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[skunkes]

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omg second pic.... smunker images of all time

[copepods]

WTF i didnt see it was your birthday today until just now!!! happy birthday !!!!!

ur such a huge style inspiration to me and i love your introspection on rain world a lot and i hope you ha d agreat birthday :3

thank you!! i did have agreat birthday i left school early because i didnt want to do chemistry lab on my birthday

[waywardsalt]

i dont have a specific question but tell me more about the dark mage au :)

Oooohhh the dark mage au... In simple terms, the basic premise is that this au is the one that my ganonbeck fic 'Where the Seas Meet the Sands' takes place in, so it is therefore The ganonbeck au, and is named 'dark mage' au because the secondary premise of this au is that Linebeck learns magic! Dark magic, obviously. It's also called 'dark mage' specifically over any other magic-related subtitle because I am personally obsessed with Fire Emblem Awakening's male dark mage design and thus imagine Linebeck in it every so often.

It's... lacking plot right now, but I hope I'll be more motivated to hash out a further plot once I finish up WtSMtS. It’s intended to take place a but before and then directly after that fic, with that fic’s events being… somehow slotted in. that’s my biggest issue with making them effectively the same thing, but that really only applies for if/when I actually write this au.

As said before, this au is effectively half romance and half drama, likely beginning with most focus on the relationship between Ganondorf and Linebeck, before more serious plot threads start appearing- yknow establishing the relationship of the two main characters before muddying the waters a bit.

Some of the worldbuilding is lightly figured out; the majority of it takes place on a large continent where the Hylians, Zora, Rito, Gorons, Gerudo, and Sheikah live (kind of just the botw smattering of groups), while places like Holodrum and Labrynna exist across the sea as other continents. I don’t think anyone will actually go to Holodrum or Labrymna, it’s just worth mentioning since Linebeck does sail around a few times, and it generally makes the world feel a bit bigger. Plus they do get mentioned as places sending or receiving goods.

Back to the ‘dark mage’ part of things, I have a light magic system hashed out across a few of my aus, but it originated with this au and is most important to it. There’s a bit of a focus on how magic works, with Ganondorf being a skilled magic-user, Linebeck learning to use magic, and magic being generally known and used across the story by many other cast members.

The general gist if the magic is that anyone can learn to use magic so long as they know how to, and there are a few types of magic, mostly divided by element. Some groups and people have a specific inclination towards one or two elements and therefore would learn and handle them more easily, but everyone more or less has equal chance to learn magic. No one is more or less automatically superior at magic than anyone else, it’s all based in how much you practice, and there are some specific conditions that can temporarily boost someone’s magic ability.

The magic system is intended to be important to the plot, but first I need to have an actual plot set up. Some crumbs of it are present in WtSMtS, with tension and unrest directed at the Hylain kingdom, and Ganondorf’s more hostile thoughts towards it, so I think the plot that does arise will revolve around a conflict with the Hylian kingdom, not just between them and the Gerudo but also involving a few of the other groups, since they have their own stances on the Hylian Kingdom. The finer details haven’t been figured out yet, though.

Beyond all that, though, at it's core its a ganonbeck fic with some real plot mixed in later on, with actual usage of the loose and basic magic system I've decided on. In a sense, it's one of the few that's actually been a bit written and posed via WtSMtS?? I haven't thought about that much, but it also makes it easier for me to properly write this au using that fic as a sort of springboard.

[copepods]

hiii sorry for lurking on ur blog i love to go thru it every couple days to see if uve posted any more art .

i love ur iterator designs sososososo much they feel so.. natural but mechanical at the same time . theyre so chunky but also smooth, they have such a realistic weight and power to them and the clothing designs.. throws up. theyre so good!!!

do you have any specific inspirations for the base game’s iterator’s patterns/designs?? are there any connections between each iterator’s designs/clothes?

ALSO i love your ocs SO much i really hope to see more of them soon!! i love hearing about others’ ocs it’s always so cool

thank you aaa ;w; for their clothing designs, im very inspired by the geometric patterns on the ancient murals! and i have a pinterest board where i collect a bunch of clothing photos as well, not really any one style but a mishmash of different stuff haha (a lot of viking/old scandinavian clothing, some imperial chinese stuff, even some modern runway designs!)

the one solid connection between every iterator i draw is they all have the X symbol somewhere on their outfit, usually in the form of a pendant or accessory but sometimes on the fabric itself!

i want to draw my ocs more but i keep having ideas for other stuff LOL ill get back to them eventually