#total trauma fanart

[pan-fried-autism]

I’ve drawn more @totaltraumacomic fanart! It’s from one of the recent pages— it’s Sammi getting her hair dyed :3. Idk too much about dying hair but I’ve seen it like this before.

Anyway it’s an AMAZING comic as I’ve probably said before

[captain-orphic-al]

Heather and Gwen honestly are so cute.

And Cecily be bold about asking Courtney out. Love her for it.

@totaltrauma really be ramping things up tho ngl

[viperra1]

tw: blood, suicidal ideation (? probably ? it's Boone we're talking about so. yeah)

so make it one for my baby and one more for the road.

[puttputtscribbs]

They deserve the world

(and more screen time)

[thimbell]

woe, sad gram gram and april be upon ye

[decarbry]

a frequent visitor

[xiaoming56]

This is the comic equivalent of a crack fic

[0bituarius]

🦌"You're sweating like a whore in church– oh wait..."🦌

You can take the whore out of the bible belt but you can't take the bible belt out of the whore. God bless, besties. ✝✨

[lembowe]

@clubsheartsspades hi so sorry for the tag but chapter 8 has had me frothing at the mouth so like uh hope you enjoy fanart bc i could not help myself >:)

(psst please go read Invisible Machinery it is genuinely so good :)

i cannot wait for more of this fic it gives me the brain worms /pos

[tainalenn]

illustration I made a while ago for Cody Anderson's anime <3 a fanart collection for Wyatt's Total Trauma comic @totaltraumacomic If you're in the Total Drama fandom you should totally check it out, it's the best and one of my personal favorites <3

[thememeartist-kat]

So apparently today is LFLS birthday! Or at least, it is where I'm at ^^''

Anyway, I made this piece as a token of my appreciation. I love LFLS, it's an amazing fic and one of the first I read when dipping my toes into the fandom. So thank you @eternalglitch for opening my eyes to a whole new level of pain

Happy Birthday!

PS: This was originally going to be a full body drawing but i scrapped due to time. If y'all wanna see it, ask and i will send the original sketch ;D

[pan-fried-autism]

I drew Cecily! Like I said before, she belongs to a webcomic called @totaltraumacomic made by @/totaltrauma. I would recommend checking out prins comic honestly, it’s AMAZING!! There are plenty of trigger warnings to be wary of before reading, but if you guys want I’ll talk about them in another post.

[geoffexperience]

Brick after attending the war ||total drama chocolat au lait AU||

He only turned 17 when two months after finishing fashion school he was recruited and while the others were happy with a new season he lived a hell that he did not want and could live.

He was the victim of unfair ridicule for being a person with many fears When he left there he was a different person, yes, he was still afraid but now he made sure not to show it. He also thinks that people are unfriendly so he doesn't show empathy to those he doesn't know. There are times when bullets sound in his head and having a gun. It puts him in a situation of extreme anxiety, he really didn't deserve it.

[simple-seranade]

No matter how holy your soul, they’ll always make you the demon they want you to be

i am So Normal about Xornoth.

being a child and putting your trust in those above, only to find out they apparently use you as the most twisted kind of evil and everyone treats you as such. crying out and wondering why they aren’t saving you, why you’re so bad that their help would corrupt their holiness. finding solace in the opposites, because if you aren’t good enough, then maybe you’re bad enough. maybe then you can belong. you don’t want to do these things, but it’s your only choice. you’re too far gone now.

and now you and your brother lay on the ground, matching wounds. you guess neither of you were holy enough, at the end of the day

anygays i am rotating them in my mind like the worlds most traumatized rotisserie chicken.

[sillyangstyimp]

More Cuphead doodles, except this time with Chalice! Her design may look a bit funky cuz i drew this at like 2 am and didnt have any references lmao

i love the chaos children they're my babies

[loriache]

Butch up that Elf: my Marcille manifesto

TBQH, this came into being because the Falin "dragoness" fanart rewired my brain completely. It's sillytimes, but we're going to make a serious argument: trying out being a little butch would Fix Her.

1. Marcille Gender Discomfort

Now, Marcille LOVES feminity. She loves playing dressup, she loves elaborate gowns, she spends her free time going to the spa - the absolute last thing I want is to deny that. However, there's also a definite vibe that this isn't just a preference. Specifically, the way that she pushes Falin towards femininity suggests that she isn't comfortable with gender nonconformity in the people around her.

If this was something she was 100% confident about ("I'm doing this for myself and nobody else!") surely what other people do wouldn't be a big deal? Of course, you can read this as a little bit of solipsism; "what works for me must work for you too! I think this is so cute and would suit you - wouldn't you agree?"

But for the sake of this argument, all I'm trying to suggest is that gender nonconformity (and probably sexual nonconformity... well, frankly, any kind of sexuality at all) is unlikely to be something that's on Marcille's "radar". She hasn't tried out other ways of presenting and decided she doesn't like them. I do think she'd be a very flamboyant butch - "ouji lolita" vibes, you know? It's a whole new set of wardrobe options she could play dress-up in, even.

After the story ends, she starts dressing like her mother in all black, which makes sense - her mother was also a court magician, so she's probably emulating her in order to project confidence and authority. But I can't say I think she should stick with this. Break away and be your own person, Marcille! Try a fancy waistcoat and frilled jacket!

2. Haircut

This is another potential hard sell, I'm sure. The people she loves doing her hair is a cute symbol of their care for her, and her hair is key to her magic - so there's plenty of reason for her to keep it long. But like... think practically. Having someone do your hair every morning, for the whole of her long life, while it gets messier over the day (because she can't remember to keep it neat)... That's got to be such a pain. My hair gets messy when I put a hoodie on. And I have short hair.

It would require her to go through a change of mind, and probably a little more growth in how secure she feels in her relationships, but - the hairdo's a symbol. The more important thing is the relationships themselves. Eventually I think there might be something liberating about cutting it off, even if she might eventually decide to grow it out again.

The lion, her trauma, took something away from her which was really important to her. The people around her are able to make that easier, and make up for it, and soften that loss, but... Mithrun isn't the person he was before, you know? He's a new person. The relationship he has with his brother is new, and I don't know if it's one that the person he was before could have had. If Falin hadn't died, they wouldn't have gone on that wonderful adventure! They wouldn't have met Senshi or saved Izutsumi and Laios and Marcille wouldn't have gotten so close. So I think it's totally congruent with the themes of the story that the burning away of this part of Marcille's self might eventually create the potential for new growth in a new direction, not clinging onto the parts that are gone.

This also isn't totally out of the norm for elven mages - both Otta and Flamela have short hair. Otta is canonically butch, and potentially Flamela reads that way to elves too, but the point is it clearly is possible to be an accomplished mage without long hair.

3. Desiring (to be) a chivalrous prince

Marcille's succubus is clearly General Halleus from her favourite book series, the Daltian Clan. The fact that this is her ideal man.... it certainly plays into readings of her as Not Straight. But at least, this conveys the way her conception of sex and romance is strongly idealised, dissociated from the bodily and from physical desire.

There are many ways to interpret that, including thinking about what types of desire this fixation is obstructing because she is not comfortable with it, but I am going to focus here on what this desire does signify. She likes the trappings of courtly romance, and is clearly comfortable putting herself in the role of the princess, being taken away on a white horse by a noble (but tormented; eyepatch has "death" on it lmao) prince. (Though I think he's actually the token male lead who isn't royalty; he's a General. There's always one in Romfan, lmao. IYKYK)

A kiss on the hand - this is so chaste, I think it's clear it's more about desire to play a role in a dynamic than it is about desire in a physical sense. There is undoubtedly a big part of Marcille that wants to be a beloved and chased-after princess, but I think it isn't at all impossible that she'd also enjoy being the powerful, cool, and chivalrous "prince" to someone (a pretty girl, perhaps) who needs her protection.

This is a little silly, because it's clearly just aping the shoujo artstyle that articulates basically the same idea as her succubus, that Marcille is attached to highly abstracted and idealised romantic (and Romantic) tropes and ideas. But the imaginary "successful" Marcille from chapter 4 looks quite similar to her succubus. (Another thing I noticed is that in the fantasy she has sharp ears... like full elves have. Despite what she says, I think the cultural messaging that this trait is "attractive" and hers are inferior got to her at least a bit. 😥)

Also, the way that she treats Falin, scolding her indulgently, trying to look after her and wanting to be looked up to and respected by her... that aligns more with the "masculine" role in the trope that her succubus is referencing. "What are we going to do with you...?" I can imagine her saying this to Falin, word for word. Whereas, if anyone real started talking down to her, even affectionately, I don't think she'd like it, given the negative way she reacts when people don't respect her or her skills. Especially after canon, given the way the Winged Lion was treating her.

Her attitude to Falin is partially down to her reluctance to acknowledge Falin as an adult, who is independent and can grow beyond her and leave her behind. But I think even as they move on from that unhealthy dynamic, Marcille is still going to get pleasure from feeling capable, reliable, able to look after and protect Falin. She'd like to pull the chair out for her in a restaurant on a date, you know?

4. Conclusion

Even after the growth she goes through during the story, there are parts of Marcille's character that are very much obstructed. Romance, sexuality, and gender, feel like one of those to me. The way that her discomfort with the messy origins of food betrayed a deeper, more significant discomfort with the cycles of life and death.

Much in the same way, I'd argue that the simplified, idealistic, and safely fantastical way that she views romance, as well as her very "safe" gender presentation and tendency to push it onto others as well, suggest an underlying discomfort in her own gender and sexuality. The character growth she goes through leaves her in a place where it may be possible to safely re-evaluate her relationship with Falin, as well as her choice of clothing and hairstyle, both things that go through a change at the end of the manga. Neither, I think, reach a sustainable stopping point that we see - there will be a point when it's more servants doing her hair than friends, just out of practicality, because they're all going to be so, so busy. The black clothing to copy her mum is cute, but once she gets some more self-confidence in her own skills as a court magician, I think she'll move on from it. And... who knows what direction her relationship with Falin will develop, over the years? I'm rooting for them, anyway.

In all those cases, I think moving outside of the things she's done before, into something really different from the things that are "safe" and expected, will be the most rewarding path for her. Like in the dungeon, things that she would initially reject were actually able to sustain her and broaden her tastes. She loves dressing up, looking after people, and "princely romance". So I say: Butch Marcille! It'll be good for her!!