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Is there a list of rules of what types of ask we can send? If there isn't, maybe you should make one.

You know what, I'm just going to pin this answer. I've talked about it a few times, but I've never made a full list because there's very little I won't answer. The important thing to remember is that this blog is primarily an archive for artwork, lore and concepts for an AU Bragi and I are RPing on discord, but this is not an RP blog itself.

As a general rule, think of these asks as like a formal interview with actors and you should be fine.

Do not:

Send asks directly interacting with Philip/Belos or Astrophel like the anon inviting Philip to dance;. NOTE: This is especially important in regards to the limited interactions, if your intent is to create a situation for them to react to, you are not part of that situation . (see below). You are not a character in our RP

Don't send us... meme-y stuff that makes no sense out of context. Best example I can give is that a while back someone dropped a ProZD quote in the askbox and neither Bragi nor I knew what to do with it so I just deleted it. On a similar note, don't be deliberately mean to them, I will read that as anon hate and delete it.

I don't expect everyone to know the history of everything, so if you're off by a few years about when something was invented, like the shampoo ask that's fine, but don't ask a 16th century man about his thoughts on modern luxuries and technologies (you could ask Emperor Belos, but I'll just let you know right now that most of his opinions are that he stopped caring forty something years ago)

Please do

Send flavorful asks to the characters about their (era appropriate) opinions, relationships, thoughts on other characters, or

Send me or Bragi asks about them, changes to other canon characters, world building, lore, OCs like the Archivists or the Grimwalkers previous to Hunter.

Wanna know what your other faves are up to in this AU? the answer might be, "Bragi and I haven't discussed that" but you're welcome to ask, and we may even talk about it and come up with something before I answer.

Basically anything, besides the points on the Do Not list. If it's something I'm not okay answering I will only publish it to say so if you're on anon. if you're signed in, I will answer privately and actually probably work with you on how to put your ask in a way that makes it something I can or am willing to respond to.

Limited interactions

Key word here is limited.

You're still not a character that can interact with them, but an ask like "-gives Astrophel a story book-" is fine, it'll be treated like just getting an anonymous present

or "-a freak Boiling Rain storm blows in-" basically an act of god

Put these boys in Situations. You're not participating in the Situations with them, but you can create the Situations

Please, if your intent is to create a situation don't be vague about what's going on, or godmod

Since this blog is for sharing art and lore for a Discord RP, I prioritize RP related content, meaning if I want to draw a scene or add a new lore post, or even draw something silly for myself, I will do that before I answer asks. If I have not answered an ask you sent within one to two weeks, you can assume I've deleted it, either because it violated one of the rules or because I just didn't know how to reply to it.

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I have a question. If since you got you or your twin sister or both of you fully aware about European history, you guys have to remember that Europeans during the 1600s, not just the Middle Ages, always liked to persecute other religions. Like, a lot. But in the case of Philip from owl house, he's just another good example of a European from the 1600s, especially as a Puritan. He always liked the idea that humans are truly superior civilizations, or Europeans in general, politically, socially, economically, culturally, and so forth. Also, if you and your twin sister or both of you re-watch the show, you notice that Philip always believed that he's the hero of the entire mankind, even when all of humanity doesn't even matter him at all. He's just as delusional as other Europeans around. And yes, the depiction of Philip being a good guy and a collector, aka a Astrophel though, is just terrible. I'm not criticizing you, but you two have to remember that your depiction of Philip being a hero is equally fundamentally wrong, especially in the show's case. And even during the show's end, when Philip is practically stomp to death by eda, Raine, and King, he's never even given a chance to redeem himself after all of the atrocities and horrific things he's done. So yeah, of course this is a use for fun and entertaining, but don't even try to judge. Consider it as a non canonical. This is basically an alternate universe. And yes, I completely understand it. And yes, this message is not procrastination or asking whatsoever. It's just a regular essay, quotely actually

I was really considering ignoring this or deleting it because I haven't touched this blog in a while and have moved on from the fandom but this ask has been in my head all day because I'm so absolutely baffled by why you felt compelled to send it. "I understand this is an Alternate Universe just for fun and consider it non canon so I'm not judging or criticizing but I'm gonna send you a judgmental ask to remind you that these guys are villains and question your knowledge of history religion and then give you a completely unasked for breakdown of how the characters are SUPPOSED to be- but I know it's an au so I'm not criticizing or being judgmental"

If you know it's an alternate universe. then literally none of what you said matters. At all. Not in the slightest. It's an au. If you actually understood that, you wouldn't be trying to explain canon to me. Its an au.

Further more, it's an au of a cartoon show that is, and I cannot emphasize this enough, primarily set in a fantasy world. Just in general I am not, and absolutely no one else is either, required to do a full ass research project into European history to write an AU that's just for fun. But I'm just going to put it out there I am especially not required to do research when Dana and her team apparently couldn't do research into American history.

Lastly, what blog are you looking at that you think Philip and Astrophel are being depicted heroes?

Shadow Puppets is, and has always been the origin story of how two fucked up little guys came to power. The closest they get to being heroes is usurping rule of the Boiling Isles from a previous dictator that everyone hated, which is something Bragi and I decided to do to make the people of the Boiling Isles not look like fucking morons for trusting Belos. Are you confusing them being the protagonists for them being heroes?? To clarify:

Protagonist ≠ Hero Protagonist = Character the story is about

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Shadow Puppets - One year Anniversary

I haven't posted in a while because reasons, but the Shadow Puppets RP hit it's one year anniversary so I thought I'd draw something for it.

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Be All My Sins Remembered Chapter three is live

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Shadow Puppets AU - Rainy Day

This is actually in commemoration of a finished thread, but it's much smaller than the poster I made for the completion of the Deadwardian Era thread, so I didn't want to make a poster. This thread was actually supposed to be a short Halloween inspired RP that Bragi and I started back in October, it took us a couple of months to finish this 'short' thread.

In this thread, it's been a few years since Philip and Astrophel met, Father Josiah is dead, General William has taken Philip as his apprentice and the Wittebane brothers have their own house now. To celebrate Gravesfield's good harvest, Caleb took Philip to the pumpkin patch to buy a couple as a treat. They got a big one to eat, but Astrophel insisted on getting a smaller one to carve a jack 'o' Lantern, too, much to the brothers' confusion.

Caleb figured out that Astrophel meant something similar to a Will 'o' Whisp that the brothers had heard about from a fellow traveler before they arrived in Gravesfield, and recalled the story of Stingy Jack they'd heard from him to his brother and his friend as he carved the pumpkin, which Philip wanted to look like Astrophel. When the work was done, they went back into the house to roast the pumpkin seeds, and heard a small crash outside.

Local trouble maker, Hugh Fayerweather had smashed their Jack 'o' Lantern. Philip and Astrophel were greatly upset and Caleb didn't know how to comfort them, but left to go after Hugh to make him pay for their pumpkin and tell the new town preacher what he'd done. Meanwhile, the two friends didn't feel like that was quite punishment enough and made a pact to get back at Hugh one way or another.

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I'm going to make a general post about this since two separate people have done it in the last three days, but ya'll please don't slap media recommendations into my askbox, whether its a show you like or something you made, don't do it.

Personally, I blame the current culture of ads being spammed everywhere, but I promise you that if you shove something in my face just assuming I'll like it, you've guaranteed I'm never going to watch it

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Also I start to realize that Caleb and Evelyn tried always to convince Philip that his friend is not a good person but it's always failed and ignored he always listens to his friend no matter what his actual identity of his friend and this is actually my headCanon only know that this is actually true and Canon on previous ask but it's okay

I mean, that... *ੈ ✩ ‧ ₊ ˚ 𝔻 𝕀 ℝ 𝔼 ℂ 𝕋 𝕃 𝕐 ˚ ₊ ‧✩ *ੈ contradicts so much of already established Shadow Puppets lore and characterization that I don't even know where to begin so...

I'm flattered that you have headcanons about this AU, but if you're acknowledging it's just your headcanon and doesn't matter maybe consider keeping it to yourself? Because you're actually coming off as pretty pushy to me and making me rather uncomfortable.

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Actually I started developed absolutely realization that Phillip are unaware that his friend was actually quite evil just like him but this is just my headCanon and nothing else don't worry just totally okay

Thank you for the ask!

This is actually Shadow Puppets canon, Hon. Because of Philip's curse, he cannot trust his own judgement when it comes to morals so he looks to Astrophel for guidance, since he grew up believing that Astrophel is an Angel and has complete faith that his friend will help him do the right thing. The fact that Astrophel's judgement can't be trusted never crosses his mind. Astrophel's people do not have the same moral restrictions that humans do. They regularly caused mass extinction events, and committed acts of what we would consider genocide- which they don't because they believe they have the right to decide who lives and who dies. Astrophel is also a traumatized child himself, he has a lot of anger and no outlet for that anger so whether he means to or not he uses Philip's increased violent behavior as that outlet.

Basically, Philip asks "Is it alright to kill this person?" and if the person in question did something to upset Astrophel, even over the most minor slight, he'll say yes.

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So I have one quick question do you and your twin sister have many different ideas about the endings of Shadow puppets au because I extremely curious

Yes, I mentioned that we have multiple endings in mind in a previous ask. I'm not going to describe them in detail because we're no where close to them, but we have 5 endings we've discussed.

The Bad Ending

The Sad Ending

The Slightly Less Sad Ending

The Even More Less Sad Ending

My Favorite Ending

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I like the idea Evelyn being history nerd with small glasses between her nose is amazingly perfect her design is completely perfect as well as flawless and absolutely thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And My second quick question do your artstyle being anime for some reason???

Please don't send me the same ask twice, I'm usually only online every couple of days. I appreciate your support but I don't need to be told you like my design for Evelyn twice.

As for your question about my style...I'm really not sure what you're asking, honestly.

If you're asking why I draw them in this style. Because it's my style? I guess I could draw imitating the show, but I don't really like it. Like the style is fine I'm not saying the show's style is bad, but it's too far removed from my own style and I don't enjoy the process of mimicking it, I have more fun just drawing them in my own. Besides I'd rather have people know the Shadow Puppets AU because they recognize my art.

Also I don't really consider my style "Anime" anyway. I certainly have my share of Anime influences, but I'm an older animation fan, and looking back at the cartoons and movies I watched while I was growing up, I think it has more of an influence on my style than anime.

If you mean why I draw screencap style illustrations with subtitles, I do it that way is to draw attention to the RP snippets or lore dumps beneath them. I don't do comics, I've never had a knack for designing panels, and drawing out a comic that would cover a whole scene seems redundant to me when I'm sharing the actual writing.

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You know what I absolutely love Shadow puppets au so much is possible it nearest future after be finished by you and your twin sister might be get a sequel or not also I'm so sorry for asking these ridiculous questions so I apologize also absolutely thank you!!!!

Thank you very much for your support but as I said in the previous ask we are nowhere near done with Shadow Puppets au at this time.

We're still writing pre-canon RPs and only just scratching the surface of our plans for the altered events of canon within the AU. There's a good chunk of stuff in the RP that I have not posted about on this blog yet, things that have only been referenced in shitposts but I have not made any serious content for because we haven't gotten to that point in the RP.

And actually we have a couple of aus of our au featuring different endings to the main story of the Shadow Puppets au because we couldn't decide on which idea we liked best, so we’re going to RP all of them.

We are not thinking about any plans for after Shadow Puppets now, and we will not be thinking about it any time soon, there's too much left of Shadow Puppets to put any consideration into what we could do with a sequel.

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So what is the future projects after you and your twin sister finish Shadow puppets au

We're not anywhere close to finished with Shadow Puppets, so we're not thinking about future projects yet. And I bet by the time we are done with Shadow Puppets, any future projects aren't going to be ToH related.

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Just a couple of Horrible Old Men trading dresses

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Shadow Puppets AU - Animation Project

I've been snowed in for a couple of days, and this is what I've been working on. There's more I'm planning to do, but I need a break from this project already

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Shadow Puppets AU - Wip of my latest project, and may the lord smite me for my hubris

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Shadow Puppets AU - Updated references for Astrophel and Philip

Because I've slowly changed how I draw them just enough that I feel like it's necessary. Astrophel also no longer has the Stella-Luna Amulet in his reference because he didn't have it during the Gravesfield Era, and I changed the way it's drawn too.

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I don't think I draw Kid Philip's hair especially different now compared to when I started this blog, but looking at my current project, I feel like there's a enough of a difference that I almost want to take a break from it and make a new reference for him and Astrophel