The game gives seriously so many whumpable ideas for Halsin.
He has been kidnapped two, possibly three times by the end of the game. One of which involved him becoming a sex slave and one of which involved him being tortured by goblins.
He can't always control his bear form. Has transforming at the wrong time ever hurt him?
He doesn't fit in at his Grove, and especially he hates being leader of his Grove. He must be awful lonely.
He saw almost all his friends and his mentor die in battle. Imagine him wearily leading the survivors to safety.
He has abandonment issues! Literally any time you break up with him, split the group up in the end, etc he says he knows nothing lasts forever. He is SHOCKED you want to go with him to his commune, and if solomanced he is fully convinced the party will remind you how much you loved adventuring, causing you to leave him.
He used to have a drinking problem! Imagine all the angst there!
That scar on his face. He must have gotten FUUUUCKED UPPPP to be so badly scarred that magic couldn't fix it.
His entire family is dead, and died when he was young at that!
His reputation from when he was a sex slave is such that the Drow twins had already heard of him.
The player has the ability to threaten to sell him back to his captors- imagine a whumper doing that to him.
The Grove raid! Imagine his agony at realizing all the Druids he cared for are dead.
Similarly, the Rite of Thorns- his knowledge that his Druids wanted him gone.
If he's kidnapped by Orin, his reaction to being rescued- or to Speak With Dead being used on his corpse- makes it clear he never expected to be saved. How does he get to THAT point?
He mentions people have tried to start fights with him before because he's big and they want to prove their strength like how sad must that have been for him????
The Orin abduction scenes hint that he is actually terrified of losing control of himself and harming innocents. Imagine what must have happened to make him afraid of that- either having done it before, OR thinking so lowly of himself that he thinks it actually could happen despite the lack of evidence.
And that's not even getting into all the cut early game build whump...
Everybody's having fun portraying Grace as the soft hearted damsel in distress and Simon as his big scary guard dog, as if Simon "welded into a metal box" Ironlung isn't shattering at the first kind touch he receives and Ryland "abandons his entire planet and species for his alien buddy" Grace wouldn't rip the universe apart if it tried to take Simon away.
Happy apollo justice timeline!! I was thinking of holding onto this until turnabout serenade timeline but then realized thatd be in july and hell nah 🔥 first full color comic page in. Idk how long. But it feels good to actually accomplish smth and see how my comic style has changed
Yapping + doodle under cut
Notes abt the comic/paneling/design/wtv:
- klavier's first box is pink, turns dark purple, then turns pink/warm orange again at the end. Reconciliation of "both sides" of klavier ie how he was always genuine and that he was always himself
- the bottom panel is supposed to be shaped like a guitar ie klavier's guitar that caught on fire
- fire for passion/emotion, like how a physical object (guitar) cant contain the full strength of passion resulting in burning
Abt gavins + how it ties to the comic:
I feel like a lot of ppl(? Idk my perception is warped bc i dont browse a lot) like to use this part of turnabout serenade to draw kristoph and klavier parallels. And on a surface level i can see where it's coming from but to me it's like.. well yes but actually no
Bc kristoph would never let someone see him as smth less than perfect(?) Or like Kristoph always controls everything abt his perception
He's polite and handsome and cool! Someone anyone would admire or want to work for, and only he knows the things he says are passive aggressive insults. But it just flies by bc everyone is smitten by his image
While klavier doesnt necessarily to hide his "imperfections" (embarrassment and anger isnt the same as hiding) He lets himself be mad and be seen when he's mad. Hes not worried abt "losing control" bc to him the pursuit of music or truth is tantamount and everything else is secondary. He's just himself, and if he's angry for missing a cue then he's angry. He doesnt try to hide or placate or fake his emotions
So the fact that klavier let himself be seen by apollo and trucy when he was less than perfect/not matching w his image is perfectly telling of how unlike kristoph he is
This is all just my reading anyways it's probably not supposed to be read into that much but idc 🔥
And thats why in the comic apollo is like i like this honest prosecutor gavin bc 1. Unreliable narrator apollo (klavier was always klavier. He wasnt trying to be smth else) and 2. it's like a further confirmation that klavier is not kristoph, klavier is his own person. And maybe that person is someone worth looking twice at yknow.. The smoke from the fire makes hearts too btw lmfao. Me when im on the nose. This isnt necessarily klapollo in the sense that it's romance being depicted but it was drawn and written w a klapollo heart so be free
Lines + doodles (istg i had more art but ig not.. finals season is upon me and it's beating me pretty hard ngl)
Some closeup of parts I liked
The small text above the motorcycle says "rip hog" lol
VAMPIRES WILL NEVER HURT YOU on AO3 now has three whole chapters. Woah. So I made myself a lil cover.
Just another self-indulgence of all my hyperfixations in one fic.
A new guy joins the Z-Team. Chad can just tell something isn't right. There's a hunger in his eyes and a sharpness to his teeth that makes Chad feel cold looking at him. And he's very interested in his dispatcher.
Chad doesn't trust this guy. He just can't prove anything yet.
OR Robert is pursued by a yandere vampire but can Chad save him before he loses him forever?
(A mix of Midnight Mass, Dracula and Hannibal. A lot of MCR lyrics.)
Oh, bird that signals the break of dawn,
Couldn't you have time stop at this moment?
Shooting star that gently goes through the morning,
Please fall down here
oh, fly me to the star
Please take me along,
oh, fly me to the star
Hijack version of Revue Starlight's ED theme, Fly Me to the Star! You can watch the full thing here!
What if post game, Chrom and Lissa do manage to find Robin again after defeating Grima, but... she doesn't remember anything about them? Their mariage? Their love?💜💙💔
idk if you wanted the stobotnik drawing ideas in your asks or somewhere else but i’d love to see more of your genderbent takes on them :]] i love your designs from a couple years ago and i’d be super interested to see how you’d draw them now!! hope everything is going well with you, always happy to see anything you do!
Hi Duck! thanks for the idea<3 It was really fun to revisit my old art and see how much I've improved. I love Fem!Stobotnik
Thought I'd post the old art since it's a bit small in the redraw. My computer says this is from 2022... crazy.
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