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small-spark-of-light · 4 months
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i have thoughts about these funny little guys
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thetwstwildcard · 1 year
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🏵Maravilla Fun Fact🏵
Catrina always says Ari has Dante's smile (her deceased brother, note according to Trein Catrina has the exact same smile so Ari got it from his mom). However, the smile is actually from Soledad Maravilla aka the mother of Catrina and Dante (and their siblings). Their mom just never smiled by the time Catrina was born (after all Arturo put her through) so Catrina always connected the smile to her brother instead.
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wowieweirdwarlock · 9 months
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Mighty Monsters: Psychopomp, Catrina
Source: Bestiary 4
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Image source: Bestiary 4, pg. 218.
“With lengthy curling hair, a dancer’s dress, and a bouquet of flowers, this woman remains beautiful, despite having no flesh.”
Catrinas welcome souls into the afterlife, working to soothe the fear and anger of mortals who haven’t accepted their own death. They eschew the funereal clothing and grave appearances of other Psychopomps, opting instead to decorate themselves in festive shades and bright lights to fight off the gloom of death.
Kind, Not Compassionate. Catrinas, despite all their glamor, will never disguise their skeletal forms. For while they seek to aid the transition of troubled souls, they will never deny the finality of death. Catrinas rarely visit the material plane, usually at the command of a more powerful Psychopomp or deity, to aid the transition of an important soul. While they work to ease the feelings of certain souls, they do not care much for their charges, and only do what they do because howling and wailing disrupts the procession of the dead.
Companions, Ushers, and Executioners. In most cases, Catrinas simply accompany souls into the afterlife, or groups of them host receptions for the newly dead. Their magical auras calm negative emotions, allowing souls some lucidity while they face their own mortality. Once a soul is ready, the Catrina guides them to their proper destination in Purgatory, before leaving them to go aid another. If a soul proves difficult, or a living mortal refuses to die, Catrinas are more than capable of taking them by force with their life-ending kiss.
Kiss of Death. Despite their skeletal forms, Catrinas can be considered rather attractive. They are genderless, but some may choose to be more feminine or masculine depending on the role they’re playing at the time. Using their unearthly charm, Catrinas are capable of compelling the restless dead. Usually, this compulsion is very simple: the Catrina demands the soul to kiss it. The passionate kiss of a Catrina will kill a mortal quickly, making it easier to hasten their journey to the afterlife.
Ideas for using Catrinas in your campaign:
A party member died and was resurrected, yet they have no memory of their time in the afterlife, and all seems to go on as normal. Strangely, a mysterious woman shadows the party wherever they go, focused on the previously-deceased party member. If the party investigates, they discover she is a Catrina that was tasked to the party member, who wasn’t expecting them to come back, and is torn between leaving them be or killing them to bring them back to purgatory.
After a total party kill, the Party awakens in the afterlife, surrounded by a reception of Catrinas, who have organized a large party to celebrate the Party’s adventures in life. The party must navigate their way through the party if they have any hope of escaping back to life under the watchful eyes of the jovial psychopomps.
Catrinas, like all Psychopomps, care for the procession of souls to the afterlife first and foremost.
They can dress in bright colors, decorate their realms with pleasant things and light, but they are, above all, agents of death.
They may act graceful and good, but they are just as dangerous as any outsider, and they value your death far more than your life.
- A Weird Warlock.
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explanations under the cut
Elizabeth Afton is actually the Youngest Sibling - as @birdsareblooming pointed out, when we see her room in fnaf4, she has a torn-apart mangle toy. mangle was stated to be made to entertain toddlers. would also explain why she's not in the gameplay, she's at daycare/with her mom
The Vengeful Spirit is Michael Afton - another one where cori convinced me and I might have an entire essay that I will publish after I finally sit down and edit through the Security Logbook section but until then here's a bullet point post
Mimic = Burntrap - i dont think i have to explain this we're all talking about it i just know people are gonna be mad at me for it
The Girl in Drowning is representative of Charlie, not Cassidy - She's literally got gray skin, black hair, gray clothes, and neon green lighting, much like a certain gray-skinned black-haired pixel girl with a green bracelet who died in the rain (water motif). Her dragging Kara down because she doesn't want to be alone could be seen as a metaphor for Charlie trying to give life but instead kinda sticking them all in robots
FNAF AR had some BANGIN re-skins - come on. look at them. Clockwork Ballora? Bangin. Broiler Baby? Bangin. Catrina Toy Chica? BANGIN. Springtrap as an actual fucking clown???? BANGIN.
Vanessa is an Afton in the Gameverse, too – Cori's workin on a whole explanation diagram for this but the most BASIC evidence is "her last name starts with 'a' and she's a nepo baby." I dont think she's William's DIRECT daughter cause man died in the 90s and she was 23 in the 2030s so. grandkid or smth
If Edwin/David is a metaphor for anything it's William/CC and not Henry/Charlie – listen i understand the whole "single dad building the robots and then breaking one in a rage" thing from TSE but also the mimic likes to mimic its creator and child before all else and who is it mimicking? afton and the little boy in sb who happens to look a shitton like cc. also game!charlie is never indicated as having a special plushie that followed her everywhere but cc very certainly did and hey if mimic can grow and shrink to fit in anything whos to say it didnt shrink into the fredbear to repeat stock phrases to cc such as "tomorrow is another day." also in the character encyclopedia art of cc he is holding his fredbear plush the same way burntrap positions his arm to imitate holding something. an
They're not gonna pull the Charliebot twist again. Nobody's a secret robot – first off from a writing perspective that's not the kinda twist you do twice. second off with the... less than stellar reception to the twist in the first place i dont think theyre gonna pull it again
"Cassidy" isn't the Golden Freddy Kid's name, it's Crying Child's – the logbook has Crying Child communicate through manipulating the text, while the spirit he's talking to speaks in faint writing; the second spirit never has a confirmed identity, but CC is most definite considering the stuff referenced around him. The "ITS ME CASSIDY" is revealed through.... manipulated text. The clues are in........ manipulated text. "It's Me" is CC calling out to Michael. The other spirit says "My name is..." a couple times BUT they also ask CC if he remembers his name just a few pages before. Granted this might just be us not understanding something but also if Cassidy is CC's name then who the fuck is Golden Freddy Kid. is Michael Brooks still canon
The nightmare gas didn't "ruin the lore" it's just kinda funny – look guys literally all of this lore is fucked, the fact they just threw in "also William Afton was doing nightmare gas experiments on kidnapped kids and then abandoned it for shits and giggles" in the eighth book of their second anthology series and then moving on like nothing happened while the fanbase collapses in on itself is like THE funniest thing they could've done
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aerosai · 2 months
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Fortnite OC: Catrina
Since Meowscles' family lore is REALLY confusing and problematic, I decided to redesign an OC of mine.
• Catrina is the biological Mother to Kit and Katt
• Catrina is the wife to Meowscles
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aclickbaittitle · 1 month
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Desperado Fanart inspired by Mexican Retablos
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[ID: An acrilic painting of La Catrina with Elio kneeling from Desperado Podcast. Elio Lorés is a dark-brown skined mexican man with curly hair and a bit of a gruff. He has a chest tatto that says: "I love you my son" both in spanish and nahuatl. He's kneeling, with his hands up as if he was being held a gun point (but isnt). La catrina is a brown mexica woman, painted sort-of like the Virgin of Guadalupe but mexicanized. She has a crimson red huipil, a green-blue veil and a golden hallow around her. In her huipil there are mexican motives, skulls and serpents, over her head there are roses. The background is a pitch blue with an inscription written in spanish that says: "Thank you mom, for a safe trip to england and for not leting the SCU to capture us when we arrived, Elio Joaquín Lores. 09/07/2020]
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idolaelyartist · 3 months
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Primero déjeme decur que los diseños de los creepypastas ME ✨FASCINARON✨ SON HERMOSOS. SEGUNDO y antes de que se me olvide :0 (por que aun estoy procesando toda la información sobre su lore de creepypastas). Dos preguntitas ✌️
1. ¿Cómo son o cuál es la apariencia de éstos arcángeles o seres celestiales? Por que una parde de mi piensa en el clasico humanoide con varios pares de alas y otra parte de mi piensa en estos angeles llenos de ojos 👁️👁️👁️
2. Igualmente ¿Cuál era la apariencia de las catrinas? Si son la clásicas calaveras con un bello vestido ¿solo se diferenciaban con la ropa o había otra manera?
Ay muchas gracias! nun/ En ese entonces no conocía que había seres por encima de los arcángeles que conocemos, tampoco sabia sobre esas formas de seres celestiales con muchos ojos y muchas alas, por lo que recuerdo, sus diseños eran humanoides con alas y coronas de luz. Recuerdo que si diseñe a cada uno de los que participarían, pero todos esos diseños los perdí. Incluso tenia un diseño de Lucifer, porque este iba a tener unas cuantas menciones en la historia como el rey de los monstruos, pero de nuevo, perdí todos esos dibujos. Las catrinas, a pesar de llamarse así, sus diseños era la clásica forma de la muerte, figura esquelética con túnica negra. Incluso, la catrina que se ve en la primera temporada, así recuerdo que se veían todas, con la diferencia de que el color de sus ojos era distinto a cada una.
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marrondrawsalot · 4 months
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Me: *thinking of doing a Catrina post and lore me and @adrianasunderworld did about the mom prom fuckening*
Also me: *remembers one more crucial detail I forgotten but laugh to this day*
I remembered something. For Idia dancing with Cater’s sisters. I remembered my insane idea. This man isn’t dating one. No.
HE IS DATING BOTH OF THEM- I said “why give him one? He gets two cool ladies who voice act anime and is voicing his favorite anime girls”
@adrianasunderworld @mangacupcake @writing-heiress @the-weirdos-mind @skboba-stars @nproduction626 @rose-tea-and-strawberries @anxious-twisted-vampire @yukii0nna @achy-boo @abyssthing198
I made this boy pulling two hot baddies for the mom prom au. It was all thanks to Ortho who hears Cater call mama Shroud and decided to return the payback
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chocolatmocaccino · 5 months
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Vega
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After days without internet, abundant thoughts of ideas and more ideas, I finally have a concrete basis of what my head was planning.They are not final designs! But for now I like the idea of where I am currently going, it is time for them to receive a worthy presentation.This is Vega! In my way of seeing things, I see Survivor and Enot as the same slugcat, and in my AU I call them Vega, they are neither one nor the other, they are the same slugcat but I would have to explain the lore of my AU, everything in due time But Vega is finally here!
To give a little context before we finish, she represents life and death (Not to be confused, Survivor represents life, and not death), but I like to see them as Mexico's Catrina, and they are both still energetic and very curious, and they are loved just as they are!
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riftrive · 1 year
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WHO ARE YOU?
                              WHAT ARE YOU?
An Ind. Sel. Priv. FNBR Multimuse with a heavy horror spin on the characters, and a lot of them featuring my own personal lore and ideas for it. Current muses are: Chaos Agent, Renzo the Destroyer, Cube Assassin, Club Wildcard, Black Light, Willow, Catrina, and Teef. Warning for: BODY HORROR, HORROR, BLOOD, TORTURE, DEATH, COSMIC TERROR, MANIPULATION, ABUSE, and MORE DARK THEMES- BE WARNED. 18+. REBLOGS AND LIKES HEAVILY APPRECIATED!
                                        Written By Jackalope. 25. Any Pronouns.
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ril-sillyart1st · 2 days
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The Flarelyn family (family tree and lore)
inspired by darkland-blood post.
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here's a close ups if the picture is still quite blurry:
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not sure how to start this but I'll start with Watts' and Crusher's life then the others next. (Well not everyone actually)
Crusher:
In a nutshell: basically Crusher having a really bad life then mets Blaze, beefs with him for a while before Pickle decided to hosted a second team truck challenge to excuse himself to ship Crusher and Blaze together which both ended having some feelings for each other and then marriage and baby stuff.
The whole story: Crusher Thunderstorm Jonesilyn or Crusher for short had a rough childhood, he was still a girl in that time. His older sister, Hurricane was the parents favorite child. Jinrai Yua Jonesilyn or Grammy used to live with Raijin Jonesilyn (Crusher's father) and Rumbler Thorin Jonesilyn (Crusher's mother) for now because she and her wife, Peruchyu are having a rough time with their relationship. While living with them she noticed how Crusher is not in a good place with his family, Grammy helped him by taking good care of him and moved to her house instead, Crusher's parents did know about Grammy taking Crusher away from them for his own but the parents didn't care less about it. Grammy and Peruchyu are still having rough time but it was slowly going well now. Grammy did all she can to make her grandson happy.
After Crusher passed through high school, he and Grammy decided to live in America permanently for their own goods and Peruchyu can't come with them because she was having a hard time moving to a far place and she was fine all by herself.
In college, Crusher met Maritime Catrina or Gas Guzzler, both were transgender. At first their relationship was simple until Maritime started being a livestreamer and uses Crusher for views, overall she's was a toxic 🐶. Good thing Pickle is here to help him get out of this toxic relationship with Maritime.
Pickle met Crusher at second year of college. He and Pickle would hang out almost everyday when they have free time. Crusher didn't get physical transition but gets voice therapy instead, he was absolutely fine and happy the way he looks but his voice was the only thing that made him feel off.
After both finished college, the canon story begins.
All the scars on both of his front sides came from getting scratched by the cave (in "Defeat The Cheat").
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After all the chaotic happened to both him and Blaze in the second truck challenge, that's where the two started to have some feelings for each other. And also let's just say in my AU and HC that all the bad episodes are in the past and good Crusher being happy with Blaze episodes are the present.
At first Crusher was in denial when it comes to having a crush on Blaze on Defeat the Cheat but in The Big Balloon Rescue, Crusher was starting to feel more comfortable with Blaze.
Their hint of flirting at first was just gazing into each others eyes but the longer the relationship goes the closer they got. The gang knew this all because of Pickle! Watts being second.
In Christmas (A Blazing Amazing Christmas), after the work is done with Santa and delivering the gifts and everyone was back at Axle City Crusher was about to confess his feelings for Blaze but Blaze did it first then Crusher also did it right after Blaze it.
Blaze and Crusher got married at the age of 28-29, Crusher took Blaze's last name not because he thinks he's the woman of the relationship but because his last name associated of his past trauma. Crusher had Fiar, his daughter at 29 and Blaze was 31. And that's the end of The Flarelyn story.
Also some things to add:
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★ past Crusher used to question himself whether he's Genderfluid or trans. He used to be a drag queen when he's still in his mean era. After awhile he sticks to identifying as both a trans man and Genderfluid who still likes to wear feminine clothes sometimes. No one in Axle City had problem with him being queer because everyone in the city were queer as well.
★ Before all the marriage and baby stuff, Crusher used to be a child psychologist or child therapist (not sure which one but y'all get my point ig) before retiring as racer instead. He still sometimes helps children and gives advice to parents and children.
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Hurricane:
When Hurricane was younger she was very spoiled and was careless about her sibling or cousin. The older she got maybe Hurricane wasn't a careless truck at all, she was raised by her parents wrong, she didn't know any better at all as child, although she still beefs with Crusher and Watts most of the time but she's slowly, very slowly kinda recovering from it but it obviously will take a long time for now. She lives own home but still in Japan of course. She has anger issues and other mental health issues.
Hurricane has neutral feelings towards Fiar other than just a silent glare look on her face. Hurricane also doesn't like Blaze but pretends to like him to prevent get in trouble even though everyone knows that she's an absolute 🐶.
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Raijin and Rumbler:
Their relationship is quite toxic at the start of their relationship. Both get along and not get along with each other. Raijin almost 💀 from an accident but Rumbler did help him once.
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Watts:
Nothing much bad happened to her other than she moved to America at 23 years old to start her life there as a independent truck. She is older than her cousins (Crusher and Hurricane) and Watts was the first one to moved to America before Crusher. Watts has three polyamorous parents, she got her electric tires from Turbyne VoltFluxyan (Watts’ 1st father, the yellow one), she got some of her personality from Nova VoltFluxyan (Watts' 2nd father, the light purple) and her non-binary mother, Zipciye VoltFluxyan was the one who obviously gave birth to her. You might be wondering how this works? Basically the two fathers gave the 🌊 to Zipciye at the same time.
Watts and Starla started their relationship at the beginning of the canon universe, when Blaze met Watts and all that stuff. Starla and Watts consider the farm animals as their children.
When Watts heard about Crusher was pregnant, she was happy to have niece (not sure if that's the right word to used). Watts loves babysitting Fiar when Blaze and Crusher are busy with something that she can't be associated with.
Watts and Starla got their first kiss on Valentine's Day Rescue thanks to Crusher and Blaze with Fiar as well, the fam were helping Watts on trying to make the first move.
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Blaze:
Nothing too bad happened to him but I'll still tell some lore about him. When Blaze was younger and didn't have Sparkle yet, he and his parents used to lived in South Korea for quite some time before moving to America instead. No bad reason, they just want to move somewhere else new. He knows more Korean than Spanish. And also in first grade of school, Blaze cries when he gets slightly hurt, even a small paper cut. No one knows this secret besides his family and his other family. Another thing is that Blaze doesn't know how to roller skate and it's quite sheepish for him because he knows how to ice skate but doesn't how to roller skate.
Blaze come out as bisexual at 14 years old to his parents at pride Month because he knew he's parents were also queer and they were obviously proud of him to tell them that. At 16, he came out as Non-binary to everyone this time, not just his family.
Also in third grade he was quite of troublemaker.
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Speedrick:
Rick lives in a wealthy family and is very popular at the time when Blaze wasn't around yet (in other words he's still in college). Speederick's mom is original a monster truck just like the rest of her family. Rick's mom met her husband at a building that both used to work somewhere at VelocityVille.
He's kinda jealous now that his cousin, Blaze and his whole family are more popular than him and his own parents when Blaze becomes a monster machine racer.
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Lmao that's all now, time to play Roblox again and not draw for a month. /hj
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vampitz · 1 year
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HI TELLE ME ABOUT YOUR OCS
oh my god i am going to be so normal.
ok so all the ocs im showing you are from the same plot. theg all work for a small government organization codenames eutychus, which specializes in researching and investigating supernatural creatures and making sure they dont actually interact with the general public
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this is cecil! (he/him) hes one of the two investigators at eutychus. hes been obsessed with supernatural creatures his WHOLE life. he went to get a degree in paranormal sciences and wrote plenty of papers regarding his research and a lot of them got forcibly removed from public eye because he accidentally revealed classified information! oops
once cecil graduated he was immediately recruited to join eutychus. he was a bit of a prick at first because of his status of a prodigy in his field, thinking that nobody else could do what he did as good as him. hes also incredibly paranoid, so he initially believed people were intentionally trying to sabotage his work.
after a while he warms up to his coworkers and becomes less of a complete prick. only a little bit of a prick.
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this is bentley! (he/him) hes the other paranormal investigator at eutychus. bentley is a lot more grounded than cecil and will often have to calm down cecil from pulling some insane shit on the job
bentley grew up with 4 younger siblings and HIGH expectations so obviously hes a little burnt out. he joined eutychus after cecil, and the two had a bit of a rivarly at first. eventually, bentley got tired of cecils bullshit and basically just called him out on everything. thats when he actually won cecils respect and the two started to get along
they eventually started dating!! love wins!
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look how cute they are :)
unfortunately cecil ends up losing his mind due to an interaction with a cursed book bound to a god of the sea and destruction, almost kills bentley and almost destroys the world. long story short, he gets dragged back into the plane the god was from (which is a wasteland at this point) and for a few years that was it.
ANYWAYS quick round!!! introducing some other ocs really fast
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(note, a few of these belong to @scrunglo but we have joint custody)
so first fella is bentley again, skipping him
next is rosabel! (she/they) one of the two researchers at eutychus. she cares really deeply about everyone there and usually remains the "neutral party" in discussions or arguments. theyre terrified of blood and will faint at the sight of it
next is cecil, skipping him
and then we have iz! (she/her) shes the oldest member of eutychus (both by age or by seniority) shes pretty strong in both will and physical strength and is usually the voice of reason among these more insane characters
and then anya (she/they) shes the head of eutychus! shea often dismissed due to her age vs her job (being a very young hesd of a whole little organization), but shes very good at her job. shes not really knowledgable in eutychus's specifics but shes great and directing everyone where to go. she overworks themselves a lot and often struggles with regulation
say hi to tyler! (he/they) tyler is anya's assistant and childhood friend. he is not qualified at all for absolutely anything, but does have some useful points in some ongoing investigations. overall though he is a failboy
finally we have catrina (she/her) shes the other researcher. shes very bubbly but also really fucking serious. she is very passionate about just about anything and if you try and say some bullshit she will call you out on it!
okay, back to some lore
so after cecil is trapped in the other plane of existance, everyone just accepts cecil is dead for a while. anya tries to hold off the investigation for the longest she can (to give everyone time to process) which ends up being two years.
eventually, further investigation has to be done. statements, all sort of stuff is taken.
tyler ends up cleaning up cecils room and goes through some of cecils notebooks (cecil used to write everything that happened) and finds out cecil knew how to get back himself. tyler ends up telling everyone, and they all jump on the opportunity to bring cecil back
except for bentley.
bentley is very nervous about bringing cecil back because of all the shit that happened to them before. he doesnt really want to acknowledge what happened, and is for the most part still in denial
rosabel gets reasonably pissed at him, and the two end up arguing for a while, while trying to keep it a secret so nobody else gets involved. rosabel might be mad at bentley, but she doesnt want bentley to be shamed for whats happening, you know?
anyways, eventually catrina does find out and is not only mad at bentley, but mad at rosabel for hiding it from her. eventually things do smooth out, and they end up bringing cecil back!
i just realized how much ive written so i will keep this short! After Cecil gets brought back hes deeply paranoid, afraid and overall just not doing so hot. andddd ermmm theres more but i will leave it off there HAHAJSKDKF
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(psst if you want to hear me incoherently ramble more abt them i have an oc sideblog @eutychuscassette)
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belovedgamers · 2 years
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catrina today i was sitting in the car and thought abt ur herobrine lore from the legacy series and just Thought about it for a long time and then i was sad like oughougohgough white eyes BBH former Herobrine Michael McChill...
i get very absorbed in novels when i read them and when they're over i just feel kind of sad, like ive lost a part of myself in that story because it's over and i'm not getting it back. idk if that makes sense but yours is the only fanfic that has given me that sense of loss like i'm literally scared to reread it too because it was so good and i'm just not prepared to experience that much emotion again
Flattery will get you everywhere
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chi-chi-tianshi · 1 year
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Redesigned Olivia back in 2018.this is still her permanent design.just will do a updated ref with better art. of course hr loyal companion Besot. Olivia and besot have a more detailed story now. and Olivia will be joined by two other characters.Their Names will be Catrina and Sora. Olivia and besot do have more lore from their updated bio done in 2018. but in the big ref with the two and the others i will just share the changes in the new post~
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achinga · 1 year
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hi thank you for talking about hyde im literally obsessed with her....so IS she not human? do u have any lore about the assassin you might want to drop perhaps? :0
OMG I DIDNT SEE I HAD ANOTHER ASK IM SORRY
but ouh... im glad to know you like her =] as to the question of is she human or not the answer is yes she is!....... for now.
funnily enough i DO have my assassin design pretty much ironed out now (thank you SO much to my buddies tourmy and mitch who helped me with the details!).
this is álveo(they/he/she), an assassin who takes their jobs from recently deceased people that want to get revenge/justice for their deaths in exchange for something of equal price. my main inspirations in designing her were xolo dogs, and for the mask ,of course, its the dia de los muertos catrina make-up
they're very focused on their job and duties,with absolutely zero room fro hobbies or personal time. recently, however, being surrounded by all that gloom and doom has made them feel exhausted and on the cusp of burning out, and being chased by those strange humans is certainly not helping matters
mini fun fact: they're actually quite a sloppy assassin, but it doesn't really matter since there's no flesh on their hands, and thus no fingerprints to be worried about. he likes to mainly use their sharp bones/claws to do the job, and sometimes forgets to take off her gloves, resulting in many, many ripped gloves that need replacing
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also, if hyde is the "apartment "complex"? really, i find it quite simple" to mateo's "based? based on what?" then álveo is "you're telling me a shrimp fried this rice?" and thus completes them.
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Edil's Long Ass Liveblog! s2e3 edition!
Okay so I have a lot of feelings about this episode, but I’ve gotta say it might be my favorite episode of desperado so far? Like I’m a MASSIVE fan of someone to dance with and the ending of s2e1 is a scene that will echo in my brain until I fucking die, but this one just had so much in it...like so much. Multiple things that i was like “wow I hope this shows up in desperado eventually!” happened this episode, and I feel just elated. Anyways enough pre liveblog rambles, here’s the tea.
also you know how it takes me like forever to finish an ep every Monday because I keep doing dumb shit and pausing to rant? Experienced today’s ep over a span of FIVE HOURS and let me tell ya I regret nothing I would do it again.
Also included: A running calculation of how much blood elio has vs. his usual amount. Ill put all that in red in cast that’s all you want this post for.
Okay the beginning of the ep is very rough. I was trying to make food and coffee and liveblog and listen at the same time and it did NOT work, so i paused to cook for a bit. A little sparse to start but I go back
minute one
Joan joining the girlboss covered in blood gang welcome. SEVEN MEN though? and they'll shoot you on site? sorry just how many guns do Americans have here?
IS THIS WHY THEY'RE IN FLORIDA????
more crown lore i find out & the more info i get about england the more fucked up this is
minute four
oh yeah that teleportation whit would fuck Shinji up huh? Didn't think about that 
tempest is here?? Oh I thought she had them on priority shipping 
[not edited afterthefact:] Minutes 1-3 had a lot of intersting stuff in it, but the cogs to analysis that haven't started turning in my brain yet. However, I was gonna say who's Coleman?/so the academy and the royal colleges are a DIFFERENT interesting/were they bad?/he's dead??/cece my love!! You are profound and unsettling.
Joan's whole dawn witch thing probably means she can heal up her tongue though, right? If she just learned to sign it
minute five
“you're the locals” no??? 
oh there she goes lol 
Catrina was like fuck mortality I don't need mortality also hello but please do away I'm scared for elio  [i cannot decipher this either]
I've gotta instance [???] maam I really don't think you'll survive that
minute six (okay here’s where the dozzy starts)
get his ass Shinji you are the only person with sense here
I mean Talia and elio are more powerful by proximity to home and Catrina killed an inquisitor no problem when she first awoke and that was before elio got training, so there's some precedent to say maybe theyre powerful enough to take on inquisitors but ??? I don't know they really don't have enough Intel to make that plan like it's nothing. Like, as soon as they wage the first battle they're gonna be TARGETS so they need to sit down with a map and research what places are in closet proximity that they can hit before they get discovered that yield the most net gain in allies but that's super underground information and these gods lost power like half a fucking century before the internet was invented???? I mean mind you maybe I'm just concerned about info going outdated because of a personal research endeavor. Maybe that's not something to worry about! But sorry the United States is a country with an INCREDIBLY diverse landscape (because it's FUCKIG MASSIVE) and idk! Maybe they have enough ancestral knowledge that it's not a worry but unfamiliar geopoliticial situations will FUCK. YOU. UP. I'm scared for them??? I don't know how warranted that is though there's just so many factors
and sorry not to wave around my general concern for democracy but England has been having king's for fucking ever. How is a centralized earth-connected power going to fare in the US which is much larger and I THINK made up of 3 countries depending  on how far this is going I still think this might have something to do with plate tectonics but I don't remember jackshit about American plates those are BORING. There are tons of ethnic groups native and nonnative vying for sovereignty? How big of a concern will that be? How can we guarantee that whoever gets a right to this new crown will have the interests of religious people in mind because tempest is still a witch and she clearly has no great love for them. Tempest mentioned something about the people wanting a wartime leader so the position of queen is probably at least somewhat elected but that's also a life position and is that enough? How do we know this host won't just become TOMITS to the left?
Many thoughts. Many questions. I'm definitely over thinking things at least a bit. But ??? War is not something you bumble into you are three people. THREE!!! What do you know about the suppressed religions of America's?? Their priorities and their values and morals?? How are you gonna do diplomacy without that knowledge?? War is like...a big deal lmao
"Just gonna find some food" ass you would be the first to perish in a Russian winter
go OFF king. You right 
oh.
OH???
interesting
besties I don't think geopolitics applies here
this is...this makes sense. Push a big enough house of cards over and a few of em will land where you want, right? Huh. 
minute seven
Shinji's proof that anxiety is a superpower when it's fucking warranted. That recoveries gonna be ROUGH taking notes but god they really need someone without godly hubris rn
Shinji??? Stop that??? Why are you in the air like fucking Rudolph can they not see you????
WHITE MIDDLE AGED STEVE JAMES CHRIS ——HELP it is too early in the morning to be laughing this loud. I know this is like an intense thing but also [Wheeze emoji] SORRY. As someone who also goes by one of those names. Yeah.
right, angel shit, I forgot. 
WAIT SO SHINJIS WINGS CAN GLOW ENOUGH TO BE I DESTINGUISHABKE FROM BIRDS WINGS?????? SO I DONT HAVE TO FUCKINF PAINT THEM????? HELLO????? or can angels have various wings...idk but they're so hard to paint man
minute eight
[re: shinji @ SJC] ominous ass what is wrong with him? This poor man
BITCH the FUCK
HELLO???? WHY THE FUCK??? CAN YOU NOT BE FUCKING NORMAL FOR ONCE IN YOUR GODDAMN IMMORTALITY SAMEDI WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU????
OOPS????
oh god why do I love [samedi] so much he sucks so bad.
minute nine
the old man loves cars. Yeeeeah that's why they're in Florida.
ope.
Hrunkgougkl?
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my brains buffering while I process the idea that a show can just be overt about racism in a way where POC have power but don't go unaffected by what's happening. Like LMAO get fucked it also WHEW.
OH I just realized what he was about to say. Yeah get FUCKED Shinji may I present ally of the year award. I don't think they're come up with any new slurs, so first of all, raw line. Not like in a way that it's cool? But, like, raw. Descriptors fail me. Also yeah that just went way over my head the first time. Too caught up in the high of Shinji murderous efficiency that I forgot the n word exists.
minute ten
OH YOU CHECKED HIM. YOU CHECK HIM FOR SURE If one is my friends desecrated the corpse of a violent racist I simply would not be disturbed. Rip to Shinji but I'm different.
“Now you're gonna make the kid cry?” No honey he told you there are two options and one of them is leaving your ass stranded and the other one is Steve James Chris.  Good for him.
The Baron and la Catrina are so goddamn annoying but I also like them a lot.
GET. HIS. ASS. GODTAMER!
what's wrong with elio tho. Nothing, right? Haha ....he's fine right?
deja Vu, god...fucking Florida. If Shinji feels one more SUD of pain I am going to collapse an die actually.
minute eleven
"like a garrison" that's really funny
minute twelve
oh this one has architecture, that's rare.
"yeah we hate to see it" THANK you talia.
minute thirteen
"a church is a church" thank you elio for this insight (joking, it was all very helpful) Please do arson? If I say pretty please can they do a dramatic arson? Please?
you know how you could creat chaos? Arson.
sorry but you don't edit explosions that good and make me not wanna pack as many as possible into an episode.
"we were three gods in a Prius" okay danger here I get that, that sucks, but this is really funny.
SO MANY SOUNDS AT ONCE, GOD.
minute fourteen
I really wish they discussed details on how The barons bone manipulation powers work and to what extent. Like I know they expected this to be easy but I'm still in the camp of Mr. 1 hit KO should know how he can feed Mr. And Ms.  "a Corpse is a power source if you know what your doing," yk, for situations like this
the Baron is playing GTA.
"weaknesses let's say" Jesus Christ. Shinji in one of the most triggering fucking situations on earth with all his friends fucking gone...god, ow. Sure Shinji might be a fictional entity that doesn't actually expirience emotions but I'M not
I'm gonna project into Shinji so hard actually I'm gonna write something that caters to me and like 2 other people it's gonna be wonderful
Not now ofc [I edit out all the timestamps of these for formatting but I need you to know this was sent at 10:11 and the first message was sent at about eight am. My brain needs to SIMMER on shit so...addressing a valid concern]
I am just over ¼ of the way through this episode holy fuck
episode fifteen
everything Shinji does this eintire episode has me going YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!  thank you tibet for this fucking delivery thank you Samy for the content holy FUCK.
HELP LMAO
minute sixteen
"surely that's not gonna work"  you're honor they're so fucking stupid like yes, she's essentially an incredibly adaptive immortal general who emphasizes protecting the weak and the prosecuted, stan-able behavior. Digital maps, though? Preposterous. One thing I love about desperado is it doesn't ask you to maintain a high level of emotional tension for an extended period of time outside of the really big climatic moments, there's enough not depressing shit to latch onto that it feels like sure I can't swim but I'm wearing a life jacket, which, for how the topic of race effects the target audience, is very useful and appreciated! The whiplash still gets me though I will NEVER get used to it and I don't think I want to
minute seventeen
I know we're only getting Joan in flickers and moments but I like her so much more in this season than the last. Fucking hated Joan before.
minute eighteen
”it was much more difficult without bassim” WHERE THE FUCK IS HE IM GONNA CRY WHERE IS MY GEM MY BELOVED RUBY MY LITTLE TINKERER HELLO?????
minute nineteen
I wonder exactly why the calisar affects and yes I'm sleeping that wrong for sure. Like Asher could handle it and he's a witch of like medium strength? (Placing Joan at medium high and tempest and Caleb at High, it's tuff competition I'm not trying to put him down) but he was a witch? How does it affect crusaders? How about other religious people, the Baron seemed to refer to it like a drug so he'll probably be okay. Hm. I guess we'll see.
Catrina clearly isn't as young as I thought but her manifestation is definitely new. Hm. Ruled an empire for hundreds of years...
minute twenty one
OOOOH JOAN PLEASE INTRODUCE SIGNING SPELLS TO THE AMERICAN WITCHES PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE THAT'S SUCH AN EDGE. Asl is hard but it's not THAT hard and signed exact English isn't, yk, culturally ideal but it should for for translating spells into silence so you only really need to learn the words...
minute twenty two
Shinji smart as fuck evaluating exactly where he can push the God's buttons. That's useful info (edited)
minute twenty four
holy shit this crown lore what the fuck
minute twenty five
LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE BRITISH CHARACTER MADE ME FALL ON LOVE WITH THEM BY FORCE I HAD NO FUCKING CHOICE IN RHE MATTER THAT THE FUCK
minute twenty six
this fucking wierdo doesn't know hot to breathe I love her
joans pulls an all nighter then is like "GOTTA GO FEED THE BLOOD CELLS" and passes the fuck out what an oddball I love her.
minute twenty seven
she's gonna stab this old man
I'm sorry but I need to dissect Joan like a frog in a middle school biology lab actually
minute twenty nine
for reference, two eintire bodies worth of blood is something like 6 times the usual amount elio is able to carry from himself
if she takes from the three guards that increases to about 16 times the amount of blood, adding some for roughly ten percent blood mass I've been dropping for estimations and assuming all of these people are roughly elio's size, and seeing as they're prison guards and worshippers of mr.holy steriods I'll give myself that
Shinji deserves this nap but oh boy wow
THEIR BODIES MOVE AGAIN WHEN I SAY I CHOKED AND FUCKING GASPED IS THIS WHAT I THINK IT IS?????
SWOON
GONNA ADD MECROMANCING DANCIN TO MY TALIA PLAYLIST THIS IS GEEAT THIS IS EVERYTHING TO ME
minute thirty
AND WHAT DID I FUCKING SAY ABOUT THE JDGKDHOSHSKS T RHEBFIFGCIDBTA IN SHD FUCKING THIS BRANCHING INTO A WAR OF MEDIA AND PERCEOTION????? SCREMAINING AMD L9OK9NG MY SHIT GEREVSKSHSKS IM SO 3XICTDJDIFNRJDKSH
minute thirty one
THE FUCKINF EXPONENTIAL GROWTH OF BATTLE DID I NOT MENTION THIS????? oh my god being wrong is a blast but being right is a blast in a different direction knashing my fucking teeth kicking screaming hooting hollering and generally boogieing down this is SO COOL
 I was gonna say I recognized the pattern of that speech but did not at all click translation appreciated
WHAT THE FUCK
WHAT THE FUCK DID SHE JUST DO TO HIM?? SOME SORT OF RED PLAGUE EQUIVALENT TRANSFORMATION?????
title spotted but in fucking wait
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[translation Inaccute please see notes. Would you believe this was the first time I looked up what desperado means? kinda slow upstairs]
minute thirty two
Shinji Calls them stone demons so yeah, right? La catrina's using the crystal elio swallowed in episode 14 (what was is called again???) And that la Catrina is subpresding from taking over him to spread the red plague to whoever she wants to make more soldiers is actually deeply disturbing in some sense but really really cool in others I love how that episode tied back into the plot holy fuck
minute thirty three (another analysis heavy one, this time the baron and black masculinity)
the fact that Shinji keeps calling them their names also, god. IS SAMEDI GIVES TALI A FUCKINF NICOTINE ADDITION FOR HIS BULLSHIT I AM GOING TO STRANGLE HIM WITH MY OWN TWO HANDS WHAT A BITCH ASS USELESS FUCKING CLOWN SHE CLEARLY WOULDNT WANT THAT
I need to do more research on the nitty gritty of Haitian culture but i suspect it also falls into the overlap of American/carribean black culture in how black men feel a particular sense of entitlement to the bodies and labor of black woman like I adore the Baron as a character and I don't know if this was on accident, probably? but some of the shit he says and does so directly reflects black misogynior it makes me want to hurt him. I'm gonna say now though that nonblack people do not fucking critique him from that perspective. The line between valid criticisms of black men and racism with some white feminist glitter on top is fucking blurry, and even from black men and women the conversation too quickly descents into generalizations that stem from trauma and create a false sexual dichotomy that drives internalized race and colorism deeper into our community so when I say it's touchy, stay the fuck away, I mean that. Black men are still black and they're beautiful and they're allies and father's and uplifters, organizers and caregivers, and individuals who's value is not at all correlated to the labor they can offer others and their community but the Baron can go FUCK himself also. I'm gonna kill him
 I'm sorry but at the circus Talia directly expressed a dislike for the concept of coping with substance and that's such a fucked up choice to take away from somebody.
Oh God it's been an hour lmao [I got into a DIFFERENT conversation about themes of race in podcasting because im fucking asdklfasdfhaf edil only wants ONE THING and it’s FUCKING DISGUSTING]
My attention span is healthy and my executives love to function!
minute thirty four
"it was rage...and it latched onto me" LET HIM GO I WILL KILL YOU.
what. What. What what what I have so many things to ...look into? What. Shinji. Alarm
I don't think the massacre of Dojima (doshima?) Was a real event. Theres a violent event that does relate to that name but it's not called that...huh! Shinji is like a magician doing a scarves trick but instead of scarves it's an infinite string of lore and trauma
I need to study Shinji like a cool bug
is "crusaders after Asher" meaning after as in time or after as in chase? Idk
God, if the Baron wasnt in talia's body is give Shinji full rights to tear him to pieces with his bare hands.
get his ass.
minute thirty five
GET. HIS. ASS. GODTAMER. THATS A NAME THATS GONNA STICK NOW.
 "what do you need" is a small line to freak out about but !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Frenship :]....love and care, even.
scared for Talia rn but if I don't think about it enough It can't hurt me!
not friendship. Fear. Crying. hate it.
minute thirty six analysis here on catrina's relationship with violence
Again for reference, a 10 litre water cooler of blood is about 1.5 completely drained elio-sized people and 4.95 times the amount of blood he usually has on hand
I'm SO conflicted because on one hand Catrina can go FUCK herself right now but on the other hand I think I recognize the pattern of behavior as like, She knows Talia and the Baron will be fine, or at least things she knows, and she know she and Shinji aren't friends and therefore can't offer comfort because like fuck he's gonna accept that. So she's got priorities and it's a situation that means no way you spin it can Shinji get his needs met without derailing something major but of course HE doesn't know that he has no way of knowing he just has to endure the bullshit and it's not fair but they're fair from reaching the kind of world where fairness can be a concern. HOWEVER, I find it very very interesting that elio know Catrina as a very matronly goddess, someone who took care of her people first. However, and this makes me think towards what Samy said about Catrina not being the goddess elio think she is in that one Tumblr post that made me loose my shit because HELLO? She seems much more overtly war focused as if taking care of people is secondary. Now, there's a high chance she switches additudes with the environment, as most people do, but it's interesting to me how her constant ignoring of Shinji's expressions of emotion, though she is NOT invulnerable —and I think I might spy the pattern of having one character be largely unphased by another's expressions of power so that when that person, in this case Shinji, really well and truly blows up towards the climax, the observing character (catrina's) reaction of open fear and shock is a queue to the audience that shit is well and truly really spiralling outa control now — stands in direct contrast with Elio's perception, also curious about how this might reflect Mexican femininity if that's a part of this
minute 36
omg haha are you ignoring the inherent immorality of utilitarian revenge for the instinctual satasfaction of bringing a sense of justice for the grievances and atrocities committed against you and yours to the horror of possible allies and with an amount of collateral damage that will eventually be your victorious downfall in that the soil of the kingdom you now rule is rich with the blood of everyone who could have hurt your but still too desolate to plant the seeds of a new world ? Haha that's so cool...
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and I think elio's gonna balance the violence back out to it's some murder some sincere caring and that is chefs kiss
I hope lmao
I actually love disgusting wet and repulsive sounds design portraying biological slights against God rip to Shinji but I'm different.
FROGGIE? [i have priorities, clearly]
minute thirty eight
Samar would fucking hate this btw
like yes war of perception, perception is fear which creates demons but I think with her approach to fighting demons she'd be morally repulsed by the idea of breeding fear in the people you're trying to free. Sexy sexy conflict
minute thirty nine
no yeah "there are no innocents in these lands" places ya squarely in you can do fuck yourself territory. I hope Shinji fucking decks her.
minute fourty
dreamy sigh Shinji's such a fucking badass I think he should wreck shit more often I think he might enjoy arson he should do arson!
minute fourty
"perpendicular to the ground" ANIME SHIT—RAD.
Out of my chair
SHINJI MAKES HIS FAITH SHINJI MAKES HIS CONVICTION DID HE JUST FUCKING MAKE IT HEREDITARY?? OBSESSED WITH THE IMPLICATIONS OF THAT THREAT AND ALSO AAAAAAA HES SO COOOOOOOOL
minute fourty one
[re:samar] Ah he said it.
End of EP
yk, I'm happy with that
Fucking heaping serving of everything I could've wanted. 10/10.
in conclusion
after mellowing on it I mean...I have SO many thoughts. But my head is also super fucking empty at the same time. All of it was perfect, like, what? What do I even do about it? i just gush I guess.
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