#//this is fine...rly

[bruinescence]

@limpfisted cont.

Just about every god had temples; places thoroughly inspirited with art and incense where dogmatic worship was not unknown to follow. Granted, the area he and the Blade entered through a root-cellar like staircase down into the earth itself amongst oaken roots wouldn't quite qualify as a 'temple' by any traditional means. At the very least, one might call it a shrine...placed there for weary travelers to rest and perhaps seek the Oak Father's counsel or his blessing through meditation and small offering. A heavy root that broke through one wall and hung somewhat awkwardly out into the room still had several pouches hanging beneath it, though any fruit offerings within them had surely spoiled by now.

Halsin soon forgot the company he was with in favor of striding up the middle of the bleak room, steps slow and purposeful - yet uncertain all the same. The place of quiet comfort he had once known was merely a shadow of its former self-...much like the rest of the lands within the curse's choke-hold.

Wyll's curiosity fell on temporarily deaf ears as he sidled up to the far wall painted with faded depictions of Silvanus's wisdom depicted in child-like storybook imagery. Even the most boisterous of children accompanying their parents could not help but fall curiously calm amid the array of alluring bedtime stories. Now they lay dormant in a way that evoked not wonder at nature's hold, but sadness over its grip now lifeless. Running callouses along the color-sapped stones, he paused over a smudged image of what may have been a deer at one time and was now a soundless shape with horns.

A jolt passed through his arm as energy the curse could not extract caused his breath to hitch momentarily; druidic...withstanding the march of time alongside nature. Desperate, frightened, trapped...the feeling of an animal cornered all compiled at once in a single charge that had but one word attached to the infused message-

"Halsin?"

He broke the connection to the wall with a harsh inhale, suddenly reminded of his need for air, tainted as it was. With a slow shift, he pivoted and strode over to Wyll. "Silvanus left these lands ages ago. This place is no different than any other within the curse's boundaries. It is...empty."

[kylominis]

touchy feely mornings with mr. clingy [♡]

[hinamie]

oversaturate

[kaiju-krew]

affection aggression

[sluttypatrickstar]

[critterbitter]

Ingo doesn’t know it yet, but his earnest compliments and lilipup enthusiasm has earned him a life long fan.

Masterpost for more shenanigans!

[saessenach]

my love, my light, my darling - Teia Cantori in Eight Little Talons ✨

as always, close-ups under the cut!

[peachykcqt]

got that tummy fold lookin like :)

[slingbats]

Got a little motto Always sees me through When you're good to Mama Mama's good to you

[arolesbianism]

Oh god is that a comicfrin drawing where they have whimsy quick someone throw that guy into a decades long timeloop

[hinamie]

unconditionally

[knifebaby3000]

checked into your heart and trashed it like a hotel room

[hayaku14]

YOUR LAST NAME IS LITERALLY CLOVER????? AND YOU'RE HOLDING UP THE ACE OF SPADE????? AND I'M SUPPOSED TO NOT MAKE THIS ABOUT KAISHIN????????

[pandelacreme]

lots of speculation over how round 7 between luka and till will turn out! and its had me thinking about the presence of recurring motifs and how the main ensemble are foils of each other.

i know that many people like to joke about how sua and ivan are genderbends of each other/basically siblings... but in my honest opinion, i think the parallels between the two (similar hair styles and having the more subdued personality of the pairing) are to throw us off about what we know about hyuna and luka lol.

sua and ivan's similarities are to emphasize their situational differences, highlighted by the comic where ivan expressed envy over sua not being in an unrequited love situation (yeah i know that's literally what the definition of a literary foil is, but hear me out LOL). so in that sense i feel that they're not really as similar as it seems?

i personally think that sua has more similarities to luka than she is with ivan, excluding her relationship with mizi. both in terms of their upbringing as being treated like dolls and how their resting face is kind of empty when they're not with mizi/hyuna respectively lol. plus their listless acceptance of the lethal circumstances they exist in

tbh even the childhood dynamic between mizisua and hyuluka (before the hyunwoo thing...of course...) is pretty similar, with mizi/hyuna dragging sua/luka around

i think by emphasizing the similarity between luka and sua, it reframes the events that happened in round 5. while luka probably was purposefully exploiting mizi's grief, it does come to question how much of the cutting shots between the two was mizi seeing sua in luka.

so how does this relate to round 7 between till and luka? there's a lot of speculation that luka will demolish till by pulling the same schtick he did with mizi -- and conversely there's a lot of speculation that vivinos and qmeng will subvert expectations by having till somehow overcome his depression by becoming numb to luka's tricks.

here's a third idea i haven't seen being brought up: luka seeing hyuna in till. i propose this idea because i think we can make some comparisons between till and hyuna. both of them are the most rebellious of the ensemble, both had a tendency to roughhouse as children, and both's choice of music genre is very high-powered with a heavy emphasis on the guitar (i want to say they both have that rock and roll vibe but unfortunately music isn't my forte and i don't want the genreheads to get on my ass LOL).

and now suddenly it feels like the random tidbits we get about luka's interactions with till feels like they're hinting towards something:

[abstractfrog]

The Lions Mane - an elaborate excuse to draw some fancy jellyfish

[noxious-fennec]

He lends very well to dramatic lighting

Comm for @cannibal-crxw :D info here