#deities au

[bones-of-a-rabbit]

they just think it's cute when ur flustered and ur little wings go,, *floof*. they just *floof* in the most precious way!!! can you blame them for sneaking up on you sometimes? don't be madddd pretty pleaseeeee. they promise to clean up the feathers!!!

[aylish91]

Naga Deities

I was looking into naga's for the Kofi event, and had a thought. It is a little closer to naga's of folklore... kind of. hahaha! Not beta read.

(Rough examples of what they might represent)

Sans: Justice, Integrity, Order

Papyrus: Patience, Health, Good Fortunes

Blue: Bravery, Peace, Protection

Stretch: Truth, Foresight, Mischief (trickster god)

Red: Strength, Wrath, Vengeance

Edge: War, Glory

Black: Perserverance, Choice/Crossroads, Wealth/Pride

Rus: Knowledge, Luck, Thieves / Assassins

Horror: Resolve, Death/Decay, Corruption

Crooks: Water, Drout/Famine, Rebirth/Regrowth

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Everything was hazy when you started to come to, your body too heavy to move. When you tried to focus, it was like you were running your fingers through water. There were only two things that stuck with you. Two things you knew for a certainty.

You had fallen, and you shouldn't—

"EXIST AMONG THE LIVING? FORTUNATELY FOR YOU, YOU ARE NOT."

For a split second everything felt like it was spinning, the voice itself seeming to echo off every recess of your mind. It made you sick as you desperately clawed through your haze to open your eyes. The bright light of a white void made your efforts all the more difficult.

But then you saw it.

You wanted to scream. You wanted to run. But your mouth was fused shut, and your body refused to move. Instead, you could only stare up from among the purple of massive snake coils into the gem-like orbs of a ginormous skeleton Naga. Then, through the panicked thrashing within your mind, it spoke, its sharp teeth cracking open like the fatal jaws of a shark.

"BE STILL, HUMAN. IT APPEARS YOU ARE LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE STUMBLED UPON A CROSSROAD."

Images of the ground giving way beneath you and you lying on the reddening stone of a great cavernous temple, flashed through your mind.

"IT IS BY MY WILL AND YOUR POSSIBLE SACRIFICE, THAT YOU HAVE BEEN BROUGHT BEYOND THE VEIL." The coils shifted beneath you as the Naga moved to loom, the scard bone of his face mere feet above you. "NOW, A CHOICE MUST BE MADE."

The purple orbs in its sockets flared like fire to consume you. More images flashed before you, this time of ten stone statues depicting varying other skeleton Nagas. Each had its own unique altar beneath it with a built-in pedestal holding corresponding crystals. With a shift, you saw yourself laid out upon one of them, your fall and injuries staining the stone and allowing the red to flow down into the grooves. Then, light emanated from the altar’s crystal, blinding you until the eyes of the Naga were once again over you. "USE YOUR LIFE AS SACRIFICE TO ME AND MY BROTHERS. FREE US OF THIS PRISON. USE ME, TO PERSEVERE AND GRANT US PLACE IN YOUR SOUL…" The world around you started to distort and fall away until only the fading orbs remained, one last echo filling your thoughts. "OR FALL TO THE MORTALITY OF YOUR REALM."

Naga Aus Master Grand Master Post

[tenicola]

During my holiday trip (US Thanksgiving), I asked my friends Jinkz and Anie to give me OC interactions to sketch in pencil during my downtime.

These are all characters shared between me, Jinkz (@littlescorpio.bsky.social), Anie (@whotisthis.bsky.social), and our 293825 shared verses and AUs! While I'd like to refine and finish some digitally, I polished what I could cuz I like how many of them turned out \o/!!

They are more details for each of these sketches in my Kofi’s Pencil Sketches gallery, and in the alt text of the Bluesky thread.

Character Portfolio -- https://colacanvas.com/

DEITIES Website -- deitiesproject.com

Bluesky / Artfol / Carrd / Ko-Fi

[alilcherrysramblings]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

SECOND CHAPTER OUT YAYYY

Basically: Sisalt fucks up a lil

[luizastarry]

big guy???

[pocketlintel]

hes heree

[sokkas-first-fangirl]

Sneak peek at an upcoming Impa fic, which takes place in the same AU as Guardian of the Gods

When did She and He become she and he? Not as a sign of disrespect, no, far from it. It was a sign of love, an acknowledgment that Zelda and Link were people. The Goddess and God Incarnate, the Sacred Princess and the Hero…Zelda and Link, her sacred charges, her friends. Dedicated, kind, brave. Children. They were so young.

Impa meant her vows with all her heart. She recited them to herself every morning in her mind.

“It would be the honour of my life to serve as Your Impa. I vow to fight with You, to protect You and guide You. As Your destiny unfolds, I shall be there. Any blade raised against You shall fall by my hands. So long as my heart beats, so shall Yours. So long as blood runs through my veins, I shall protect You. I vow to be with You every step of the way.”

She meant it. Oh, how she meant it. With all her heart and soul, with every fibre of her being. Impa would be whatever they needed her to be. Her sacred charges, the Goddess and God Incarnate. Zelda and Link, her friends. Her dear, brave friends, with the weight of the world on their shoulders.

Every day, Impa went to watch Hyrule Castle. No matter if it rained or snowed, hailed or thundered; she went through Kakariko’s graveyard, prayed for her mother’s soul, and turned towards the castle. Past the dreadful clouds of malice, she could see a persistent flicker of golden light. Zelda’s light, Goddess Hylia’s Light, Zelda’s birthright which she’d fought, prayed, clawed, wept, raged and begged for. Her friend was performing a miracle, holding back Hatred and Malice Incarnate.

Sometimes the clouds of malice became a boar’s head, but a quick flash of gold put a stop to it.

Clouds of malice obscured Castle Town’s ruins from view, but there was no missing the castle. Nothing could ever hide that mountainous fortress. The very symbol of their kingdom, rotting and crumbling.

When Link awoke, when he and Zelda killed Ganon, what would follow? What would happen next? Could the castle be restored? But even if it could…Impa couldn’t imagine Zelda living there. Not in the castle where she’d been so deeply unhappy, not where thousands of people met their gruesome ends.

Perhaps they would stay with Impa. She’d like that. Or perhaps they’d find somewhere else to settle down. Perhaps they’d travel.

It would be up to them.

[lohstandfound]

I was rereading some of my deities au posts about mortals at the museum struggling to contact Jake because that man refused to learn basic technology and had the thought that one day someone joked about needing to contact him via carrier pigeon because he's more likely to get the message and Jake almost slips up with "mortals still do that?"

and then had the dumb thought about one of them (not sure who. likely to be Jake Brooke Jeremy or Christine) getting confused over the term snail mail ("what do you mean mortals entrust snails with sending letters? Surely that's inefficient")