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[to-hagsmire-and-back]

first comic i've made in years, i hope i can find the motivation to make even more after this! This is expanding even more on the idea from reddit user TytoT2000/A_A_Ironwood! My original post about this headcanon can be found here if you haven't seen it

[alexiscat]

[sk-ench]

just met boggy... big fan <3

[Image Description: A digital drawing of Adaine from Dimension 20 holding Boggy the Froggy in her hands. Boggy is a round frog with tiny legs and big eyes, and he has his tongue sticking out. Adaine is looking down at him sitting on her hands with an expression of adoration. She has light tan skin with freckles and curly blonde hair. She wears a blue button up with a white plaid pattern on it. End Description.]

[papaemeritusballlz]

terzo in a 50's high waisted pant, aka AGJSWOOFWOOFBAKR Sketch

[chrispy3]

klapollo :)

[Image Description: A drawing of Klavier and Apollo from Ace Attorney. They seem to be in the middle of a dance, Apollo leaning Klavier down for a dip. Klavier is too tall, and instead is bent on one of his knees. They are both smiling wide, and holding hands. End Description.]

[sleeper-sharks]

Redraw time! I wanted to reuse the poses and hair styles from my very first drafts of verdant green's design from 2021, but with their current look!

[goodglove]

more elvan and bubo, but ...furry

and skench...

owl in full armor YES

[chalkrub]

fun skenches. i’ve been drawing a LOT of this silly boy recently

[2dmax]

caius skench

[skunkes]

Is it possible that you'd open more halfbody/sketch comms next month? I adore your style SO much and would love to commission you again, I gotta look out for when they're open again, I missed them this month..

If not, I'm absolutely down to wait until you feel like doing them again or until I think of something sweet to get as chibis! Remember to take care of yourself and take breaks! :.]

I havent opened skench/bust comms for this month yet ^_^ ive taken significantly less chibis this month so i can maybe get to them this month again, bc u really would like to do more non chibis

I'll open them after i finish chibis if i finish em Early enough!

[arthurian-owls]

Good to know (and thank you for complimenting my brain) ^_^ I kind of slipped off listening things in order around season 4, I think? Anyway, I'll also use the fan extrapolation of levels of involvement with fears (from least to most, touched -> marked -> aligned -> avatarised) in these headcanons for clarity; so, here we go, in no particular order:

Bess and Hortense/Mist are both marked by The Lonely, but in different ways (Hortense's mark is more metaphorical - the growing divide between Hortense, the folk hero and Hortense, the actual person).

Soren is certainly marked by The End - he almost dies a lot in these books; the reason he's only marked is because he wouldn't knowingly serve a fear entity. I'd also argue that he is marked by The Vast and touched by The Desolation because of how much he's willingly flying in all kinds of weather and his natural affinity for the colliering(also losing his parents; tapping into Desolation's aspect as fear of pain and loss).

Eglantine is touched by The Distortion(Michael's entity) and The Lonely: she has problems consistently keeping up friendships and her longing for parental(specifically maternal) affection leads to her being taken advantage of; also, during the Shattering she's effectively drugged for months and convinced she flies back to Tyto forest and meets her (dead)mother; pretty in line with an idea of Distortion and Lonely team-up. Wouldn't knowingly serve a fear entity, but could get tricked into getting aligned or avatarised around Shattering, though not much later.

Kludd would totally get avatarised without truly realising. He'd probably think he just gotten good until some reckless pure one officer had pointed out that manifestations of Slaughter around him are, in fact, very much not normal. Marked by The Corruption(Worm Lady's entity) (in its "fucked up and deeply unhealthy attraction, co-dependency" aspect)because Nyra, aligned with The Slaughter and The Desolation. Most likely to be avatarised by The Slaughter (possibly in the tragic "I don't know who I am outside of serving the fear and I don't think there's much of the real me left anymore" way)

Nyra would jump into serving a fear entity faster than one could finish explaining the concept to her; as far as she is concerned, power is power, the source doesn't really matter. Aligned with The Slaughter, The Desolation, arguably touched by The Hunt(because she held a grudge against the Guardians and Soren's family specifically for years and tracked Coryn down in the Middle Kingdom, but doesn't seem to enjoy the chase the same way Hunt avatars/aligned people do), marked by The Corruption.

If Skench and Spoorn were any more Web-aligned, they would've started sprouting spider legs. St Aegolius as a whole also has very strong The Buried manifestation vibes(in both its literal and metaphorical aspects: Soren and Gylfie describe the place as claustrophobic, and the whole place about straight up erasing or deeply repressing your actual identity).

Ruby is touched by The Hunt(because of whatever scared her and her family off their nest) and The Vast, but otherwise fine.

Otulissa would've made one hell of an Archivist; I think she could've been tricked/convinced into serving a fear entity(like Jon was), but would never do it on her own. Very lightly touched by The Web, The Eye(because she genuinely enjoys learning new things, writing them down and analysing them) and The Slaughter(particularly when she lost an eye), but otherwise fairly resistant to the fears.

Now, the characters/things who actually inspired this ask:

The Ember of Hoole is an Eye/Web team-up manifestation, but in a different way than the Archive is. Grank is aligned with The Eye and marked by The Web, but not fully avatarised (his pursuit of knowledge and how he most often uses firesight to learn what is happening somewhere else sounds very Eye aligned to me. Also, his apathetic state when he looked into the Ember sounds a lot like the statement of the guy who escaped the Web-aligned boarding house).

It could've been a neat thematic twist if Hoole was touched by The Dark(in its "willing ignorance" aspect); alas, he's only aligned with The Eye and The Web. Would've sworn to find a way to sever a connection with the fear entity/seal them away entirely once he learned that avatars have to feed off people in some capacity.

Lord Arrin is touched by The Vast(in its "so rich money start to lose meaning" aspect). Would totally start feeding people to The Vast and would've gotten himself eaten in the long run because he absolutely would've gotten too arrogant for his own good. Also possibly touched by the Desolation after losing his son.

Penryck is Slaughter- and Hunt-aligned (because I'm convinced he intentionally let Siv go at least twice)Was touched and marked by both pretty early, but at different times(think four different incidents instead of just one) and started noticeably losing himself to them around the beginning of "To be King". He would've become a full Slaughter avatar if he lived a little longer. He is also touched by The Web because(at least in my hc) he's really good at networking and genuinely prefers to try and solve things with words first - one can always escalate to violence if talking failed👌

Ullryck(based mostly on my headcanon for her) is touched by The End and The Slaughter. She's an assasin, she's in it for the money, and if she can do her job and be a nuisance for the high king of Nyrthgar? Sign her up. But she isn't really interested in being an avatar.

DUDE I AM IN LOVE WITH ALL OF THIS!!! Why in the WORLD are you leaving these gems in my ask box when I log in once every ten years instead of just posting em yourself?? /lh

Your character interpretations are so spot-on and I seriously dig all of these headcanons!!!!

[to-hagsmire-and-back]

Skench and Spoorn were only owlets when their lives were turned on their heads. Skench, having witnessed her parents' demise at the talons of a once-trusted neighbor, suffers from immense paranoia. Everyone is out to get her. Nobody can be trusted.

Spoorn, belonging to such a small species of owl, feels helpless in a world where they could only stand back and watch as their parents were slaughtered by an attacking predator. A black mirror of Soren and Gylfie, the owls found one another in an orphanage. Skench learns to trust only Spoorn. Spoorn vows to never be weak again. Together, they grow into power within this orphanage, and that power slowly corrupts them...

TytoT2000/A_A_Ironwood's very interesting headcanon from my gahoole server !!!

[allmightyscroll-swag]

So I've been rereading my favorite book series Guardians Of Ga'hoole, except that I'm doing it in English because in my native language only the first 5 books were released

I figured I might as well go through my progress/document my thoughts.

Right now I'm on book 1: The Capture

As expected SPOILERS AHEAD.

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Okay, we good? Alright then, here we go

First things first,, I forgot just how intense this series can be for a children's book??

Soren, first things first, gets kidnapped by an 'academy'?? After getting pushed out of the nest by his brother?? And oh god don't even get me started on St. Aegolius. THAT PLACE IS A STRAIGHT UP CULT??? LIKE?? THEIR OWLS. THEIR TALKING OWLS.

Soren gets promptly indoctrinated, gets 'assigned' a new name, gets taught how to sleep 'correctly', is forbidden from things like flying, laughing, asking questions, gets his wings plucked for accidentally asking a question, and is expected to follow the academys directive because they 'saved him'.

Here are some lines from the General of the academy;

"I am Skench, Ablah General of St. Aegolius. My job is to teach you the Truth. We discourage questions here as we feel they often distract from the Truth."

look at that! 'the Truth,' if that's not something a cultist would tell their newest members (that are CHICKS, mind you) I don't know what is

"We have rescued you. It is here at St. Aggie's that you shall find everything that you need to become humble, plain servants of a higher good."

You didn't rescue them. You kidnapped them. Also become humble?? For the higher good?

"There are many ways in which one can serve the higher good, and it is our job to find out which best suits you and to discover what your special talents are."

Continuing with the higher good,,,

"To find one's special quality

One must lead a life of deep humility.

To serve in this way

Never question but obey

Is the blessing of St. Aggie's charity."

That's a song that they sing and dear god it reminds me of those Christians that are like "We must obey the Bibles teachings, be humble, and obey god blindly to get to heaven"

Finally, their motto? "When Truth Is Found, Purpose Is Revealed."

What the fuck, man, that's intense for a book for children.

And you know what's the worst part?

THEY GET BRAINWASHED. STRAIGHT UP, BRAINWASHED.

they call it "moon blinding" BUT GODDAMNIT IT'S JUST BRAINWASHING CHICKS TO YOUR DIRECTIVE BY MAKING THEM SLEEP UNDER THE LIGHT OF THE MOON. AND YOU KNOW WHAT THEY DO BEFOREHAND? THEY MAKE THOSE CHICKS MARCH, UNDER THE MOON, REPEATING THEIR OLD NAMES SO THEY BECOME MEANINGLESS. BRUH

Anyway have I told you how I absolutely love this series? I love all these points. St. Aggies is brutal, and there's other things they've done I haven't mentioned, but goddamn do I love it. I love that it's unafraid to get somehow dark. I love Soren, I love Gylfie, I love this arc in St. Aggies. It's probably one of my favorites. If not my favorite. As for right now I haven't even finished the first book, but I absolutely love reading about Sorens live and struggles in the academy.

[sk-ench]

based on this, thanks to @year2000electronics ‘s tag dhdjfk

[Image Description: A 4 panel comic featuring Gordan Freeman from Half Life But The AI Are Sentient. In the first panel, he is drawn pinching the bridge of his nose in exasperation while engaging in conversation that is cut off. Behind him loom some skeletons in the dark with glowing eyes. The next panel shows him turning to see them and going “…huh”. The next panel shows several of the skeletons introducing themselves. They each have features that match their introduction. The skeletons include: The forgotten skeleton, the heroic skeleton, the electric skeleton, the mischievous skeleton, the demure skeleton, the voluptuous skeleton, the diseased skeleton, the frightening skeleton, the portable skeleton, the weeping skeleton, the sulking skeleton, the occasional skeleton, the nightmare skeleton, and the sopping skeleton. Benrey is also there in a corner, saying “your mom”. The final panel shows Gordon gesturing back at the skeletons while they sing with the Black Mesa Sweet Voice at him. He yells “WHO IS INVADING BLACK MESA WITH DEFINED SKELETONS”. Benrey stands slightly behind him and to his right. He holds up a tiny skeleton and says: “The final skeleton”. End Description.]

[papaemeritusballlz]

wiPPP

[chrispy3]

🌹the rose bride and her prince🗡

[Image Description: A drawing featuring Anthy and Utena from Rebolutionary Girl Utena. They are both on the floor, Utena kneels while Anthy sits. Utena’s back is to the viewer, and She holds one of Anthy’s hands with her arm outstretched. The sword of Dios is stabbed through the both of them, and is covered in blood. More blood is pooled around them, and flows towards the bottom right of the screen. Anthy is holding the sword of Dios with her free hand, gripping it by the blade. She is slumped over Utena’s shoulder, her face covered in hair, only one eye visible that looks up at Utena. At the top corners of the screen there are thorny vines, and the bottom corners have piles of roses. The two of them are lit by a spotlight that casts a shadow on the wall behind them. End Description.]