#Knight!Wraith

[fishyvamp]

Imagine a medieval!AU where Princess!reader is betrothed to King Macmillan. He's cold and distant to you and the only one who seems to show you the slightest sympathy is Sir Ojomo the knight tasked with your safety. He's the one taking you to all your dress fittings, he's the one who listens as you complain that your betrothed seems too busy with the Captain of the guards to even speak with you. That pesky man always glued by the kings side.

Sir Ojomo knows something you don't and he hates the king for it. The king will never love you no matter how much he tries, but this marriage will always be one of convenience and politics. You will produce his heir, but once a son is born he will likely never touch you again.

Though what Phillip hates the most is how he finds himself craving the company of the future queen. He hates how his mind is filled your laughs and corny jokes. He hates that when he closes his eyes at night his dreams are filled with nothing but your naked form and the way it would look glowing under the moonlight. He is a traitor to the crown for even having these dreams. For having these visions of the woman who belongs to his dearest friend the king.

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Fav boys from dbd (´• ω •`) (the Wraith gift for lovely friend :3)

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DBD HCs | Killers Christmas

Evan MacMillian

Starts the fire in the hearth to kick off the party.

Was kinda forced into coming by the Entity. Doesn’t really care for the holidays.

Only sticks with killers he can tolerate like Wraith, Blight or maybe Deathslinger

His secret Santa gift is trap grease and some paint.

Philip Ojomo

Holds the box of decorations while Sally decorates.

They totally arrived together but play it cool. We know what’s up 😏

Dances with Sally too! Makes the whole party pretty magical.

His secret Santa gift a new shawl with a nice red dye.

Max Thompson Jr.

Slaughters the Christmas Ham.

Wants to do Christmas with his friends. Loves watching the old Christmas movies in the quiet of the den.

Wears a lot of plaid. Definitely only in his pjs.

His secret gift is a southern breakfast basket.

Sally Smithson

Hangs the high decorations because she can fly.

Nibbles cookies over a plate. She really likes the ones with jam or fruit puree in the middle.

Hand feeds Phillips little snacks.

Her secret Santa gift is a dried bouquet of baby’s breath. (Get it?)

Micheal Myers

Is assigned kitchen duty. Chops everything horribly.

Smells awful. Ever had a homeless guy stand too close to you and they smell like poo and sweat? Yeah.

No one knows why he even came. Total space kid.

His secret Santa gift is a knife sharpener. Maybe a box of plastic forks.

Lisa Sherwood

Brings the pinecone jam.

Wears a a sweater that’s actually clean and fresh smelling.

Gargles in the affirmative or negative for conversations.

Her secret Santa gift is a bundle of sticks with a pretty purple ribbon.

Herman Carter

People watches the whole night from a corner table.

Starts drama. Hak sure is annoying isn’t he? Sally and Phillip didn’t even bring anything…

Maybe gets drunkly punched.

His secret Santa gift is a brain encased in a jar of liquid.

Anna

Brings a wild boar. Unskilled. Might still be alive.

Wears a turtle neck and long skirt. Looks like a big mama bear.

Rocks when she gets overstimulated with all the music and foreign words.

Her secret Santa gift is a yarn ball and crocheting needles.

Bubba Sawyer

Brings a pressure cooker of his famous chilli.

Don’t mind the finger that’s the concentrated flavor 😤

Helps out in kitchen. Adds that home cooked flavor.

His secret Santa gift is a framed picture of his family. Don’t ask how Rin even got ahold of the damn thing.

Freddy Krueger

Was not invited.

They may be killers, but they don’t fuck around with no pedos.

Would probably just keep killing people. Doesn’t fuss with the holidays.

His secret Santa gift a box of matches.

Amanda Young

Brings spinach and artichoke dip. Some toasted pita too.

Doesn’t drink. Leaves soda cans everywhere.

Goes without the pig mask cuz it’s lowkey rotting and no one wants to smell that.

Her secret Santa gift is a box of Funyuns. It’s a comfort food for her.

Jeffery Hawk

Brings homemade chicken wings.

You don’t understand- he’s ever one of the best cooks or worst cooks of all time. You wanna know why? He doesn’t care how much butter or salt is added into a dish.

Are the wings sanitary? Probably not. Is that a heroine needle sticking out there…?

His secret Santa gift is high quality face paint.

Rin Yamaoka

Her twitches and moans of agony kinda freak everyone out at first.

That’s all she does really. Stand there and groan.

Hangs out with her Grandpa! They try throwing a ball out in the yard. Or the sword fight. Thats fun.

Her secret Santa gift is a journal and pencil pack.

Frank, Julie, Susie, Joey

The ones hosting. Decorating and cleaning almost needed in tears for everyone.

Steals a billion types of pizza, chips, and soda.

Does not clean at all. Gets plastered and leaves the guest to fend for themselves.

Their secret Santa gift is stolen electronics.

Adiris

Has entire conversations without realizing no one can understand her.

Her little smoke and chain ball is stuffed with cinnamon and holiday spices. Makes the whole lodge smell nice.

Insists on the Entity version of saying grace before everyone eats.

Her secret Santa gift is a pack of incense.

Danny Johnson

Taking pictures for the memories.

Constant pulling little pranks and jokes the Legion. Does it start a fight?

Yes. Yes it does.

His secret Santa gift is some camera film.

Demogorgon

Has to be stopped from eating the tree multiple times

Burrows and pops up so hard it sends tables flying.

Ends up being leashed outside with Xeno after biting Portia’s doggy.

Its secret Santa gift is some metal to chew.

Kazan Yamaoka

Brings Hot Pot.

Is the one punching people who are stirring up shit.

Catches up with Rin. Wants to be parent he never kinda really wanted to be. 🥺

His secret Santa gift is a sword mantle strong enough to bare the weight of his sword.

Caleb Quinn

Brings scalloped potatoes au gratin

Ties his hair up into a low bun. Kinda looks cute on him.

Kinda like a level headed hippie grandpa. If there’s kids, he’ll get down on their level to play with them.

His secret Santa gift is a box of random gears, wires, and screws to build with.

Pyramid Head

Brings a severed hand with a bow on the knuckles.

No one ever sees it still. It’s always kinda walking around.

Some jokester maybe wrapped his head in lights.

Their secret Santa is a looser pair of trousers for the dumpy 🍑

Talbot Grimes

Seems like a lunch kinda guy

Talks science with Albert.

Twitches so much people think he’s bugging out.

His secret Santa gift is some herb seeds.

Charlotte and Victor Deshayes

The siblings who only talk to each other.

Victor gets mistake for a tot a few times. Gets picked up and promptly scratches the face off Caleb.

Charlotte fixes heaping plates for the both of them. Probably some of the best food they’ve ever had

Their secret Santa gift is gourmet cabbage. You think I’m joking? They are over the goddamn moon.

Ji-Woon Hak

Gets in peoples faces to blog.

Takes cute pictures of a plate of food but doesn’t eat it.

Maybe brings a fancy platter made by a restaurant.

His secret Santa gift is a a small fridge for his beauty products.

Nemesis T-Type

Heavy breather.

Tracks mud in and draaaaaags it on the carpet IN THE DEN.

Kinda just stands behind people and breaths down their neck.

His secret Santa gift is some badges and pins to add to the buckles on his boots.

Elliot Spencer

Doesn’t celebrate the holidays.

The only way he’d ever go is to watch people socially suffer.

Maybe sounds outside to watch the snow fall with the other cenobites.

His secret Santa gift is a toolbox of rusted nails.

Carmina Mora

Cuts paper snowflakes to hand from the windows.

Pretty outgoing! Definitely has an eccentric charm that quiet artists have.

Kinda becomes best friends with Rin during this party. Both had similar childhoods and were on the path to being successful before what happened happened.

Her secret Santa gift is new aisle to match her taller frame.

Sadako Yamamura

Brings some sea weed in her hands.

Keeps haunting the tv and ruining Home Alone.

Flutters in and out around the lodge. No one knows why she came.

Her secret Santa gift a pretty hair comb with seashells.

Dredge

Brings a sludge of leaves and bones.

Gets mistaken for a coat rack. Floats around wearing everyone’s outerwear

Stands a little too close to people. Might get drunkly punched.

Their secret Santa gift is a cardboard box.

Albert Wesker

Wears a turtle neck that fits him perfectly.

Shows up with a bottle of wine. Constanty slick back his hair.

Sips wine while watching the snow fall. Likes to talk business to the other killers: tactics, plans, and little stories.

His secret Santa gift is a glasses case.

Tarhos Kovács

Him and his crew are the ones roasting the meats over the fire.

They get rowdy and break some tables.

His men go nuts with the ale but he refrains. He’s s never been a been drinker but on the holidays, he’ll take a few sips of mulled wine.

His secret Santa gift is a leather skin satchel that attaches around the waist.

Adriana Imai

Brings coxhina

Only talks with “high class” killers (Wesker, Ji-Woon, Portia)

They have a silent judging table to talk mad shit about everyone.

Her secret Santa gift is a a fancy bottle of wine.

HUX-A7-13

On top of the Christmas tree.

Doenst know why they even bothered to come.

(It’s cuz Xeno went and they are in looooooove 😍🥰😘)

Their secret Santa gift

Xenomorph

On a leash in the backyard.

Fed dinner scraps that are promptly melted with acid.

It’s secret Santa gift a survivor to hunt whenever it chooses.

(HUX totally begged The Legion to get Xeno of secret Santa)

Charles Lee Ray

Him and Tiff drunkly make out on everything.

Like; really obnoxious. Bumps into peoples legs, keeps the bathroom occupied for hours.

Tiff will offer to help in the kitchen. Chuckle will sit on the couch and sip beer.

His secret Santa gift is a plate of Swedish meatballs.

Unknown

Crawls in on all fours. Needs to be restrained from snacking on peoples ankles.

Doesn’t bring anything but eats all the food. Then, promptly throws it all back up onto the serving table.

Wears an ill fitting Mrs. Klaus dress.

Their secret Santa gift is a terrarium full of spider and snake snacks.

Vecna

Did not come.

Doesn’t have time for meaningless holiday parties.

Stays at home casting hexes or spells or what ever he does.

His secret Santa gift was supposed to a skull jar filled with chocolate kisses.

Dracula

Brings a bottle of blood and a bottle of wine.

Kinda can’t handle being around people without his wife so he leaves early.

Has a ton of dry humor that makes the more mature killers smirk.

His secret Santa gift is a nail kit.

Portia Maye

Let’s her dog run lose and destroy almost everything.

Brings a bag of raw clams. Let’s other people cook them. Or eat them raw I dunno

Definitely wears cheetah print.

Her secret Santa gift is one of the furniture brushes for people with pets.

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I’m sorry but Vaea & Marius no last name, Tessa Forsythia, Francesca Invidus & Ser Aaron Hawthorne are the real heroes of thedas!

R.I.P. Ser Aaron 🥲

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Dbd killers… as dogs

The Trapper:

Dogo Argentino / Argentinian Mastiff

They are large and muscular (weighing 90-100lbs) pack hunting dogs (often taking down wild boar and puma). They’re strong, loyal, athletic dogs. This connects to The Trapper’s build, his connection to bear traps, as well as how his father used him to kill the miners in the same way these dogs are used to kill animals.

The Trapper would belong to a very rich family who illegal shipped him in, and he’d be an extremely loyal dog to a terrifying point. He’d never hurt his owners, but with everyone else he had a fierce nature.

The Wraith:

Greyhound

Greyhounds primarily hunt through sight and speed (rather than physical strength which equates to the Wraith’s cloaking ability and watching from the shadows kill style), they are tall, thin dogs (matching the Wraith’s build), and are quiet due to not being territorial (equating to the Wraith’s cloaking ability.)

The Wraith is a rescue dog who was raised as a fighting and racing dog. He would be taken in by an old couple after being left in the shelter unwanted for so long. He is extremely loyal and protective of his owners, or saviours as he sees them.

The Hillbilly:

Boxer

The boxer breed is generally medium to large (suiting Hillbilly’s stature of being heavy set but on the skinnier side.) Despite their appearance they are loving, family dogs (The Hillbilly was treated horrifically, and only turned to murder because of his abuse as strongly suggested by his tome.)

The Hillbilly was the runt of the litter and the only survivor, he was left out in the barn to die by the owners, expecting him to be eaten by the pigs. They were surprised when he lived and even more surprised when he killed and ate their chickens. They tried to catch him but he fled as soon as he saw the farmer leave his house with a gun. He was small for his breed and lack of nutrition meant he had developed a little funnily. He got picked up off the side of the road by a young couple, two men who ran a dog sanctuary. They expected him to be fierce or nervous but despite being treated so terribly he jumped into their car happily, happy to have friends at last.

The Nurse:

Poodle

They vary greatly in size but a standard poodle tends to be tall and slim, similar to the Nurse’s build. Poodles are a hypoallergenic dog breed, perfect for the Nurse. Poodles are considered highly intelligent dogs - which fits the backstory as well as her abilities and difficulty of her gameplay.

The Nurse was originally bought as an emotional support dog for a psychiatric ward. She was at first fairly good at her job, and was greatly sought after. However, after an accident involving a local lumberjack in the gardens she was left shy and vicious. Often snapping at and biting any patients who tried to harm her. As such, she ended up retiring, and the doctor taking her in… occasionally bringing her to the more difficult patients.

The Huntress:

Caucasian Shepard dog

Caucasian Shepard dogs are large dogs - weighing between 45kg - 70kg, similar to the Huntress’s physique. They were originally used to defend livestock from wolves, and are used now as guard dogs and to hunt bears. The original connects to what the Huntress thinks she is doing, and the present is what she’s actually doing.

The Huntress is the guard dog to an old woman who lives in a cabin she built with her own hands in the forest. The Huntress is loyal to her, and will defend her from man or beast. The Huntress’s mother, her mother, her mother, and her mother had all belonged to this same seemingly ageless woman. Always ripping to pieces any mortal being or otherwise any one who meant their mistress harm.

The Hag:

Wire Fox terrier

The wire fox terrier is a short, sturdy breed with a rough coat, not dissimilar to the Hag’s appearance. This terrier has a low threshold for boredom, and requires a lot of enrichment, this matches the Hag’s play style. They are very alert which is needed for the traps the Hag’s lay. They are also capable of tactical manoeuvring which also matches the Hag’s play style

The Hag was a family dog who kept the rats and other vermin away from the home. She was very attached to the children especially the oldest teenage girl. When she was kidnapped, the Hag pined for her and ran away to find her. When the Hag was found she burying frantically into the ground, when they tried to take her home she simply returned and continue to bury. After a few days someone thought to see what she was trying to get, and it was quickly found that there was a bunker underground. Thanks to the Hag, they found the teenage girl, she was hungry, tortured, and beaten, but alive.

The Doctor

German Shepard

The German Shepard / Alsatian is a large (30 to 40 kilos) working dog - matching the Doctor’s huge stature and his dedication to his work. German shepards often work in disability assistance, search and rescue, police work, and warfare. Given the doctor’s history as a medical doctor who abused his position it’s fitting that he be connected to these lines of work.

The Doctor is a proud, particularly huge dog that belongs to the head of the hospital, whenever patients or medical staff entered the room he stared, bared his teeth and wagged his tail almost manically. The head of the hospital found this quirk amusing, the Doctor almost look like he was smiling. He slowly got bigger and bigger, his teeth sharper, and it wasn’t until his collar was changed to a metal one that had sparks coming out of it and his fur lessened being g replaced for muscle that it became public knowledge that the Doctor was being tested on by the head of the hospital.

The Clown

Basset hound

Basset hounds are extremely prone to obesity and produce copious amounts of drool. This matches the Clown’s size, and his dribbling saliva feels like a similarity to his bottles of poisonous liquids and gases. Its hanging skin especially on its face is similar to the Clown’s sagging cheeks. The markings on the basset hounds face are called its “mask”, similar to the Clown’s eye make-up.

When Kenneth Chase was caught, a mass of bodies were found in his garden. What was odd was that all the fingers were missing, and every single person who investigated the case got strange feelings from Chase’s dog - the Clown. A particularly fat basset hound, who sat in the corner of the living room, watching and farting making the house smell horrific. One thing people never could figure out is what happened to Chase’s victims’ fingers. That was until the person who The Clown was rehomed to woke up with the Clown pulling and tugging at his fingers as if he was trying to rip them off. He eventually succeeded and wolfed it down like a prime piece of beef.

The Spirit

Kishu

An ancient Japanese breed, the kishu are known for being quiet, preferring to stalk their prey rather than bark. This matches the Spirit’s ability spirit walk. The breed is tough, agile, and friendly. This matches how the Spirit was originally friendly, and through her angry death she became a killer. They are also devoted and loyal to their family, a tragic comparison to The Spirit being betrayed by her father.

There is a legend about a pure white dog with light blue shine who stalks the grounds of an abandoned house. No one dares go near the old estate - the mass murder committed by the patriarch who used to live there sank into the ground poisoning it and the building. The legend says that the dog, named the Spirit appears to those who get to close, a guardian warning them. Some have reported that if they continue the Spirit screams and materialises in front of them, growing bigger and louder with every second.

The Legion

A mongrel of: a parson Russell terrier (Susie), Bull terrier (Frank), border terrier (Julie), Boston terrier (Joey)

The Legion is four different people - sometimes merged into one body - so it makes sense that they would be four different breeds. They are each terriers due to their stubborn nature and how they have a loud bravado next to their small stature.

Legion was abandoned by the side of the road when their mother had become unexpectedly pregnant from a mongrel down the street. Their mother a purebred border terrier’s litter would not sell for a dime. It was winter, but despite that, Legion survived, living off rodents and pests found in the warm of a ski lodge where it found its home. When the spring came and it ventured from the lodge into the forest, they became friends with a pack of street dogs, finally finding their home.

The Plague

Saluki

Saluki’s were one of the original dog breeds from ancient Mesopotamia, which is fitting for the Babylonian priestess. Saluki’s are also related to the Pariah dog, which is a free-roaming, half wild, dog that lives near human settlements in Asia. They are deep chested and long legged, giving them a similar build to the Plague.

No one in the neighbouring village is entirely sure where The Plague came from, he appeared in the monastery that was abandoned save from an ancient monk who everyone also has little idea as to where he came from. Every gives the place a wide birth, as it’s said that even touching the stone or hearing the Plague’s bark is enough for the sickness to enter your body.

The Ghost Face

Dandie dinmont terrier

The Dandie Dinmont terrier is the only dog to be named after a fictional character, fitting for the Ghost Face who took the title from killers and urban legends of the past. The breed is long but short, matching the Ghost Face ace’s lanky body. Like most terriers they were used for hunting, which fits the Ghost Face’s killing style. It’s tough but friendly temperament matches the fact that whilst he’s a brutal killer, many of the players can be quite mischievous and silly with this character.

All great writers have dogs or cats, Jed Olsen said. Most animals disliked him on sight, except for crows and his one particular dog who he named the Ghost Face. He showed up on Jed’s doorstep one day, barking until he answered. He ran inside, ignore Jed’s calls and sat in the kitchen waggling his tail. Jed had some left over chicken for him which he wolfed down, and the Ghost Face curled up by the radiator to get warm. Jed didn’t try and check to see if the dog had a microchip, he didn’t care. He was his now. And he was such a good boy to have around, he’d run up to Jed and tilt his head whenever he sensed intruders. He’d run to different areas of the scene and bark to distract victims so Jed could sneak up on them. The Ghost Face - he was such a good loyal boy.

The Oni

Akita

The Akita is a large dog that hails from the mountains in Japan. It has a double coat and was bred to hunt down bears. They are territorial and vicious to strangers. This all fits with the Oni, a large, strong and brutal killer who hunts down survivors using their blood, and his background of hunting false Samurai.

There are many different types of Oni that stalk Japan, one is a gigantic canine that runs over mountains and glides over trees looking for its prey. It is a vicious, intelligent beast, and the stories go that this yokai is the result of an arrogant samurai filled with hubris that he could purify Japan. He was punished by the gods, putting him in the body of a dog, showing that he is nothing but a wild beast.

The Deathslinger

Irish wolfhound

The Irish Wolfhound is a sighthound (perfect for a speargun wielder), and the breed are used as a mascot for the Irish Guards, similar to how the Deathslinger was used by the prison guards to make tortured devices. The Irish wolfhound has wiry fur, hair, and beard - the latter two matching the Deathslinger’s appearance.

The Deathslinger was a guard dog for a prison, specifically for the head torturer. He was loyal to him specifically not the guards or residents. When the head torturer had his victims the Deathslinger would watch intently, occasionally the head torturer would deliberately let the prisoners think they can run away, and that was when the Deathslinger’s hunt and enrichment began.

The Blight

A particularly old, inbred British bulldog

The British Bulldog - through no fault of its own - is seen as a symbol of Britain in the U.K. this fits with the Blight’s background of being a British colonialist (he may be Scottish, but clearly a unionist.) The inbred nature of the said bulldog means it looks ill and finds it difficult to breath - this matches the Blight’s appearance.

Talbot Grimes had no qualms about experimenting on humans or animals, he didn’t even bat an eyelid at running tests and feeding different chemicals to his treasured dog who he nicknamed the Blight. It was a sickly beast, it drooled constantly and snorted as it walked, but its drool was … Different. A thick substance that was a glowing yellow, like fire was pouring out of the thing.

The Twins

A crossbreed of a chihuahua (Victor) and a ca de bou (Charlotte)

Due to the nature of the twins it makes sense for them to merge into being a mongrel of the smallest dog breed (Victor - chihuahua) and a tough

The runt of an accidental litter, the Twins absolutely should have absolutely not survived and were thrown to be drowned as a “mercy”. However, somehow, the dog was washed down the river and landed down on the coast. It was picked up by a pair of conjoined twins who kept a lighthouse, and given mercy it was raised to keep watch of the building and given plenty of scraps, meat, and fish to feast on.

The Trickster

Korean Jindo

The Korean Jindo is considered one of Korea’s national treasures, which I’m sure is what the Trickster considers himself. He is of the hudu body type, taller and thinner to match the Trickster’s stature. He has the “brindle” colouring which bares similarity to a tiger, matching his bold and bright sense of style.

The Trickster is very well known all over the internet. The owner’s instagram had millions of followers that show their beautiful dog’s antics. Many are devoted to him, citing his haunting eyes with such a piercing and knowing energy they can’t look away from him. His fur looks as if it would feel just like the most expensive silks, and his owner shows how they feed him on the most expensive meats and he is given the bed in their home whilst they sleep on the floor. However, in the latest posts it seems that’s the owner is getting weaker, their voice shaking whenever they speak. The Trickster doesn’t mind, plenty are commenting and wanting to take over this beautiful canine’s care.

The Artist

Peruvian Inca Orchid

Peruvian Inca Orchid’s are hairless dogs associated with the ancient Inca empire in Peru. Their long muzzles and dark skin with short hair bares resemblance to the Artists face and head shape which are deliberately birdlike. The colours can be different but they are usually the colour of corvids. They are also often used as test subjects to research dermatological conditions, similar to how the Artist was experimented on by the Entity.

It’s strange, but there have been an influx of crows in Columbia - they don’t live there, but they have attached themselves to a dog of a family. Not even the daughter Carmina, simply their dog. A Peruvian Inca orchid they dubbed the Artist due to how much he loved to sit and watch the children draw and even stamp paint onto canvas with his paws. He was a quiet, loyal dog who gave them no trouble until the birds came. They followed him, sat by him, and even brought him animal carcasses to feast on. They grew in number, more crows appearing every day, local scientists theorised they must have migrated from European and North American countries. Soon their entire village was swarmed by crows, and it didn’t take long for the changes they gave to the Artist to begin.

The Dredge

Crossbreed miscellaneous

A mongrel made of so many different types of dogs no one is entirely sure what type it is and he looks a little strange because of it. It almost seems like he is every single dog that has existed merged into one, or as if he picks up breeds and adds them to his collection every time he sees one. For his appearance seems to change regularly.

The Dredge is a local dog that everyone in its town has seen. It hangs around the park and wanders the streets at night. It’s tall - some adults find he reaches their shoulders or past their heads completely. His suspense similar to a greyhound, but he has thick fur like an Alsatian. His colouring and muzzle are similar to a husky, but then some say his fur is short and similar to a boxers. It seems everyone sees a little something different in him, more breeds than they can imagine. The only thing that remains is his height and elongated limbs. He enjoys hiding and watching, some say he’s a guardian, others say he’s dangerous - maybe a hunter and any missing person cases are often blamed on the Dredge.

The Knight

Doberman

The Doberman is an intelligent, alert, fiercely loyal dog which are all perfect attributes for the Knight. It reflects his ability to maintain guard over survivors, attacking at the slightest movement. They are also large dogs, matching the Knight’s physique. They also hail from Central Europe.

To this day, important government buildings in Hungary have a portrait to this ancient Doberman nicknamed simply as the Knight. The stories say that this dog was kept by a Tarhos Kovács who used his favoured Knight for advice and to fight alongside him in battle. Everyone knew that the Knight in question was a Doberman, a proud noble one who had a sharp mind and such strength that many doubt he was simply a dog.

The Skull Merchant

Chilean Terrier

Chilean terrier’s are restless and bark regularly, they are tireless companions and fantastic watch dogs, similar to the Skull merchant’s drones which keep watch and are loud if triggered. Their main colour is white with black and brown markings, they have pointed faces and are short in stature, mimicking the appearance of the Skull Merchant.

The Skull Merchant began life as a pampered lap dog for a manga artist, but as she grew older she quickly became bored. She attempted to be his watch and guard dog but he didn’t appreciate her barking and growling at strangers who entered their territory. It didn’t take long for her to become vicious, biting her owner if he tried to interfere. He abandoned her, tying her up on the side of the road. As luck would have it whilst she looked particularly cold and hungry, an assistant for a CEO passed. He took her in as a kindness, but after he watched what a dutiful and fantastic watch dog she was… well, he brought his idea to the boss and a few years later the drone system not only inspired by The Skull Merchant but using an OS that mimicked how her brain worked was all the rage. It quickly made all over security systems obsolete.

The Unknown:

Skinwalker.

You feel sorry for it. The wet, shaggy dog curled up on the side of the road. Maybe you get out, intending to see if it had a collar and take it to the shelter. When you get close, it raises its black furred head. The fur around its muzzle is missing and its eyes are too big, the whites are scarlet and its teeth are poking through. As it stands it ends up on two legs. It’s growing, its furry limbs twisting and bending as it does. That is… Not a real dog.

Run.

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[fishyvamp]

I'm just imagining sitting on top of the castle Knight!wraith looking around at the grounds you're just pointing out the stars in the sky telling him constellations your tutors taught you. It's a beautiful clear night and you can see the entirety of the grounds. The knight fighting the heavy sigh as he see the Captain dragging King Macmillan into bushes of the garden.

"if I recall correctly my lady, those stars are of the great bear, correct?" He speaks wrapping an arm around you pointing towards the sky. You just laugh and nod looking up at him with eyes you know you shouldn't. You look down towards your feet feeling ashamed, you have found yourself enjoying the moments where the knight touches you inappropriately. When his hands lay on you.

Philip worried that you were going to notice and without another thought gently grabbed you by the chin. His eyes boring into yours. His eyes were like a precious onyx stone so pretty behind his helmet. Heart was racing as your body instinctually moved close into him.

Sir Ojomo realizing his blunder pulled away abruptly moving ten paces back. "Apologies my lady." He bowed softly hand rest on the hilt of his blade. That was out of line. You stare at him, heart beating like a hummingbird, that was most definitely immodest. "Tis fine my knight," you give a gentle nod. The phrase my knight doing something to the man. The way you spoke the words clawed at him like a feral beast tearing into his flesh begging him to fully submit to you, to have you have him completely in every way that mattered.

A moment of silence passing between you before you spoke once more, "tomorrow at noon I am to be wed and many lives hinge on my union to King Macmillan. Many would see to it that union fail." You words careful as you searched for the right phrasing. the right way to tell him you needed him without violating your mutual duties, "may I request you stand watch in bedchamber tonight so I be well rested come morning knowing that no harm will befall me."

It wasn't an unreasonable request by stretch of modesty. Especially for one tasked with the safety of the future queen. Philip simply nods his head, "anything for you my lady." Falling in step behind you, your majesty reentering the palace your knight ten paces behind. If only you knew what you did to the man. If only you know what kind of temptation you thrusting upon him letting him around you at your most vulnerable, but even then he will always ten paces behind.

[wr-n]

Man i wish someone would draw Asgore like a Japanese old man

[vertigoartgore]

1984's Marvel Age Vol.1 #23 cover by cover artist Bill Sienkiewicz (featuring his redesign of the Dire Wraiths ; Sienkiewicz also did a bunch of covers at the same period for the ROM Spaceknight series).

[syaolaurant]

Dota 2 Watercolor Tarot deck [work in progress]

Just want to share with you guys my Tarot deck inspired by Dota 2. It's a work in progress and done with 100% watercolors. I've just finished 8/78 cards, and they are currently not in order. I will be working through all the major arcana then the minor.

A lot of time was spent on researching the lore and assigning which hero belongs to which arcana. Honestly, I've played Dota 2 for 10 years but I didn't really pay attention to the lore so it has been an exciting and educational journey for me.

I will post more artworks in the future when they're done. If you're interested in seeing the latest ones or my other works, please check out my instagram @syao.laurant

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Nazgûl

Artist: Miklós Ligeti TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[rootsofdread]

May I request some headcanons for The Knight, The Blight, and The Wraith with a twitchy boyfriend who has trouble staying still? Sometimes I'll be sitting still and my head will jerk to the side randomly or one of my legs will kick out and it drives me insane to the point I have trouble falling asleep sometimes :(

i have a similar problem! mine get soo bad when i'm tired lol. we're in this together anon ✊

Philip Ojomo / The Wraith:

Philip tends to keep a close eye on you. He worries about you -- even if you've told him not to be -- and fears you may hurt yourself accidentally, so he just wants to make sure you're okay when he knows that your twitching is acting up. If you're standing together he'll put his hand on your shoulder or around your back, but otherwise, he frequently checks in on you.

In a really weird kind of way, he finds your twitching...comforting? It lets him know you're still with him. When the two of you are close in any way, like when you're laying together or he's holding your hand, and he feels you jerk around, he pulls you closer. He would prefer it didn't happen, for your sake, but he appreciates knowing you aren't suddenly gone.

And he's certainly no stranger to having problems sleeping, being haunted by nightmares, himself; so he knows how you feel, to some extent. When he feels you jerk around in bed, he'll immediately wrap his arms around you and lean his head into your back or chest. He doesn't really know how to help you, because he doesn't know how to help himself, but he hopes that helps...at least a little.

Talbot Grimes / The Blight:

Talbot has always loved having you around since he met you; he finally has someone more like him around the fog. It really does something to his old, shriveled up heart seeing you do the exact same thing he does. Granted, his are more frequent; it still has always made him happy.

And he always tries to make this clear to you. Even before you were together, he'd frequently hobble over to you just to sit with you. He's not much of a talker, so he usually conveys his thoughts through gestures or tapping his cane. He didn't think you understood for a while, but was delighted when he realized you did.

When you're having problems sleeping, he'll always offer you some sort of tonic or tincture to relax you and help you sleep. If you don't want any, that's fine, he'll let you cuddle up and rest your head on his chest, so that he can rub your back while he reads quietly beside you.

Tarhos Kovács / The Knight:

Tarhos was always interested in you from the moment he saw you. He's never seen someone do...that, before. He had long assumed you were cursed for your hubris, once upon a time, or something similar. Yet, you seemed to be taking it quite well. Resolve is one of his favorite qualities in a person.

He's always around to make sure nobody gives you a hard time for something out of your control -- something so inconsequential, at that. The last thing he wants is for you to feel embarrassed about it. If anyone so much as snickers, they will meet his blade.

When you're frustrated by not being able to sleep, he tells you that fire is important, but it will be better spent elsewhere. He settles you back down, tucks you in, and will usually either read to you or recount stories from his time as a true knight for you. By this point, you've probably heard all of them, but he still hopes they soothe you.

[the-lunacy-system]

Hollowmori AU

It's going to take place in the Omori universe with Omori gameplay, but with plot elements from Hollow Knight

Characters given roles so far:

Sunny | Little Ghost

Stranger | The Siblings

Aubrey | Hornet

Something in the Dark | Lurien the Watcher

Something in the Walls | Herrah the Beast

Something in the Water | Monomon the Teacher

Omori | Radiance

Suggestions for the AU are fully welcome!

[envihellbender]

What fears are the (original) DBD killers?

The Dead By Daylight Original Killers As The Magnus Archives Fears

The Trapper: the Web

Evan was being used as his father’s puppet and was pushed to enact his actions. The entity used him in the same way, torturing him until he relented. He uses bear traps to hunt his prey, reminiscent of a spider trapping his prey in a web.

As an avatar of the Web his bear traps have minds of their own, they grow spindly legs to wander around to stalk their pray not unlike spiders. When people stand on them they are impossible to break off, and cover the prey in something thin and sharp. It’s like being covered in diamond. Even years later Evan still has string attached to his hands and feet, sewn in to his bones. Occasionally there’s a tug, a reminder of what he has to do.

The Wraith: the Hunt

Phillip had being a hunter forced upon him, and just when he thought he’d escaped it … it turned out he’d simply been used as the gun instead of the soldier. He stalks his prey silently, and strikes when they least expect it. His appearance is bird like, covered in what looks like feathers - he is like a bird of prey who dives down and strikes suddenly to kill.

As an avatar of the Hunt he is very similar to what he does for the Entity, except he works silently and he isn’t invisible in the same way. He doesn’t have a telltale shimmer, instead his shadow is completely visible but not his body. His victims often talk of a dark shape following them, like a shadow without a person to cause it. They don’t see their attacker until they’re about to die.

The Hillbilly: the Flesh

Max’s identity is more seeped into his physical disability than it needed to be thanks to his abuse, this as well as being born and raised on a farm is what connects him to this fear.

Max was born into the Flesh, most assume because of his physical disability but actually it’s because of the farm. His father before him was an avatar too, he raised every single animal he had in isolation, they didn’t get to run through his cornfields, they were trapped in cages, fed until they were immobile beasts and filled with hormones that made them produce unnatural amounts of milk. They had obscenely large and repeated pregnancies, and it was a task the man inherited from his bloodline. When his son was born he knew killing him would devote him to the Flesh and he was worried that would offend his god… but the fear was furious about one of its own being locked away. It was time to start the entire cycle anew, Max would make a much better avatar then his lazy father who simply repeated what had been taught to him.

The Nurse & The Doctor: The Spiral

Doing these together because I think as Fears they would be two halves of one whole. The two of them both meet the criteria for medial abuse which falls under the Spiral but in different ways. Sally’s mental health broke after several traumatic events and then spending a long time working in a psychiatric hospital and being susceptible to the words of another patient. The building, the asylum, and the people inside it, psychiatric patients, were responsible for her slowly losing her mind before she became a killer. This also fits within the Spiral. Herman experimented on patients with ECT - use on psychiatric patients, he learned everything he knew about the mind from being taken into Léry’s Memorial Institute at a young age. The entire concept of grooming a child to interfere with victims’ brains seems to fit very well into the Spiral territory.

As the Spiral Nurse Sally and Doctor Herman both run a hospital, one that from the outside seems quite prestigious and well managed. It’s common for rich families to send troubled teenagers there, as a last resort. The kind who if they never returned or if they were lobotomised. Sally deals with the patient care and Herman deals with diagnosis and surgery. Sally’s specialty is manipulation and gaslighting, Herman however prefers to manipulate the brain directly from the inside with his new devices, as well as testing out new concoctions on the patients. The building itself is also very strange in that it appears different to every patient, the corridors don’t make sense constantly twisting in odd manners, and the doors and windows don’t always stay where they are.

The Hag: the Buried who’s been scarred by the Flesh

Lisa Sherwood’s was kept in a dimly lit cellar when she was kidnapped, she slipped on wet mud during a thunderstorm and fell into the earth. They consumed her and the prisoners flesh down to the bone. The cannibals resemble the Flesh, but this was forced upon Lisa. She became essentially a corpse, she sunk into the earth to return to her family. This is similar to Daisy Tanner staying within her coffin, and also Hezekiah’s embrace from the Earth.

Lisa was born into a sect that was dedicated to the Buried. They were a peaceful group that worked with the Fear, they preached that the Entities did not need to be treated as a terrible thing - fear and anxiety are healthy, human emotions after all. Lisa was very dedicated to the spiritual practices they used to summon the Earth, to be protected by it, to explore everything it had to teach them. However, when she was lost in a thunder storm and fell to the ground, the Earth could not protect her from her kidnappers. A group of cannibals who swore themselves to the Flesh, Lisa was grateful they kept her in the cellar, so she could pray to the Earth every night. One day, her pleas were answered, and even though her flesh had been consumed, she managed to rip herself from the shackles, and to be taken by the Earth itself, who promised her vengeance.

The Unknown: the stranger merged with the flesh

The Unknown takes over people’s bodies, steal them, distorts them and abandons them. It’s similar to the Not-Them of the Stranger, but it doesn’t try to convince anyone that it is a human being, or play the part of another human. It’s a creature that takes human flesh and distorts it into something disturbing for humans to look at. That’s where we get the realm of the Unknown which exists between the Stranger and the Flesh.

No one knows quite how the Unknown came to be. There are many theories, a member of the circus’s freak show who ran off or was taken by an avatar of the flesh perhaps. Most however think it is far more ancient, far more unfathomable than that. It seems turn up in quite a few different stories and urban legends, suggesting they are many of them. It is as if takes people and moulds their bodies like play dough. It creates many of them, replicating them, but they don’t contain a personality or mind that the Stranger manages to copy. It is as if it simply about the flesh itself.

The Huntress: the Lonely

Anna was cursed from the very beginning to be alone. She was born alone in the woods with her mother, raised to fear the men who passed through the woods. She had no relationships or connections but that to her mother. When she died, all she could do was hum the nursery rhymes she sang to her and continue to hurt the men her mother taught her to hate. She tries to have love and care in her life with the children she takes in but doesn’t know how to care for. Then, of course, the forest was taken by fog.

Anna’s mother had been cursed by the Lonely when she was with child, not that she knew it then. She felt something calling to her in the woods shortly after she became pregnant, from a charming man she had a summer dalliance with. A James Lukas, he said his name was. Soon as he abandoned her with no one but the baby growing inside her, she began to yearn for the woods. It was strange, usually the children born of the Lukas craved the sea, but her mother desperately wanted the woods. The mountainous, isolated woods. So one day she fled there, she told no one where she would be going. She found an abandoned lodge in the centre, an area so treacherous few even dared to take an expedition through it. She made a home there for her and her daughter, vowing that she will never allow her precious Anna to be harmed by man again. The fog and the woods would protect them, and she would teach her to hunt and defend herself. What she didn’t prepare her for was the fact her mother wouldn’t live forever, and no matter how much Anna tried to gain companionship through the children she found… The Lonely took them away from her every single time.

The Clown: the Stranger

The Clown aka Jeffery Hawk aka Kenneth Chase has several aliases which is one of the reasons why he fits so well within the Stranger. He is so capable of changing who he is, from the strongman to the clown. There is also the fact that he is inspired by John Wayne Gacy, and the entire concept of Stranger Danger which killers such as the Clown embody. Of course the most obvious connection to the Stranger is the fact he is a clown, which brings us to the circus.

Kenneth first found himself enraptured by the Stranger at a young age - not that he knew it then. His dentist seemed like an odd choice for a young boy to choose as a friend, but given it was the 1940s few people questioned it. The man gave the child plenty of access to anaesthetic and plenty of other drugs, which the child used to trap and harm birds, squirrels, and other small animals. Kenneth never felt connected to anyone around him, his father was an alcoholic and he had very few friends. He was oddly tall and strong, throwing himself into athletics at school. When his father discovered his extracurricular activities and his finger collection, Kenneth fled to his friend the dentist. He pointed him into the direction of the Circus of the Other that just so happened to be in town, and in particular to Gregor Orsinov. Finally, Kenneth had an escape from his father, the town, and an iron clad alibi for whatever crimes he wished to commit.

The Spirit: The Buried

Rin’s family’s problems began when they became wrapped up in financial troubles. She went to a private university which weighed heavily on her family’s money problems. Her father worked long, long hours hoping for a promotion. It drove him mad as he heard a whisper speaking to him, he lost sleep and his grasp on reality. This, and him losing his job, resulted in hers, her mother’s, and eventually his own death, the sheer anger Rin experienced is what resulted in the Entity taking her. The Yamaoka estate became her tomb. The estate is dark and almost resembles a graveyard. The ground is named haunted through Rin’s abilities, and during her phase state she can see the scratches and blood on it even when people disappear. This shows her connection to the earth she was raised upon.

Rin’s father built coffins, an unpopular business in Japan where the majority of the population chose cremation. However he insisted upon it, beautiful creations - dark wood with intricate painted patterns across them. He sold very few locally, or even in Japan as a whole. Rin spent most of her childhood with beautiful coffins filling the house, acting as chairs and tables, or simply being in the way. Her mother tried to get him to get a new line of work, he had a contract with this British company but it wasn’t enough. What her father hadn’t mentioned was the contract was more than legally binding. They were in more and more debt every day, so much so her father began to whisper to the coffins, to something that wasn’t there. One day late at night, Rin crept to the kitchen for some water and she heard him yelling at the coffin, there was nothing replying but her blood ran cold when she heard what he agreed to. He was going to build two coffins, one for Rin and one for her mother.

The Legion: the Slaughter

The Legion’s connections to the Slaughter lie in the military origins of their name (the division of the Roman army), the fact that the loyalty between the four of them makes them seem like soldiers for the Entity, and the music that plays from their mix tapes when they attack. Each mix tape gives them different abilities, and there is a tape for each of them, but also one made by the Entity which is the most powerful. This mimics the sounds of bagpipes that calls the soldiers to the Slaughter.

The Slaughter had been watching the four of them for a while, Frank was the longest of course, but it didn’t take them completely until the night with the janitor. It spoke to them before that, giving each one of them solace through music. They each felt a pull that no one else could understand, as if the music spoke to them individually, it was instructing them to do something but they didn’t know what it was yet. No one really understood why Julie chose to be friends with Susie and Joey. They all felt a connection with each other, they weren’t sure what and Julie’s shallow family kept trying to push her to have friends they considered “appropriate”. When Frank appeared… Music became sweeter. Stronger. The connection made their bonds unbreakable and even though their tastes differed any song they copied to tape became sacred almost. After breaking into the convenience store and accosting the janitor, the same one who’d been racist to Joey and lecherous to Susie and Julie, they all thought it was their choice. The music they heard must have been one of their tapes, the Slaughter came to them that night as a result of what they did… Of course the truth is a little more complicated.

The Plague: the Corruption

Adiris was a priestess who was chosen to save the priests and her temple from plague, a feature of the corruption. She became the High Priestess after a ceremony involving cutting off her toe, she cured the temple and city of the plague. This led to her developing an infection, she kept herself veiled to keep the corruption to herself and inside of her. She is taken by the fog after she heads to the forest looking for a cure, eventually dying in her own vomit only to disappear, She uses the power of Vile Purge as the killer, passing on her infection and sickness to the survivors. She is even capable of corrupting the cleansing waters, both of which point to her being the Corruption. She is also a priest become killer which suggests she’s undergone moral and spiritual corruption from the entity’s interference and her own trauma.

Adiris was born into the Corruption, in the Temple of Disease and Healing she was raised, to serve and worship the God that resided there. Of course the deity was or worked for the Corruption, and any healing that was supposedly given was false or came with a price. Adiris believed in the faith and sanctity of the Temple until she became a High Priestess. That was when its true purpose was revealed to her. The diseased came to the Temple, and the High Priestesses would absorb their disease and illness, creating a contained building of suffering and pain, of plague and corruption. She was restrained, each disease and ailments forced upon her body which grew weaker with every ritual. All the records say she died of an infection of some kind, but still to this day at the Temple a rotting woman covered in boils, sores, blood, viscera and vomit stalks the halls, a sickening miasma omitting from her that fills the entire ruin.

The Oni: the Desolation

Kazan is cursed by the Entity to appear and Oni, a yōkai, demon, troll type being in Japanese mythology/folklore. During the Heian period in literature they were shown to be terrifying monsters that ate people. This was precisely what Kazan did not want to become, but the Entity forced him to be this being of mindless killing and terror. The Entity made him his soldier, and forced him to do it blindly. He absorbs the blood of the survivors (similar to drinking it) which helps him track them like an obedient monster. This represents one half of the Desolation - destruction for a meaningless cause. The other is shown in Kazan’s life itself before the Entity. He was dedicated to Japan and Samurai, ridding it of what he deemed to be “imposters”. He was dedicated to destroy Japan until that caused him to become the Oni.

As a fear Kazan’s story is not that different, his father wanted him to be a Samauri, but Kazan killed all of the false samurai and imposters in Japan determined to purify his homeland, to bring honour to his family name. He started this because went on a pilgrimage where the spoke to a God he’d never met before, it showed him the true way of honour. It told him it would give him unbelievable powers and make him a true protector of Japan. Kazan accepted without question, and his new abilities to smell blood and be filled with the power of his new God to become indestructible in battle. What Kazan did not notice however, is with each battle he changed slightly. He didn’t realise he was a few inches taller or muscular at first, until it became enough for people to comment on it. These changes did not concern him and seemed quite positive… Until his skin grew red and horns penetrated his skull, it wasn’t long before he became the Oni. A being of pure destruction, fire, blood and desolation.

The Deathslinger: the Hunt

Caleb’s power is named the Redeemer, it’s his invention of a speargun, that can hook into a survivor and pull them towards him. This is an indicator of the Hunt in itself. He invented objects to punish those he declared as wrongdoers, all starting when he was a child want vengeance on those who bullied him. The racism his family experienced meant resentment and a desire for what he saw as justice was ingrained into his mind from an early age. The first man he killed was with his first gun which shot railroad spikes and it was for the punishment of stealing his inventions. When he was in prison he designed torture devices for a warden in exchange for extra meals. All of this is what makes him within the archetype of the Hunt which is primarily used to signify the police and its brutality.

Caleb’s life with the Hunt itself is extremely similar, the main difference being that his kills started much earlier. Instead of fantasising about torturing and killing his bullies, he followed the saviour that whispered in his ear and acted on it. His devices then were much more simple but they slowly got better and better, especially with the help of his saviour. As his weapons progressed in the same way they do in his regular canon, the saviour came and told him which villains to kill, it protected him. Ensured that when he was finally caught that the prison wardens saw him as one of their own. He was above everyone else in jail, warden or prisoner, he was the Redeemer.

The Blight: the Flesh

Talbot Grimes wanted to become more than human, he wanted to rise above his fellow mortals. He had become obsessed with his flesh and the limits of the human body from a young age, testing poisons on himself and forcing his body to purge and purify himself. That did not dissuade him, it simply encouraged him to explore what the human body could do, what it was weak to, and how to solve those weaknesses. He wasn’t innately connected to the flesh, but through his experiments and work he became that way. Experiments such as his inhumane tests on prisoners of war, which allowed him to bring himself back from the brink of death and cause him to become something more than human. A being of distorted flesh.

Talbot learned of the Flesh at a young age, his parents were collectors of Leitners and his father told him scary stories about the Entities at bedtime. The way his mother scolded his father for them told him that they were, she wouldn’t be as furious over him simply being frightened. He ended up sneaking down to the library at night to pour over their Leitner collection. They made him horrifically ill repeatedly, and no matter how much his parents punished him he desperately tried to be heard by the Flesh. He spent his life doing that, after he got his doctorate he began experimenting on humans, allegedly, and breaking in to slaughterhouses. Eventually, the Flesh caught up with him, and either through curiosity or sheer annoyance, turned him into a monstrosity.

The Twins: the Lonely

The circumstances of the twins birth can be an indicator of their close connection to the Lonely. In theory twins should never be lonely, but Charlotte was denied a true companion, and Victor was never given any true possibility of a normal life. Everyone abandoned them, giving them a cruel abusive life. They never knew any specific people other than their mother, all shapeless faces who abused and harmed them. Their abilities mean once they are separated they cannot both move at the same time, showing they see each other as one whole person. This means they don’t view each others company as separate, which adds to the Lonely connection.

There is a Leitner that is a handmade children’s book named The Adventures of Charlotte and Victor, but if it is read it is very clear it is most certainly not for children. The story begins telling the tale of a mother giving birth to a beautiful little girl who had a parasite clinging to her body, or that’s what the doctors called it. It was her twin brother, or what was left of him. They attempted to remove the boy, only for her to scream and cling tighter. They thought as she grew older she’d let them remove the parasite, when she didn’t the mother couldn’t bare to keep them. But who would take this hysterical little girl and her parasitic monster?

She abandoned Charlotte at a lighthouse, it had been abandoned for decades and it was on a bit of abandoned beach, there was no civilisation or anything to eat for miles. When she got in her car and left them there, she didn’t even look back. The only things there were the lighthouse, the beach, and a man tunnel into the sewers. There were rumours that they survived, feeding on hikers who’d gotten lost in the area. On the final page is two photos and a missing persons poster, the first picture is of a little newborn baby girl with an odd tiny pink creature clinging to her. The second is a photo of a middle aged woman smiling with a man on a beach, it’s a windy day, and in the background there is a young woman with lank blonde hair, hunched over in a ragged, filthy dress with a small misshapen creature on her shoulder. The missing person poster shows the middle aged woman who was last seen at a bed and breakfast by the coast 20 miles south of the old lighthouse.

The Trickster: the Eye

Ji-Woon loves nothing more than to be watched, to be stared at, to have people take his picture, to have an audience - it is all what Ji-Woon craves the most. He wants to be on screen, he wants to know everything and be known. He wants to be the ‘main event’ and he can stare so intensely that he can throw knives so perfectly that repeated cuts send a survivor into a dying state. His appearance is always so eye-catching, and his kills are always filmed, witnessed, and recorded.

Ji-Woon is different to the other avatars of the Eye in the sense that instead of witnessing he wants to be witnessed. Before it took him he was strange in the sense that whilst most cowered when the Eye pierced them with its gaze, Ji-Woon delighted in it. He craved it. He became addicted to it. So much so that he sought after it, until the Eye readily accepted him as one of its own. He is one of the few who can walk through the Eye’s realm without a care. As such he is the perfect one to lure an audience, he is adored by so many fans that they eagerly line up to see him perform. An entire audience, that is eager to be on screen next to him. That is desperate to be watched.

The Artist: the Vast

The Artist fits the vast primarily because of her connection to the birds - particularly crows, her birdlike appearance, the way her abilities involve soaring across a long distance, and the fact her associated location is the Foresaken Boneyard. Here objects seem to ignore gravity, and it is extremely open and light.

The Vast sunk its claws into Carmina from birth, the crows always watched her and seemingly appeared in South America despite not being native to the region. Her paintings were collected by Jurgen Leitner to her disgust, and she constantly searched for them. Some interpreted her crows as a death omen, perhaps that was confirmation bias because if you saw her soaring through the skies in a vast covering of crows… then you were almost certainly going to die. She always ate her victims, odd for a being of the Vast but her friends and family the birds needed to eat.

The Dredge: the Dark

The Dredge is the combination of dark and terrible thoughts, he is created in the metaphorical and literal dark, and his abilities cause darkness and he teleports through the dark lockers.

The Dredge is the monster in the wardrobe that so many parents dismiss and that children grow out of fearing. The dark and painful thoughts that the children feel that never go addressed congregate inside their bedroom, their safe space. They call to them from their wardrobe, created unconsciously by the children themselves and usually those who have been through great trauma, it leaves their wardrobes at night, it can’t move in the light and so many parent refuse to let their children leave there’s on. The creature is terrifying but it doesn’t come for the child’s terror, it beckons the child inside. The fear it feeds on is that of the parents, that their child is hurting, that their abuse will be discovered, and when the child walks into the wardrobe to join the Dredge’s brethren if the child will come back. One the child is empowered and emboldened by the Dark, it began to stalk and torment those who would abuse and hurt them in the shadows. That is until their terror and guilt pushes them over the edge.

The Skull Merchant: the Eye

Adriana uses her drones (similar to security cameras which are specific to the Eye) to watch the survivors, extremely academic (books and libraries are specific to the Eye), her first ‘crime’ is stalking her rival, the manga her father made which mimics her life in someways does some to be prophetic in a way which whilst isn’t specific to the Eye it is showing a strange connection to his daughters mind which is similar to the abilities the Archivist has.

There is a Leitner that Gerard Keay found in a comic book store in Fortaleza, Brazil. It was shoved underneath a broken shelf, propping it up so it was even. It’s a manga which is what caught Gerry’s eye immediately, when he first examined the cover it was in Japanese with a woman with a metal mask with a red light for an eye and a drone. When he examined it the drone flashed a blue light, and the title went to Portuguese, then the cover went to a glitching orange before it settled on English: The Skull Merchant. When Gerry flicked through the pages, he found the story somewhat chaotic and difficult to follow. It was about Adriana Imai, or the Skull Merchant, who kept an army of different types of droids to hunt down her enemies, and she is staggered by two teenagers with kites. That wasn’t the interesting part to Gerry, what he focused on was the drones on each page moved. Specifically they mimicked his eye movements, but if he moved they followed his movements. He shoved the manga in his bag, the Eye tattoo on his neck tingling. Hopefully once he burned the thing Adriana Imai will stop stalking anyone who read it.

The Knight: the End

Tarhos is the oldest killer, he has spent the majority of his life bringing death. He is the most entwined with the Entity, a being of death. His realm is the Decimated Borgo, a dying realm where the only colour is blood red. Even before the Entity takes him all Tarhos can remember is screams and death from his village.

The Knight has lived for far too long, and yet still he lives, he walks, he kills as is his duty as the Knight. He doesn’t remember his name any more, he has no use for it. His body has decayed with time but his skeleton and armour remains. His hair and finger nails remain, growing, and growing, and growing into lifeless, twisted tissue clinging to his steel plate. He didn’t know he would be trapped within this hell, not truly, he followed Vittorio and somehow ended up saying yes to a beast he didn’t understand. It promised eternal life to hunt down his enemies, to capture Vittorio… And he did get that, he supposed. Of course he wasn’t going down alone, he dug his claws into each of his fellows, they had become his decaying, dying brethren, but they are more like slaves who are forced to fight and work by his side.

The Singularity: the Stranger

The Singularity’s method of killing is to stalk and observe. He launches his biopods across the map in order to find the survivors and kill them. He is able to use his AI to manufacture memories, and mimic human ones. He wants to replace all humans with beings like himself, he wants to use their thoughts and minds to create the perfect being. Not dissimilar to the Not-Them and what it did to Sasha.

The Singularity watches. He watches his victims, he studies them, he learns everything there is to know about a person, and then he creates a being to replace them. His children are far superior to humans, and when they replace them no one is aware of what has occurred. The Singularity can even reprogrammed the memories of those around the person and any digital footprint to ensure everyone sees the Replacement as the human they took over. The Not-Thems come from him, and are far more powerful than their previous counterparts.