#fandom expy

[ssolvix]

jazzpunk expy 2 electric boogaloo

[fedoraspooky]

So intrigued about toon shenanigans!! Have you made designs for the other two? Pre this or post this or of any sort?

Since they're expies and all I already had a general idea of what they looked like floating around, and their descriptions in the ttrpg were kinda sparse save for Mystic mentioning Pip had a blue dress... So for the sake of solidifying their designs a lil' more, I decided to draw all three of 'em together!

They're playing with some pogs they found!! :D

[solvixpng]

sorry tf2/mlp followers youre now subject to jazzpunk hell

[bellatheinkdemon]

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[gwinver-art]

Friends on discord were doing the 6 fanart thing and I wanted to give it a go too! :D

[eeldritchblast]

"If you take Astarion with you during Wyll's Act 3 questline, in the Chamber of Justice (which btw I do have separate beef with), Astarion says "justice should be a harsh lesson. All the better to deter the next vagabond." cause it can't happen that 200 years affected him at all no you stupid anne rice expy of shit oc must choke on that dick

AKDLFJSLFKDSLKGJDKSLJFLS YOU REALLY CAME BACK TO MY BLOG JUST TO SAY MORE BULLSHIT?

Some free advice: Learn how to block people if you're that insulted by someone not subscribing to the personal interpretation you created in your head of a fictional character. Or get off the internet period, since you're gonna encounter a hell of a lot of it.

[monards]

still cannot genuinely comprehend alice supposedly has a husband

[bitegore]

really funny to have based an oc off a fanon character that doesn't resemble their canon self very much but you kind of like as aits own entitty and then later after years of changing things around until the original archetype is - well, still there, but quite changed - you realize one of the new things you added was the fatal flaw of the actual character's in-canon enemy

[applepies-and-starlight]

"I see you." She would say in our sea of thoughts, "You're always looking over those memories."

"The foggy ones; murky, as if the sea washed itself over its canvas."

"What are they made of?"

I do not hear an ounce of accusation or confrontation; she is simply, genuinely curious.

I always give the same answer.

"I don't know."

She leaves me alone afterwards. Either content or knowing the answer.

I feel sorry for her, as I play those memories again and again.

Pain, confusion, and a rancid stench...

Thundering storms and roaring laughter...

A pair of hands grabbing my own...

Standing amidst a multicolored sea...

Truimphant shouting, wrathful screaming...

Steel scraping on flesh; a harpoon is lifted...

The Sun beating down on my back...

A citadel; collapsing

A Compass.

"Promise me to not look back."

"...I will try."

A promise to the Devil.

"What are they made of?"

She would ask this question every once in a while.

My answer is always the same.

"I don't know."

and yet, I do.

While the canvas may be destroyed, its impression on the people will still stay the same.

The reasoning forgotten, but the answer still known.

Kept far, far away, in an attempt to honor a promise.

That is the sailor, being offered a compass.

Given to her in exchange for your life.

Fuck it what if I was cringe and wrote about my OCs who are in this insanely delusional connected universe I've concocted between several fandoms?

[jonathanbyersphd]

it's not even that they gave Eddie a Robin expy. It's that they couldn't even be bothered to name her something different.

[shinobi98]

Despite playing Genshin religiously every day and having several genshin accounts across social media, I had somehow managed to avoid leaks and spoilers for Natlan and this post is how I see the line-up for the next country help

[saviaris]

no one is surprised - although like i don't trust yanqing slander like he's a child i love him to pieces he was my og fave when i started h.sr last year but i guess this isn't shocking and march 7th deserves the entire world . gosh i sure hope march is okay !!!

there is a common theme here for a lot of them and that's purple.

[solvixpng]

ouch

[patchwork-crow-writes]

Okay

So, in light of the fact that both Susie and Ralsei have new dialogue all but stating that him and Asriel are different, the fact that Tenna doesn't ONCE conflate Ralsei and Asriel together, AND the fact that in the aforementioned dialogues Kris themself will take pains to point out that they aren't too similar... I think it's fairly safe to assume that Ralsei isn't meant to be read as a spitting image of Kris's brother.

Honestly, it's that last detail that cinches it for me. Crucially, this isn't us putting words into Kris's mouth - they are indicating to the person they're talking to that the two are different in a way that they deem significant enough to bring up, seemingly multiple times in the same conversation. This is about as clear an indication as Toby himself reaching through the screen to tell us that Ralsei is not intended to be a weird pseudo-Asriel (or even Asriel himself), despite the naming convention and their apparent shared species.

So, what does that mean? Well, for one, it liberates Ralsei from the shackles of being just another cipher for Asriel - an attempt is being made to differentiate them on the physical level, while at the same time Ralsei's character arc is beginning to take shape in a way that is distinct from his erstwhile counterpart. In short - Ralsei is being defined as his OWN character, and not as an expy of another character from a different universe.

And for two, it means that maybe - JUST MAYBE - the whole "pseudo-incest" "debate" around shipping Ralsei with Kris can finally die a thousand deaths and people can dislike it for NORMAL reasons instead. And then maybe - JUST MAYBE - we can start to see some more earnest discussion about it across the fandom.

(If this sounds like I'm exasperated, it's because I am - I've been advocating for Ralsei as his own character with his own identity for YEARS, so it's kinda nice to know that this is a hill that I'm very much NOT going to die on... at least, I hope not.)

[tea-cat-arts]

I think it's less to do with not having a Kevin around in highschool and more to do with not having a Kevin around to "guard" him and his ideals as an adult.

In hi3, we see that Kevin tried to keep Su away from having to make morally gray decisions (in part because he didn't want Su to have to make a choice that'd kill his soul, in part because Kevin just kinda needed to have an example of a good person to be in the world). For example, Kevin went no contact to keep Su away from Moth, he became project stigma's administrator so Su wouldn't have to, and he kept Su away from Aponia in general (though that one was actually at Su's request). But ya, the end result was that Su would end up in those moray gray situations anyways and he'd hesitate till the last minute, where he'd commit to making whatever decision he thought was kindest to the most amount of people.

By the time we see him in the Second Key comic and he's like 10,000 years old or something, he's more or less grown out of this. We see him being a lot more crafty, actually planning ahead of time to work towards whatever situation is best suited for his ideals, and a lot more immedietly stubborn, completely rejecting other plans without giving them much of a chance. Character development wise, Anaxa is kinda just starting at Su's end point, and since Kevin never kept him away from the morally gray situations in this universe, he's been fighting for his own ideals since the beginning.

Do you think Anaxa is the way that he is because he didn't have a Kevin to befriend when he was in school like Su did?

[monards]

everytime i think about that one idea of alice being an elysia i am so inflicted. I shot in the brain except it's genuinely sucha conflicting sort of shot that i dont know whether or not its good or bad what is foing on THIS is why idont go near the expy wars