#redeath stts

[trans-jon-rights]

Wake up babe, new design for The Blorbo by your favourite artist just dropped

Mechanism!Jon belongs to @therealandian from his fic Search Through The Stars, and the design has been taken from this post by @dcartcorner !

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Close ups :

[therealandian]

and so it ends

thanks again to all who have supported me throughout, and thank you again to @dcartcorner for the amazing art

you've all been wonderful

[dexterkronos]

Did some drawing tests on eyes using the characters from @therealandian's ReDeath / Search Through The Stars AU! The first one is Major Jonathan Sims of General White's rebellion, the (former) Archivist of his world and a newborn Mechanism (thanks Carmilla...)! My idea for the almost camera-like sclera comes from @trans-jon-rights's fanart of the same character, which helped really hammer home how unsettling a Mechanism would be to look at when exposed. No wonder Gunpowder Tim has glasses of some sort in most fanart variations... I plan to space out the release times between each art so I can work on more of my own characters, but for now, it seems The Eye wants more. Have fun guessing who is next~

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[ike9306]

Hello Mr. Mack. I come to you to require custody of Mechanism Elias, for the motive that you made me feel bad for him, and that you are heavily mistreating him.

My lawyers will come to you soon.

Mechanism Elias belong to @therealandian from his fic Search Through The Stars ( go read pleaaaaaase I beg you it's soooooo gooooooood I've read it like five time at this point !!! It's hilarious and Jon goes to therapy )

[therealandian]

right okay now that i've had a minute where i'm not at work, i wrote a little drabble to go along with this:

Elias stopped dead in his tracks, not quite believing what was in front of him. “Wh—Since when did you get here!?” he demanded, pointing an accusatory finger at his best friend, who was meandering down the street like he'd walked it a thousand times. “We weren't anywhere close to Earth when you left—there's no possible way you could have arrived before me!” After standing stunned for a moment, Jon pointed back with a grin on his face and a twinkling glow in his eyes. Admittedly his eyes always looked like that, but that wasn't the point. “That's what you think!” he laughed. “I just happen to be good friends with an eldritch demigod!” He kept pointing, and he kept laughing, and at this point Elias was just a little bit peeved. “You bastard! Why didn't you tell me you wanted to come back here!? I spent thirty years on my own getting here, and that's barely counting the time travel!” Jon laughed harder. “I've been here since 1995!” At that point, Elias could feel himself beginning to tremble from rage, but he kept it together. Mostly. “This could've been significantly easier for both of us if you'd just told me!”

Jon was laughing too hard to speak. A tear slid down his cheek, followed quickly by another. To make matters worse, he was still pointing at Elias like he couldn't quite believe what was happening. Admittedly Elias was also still pointing, but he wasn't having nearly as much fun. He wished he was—it looked, well, fun! As if things couldn't get more confusing, another figure appeared from nowhere and froze as the light of teleportation faded around him. “Uh…,” said Martin Blackwood. Jon didn't notice; he was busy still. Elias did, of course, and a spike of dread stabbed him in the chest. “Uh…,” he echoed. As if pulled by some unseen force, Martin raised both his hands, one pointing at Jon, and one pointing at Elias. He glanced back and forth between the two as if he couldn't quite wrap his head around what he was looking at. His jaw flapped, but no words came out. Jon clutched his stomach and squeezed his eyes shut, not quite stopping the laughter, but at least getting it down to an uncontrollable giggle. He wiped away the tears. “You should've seen the look on your face!” he cried. Elias finally figured out how to lower his hand and stop pointing at his absurd comrade. “Erm…Jon?” “Yeah, yeah,” he breathed, waving a dismissive hand. “Give me a minute.” Meanwhile, Martin finally figured out how to make his mouth work, and spoke. “What the fuck did I just teleport into!?” Jon peeked up at him, grin widening once more as he wiped the tears off his cheeks. “Oh, hello, Martin! Fancy seeing you here!”

:P

i just want to end this off by saying something important to me: as of 5 days from now (may 29th), redeath will be turning 4 years old which is just. UTTERLY wild to me.

when i first started writing that thing i did NOT expect i'd still be working on it this much later. and the fact that i started on stts in late summer of '21 is just. wow this au has gone on for a while. and i still love it to bits! even now with this i'm still finding new fun ways to get them to reunite (thanks @ike9306 for the idea), and it's just. i have no idea how many iterations of the end of this fic i've gone through but i definitely didn't expect where i eventually wound up lol. i still can't believe i thought 50k was a reasonable expectation for stts XD

so i just wanna say thanks--to old fans who've been here from the start and to new ones who literally just found this today. to the people who leave comments on every chapter, those who occasionally drop one on their favorite parts, and to the lurkers i can't see but know are there. i've had an unbelievably fun time playing around with this goofyass concept, and i'm so happy to see other people have enjoyed it too. i don't know that i would've without the overwhelming amount of excited feedback begging for more <3

we've still got a few chapters to go, but i'm hoping yall will find it well worth the time it took us all to get here (looking at the person who read like. all of redeath and all of stts up to that point in one very long session. you know who you are.)

Commission for @therealandian for the fic "Search Through the Stars". Disclaimer, this is not actually what happens! Go check it out.

Thanks for the support!

[dexterkronos]

Bonus Round! Yog-Sothoth Residue Martin! I tried to capture the guttural fear that he would be inflicted with in the nightmares he has, but it's a bit hard to do so when the eyebrows can't properly join the frame lmao. The depiction of the swirl written in @therealandian's ReDeath / Search Through The Stars AU was sorta described as (from rough memory) "greenish oranges and yellowed purples" or something of that sort, but I wanted to add blue as a way to show that Martin did regain his sense of self in the aftermath, and now fights to keep that identity in a way. Sure, it's hard, and he put himself back in the Institute's clutches to do it, but he's trying and we love him for that. It was quite fun to experiment with this, kinda half tempted to chuck one of my own AUs ocs into Yog-Sothoth for funsies (I wouldn't, its a funny idea tho). Tomorrow's releases are gonna be a bit more... interesting~. Have fun guessing who is next >:3!

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[dexterkronos]

The third of the drawing tests using the characters from @therealandian's ReDeath / Search Through The Stars AU! If you haven't guessed already, it's Martin Blackwood, long-time Mechanism, survivor of Yog-Sothoth and long-lost protector/love interest of Jonathan Sims! Thanks to Andian themselves for clearing up his eye colour for me; originally, I was going to make it brown with like a slight bluish tint in order to reflect his time in Yog-Sothoth, but then I realized it probably would have been mentioned in the fic if he had heterochromia, so I abandoned the idea. I exchanged it for an unnatural vibrancy to his eyes, which wouldn't be as noticeable to others and is still kinda not mentioned but we take creative liberties when the idea is too exciting. I honestly love Martin's characterization in the fics, it makes his more Web-like ties a bit more... there? Like don't get me wrong they are, but it feels more tangible when you throw in a few centuries or so of age and experience to strengthen them. You know the drill; The Eye wants more. Have fun guessing who is next... or more, *what* is next~

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[shitty-mechs-headcannons]

THEREALANDIAN?????

-Mod Wil

Tims eyes can zoom in, he sometimes forgets he's zoomed in and walks into shit

get zoomed idiot

-mod wil

[trans-jon-rights]

I know Elias' song is more of a flute, but I feel like he's more of a violin guy. Something pompous ( also I love drawing violinists )

And also its not like they all have to play the instrument of their song, Jon is a piano and can't because of his hand so why not

Mechanism!Elias belong to @therealandian from his fic Search Through The Stars ( and btw I'm still requiring custody of the guy, its just me other blog )

[ike9306]

Remember that part of the fic where Martin committed brutal pipe murder ? I do.

Mechanism!Elias and Mechanism!Martin belong to @therealandian from his fic Search Through The Stars ( and I will spam you with this because you NEED TO READ IT. )

[dexterkronos]

The second of the drawing tests using the characters from @therealandian's ReDeath / Search Through The Stars AU! If you haven't guessed already, it's Elias Magnus, the (former) Head of the Magnus Institute, bringer of the apocalypse of his world ("safely" reversed), and a newborn Mechanism! There's not much that I did for Elias' eye in particular due to wanting to keep it as series accurate as possible. I did make it a bit lighter than most fanarts I've seen though because after 200 years you would think the eye would begin to sorta... fail, to some degree. I'm surprised he never had much issue with it, or that he didn't end up completely blind after being cut off from The Eye. Overall the main inspiration for skin tone etc comes from @ike9306's fanarts of Elias (usually with Donovan lolol). Also screw you Andian (/j) for making me actually like this version of Elias/Jonah! I couldn't stop laughing at his later antics post-Aldara, especially his approaches to helping readers-know-who against his original judgement. I honestly enjoy his snark and would probably befriend him if I could. You know the drill; The Eye wants more. Have fun guessing who is next~

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[therealandian]

a couple old friends run into each other!

...emphasis on old lmao

Little Jon rocked his coffee back and forth a bit, took a sip, then frowned into it as if it had personally insulted him. “Who are you really? I-I mean, you’ve told me your name—your first name, anyway—but that’s…it. That’s all I really know about you.” He laughed nervously. “And- well, and I guess you've told me about the horrors plaguing the world, but that’s…I’m not asking about that.” Jon sighed. He'd been expecting this question for some time, but had never really figured out how to explain it all. Why couldn’t they go back to discussing annoying people in the kid’s courses? That was much more fun! “Who do you think I am?” he asked The boy frowned even deeper, though now at Jon. “You just had to do that, didn’t you? Answer a question with a question?” “Says the one doing the exact same thing,” Jon teased. He blinked a few times, then realisation dawned on his face. “Oh…right.” “So,” Jon said, setting his cup down and clasping his hands in his lap as he leaned back, “who do you think I am?” Little Jon hesitated, watching him closely. “Who I think you are doesn’t make any sense. I-I mean, I guess unless the Powers enable someone to, uh…” “To what, Jon?” He had a sheepish look as he replied, and he refused to look Jon in the eyes. “To…um…time travel?”

[ike9306]

Hey, y’know how this is Thursday and I was in front of my computer staring dumbly at my mailbox like. Where is STTS ??? I NEED BLORBO ANGST WHERE ARE THEY ?????

And then I remembered that it updated on Monday now. Still. Have some doodles.

Donovan and Mechanism!Elias belong to @therealandian in his fic Search Through The Stars ! Go read its good !

[dexterkronos]

We're back in @therealandian's ReDeath / Search Through The Stars AU! The OC I've chosen to do for this is Donovan, resident cool guy of Aldara, father of four and husband of a certain redeemed Mechanism! Thanks to Andian themselves for clearing up a few details on eyes and just them in general, they suggested smile wrinkles and freckles and I just dove straight in! I gotta admit I struggled a bit with the wrinkles and definitely need to work on it, but for a first attempt they're okay ^^;;. Eye shape too was a bit of a doozy for me; I was trying to do one of those smiley eyes but I struggle with them if they're not... an animation rig. Donovan is probably one of the two OCs I really loved from Search Through the Stars, alongside his daughter Evan (who I would join the antics of in a heartbeat)! I love how supportive and understanding he is of the situations of Jon and Elias, and just the fact he's a good husband and father overall. If he was real, I'd so want to be his friend... and Karliah's (his wife), she's bloody cool in her own right too. Actually just let me be friends with that whole famil- I might scale back how many character arts I post in a day just due to the fact my uni schedule is rapidly picking up the pace, but rest assured, more arts (and maybe some renders) are soon to come! Our next Eye-focused art will feature a very certain Captain, so stay tuned~

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[therealandian]

“So who finally found you on Aldara, then? And if you tell me it was Marius, I swear I’m going to run him through the next time I see him.” He thought for a moment. “Honestly, I might just do that anyways.” Elias set his cup down, undrank. “I…somehow feel you’re going to like my actual answer even less.” He glanced nervously over at the painting still laying on the floor, and massaged the flesh around his neckplate. “It’s something I very much don’t want Jonah Knowing about.” “I really couldn’t give less of a fuck if he finds out about the Mechanisms.” Martin gestured at Elias. “You Knew about them, and it hardly did you any good.” Sweat was beginning to bead his forehead. “Yes, well, I…didn’t know about this particular Mechanism. And given that I travelled primarily alone with him for roughly two-and-a-half centuries, I don’t think you do, either.” “What the hell are you on about?” Elias gulped. “Um…it’s- erm…” “Spit it out!” “It’s Jon!” he gasped. “He- he saved me centuries ago—g-gave me a chance to prove myself!” Silence fell. Elias gripped the counter like he was afraid he might faint. Martin gripped the counter to keep from tearing Elias’s neckplate from his throat and watching him bleed to death. “What.”

[therealandian]

welcome to the series finale part 1!

To his credit, Jonah Magnus didn’t seem overly surprised when Martin burst into his office brandishing a weapon. He’d almost certainly noticed Martin watching outside, and he always had been one to ‘wait and See’. “May I help you?” Jonah droned, folding his hands over the top of his desk. His stormy eyes were ringed with deep circles, and he was much more pallid than Martin recalled. “Yep!” Martin replied, aiming his firearm directly at Jonah’s head. “You’ve got information that I need, and you’re going to give it to me.” Jonah sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. “What sort of information might that be?” “The locations of two people—Martin Blackwood and Jonathan Sims.” “That’s very funny, Mr Blackwood,” he replied, finally glaring up at him. “Though I assume you mean the other Martin Blackwood?” “Yes. Tell me where he is. And Jon.” Jonah pulled a pad of paper out from under a stack of other assorted papers and began scribbling into it. “If I give you this, will you leave me alone?” Martin huffed. “How about 'I won’t kill you this time'?”