#apprentice talk

[bluehattedapprentice]

You know sometimes it doesn't really occur to me the wild implications of fictional characters having a confirmed age can have when you take into account the plot of the games.

Luke is 10 in LS/SC, 11 in MM, 12 in AL and 13 in all the OG trilogy game (the crossover included if you take into account that he wears is og trilogy outfit).

How wild of a year that's gotta be for a 13-year-old. I mean with the other games he's had (I'm assuming) at least some time to process the events of that game's plot but like

In a single year Luke, a 13-year-old boy, has:

learned there's an entire village made of robots that will stop working should the reinhold's family gold be touched

breathed in hallucinogenic gas that caused him (and others) to believe a 50-year-old town was not 50 years old

basically kidnapped (along with layton, phoenix and maya) by a company that used plant chemicals to make a town believe they lived in a medieval town with witches their whole lives and was trapped there for about 5 days and barely slept

Believed his beloved mentor/father figure was dead via goldification and very much grieved for him (even though he thankfully was not dead- I've rambled about this in slightly more detail here)

some time prior to UF/LF learns his parents are planing to move to america and isn't happy about it

believed he met his future self when it was just some guy(tm) who looks a lot like him

said guy then proceeded to almost destroy london

moves to america

What a year.

[precariouswizardry]

[energ00n]

Dpax dentas headcanon!

aka I wanted to draw teef

[numberonejeanshipper]

apprentices

[skeletoninthemelonland]

Gabriel, Jeremy, Susie and... Vanessa? Vanny???

oh, and Glitchtrap too (he's in the computer Vanessa is holding)

[findingcrow]

"Halt and Will" this, "Will and Horace" that, I'm a little insane recently so can we please. please can we talk about Gilan and Will because I'm being driven up the WALLS about them

Gilan first meets Will at the Gathering and he's like, "oh, this dude is tiny. but he's polite and Halt trusts him, so I do, too." and then they find out the Kalkara have been released and that Halt wants him- which is cool, whatever- and Will to go and help him track it. And he's completely fine to put his own life at risk, because he knows Halt and the kingdom and himself, but the moment it processes that Will is going to be walking into danger, he completely stops. I mean sure, he comes around to the plan, but one of the first things he says is, "But he's only a boy!" He barely knows this kid and wants him far away from any kind of danger. And when he listens to Halt, when he sees that Will is fully capable of taking care of himself, he even places trust in him, allowing him to ride Blaze to Redmont and beyond.

And then he takes him on a mission in the Burning Bridge. Can we just. Really process that. Like we all talk about Halt grieving Will after watching him be shipped away, but think about Gilan, who had left Will in charge and the next time he hears about him, he's probably not alive. The guilt would tear him apart. That was his brother, that was the boy he joked with and gave advice to and watched grow, and he left him for only a few days and suddenly he was gone. Not only did he have to grieve, he had to grieve on his own- Halt was spiraling, Crowley was trying to keep Halt in control, and the Rangers still had work to do. He couldn't react like Halt because someone still needed to help search for the convicts. He could only stand by, knowing it was his fault, blaming himself for leaving, unsure if his brother was alive or dead, watching his father become closed-off and wreckless.

When the time comes, he can't even search for Will. Halt goes, losing his title- the way he had even met Gilan, his shared aspect with the man, the part that had initially made him family- to find his brother without him. Gilan has to wait for a year, now without two family members rather than one, unsure if either of them were okay. He didn't even know if they would come home. And still, he has to blame himself, because if he had just taken Will with him back to the kingdom, if he had waited a little while longer, none of this would have happened.

And then Will comes back. The bright boy he had known so long ago is now even smaller than when Gilan had first met him. He has a hard time remembering things and gets cold too easily for a boy his age. His skin is pale and his eyes are tired, and deep down Gilan thinks that he did this. Will went through things no Ranger, especially no Ranger's apprentice, should go through, because of one careless mistake on Gilan. He doesn't know what even happened to him! All he knows is that Will and Halt have changed and Gilan hasn't. He tries to bond with him again, and everyone tells him not to blame himself, but holy shit it all went so wrong and Gilan barely had the chance to know.

And they end up okay, of course. Gilan works to give Will advice in his last year of training, as the mocking-older-brother he is, he makes fun of him when the younger apprentices model themselves after him. But I really think, deep down, Gilan still thinks about what could have happened if Halt hadn't been faster. He thinks about what might have happened if he had been smarter. Gilan wakes up in a cold sweat knowing that he ruined anything and was lucky for it all to be okay.

Anyway, I think we should have more bonding scenes for Gilan and Will and I want them back and I miss them and they mean so much to me and htey're brothers and and

[real-odark]

[bobellafofella]

Oh, Fitz, I always imagined that, had I the chance, I could show you off as befitted you. And look at you.

[sashadealltheknives]

Its thinking about hakea hoursss

what if you gave up everything when you were young to create a coven that brings witches together in a desperate attempt to save your world, and then lived so many lifetimes you couldn't really care about it anymore?

What if you lived through so many world-ending events and kept watching everyone else come and go while you always stuck around, checked out but never quite able to retire? And then watched as the coven you created dwindled from 13 to 7 to 5 and were ready to let it become 3.

And then all it took was a naive young witch to remind you what it was like to care about that thing that you made, and you decided, at age one thousand and whatever, to start living again, and pick up yet another fight. and you were also the funniest bitch at the conclave while doing it

[mellilune]

Solomon when referring to MC: My adorable apprentice™. My cute, lovely and sexy apprentice™. My darling apprentice who can do no wrong™. My precious apprentice whom I wanna fuck so hard™. My dearest apprentice™.

[anmechokola]

I just think it's funny how fucking overpowered Shanks is

Like he lost his dominant arm at 27 years old

I don't even need to get into the chronic pain that comes with losing a limb, or the balancing problems, especially on a surface that's constantly moving or tilting (ship), especially for doing something physically demanding like fighting

He was already on par with the world's greatest swordsman at the time, and then he lost his arm, and then in less than 10 years he not only learned to use his non dominant hand for everything, he got good enough at it to be so strong and such a threat that he was named an Emperor of the Sea along with three other monsters who: a) all had devil's fruits; b) were all much more experienced; c) were all former members of the Rocks Pirates, a group so strong it took Garp AND Roger working together to take them down; and most importantly d) they didn't have the setback of losing an arm and having to train to fight all over again (assuming he wasn't ambidextrous, and even then considering he still wears his sword on his right side, despite that probably making it a bitch to draw quickly, it seems obvious he at least prefered his left hand).

He's also the only one of the original four Emperors left after all the chaos the Worst Generation brought to the New World.

No wonder Buggy has the king of all inferiority complexes, imagine growing up next to that

[bluehattedapprentice]

WAAAAAA MY BEAUFIFUL BABY BEST BOY LUKE!!!! MY PRECIOUS LITTLE MUFFIN BOY,,, THE BPY EVER,,, SQUIMSHES HIS CHEEKS,, GENTLY HOLDS

[corxoran]

haunted

[erinwantstowrite]

Erin what’s ur opinion on Batman #159 and Jason now (potentially?) returning to an antagonist role?

idk why im even surprised atp DC will never allow peace and will always fall on cheap writing. "he's a villain again!" yeah ig it was about time to fall back on that since they can't come up with anything else

[luciosfanpage]

[jade-of-mourning]

the mighty fucking herons

rough height order in my head i guess… edvin (168cm) —> lydia (170cm) —> jesper (171cm) —> hal (173cm) —> stefan (178cm) —> ulf & wulf (182cm) —> stig (190cm) —> ingvar (idkreallyfuckingfallcm)

shading was half assed but i tried to make the colors palatable. clothing and hair are both not historically accurate but neither are the horned helmets now, are they?