#TY FOR THE ASK MARIA!

[dreamdripdistance]

Hii. 5. What piece of art are you still proud of to this day? (Show or describe) and 12. Ever participated in a multi-artist collaboration (3 or more) such as a multi-animator project?

5: im still really proud of this one!!!! its techncially a redraw/rework tho lol

12: YESSS SO MANY! i was in quite a few osomatsu san themed collabs with friends, a couple zines, a lot of secret santa collabs and more recently the human!loop design collab and the isat telephone game!!!! i love doing collabs its my fave bit of being an online artist, when i have the time i try and do as many of them as possible!!!

[luv-again]

Aha another question!

How would Shadow and Amy take care of each other when the other got sick?

I imagine that Shadow would be alerted because it would bring him back to when Maria was sick so he would not leave Amy’s side but maybe you have a different view on it.

yippee another question !!

going to chuck this all under the cut, because my answer is not as short as i thought it was going to be lmao (also be warned this regrettably is a veery shadow-centric yaparoo)

first of all, i'm absolutely on the same bandwagon as you. like,, you cannot tell me shadow would sit idle when someone else gets sick. you cannot tell me something like this scene in dark beginnings would never be repeated again in a future circumstance :

doesn't matter how, shadow's gonna fret. he's gonna be pedantic. not overbearing, but definitely more stern and watchful. shadow has known to make parallels between his current situation and that of an occurrence with maria (i mean, just look at those cutscenes in sa2 !). she is ingrained in his memory - linked to trauma or not - she is always in his mind and heart

shameful plug, but i wrote something in similar here in one of my shadamy fics, where shadow, in a moment of vulnerability, confesses his worry for amy's wellbeing (with the implication his past playing a factor in his instinctual response). contextually, not quiiite in the same ballpark, but close enough to say i definitely share your mindset

"Sorry, I don't mean to sound impertinent; seeing lethargy in you triggered a warning in me and I... I worry." — Sin and Sublimation

you're right though, shadow would remain by amy's side, whether she's come down with the common cold or something long-term. that scene in dark beginnings alone could say that not only does he care about maria, but he's a caretaker in general and therefore wouldn't likely leave amy to deteriorate while she's under the weather

i don't remember where the post is or who posted it, but someone had an awesome hc where they believe shadow serves a similar function to how a medical care animal would and i don't remember if this was part of the post, but i hc that shadow has an ability/sense to sniff out illness before symptoms even crop up. or if it's long-term, sense a flare-up before it hits. of course, it wouldn't help him any with prevention in most cases, but a part of him is always aware

point is, shadow's onto it. he's finding the best way to minimise suffering if it's within his power to do so. of course, he's not going to leave amy bedridden and miserable - and that applies both through inaction and being too controlling. he's going to look after her but won't hold amy back if she feels capable of doing something. anyway, all this allows for him to be able to step back into a role familiar to him. one he treats with utmost diligence

amy however, is so much harsher on shadow. and that's because he was under the belief he couldn't get sick (next stop : denial station ??). as a thought, he was possibly immune to every condition known at the time, but that's the thing, especially regarding airborne illnesses (iykyk) : they evolve. i think shadow in general probably has a rough as guts immune system, so it might fight whatever it is off before it becomes a problem, but if it did hit ? amy's going to make sure he doesn't do anything reckless and instead rests well. shadow probably has a hard time being cared for, all things considered, so that on top of being sick is all overwhelmingly new to him. i think amy likes to make chicken noodle soup and bring him a hot water bottle and watch movies with him - that kinda thing :) she herself is probably used to looking after cream or vanilla when they're sick so she knows just what to do to help someone through their sickness

regardless, they're a loyal team, your honour. i stand by this 'til my last breath, i do <33

[game-on-comics]

Hi Sakura! I know this is kinda random. I was wondering, who is one of your baseball teammates that you enjoy hangout with?

Art: Kaho ; Speech bubbles: Caro

[itz-pandora]

Whats marias relationship like with sonic..........in your swap au are they siblings?

I don't feel the need to make them as close as I interpret Shadow and Maria's dynamic in canon.

Sonic and Maria do hold sentimentality for each other! Maria was fascinated by him when she was younger, both as research and as a person. Sonic was fun-loving and snarky, but since he always wanted to play rough, they were forced to be at a safe distance from one another. Sonic saw Maria as family, but no specific label really defines it, somewhere between sibling, cousin, and friend. He thought she was fun and energetic, but he found himself getting bored since he wants to be ACTIVE, and she can't be. He enjoys her company, but it's kind of restricting. He holds loyalty to during adventure 2 because he does feel sentimental about her.

Also, I know that this isn't apart of the question, but I'll add since he was also raised on the ARK here. Sonic doesn't view Ivo nearly as affectionately as he views Maria. Ivo never cared for Sonic, and was more fascinated with the pure machines, such as Emerl or Metal Sonic

Sorry for the long post but I actually needed to think about this!

[hermidetta]

"Bernie!" Only some few minutes after their return to reality, and after she's said her small piece to Pasithee, Maria runs back to her friend and sweeps her into a hug; she would spin her around, if she wasn't far too tiny to do so. As it is she sways back and forth a bit, practically buzzing with joy. "Oh, Bernie, she was! Mairenn was Pasithee -- you were right!"

When she settles, she gives the brilliant violet a small squeeze before stepping back, hands still gently lingering on the other girl's arms. Something tremendous shimmers in her eyes and quavers in her chest, a joy she hadn't ever expected to have and now struggles simply to hold... But she's grinning; even if there's something tender and fragile behind the narrow of her smile, she's grinning.

"...Thank you, Bernie. I brought you somewhere scary, but you always cared about me. About both of us." Linhardt -- she should check on him herself, after this. "About the hope I was chasing." Grin mellows to a smile, a soft-stitched arc with affection still bursting at its seams. "It means the world to me."

And then she giggles; and then she releases Bernie and throws out her arms; and then she steps back yet again and she spins, and she laughs, and when that grand bubble of joy pops she throws a wink and a playful grin over her shoulder.

"So, won't you please tell me what your favorite dessert is? Maybe your favorite tea? Hee hee! I already have more and more hopes! I hope that's okay!" Like how I hope to see you smile -- yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

"ah! maria!"  bernadetta's not all that strong, or tall, but when maria hugs her they both fit into each other's embrace just right. her cheer is just as infectious as her hope. before bernadetta realizes it she is swaying, too, a breathless little giggle on her lips as thin arms return maria's squeeze.

it was scary, wasn't it? something sheepish surfaces to the curl of her lips. if bernadetta had been tasked to name any of her own merits, she would not have passed as easily as she did on the feast. but maria thanks her. points out how she has cared—why else would she bawl over linhardt? and bernadetta had not been able to recognize any of it at all. to her it had been as easy as breathing, natural, and painfully unremarkable.

(yet maria thanks her for it. for being herself, somehow.)

it had been striking to bernadetta, the memory of maria in these same ruins some time ago, the way her eyes glimmered as she spoke almost breathlessly: i want to go. i want to find her.

how could anyone have denied her then? bernadetta could not dream of it even as they jumped into another one of pasithee's own making, could not dream of it even as maria held bernadetta through the village that terrified her senseless. (she had been so convinced that they were the feast.)

"no! i mean, um—thank you. i was just a big fat chicken."  her cheeks flush at the admission. hearing it aloud makes her feel even sillier.  "i didn't even know her name. or what she did. just that we were looking for an angry girl."

bernadetta hadn't even understood half the things written by that book. apparently she was a projectionist, and apparently she was friends with mairenn. apparently she was responsible for the distress call and apparently there was some villain named melanie(?) who was responsible for the chaos, instead of count varley who bernadetta had initially suspected of foul play. none of it made sense, and almost all of bernadetta didn't want it to. all she wanted was to crawl back under her rock and not have to know.

"and that you were there, and that i didn't want either of you to get hurt or go alone. so... e-even if you go somewhere scary again, i'll go with you! if we really have to."

but her hands mirror maria's in their gentle lingering. it's strange to bernadetta how hope could be this beautiful. to rob maria of it would be to extinguish the sun itself. when maria lets go, twirling and laughing, bernadetta nearly wants to join her. bernadetta wants to laugh, too. the wink catches her off guard, and she flushes with a stammer.

"m-my, my fav— peach sorbet?"  bernadetta blurts, stumbling after maria.  "and sweet bun trio. and albinean berry blend! wait, you have to tell me yours, too!"

one after another, these questions and hopes. they bloom and flourish and blossom all over again—yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

[shivunin]

i wanna know about carrion comfort! like the song…

Ty Laura! @layalu also asked for this one c:

This one is based on the quote below from and the song by aeseaes. It is a fic about Fenris being kidnapped at the behest of Magister Erimond while Maria and Varania go on the worst road trip ever to get him back.

Here is a little snippet (CW for gore):

Even before she’d opened the door, she’d known that something was wrong. Inner untidiness aside, Fenris had always taken care to keep the exterior more or less intact. Now, a bloody handprint was smeared across the doorframe. Leaving it like this would invite scrutiny, something he wouldn’t normally allow, so if there’d been a fight he would have cleaned up after himself.  Even then, Hawke did not believe he was gone. Instead, she thought he must be injured inside somewhere, perhaps badly enough that he hadn’t been able to make it to one of his potion caches or her manor. Maria kicked the door open, unheeding of the danger, and dashed into the dim recesses of the entryway.

Here, the air was thick with the scent of blood and death. A ring of bodies filled the room past the foyer, some of them missing pieces, some of them just lying empty-eyed in a heap. Maria ignored the lot of them. She’d seen at once that Fenris was not among the bodies and she did not care about the rest in the slightest. Instead, she sprinted first up the stairs to his bedroom, which had been thoroughly ransacked. She paused only long enough to see that the cover of the book she’d given him—the Canticle of Shartan—had been ripped in half and discarded on the floor among drifts of shredded paper.  It was amazing how quickly one can search an entire estate when one’s lover was missing and likely injured. Maria hunted for any errant blood trail, any sign that he had tucked himself away in some secret place and could not call out to her. There was nothing—of course there was nothing—until she came to the back door and saw the overturned crates, the long, bloody drag marks of a limp body, and the empty courtyard beyond.  There was a horrible moment, then, when her mind put together the color of the blood and the state of the bodies. This fight had taken place hours ago, perhaps even a whole day. Wherever he’d been taken—and he had been taken, she assured herself; taken and not killed—he was long gone now.

[simatomica]

shuffle your favorite playlist and post the first five songs that come up. then copy/paste this ask to your favorite mutuals ♥️

V.A.N - Bad Omens (ft. Poppy) Fallout - Sleep Theory Under the Skin - Calva Louise Lejos de Ti - The Marias Fur Elise - Faouzia

[thesomewhatliterateaxolotl]

(Ask game) 💖🥖📖 for Maria or ❤️‍🩹🛌🌌 for Susato :3

As always I do not shut the fuck up so I will do both :3

Maria

💖- Happy headcanon: When Maria was a toddler, she was so intent on playing coroner and conducting pretend autopsies that her mom had a toy autopsy kit made for her. Shame London toy stores didn't already have em smh

🥖- Food headcanon: She has food texture sensitivity due to the Autism. Bananas, overripe fruits, and mushy foods are the worst offenders. She likes spicy foods, especially curries, provided that they're prepared right so the texture doesn't put her off. the Sithe household has a cook, but Maria grew up cooking once in a while with Courtney <3 she's got the precision and knife skills for it

📖 - AU i'd like to see them in: Gothic horror setting with lots of intrigue and strange experiments and zombies PLEASE

Susato

❤️‍🩹 - Angsty headcanon: God this poor bunny. The trip from Dover to Tokyo she takes in between the games is so viscerally emotional, because she's all alone and thus unfettered. She doesn't have to be strong for anyone. She stays up late writing her thoughts out in between reading stories and law and encyclopedias to distract herself. When the words no longer look like words, she cries herself to sleep at her desk while, in her mind, Kazuma's apparition drapes a blanket on her shoulders.

🛌- Sleep headcanon: Susato dreams, and a lot. They're often adventure dreams where she's chasing down a criminal, or where she has to fight someone to save the people she loves (and is extraordinarily powerful). She has a lot of nightmares, too, and Iris makes her an adorable Usato plush to chase them away <3

🌌- Zodiac headcanon: Ooh I'm no zodiac expert but perhaps scorpio with libra rising? For Chinese zodiac, I'd love Year of the Rabbit for her but given the canon timeline her birth year is most likely 1883 (Year of the Goat) or 1884 (Year of the Monkey). I could see both descriptions with her personality tbh!

[Ask game]

[jasdiary]

Ahaha what if 5C for Maria-

Therapist : Cute Maria can’t hurt you, she’s not real

Cute Maria :

Clothing Ask Game here! (Open)

[theodoravery]

ok ok more seriously. bingo for lou reed, theodora & one for maria theresa

lou > theo > maria

[powertaco]

On the subject of formatting the realationship stats on Ocean of Stars, if you can't find how you had it before, this is the first thing that came to my mind, since ao3 uses HTML for basically all formatting. Not necessarily the prettiest thing, but it's an option if you prefer not to have everything squished together.

Fun fact, it's been ages since I did any HTML and I still remember how tables work.

unlisted pastebin post for copy+paste purposes here.

Don't feel bad if you don't use it, only only took about 5 minutes from conception to this Ask. And it was just as much to see if I could remember HTML/whether AO3 supported these tags as it was me attempting to be helpful.

@trialbystory

[cloudgazing]

congrats to your little brother!!! that's super cool i hope you had a fun time celebrating! sorry about the limbo but yeah sometimes it's just like that :( i hope you can feel better soon <3 my week's been ok it was my sister's bday and tomorrow 4 friends are graduating so i'm attending that (+ yesterday i made little cards for them) but the week has beeen wayyyy way too warm.

tysm friend!! we see very happy and proud :( we are all also very tanned and burned from sitting in the sun for hours . why is it graduation days are never overcast.

[castawavy]

question of the day for crezaton... which one of your oc's would eat soap to win a bet🤔

isaac would in a heartbeat, jude as well (both of them are idiots there wouldn't even need to be money involved)

[princessmacedon]

eclair - do they want to one day be married?

it would be nice, for sure, but it isn’t a need! I think the primary example of romantic love in her life is Lena & Julian — and what she takes from that, which aligns with her own personal views and feelings, is that being together with your person is the most important part! sharing your lives together, making each other happy and apologizing when you hurt their feelings instead, finding solutions together… you don’t explicitly need a pretty ceremony or a special title to do that, and you don’t need to be married to be together for a long, long time!

basically, she cares more about the spirit of the word than the letter of it, but for sure she would like to find someone she can act married with HAHA ^^ she’s someone who thrives off of being with other people, and who truly feels that happiness shared is doubled.

that being said, while a wedding also isn’t a necessity, having one would make her really happy! it doesn’t need to be a grand thing, but i think she’s probably internalized it in a simple but romantic sort of way — a day with pretty flowers, where you share a meal with the people you love and promise your special person that you’ll keep cherishing them the way you have and more… or something like that NDNNENND sugar sweet, like the seed of a fairytale that grew into a simple, if flowery dream, Maria would be happy to… well, simply be happy!

[lilaccatholic]

Go to bed 👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼

^^^moodboard for when my beloved mutuals yell at me to go to bed from across the planet

[shivunin]

Hello!

Saw this just now, so ignore it if you don't feel like it anymore, but...

👾

Thank you Arja!! 💗

For Maria from Ashes on Your Eyes by Deb Talan:

So much of Hawke's story is losing it all and then having to start all over again somewhere else. I think it does remind me of a phoenix in so many ways. Maria in particular is someone I associate so strongly with fire and ashes, so this song really calls to that imagery. And the idea of not only facing beginning again, but doing so alone? That is something that she fears so much she almost makes it happen more than once.