#halflight
Text
after years and years, i'm finally getting to play halflight in a game! though not quite the ttrpg i was expecting
150 notes
·
View notes
Text
just taste the soup
#affirmations#disco elysium#de#skills#half-light#half light#halflight#hand-eye coordination#hand eye coordination#conceptualisation#conceptualization#empathy#rhetoric#drama#harry du bois#kim kitsuragi#shitpost#saschirmations
34 notes
·
View notes
Text
Utterly Alone (short story)
Gorseheart felt the cold stares of what felt like everyone in the Clan, icy glares seeping into his bones and around his heart, as if they wished to freeze it to a stop.
Why must he keep making one mistake after another? He had only ever wanted to prevent war between his Clan and Skyclan, and for that he went through complete and utter darkness. It was as if he fell through a pitch-black tunnel, and on the other end were cats that mimicked his friends, but really hated him, and all he wanted was to return to the other side where they laughed with him, shared food with him, loved him.
He noticed his best friend since kithood settle down in the shade with a squirrel. Rushing to the fresh-kill pile, Gorseheart picked up a vole and raced to join him, slowing when he neared to seem casual. “Halflight! Mind if I join you?”
Halflight looked away awkwardly. “A little bit. I’m just waiting for Primrose.” Hadn’t she just left to hunt?
“Oh. Okay. Maybe later?”
Halflight looked doubtful. His gaze flitted to Blightstar, resting on the highledge. It was only a second’s glance, but Gorseheart noticed it, and he realized the true reason for Halflight’s denial. “You know, you don’t have to avoid me just because you’re afraid it’ll get you on the wrong side of Blightstar’s anger.”
Halflight’s ears flattened defensively. “Yeah, well, he’s angry and for once I’m not the one causing it. Don’t ruin that just because you can’t stand eating by yourself.”
Gorseheart tried not to let his fur bristle. Suddenly he didn’t feel like sharing a meal with his so-called friend. “Enjoy your food,” he said bitterly, padding away.
A little later in the day, Gorseheart spotted Mallowfur. He approached nervously. Neither of them had spoken since Gorseheart nearly–accidently–killed his mate and the medicine cat, Firejay. Gorseheart still had the leaf wrap around his eye from when Mallowfur struck him for it.
But as soon as Mallowfur noticed him approaching, he quickly turned around and headed in the opposite direction. Gorseheart’s hopeful tail fell dejectedly. He wasn’t going to bother trying to speak with Firejay. She was the most forgiving of his friends, but she was still recovering. Guilt weighed his heart down heavily. None of this would have happened if he had just listened to his leader!
Or if his leader had listened to him, a small voice in the back of his head said.
Gorseheart ignored it, mostly, and looked around. He spotted Thorneyes curled beside the warriors’ den. He lifted a paw to walk over, then hesitated. He didn’t want to be ignored or rejected again by someone he cared about. But he also couldn’t stand curling in his and Emberdawn’s nest for another night believing that they now hated him. He knew, somewhere, that it wasn’t true. The problem, though, was that it felt like it was. He had to show himself it wasn’t. He just wanted to get his old, happy life back, and forget all the trauma and hurt that now surrounded him everywhere he went.
“The shade is good here,” Gorseheart murmured uncertainty. “Mind if I join you? I’m sweating in this heat.” He hated that he had to think of a reason.
Thorneyes shrugged. “I don’t own the shadows.”
“No, I suppose not.” Gorseheart sat beside him. He struggled to find something to say. He just wanted to talk as they normally would, but now he was so worried of saying the wrong thing and ruining his chances to be friends again–but they were still friends, weren’t they?
“Uh, do you prefer the cold or warmth? I don’t think I ever asked.” What a stupid question.
“The cold keeps the prey buried in their nests. The heat brings them out,” Thorneyes responded simply.
“Right,” Gorseheart tried to smile. They were talking, which was more than anyone else was doing for him besides his mate, but it still felt awkward, like they were meeting for the first time and had not been close for seasons.
Thorneyes stood, stretching. “They should be hunted before the weather lessens.”
“Can I go with you?” Gorseheart asked a bit too quickly.
Thorneyes blinked at him. “You can hunt all you wish, but I prefer to be alone.”
“I understand,” Gorseheart called after him. His chest squeezed painfully. He tried not to show how much everything was hurting, and for once he was glad that one of his eyes was covered up, so that he only had to hide the pricking of one.
Perhaps he will go on a hunt, and get everything out of his head. But as he neared the thorn tunnel, he was stopped by a voice from behind him. “Where do you think you’re going?”
Hope faltering to a near complete end, Gorseheart turned to see Blightstar. “I was just going to hunt.”
“Were you?” Blightstar questioned doubtfully. “There’s already two patrols out, and Thorneyes. Do you want to know what I think? I think you were trying to speak with Greenstar again, behind my back–again.”
Gorseheart shuddered inwardly. No way in Starclan was he ever, ever going to make that mistake again. “I was just going to hunt,” he repeated.
“We have enough food already and we’re getting more,” Blightstar replied. “For once in your life, be useful. Repair the dens.”
“But I–”
“Do it!” Blightstar snapped. Tail twitching, he padded for the medicine den.
By now, Gorseheart struggled not to collapse, not to even tremble. All he wanted was for things to go back to normal, or at least to be able to talk to one of the cats he had been best friends with for seasons–years, really, without constantly worrying about messing up and saying the wrong thing. Now he couldn’t even go to be alone with his agonizing thoughts, because Blightstar didn’t trust him enough to leave the camp on his own.
The only one he had now was Emberdawn, and she was one of the hunters–possibly on the complete other side of the territory. Gorseheart forced himself to breathe calmly and deeply, to not hyperventilate, though it felt very much within reach. How had things happened so that he felt only completely, and utterly alone?
--Odd to make a story while talking about he comes to forgive them, but I’ve been wanting to for a while anyway!
--Base is here by MirAnimates. I would have added the leaf wrap that was mentioned in the story, but tbh it was too hard and my phone was on very low battery so I didn’t have a whole lot of time.
--His scar is redder because it’s fresher.
--While Gorseheart in no way deserves this treatment, they do have fairly good reason.
-When Gorseheart was attacked sneaking into Skyclan territory to speak with Greenstar and hopefully prevent battle, Brownfrond wanted to go with him. Brownfrond is Blightstar’s son and was hurt, so Blightstar is furious at that AND at Gorseheart getting into a fight with a Skyclan patrol and making things worse.
-Thorneyes and his mate, Nettledeer, are going through a tough time, which is why he’s awkward and wants to be alone. Gorse has no way of knowing this.
-In his panic from his trauma, and PTSD, he struck Firejay, thinking she was Foxbreeze, and nearly killed her. That’s why both she and Mallowfur are angry at him.
-Halflight is normally the one Blight snaps at, and he’d do anything to be on Blight’s good side for once.
Of course, NONE of them knew just what Gorseheart went through and how much they were hurting him until he was too far gone.
#gorseheart#tunnel poly#tunnel family#gorseheart story#gorseheart's silence#firejay#blightstar#mallowfur#mallowstar#brownfrond#thorneyes#halflight#wc#wc dark tales#dark forest tales#dark tales
4 notes
·
View notes
Text
Poetry Wednesday - Episode 22
Frank Bidart - Half Light
0 notes
Text
passed out for a couple of hours and when i woke up this was on my canvas
like I said "I will not explain myself". hope you guys injoy the brainrot on display
if it's not evident, I did not plan this at all
This started more like a sketch for logic to understand how to draw them and then i got bored and I started to doodle the other skills and this is what ended up
I want to learn how to simplify all of them in a cartoony style... it's not really working
these are 100% just for me but whatever
also thinking to draw some of the skills in cool clothing becourse I think that would be awesome
I put all the skills in the tags cuz I'm insaneeee >:}c
#disco elysium#art#de fanart#digital art#my art#disco elysium skills#de skills#de logic#de encyclopedie#de rhetoric#de drama#de conceptualization#de visual calculus#de volition#de inland empire#de empathy#de authority#de esprit de corps#de suggestion#de endurance#de pain threshold#de physical instrument#de electrochemistry#de shivers#de halflight#de hand/eye coordination#de perception#de savoir faire#de interfacing#de composure
39 notes
·
View notes
Text
#emily windsnap#Emily Windsnap and the Pirate Prince#Aaron Halflight#Sam the Pirate Prince#mermaid#pirate#liz kessler#middle grade fiction#middle grade series#books#tumblr polls#tumblr poll#poll#polls
8 notes
·
View notes
Text
#this one is more of a deep cut!#this is from halflight once you commit to being an apocalypse cop : ))#disco elysium#blinkees#blinkies#flashing tw#flashing
44 notes
·
View notes
Text
as a tip for my fellow vault hunters skyblock players: this farm works really, really well and is very much worth the price in materials to probably build way more earlygame than i did given the number of valuable things that it outputs (basically every vanilla material that comes from an ore, ender pearls, and a smattering of other things). it was designed by halflight in the vault hunters discord, so give them a shoutout if you use it! it's working really well for me and i figured i'd go ahead and suggest it if you don't lurk there like i do.
#vh talk#now if you can help it DONT buy mega torches like i did but my nearest mushroom fields was annoyingly far away#and i already have to fly a long way to get to ice so it was either waystones or mega torches for me#so i bought mega torches which works just as well as a mushroom fields#my version of the farm for the record hooks up with my drawer system and simple storage instead of using the water elevator#there also may be more efficient ones but as someone who really has no idea how modded mobs work and also failed to even build a squid farm#thank you so much halflight for sharing!
37 notes
·
View notes
Text
symbols, or the road rejected pt 1
after some reading and thinking and several years of being bad at/with labels, i have decided to reject them nearly entirely. delineation is the tool of the oppressor to divide us - reject the labels thrust upon you, and kill the voice in your head that demands you sort others.
in an environment where language is shorthand for concepts of being, such as identity, signifiers must/should be used to represent us - we are, at the bounds of our understanding, chained by our need for language, but the language of certainty need not burden us there. more on me, on labels, and the continuation under the KR
the names cass and cassandra are the closest any sort of signifier has felt to 'right' for me, though i know they cannot encompass the whole - if not in my own mind, then certainly not in the minds of others. i struggled to figure out why a small change - discord's username rollout causing me to no longer be able to be able to use my initializing asterisk (i.e. as *Cass) - was causing me some kind of dissonance or distress. i think the asterisk has some weight to me not just in its origin or uniquity, but in what it does not convey; i.e. its functional meaninglessness to any other observer. to some, i am just cassandra, to others, i'm cass, to others still, i'm *cass, and some can even garner the idea of "me" just from the asterisk.
another place i sought to control signifiers in my life is the diminutive of my name, cassie. i've only ever allowed it to partners - a rule i still uphold and choose to continue to uphold. beyond that are my choices of queer labels - i've identified as and felt many different labels under the sun, from common to hyperspecific, and nothing has ever felt quite right. to some degree, that's by design - those who feel disquieted and powerless will never strike back - but to other degrees it's a failure of connection between my cognition and the logocentric ideals of conclusion and truth-values. sure, genderqueer lesbian poly/RA is a good start, but there's so much more than that - something i find difficult to live or express in an environment which burdens the users of labels with conformity to said labels
what does any of this mean? i don't really know beyond the stated goal in the first stanza. i felt the need to get some sort of writing out from my head and forward where someone might chance upon it, even briefly. i will hopefully write more eventually, but this is a preliminary to allow myself to stop thinking about it for now, though a spectre is going to hang overhead regardless.
is the question of 'who am i' even solvable, or worthy of the pursuit of solving?
7 notes
·
View notes
Text
a mood
ein Gefühl, könnte man sagen
#disco elysium#german disco elysium#the combination of polite you “Sie” with “fuck you” is beautiful#deutsche poesie#german language#Translation - Halflight: Fuck thou tho
23 notes
·
View notes
Text
love my strange little freaks
179 notes
·
View notes
Text
Realized I probably don’t even have their refs (made a WHILE ago, cause they were part of a discontinued comic I made) visible to this blog, so here they are for those that are curious!
@starfalcon555
Refs by Espherio on Deviantart
#tunnel family#gorseheart#blightstar#gorseheart's silence#mallowstar#firejay#halflight#thorneyes#mallowfur#blightclaw
2 notes
·
View notes
Text
A non-prompt art I had to scribble down. Gravetender and Halflight are similar bosses. Figured they'd also need their sidekicks as well(Greatwolf would've been too suffocating).
I think the two were blessed by the Chloranthy ring so had to add that memery.
#minespatch#artists on tumblr#fromsoft fanart#dark souls 3#unbreakable patches#silly stoof#champion gravetender#halflight spear of the church#half light
3 notes
·
View notes
Text
on a normal run beats the likes of radahn, mohg, maliketh, godfrey, malenia, radagon first try with little to no problem
dies to gideon 20 times in a row 💀
#i hate that little man so much and i hate fromsoft for making him a mandatory boss#like what where they thinking#it’s like halflight but 10 times worse#npc fights my beloathed#elden ring
7 notes
·
View notes
Text
Literally wandering up and down the corridors at 2 am sobbing and smoking and posting and sobbing again and posting again like some kind of father i cannot click the book boomer skit gothic heroine
4 notes
·
View notes
Text
Jake when Emily and Aaron start spending time alone:
instagram
#emily windsnap#Jake Windsnap#aaron Halflight#middle grade fiction#middle grade series#funny#Liz Kessler#Instagram
2 notes
·
View notes
Last Seen Blogs
