The Blog That Became a Fandom Hivemind

(It's a joke about Baldinar and the translation describing him as becoming an evil hivemind. Hi.)

[baldinar]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

For updates and other fic-related content, check our #tiots tag!

"As the Sword Saint, I pledge that I will protect Cindy and Grandiel…"

Recovery is not linear, when it comes to most things. In Kyle's case, especially, recovery fails to be as fast as he wishes it could be. Every night it seems he still has nightmares about blue eyes, being hunted, and ultimately being used as a means to the Demonic God's end.

At least, that's what they all thought.

Kyle's soul had always been special. Some things are inexorable, when you are torn in more than one direction with your identity. Kyle discovers that he's not as alone as he thought with his trauma.

A fic exploring Kyle's recovery from the events of Grand Chase: Dimensional Chaser, in which the dead are not quite dead, and everyone wants to move on but the bindings of fate.

Our fic, "Useless Memories," is functionally canon to this fic, but should be supplemental at most (unnecessary to read, but check it out if you want to!). Also, please note that I haven't been able to read Cindy's likeability, so if this fic contradicts with anything in that, that absolutely was not intended.

Character Tags: Kyle (Grand Chase), Cindy (Grand Chase), Grandiel (Grand Chase), Heitaros (Grand Chase), Baldinar (Grand Chase), Mandragora (Grand Chase)

Relationship Tags: Kyle & Cindy, Kyle & Grandiel, Kyle & Baldinar, Kyle & Heitaros, Heitaros & Baldinar, Kyle & Mandragora, Heitaros & Mandragora

Others: Kyle has PTSD - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Kyle Has DID, Kyle Has Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociation, Kyle is Plural, Plurality/Multiplicity, Possession to Plurality, Reincarnation to Plurality, Canon Compliant if You Squint, Post World 13 (Demon World - Terre), Mandragora Has a Heart, Enemies to Begrudging Headmates, Volatile Amounts of Headcanons, Plural Author Writing Plural Characters, Kyle is Irrevocably Changed by the Plot in Ways Both Physical and Mental

[magiowlio]

GC DOODLES!!! trying to get back into digital art after a lot of sketchbook stuff o7

[magiowlio]

eeeehh sorry I haven't been able to draw much recently apart from sketchbook stuff....have some grandchase doodles

[baldinar]

*crawls onto blog doorstep* hheeyyy....how we feeling about mr heitaros and his nefarious little evildoer pino coming back....

I'm desperately praying KOG doesn't fuck this up LMAO

It does also feel crazy to see considering how it feels like them waffling on their decision to kill him off in the Genesis chapter. Like, KOG scrambling realizing they killed off one of their two antagonists with fairly good writing (the other being Decanee imo).

I'm terrified to see how badly this is going to turn out, but also hoping we get the Grandiel/Heitaros showdown we should've gotten before. It'd be nice to see something knock sense into Grandiel (T).

(Tangentially, yes, Grandiel (T) is supposed to be Grandiel (SR) but having somehow timeline hopped, but I'd love to know where the fuck the T timeline Grandiel actually is. Similarly, wild that Cindy and Kyle somehow survived reality exploding. Does this mean Kricktria wasn't exploded??? KOG??? Some answers please???)

Nova

[lesbrahm]

i am quite fond of w19 final chapter

i hope kog address the elephant in the room that's the fact Grandiel never got to see the fact that the dude who almost murdered his kid, which was supposedly the last piece he had of his situationship, is carrying and using the dead body of his lover and is supposedly the creator of the universe

+ PAPA PINO IS BACK AND HIS GLASSES ARE BACKKKKKK I'M SO HAPPY OHHHH I LOVE YOU PINO!!!

[magiowlio]

grandiel T doodles!! plus a wip im having fun working on so far :D

[magiowlio]

up at midnight.....drawing these two so they can be my last drawing of 2025.....

[baldinar]

hello!!! i've been a fan of your gc content for a while now, absolute jumpscare when i saw the reblogs on my art😭 my thoughts are still not coherent but I will try!!

your gc fics are so. SOOOOO good. oh my god. I've been rereading the fics in the useless drabbles series (+tiots) since you posted them, i love them so so so much!! the way you wrote these guys is more canon to me than the game itself hahaaaa...i think about them WAY too often.... the way you write baldinar just gets him SO right and your writing really evokes all of the crazy emotions his lore induces..........oooouuhgh. like there's barely anyone making content for this trash can fire and the old elf man but here you are!! the saving grace of us baldinar/grandiel enjoyers!! your fics are just. i go back and reread them pretty often just to be brought back to the feeling i had when I first read them!!! it never goes away, every reread I notice something else super awesome!!!

every time I need to be struck down by lighting (thoughts about The Blorbos) I go back and reread them or look at your gc art posts, it neverrr fails :)

idk if any of that made any sense but! the point was you are Very Very Cool ™ to me and I absolutely did freak out once I saw your blog in my notifs 😭

Thank you sooo much for the tags on my art posts!! I'm so so glad you like them :DDD

//incoherent squeaker toy noises//

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I'M SO GLAD YOU ENJOY THEM SROBS

we've been in GC hell for these two gay idiots specifically since like 2015 so like, i gotta come back around to think about them and rotate them in my brain every few years at minimum LMAO

(we've technically been in GC hell since 2008 but to be fair, we didn't get the hints of grandiel and baldinar having History until around 2014-15ish with kounat's collapse)

kog sure won't lmaooo. i mean i guess baldinar has been mentioned in the t timeline but these mfers can't even give us SR kyle so i can't trust them to give a shit about writing baldinar and grandiel, esp. when the addition of town girl felt so much to me like kog desperately trying to straightwash baldinar then HORRIFICALLY FAILING because they managed to make baldinar just come across as a disaster of a bisexual in denial.

WHICH IS TO SAY i am SO SO honored to hear you enjoy our fics so much, and am always happy to reblog community art ;_;

i also feel like i gotta apologize since we're like the kingg of abandoned fics ASDFLKANSDFLKANSDF

i do still have all our outline mats for IEF, but i don't think heit (the main member of our system working on tiots) ever wrote an outline so much as just went for straight Vibes with that one LMAO

IEF has a 10k outline though because i remember spending like almost 3 months just combing the wiki over and over, writing down a timeline of events, then translating that into a chapter outline, and then figuringg out which character stories i wanted to write corresponding chapters for (with the thought that those chapters would serve as vignette length versions of the character stories)

so for example, uhhhh, one of the chapters in the latter half is baldinar hiring fermat so i had to have a lot of notes about where/when/why any of these projects would occur

(we never really got a satisfactory answer from kog about like. why the fuck they did cloning experiments. absolutely wild thing to do with zero additional context.)

UH. ANYWAYS.

SPIDERMAN POINTING MEME.

we legit didn't realize anyone cared about our fics and like hearing your thoughts on them has me like the wettest cat emoji you can imagine.

this series is super close to our heart and writing fanfic for it is how we ended up getting a BA in creative writing. (i mean not writing fanfic for the BA but like it is the reason we write at all.) like, GC has so many interesting ideas but never really commits to them, so that dissatisfaction is what fueled our decision to pursue a BA.

we were also writing fanfiction so hard about GC (that never saw the light of day thank god) that we ended up just starting our own original fantasy series because it would be easier ASDFLKANSDFLKNAS. nothing published yet but like, going back to my roots while editing one of the novels we have in our log is wild.

[magiowlio]

oooh yes. these two are CONSTANTLY in the brain microwave. i cant get them out. i think they're gone and BOOM a couple years later they've somehow wormed their way right back in lollll

oh god. yeah every day i question kog's decisions more and more.....w12 was the PERFECT opportunity to give us dark kyle as an SR and then release T Kyle later on with the current plotline along with cindy t bbc now she's back to practicing fire magic but noooo........

the addition of the town girl really felt unnecessary to me because i think the demonic virus alone would have worked narratively to get baldinar desperate enough to use the aernasis hammer!!! i think having to kill the girl was the last straw for him, but i feel like if they had to deal with the virus for long enough without a cure he would have snapped anyway :/

at least we got our iconic bi disaster from the town girl's addition! she could have been really interesting, but we got like. 2 panels of her and that's it? kyle kept seeing cindy as the town girl, so she could have been used in cindy's story of finding her own self separate from baldinar and the girl but alas. never mentioned again outside of those couple scenes :/ Or she could have been used to emphasize how much grandiel cares about trash can man because he isnt around grandiel as much anymore because he's with her, bc grandiel is Very Dense and baldinar spending more time with the girl probably got him to realize a bit more of his emotions?? or maybe it got him MORE confused LOL

anyway can't believe they tried to straightwash baldinar in a cast of characters where half of them are gay as hell, but bi disaster baldinar is very very iconic and i will not let that go in a billion years LMAO

BALDINAR AND FERMAT. oh boy. kog what is going on with them. why. what is happening WHY ARE THEY DOING CLONING EXPERIMENTS???? my hc is that baldinar hired him at first to work on potentially finding a cure to the virus (knowing that he wasnt as afraid to do morally wrong things as some of the court scholars), and the cloning experiments ensued once they realized the virus might have operated through genetic mutations (maybe tried to engineer organisms resistant to the virus, once baldinar's fascination with creating a new world started maybe that turned into something else??) but like. kog gave us like nothing they just started an illegal lab in the kingdom backrooms but okay

ANYWAYS WOW your dedication and attention to detail is. INSANE!! in the parts on ao3 there's so much detail and reference to different parts of the gc lore its just. WOAH. like i think grandiel only mentioned moving out to the bright forest because of his research on the klara libri once in one of the stages before gc goes to meet the past grandiel but you noticed and tied it in with everything else so seamlessly!! aaaannnd ough. kog makes soooo many questionable writing decisions its. its interesting............ha

getting a BA in creative writing and writing your own series is SO cool!! with how insanely well you managed to tie together kog's dumpster lore, your own series is absolutely SICK!!

woooow i yapped a lot. one last thing lmao the ask box didnt allow images but this is originally what i was going to send with my ask 💀

[baldinar]

ough had to move these out of tags because i too am the yapperrrrrr

very shramp fried rice rn so this might not be super cohesive but i feel like we're just we're just the spiderman pointing meme at each other rn NASKLDNFLKASDNFSA

thank you again for the INCREDIBLY kind words basdfakjsdbfkjsdfbgsd

only thing i am cohesive enough for rn is to talk about our hc re: fermat because i find yours really interesting

we always interpreted the divine/demonic experiments as an extension of the bootleg creator plot. ie: fermat's getting practice in case the hammer fails and they needed to juice baldinar another way. we see almost constantly in gc this idea that divine and demonic energies are both necessary to attain the power of Creator(tm), so any time the writing goes out of its way to specify both it sets my alarm bells off.

(which, additionally, i want to know how the geas functions and why the hammer blows up if there's not a sufficiently pure enough royal nearby. fucking wild lore to just imply in GCC then never touch again. such is kog though. like there's this weird celestial blood purity thing implied in kounat with mari and her relatives and kog just never addresses it. it's so uncomfortable to think that the divine right of kings lets you access god magic that can deconstruct the world and let you reconstruct it as you please. we also never see the aernas hammer used without fucking up horrifically. tangentially reminds me how i was yappin to bolinho the other day about how i both wonder if the creator is a false construct that everyone is convinced must exist, as well as that voidal energy might just be the same thing as Creator Juice(tm) in a less contained hat.)

anyways with fermat, my timeline of events would have him hired after town girl biffs it but it also would make sense if he was just like. some sketchy ass clown baldinar hired because no one wants to deal with the virus. we know so little about the virus, which isn't a surprise considering kog just kind of gave us a line by numbers for what the fuck was happening in kounat.

[baldinar]

me: //shut in that only goes outside for work or digimon locals and, even then, only goes to places in an n95//

also me: damn, i should finish that baldinar cosplay i started in 2020

[magiowlio]

when am i NOT thinking about this old man and his kids...... instead of finishing drawings I am Once Again just nonstop doodling these guys here you goooo

[baldinar]

hello!!! i've been a fan of your gc content for a while now, absolute jumpscare when i saw the reblogs on my art😭 my thoughts are still not coherent but I will try!!

your gc fics are so. SOOOOO good. oh my god. I've been rereading the fics in the useless drabbles series (+tiots) since you posted them, i love them so so so much!! the way you wrote these guys is more canon to me than the game itself hahaaaa...i think about them WAY too often.... the way you write baldinar just gets him SO right and your writing really evokes all of the crazy emotions his lore induces..........oooouuhgh. like there's barely anyone making content for this trash can fire and the old elf man but here you are!! the saving grace of us baldinar/grandiel enjoyers!! your fics are just. i go back and reread them pretty often just to be brought back to the feeling i had when I first read them!!! it never goes away, every reread I notice something else super awesome!!!

every time I need to be struck down by lighting (thoughts about The Blorbos) I go back and reread them or look at your gc art posts, it neverrr fails :)

idk if any of that made any sense but! the point was you are Very Very Cool ™ to me and I absolutely did freak out once I saw your blog in my notifs 😭

Thank you sooo much for the tags on my art posts!! I'm so so glad you like them :DDD

//incoherent squeaker toy noises//

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I'M SO GLAD YOU ENJOY THEM SROBS

we've been in GC hell for these two gay idiots specifically since like 2015 so like, i gotta come back around to think about them and rotate them in my brain every few years at minimum LMAO

(we've technically been in GC hell since 2008 but to be fair, we didn't get the hints of grandiel and baldinar having History until around 2014-15ish with kounat's collapse)

kog sure won't lmaooo. i mean i guess baldinar has been mentioned in the t timeline but these mfers can't even give us SR kyle so i can't trust them to give a shit about writing baldinar and grandiel, esp. when the addition of town girl felt so much to me like kog desperately trying to straightwash baldinar then HORRIFICALLY FAILING because they managed to make baldinar just come across as a disaster of a bisexual in denial.

WHICH IS TO SAY i am SO SO honored to hear you enjoy our fics so much, and am always happy to reblog community art ;_;

i also feel like i gotta apologize since we're like the kingg of abandoned fics ASDFLKANSDFLKANSDF

i do still have all our outline mats for IEF, but i don't think heit (the main member of our system working on tiots) ever wrote an outline so much as just went for straight Vibes with that one LMAO

IEF has a 10k outline though because i remember spending like almost 3 months just combing the wiki over and over, writing down a timeline of events, then translating that into a chapter outline, and then figuringg out which character stories i wanted to write corresponding chapters for (with the thought that those chapters would serve as vignette length versions of the character stories)

so for example, uhhhh, one of the chapters in the latter half is baldinar hiring fermat so i had to have a lot of notes about where/when/why any of these projects would occur

(we never really got a satisfactory answer from kog about like. why the fuck they did cloning experiments. absolutely wild thing to do with zero additional context.)

UH. ANYWAYS.

SPIDERMAN POINTING MEME.

we legit didn't realize anyone cared about our fics and like hearing your thoughts on them has me like the wettest cat emoji you can imagine.

this series is super close to our heart and writing fanfic for it is how we ended up getting a BA in creative writing. (i mean not writing fanfic for the BA but like it is the reason we write at all.) like, GC has so many interesting ideas but never really commits to them, so that dissatisfaction is what fueled our decision to pursue a BA.

we were also writing fanfiction so hard about GC (that never saw the light of day thank god) that we ended up just starting our own original fantasy series because it would be easier ASDFLKANSDFLKNAS. nothing published yet but like, going back to my roots while editing one of the novels we have in our log is wild.

[baldinar]

having an unhinged yap about how much missed potential there is in the writing of this series and practically ripping my face off with my head buried so hard in my hands over it

mostly thinking about thematic elements, repetition, and colonialism in the series

i can yap about it more here if anyone cares but like, the tl;dr is very much "i think if kog actually had a cohesive team of writers and a lore bible, as well as thought about the consequences of their writing choices longer than two seconds, we could have a lot of interesting worldbuilding. instead, we don't question why everyone seems to want to upend the strict hierarchy of the world and just keep killing people about it. surely this will solve the problem."

[magiowlio]

cindy (ft. arme) doodles from recently! idk if I'm going to finish either of these, but I like them so maybe I'll go back and work on them :)

[baldinar]

was rereading wip shit for ineluctable fate including two chapters that were like, way further in the outline than we mostly got bhdfjsdbjfhbgs it's so weird reading old fic of ours because it's like. we've grown a lot as a writer in the past five years holy SHIT

uhhh oof anyways welcome back grand chase brainrot, i hardly missed you because i blacked out for 2 years again thanks to the amnesia

pros of flipping your canvas a lot: you make sure things look good enough for your tastes

cons: ah shit i reversed baldinar's design oh well

[magiowlio]

baldinar with his hair down I doodled the other day ;3

[magiowlio]

hi uh. It’s been a while…here’s a dump of grand chase drawings and some yapping about irl stuff under the cut ^^

been gone for a hot minute, how are you guys??

been busy so not a lot of drawing happening irl :( I do sketch a lot but a lot of it is quick studies in my sketchbook and not fanart, idk if people would want to see that posted

Most of my drawings are for class and I can’t post any of that until the course is over :(

that’s all when I DO get the time to sit down and draw because I’m busy with a lot of other stuff unfortunately… I will get back to the zelda posting eventually!! I do have some LU and general tloz fanart but it’s all super incomprehensible doodles lol

also been chronically offline for once. Wild. I check tumblr less often but I still don’t mind if anyone wants to tag me in anything or send asks! I love reading and answering them :D

[magiowlio]

am i ever going to finish this?????? unclear