#[a question for the knights]. asks

[justarandomart]

do you think Shadow can just grow back limbs like a weird lizard?

[artfulusername]

The Green Knight

(Reblog for a larger sample size. You know the drill.)

[kaeyachi]

Kaeya, despite being a sickly and gentle child, was his own kind of nightmare for Crepus and the other Dawn Winery staff.

See, Diluc is prone to mischief and chaos, dragging along his younger brother and a couple of other children into his plots and messes.

But Kaeya? Kaeya is the type to end up in the most random, and I do mean most random, of places. He would vanish for several hours, only to be found in an unexpected location such as, oh let's say that one time, he was found eating fruit with some friendly hilichurls...IN LIYUE.

He was such a curious soul that would easily get distracted by the wonders of Teyvat, but since he is so silent in both words and movements, whoever is watching over him would lose sight of him just as quickly.

He has caused several search parties in his youth, only for people to find out he was following a seelie to a treasure chest or napping with a young wolf cub in Wolvendom.

Crepus swears that Kaeya and Diluc are competing on who can give him gray hairs the fastest (so far, Diluc is winning, but Kaeya sure is catching up with every scream of panic from a designated babysitter and Diluc)

[ask-hollowknights]

They seem stable, but not particularly comfortable, or curently capable of focus-healing, despite The Knight's efforts.

[yiddishknights]

you seem like the right person to ask about jewish knights and judaism in general in arthurian legend

Hello! Apologies for how long it has taken me to respond to this! Throughout the Middle Ages and the early modern period, there were a number of Arthurian texts written by and for Jewish people in Jewish languages. The one I specialize in is an Old Yiddish text called Vidvilt, which is part of the Fair Unknown tradition and based off an earlier German text called Wigalois. This text was super popular in the Yiddish-speaking world for about three centuries or so and was reworked and reprinted a number of times. I already discussed some of those adaptations a while ago in response to this ask.

Predating Vidvilt, there was a Hebrew Arthurian text written in the 13th century which is now commonly known as Melekh Artus. This was based on Old French sources and tells the story of Arthur's birth and Lancelot's affair with Guinevere before breaking off unfinished. The most common edition of the text used today is the one by Curt Leviant, though I just read a fascinating article in the latest issue of the Journal of the International Arthurian Society calling into question some of his transcription choices and the conclusions he draws in his analysis of the text.

I also recently read that a fragment of an Arthurian text in Judeo-Catalan was recently discovered, but I'm afraid I don't know much about it as yet other than that it's apparently a late medieval adaptation of Jaufre.

Chivalric romances of both Christian and Jewish origin were extremely popular among medieval and early modern Jews in general. There were a number of non-Arthurian knight stories that were very popular as well; for example, the most famous and influential work of early Yiddish literature was a chivalric epic called Bovo d'Antona, and a survey I read of the literature in Jewish households in early modern Italy shows that the most popular non-religious work among Jews at that time was Orlando Furioso.

It is worth noting that, even though some of these texts were written by and for Jews, that doesn't necessarily mean that the characters in them were Jewish. Jewish writers generally tended to modify their Christian source materials by gliding over or obscuring references to religion, rather than depicting Judaism directly (the reasons for this are complex and could constitute a whole paper, so I won't get into it here). That being said, medieval Jewish knights did exist in real life, too! There are a few medieval historians who do research into exactly when, where, and under what circumstances Jews were allowed to bear arms, but it definitely wasn't exclusively a literary thing.

[carlyraejepsans]

Kris has so many issues i hope they end out okay, like what the fuck is up with Carol constantly calling them

they appear to be in a troubling case of what medical experts call: "cahoots"

[nauti-ca]

my stormlight oc, lore, and her mistspren, khiteas, in his lance form

she’s an iriali truthwatcher and a woman in stem :-)

[crittertalez]

its so interesting to me how everyone is like man kris must HATE tenna in like the same exact way people were saying kris must hate ralsei like idk . i think kris is going through a lot and they just feel awkward. they dont even seem to hate asgore despite the way hes just so. um. asgore. idk if they necessarily LIKE tenna in chapter 3 but i sure doubt they fr hate him

[post-it-notes7]

Please tell me this will be a happy ending

dearest anon, only time will tell

[venom-scythe]

jess unironically adding a few lore (?) tidbits things to that anniversary video is doing crazy things to my brain right now. irene's soul shards and the fact she can create angel clone versions of herself. shadow knights are unaffected by witchcraft. lucinda can read auras. aphmau can wield a flamethrower.

[reality-detective]

The world IS increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn't very good for the economy. If we were happy with what we had, why would we need more? How do you sell an anti-ageing moisturiser? You make someone worry about ageing. How do you get them to buy insurance? By making them worry about everything. How do you get them to have plastic surgery? By highlighting their physical flaws. How do you get them to watch a TV show? By making them worry about missing out. How do you get them to buy a new smartphone? By making them feel like they are being left behind. To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own non-upgraded existence. To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, it would not be good for business.

- Matt Haig

[sylviaknightingale]

Does your oc have a love interest?

*Coughs* Well… ? It’s possible, and perhaps mutual ☺️

[anxiousapplepie]

I try to avoid asking shipping questions because everything about your Rose Knight stuff is cool and compelling and asking about romance feels like I’m brushing aside the nuance n stuff which I don’t want to do!!

But also I am. Eyeing some of these guys. And how you’re depicting them interacting with each other. And Considering. The Implications. Because I Get The Feeling You’re Going Somewhere With It.

KEHEHEHE I'm not giving you the roadmap I'm taking, but you can bet your fuzzy little socks and good tennis shoes I'm Going Places with the ships and you guys are coming along for the ride whether you know it or not XD

[acalmmalam]

Okay, so I wanna try taking commissions, I dunno how to go about this though but I wanna ask anyone reading this if I should start or improve my art more before I start? Included some examples of stuff I’ve made above. Thank you guys!!

[quietbreeze97]

THAT DELTARUNE CHAPTER 3 ENDING, WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK??!!!!!

[age-of-moonknight]

Time line question! I'm sure I could find it on my own, but I am feeling so lazy.

In the OG, how old would you say Marc is when he is when he's resurrected by Khonshu, when his dad dies, and when he runs off to join the Marines? Further looking into it, I know Lemire had a different time line. How old would you say Marc was when his father died and he ran off?

I know we have two very different time lines going on there. I'm wondering if Marc had to forge papers to join the Marines/Arm because I suspect he was about 17 in both cases. Unless he spent a year wandering around after he ran off... I know he was discharged for his psychiatric issues in both time lines, but I wonder if his age ever came up as a discrepancy.

I know they did mention his sketchy past with the hospitalizations that Marc somehow hid from them. This does imply that he did join with some forged papers.

Just me out here asking the real questions.

You ARE asking the real questions! And thank you so much for sharing them with me, because Marc’s life pre-Moon Knight is something I LOVE contemplating. To get straight to your question about whether Marc needed to forge documents about his age, most of the earlier comics indicate Marc was already 18 when he enlisted, but the Lemire run does leave some from room for interpretation!

As per usual, this got incredibly long and rambling, so the citations for and how I got all of these numbers are under the cut, but the long and the short of it is:

Elias dies (Hurwitz/Lemire) and Marc enlists: 18 years old

Two or three years in the Marine Corps: 20 or 21 years old

Five or six years with the CIA (for 8 years total pre-mercenary): 26 years old

Four years as a mercenary, ending with his resurrection: 30 years old

Elias dies (Zelenetz, 18 years after Marc left home): 36 years old

Thanks again for asking and if anyone wants to dive into all the rest, that's here too hahaha

Marc is a bit of a unique case in comics, at least of the ones I’ve come across, because we're actually given solid dates and timeframes for his backstory! The only problem, which is far more typical of comics, is that the established timeline of Marc’s backstory is repeatedly ignored/retconned/adjusted for the sliding timescale, etc. And that’s how we actually get three different variations on how and when Elias Spector died.

The first time we get any sort of dates related to Marc’s past is in Moon Knight (Vol. 1/1980), #37 by Alan Zelenetz, Bo Hampton, and Armando Gil, which establishes that Marc was “all of eighteen” when he joined up with the Marines, became a mercenary about 8 years later, and that a total of 18 years passed between when Marc left home and Elias’ death.

Accordingly, this is the only case where Elias dies after Marc had already become Moon Knight. For another piece of trivia, that issue also establishes that Marc was already by mercenary in 1976.

But as is often the case with comics, with a new creative team, the timeline gets a little wonky. In Gregg Hurwitz implies in Shadowland: Moon Knight (Vol. 1/2010), #1-2 that Marc joined up at 18, was old enough to have a little brother old enough to enlist (18 or 17 with both parents' approval) when Marc and his father had their falling out, and that Elias died immediately after their confrontation. Some sources, including the Marvel Wiki, argue that Hurwitz switched the timeline around even further in that Marc had already joined up and a couple years had passed before the ringside confrontation, but eh, make of that what you will.

In either case, pre-Lemire and as per Huston in Moon Knight (Vol. 5/2006), #3, the provided reason for Marc’s dishonorable discharge after two years in the Corps and before acting as a mercenary for four years was that he struck a superior officer (which,,,,fits so well with Marc’s historical issues with authority hahaha).

Huston also gives us a hard date of four years for how long Marc was a mercenary.

Lemire, as you alluded to, nonetheless proposes his own timeline in Moon Knight (Vol. 8/2016), #11: Elias passes away while Marc was in Putnam Psychiatric Hospital and Marc apparently lied his way into the Marine Corps afterwards, but Lemire doesn't provide any solid ages or dates to go off of.

Fun fact, Lemire DOES give Marc an extra year in the Corps (3 years as opposed to Huston's 2) and this is where we get the dishonorable discharge on the grounds of misrepresentation/mental health.

All these screenshots and citations to say,,,,the exact years are a little hard to pin down hahaha In regard to your question of if Marc had to lie about his age to get in to the Marines, earlier comics seem to pretty frequently indicate that Marc was at least 18 when he enlisted, with only Lemire's run leaving his age comparatively ambiguous. In the case of the latter timeline, then, there might be room to consider he forged some documents to appear older/avoid having to get parental consent to enlist if he was already creating other fake documents. If we're being strict, however, and going solely off what's found in the text (a foolhardy exercise when it comes to comics, but please bear with me), the text only says that he "lied to [his] recruiters," as opposed to submitting any sort of doctored documents. And I will say, and this is coming from only anecdotal evidence, so take it with a grain of salt, but I've encountered a number of accounts from the Global War on Terror-era of recruiters just being perfectly willing to turn a blind eye to discrepancies in medical records in order to boost there numbers. Guys trying to lie about their age or produce questionable documents, however, came under considerably more scrutiny, considering how much harder it is to fake how old someone is in the age of social security numbers and birth certificates. So Marc forging something is possible, but there's unfortunately just a bit more historical precedent in the early 2000's United States military of men being swept up by recruiters despite psychiatric or medical discrepancies that should have potentially disbarred them from combat positions. As for the rest of Marc's timeline, most accounts have Elias dying around the time Marc enlists, which would be about 18. Side note, Shadowland's comment about Randall enlisting right around that time as well could still work if he was only 9 months younger then Marc, which is an interesting concept. Similarly, authors most often portray Marc spending 2 or 3 years in the Corps (making Marc 20 or 21 years old) and then potentially going directly into the private sector for four years (24 or 25 years). If we're going with Zelenetz's "8 year [to] hone [his] fighting skills" comment, though, that fits better with the older concept that Marc spent some time running around the world with the CIA, which could account for the additional 5 or 6 years between when Marc got booted and when he became a mercenary (putting him at 25 or 26 years old). If we tack on Huston's idea of Marc spending four years as a mercenary at that point then, we get Marc having his fateful encounter in North Sudan when he was about 30 years old. Lastly, and mainly because I’m so incredibly fond of the Zelenetz issue, Moon Knight (Vol. 1/1980), #37 taking place 18 years after Marc left home would mean the first volume ends with him having been Moon Knight for about 6 years, at 36. That's how I square it all in my head at least, but I would love to hear other people's opinions!!!