#of destiny and dragoones

[iddstar]

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Of Destiny & Dragoones is a fantasy-adventure comic about a band of hapless misfits thrown together to overcome the curse of an evil archmage and (ideally) save the city. They’re heroes, honest. Tune in for magic, fight scenes, bad language, badass adventurers, and found family. New pages every Wednesday!

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#this much fire is never a bad sign #friends #gnome-off #dnd #d&d #d&d 5e #dungeons and dragons #D&D comic #dnd character #webcomic #odad #of destiny and dragoones #indie comics

[ferrisraccoon]

Of Destiny & Dragoones commissioned work . do no repost , reblogs welcomed .

#m #FerrisPortfolio #of destiny and dragoones #commissioned piece #nf #dungeons and dragons #ttrpg commissions #illustration #dnd #fanart

[tales-of-valentine]

26th Sun of the 2nd Umbral Moon - Seth's nameday (25/4)

I lowkey forgot to post this yesterday but at least the individual it was mainly for, got to see it in time.

Seth's nameday is on the 25th of April so of course I made sure to celebrate him. 🥳 This naturally included plenty of homecooked food, lots of smooches n' cuddles and a dip or two in the garden pond. I hope you like your new shirts Sethy and that you had a wonderful nameday!~ 💙🌹

I also sincerely hope you had a good time and enjoyed the lil surprise both in and out of the game @nikyri-ninky aka Seth's creator. ❤️✨

#ffxiv #elezen #ffxiv elezen #taliesin valentine #seth hewitt #setal #petal pup #a dragoon walks into a bar(d) #a date with destiny #ffxiv screenies #ffxiv gpose #Gpose

[i-swear-to-merlin]

random bbc merlin

Colin morgan as dragoon is definetly in the top 5 things in bbc merlin

Change my mind

#Know your meme #bbc merlin #merlin bbc #bbc merthur #merthur #arthur x merlin #King arthur #dragoon the great #colin morgan #bradley james #My art #merlin fanart #artists on tumblr #merlin memes #himbo of my heart #Destiny and chicken #Just to smash my favorite pot #I am so very fond of colin morgan as dragoon #We needed more #arthur pendragon #art #king arthur #merlin #fanart

[draculas-husband]

Portraits of the lads that have stolen my heart and live rent free in my head.~ 💕

Seth Hewitt (Mr. Half ear) belongs to @nikyri-ninky 💜

Taliesin Valentine belongs to me. 💖

#ffxiv #ffxiv art #Seth Hewitt #Taliesin Valentine #Ffxiv elezen #Elezen #My art #Setal #Petal pup #A dragoon walks into a bar(d) #A date with destiny

[aloeverawrites]

Merlin spoilers.

I feel like Arthur’s destiny was to marry Gwen and we’re not ready for that convo. Like she’s the one who was implied to lift the magic ban. Her. She brought magic to the land not Arthur.

And Merlin was their biggest shipper and helped them get together.

So I’m just saying I think the narrative and is could pay Gwen a little more attention bc she’s literally everything.

#Arthur was meant to be a good husband and then die in a field #rip we love him for it tho #but yeah I can’t think of any other way kailgarrah was right abt them achieving their destiny #the biggest step Arthur took to free magic was to become a better man which lead to him marrying Gwen #I’m assuming she lifted it bc she found out merlin was dragoon and seemed happy #and she is not the kind of friend to leave her homie a criminal to the law and she wasn’t anti magic anyway she would have helped him

[trident-dragion]

Over the Nexus Deck Profile: Destiny End Dragoon

Destiny HEROES are the most historically successful HERO archetype in terms of competitive representation. This is, for the most part, not due to the Destiny HEROES themselves, but Destiny Draw and the fact that they're DARK Monsters making them work well with Crush Card Virus and Dark Armed Dragon. The truth is that most Destiny HERO Monsters are not very good, and they work better as means to an End. Fittingly, their ultimate Monster isn't even considered a HERO, that being Destiny End Dragoon. Made using Destiny HEROES Plasma and Dogma, Dragoon is a formidable Monster with built-in removal AND recursion, making it hard to deal with definitively. To make it work, I've taken cues from the Diva HERO Deck in Edison Format by playing Deep Sea Diva in conjunction with Elemental HERO Absolute Zero, which, unlike its compatriots, can be made from any kind of HERO Monster, making it work well with Destiny HEROES. Deep Sea Diva works especially well with Destiny HERO - Malicious and Dark Grepher; discard Malicious to Special Summon Grepher, Special Summon a second copy of Malicious from your Deck, then Normal Summon Diva to Summon a second Diva from your Deck, and then use your four Monsters to make Level 6 and 8 Synchros. Deep Sea Diva also conveniently makes it easier to Summon Destiny HEROES Plasma and Dogma, meaning they have independent utility in this Deck in niche situations. King of the Swamp can't be used as a Fusion substitute for Destiny End Dragoon, but it can search Polymerization and be used to make Absolute Zero. What CAN be a substitute for Dragoon, though, is Elemental HERO Prisma, which copies the names of Fusion material and bypasses Dragoon's restriction. Once Dragoon is Summoned, though, Prisma has a new purpose; reveal the second copy of Dragoon to place more Destiny HEROES in our Graveyard, fueling Dragoon's revival. I don't know if I'd call this a proper Destiny HERO Deck, but this is in my opinion the best way to use them. Here's the list: MONSTERS (23): Dark Armed Dragon x1 Dark Grepher x3 Deep Sea Diva x3 Destiny Hero - Dogma x3 Destiny Hero - Malicious x2 Destiny Hero - Plasma x3 Elemental Hero Ocean x1 Elemental Hero Prisma x3 Elemental Hero Stratos x1 King of the Swamp x3 SPELLS (12): Allure of Darkness x1 Dark Hole x1 Destiny Draw x1 Future Fusion x1 Miracle Fusion x2 Monster Reborn x1 Mystical Space Typhoon x2 Polymerization x2 Reinforcement of the Army x1 TRAPS (5): Call of the Haunted x1 Mirror Force x1 Return from the Different Dimension x1 Solemn Judgment x1 Torrential Tribute x1 EXTRA DECK: Destiny End Dragoon x2 Elemental Hero Absolute Zero x3 Elemental Hero Terra Firma x1 Ally of Justice Catastor x1 Black Rose Dragon x1 Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier x1 Colossal Fighter x1 Dark End Dragon x1 Goyo Guardian x1 Red Dragon Archfiend x1 Scrap Dragon x1 Stardust Dragon x1

#yu-gi-oh! #world championship 2011: over the nexus #deck profile #destiny end dragoon #destiny hero #hero

[devotedlystrangewizard]

whoever the fuck decided that i, someone who actively avoids playing healer because i have chronic anxiety, should enjoy playing white mage this much

#im gonna try tonight. probably #its not even like i dont know how to heal like i can manage! ive done wall to wall in trust and made it out with the entire party alive! #my biggest fears are A. ending up in a duty idk the mechanics of that well (embarrassing) or B. level 90 tank mains. #let me start with a sprout ok i dont even mind not having holy just stick me in a sprout party #if i fail with a low level tank i feel less awkward bc theyre also new! #but also i have two healers above lv80 and. um. i have never touched anything with other players #am i a madman? perhaps! #one of them is sage ok #ive been doing trusts with whm to figure it out?? how to do this stuff in multiplayer content?? and its going well??? #as i said! wall to wall without anyone dying! i know what im doing! #and im STILL scared! #i know confidence comes with time i wasnt a confident warlock main in destiny until i had several hundreds of hours in that game #i will get whm to 90. and gnb too hopefully. either gnb or drk. my drk is lv50 and im also scared of tanking #so probably my lv81 gnb (i was lv70 on dragoon with one of the first quests of stormblood so i played gnb there) #in shb i switched around so much #i was rpr/gnb back then #obviously my end goal is everything at max but to make it. smaller chunks. i want to get at least one healer & one tank to max #heals is definitely white mage i love white mage i love blinding people <3 #maybe one day ill get over my tanking anxiety too and actually level up drk. who knows. not me. #idc for warrior & paladin. there i said kt #am i an edgelord. yes. do i want whm at lv90 just for the frilly dress. also yes #i want to be the prettiest princess AND the gay evil guy #and i know i can just go into chat n be like 'hey lol i dont remember the mechanics/i am an idiot who levelled their healers to 80+ #without ever doing roulettes or dungeons or whatever' but thats scary too!! communication! yikes! #please give me a sprout squad i am begging you #stone vigil with a tank whos afraid of pulling more than one group please thank you #not having the instacast lilly spells sucks but. #like i just lost sprout status and i still feel like a beginner every time i see other lv90 people #and yeah thats also how i feel about people who are 18/19 despite me being 18 now too #thats just life i guess!

[larluce]

If all the Merlins I created met each other

Familiar Merlin 🦅: (flies around the place in his bird form and then changes into his human form, falling gracefully)

"Dragonlord’s son" Merlin 🐉: wooow, how did you do that?! 😃

"From the grave to the cradle" Emrys 🧙‍♂️: (in his dragoon apparence) It's easier than you think. (Changes into younger apparence) We all have metamorphosis abilities. Some just have them more devoloped than others.

Time travel AU/tree Merlin 🌳: I was forced to be a tree for ten years. Does that count?

Merlin 🦅: OMG! I was forced into my bird form too! 😄 (Hi fives Merlin 🌳) I can change my form at will now though.

Merlin 🐉: wait, what?! 😨 Why would they do something like that to you?

Merlin 🌳: Magic deal with the sidhes.

Merlin 🦅: Some sorcerers wanted to control my magic.

Merlin 🐉: (to Emrys 🧙‍♂️) And you?

Emrys 🧙‍♂️: Oh, I was not forced into turning into anything.

Merlin 🐉: Thank the gods.

Emrys 🧙‍♂️: Yeah, I was only forced to wait for Arthur to come back from death for 1500 years until I got tired of waiting and decided to travel back in time to kidnap him as a baby.

Merlin 🐉: ...

Merlin 🦅: ...

Merlin 🌳: OMG! You traveled back in time too?! 😃 (tries to hi five Emrys 🧙‍♂️, but he just looks at him with the serious face he always wears so he lowers his hand, akwardly) Ahm... And why did it take you so long?

Emrys 🧙‍♂️: I was a fool with too much faith in destiny, so I waited for Arthur to return longer than I should have. And time travel spells are not that easy to do, specially if you're the only magic user alive.

Merlin 🌳: Yeah, Arthur told me he had to-wait, what do you mean with "the only magic user alive?'!!😱

Merlin 🐉: Are we seriously going to ignore the part when he said he kidnapped Arthur?!

Merlin 🦅: Oh, did you put him cage? I hope not, those are awful.

Merlin 🐉: That's the only thing that worries you?!

Emrys 🧙‍♂️: No, I did not put him in a cage.

Merlin 🌳: I don't understand your reasoning, but if it was the only way to save him-

Merlin 🐉: The only way?! You have to be kidding me! Am I the only sane one here?!

Emrys 🧙‍♂️: How old are you?

Merlin 🐉: 20. Why?

Merlin 🌳: Oh, just two seasons of traumas. That explains it.

Merlin 🐉: (sighs) And I thought being kidnapped by a dragon was the worst thing that could happen to me.

Merlin 🌳: You were kidnapped by a dragon? 😨

Emrys 🧙‍♂️: You were kidnapped just once? 😒

Merlin 🦅: Were you put in a cage?

Merlin 🐉: Yes, yes, and no, I was not put in a cage. (To Merlin 🦅) How are you not affected by any of this? You look younger than me. Shouldn't you be even more scandalised?

Merlin 🦅: (shrugs) I don't know. But I was kind of brainwashed into believing a was never human before, so maybe that affected my perception of things (starts eating a death lark he recently hunted) Yummy 😋. You want some? 😄

Merlin 🐉: ... 😰🤢

Merlin 🌳: ... 🥺😖

Emrys 🧙‍♂️: (not impressed at all) 😒 (sighs) No, thank you, little one. But thanks for asking.

#bbc merlin #merlin bbc #merlin #merthur #merlin fic #merlin prompt #merlin fanfic #merthur fic #arthur and merlin #merlin and arthur #merthur fanfic #merthur prompt #The Dragonlord's son series #From the Grave to the Cradle #Arthur and Merlin travel back in time without knowing the other is from the future too AU #Merlin as Arthur's familiar/Arthur's shapeshifter falcon AU

[weird-tea]

I mean I get it's hilarious that Merlin had to turn himself into Dragoon and the Dolma, I get the joke is that it's him in desguise BUT

I can't help thinking of an AU where Dragoon and Dolma are actually separate characters (still played by Colin Morgan because why not) and they are actually Merlin's great aunt and uncle from his father's side. And every time they need an outside sorcerer so Merlin doesn't blow his cover Guias is just like "well now you mention it I'm pretty sure your father has a mad old aunt who survived the purge we could try find" and as the series goes on it's just Merlin learning more about his paternal family who are a bunch of weirdos living in the middle of no where who don't give a hoot about fate or destiny or anything like that but I guess they'll help with King Arthur out if their long lost twink nephew asks nicely.

#bbc merlin #merlin #merthur #arthur pendragon #Dragoon the great #the dolma

[iddstar]

Concept art and layout plan for The Six Nickels brothel. Looks cosy, right? Pull up a chair and pour a glass and let’s make a night of it…

#ODAD #of destiny and Dragoones #concept art #six nickels brothel #comic #webcomic #making comics #digital art #artist

[illustratus]

The Chasseur in the Forest by Caspar David Friedrich

The French occupation of Germany was also the period of the painter's first success, much of which he owed to his adoption of specifically nationalist themes. The Gothic church, ruined or decayed, acquired a particular meaning for him, as did the German forest. When in 1814 he celebrated the expulsion of the French, it was with The Chasseur in the Forest, a haunting image of a solitary French dragoon lost in a wood of evergreens. It is a compassionate picture: the invader's fate is just and inevitable, but also sad, and seems to belong to the same higher natural destiny as the forest's vigorous growth.

#caspar david friedrich #art #chasseur #chasseurs #forest #forests #history #germany #france #german #french #dragoon #dragoons #wood #woods #evergreen #evergreens #invader #1814 #europe #european #napoleonic #napoleonic wars

[tales-of-valentine]

Subtlety, never heard of her...

Taliesin belongs to @draculas-husband Seth belongs to @nikyri-ninky

#ffxiv #ffxiv meme #gpose #Taliesin Valentine #Seth Hewitt #ffxiv elezen #elezen #setal #petal pup #a dragoon walks into a bar(d) #a date with destiny #Oh Sethy~ #love of my life

[theroundbartable]

Hi! I want to share a merthur prompt that's been on me mind for a long time, but cannot write cause english is not my first language and I'm afraid to make mistakes. I would love for you to write it, but if you only share the prompt for someone else to do it, it's fine too.

You know how in the arthurian mithology Arthur wasn't raise as a prince to begin with but was discover later? Not only that, but Utter was the one who order Merlin to hide him, so he took him and made other family raise him.

Well, inspired on this I though what if our BBC Merlin did this? I imagine inmortal Merlin after the events of camlam, mad with grieve, tired of waiting for Arthur and cursing destiny and fate, would come to the conclusion that it was the prophesy he tried to fulfill that ended up killing and condeming Arthur. So, as soon as he learns how to, he travels back in time just when Arthur is about to be born. He kidnaps baby Arthur and gives him to a nice couple in Ealdor who he knows can't have children and will raise him well. He doesn't care about destiny anymore, he just wants Arthur to be happy and safe.

Obviously this has consecuences: Utter's hate towards magic becomes worse because he did not only lose his wife to a sorcerer but his son and heir as well. Search parties look for the lost prince for years without success and Utter is force to acknowledge Morgana as his daughter since he refuses to marry again, let alone have another heir. He won't stop looking for his son though no matter how much his council pleads him to.

Meanwhile, little Arthur meets little Merlin and become inseparable friends. Merlin from the future smiles, watching them from afar. He's been looking after Arthur all this time, making sure he won't be found and that he's safe. Suddenly he notices his body is starting to be less solid and realise that sooner or later he's going to disappear because there can be two Merlins coexisting in the same time. Not wanting to leave Arthur unprotected, he decides to orquest secret encounters with his younger self in the woods disguise as Dragoon/Emrys to start giving him magic leasons so he can control his magic better, ergo protect Arthur when he is not around. However, Arthur follows Merlin one day to see where he always goes of to and he discovers his best friend has magic. He takes it well though and even asks "Emrys" to teach him too. "Emrys" says something along the lines "You don't have magic I can work with but you defenitely have strength and courage. I can teach you to be a Knight" and he does. From then on he gives them not only magic and knight leasons, but education in general.

The day "Emrys" knows he is going to die/disappear he meets with Merlin, who is a teen by then, privatly one last time. With all the power he has left he transfers all his memories to Merlin. Overwhelm but over all angry teen Merlin shouts at adult Merlin, who is not in disguise anymore, "How dare you! You had no right to take that away from him! His right to the throne! He could've have better life, he could...". Adult Merlin argues back "Being prince is what made him miserable and got him killed in the first place!". They fight a little more, but in the end Adult Merlin says "Look, if you think is best to bring Arthur back to Camelot and reveal he is the lost prince is your choice. I already gave you all the information you need to be beware of the dangers and consecuences. Don't let any prophesy lead your choices and protect him" and he banishes soon after. Teen Merlin is left without knowing what to do.

He doesn't have to do anything though. Essetier kingdom falls, maybe do to war or a plague, i don't know, and Merlin, Arthur and their parents are force to flee to Camelot. They arrive at the Citidel and... that's all I got 😅 Sorry. I suppose at some point Arthur is discover and chaos ensues, but I don't know how it would happen.

OP, I just want to say.... i already know you're underestimating yourself. This summary looks awesome. I love the idea. And I have no doubt that you can flesh this out.

I'm not going to write it, because you can make this a 300 k story and people will absolutely read it and they will love it. I know this, because I absolutely would. Don't worry about your English, it's more than fine. (There are some spelling mistakes, but that's to do with typing, not actual problems with grammar.)

Look, I'm not an English native myself. I'm German and I started off with stories that made little sense in consistency. I was 12 when my first comment (my brother) told me it sucked. And he was right but that didn't stop me. The level on writing I see in this little summary is what I would have aspired my writing to become at the time. You have nothing to be insecure about.

Don't be afraid to write your own story. Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Trust me on this. You will do better than you think. And if you want, you can always message me if you need any help. I would love to read your version of the whole story.

Seriously, I mean it. You've given me enough text to see it. It would be a great gift to the fandom if you tried. :)

#bbc merlin #merlin #merthur #merlin bbc #fanfiction #faq #op your mind #writing #if anyone agrees #please help me convince op #answer

[karamazovim]

A personal pet peeve of mine is the take that Arthur’s mistake in 5x05 was trusting Merlin over his own better judgment, meanwhile Merlin was acting purely out of a desire to protect Arthur (as his friend) at the cost of any chance at magic going free.

Like, first of all, Arthur’s ‘better judgment’ was not telling him that magic should be free. That whole speech leading up to him asking Merlin what he should do was all about the harm magic has done and how it’s taken everything from him, and then at the end he tacks on “but idk maybe it’s not pure evil”. It’s a somewhat weak (from his perspective) rationalization for saving Mordred at the cost of “magic reigning in Camelot once again” - something he fears.

Could Merlin have convinced Arthur to accept the Disir’s deal? Maybe, maybe not. We’ve seen throughout the show- and even just in this episode- that Arthur takes Merlin’s advice to heart sometimes but also often dismisses it out of hand, or hears him out but still ultimately disagrees. Which is fine and normal, but it means that just saying “Merlin should have convinced him” ignores Arthur’s agency in making the decision.

I think it’s noteworthy that Merlin spends the majority of the episode before that point trying to get Arthur to take the Old Religion seriously. He warns him not to bring weapons into a sacred space. He points out that Osgar- a sorcerer- absolutely could have killed Arthur but chose not to. He smiles for the first time in three days when Arthur asks if he should take the Disir seriously and Merlin replies that he already is.

And speaking of Merlin’s goals: Obviously, his treatment of Mordred throughout this season is both deeply unfair and highly counterproductive; I’m not arguing that point. But I simply don’t understand the reading that it’s driven solely by his love for Arthur (whether romantic or platonic) and not at all his faith in their shared destiny. Because I don’t think that his feelings towards Arthur are extricable from Arthur’s prophesied role in bringing about the Golden Age and returning magic to the land.

I understand that “magic has no place in Camelot” is a very hard-line statement — one that undoubtedly sets back the pro-magic agenda. He didn’t have to do all that. But I still don’t necessarily believe this signals him “giving up” on ending magical oppression in the long term. He’s banking on the sequence of events the prophecies have supposedly laid out: [1] keep Arthur alive (by removing perceived threats), [2] show him tangible evidence that magic can be used for good (see: Dragoon, the Dolma, etc.), [3] Albion!!

Arguably the most significant part of that plan is that Arthur genuinely comes to believe in magic’s potential for good. Which is not what would be happening if he was forced to legalize it for Mordred’s sake. Doing it that way would provide very little security for magic users because [a] it could easily be undone (especially if Mordred did end up killing Arthur) and [b] it means Arthur would have very little incentive to actually enforce any new laws protecting sorcerers.

So, yeah, Merlin is a dick to Mordred. He loses out on chances to connect outside of a very few rare moments and repeatedly leaves him to fend for himself in dangerous situations. I hate that; I wish it didn’t have to be that way, even though it makes sense that the deeply traumatized and paranoid Merlin we see in S5 is making these calls.

But Merlin is not selfishly and single-handedly responsible for throwing away the lives of all his fellow oppressed magic-users out of blind love for Arthur Pendragon. He’s not innocent, and he’s certainly not without flaws, but he’s not That either.

#bbc merlin #5x05 #the disir #i’m sorry for ranting but it bugs me!! #i love so much abt this ep because merlin is so visibly Pissed abt the knights’ behavior #when arthur asks if he hasn’t gotten rid of the injustices of the past #and there’s an audible pause before merlin SO grudgingly answers #‘…you have.’ #homeboy is three seconds away from saying something he’ll regret #but then softens when arthur starts speaking more earnestly #I mean come on #look me in the eye and tell me he’s given up on magic

[andro-dino]

heya, I think your vampire and school au for takasakyo pretty cool and want you to ramble more about it. mfb school au's are endlessly hilarious to me, so how are they're doing?

WOOOO YEAHHHHH I LOVE TALKING ABOUT THIS AU‼️‼️‼️‼️ I will start by saying the first thing I made for it was this fic (which was originally gonna be a mini comic but I didn’t feel like drawing it)

I’m pretty sure I came up with this au in the first place just bc I was thinking a little bit too hard about sakyo’s fangs and then that led my brain to go to vampires, and now we’re here. The thing that I thought abt that I find really amusing (which is what mostly inspired the fic) is like, a subversion of the usual vampire trope of biting on the neck, bc when you really think about that, tis a tad bit intimate and also probably not the most convenient, so I had it so that Sakyo bites Takanosuke on his arm instead (much to taka’s surprise). I also did that kinda thinking about like, actual blood drives and stuff, and I’ve personally never donated blood but they have opportunities to do so at my school sometimes and I know they always give people like snacks and juice afterwards, so I thought it’d be cute to have Sakyo do that to.

In general Sakyo’s character is probably the thing that’s most different in this whole au because although I tried to translate some of his actual character arc and motivations into the context of him being a vampire, it’s a very different lens overall. and like also yk it’s just me making Sakyo a lot cuter just for my own funsies BUT THATS THE LESS IMPORTANT PART. in the actual series his motivations are a lot more “because I’ve inherited dragoon and am ryugas successor it’s my destiny to Cause Problems On Purpose and be stronger than everyone and fuck everyone else up and be a loner and I’m gonna take pride in that,” but vamp Sakyo feels a lot more shame in being a vampire so his motivations are more like “it is my destiny to be this horrible monster and despite the fact that I don’t really like most people anyways, I don’t really wanna cause any real harm either so I’m gonna Cause Problems On Purpose so that they stay away” yk. And also again the aspect of him not drinking blood often basically makes him hangry like all the time so that also adds to the Issues.

I feel like the context I’ve built up in my head is kinda vague in all the ways I’ve tried to post about it but like, the idea was that similar to the anime, in Sakyo’s pursuit of causing problems and just being a general asshole, all the same people who he battled during his introduction also got into trouble with Sakyo at some point during the school year. I made this joke to some friends I was telling about this au but like, Sakyo through and through is a dorkass loser. In the show, people take him seriously bc he has the bey and the power to back it up, but outside of that he is SO lame and such an edgy teenager, and in this au, he has the exact same attitude he usually does except now he doesn’t actually physically fight people to the same degree so everyone basically just sees him as this edgy emo asshole who hisses at people in the hallways yk. And so everyone just kinda avoids him bc nobody likes him. Except for Takanosuke that is, who still has his whole thing with Sakyo and ren, and similarly, becomes intrigued with Sakyo afterwards. Call it intuition or something, but immediately after actually having an interaction with Sakyo, he can sense that there’s something else that he’s not letting on. That’s when he starts following Sakyo and trying to talk to him, but Sakyo continually ignores him. It’s after school one day where he finds Sakyo in like, an alley or something, basically doing as bad as he could possibly be doing, and at this point Takanosuke’s already been connecting some of the dots, but seeing Sakyo as he sees him there is the final confirmation in the realization that he’s a vampire, and that kinda explains a lot for takanosuke. It makes all of Sakyo’s strange behavior and aggression make sense to him and he also realizes, seeing the state Sakyo’s in, that he’s really just hungry, and feels compelled to help. That’s when they make their whole deal and their friendship begins.

It’s funny because Sakyo has like absolutely no idea how to go about any of this now, both because he hasn’t really had a friend in like ever, but now that he has a steady source of blood, he doesn’t really need to be doing like everything that he’s been doing, and doesn’t really know how to go about that. At school, he really only hangs out with Takanosuke now, and basically everyone else has taken notice to it and how he’s basically changed completely pretty much over night. A lot of people start drawing their own conclusions. If Takanosuke’s with his other friends, Sakyo usually stays on his own somewhere else, unless he really needs a refill, in which case he and takanosuke will go off on their own somewhere so that no one else sees that. Everyone else still has no fucking clue that Sakyo’s a vampire. This does not help with the conclusions (I really wanna make a mini comic about this too)

In general, the two become pretty attached at the hip for the most part. Their arrangement basically bonds them for life in vampire culture or whatever, and in turn, Sakyo becomes pretty protective of Takanosuke. I think it’s both an instinctual “defending my food” kind of thing, but also a way of keeping their deal even. Takanosuke gives Sakyo blood, and in turn, Sakyo becomes very loyal to Takanosuke. This is mostly where the “uncharacteristically cute and caring” Sakyo characterization comes in. This is another one I wanna draw but this not only comes in the extremes of “is this guy bothering you do you want me to kill him for you,” but also in little ways, such as the post-bloodsucking juice boxes, Sakyo offering to carry Taka’s bag or walk him home, general things like that. It kinda catches takanosuke off guard bc he really wasn’t expecting much in return, but Sakyo insists on it. And again, to people with zero context of their dynamic, this is all VERY interesting.

Thinking about later down the line, although idk how it’d really happen, I think Zyro being Zyro would eventually find out about Sakyo being a vampire as well and help him out if he ever needed it. Perhaps it could start a chain reaction of people suddenly becoming a lot more tolerable of Sakyo, ensuing even more kooky hijinks involving Sakyo suddenly needing to understand how to have a social life

#vampire au #axel’s silly little thoughts #god they mean so much to me #I forgot to mention this but like yk also maybe they kiss at some point too idk #anything can happen nature is beautiful yk #I honestly cannot stop giggling about the idea of people seeing their relationship entirely out of context and immediately being like #‘oh yeah they’re definitely smooching’ #they’re so stupid I love them so much