#darkstalker fashion

[cosplaylight]

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[goreumet]

𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔯𝔦𝔤𝔞𝔫 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔩𝔦𝔩𝔦𝔱𝔥

[dessi-desu]

Morrigan from Darkstalkers! This isn’t the first time I’ve drawn or designed for Morrigan. I drew her waaaay back in 2017, when I was starting to transition away from traditional media, but I still was uncertain of myself process and style wise. This was a particularly fulfilling piece to work on and compare how this piece turned out versus the old one. It has been a journey, but I am much happier with my work these days. Morrigan just screamed Mugler with a dash of Dita, so that’s where my mind was at when researching inspiration for her. I really want to actually draw more Darkstalker girls in 2023, after wanting to draw a complete set for years. I even started a Felicia sketch years ago, but never completed it. Q-Bee would also be so cute with the bee theme 😭🐝

[radioves]

just got unbelievably spoilered for wof LMAO (srsly not a big deal i picked up moon rising like 6 years ago and never got back into the series. i was never gonna finish that shit) but bro now im mad darkstalker sucked i thought he was cool 😔😔

NOOO AKVFDNJVNDF i didnt actually think anyone was going to read all of that 💀💀i shouldve put a spoiler warning on those tags sorryyy

[davontewagner]

Morrigan Aensland in my biker design. Artwork is made by oyq93 on Deviantart via commission by me. https://www.deviantart.com/oyq93

[knuckle-master]

Digital Drip: Morrigan & Lilith From Darkstalkers

[sandshadow9]

It’s hilariously ironic that Darkstalker refused to magically enchant Moonwatcher to like him (the implication being he wanted at least one person in his life who liked him for real) only to end up manipulating Moon the old fashion way with gaslighting, lying, isolation, victim blaming, etc

He really thought he was being so good

[bogleech]

well, you made a fighting roster for one of your favorite things, bugs, so why not do your second favorite? HALLOWEEN.....but you don't have to if you want.

I actually did that of my own accord with concept sketches once but it was two years ago so a lot of people haven't seen it.

It started when I made up a Darkstalkers fan character; a "scream queen" (type of horror movie actress in the 50's) and Bug Eyed Monster duo, with some more move ideas:

But then I decided to just make a dozen monster fighter characters of my own like it was its own distinct game and not Darkstalkers:

Mermaid who was partially eaten by people who thought it would make them immortal, instead it killed them because she was poisonous but she doesn't know that so her ghost is stuck on a revenge killing spree that can never be satisfied

Cartoon werewolf in a zoot suit and punk rock vampire with boombox coffin, I didn't come up with storyline for them, I just needed a werewolf and a vampire

Frankenstein's daughter who put her brain into her own monster in order to defend humanity against her dad's creations and other supernatural threats, I decided on this partly because I'm not really into superheroes but they're one of the top most common Halloween costumes so I tried to make a Halloweeny one that I'd like

Nurse who accidentally transfused herself with cursed mummy blood. I made this one because there's a picture I drew when I was real little of a bleeding mummy with the words "MUMMY BLOOD" on it that child-me thought was the scariest picture ever, and also because I love the (mostly Japanese) trope of medical themed mummies. Also based on the fact that "sexy nurses" are a top selling Halloween costume and then that easily ties into a Silent Hill reference. This all felt creepypasta-like so she's also like a slendersman

Old fashioned Halloween mascot pumpkin man with a vegetable ghost gang, actually the ultimate villain of the setting and a monster that eats children

"Bogeyman" fighter inspired by edgy 90's comic books, a ragdoll scarecrow grim reaper clown. She's a manifestation of the fears of children, but in the sense that she exists to destroy whatever threatens them so her main goal is to kill all other monsters and especially the pumpkin guy

Entire zombie outbreak as one fighter, represented by a cute little fungus mascot, but every fighting move is performed by zombies coming and going from the ground

shapeshifting space alien disguised as a generic housewife, the human disguise would animate like a doll being played with by invisible hands

Ideas for extra-weird, secret unlockable fighters:

Photorealistic giant insect

Vincent Price parody and all his moves are obvious special effects performed by a film crew in the background the whole time

Mysterious entity in a "morph suit" because that's become such a staple of Halloween costumes. Changes into all manner of colors and printed textures for different moves or is the token "mimic" character.

Completely normal middle aged office worker who was on his way to work when he was accidentally caught in the monster brawl, battles on the power of pure blind panic. The tournament put his name down as "I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE"

[eyesanddragons]

Albatross, Animus Dragons and Preventable Tragedies

(Also Known as: This tragedy was not inevitable, let's talk about responsibility)

(CWs: Murder, Abuse)

So, Legends Darkstalker as a book has a lot of thoughts about fate and inevitability. Clearsight and Darkstalker try and fail to create an ideal future for the both of them, Fathom is scared that he can't prevent his animus magic from destroying is soul, and the readers know how all of this is going to end since Legends Darkstalker is a prequel to Arc 2.

In the midst of all this talk about inevitability and fate we have...Albatross. Someone who we've known about since Arc 1 and know how his story ends. He causes the Royal Seawing Massacre, his magic allegedly "driving him insane." What's interesting about Albatross is that when you really look at his life, this historical version of it falls short in many ways. The retelling of his life leave out important context, and notably, scrub any idea that someone or multiple someones might have caused him to act like this.

It's Albatross' fault in the end, it's his fault for losing control, his fault for being "insane."

But if we take an actual look at the story in Legends Darkstalker you find that this really isn't the case.

Albatross found out he was an animus in a very...unpleasant way. He enchanted a shell to bite the claws off his sister, Sapphire. This event was deeply traumatic and would stick with Albatross for his entire life. You might be wondering why Albatross didn't fix Sapphire's claws considering his powers and I'll get to one of the reasons in a bit since it's very important to what I'm trying to say, but @/kinkajouwof breaks it down over here.

In short, most likely the reason why Albatross didn't fix it at the start is due to uncertainty if he really Could do it and because Albatross and Sapphire were terrified.

The reason more important to my point though is that Lagoon Actively Benefited from this fear. When Lagoon became Queen she would hold this action over Albatross whenever he was unwilling to do things to guilt him into following what she wanted him to do.

"This is a waste of time, Lagoon," he said. "Nobody ever tested me, but we figured out quickly enough what I could do. If any of them have a shred of power, surely they would of known by now. Or it will become obvious, sooner or later." "I'd prefer sooner," the queen said silkily. "If we find another animus in the tribe, that would make us twice as powerful, which would be quite useful given how the Mudwings and Rainwings have been behaving lately. And the earlier we find her, the sooner you can start to train her, and the sooner I can start to use her." "Besides," she added in a lower voice, so Fathom had to strain to hear her, "I think we would all prefer to discover our next animus in a less...dramatic fashion than you were discovered. Don't you?" Albatross flinched, just slightly. He cast a skeptical eye across the young. "My power is more than enough for whatever you need. I've given you everything you've asked for, haven't I? And I don't want an apprentice."

Afterwards Lagoon commands Albatross to start the test but you can see what I mean. Lagoon actively threatens Albatross and Exploits Him, and wants to find Other Animus Dragons to Exploit. He is not just a Subject to Lagoon, he is an Object to Lagoon. Non-sexual objectification.

She plans to do the same thing to another animus, Lagoon's rule was built on Exploiting the powers of the people she could Control. She wants to find them young so she could mold them into the tools she wanted them to be earlier. She wants to condition them to treat themselves as objects Now.

This treatment comes to a head during the banquet. Where Lagoon once again holds what happened to Sapphire over his head, while also threatening to Replace Him.

"Here is our first animus," Queen Lagoon said to the Skywings, who seemed to have figured that out themselves, judging by the looks of terror on their faces. "My brother, Albatross. We were just talking this morning about what his next project should be. I'm thinking big this time. Something that makes me invulnerable, perhaps. Or something that kills any dragon who might be a threat to me." Beyond Albatross, over the couches, Splash stiffened, and Fathom saw her crush one of the hibiscus blossoms between her claws. He glanced around and saw his father put a wing around Manta, who had gone pale. "Yes," Albatross said. "Although you recall I wasn't exactly enthused about any of those ideas." "Then it's lucky you're not my only animus dragon," Queen Lagoon said coldly. Fathom felt a shiver all the way down to the tip of his tail. If she asked him to do a spell like that, would he? Would he obey his queen and put his own mother in danger? Or disobey her, and perhaps put everyone he cared about in even worse danger? What would she do to Indigo If I ever said no to her? Albatross stopped right in front of the queen, snout-to-snout with her. Fathom couldn't read his face. He looked as though he'd been carved from stone, any emotions chipped away. "Do you think you're done?" Queen Lagoon said to him softly. "Do you think you'll ever be done atoning for what you did to Sapphire? It's not going to end Albatross. You'll always be mine."

This is a bit of a blunder on Lagoon's part since Albatross Kills her! She's revealed that she is Never going to let him go, that no matter how hard he works he's never going to escape. No matter what he does he will be an Object to her. Fight, Flight or Freeze, stay here and be worked to death killing hundreds of people or Escape Now.

And Albatross...chose Fight.

Note that Albatross literally says right here that he doesn't Want to make Lagoon Invulnerable, he doesn't Want to give her the power to kill people.

When he starts killing other people it's not because he became ax-crazy. He killed the Queen, no matter how horrible and cruel she was their all going to defend her...and they've never thought about him. They've never cared for him. To them he was also an Object.

So...he kills them too.

Now I'm not saying He should of killed all those people, murder is bad actually. But this is a Consequence of Lagoon and the rest of Seawing society's actions. This is the direct, real, bloody consequence of treating a person like an object designed to serve their every whim.

This wasn't something he was doomed to be, this is something that has a tangible cause and effect. The system and the way it treated him is What Caused This.

Except, none of the Seawings who survived Want to face that. They don't Want to accept responsibility for that. Why should they accept the responsibility and guilt of having lead one of their own to believe that murder was the only way to escape a truly horrific and abusive situation...when they have a perfectly convenient scapegoat. Remember...Albatross is an object. Lagoon died, not because she perpetuating a horrible abusive situation that her society allowed her to do due to the absolute power she was given, but because she handled Albatross Improperly. Animus magic is just a dangerous thing, and the people who can use it are dangerous tools. This isn't Their Fault for treating a person like an object, it's the fault of improper usage of a tool.

It's a more convenient story for everyone...except for Fathom who proceeds to be treated horribly and drown himself in guilt and shame for being Dangerous.

Seawing Society caused something horrible and instead of trying to fix it, turned their backs and pretended they did nothing wrong. When we see Anemone their doing the Exact Same Thing to her. She is an object, a weapon of war, and she will be treated as such. Anemone believes she's doomed to become evil and almost Kills her family out of the belief that she is doomed to become a mass murderer.

Albatross' Massacre was preventable, and that's what makes it tragic.

[fleshdyke]

new equo design + more info under the cut

equo’s story takes place in some sort of magic au some time between darkstalker and the main arc, somewhere around 1200 years after darkstalker was defeated. in this au, magic is a vague and widely defined concept separate from animus powers, and it’s a pretty normal thing and considered a gift. witchcraft is possible, but it’s considered very taboo to talk about.

equo’s father was a seawing and her mother a nightwing, and he’s the result of a failed attempt to resuscitate the nightwing population via hybrids. the idea was to raise hybrid nightwings on the mainland so they would grow up healthy and take them back to the volcanic island once they reached adulthood, but not all of the dragonets were found, and equo was one of the ones that was never brought back. the nightwings had meticulous records of every dragonet, though, and kept looking for her and any other missing nightwing hybrids.

they were raised by its father on a tiny islet in the bay of a thousand scales, hidden in a cave or bushes for most of the day. equo has always loved swimming, and while he was limited to a little cove for most of his dragonethood, she’s very good at it. they’ve always suffered from chronic pain, so he usually prefers walking to flying and swimming over all else, but she can fly and isn’t bad at it. equo’s always preferred meat over plants, no matter how much their father tried to get it to eat a much more plant-heavy diet like most seawings have. for the most part, equo grew up on fish, occasionally something else her father brought back like turtle or whale or seabird, but when he was old enough to fly and fend for herself, equo started to regularly hunt passing seabirds as they preferred a “meatier” taste as opposed to fishy like most of the stuff her father brought back. equo had always had an appreciation for the macabre, kept bones from prey as much as possible, and his father always encouraged it. when equo was ten, they set out on their own, at first sticking to the forested fringes of the sky kingdom where she could still regularly visit his father, but slowly migrating further inland and visiting less and less until they were completely self-sufficient.

at fifteen, equo lives in the woods between the sky kingdom and the rainforest, and has built himself a pretty good little home. she’s built her home half out of a cave, with a small coop of chickens and a couple small plots of crops. he’s built it all by hand and prides themselves on how sufficient she is with its talons. they also fashioned themselves leg braces to help with her chronic pain and wears them most of the time. she found a hobby in taxidermy and bone collecting, and spends a good chunk of his time doing just that. their house is decorated with taxidermy animals, wet specimens, disassembled and whole articulated skeletons, rocks and crystals she finds, random bones and pelts and feathers etc etc, tapestries she’s woven by hand, things like that. he’s most proud of his fullbody mounted stag and great horned owl, and has entire shelves of skulls on display. she has a colony of dermestid beetles for cleaning bones, as well as luna moth tents because they’re its favourite insect. she also has two pet crows that were both siblings found on the ground after their nest had been attacked by a predator, and they’re both very much bonded to him.

while equo was hatched on a full moon and granted seer powers, they didn’t manifest in the same way that an average nightwing’s would because of his seawing blood. she also practices witchcraft and necromancy, and is capable of bringing an animal back from the dead as long as the body is in good condition. they use witchcraft to make itself appear different to others, usually in a much more shadowy, fluid-like, monster-y form, but also sometimes can make herself appear invisible. he also likes to make light shows and other unnatural phenomena using his witchcraft, and sometimes even makes potions in a very traditionally witchy way. completely unknown to them, equo’s become known among the rainwings and more southern skywings as a sort of cryptid/monster that lives in the woods. she’s seen as a large, dark, spiny dragon that causes the death of any animals (and presumably dragons) it comes across, with glowing eyes and strange powers that allows him to teleport and be in multiple places at once. ironically, being a witch or necromancer isn’t part of her reputation. they’re completely unaware of the fact that other dragons know of it, much less that they’re scared of her. equo meets tiki after her hawk falls ill and she becomes desperate and seeks out the necromancer in the woods, but their full story is for another post.

[some-pers0n]

Wasp's ""death"" in TFOH is honestly my least favourite thing about it. Like,, cards on the table here, I don't like TFOH. I think it's truly the golden example as to why you need to plot out your multi-book arcs, as by the end she was more or less just kind of writing whatever first came to mind.

But...what happened to Wasp feels like it symbolizes how much the original story of the arc has been abandoned. Wasp, this great grand evil that we've feared for most of the arc, has been shafted and pushed to the side for two random new characters that were introduced in the second half of the final book. We never get a confrontation with her. The closest anybody gets to Wasp is Cricket in THQ where she watches her stab the eggs. Wasp has been relegated to...virtually nothing. Her role has been haphazardly replaced with a plant that's being controlled by a fetus and the world's most boring villain ever.

Wasp could've been great, and that annoys me the most. Wasp could've been this intimidating and terrifying villain. She's everything Darkstalker wanted to. The entire continent is practically under her control. Every HiveWing acts as her ears and eyes to keep everything going her way. An arc that focuses on her and her along ad a villain I would've loved.

But, no. She's casted to the side as soon as the Othermind is introduced. She's nothing anymore. Any fear she once had is stripped the moment it's revealed she's little more than a puppet. It doesn't make me fear Cottonmouth more. It makes me wish that Wasp was the true villain instead.

That's not even touching on how it was treated. Rather than being taken down by a character with some kind of connection to her, we watch as Luna observes a fight between Pineapple and Wasp. Pineapple, the random RainWing just introduced. A character who only has a connection to Jambu. He takes her down in a fashion that's just literally a copy of Scarlet's death. It's both figuratively and literally spitting in the face of a character with so much potential.

The funniest part too? She somehow isn't dead. She's tossed into one of the flamesilk factories along with her sisters. She's scarred just like Scarlet. Why is she alive. Why. Not even Tui knows why she kept her alive.

TFOH is such a bad book that it genuinely baffles me how terribly Tui stuck the landing. Remember kids: it's okay to not outline and whatnot for shorter and one-off books, but please for the love of Clearsight at least have an idea as to what your story will be like when you're making an arc that spans over five books.

[clownmoontoon]

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[minus1-kinhelp]

greetings and welcome to Minus1 Kinhelp! (formerly hollys-kinhelp) my name is damien/nyx (@darkstalkers-scroll) and I am the main/only mod of this blog. I take requests for fictionkin, otherkin, therians, otherhearted, and more! (Absolutely NO FACTKIN, but factives are alright.)

Stimboards: Semi-Open

Moodboards: Opened

Fashion Kits: Semi-Open

Care-Kit: Semi-Open

Name, pronouns, and title recs: Open (can be requested separately)

Icons: Open

Doodles: WHITELIST ONLY

DNI AND MORE INFO UNDER THE CUT!

anons [wip] - tag list - whitelist + blacklist

ABOUT

damien/nyx/belial/flint // he/it/unholy/night/wing/dark/magic // minor </3

all of my replycons are from @justanotherkinrequest by mod 🦜!

DNI

basic dni (pedos, zoos, proshit, ect), lgbtqphobe, exclusionists, anti-kin, anti-furry/"furry hunter", nsfw/kink blogs, support nekozuna, sashley, dream + other problematic dsmp members, j.k. rowling, or any other problematic people

[maples-helping-paws]

requests are open! 0/5

hello! welcome to maples kin help blog! kin help blog for Warrior cats kin, fictives, otherhearted, etc!! please SPECIFY when requesting! (ex: may I request a lionblaze moodboard with themes of the forest and ____?) pfp by saffronscales

I go by shadow/shade/mapleshade! he/it pronouns!

(ran by @darkstalkers-scroll)

requests types!

moodboards: open

icons: open

care kit: open

fashion kit: closed

name/pronoun recommendations: open

(semi-opened just means i might only do ones that catch my eye!)

tag system - anons

DNI (under the cut)

DNI: Basic dni (proship, pedo/map, zoo, etc) factkin, lgbtqphobes, anti-kin/therian, 'furry hunters', dream, sashley, j.k. rowling and orion supporters

[figurecollection]

just a question , what's you're favorite genre of figures ?

Like colorful , dark , scary , ect !

I like the 00's look since it's what I grew up with, I collect a lot of series that were popular in late 00's/early 10's. I love Mine Yoshizaki, Clamp, early Fate, Darkstalkers, Kaneko Kazuma... that kind of look.

if you mean more of a comprehensive aesthetic... I like punk/gothic themes, alt fashion especially. monster-y characters too, my fav miku figure I own is my Villain noodle stopper

she's so cute, I have her on a little chair next to my twst Malleus like theyre siblings.

[gear-project]

Annon-Guy: What would your idea of a good Fighting Game Story Mode be structured? How would you go about it im designing it?

So far, I think BlazBlue, Injustice and Mortal Kombat (9, X, 11 and 1) have the best fighting game story modes while incorporating the gameplay into the narative in my honest opinion. Even Tekken 8 appeared to takes notes and than some and I haven't even played the game yet!

While Guilty Gear Xrd (SIGN, Revelator, Rev 2) and StrIVe had a good story and fantastic cinematic presentation, it sadly loses points for having no gameplay. It says something when Arc System posted StrIVe's story mode on YouTube for people to watch if they didn't want the game. While the older Guilty Gear story modes are old fashioned, they still provide a good story on top of you ACTUALLY playing the fights out, no matter how ridiculous it may seem at points (like Axl Low being unable to jump due to overeating Jam's food... 😂).

As much as people have beef with some games for "not being interactive enough", there's such a thing as being "too interactive".

Let's put it this way, in the original Guilty Gear XX, story mode itself was a MAZE... and if you took the wrong route, you'd fight a super hard unkillable boss if you weren't careful.

Take my word for it... Reload and Accent Core hold your hand compared to the original "unpatched" GGXX. And that's STORY Mode... it's not even Mission mode, which the game is even MORE notorious for!

QTEs, button mashing sequences, stuff like Asura's Wrath... in my humble opinion all that interactivity is a bit overkill.

If a player wants to relax and enjoy the story, let them relax... don't make them jump through flaming hoops if they don't want to.

OPTIONS. That's what it boils down to.

OPTIONS... GIVE THE PLAYER OPTIONS TO CHOOSE TO FIGHT OR SKIP OR SAVE SOMEWHERE.

Let them experience the game their own way.

Even with Mortal Kombat 11, you can create a custom A.I. to fight the towers and story missions for you and just sit back and relax for that whole ordeal.

It doesn't always have to be a huge button mashing fest or super boss challenge or some twisted guessing game with random negative status effects thrown at you like snowballs from hell.

A little balance goes a long way, whether you specialize in action games, fighting games, or just want to sit and read like it's a Visual Novel (or in my case and preference, a comic book).

Soul Calibur 6 created the ingenious Mercenary System for precisely this reason... Hire Mercs to fight your battles for you... it makes things easy, lets you negotiate tougher challenges a bit, until you get what you came for. For tougher fights, you can prepare equipment ahead of time and strategize like it's an RPG.

When telling a story, the more options that story has, the better the experience.

And even if you want multiple "routes" to open up player creativity or just to hide a few secrets, there's ways to do that in a very structured manner.

Final Fantasy XV has multiple endings for its DLC, and the game lets you approach those in a very simple manner, you can even revisit some points easily based on where you last saved your game.

For more dramatic encounters, make it an "optional boss fight" with incentives if the player overcomes the challenge. Not that hard a concept to work out.

Capcom had some of the best rewards for defeating bosses in the past with their games, and such a thing would be no exception in games like Tekken as well. Even Darkstalkers.

But, like I said, some of the BEST stories come from games that don't think it's a fighting game at all... Libra of Souls in Soul Calibur 6 is a mode I will never stop lauding the praises of.

As a concept it is the true successor of the original Edge Master Mode from Soul Blade/Soul Edge, the very first Project Soul game.

I just think more fighting games need to be treated like RPGs, and more RPGs need to be treated like fighting games.