#gawain hnoc

[cowardlylittlebranchman]

obligatory hanged man Brian art

[reegis]

✨mechanisms character designs!!✨

alice’s no good very bad day™️ & the most awkward co-ruling experience you’ve ever seen

[dropitdoeeyes]

[ID: Five shoulders up drawings of Mordred, Gawain, Guinevere, Arthur and Lancelot from High Noon Over Camelot. Mordred and Gawain are at the top, facing opposite directions with a sun blocked out by a scorpion tail behind them. Gawain’s hat is tipped so it covers his eyes. Under the title, that reads “High noon over Camelot: The Mechanisms” are Guinevere, Arthur and Lancelot Pendragon. They are surrounded by dust. Below the dust is a silhouette of Brian/Merlin hanging from the gallows. Below him is Preacher Galahad, the townspeople of Camelot and the Saxons on the other side of them. ID end]

Fake graphic novel cover for HNOC!!! Took about 6h to do and single handedly made hnoc my favorite mechs album ehe !!!!

[sauleline2]

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

i dont know how to explain it but to me udad and hnoc are like opposites of each other. (Under read more, cause it is loooooonnnnng)

With udad the situation everyone is in is bonkers shit. The world they live in is absolutely shithole of a place that exploits everyone but the richest of the rich and the people there cant escape even after their death. Every single one of them is bitter and depressed and wronged and just wants to survive and they'll do anything to survive even if it meant killing the other one. All the natural part of that world is long dead and only thing exists is this cold dark metallic hellscape of a city that swallowed its own planet like a cancer. Almost all the songs are just how everyone was exploited, used, wronged, and discarded they were. Ulysses is a drunk fallen 'hero' completely guilt ridden by their role in Illium's fall. They had lost everyone and everything even before the album began. They spent so much of their throughout album getting their shit beat in. They, Heracles, and Orpheus go to Hades (Ashes) in hopes to be freed whether as a request, through theft, or through a deal. And Ashes all but set them all up to die for their own amusement (which btw very sexy of them <3 but that is besides the point). There seemed to be no hope for them.

And yet, despite everything the ending is so hopeful. We know that Ulysses would die, if it wasnt obvious from the title of the album itself it certainly becomes obvious when we learn how their world works. And yet they died a happier ending, they escaped the curse of their city and died reunited with their love. Ulysses died under an oak tree in a grassy fields, among nature which was thought to be dead since The City's takeover. Ulysses died being warmed by sunlight, a right denied to so many others like them. Ulysses died at dawn.

And then there is hnoc. Hnoc starts heroic. Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere take over Camelot from the corrupt Stone clan through their skills and teamwork. They turn it into a place of safety with all three of them incharge. Their lives are hard and filled with violence and hatred and fear and the world they live is harsh and unforgiving. But they still have each other, and they still care for the people around them. There is nature like scorpions and vultures despite it being a space station. The album has songs about love and being in love, about hope of peace, about power of faith. Everyone wants to survive and they are willing to work together to do it. Arthur is embittered by his "daughter's" death but still has his partners to keep him grounded and is ruler/sheriff of a powerful town with lots of knights working for him. What is more, the tragedy that hardened both Arthur and Gawain can be healed because the person they mourn isnt dead, he is Mordred and he is here to make amends. Arthur, Gawain, and Galahad go to Merlin (Brian) to seek aid, and he gives them advice that truly could have saved them, because Merlin really did wanted to save them and the entire station. There seemed to be hope for them.

And yet in the end it meant nothing. It was all for nothing. Alfred and Gawain did not listen to Brian's advice and ended up sealing theirs and everyone else's fate. Galahad did take Brian's advice and it destroyed him in a self sacrifice that ended up being for nothing. Mordred tried so hard for peace but at the end seeing the hatred and cruelty of his world hardened him to the core. Gawain's hatred turned peace talks into war and turned him into sawage barbaric monster he thought Saxons to be. Arthur's hardened core did not let him hope that his child could ever return to him and ended up not giving Mordred even a chance. What could have saved everyone Fort Gallfridian ended up turning into what destroyed Fort Gallfridian whether it be the GRAIL or Mordred. Almost all of them died a pointless avoidable death. And Arthur? Arthur lost everything. He lost his partners, he lost his chance to embrace his son, he lost his home, he lost his people. He may have survived but at the end he lost everything. High noon over Camelot. We didnt understand what it truly meant (all of them dying in the sun) until it was too late.

Ulysses shoots once, and it led to their happy ending. Gawain shoots once, and it led to everyone's tragedy. 3 shots all for Ulysses and it killed them. 3 shots for Arthur, Lancelot, Guinevere, and it hurt Arthur but never killed him. Ulysses was the only one who got to die under the sun, Arthur was the only one who didnt die in the sun.

[apocalypse-weekend]

Gawain <3

[owlhari]

high noon over canterlot. the fluorescent sun beat down over the rusted metal wasteland as the pendragon gang rode into town...

i like to think that fort galfridian was full of ponies and changelings and the mechs slipped in references to "hands" because maybe it would cover up the fact that brian spent a hundred years as the only humanoid in a town full of colorful ponies

(also the GRAIL gives you alicorn powers like whatever's going on with sunny in g5, i think.)

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[frog-commits-arson]

Day 14. Peacemaker

i didnt know which one to choose so you get both

ID under cut

[Image Description: Two digital drawings, identical except for the shading. Mordred and Gawain stand back to back. Mordred is on the left and is looking slightly down sadly and reaching for his knife. Gawain is standing on the right upside down, looking forward, having just shot his gun over his head, leaving white smoke. A scorpion is floating over Mordred and pointing it's tail at his head. The first picture has purple shading and a pale red, almost gray background. The second has darker non purple shading and a brighter red background. End ID]

[dykethevvitch]

"Oh, Peacemaker, nowhere left to hide now

Oh, Peacemaker, you have failed"

//

"Oh Warmonger, is this what you wanted?

Oh Warmonger, is this all you know?"

[the-suns-a-tube]

I wrote a full analysis of all the references to Original arthurian lore in HNOC, if I missed anything or got anything incorrect please comment!

[urlocalaabattery]

If y’all had just FUCKING LISTENED TO ME

-Merlin/Brian watching the ship go into the sun

[reegis]

hi i finally listened to hnoc today and ur posts about it have been ruminating in my mind.

drumbot brian is my fave mech and i love ur design for him as well so thank u <3

hell yeahhhhh i love hnoc!!!!! whos your favorite character!!!

brian absolutely steals the show, #1 cryptic prophet of all time i love him

[dropitdoeeyes]

explodes. i love the way you draw gawain and mordred. they are just so- dsdhsaaasdfghjknbvcxdfg /pos

they’re too busy arguing to hear you

[id. a drawing of gawain and mordred from high noon over camelot, arguing. gawain is shown from the side, arms raised as if explaining something. he’s shouting and looks exasperated. mordred stands to the side, staring off past the viewer with a blank expression.

gawain is a lean taller man with light brown skin and straight, long dark brown hair. he has some facial hair and deep bags under his eyes. he’s dressed in a black shirt with puffy sleeves, white vest, grey pants, and darker chaps.

mordred is a fat shorter man with dark skin and curly dark brown hair that reaches his shoulders. there’s a scar on one cheek and slight bags under his eyes. he wears a green cloak and white shirt underneath. end id.]

[two-dolla-bills]

Mechanisms fans I gotta know

Reblogs w/reasoning are encouraged!

[mrkanman]

omg gawain stooop. gawain like stop lol