#Shadow Crystal

[theyoterman]

jevil and spamton neo drawings i did at school (i did them a few days ago i just forgot to post em here)

and the pixelated versions of them

[gintrinsic-writing]

One Week In

For @meanlesbean! CW: body horror

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It was an honest mistake. That was the best thing that could be said about the situation. 

“What’s happening to him?” Warriors demanded, staring at the crystal laying mere inches from Time’s shadow-cloaked body. “What is that thing?”

Twilight snatched the crystal up before anyone else could touch it. The urge to transform pulled at him, dark magic prickling beneath his skin. He was able to resist only due to experience. “It’s a magical item. I didn’t mean for—”

“It’s cursed!” Legend snapped. Several of the rings on his fingers flashed threateningly as he took a step back. 

Suddenly, the shadows around Time condensed and sharpened into little black prisms that dimmed the light around them. When they fell away, they dissipated like spun sugar on the tongue. 

Time’s skin melted much the same way. 

“Sweet Hylia,” Sky breathed. Then the screaming began. 

Time doubled over and howled, the sound too guttural to be Hylian. The flesh of his hands peeled and curled, large splinters of wood sprouting from the joints of his fingers. The vertebrae along his back fractured, each loud pop accompanied by a protrusion of heavily keratinized skin. He clawed at the sides of his face as if reaching for something, the pits of his eyes—first blue, then orange, then a depthless black—leaking jelly and blood. He grew and shrank and grew again, his clothes splitting at the seams. The muscles between his ribs parted as though from a sharp instrument, the overlying skin fluttering with every pained, shrieking exhale. 

“The Master Sword!” Twilight ordered frantically, his pulse racing from fear. “Sky, touch him with the sword! Hurry!”

After that, it was over almost as quickly as it began. Sky pressed the flat of the blade against one of Time’s spasming legs, and they all watched in horror as the transformations ceased; scales fell away like confetti, claws sloughed from weeping nail beds, fibrous roots slithered out of abused veins. Time wailed where he lie. 

Before Twilight could summon his wits enough to move, there was a metal rasp, then a blade was held to his throat. “You better have a good fucking explanation, dark,” Legend hissed, ignoring the startled sounds from the other heroes. “I’m not inclined to give a second chance.”

[emiplayzmc]

"Blinded by the Light"

FINALLY did more of a Spamton-centric piece after focusing on the Addisons for a bit! Although he isn't TECHNICALLY shown, it's pretty easy to guess that that's his hand, lol

Alternate glare intensities:

[sadpurpleblood]

very random deltarune theory:

what if the shadow crystals are pieces of gaster.

gaster shattered across time and space <> shadow crystals scattered across the dark worlds

only his followers remember gaster <> those who hold the shadow crystals know the truth about their reality after coming in contact with a mysterious figure

when you look through the crystals light world equivalent, you can see right through your hand <> goner kid, associated with gaster, talks about a reality where everything is the same except you dont exist

yeah thats about it but. yk. who knows

[epi-embraced]

Jevil - Talks in all caps, repeats words twice, has little connections to “main” story, Optional Boss

Conclusion: Secret Boss who talked to Gaster and gained forbidden knowledge

Spamton - Talks in all caps, angry and nonsensical, has little connections to the “main” story, Optional Boss

Conclusion: Secret Boss who talked to Gaster and gained forbidden knowledge

Mad Mew Mew - Talks in all caps alot, very very angry, repeats words thrice, has little connections to the “main” story, Optional Boss

Conclusion: Secret boss who talked to Gaster and gained estrogen

[ninebaalart]

Seam

As long as I stay in my shop, these walls won't change.

[embyrinitalics]

Do you think TP Link would still be able to transform into a wolf post-game or do you think that power would be gone with Midna?

Well his ability to transform at will came from the shadow crystal that Zant put into his head, so as long as he has the crystal he should be able to go wolf just by touching it. The question is can he change back without Midna, since she seems to be the one manipulating it.

I’d imagine he would try to learn the bit of magic needed to do that. Otherwise if something happened to her while he was a beast he’d be stuck. Which would be a bummer.

[l-747]

Made a drawing of the boi with his shadow crystal, It looks more like normal crystals but meh.

[raining-anonymously]

This Seam dialogue happens if you beat Jevil but don’t beat Spamton NEO, therefore only having one Crystal. ... It seems that you didn't get another Shadow Crystal. Hm. I understand. It's no small feat to fight an opponent that has one. ... Well then, forget it all. You're a Lightner. Don't take your life, well, lightly!

I haven’t seen this dialogue myself so I don’t know what expressions Seam is making, but… wow. That wording and ellipses sound REALLY disappointed. And the most excited Seam ever acts is when we get a new crystal, bringing out the exclamation points and whatnot—like that “Huzzah!” that lives in my brain rent-free.

Seam, my friend Seam, what’s so special to you about these Shadow Crystals? What incredible thing are you planning to stitch together?

[theyoterman]

what is bro doing here

this was for my Jevil Rematch in Queens Basement song "NEVER ENDING CHAOS"

[rastro-writes]

The Chain as animals via shadow crystal? (I feel like Warriors would be a lion tbh) Would Time still be the golden woof boy?

Oooh this is an interesting one.

Time- either the golden wolf. Or. A goat. I will not elaborate.

Twilight- Wolfie. Simple as.

Wars- absolutely a Lion. Proud of the floof. Tries to make fun of legend, gets a concussion from the kick.

Sky- Shoebill. It literally is the inspiration for the Loftwing.

Wind- Sea Otter. Boy can literally just never set foot on land and be fine.

Legend- Bunny. Runner up is a honey badger. Do I even need to explain either?

Four- Hyena. Because he will escape any trap and laugh at you for it. Just crazy clever, but smol.

Hyrule- Fennec Fox. He’s a little guy that has a head to ear ratio of 0.6, and survives with little to no water, and insects.

Wild- Coyote. Just an excellent survivalist individually, and as a species. Social enough to hang with non family but less social than wolves.

@lolabearwrites this was fun. Used a lot of meme knowledge from animal videos for this. Enjoy!

[sadpurpleblood]

I've been thinking about the Shadow Crystals again.

I do still believe that they are (or at least thematically represent) pieces of gaster shattered across time and space, destined for the secret bosses (those who have come in contact with him as a man) to be taken. But I don't agree with all assumptions I made anymore.

For one, how many Shadow Crystals there are gonna be. At first, I said that it's gonna be 7, one for each chapter. But having thought more about it, the more likely number is actually 6. I don't think it would make much sense having a secret boss happen in the final chapter, I feel like that would kinda distract from the finality of it all, plus there wouldn't be any time left after the chapter to actually give the crystals a purpose. Furthermore, Gaster IS heavily associated with the number six.

Another factor I haven't really considered back then is Seam. They mention that, if we were to bring them more, they would "stitch together something incredible" for us. Initially, I thought this referred to the Shadow Mantle, but that wouldn't make any sense since they WERE about to give it us after handing them for just two (and seemingly without any stitching involved). I could see this going multiple ways now. They could stitch the Shadow Crystals together to form the Pure Crystal, to repair Seam themself, maybe even to directly bring back Gaster in a way. "Stitching" together does lead me to believe the Seam option is more likely, though how is a puzzle to me. Maybe Seam is Gaster after all. Who knows.

[visioncrown]

uhhhh hi i've been making deltarune OCs lately! they're my concepts for chapter 3 and 4's shadow crystal bosses.

Understardy (she/her) was going to star in Tenna's big film production, but she was quickly downgraded to a fill-in once Undyne showed up. but don't worry, she's taking it well! so well that she wants your help collecting flowers to make Undyne a beautiful bouquet. isn't that kind of her?

Koffit (it/its) is a sleazy doctor who wants to "help" Noelle learn to heal "better" after her Heal Prayer stops working following some complications with Rudy's health. in fact, it knows all about Rudy's health. despite how much everyone wants it gone, that damn virus just keeps persevering...

[alligator-dreaming]

12-15-2022

I had two dreams with kinda a gothic horror vibe. Neither was scary, though

In the first dream I was in my house and was going out to the street when I was killed in a car accident (I think I got gently bumped by a parked car). The boss from Monsters Inc came over to verify that I was dead and I started freaking out because I had a family and stuff and didn’t want to die now

The Monsters Inc guy agreed to let me off the hook for the whole ‘death’ thing, but turned me (and himself) into a girl in return. I had a shadow crystal that let people see what the original reality was like if they made a circle with their hands, and used it to convince Nicholas Cage (from hit blockbuster film The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask) that I was actually a guy. My Mom came home and she and the Monster’s Inc guy lady made fun of me for being a girl

The second dream was much shorter, but set in the same house as the other one. I was being shown around the house of an author who took his own life and looking at the artwork. Apparently people didn’t like to visit when the author was still alive, and I was confused, but it turns out that people were really unnerved by a big painting of dead flowers in the hall

[embyrinitalics]

The Master Sword is what let TP Link return to human form. Presumably as long as he had it he could transform at will, but he returned it to the Sacred Grove after the game.

I discussed this a bit in the previous post comments (and some discord threads that spawned off it lol), but I'll recap here:

The Master Sword is what turns him back initially, but in subsequent uses of the Shadow Crystal, it's Midna who does the altering. She says "I can return you to your normal state whenever you need," and is the in-game mechanism you use to make that transformation. Whether she uses the Master Sword or her own magic and understanding of the Shadow Crystal to do that isn't explicitly stated.

The consensus in other discussions I've had is that the Master Sword's power weakened the Crystal to the point of easy manipulation, and it's Midna's magic doing the removing from then on. But again, it's up to interpretation.