I Think I'm Ready To Call This Done, Mid-October Seemed Like A Good Deadline For A Halloween Comic.

Hand it over. That thing, your dark soul.

Aaaa shit you guys, I’m really jazzed about this one.  I looove Dark Souls, and I’ve always wanted to do some art for it, but I’ve never had a good sense of a solid way to approach it.  But seeing as I’m in print mode right now, I decided to give it a shot, and through some experimentation I got to THIS, which delights me greatly!  Plus it’s a new style I can mess around with, which is always very exciting.

(And on the off chance you’re interested in picking this up as a print or as some other kind of merch, this is available in my TeePublic store, username Hyperionwitch!  ugh Tumblr and it’s link problem, it’s linked on my blog sidebar, sorry  I’ll also be taking it to conventions with the rest of my selection…y’know, whenever I can go to cons again.  I’m even going to try to do a limited run of some gilded prints…  👀)

odd

The Dragonets

#bg3

Under the bludgeonings of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

My Dark Urge- a devoted cleric of Bahamut. I planned this run to be more relaxed but daaamn I have so many feels for him.

so it's okay when YOU do it, huh, shadowheart??

Canon information of SCP gods

I have this... weird talent of knowing a lot about SCP stuff that nobody cares about, and finding tales that nobody reads. I decided to compile all my canon fact tea into a few tumblr posts as reference. Let's begin!

Scarlet King

The King is implied to be an insanely large creature. My estimate is approximately 80-120 feet tall if not bigger.

A lizard like creature, with overlapping, plate-like red scales and large claws. Multiple horns. (Note: I don't know if this is canon, but I headcanon that all keratin formations on its body are gold.)

Has no lower jaw.

Has a golden crown.

Apparently wears some form of red regalia/clothing, though I'm not sure what it is.

Undeniably a male entity. According to some tales, part of its evil is a deep hatred of female sexuality and toxic masculinity.

Paraphrased and heavily simplified, its origin is that it was born in the Down Below and hated the world so much that it decided to end it entirely.

The scarlet brides are its daughters, born from the womb of Sanna. Sanna was a resident of its kingdom, and only lived there out of obligation, having no loyalty to it. The King apparently lusted after Sanna, and their children were not born consensually. Sanna died when she gave birth.

Unlike most mythos of traditional Hell ideas, the scarlet kingdom is apparently freezing cold. Buildings made of frigid cold metal, disgusting dark water everywhere, icebergs floating around.

Represents the concepts of hatred, misogyny, toxic masculinity, violence, and destruction.

MEKHANE

MEKHANE is a genderless being. Occasionally refered to as a lord or male entity by Mekhanists, but direct reference to them in most mythos tales calls them by they/them or it/its.

Many interpretations of MEKHANE are recorded, but the basic idea of them being made of thousands of different machines and metals is consistent.

Very, very, very vast and large. Definitely bigger than the King by plenty.

I'm pretty sure that at least the bottom portion of them is serpentine.

MEKHANE is treated more like an abstract concept than an entity, so direct reference to how it looks or acts is unusual.

Represents the concept of building, advancement, artificiality, and order/law.

Yaldabaoth

More consistently referred to as female than male or genderless (e.g. called the "womb of evil", or a mother. This is presumably because her theme of producing flesh or life is commonly linked to childbirth.) However, being a god of flesh, she can also be interpreted as intersex/bigender.

Bigger than planets. That's how big she is.

Does not really have a consistent appearance, more just a ball or mass of flesh and organic traits. However, mentioned to have many many mouths, eyes, tentacles and limbs.

Occasionally portrayed with leathery wings.

Represents the concept of consumption, chaos, lack of order, and birth.

makin some little doodles of a potc flying dutchman crew oc. im gonna make a proper drawing tomorrow, but for now just take these. her name is Lena, she is stupid.

frankly think a lot of glados android designs are kinda bland so I present to u whatever the fuck this is

(edit: yes i know its not an android technically. u can now stop saying this.)

Elden Ring Sigils and Color Theory

Elden Ring magic sigils sorted by color. Long post about their lore, meanings of certain colors and what it can reveal about the story of Elden Ring under the cut.

Keep reading

I really like your dark urge posts and especially the ones about orin and I really find fascinating how the sibling are understood almost in the inverse depending on the audience like outside the temple people dislike Orin IMMENSELY because she’s seen as too bloodthirsty and we do see evidence with her killing assistants of Gortash just to talk about how badly she want to gut him and how she doesn’t stray from that conversation and she does believe in Bhaal’s dream of killing everyone, but in the temple about the Bhaalist and pre game Durge she’s condemned heavily for being too artistic and premeditated and valuing quality of a murder over quantity which we see a method to the people she chooses to kill or kidnap to hold hostage or how she needles you with letters at fight versus just fighting or even her dramatic intended original coup against Durge not even making sure they’re dead and frankly from her diary entry calling them mindless and her speech about wanting them to be a mindless puppet it seems like she didn’t want them dead vs to live disgracefully originally and we see how she does use bodies as display even her own mother in there privacy of a room no one is going actively in and out.

Versus Durge is praised by Bhaal, the butler, and everyone in the temple not only for their direct line from Bhaal alone that orin can’t replicate ever even if her line is probably intentionally murky so Sevarok who already tried to throw a coup against Bhaal himself could get as close as possible to making his own kid related to only himself to do what he couldn’t (and sevarok and bhaal both setting Uk the sibling to end up in fight to the death like the fratricide duel practice saverok I believe started? And that sevarok if you confront him after killing Orin will try to kill you to be the chosen and given him having Helena try to be a chosen by killing Orin probably was not only trying to be the murder god again by setting these murders up but also does what he both compliments and insults Orin for by raising quietly through the side and in his case by not even doing the killing himself despite the title he wants). Especially if you break her verbally she accuses Durge of stealing both her and her grandfathers inheritance from Bhaal despite being made by Bhaal given how Helena doesn’t hesitant to try to take her place but makes me wonder what on earth their conversations with like that he didn’t immediately seem like a lair talking around either Helena or Durge or other worshippers.

But I find it so interesting that through the play through and the way durge both boast the quantity of their kills, the wha they’re praised by most bhaalist and insult by orin for it, they’re definitely as much if not more bloodthirsty then orin. Yet outside the temple Durge palms multiple heists that require patience and premeditation and discipline including in the hells and from an arch demon and was respected and feared by people outside the cult for their violence and control. And even taking a tip from Goretash about former bhaalist bones in a museum and taking offense at it being tourist attraction bc Durge does have some idea and defensiveness about the temple as a family and planning both a heist for the bones but also a murder of many as revenge/Justice. And this does concede with Goretash dies of murder as a means of messaging but that relation ship is also so interesting here the gap he sees the two’s behavior as. Especially since their relationship with Goretash that had them apologizing to Bhaal for losing sight of the goal to kill everyone and is condemned by Orin for doing such yet, Goretash not only explicitly says he respect you for your control and discernment he doesn’t think Orín has but canonically massively dislikes mass murder and doesn’t even want to hear what you think about it if you argue with him about Orin after killing her despite you being a bhaalist. Which I definitely think is related to the sides of the two he saw. Which I feel like must have built the resentment more for Orin seeing durge not only get praised for a huge long term plan but sounding more like bane disciple then a bhaalist and she’s the one insulted for things you both associate more with the older sibling.

People do both act differently and are seen different by different people especially groups but I just find it so interesting and I think the game does a good job here showing how roe game durge and orin were neither that different but also why they clashed so badly she’d attempt a coup but also couldn’t carry out the plan durge started and how much other people influenced (especially directly from the butler to sevarok to bhaal) their relationship and antagonism. (Though I also think the difference in perception is related to Durge growing up outside the temple and not meeting the butler until “maturity” versus Orin being born and raised there). Idk I just think it’s very neat and drive the sibling animosity in such an abusive home to an interesting boiling point where you can se how Orín and and pre game Durge saw and understood more of each other then other people who couldn’t understand not being in the family or the temple (especially Goretash saying he’s never been to the temple) but also never really respected or looked in the other in the eye truly.

Sorry for the length, I just find it all really interesting but I really like fratricide in fiction where it’s the aeducan family cycles of brothers killing brothers in dragon age or lion king or hamlet. I think larian did a great job escalating their themes of abuse and familial cycles of violence for the Dark Urge Origin and I would love more of your thoughts on any of it 😅

You, you are my favorite ask this year.

Thank you for giving me the chance to infodump about my Durge Family Mechanics and just how much of a sad and pathetic little meow-meow Orin is if you really think about it.

So Durge was the Golden Child, the Prodigy, the Purest Bhaalspawn that ever was, An Antichrist born from a drop of Bhaal's own gore. Durge never stood a chance, from both the Noble Stalk and Lvl 6 Heal its been shown that Bhaal has had his murderous claws in Durge's mind since the very beginning. No Childhood friends allowed, no other family allowed, nothing outside of Bhaal's Grand Design for global murder allowed.

"Was i sweet once?" In snippets and chances stolen when you could, you were sweet and you tried and tried and tried- But you were the Golden Child, The Purest Bhaalspawn, The Antichrist. You never stood a chance. Any connection was severed when you slept, any escape route was closed by death, any outside connection was forcibly removed. Only Bhaal, only the Dark Urge.

And then we have Orin. Orin: the Zuko to your Azula, the Scar to your Mufasa, the child who always came second. Sarevok may not be working on the same level that Bhaal is but he still never gave her a chance.

Raised by murderers, raised by the cult. She is the child of a child of a Bhaalspawn, and the child of a Bhaalspawn on top of that. Let's not get into that and instead get into how Sarevok, in his own ways, ruined any chance Orin had as well.

Orin may never have had the Dark Urges, she never had Sceleritas whispering in her ear and encouraging her worst aspects, she never had the hooks of Bhaal himself clawed deep in her very mind and soul. And yet because of Sarevok she never stood a chance, she was raised to kill Durge. Raised to kill the person that was raised as her sibling. Raised to hate and despise Durge and desire their downfall all because Sarevok wanted what he was denied in the first games. Where Durge was made to be the perfect Bhaalspawn, Orin was raised to be the perfect Bhaalspawn.

And yet it was never enough.

Orin is despised by the cult for not being enough, not being murderous enough, for killing wrong, for not being as pure as Durge. the people who raised her, who she grew up around, looked down on her as second best and passed her over in favor of Durge. Is it any real wonder that she struck out and tried to murder her sibling? to take what she was raised to crave and desire? To try and claw some semblance of respect from the peoplke who despised her?

And it was never enough.

She wasn't Durge, she wasn't the mastermind, she wasnt enough: Not for the cult, not for the Chosen, not even for Bhaal. she was the second best, the runner up, the perpetual failure who wasnt a pure Bhaalspawn. The chosen hate her for not being Durge, the Cult hate her for not being Durge, Sarevok sees her as a tool and Bhaal sees her as a replacement.

Neither Orin or Durge had a childhood, not really. Durge was a cuckoo forced into an unsuspecting nest, a nest that was coated in blood because of Bhaal. Orin was raised by serial killers and murderers, almost choked by her own mother because of Sarevok. Durge had friends: friends they played with, friends they vivisected alongside Sceleritas. but did Orin? Did Orin have anyone besides subordinates and lackeys? Perhaps she didnt, perhaps young Orin looked at Durge having a family (until it was ruined) and friends (until they were stolen away) and seethed.

Neither Durge nor Orin had anything outside the cult: any connection severed, any lifeline cut. And together they were pti against one another. Durge looking down at the upstart, and Orin looking up at the idol. Hate upon hate, fueled by Bhaal and Sarevok. Fathers who saw them as tools, as weapons, as things instead of people.

They never stood a chance