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The diamond kingdom, usually described as a dying land by its own citizens, it wasn’t always like that. It was never as lush as the Heart Kingdom but decades ago it could sustain its inhabitants without much difficulty, all it took was one bad drought and everything seemed to keep going downwards ever since.
Not only were humans affected by it, animals needed to adapt quickly. Survival of the fittest at its cruelest, either adapt or die. Many creatures managed to speed up their adaptability thanks to their magic and mana, many others died out.
The creatures that inhabit this seemingly dying land are some of the most aggressive even when they actions are driven by curiosity. Territories get fought for till death, food goes scarce more often than not, when people chose where they go or live they must be careful.
There are many ways to die in Diamond Kingdom.
Crystal Armadillo
Crystal magic
Out of the many fauna found in the Diamond Kingdom, the armadillos can be some of the most calmest creatures anyone can find, more often then not solitary. They usually make their homes deep in caves and mines where they will eat any crystals that they find as a means to strengthened their plates of armour that covers them.
These creatures are often an urban myth nowadays with how deep inside they go into the caves, even going as far as to form whole labyrinths out of them by breaking and digging new pathways in order to find more crystals or other gemstones, it depends on the individuals tastes which rocks they eat and add into their armour.
They go out of their way to avoid creatures that they see as a treat to themselves, not for being a harmless creature but more out of the necessity of not wanting to was more energy than what they already do roaming around with crystals growing out of their skins slowing them down quite a bit, though, if the situation calls for it, they are more that capable to defend themselves be it by clawing, biting or using their tail to slash at their aggressor.
Their magic affects many structures of their bodies most noticeable is their shells and tails but it can be also be seen in patches of their skin, teeth and claws as a sort of additional defence and offence points. Their mana usually reacts with nearby crystals making both the armadillos skin and the crystals glow, which makes them a great detector for them but any person that has tried capturing them can end up disembowelled by their claws or forever lost in the many deep caves they roam.
Their armour plates is their best defence but it does not allow them to move quite as comfortable as they could, sometimes poking themselves on accident or wounding one another when sharp edges meet skin. Very few individuals can actually manage to for a defensive ball, it is more common for them to develop blade like structures at the end of their tail as an added defence than balling themselves up.
Baby armadillos are born without any armour at the beginning. Their plates are originally made out of soft bony tissue that is more mobile and pretty delicate compared to what it will became but slowly the bony cells that make them start changing. First into a more hard bone then slowly turn into crystals as their magic and mana gathers inside them, it takes them one to two years to complete this process, slow but in the end, worth it.
Dessert shark
Sand magic
Land dwellers sharks that can be found in every dessert that are part of the many territories of the Diamond Kingdom. Once upon a time, they inhabited the oceans like any fish would but scarcity and increasing fights with other species forced them to leave, many fled to the open ocean but some weaker individuals unable to survive such odyssey were left with little choice but to stay.
It was then that these creatures started trying out land.
In was a painfully slow process for every shark, initially only banking themselves to catch anything, using their magic to get back in the water, years of forcing their gill slits closed and holding their breath started a change in their anatomy. Their gills internalised and became a pseudo-lung, body became accustomed to the levels of oxygen of the air, and their scales thickened from the constant drag of the sand.
Nowadays these animals swim through sand as if it were water, their magic allows the sand to act similar to a liquid around them and even prevent it from getting into their mouths by accident. They have acquired a semi-terrestrial status, they are still able to go back into the water, even open their slits but they seem to prefer the land since its offers them more choices of food and shelter.
In recent years some individuals have been spotted developing a sort of clawed fin that cloud end up becoming more like a paw in the future.
They live in thigh nit groups that follow one leader that it is often the eldest of the shiver, hunting small things like insects, small reptiles and mammals, or even sometimes catching bigger game like the giant golden birds of the desert. Their hunting consist on swimming in circles constantly till the sand all around becomes a death trap, swallowing anything that stands on it and giving them no chance to swim out to safety. The creatures trapped by this either die by the crushing pressure of the sand or by a school of frenzying sharks.
People travelling through the desert are advised to try and hide their mana levels to the best of their abilities or travel in big groups, since these creatures have both an acute mana sense and are still attuned to electromagnetic fields that lets them find possible food. It is not uncommon for people to lose a limb or two from a curious shiver of sharks that took a bite out of them as a means of checking if the person was food or not.
People usually die more from blood loss, infection or the sand breaking their bones than getting actually eaten by sharks.
Storm Goats
Lightning magic
These ungulates are easily found in some of the tallest mountains that the Diamond Kingdom has an abundance of. High enough that one would think they could scrape the sky, rocky and with very few plant ground around, these goats’ digestive system has changed through the years to be able to suck out everything they could need from the little food they get. Needing to ruminate multiple times the same cud before it even goes to through their intestine track where all the water gets taken out of it before it gets expelled.
More often then not, these animals can be found licking, and sometimes chewing, on rocks or clay for minerals. There are occasions where they end up munching on very unfortunate mice, lizards and small birds but that only happens on more dire situations.
Their coat is both long and thick on the outer layers with a texture that is close to wire, specially around their necks where it grows the longest and serves as an additional storage of static-like mana that attracts the clouds floating around their necks, furthermore, it works as an impermeable layer that doesn’t let the water reach the animals’ skin. There is second more short, thin layer of hair that hides beneath the longer one, it helps them keep warm in the high up altitudes and during warmer seasons its even thinner, helping trap cold air and prevent over heating.
Their magic is concentrated mainly on their horns and thickest part of their skulls and hooves. Their horns are constantly growing and never fall off, though they often curl and run the risk of perforating their faces, they could also sprout small tines at some angles, one way to control their growth is to scrape them against rocks.
During territory disputes or mating seasons, males can cause small fires on accident. Their magic and mana begins gathering in great quantities on their horns and heads, and it shoots out before or during headbutting each other, it ends up sparkling on the surroundings and sometimes hitting a patch of dry grass, thus starting a small fire. These matches can often attract storms and, for villagers living in the mountains, it is hard to tell if the lightning and crackling sound that follows is a common thunderstorm or a pair of goats fighting.
They can be extremely aggressive to humans and other creatures, and won’t hesitate in kicking them with a hove full of lightning or a good old fashioned headbutting off a cliff. Some people say that jumping out of their own will, would be a painless death compared to getting deep fried and headbutted by these caprines.
Mud Otter.
Mud magic
Clawless mustelids that inhabit swamp-like habitats in the Diamond Kingdom, can swim but spent most of their time on land, living in groups of fifteen up to twenty individuals composed by the parents and their many children or some elder members with no relation to the group that joined later on life.
Non weaved hands with only two clawed fingers but they are pretty dexterous with how they use them, managing to pick objects and having basics problem solving skills that helps them using rocks and sticks to aid in getting food or breaking hard shells or fishing small animals out of burrows.
Their knowledge of how to use tools is not the only way the hunt in their habitat, hunting is similar to when the play slide in their home. Using their magic to shift the terrain into quicksand, which they use as a trap they will lead small critters into it before making the kill. This same strategy also helps them deal with terrestrial predator, which they also will consume if they trap them.
These creatures are a territorial bunch, even more so when there young ones around, if their quicksand traps were to not work, they are more then capable of chasing intruders away. Using their magic not only to slide around but also in a similar fashion to sand sharks, swimming in it and jumping out of it so they can knock their target into the ground where they will maul them.
Aggressive towards intruders but playful with one another, the adults will encourage pups to chase them around, collect rocks for the young to start learning how to use them and keep them later, since is not unusual for an otter to have a preferred rock they use for cracking shells. This does not apply to stick which they break more often but some otters do keep them for as long as they can.
No one can recommend living nearby swamps. Not only it has the most unstable and changing terrain but the chances of stumbling into a mob of otters are extremely high and if someone starts hearing the clicks and other cries they make, it is already to late to start running.
All of my designs for @clowncatss’ Mimotabi fantasy AU!! We have Fragil Tormenta and my OC Scylla Tindall as Princess Mimosa’s ladies in waiting, then Magna Swing and Zora Ideale as members of the Black Bull Knights! Armour is so hard to draw lmao
I might do pieces or doodles of these guys soon bc I’m brainrotting but not rn, I’m tired :3
vivienne had been near the others and caught the tail end of the fight
so exactly when calla punched kirsch
im having her join the knights only a year after kirsch so they’re close, which means he tells her wayyyyy too much about every meeting with calla
she realized he was falling in love sooner than he did but damn until the royal knights exam she had no idea how to address it
im framing this in my actual irl house. the poetry. the cinema. vivienne's absolutely flabbergasted expression. this is beautiful im crying
irt the LORE (WHICH IM EXTREMELY FLATTERED BY THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!) lmfao poor vivi she came up right as it happened and then had to deal with the AFTERMATH!!! GOD!!! just kill him viv shut him up fr nobody wants that man EXCEPT calla
ALSO LMFAO OF COURSE SHE REALIZES HES OBVIOUS AB IT he's like "ugh i hate that peon and his pretty teal eyes" and she's like "what's the hex code" and he goes "#00F9C7" without hesitation and viv's like
no idea why it’s so blurry but i’ve committed to the klaus x vivienne ship!!! they’re both yearning but at least vivienne has admitted that fact before klaus did
i have just developed what’s literally a blatant self insert character that just happens to be a coral peacock
in my heart, any universe something that i have an oc inside will then have calla in it and therefore kirsch and calla are endgame
i dont make the rules, that’s how it works
that being said, i want vivienne to be part of the small group that sees kirsch get socked in the face and she will likely hear the entire (and all further on rants about your boy that happen) angry rant on the way home
so if you’re cool with it, may i know the vague timeline and info on how kirsch sees calla throughout the series (cause calla i can make a vague guess)
HI QUEENIE and yes thats EXTREMELY based YAY FOR SELF INSERTS!!! and also AWWE THANK YOU!!!
you know what hell yeah she gets to witness the great Nose Breaking Incident (cue kirsch and calla SCREAMING at each other LOL) also the entire way home was. everyone was a victim to that LMFAO like please gag him again vice captain.
SO!!! TIMELINE FOR CALLAKIRSCH:
they're a year apart, but calla joined the magic knights TWO year after kirsch due to Reasons (ableism and also getting his ass beat in the combat section rip my son) which is the year the great nose breaking happens (kirsch 17 calla 16).
they see each other around magic knight events, sometimes during the star festival, and start feuding for a few years like they hate each other but theyre definitely like. if hatesex was an option for them they'd take it but neither of them want to admit they're taking notice of each other.
i.e. calla calls kirsch a fruity bastard and kirsch is like "oh you noticed my new perfume <3" and calla's like SHIT (he did). or kirsch is like "your ugly mug haunts my nightmares" and calla's like "oh you're dreaming about me? hoe ass?" (he is)
their relationship is pretty consistently snipping at each other whenever they see each other right up until the royal knights/elf arc where kirsch gets the fear of god beaten into him by asta and mimosa (rip bitchass) and starts like actually thinking about his feelings. later in the elf arc, calla's hearing aides get BROKEN by libi (the elf in lia) so he's at a severe disadvantage and rather than be a douchebag, kirsch stops by to help calla out and defend him from any other elves in the area (of which there are. the golden dawn is SWARMING with them.) and that gets CALLA thinking like hm. he's actually NOT a complete and total douchebag!!!!
after the elf arc the two end up in the infirmary together (vineboom) and then they're too embarrassed to talk for a few months. but after that they start like seeing each other around and instead of being outright nasty to each other it's more like friendly bickering <3 THEN the spade arc happens <3 and during the fight with the great demon calla protects kirsch from an attack and kirsch is like oh. OH. and he's like "your magic is beautiful" (PARALLELS TO THEIR FIRST MEETING) and calla's like OH!!!!
after the spade arc they actually go on dates and shit but aren't like TOGETHER together even though they're on dates and calla is Sleeping Over (iykwim) and also like has 3000 items of kirsch's and kirsch is literally in meetings with black lipstick all over his face. the year timeskip is great. kirsch also learns sign language from mimosa !!!!
the judgement day arc is great too bc calla and kirsch actually kiss in Public (calla saved kirsch from a legless angel and they got in their gay little feelings about it) and then they actually get Together officially!!!
in the future, kirsch is the captain of the coral peacocks and calla's a green praying mantis knight still and they have a kid named SHERRY <3 live laugh love sherry vermillion!!!!!!!!
ANYWAYS hope that helps you figure out what vivienne is thinking about all this bc these two homos have a stupid ass slow burn. live laugh love (nose breaking noises) callakirsch
YESSS well. kirsch IS a gossip so it's FINE it makes sense!!!
and yes yes YES viv is like "the. the peasant." and kirsch is like "yes" and viv's like "are there worms in your skull? who are you and what did you do with kirsch????"
i have just developed what’s literally a blatant self insert character that just happens to be a coral peacock
in my heart, any universe something that i have an oc inside will then have calla in it and therefore kirsch and calla are endgame
i dont make the rules, that’s how it works
that being said, i want vivienne to be part of the small group that sees kirsch get socked in the face and she will likely hear the entire (and all further on rants about your boy that happen) angry rant on the way home
so if you’re cool with it, may i know the vague timeline and info on how kirsch sees calla throughout the series (cause calla i can make a vague guess)
HI QUEENIE and yes thats EXTREMELY based YAY FOR SELF INSERTS!!! and also AWWE THANK YOU!!!
you know what hell yeah she gets to witness the great Nose Breaking Incident (cue kirsch and calla SCREAMING at each other LOL) also the entire way home was. everyone was a victim to that LMFAO like please gag him again vice captain.
SO!!! TIMELINE FOR CALLAKIRSCH:
they're a year apart, but calla joined the magic knights TWO year after kirsch due to Reasons (ableism and also getting his ass beat in the combat section rip my son) which is the year the great nose breaking happens (kirsch 17 calla 16).
they see each other around magic knight events, sometimes during the star festival, and start feuding for a few years like they hate each other but theyre definitely like. if hatesex was an option for them they'd take it but neither of them want to admit they're taking notice of each other.
i.e. calla calls kirsch a fruity bastard and kirsch is like "oh you noticed my new perfume <3" and calla's like SHIT (he did). or kirsch is like "your ugly mug haunts my nightmares" and calla's like "oh you're dreaming about me? hoe ass?" (he is)
their relationship is pretty consistently snipping at each other whenever they see each other right up until the royal knights/elf arc where kirsch gets the fear of god beaten into him by asta and mimosa (rip bitchass) and starts like actually thinking about his feelings. later in the elf arc, calla's hearing aides get BROKEN by libi (the elf in lia) so he's at a severe disadvantage and rather than be a douchebag, kirsch stops by to help calla out and defend him from any other elves in the area (of which there are. the golden dawn is SWARMING with them.) and that gets CALLA thinking like hm. he's actually NOT a complete and total douchebag!!!!
after the elf arc the two end up in the infirmary together (vineboom) and then they're too embarrassed to talk for a few months. but after that they start like seeing each other around and instead of being outright nasty to each other it's more like friendly bickering <3 THEN the spade arc happens <3 and during the fight with the great demon calla protects kirsch from an attack and kirsch is like oh. OH. and he's like "your magic is beautiful" (PARALLELS TO THEIR FIRST MEETING) and calla's like OH!!!!
after the spade arc they actually go on dates and shit but aren't like TOGETHER together even though they're on dates and calla is Sleeping Over (iykwim) and also like has 3000 items of kirsch's and kirsch is literally in meetings with black lipstick all over his face. the year timeskip is great. kirsch also learns sign language from mimosa !!!!
the judgement day arc is great too bc calla and kirsch actually kiss in Public (calla saved kirsch from a legless angel and they got in their gay little feelings about it) and then they actually get Together officially!!!
in the future, kirsch is the captain of the coral peacocks and calla's a green praying mantis knight still and they have a kid named SHERRY <3 live laugh love sherry vermillion!!!!!!!!
ANYWAYS hope that helps you figure out what vivienne is thinking about all this bc these two homos have a stupid ass slow burn. live laugh love (nose breaking noises) callakirsch
VANESSA IS SAAAAAUR HOT SHE'S SUCH A SNACK I JUST WANT *MUNCHMUNCHMUCH*
back in 2023 I had a mission to draw 30 days straight ONLY BLACK CLOVER looking back to it
....man I was... unemployed 😭😂 BUT MAN WAS I MOTIVATED??#?#) LIKE I CAN'T EVEN GET A DECNT PIECE IN MORE THAN A MONTH NOW HDHSHSHSHSH AMYWASYSSSS I WILL SHARE MORE ILLUSTRATIONS THAT I DREW BACK THEN ON HERE SO WE BOTH CAN TAKE A LOOK AT HOW MY ART GREW !!!🦖🌸💖 BECAUSE APPRECIATING UR PROGRESS IS IMPORTANT 🩷
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