#adventurers quartet

[scarnemo]

remember the original of this? no you don’t.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Lights Out dream team - scribbled Silly Style. low quality, even

[goji-pilled]

part 2 of tarnished quartet succeeded in their quest and now miquella gets to be an adult but at what cost? welcome to hell- i mean adulting, blondie.

[fatedfragment]

Haunting the narrative

jujutsu kaisen/ the adventure zone: balance/ demon slayer/ petscop/ ghost quartet

[thatcryptidinthewoods]

You guys ever think about how the only times we see Green (m) in short sleeves in the manga is in the flashbacks of his training with Chuck and in FRLG arc?

You ever think about how wearing long sleeves was probably a defence/comfort mechanism after the trauma Chuck put him through, and how him wearing short sleeves in FRLG symbolises how - just as hanging out with him and Red helped heal some of Blue's trauma - hanging out with Blue and Red helped Green heal from some of his trauma?

You ever think about how being turned into stone by Sird probably undid that healing, hence why he goes back to wearing long sleeves in HGSS arc and beyond?

Because I think about it. I think about it a lot.

[a-side-character]

Taz Balance as Ghost Quartet

I'll get right to the point: I have had an animatic bumping around in my head for about three years now that features the Taz Balance player characters and the song "The Telescope" from the musical Ghost Quartet. The problem? I can't draw at all. I can, however, write a decently convincing description of what my vision would be if I could.

So, here's my attempt to do just that! In the hopes that even just one other person has their perception of this song completely overtaken by The Adventure Zone like I have. Let's begin:

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"Look into my telescope, tell me what you see"

[Wide, aerial shot of Magnus standing in a white room in front of June, who is holding the chalice. We see Magnus from behind, and June has a neutral expression]

"I see a red star"

[Magnus leans in to look into the cup]

"Antares, red hypergiant star, 4900 lightyears away."

[Cut to static-filled images of Magnus' childhood. We see the scene of him protecting the dog most prominently]

"And a billion times larger than our sun]

[A quick still of Magnus as a young man, laying on his back and looking up at the sky. One of the suns is crystal clear, the other one is static-ed out]

"I see fire in the darkness"

[A black screen, illuminated by a torch]

"Rage against the void"

[The torch illuminates Magnus' face, and behind him a mob of angry villagers holding various weapons]

"I see everytime man cried out, and raised his sword"

[Magnus yells and raises his sword, lunging as though to strike at governor Kalen or his army]

"Against God"

[The momentum from the previous scene continues as the background falls away (as does the sword) and we see Magnus fall to his knees, burying his face in his hands in front of Julia's grave]

"That's good, that's good"

[Cut back to present-day Magnus and June. June nods somberly, and we see Magnus with tears falling from his face]

"Now look into my telescope, tell me what you see"

[We see the same scene as in the beginning, but this time it's Merle facing June in the white room]

"I see a blue star"

[Merle leans in to look into the chalice]

"Groombridge 1830, also known as Argelander's Star. A class G8 subdwarf (ha, get it, cause Merle's a dwarf? That's not the only reason he fits with this verse though BELIEVE ME) a member of the galactic halo"

[We see static filled scenes of Merle's past, with emphasis on his time as a young boy growing up in the church]

"I see mothers weeping in chairs, clutching their shawls in the morning"

[A shot of Hekuba standing on the front porch of her house, leaning against the pillar of the porch. Her eyes are aimed at the horizon and she looks angry, but when she looks down her eyes soften and she seems more sorrowful]

"Everything is lost, all is gone"

[We see what she's looking at, as Merle turns around and walks away from the house, leaving Mavis and Mookie looking confusedly at him and then up at Hekuba]

"And she tries to find the joy in life"

[Cut to a static filled image of Merle sitting at a table and talking to an unseen figure (John) with a speech bubble coming out of his mouth. The only intelligible words are "Find Joy"]

"But she is wasting away"

[Back to Hekuba, who turns around and back into the house. Before her back is to us we see tears in her eyes]

"That's good, that's real good"

[Back once again to Merle standing in front of June. He looks upset, though in a more reserved way that Magnus did. There is a heavy guilt in his expression]

"Now just one more time: Look into my telescope, tell me what you see"

[Our final member of THB, Taako, is now the one facing June]

"I see, I see two stars"

[Taako leans in to look into the chalice]

"Yes, Sigma Orionis AB, a binary star"

[We see static filled images of Taako's past, of him learning how to cook and of him staying in various places over the years]

"Two stars, lost in time"

[This time the childhood scenes stay longer, and we see those same shots expanded to include a static-covered figure (Lup) next to Taako in every single one]

"Oooh, two women, in the forest in the evening in a light rain"

[During the ooohs the images of the past swirl away, leaving only a dark screen. As soon as the words begin it alights on a wide, aerial view of Taako and Sazed in front of the Sizzle it Up truck. As the song mentions, it is dark and drizzling]

"The older has no expression on her face"

[In this case 'the older' is Taako, and we see an up close image of his face, looking down his nose at Sazed with an unfazed expression]

"The younger hangs her head down"

[Sazed lowers his head, presumably just after being denied the ability to join the show]

"The younger is in love, was in love, is in love, was in love"

[The scene changes with every 'in love' to various scenes. Taako performing with his hand in the air, a flurry of magic behind it. The crowd looking up in adoration, the bright sign, etc.]

"But the lover is in love"

[in this case 'the lover' is the audience. We see a shot of the faces of the underdark audience, looking excited]

"With the older not the younger"

[Taako on stage, joyously handing out samples. Sazed in the back, looking on with a dark expression]

"But the lover is in love"

[That same shot of the audience, only now seeming panicked and afraid. Some have doubled over, poisoned]

"With the older not the younger"

[Back to Taako, looking horrified, and Sazed, who turns his back to the audience]

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Alright, that's all I got! I'll admit I haven't been able to find a way to incorporate the little choruses in the middle and end, so if you have a way to tie them in please do let me know!

I really hope you see the vision, because I've been seeing this same little movie play out in my head everytime I listen to this song for YEARS.

[masked-and-doomed]

I hwiauh I erm I ahh uhh I uhhfiens I I I'm. I. Hwouh my god oh my god. Wahouh.

Soul. Mate. Not. Not even lover not darling not my love not beloved SOUL MATE.

DEAR SOUL MATE.

I'm I erm I uhm I wwoauhj. I. I didn't know we were close like that Mister Chronus I. I um. I wow. Wow. I uhm.

He might not mean it y'know it might just be a silly little title it's not like wahah it's it it he's just playinggg he's not for realll

[sekhithefops]

I can't be the only one who imagined Kalecgos using his mirror images for stuff other than arcane study and the like.

I dunno, I just think he'd have a lovely singing voice. >w>

[nexus-nebulae]

found my ancient mp3 player recently. finally found a charger for it and plugged it in. and remembered i found a yt playlist of the whole httyd movie chopped up into like 20 videos and i downloaded the mp3s of all of them to listen to on the school bus. which is why i can effortlessly quote the whole first movie now

[non-un-topo]

Every time spring rolls around I listen to Dear Wormwood again and am flooded with affection for the queer quartet

[pyromaniac-cyndaquil]

Hot take but I actually love celestial. 'ed sheeran jumpscare' yeah yeah agreed but like. The song is excellent and it's so funny that it was made for pokemon. Every time I hear it used for Normal Ppl Stuff I just sit there like heehee. Thinkin of the pokemon blorbos. Head is filled w scarlet and koraidon and arven and nemona and penny and it's :]

[kodanshamanga]

NEW Kodansha Digital:

🍳Yozakura Quartet, Volume 30🍳 By Suzuhito Yasuda

🎶Oushuu Hiizumi, Akina’s ancestor turned kinslayer and god of death. Once upon a time, he sincerely fulfilled his duties as the dispatcher of rampaging demons.

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[goji-pilled]

tarnished quartet succeeds and now miquella gets to be an adult, but at what cost???

[dreamperson-poll]

Some headshots I made for the Adventure Quartet! Labeled for your convenience :D

omg they look so cool i love it!!! may only good things happen to them

[poptartmochi]

agustín said You Cannot Know Anything About Me because any one of you could sell me out to the flaming fist 🤪🤪

[just-an-enby-lemon]

Nothing the MCU ever does will ever be as funny to me as this panel of classic Tony just wanting to disband the whole team after the first minor incovenience (Wasp and Ant Man wanting a couple vacation). Specially because after that he just hires three former supervillans who did absolutly nothing to prove they actually changed sides (Clint even introduced himself to say he was not evil annymore by kidnnaping their buttler) bolts alway to his own vacation and lets Steve (who had just came back from an adventure with Rick Jones and had no idea what was going on whatsover) deal with the new members he just hired and can may still be evil (they aren't this is Cap's Kooky Quartet introduction and I love Cap's Kooky Quartet but wow Tony that's very low, hilarious , specially because the comic has no self awareness - just like Tony - and Tony genuinally just trusts this people cause they told him they were good actually)