"With the face of Death, as it seems you moan in the night Surrounded by the Grace of a gloomy fog You walk with Darkness in your side You seem timeless, as Gods I have you for company I wouldn't have bet all these years Soon you'll be as old as my whole memory I owe you my survival, I owe you decades There's music, the bridge between our worlds Your music soothes my savage soul And then I know there'll be a time When our hands will tame"

All Out Avengers 2

Derek Landy & Greg Land (on purpose?)

Bifurcated Dooms threaten and defend the world. Needed more Doom on Doom dialogue, but so much better than the Jason Aaron nonsense going on in the main Avengers title(s).

Liked the Dark Doom design quite a bit, and keying on hope feels like a genuine Victor characteristic.

Tony trying to turn Light Doom evil.

DARK DOOM-HUSK

July 18, 2008

March 20, 2020

July 21, 2023

Fearless year of Shadow

I am not immune to best friends who are in love with each other

Master Levels for DOOM II (1995)

Speed Drawing of Maestro Forte

I think that before Gortash and Durge started working together, they were both very lonely. And part of why their relationship is so intense is that they both see the other as the only person in the world who can handle them. The only other person in the world who could possibly understand them or be on their level, and to some degree, chosen as they are by evil gods, they're not really wrong.

Because as worshipers of dark gods, both Gortash and Durge have very specific paths laid out before them. As a worshiper of bane, gortash needs to become a tyrant - he needs to end up on top of the world. And as they said in the Prayer for Forgiveness, Durge is well aware that Bhaal created them to be the last soul alive.

But both of those things, being on top of the world and being the last soul alive, are very lonely ways to be. And I think both Gortash and Durge have both had periods in their lives where they were very lonely - Gortash in the house of hope (or frankly even before that, his parents hardly seemed loving) and Durge was likely treated more as an instrument than a person in the Bhaal cult. Neither of them want to be alone again, and after meeting the only other person in this world who can possibly be on their level, they seem to immediately set out to find ways to work the other person into their rigidly planned out lives.

Gortash genuinely plans to share power with with Durge, to rule alongside them. He gives you, his co-conspirator, his partner in crime, half the credit for the plans - calling them "our" plans. He's happy to hear you're alive, he's genuinely pleased to see you again, and he's ready pick right back up where you left off. He tests your resolve with the netherstones because he very specifically doesn't want another flunky, he wants an equal. He doesn't want to be alone up there on top of the world, with no one who could ever hope to understand him. He wants Durge right there with him and he's willing to commit a Banite sin (sharing power! the horror!) to get it.

And Durge, well, we saw the Prayer for Forgiveness. Durge plans to kill Gortash on Bhaal's altar, the same place they hope to die. I do think that Durge intended to kill Gortash last, and kill him slow. So that when they kill themselves he'll still be there. So they can die together, hand in bloody hand on that altar. Because being created to be the last soul alive is such a lonely fate, to know that you'll die completely alone, without even someone to hold your hand. And that is Durge's sin, the one small comfort they'd allow themselves - not dying alone, but dying with Gortash, holding his hand, knowing that there was someone there who loved them as they both breathed their last. Imagining dying in a loving embrace instead of alone in a cold world.

It's interesting to see how they both can't escape their gods plans for them (ruling and dying), can't bring themselves to imagine any other ending, but also go on to explicitly sin against their respective gods in the name of their relationship (ruling together, dying together). They're both drowning and they know they can't escape but goddammit they're going to go down together, the only two people in this world who can handle each other, the only two people who matter.

DARK DOOM-THROUGH TIME AND TORTURE

they should've been at the club(infertility treatment centers)

I dont even know anymore- have a doodle

Sonadow fanchild and this text post I keep seeing from daily sonadow I think 😭

art by blindsight_visions

Thats so crazy because I just beat Shadow 05 for the first time like 2 weeks ago.