#ledgerdomain

[autoacafiles]

(If the Ben 10 fans are wondering why I made the two Charmcasters distinct characters, between the name changes and MHA 10-B's design for Reiko Yanagi, it was an interesting idea I couldn't resist.)

[a-certain-limbus-company]

Sinner EGOs: Canto 1!

Welcome, welcome to the weekly not weekly show where I will be telling you an EGO one of the Sinners has, and it’s Awakening and Corrosion lines!

this episode: Canto 1 EGOs!(Faust, Gesellschaft, Kromer, Impending Day, Valencina, Ebony Stem, Dongbaek, Ledgerdomain)

this episode is the celebrate the completion of the fics first canto by giving yo guys a quadruple feature of the EGO and EGO related to the Abnos that appeared within it!

Gesellschaft

(Base EGO, so no Corrosion)

Awakening: “By this blade, the Administrators decree your death.”

Impending Day

Awakening: “I’ll… crush you…!”

Corrosion: “You’re all heretics! And heretics, are my favorite sacrifice~!!!”

Ebony Stem

Awakening: “To seize my goal, I will stop at nothing.”

Corrosion: “Just a little… FURTHER…!”

Ledgerdomain

Awakening: “You sure you can handle this? Let’s test that!”

Corrosion: “I will leave it all… to rot…”

[geekgirles]

So I know a usual criticism regarding the introduction of Anodites, and hence linking magic and more specifically Gwen's powers to aliens, is about how they sort of "robbed" the franchise of one of its core elements. But have you ever thought that, given the additional information from the OS, something like that might have been Man of Action's intention all along?

I mean, Omniverse retconned Bezel as a part of the franchise. He was introduced as the greatest sorcerer in the universe, as a person, but that was only because the team couldn't get their hands on all the pop-ups from the original show.

You know what the pop-ups said?

This:

Bezel was never supposed to be a great sorcerer, but a different dimension that was more technologically advanced than Earth! The charms only seemed magical because they were literally too advanced for humans to really understand how they worked.

That's how Gwendolyn was able to wield them in the future even though she destroyed them years ago. She went to the dimension of Bezel and asked for new ones.

So given the charms' initial origins, the fact that there were more advanced magical artifacts that, for some reason, Gwen could handle just fine (the Staff of Ages), and the heavy sci-fi setting of the show, is it really that difficult to believe what we came to know as magic was, deep down, some sort of alien energy/technology we didn't understand or know of?

Because it that was Man of Action's intentions all along, then having Gwen's proficiency with magic be due to belonging to a race of mage aliens is a perfect way to answer the questions raised back in the OS.

Now, this admittedly seems like it's disregarding a beloved aspect of the franchise entirely. I personally would feel cheated too if it turned out there was no such thing as magic in the first place, but luckily UAF managed to avoid just that with the introduction of the Alpha Runa and Ledgerdomain.

Although I just found this pop-up that seems to indicate Hex and Charmcaster were originally intended to be from Bezel, as well.

Having said that, if you ask me, I think that in the end the UAF team did a perfect job at blending both interpretations.

If Man of Action did intend to reveal magic was just something too advanced for humans or that we simply didn't understand or know of, the introduction of Anodites and mana covered that splendidily. And on the other hand, the Ledgerdomain lore served its purpose of keeping magic alive and real.

[whatudottu]

Thinking about anodites and how ‘they don’t have DNA’ to scan, then looking at Alien X and celestialsapiens and calling bullshit, the Tennysons all have a little bit of anodite within them if the spark for magic is hereditary. But that comes with a follow up question; if anodites like celestialsapiens - bizarre and powerful humanoid aliens of great mystery - have at least one strand of DNA, how does one make Gwen’s abilities unique and stop Ben from potentially stealing her style?

The answer? Technology doesn’t work right around magic.

Mana, the life force of anything and everything from plants to creatures to sapient beings, has been described as the make up for an anodite’s physiology. But simply being a ball of mana as a being with thoughts, feelings and a distinct personality, Gwen (if you’d allow me to continue under the UAF retcon for a moment) could not and would not have an anodite form were there no alien genetics. This, though a little simple to say, is why anodites have DNA; they can have ‘blood’ relatives.

But why can’t anyone with a DNA scanner (that which includes the Omnitrix itself) get a read on an anodite’s genetic code?

Well, while yes they have a form to which they base their existence in (one which can morph into the many shapes of the galaxy), they have an unspeakable excess of mana that notoriously Does Not Compute with any form of technology and otherwise non-living constructs. Even the greatest minds in the galaxy - in multiple perhaps - cannot counteract the fundamental rivalry between life and machine where Azmuth, First Thinker of the galvan and very creator of the Omnitrix, still does not understand mana and magic and especially how to combat that in the development of tech. It’s practically a non-issue on Galvan Prime worrying about magic for the heavy industrialisation and tech evolution have overridden a lot of the baseline mana flow.

In this regard, alongside many, anodites and galvan differ. Anodyne much like Aldabra and Anur Phaetos have intersections with the plane of Ledgerdomain, which fill the planet with raw mana from the magic reality. But unlike the latter 2 planets which have a thin veil but a still present separation, Anodyne just straight up converges, runs parallel to and otherwise is twisted into knots between the planes of reality and the magic dimension. The extreme excess in mana for anodites is a direct consequence of their planet being overwhelmed with pure raw mana that there needed to be a place to go, finding itself if the people.

It is with that overflow of mana that anodites possess the ability to shift their forms into the shape and features of another being. By proxy of it being mana - life force in its purest - there can be anodites who take the form of plants and anodites who live their lives as free spirited animals, the most common variation of shapeshifting anodites are those that replicate sapient beings to do whatever the heck they wanted to do in whatever peoples they found themselves amongst.

If Ben were to somehow get an anodite selection, his transformation would only be a fraction of what an anodite is born to be, the fundamental function that mana plays in an anodite’s life would be locked behind the barrier of the Omnitrix’s technology. Instead, they would be a formless being akin to Goop or lenopan (perhaps in a gaseous form because nebulas and stuff) for all of an anodite’s qualities spout from the inherent magic of their existence.

And that’s a wrap on that one, haha- I’m gonna skedaddle *skitters instead*

[flagonofdragons]

Kevin's eye twitch kills me every time.

The fact that they made it mostly indestructible in one afternoon is really impressive though.

[princess-elle-on-atack]

Charmcaster icons made by me <3

Pt. 1

[crystal-moon-101]

Wanted to make a little thank you drawing for the Ink Tank, letting me do a background sound in the new And Beyond. If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend you go check it out! They did a lot of amazing work for this one, and I know many of you will enjoy it!💗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bznVkKgGl7U

[mshelley-art]

Another commission finished!! A Ben 10 UAF-style icon for @novemberocean. I also finished up a TON of talksprites for a Mighty Ducks podcast, more news on that as it comes!! Cheers folks!