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For the legion guys, where do you they would’ve ended up if they didn’t wind up killing a guy and getting fogg-ed. Them NOT being shitty teens is incongruent to their image in my mind BUT, I do think it’s interesting to see how they’d grow given the chance.

Jeff Johansen is actually thematically exactly what The Legion would’ve been if they hadn’t let their darkness consume them, Jeff Johansen frees himself from the town of Ormond and keeps his rebellion.

Two sides of the same punk coin, Jeff supports and uplifts the community while The Legion rebels against oppressive systems as a small community in their own right.

If the legion kids stayed around long enough to see Jeff leave I’m sure they would’ve followed the path he laid out, gotten together put all their money into one and rented a small shitty apartment outside of town in some neighboring city to become themselves. Small jobs, starving artist mindsets,

Joey, Susie, Frank - they’d be fine. They can live like that. It’s what they’d want, Frank isn’t actually a violent person if he doesn’t have a reason to be he just wants a support system which this is. Susie’s only gripe would be the fact she’s staying with her best friends boyfriend which is a normal person problem unlike being senselessly beaten by your parents or killing a janitor.

Joey has the experience providing for his mom back home, he’d make this transition as seamless as possible. Hell he can probably keep a job if he shares it with one of his friends.

Julie. I think Julie would hunger. She’d crave it. What they used to do, what she wanted it to become. But together I think they can handle her, feed her in other ways, quell her need through means more legal and consenting than before.

Outside of small suffocating towns like Ormond you can have your individuality, you can wear it and be respected with it. But breaking ormonds mold is also important for the next generation, for the next legion, the next downtrodden group of kids stomped on by a system that was supposed to protect them - you just can’t do something that big when you yourself are still so young. You have to leave that town to ever fix it, regroup and return when you’re stable and able to shift the status quo if it still calls on you.

The legion had each other but they were still kids, the town of Ormond consumed them the same way it would’ve consumed Jeff if he didn’t set himself free.

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not to be a freak on main at midnight but i need this scene of norman osborn crawling on the ground injected into my bloodstream

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Enjoyable moment from the new comic

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Sketches, one of which I might finish up some other time.

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My first contribution to Zevlor nation

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Willem dafoes norman collapsing and crawling. To the mask .

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mickey

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Heavy figures his sister could do worse than Sniper, even if he smells like piss. Could be… *shudders* another soldier…

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I like to think they went to Australia as their first trip together

And yes Sniper bought her the vest

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Heh. Women

They forgot to shave

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some of my elden ring works put together

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I am once again thinking about Hoarah Loux, the only man Marika ever trusted and the only man she ever loved. It’s such an insane thing to think about the fact that the second last boss of Elden Ring is Some Guy. He is literally just A Human Man. Marika looks at this fucking raving barbarian man and decides to My Fair Lady him into a Lord like the deranged woman she is by assigning him a babysitter to perpetually gnaw on his neck whenever he’s in public. As insane as all that sounds, let’s break down that imagery a little because it’s actually really good! His babysitter is the king of beasts, a lion named Serosh, who digs his claws and his fangs into Hoarah Loux’s body to keep him suppressed and restrained enough in temperament to now be fit to be named Godfrey, The First Elden Lord of Queen Marika.

Serosh is frankly quite mysterious as far as what he actually is goes but as far as story themes go, he’s a really interesting symbol of lordship. The lion basically IS Godfrey’s crown, it’s what makes him Godfrey. The symbolism is essentially stating in a very overt way that this man is more savage than all the beasts of the world. In Elden Ring, beasts with five fingers indicate an enlightened or elevated intelligence, blessed by the greater will. It’s fascinating how it’s basically stating that Serosh is more intelligent, refined and noble than Hoarah Loux, that this man is more wild and savage than the greatest of all the beasts in the world. That only a beast king could teach this man to be a Lord. Godfrey can rip him apart anytime but he doesn’t. It takes more than strength of body to wear a crown and he knows it. He needs Serosh to honour and do right by Marika. He is showing his opponents a courtesy, as he puts it. Morgott takes after his example and so too is Radahn inspired by him. It’s really wonderful imagery.

There’s more to the symbolism. My knowledge of alchemy is, I completely admit, too surface level to elegantly speak at length but I’ve done some light reading online to back up my confidence in what I’m saying. We know Miyazaki loves dark edgy anime like Berserk and I posit that he also gained inspiration from the anime/manga Hellsing, in which the main character recites the line “I am the bird of Hermes, eating my own wings to make me tame.” This line comes from the Ripley Scroll and is theorized to have many meanings but popularly is presumed to mean giving up higher philosophy and knowledge to live normally on the earth as a human. Miyazaki uses lots of alchemical symbolism in his works, Elden Ring especially (go watch Quelaag’s videos!) so I could be totally full of shit about hellsing but I’m completely confident that Godfrey is meant to be an inversion (like literally everything else about his character) of what the Bird of Hermes represents. Godhood is a prison, a shackling. The entire plot is Marika (and Ranni tbh) trying to escape that imprisonment. Godfrey loves Marika enough to chain himself down, to eat his own wings, to pull out his own teeth and claws for her to make himself tame and ascend to lordship.

What’s especially fascinating about him is that he carries Serosh out into the badlands with him, as the opening cutscene shows. Cut dialogue indicates he already knew the Elden Ring would shatter and the tarnished would be beckoned to return. That Marika told him her plan in full before she took from him and his warriors the grace of gold and sent them away. A line from him saying to trust in gold, always, that it will guide our fates to our true destiny has wonderful implications I would certainly love to expand on in another post maybe. Hoarah Loux was just a human man and Marika trusted him enough to tell him everything. Trusted him with her gambit to escape the shackles of godhood. This is the fascinating part about taking Serosh with him. Keeping himself disciplined enough to remain a Lord when he returns. To hold back his aching heart just enough that he could follow through on this dark plan and allow his wife to protect him from the machinations of the greater will by sending him away. Also note that in that opening cutscene, he’s being crucified, with a lion about his shoulders and spear buried in his abdomen. They could not be milking the Jesus imagery harder if they tried. The Bird of Hermes is also thought to represent Christ, more points for that symbolism.

I love Godfrey so much as a character. He loved his sons and he loved his wife. The tenderness that he holds Morgott with is enough to make me cry. How he wished he could’ve seen him sooner, I’m all too sure. He’s the only other character we see guided by grace in the entire game. Marika guides you and her beloved husband, that’s it, that’s how much she trusts him. When he rips Serosh from his shoulders, you understand how Marika felt such faith in him. In Elden Ring, it is through battle that you face the true self of an opponent. Godfrey reveals to you Hoarah Loux, Warrior Chieftain of the Badlands. It is a test. Are you worthy to free her? Can you do what I could not? I have shown you courtesy enough as a Lord. You served me well, Serosh. I relieve you of your burden and feel only gratitude for your service. Now begins the test. Are you, tarnished, stronger than the only man who was strong enough to bear the burden of Lordship? Are you stronger than the only man that Queen Marika ever trusted? Are you stronger than the only man she ever loved?

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Fuck that golden hippo I want that bastard in a saw trap

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Delicious... in Baldur's Gate (this art is not mine!) By nyachooh on Twitter (source link)

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METAMORPHOSIS

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Inspired by Working Steel by velocitross

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Raphael being told by Korrilla that he has to go and retrieve his Orphic Hammer from a random Baldurian street vendor because Tav is bad at inventory management.