#previous grimwalkers

[nerves-nebula]

consequences of your executions au: kings tide

[aroacemisha]

Judging from the bones and masks in King's Tide, there were about 52 Golden Guards. How many were there in Retired Leaders?

Only a handful. I haven't decided on the exact number yet, but there were at least 4 (the first GG, the second one, Hunter's predecessor, and Hunter). I'm thinking 4 or maybe 5 in total.

It makes sense for there to be so few, both because they lived longer, and thus there's less space for more GGs to fit in the timeline, and also because Belos wouldn't immediately make a new one after the previous one died - he would take years to grieve.

For example, Hunter was created 17 years ago, but his predecessor died about a decade earlier.

[nerdykorgi]

whoopee doo! More Grimwalker blorbos <333

These two are Valor and Cell! (Valor is the o. ne to the top left and Cell is the one to the bottom right)

Valor is supposed to be that one guard from hollow mind. The idea of cell was given to me by my cousin @uncannyx23 , mostly because he loves that cyberpunk stuff or whatever it called lol.

Valor is an engineer and smartie pants who basically created Cell, who is used as Belos's personal weapon. They are a package deal, do not separate' them.

There's more to their story but I'll prob save the rambling for later anyon e's actually interested lol

. (Also Happy anniversary toh! Wish i had art made but i aint got nothing at the moment :,) Taking things a little slower than i'd like but school is coming to an end and shits getting real)

[spinaroos-47]

New Salem references!

And with the younger Salem reference now too!

[drabbles-of-writing]

You know what I said it in the tags earlier but I’m gonna say it out loud now because I love being doomed by the narrative.

Obviously, Belos doesn’t care about the grimwalkers too much anymore. Doesn’t seem to do much except use them as child soldiers and, I dunno, feel some sort of twisted joy out of making “Caleb” work against witches.

But that’s just it. Some part of him cares, just a little bit, because he keeps making grimwalkers from his brother. And, clearly, he didn’t just make them on a whim. Belos wanted Caleb back. He still wants Caleb back. He wants to kill everything that made Caleb leave him, from a palisman to an entire society. He was already going to kill Hunter for betraying him, but he wanted to make it violent after realizing how close the similarities came to Caleb’s ‘betrayal.’

Belos wants Caleb back. The solution? Make a grimwalker. That doesn’t work. They don’t look the same. They don’t act the same. Even when he tries to mold them to be, he kills them. Why?

Because Belos killed Caleb simply for the act of being Caleb. No matter what he does, the fact will always be that Caleb is someone who learned to love a witch and live with magic, and those are things he had to kill him for. If he made a grimwalker exactly like Caleb, they’d always wind up six feet under.

He can’t make a “better” Caleb, either. To make a “better” Caleb is to make someone who isn’t Caleb. There is no “better version.” There’s only Caleb, and not-Caleb. Even if the grimwalker was perfect, if they were everything Belos wanted the two of them to be, they wouldn’t be Caleb. Because the real Caleb doesn’t think like Belos. So, it’s not Caleb, and he kills them.

Every single Golden Guard was destined to die because of something they couldn’t control. It wasn’t because they all betrayed, or because Belos despised them, or he because got bored. It was because he was trying to get his brother back. A brother who would stay forever, who would agree with his actions, who would love him unconditionally, all at the same time.

And that brother doesn’t exist.

[cablewittebean]

Haunted by the past

[maskednerd]

[silversodas]

The two sides of the Caleb ghost or not thing

1.) essays that are sometimes good points but other times are essays that claim they must be illusions because it would be better writing and try to present that as evidence

2.) CALEB CLAIMS EACH ONE AS HIS SON! THEY BOND OVER HECKLING BELOS AND HATRED OF HIM BEING ALIVE!! THE GUARDS NOW CALL THEMSELVES THE CHILDREN OF THE BONES!!!

[sokkas-first-fangirl]

He lived because his friends loved him enough to keep dragging him back from the abyss.

But one twist of fate and he would have been alone forever. If things had been just a little different, Hunter would be dead one way or another.

“I keep- I keep dreaming about them,” he said, gasping for breath. “Every night and it won’t stop. They keep asking why I lived, what’s so special about me and- and they’re right, there’s nothing different about me. I just…Got lucky.”

“We love you,” Amity said fiercely. “That’s why you’re here. Because we are never leaving you behind.”

“That’s just it,” Hunter said. “Why didn’t anyone love them?”

*

Hunter has the Grimwalker journal. It goes about as well as you'd expect.

[possibly-a-table-or-just-gay]

@neoncherryblossom did someone order angst?

[nerves-nebula]

hes telling them a story

[magpieddd]

Abel and Cain

[nerdykorgi]

Caleb, father of hundred, Wittebane.

ok you can't tell me he didn't adopt all like 100 of those grimbastards and became their dad, wheither they liked it or not. /lh He just the whole tired dad vibe

I like to think he helps comfort them after they die. They all just ghosts chillin in the bone pit together and talk about how much Belos sucks lol

I was also possessed by the spirit of hyperfixation and made like 30 grimwalker ocs!? They all have unique little perks and stuff and I love them, ill probably show some of them if anyones actually interested lol.

[spinaroos-47]

Salem in the style of the show! Again! (+ the 2022 attempt under it)

Honestly, this might be my best attempt so far at replicating the style. The colors aren't accurate to the show, but ehhh not a big problem

[drabbles-of-writing]

I forgot what some of these said and may have snorted out loud when getting ready to post

Belos can and would have tried to introduce the earlier Guard’s into non-Titan religions until he realized they’d start asking questions so he just quietly put a cap on it. Unfortunately, this has led to those Guards getting mocked into the dirt for being “old”

Also whenever any of the living Guards got a crush/date they’d call it “pulling a Caleb” specifically because Caleb begs them not to, thank you and goodnight

1, 2, 3, 4, 6

[stinesunflower]

Grimwalker theory:

What if Grimwalkers originally are a type of spectral dog/wolf demon or a type of shapeshifters like the basilisks. That's why they have so many books about them. Belos may have been able to create fake ones, but they have to have excisted as a species at some point for them to be extinct and have legends about them. There simply can't be an entire species that exist only with galderstones as hearts. there aren't enough of them (they are super rare).

a grim = a dog/wolf/shapeshifter

walker = person/ someone who walks on two legs?

Hunter loves wolves

conclusion: Grimwalker = werewolves or wolfwalkers .(wiki)

(maybe a conection to titans since King looks like a small black dog )