#Linast

[krtart]

Are you sure? | AF 2025 - 04

Fourth attack is a revenge on @heylinfanclub for a delightful drawing of Fithri and Larchcloud!

Branchdart thinks the strange object that just crashed down through the forest would be important to investigate. Shinedeer might not disagree, but she's also not so certain it's a good idea...

[magicmonstersandmischief]

"I have—somebody else's thoughts in my head. *Everybody* else’s. I want s-sssome of my own." (Adapted from a meme! Linast to Kriss or Steph?)

Kriss stared at Linast for a moment, studying his vulnerability and seeming to consider something, prompting a rare working of his jaw before letting his expression soften. "I can help, but it doesn't last long." A small frown, tilting his head. "I can coat your mind in illusion and conjure whatever you want to think about or see. I can't know what you're thinking, but if you talk me through it I can change what your brain thinks its thinking." He paused, realizing the explanation wasn't the best. "Don't think about it too much."

[krtart]

[Image description: A traditional pen illustration of Phosa and Linast attempting to cook something with eggs and flour. Phosa sits cross-legged on the counter, frowning down at a cook book; Linast leans over and gives the cookbook an equally skeptical look, flour trailing from one hand. End ID.]

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Side note: The fun thing with Phosa and Linast’s manifestations is that they... can’t really get dirty? They’re basically telekinesis with a lightshow attached, so there aren’t any of the normal forces that make things stick to actual physical objects. And even if there were, all they’d have to do is de-manifest and make a fresh manifestation.

Similarly with the core — while it is a physical object, unlike their manifestations, Linast can always phase or teleport it to clean it.

@quoth143 : I don’t know who’s letting these two cook for them unsupervised, but it’s probably not gonna end well. Thanks for the prompt!

Linast with his sibling/counterpart, Phosa.

Send me my OCs and a number! (Or your OCs, or fandom characters; check the tags. ^_^)

[krtart]

Gate Room | January 2022

If I've uploaded this before it isn't tagged in a way I can find it, hah. So! Have an old rough drawing of one of the Spire's gate rooms.

Ever since Phosa and Linast tried to literally tear the Spire apart when they showed up, unauthorized arrivals get shunted to gate rooms and held there by forcefield until released. It doesn’t catch all malicious actors, but it does at least keep random confused arrivals from causing too much damage until someone can come and orient them.

[justashadetalkative]

The kiddos! Snagged from @hearthtales

(Picrew link)

[magicmonstersandmischief]

Continued from x with @justashadetalkative

"N̷̮̑o!" Linast snapped, and for one incandescent moment, he wanted nothing more than to slam Kriss's head into the nearest wall. Luckily for the both of them, they were outdoors. Linast ripped himself away from Kriss, core moving fast enough to split the air with a whipcrack of sound, startling in the nighttime quiet. He managed not to flee entirely — just — and instead settled a safe distance away to pace, an indistinct figure against the trees visible only by the dull glow of his core and the dim light pouring out past the porch. The night was vast, and so was the earth. Linast sank his attention into it, spreading along natural seams, and pulled with a diffuse, implacable force; not the true tearing he craved, but at least a way to spend some strength and ground his attention in something other than the alarm ringing through his core and the violent potential of his pacing humanoid manifestation. "...no," he repeated after a minute, when he could think again. Remembering Kriss's presence refocused his energy, and he stopped pacing in order to face Kriss, bristling and betrayed. "That's—you— everyo̴͕͒n̴̹̚e keeps do̴͕ing thà̵̰͋t̶͉̆!"

Kriss knew how to read oncoming aggression at lightning speed. Linast's snapping promoted a quick displacement of form. His real body, obfuscated, leapt into the trees, while a phantom stood in its place. He watched Linast dart away desperately with a loud pop that snapped at his eardrum like a rubber band, causing his illusory self to fizzle out. Despite the rage, it didn't seem like Linast would actually hurt him now. Not unless he said something stupid to prompt another outburst. Cautiously, Kriss climbed down and took his previous place. "Most people don't care about the difference between the reality their brain stitches together and the reality I tell their brain to perceive. As long as they're in control," Kriss frowned, "Its easiest with pain. Humans especially love to alter their brains to avoid it. I'm probably one of the healthier methods, compared to what's out there." He made no move. Only scanned over Linast's roiling form with a curiosity that almost seemed sympathetic. "But you want that real thing. That's some scary shit, ya know."

[outofthiisworld]

⭐? 👀

MUSE COMBOS !!!

ᯓ✦ DOC⭐DIAMOND i’m a simple woman. i see an old man, and i want to throw my own old man at him.

both men of medicine, haunted by the past of their actions (or inaction)— arguably trying to do the right thing now while mentoring beings beyond them … there’s a lot of parallels between them!!! 

It’d be neat to see if this’ll be a spark of solidarity, or they’ll end up butting heads because of it 👀✨ (maybe even……..BOTH!!!)

ᯓ✦ OPHELIA⭐️PHOSA+LINAST what’s better than this? just three entities with astonishing abilities on a ✨journey of self-discovery✨

Ophelia is hedonistic, so perhaps there’s something there as someone who used to be trapped as nothing more than a tool to be used, now face-to-face with two who share a familiar (yet so different) fate as child soldiers? 

In short: Ophelia being both a wonderful or terrible influence on them (depending on who you ask) would be fuuuunnnyyyyyyy (if not just a little bit bittersweet, too!)

ᯓ✦ DOC+OPHELIA⭐️THE SPIRE oh woe, to escape one prison up in the stars, only to then be shoved in another one— i like the idea of somehow and someway, both Doc and Ophelia ending up as accidental visitors to the spire and sharing the same fate all visitors do.

While not a man of magic, Doc would be gung-ho about working on a way of escape (working with diamond perhaps?👀). In the meanwhile, I think Ophelia would try to liven up the place with her own flair of life ... and also ... perhaps be a bit of a trickster to those around her as a way to pass the time ... as well as acting as their brand new scary guard dog.

[desertfragments]

& (Linast & Red? Linast noticing the flower mark maybe)

Red jumps at the feather light brush of fingers against his bare shoulder. Brown eyes flick to Linast behind him. He stays still, but there's a prick like insect bites at the back of Linast's neck and Red's eyes sharpen. "What."

It's accusatory and defensive. He doesn't like being touched. Doesn't like his scars being pointed out either. Red shrugs his shirt back up and curls up, oversized sweater threatening to drown him in the fabric. "Don't like it," he mutters.

[krtart]

Expression Prompts | 2024

I took some expression art prompts over on my rp blog a while back! Took the chance to experiment with gradient maps a bit. Also with trying to learn how to draw lips. xD

Alice and Chester both belong to and were prompted by @jxsmine-skye, while Phosa and Linast belong to me and were prompted by @clownboyskingdom !

[justashadetalkative]

Technically, yes, the new teleportation methods were successfully addressing the vector wyrm infestation. No more emergency re-directs: the intended destination was almost always preserved, and people weren’t getting tossed into walls from mismatched velocity anymore. And dragging the wyrm into real space upon arrival then made it possible to kill it instead of letting it go free to siphon sustenance from the next teleportation. 

In practice? Right now, of all times? Linast sorely wished the Spire mages had managed to find some kind of repellant instead. 

-careful-rest- Linast flickered, fretful, as he rolled their core out of the path of hungry jaws. The air hummed with an eerie bass screech as half-ethereal teeth tore a hole through the raised platform where he’d been moments before. At least this was a small wyrm; only twenty feet long or so. Unfortunately that was more than large enough to swallow their core in one go if it got the chance.

-quick-end-end-end-, Phosa returned, emphatic. A dizzying wave of exhaustion dragged through their core as brilliant light flashed across the wyrm’s mane. Phosa wrapped a clumsy tendril around its neck and yanked its second pass off-course, sending it careening past their core and off into the sky under the power of its own momentum. 

Smoke and crackling magic poured from the resulting burn, and the wyrm screeched, but it seemed more enraged than anything. It writhed back around and searched for its next target.

// Starter for @justashadetalkative

Yellow Diamond had almost sat down at her workstation again when she thought that she heard a terrible commotion outside the Palace. She set her tweezers carefully back into their holder.

"Yellow Diamond!" Pearl's voice echoed just outside her door, "I apologize for the interruption. But it's urgent."

The Diamond's brows scrunched, not necessarily in frustration, but rather out of concern. When she straightened again up and met Yellow Pearl outside, the tiny gem had the anxious expression she had come to expect. However, Pearl was not focused on her at all. She was clearly fixated on door at the end of hall, obscuring something much more terrifying than her Diamond's irritation.

"Visitor! W-worm!"

Yellow's jaw tightened. If this was what she thought it was, then they were all quite lucky she had declined a vacation. It was unfortunate she was the only Diamond left to deal with this. She sidestepped Pearl, heading at a brisk pace for the entrance.

[justashadetalkative]

🏳️‍⚧️ for Phosa and Linast? :3c (if you're still accepting of course!)

Phosa and Linast’s relation to gender is pretty complicated!

Like many other aspects of their identity, their history has left them with doubts about how much telepathic tampering and general social coercion/pressure/convenience has influenced both their choices and their feelings.

Not to mention that being ‘raised’ primarily by humans and humanoids has had an influence on how they understand various concepts!

I’ve talked a bit about their pronouns in the past: Linast (p.1), Phosa (p.2)

Otherwise, with 7 more years to think about it…

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Linast:

I think over time Linast finds more satisfaction in being specifically nonbinary, and even more specifically in subverting masculinity.

He prefers never to be seen as a boy or a man, and in many ways his clothing preferences and the way he engages with his hobbies trend a bit more stereotypically femme. But he likes presenting with enough of a masc voice and build for those things to stand out as queer or GNC to the average (contemporary) human.

Another thing that leaves him more connected to playing with masculine identity is that he often tends to find the same things edgy and cool that a 12 year old boy might find edgy and cool. 🤣

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Phosa:

I think that Phosa identifying as agender/genderless does speak to a real experience and feeling for her… and I also think that in some ways it’s a defense mechanism.

She doesn’t feel like a person in general, she specifically doesn’t want to be lumped in with humans or many human practices (including their gender constructs), she doesn’t like being seen to care about things that don’t have a practical justification or purpose, and she doesn’t want to think about why she cares about said things.

So no, dammit. She doesn’t have a gender, she doesn’t actually care about her pronouns beyond the fact that “she” is circumstantially convenient (and gives her an easy early flag for whether someone’s going to respect her choices or plaster their own assumptions on her), and she isn’t interested in playing with any of these concepts.

(…Except that if Linast changed pronouns and ‘she’ was no longer as ‘convenient,’ she still wouldn’t want to change hers. Except that she feels something closer to an identifying connection with most of the women in the Spire, regardless of species, than she does with most of the men or nonbinary folk. Except that she doesn’t think or feel like she is a woman but she does kind of want to be a woman.)

[eathandhax]

Linast (left) and Phosa (right)!

🎭🌠 Entry Accepted! 🌠🎭

[5mind]

🥪 — For human incident Linast, or for Diamond?

Send 🥪 and my muse will give yours some food!

"Would you like a...bun?" Blue Two had a little plastic packet in her hands, sealed airtight within it was a bun with a red bean paste filling. Humans love buns, right? And it wasn't like the android in blue could do anything with it.

"An uncle gave it to me for helping him out...I suspect he might have thought I was just another human in a costume..."

[visplivalgusti]

Ämblikuvõrgu kuppel

Idee katsetada ämblikuvõrgu moodi kuplit.

Heegelniidina kasutatud linast. Kõvaks muutmisel kasutatud PVA ja vee suhet 1 : 1. Vee kogust peaks vähendama ja kuivamise aega pikendama.

[oflostinfound]

📜 — Linast or Spire verse Diamond with Eath or Grimbright?

Incorrect Quote Generator!

Eath: Ow! Diamond: What’s wrong? Eath: I have this weird pain right above my eyebrow. Diamond: It’s called a stress headache. I got my first one when I was four.

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Grimbright: *closes a cabinet* *a crash is heard behind the cabinet door* Linast: What was that? Grimbright: The sound of someone else's problem.