#umbran

[anonbeadraws]

More Lineages! Mirrar, the cosmic twins of Umbrans, are from the 12th Era and have bodies melded with technology! They are born with ports and mantels that connect them to their world and technological devices. Find us on twitter/insta #CosmicMirrorRPG 💜

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Gabrial Chapter 1

It’s been so long since I’ve posted but I’m really excited to share this perspective of the story with you! This one will be written and posted in chronological order. This story belongs to my whumper Gabrial, you’ll see him in my story Umbran- but this one has Plot, rather then just whump.

Words: 934

Characters: Row, Ria (Gabrial), Kol

Cw: Nonhuman characters, they/it pronouns. That’s it have fun!

(How do I add a line break on mobile again?)

Blue eyes opened to the sound of pattering feet and the rustle of leaves, a sound Ria knew urged it to follow. Carefully, it stretched its wings and stood, stepping over the sleeping limbs of its colony members and siblings. Its own footsteps were quiet, creeping things, carefully avoiding stray leaves and other Bird’s hair. A sleepy mumble made it freeze, counting the seconds and its heartbeat while its dozing companion settled back to sleep. A moment later it had reached the entrance.

Into the moonlight it stepped, breathing in the fresh dew scented air of its home. The little bird balanced, hanging off the entrance to the hollow as it reached for a hand hold. Little cream colored wings fluffed against the chill- but Ria wasn’t cold! Climbing down was always a careful endeavor, being so high up, but this was a familiar path. Hand and foot, hand and foot, Ria made its way down from a hundred feet in the air to the safe ground below.

On the forest floor sharp grins were exchanged, stifled giggles mixed with periodic shushes could be heard as Ria dropped the last ten feet, landing lightly with bent knees. It looked up, clicking as its companions took its hand to rush it forward. Tonight had been planned for a long time, they couldn’t afford to be seen.

Together the three ran, hands joined together with tiny wings flapping excitedly behind them. Nothing could hurt them while they were together! They weren’t going to cross the border- just take a look! They were so curious… the adults always said not to go too far- they knew why they shouldn’t.. but they just wanted to see! They would be home before anyone noticed they were gone! These sentiments murmured between them as they urged each other on.

Soon they came to a border, two pairs of wings bristling with excitement and one with fear. “Wait!” Said the first one, a strawberry finch too shy to step forward. “It’s not safe!” They called, refusing to move from their safe, ten foot distance as the blackbird inched forward.

“I just wanna touch it!” The blackbird called, chirping excitedly. “I’ll touch it, then we can go back” it claimed, so focused on its goal it didn’t see its companion’s anxiety.

The dove, Ria, watched with blue eyes, still holding the finch’s hand. “We’ll be quick” it promised, bumping its head into the finch’s shoulder. “I want to feel it’s magic” it turned its gaze to the border, a long obvious thing.

The trees stopped ten feet away, farthest reaching branches barely grazing the edge. Ferns and low level plants grew to three feet away, then stopped abruptly- and moss stretched the rest of the way, ending as a black mass on the forest floor at the contact point. Ria wanted to know what made the plants so scared.

Slowly, it let go of the finch’s hand, leaving the chick with trembling wings. “I’ll be quick” it promised.

“It’s not safe!” A sharp tone clicked.

“We have to! Otherwise we might as well just stay in the nest” challenged the blackbird. “We have to prove we aren’t chicks!” It called, already past the fern’s.

“I don’t like this-“

“then go back, it’s alright. We’ll be safe.” A hand on the finch’s shoulder helped them calm, helped them regulate that fear into something usable, communicable. Ria waited until the finch looked a little more confidant, before stepping away to join the blackbird. “You should go back. We’ll join you soon” it suggested.

An impatient trill sounded, responded to with warning clicks.

“Okay.. be safe Ria, I’ll wait for you” the finch promised, tail curled around their arm anxiously. They started turning away, heading down the path they’d come.

“Be safe Row, we’ll be home soon. Don’t worry about us” while Ria’s back was turned, the blackbird had snuck farther, causing Ria’s wings to puff up at the sight of Kol with its hand half way through the barrier. “You’re not supposed to go *through* it!” He shouted, dashing forward to grab Kol’s arm. “That’s so dangerous!”

“It’s different! The air is cooler!” Kol exclaimed, black wings puffing with excitement. Slowly it took a step forward, then another as Ria tried to convince them just how bad of an idea this was. “You don’t want me to go alone right? Just a quick peak! I just want to stick my head through!”

“You’ll say that-“ Ria’s voice broke, wavering with anxiety. “You say that, but you’ll always want more. You’ll never be happy- that’s why you’re a scout! You’ll go and explore and leave without anyone to drag you back home!” It knew it was right, when it saw Kol hesitate.

“Then come with me” a request, a temptation.

“No” a refusal, sharp and clear.

“Come with me, then you can reign us back.. but, I just want to see what’s on the other side. Come on! We’ve never been this far!” Kol’s tail flicked, black floof bristled at the end. There was no clearer way to tell that someone was distressed.

Ria hesitated, coming closer, gazing at the border with suspicion. “..just a peak?” It asked shyly, now holding the black bird’s hand. It wanted to keep its friend safe.. and it couldn’t do that if it let Kol go on without it. What would happen if the blackbird got lost? Or hurt? It needed Ria to make sure it wasn’t alone at the least.

“Just a peak” the blackbird promised, grin just a bit too sharp. And with that, they stepped through the border.

Masterlist

[diggydiggybot]

((UPDATED ART FOR UMBRAN! I didn’t do much in the way of changes to his design, mostly to his abdomen area and a new design for his helmet.

In-character, he approached @machinesandman‘s Shaska to help design and make a new helmet for him, as he’d been flatly refusing to wear his old one anymore (he has his reasons).

Very pleased with how this turned out x3

Please do not use, edit, copy, trace or repost my artwork!

Umbran & Artwork © Kei (TheJinxedAngel/LairOfMusic) Mega Man X © Capcom))

[dark-hybrid-ninja]

Striker had gotten really sick of being made a joke out of, and this Umbra whatever was just the cherry on top. So after a good bit of sulking in frustration over their first encounter. Striker tracked him down, pretty easy to do so with how flamboyant he was, and of course he had a full estate, this guy really was a blue blood...

Striker snuck onto the grounds easily enough, wearing his large black poncho to be stealthy as he looked around, eventually reaching the main building and climbing onto a balcony to get inside, skulking around trying to find the bastard...

[Striker] For Akira.

*from the muffled sounds of gunshots and strikes, it sounded like Akira was in the basement area. If Striker were to go there, he would find Akira fighting a few fallen angels that were after him for when he brought the Platinum halo to Rodin, the fact this umbra witch had such control of shooting while using his guns to physically strike down each of the angels would be a sight to behold*

[lucalaperra]

Lady D mod for Bayonetta is so damn cool (no fucking clue who made this but please lmk the creator)

[ginnungagay]

(vinny vinesauce voice) okay bayonutters

[neloangelo0]

finished art isnt real anyway 🛌

[atropabellatrix]

What if, right after the events of Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and The Lost Demon, Little Cerezita stumbled on her father, Balder? And what if they teamed up to go rescue Rosa?

[ravenwitch45]

Normal couples dancing:

Rosa and Balder dancing:

Well Bayo had to get her eccentric dancing from somewhere right?XP

[tonpy69]

I finally finished this reference sheet that I started back in 2023, for a Bayonetta/Hellboy self insert character that I planned to write a story for, I still need to draw her brother as well, who I do have a concept sketch for, but the design is not finalized yet so it probably won't be shared until I'm happy with it! The last image was the concept idea, which you can see is now polished and updated. I genuinely couldn't decide which series to put her in, since I liked the idea of just making a crossover series hybrid, and I even found a way to make it work! I might share her profile in the next post, Which also features information about her brother as well! :D

[anonbeadraws]

More lineages for Confluence! Out of thousands of Lineages Umbrans are one of @publishinggoblin favourites! With 6 limbs and heads made of Ephemra, a type of dark smoke or spirit energy, Umbrans are particularly unique! Although Umbrans can be found in city centers with their Mirn partners, you are more likely too see them in small towns in the country side or traveling for the thrill of learning.

Umbrans do not have mouths in the traditional sense, therefore they communicate in Tap Speak, tapping against their breast plates and masks. Here is Ajurea various combinations of technology have given them other forms of communication like telepathy. Umbrans born with masks that resemble an exoskeleton. Masks are often removed as they grow. Some Umbrans craft their own masks, but gifting masks or having a mask made are also common occurrences. Klk'Klk, a playtesting PC of Seven Pedersen, whose mask was made with gamer buttons that make unique sounds that have unique meanings in Tap Speak.

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Gabrial Ch. 2 Lost

Words: 1,100

Cw: Lost children, Fae (the lost children are the Fae)

Light.

Bright and loud and absolutely *contaminated* with magic. It filled them, in their ears and eyes and soul as they passed through that ever present boundary. Heat and cold mixed into something almost unbearable, flashing against their skin in a way that made them feel both singed and frost bitten at once.

Light.

Bright and colorful and twisting. Blues and purples and reds and green. All warping their vision into something impossible to understand. Impossible to make out. The colors were so vivid it felt like if they could just reach out they would *grab* them- and that doing so would burn them alive. The magic was too strong here.. and it took everything they had not to simply be ripped to shreds.

In an instant the world went quiet, and dark and cold as the birds tumbled to the ground. Wings and limbs and quiet chirps all tangled in a pile belonging to two beings that for a moment, didn’t feel quite so separate. As they oriented themselves color and sound warped back into place, focusing in the form of ringing ears and dizzy vision that slowly cleared.

The birds were greeted with silent cool air, pulled along by a gentle breeze to brush past their faces. The world was changed. It was such a stark difference from their home it was almost sickening. Gone was the comfortable humidity of the rainforest, instead the cool grass under their bare feet was only slightly damp with dew. The absent ever present symphony of bugs ached in their ears. It was just.. so.. silent. Unsettling, in a way that made them both freeze.. scared to move for the fear that just a sound would alert the rest of this new realm that *they didn’t belong here*.

And *oh*, how dangerous this was- two little birds leaving their nest before they learned how to fly. Something new and different could snatch them up without a thought, without the safety of the boundary and the rest of their colony to protect them. They felt so small in this world- and that’s what it was, a whole world of unexplored terrain and new things to see.

Kol moved first, stumbling to its feet and pulling Ria up with it. In a heartbeat they were inching closer to the trees on the other side, Kol pulling Ria away from the edge of the border and into the forest. And Ria followed, little heart racing as they were lead away from their home. With a glance back the space between realms shimmered, and closed.

The baby bird panicked, looking to Kol for comfort and finding none- just the excited joy of a new place to explore. They felt it seeping into them, tainting their fear with an excited anxiety that made them feel sick. Ria let itself be dragged a few dozen feet before it’s brain caught up and it wretched its arm away.

“What do you think we’re *doing*” it cried, little wings pressed tight to its back as it trembled. “We have to go home! We went too far-“ tears formed and fell, reflecting like broken light against the dark night of the forest. They almost shown, almost a light source of their own as Kol turned to watch them.

“I.. I know. I’m sorry. I have to see what’s out there. I’ll never get another chance” Kol squeezed Ria’s shoulder, and instead of the usual stability that came with sharing an emotional burden all they received was the electric shock of unbearable giddiness. “You have to understand” Kol urged “just for tonight, then we can go home.”

Ria hesitated, feeling sick and dizzy from the almost forced rush of emotions. “I don’t understand- I don’t- you *said* you just wanted to touch it! You said *just a peak!*” it felt.. was that anger? Regret? It didn’t like those feelings.. how they burned a hole in its chest and *hurt so bad*. It.. blamed Kol, a little, for pressuring and pushing when it should have very well seen how uncomfortable its friends were! Kol should know better then this! Ria didn’t *understand* how Kol was so- so indifferent to its fear.

“Can you not feel it? How scared I am?” Ria’s voice wavered, threatening to break as it slowly got louder. “Can’t you feel *any* empathy at all?!” It was almost overwhelming, having all these big scary emotions and having to deal with them on their own.

Kol hesitated, then sighed with a frustrated trill. “Fine. Let’s at least explore for five minutes, then go home. How’s that? At least give me that much” it let its voice dip into short irritation, watching as the ‘rejection’ of its tone took an effect on Ria.

“Just- just five minutes” the dove confirmed, anxiety heightened by Kol’s apparent anger with them. It was hard, handling all this on their own, it almost made them nauseous.

Five minutes of exploring, of new terrain and colored leaves and dim moonlight peaking through the trees. One bird having fun, while the other clung to them. The pair tracked over logs and under branches and through small streams that sapped the heat from their skin, leaving little bruises in its wake.

Finally, Ria stopped again and this time its urging was heard. A deal had been struck, forcing the two to head back through uncharted wilderness. Through the streams they went, under the branches, and over moss covered logs to seek an unfamiliar clearing that felt farther than they had traveled.

Again, by the stream the two looked at each other. “We didn’t go the right way. Follow me this time” the black bird chirped. “You got lost in your anxiety”

This time the pair went along the stream, over the logs, and under the low hanging branches.. just to find the stream again.

“This way, surely this way is correct”

Past the log, through the branches, and over the stream.. left them in the same location. Over and over they trekked, seeing the same three landmarks in slightly different ways.

By morning Ria had collapsed, exhausted by wandering with its aching limbs. Every joint seemed to hurt, from the baby birds knees to their ankles, to somehow their back where their wings connected and now drooped. “We’re lost” they despaired. “If only we hadn’t left. If only we’d turn back”

“Let’s wait for the light, when the sun is high and the paths are clear, then we will find the clearing” Kol tried, not ready to regret it’s decisions yet.

“We’re going to be in so much trouble..”

Masterlist

[diggydiggybot]

Hey, Umbran; have you talked to Commander Signas since you returned?

Umbran froze on the spot, body tensing for a moment before he vented a soft sigh and only slightly untensed with a small frown.

"Only when necessary."

[dark-hybrid-ninja]

Olivine had come over to visit Quincy as he had a basket full of baked goods with him to share with Topper. He knocked on the door and fixed his clothes as he waited for someone to answer.

*Hakutomi would then answer the door, his long white hair not tied into a ponytail as his was flowing down his back as he responded* "Yes yes, how may i..oh, hello, havent seen you around here" *he said given he was shirtless after training recently, only having his pants on*

[fazuellibutbayonetta]

Jeanne from Bayonetta using a Twiggy photo as reference 🌛

[10bendog]

This was inspired from a tweet, lol.