#cryptid echo

[sapphicseasapphire]

Updated cuddle pile, with all the Cryptids (except Ravio)

[disastercyborgecho]

Pin-Up Clones

These were drawn for a friend's Christmas present (their favorite clones), but they don't have a Tumblr so I can post these here before I give it to them >:)

[spellboundcities]

Echo Garden?

You're laughing. Aquafend just had the worst security team shift of his life and you're laughing

[synthwavecryptid]

Hi there 👋 Congrats on 1k followers 🥳 I recently discovered your art & love the way you draw the boys 🫶 If you're still taking asks & inspiration strikes, would you mind doing a melanated Echo pls? 🥹 Ty!

AAA thank you, I’m so glad! 🩷

It’s been cold as hell here in Texas, so I was inspired to make him super cozy, it’s what he deserves 🥹

[oneluckydragon]

"What do you remember of being human, Echo?" The question is out of the blue and unexpected. But Sora offers a patient smile and tilts her head in curiosity, just enough that one of her ears flops over. It's endearing, if anything.

But Echo wishes she hadn't asked.

"Not much. Distinct memories are cloudy." A tired tone says softly, a pained recollection in her eyes and an acrid haze in her soul that endures, endures, and endures, "But I remember the discomfort more than anything. My body always did feel wrong back then. Misshapen. Condensed. Like it was too small for everything buried underneath, and that ache went so deeply some days that it would make my skin crawl. I hated that part the most."

At that, Sora's expression falls. She looks inexplicably sad, as if she'd hoped for a different response, a gentler one despite knowing the harsh truth about the dark future and the struggles Echo must have suffered. "But you had Grovyle, right? I'm sure he took care of you."

"He did, Sora, of course he did." A sigh, a flick of an ear and claws clenched tightly into the churned earth pressed under her paws. "I doubt I deserved his attention, though. I was too busy being angry at the world to give any care back."

In my lore, Echo does not look fully human during their time in the dark future. Since they were Darkrai before becoming human, and as a result of Palkia's reckless shattering of the Dimensional Portal which distorted both time and space, Echo's transformation was broken and accidental. They ended up looking pretty messed up and definitely (not) human. A lot of their characteristics as Darkrai carried over but rather morphed into something else.

And Grovyle, growing up in a world where humans have been extinct for longer than any living pokémon has been alive, has no concept of what a "true" human looks like. The only thing he knows is descriptions of humans from glyphs and texts in old ruins. Thus, he mistakes Echo for an actual human. And Echo, not knowing what a human looks like themselves due to amnesia, accepts this identification with nothing better to use.

[sidesteppostinghours]

there is something about ghosts, and the ways they haunt...

ockissweek day 6!! im not even gonna try to pretend this one didnt get away from me ngl. if i had the time i wouldve Loved to have this properly shaded and rendered, but alas. another time maybe. thank you @thecryptidenthusiast for letting us steal erin!!! they were so fun to draw, as you can tell from the amount of detail i put into what was supposed to be a quick sketch adjshdjf

[dragongirl1349]

Currently, I really like drawing using the lasso fill tool

[drawfee-quot3s]

augh dropshots right at the net? my butt's getting sautéed

- nathan

[altraviolet]

I know I'm 4 days late but I need to vocalize it somehow; I spent two nights staying up around 3 am to finish the Echo Garden and have never been the same since, you made me love characters who barely even appeared in the comics, if at all like Toaster and Aquafend, your character arcs were all so inspiring and I cant even begin to say anything about how much I loved Rodimus and his gangly cryptid shadow creature he picked up off a rock.

I have so much to say all the time about it and I cannot begin to thank you enough for working so hard on what is essentially a crackfic who ruined my goddam life/pos

hello sleepneep! your name is adorable!

thank you so much for the kind message! I'm glad you enjoyed the fic and all the side characters =D one thing that helped me flesh out Toaster and Aquafend in particular is that when they were introduced, they were antagonistic to SW, so people commented that they didn't like them. I took it as a challenge to write them so people would see them in other ways, and grow to like them >D mwahaha

>a crackfic who ruined my goddam life/pos

if it helps, that crackfic ruined my life for 4 years 😄 it was a loooooot of work but worth it in the end for sure =)

thanks again for the nice words! 💎❤️💙

[cero-sleep]

Cryptid Sightings meeting Echos of Shadow and Light. The groups would either be besties or try to kill each other

Hmmm I feel like they would start as enemies and then, once they actually get to meet, realize that the other isn't a threat

Echo (y/n) is specially protective of their boys, so when presented with another demon would definetly be on guard and not on a making friends mode shjshsjs focusing on the threat

Meanwhile Sun and Moon might first think the human isn't aware they are with a demon and try to protect them

@naffeclipse thoughts?

[sapphicseasapphire]

Miscellaneous Cryptid drawings that I’ve never posted/don’t remember posting.

Feel free to ask me about these, I’m happy to ramble.

[disastercyborgecho]

SOBB Week #3, Both Prompts

Prompt: "It's just a scratch,"

Prompt: "Forget I asked,"

Omega has not been living with the Bad Batch long, and is desperate to retain their approval and respect. She tries so hard to avoid acting like a child, especially when she is reminded of the things her brothers have endured.

[Hurt/Comfort, Comic then Text]

Omega had sliced open her leg after tinkering with some parts Tech had left for her. It stung so bad that for a moment she had forgotten herself, and shouted for Echo's help as she stumbled down the hall where she knew he was.

Now she just felt sick.

She was no stranger to injury of course, after assisting Nala Se for so long, but she had never seen the extent of Echo's scars, of his cybernetics. She felt stupid. She felt like a child.

Only a baby would cry and call for help over such a silly injury. Especially when her brothers had made it through what they had without crying like children. She didn't deserve to act like this. She shut her eyes tight and hoped he had somehow missed her tripping into the bunk area of The Marauder.

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Echo sighed and tugged his sleep shirt all the way over his head when he saw Omega frozen in the doorway, silhouetted by the glowing paths of stars from hyperspace. Blood was running down her leg and pooling onto the floor, and while the cuts were not anything serious, he imagined they must sting.

"Omega," He prompted again, and he knelt down to get eye level with her.

Her cheeks were burning pink and she looked away and shook her head.

"It's just a scratch," She repeated.

Echo took in her teary eyes, her clenched fists, and Hunter's shirt hanging loose off of her tiny shoulders. She was so little, but when she was cheering at a risky dive Tech pulled off or an explosion Wrecker set up, hollering with adrenaline right alongside her brothers, it was so easy to forget that she was just a child. That sometimes she needed to be a child.

None of the clones had ever really experienced that themselves, and for that single moment Echo was overwhelmed with a deep piercing desire to give Omega everything that he and his brothers would never get. His heart hurt knowing that she had already missed out on so much. That she already felt like she had to pretend in order to be loved by her brothers.

He wanted to gather her up in a hug and never let go, repeating over and over that it didn't matter how she acted. Her brothers would always be there for her. That she was allowed to be a child. That she was allowed to just be.

Echo wasn't sure she quite knew how.

"Let's get that cleaned up," he said instead. "It'll be alright,"

She gently took his hand and glanced up at him, the shadows framing her blood-shot eyes and snotty nose, and Echo could not breathe past the love he felt for his little sister. He squeezed her hand and they set off towards the cockpit where the medkit was kept.

"I'm proud of you, you know." He added.

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I have feelings about this one, if y'all couldn't tell. :')

Hope you enjoyed! Thank you to @summer-of-bad-batch for putting together such a cool project, I can't wait to keep working on it!

[leonsleftbicep]

TOOK ME ALL DAY BUT I DID IT!!!!

@moonchild-in-blue im so sorry that i am tagging you so much.

*the echos working*

*SLAM!!*

IV: *walking into the kitchen as he ties up his hair*

IV: Hows work ladies? not his sweater, not hiding shit

the Echos: hes not hiding it AT ALL

IV: What?

Evaline: Hows your bassist~ elanor & evie making fun of IV

IV: CRAP!!

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im trying to figure out how to draw the echos/esperas without making them straight up the esperas but also keeping them looking somewhat like them?

first of all we have Evaline, Erie, & Elanor (not the actual esperas names obviously. because im ✨OC-ifying✨ them) it is in order btw.

i did “try” to draw them how i remember them. ive seen some photos of them on their insta. but i have bad memory, and wanted to see if i could make my own renditions just from the foggy memory)

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the bitches group chat

III: he put hickeys all over my pecs II: whose “he”? III: the baker :3 Vessel: YOU SLEPT WITH IVY????? III:… III: yeah Vessel: AND YOU DIDNT TELL US??? III: i can tell you how it was~ II:… II: come home NOW!

[shkika]

Are saint's eyes naturally Heterochromic or is that just when Ascension Mode is on

Bold of you to assume there's anything natural about Saint actually..

[echo-has-queries]

Stop asking me to tell you what my research has unearthed about prev. You can read the anonymous study results when they are published like everybody else. In the meantime all you need to know about prev is that whatever it is, it's sentient enough to be a voluntary participant in this study and deserves to have their privacy respected.

[bubblesxo]

me: you know i think im writing a LOT of introspection in the middle of a conversation

also me: eh, his brain is literally a supercomputer atp, so that'll just be one of his Things