen to Clio's own Chirithy if she were to become the same type of entity herself).

The other way in which Clio’s story could differ from the canon player’s is at the aforementioned final battle. In the game, the player pretends to be possessed by a true Darkness in order to get Ephemer and Skuld to seal them and four of the true Darknesses away, which leaves the Union leaders with more lifeboats to escape the destruction of the data Daybreak Town. I’ve already said that Clio would be able to bluff this very effectively due to being connected to Aria (who, as a Heartless, is already an entity consumed by darkness), but.. in the game, when this happens, the player taunts the Darknesses before being attacked by them and falling in battle, letting their heart move on and be reborn. And I perhaps understandably don't want that to happen to Clio, unless I say that that's how Arete happens.

At the moment, I'm also not 100% sure what Aria is doing at this time. What currently feels like the most "keeping things consistent with how I had been thinking of them" idea is that Aria takes herself back off into the realm of darkness again to avoid the destruction of the data Daybreak Town, while Clio can then be tangled up with the finale plot alongside the Union leaders, like the canon player - but then when Clio tricks the true Darknesses, she's able to slip out of where she's sealed them thanks to Aria (somehow), so the two can escape via the realm of darkness and subsequently are able to survive together until.. well, maybe Missing Link? When Clio gets out of the darkness but is kept alive/essentially made immortal by Aria still being in there? But, it seems difficult to think that Clio would be able to escape in a way that true Darkness can't, especially if she's going into the realm of darkness to do so. Maybe we can fight them off together? But that's four of the true Darknesses against only two Keyblade wielders, one of which is already a Heartless (and therefore, entity of darkness).. which seems a bit too tricky

Alternatively, if I did stick to giving Clio the player's canon fate.. I'm wondering whether Aria would be able to salvage her heart somehow, preserving her until such a time as the pair can be together again in the light. There's an argument to be made that, as a Spirit and therefore technically a type of Dream Eater, maybe Clio can only appear in Aria's dreams - but Aria doesn't tend to dream in the first place, because I don't. I am still attached to the idea of her being alive and present, though - maybe even ending up on Destiny Islands, to the point of meeting the main/non-KHUX characters. There's still that one piece of writing I haven't finished yet about that. And I can technically do that with Player?? But it's still not clear how they ended up there, honestly..

I think my uncertainly mostly comes from a combination of the following: I don't want to kill Clio off for the sake of sticking to canon, because I don't want things to end with KHUX, but I don't think she would be able to persist in the realm of darkness like Aria does. Maybe I can pull a Nimda and canonically detour her into FFXIV, but I don't really like the sound of that for Clio specifically. So who knows?? I certainly don't!

I think this last part may have to wait until Missing Link is out, and we know how it ties to KHUX more concretely. The timing of how far apart each game is from the others is still up in the air, after all, and seeing how connected the two truly are might maybe help me figure out if I do indeed want to sacrifice self-indulgence (of keeping Clio alive and incorporating her into other games) for narrative satisfaction.

People who know KHUX: please critique. And anyone in general who has something to comment on about this: please also comment.

#heart of the void #info posts #selfshipping #love: crown of clovers (clio) #selfship: of flowers unchained (clio/aria) #of lux and daybreak (union x) #I told you that this would be rambly #self‑insert: darkness' champion (aria) #of flowers unchained: darkling aria AU #friend: transient silver (ephemer) #friend: fate of the future (skuld) #all those were sort of mentioned #how much have i even written here. it's a lot. it's very messy. #it's twenty to two in the morning #if all you want to know are the conclusions then i've put them above the readmore #if you're interested in seeing my reasoning and how I got to those conclusions then that is what is below the readmore #if you have any questions then *please* ask