It's Showtime!

sideblog for @blackstarcafe's Ultraman AU and its surrounding universes. all posts originate there, and are reblogged here for archival purposes. i'll try to make the tags detailed and useful god bless

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obligatory pinned post

welcome to the world of p

TAG DIRECTORY (SUBJECT TO EDITS)

#It's Showtime! -- main storyline following allegro and friends

#The Show's Over -- a what-if timeline where things go way worse

#Ember's Key -- sidestory focusing on ember, tregear and astra's roommate situation

#Prince And Jester -- specifically the adventures astra and tregear get up to together outside of the showtime story, separated from the aux tag for better filtering

#Auxiliary -- other posts that aren't directly related to the au, but technically happen in the same universe/mention showtime characters or events

#Retconned -- i will be reblogging all of my showtime posts here including things that have since been changed. those posts will have this tag to show they are no longer canon

#Fanart -- Art of any kind that was not made by me

#Scripts -- Stuff I've actually written/lore discussions with myself. yes discord screenshots count

CHARACTER TAGS (SELF EXPLANATORY)

#Allegro

#Zenith

#Marize

#Lyle

#Parse

#Ember

#Tregear

#Astra

#Guest Stars -- any other character that is not directly involved. some characters may eventually be removed from this tag and given their own tag, in which case they will be added to this list

story-bible-esc post for people curious about the actual plot/characters

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ok i slept on it and decided to change the design a bit + did the other two. they dont have official names yet but im sure hikari came up with a good one. now featuring the sketches as well

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considering transformation items again

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she would never publish an album cover out of disguise but its ok

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kept biting the hand that fed him

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i need to make comics with ember and tregear because theyre awesome. what if faust made that bargain but the devil was trapped in her body and if he leaves he dies and also she has the ability to kill him through sheer willpower if she tries hard enough. so he needs to make things go well enough for her that she lets him live off of her life force. but he hates it so he tries to kill her at every opportunity. and faust is attempting to speedrun giving him stockholm syndrome before he ruins her life with the riches he's given her. high stakes loony toons

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she needs a little fabulous is that so wrong....

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pondering the merits of making lyle and allegro women also just for fun and ive decided that allegros pronouns are definitely he/him but that doesnt necessarily mean anything. if allegro were to discover that he wanted to be a girl he would be very frightened by this. and if he talked to marize about it and about the idea of change she would be like Who cares. you dont need to change. you know who you are and thats what matters. like i could be red but i dont want to. so im not. and allegro would be like You could be red..? and then marize would go on an extended rant about how most people their age can take different forms and she hates that shes expected to do so because she likes herself exactly the way she is and she wants to accomplish things the way she wants to do them in the form she wants to do them in. she likes the way she is now and she does not want to change. and she "thinks its weird" that everyone expects her to

which is just another way that mari unconsciously tries to make herself the center character + how she clashes with zenith in every aspect (refusal to change vs desire to change) + how allegro continues to not matter in the face of whatever the fuck marize and zenith have going on. and lyle is there

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drawing them all together is like Marize and the Warm-Toned Musketeers

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shy as a shadow, lovely as lace and cold as ice

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colored that doodle of them to show their patterns together :] i think i brought it around in the end and made them look like siblings without being too similar

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i think i just accidentally changed something really really massive about showtimes story so you guys get these mini scenes i just wrote that may have been completely retconned 2 minutes after i wrote them

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bow before your prince!

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i know he already has a turn around but i added even more black onto him. every day prince astra grows closer to just being my oc

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do we rock with him

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Metagross for @poketcg-art 's redraw event!

this was very painful but worth it i think.

card is Metagross #178 from Temporal Forces, illustrated originally by Katsunori Sato.

Comparison below cut

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one of the only embers key plot points i am completely rock solid on is that tregear goes from writing poetry to specifically writing song lyrics with notation. in a notebook nobody knows the location of (astra knows)