Coming this November: Pokémon Pink Diamond™ and Pokémon Renegade Pearl™

personal character design headcanons + brainrot

Note: the re-bound!au does NOT belong to me, it belongs to @chipper-smol I’m just not normal about it lol

I’m sorry but you all aren’t listening, lyctorhood itself is not the “indelible sin” and you can pry this theory from my cold dead hands, honestly, maybe not even then. TazMuir herself could not dissuade me until she explicitly tells me otherwise. My proof for this you ask? Pyrrha’s conversation with Varun in NtN chapter 9.

But let’s backtrack for a second. John has stated that the resurrection beasts are after him and the lyctors for committing the indelible sin of lyctorhood, and as such the lyctors can never return to the Dominican System for fear of drawing the RBs back to the Nine Houses. I’ve never believed this was true given the fact that John is always the greatest common denominator when it comes to the presence of an RB and there’s no mention of an RB going after a lone lyctor. Sure, lyctors have been killed fighting resurrection beasts but there’s a huge difference between being caught in the crossfire and starting a firefight. For me, Nona the Ninth only reinforced that what we’ve been told is the “indelible sin” is either John misunderstanding the RBs (doubtful) or lying for his own purposes (more likely).

In chapter 9 of NtN, Nona recounts the story of her disastrous beach trip and towards the end of this recitation Nona says that Pyrrha;

“…crossed to the taped-up window, bottle and glass in hand. To Nona’s awe, she twitched the blackout curtains aside—stood bathed in the hyper-blue light from the sky as Nona held her breath—and she said to the window, “Here’s to Camilla Hect, yet another of devotion’s casualties,” and knocked back the glass. Then she said to the light, quite gently, “No, I don’t blame you, man … He was always looking for things to throw himself on.”

Pyrrha stands in front of Nona, bathed in the light of Varun the Eater, and proceeds to have a conversation with it. We only get one side but based on the context of the last line, “No, I don’t blame you, man … He was always looking for things to throw himself on.” Varun seemingly apologizes to Pyrrha for killing G1deon. It’s proven later on in the book that Varun can speak to Nona, and while it could be argued that since G1deon is dead and his soul is gone the “indelible sin” has been undone this still begs the question; why would the punisher apologize to the sinner?

If Varun and the other RBs are hunting the lyctors to dole out justice for their sins why would they apologize for doing the very thing they sought to do unless that wasn’t their true intent. The “indelible sin” is not the consumption of another soul, it is the consumption of a specific soul. It is John taking Alecto into himself, not being able to house all of her and instead making an exchange. Housing a piece of her in him, and a piece of him in her. Splintering the soul of a great and terrible force into manageable parts. Which explains Varun’s ominous presence hanging over the planet in the first place.

If RBs are hunting Lyctors there are no lyctors on this planet. Palamedes has not consumed Camilla’s soul, G1deon is gone, Harrow is in the River, Gideon is thumbtacked to her dead body, the only soul of any significance to Varun is Nona. Later on in chapter 13 Varun, by way of Judith, says to Nona;

“…what they did to you and what they wrung from you and what shape they made you fill—we see you still—we seek you still—we murdered—we who murder—you inadvertent tool—you misused green thing—come back to us—take vengeance for us—we saw you—we see you—I see you.”

And in chapter 27,

“….what did he do to you, to make you this way.”

What did HE do to you!!! what did HE do to YOU!! To give John credit he doesn’t deserve he may not realize it himself but the RBs have been looking for Alecto this whole time. They don’t want the lyctors, they want what John stole, they want the piece of Alecto inside of him. Want to make her whole again, their misused green thing. She’s almost there. She has her piece back from harrow’s body, united with the piece of her hidden in the locked tomb. She only has 1 piece left to collect. And god knows what will happen when the green and breathing thing is whole once again.

On the one hand, Gargoyles is one of those shows that absolutely does not need a reboot.  On the other hand, the comedic possibilities of the Manhattan Clan in the age of smartphones are limitless

Elisa gets some used phones for all the gargoyles so they can contact her if there’s an emergency. The first text she gets is from Goliath and it just says “HOW DO I TURN THE CAPS LOCK OFF”

Hudson plays around with his phone just enough to fuck up all the settings, but not enough to know how to change them back (“Sorry to bother you, lad, but everything is in Japanese again”). This is Lexington’s biggest source of headaches

Goliath gets one of those apps that lets you track your kids’ phones. It takes the Rookery Trio about three days to realize this

Broadway panics and snaps his phone in half

Lexington cuts the gordian knot by stealing Goliath’s phone and simply deleting the app

Brooklyn’s like “Two can play this fucking game” and downloads the app so he can track Goliath’s phone and text him randomly like “hey so i notice you haven’t left elisa’s apartment for the past four hours what’s that about lol”

they call it fromsoft bc when i see the title screen for their games i go fromsoft to hard

cool as i think i am / the best of you

having thoughts about these two <3

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sura has fashion opinions. (fun fact: this shirt is Real and it's Cursed)

also i need everyone to see sura being disappointed in chen

If— by Rudjard Kipling + Jonas Vingegaard at the Tour de France

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Yknow as it is, Epic: The Musical could really just be called “Winions ruining Odysseus’ life for 44 minutes”

springmaker #2 CURSE of blackened variety

coincidence? i think NOT!

◟ CHARACTER HEADCANON: HEARTSTEEL YONE ◝

so while i know HEARTSTEEL is centered around a more modern kind of au, i'm a stubborn old bastard and want to keep some of the more magical elements that League of Legends built itself with.

which is why i fully believe that the azakana still very much exist in the HEARTSTEEL universe, and yone's been able to see them ever since he was a child due to a near-death experience he had.

there was a summer where he and Yasuo were outside their home in the forests of Ionia, playing near a lake when Yone was suddenly dragged under water by something unseen. he wound up actually drowning and was dead for several minutes, even after Yasuo managed to drag him out of the lake.

during the span of time Yone was dead, he entered the spirit realm and was violently attacked by a demonic spirit. and much like in his original lore, he slew that beast but was cursed by it in secret. it's spirit clung to his body, even as it hurled him back into life -- it's eyes meshed with his own.

from that day forward, Yone became acutely aware of the azakana that walked alongside humans in life, hiding their identities and striking down the most unsuspecting of prey. it became his mission to protect them, and after years of searching for a device that could do this, he discovered...

an old mixer?

specifically one that previously belonged to an unnamed, but legendary producer of the underground. that mixer seemed to bond with the azakana spirit living inside Yone, and through it he was able to create a sort of protective barrier around all those who listened. this made it increasingly harder for the azakana to feed, and as such he became a continuous target for them.

nobody -- not even Yasuo knows -- the truth about Yone's hidden powers, or why he seems to carry around a 10 year old mixer that just seems so out of date. yet somehow, somehow it produces a better sound quality than anything that's even remotely top of the line. why is this the case? perhaps it just has something to do with the azakana spirit living inside him...

[ and side note: during the music video when it switches realms and shows Yone donning a mask + hitting a mixer to topple the tower Aphelios is in, i like to think that that mask is very much something he carries on his person as it helps amplify his bond with the azakana. he and the creature have a rather complicated relationship, and Yone isn't sure if it's ever going to win out and actually kill him in the end. but until it happens, he'll continue making music and using it to protect the common public from the azakana. tee hee ]

fabian "maybe the reason he hurts all the women in his life is because his soulmate is a man" aramais seacaster

So, I’ve had these Beyblade OC’s since like the 2000’s. Who are twins on team Canada and originally their bit beasts were basically just recolored versions of Ninetales and Houndoom from Pokemon. They were later revamped into like a 9 tailed arctic fox and Rougarou/Hellhound inspired wolf, with Light and Dark elemental typings. The fox had the light typing and it’s special attack was based on the northern lights. I just randomly found out there’s a Finnish myth that the Northern lights were actually created by a fox. Which is funny because kid me did like no research on this and my train of thought was literally just “I love Ninetales, she’s so pretty.” And later “I need to make this fox fit in more with the other bit beasts that are based on actual Canadian cryptids.”

Whoever shot this shot knew what they were doing