Write Your Own Song

Not posting my art here anymore. Follow me elsewhere. Most recent post has links where you can find me.

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Where to find me

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Union Between Flames ---------------------------

So i should probably let anyone that's followed me know that i'm not active on Tumblr. I was only here for the Solstober challenge. You can find me on Bluesky, Pillowfort, and some other places. Link is in the pinned post

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25. Balance

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They had become the new demon menaces, so the demonic dog had no choice but to dispose of his former comrades.

However, as he cut them down one after the other…

That’s when it dawned on him. This only made him the most powerful demon alive.

Day 21. Regret

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That the best you can do, kid?

Day 19. Battle

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Day 18. Ocean ------------------- The sound of water. The sensation of it lapping at her. A numbness that kept her from feeling its cold. A certainty that it was due to no longer inhabiting a mortal body. She had reached the end, and now she was drifting in the ocean, slowly making her way to the Great Tao.

The sound of water breaking. The sensation of the water slipping off her. Being lifted. A familiarity in being held like this. She knew who had come to take her there, and she nestled into the neck fur of her guide like she would when she was small.

"Auntie…"

"It's alright, my girl. I've got you."

Jua wrapped her arms around her like a child seeking comfort. Or pleading for forgiveness for a bad thing she had done.

"Auntie… I'm sorry. I'm so sorry… I let you down. I let everyone down. "

"You did no such thing. You're not at fault. No one would blame you."

Jua shook her head.

"No Auntie… if you saw everything I did. If you could see into my very heart… you would be so disappointed in me…"

"Shhh. None of that, my girl…"

The sound of water changed. It became the hushed whisper as it brushed against land. Not the shore of the afterlife, of eternal rest. But the brink of living.

"W-what…?"

"It is not your time yet, dear…"

Jua tightened her grip, burying her face into her aunt's fur, as if as long as she hid, she wouldn't have to go. To return to suffering…

"N-no… no Auntie…! Take me with you… I don't deserve to live. I'm-I'm wicked! I must pay for everything I've done! I-!

The arms holding her cradled her so lovingly, so soothingly that it quieted her whines, as if she were a babe being lulled.

"You are not at fault, my girl. But if you truly feel there is something you must atone for, then death is not the answer. You must live."

Jua could feel her aunt kneeling with her in her arms, about to put her down. She wanted to cling to her, but her body had relaxed, falling still of its own volition.

"And know this… you could never disappoint me. Never."

Her aunt gently placed her down. Her hands left her. Jua senses began to stir once again. Something flat and wooden beneath her. Something draped over her. And warmth. The sun shining on her. That was all her flicker of consciousness could pick up before she fell asleep again.

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Even if this world is stained with blood, it's my responsibility.

Day 15. Crimson

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Molded with time

Reforged through agony

What difference did it make?

Change is change

And it was time to be reborn from the ashes of who she once was

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Day 8. Song

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Solstober Day 4. Sacrifice

When one of the wealthiest cities of the Shang Kingdom was seized, the rulers of that territory took a gambit when Jietong demanded their son as a political hostage; offer up the girl their son was betrothed to instead, and when the king was willing to compromise, they didn't send the real girl, but a decoy. That part was thanks to Hua Wei, the grandmother of both girls. When the Shang lords approached her to convince her to have her granddaughter take their son's place, they offered a great opportunity: Safe passage for her and her remaining family out of the seized city and into another that was farther and safer from the king's reach. With the Jie army right on their heels, and desperate, volatile, solarians who might want to prey on wandering travelers prowling around, it was too good of an opportunity to pass up. But Wei could not offer up her youngest grandchild. Chia was just a girl of nineteen, inexperienced, and more fragile than her older siblings. She wouldn't be able to handle being in such a barbaric kingdom, and Fusang forbid that she catches the Jie king's eye with her beauty. So Wei offered that they do a switch instead. Jietong had no idea what their son's fiance looked like, so he wouldn't know they had sent a fake. With the promise of safe passage, and that the Shang lords will make it the utmost importance of getting the girl back, the deal was stuck. And that is how Jua ended up in the Jie Kingdom.

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Day 2. Dream

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Day 1. Roots

There was a flicker of perception, realizing his body felt different; foreign. So unfamiliar, yet moving as easily has he would move his arms or legs. He was corporeal, yet also a state of being that transcended the solarian body. But it was all outshined by the sight of her. Sitting before him, as beautiful as the day he last saw her. The thought of her waiting for him, the confusion and fear she must've felt when he didn't return home... it was a pain he couldn't bear, even in death. Whatever he must give, however it must be done, his only wish was to come back to her. And whatever he was now, it all felt worth it to see her smiling, her eyes welling with tears of joy as she opened her arms up to him. It had been so long, and he finally gets to embrace her again. -------------- Only here to participate in @gensational 's Solstober challenge

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Think I've decided on a name for the Shadowrealm Sho and his crew deal with:

Gehenna.

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Fuck, i forgot. Does Sho legitimately know how to hack?

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Day 14. Ocean

Might be the last pic of this challenge. We'll see.

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Day 13. Red

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Day 12. Trust

Cheated a bit by redrawing this page from the manga but it's the only thing i thought of with this prompt