#stormseclipse

[far-side-skies]

How would you rewrite Energy Crisis?

Hitting me with one of my favourite episodes, okay XD Regardless, let's see what we can do with this one.

So the main thing I'd change about Energy Crisis is its ending.

The SUV doesn't get destroyed, instead the Sky Knight Council takes it off the Hawks' hands, claiming they'll keep it somewhere 'more secure'. It is, after all, a piece of Sky Knight history regardless of its cursed nature so I'm sure people like Harrier would be loathe to actually get rid of it.

This would allow for the SUV to be brought back in a later episode, particularly for Cyclonia Rising. Imagine if, say, Harrier tried using it in a desperate attempt to fight off Talon forces and instead loses his mind to the Medulla Crystal.

We could get a subversion of good and evil tropes and have the Sky Knight Council turn out to be corrupt (something I routinely do in my lore because I love a good morally grey conflict) by revealing that they've either been trying to reproduce the SUV or force someone to take on the burden of using it. But I know that's subjective in terms of taste, so it's not something I'd consider set in stone for a rewrite of the story as a whole.

Overall, I wouldn't change too much about the episode. There's nothing I'd remove, anyway. I think it's a lot of fun and it surprisingly drives forward the hidden subplot that is Dark Ace and Cyclonis's bond falling apart. This man went out of his way to get the Medulla Crystal identified without Cyclonis knowing about it, there was clearly some sort of friction building between them in that episode that we never got to see. I'd probably add more cutaway scenes to the Talon side of Dark Ace's energy-hungry rampage to show how his behaviour in the Suit contrasts with his everyday, "not fighting Aerrow" behaviour (provided his personality had been given an update to make him slightly more well-rounded as a character).

I also have an AU where it's Carver who gets ahold of the SUV instead, so have fun with that thought!

[stormseclipse]

My main Father’s Day picture might be late, so have this one for now. If you’ve read the fic, you know about this one XP

Eclipse: remember when I used to draw you pictures? That was a long time ago…

Ace: no, it was yesterday

[yami268]

Seeing @stormseclipse's tier list made me wanna do one of my blorbo. Got pics I felt were the best and then winged it from there.

[happypanda101]

Cute feral babies cause I told @stormseclipse that I would draw baby Rook and my version of baby Cyclonis together. Excuse the blood.

TW! For dead bunny and some gore(?) under the cut.

[goddess731]

Can someone please tell @stormseclipse and @letswonderspirit that one of the bots they blocked was an actual person? I never got around to customizing my account until almost a few months since I first got on, and I think they still think I'm a bot. They're my favorite content creators, and I recently saw a post that said that that was an issue regarding new users, and it reminded me.

[hanniebones]

some fluff fanart of @stormseclipse 's vampire OC, Eclipse and vampire Aerrow in their wolf forms :3

[rainymeadows-art]

@stormseclipse already shared their rosefinch character, so here’s mine! Her name is just Rosefinch, although her husband calls her Rosie.

When there’s a series primarily about combat, I always find myself fascinated by the characters are either completely pacifistic or just don’t involve themselves in fighting. With that in mind, rather than a Sky Knight or somebody who’s otherwise part of a squadron, I decided my Rosefinch would be a farmer. She owns a large plot of land - probably an entire terra to herself - and the soil is infused with crystals that cause her crops to grow massive and never decay, as you can see by the size of those apricots.

Yes, I play a lot of Stardew Valley, how could you tell?

All of Rosie’s crops are in the Rosaceae i.e. rose family, which includes apples, apricots, peaches, strawberries and cherries, hence the roses on her hat and the strawberry patch on her overalls’ pocket. I decided to make her colour scheme primarily pink with elements of brown to reflect the colour scheme of the rose finch bird. She’s very short - 4′11 - and twenty-three years old.

Her husband’s name is Shrike, and he’s a former Talon who crashed on her farm (annoying her a lot because she doesn’t like her crops being messed with and has a VERY strict harvesting schedule) and was never retrieved by his platoon. They quickly grew to love one another and are currently trying for a child. They have a chonky orange farm cat named Steve.

[nightingale101]

Hey, so there was a little bit of interest in my Last post About a Storm Hawks Fanzine.

So does anybody actually know how to make one? because I don’t. the only Experience i have with Fanzines is buying them. 

(also don’t mind me, just tagging some people who actually replied to my post @yami268   @the-nerd-cat  @catcarolingwiththebprd  @stormseclipse )

[stormhawksplanb]

@stormseclipse I did the thing, and even named it after Nova's Terra lol. Let the shenanigans begin!

[far-side-skies]

You should know who I’m going to ask for the ship meme thing XD

Noooo, I have no idea who you're on about XD >:3

I'm absolutely honoured to have been able to watch you develop these two over the last few years, even if I'm mostly a lurker lol. They're delightful.

Here's the original grid if anybody wants to use it themselves or send an ask in.

[far-side-skies]

what would Ace be like as a dad?

I rewrote my answer to this like three times help.

He's stressed, depressed and trying his best //shot

Dark Ace is the guy who never planned on having kids, but then some ankle biter urchin decided to adopt him and he couldn't say no.

As a parent he mellows out considerably in comparison to his Dark Ace persona, and he makes sure to keep the kid as far away from the spotlight as possible while they're growing up. He just wants them to have the 'normal' childhood that he didn't get. Obviously if you have the Dark Ace for a parent, your childhood will be far from truely normal, but let him try at least.

He doesn't have a lot of living relatives that he isn't estranged from, but he has a big enough found family on Cyclonia that more than makes up for a lack of blood family. Pretty much all of them adore kids in some capacity, so 'Dark Ace Jr' is set up to have several doting aunts and uncles who will occasionally 'steal' them to go and cause havoc while he's busy.

Cooking and flying are things he often tries to get the kid involved in, since they're useful skills to have in Atmos. Also he just really likes cooking. If they show interest in other things though, he encourages it and tries to get into it himself. For example if they like comics, he'll read along with them so that he knows what they're talking about when they tell him about the story.

He's not the kind of person to say 'I love you' out loud, even to family. Actions are much preferred over words, but expect some fun nicknames here and there ("sky shark", "menace", etc.)

Overall he's the parent who wants his kid to have a better life than he did.

[stormseclipse]

Sometimes I skip ahead and write stuff in future chapters and I’m like, “damn. I can’t wait for people to read this.” 👀

[stormseclipse]

why dose eclipse hate harrier?

Hello! Thank you for your question :D

It’s more or less answered in the fic but I’ll break it down here.

The Rex Guardians are tasked with infiltrating Cyclonia to retrieve the weapon Starling had heard about during her time undercover. But they find out the weapon is actually a girl and that girl almost kills their whole team.

Harrier is justifiably angry and upset at Eclipse/Rook and sees her as a monster. She may be a teenager but he’s seen the carnage she’s capable of so he wants to punish her without mercy. She was built to destroy them, why should they go easy on her?

She’s chained and muzzled and kept in solitary confinement for one night and it traumatizes her.

So Eclipse comes to hate him right back, he calls himself a Sky Knight but he treated her like a wild animal and forced the muzzle on her face himself. He’s no hero, *he’s* the monster.

Hope that answered your question!

[stormseclipse]

Storm’s Eclipse Fic News!

I didn’t want to release a new chapter a year but this year has been pretty busy for me. I also have other projects that are a bit more important than the fic so I will be putting the fic on a bit of a hiatus.

I hope to get back to work on it early next year :3

Thank you for your support!

[stormseclipse]

Storm's Eclipse fic update

Hey all, I know we're nearing the end of the year and I've only published one chapter of the fic so far, so thought I'd update you. Chapter 2 is technically already finished, I'm just doing a chapter 1 rewrite before I decide to publish it. It's taking me way longer than I thought it would, but worry not, I'm almost done!

Thanks for sticking with me and for reading my fic, it really means a lot to get this story out there after all this time ^^

As a special treat, here's a sneak peek at Chapter 2!

“I just can’t escape you can I?” Rook groused, face falling in disappointment.  Aerrow had been in the middle of biting into a slice of toast with jam, clearly not expecting to see her there either. “I live here?” he replied, unsure how to respond to such a question.

[far-side-skies]

Favorite contentmaker in the Storm Hawks fandom? (Headcanons, theories, memes, etc.)

My three friends @/ya-boi-aerrow, @/ashe-alter and @/happypanda101 who I mentioned in the favourite artists post all have absolutely brilliant headcanons for Storm Hawks, but I think they're a bit too obvious for this XD

I hope they don't mind me mentioning them but @tuffdwightwest has shared some absolutely stunning lore with the discord server and I admit it can get a bit overwhelming with just how Much of it they have. 10/10, highly recommend, though they mostly post it all to Discord as far as I've seen.

I mentioned in the artist post that @rin-henricov has some fun ideas with Radarr and Stork, but I'd also like to recommend their other headcanon posts for general merbology and some of the darker paths that Storm Hawks lore can go down. I am, sadly, an awkward goober when it comes to interacting with people on Tumblr though, so I haven't left as many comments as I would like.

@brainrotgoverner has been an absolute saint with the gif posts and memes, and I'd also recommend you read their Hawkstober fics over on AO3 because they did a great job on them.

@stormseclipse, who I can't believe I forgot to include in the artists post, has some really interesting headcanons about the nightcrawlers that I think deserve more appreciation though I can't remember if they posted them to Tumblr or just discord, whoops.

Everyone in this fandom is genuinely so creative, and if I could list out and tag every single person without this post taking up several screens then I would XD Y'all are amazing.