#dark excalibur

[bluheaven-adw]

Thank you tumblr for absolutely destroying image quality. Freaking wtf?

Some more Dark Excalibur AU

The Knighting of Steve Palchuk

We all agree that Steve needed a better arc than what RotT gave him. He deserved a chance to be a hero, a path that he started in Wizards before it fizzled out into being the comedic relief. Wizards set everyone up as the better generational mirrors to Camelot. Jim to Arthur, Claire to Morgana, Douxie to Merlin, Toby probably to Galahad, and Steve very obviously to Lancelot. I've said at the start that no one comes out of this AU unscathed, so while Steve gets the heroic redemption, it comes at a cost, one that pulls on that parallel.

RotT in the Dk-E still happens, I'm not letting everyone get their happily ever after at the end of Wizards. But I'll be damned if I end it with Toby and so many others dead, and Jim pushed into a timeline reset. You can thank Steve for that. It's because of Steve that Toby lives. Steve goes with Toby in the Taco truck, and it is Steve that yanks Toby out of the way of the collapsing debris. But Steve becomes pinned himself, resulting in the loss of his arm. An act of selflessness and bravery, valor and sacrifice, that earns him the title of First Knight of the Roundtable of New Camelot. An equal advisor, responsible for not only the protection of Camelot, and those Jim has claimed as his (which is everyone, human, troll, changeling, down to the last gnome), but also finding and training new knights, those who value all life and are willing to fight to protect it, and want to see the worlds of man and magic together in harmony instead of hate and fear.

And so we come to the Knighting of Steve Palchuk. This isn't just pomp and meaningless ceremony, this has true weight and meaning to both Jim and Steve. Jim pulls on Excalibur's magic, his voice resonating with ethereal power, creating a bond of trust and loyalty that goes both ways, only formed if given willingly. Knight to his King, King to Knight, both to the protection of all worlds and their peoples. Jim's eyes light up in tandem with the blade as the power of Excalibur and Nimue courses through him, flames licking along the blade's edge and into Steve. Steve's armor reflecting this bond as the magic burns through him.

And like Lancelot, Steve will get a fully functional prosthetic arm. There will be hardship, adapting to this new reality. But Steve has become a hero. A man of courage... far from his highscool self. A survivor, who will fight with everything he has.

Rise now, Sir Steve, First Knight of the Roundtable and New Camelot.

Closeups below

Notes: some of the descriptive wording around the ceremony itself came from a discussion about Jim using Excalibur for the knighting, and are used with permission of Sakon76, who is a much better writer than I.

Expect more if Steve's story at a later time.

[jae-in-a-trenchcoat]

A drawing based on @bluheaven-adw’s Dark Excalibur au!

Had a great time working on this

[az-daniels-yeeter]

For @bluheaven-adw’s Dark Excalibur DTIYS

Here’s the OG Masterpiece:

And here’s mine:

Honestly Dark Excalibur is really cool and this was a really fun challenge

I love getting the chance to see different perspectives

[escape-from-arcadia]

This is my submission to the Dark Excalibur DTIYS hosted by the lovely @bluheaven-adw!

Needless to say, this took me a while XD. I actually originally was going to draw Jim, but then I started drawing a lil' Claire that I loved. I ended up scrapping the first version I made to use a more interesting pose for the two of them. (Also Blu is the Queen of Jlaire content, so it is fitting for Jim be with Claire here lol).

Thank you to Blu for 1) creating such an awesome AU, 2) hosting such a fun DTIYS + extending the deadline, and 3) providing all of those clean references. (They were a freakin' live saver.)

Original

Some WIP screenshots from wildly different times under the cut, plus aforementioned Claire in a style that is far from my usual one:

Told you this style is nothing like my usual one.

[honeyxmonkey]

For @bluheaven-adw Dark!Excalibur DTIYS!!

Here's hers:

Beautiful!

And staring at it for a solid 15 minutes looking at all the details inspired me to redraw one of my old magic sibs arts but with her lovely Dark!Excalibur armor 👀💜

Mine:

As you can see, many more details in this!!

I think this is my new favorite Jim armor/sword headcanon and it's the only way I'll be drawing it from now on

[theslayerbrother]

Feral Queen Claire's hc inspiration form @bluheaven-adw King Jim's Hc

ALSO WARNING there's Some Angst here.

Claire always make Sure that her friends Would be Safe Especially Jim.

Claire go with her beloved King to Adventures Sometimes by themselfs other times with toby and Blinky.

Claire became a lot more talented in Shadowmagic She Learn how to Have a better Self Magic Control form Douxie.

Claire Often times not really good in Negotiation Especially because Some of trolls Strict rules and Law remind her of her Own Parents.

and Most of the times She doesn't really need to do it because Jim Blinky and toby take cares of it but in the times that that she need to do it. She learn form Jim to have better Control over Emotions when she need to talk to Someone that she doesn't Like a Similar thing that happened with her and Morgana. tho Claire have Still Problems with that.

Claire have Nightmares of Losing her friends and Especially Jim and Sometimes Cry while Sleeping which is why she Sometimes Cuddle with Jim.

if Jim get injured Claire is the one who takes care of him and she learn how to take care of injured Person form Barbara.

She also is very interested in troll Lore and History form Blinky. she always asked Questions to Blinky and he always happy to answer.

Claire will always stand up to her friends when Someone try to hurt them.

While She is very Extraverted in her relationship with Jim, she is still very introvert when meet with new People.

Claire Love her Parents but she prefer to be with friends.

[risziarts]

[batsbreath]

The Dark Knight Returns, Alexander McQueen, Jermey Scott, Sean Ellis, 1998

[avengedog]

Excalibur Back

[thenineofus]

We need to bring back 80's style fantasy movies ASAP, it's the only way we can save cinema!

Grab a bunch of special effect makeup artists, synth music, hyper realistic puppets, matte paintings, scale models, and most importantly, a pop rock band that simply will never make it to compose the theme song based on just the title of the movie and nothing more.

Quick, guys, we need to save cinema!

[bluheaven-adw]

Jimtober #9: King

Well if I'm going to Dark Excalibur everything else, might as well do the throne too.

Some closer shots

[short-boii]

Imagine if all of Sonic’s transformations were stuck in one room

I love these silly heggies

please forgive my awful handwriting

the au is callled “Me, Myself and I” and it’s by @/pancreasmachinebroke on tiktok

[badsongpetey]

I'm late bc a lotta life happened to me in the last month, BUT I still wanted to post my dtiys for @bluheaven-adw Dark Excalibur AU. Apparently right now my style is spiderverse lol It was fun to draw my OG fandom guy.

[beauh]

It was SUCH AN HONOR to voice Eggman and Cyber Super Sonic in this amazing video!

I hope you all enjoy!

[honeyxmonkey]

Dark Excalibur Jim for @bluheaven-adw

A handsome boi!