#nikales

[doyouknowthischaracter]

DYKTC OBSCURE CHAMPION 2023

2023 is over, so it's time to find out which one of our top 12 most obscure characters is the people's champion. The list was put together by taking the last six characters from the "by percentage" section and the last six from the "by number of votes" section, skipping duplicates. This time, vote for whoever you want to win, regardless of whether you know them or not! Make sure you read all options carefully before voting because you can only do so once. Have fun and may the best obscure character win!

Pick your FAVORITE obscure character!

Veštica Noks from Mesec Boje Purpura by Miloš Kojić

Sam Linnfer from Waywalkers / Timekeepers by Catherine Webb

Rosalind Butler from Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet by H.P. Wood

Father Arno Moriani from Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon

Dana D'Artagnan from Musketeer Space by Tansy Rayner Roberts

Nolan / Nikales from Ashtown Burials by N.D. Wilson

Piers Fletcher-Dervish from The New Statesman (1987–1994)

Beverly Switzler from Marvel Comics

Milkit from Roll Over and Die

Morbazar from A House of Many Doors

Princess Devilotte from Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness

Full-Tilt from Beast Wars: Uprising

Voting ended onJan 10, 2024

[vertixxx]

First Ashtown Burials fanart post yayyyyy!!! >:)

I love the immortals so much they’re so fascinating and the idea that there’s so many we could have so many different characters from different stories be later involved into this series excites me so much

From left to right: Nolan (aka Nikales), Captain John Smith, Arachne, Gilgamesh of Uruk

[twofoursixohjuan]

I finished all the days of your life (I think)

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

Featuring: Cyrus is tactless of course, let Nolan be a bitch, Niffy isn't there but he's kind of there in spirit (I hate the guy), yes the Polygon walls do need re-oiling on occasion and at some point I'll write about that specifically, the Witch Trials are minorly relevant, the politics around transmortal treaties are written extremely weird and I'm leaning into that a bit

@goldenclasp here you go

[dragoneyes613]

Cyrus stared into the boy's eyes, and the boy's eyes stared into his. What Cyrus saw, he didn't know. What he felt was layer upon layer of ancient. The boy's faint green irises looked like they had been beaten and polished more than the smoothest river rock, like they could see by nothing more than starlight—and they no longer cared to see at all.

— The Dragon's Tooth, N. D. Wilson, page 166

[twofoursixohjuan]

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

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Ashtown Burials - N. D. Wilson Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Gilgamesh (Ashtown Burials), Nolan | Nikales the Thief (Ashtown Burials) Additional Tags: Suicidal Thoughts, POV Second Person, abstract depictions of violence, nolan backstory, the epic of gilgamesh - Freeform, the fruit of life bit specifically of course, general misery, the four-thousand-year prequel Summary:

this is how you live forever

finally writing again! trying a completely different style (more abstract than anything I've done previous) and look this either bloody good or absolute dogshit there is no in between so report back?

do honestly love the way Ashtown Burials goes "Epic of Gilgamesh? that snake was actually just a guy. now he can't die. here he is". so cool. 

[doyouknowthischaracter]

DO YOU KNOW THIS CHARACTER?

NOLAN / NIKALES from the Ashtown Burials series by N. D. Wilson

Yes, I know them.

I've only heard of them.

No, I don't know them at all.

Voting ended onNov 26, 2023

[twofoursixohjuan]

had some time with the sticky notes so here's some Nolans

(Nolan AKA Nikales from The Ashtown Burials)

never losing my bigger sticky notes again: that smallest figure is the approximate size of my thumbnail

facing down Gilgamesh - just a sketch - lurking in the vents

[dragoneyes613]

Nolan was lying on his back with his hands folded on his stomach and his eyes closed. He was wearing his typical oversize fatigue trousers, belted with a rope, and a tight ashen tank that left his knotted paper-pale arms bare. His hair was cropped tight and uneven, and his smooth face looked strangely young when he wasn't angry and his eyes were closed. But when his eyes opened, smooth and ancient, worn by the years like two rocks tossed in the riverbed of centuries, then his age filled the room. Looking in his eyes was like looking into a pair of forgotten tombs, dark and unlit and impossible to explore or understand.

The Drowned Vault, page 62, Ashtown Burials, N. D. Wilson