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[soulofamy]

Taki and Natsu for the V Dialogue!

from this prompt

intro:

taki: natsu? you shouldn't be here!

natsu: that makes two of us

taki win: say hello to your mother for me

natsu win: come on. im taking you home

[axelconia]

~✨Danger of falling in love✨~

A new Conduit spread today featuring incredible (and deliciously suggestive) art by, and dedicated to @ank3kur0 who is the master of dedication and appreciation for the Conduit & Grøh and who, frankly, should be hired as the official writer for them in the next game. 😌💖⚖️

~ Enjoy! 🌹❤️

[sc-intothedarknightofthesoul]

trick or treat!

@ank3kur0

Happy early Halloween to you both!

How about a sneak peak at my upcoming chapter?

Gonna put it under a cut for those who wanna wait until the actual chapter releases and don't wanna be spoiled too soon.

There you go, have some angst!

The chapter is almost done, but I hope you've enjoyed what I have so far!

[soulofamy]

22 for Z.W.E.I. x Viola for the OTP Prompt!!💜

Soft OTP Prompts

22- Write about a member of your ship giving the other a special gift. 

Viola found it odd that Z.W.E.I. had been coming to sleep later and later each night as of late. Smelling of coal and iron, she could only surmise that he has been spending all his time in the forge. This worried her.

While many warriors honed their skills with their weapons to relieve stress, Z.W.E.I. preferred a more creative outlet. The forge was his escape from all the pressures of his day to day life. If he was spending so much time there now, that could only mean that there was something on his mind. But what it was, Viola was uncertain. Whenever she inquired about it, he always dismissed her concern and reassured her that everything was fine. It wasn't like Z.W.E.I. to hide things from her.

Though his eyes were tired, he seemed to be in especially high spirits one morning when he asked her to come hiking with him. The idea immediately was enticing to her. It had been a while since the two of them had been able to spend time together with no duties to their guild looming over their heads. Perhaps now she could get him to speak his mind.

The conversation they made while hiking was familiar to her. That was to say, Z.W.E.I. did most of the speaking, while Viola thoughtfully listened. His mood did not betray that there was anything he was holding back from her. For once, Viola was at a loss, unable to make sense of his recent behavior when his demeanor did not match it. Z.W.E.I. was not one for playacting either.

The two finally reached their destination. They stood on the bank of a secluded pond. The water was as clear as crystal. The waterlilies on its surface appeared to be floating on air.

"It's beautiful," Viola breathed.

"I thought you might like it," Z.W.E.I. responded with a smile. "Found it on my way back from my last assignment." He turned back to face the pond. "Just imagine what this place looks like at night."

A sly smile formed on Viola's face as she looked over at Z.W.E.I. "That sounds like an invitation to come back here with you."

Z.W.E.I. chuckled. "Yeah, I guess it is. Next time we can bring supplies and set up camp."

Viola took his hand and slipped her fingers between his. "I'd like that."

He looked down at her and smiled. "I have something for you, by the way."

Viola's eyebrows knit and she looked at him with curiosity. "For me?"

He reached into his pocket to produce a small drawstring pouch and handed it to her. It saddened her to think he would go out of his way for her. Money had always been hard to come by, even as mercenaries. The last thing she wanted was for him to struggle for her sake. Still, she was already holding the gift. She couldn't offend him now by refusing it. She delicately opened the pouch and pulled out a ring. The details were delicate and intricate, and a breathtaking pink stone sat embedded in the middle. Viola's eyes widened, then her eyebrows knit.

"Oh Zwei..." she said, her voice both thankful and apologetic.

"I saw you looking at a ring similar to that in the marketplace a while back," he began to explain. "I wanted to give you this one earlier but it turns out jewelry making takes much longer than weaponsmithing."

Viola looked up at Z.W.E.I. with raised eyebrows, inwardly relieved. "You made this?" She looked back down at it and marveled at its craftmenship. Is this why he spent so much time in the forge? Her heart fluttered when she pictured him concentrating as he carved out the designs. She splayed out her fingers and admired how effortlessly it fit her.

Z.W.E.I. looked down at her with anticipation. "Yeah. Do you...like it...?"

She looked up at him with a smile and stood on her toes to press a kiss to his jaw, then wrapped her arms around his middle. "I love it. Thank you. I will treasure it always."

Z.W.E.I.'s posture relaxed with her words and he kissed the top of her head before reciprocating her embrace. "Of course."

[sc-intothedarknightofthesoul]

28 for the OC Ask Prompt, for Kasta!

28. How do they show that they care about someone? How do they express that they don't like someone?

Kasta folds like a deck of cards when someone shows them kindness (to a fault). So they return that kindness back through small acts that every person does. They show up for the person they love, sit in uncomfortable silence with them when they're hurt (though, Kasta wants so desperately to solve their problems), they listen to that person talk their ear off without interruption about what they're passionate about.

They also have sparring sessions with those people to learn from them and that person learns from them in return, like two artist friends sharing techniques with each other.

Believe it or not, Kasta suffers from a saviour complex, they feel responsible for what happens to the people close to them and they feel the strong need to help them, regardless of their own health and needs...

...a trait that a certain self-proclaimed saviour calls them out on in a villainous "we're not so different" speech, but that's for the far future.

Speaking of people Kasta doesn't like, they will get very nervous around that person and have trouble looking them in the eye. But depending on that person's level of danger, expect Kasta to get extra snarky and comedic than usual. They're usually a forgiving person if that person proves their worry wrong, but if not...well...Gods bless their soul...

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Thank you for the ask and have a wonderful day or night!

Ask game's right here if anyone has questions or if y'all wanna do it yourselves:

i wanted to make an oc ask game 😋 things i like to ask people abt their characters: are they associated with a certain color? what color do

[soulofamy]

Trick or Treat!!!

ask box trick-or-treat (fic writer edition)

i havent actually started writing it yet but ive been thinking about the details for a fic about the forbidden romance that took place between the wolf and scheherazade. we dont really know much about the wolf but i plan on using the fic to explore how the kingdom of wolfkrone came to be. i also want to draw on the "wolf and the storyteller" sidestory from libra of souls and kinda sorta make their relationship mirror that of omid and liselotte because you literally cannot tell me that the two of them didnt fall in love after the events of that story an idea that i had for how exactly the wolf falls in love with scheherazade is that, much like her namesake from the arabian nights story, she will get him to sneak out to see her every night by promising to tell him more stories that she will inevitably leave on cliff hangers each time. im thinking the stories that she tells him are all going to be stories about soul edge and soul calibur, mostly about algol or maybe even about zasalamel idk one of the things thats kinda holding me back is that i have a really hard time picturing what life looked like that long ago in that region and also i have absolutely no idea what i want to headcanon the wolfs actual name to be

[sc-intothedarknightofthesoul]

Grøh with H8 + sounds of crying palette for the emoticon drawings!

~ Grøh - H8 - Sounds of Crying ~

How our boy got to this point is up to interpretation, but hey, at least he gets a nice hot drink out of it.

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Check out the rest I've done:

Sophitia

Celeste (Mommahoodie's Conduit OC)

Viola

Natalie

Z.W.E.I

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Ask game here {x}

[sc-intothedarknightofthesoul]

Gonna go ahead and tag you guys real quick since y'all asked for the same character, but I'd feel bad answering to only one of you: @soulofamy @mommahoodie @ank3kur0

Also, I got a bingo! Yay!

I'll be honest, what if I told you I didn't like Grøh at first?

Shocking, considering I gush over this guy time and time again, but let me explain.

I'll admit I played the Main Chronicle first before Libra of Soul and one of the first things he does is come out of nowhere to ambush Kilik, and putting myself in Kilik's shoes, I'm just as confused as to what the fuck just happened and why he straight up attacked him.

But the thing I learned about Grøh from that scene and the one where he meets the Conduit in Libra of Soul is that he doesn't exactly give off the best of first impressions: he's stand-offish, cold, and blunt (some will call him pessimistic, like I did at one point, others will say he's telling the cold hard truth no one at the time wanted to hear), didn't stop to think about the feelings of others and would rather push them away.

So what made me go a complete 180° on my mind about Grøh?

One simple answer is that, unlike Taki in that story, Grøh does come back to help Kilik and Xianghua get to Nightmare hiding out in Ostrheinsburg Castle, which ultimately made me curious about him that his Soul Chronicle became the first one I watched after completing the Main Chronicle.

The complicated answer is that I actually sort of relate to Grøh in the sense of, "I act aloof and cold at times without meaning to, I've made people cry because I get blunt as a sledgehammer when I thought it was me being honest with them, and I tend to push people away in favour of protecting myself and others from harm."

Point is, it took time, patience, and a bit of looking in the mirror to get me completely on board with Grøh's character.

Then I watched his Soul Chronicle and we got hints as to why he acts the way he does, something I have sort of expected all along: The Malfested took his friends, family and home from him, Nightmare took away his squad and a part of his humanity away and made it ten times harder to be himself without the fear of his Malfested side taking control over him, Azwel basically gave Grøh the worst kind of emotional whiplash imaginable by saving his life and then forcing him to fight and kill his best friend Curtis when he revealed his secret to him, meanwhile also having Orzal, his teacher and probably the closest thing to a father figure in the Aval Organization, killed during Azwel's defection.

Then I finally get to Libra of Soul and I see him slowly open up to the Conduit and soften his heart for them and it's just...

...If Project Soul's definition of slow burn is not only having him and another character bond over time, but also having you, as the player, bond with him over time, then that deserves a chef's kiss from me!

Also, Grøh ends up standing between the Conduit and danger coming for them TWICE, if not THRICE. First being Valtro when we see his Malfested self for the first time, second being an attempt to protect them while they were sick but he messed up his footing in his attack before Taki came out of nowhere to finish the Berserker off, and then finally standing between them and Azwel in that cutscene in the Shrine of Eurydice before reckless succumbing to his Malfestation and throwing Azwel and himself off a goddamn cliff.

Like guys, one time is an instance, two times is a coincidence, and three or more times ends up becoming a pattern.

Also to add to what I said in the previous post about the final fight with Azwel being cathartic because you're making him pay for what he's done, I also fought Azwel in the name of Grøh knowing how much he suffered because of that fucker and that I felt was fulfilling a promise.

So it's no surprise that at the end of the Soul Calibur/Good Route, I cried when Grøh looked back to the camera, to the Conduit, and gave a smile, something that is a first in this game mode. It felt to me that not only is he thanking the Conduit for basically saving his life and bringing back his humanity, it's like a very emotional thank you to the player for playing Libra of Soul.

I also finished the Soul Edge/Evil Route a while back and yeah, it felt gut-wrenching having to fight him with Soul Edge, and just like that, a piece of me died when Grøh died.

So yeah, I can fully say without a shadow of a doubt that I fell in love with this character in a fashion I didn't expect to.

Regarding his design, I'm not too deep into the lore of King Arthur and the Knights of Avalon, but I do enjoy people's take on the lore (Quest for Camelot was one of my favourite movies growing up). Plus, I am also a sucker for Norse mythology and I liked how he kinda looked like Odin with the eye patch and the fur on his coat and the fact that he's from Norway. And the way they basically combined the two is very interesting to me. I also fuck with the punk aesthetic he's got going on.

One headcanon that I see a lot of people use and one I agree with a lot is that since we don't know how old he is or when his home got attacked or how long he's been part of the Aval Organization, I figured he probably was rescued and raised by the Aval Organization when he was really young, which would sort of explain why the Oath he took about taking on the Malfested, or Outsiders, is deeply ingrained into his mindset and why he follows his orders to the letter.

It also saddens me that he doesn't get a lot of love in the fandom or isn't as remembered as much as the other characters, to the point where there was a time a friend thought he was an OC of mine, granted she didn't know he wasn't cos she doesn't participate in the Soul Calibur fandom, but still.

But yeah, just gonna wrap up these asks and say that I love Grøh a lot as a character and I think is an underrated gem.

And maybe an analogy that Grøh is like a shy, distrustful yet lovable guard dog that I adopted at a shelter, while (to add to the previous post) Azwel's the chaotic cat causing mayhem in everybody's wake that I found in a dumpster in an alleyway one Monday morning.