#vari angled

[iggyshippingcorner]

very silly to think about the fact that some of the folks i graduated from uni with are going on to use their english degrees to teach kids or to write books and i'm using MY english degree to research internal cardiac massage for my sonic movie toxic yaoi fanfiction

[geekgirles]

Okay, so maybe Amalia was constantly being ignored and overshadowed by Evangelyne in terms of looks during the first two seasons (as she should, given she was a literal child encountering creepy, older guys. That's not to say Eva deserved it either, but at least she is four years older), but at least Amalia has the dubious honour of all her admirers once she grew up being objectively hot—even if two of them were downright psychotic.

[stellar-collective]

Even though Ollie knew that Phoenix was perfectly capable of taking care of themselves, he did have to put on a little bit of a brave face for Xoe and Xavier. The lack of news certainly wasn’t… encouraging. But fussing wouldn’t do any good.

Somehow, though, that was harder to remember without an audience. The quiet walk home through the chill and ever-so-slight hint of rain gave him too much time to think. Phoenix could be anywhere. Captured by Zoraxis, on the run, stuck out in a storm—

—or sitting listlessly on his second-hand couch, only barely moving their head to face the opening door.

Wait, what?

first ~ prev ~ next

backgrounds my beloathed. communicating the passage of time (there’s supposed to be several hours between panels four and five) my beloathed. Ollie’s oversized sweater my beloved

[artlipsis]

damn

[fumifooms]

Mind if I ramble at you for a bit.

So I read both of your Marcille/canary rarepairs and the Fleki one inspired me to share a one-shot idea I had a while ago (that I am never going to write). Anyways the idea behind this is that it happens in an AU, where Canaries recruited (arrested) Marcille at some point in the timeline (maybe during her brief stint as Dugeon Lord).

Anyways in the one-shot Marcille would have a mental breakdown, when she realizes that her sentence is longer then most of her friends´ remaining lifespan and she will likely not meet them in person again (not to mention the irony in the fact that her effort to prolong the time she has with her friends she lost the chance to the time they have, Marcille will be avare of) and Fleki ends up comforting her.

I also consider a second part, where Marcille "repays the favor" when Fleki has a bad trip.

I didn´t ship Marcille/Fleki before your post, so the original idea was gen, but it could work as shipping fic as well.

I also consider some other one-shots in this AU (which I decided to call Jailbird AU), like Marcille managing to peacfully resolve a conflict between the Canaries and some people living in a dungeon (maybe goblins since they didn´t appear in the manga/anime), or her interacting with Mithrun (maybe she could make him a soup after they end up stuck in a dungeon together and run out of food), since as you pointed out those two have a nice potential dynamic (platonic or romantic).

Also Falin and rest of the party would definitivelly mount a Marcille rescue operation, which would make for a nice inversion their situation at the begining of the canon.

Makes me wonder how well would Marcille get along with the other members of the unit and what their interactions would be like.

The way the canaries are is that there are two prisoners for one warden right, but Marcille could be assigned as a temporary third charge… 🤔 Especially since the canaries are understaffed, probably under Mithrun and not Pattadol then because Mithrun is much more high ranked and experienced than Pattadol. As a past dungeon lord she’d be considered higher threat I imagine, but she’s capable so like Mithrun after his dungeon stint they’d really want to recruit her. This mithrille fanartist makes some canary!Marcille AU art like this one that I find super fun to think about… Yeah they’re right Mithrun would treat newbie recruit Marcille like that (carelessly and ruthlessly) pfft, since canaries assigned to Mithrun used to die a lot regularly before things stabilized with the current group I like to think of wether or not they expected Marcille to die soon and if they’re fine with that. Not like Mithrun would hesitate to strike her down if she stepped out of line— but she seems to get along with Pattadol so that could give them some hope, so either way, stamp of approval.

Wether Marcille would get along with each canaries or not imo:

Pattadol: Yes. Pattadol’s soft on Marcille, she thinks she’s sooo sensible and smart and thinks her dunlord thing was just an unfortunate turn of fate that she’s already forgiven for. They chat a lot, each other’s favorite coworker. If it wasn’t for Mithrun being the top leader I feel like Marcille could sometimes get carried away and take over with leadership of the group tbh gdvgd, and Pattadol may or may not notice she’d doing it and let her. Marcille gradually climbs up the canary ranks au? Would be fun

Fleki: I def think she’d be the one both poking fun at Marcille, about how she’s new to everything in the canaries and how dramatic she can act, and the one to lighten up the mood and be friendly because she’s open and casual like that and the one to tell her to relax. Their relationship could be a little tense especially with how judgy and critical Marcille can be, and how singeing and uncaring Fleki can be. Marcille’s "you didn’t do this for friendship because it’s the right thing to do?! How heartless!". But especially with time and familiarity they’d grow closer and Mariclle would be sad Fleki keeps people at an emotional distance and Fleki doesn’t let her in more- "Fleki may seem rude and crass and lowbrow and a rotten egg and- but she’s a good egg if you take the time to crack her up a bit… She’s my rotten egg… I prommy…" Also her overbearing mom friend tendencies would kick in and she’d want to get Fleki to be healthier. Lycion-Marcille "spend less time high and be with us we love you" alliance pt 2. Ty for coming to my ted talk. Imagine Fleki climbling Marcille like she did w Otta in that one beach page. Dramatic duo <3 Anyways so yes they’ll often banter and chat and have disagreements and sometimes bad synergy but ultimately they trust each other’s judgement and work well together—

Lycion: ehhhhhhh. Lycion’s easy to get along with but equally distant, and more judgy than he appears, and I don’t think Marcille would try to get closer, if not just in curiosity to figure him out. Their dynamic would fall flat a lot imo. But I do think he’d also poke fun at her idealistic gullible nature kinda like with Pattadol, would find it fun to string her along with tall tales and push her around in these small jokey ways, especially if she acts holier-than-thou even at this point in her life (bc I do think he’d tend to have more patience and empathy for a fellow inmate). Don’t ship it don’t ship it don’t ship it Fumi Marcille falling for a mysterious werewolf help Marcille you cannot "you should love yourself and your body ✨✨" him out of this

Cithis: No, but Cithis might like to mess with her. I think Cithis would find her too loud though. Too dramatic too talkative too bumbly too annoying— Chilchuck does always call Marcille clumsy so there’s that. Cithis hates rich people and Marcille like Pattadol does give that vibe, and unlike Pattadol Marcille’s not her superior so I think she’d show more cold disinterest than mean playfulness bc there’s little power dynamic to play with and dunk on there. Pattadol playing favoritism with Marcille would def fan some flames though. Cithis would find out Marcille’s not so bad and untolerable over time but there’ll always be some cold rivalry vibes crackling I feel, maybe Cithis takes pity on her and takes her under her wing somewhat at one point. Eh. I think Marcille would get the vibe to steer clear of her esp with Pattadol’s warnings about her, think of her kinda like how she treated Toshiro or Namari after she left, but also……. À la Chilchuck the harder someone tries to be closed off and mysterious the harder she wants to befriend them and learn everything about them.

Otta: Decently yes! The inmate she gets along best after/alongside Fleki. She’s sociable and generally friendly though the less flashy type, she’s the most mature and tends to be quieter than the chaos duo Fleki & Lycion. Otta would also find Marcille easily overbearing I think but she’d tell it how it is and try to help her integrate. And then brag about how good of a person she is for it lowkey~ Jk haha or is she. They’d both talk seriously and joke together. Ultimately the Fleki-Lycion-Otta-Marcille quartet is a fun one to sit with at a table.

Mithrun: Both terrifying and unapproachable and the person she feels like she can talk to plainly with the most imo even if he doesn’t always respond much. She appreciates him being smart but thinks he’s reckless. His words and judgements are harsh but often something she has to grapple with and accept— Pattadol’s very kind on her (sometimes overwhelmingly so) and sort of a rookie that follows orders so Marcille has trouble talking strategy or for real for real™️ with her, and Otta’s approachable and levelheaded but well- Not necessarily the most moral or that knows what she’s speaking about. Fleki’s easy to talk to plainly with but isn’t often constructive, Lycion’d be great actually but they don’t talk like that. Mithrun? Academic and experienced and blunt and there’s no pretenses ever. Maybe Cithis would want to drop some of her Mithrun-caring duties onto her but I doubt it tbh. On ship travels she might get overwhelmed and seek some quiet in his room tbh, and he says he doesn’t care either way… she could read books in there or talk onesidedly. Idk idk idk, them……..

Marcille starting out trusting no one and vowing to keep to herself and go unnoticed for the time she has to serve, but being surrounded by so many mysterious cool people that aren’t as bad as she wwass bracing herself for…… And wanting to know everyone’s tragic backstories. Mithrun’s is pretty much common knowledge and she learns it quickly through gossip, maybe from Pattadol, either once she starts taking an interest in her coworkers or a bit before and it’s what piques her interest because before then she found him so senselessly rude & she tends to assume people are black and white at first… He might even overshare himself like he did with Kabru and she’s on the edge of her seat all the while gdbdg. Pattadol has nothing to hide or so she says so she tells Marcille all she wants to know about herself. Marcille eventually learns about Lycion I think but Fleki she has to fight tooth and nail to get anything except one liners casually dropped randomly here and there and what do you mean you have a brother?? Cithis will never let her know anything so gossip or such is her only way but tbh Marcille doesn’t dare.

OKAYYYY that was way longer than I thought but hopefully it’s some fun food for thought lol. I still think I’ve thought about Otta the least but I’ve started paying her more attention a while ago esp when I realized she’s pretty much the Chilchuck equivalent of the group. -Squints and suddenly gets a vision- Chilchuck’s a mix of Otta and Fleki………… Me liking flekille so much suddenly makes even more sense to me hm

Any and all canary Marcille AU is very fun, here I was thinking halfway between ‘she becomes a canary in a canon divergent ending where the demon isn’t defeated and Laios isn’t king’ (which would def make the Mithrun-Marcille dynamic even more interesting) and her having become a canary pre-canon someway sometime somehow. I also like AUs where Marcille went to jail post-canon in general, I have some old laimar and marchil wips with that since the manga wasn’t over then and I thought she might spend some time in prison but have an early leave because of Laios’ power and influence and good behavior hehe. Here’s one fun other canary Marcille I just stumbled upon~!

"Not to mention the irony in the fact that through her effort to prolong the time she has with her friends she lost the chance to the time they have" beautiful mwah… Jailbird AU is a banger name

[tineymang]

i mean they have a point

[higgs-the-god]

needed a "quick" cinemaman ref since i never did one???

[polarades]

My first 3 attacks!

for @voidedjuice, Phentonos, @nexicifo

[tenowls]

I LOVE UR MURDERBOT ART SM!!!!!! just started reading the series a few days ago and i keep using ur art as reference for visualizing all the action scenes in my head. i wanted to ask if its not too much, who do you use as a face reference for murderbot, if you have any?

THANK U!!!! :DD i don’t have a face ref bc i’m bad at knowing actors models etc to look up in the first place jdkdk…. the way i do the semi realistic style is i find a number of stock photos of ppl with close enough facial features to what im going for, and then tweak them to my mental image while i draw and hope for the best that all my drawings look consistent LMAO

[whentherewerebicycles]

courageously driving to daycare to retrieve my small child so he can crawl around on the floor at home and bang joyfully on the piano while my body falls apart

[softredrobin]

I’ve been thinking so much about lumen! I’m still trying to get the hang of drawing her but. Be prepared. Also sorry I haven’t been super active, I had some very hard things come up but I wanted to shoot my shot here, is lumen a wisp? Or part wisp? I know she’s part alien and I’m not as familiar with the more modern sonic stuff aside from the movies but that hit me on the head earlier LOL. Also in love with the comet colors for sonic shadow, I can’t waaaittt for more :3! Just wanted to pop in and get that off my chest lol, hope to be more active soon also!!

hihi it's so nice to see you! gonna be honest if u draw lumen i will go absolutely bonkers in excitement im talking real bouncing off the walls level stuff

don't be sorry for not being active, i hope things are going alright now!!

admittedly i took a several-years break from sonic and haven't quite caught up to every modern thing myself, including sonic colors. i grew up with the archie comics and a decent chunk of games, but we never owned sonic colors, so i didn't play it as a kid. it was only last year that i got back into the franchise, so im catching up on what i've missed... and i just haven't gotten back into colors yet. all that to say, she's not a wisp, but that's a decent guess!

if you simply must know... i'll tell you below the cut! (there's art of lumen's equivalent to doom morph down there if u want to see that too!)

Lumen's alien half is Xorda. I know they haven't made an appearance in modern games or comics (to my knowledge?) but they're around(ish) in Cometverse. The Xorda are an mostly-aquatic telepathic hivemind and have a host of other abilities that we don't quite know the details of — whatever those are, they're powerful enough that the Xorda go toe-to-toe with the Black Arms. In fact, the Xorda-Black Arms war is like, a pretty big deal? I don't remember if it ever gets mentioned in modern games that the Black Arms are fighting a war, perhaps they just retconned it entirely, but... y'know.

Anyway, like Shadow and the Doom Morph, Lumen can be More Xorda™ than she usually does at times.

[chanting in the distance] xor-da-morph! xor-da-morph!

Sometimes, they hang out together as lil alien-octopi-and-squid buddies. Lumen's Xorda Morph is smaller than Shadow's Doom Morph, but also has (many) more tentacles. They're just... more squishy. and not all of them are prehensile.

[jjsanguine]

I just noticed that the bullet through Keen's name in the opening titles goes through at different angle than everyone else's. Everyone else's name gets horizontally bisected but Keen's bullet comes from below and doesn't go through all the letters. I wonder if this means something other than the motion graphics team was freestyling

[fantastic-mr-corvid]

Its not that i cant draw full and half bodies in clothes that arent also on the refrence pose im drawing but the issue is it takes so long and ends up so frustrating as im really weak at it that the price for that type of commission would either be drastically under priced for time [and effort] put in or very pricey. I also know i need to work on it but i have so little energy atm that im not in a place to seriously sit down and practice, and my slow improvement from occasional attempts would probably mean i open that type of comms in 2026 at the earliest.

[oh-bonerline]

putting aside my delusional RPF shipper mindset, the word "pretend" is doing a lot of heteronormative/homophobic heavy lifting here 🥲

[chaosgoblinhours]

Just here to say I love your tags on my Varis/Regula art, thank you. So glad to see more people being very normal about them 🙏

I’ll have more daily art of them coming until Sunday.

thank you for the tasty morsels i will totally be normal and not climb backwards up the walls for the rest of the week promise.

[selfcontainedunivcrse]

HATE . having self inserts I have to close my eyes and put my hands over my ears and repeat WHICH COULD MEAN NOTHING. WHICH COULD MEAN NOTHING. as I type out relevant info to the vwoopsibs