#post koa

[koallebear]

i love how copper ages, the colors are so pretty! do you think a part of pearl still twinkles every now and again?

[deathricedrawn]

"Look in the mirror and one thing is sure," (1/2)

[collab with @koallebear ❤️]

Here's the version i made b4 koa's rendering! Just for fun :oD Their part really made it tie together!

If anyone's curious to what the writing on the wall says (from left to right!):

> CALL XXX-XXX-XXX FOR HOTGUY! / dude

> BEWARE THE SCULK / it's sus

> GOD HELP ME / are you alright? / SOMETHING IS WRONG

> I Love Women!! / Me too! ❤️ :o) / ME 3

> Thoughts on Ren the King? / dont like him sry / he stole my diamonds :( / RUDE!

> has something been off with the cleaning lady lately? / dw shes normally like that / Hey! / hi

[whumpypepsigal]

65 (2023): “I’m sorry.”

[themissinggoldfish]

Connie & Koa but the opposite gender?? 😱😱

A pencil sketch that escalated as soon as i found out how to digitalize it hoo

Aside from the obvious gender swap, I don’t think they would be any different honestly (Connie might be taller than Koa but names would stay the same)

[acourtofquestions]

— Incorrect quote conversations I think will happen sometime in KoA —

Rowan: Your self-sacrificial tendencies are infuriating!

Aelin: My tendencies? You're the one ready to jump in front of an arrow or a gods wrath at any moment!

Rowan: You SOLD yourself into slavery TO MAEVE!

Aelin: Well, NOW YOU KNOW HOW IT FEELS!

Rowan: Oh, ha ha ha! Hilarious comeback Princess!

Aelin: Oh, yes, you’ve called me that before: Please elaborate PRINCE?! WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?

Rowan: IT MEANS YOUR A ROYAL PAIN IN MY ASS!

Aelin: ONLY WHEN I’M SAVING YOUR ASS!

Rowan: If you really wanted to protect me THEN PROTECT YOUR-MY OWN HEART!

Aelin: THEN LISTEN AND TAKE YOUR OWN DAMN ADVICE!

Rowan: I WILL NOT LISTEN WHEN YOU ASK ME TO ABANDON YOU! Aelin, YOU LEFT ME, after OUR WEDDING, AND THEN EXPECTED ME NOT TO TRY AND COME FOR YOU! — You didn’t even TRY to protect yourself, just happily plotted your death! — And left to your own devices, created a plan to die, lie, & then have me MARRY YOUR COUSINS GIRLFRIEND!

Aelin: I WAS TOLD BY THE BLOODY GODS THEMSELVES THAT I WAS DESTINED TO DIE! I DIDN’T HAVE CHOICES! And was just trying to ensure that SOMEONE, ANYONE, would survive long enough to keep AN ENTIRE KINGDOM ALIVE! — THAT YOU would SURVIVE — SOMETHING YOU MAKE INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT AND I WOULDN’T have to plot for IF YOU STOPPED TRYING TO SAVE ME!

Rowan: I MAKE IT DIFFICULT? — You were literally dying AFTER LETTING DORIAN STAB YOU! — If anything it’s always YOU trying to save ME! YOU WERE WILLING TO BURN AN ENTIRE CITY ALIVE FOR ME! YOU SET AN ENTIRE CITY ON FIRE-TWICE-FOR GODS SAKE! You saved me from the truth of my past when YOU DIDN’T EVEN TELL ME IT WAS YOU; MY SOULMATE because you saved me from the truth EVEN when that was YOU! AND THEN WHEN YOU KNEW, YOU LIED TO TRY AND SAVE ME FROM THE FUTURE, YOU DIDN’T SAY A DAMNED WORD! Just because we said “till death do us part” DOESN’T MAKE THAT THE GOAL!

Aelin: I’M ALLOWED TO WANT TO SAVE YOU! AND GUESS WHAT? I’D DO IT AGAIN, WORLD BE DAMNED! I WILL DO IT EVERY. DAMN. TIME. BECAUSE I WOULD RATHER DIE THEN SPEND A DAY ON THIS EARTH WITHOUT YOU!

Rowan: WELL, SO WOULD I! YOUR MY WORLD FIRST & FOREMOST FOREVER! I'LL KEEP YOU ALIVE OR I'LL DIE TRYING! BECAUSE I LOVE YOU!

Aelin: I LOVE YOU TOO!

Rowan: THEN WHY ARE WE YELLING?!

Aelin: I. DON’T. KNOW!

[dukeoftheblackstar]

Update on my Plo Koon army who will continue to block the view of my extended monitor while I work but have not the heart to not put them in view's way.

I now have Season 1 Plo beside Hasbro!Plo and I got another Hoodie!Plo (I hid the hood for safekeeping) which has the Council's logo because the other one doesn't (thems two between Winter!Plo) and Commander Wolffe!!!

Oh and the HOME art by @amorfista remains my browser background ♥ Forever.

Oh! And the custom crochet!Plo that I might just name Kiv and Koa from @veny-many's Post-66 AU with Kel Dor bebbies ♥

And yes, Vader is still there because I don't want him lonely on the side.

The goal is to essentially get so many Plo Koons on my desk dashboard so I'd have absolutely hindered visibility and render my extended monitor useless except for displaying Plo Koon art.

I love him a normal amount. A very normal amount.

@saengak @amorfista @exosorcery @plokoonsdisapprovingeyebrows @ghostperson69 @battlekilt @starrrgazingbunny @kimiheartblade @sofir-kefir @76historylover @sinisterexaggerator

[ihrtjiro]

Introductory Post!

Intro ; — hiii! I am koa, i am 15 as of writing this and in my sophomore year of high school! i have been reading fanfics for 3 going on 4 years now and i’ve always wanted to write them myself, and i’ve finally built up the courage to do so, hence why i opened this blog!

i will be taking requests for my hero academia only for right now, potentially more in the future! As those shows are my hyperfixation rn 😼

i do many other things in my spare time as well though! i’m a lacrosse and softball player, and i also do theater and karate! i’m also heteroflexible and my pronouns are she/they, and I’m half italian and half mexican!

i do not permit for my work to be reposted, translated, or stolen. all rights go to ihrtjiro. characters are not mine, unless stated, and belong to their rightful creators.

[gccdstories]

@twistedtangledfate (Lysandra) sent an ask to (Aedion) //

[ COMPANY ] for one muse to sit with the other so they don’t have to be alone while they’re upset. 

No one had found him up here, on one of the taller towers. Which perhaps was why Aedion had chosen in the first place, even if he'd done so subconsciously. Like his feet carried him to this particular spot, even if Aedion didn't quite know why.

It was quiet. It was alone. Solitary.

Maybe that's the whole reason he chose it--

❝ Did she send you up here? ❞ His words drifted across the night, even as Aedion didn't turn around to face Lysandra. He knew who it was; like a part of him sensed her even before the sound of her footsteps against the stone reached him.

He'd withdrawn from the celebrations, and maybe a part of him had wondered when Aelin would realize--when any of them would, actually. But the rest of him didn't care, and didn't feel like forcing himself to smile and celebrate when he didn't really want to.

Aedion turned around, eyes meeting those of Lysandra's, as he quirked an eyebrow. ❝ I'll be back down... later. ❞

Maybe.

[e-adlirez]

#Technoblade25

Heeyyyyy am I late to the party? I hope I'm not too late, been working on this thing for the occasion

hebe hebe HEBE amiinm'enbimikta HEBE AMIINM'ENBIMIKTA AMIINM'ENBIMIKTA HEBE HEBE HEBE AMIINM'ENBIMIKTA

Ne yhdeini sy caera, Tommy? Meku AMULVHT VID LIIN!

For the record, the ripple thingies are from Tsevhu, aka the funni koi fish language :D I've been studying the conlang lately

Anyway, the red Tsevhu is a translation of "you want to be a hero, Tommy? Then DIE like one!", while the pale red are the voices chanting "one of us" and the closest the Tsevhu Discord could approximate for "blood for the blood god" in a phrase (the actual thing translates something to like "start giving completely and involuntarily", which in Tsevhu is kinda like chanting for sacrifice, which is fun and very much chat :3)

("blood for the blood god" would've translated to a straight-up sentence that I'd have to frame in koiwrit, which I felt would be too cluttered, as much as clutteredness is very in-character for chat)

Anyway hope I'm not too late haha, happy 25th birthday, Techno.

[reignthemain]

God bless Rasmus 🫡 🐓

[fyanimaldiversity]

I think you posted 2 the wrong blog! just wanted 2 let u know ^^

I did! Ugh, this is the third time this week, haha! Have a horrible old man as compensation.

[ircnwrought]

@homebehind liked for a maas muse starter !!

__________△    HER ARM LOOPS THROUGH HER FRIEND'S, A BRIGHT SMILE ON HER FACE AS SHE LOWERS HER VOICE. she cannot help the glint of mischief in her turquoise eyes, even when her words are innocuous. ❛   you must act as if i've said the most dreadful plan imaginable. the boys have it in their head that you && i only get in trouble when we're together. they're right, of course, but best to let them worry about just what we're up to now.   ❜ indeed, she sees her mate && cousin look warily to where she && lysandra turn about the room. she casts a quick wink to rowan, who struggles to suppress a growing wry grin.

[whumpypepsigal]

guys, Guys, GUYS! i’ve another new whumplicious recommendation

tlou meets jurassic park meets aliens… i introduce you to the movie “65”. mills (sad-angsty-space-pilot) and koa are surrogate father-daughter who crash land in a vicious planet full of dinosaurs trying to kill them in every turn. my man mills goes through so much whump while protecting the child. did i mention it’s ADAM DRIVER? *screaming crying throwing up*

[acourtofquestions]

Me starting KoA:

[puppy-waves-art]

welcome!! here's a bit of info about me

hiya, welcome to my art blog! my name is koa, and i primarily draw mlp ocs (mainly my own, but also friends' characters). sometimes i'll draw canon characters, but that's fairly rare. i'm 23, go by they/them pronouns, and i'm in a committed relationship with the most wonderful girl in the world.

my main blog is @puppywaves. i decided to make this side blog just for my artwork and original oc content, just to help declutter and keep things neat and separate for anyone wanting to just see my art without all of the shitposts flooding my main

just as a heads up, my commissions are not open and never will be open to the public for personal reasons.

a small guide to my tags: #kokoart - my original artwork #kokoedits - base edits #kokoshowcase - artwork of my ocs #kokoredesign/kokonext - next-gen/canon works #kokorambles - infodumps about ocs and their lore #kokofeat - friends and other people's characters

common oc tags: #oc tang #oc maya #oc koa

[firehcart]

𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐔𝐌𝐀. — Let’s talk trauma. It’s pretty obvious for anyone who has read Throne of Glass that Aelin suffers through various kinds of traumas and a degree of mental illness through the series – I’m going to break down the main ones I’ll be referencing throughout my own writing, featuring spoilers. It’s worth noting that even with the below, Aelin never lets the majority of this show. Most of the time, this will feature in introspection – please never presume your character is aware of everything, though she’s likely to show hints and symptoms along the way. She keeps the walls up, and holds trauma close.

—  oo1. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder:

This does not occur from one isolated incident in her life. There is a long series of history here dating back to her childhood and the trauma of being afraid of her own powers and the extent of her abilities, which we see the King of Ardalan take advantage of and weaponise against her to make her paranoid extend to her own form of control – this manifests during her adolescence and training in Wendlyn with Rowan, where she is terrified to truly unleash without hurting anyone. It’s severe training that allows her to overcome this particular fear.

We then have the trauma she undergoes in her time in the Assassin’s Guild – what is essentially grooming from Arobynn, the deep seated trust issues she forms after his betrayal, and also from the atrocities she commits as Celaena Sardothien who I firmly believe she has partially disengaged from our own self as Aelin. We even see her reluctance later to adopt the identity again, and the visible difference in how she acts when she does slip back into the character ( though if I’m honest, this a whole meta on its own ).

The most obvious of her trauma occurs in the Salt Mines of Endovier – we know she spends one year in the mines where most only survive three months within the prisons there, endured frequent beatings, and is responsible for killing over twenty-four guards on the anniversary of her parent’s death, the same day she attempt suicide. We know during this time she witness physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, as well as being exposed to unbearable living conditions, the verge of starvation, and being broken down so physically that most would have died long since. It is the Salt Mines of Endovier that generated her absolute hatred of slavers, and her fear of whips ( which we reference when Rowan threatens to lash her in her disrespect during training, and later when Maeve uses this fear against her ) ; even now she can’t stand the sound of a lash.

Let’s then factor in the experience she has at the hands of Maeve, and specifically Cairn. We know in that time that she endures broken bones, kneeling in broken glass, being flayed, at minimum – the extent of what she goes through is only hinted in various chapters, and witnessed by Fenrys. I think the most interesting moment of this abuse is when he threatens to use fire against her, and we see a moment in which Aelin realises if he uses fire against her, she will fear it, and in doing so, fear part of herself. I think this introspection confirms she knows at least to some extent how traumatised she is, and what wounds linger.

At the end of all of this, she has a long list of triggers, and a very damaged psyche ( largely masked by her sarcasm and her attempts to push people away ). Even after the series ends, that trauma lingers – and factors into each of the issues I’ll list below. Her months spent disassociating during her time with Maeve ( no doubt a tactic partially employed in past torture ) mean she does occasionally revert to that mindset without realising, and most commonly in silent communication with Fenrys without realising. Touches without her consent – ie. coming up behind her without warning – likely yield a violent response due to shock. Crowds place her on alert because she’s so used to looking for danger. This kind of trauma manifests in social withdrawal ( not externally, she’s good at a mask, so it’s internal – she’ll pretend she’s fine while suffering in her own head ), emotional detachment on occasion, and throwing herself into distractions like physical training in effort to remove from the demons in her mind. Time does not heal this trauma entirely, though time does bring closure and allow her to live with it.

—  oo2. Insomnia.

We already see this several times in canon, that where most sleep, Aelin does not. Most commonly her form of self -soothing when it comes to her own insomnia is to render herself exhausted – not necessarily just by her daily activities, but most of the time we see her roaming at night and often times her plans and plots take form by night, where she will spend hours on end employing tactics when no one else is awake. Most of the time, it’s only by utterly exhausting herself that she manages to find some form of rest. More commonly than not, particularly after her time within captivity in Kingdom of Ash at the hands of Maeve, she has nightmares, and can’t discern if she’s awake or asleep because of the months spent in that nightmare like state. She wakes, and for those few moments she doesn’t know if she’s in the Iron Coffin, or if the darkness is nighttime ; it’s only herself that can bring her mindset back and remember she’s not there, that her dreams are only dreams, and that she’s long since gone from their clutches. And then it’s the realisation that she’ll have the same fears in the next day when she wakes, and however tired she might be, she begins to loathe sleep.

I think, again, this is something that eases with time ; Terrasen is never completely dark, even in the night time, so when she awakes the moon and the stars are always bright enough to pave the starlight through her chambers and ease the fears. But it’s only in time that she begins to properly find some form of rest.

—  oo3. Cleithrophobia.

I’ve been thinking quite a lot about whether or not she suffers from claustrophobia and cleithrophobia and why she may be one more than the other. Where claustrophobia is a fear of enclosed spaces, the latter is a  more specific trauma – that is, the idea of being trapped in any confined space, unable to escape.

After three months spent in an Iron Coffin, with a mask on, literally unable to move, her fear manifests in the second far more than the first. Where claustrophobia indicates an irrational fear of small spaces, her own terror is something based on experience. It’s not the actual space that bothers her ( though I doubt she loves it ) but the very specific situation, that she can’t get free or she can’t escape. Any remnant of that situation likely triggers the same response – panic, in her chest, an almost manic desire to get free, eventual disassociation to cope with the scenario. To put it bluntly, it’s not a situation she ever willingly enters into – small spaces are fine, but if the door were to close behind her, or something blocked her getting free, it’s a deal breaker.  

—  oo4. Thanatophobia.

To be clear, Aelin does not fear death for herself – it’s not something that makes her uncomfortable, given she knows how many people she’s lost along the way, and I believe part of her does have full faith she’ll see them again after her own death. However, the deep seated issues she has in not being able to save the ones she loves, particularly after witnessing some of those deaths, is something that she finds manifested into genuine fear. We witness it constantly in her self sacrificing behaviour – it’s not self destructive as such, but it’s demonstrated in the fact she places everyone else as more important than her own life. We see it when she admits to Rowan she can’t lose anyone else ; it’s not as shallow as not wanting to lose loved ones, it’s that she can’t deal with the loss again, which manifests in her seeing danger to loved ones even when there is none.

—    oo5. Body Dysmorphia.

This develops entirely after Kingdom of Ash, and I think it’s so important to acknowledge here that Aelin was very, very attached to her body. We see her reference her scars repeatedly through the series, the fact that each means something to her, and it helps ground her – physical marks tell her a story of what is real and what was not. I honestly believe this is why she’s so traumatised by the fact her torture at Cairn’s hand results in her entire body being remade over and over for the course of months, that she doesn’t know what was done to her, what was real, what never happened ; there’s nothing to track each injury to the matching wound. Likewise, the years she spent in that body are now remaining only in her own mind.

Not to mention in terms of her physicality, she is suddenly a stranger in her own skin – she knew what her strength was, what her body could handle, had built thick skin, had muscles toned by years of her own training. Suddenly she’s in a body that is untrained, and it’s a blank canvas.

I truly believe this results in a disconnect between her own mental state and her body, and a hypercriticism because her body isn’t as trained, isn’t as fit, isn’t what it was before. Even after resuming her training with Rowan to self correct this, it’s not good enough in her own opinion – it isn’t the same as it was before. Factor into it then that she then loses her mortal body entirely when she forges the Lock ( which is traumatic on another level because her fae form is the one she was reluctant to take for years, and suddenly she’s mourning the loss of her human self, as well as everything she’s been through ), and it takes literal years for her to feel like she’s settled into her skin again in any way shape or form.