This Is How I Study

Just brain candy for Slugterra/sci-fi/analysis nerds like me. I have an Ao3 account where I write fanfictions, so go ahead and find AlexJX and double hi

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Still Believe

"If I can't see you..."

"Do you stop believing in the sun when the clouds block it out?"

"No."

"Then we'll always be there."

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Post-Rotg idea: Jamie has Retinitis Pigmentosa, which is a genetic eye condition where a person's eyesight gradually deteriorates over time. With or without his eyesight, he still believes.

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Merry Christmas

We have sad Christmases sometimes

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Modern-ish AU. The last thing Caitlyn was expecting after a late grocery run was her own (soon-to-be girl)friend decide that her place is a good spot to crash and bleed over.

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Jinx and Caitlyn playing piano

I hereby headcanon that Caitlyn can play the piano. She gave Jinx new jeans to stop looking like a half-eaten circus tent which Jinx ripped up. Both are still edgy together after Vi dies, but they're starting to find common ground.

Starting to...

(I didn't make the reference image)

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Dark and Angsty Art

I got the lyrics wrong :( Anyone seen Arcane Season 2? Love that song when we're going through Vi's emo arc. 'Cocktail Monotov' by ZAND.

Thank you Arcane, thank you ZAND.

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6-Character Thing - Wear-It-Purple!

Okay, yeah, I forgot to actually add purple. But I also don't have some good purples. So... Meh. Here are some of my favorite characters!

Not a lot of people know the character on the top left, I'm assuming. Billy Hopkins is one of the protagonists of the Australian TV show "Phoenix Rise", which is about a group of teens from England's PRU system being transferred to a new high school for kids who have crap to deal with, to put it lightly, and now these kids are trying to make it through school.

Billy's shirt and one of Jinx's braids are shades of black to white, because they're the flag colours for heterosexual people. I'm kinda assuming here, because both seem to be straight in their shows (Jinx and Ekko - Ahem).

Well, I should be studying. Happy Wear-It-Purple and bye!

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Zombie Apocalypse AU

Beatrice 'Trixie' Sting was an ordinary teenager once. She loved the colour green, cool clothes, and went to high school. When the zombies came, her weekdays were spent running from doom and weekends were wishing the most of her worries were just hoping school would be canceled the next day.

Random ideas:

Eli gave her the gun

Trixie has really good aim

Of course Blakk started the apocalypse. Darkwater is kinda like a mutagen, if you wanna get scientific

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Miraculous sketches + redesigns

I've put off watching Miraculous Season 6 as long as I could. I've watched it, and now I have to see it through.

So, Cat Noir is disintergrating here. Because he always gets the short straw, huh? I want it to be like an autoimmune disease (I think they should call it disorder. Since it's the immune system turning against itself, not some foreign invader), but magic. That could be good represenation: Magic chronic illness. Kinda like Eda's curse from 'The Owl House' (Dana Terrace I love your work).

I used highlighter for Cat Noir's eyes. Pity I didn't get Ladybug's right. They just look like blue splotches now :( . She was supposed to have mosaic bug eyes. I pictured the two of them trying to fight on a really cold winter day, and then they just hop into a safehouse to warm up, so, hence her sweater and his scarf.

Chloe has a bow and quiver as her weapon, because a spinning top is just mimicking Ladybug, I mean, c'mon. Characters need individuality. I would've liked it if Chloe had changed her costume at one point if her redemption arc was still, y'know, EXISTANT, because she starts out as a Ladybug wannabe, (Wanna-bee. Get it? Well-) so it would've made sense for her to look similar. But, first of all, she's not Ladybug. She's Queen Bee. And secondly, a bow and arrow works better, and is way cooler than a spinning top.

The spinning top is creative, I'll give the makers that, but it doesn't differentiate QB from LB. My idea here is that she can just shoot arrows that have normal functions, except for her magically-enhanced aim, of course. Unless she uses her power, which will make whatever arrow she has to be enchanted to paralyse whoever it hits.

Way to ruin a redemption arc, ML.

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Avian

Slugterra AU: Eli's wings are deep smooth blue, streaked with white. He is the last of the Shanes, part-human, part-Avian, and evil scientists want to experiment on him, but he's escaped with Burpy, his part-slug, part-dragon friend.

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Slugterra: Hogwarts AU

Eli, Junjie and Trixie just chilling at the Three Broomsticks, drinking Butterbeer.

My headcanon notes:

Eli is a Hufflepuff. He's boring as a Gryffindor. While brave and reckless, he has to be driven by his heart. Top student in DADA and Care of Magical Creatures, near dropout in History of Magic.

Trixie's a Gryffindor. After her mother's murder, she didn't have to become a blogger to raise awareness of the injustice in the wizarding world, but she did. Loves Potions. Plays Beater on the Gryffindor team. Wants to be either a Healer or Auror.

Junjie is a Slytherin. He lost faith in himself after the Goon’s possession forced him to harm his friends and damaged his magic, but his strength and resilient mind is part of why he didn't die or mentally crumble from the possession.

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Eli's mum

Eli used to dance in the rain with his mum. And we all know she mysteriously disappears somewhere down the line.

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Eli and Junjie studying up late

Our two top slugslingers defeated by an exam coming up the next day :) Ah. Most of us know the feeling

(Honestly, I like the colourless version better.)

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Lanterns Aya and Razer sketches

(And coloured. Plus Hal being a dad to Aya because I like EffieTrinket1619's GL works. Let's pretend they're on Earth and she blew up Bruce's car or something)

The sketches of Razer's limbs are because I didn't know how to draw his armour, and how to draw Aya's face.

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Fun Observations

I saw these two people with cool clothing in the city. The two above aren't exactly what they were wearing, but I took inspiration. I used highlighter for their backgrounds to make them stand out.

It was fun.

The dude on the bottom right is supposed to have glowing swords and armour btw

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"My name is Caitlyn Kiramman. I set fire to my ex-best friend's house. Why? Because Jayce Talis killed my mother."

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Jessica and Simon trying to cook at Kyle's when he's sick

Jessica: That's not how you make pasta!

Simon: How would you know?

Jessica: You put the pasta in after the water boils. It's Cooking with Guy Gardner 101!

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scratched fanfic - Eli has a sister and visits her after Will falls

Eli doesn't talk about the Surface. Ever.

So, it's a surprise when three weeks after Will Shane disappears that he's still picking at his food - which even Pronto isn't complaining about - and suddenly announces, "I'm going back up the Surface."

Trixie's fingers freeze, the computer screen stops on Slugnet page about the Deep Caverns. She twists around, forgotten dinner forgotten even more on the desk beside her. Pronto and Kord stare at Eli with her.

Their leader folds his arms nervously. There are bags under his eyes and his hair is messy like he hasn't slept in days, but he insists, "It won't be for too long, but I'm planning on leaving before light tomorrow."

Kord sets down his bowl on the table. "Bro... I know you're stressed over, um, losing your old man and all, but this really isn't the best time for you to leave."

"What he said," Pronto adds. "After all, the Shane Gang is still needed by the people of Slugterra!"

Eli sighs. "Guys... I know I have to be here, and to save my dad - I just..."

"Why do you have to leave?" Trixie walks over and sits at the table with Pronto and Kord. It's like their mission-planning meetings, with him explaining his decisions to them before they offer their own takes. "It must be important, considering."

He glances down for a moment, hands twisting. All ten nails are chewed well to the flesh.

Burpy nudges him, chirping something in his ear. Trixie clasps her hands on the table, silently waiting. If there's anyone who Eli will listen to, it's Burpy.

Eli looks like there's a war inside his head. He scratches the back of his neck and exhales tiredly. "I haven't been completely honest with you guys," he says. "I have a sister."