#subtle lore drop

[officialoddswapau]

hello Vanessa I was wondering what you favorite hobbies are if your parents allow you two have some? also who is your favorite drone?

and also serial designation T what was your job at Vanessa’s manor before the gala slaughter happened? Also what do you think about cyn are you friends with her or do you not get along with her?

hope you have a great day Vanessa and Serial designation T.also I hope you both enjoy the questions.

Vanessa’s answer:

T’s answer below cut (eyestrain warning.)

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Have a nice day/night : )

[ask-philgraves]

Unsure if having the chance to ask any of y'all anything is a good idea è-é but here we are. SO-

Would you say you're the type to donate to charity or make Shadows help you host charity events for kids? This is for science.

I don't bite, I'm not a rabid dog, hun.

The Shadows frequently do charity work, especially when we have no work for long periods of time.

Typically, they decide to help charities that help their own communities that they're a part of. Sometimes, we're hired for relief efforts during natural disasters because the government can only do so much before asking an outside source to help...

Other times, like when it affects our own communities, I send out a group of shadows to help. Like Hurricane Helene hitting my hometown.

[quiddie]

Here's the audio I sent Will that played at 2:31:35 [YT] since it was a little hard to parse in-stream.

“I think often about our game. It’s all one game in the end, I think. The only one that matters, at least.

But in the penthouse, my blunder - I prefer fianchettoed bishops, flanking to disrupt the center of the board. I know you know that. But, for whatever reason, I opened this time with my knight - a knight instead, and all of my play thereafter was changed. I let you make me risky, and I lost. But I only bring this up here, because I’m still feeling risky. Or maybe I owe you a better prize for your victory last night.

Garavellir, I...nevermind."

[ask-woods]

Threaten me with Felix’s cooking all you like, kid, my pops used to make me go without meals all the time. I can last a good few days.

You ain’t getting jack shit.

@ask-woods I will, humbly, come forward with a bargain. Give me the axolotl plush or consequences will ensue. I've got Felix somewhere around the corner who will overcook your steak tomorrow. I will make use of this.

[mean-scarlet-deceiver]

It remains my life mission to inform people that Toby canonically got turned away from that seaside festival a) back in the 30s or whatever and b) because he was too dripped out.

[australianklaviergavin]

OTHER DESIGNS: Baby bunny Trucy, Uendo lizard, Prosecutors, Aura Blackquill, Clay Terran, Bobby Fulbright, Skye Sisters, Valant Gramarye, Iris Wilson, Datz Are'bel, Mael Stronghart, Enoch Drebber, Satoru Hosonaga, Wocky Kitaki

AUXILIARY POSTS: modpoppy's Uendo, okartichoke's Caracalvier, Iris 1.0

Compiled here is almost every single design sketch I've done for this... AU? It's my nonsense, take it or leave it! The tag for it is "#The Great Detective's Animal Attorney", but the prefix is mostly for filtering, I just call it "Animal Attorney".

I must disclaim that this is not meant to "compete" with any other AUs or designs! They're all real and I hope my dognix can be friends with yours.

The below post has my designs for the Gavin brothers, Maya, Franziska, Phoenix, Athena, Sholmes, Lord van Zieks, aaand a teeny Harebrayne. Sadly, no Apollo this time, all his art is doodles and I hit image limit anyways! Him and Trucy may get their own post soon, however!

These were all done with my non-dominant hand, and Athena was done on a Magma board, if that explains the anything.

The Gavins are the first ones I really did, and they're both caracals! I've kinda wanted to go back and change Klavier a bit in regards to an insane headcanon, but caracalvier is too iconic like this, I just can't do it

Putting Maya and Fran together, cause they're both kitties! If Maya was a specific breed, then I forgot, but Fransizka (and her dad, by extension) are both oriental longhairs. If I weren't presently injured, I'd draw a scrungly Manfred, but alas your mind's eye will have to do the work.

Phoenix is a puppy dog! Very very nearly made him a hyena... But I couldn't. I couldn't reconcile it with Ryunosuke. I have a Yeenix in the back, for any interested parties

LASTLY for my main-series designs is Athena! She's a seal. I don't think I had a specific reason besides not being able to get ears to fit with that ponytail... Might change her to a sea lion, though!

AAAAND TGAA BONUSES... Aka the Barokorn Cinematic Universe

Sholmes is a lion (with his sad little low testosterone mane)! He was easily the hardest, as I went back and forth... Alot. He was a pigeon at first! I contemplated rabbit..? But I tried to steer away from the mascot designs, generally. I'm happy with the decision of lion, however, mostly cause it gives him fun symbolism with the whole Professor thing.

The van Zieks-es are unicorns, and Bunnybrain is a pony! I could go more in-depth, buuut that's kinda spoilery

Ryunosuke and Kazuma (not pictured) are both puppy dogs, and I think I settled on bunny for Susato?? To make her pops a bunny also? I also have some sketches of her as a sugar glider, but I don't really like most of their art 👎 so there's a couple gaps here

If anyone wants to (??!?!?!!) you can use these designs for pretty much anything you want (and feel free to extrapolate upon the rest of their designs, most of these are very limited), just make sure to tag me, partially for credit, but also because I'd just REAAAALLY want to see... They are my babies, my world, I think I might break down into tears (/pos) BUT ANYWAYS I LOVE YOU ALL. THANK YOU FOR STICKING WITH ME AND I HOPE THIS MAYBE MOTIVATES YOU TO DRAW SOME SILLY ANIMAL ATTORNEYS OF YOUR OWN!!

[cupcakewebkinz]

Parental Comfort

❀ Just Rescued Toons be heavy on my brain... So have some Sprout finding comfort from Sam during the first storm he witnesses outside of Gardenview because I think it's adorable ❀

✿ Caretaker Shanon au is mine!! ✿

❁ @soupiestzilla Sprout content upon ye you poor soul (he will never stop haunting me)(I think about him constantly)(save me Zilla) ❁

────── « ⋅ʚ♡ɞ⋅ » ──────

That night was a rough night.

The second night Sprout was there, the first night a thunderstorm came through.

The first time Sam had ever seen Sprout in a blackout since the closure of Gardenview.

Except they weren't there when the power flickered off, Sam was in bed, asleep. Sprout was on the living room couch, in an oversized red sweater and white shorts, eating some chips as he watched a horrible romcom movie that Sam forgot to turn off, when the power flickered once, twice, then cut out completely. Sprout had no visible reaction, just still eating chips, sitting weirdly, staring at the now black screen. But internally- he was freaking the fuck out. He was eating faster, fearfully, near binge eating to cope- to hide his fear- to stay strong. He fought the tears that threatened to come out, the urge to scream for Sam, the urges to desperately search for light. Any light. Anything to reassure him the monsters that hid in the dark were just in his head.

He had no idea how fast he was eating now until he nearly choked.

He was shaking, breathing heavily, teary eyed and struggling to keep himself together. He kept looking around desperately, looking for anything red.

For twisteds eyes.

Despite no more twisteds ever going to hurt him again.

He swallowed hard as he tried to get up once his comfort was gone, the chips being inhaled by him without him realizing he did that, but his legs gave out on him in the middle of the living room. Giving out the second he heard footsteps that weren't his. He sat there, in the middle of the floor, trembling and breathing hard and feeling sick and trying to hold himself together until-

He couldn't.

He screamed.

He screamed like he was going to die as he started bawling, his hands digging deep into the carpet in a futile attempt to grasp onto reality again. His body was curled into itself, his tail hiding his legs - which he was regretting leaving exposed. He was falling apart in real time, becoming a hot mess of tears, screams and fear right in the middle of the floor.

He didn't even realize Sam had woken up and set a light up on the coffee table until he felt something touch him, and he immediately went to attack whatever was there, but he was gently stopped by the now startled awake human.

"Woah there buddy, woah, let's not hurt anyone now, nobody's gonna hurt you here." Sam very carefully reassured, rubbing the arm they now had in their hands, his fist tight in their hand. Sprout didn't think, he just moved his arm away before crawling onto their lap, latching onto his favorite human like they were going to save him as he grossly sobbed into their pajama shirt. Sam just pulled him close, gently undoing his ponytail just to slowly run their hand through his hair, petting him gently. Kind of. It's confusing like that honestly. Sprout's trembling slowed as he took a deep breath, his grip on the other tightening as he forced himself together again. Sam just kissed the top of his head, stroking his hair as they held him tight, soothing him silently.

"You know... You can keep crying if you need to, you don't have to keep being strong anymore, it's okay to get comfort. I'm not going anywhere, okay? Nobody else is here, take your time calming down." Sam spoke up after watching him for a few minutes, ignoring that it was one in the morning and they probably should go back to bed soon. Sprout didn't say a thing, not for a long while, not as he slowly calmed down. He just silently stayed clinging to Sam like they were a lifeline, and Sam just allowed it, softly and silently reassuring him that it was all okay as they sat in the middle of the living room floor. It was oddly silent, but a comforting silence, the only sounds being the rain pouring outside and the soft sounds of the two's breathing as they relaxed with each other, slowly calming down the very very not okay berry.

"I'm sorry you saw that..." Sprout whispered when the feelings had simmered, his voice strained and weak from having just sobbed his eyes out into Sam's shoulder for a few hours straight. Sam just chuckled, gently putting Sprout's hair back up for him, then moved away just to give him a kiss on the forehead.

"I get it, trust me, I get it. I used to do the same thing as a kid, it's totally fine to have such a reaction. You're oka-"

"I feel like I'm gonna throw up..." Sprout mumbled, moving away from the human just to slowly flop on the floor. Sam blinked, looked at the empty bowl that was tossed aside mid panic attack, then at Sprout.

"Did you seriously binge eat those chips-?"

"I... I hope not..." He mumbled in reply, obviously not remembering what he did during his breakdown. Sam just got up and moved the light closer to the berry, then they swiftly walked off, returning with a tray of things in one hand and a trashcan in the other. They set the tray down on the coffee table, then set the empty bucket beside Sprout, watching as he just curled up a little more on the floor in response to lightening flashing outside the window. The thunder that boomed loudly afterwards made him squeak and crawl over to his handler in a panic, and Sam just went right back to holding the shaky toon close.

"It's okay, we're safe in here. I got something to help your stomach too, think you can handle medicine real quick?" Sam softly asked, looking deep into the deep green eyes the berry had. Their heart broke at the fear in his eyes, the silent pleading for everything to feel okay again, the way he seemed to be silently begging for the storm to end- the silent pleas for some sleep. Sprout just nodded slightly, not even realizing Sam knew just how terrified he was, and they nodded back before gently feeding him some medicine, then helping him drink a little soda. It was rootbeer, not the best for this, but at least he seemed to like it as he went back and drank more of it after a minute. Sam smiled at that, happy to have found something nice for him despite their current situation.

"So, you like rootbeer, eh?"

"It's way better than the pop we had to drink for years... Pretty sure that stuff went bad five years ago." Sprout mumbled, rubbing his eyes like a big sleepy baby afterwards. Sam looked at their battery powered clock, seeing it was now 3 am, then looked back at Sprout.

"Sorry if I scared you earlier, I only came out to see if I needed to reset the breaker, didn't know you were terrified of the dark now. Is there any way you wanna try to work on that with me? Maybe get some night lights around the house, maybe we can go around checking everything for you with my lamp- anything you want to try?" Sam softly offered, making Sprout look around the room they were in again, then slowly get up.

"Could... We actually look around the house just once before we go to bed..? Together..?" Sprout softly asked, getting a simple nod from Sam. They then also got up, picked up their lamp, then passed it to him before holding his hand gently. He held it right back with a nervous smile, his tail untucking a bit, but Sam didn't dare make it known they noticed. They just smiled back down at him, nodding.

"Lead the way, Berry Boy."

"Vee needs to stop calling me that, seriously."

"You're smiling-"

"I am and I hate it."

Sam just laughed at that reply, while Sprout just rolled his eyes and shook his head in fake disappointment. The two soon were off on their late night adventure though, Sprout checking all the rooms and most of the closets to be absolutely sure nothing would ever jump out at them while they sleep. Making sure they didn't have any twisteds lurking, despite knowing that was an outlandish fear, checking to make sure it was safe. The investigations ended in Sam's room, with Sprout fast asleep on their bed, having laid down on it "to make sure nothing was under it". Sam knew he was lying, just exhausted and wanting a place that felt safe to rest, which was why they just set up a dim light before they simply laid beside him. They didn't even flinch when Sprout clung to them, expecting it. They just smiled, pulled him close and closed their eyes.

"I see why everyone said you were my son now... You really do cling to me like a scared toddler when you don't feel okay..." Sam mumbled, twirling a leaf around their finger as they thought about it. Sprout just held on tighter, and Sam pulled him closer. They soon smiled, patting his back a little bit.

"Maybe parenting isn't bad after all..." They mumbled, shrugging a little as they pulled Sprout close and closed their eyes, letting themselves doze off with the berry held tight. They weren't woken up again that night, even if the storm outside carried on. They felt safe and they had each other, so they just slept. And slept through their alarm as well, but that's a problem for awake Sam to handle.

[qbebou]

what makes me sad abt philever is that they COULD have had a good shot. i know it’s silly and funny and everyone says forevers love was unrequited completely but like…. hasn’t phil said several times that maybe things would have been different if forever didn’t just like him bc he looks like brunim? i know phil peaces out whenever lore is happening so i don’t think he would ever actually fully commit to the bit but i do feel like there’s an inkling of sadness whenever phil says there could have been something between them or that forever only wants him for his looks

[sammyrat]

im working on an official design for these idiots after a long time heres a sneak peak of the um designs. rouxls now has those beautiful sleeves that made me genuinely gasp in how much i like them

also drew lancer from memory again also this reminds me of my first Disney villain rouxls art how the times have changed so fast

(tap on the image for better quality)

[areyouscaredyet]

realizing I like never post my ocs here so I’m trying to catch up LOLLL

frederick as a wee lad fishing with his dad before everything goes freaking crazy <3

[ask-philgraves]

What’s the story behind the scar on your cheek? It looks like it has an interesting one.

It's... a story.

In Urzikstan I was at the very back of a battalion. One guy up front stepped on a mine, blew everything all to hell. I guess a piece of metal nicked my face. I went to the medic and they looked like they were about to pass out. Took thirteen stitches to my face without any sort of anesthetic.

[doctahchang]

would like to know the lore of my own oc that i have had for like ten years

edit: found an old sketch of her... i basically drew her for the first time eons ago and haven't changed her design ever since (sad that i won't be able to find those drawing again)

[nerdsandqueens]

(source of artbook preview)

Ghilan'nain Trivia

"Ghilan'nain's horns are meant to reflect a hunting bow in reference to Andruil."

"She is goddess of monsters, creating countless twisted creatures. She has modified herself so much over the years that whatever her face may have been, it's long forgotten."

"Goddess of monsters. Mother of the Halla. Ghila'nain was once an elf chosen by Andruil, the goddess of the hunt, to become a god as a reward for her devotion to the world's animals. She then became part of the elven pantheon."

"Her mask tells the story of how she was made the youngest of the gods. On the first day, she struck down the monsters of the air. On the second day, she drowned the giants of the sea. On the third day, she killed the beasts of the land."

"Ghilan'nain is our sinister mad-scientist god, using her blighted magic to create horrors out of Thedas's people and wildlife. She mutates the darkspawn into even more powerful and "efficient" forms, for example, and also warps the Antaam who foolishly come to her for power."

"Razikale was inspired by the Jabberwocky from Terry Gilliam's film of the same name."

"Her Archdemon, Razikale, is an enhanced dragon that gets modified even further."

"Ghilan'nain wants to restore the old elven empire so she can continue her work. Analytical and curious, she sees everyone as potential stock for experiments (except for fellow god Elgar'nan, with whom she gets on well). Ghilan'nain is pitiless about her work - she'll happily slice open a hundred people for parts - but she's got a soft spot of pride in her monsters once they're complete."

[willswizardlyasks]

Ugh, it's so fucking windy...

I don't like the wind. My hat almost flies away every time.

Nobody here needs to see my-...

...!

... Nevermind. Forget I said anything.

[gwendolynstark]

[not sending in my muse bcz itd be weird to have u make out w/ gwen or LYLA, but am sending to get a beijinho as soka :D]

🌿🍒.

Gwendolyn was just cleaning up her table, countless of trinkets and memorabilia's scattered on its surface. She looks at a picture of when she was younger, alongside Shuri and T'challa. A soft smile tugged her lips, before she felt a stick nudge her shoulder.

She turned around and sees Soka, holding a comically long stick and dangling from it is.. A mistletoe. Gwendolyn raised a brow and shifted, albeit awkwardly. "Uhh.." she muttered, before placing a gauche kiss on Soka's forehead.

[starlit-roses-ships]

folks is it too much to create a whole ass new alien (species? race?) in a series with established extraterrestrials just bc you wanna give your s/i cool powers