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*Has too many headworlds*

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Birthday present for my friend. Their namesake sitting on their favorite character. Poor guy. Summarizes their general fic style though: "Cuddle Wars? Strangle Wars? Both." The 'Dad' Warriors is calling for is the Fierce Deity. Fierce Dadity if you like. Here's their Ao3:

https://archiveofourown.org/users/articuno13/pseuds/articuno13

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Snuggling gays. They always sleep in this layout, Devin on the left, Mitsuki on the right, Vulenar flopped over both. Depending on the day and who's visiting, they may add 1-6 kids and a fairy king to the pile. Vulenar needs a very large mattress.

Oh shit! 5 characters drawn in 2 days! Wow! How? I dunno! I'm in a mood, let's see where this goes!

Remembered to add their tattoos. Green leaves are a fairy blessing. None for M, the fae find him scary. You can barely see his soulmate mark on his pec (V's is under his chin). And all 3 wedding rings! I wanted to add scars, but I dunno where so I didn't. V's got magic healing, he would only keep scars that have a story to them and I haven't thought of those yet.

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Father and son being dorks. Lumin never grew out of his "climb the parents like a tree" phase. Luckily he weighs 2/3 of a normal human because of fairy magic, so Vulenar doesn't throw out his back. He complains about it anyway, because it's a father's right to rib his son for anything and everything.

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Just a WiP I liked. Vulenar and Lumin being dorks. Showing off my weird art process. Whatever this is, I dunno.

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WiP that I'm working on, posting it now because it's also spoilers for a fic I'm working on. The LU Chain get separated and turned into monsters! They have to solve a dungeon and return to their regular bodies without accidentally killing each other in the process. My thought process for each monster pick below the cut, read the first chapter here:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/79869436/chapters/209614436

Criteria for monster forms:

A monster mostly unique to their games. (God dammit Wars, why do you have no unique monsters?)

Something I can change the details on to make it obviously them

No boss monsters. Sticking with low-to-mid tier (with one exception)

Most important: something that the hero in question either really loves or really hates. No meh monsters. Wind is having the time of his life, Legend is cursing the goddess (what's new?)

So without further ado:

Wild = Horriblin (TotK): Easy pick. The climbing menace can now hang on ceilings, everyone panic. Horriblins are also completely new for TotK, perfect. Wild is having a blast chilling with the other horriblins. He thinks he's just having a weird, cool dream until Twi finds him. Twi of course recognizes him instantly because when else do you see a monster cooking a 3 course meal?

Twilight = Bulbin (TP): Yeah, Wars has some bulbins, but he totally stole them from Twilight, like all of his other monsters. For Twi it was a pick between a twilit beast and a bulbin. Twili beast I could have made look very wolf-ish, but kinda breaks the "mid-tier monsters" rule. And my brain superimposed Twi's pelt and tattoos onto a bulbin and said "They're exactly the same!" so I went with that. I headcanon that Twi is sort-of friends with the bulbins post-quest, so he also thinks he's having a weird dream where Epona is a bulbo, until he sees an obviously monster Wild cooking for a horriblin pack.

Hyrule = Ache (AoL): Hyrule can turn into a tiny fairy, so I gave him a tiny monster form. Everyone has keese, but aches are unique, so there you go. Also inspired by "Hylian, Fairy, Monster, Hero" by Jeru_Skyrider on Ao3. Made him green to make him unique. Rulie's settling into his new body pretty easily, but he's even more nervous than usual. He expects the others to spontaneously attack him cause it's what he would do to an ache.

Time = Redead (OoT): Redeads are not the most unique monsters, they're in a lot of games, but I couldn't resist the Hero's Shade connection. Also got to put the Fierce Deity markings on the redead mask. Time is pretty used to rolling with weird transformations, the only real problem here is that his joints are more creaky than usual. (Actually, the real problem is that he's struggling to talk. He's got the redead scream that can freeze allies and enemies alike, but other than that he can barely manage to whisper. Stupid dehydrated vocal cords.)

Warriors = Dinolfos (HW): So Wars has, like, no unique monsters, unless I wanted to turn him into Wizzro. I debated that, but decided that a rank and file soldier type fit better. Dinolfos because he's a captain, slightly above the common soldier. Scarf because what is Warriors without his scarf?

Wind = Phantom (PH): Wind is having the time of his heckin' LIFE. He's now the tallest and strongest of the group? Heck yeah! Phantoms are in Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks, but there weren't that many other unique options. What? Am I gonna make him a miniblin? Would be funny, but I decided that someone's gotta enjoy this adventure, and that person is gonna be Wind.

Legend = Pengator (aLttP/aLBW): Pengators are not perfectly unique, they're also in Four Swords Adventures. But Legend hates his rabbit form, it's small and weak and lacking thumbs, so I turned him into an equally harmless monster. And made it pink to f- with him.

Four = Acrobandit (MC): A monster that is four things stacked on top of each other, how could I not? (Actually, the in-game acrobandit is 5 tall, but this is my AU and my rules. HA!). Also completely unique to Minish Cap, iirc. Do the rest of the Chain know about the colors yet? If not, they're about to find out, oops!

Sky = Sky Guardian (SS): There aren't a lot of unique monsters in SS. Could have made him a skytail or furnix, two flying enemies. Definitely considered a remlit at one point. Settled on a silent realm guardian though, because this is the Godslayer we're talking about, he should be something powerful. Definitely the monster that gave him the most trauma on his journey- wait, Demise. The second most- oh yeah, Ghirahim. Top five most traumatic enemies in Skyward Sword. Now Sky is invulnerable and can one-shot nearly everything that threatens the Chain. Downside is that he's slow and slightly clumsy and can't talk, he can only chime.

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Inktober day 17: Ornate

Very bad headache today. Drew a heart container, messed up several places. No energy to fix it.

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Inktober day 15: Ragged

My favorite yet. Mimikyu, please burn the blackberries, the bane of my childhood.

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Inktober day 14: Trunk

I forgot that tree trunks existed for a bit, but that lead to the deku tree, and then to the koroks.

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Inktober day 13: Drink

The boys consider chu jelly.

Forgot to ink until late, so the lines are pretty hasty. Bedtime now. Someone take those arrows away from Wild so the rest of us can sleep.

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Inktober day 12: Shredded

My head is not in the game today. That looks way off, and the attempted human drawing is just as bad.

Wolfie is very upset that he shredded your favorite glove. He is very sorry. Probably. Maybe.

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Inktober day 11: Sting

It’s my off-meds day again, so you only get a rough sketch of Legend running away from bees. I’m not going to ink it. I think it looks wrong, I’m too tired to fix it, and I’m not inking something I don’t like.

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Inktober day 10: Sweep

I’m tired. My brain’s not working today. Was gonna do something fun with an oc ‘sweeping’ their wings, but…

Plan B. Ravio.

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Inktober day 9: Heavy

This is Fawn, named for the spots on his elytra. He’s got beetle wings, which makes him a clumsy flier but more durable, able to hide his wings to protect them. Fairy culture is very vain and ableist. They like big colorful wings or fast flying tricks, so Fawn’s pretty low rank. Humans think all wings are pretty though, and can’t tell the difference between skilled and clumsy flight. There his durability is an advantage, he’s more resistant to crushing and thus less vulnerable to accidents.

Fawn is prince Lumin’s BFF and his permanent travel companion. He’s officially the prince’s ‘attendant’ but he’s not capable of human attendant duties. Instead he acts as a spy, messenger, lookout, confidant, and emergency beacon as needed.

He doesn’t wear a shirt because it would itch rubbing against his folded wings. He does wear pants because humans are particular about that.

Used colored pencil despite it being inktober because I had specific colors in mind and wasn’t confident in my marker color-matching.

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Inktober day 8: Reckless

Link on a Lynel. In my head he’s Linked Universe Wild but I didn’t remember that in the moment and drew him based on the game not the comic.

Was gonna attempt some cross-hatch shading but had other things to do and ran out of energy. Maybe I’ll finish this later, maybe I’ll do cross-hatching on another day.

Posted late but I did do all this work yesterday.

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Inktober day 7: Starfish

Starfish are boring. Space fish are cool. That is all.

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Inktober day 6: Pierce

Attempted assassination fails because the target can teleport, make copies, and has venomous spines. Better luck next time- oh wait you’re dead.

I am sabotaged by the fact that half my pens are dead. I have a dark grey, warm light grey, and a barely functional mid warm grey. No broad-tip black for the background. Yay!

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Inktober day 5: Deer

Traced a cute deer, turned it into a kirin. Used my Faber-Castell markers and got actual blending! Very happy with it.

Missed day 4 because that was my once a week “skip adhd med” day I do to reduce tolerance buildup. I’ll try to go back and do the prompt in a bit.