#mechquest

[high-voltage-rat]

man okay so I used to play mechquest and dragonfable back in like, 2008 when I was a kid with very little patience to follow a storyline. coming back as an adult and finishing mechquest has absolutely slapped me silly with how deep and serious the story is in between all the absurdist humour. I have. so many emotions over the whole storyline, and especially so many thoughts about the unique form of tragedy that is The Reset.

You save the world but it's not the world anymore. You and your friends survive but you don't know each other anymore- have nothing left of the lives you fought to keep. You 'save' everything but it's still all gone. Everything you knew and loved, gone, and you don't even know what you've lost. You can't even keep the memory of what you had- and that's almost kinder compared to being one of the 3ish people who DO remember... and have to live around everyone else who doesn't, knowing their closest friends look at them and see a stranger, and that they may as well be because they aren't that person they remember being.

And to top it all off, that terrible sacrifice doesn't even end it. you're still left fighting impossible and devastating wars over and over. It's the tragedy of doomed time loops with extra layers of devastating all over the place. The GEARS University students being forced to become soldiers because they're all that's left to protect their homeworld. The horrors of the Shadowscythe virus taking over friends and loved ones you may be forced to put down to save yourself. The town of Falconreach burning over and over because no matter how hard they fight, it's never enough. The people like Sha'rae who sacrifice themselves to try and prevent tyrrany from seizing power, only for it to be utterly useless.

Anyway the brainrot is severe and especially dangerous since I'm coming into exam season and all my hyperfixated brain wants to do is chew on glass about these games.

[cyraen-ae]

Random Reset talk again, but I can't help but love the idea that the Dragonfable Timeline is quintessentially wrong. Like it's a functional timeline, and if you ignore the weekly world-ending threat, you can live in it just fine.. But there's always something missing, right below the surface, always this underlying feeling of loss, of something being misplaced, or, inversely, of events feeling familiar. Of meeting people you've already met. It's not strong enough for most people to notice, but it's there. Everyone feels it to a certain extent, at times, when things just... don't match up... but they ignore it, dismiss it as just feelings similar to anxiety or deja-vu.

I love the idea of the timeline being, at its core, wrong. An echo of a forgotten universe that's just functional enough for people to not be able to notice what they lost

[little-demy]

Hero of Prophecies

Or as I'd like to call them, the traumatized michel (?)

I've shared this elsewhere before but I forgot I have tumblr so I'll upload some stuff I've shared on twitter her for now I guess

And so meet the Michel aka Johanna A. Michel for MQ, Joanne B. Michel for DF, and Jeannette C. Michel for AQW

Personal lore for them below!

In term of identities Johanna, Joanne, and Jeannette are actually one single soul with three different identiites. Johanna and Joanne are directly related; they're just the same soul but the Reset made the unknown virus within Johanna (that corrupts her and slowly made her body decay) merged and thus made Joanne a little hit resistant to Doom but also made her compatible with Doom power

While for Jeannette is a being from another universe; in which Joanne was killed by Drakath alongside Arc and reincarnated into Jeannette. Jeannette was not born, but manifested from Joanne's soul that merged with EDoT's power. She's not really a human and feels like an anomaly. She onky received her name and became more humane after being adopted by Yvonne (Joanne's mother, who just recently lost her daughter too)

[7yd1a]

The MechQuest girlies [gender neutral] are FEASTING

[tmae3114]

I think if time shenanigans happened and MQ Artix and DF Artix got to meet, MQ Artix would be immediately overcome with immense, seething envy about the fact that DF Artix never has to do corporate espionage to fight zombies

[theloverofdragons]

myalos has never done anything wrong in their life 😌

drakrylos is 🎶the wooooooooorst🎶 (kratos my boy i will avenge yoooooooou)

[uooj601]

Dragon fable - Hero of the past

Did some art for my Dragonfable character while ago, His name is PIZZA, for reasons that make sense but are currently irrelevant

For anyones interested in the abbreviated story, He is the hero of mechQuest However after the universe reset he retained a little more then most, his Name, a mechanical hand and ghosts of memory from a war that never was Now he makes his way through a world equal parts alien and familiar, in search of friends and foes he can scarcely recall save for there names and banners

Since typically soul weaver gauntlets have a stone on them - I assume the purpose of witch is to bind them somehow or act as a focal point of magic - I decided to place both stones on the same arm

Strangely he has no natural affinity for magic and can only use that of his soul ally, Lacking the innate gift for magic he stands entirely on the only gifts remaining, Valor and Cunning

[seiji-the-ice-drake]

Close enough

[giantpurplecat]

Experimenting with my art style again using J6 as my muse.

[ewatsonia]

This line's kinda harrowing when you think about it, huh?

[df-gallery]

FalconReach Libraseum's Local Works Wing Opening

Hello! This sideblog is inspired by this post here and will focus on reblogging or linking art based on DragonFable and, to a lesser extent, other AE properties (especially MechQuest.)

Games will be tagged, as well as fan art, fan writing, fan music, fan projects, meta discussion, and more. All will be tagged "falconreach libraseum".

Feel free to submit your work or suggest artists to the blog, or even ask to join the team!

(As of this first posting it's just @cherry-knight)

[claratehkitty]

Mechquest Robina

>Totally cis Robina builds a 10 ft tall hunky pirate dude body mech suit thing that she pilots and goes around in.

Ok sweetie, sure, toooootally normal and cis thing to do.

[cyraen-ae]

Dumb Mechquest fanfic concept : Cute normal Coffee Shop AU

Then one chapter ends with the Protagonist accidentally dropping a cup of coffee

The next chapter is a Dragonfable Coffee Shop AU

It is never elaborated upon or addressed

[little-demy]

Heroes

Bound by destiny and doom. Fated to bear responsibility and power.

[7yd1a]

....What if Xaria's in the Doom Drive?

[tmae3114]

Sometimes you’ve just gotta spend your afternoon making diagrams to explain video game timelines

I think I finally made one which hits all the important points