Crystal Cavern

A litle space to post my art and talk about my AUs and OC lore Proship/Profiction, 18+, Minors DNI Multifandom

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So I made this spot just to yap to the aether, pretty much. Because I like reading other people's creative nonsense so maybe someone might enjoy mine. And if nothing else it gets it out of my head.

Just looking to vibe and have a spot to share way too many AUs and OC thoughts.

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A messy lil doodle because @obernice's AU has me in a choke hold. It's so terribly cute.

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Did these and figured it's good to post. And maybe convince myself to post more.

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Soooo these exist because of RP.

The basic premise is that the beasts wind up with more support from divine creatures that give them the chance to have their bodies remade to fit their souls. When taking the offer they have say on what they would want to look like and at this point in the story they have connections and love and choose to embody some of their past in their new selves.

Sugar is more feathery and prismatic but keeps her many wings and tail as beastly features. She also took on both physical sexes because she's fun like that.

Spice with four arms as he missed his multiple set and with more beastly Wild Spice features. Tiger inclined of course.

Milk... Milk hides behind a glamor alot. He maintains his normal face to the world. But thats because he's sensitive to the body he choose. He doesn't want to seem so sentimental or have his choice criticized. But he did want features from his days as Fount. The softness and the brighter aspects spliced in with his motifs of dolls and puppets. The patterns on his skin is meant to reference the classic blue and white pottery

Haven't drawn Salt yet... But he's meant to be a greyscale creature. Distinctly humanoid but with the pattern of burned bark along his skin. Blackened limbs and a smeared mask across his face that resembles smudged ash.

I don't have the art for Flour but she's actually a cake hound! She accepted the new bodies first because of a massive spiral and the transfer was needed for her. But after the first round and she properly began to reconnect with the world she formed a bond with the cake creatures and thought that, if they were going to make a more unified world than the cakes should also have a divinity to look towards. So she went under again and now resembles a cake fox! [Or a silken windhound depending on the day /jk]

Milk without the fabric cover below the cut!

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I was in a mood this weekend so that means 'be mean to Sugar' time I guess. Not really targeted, I love my baby gurl. So that means she gets problems.

Discussion of difficult reproductive subjects [primarily miscarriage], sex, breeding kink [mention] below the cut. Various headcanons and disjointed rambling.

I love the idea that Sugar is so mommy coded. I love her wanting to pour her love into something. I love her having a very idealistic and unhealthy view of motherhood. I love her being a possibly atrocious mother.

But somewhere in all that I like the idea that she can't have kids of her own. It's something that wouldn't really come up with the scenarios I usually have her in but off to the side in different AUs or whatever I adore the thought that she struggles to conceive. And if she does? Pregnancy is rough on her. She gets the worst end out of all of it. It's achy and painful. She's sick constantly and dizzy. She's brittle and struggles to stomach anything. Sleep is impossible but she's too exhausted to do anything else.

And more likely than not it won't go through...

She'll lose it. Early or late. It doesn't really matter. It ends. And it hurts all the same.

Because she loved it! From the very thought she loved it. She never complains about how hard it is on her. How much it hurts. The losses are never easier. She wanted them all the same.

I love the thought that she has this garden full of life and yet it's very root isn't able to harbor that same life.

I have the headcanon that Pavlova was born of the garden. All her magic and what not took root and more or less spat out a cookie from a pod. And I hold to the headcanon she LOVES Pavlova.

Depending on the AU she's very unhealthy with him. yeah. Like the most toxic boy mom/pseudo-incestuous dependency one can come across because she never learned healthy love and Pavlova becomes subject to all that.

In others she's clingy and dismissive or way too much but ultimately fine.

Always though she loves him. Because he's her treasure. He beautiful baby. A gift for her.

I love the thought she never regrets a pregnancy, even when it goes arry. Because it had the potential to be something. IT was an opportunity. A seed.

She can't help she's a bad garden...

About the picture, she's holding an egg. Something gifted to her from Pitaya or through magic or happenstance. Whatever. Doesn't matter. That precious thing is still worth all her love and care.

And she's having a little mental health spiral.

Egg is lost? Dying? All the trauma from past attempts coming to haunt her? Dunno. Doesn't particularly matter. She's having a bad time.

On slightly more ... no not positive just different notes... I like the thought that Sugar uses sex as a way of making others happy. That she'll let her body be used in any which way so long as it pleases. Often enough there's not consequences to letting herself be used... and if there are she doesn't make it others problems...

But, also, I like the idea of her and Pitaya going at it. Mutually working out some frustration over their shared fixation. Her riding Pitaya slow and lazy and making no fuss over Pitaya's size and the bulge they make in her stomach. Pitaya having their turn to just rut into her the way their instincts crave.

Sugar, at the end, so full and dizzy making the idle comment that it's a shame. She would love to carry a few eggs. Pitaya is very normal about this... I won't say it's outright the animal part of their brain that goes brr but there's something there that does it for them.

Side thought that I don't think Hollyberry being a mother already/being 'fertile' plays any part in Sugar loving her. Girly pop is just so down bad for her other half naturally BUT, I do think it a beautiful terrible thing that the one who loves so deeply and would do so much to have children is tied on a soul level to someone who has that aspect, has had children and grandchildren, and has squandered/ran from it

Anyway, thanks for coming to my TED talk

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With both Zheng being introduced and Dnd coming up seems reasonable to post these as well.

Discussions of Xu and Huanglong under the cut. CW for discussion of obsession and control

Xu, within DnD, is a dragon of the River Styx. She spends her life in the wretched waters of the Hells and tends the souls that flow through it. Deeply maternal and quite possibly the most accommodating creature to be found in the infernal domain.

That does not make her good.

Even as she takes in the begotten children put on offer for sacrifice or the little ones simply forgotten by the world. As she treats them with kindness and love they might have never known. There's the caveat that her love does not have an expiration, it is as fathomless and long as the Styx itself. And, likewise, it is just at maddening and suffocating as the waters.

There is little to be done but attempt to accept that your life will be well kept in Xu's care. Even if that means you shall never cross the boundary of her domain ever again once you enter it.

Huanglong sees not a thing wrong with his beloved.

As this is the love of dragons. Something pure and all consuming.

But, the bias of a fellow hell beast runs deep.

Huanglong is a Hellfire dragon. A devil in scales, resplendent and cruel. He spends his eons as most from the nine depths do, bargaining and corrupting souls. Finding the delicate threads of mortality and playing them like a harp with promises of power and wealth and whatever else others so desire all with the single price of their immortal essence. Essence that will belong to him once their shells relinquish their ghosts and becoming nothing more than a hoard for him to line his den with.

A glittering mass of suffering.

But he knows ... love.

The love of his kind.

Obsession and possession.

Different than the love he has of his mate, though there is plenty to be said of the obsession shared between both the Styx and Hellfire. The love that demands he hold all power over something, cradle it within his hand as a god does with their subjects, and keep it close. To admire, treasure, tarnish, and devour as he desires.

That is the love he has for Zheng.

It's hard to say what drew him so particularly to the simian folk. To this creature who lives such a simple and quiet life. It is quite easy, however, to point to what keeps his interest.

Zheng wants for nothing. He lives a simple life where he tends a small village. He is of no rank or status beyond what regard he holds within the community. He is not one of high ambition and nor does he long for greener pastures or grandeur. He loves his life. For all the peace and quiet and mundanity it brings.

It's this lack of wants that draws Huanglong's interest.

This separation from desire that thrills his heart and tightens his throat and makes his nerves sing under his skin.

It is something PURE. Something DIFFERENT.

And he oh so wants to devour it.

One way or another.

He wants to make it his.

It is a shame for Zheng that so often greatness and the demands of larger callings are not sought, but are so often thrust unwillingly upon those who must endure them.

Zheng and Xu belong to @fluffaros

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I run a little DnD campaign and through a variety of silly circumstances I got to not only have a Xu cameo but possibly make her and antagonist~!

Story snippet under the cut~!

The murmuring within the council goes quiet. Their writhing mass going still. And you catch the shifting presence upon the wall. Long and serpentine, a shadow amongst shadows as it arcs and dips across the room.

At the apex it peels itself away. The bulk of it falling off as it takes on form. Step by soft step the pitch coalesces into the form of a woman, a waterfall of fabric with a dress whose sleeves touch the ground and whose train flows behind her like newly made mouth of a river taking form.

"She is not longer your daughter..."

She stands to the edge of the pit that houses the heart of this domain. Her eyes bright in the gloom as they bore down upon Siniy and Tallon. The smile upon her mouth nothing but predatory.

"She's MINE."

Xu belongs to @fluffaros

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and a good time to show off the kid Huanglong shares with Zheng. Jiwen is a precious thing. He's fully Zheng's but Huanglong treats him like one of his own.

Which means spoiling the little thing rotten and babysitting often.

Jiwen belongs to @fluffaros

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-Remembers this blog is a thing- Saw a ship template and did this. Zheng belongs to @fluffaros

And Huanglong is... such a problem. He adores Zheng but his adoration is ALOT. And unwelcome.

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From one fire to the next... There are ... alot of AUs because there's a lot of JTTW/Monkey King media which means my characters get a lot of different versions. Huanglong chiefly... Anyway this is a custom AU between @fluffaros and me Where everything is slightly off to the others. We call it 'Wild Cycle' And Huanglong here [known as Eclipse because if I dont give them working names I will lose my mind because the AUs are parallel universes and of course they interact with one another and thus need the distinct names.] never stopped being a kind of feral creation deity.

She's newly returned the Earthly realm and is ... a menace.

Loving and doting and a menace.

Here's her full look below the cut! Her robes hold on with hopes and prayers. The fabric is magic, I dunno what to tell you.

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More DRS

This time, Wukong!

Wu is a Phi, a certain rank of Sympathetic and he boiled under Jade's reign. He was belligerent and loud and obstinate and made a point of carving out his own little chunk of the world that would be his, out of Jade's reign.

He also spent a majority of his life hiding his rank and posing as a Reflective. Because he couldn't handle someone, anyone, looking down on him for just being a Sympathetic. For getting any ideas.

Things changed when the new powers came into play.

Suddenly, Jade was dead and some dragon and the king of Hell took the imperial throne. Shook all of Heaven. And put out a call for a Sympathetic.

And Wukong took up the call.

It was mostly a test. In the wake of one huge new power dynamic he needed to see what the new rulers of Heaven would be like. If he was going to continue living his life in peace of if things were going to get ugly.

Turns out they're strange but... nice?

So he's been having a hell of a time slowly embracing his rank in a way he hasn't allowed himself to do in centuries and enjoy the perks of being part of the Imperial pack.

Which means getting some fancy new duds to wear around the palace.

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More of my dragon, specifically for DRS! Because that's just where my brain is at. Those in Domineering castes and Sympathetic castes have ruts and heats respectively.

It's a time that should be spent with pack and loved ones. A time that's meant for rest. Affirm your bonds, mix your scent, and simply enjoy those closest to you.

Atleast... That's what it was.

Back before Jade ruled the heavens. But between then and now, as with all other things, it's something that's been twisted around and lost a lot of it's old flare.

Huanglong wants nothing more than to curl up in the nest and ignore the world. But running heaven, and lack of those he can trust to maintain things in his absence, means he pushes himself farther than he really should during the time.

Hey, it means an interesting eye full for those who get to deal with him. Atleast until his husband or their new found pack mate put a foot down and force him to take some time off.

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Silly little things. Fu with Xiangliu. He just really loves this beast.

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Wanted to try the military dance trend with my dragon. He's a smug bastard.

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I finally have all of the stratos system drawn! So these are the five alters in the system as they would appear in headspace! From left to right:

Malice - A persecutor more or less. He is a shapeshifter most predominently and will casually appear as a big dark shadow covered in eyes or take on the shape of the one who fronts. Due to some things he's been taking the front more solo and this is his casual solid state of being. Or looking like Shockwave.

Kolibri - The 'little' of the system. She's a sweetheart and very flitty. Happy to offer people chances and waste her times with games and casual hanging out. She has the least access to memories.

Kaze - Predominant host and the one with the most flux in emotion. He can be temperamental and short fused and respond to life like a wounded teenager, also with a teenager's sense of justice or duty.

Ghost - More of a fragment they are quiet. Mute actually. And speak with chirolinguistics/sign language. They formed as a response to some fresher trauma of trying to reconnect with his sister only to not be recognized and then having a hard falling out with her over a few things.

Fleet [FL-282] - The gatekeeper and primary protector of the system. He's fronted or co-fronted for a long time. He's the one that mostly shouldered their trauma and especially the tasks they were made to complete while in the lab. He's sweet but stoic and direct.

And then their single pictures under the cut!

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Just trying some animating

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Making myself post my art even if it's scribbles.

But this is following more of the DRS AU. With Huanglong and his husband Xu! DRS stands for Domineering/Reflective/Sympathetic It's a version of ABO made by @fluffaros! [Who also owns Xu] She wanted something with a bit more option and interest than usual ABO systems allow.

Xu and Huanglong are a Domineering and Reflective pair! With Xu being a Reflective [Mu] and Huanglong being Domineering [Alpha]

They act as the imperial couple of Heaven.

The fun thing, though, is their dynamic is more traditional.

In their world the pack is ruled by Reflective ranks, territory is decided by Sympathetics, and the pack internally is taken care of by Domineering.

It's a dynamic that's been forgotten through the centuries and generations. They are ancient creatures and freshly pulled into the modern era. And they make plenty of waves as they dont care for the new age toxic dynamics that insist on those Domineering ranks taking control and everyone else getting relegated to fodder or breeding stock.

They are a peak powerful couple and very invested in tearing the new world order back into line.