Drag Me In, Take Me Under (The Waves Shall Claim Me)

I have no excuse other than this popped into my head and wouldn't leave until I drew it shdjkfls

Reupload of the of the quirrelmon pic because now it be colored~💕

I ship them so hard, Your Honor

My personal headcanons:

Before the Pale King, the Radiance was not a malicious being. She was a little distant and had a bit of an intimidating aura to her, but she was never cruel and heartless.

(Saw this headcanon from someone else, I wish I could remember who it was Dx) The Radiance, like the other Higher Beings, once had a “mortal” form. The Pale King was the one who robbed her of it, beginning her sheer hatred for him and those who worshiped him.

It was once her own people forgot about her and began worshiping the Pale King that her true “villain arc” began. She had snapped with rage and created the infection to enact her vengeance against the kingdom that turned its back on her.

After so many centuries of feeling this hatred for the Pale King/his worshipers, she eventually lost herself completely to her madness.

The infected do not attack anyone who willingly worships her. It is the reason the Resting Grounds (or at least the “above ground” section of it) has no infected beings—because the Seer, her last priest, resides there.

And one (kinda but not really) related headcanon:

The Radiance does not see Nightmare King Grimm as an enemy. Partly because he also holds disdain for the Pale King, but also because the Radiance sees him as the Yin to her Yang. After all, people can’t truly appreciate a dream until they’ve experienced a nightmare.

Could anyone share their opinions/theories/headcanons about the Pale King, the Radiance, and their feud?

Expression practice with Ritos~! Anyone who follows me knows I love my fellow birbs~ So here’s some copic doodles I did with one of my Rito OCs, Konda ♥ It’s always a fun challenge to get the expressions right on a person with a beak instead of lips. 

Drag me in, take me under (The waves shall claim me)

Lyrics: Tides by Cepheid

“Welcome to Hotland, dear~! I hope you enjoy puzzles... Hee, hee, hee~!”

Enjoy more fun artwork of my precious mad scientist babbu and her robot slave~!

Thank ya! I do have some answers to these!

I have actually juggled around some ideas for what mortal Radiance would look like, though I haven’t quite settled on one specific one. I’ve been digging around Tumblr looking at other people’s interpretations of her tho and trying to come up with my own.

I had always thought the mossy vagabonds were already infected by the time you first reach them. So their praise of the Radiance was more due to the infection’s influence than anything having to do with their own devotion.

As for my interpretation of the Seer giving the Dream Nail to the knight, I’d thought of it as her attempt to either a) see if the knight could quell her rage and bring her back to the deity she once was, or b) stop her rampage, as the Seer is well aware of the damage her goddess has caused (at least, that was my interpretation for her last line before she disappears, about atoning for her clan’s mistakes). She still believes in the Radiance, but she is not following merely on blind faith. She is aware of what her Goddess has become, but she still hopes that things can be made right, whatever that may be.

I.. actually totally forgot about that line, tbh xD I might have to rethink on that headcanon then, lol. Perhaps some kind of argument between them, or her trying to reinstate her reign by being like “NO NIGHTMARES, ONLY DREAMS”

Could anyone share their opinions/theories/headcanons about the Pale King, the Radiance, and their feud?

Here is my piece for Hallowhome zine vol. 2! We all know Bretta the most powerful character in this game xD

But jokes aside, I had so much fun working on this project with so many other talented artists! Please go check out the full zine and give all the artists and writers the love they deserve~♥

It’s one thing that I’m accident-prone IRL. It’s another thing when I’m accident prone in-game, too. I wish I could say that this is the only time something like this has happened, but... it’s not XD

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