For Pale!Ink I used the teal jacket from Ink's old design that he always wore around his waist as Pale's main jacket, since I felt like it had a lot of meaning and was a fun reference!
Template's design!!! Mildly based off of my old redesign from years ago, specifically the pants style, but the yellow on the shirt and the tied sneakers are new. Not pictured but he still has gloves!
THESE TWO ARE BEST OF FRIENDS total lie. Template is incredibly focused with making sure that Pale doesn't act like Ink, so he constantly follows him around and micromanages him. He gets in the way of Pale getting feelings, he destroys any art Pale makes, and he's generally just a pest.
Pale is rarely motivated by anything more than impulse and memories. He doesn't have feelings but it's not like that ever stopped Flowey from being petty XD
[Pale and Template were originally made by @unu-nunu-art, but these particular versions are different and you can read about them here!]
Back ALL THE WAY IN FEBRUARY 2022 I was like "hey guysss I want to do one of those "Give me four ships to make fanart of" memes! Send me ur ships!" and I got TWELVE DIFFERENT PEOPLE with TWELVE DIFFERENT SHIPS.
So I decided. I'd just do. All of them?
Terrible idea, like 10 months later, I've finally finished it. Why did I do that. Anyways enjoy your rarepairs and not-so-rarepairs.
If people want these individually posted then tell me and I will!
Errorink - Error is big loner angry hates being touched and Ink is energetic touchy feely. I feel like for any art that is supposed to describe ink/error relationship you have to have Ink: :D and Error: D:< and so I had him hug him lol.
Cream - they are just cute soft fluffy. Cross carries Dream as a way to show that he "supports" them, lol
MareNight - Black Apple Blues is adorable and you should all read it
DreamNight - I tagged it dreammare because it's the common tag but I decided I would be wrong to not give it a more accurate name lol. Idk much here I just know that Dream is the more :yellow_heart: one in the relationship so it's funny. Also coup timeline for variety in outfits and that is when they are more comfortable. Why is Night scandalized? idk lol
DrInk - Funny shipname. This ship was most popular in the star-sanses era in early fandom where energetic baby Dream was at its most dominant so the ship was always very energetic, and though my dream is SAD I thought I should still represent that with the movement of the picture!
Crightmare - blame @wyrm-in-the-apple
Desporlue - I just think Two Scary Murder Lookin Guys being all interested in the totally normal kinda cute well adjusted fellow is really funny
NightKiller - This shipname is funny. Back in 2019 I always saw it as Killer constantly following nm around and nm was annoyed about it but TOLERATED IT
Criller - fucking castle fic. This ship used to be a rarepair once you know. But yeah the dynamic everyone does for this one is always "Killer is annoying bastard and Cross wants him to go away and then they bang I guess" and I have barely seen any variation on that lol
Despor - my pet now! Man that was hard to draw
Bleam - It's like DrInk/Cream where Blue is the more dominant caretaker but also it's energetic
Bloss - they were both royal guards once that's cool
Writing “Night” and “Mare” as two separate people over the years has brought to me many many many interesting and fully fleshed out possibilities.
Main Timeline / Castle Fic / Evil Timeline / Black Apple Blues
Speedpaint HERE:
I worked so hard 〒▽〒 Total drawing time was 12 hours, which isn’t counting video editing or the time I spent trying to recover some layers for the image. I would hiiiiighly appreciate any shares or comments you have to spare ♥
"Wake up the beast..."
"Bury the bones..."
"Enjoy the feast..."
"Take all control..."
"When I give you my soul."
First up is Hollow Moon!Nightmare!
So I've always wanted to do something with the "Nightmare eats the black apple and gains a friend instead of turning" thing. Discovered @the-kk-crow 's artwork and fic series there working on with their friends... and my mind just went BOOM.
So yeah new au now! The whole idea here is how having too much power, willingly or not, can mess you up. Nightmare's ref is really only showing what happens at the beginning of his story. Dream does also end up getting his own "friend" as well.
Anyway as you can tell, things start out pretty, awful. The parasite's (that's what it is, to be frank) existence allows for starvation to be a thing for NM. So to feed, the parasite crawls out of him and sucks the negative outta someone... and also eats them. Can't be wasteful! (make'n Horror proud!) And then crawls right back inside his host.
But to be real here, the entity is just an animal. It's just doing what it knows will keep it alive and it can't survive for long outside of Nightmare's body. It may look "evil" or act "malicious" but it doesn't know what those concepts are. Saying that- it does see Nightmare as home and therefore, safety. It is VERY protective over Nightmare, and when it sees Dream protecting NM before it can, it realizes that Dream is a "friend" in the way that an eel is to a grouper fish.
Lore Stuff: Apples need magic or else they become starved of resources and die off. Night’s soul has an infinitely regenerating magic source, which means that he can house Mare without it killing him. But, Mare can leave if he wants! He can survive for a while without magic, but he will always have to go back eventually.
I really enjoyed the last episode, and honestly thought Cross was gonna get some clothes and get a new design but uhhh, I guess this works. Still looks pretty good though <<
These doodle is based on Castle, a collab fanfiction my friend @the-kk-crow and I have been working on. This is not a scene taken from the fic but honestly, it very much could be lol
