#thren art

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Hehehe, I can finally post the birthday art I did for @inkdemonapologist now that the chapter it's from has gone live!!

Some of the little Sammy details from that chapter destroyed me... also couldn't help thinking of this line from Sammy about how Prophet shouldn't have to be alone in relation to a lyric from a song (Shayfer James – Where We Belong) that's got Prophet associations in the Cthulhu playlist and contains the line, "We'll be alone...where we belong."

Also waaaaaahhh check out the incredible brushed up inked and colored version she made??? Link below the cut so I can update it if needed--

But for now it can be found at the bottom of the chapter!

It blows my mind how much she took what I was going for and just made it like 10x more?? I love it so much, and I love these disaster boys sharing a body and caring about each other more than either one is fully prepared to admit...

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SLAM DUNKS PETER DIRECTLY INTO EXPERIMENT AU

More under the cut!

Peter always had a strange edge as an investigative reporter from the weird "hunches" he sometimes got about what other people were thinking, that sometimes even led to strange dreams of witnessing places and events that sometimes ended up being true… that advantage served him very well, right up until he tried to snoop into a certain shady research facility, and ran headlong into some significantly bigger fish.

Now he's trapped there too and... hey, isn’t that the guy from a cold case he’d looked into years ago when a Linda Stein was looking for her husband who had vanished after looking for help with strange predictive visions and confused memories..? Well...at least now he finally knows what happened to him. In fact he's going to get to find out first hand.

It’s true subject 111’s abilities upon acquisition were pretty minor when compared to some of the other subjects, but luckily the staff at Burning Stars Laboratory have LOTS of ideas on making some.... Improvements.

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WAS REMINDED I NEVER POSTED THIS TO TUMBLR

Susie is also in Minecraft AU!

Minecraft Susie ended up with some ghast traits, and is an appreciator of a little good old fashioned mad science, especially potions! She's made the most of her Player advantages, venturing into dangerous places like the nether to gather rare ingredients needed for her potion crafting, which she uses to trade for other things she needs. She's mostly a solo operation lately, though back when she was getting established, she might have called on other players, especially those with an affinity for knowledge and secrets to help plan her first excursions.

Her specialty is health regeneration potions, as they're both generally in high demand, and extra useful for a lady who likes to take a risk herself now and then. And as one of the main ingredients for those is ghast tears, perhaps it's not surprising the strange affliction grafting mob traits onto players ended this way for Susie.

Susie doesn't let it get her down, though… especially as she now often floats a bit above the ground..! And having a few extra limbs is a big help when crafting, it turns out. Yes, part of her face may have gone rather ghast-y... but who's going to critique your looks when you're brewing the potions that will keep them alive and also incidentally can spit fireballs? Besides, she finds the streak of white it put in her hair rather striking. And if her preferences have shifted to favor the stifling heat of the nether, well, that just means she can make her whole home a greenhouse to grow more warm-weather potion ingredients like melons and netherwart!

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Some NPC talk came up for BatIM Cthulhu group's Minecraft AU, including Peter! Peter is actually not a player in this AU, he’s just a normal villager! Well, maybe not quite normal anymore… 

Peter got jostled out of the routine of his village, and realized there was a whole world out there. Now he's a cartographer, exploring unknown areas, making maps of them, and sharing that knowledge with others. He’s an old acquaintance of Jack’s, who frequently travels for his trading and can put a reliable map to good use. Peter and Jack have even explored together on occasion, and when Peter found a stray cat hanging around the village, he ended up giving her to Jack to protect him from creepers.

No longer being quite a normal villager also means that Peter doesn't always react predictably when things like pillager raids happen. He might have gotten more in the thick of things than he should have, and drew the attention of a raiding evoker despite the best efforts of Henry, the village's self-proclaimed(?) protector. Peter suffered a strange magical mishap, but ended up with latent vex traits, the sometimes-intangible creatures envokers summon to attack intruders. 

When the vex traits are active, Peter can sometimes walk through solid blocks and even manifest a ghostly sword should the occasion call for it. This is, however, at the cost of taking damage over time like a summoned vex, so it’s a trick best reserved for emergencies. Once he is able to activate them on purpose, he might actually be able to help Henry when the village, or their friends, are in danger.

(His outfit is based on an in-game villager Shazz found! Nice and warm for living in a chilly high altitude village, and it even has a hat! I am very invested in interpreting this as one of those warm ones with the ear flappies you can pin up.)

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Playing around with some metallic accents for magic nonsense with the CoC boys!

I've been sitting on these for awhile and excited to finally share since, with the new summary, it's no longer spoilers!!

Jack with his ghost eyes and hand scars, possibly now imbued with something more from his encounter with the Masked Messenger,

Henry with his scythe that surely definitely isn't doing anything alarming to the core of his being,

Joey who also is doing inadvisable things like demonic possession and binding magical artifacts to his?? soul??

And...Prophet Sammy. Oh, Sammy.....

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DID,,, DID I POST THIS CoC PROPHET YET??

I may have had a slow day at work awhile back and this nice sparkly glitter just sitting there aaaaaand...

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This is NOT what happened when Sammy and Bendy Lurker first tried to intentionally talk with the Prophet, but there was a moment where Bendy WASN'T SURE if he was just going to try to guzzle all the ink in one go, and the idea struck me funny, SO!

From the Call of Cthulhu AU

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Uhhhhhhh SO! I woke up one morning with the sudden realization that, in Aquarium AU, if the humans are taking the place of demons and magic in canon as the mysterious otherworldly entities Joey is fascinated with learning about…

Then wouldn’t it follow that Bendy is actually just a human child that Henry and Joey saved long ago and then returned to the human world?

And following that logic….wouldn’t the Ink Demon as a stretched out apparently more hostile form of the original just be….an angry teenager..?

HAVE,,,,Aquarium AU Bendy I guess!!

Rough Timeline plus other things we all pitched in about this kid:

Needs a cane to get around well on foot, though is a very strong swimmer.

Also horns hoodie that often covers his eyes for max ink demon vibes.

Henry and Joey found him in the middle of the ocean as a young child, assumedly victim of a shipwreck.

They decided to make the long journey to safely get this kid back to land, and though Joey might have gotten distracted showing things to his new human friend, he was also Very Serious about finding him a Good Home on land.

Henry often lent the kid his selkie coat along the way to keep him from freezing in the middle of the ocean.

Once they finally found a suitable place to leave this kid, Joey told him a place they could maybe meet up someday.

No one believed kid Bendy about the shape-changing seal and orca mer who rescued him, but when he got older he did manage to make it to that spot a few times, wondering if he was crazy...

But one of those times, Joey showed up!

Joey explained Henry wasn't with him anymore because Henry ABANDONED Joey...but Bendy and Joey at least caught up.

After that Bendy started secretly meeting with Joey on the regular. Joey was... perhaps not the best influence on kid Bendy with regards to petty theft and disregarding authority, but they kept meeting...

At least until Joey didn't show one day...and never came back.

Years later he ends up working part time at the aquarium and might just end up stumbling across a couple familiar faces... and also a familiar coat...