#the shape of two souls

[idontknowanametouse]

So... I wrote a fic about Jujutsu Kaisen. Cause I refuse to believe canon. Anyway, here it is. (spoilers for Shibuya arc and a lil bit for the Culling Games arc) (briefly, it will be available in Ao3. probably) (sorry for bad english and probable inaccuracy with canon)

Kugisaki is moved to another room of the infirmary. Shoko knows she’ll have to do a herculean effort to try revert the cursed technique, but it’s worth it. Furthermore, she can see that the body modifications that were made on the girl’s body are less profond than those made on Nanami’s. And maybe, just maybe, the fact that Kugisaki’s technique affects the soul may help her during the execution.

When she finally stops doing the Reversed Curse Technique, Shoko falls on her knees, all vitality leaving her body. She feels like she is about to die after fighting with such effort against the cursed technique. Hana helps her to get up, as she was there after being called to take off Gojo’s seal, and Shoko took advantage of her presence to ask for help and try reverting the curse’s technique. The woman is reliefed they cured the girl’s physical form, but doesn’t know if they did the same to her mind.

_

There are people on the room before Ieiri can stop anyone from entering in. Even though Itadori, Fushiguro and Maki are the only ones to stay in there all the time, the rest of them stays a long time, and it works like this on the following two days until Kugisaki wakes up.

At the first moment, she looks around, confused. One of her eyes is milky and has stretch marks around it, as they couldn’t heal that damage without leaving behind a scar. Kugisaki moans a little because of the pain, squinting her eyes, trying to make the left one see, but in vain. Then, as her gaze falls over those around, her confusion seems to increase with their faces of expectations and tension, and opens her mouth, about to ask what happened, when she remembers she couldn’t speak before.

An avalanche of memories suddenly comes up and burries her under it. Memories from Shibuya and from the week after that.

Then, for the first time in many, many years, Nobara Kugisaki starts crying.

There’s an instant of shock in which everyone can’t do anything except feel their hearts break with the vision of her face getting contorted with pure trauma and pain as tears pour uncontrollably out of her eyes, making clear how broken Nobara is. The following instant, she feels arms squeezing her tightly and continues to cry.

_

It’s been a few hours since Nobara woke up. She is shrunken on the litter, and, even though she no longer has the empty look from before, now, it seems her eyes are the epitome of silent pain. Yuji hasn’t left her side since she woke up, and everyone agreed on making shifts to stay close to her.

Suddenly, the infirmary door opens and Megumi enters in.

“Nobara.”

“Ah, hi, Megumi.”

“Do you want to speak?”

“No.”

“Ok. Then, you just need to turn around to look.”

Without knowing what he means, she turns around and immediatly sits on the litter, exclaiming:

“My cane!!”

She practically rips the metal object out of Megumi’s hands, looking at the pink stars pattern with the trans and lesbian flag stamped on the handle, shocked. She asks:

“How did you get it?!”

“They found it on Shibuya and brought it back here. Yuji wanted it to stay here.”

“...thanks, Yu.”

“You’re welcome!” he smiles, and, for a second, just a second, she seems to almost smile back to him.

_

Now that she can walk through the school again, it’s normal to see Nobara wandering around without saying anything, but it’s even more common to see her alone, at her part of the infirmary, staring at the wall while hugging her knees, her eye looking so, so tired.

Maki is the third one on the shift to visit her. They see the colorful cane propped up on the wall and the eyepatch with a heart on it (it was gift from Itadori) on the girl’s face. Just as she enters, they say:

“Hi.”

“Hey, Maki...”

“How are you doing?”

Nobara doesn’t answer.

“Does it hurt?”

“The eye? No. And... the burn scars?”

“Just when they touch something.”

“I’ve never seen your arms before. They’re beautiful.”

“Ah... thanks.”

She sees a hair strand fall over Nobara’s face. Since they started hanging out, Maki sees that this sometimes happened, and always puts it behind her ear. They tries to do the same now. In an instant, Nobara’s eye gets wide and she almost falls back, covering her face with her hands:

“NO!!!”

Maki immediately stops. A second passes until Nobara looks between her fingers and uncovers her face, now flushed, murmuring:

“Sorry... sorry... I’m really sorry...”

“Hey, hey, it’s ok. Don’t apologize.”

“It’s just... that...” her voice almost disappears as she speaks. “...his... hand...”

Maki doesn’t need any more information. She just approaches without raising their arms and sits by her side on the bed. Nobara hesitates for an instant, then her head falls over their shoulder.

_

The cane hits the ground when Nobara enters the other part of the infirmary. Nanami’s eyes meet her and she backs off, getting off the room. She can’t face him. Not yet.

_

“It’s made to wipe you out.”

“What?” Shoko asks, looking at Kugisaki.

“The needles. They stick you and make you get confused everytime you remember a little bit of yourself. They’re parts of his body that he modified to make it look like this way.

Shoko looks at the girl’s face, so shaken by everything that happened.

“...thank you, Kugisaki.”

_

‘She wakes up, feeling like all of her body was under the effect of anesthesia. There’s a point of her face that hurts. She tries to move, but feels heavy. She can barely open her eyes, such big is her tiredness. Her mind seems to be completely empty and she can barely think. Suddenly, someone raises her eyelid delicately and her gaze falls over two men. One of them smiles and says:

“Ah, you finally woke up! How do you feel, Hime-chan?”

She tries to speak about the mess that her body feels like, but her tongue curls up and shows itself as being useless on saying anything. The man raising her eyelid giggles and says:

“Oh, of course, silly me! You can’t speak. But don’t worry, you won’t need it. Instead, I’ll explain you what’s happening, ok? But, before, I’ll just put this behind your neck!”

And he creates out of the palm of his hand an ensemble of black needles.’

Nobara wakes up suddenly and turns around, gets her cane and walks out of the room. She doesn’t know what she wants to do, all she knows is that she doesn’t want to stay there to ruminate that again and again.

She goes to her room on the dormitory and looks at her stuff. She gets surprised they didn’t put everything away when they thought she was dead. Maybe Yuji stopped it from happening. Suddenly, her gaze falls over a small bottle of brown hair dying product.

She takes it. Her hair is now on its natural color, black, and she hates the fact that it’s this way. It always gave her a fucking horrible disphoria. She goes to the bathroom, but stops walking once she hears someone say:

“Ah, sorry. I didn’t saw there was someone here.”

She turns around and sees a person on pajamas with brown skin, long black hair with a pink strand and piercings on the lip. Nobara asks:

“Who are you?”

“Hoshi Kirara. I came here cause of my boyfriend.”

“Kugisaki Nobara. I... kind of live here.”

“Kugisaki...? Ah.” They seem to notice the bottle in her hand. “You gonna dye your hair? Sleepless tonight?”

“Yeah.”

“I know how. Wanna help?”

Nobara was about to say she was fine, until she realizes that, actually, she wants to do anything, except be alone. Then, she nods and they go to the bathroom.

Occasionally, Kirara makes a few commentaries, but they don’t seem to be expecting an answer from Nobara. Instead, they give her space, seeming to comprehend that the girl does that mostly to have someone by her side, to make those haunting thoughts leave.

“You are so pretty!” Kirara exclaims. The morning is arriving when Nobara’s hair entirely brown.

“...thanks.”

“You welcome.”

(this is the part 3 of a fic I wrote. To get the other parts, research for "the shape of two souls")

#jjk #jujutsu kaisen #jjk fanfic #jjk spoilers #brainwashing tw #body modification tw #nobara kugisaki #kento nanami #yuji itadori #megumi fushiguro #maki zenin #shoko ieiri #nobamaki #mahito #kirara hoshi #kirakari #angst #the shape of two souls #she/they maki #they/them kirara #hana kurusu #disabled trans lesbian nobara my beloved

[alpacacare-archive]

he dont bite

#repostober #day 13 yyaayy #deltarune #undertale #gaster #wd gaster #what inspired this was an old dadster painting i saw that drew the skelefam as realistic skeletons and depicted gaster as #a skull without teeth #so i looked up what a skull without teeth looks like and !!!! look its uncanny!!!!!!! i had to draw him like that #i love looking at this cus while drawing it i was in a super nostalgic mood and listened to a bunch of my childhood songs (in my native) #so while this could be interpreted as me trying to draw something scary #whenever i look at it i immediately feel the warm fuzzies i felt while drawing it and listening to songs kid me liked #to me this is a drawing of a childhood friend #anyways jhdks.. #i tried to make the triangle shape under his head in the og sprite his rib cage #sort of morphing and contorting out of his melting body #also i tried to make the body of the sternum of this rib cage (the piece between the two sets of ribs) look like his soul #just some details i liked about this :'))))

[ruporas]

soft (and some bittersweet)

#trigun stampede #trigun #vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #i think they both spent majority of their lives in solitude and ofc vash went town to town and made friendships promises and etc along the w #way + he had his home and whatnot in the long years he's been alive but he still just seemed so lonely. #in prior versions of trimax he had friends at home at least and maybe he mightv made some but luida and brad are basically just his #guardians in this adaption. like brad used to be a homie.... vash watched that little dude grow up.... and jessica too.... but he doesn't #have that in this adaption. nor a town like july where he had grown close to the townspeople and shaped that tragedy to be closer to his #heart. and wolfwood spent years fighting under the eom and doing shit under their jurisdiction when we saw him so adamantly try to reject #and fight back against that fate. i dont think he had a second at all to get familiar with townspeople or even care to #so its just these two lonely ass souls and vash immediately seeing the good in ww and points it out #ww who is under orders again to be involved in vash's business but he's also SO touchy about it bc vash is so careless and lack that self #regard and also just is not seeing the world that ww is seeing. but then vash helps him and saves him by sharing a piece of what /he/ sees #and it fucking. rescrambled ww's brain for a sec. HE GAVE HIM HOPE!!! he gave him hope!!!! and in turn ww gave vash hope too and its #all done in like 3-4 eps. there's so much fervent attachment in what they managed to give each other in such a short time #but theyre limited to the contract to the inevitable confrontation with knives - so while theyd want to give into that chance to love this #person who managed to give them smth special they just can't at all #ruporas art

[destinywillowleaf]

one of a kind living in a world gone plastic

baby you're so classic

@most-tragic-character-tournament

(all my thoughts in the tags)

#anyway i found their theme song and lost my mind #tragedyshipping #lloyd garmadon #ninjago #antigone #tagamemnon #pollshipping #i'm gonna be thinking about this for the next hour before i go to sleep #i just wanted to make a playlist for them i didn't think i would find a perfect fit #they have taken over many of my braincells and i can't even complain this is the enrichment i needed #all i'm saying is the idea of a movie trailer for these two is taking shape more and more and this should 100% be the accompanying song #not even a full trailer because that would take forever but like. a 30 second TV spot. family drama. them not really getting along at first #(e.g. glaring at each other while being forced to dance or something) #but then warming up to each other on the road because road trips have my soul when it comes to movies ok #i want them to stargaze in the bed of a hotwired pickup truck while on the run from people who demand bloodshed (a poll winner) #the slow(?) burn of not wanting to be in this mess to actually enjoying spending time together to something more #(trailer/commercial ends on or just after “baby you're so classic” with the cut to the title and in theaters date) #maybe most of the tv spot is them arguing and making life hell for one another but it's hard to deny there's something more brewing #(one of the reviews is just ''A modern classic'' because i think i'm funny) #i really want the title to be a play off of them meeting through the tragic tournament but it's completely different from the tone i want #''tragedy: null and void'' is a fun one #i've never been the greatest at titles if they don't hit me like a truck #anyway hi folks i'm sorry if you have no idea what's happening and see this in your tags

[k-kroomie]

Doodle me a Heart ♡

By. Niko and Sunnie♡(or Margo if you're from Discord)

[very short]

A Punkflower one-shot based of my headcannon:

♡

Enjoy the cuteness of my favorite people♡♡♡

♡

Miles was doing his math homework at his desk while his boyfriend laid out on his bed with one of his sketchbooks and some of his markers.

"Hey, luv, what ya, think 'bout a dog with 3 eyes in ya art book?" Hobie asked, making Miles look over at him. "Hm, I wouldn't mind. You just draw whatever you want, Hobie. I'll either add to the page or leave it alone," Miles said with a smile as he turned back to his homework.

Hobie smiled and looked down at the sketchbook page, "Alright thank ya, sunflower." He said before flipping to the first page and seeing a self-portrait that Miles drew of himself. That's when he got to work, draw on the white spaces of the page, and he never drew the same thing twice. He smiled at his little doodles before flipping to an empty page and drew out a picture of him and Miles.

Time skip♡

"I'm sorry we didn't get to spend a lot of time together Hobie, this vision work is sumping me." Miles said as he watched hobie slip his boots on, "It's fine sunflower," Hobie said, sliding his mask over his hair and eyes. "I love just being around you." Hobie said before kissing Miles forehead and climbing out his window. Miles smiled before shutting his window and walking over to his bed where his sketchbook and markers sag.

Miles picked up his sketchbook about to lay it on his desk when he saw the drawing of two stick people in the middle of a page with a heart in the middle of them at the bottom of the page it said, "A punks flower" Miles smiled at the page before picking up his pencil and a few markers. He then began to sketch out the faces of both him and Hobie. Keeping a distance between his sketch and his boyfriends art, not wanting to ruin Hobie's art.

#ship: punkflower #spiderverse #across the spiderverse #atsv #spider man: into the spider verse #hobie brown #miles molares #punkflower #hobie x miles #miles x hobie #miles morales x hobie brown #hobie brown x miles morales #because i said so and because i love them♡♡ #i lover miles and hobie so much i just wanna give them both 50 thousand hugs and give them whatever they want!! #OMG JUST TAKE MY MONEY!! #i would give my soul for these two #flowerpunk #they are so cute!! Hobie's drawings are skulls and hearts and little stick people snd oddly shaped things with eyes #hes a real artist frfr #Hobie colors like a toddler because kts funny💀🤣🤣

[flame-shadow]

something and something else

[id in alt]

#hollow knight #chalice #candy #jynx #nosk #vessel #soul master #kinda.. i mean. it's one of chalice's disguises but still #flameshadowart #i have more characters with two or more shapes to them but i just did these three to keep from crowding the sketch too much

[thebirdandhersong]

on the good news train today: I have finally finished the last chapter(!!!) of my Inklings challenge story, which marks the FIRST ever Inklings challenge story I've ever completed properly :'D coming in at 30,810 words (yikes) (it did get out of hand, I must admit), it is definitely not a short story, but it IS a piece that I think articulates a lot of what I've been thinking about lately re: love and death, and, considering everything, is probably something I needed to write. I am very happy!! It has been a wild ride, but a deeply clarifying one.

#ALSO i went to watch hadestown on friday and i came out of that a changed person. i will literally never recover from that experience. #hadestown also has significantly shaped this story along with HMA's little mermaid and goblin market and sir orfeo btw #anywayyyy i am going to BED i have midterms to study for tomorrow which i have been putting off for too long!!!! #inklings round 3 #i'm bracing for impact this week (it's gonna be ROUGH) but i am holding to julian of norwich's wise wise words for this one #all shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well! #including midterms (of which i have TWO right after reading break. ain't no rest for the wicked and the righteous #don't need none and who knows where i fall) and boy problems and family worries #all SHALL be well!! #why my soul are you downcast! why so disturbed within me! #put your hope in God for I will yet praise Him my saviour and my God #magpie said think of jane austen's wise words too #(friendship is the best balm for the pangs of disappointed love) and she was right :) #im sitting on my little raft and paddling steadily onwards! #thank you for sitting on the step with me through the dusk and blue hours and dark days #all shall be well for pete's sake!!!!! all SHALL be well!!!!! #last year of school log

[stsghrs]

a while ago i saw someone say satoru and suguru are twin flames and i haven't stopped thinking about it ever since

#they're two halves of the same soul #the way their relationship completely changed their lives and shaped them as a person #(even talking purely platonically you have to admit it) #gojo satoru #geto suguru #twin flames #satosugu #sugusato #stsg #sgst #jjk #jujutsu kaisen

[prettyflyshyguy]

............................................. I'm regretfully writing a fanfic.

It's not gonna be big, but dialogue has been running in my head 24/7 and if I don't write it down I'll explode. Writing is a fun break from drawing besides and I genuinely feel like slowly dissecting other characters is helping me revisit my original stories, and dissect my own characters and bring more continuity and subtlety into them.

#FUCK ALL OF YOU YOU ENABLED ME #i'm kidding i genuinely love you all #but GOD FUCKING DAMNIT #these two just have far too much fun dialogue and since i've been casually watching while i draw its given me more of a character basis to #work off of #and this is like junk food for my soul #the more I write garbage the better I get at writing my own stuff #but the fandom still scares the shit out of me #given I also have a younger brother its fun to examine their relationship and see some parrallels to my own experience #and how family differs from friendships in the dynamic #you get way more baggage from their shared experience growing up #and where they diverge from each other's mindset and approach and how its shaped from the difference in their Older sibling Younger sibling #experiences which is a critical component when they have fights #anyway Dean being the huge “I'M COOL FUCK THE SYSTEM I DO MY OWN THING” then immediately shifting to “yessir three bags full sir” #in 0.5 secconds never gets old #and Sam's perpetual frustration at this hypocrasy sends me #given Sam's entire existense is based around him genuinely wanting to do his own Thing VS Dean tricking himself into going down his own pat #but they both still have that childhood need to be fullfilled by their parents and IF THAT AINT RELATABLE #but they both tackle it so differently due to circumstance #anyway tldr: sibling dynamics fun as hell you go from seamlessly working with each other #to having a massive squabble so fast its very entertaining

[holopossums]

i was talking in my server yesterday about a new Casey Jr. battle move i thought up of.

and i just had to illustrate it because this is honest-to-god one of the most fun ideas i've ever had.

this move might appear in Radiant Souls, and rather soon, too!

#does his grappling hook launcher work this way? i'm not sure #but it's free real estate as far as i'm concerned #Casey Jr. joining his weapons together into some crazy highly dangerous new weapon is SO FUNNY to me #partly inspired by Shuhei Hisagi's shikai from Bleach btw #except it's only one and not two and is less of a scythe and more a chainsaw #but same base idea #this would also be *incredibly* hard to control and swing around accurately considering how big the end weight is #plus its shape. it's a stick on the end of a rope. it could swing unpredictably #but like. sweet move right? he could destroy someone at 50 feet away with this if he lands a hit #radiant souls #rottmnt radiant souls #krow jones #rottmnt #casey jr #casey jones jr #holopossums

[navree]

unfortunately the percy jackson show means percy jackson discourse which means i once more have to see dogshit takes about rachel elizabeth dare, who did literally nothing except have a relationship with a boy she liked for a couple months, but the freaks are at it again because there's no worse crime in the world than being a girl getting in the way of a ship for a nanosecond

#personal #if i am not defending rachel elizabeth dare from freaks it's because i'm dead #'a greedy and ungenerous soul' she was fifteen???? calm down???? #why are you at your big age talking like that about a literal child?????? #like sorry that annabeth was incapable of opening her mouth about her crush and someone else happened to be more verbose #that ain't rachel's fault #if annabeth didn't want percy dating she should have communicated better that's not anyone else's problem #rachel and percy liked each other so they went out and then they ended the relationship like that's so normal #and from a doylist perspective it's painfully obvious rachel was there as a lil bump in the road before percy and annabeth got together #so why are you getting bent out of shape about it she was never a threat #and if you shouldn't be pissy about it now anyway when they've been together for like multiple series at this point #and are gonna get together in the show too #like goddamn i'm two steps away from going full percabeth anti just because people can't be normal about rachel for some reason #and i LIKE percabeth #honestly i don't know why twitter feels the need to show me fandom takes they're never good no matter which fandom it is

[idontknowanametouse]

So... I wrote a fic about Jujutsu Kaisen. Cause I refuse to believe canon. Anyway, here it is. (spoilers for Shibuya arc and a lil bit for the Culling Games arc) (briefly, it will be available in Ao3. probably) (sorry for bad english and probable inaccuracy with canon) (this is the last part)

Ieiri told Nobara before most people that she and Kurusu will try to heal Nanami. Nobara is reliefed, but she gets tense. What if, with him, it won’t work?

A little bit of the tension is dissoluted when she finds out the physic healing process worked, but the rest of it remains during the day in which Nanami remains unconscious. This time, Ieiri only lets Nobara stay there because she needs to move between the two rooms to leave and enter the place. The following day to the process, Ieiri (very tired) warns the girl that Nanami woke up in the middle of the night. She immediately gets excited, a little of the shine in her eyes coming back, but her joy dies soon later.

Nanami’s mental state remains the same. He can’t remember a thing.

With her hands trembling, Nobara asks if she can see him. Ieiri tells her that yes.

She doesn’t say a word when she sits by his side. The man has scars that form some kind of outline where his burn scars used to be. Nanami blinks when he sees her, and raises a little his body on the litter.

“Hime?”

Nobara feels a shiver down her spine when she hears that name, but tries to ignore it. She knows it’s not his fault. Then, she sighs and asks:

“Why did you protect me all the time?”

“Kami-sama asked.”

Not always, she thinks. Most of the times, yes. But, on the first time, no. She saw that, in the end of this one time, the needles pierced his neck.

Ieiri told her to be careful, as he was having aggressive reactions towards who approached too much. The only one with who he took it easy was Yuji. However, when Nobara comes closer, Nanami doesn’t show any reaction. She sits, her back against his’, and murmurs, so low that the only one who hears it is herself.

“...you like protecting the newbies, right? ...it was easy to realize it...” she turns around and hugs him from behind. “Don’t worry, Nanami-san. We’ll solve this. We’ll be ok.”

_

Nobara looks at her phone, anxious. Okkotsu Yuta came back found out where he was. They asked Nobara to use Ressonance on the needle Shoko took out of her before because it was a part of him. She will do it with pleasure, but she has to wait for Okkotsu’s call to know the right moment of using the technique. As he’s a special grade, he can face him, but her help will be good.

The phone rings. She grabs it in a second and answers the call.

“Hello?”

“Now.” Okkotsu’s voice says before turning off.

Nobara takes the needle. For the first time in the week since she woke up, she permisses herself to remember each moment, each painful thing, each needle, each dead person, each thing she did against her will, and feels the cursed energy flow through her body. Then, she burries the nail on the needle.

She hammers it again. Again. Again. Until the needle disappears.

She walks as fast as she can through the school until she arrives at the infirmary. She needs to see him, needs to garantee it worked, please, she begs for it to have worked...

Nobara sees Kurusu leaving the room. They seems relieved. Now faster than ever, she invades the infirmary and, suddenly, stops. She approaches, cautious, his litter, and murmurs:

“Nanami... san?”

He looks at her. His eyes are overflowing with silent tears.

“Kugisaki.” His voice is hoarse and broken. This man’s voice shouldn’t be like this. “I...”

“Stop” she says. “You... don’t need to say anything, ok?”

“...ok”

She squeezes his hand tightly.

_

The next days are silente and strange, however, a little, just a little, happy and relieved. Because everyone is happy they’re back, but they know that the two of them passed most of the time silent because they shared something nobody else will understand.

When Yuji makes Nobara laugh, she realizes she might be getting better.

And when they manage to get the Prison Realm, Kurusu is there to take the seal out of Gojo and she and Nanami stay close to the cube the moment the Angel frees him, she realizes they will be ok.

(this is the ending for a fic I wrote. For the other parts, search for "the shape of two souls")

#jjk #jujutsu kaisen #jjk fanfic #jjk spoilers #brainwashing tw #body modification tw #nobara kugisaki #kento nanami #shoko ieiri #yuta okkotsu #hana kurusu #whump #angst #the shape of two souls

[seagull-scribbles]

Saw some artists draw Rise Raph’s mask in a bow and I fell in love ♥️

#rottmnt #rise raphael #raphel #i saw the bow and i loved it i was like yes i love how raph is so angry and tough but rise raph punched toxic masculinity in the face #but then i was doodling it and its like #its lgbt history month here in the uk #and most of you know im non binary #and i have been self projecting onto rise raph a lot this past month so #i ended up doing this instead with his two outfits #experimented with colours and textures a little more #i want to branch out and maybe try drawing the other turts and maybe some humans but i am missing my sonic stuff a lot too #but yeah a fem and masc rise raph for the soul for now #i really love all the ideas and headcanons about raph having DID and stuff it is logical #but i also just like that maybe raph is like an onion with lots of layers that i can hug and self project onto mwahahaha #i think i need more practice with this more boxes body shape but i do think this is already much better than my attemp 3 weeks ago so progr #progress #its a shame i dont have time to do lots of studies and redraws i think that be the next step for me to progress #also no one asked but i think his masked it ruined at the bottom because he chewed it when he was younger #also also no one asked even more so but this month ive just been thinking alot about how i present and idk #just a lot of thoughts and reflections going on here i guess #SaveRiseOfTheTMNT

[tsuchinokoroyale]

Quickish brush test I did today for fun ft. My fave misguided, misunderstood baby boy from Lies of P

“I’m glad you came back, buddy”

#imma be honest with u I had no idea how to draw Carlo’s hair I thought the shape was distinct enough that I could manage but I was SO wrong #very much still getting a handle on how to use the transparency bc I love the look but there’s so much background bleed thru #I was gonna add more detail to Romeo but I’ve got another project I have to work on so I g2g sorry my king #if I did have more time I would’ve loved using the in game bestiary to get a better look at his model but I did a lot of guesstimating #based on the cutscenes which do NOT give a great look at the detail but it’s okay another day 🎶 #you can tell this is NG+ based on A) the translation and B) the bonk bonk manus club which made my NG+ so much faster #for NG++ I used the two dragons sword with the comically short parry timing #but I got soooooo good at parrying the first phase of the nameless puppet fight #I wanna go back and do a NG+++ with the Proof of Humanity but I have so many other games I need to play 🥹 #Lies of P is def my GOTY the atmosphere was so fucking good and it’s the only souls like I ever beat bc of how much it clicked with me #she gets the tsuchi seal of approval and I’m so so so fucking excited for the sequel #lies of p #lies of p Romeo #lies of p Carlo

[prototypelq]

not gonna lie, @godliath's ereloy art has rewrote my brain chemistry even before I played the game and even knew who those characters were. Cause it was one of the first things I saw when looking for HZD content here and it had me hooked Immediately.

#i don't mean this in a 'i expected the game to be a romance about the two way' i meant it in a #'i saw creator pour their heart and soul and love for the characters into shape of an art and I fell in love with it' #additionally i was absolutely obsessed with shipping the two but that's besides the point #it was hilarious seeing how every npc in hzd ever is ready to marry aloy immediately after meeting her unironically #erend might be my fave tomato captain husband but after such a start it feels strange denying all the other characters #and fans of other ships #(also i was baited by hfw trailers and am salty about it) #still ereloy for the win forever their fandom is so chill and nice i love it here #hzd #ereloy #this is like one fandom which has my dedicated shipper focus xD #erend vanguardsman #aloy despite the nora

[shady-tavern]

WIP from “The Shape of a Soul”

Part 1 I Part 2

A glimpse at the chapter ‘Furious Determination’. Warning of gore and broken bones, this one is rather dark.

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Until the fog swirled ever so slightly and emerging from it, as though just recently regaining any sort of corporeal form, rose the monster she remembered most. The one leading them all, the one whose brutal hands had left bruises she carried with her still, who had broken her ribs and nearly her arms. 

It stepped forward and Marya heard a horrified whimper. Glancing down, she saw that it was holding something in both hands. It flung its left hand forward and Marya watched as two big objects landed heavily in the snow with a dull thudding noise, rolling to a stop. 

Her mind felt strangely numb as she stared at the severed heads of the two monster hunters, expressions lax and dead eyes staring into nothing. Blood coated the big man's forehead, while the other man looked as though he had gotten his jaw nearly ripped off.

She forced Atsu and Ivan's heads down so they wouldn't keep looking and she heard them sob, felt them tremble against her. Ivan heaved, almost throwing up and he was shaking now. Atsu was squeezing his eyes shut, making a soft, horrible little noise as he hid beneath her cloak as much as possible. 

Beyond the numbness Marya felt a spark of anger grow admits her own terror. A dark, raging fury at those monsters, at what they had done to innocent people and the fear they put into her cousins, her family and neighbors. At her own uselessness.

The leader stepped forward, the fog fading enough to reveal that it dragged a mostly limp body with its other hand, soft whimpers and sobs rising from the person. 

It took Marya a moment to recognize Lord Mawa, his magnificent clothes a torn and bloodied mess. It looked like his legs were broken and one arm hung limply from his side as he was dragged by the collar. 

Tears streaked his face and he looked nothing like the imposing, powerful lord who had come to save them. He suddenly looked like a boy himself, desperate for aid, for rescue, staring at them like they might be his salvation, while Marya stared back helplessly. She was sure, in this moment, they wore identical expressions.

#my writing #wip #work in progress #The shape of a soul #from the chapter 'Furious Determination' #a wee bit spoilery #cw gore #gore-ish at least #I'm still working on short stories #they'll be up soon #had a bit of a sickness for the past two weeks #I hope this is a fun read! #a bit nervous about posting my stuff still #a short little glimpse at chapter 3 #shit's going down