#dargonics

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

Just want to add to your mv x er madness that I think the Millicent questline would also be an extremely impactful one for both Arthur and John (if they could even survive to do it). Just the thought of another young girl that is cursed by forces out of her control. Dying. They would attempt to aid her in a heartbeat after talking to Gowry. Then later trying to take control over her life and learn about her mother only to be turned on for some predestined ascension and rebirth. One she did not choose. That would hit pretty hard I think. Then her pulling out the needle in the end...There would be no argument about killing Gowry in the end if they find out his part in that.

GOD, FUCKIN... YEAH...

they'd be so fucking pissed about the worship, i think. i mean, everything about the situation, but it's the fact that she's infested with this thing that is slowly destroying her and causing her so much agony and they want to prolong it. they think it's holy. that hurts them both SO badly in different ways, i think. the second they hear about that they're like oh we NEED to get her out of there.

i can't decide if they would be sympathetic towards or suspicious of gowry. like, on the one hand, the guy seems to be... trapped in his home? maybe? and claims to be her father, or as close to one as she has, and seems to worry after her and, outwardly, be much more motivated towards her safety than any of the rot worshippers do. but. there's just. there's just Something about him.

god, also, his dialogue after millicent visits and leaves the shack. "Please make certain that little Millicent goes unharmed. Like her mother, she has the stuff to be a great warrior, but commands only one arm, and is yet preciously young." how much further can we twist the fucking emotional knife into arthur here. she's so young and small and fragile and has suffered so much and won't you keep her safe? won't you promise? please? please?

and the end of the questline... the overwhelming sense of failure. wanting to honor her choice and not force her onto anyone's path of fucking godhood but torn against the knowledge that the only other path she can choose is death. that she'll die either way, in some capacity. they tried so hard and in the end all they did is give her some different kind of final suffering.

i feel like arthur would ignore the risk of rot, just to hold her as she died. if that's the only thing left he can do.

also they totally cheese o'neil into the rot geysers right there's no way they fight that dude fair and square

[thelemonsnek]

So apocalypse DS gets passed around. Is that DS the link to Ingo and Emmet returning? Is that their twisted world, is it a mirror to theirs or are they from a completely separate one?

Also I imagine galvantula line in the apocalypse DS is under the control of the Web. So they will encounter and mess with you according to the Web's desires. No longer just found in charge stone cave.

With regards to the ds, nope! Ingo and Emmet get through on their own, using their subway systems :) though the idea of it effecting their universe is an interesting alternate timeline idea 👀

Ingo and Emmet getting back: heyy guys wow you really redecorated huh

Then Jon getting to the battle subway in the game and they're just there like hiii <33

And CURIO had the idea of. So y'know how part of the beholding mark means that the player character looks uncomfortably like you, the player? I'm just gonna copy paste what they wrote

"if its like a gradual shift with jon’s becoming as his strength grows so does his mark on the game, hilbert gradually becomes jon, that's so wildly fucked up from the ingame perspective"

LIKE ?? Tmauau would be so awful :)

And OUGHHHH web!galvantulas is SO fun!!! A guest for mr galvantula..... And then Jon wracking his brain trying to figure out when he encountered a web avatar that could've possibly done this to the game, and is this it? Is this all the web has done? Surely it can't be, right?

[quirkle2]

I saw your tags about Teru possibly being an apprentice to Ingo. Which made me think of Teru in the highlands. Where Melli is. I can't help but think this is a disaster waiting to happen with how similar those two are (at least before Teru had his character arc). Cat fight. Ingo has to literally drag him away by the scruff.

NO THAT'S FUCKIN HILARIOUS they would hate each other they would maul each other daily. ingo is already dealing with enough and now he has some scrappy kid to look after that keeps looking for a fight with the Only other person in this entire mountainous region. melli has a goddamn skuntank. do u know how pissed off teru is at the mere idea of being beaten by a skuntank

[blazichu]

I really love your fics and snippets with special emphasis on how you write Ingo and Emmet. You are very consistent with giving each of them interesting emotional development without diluting it into just sad times for sadness sake. I'm not saying it's bad to write things just to feel a strong emotion, but those emotions are more interesting and compelling to explore when characters get to feel them and come back stronger or even just learn from them in general.

I know I probably touched about this in the fic comments on AO3, but MHIMH was a wonderful example of this. I thoroughly enjoyed the ups and downs of Ingo's learning process where he has to push forward in an unfair situation. In the end he not only survived, he is now stronger and more in tuned with his ideals than ever while still holding his emotions and resolve to go home close to his heart.

I am so excited to see Emmet's side of this story in AGAS. I love the start and how it talks about how, while the pain is still there, he manages as well with life even if it is with a heavy heart. Emmet is also a very strong person and I will enjoy seeing his emotional development through his side of the story. As he learns of his brother's trials and resolve.

It is so rewarding to see that even when they are so far apart they will find strength in the other to move forward.

Oh, thank you! It's really kind of you to go out of the way to share your thoughts, and I'm very happy to hear that you enjoy my writing enough to break it down like this!

I agree that there's absolutely nothing wrong with a fic where bad things happen just because that's the story someone wants to tell-- and frankly, I see shades of that in one of my own pieces-- but in general, I believe that the depth of angst, horror, or what have you will always be enhanced by giving the piece moments of levity and hope. I think that probably contributes a lot to characterizations, too-- allowing them to fall into both extremes.

Admittedly, I do get a bit self conscious about my interpretation of the twins, because there are certain fanon conventions that I've started pulling away from in the past year. I feel like it's more visible with Emmet than Ingo, and that's going to be coming up in AGAS. As to your hopes for seeing him develop as a character, I think that definitely does happen, but I'm not going to go any further into that for now.

Ingo in particular… it's funny. I know you described Emmet as an "unstoppable force" in an earlier comment, and I see Ingo as being very similar, just in a more subtle or gradual sense-- like an inevitability. They have two very different connotations, but at their core, are very alike; it's an interesting interplay and part of what makes the characters fun to work with. Idk, maybe I'm being pretentious again xD

"It is so rewarding to see that even when they are so far apart they will find strength in the other to move forward." Just wanted to repeat that, because I love the way you worded it. I absolutely agree!

[hehe-hoho-ohno]

About the writer's block "I love you" thing.

Although you say you delete that phrase, believe me when I say that it bleeds into each paragraph like a watermark on a page because I have never read something that encompasses that phrase so much to me. It's such a fitting phrase for the story that has characters learning from scratch what it means to love and be loved.

And the platonic undertone really is what makes it so special as it is not common in plots like in misfits.

So thank you for pouring so much love into it.

Thank you, you're so sweet 🥺

[flummoxx]

[tresenellaart]

(Spoiler warning for Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom!)

PART 2 HERE Here's a silly comic based on @ayviedoesthings wonderful comic series about dragon HRT. For those wondering, this is not TransLucid related, though I might use myself and Tress as characters for silly comic ideas like these in the future. ^^

[chernobog13]

The evil wizard Orochimaru transformed into The Magic Serpent (1966).

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

I was thinking about how ironic it is that an astrologer that once studied the stars can no longer see them. Of course, I'm pretty sure it is more of a self visualization when performing magic as so many of the great sorcerers have a more spiritual connection to their discoveries and relation to the primordial current. Makes me think about Arthur's relationship with the stars. Obviously he is proficient, but fancied himself more of a musician at some point. That being said, art is all about inspiration and it wouldn't surprise me if he decided to study alongside his practice because he gained some inspiration from the stars. Music of the stars and all that. The sorceries we see from different conspectuses are so different and reflect on their creators. And, of course I can't help, but think of Thops and his barrier spell. It's the only one like it (other than carrian retaliation, but it is meant to use as a counter attack for other magic users) and is just so like kind, humble Thops to create such a passive protection spell. Not saying that Arthur would necessarily create spells, but that I think relation to the stars is very personal. Also it still makes sense that he can fathom them even when blind.

OH I LOVE THIS SO MUUUUCH! love love the idea of him taking more of an artistic than strictly mathematical tact with his sorcery. i feel like much like with thops' experiments, that's something that would not exactly be looked highly on, "oh, so you're just not smart enough to follow along the proper way, is that it," but could actually be an entirely new field of research in its own right if it were given serious consideration. like yeah the idea that the stars/planets make music or can be expressed as sound is definitely a really common recurring concept/theme, enough that i could have sworn it made it into elden ring somewhere, but i can't find it now so i must have been misremembering lol. welp that just means we get to put it in now ourselves

this also puts me in mind of the description of the starlight spell- "Even during the blackest nights, sojourns underground, or imprisonment in gaol, the stars are never far from a sorcerer's side." like yeah he probably hasn't seen them in ages even before he was blinded, and he's never seen them from the angle they're at in the lands between period, but he doesn't need to! he can still hear them and feel them no matter where he is. and i love the idea of arthur, who has so little faith in. anything really, still having this connection to something celestial that is for him probably not even about divinity or belief. it's just the beauty/harmony of the natural world, which he clearly already finds a lot of comfort in imo.

i would LOVE if he invented his own spell too tho. ooooh i wonder if it would be a sort of. reckoning by star positions type thing? something that he can generally use to guide/orient himself without needing to see or be directed. hmmmmm

[thelemonsnek]

Lmfao @ tmau: There must be a bit of an adjustment period for the strange new things that keep happening around the bosses since they got back. Emmet just shows up to work like a zombie out of the floor sometimes. How does boss Ingo seem to always be in the other room when we need him/ gossip about him?? I didn't even know we had a room there. I swear that room was not there before.

Also. Apocalypse ds. How did that pan out for Jon and the crew?

Yup! There's a bunch of stuff that the commuters, challengers and staff all need to get used to shdjd for example, Curio and I made it canon that Ingo eats paperwork if he's not paying attention, as a reference to a fic we both read!

Cameron: hey if you have a moment I'd really appreciate your feedback on this form,

Ingo, not paying attention: [eats the form]

Cameron:

Cameron: hey Ingo could you check out this other form too,

To keep things even Emmet gets to have dirt snacks. As a treat <3

And YEAHDJDJ Ingo just always being in the perfect place (for him)

Isadore voice guys I think Ingo has been gaslighting me, I don't know how he's doing it but he is

Ingo peeking around a doorway that definitely was never there before: what?

Isadore: HW-

And godd the idea of Emmet just rising up like a classic horror movie zombie in their office is SO funny

But yeah to be clear, despite the joking around it's not. Good. And the only ones who know how bad it really is are Ingo, Emmet, and their victims

And the apocalypse ds

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Gonna be so real we haven't developed this as much as everything else, except we definitely know that there's just a beat up old ds cartridge spinning at the center of it all. Honestly maybe it's still kiiind of the eye reigning over everything, since it's Jon's game?

Ingo and Emmet do get domains btw :3c which becomes plot relevant later on in the story

@curiositykilledtheradiostar is there anything else we developed about the apocalypse that I forgot about?

Actually also. Wouldn't it be so funny if the equivalent for the pupil were just. Someone playing the game. To be king of a ruined world you've gotta give in and become a gamer, Jonah 😤

[quirkle2]

HELLO YES I ADORE YOUR PLA x MP100 AU!

I have so many questions but will only ask a couple for now. How many of the characters are fallers/from another universe/time? How did Reigen fool the Galaxy Team this time? Are mob and ritsu okay???

Also for the dimple stuff there are just so many fun possibilities. Dimple is tough to place, but the way he acts in cannon is a bit similar to how Volo uses the player except Dimple gets a character arc. He could just be an evil spirit still and possess some poor dude like a settler or merchant. You could do a spiritomb thing. He could be conspiring with someone else. He could still get attatched. So many possibilities!

mob and ritsu are so far from okay my dude /silly

ALSO YEESS i could do so many things w dimple it's so hard to choose ... i didn't consider him having similar motives to volo somehow why did i Not think of that. dimple tryin to search for arceus,,,,, hmmm the thinker is thinking

[dragonlover736]

Pixel art of LDR moon, but as a polaroid photo!

I started out by imaging how the picture we took of him in chapter 5 would look like, but uhh.. I might’ve gotten carried away.

Yes he’s looking at a ghostbusters magazine!

This lovely moon design was made by @/spadillelicious, the creator of Love, Death, and Rollerskates. Go check them and their fic out!

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[digi-lov]

Megidramon Ace LM-026 by Kazumasa Yasukuni from Digimon Card Game Special Limited Set [E] / LM-03: Limited Card Set 2024 [J]

[rookamell]

I'm thinking about the meal after the whole "i made you dinner and desert please somehow figure out that means I'm in love with you" (and in my headcanon first kiss) fiasco and how both of them are sitting there unable to stop smiling but then they both start thinking and Lucanis is like ope thats a whole new relationship for me to fuck up i did not think about that mierda thats a lot of stress now that I am thinking about it and Rook is sitting there frowning going me??? He likes me???? What the fuck???? And by the time the meal ends both of them are sweating and avoiding eye contact and Davrin Taash and Neve are making eye contact across the table like how the fuck did they somehow manage to get worse (after hc kissing)

[tresenellaart]

Here's part 2 of my Dragon HRT comic, based on @ayviedoesthings' comic of the same name. PART 1 HERE

[volpestarks]

Who was *your* Veilguard Romance?