#kiwi creates

[kiwibirb1]

I want to lose you.

I want to lose you because it means that I will have known you. It means I will have loved you, cared for you, been amused by you, been hurt by you, held you in my two hands and my two arms and my one heart and cherished you. I want to lose you because it will mean that someone loved you, that there was someone to lose you.

[kiwikipedia]

i forgot but last year I made some lazy edits of Fate and Hades because I think it's bullshit that Hektor wasn't there. Maybe he'll show up in Hades II with Chiron and Circe too lol

[kiwibirb1]

The stars and the moon, what could be better together? (You are tied to the earth, terrestrial, prints forever preserved on your surface. You are as far as something could possibly be, ethereal, a flaming point to admire. You could not be more different.)

[kiwibirb1]

(A child's diary, filled mostly with your average entries. We have picked out the relevant ones. The cover is simple leather. There are a few ink stains on the back, and a sketchy drawing of a bird on the inside of the front cover.)

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I get these dreams, sometimes. I'm in a forest. It is daytime, the leaves creating shifting shadows on the ground. I can hear birds, somewhere in the distance. There's always this feeling, like... like there's something in the forest. Something dangerous. Something bigger than me. I walk, and walk, and walk, but I never find the edge of the forest. The birds go quiet when I try to find them.

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I had another dream in the forest again. I... I didn't like it. I don't think I was supposed to see that one.

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(Written small, on the bottom of another, unrelated entry.)

Feels almost like I'm the thing in forest some nights.

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The forest is here. The area around the house used to be these big open fields that we would run around in for hours. No matter where you were, it was flat enough that you could always see the house. Now it's all just forest. It looks so old. Everyone else says it's always been there when I ask about it.

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It's the same forest from my dreams. I think it came for me.

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I went into the forest today. It looks the same. Feels the same, too. I couldn't find the birds.

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(Barring one more entry about the child's dinner that night, the rest from here on are about the forest.)

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I keep going back to forest. I'm not sure why. I wake up, go about my day, and wind up standing outside the house at sunset with leaves in my hair and mud on my shoes. They keep asking me what I do in there all day. I'm not sure I know the answer.

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I almost didn't get home in time for sunset today. (The next few words are scratched out, as if there had been multiple attempts to start a sentence.) It would have been bad if I didn't get out. The thought makes me scared, so it must be bad.

I was too busy chasing the birds.

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My brother came with me into the forest today. I told him not to, I think. It would be dangerous for him. He asked me why it wouldn't be dangerous for me as well. I couldn't answer him, so he followed me. He didn't follow me out. (There is a single letter written before the ink line falls sharply down the page, as if the writer had lost control of their hand. There is no other writing on the page. The bottom of the paper is slightly warped from water damage in a few spots.)

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He doesn't exist. They don't remember him. Is that what will happen to me if I don't come home? Will there be anyone to write about it left?

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I still get the dreams, you know. They're exactly the same as before, except each night it gets closer and closer to dusk. I'm... I don't think it's me, in the dreams. Yet whenever I look down at my hands they look like mine.

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I found a bird today. It was sitting on a branch. When it looked at me it fell. I looked it up in a book when I returned to the house. Starling.

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The birds didn't sing today. I wonder if there was only ever one?

(The journal ends here, the remaining pages blank. When asked who had brought it in, none of the staff could recall. One managed to point us to a house surrounded by open fields. The owners never had any children, and certainly never lived near a forest.)

[kiwibirb1]

To the friends that are gone and gray:

I hope you are alive. I hope you are okay.

To the friends I don't see; sometimes blue:

I wish you well. I miss you.

To the friends I have left behind:

I am sorry. Trust your mind.

To the friends who are not mine:

I don’t know you. I hope this is fine.

To the friends I've made anew:

You give me hope. Thank you.

[kiwikipedia]

Trojan War on the brain and so I will commit 1000 crimes

main still and taglist under the cut 

Taglist:

@jedifisto @spaceydragons @purgetrooperfox @spacerocksarethebestrocks @insanelytomato @babygirljoelmiller @certified-anakinfucker @d3epfriedanger @gen-is-in-her-pink-era @thecodyagenda @babygirl-leon-kennedy @txtalnyx @jawajawas @yeggmolk​

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Now I’m Not Saying That I Should Be Allowed To Design Servants For Fate, But....

Summer Unit, Caster Chiron has Arrived! As the immortal Caretaker and Teacher of Mount Pelion, there’s little doubt that he knows all the tips and tricks to survive a coastal month in the sun. What’s that? The Constellation is wrong? Sagittarius? Don’t be silly, Chiron’s always embodied the Constellation Centaurus. Always.

Costume Dress(es), Individual Stills for the new Sprites (Asc 3), Notes, and Taglist below the cut :)

That "Always" bit is meant to be somewhat ominous which hints at the whole "rewriting and creating heroes" idea in my last post about this Eternal Summer Stage event.

And if i am to be 100% honest, I don't quite like the final result still in terms of the toga, however, I know that if I keep working on it it will never get done and that's just the way that artists are lol. The effects and everything else though? Beyond what I was even expecting for it to turn out as.

Anywho.

In terms of design, I was mostly just going for the "Dad who has the Cooler" with a casual look for the first two designs and the costume dress really isn't a drastic change either just being called Hatless. The final ascension was a more divine feel where you get that connection with the stars and space that Chiron has due to his constellations. The Costume change there is just "Divine Blessing". I honestly couldn't pick between the two colors so. Costume Dress.

So. Anyways. Each of the stars in the final ascension design are the major "Centauri" stars within Centaurus, the Constellation that Chiron/his NP is embodying here rather than Sagittarius.

The large star that Chiron has in hand is Theta Centauri, also called Menkent, and then the ones on the staff are Alpha-Gamma Centauri.

The top three stars are Alpha Centauri or Rigil Kentaurus and Toliman, and Proxima Centauri. The three make up the full Alpha Centauri as the two blue stars are a binary system that Proxima orbits

The middle two are Beta Centauri or Hadar and Agena, another binary star pair

The lower two are Gamma Centauri which is another binary star group but are unnamed

Actually, the myth of Centaurus is a little wonky because certain texts refer to Centaurus as the Father of all Centaurs and the constellation is because he put an image of himself in the sky where others point to it being the other constellation that Zeus turned Chiron into instead of Sagittarius. Honestly, I'm more inclined to the latter due to conflicting texts about mount Pelion and the Centaurs themselves as it's implied that Chiron was already on Pelion before the other Centaurs arrived in some texts

("The Kentauroi were spawned by the cloud-nymph Nephele after she was violated by the impious Lapith king Ixion. She deposited her double-formed brood on Mount Pelion where they were nursed by the daughters of the immortal kentauros Kheiron (Chiron).")

So at least in this/my version of Myth/Fate, Centaurus is Chiron as a Caster and Healer but no less a teacher, rather than the more combat-ready and "war-like" Sagittarius.

I don't have everything mapped out, but I do have skills and NP sorta created, if I actually ever get to the full thing, who is to say lmao.

1st Skill: Seaside Planning

Buffs Healing Skill (self), Attack up (all units)

2nd Skill: Teacher's Guiding Hand

Target Focus (1 turn), Invincibility (1 turn), Defense up for all units, Battlefield change to Forest

3rd Skill: Blessing of Artemis / Blessing of Apollo (costume change)

Applies "Blessings of the Moon" or “Blessings of the Sun” to all units ( Defense Up, Heal Per Turn, NP gain Up, Crit Up)

Noble Phantasm: Hunt of Lupus: Protector of Mount Pelion | Quick

Rank: A NP Type: Anti-Personnel Range: 5-99 Maximum Targets: 1

A single target Noble Phantasm much like Antares Snipe, however, while Sagittarius uses a bow, Centaurus uses his staff to sweep through and pierce the body of Lupus. This is the story of Chiron. However, here, his job is not finished. The slaying of "Lupis" ends, and thus the Teacher and protector of Pelion returns to those he protects and tends to them.

At its base, one could call it the Single Target version of Geronimo's Tsago Degi Naleya in which it deals damage and heals the party after.

"Entrust to me the stars and my Guiding hand shall lead you, o watchmen of the night. I encircle myself twice with the seven heavenly bodies so that I may continue my role among the stars. You who has woken me, fall. Hunt of Lupus."

Truth be told, still workshopping the Noble Phantasm, but it's fine, it's out there as a concept. It's a lot like Antares Snipe though, I guess? Because I did want to lean into the Greek and Constellation side of things and just. Oh well. Originally, though, I was going to make Chiron and Chariclo one Servant, and then have their Noble Phantasm be Chariclo's ("Lifeblood of Mount Pelion") but then split them up because idk I enjoy hell. They're both casters though, because I refuse to put more Rulers into the already bloated Ruler cast.

I do not have voice lines at the moment despite the fact that I have all of Chariclo and all of Agravain's finished lol

Taglist Form or feel free to ask me to get tagged (just DM!):

@jedifisto​​ @spaceydragons​​ @purgetrooperfox​​ @spacerocksarethebestrocks​ @insanelytomato @babygirljoelmiller @certified-anakinfucker @d3epfriedanger @thecodyagenda @babygirl-leon-kennedy​ @txtalnyx​ @jawajawas​ @ge-ge-ge-ge-genifer

Please tell me if you want to be taken off of the list as this is no longer just Star Wars art

Additional Tags for those who have been interested in Summer Chiron previously (i hope you dont mind):

@300iqprower @bitterrosebrokenspear

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had a minor crisis about posting my progress with the li shuwen sprite edit because I haven't done anything but then remembered who gives a fuck I'm a li shuwen girlie anyways here's this fuckhead (adored)