Soon after Leshy’s revival, Baabaa completely unexectedly brought Aym and Baal to the camp.
It was absolutely unplanned, but it’s not like Narinder needed to prepare a mental speech to greet those two, so Lamb just decided to go for it.
The kits that happened to be revived with the bodies of the age around 6 years old - the age they originally died in - let their guard down quickly, after seeing how comfortable their master was in the Lamb’s cult.
At first they tried to play cool, but in the end just gave in and fell in the roles of children, spending hours just playing with the kids and catching up on the fun that they’ve never gotten enough of.
They may be wise and act tough, but in the end of the day they are just two little kittens that had to grow up too soon. Seeing them now, Narinder is glad that they got this chance.
Narinder made sure that his kits got the clothes made by their own designs. They weren’t by any means as fancy as before, but Baabaa did his best to dye them exactly in the way the kits wanted.
What's ur opinions of baal and aym? Are they gonna be in ur fic?
using this as an opportunity to post these baal and aym doodles i never posted:
I like Aym and Baal! I'm intrigued by them and I hope we get to see more of them the further along the game updates....like I need more cat family reunion stuff to happen. Like, I wonder how they handle Narinder no longer being their master! As for their appearance in my fic, yes! They'll appear :)
listening to the cotl soundtrack and sort of losing my mind at the cohesiveness of the entire thing in general
the fact that Narinder in particular gets two different tracks is par for the course for a boss with two phases but what I adore about them is how they differ in just the right amount to make the repeating motifs really striking
his first phase kind of jumps between this almost calm energy and then picking up and getting you feeling about as frantic as a boss battle would, but it stands out against the other bishops for by almost feeling, sort of, orderly. this is Narinder, this is the final bishop standing after having nearly completed his centuries of planning. he is in control here, and there's so little of the desperate chaos that characterizes the battles between the Lamb and his siblings
And then in phase two, it shifts hard. we pitch low, and we speed up as soon as the song starts. the ambiance is distorted, and it's a good match to what becomes of the battlefield and of him. this is The One Who Waits, who is so close to being free, who will not allow you to forget what exactly he is, and who is has been so royally pissed off about being betrayed for a literal millennium.
And you're the last thing in his way, and you just betrayed him again, and he's instantly setting upon mutilating himself as badly or if not worse than the eldritch forms his siblings took just to take you down
(which, also, he managed to do by himself without a dozen willing sacrifices like they had needed. there's a lot sprinkled out throughout the game that validates the Bishops' whole thing about being scared shitless of the guy but that one kinda sticks out when you're there to witness it)
Some more sillies—got lazy w/ the animation so I didnt color or add any bg 😝😝 thought the audio was so them coded
+ here’s a question, what are like some hc voices for Narilamb?
I think Mao Mao for Nari but idk abt Lamb, I think I don’t like the idea of them having an overtly feminine or masc voice, if that makes any sense, but I don’t have a good idea of what that voice would be ??
I think I said Raine Owl House to myself before. But tbh idkk
"Aym’s first ‘curse’ was a tiny flame, no bigger than a candle light. He could only hold it for a second, or two. Ah, but it gave the child hope. He was very proud of himself after that, and I think it was that moment that paved the way for his proficiency in curses."
-Narinder, The Man in the Forest
(Aym's torn ear and blinded eye came about 10 years later in my headcanon, I did not forget them. Promise :3 )