#*tiphares

[zheida]

[zheida]

[zheida]

trying to learn how to be loose again i feel like since changing to a screen tablet that aspect of my art has been destroyed but its only been a year and a half so i got a lot of learning ahead of me even still. BUT IN THE MEANTIME its really annoying

its fine tho just means uhhhh drawing straight in black a lot instead of sketching and lines

[zheida]

🚶‍♂️💨 Hihi again I had another question. What is Tiphares like?

hgjkhsd ILL TAKE EM ALL I LOVE IT!!!

Tiphares is...... sad. honestly LOL one of my saddest ocs that i have which is rly saying smth i have a habit of writing tragedy and he's pretty up there in the top 10.

in my setting ive adapted the same idea from the last unicorn in that, forests are kept alive by the unicorns that live in them, and Tiphares had a forest in the southern continent which is the dark continent Voidus Lyr, his forest isnt exactly a traditional one its not green and eternal spring but it was alive, usually covered in ice and snow, dark and still pretty. it was a good place for the kinds of creatures living in it.

Eventually, Tiphares was hunted by mortals, he was chased out of his forest into demon territory to corner him so they could kill him and possibly sell his horn and blood and whatever else is profitable from a unicorn body, and he SADLY was the first unicorn to actually kill someone, and because of this he lost his ability to heal and maintain his forest, and it eventually died. (along with a lot of the residents inside of it save for a small number that resisted curses and kept their little patch of forest cleansed, or some that escaped to different countries)

BECAUSE OF THIS Tiphares fell into a deep despair, he came across the whispering of an old god that was offering his power back if he did him favors and Tiphares took the deal. He summoned a false hydra for the god that in the future also spread a sickness across the entire continent that in current time is still killing mass amounts of people and causing death across the entire land. When he learned what he did and that his powers never returned Tiphares had tried to die by his own hand but unfortunately unicorns are one of the few creatures that are truly immortal :( so he lives with a lot of guilt and sadness in his life. He cant heal anything, and his magic only kills the nature around him when his emotions get bad enough.

ITS NOT GOING TO BE A BAD END FOR HIM THOUGH I THINK he does have a partner that loves him very much that he reconnected with from a long time ago, he hadnt seem him since they were much younger but since feeling unconditional love from his old friend again he's starting to feel his natural magic coming back in tiny amounts. No healing but he can use little bits of ice magic again.

[zheida]

Has Tiphares ever considered trying to fight the Hydra?

he truthfully has no idea what it was that he summoned and neither does the rest of the continent kldjfh everyone calls it "the sickness" or if there are a few people that do think there is something causing it, its just "the beast" but as for fighting it PROBABLY not, he doesnt have much combat use to offer anyone, unicorns are very rarely (ALMOST unheard of) equipped to do something like that. Him killing the hunters before was purely just panicked self defense more than anything else. and even if he was, he only knew how to heal, he has no idea how to handle how his magic works in its current form :( so.. sadly he cant do much in that regard.

His partner IS restoring his forest though, Lucien is taking it over so it starts growing again and so others can return to their home, so theres hope in that sense.

[zheida]

Lucien and Tiphare?? 🥺 You mentioned that Tiphare reconnected with an old friend, turned partner, what is the two's story? Is that Lucien?

Yes!! Lucien is my friends oc, I dont have any pics of them but I'll have to draw them together eventually 😭 but he's another black unicorn and they were friends a long time ago. They lived pretty far from each other but they'd see one another on occasion before Tiphares lost his magic. After that all the other unicorns avoided him thinking it was some kind of contagious thing that they'd also end up like him over time if they stayed around him and they obviously rly... Hated what he did, so others kept themselves and Lucien away (especially Tiphares brother, he is especially angry at him) but they ended up meeting again later after a big sequence of events that kinda ended up with him looking for Lucien and they've been together since. Trying to find a place to live that'll accept Tiphares, which is basically nowhere except this one place where they are now that he hates, so they're trying to restore his old forest instead. but that's also causing problems because the ones that are still living there really don't want him back either bc they're afraid the previous events will happen again so IT'S A MESS... But Lucien is rly trying to fix it for him because he loves him and wants him to be home, he's a good boy