#tynan

[violentdelightshavevioletends]

"You can't interfere!" Tynan shouts at Xaden.

"No, but I can narrate," Xaden retorts.

— Moments that made me get on board with Xaden

[vigilantsycamore]

Various fantasy stories play with the idea of gods existing but being shaped by belief. Discworld makes this a fundamental part of the worldbuilding, if I'm remembering right some of Riordan's books at least hint at this idea, there's a few examples... and one of my favorite examples is the version of this in Red-from-Overly-Sarcastic-Productions' webcomic Aurora (@comicaurora)

Specifically, there's one character that Red uses to do something I don't think I've seen done elsewhere - explore how this kind of god-belief-believer relationship could be exploited. That character is Tynan

Tynan, for those who haven't read Aurora (I highly recommend it, it's super cool), is a major antagonist for a lot of Arc 1. His deal is basically that he's a storm god - as in, the divine personification of a storm - who realized that he gets the exact same benefits from mortals being terrified of him as he does from them worshipping him, and immediately started terrorizing mortals

This isn't really something I've seen other stories do. Discworld has some fun exploration of the "gods are affected by belief" idea (Small Gods comes to mind) and I've only read some of the books so for all I know Pterry did do something like this in one of the ones I haven't read, but outside of those books usually when I see a story use the "belief shapes gods" idea, there isn't really much exploration of that. Tynan is a really neat villain because of that, since he 1. takes an active role in the god-belief-believer relationship, and 2. shows a way that this relationship could be exploited

[wingedshadowfan]

sgaeyl: you know i'm not allowed to interfere

andarna: i know!

sgaeyl: there's other dragons around that you could call for help

andarna: i could!

sgaeyl: you can just bite those humans, run or fly away

andarna: i can!

sgaeyl: and you're just watching the girl risk her life?

andarna: yes!

sgaeyl: i can't tell you what to do - if i could, you wouldn't be here at all, but for the love of god, why aren't you doing anything?

andarna: i'm waiting for dad to come! :D

[stormcloudbringer]

[rotary-supercollider]

🔥🥄👍😎❤️🔥

[firebirbsstuff]

If I had a nickel for every piece of media I’ve interacted with that had a malevolent storm god that was also a dragon, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice, right?

[amused-bouche]

@s0u1c0de

Well this was an interesting turn of events. Valen hadn't known what to expect in the man's dreams, but it certainly wasn't this. Not that it would deter him. He'd seen far more terrifying things in his long lifetime. His own shadows were more terrifying than this shadow thing if he really wanted them to be.

If anything it told him he might have picked the right human after all.

None the less, he was not about to let it get in his way. Wether or not it knew he was there off the bat, he didn't much care. His own shadows crept up his arms, staining his skin as he began to summon his magic, his eyes darkened significantly. Shadow like tendrils fromed from behind, ready to grab the nussaince and envelop it should it be idiotic enough to attack, which he highly suspected it would. After all, he didn't sense it had all that much power to begin with.

"Excuse me, I think you're quite finished here." The fae said, direct and to the point.

[stayininmylane]

Heard it was bad comic day! Didn’t know that was a thing but here: