#cryptid blake au

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cryptid blake by @friendly-neighbourhood-wet-cat

[friendly-neighbourhood-wet-cat]

how the bees are moving in the wendigo au

[friendly-neighbourhood-wet-cat]

alright so the yap I just posted may have backfired because NOW im thinking bout a Wendigo!Blake au.....

Imagine Blake goes to Beacon, hiding that she's not only a faunus and a terrorist, but also a cannibalistic cryptid creature from old folklore legend. Normal stuff.

Turns out that actually Blake SUUUCKS at passing off as a normal human. She sits like a gremlin and lays down in the most INSANE positions. She enjoys raw fish and meat. She makes little humming and keening noises on the regular. Sometimes she goes non-verbal and has to communicate only in quiet growls and huffs. Her eyes are so piercing and unsettling that literally nobody can hold eye contact with her for more than a few seconds. Sometimes she walks or moves in a slightly less-than-human way. She's TERRIBLE at taking care of herself and always forgets to shower or wash her face or brush her teeth or even sleep, which ends up with her looking pale and greasy and with bloodshot eyes and eyebags (same girl).

However, because the idea of Wendigoes and cryptids is so insane and unbelievable, everyone kinda writes off her behaviour as Blake being Blake. RWYJNPR specifically get used to the weird little hums, the raw meat, the strange stares. Then, they find out about the whole Wendigo thing (maybe Blake transforms while near them by accident), and they're deadass surprised, but not for the reason you'd think...

"Wait... that wasn't your autism?"

"No???? I don't have autism???"

"YOU DON'T???"

(She does she's just in denial about it.)

Okay okay so naturally I have to drop some angst in, so imagine the feeling of not wanting to hurt people but also having that bloodthirsty part of you that just wants to kill kill eat kill devour- Blake tries super hard to control it, but sometimes she has to take a chomp of a slab of beef just to satiate her desires without killing anybody. She always hates herself when she looks at a human and for a split second, feels genuinely murderous. Also if she leaves the hunger for too long it can get really debilitating and painful, and leave her rotting in bed for an entire day because of the agony. MY BABYYYYY

BROOOO now I want art of my silly billy cryptid. my skrunkly. my blorbo who climbs walls and chills on the ceiling. I LOVE HERRRRR

[friendly-neighbourhood-wet-cat]

tired as shit so I drew a few quick eepy blakes for yall :DD

[friendly-neighbourhood-wet-cat]

did someone say more wendigo blake :DDD

(reference under cut!! it was SO hard to find a reference that wasnt ai omfg)

[friendly-neighbourhood-wet-cat]

guess who has a wendi blake designnnnn edit: FORGOT TO ADD MY NOTES okay so I based her off the deer-style wendigo but the cat version because uh. it made sense 👍. I honestly love love LOVE how this came out so yippeee!!!!!! she was sooo fun to draw so I lowkey might do more if I'm feeling it :DDD you guys will have to wait and see!!!!

[friendly-neighbourhood-wet-cat]

okay so im rewatching rwby for the third time (with my brother this time) and during V1 I had a thought.... how the FUCK are the gang gonna hide Blake's whole cryptid thing from the Beacon professors. I can already imagine the shenanigans

just picture Glynda coming to the RWBY dorm to ask smth

Glynda: "Children... why did I find three foot-long slabs of raw beef in the communal fridge?"

Yang: "We like to cook..?"

Glynda: "One of them had a bite mark the size of an Alpha Beowolf."

Ruby: ".....we really like to cook..?"

Glynda: "Sigh."

or Port getting JUMPSCARED

Port: "Doo do doo, evening curfew, looking for delinquents who dont sleep, doo doo- OH MY GODS."

Blake, standing in the shine of his flashlight, audibly heaving, covered in sticks and twigs and with a downright insane look in her eyes:

Port: "....Miss Belladonna. You- uh- you should be asleep."

Blake: "Of course, sir. I apologise for missing curfew."

Port: "That's alright, Miss. Now, get to your dorm."

Blake leaves, stumbling on her feet a bit.

Port: ".....these first years are weird."

LMFAO I LOVE THEM

im too tired rn to imagine other scenarios but TRUST this could be comedy GOLD

[friendly-neighbourhood-wet-cat]

Hi, while I’m sure you don’t mean this with any ill-intent, if you are not native then please know the word w*ndigo is not something that should be used/spoken/typed by non native people. I would find another word for your Blake art.

okay so I'm gonna start with saying I'm so sorry!!! Not just for using the word, but also for my depiction in general. I definitely did not mean to offend anyone, but I admit I may have fucked up a tiny bit.

I've been researching a lot and I realise now that this creature isn't just another brand of cryptid, but a deeply sacred tradition to Native culture. It isn't something to be taken lightly, and I apologise for the way I've been portraying it. I'm probably going to change the name of the au to the "Cryptid Blake AU". The whole idea of the au was to make Blake a mythical creature that is often seen as a monster (which in turn makes her see herself as a monster), and the creature I used simply isn't that. I won't go back and change my wording on every single post, but I will change the tag for the au. The design and lore will stay the same, but it'll be more like a vague type of cryptid rather than an important Native legend.

Again, sorry for any offense I may have caused, and I will try to do better next time!!!