#that-one-engineering-bard

[silverskye13]

Gift for one of the best discord mods on planet earth <3 thank you @that-one-engineering-bard

[redorich]

PLEASE, I NEED THE REST OF THAT BATTLE

Tommy picks at a stray thread on his old coat. Cleo would pinch him for unravelling it even worse, but she isn't here right now. Good. As much as he misses his friends and worries about their safety in the aftermath of Dream's invasion of the Hermitcraft server, he doesn't want them to come save him. They'll all die.

His cell is dim and cold. Tubbo told him weeks ago that Sam was building a prison on Dream's orders. Neither Tubbo nor Tommy could have anticipated that they'd be seeing it from the inside. Across the hall, Tubbo shivers in his sleep. Shards of glass from a shattered healing potion are still embedded into his leg-- even a healing potion isn't enough to fully fix what Dream did.

There's no way to track time inside the prison, at least not as a prisoner. Still, Tommy knows he's been there for a day and a half, because his prison guard is the guiltiest motherfucker alive, as he damn well should be.

"I'm sorry it had to be like this, Tommy," Philza says, running his knuckles down the obsidian wall. He looks incredibly beaten down for someone who's still got his freedom. "It's for your own good, I swear. I know you think they're your friends, but they've manipulated you. They took you from us, Tommy. I only want what's best for you. I was so devastated when Dream told me you'd died..."

Phil takes a moment to choke down his remembered grief. Even if doing the right thing makes Tommy hate him, he has to do it. He refuses to lose another son.

Tommy wishes there were iron bars in between him and his father, rather than a wall of obsidian and a shut iron door. He’d spit at Philza if he could. “What, are you saying it was meant to be, then? That your way’s the right way because you know more about the hermits than I do, even though I’m the one that fuckin’ lives with them?”

“Tommy--”

“I’m not fucking brainwashed! You’re the one who’s being brainwashed if you think that the hermits are doing-- evil shit to my mind! Why does everyone believe Dream instead of me?!”

Philza’s expression crumples. Tommy’s never seen that look on his father’s face before. Philza opens his mouth to say something, yet seems to think better of it and closes it again. Tommy considers telling the man all about how he found himself in the hermits’ care. He could tell his father, in excruciating detail, how Dream found him on his Logsted tower, high in the sky, how easy it would have been for Tommy to splat on the shore instead of landing in the water. Tommy could vividly recount to Philza the sensation of being dragged out of the water by his hair, being beaten within an inch of his life, seeing just a hint of terrified green eyes behind a cracked mask. It might break Philza, Tommy believes, to tell the man about falling through Dream’s hastily-created admin-magic portal and being so certain he was going to die.

Weaponizing his own trauma because he’s angry is beyond cruel. Even if Philza’s doing wrong by his son, he’s doing it out of love. Before meeting the hermits, Tommy would have done it, twisted that knife of regret deep into Philza’s gut, for no other reason than that if Tommy has to suffer so does someone else. 

Tommy lets the words die on his tongue. They’re not worth it. At least Philza’s trying to do the right thing.

A male shout-- Sam?-- echoes from far down the prison’s hall, followed by a thud and the sound of several rockets firing. Philza whips around, drawing his sword, but gets rammed into the wall by a red blur. Tommy gasps. There’s only one person he knows who can fly in tight corridors like this, only one person who spams rockets like that.

“Grian,” he breathes. The man in question raps Philza on the head, hard enough that the man goes limp. Grian checks to make sure Philza is still breathing steadily, then ties his wrists and ankles together, leaving him propped up against the wall. Grian then unlocks Tommy’s cell door, then Tubbo’s.

“H-- Wha-- How are you here?!” Tommy finally settles on a question.

Grian smiles, faintly but warmly nonetheless. “Did you really think we’d leave you behind, Tommy?”

Tommy lurches through the doorway into Grian’s waiting arms. He trembles, but he does not cry. He is strong. With Grian’s help, Tommy and Tubbo can escape.

“Thank you for coming back for me.”

[epochnexus]

So thought on the technoskinny technowide bit.

They both give very different vibes at very different time.

Example, my faves are either broad and toned human because there is just a vibe of intense intelligence that comes from living a life that only he knows the details of, or lorge but soft because the man is just done, but can still puml a man.

But also, skinny can give off mad warlock type vibes, wide can give the vibes of a warlord, slightly more rounded give me brotherly vibes.

Of course, this is just my take on it. I personally headcannon him as being broad shouldered but don't really pay attention to if my headcannon is toned or not because puffy shirts!!

feels like a good time to post a wip, cuz now i’m not sure about this

i know it’s just the weight, by when things be chonk, sometimes they look small

like with him bein thin, he actually looks taller, ya know?

i mmmmiiiight just broaden his chest and shoulders more, and just kinda keep the more muscular/chonk for his pig form, which is p much what i was doin without really thinkin kgcrj;grj

like this pic is basically what his pig bod would look like, though i might wanna shift a few things around to actually get it a bit better aligned with his human form, cuz other than like the hair, there really ain’t much of a dif between the two build wise

[insertdisc5]

I HAVE BEEN SPAZING ABOUT START AGAIN ALL MORNING BECAUSE I PLAYED IT THROUGH TO THE TRUE ENDING LAST NIGHT FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!! You've made a game that I enjoy playing!! I WANT TO KNOW IF THE WINE BOTTLE HAS AN ACTUAL USE!!!!!!

Oh, also, question so I can decide on a fan art sketch I wanna do ~~and possible cosplay~~ but do the characters have a color pallette outside of black and white??

HELL YEAH THANK YOU FOR PLAYING!!!

-you can drink the wine eventually! no real use except Fun Character Moment

-they do not have a color palette outside of black and white! im curious to see what colors people imagine for them lol. Although i do see sif being mostly monochrome anyway~

[petrichormeraki]

Is it possible to get a continuation of that prompt with Tommy and Techno?? Or even just more Tommy and Techno?? I was vibing with that dynamic.

hell yeah man! i genuinely feel like they have a shared feeling of being replaced and being bitter over it; they've done terrible things to each other but at their core they're still so alike, it's a very interesting dynamic to explore

[immortalcoelacanth]

Hello, saw your follower post. I like your writing :D

My state of being during this high stress night is just serotonin acquired

[atlas-of-galaxies]

I want, no, neeed!! To know more about your ocs!!!! And your world!!!

!!! oh my! well first i implore u to visit my house of memories tag, as I posted some stuff there back when I first released the animatic. not much but it’s a good start for understanding the details and all.

I’ve talked about the characters a lot but I haven’t talked much about the world! think like ... harry potter meets boku no hero but Chill. magic users (usually just called witches regardless of gender) make up 30-40% of the population, and their existence is known to all. they have their own system for laws, codes, etc separate from the rest of society so there isn’t a power imbalance between witches and magickless folks.

of course, there’s always those who don’t care for magickless folks, and even disapprove of unions between the two groups,,, so when Antimony, the only child of a prestigious and magically gifted couple of chronomancers, starts dating Calloway, an incredibly smart but magickless fellow high school senior,,,

well. let’s just say some folks (who happen to own cars) aren’t too pleased.

[silverskye13]

So I'm watching Grian's 8 hour world tour, and I think Cleo summoned Tanguish from another reality.

This is what Tanguish looks like in Welsknight's head specifically--