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Eliza Scorn headcanons

She was considered more beautiful than china as a younger woman

She fit the beauty standard of her youth; fair, roundish face, high brows, dimples, large eyes and a small mouth

But of course beauty standards change and china, who I hc as tall and skinny, is more beautiful by today's standards

China was always more powerful however

This gave her an inferiority complex, which wasnt helped by their relationship

While china fought on the battlefield, eliza generally focused on other things and rarely fought in a battle

She was, however capable in a fight frightening many assassins who assumed that she would be easy pickings

She is very charming, and many think of her as more human compared to china

This helped her a lot during espionage missions, as she didnt just rely on her power, she was genuinely likeable as well

Wasnt trusted by the higher ups of the church in the beginning could you blame them?

She was kind of considered a slutty bimbo by some of the more conservative higher ups in the church, and they did not try to hide it

She eventually won the admiration of serafina, which made mevolent view her as valuable, which meant no church member could say a word to her

I have some modern headcanons that I'll talk about another time

Even skulduggery knows the importance of calcium for strong bones. Once a month, he buys a godly amount of milk and has an hour-long bath to keep his bones nice and strong. He’s tried different types of milk (even oat milk on one occasion) but nothing beats good ol’ whole milk.

yoo i saw you were drawing sp headcannons and i was wondering if you could draw skulduggery and valkyrie at the arcade????

I'd imagine Scapegraces pub has a few arcade machines- easier than skulduggery going full wig sunglasses scarf and trenchcoat just to kick vals ass at video games :]

Can’t help but think that Fletcher would be so much better as a character if he was a roadman. Like, imagine him seeing Ghastly and going “my G!”, and then calling Valkyrie a “peng ting”. And then imagine him just saying “that’s peak” at very inappropriate moments.

Serpine in therapy for the asks :)

Okay so my headcanon is actually that Nef doesn't get a choice about going to therapy. It's part of the parole agreement he makes with the Sanctuary when he immigrates to Roarhaven. Whether or not he is answerable for our Serpine's war crimes, and whether the Sanctuary here can try him for his war crimes back in Leibniz, is still up for debate by legal professionals and he'd rather not risk it, so in exchange for his freedom he agrees to comply with weekly check-ins with a parole officer (which ends up being Skug, because China is spiteful), regular therapy, and location monitoring.

And like. Honestly, he thinks the whole thing is a massive waste of time - the Sanctuary flexing its power over him to make a point. He shows up, he's charming and personable, he flirts with the therapist and the girl on reception and anyone else he happens to bump into - but he thinks that before long, he'll have them convinced that he's psychologically normal and doesn't need their services, and they'll discharge him.

But like. The thing about Nef, aside from having a sadistic streak a mile wide and Chronic Backstabbing Bitch Disease, is that he's spent the vast majority of (at least) his adult life surrounded by people who would turn on him in a heartbeat if it suited them to do so. He comes from a world where abuse, manipulation and betrayal are not only common, they're the norm. That's the only way to relate to the world and to others that he understands. The Faceless worshippers are a nasty bunch who all encourage each other's worst impulses and learn to care only for themselves, and on the rare occasion that they break those habits, they tend to get hurt by those who haven't. So like, Nef's normal meter is completely and utterly broken. In his Handbook backstory, his childhood was unstable and emotionally damaging. As an adult, he has nothing to do with his family - all he had was Mevolent and the Church. His relationship history is littered with violent psychopaths like Christophe Nocturnal and Jaron Gallow, people who approved of and supported Serpine's own sadistic tendencies, but also tended to vent theirs on him when it suited them. This. Man. Is. A mess.

The therapist suspects complex trauma - although, that's not as unusual a diagnosis as it is for mortals: it's a given for millions of sorcerers who survived the 500 Year War - narcissistic tendencies, though not to the point of a full blown personality disorder, and an obsessive focus on/one-sided rivalry with Skulduggery.

Honestly, I think Nef would mostly use it as an opportunity to annoy Skug. He pays attention, but mostly so he can take what the therapist tells him and put it to use while Skulduggery is stuck in the car with him for an eight hour stakeout. Psychoanalyse him. Armchair-diagnose him. Treat him to a three hour monologue of "My therapist said..."

But like. You know that thing where you start saying hewwo to mock other people who say hewwo, and it's kind of a mean-spirited joke at first, but suddenly you've unironically adopted hewwo into your daily vocabulary and can't stop saying it? Yeah.

Some of it starts to get in via osmosis and sheer habit. He spends so long mockingly telling Skug about all the problems that he (Nef) thinks he (Skug) has, that he actually starts to notice things for real. He can tell when Skug is dissociating. He can point out to Val that she has a tendency to pull away from and lash out at the people who want to help her, because she's terrified to be seen as anything other than competent and capable, and then he'll think, hold on, I do that too.

A lot of therapy goes in one ear and out the other because it doesn't work for him - complex trauma is just Like That. The standard practices - like CBT - seem like platitudinous drivel to you, and the fact that everyone else seems to think they work often feels like a great big joke everyone is playing on you. But he takes in enough to start making some small changes to how he interacts with others and how he behaves. He starts learning how to react appropriately to distress signals in the people who are becoming his friends, rather than seeing those signals as something to take advantage of, a soft spot to sink a knife into and twist. He's developing basic empathy, which actually helps him, because for once in his life he's in a situation where bonding with others is The Way To Get Ahead, rather than something that would get him killed.

And he's getting a better grade in therapy than Skug, by virtue of actually agreeing to go, so he gets to be smug about that.

lord vile can 100% shapeshift into literally anything and has definitely hunted someone down as a massive necromancy wolf.

Happy late holidays: here's a comic that I totally didn't make just because it grinds my gears to see holly labeled as mistletoe

[Image ID: A digital comic with 10 panels. The first panel depicts two branches of holly strung from the ceiling. The background is green with a red abstract shape to accentuate the holly. There is also a speech bubble which reads "look!". The next panel has Larrikin, a black person with freckles, hazel eyes and curly ginger-and-brown hair tied into a bun with a golden ribbon. Their hair has a single white streak. They are grinning and are wearing a brown sweater, the text of which is not fully visible. They have a speech bubble which reads "It's mistletoe, you know what that means". The text "definitely put it there" is pointed at Larrikin. Opposite them is Anton, a muscular irish-eastern asian man with long, black and gray hair and violet eyes. He has a small scar on his nose and is looking up, mouth slightly open. He is wearing a red turtleneck and a green cardigan. Both of them are cut off at the bicep. The background is green. The next panel has Larrikin looking surprised and Anton pointing up, saying "That's holly". He has a scar on the back of his hand. The background is green. The fourth panel has a red background, and the text "It's a common misconception", along with drawings of holly and mistletoe, with holly being labeled "red berries, spiky leaves" and mistletoe being labeled "white berries, branches". The fifth panel has Larrikin looking embarrassed, rubbing the back of their head, with a speech bubble that reads "Oh of course, I totally knew that" It is now visible that their shirt says "ginger" and has a picture of a bread loaf on it. The background is red. The next panel has a green background and has two mistletoe branches on it, with a speech bubble that reads "this is mistletoe". The next panel has both of them cut off at the thigh, showing that Larrikin is wearing dark brown trousers and Anton is wearing black trousers. The background is green, with a red accent shape. The holly branches are still in place, but Anton is now holding mistletoe, looking away, smiling slightly and blushing. His other hand is in his pocket. Larrikin looks surprised. The next panel has Anton looking surprised as Larrikin grabs his face, the background is red and the motion is accentuated by the text "grab". Larrikin's nails are painted red. The next panel has Larrikin smiling, with a speech bubble that says "You are so silly". The background is green. The last panel has them kissing, both smiling. Anton has one arm around Larrikin's upper back, holding the mistletoe aloft with his other hand. Larrikin has one of their hands on Anton's cheek. The background is red with a green accent shape, and it is now visible that Larrikin's shirt says "gingerbread man" but with the "bread" portion replaced by a loaf of bread. / End ID]

Headcanons: The Red Right Hand

• Serpine is one of only a handful of people who ever gained the red right hand and not only bc it's a forbidden technique even among necromancers. Powerful magic like this takes a price not everyone is willing or able to pay. If you want to cause pain, you'll need to endure pain as well.

-> For one, the process of creating the red right hand is excruciating and requires a high pain tolerance and self-discipline.

-> Second, even if the ritual is a success the red hand might not work for its user. For it to function you must have the sincere will to kill and to cause pain. Any second thoughts, hesitations or any other form of reluctance and the technique will fail (think the three unforgivable curses from HP). This is a technique only someone sure of their own sadism would ever attempt to learn.

• That also means that the red hand is safe to touch as long as Nef has no interest in killing you and prevents him from killing anyone on accident.

• Despite that everyone (apart from Mevolent) still gets nervous when he takes the glove off.

• (That's why his coup failed. He tried to kill Mev with his red hand, but when he hesitated it stopped working.)

• Nef always wears a pair of black leather gloves bc wearing one glove would look odd and make him stand out, which could get in the way of him manipulating and charming his way to his goal.

• Even after the ritual is completed the hand will never stop hurting though the pain did dull with time. Nef got used to it eventually.

• But the more he uses the hand the more it hurts (nerfs the hand so he can't just one shot kill everyone). The worse the pain gets the longer it will take him to recover from it. Being masochistic as well as sadistic Nef revels in the pain he has to endure as much as the pain he causes but once it surpasses a certain level he'll require pain-numbing leaves which he always carries for cases like this. If he is desperate enough to use his hand until he himself ends up screaming on the floor, curled around his red hand he is long past the point where pain leaves will help.

• The Red Hand is the ultimate "I will shatter myself to cut you with the shards" which fits Nef and his spiteful, self-destructive tendencies so well.

• While the shadows necromancers use are magic fuelled by death, the red hand is pure death magic.

The Ritual/Learning the Technique

The ritual involved him having to flay his own hand. He needed to do everything himself or it won't work

There is no need to use the right hand for the technique to work. It just happens that Nef is left-handed. For one it would be foolish to do something like this to your dominant hand. But also, flaying yourself is hard enough with your dominant hand, let alone your other. Imagine the strength of will it took for him to calm himself and try to suppress the shaking of his hands as he kept cutting.

During the ritual, the use of anything that would dull the pain is strictly prohibited.

As if being flayed isn't bad enough, he had to coat his hand in a mix of oils and herbs which burned like hell. They prevent the exposed flesh from getting infected or bleeding out and offer the protection that normally the skin would have provided. It also prevents it from healing.

All through the ritual he has to repeat the incantations Tenebrae dictated to him in a magic language he only half understands due to its age and lack of access to the resources he would need to fully understand it despite his best efforts to obtain them.

Unbeknownst to Nef the temples have the missing texts needed to fully learn the language which is how Tenebrae was able to to change the incantations so the red hand would temporarily kill any necromancer it was used on before resurrecting them. This would ensure Skul's survival as well as protect the temples (including himself) from Nef should he decide they outlived their usefulness.

The ritual to learn the technique is written down in the Grimoire of a dark mage and former leader of the Irish Necromancer Temple which is why they still have it long after his passing and can use it without triggering the protection curse placed upon it. The curse is the only reason Nef didn't force them to hand the Grimoire over. He can either deal with breaking a curse or stay friendly with the necromancers. The latter seemed less suicidal.

The Grimoire is presumably still hidden in the abandoned Irish temple somewhere.

Greetings, I know people don’t usually like videos here, but I return with furry skulduggery pleasant funnies

What's your fav headcanon for Skug?

I’ll be completely honest it’s the one that’s just. Him being flexible to a disturbing degree

because a) he just like me fr (wiggly) and b) it’s funny. it’s so fucking funny to me.

genuinely cannot wait for this skulduggery pleasant hell breaks loose book tbh. ik phase 2 has been... lacking but HOPEFULLY this clears up stuff and makes phase 2 a bit more tied together to the last one.

Kierre of the unveiled hcs

100% the spoiled youngest sibling

Got away with everything when she was younger

Wasnt close with her parents, as they didnt raise her, they hired nannies and tutors for that

She was an oops baby and was far younger than the rest of her siblings

She looked up to her siblings a lot

Rune in particular

She was taught hand to hand combat by Rune

Her parents werent abusive or anything

They just werent planning to have another child so she was left alone a lot

She was born during the war and was under 100 when it ended

In her teens she moved to ireland

Because her siblings were there to fight in the war and serafina lived there permanently after marrying mevolent

During this time religion was more forced on her as she lived in mevolents castle

She was the least devoted to the faceless ones out of her family but tried to not let it show in case she was punished for her blasphemy

Liked mevolent because serafina seemed more like herself with him

Mevolent, on the other hand, did not know how to interact with a teenager at all and ignored her most of the time

She fought for a bit towards the end of the war, but after mevolent died serafina wouldnt let her fight anymore, fearing that she would be killed too

Skulduggery: you know what they say - sticks and stones may break my bones.

Valkyrie: but chains and whips excite me?

Skulduggery: no, that’s not…

My glowing bones headcanon please 🥺 I'd love to see how you draw it

(It's just between his bones glow red in the dark)

OKAY AF IS OVER I AM NOW ALLOWED TO DRAW OTHER THINGS BACK TO THE HC- BOMBARD MY ASKS, I HAD SO MUCH FUN WITH THIS Based on -> HE <-

The Sanctuary, like any other normal establishment, gives its employees 20 days of paid holiday each year. So when Skulduggery is forced to take several weeks off throughout the year, he uses this time to become unhealthily obsessed with new hobbies and topics. The last time he had to go on holiday, he became so obsessed with Bob Ross, that by the end of the week, he had successfully recreated every single painting Bob Ross had ever done: Mountain Retreat, The Old Mill, Misty Waterfall - you name it, he’s done it. It got to the point where he wouldn’t even watch the tutorial. He would just look at the picture and go “I could do that”.

Other notable obsessions that have gripped this man during his holidays include:

- Birdhouse building

- Clarinet playing

- Tap dancing (which he got surprisingly good at tbf)

- Latte art

- Dungeons and dragons

- Dance Moms