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Vikus the Goblin dark knight. A more finalized armor design for him, complete with helmet.
#goblin#goblin boy#armor#black armor#knight#dark knight#sword and board#sword and shield#sword#shield#Vikus#trans#crobart
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Vikus meeting sad impressionable Gregor who's lost his dad.
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I've been trying to get a handle on how I imagine them.
#tuc luxa#tuc fanart#tuc gregor#tuc#the underland chronicles#gregor the overlander#nerissa tuc#gregor campbell#boots tuc#ripred#vikus#traditional art#fanart#idk if they ever explicitly state Grace's profession but she gives off tired nurse vibes.#my art
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I decided to re-read Gregor the Overlander for it's 20 year anniversary (ended up getting halfway through the third book before I decided to stop for the day, it's that good!) And while I was reading, I realized one of the main reasons why the series has stuck with me. It's the extra kindness the characters show.
There's a post on here talking about Lord of the Rings and Gibli films, and how they are all about showing kindness for no other reason than the kindness, and I feel The Underland Chronicles fit that perfectly. Mrs. Cormaci going out of her way to help Gregor and his family, Ripred staying up to comfort Lizzie, Vikus gathering all the money in the meuseum to help Gregor. This series is built off the backs of the small kindness people give to each other.
#the underland chronicles#tuc#tuc20#gregor#mrs. cormaci#ripred#vikus#lizzie#this series makes me so happy
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One kiss changing the entire brain map of the male lead romantically
Colin Bridgerton
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Prince Vikram Singh Rathore
#polin#bridgerton season 3#eloise bridgerton#colin bridgerton#colin x penelope#bridgerton#luke newton#nicola coughlan#lady whistledown#khoobsurat#disney#fawad khan#sonam kapoor#mili x viku
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"The beauty of some things is beyond our understanding... it's the same with people..." - Vikus Kota to Ziaila.
Vikus Kota (on the right), later known as Darth Fortus is a character from my old Star Wars fanfiction. I went back to that story and started fixing it, so expect to see more lol. ✨
This drawing is also related to the fact that last weekend I saw the northern lights for the first time in my life! Right above my house! And it was so wonderful! I still can't stop thinking about it. 🤗
Ziaila belongs to @the-invincible-nox
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Gregor: I’m fine.
Ripred: Lol, no you’re not. But lucky for you, I don’t care. Wanna go fight other rats?
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Ares: I’m fine.
Luxa: Okay, I thought you were fine, but now I’m worried.
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Gregor: I’m fine.
Howard: Is no one going to mention the fact that he’s bleeding from a stab wound?
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Luxa: I’m fine.
Aurora: Going by historical precedent, I have the feeling I should’ve called Howard an hour ago.
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Ripred: I’m fine.
Vikus: Perhaps I should invest in a dictionary. It seems that this entire family lacks an understanding of basic English vocabulary.
#they were not- in fact- fine#gregor the overlander#queen luxa#aurora the flier#ares the flier#ripred the rat#rage daddy#old man vikus#the underland chronicles#doctor howard#tuc#besties#✨the questers✨
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maybe it’s a little on the nose (metaphorically speaking) but man. solovet dying and vikus surviving—fragile and changed, but alive—just really gets me.
#this has been in my drafts for literal years idk why i havent posted it#if i think about vikus and solovet too much i feel crazy#sometimes it's just easier to make jokes about vikus being gay and solovet being a lesbian and the two of them being trapped in a loveless#lavender marriage#but on a more real level godddd. vikus and solovet. peace and war. inextricable from one another. in love and yet always at odds#solovet flying unknowingly and unceremoniously to her death. gone just as quickly as she returned to power#vikus fighting for survival and learning how to live again#after losing so much of others and himself#wagfjwhktmg I FEEL CRAAAAZYYYY#anyway. Lavender Marriage#🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈#tuc20#the underland chronicles#tuc
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#ne znam sta se uopce vise trudim bit dobro i normalna kad me se uvijek isprda za suze i viku#necu bit dobro dok ne odjebem odavde i to daleko#nije ni cudo sto mi rastu novi cvorovi#dabog da jedan bio tumorcina da krepem sto prije#koga boli kurac ionako#personal
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Goblins enjoying sammiches.
Vikus (the dark knight cave gob I drew a while back) and Lilac.
#goblin#cave goblin#snacks#sandwich#cute#shortstack#goblin girl#goblin boy#trans#Vikus#Lilac#crobart
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Solavet would bring home the worlds most renowned international terrorist and present it like a sad stray puppy.
Vikus lets it happen because he thinks he can domesticate a grown ass fucking rager with tender love and affection. ‘I can fix him’.
Ajax supports his bond enthusiastically nodding about their newly acquired underland version of an C4 explosive.
Euripides points out that Ripred is a grown ass man who can only be temporarily placated by shrimp in cream before he returns to his primary diet of the blood of the damned.
Everyone ignores Euripides.
#Ripred#ripred the rat#vikus#Solavet#the underland chronicles#gregor the overlander#ripred#ripred the gnawer#tuc
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Viku Bonnie by Wolf
A fanart I made of VikuBonnie's character
Her links:
https://twitter.com/vikubonnie1
https://www.instagram.com/viku_bonnie/
https://www.artstation.com/viku_bonnie
https://www.deviantart.com/vikitoria150
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So what do people actually think the background characters in the Underland chronicles look like
Just wondering. From all the (amazing) Fan art I have seen of Gregor , Lizzie, and Boots the fandom seems to have a pretty cohesive Idea on what they look like. Luxa also seems to have a pretty standard image in the fandom (Though wasn't she on the cover of the first design of MOS) with the only differentiation being how far along she is in puberty. Reminder if she was in the overland she would be in the sixth grade.
Other characters though Like really what do people think they look like. In my head Mrs. Cormaci is a plump/rounder women and I thought for years I had read that in the books until I saw fanart of her being drawn as more slim. Then I reread part of TPOB and was like Oh it never says what shape she is, I guess I just thought she was bigger because she is always cooking so much rich sounding food for charities. Then I remember seeing some one post once that what if she was Hazard's maternal grandmother. His maternal grandparents live in NYC, and Mrs.Cormaci is mentioned to have had a daughter.
Well that is bitter sweet because on one had that means that Mrs. Cormaci's daughter has been missing for years and in fact died without her mother ever knowing what happened to her (she also would not have known when her father died). Gotta then wonder if Mrs.Cormaci giving Lizzie her daughters old cloths is more than just her trying to help the Campbells while also declutter her house. But that also means Hazard has at least one Grandma who is really grand, if this relation was ever realized then maybe Hazard could come up to the overland for visits and stay with Mrs. Cormaci. Also she would probably have pictures of her daughter that she could show Hazard so he could remember what his mom looked like. Anyway I really liked this theory and wanted it to be cannon, but then i realized that since Hazard's overland features are his black hair and green eyes his overland relations probably have them to, and was like oh wow I never pictured Mrs.Cormaci having green eyes.
Another character I think about is Vikus. In my head the males in the underland Henry, Mareth, York all have short close cropped hair because they fight so much. Or in Howard's a short stack of wavy/curly locks cut just short enough to stay out of his eyes when wet. I do love the fan art I have seen of Henry with long hair though. But When It comes to Vikus , I guess since he seeks peace and is better relations, I usually imagine him with long grey hair and a long beard. to me he winds up looking kinda like men in biblical stories. Solovet however is muscled with a near shaved head. She is on the small side and slouches a bit when trying to appear as a gracious hostess and that plus her wrinkles make her seem non dangerous. When she is in planing/battle mode though she stands perfectly straight and those seemingly kindly wrinkles disappear, and she just looks completely terrifying.
Dulcet and Nerissa are other cases. Dulcet is described as being shy and very pretty. But as someone who works in childcare I can say with certainty that her hair is most likely a mess, her simple cloths likely have stains and crayon markings all over them. This girl is a beautiful mess. Then we have Neressa whom everyone knows is a mess. Since she is constantly described as wide eyed, tired, frail, to thin, and wearing her long hair a loose pony tail. But I don't often see it acknowledged that she canonically wears multiple layers of cloths at once or that her cloths never match.
I said most of the men in the underland would have short hair, could Hamnet have grown his hair out longer in the jungle, to try and make himself look different from how he did as a solider. Likewise I also imagine his lizard skin cloths being frayed and raggedy at the edges, much different from whatever military uniforms regalians wear. Anything to help hims see something different when he looks into the water. Can we talk about how when Gregor first meets Howard he describes him as tall and really strong, Then during his time with the plague Howard looses like 20 pounds and has scars wear ever he had bumps. Howard likely could not even fit into his old cloths after getting better.
What do Gregor's parents look like. We know they are both thin and tired. His dad's hair has gone completely white. Grace's cannot be to far behind with how hard she works and being in a state of constant worry for her family. Do fans still Agree with the theory that Grace is white and the Dad is black?
Also one more thing. Why does everyone think any of the underlanders that haven't completely greyed over have silver-blond hair. Like I know Luxa has that shade. Luxa would also probably be blonde if she has been born i t he overland. But it only specified that a silver tint was part of what distinguished the underlanders. Personally I always thought they could have any hair color (examples I imagine Howard being brunette and Mareth having black hair) but that it would always be paler than an overland counter part.
Like I know and respect that the characters descriptions are vague on purpose, and that the fun is that we can imagine them looking in so many different ways. But like really how do people imagine their favorites look. What little we get implies that the characters do not fall into the young adult novels trope of making them all look super hot. They are scared, beat up, anxious, and some are wearing cloths that do not fit them, some are missing body parts. To me that makes them infinetly more fun to imagine than most YA novel characters
So seriously if you have any strong clear/headcannons as to what you think certain human characters look like, please share them int he comments.
#The Underland Chronicles#gregor the overlander#TUC#GTO#Gregor Campbell#Lizzie Campbell#Boots Campbell#Queen Luxa#TUC Luxa#TUC Howard#TUC Mareth#TUC Dulect#TUC Nerissa#TUC Vikus#VIkus and Solovet#TUC Mrs. Cormaci#TUC Solovet#susan collins#The Hunger games#is kinda like that too#but also not#it definetly does alot to remind you characters like Katniss#Peeta#Gale#Finnick good looking#But will also spend alot of time reminding you how many scars and injuries they all have#and how grusome those can look#So I guess its kind of a middle ground
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The way that poverty has affected Gregor is omnipresent. He knows how to care for people and how to make food because his parents can't afford a sitter. He goes to the underland and suddenly he's among royalty and wealth. He remarks how when it's not about to go to war the underland is actually a nice escape from his life. When they're all forced to eat raw fish he notes how he's never been able to have sushi before.
I love how it's not something that just gets solved. Even when Vikus gives them cash in the clock it doesn't *last*. His mom says, "We're going to pay all the bills, and then we're going to have Christmas!". That's so *real*. Like, the series is fantasy but Gregor is still *forced* to live in the real world.
There's also this whole parallel between Ares and Gregor. Both of them were just nobodies having to live on the margins of society until someone wealthy finds a use for you. For Gregor it's Luxa, for Ares it was Henry.
Okay, so this isn't the most well put together or thought out of my rants but... Aughghfhg. The book with the giant sexy rat and the spider that makes you slippers is so god damn *real*.
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The Crawler's Language
So I'm not a linguist by academic specialty but I am bilingual and fascinated by languages and every time I reread the Underland Chronicles I think about language and especially the Crawler's style of repetitive speech.
All of the species in the Underland have different speech patterns. The bats speak rarely, quietly, and in short sentences because it is physically difficult for them. The spinners speak through vibrations. The rats as a species are associated with humor, they're most likely to use sarcasm and constantly make jokes. But when all of these species do speak, they use the grammar and syntax common to human Underland English.
The exception is the crawlers, who have a distinct verbal quirk, saying things like:
"Smells what, so good, smells what?"
In this essay I am making basically two arguments:
The crawlers word order is completely normal for Underland English.
Often, when discussing the crawlers, the book narration will make a point of Gregor or others having to mentally re-order sentences to understand the bugs. But if you take out the repetition, Crawler sentences become things like:
"Smells what so good?"
"Be she the princess?"
"Hates us, the Overlander?"
"Unless this be not the Cradle"
And this order that goes Verb-Object or Verb-Pronoun is not unusual for standard Underland English. Human and other characters throughout the books say things like:
"Stop you. Stay you. Slow your hearts." (Ripred, Book 1)
"Meet you Mareth and Perdita" (Dulcet, Book 1)
"Gather us here for we must discuss" (Vikus, Book 1)
It's even baked in to the standard Underlander farewell, "Fly you high".
So the crawlers are speaking correct sentences in Underland English, just repeating the first phrase at the end. Which brings me to my second argument.
The repetition serves a grammatical function
In paying attention to the crawler's speech, I found a pattern. The repetition is not present in every sentence. Crawlers often make simple declarative statements without repetition:
"You look much like but smell not like"
"Temp will share her food with me"
"Rats give many fish"
The repetition specifically happens with questions:
"Ride you, ride you? Run you, run you?"
"Give you five baskets, give you?"
"You so say, you?"
Even Vikus takes on this particular grammatical feature. When speaking to the Crawlers, he says
"We will give four baskets, and one for thanks" but later asks
"Take us to your king, take us?" when asking a question.
There are exceptions to this, but to me they seem to be in cases of emphasis or explicit confirmation:
"Only the Princess, Temp serves, only the Princess"
"Hate warmbloods, cutters do, hate warmbloods"
I have no idea if this was Suzanne Collins intention, but for me personally, it reminds me of how questions are structured in American Sign Language. In ASL, a question is indicated by raising or lowering the eyebrows. Signs for question words like who/what/where/why exist, but aren't always necessary. One of the structures common with ASL is to put or repeat the question word at the end, so you can sign a longer phrase or sentence normally, and only have to worry about the question facial expression for the last word. Bill Vicars at Lifeprint/ASL University has a more in-depth explanation, comparing it to English questions structured as "You go to [X university], don't you?" or "You like engineering, do you?" But basically, in ASL, a perfectly grammatically correct way to ask if someone is Deaf is to sign:
YOU DEAF YOU?
It is also worth exploring why, in my opinion, the crawlers are the only species who have this visible difference to the audience, even though all species are speaking English as a second language. And at a meta-level, it contributes to the basic assumption that the crawlers are dumber than the other species. Gregor has the most to adjust to, but even long after he's accepted that the Underlanders aren't primitive, and bats/rats are intelligent, he still has a kind but condescending outlook on the crawlers. And even other insect species (like the fireflies) look down on them. Having the crawlers speak differently from anyone else emphasizes their alienation from all other species in the Underland. And it reminds me of how some accents or dialects, like AAVE, are associated with stupidity or assumed to be "incorrect" English when they have perfectly valid and functional structures and meaning.
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I might have seen this said before, on a different post, but I couldn't find it, so I'm just gonna say a few words on this, partially because of that and partially because it's been ages since I've last read the series, despite it being ingrained into my head.
Almost all of the characters in TUC have moments where they are genuine assholes. Gregor has a few points where he says some genuinely disrespectful shit. Luxa, as well as most of the other humans (including Gregor, although arguably to a lesser extent), are deeply prejudiced against the gnawers. Ripred, is, well, Ripred (look, I love him, we all do, but he's a dick).
Even Vikus, arguably one of the nicest characters in the series, admires Sandwich (I think, been a while), a man who literally used poison to commit genocide in the name of stealing land that didn't belong to him.
The only characters I can think of in TUC that don't have flaws are the ones who also have the least lines: Aurora, Dulcet, Miravet. Oh, and all of those characters? Probably also prejudiced against gnawers, just never explicitly stated (to my knowledge), probably due to their obscene lack of lines. Of course there are characters like Lizzie and Hazard, who are literal fucking children so as nice as they are, I think it's safe to say they can't really be counted up here. (Should probably also mention that Gregor and Luxa are also children, just ones that were forced to grow up faster, sadly).
Then again, all of these characters have redeeming qualities. Gregor can be disrespectful at times, but that's mainly because of the stress placed upon him by the various bullshit situations he has to go through, and he usually apologizes after. Luxa and all the humans are deeply prejudiced (actually, I should probably add the fliers might be in that category too), but they are basically raised from birth to hate and kill gnawers, and vice versa. plus, it's shown that despite what is practically being brainwashed from birth, they can grow and change to overcome their own bigotry and accept gnawers as genuine people, as well as friends.
And yes, Ripred, the glorious bastard himself, is a dick. But he's also a war veteran who's lost his family, and most of the respect from his people, meaning he mainly works with humans, who tend to treat him with suspicion, if not outright hostility (until they get to know him). And he makes up for it by letting his guard down at times to be a father to the traumatized pups that dragged him into their pack.
Point is, flawed characters are one of the things that make TUC so great. They're not few and hid away either, they're everywhere, with visible flaws. If you want to make a good character, TUC is a great series to use as an example. Everything casts a shadow, just like every character has a flaw. If they don't, you probably just can't see them from your angle. And if they don't? Like, at all? Give them some, just make sure the shadow they cast matches up with the object itself.
#gregor the overlander#the underland chronicles#tuc#ripred#underland chronicles#suzanne collins#gregor tuc#gto#ripred the gnawer#writer stuff#as well I guess?#also we need more Dulcet appreciation#Dulcet MVP#also holy shit this is long#“a few words” yeah fucking right dipshit#any thoughts?
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