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People characterise Ghastly as 'the sensible one', and yes, he is sensible generally, but I also think it's worth bearing in mind that sometimes, he only seems sensible because he's standing next to Skulduggery Pleasant. It's comparative.
This is the guy who is best friends with Skulduggery who is, you know, Skulduggery. This is the man who fell in love with Tanith Low.
This is the man who, during the middle of a centuries-long war, as a member of an elite squad, went missing for weeks (his friends thought he might be dead) and what was he doing? He was in a cabin with a French woman. Ghastly Bespoke was in the middle of a war, and decided to peace out to have a weeks-long hookup. If he'd had a phone, you know the notifications would have been turned off. Responsibilities, who? The man looked around at death and destruction and thought, you know what? There is a pretty woman with me and I will take some 'me time'. Love that for him.
#this is not a skulduggery pleasant quote#skulduggery pleasant#ghastly bespoke#sp#ghastly#death bringer
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Yo that audiobook reader needs to chill he nearly killed me fr
#im just.. unhinged about ut#DAMN BRO FRRRRRRRR#i... have no excuse here xD#art#myart#statics art#skulduggery pleasant#death bringer
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Can’t believe I’m back invested in these dumb books, but Chinduggery is finally canon after fifteen years and here I am, drawing a woman dancing with a skeleton, anyway China Sorrows is the baddest bitch alive, cheers.
#china sorrows#skulduggery pleasant#chinduggery#bone china#china x skulduggery#derek landy#until the end#death bringer#last stand of dead men#valkyrie cain#if you even care#this is so embarrassing#watch it get 0 notes omg i can't believe i did this#had a blast though so periodt#also i listened to derek's podcast on the book yesterday#and he described them as star-crossed lovers#sooo#jot that down#alice art#also these are on redbubble if anyone is interested but i expect them to never sell
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It's a fan favourite, but the requiem ball dance for China and Skulduggery, please?
<3
#i literally had like four anon asks JUST about this haha#good choice fr#skulduggery pleasant#china sorrows#skulduggery pleasant fanart#china sorrows fanart#requiem ball#requiem#dance#art#send anons#dancing#the death bringer#death bringer#chinduggery#tuxedo#dress#stylus#nicstylus
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reread those two chapters in death bringer. you know the ones. full of feelings. help please.
#skulduggery pleasant#death bringer#please#im feeling so many things and im about to cRY#im#oh my fucking god#pplease#i need to ramble bbbut it would all be incoherent screeching#uhghhghhgh#rereading bits of books that make me feel things#it was 4 first now tHIS#hhhhgnhnhnngh
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Y'know, I'm enjoying the reread and am grateful for the 8 hours of work that allows me to whack out the audiobook versions of my favourite series... But the things that made me mildly uncomfortable as a teenager (Valkyrie's exact age as they were coming out) are straight up creeping me out now. Nearly the whole latter half of Death Bringer is just old men salivating over 16 year old Valkyrie because she's wearing a strapless dress (?) and there's a scene where herself and her reflection are naked and Skulduggery sees this for no reason at all (??)
I've been dishing out the 4 stars thusfar so I'm not turning my back on anything here, but I needed to get these thoughts out of my mind.
#none of this is news i mean she's basically given a princess leia moment later on and I've talked about that before#i just had to verbalise it#skulduggery pleasant#death bringer#valkyrie cain#derek landy
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For a story I might never write: Death Bringer
The allure of money cannot be overstated.
How much would someone have to pay you to be surrounded by death?
Will you read the fine print?
Those who get hired cannot leave.
#Death Bringer#Uhhh I think I should tag this uhhhh#tw death#I honestly like this story but I don't think I could write it#It'll just stew in my brain#I wanna finish Plagues Blessings and Journeys first#sweetmountainseeds#My art#comics#Artblr#I'm aware it a little bit looks like an assassination job but it is not
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“My name is Clarabelle. I’m here looking for a job.”
“A job?”
“Yes. I have no medical or scientific training to speak of, and no inclination to learn, and I pick things up fairly slowly because of my short attention span.”
Nye blinked its yellow eyes. “But…?”
“But what?”
“I’m waiting for you to list your good qualities now.”
Clarabelle blinked back at him. “Those were my good qualities.”
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The whole "Tenebrae was the reason Skulduggery is a skeleton" still bothers me, merely because of how it is phrased. The wording suggests that he taught a technique that would be individual to Skulduggery and ensure his soul remained, but how did he get that by Serpine, who would sniff a secret ploy a mile away?
I like to just fix it in my mind by saying the technique had the same effect upon everyone it kills: it ties their consciousness to their mortal body and stops it from re-entering the stream of life/death. So, technically, it is feasible that anyone killed by Seprine's hand could return, and indeed, might be trapped on Earth watching everything happen around them without being able to influence it, and due to a lack of a certain will (and necromancy know how) cannot bind themselves again to their mortal form.
This explanation satisfies me by making sense, retaining Skulduggery's "mystique", and also creating lots of angst if you consider Skulduggery realising Larrikin could still be lingering on Earth, unable to do anything or speak to anyone, to this day.
#skulduggery pleasant#sp#larrikin#auron Tenebrae#phase 1#death bringer#nefarian serpine#i do not know anything about Phase 2 and wish to keep it that way#so if there is a further explanation given there im not interested
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DeathBringer thoughts, opinions and criticisms
I want to like DeathBringer as a character. When he's not with glory he can be a very interesting character. Given that I'm taking Tui's word in good faith and he is indeed meant to be around Glory's age, this would imply he is a prodigy for his age, that he has done a lot of things most dragons his age have not done or are unable to do. That is a very cool idea to think about.
However, this NEVER gets brought up or utilized and it comes across more like Tui had TOO many plans for DB, but just fumbled hard to make any of them work to the point she had to shove them aside for a winglet instead of a main line book! This winglet does fix the age situation I think, that's what I heard I haven't read it BECAUSE IT IS NOT THAT READILY AVAILABLE WITHOUT PIRATING.
Hell, I don't even like the ship that much, the Glorybasket ship, and yes I'm one who prefers that name over any other shipname for them, GloryBringer sounds cool, but as an apparently rare enjoyer of the scavenger book, I liked the Murder basket name, it's funny and cute? And I bet he prays to the moons that no one finds out about the nickname. And honestly the book wasn't that bad, most people don't seem to like it because dragons took a back seat in the book and I think that's ok! We knew about the humans existing in the world of wings of fire and finally got an idea of how their society works and I actually think that's cool as a lore buff.
As for why I don't like the ship, it's not because of the weird age mistake that happened, or the fact that he was originally sent to kill Glory and his friends. It's actually because once he's with her, he is just a simp. There is no more personality, he's just a simp. And yeah he could have been secretly a dorky assassin all along but we don't get to see that prior to them getting together, do we? Nope, not really, he's more charismatic and sassy if anything. He does nothing that plot relevant afterwards, and it's just disappointing, given they could have been a power couple that put the SASS in asSASSin.
Honestly just wasted potential over all, giving all the build up only to throw him aside like that and downgrade him. Not to mention ignoring that he is one of many nightwings who killed and hurt other dragons only for it to be forgotten and ignored with Mastermind taking the fall as the Nightwings' scapegoat. Like he was a prodigy assassin who killed and maybe tortured who knows about many dragons prior to meeting glory and all the other nightwings get punished sorta (mostly mainly only Mastermind overall) but he gets a free pass cause he's the queen's boyfriend?
Also another reason I don't like the ship is that with how simpy he is, but also how Glory seems mostly disinterested, it feels very very one sided. I've seen people throw the "but glory hides her emotions!" argument at the wall, but like ... Not really? She's more blunt and straight forward about her emotions, if she likes something she'll let you know, and if she doesn't, you also most definitely know. And she had moments of being sweet and loving to her found-family, if she liked and truly liked Deathbringer back, even if she wasn't very interested in open/public displays of affection, we'd know and have her being generally sweeter and nicer to her supposed boyfriend.
Instead it comes across as not wanting the dumb love sick idiot basicly get himself killed for him, even though he's supposed to be a very capable assassin who could handle himself just fine and would be the number one dragon to guard her overall, especially compared to the rainwings who still aren't 100% sold on the idea of hurting another dragon even if that's the best case scenario. Literally we see this in the book that they aren't still fully ready to be proper guards for queen and she decided to bench her best option.
And at worst she seems kinda actually annoyed by her advances and hasn't gotten around to telling him off yet. I don't think it's a good look that THIS is how it comes across to at least readers. At least one scene where they aren't in the public eye and her returning the advances or being more openly affectionate with him would have been nice. The idea they SUPPOSEDLY have a dragonet together in the future (Firefly) isn't confirmation as that's only implied to be in a few timelines, not all and comes across as a nod to the fan ship at best.
Like the ship doesn't bode well to me and I think is written horridly. End of the story.
As for his appearance, I like it. He's a blue toned/hued whatever Nightwing. I personally think nightwings can be any cooler, but are normally dark, often near black hues of those colors, like how crows and ravens under the right light are actually very colorful and pretty to look at. Yes, blues, greens and purples may be the most common colors, but other colors CAN exists and do so, often with white freckles being the most common to exist marking.
For the record, I think the opposite exists for icewing, being they can also be almost any color but a pale, pastel near white shade of so.
But yeah I think only one other Nightwing that's blue like this vibrantly exists, and people like to assume she's a hybrid, which I hate to death given how proud nightwings are of being Nightwing historically, I feel like intertribe couples are rare and shouldn't be the first thing to consider when a dragon looks "weird" than what's status quo. Biodiversity exists, and so do genetic mutations that exist independently of a dragon being a hybrid. A dragon doesn't need to be a hybrid to look weird or different than what we've seen a tribe to look like.
Like for example a white Nightwing can just be albino, and a black icewing could just be melanistic.
#wings of fire#deathbringer#death bringer#glory#murderbasket#murder basket#nightwing#nightwings#dragon#ofcryptsandhallow#glorybasket#glorybringer
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In this chapter, Aneira sees the painting of their father for the first time.
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I asked Derek what scene he'd like to see art for, and he requested Vile vs Darquesse. This took. So. Long.
#I almost never do backgrounds#my fingers are dying#skulduggery pleasant fanart#skulduggery pleasant#valkyrie cain fanart#valkyrie cain#lord vile#darquesse#lord vile vs darquesse#necromancy#necromancer#magic#death bringer#book 6#skulduggery pleasant art#armour#knight#shadow#nic stylus#stylus
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Finally caved and did my perceived timeline of what happened to Chuuya, from being brought into the lab for project Arahabaki to being taken out of it.
I originally thought about mentioning it in my Chuuya's true original ability being to amplify others' abilities post, but it was way too long, and not as solid an argument to that specific topic.
Because this is about Chuuya being the original, not the clone, but more importantly the why and how that is the case.
Chuuya's humanity is the core question of SB, and the most important part is that in the end, Chuuya chose to accept himself despite it all, and that no matter what, he is himself and no one can take that away from him.
But once we have been given all the pieces of the puzzle, we can try connecting the dots and deduce the true story behind it all.
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Project Arahabaki was built to create an ability weapon based on the recovered notes of Pan, a French researcher and Verlaine's creator. The technique uses the clone of a human with a "fake" psyche (persona model) who is fused with a singularity life-form. The clone's original should have an ability able to create a self-referencing singularity (to manifest gravity powers). Pan even had a special ability metal to brainwash that individual. Basically, this concept is supposed to create an overpowered flesh puppet.
So. Project Arahabaki. They needed an original with an ability that could produce a singularity on its own, which is super rare. Joy oh joy, there just so happen to be this boy, the son of a military doctor, who fits these needs! They just need his DNA/some cells to create a clone to use in their project. It's the middle of the war, ethics are disregarded, plus no "real child" should be harmed in the making of this weapon. No biggie, right? Lend us your son for the sake of the country!
Except we know that boy, officially at least, died during the war.
According to N's timeline, there once was this certain boy who managed to create a singularity with his ability while under the supervision of scientists, but got swallowed by the black hole it created, never to return.
He also had Chuuya's supposed "original" stuck in a tube full of mystery liquid, the same kind Chuuya once was in, but that one's flesh and organs melted when exposed to air (normal behaviour), changing it into a skeleton that can be ordered around like an overpowered puppet (literally on strings. The tubes in its back controlled it and kept it going, but would severely limit its range)
Back to our Chuuya:
All N does is lie, so we can't take his word as the simple truth. Chuuya was a miracle they never managed to reproduce. Why is that?
In Rimbaud's notes, he says how in their operation to retrieve the new ability weapon Japan was developing (based on Verlaine), they managed to identify the artificial being, aka the clone, A2-5-8. In the flashback, Rimbaud is absolutely positive it is him, so we have to assume this information was recorded as-is somewhere.
And yet, Dazai is the one to suggest later that, perhaps, the original and the clone had been swapped.
And wouldn't that make everything else make sense?
The clone(s) never managed to hold up to the quality standard necessary to be useful outside of their confines. The skeleton approach was the lab trying something different, like N admitted so to Verlaine. There ever only was one successful attempt, a "miracle", Chuuya. The original child is thought to be dead, yet N the liar supposedly had him in a tube, ready to turn him into a skeleton(???). Rimbaud and Verlaine thought for sure they had the artificial life-form, the clone, but they got Chuuya, who has a graphite scar from before he lost his memories, with a past that was able to be dug up by the Flags and Port Mafia.
My conclusion is this: N swapped out a clone for the original child. His research wasn't giving the proper results, but he had found a workaround, where he could use the original instead of his clone, for better/faster results.
Chuuya is the only one who could harness "Arahabaki" in any way that would remotely resemble "Guivre". Chuuya is the only one who could operate autonomously. That's why N wanted to remove "Arahabaki" and try to factory-reset Chuuya before putting it back in: because there really is only one of him, and he couldn't afford losing him if he wanted to continue his research.
#Was this done behind everyone's back or was it an official cover-up?#Was a clone killed as cover up? did they manage to save the child that should have been dead?#did they simply write an official death certificate and called it a day?#all fun questions that we can't know for certain#bsd#bungo stray dogs#bungou stray dogs#bsd analysis#bsd timeline#bsd stormbringer#bsd storm bringer#stormbringer#storm bringer#stormbringer spoilers#bsd chuuya#bsd nakahara chuuya#apparently i talk sometimes#edited to add the transcripts in the image description because for some reason some of them weren't there?????
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the fabled alternate, angstier version of what would happen if Fukuzawa's All Men Are Equal got rid of Chuuya's permanent singularity ability and turned it back to its pre-Arahabaki nature, enhancing others' abilities
welcome to Chuuya's identity crisis... 2!!
continued here
#hey. hey. guess what i am again. that's right! evil#i was gonna say it's been a while but i literally shot goosamu recently so#no but chuuya had it rough in sb sure but like. what if he did that a second time with less death and more time to overthink everything#bsd#bungo stray dogs#bungou stray dogs#bsd fanart#ada!chuuya#ada!skk#bsd chuuya#bsd nakahara chuuya#bsd storm bringer spoilers#bsd stormbringer spoilers#nawy's comics#me: idk how to end this comic :/#also me: adds a single panel at the end and calls it a day
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