seeingreverse

rev (he/him) ⬩ 23⬩ artist & writer AO3

[seeingreverse]

new fic is completed on AO3! dove into the world of shadowgast with a bang: caleb experiences a freak memory loss incident, and bren wakes up living with essek in rexxentrum. what does he do? how does essek handle this insanity? find out >:D

https://archiveofourown.org/works/75041246

[drawsmaddy]

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In honour of the five year (five year??) anniversary of the end of C2 I did a redraw of the comic I made the day after the finale!!

[moemai]

My brave hot boi ;w; 💜✨

Print available in my shop !

[naughtofchris]

Essek is like ogres who are like onions. He has layers

[veliseraptor]

on the one hand I get why people don't like the addition (although I'm given to understand that it was potentially there in game, just never brought forward? feel like I read that somewhere) of the whole Deirta thing to Essek's story because of a feeling that it sands off some of the sharp edges or makes for an "excuse" but I personally find it fascinating. (in some ways more-so than what seemed to be previous fandom consensus re: Essek's relationship with Deirta (bad).)

and I also get that it's potentially easy/desirable to divide that piece of animated show canon from actual play canon (ah, the trials and tribulations of fandoms with adaptations), but again I find it fascinating to slide it in there and set it alongside, in particular:

why Essek would continue to collaborate with the Cerberus Assembly after the original motive is moot (I don't like the idea of coercion, I love the idea of that beautiful beautiful sunk cost fallacy/desperation to make something worth it because surely there must be some way of doing so)

why Essek never, as far as we know, says anything about Deirta to anybody

which are both, for me, interesting things to chew on.

and I think it still, as a plotline, retains the fundamental selfishness of Essek's selling the Beacons to the Empire, which is, I think, the important part. there's an appeal to the "pure intellectual hunger for knowledge" motive, for sure, but I also enjoy the concept of a personal motive that is still fundamentally underlain by that same hunger for knowledge. it generates the eternal question of was it really for the potentially more 'justifiable' reason, particularly given that Essek's decision is directly contrary to the wishes/beliefs of the person he is ostensibly doing it for.

and also like. it is compelling to me the idea of Essek at least on some level with clear eyes assessing the possibility of war (likelihood of, he says as much) against the life of one person and going "yeah, worth it."

or maybe this is all just. frantic self-justification for my frankencanoning. who can say.

[seeingreverse]

excellent points made by OP here. the addition does not change the fundamentals of essek operating out of selfishness before (and a while after) meeting the mighty nein. it only adds a more personal layer. essek trading the beacons merely as rebellion against a religious state or a lust for power and knowledge is INTERESTING, but not COMPELLING

all of us have loved ones, and it is a deeper moral question to ask: “how can someone lose sight of morality in the pursuit of power for love?” rather than “how does isolation lead to apathy towards the suffering of others?” the second question is more obvious, the first is messy, complex, and echoes throughout history

[awesomelyanon]

Back at it again with my favourite sith lord

[fishmechs]

[sharts-of-narsil]

[alltherestofus]

I love beau and caleb as "empire siblings" because sure as a coastal urban elite I'll make fun of a rural Pennsylvania guy who grew up mennonite and talks with a funny accent, but if you put me on a train with a bunch of Europeans then it's me & the hick 🤞 ride or die go merica. (i'm beau in this example)

[danikatze]

i'd love to make a sketch request of essek! i adore the way you draw him, and i'm super interested in your take/thoughts on the animated show 👀

I used this request to draw Essek and Jester hugging like Matt and Laura at the end of this video :3 Thank you anon 💖

As for my thoughts about M9 animated.. I'm just so incredibly excited about it! I love that it's very new and very familiar. Can't wait to get to know characters I already love deeply and see them grow and start loving each other all over again :')

[rosaalba-art]

Bilberry

"Bilberry – Treachery"

From The Illustrated Language of Flowers 1856, compiled and edited by Mrs. L. Burke

[konoha77-d20]

You get it, right? We know almost nothing about corrupted Caleb yet, but he’s already living in my head rent-free.

[a-tsumewart]

Re-post

If you guy see this FA before , that from my old account . I have the problem because the scammers so I can’t lock-in that account

So this is my new! pls support me 🥹🥹🥹 ( I’m try to fixed but still not )

[exhosionn]

how crazy i just finished watching cr2 and it happened to be right on liam and laura’s birthday lmao? anyways here throws yall some shadowgast

[mortuary9]

[artmadval]

cats lurking in the tower 👀❤️

[chippypiper]

The Regressed Dream Ostinato Unrelated dream sequence. I like to think of Dagoth Ur molding his form seamlessly in dreams, he thrives and can achieve boundlessness in that space. This is also referencing voryns 7 siblings and my personal headcanon that he has taken pieces of his own body/ cloned himself to provide them a body to possess. In the middle is my nerevarine 1111, compulsively praying, still trying to resist the 3rd eye or temptation of power in front of him. close ups: