#adventure time elements

[reigobun]

luv uuuuuu

[geometryyaoi]

lets be together even at our worst 💕🍭

[localcoffeeshop]

i feel like Bubblegum's transformation in/role in elements is so underdiscussed in terms of really appreciating what it says about her as a character ugh UGH i love elements and even though PB is not there for long, every moment she's there drives me nuts. like her control driven impulse, her attempt to recreate the Mother Gum (and have a world where everything is safe, everything makes sense, nobody questions her, nobody confuses her) being so powerful she could transform OTHER elementals AND she almost took over the entirety of Ooo. being so obsessed with making everyone happy and carefree and connected to her... reminds me of her looking at her family turned into candy people in bonnibel bubblegum (episode) and saying they were happier and more unburdened that way. elemental was kind of her outlet to feel that really intensely.

and also just to reiterate she literally seemed to be the most powerful elemental there, not because candy is inherently more powerful than the other three, but because her force of will; her convictions and her obsessions. i LOVE HER SOOO MUUUCH.

[zhezhy]

[rune-tisms]

save me adventure time save me

[anthurak]

So as a follow-up to my post about Marceline's super tragic and angsty prequel to the Elements Arc hidden in the episode ‘Ketchup’ yesterday, here’s a fun little ‘What-If?’ idea I’ve been thinking about for a while that could branch off from it:

If Marceline really did go all ‘feral, angry vampire girlfriend warpath’ on Patience both for what she did to Bonnie and also to find a way to help Bonnie, what if Marcy went a little… further?

So that when Finn, Jake and BMO later return to what was once the Candy Kingdom in Skyhooks, we see that Marceline, even ‘Marshmaline the Campfire Queen’, is conspicuously absent.

Then later, when Finn, Jake and Ice King are traveling through the new, desolate Ice Kingdom, they start hearing a soulful, sorrowful tune echoing through the otherwise silent wastes. A song sung by a very familiar voice…

And when the trio finally get inside the new Ice Palace, they find not Patience St. Pim, but rather Marceline the Ice Queen.

Basically, what if in her rage at Patience and desperation to find some way of helping Bonnie, Marcy actually devoured Patience’s soul, and thus inadvertently became the NEW Ice Elemental herself?

Now funny enough, I feel like this change wouldn’t actually have much of an effect on the Elements Arc itself. For one, I highly doubt that Marceline would be in any condition/willingness to actually help Finn and Jake. Remember that the effects of Ice Elemental contamination induce overwhelming ennui and depression.

So if that got dumped onto Marceline of all people? In the midst of her losing Bonnie to her own elemental corruption? Yeah, at this point I think our girl isn’t going to have the will to do more than stay cooped up in her new ice tower singing angsty, gay love songs for her lost candy girlfriend/soulmate with her new ice-fox backup choir. Now of course they would certainly be THE ANGSTIEST and GAYEST love songs you ever did hear, but still.

Like the big danger for Finn and Jake isn’t that Marceline tries to keep them there or is otherwise antagonistic, it’s that her music is so sorrowful/angsty it actually carries the depression-inducing elemental contamination that threatens to sap people’s will to go on and making them think of lost loves. Which could lead to some interesting character-moments for Finn: Like Marceline’s song first dredge up his old feelings for Bubblegum and Flame Princess, but Finn is actually able to push through the depression and yearnings because he’s moved on from those feelings and can recognize that the relationships they represented have either ended (Flame Princess) or never existed in the first place (Bubblegum). And when the songs make him think of Huntress Wizard, Finn is able to push through because he has a far more casual relationship with HW and doesn’t have the kind of deep yearnings for her that would easily paralyze him with depression.

Of course the most interesting part of this new version of Winter Light would be the potential meeting and conversation between this new Ice Marceline and Ice King/Simon. From Marceline potentially musing on how she now knows how Simon feels, to Ice King possibly having a weird, distorted heart-to-heart with Marceline where we see just a glimpse of Simon.

Following this, I don’t see this change having much of an effect on the rest of the arc, with perhaps one small but still noteworthy addition: When Finn, Jake and IK flee the new Ice Kingdom, Finn calls out to Marceline something to the effect of if she does miss PB so much, she should go see her. Then later during Hero Heart when Princess Bubblegum candifies Phoebe and the rest of her flame army, Marceline actually DOES show up in a dramatic and very impressive display of power, possibly with her own ice army. Finn at first thinks she’s here to help, but it turns out Marcy isn’t here to fight, but simply to see Bonnie. And when her followers also start getting transformed by PB, Marceline simply accepts the candification herself to become Marshmaline. Simply because now she CAN be with Bonnie.

You know, all to really dial up the ‘All is Lost’ vibe of that episode.

Now this means that Skyhooks II and the end of the arc play out the same as they did originally, with Finn and Ice King managing to hit the LSP-shaped elemental-reset button and undo everyone’s elemental corruption. I mean, maybe Bonnie and Marcy have a Big Damn Kiss a season early after they get de-candied, but I think it’s easy to imagine they probably already had a BDK off-screen in the original XD

Of course I think we can all agree that the real interesting angle to this change is the potential of Marceline being the new Ice Elemental on rest of the series. Admittedly, it is a bit hard to imagine the existing plot-points for the rest of the series being affected much by Marceline now having some ice powers. Aside from her Dark Cloud kaiju form she breaks out in Come Along With Me now likely being a Dark BLIZZARD form.

Instead, the really interesting potential of this change comes in how this might affect Marcy’s dynamic with Simon and how she might go about adapting to her new abilities. I think we can all agree it would be fun to see Marcy and Bonnie trying to figure out their new elemental powers together. Though consider this: If Bonnie was visited by the spirit/past-incarnation-memories of Chatsberry, what if Marceline ends up being visited by the spirt of Urgance Evergreen? You know, the being who made the Ice Crown?

Really makes you think where something like that could lead…

[ghostixir]

[mijikai12]

@reigobun's art is so cute!!!

: )

[brynnstic]

Do you think she’s bespoke

Also I used a new brush do u like it

[sneakyfindlay]

Will never not love Inferno Finn

Hehehe

[h3avenlymoon]

sorry for inactivity have a fun

[reigobun]

blades

[the-rainbow-suit-dude]

Anyone else feel like Fire Finn from Adventure Time: Elements needs a name? Like, I know he’s super minor and not very common in fan art, but Candy Fern got his own name! And, I have a contender:

Flint the Human

[ice--daddy]

Where is Jake?

A "pre-canon" comic of that AU that I'm doing with my friend

I've never made a comic before... It's exhausting...

I ended like this after this comic

[ninebaalart]

Candy and Slime Paintbrushes

technically speaking Neopets already has a candy paintbrush, but this is more to lean into Adventure Time's elemental system. Might do the fire and ice paintbrushes later but I wanted to do these two in particular since they're both fairly unique elements.

Included transparent PNGs of the brushes for fun, use them however you want

[jamsandwichhfh]

Hi im alive