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Adding on to my recent posting, I want to say this: If you do not accept moments in which belos is genuine, you fundamentally miss what makes him terrifying.

Belos loved his brother very dearly. The only times we have ever seen him genuinely happy were when caleb was still in his life, he keeps his old coat in pristine condition, uses his art to decorate and symbolize his glorious empire, some could say he idolizes the human realm so much because that's when caleb was still around, still loving him. Belos's love for Caleb is in everything he does.

Which is terrifying when you think about Belos's crimes, and one by one, they all lead back to love. Trying to kill everyone on the boiling Isles-it's all because Caleb married a wild witch and left Belos all alone. Hunter's existence and the genuine love he has towards him? It's love more like a worshiper at an idol's feet- belos worships hunter more than hunter does him, tries to lock him in his mind forever so he never leaves him after Hunter finds out the truth, refuses to kill hunter only because he needs Caleb to come home with him no matter what. He recreates his brother over and over and it hurts him every time but he kills him because they need to love him the most.

In kings tide, he offers Luz mercy. Belos empathizes with her, away from home, a symbol of who he still thinks he is, painfully nostalgic for the past. But why does he love the human realm so much? Why does he miss the past?

Because that's when Caleb was his.

The idea that Belos is a "narcissist who can't love anyone" is, first of all, kind of abelist to real people with NPD, secondly, patently untrue, everything he does is because of love, and thirdly, missing the point of why Belos is disturbing. Because he thinks doing these things in the name of love is just. It exhonerates him in his mind, that him loving his brother to death means all of this means something, when really Belos is at a point where his love for Caleb is more of a religion than the one he's performing.

Belos is supposed to be loving and warm. That's how he lures in his prey, convinces Hunter to devote his life to him, how he wins over an island of people he wants to kill. He loves, and it's real as rain, but his love is like cancer. It kills everything in you but itself.

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I know that with plushies, the first prototype always looks mega cursed but WHAT DID THEY DO TO MY MAN'S HAIR XDDDDDD

Previous ones lmao

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Since I won't upload the big project until (hopefully) some time next month, I figured I could at least share this since I've been posting so many work in progress stuff anyway, and I removed the audio too

But yeah, I'm finally free from this walk sequence from Hell (because I had never successfully animated walks before this so IT WAS A LOT OF WORK and I had a REALLY hard time with it XD)

Now to get back to the rest of the project !!

(also the horse is named Minty (after my own favorite horse from when I was younger lol), the same one he mentioned in the frog rock animation, so he did get to ride his favorite horse after all :D)

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Hello, human.

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To all the simps who commented questionable things on my Valentine's Day joke post, this is for you LMAO

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Ah yes, it's Valentine's day today-

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You have been bewitched 🫵

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you're not ready for the amount of angst in this project lmao

one "chapter" ends with the first image another later one will start with the other

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I got a comment asking if I'd do this one too and I couldn't resist lmao

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some golden guards + caleb

i wanted to take a break and do some character design of a few golden guards based off of some of the ones seen briefly in canon. i also drew hunter and caleb as references for faces and stuff. i tried to make them as similar as possible, but also looking very individual to one another. since belos claimed that hunter looks the most like caleb, i tried to stay true to that while keeping the other three looking similar but not quite as identical. anyways i love them <3 they’re like the most mentally ill family ever to me

these weren’t supposed to be real ocs or anything but then i ended up giving them names and backstories and so i wrote a little about them aaaand now im obsessed. i will try to make a full body ref for them, especially alistair and/or constance, if i have time

i apologize for my godawful handwriting ����

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APT Lumity old sketches ⚡️💟

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADORA!!

I love her so much (see my username lmao) and relate to her a lot

Love this goofy disaster lesbian

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Them being exes is canon in my heart

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me talking in the tags on tumblr dot com

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shes got that coping skills thing figured out

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I think Jetfire was interested in getting to know the nature of mermaids better.

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{This took me around 50 minutes to make, and that’s because I was trying to figure out the knife part-😭 This isn’t my favorite of the photos I’ve edited though I have nothing else to post till this weekend..}

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