enki dies of smoke inhalation in his sleep because he's using his left lung as extra parasite storage to get a +1 on his needle worm damage. moonless is fine she will probably eat him when she wakes up. 👍
tfw you sign your soul over to an eldritch fear deity in order to regain some semblance of control over your own life (tma au)
nobody understands how fucking crazy i am about this au. its tormenting me. also epel is here as well he's corruption he has a lot of worms in him sorry in advance
closeups + design notes + au jamil fun facts under the cut!
(tw some body horror stuff? eye stuff)
design notes
his hair jewelry has been replaced with spider silk cocoons / string. also very obviously spider themed hair gem thing
spider eyes! both in the way of he has 8 human eyes and actual spider eyes on his neck
web tattoos. they spin outwards and grow in a kind of mesmerizing hypnotic pattern when he uses his powers
his braids now form a spiderweb pattern. hes also prematurely greying a little LOLL
his belt chains form a spiderweb pattern as well
he has piercings! an erl piercing across his nose bridge and four piercings on each ear
his pants are based off the spider-tailed horned viper-- a snake whose tail has evolved to look like a spider so the birds it feeds on will mistake its tail for prey
au jamil notes
his backstory pretty much remains the same honestly
except when he's around 11, instead of getting poisoned and falling into a coma, he gets trapped in a buried-aligned artifact that he touched while cleaning one of the asim treasure rooms
nobody could find him for weeks and kalim was really tearing up the whole estate about it because he insisted that jamil would never run off or disappear without a reason
jamil escapes the buried by taking the assistance of the web (he does it in the way of "i don't know what's going on but this thing is reaching out to help me and i don't want to die so fuck it" but he's still accepting the web into his life regardless)
after two weeks they find him covered in cobwebs and dust in the treasure room and he gets scolded for making everyone worry
he doesn't even bother trying to explain to people what happened to him because he knows it's too unbelievable for them. he spins a lie and he's surprised by how natural it is to just Lie to people
jamil's powers as an avatar of the web manifest visually as him "pulling strings" out of people's eyes. like unwinding their irises like they're spools of thread. if you've seen the prev post on web!jamil you know what it looks like
if he leaves the iris-strings half unwound they become very suggestible, very easily manipulated
however if he yanks out the iris-strings fully, he can turn the other person into a complete blank slate. no thoughts head empty. basically an empty cocoon of a person. he tends not to do this because 1) it's very conspicuous and 2) it renders the victim completely useless to the web
he has to concentrate very hard to do this and he can usually pull on only one person's iris-strings at a time
there was a bug on the window earlier and i had never SEEN a bug like that before so i raced out to hold it, put gloves on first just in case, and it was really cute, it had a nose but i was like hmmm that's definitely NOT a weevil, it was very delicate and gentle so my gf took pictures and then i looked it up as it crawled on my bare arm (bcos it was being gentle) and the first result was like This Bug's Bite Is So Fucking Painful DON'T LET IT GET NEAR YOU!!!! so i gently let it walk on my gloved hand again and i put it outside. it was a wheel bug i hope its doing okay. if you're reading this i love you wheel bug
Jonathan Crane seems like the type of guy who'd just casually freak people out as a power play, especially when he's in Arkham. Imagine this freak staring a guard directly in the face while he shoves a random insect in his mouth. You can't tell me that this man wouldn't just eat bugs for fun.
Sometimes you just have to be a little annoying to the creature that keeps launching herself off your head every time she sees one (1) bird outside
[Video description: a 2 month old peachick stands on the back of a recliner, looking out the window. A human hand touches a single tail covert feather and every time the bird immediately whips around to preen the feather before returning to looking outside. At the end, the bird gets spooked by something outside the window and leaves]