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AT LONG LAST... IT IS.... COMPLETE-!! Definitely the largest commission I have ever done, but BOY AM I PROUD OF IT-! TvT Had a lot of fun and suffered a lot, but mostly fun I swear- This is a final send off to a story that likely will never see completion. Gone but not forgotten-! Farewell, Filodoxia-! So long to the gang, Felix, Ortimis, and Calliope-!
A few days after Christmas, a small child, no older than what he can count on his fingers, waddled over to his father with disturbing news.
"Daddy?" The child whimpered, an inquisitive peep to see if this was a good time.
"Oh, what's wrong, champ? You seem down." The father responded tenderly.
"I have something bad to tell you." The boy waves his father's ear closer. "I saw mommy kissing Santa Clause!"
"Oh-" The father tried to hide his snickering.
"Daddy, mommy isn't being a good wife. She shouldn't be kissing Santa!" The boy insisted
"Well, I think when you're older, you'll think it's pretty fine." The father continued to hold back his laughter, though it became increasingly difficult at his child's earnest concern.
"I can't believe it!" The child scoffed.
"What-"
"DADDY'S A CUCK!"
Both are true
Comfortable enough to come full circle and be grumpy
Did another Invent-A-Fish entry! It's a strangely addicting contest.
Bonus info I forgot to include/didn't have space for:
Kintsugi Gladiators will choose mates off their own preference/what they believe to be the most important factor that breeding season. Ex) A lack of prey in the area may cause them to choose mates that have more heavily scarred skulls. They are quite intelligent, but tend to be reckless, as they sometimes overestimate the durability of their own bodies.
The skull has a sturdy plating for bashing prey and enemies. It can still crack, but doing so in moderate frequency is often very beneficial to the fish, as it makes that already strong plate, even tougher!
Additionally, the 3 rows of little spikes along the spine, also serve as sensors. They are quite perceptive, and their eyes are low, beneath the hard plating on the skull, to protect their vision. However, should a Kintsugi's vision be damaged, or its target out of sight, the spines can sense nearby movement in the water. This allows the fish to react quickly, and whip its powerful and sharp body around, slamming its targets even when they are in its blindspots!
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This is for AVNJ's Invent A Fish contest on youtube/discord/twitch! I'll probably reblog this IF I get nominated, since I did last time much to my surprise??? Haha I'm glad people liked it last time? XD
Dear Briarworth Field Research Hub: Could you please help me settle a bet? See, I was discussing Paolumu with my fellow hunters, and some of them believe it should be reclassified as a Fanged Beast, because it’s a mammal. I say it should remain a Flying Wyvern, because it has wings and scales. The debate has engulfed the entire base, the engineers have started a betting pool, and I’m starting to worry that one of the researchers will get themselves killed trying to figure it out. Please help me end this nonsense. (Plus, I’ve got a lot of Zenny riding on this)
Thanks in advance,
-Dundee, Hunter of the Fifth Fleet
They're definitely Flying Wyverns. They're wyverns, they fly, and they aren't birdlike, so they aren't bird wyverns. They aren't Fanged Beasts or even Fanged Wyverns because they have functioning wings and are capable of true, powered flight, not just gliding like Kecha Wacha, Bishaten, or Tobi-Kadachi.
Hope this helps.
-Oleander
Got stupidly addicted to Dislyte, was disappointed with a good chunk of the writing, decided to do it myself-
Zhāoyáng, esper of the sun goddess Xihe:
Full backstory, details, skills, design explanation, mythology context, etc. Listed in the google doc!
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Since you work with many monsters of varying ages, with the younger ones by definition of being in your care not having their birth parents around, do you have any interesting stories of younger monsters inheriting behaviours from older ones that they would never naturally exhibit?
The thought came to me when this morning I saw an adolescent Rathalos performing the signature backflip tail swipe of Rathian - I'm guessing his mother either had to raise him on her own or with the help of another Rathian.
Same sex couples raising their young to have their signature talents wouldn't be out of the realm of the ordinary. A lot of wyverns are homosexual, and raise young that's either orphaned or abandoned - sometimes they even just mate with the other sex just to raise the offspring with their preferred partner.
e.g A pair of male Forokururu, very preciously preening their young.
Nature is full of same sex couples, and their teachings are passed down to future generations. We live on a queer planet, and we should be proud of it.
- Leo Briarworth
A creature that will not be seen or heard of again.
An immature Ghora Ishvalda.
Found within a massive ornate structure of bone and rock fused with some sort of sticky secretion.
It’s odd, if I had more time to investigate I would have said it were akin to some sort of manmade alter rather than anything as the walls and floors were decorated with patterns with consideration and understaning of shape, size and colouration.
We know little to whether this is a subspecies - or a mutation.
But we found a sickly and dying whelp that didn’t match the parameters required for it to be a juvinile Shara Ishvalda.
The reason why it’s judged to be a subspecies or mutation and not immediately written off as a sickly infant that failed to thrive in the wrong biome for it’s better known species (Shara) is because the autopsy revealed that the majority of the bacteria and fungi that surrounded outside and inside its form were working in tandem with the creatures organs and energy - alongside general colouration differences (Immature Shara Ishvalda are pink and orange) and the fact this Ishvalda had grown hair on its tail to facilitate growing fungi in damp warm conditions.
Notice however; that I said a majority of the bacteria and fungi worked in tandem.
Autopsy revealed also that this strain of effluvium is different from that used by species such as Vaal Hazak and Black Veil Vaal Hazak - and that both strains were found.
It’s implied that the natural effluvium of the Ghora Ishvalda would have been its protection and immunity from Vaal Hazak’s variant; but in a specimen so small it’s probable and far more likely that this whelp was overwhelmed by the presense of an adult elder dragon and had this ability basically stripped away from it without much contest.
It makes sense in a way that two elder dragons cannot thrive in the same manner in the same biome and that competition is fierce for control. A young Ghora Ishvalda is probably nothing to an adult Vaal Hazak, but it is a potential threat should it grow and thrive.
It’s a deep shame to not see this little creature do as nature intended, but in death it has provided us with knowledge and hopefully with time; assistance in giving aid and understanding to this species when needed.
- Leo Briarworth
[Big thanks to @amalgam-of-flesh for giving their permission to use the idea of Ghora Ishvalda on this blog. Their art and writings are amazing and I do truly hope people check them out!]
MAJOR SPOILERS FOR SDORICA ECLIPSE CHAPTER 15
REI WHAT THE FUCK?? WHAT CHOICE??
GiRL, JUST BECAUSE I'M ANNOYED THAT YOU LIED DOESN'T MEAN I'M CHOOSING TO MURDER HUMANITY.
GET THE FUCK BACK HERE-
Maybe the game misinterpreted my choice? I chose "that bloody weapon, this feeling of anger" because I wanted to acknowledge the truth that I was sdorica instead of beating around the bush.
That doesn't mean I'm gonna kill people! I love this story and it's characters! >:V
Rei, me not sucking up to you does not mean I'll be a fucking tyrant!!
God-
At least the game's writers seem to understand this. The part at the end that says "after all this silence, she's just going to leave!?" And "what choice!?"
Yeah that's how I feel.
I want to do things differently just so that we can talk this out more Rei, not leave it like this disaster of a mess. But I don't think my annoyance with you was unjustified. Seriously what the fuck did you expect-
Not the best way to go about things =_=
Should've graduated with a degree in dragon psychology smh
To the Brianworth field research hub.
I am a new hunter. I only recently started and although the first missions are being successful, i am unsure about something.
Am i wrong to...worry about the monster pain?
Everytime i finish a hunt and the adrenaline settles down, i end up thinking about the creature i fought. The wound i inflicted, the monster yelps and groans, the quiet when it ends...i feel guilt. So much guilt i often i have trouble resting.
Everyone around me says that eventually it will stop and that i should not worry about it as the monster captured have a better future, or that death by battle is better than dying from starvation or sickness, but i can't help but think about them.
You both are closer to monsters than my peers, with both experience and knowledge. Am i wrong to feel bad about the possible harm i do? The fact noone is sharing such thoughts around me makes me worry about whetever or not becoming a hunter was the right choice...
No, you have every right to feel bad about it.
I too, feel bad about it whenever I have to fight a monster.
Culling should be a one hit, one kill sort of deal. It should be that easy. But it doesn't mean it always is, and often it's just a fact that these creatures are so well naturally armored and hardy that it will never be that easy.
Young hunters, even experienced ones - can't do it in one blow.
In an ideal world, no one should have to suffer. But that's just not the world we live in.
We're on a constant balancing act to keep the majority of monsters and people alive - but that's the thing:
it's keeping the majority alive.
Individuals at the end of the day just don't hold the same weight, to save a few Glavenus in an area may doom all of them because of food scarcity. It is at the end of the day a sacrifice.
Honor the monster and its memory by fighting better, by getting closer to that one hit kill. Make sure its lessons to you make the suffering of the next that little bit lighter. You carry that weight and you make it easier for those who come after you.
Now...
Sometimes, our job is to preserve the majority; which is the work I do here with Oleander. It's handling the young, the old and sick left behind due to poaching, to natural disasters and plague.
Perhaps, young hunter. You should forgo Hunting; and go into rescue work for a while.
It's hard to see the good work you do when you're constantly staring down at the bad.
- Leo Briarworth
Got some free time on the subway, so I decided to draw some Deemo II station residents as humans!
Lan and Fatma didn't really turn out as well as I'd hoped, but ah well here we are.
Not sure if I'll continue this. If I do, Ahmet is definitely next.
Have you ever had experience with Amatsumagatsuchi? They're gorgeous but I heard that they're a PAIN to fight.
I have, yeah. They're my favorite monsters to observe. There's something beautiful about how they wind through the clouds, and the wonderful, horrible storms that they conjure just by existing.
Fighting them's a wonder of nature, especially when you find yourself being pulled toward them with gale-force winds and then almost drowned in torrents of water. They're fast, they're elegant, and they're deadly.
And that's not to mention their vocalizations. When they roar, it's almost like a song.
-Oleander
Whilst not commonly known; I would kindly remind people that Namielle and Chameleos are distant relatives.
And thus we get hybrids of the two sometimes known as the "Abyssal Mist".
Known to flatten itself in full camoflage, holding near impossibly still as they spew out elements from their mucus rich hide; and then lash their prey with long barbed tongues.
Elements can be a mix of water/electricity and water/poison - either way: a horrific array of weaponry for an ambush predator.
More dangerous than both Chameleos and Namielle: they hide in shallow water in freshwater and saltwater biomes and depending where you stand it's not a question of how you'll die: but whether it'll be electricity or poison and subsequent drowning.
They're rare to find reaching adulthood; as whelps they are incredibly fragile due to namielle whelps requiring constant attention from both parents; and chameleos nature not really intersecting in the same manner.
A Chameleos's parental instinct is to carry and shield its offpsring in the curve of its tail as they migrate; for a Namielle they are practically stationary for three months irrigating fresh water to the tidal pools their larvae develop in. It's a task for both parents: as with one it's far more likely they will perish from being unable to leave their offspring to hunt to sustain themselves.
So in this sort of pairing; it is most likely that the Namielle perished taking sole care of the Abyssal Mist whelp.
Whilst some may think it cruel to then cull the whelps of such a pairing due to the parent dying; these monsters are sterile and cannot interbreed and in the rare instance that one has not been sterile: the lapse in parental instinct means death of further offspring.
They potentially kill healthy specimens that care for them; devour resources that other species eat; and then die without offspring themselves.
It's a monster that has no continuation; and just brings death with it.
- Leo Briarworth
Finished Pokemon Legends Arceus and it was fucking incredible-
That aside. THEORY TIME. SPOILERS FOR THE POST-GAME.
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It seems pretty clear that Volo is thinly masking his God complex and desire for power with his "devotion" to Arceus. He both sings Arceus' praises, but doesn't truly worship it as he wants to replace it.
But after digging through the Celestica people lore, I got a rather depressing theory.
Based off of what Cogita and the Old Verse 5 poem says, it sounds like the diamond and pearl clans arrived in Hisui, met Dialga/Palkia, and chased out the original Celestica people. Cogita says that they would have never mistaken Dialga and Palkia as the creator if anything "concrete" was passed down about Arceus. They couldn't accept that there was a being higher than a ruler of time/space, and probably shunned the Celestica people for worshipping a false god. Despite the huge temples to Arceus and its icons scattered throughout the region, they stole the "Celestica name" (as the old verse says), took their culture, and reshaped it as they saw fit.
Apply this to Volo and...He seems more like someone trying desperately to reconnect with his culture. Someone who was so bitter about the destruction of his culture and people, that he sought to prove the existence of their god by any means necessary. Even if it meant working with Giratina, the "enemy" of his faith.
Volo says that he turns to mythology to find the answers to why he is met with misfortune. Could his obsession with Arceus be fueled by his hatred of the Diamond and Pearl clans? After all, if they just had proof of Arceus, his people would be in a better state...Not nearly forgotten. And that could mean a better life for him, a life more stable and rooted in a community, as opposed to moving from place to place as a merchant-
It's not just the clans either, Lucille in Jubilife tends to a shrine with Arceus' image, calling it the guardian of the village. Arceus has fallen from the creator deity, to a nameless village guardian...It's all quite tragic.
On a different note, Volo never mentions how exactly he helped Giratina restore it's power. But given that he's a merchant, he probably fed that guy lots of exp candies and grit rocks-
The whole twist also explains why Volo was insistent on getting closer to the final battle, under the excuse of "setting up shop for you". Clever, clever...
I named my Decidueye, Houyi, after the archer of myth and legend who shot down 9 gods, in the form of 9 suns.
What started as a joke of poke god "deserving a few arrows", ended up becoming a cinematic as hell finale.
The prophecy has been fulfilled as he lands the final blow...!
I had to draw the moment as tribute to one hell of a fantastic game!
I'm coming out of my Tumblr absence just to say: HE JUST PUT HIS CROWN ON OVER HIS HAT XD
I'M DYING I LOVE IT THE FRIGGIN IDIOT XD
