i think it'd be fun if ash's forest was cyclic. like seasons but more. his claim to the land causes the forest to grow and die with the seasons. in spring the seeds begin to flourish and grow, until in summer the trees grow tall and many. in autumn they age further, growing almost an overabundance of fruit and seed until it is almost winter, and the animals have either migrated or hibernated and the forest rots away into the dirt to feed the next spring.

i don't think any of this will be particularly story relevant, but ash's claim causing things to age rapidly but prosper longer would be pretty neat flavour text. and maybe a hint that there's something not quite right with the guy

i was listening to this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=metdOn9BxXM

and ogh i am having so many ideas for an au where ash didn't continue. where dust killed him, and stole his body. i mean, it can become any whom it devours, so why doesn't it keep its murder under wraps, and simply keep it from being known? from there i'd imagine it could lead to several more "disappearances" of deities, as dust carves its hunger through the pantheon. like that one movie, 'the thing'; where people are slowly killed off and then replaced with a creature.

imagine how much angst could be found there, as the gods become paranoid of whatever's been killing them and hiding away into their domains. but no place is safe, as the shade does not follow the material law. with so many dead, and more hiding, forengard would be plunged into an eternal night, strife with death; like the night of the hunt in bloodborne. surely, the gods must succeed right? but how can they, when they cannot trust that their allies are real?

and again, the angst potential. imagine if the souls managed to fight back, saving a few lucky divine(like i'd imagine that one of the clock twins would be able to escape while the other fends off 'ash' or whoever dust is pretending to be at that moment.). imagine your dead friend, your ally, your fellow immortal, calling out for you to let them in or to come out and join them. but they are dead, they are no more. and whatever is out there knows that you cannot hide forever. and then its voice shifts, to that of your hated enemy, of the one who struck fear deepest into your heart, again now dead. and it calls you all the things they used to, but with such hunger that it's near impossible to mistake that thing as what was once your rival.

how many gods would try to fight dust, as its claws ensnared deeper into their bodies and minds? how many seats would be left empty at each meeting of the divine, as they try to scramble hope out of the situation? how quickly would they learn to stop showing up, as whatever was attacking them was good enough to trick them?

i think the last bastion of safety would be the clocktower, as the twins put up wards and illusions in conjecture with the other magic gods. when critchun awakens, it would probably be cast out as anything from outside would be untrusted. but if they were not, he would be able to find the tormentor. and perhaps she would last long enough for the other gods to come down and finally put an end to the hungering night.

but i doubt they would let the beast in, as dust can mimck anything it's eaten to near perfection, and how would they be able to find flaws in a copy of something they do not know?

You do enjoy stories where dust kills everyone don't you

i mean, that's part of dust's goal. ridding the world of gods would be the most sure-fire way to ensure its peace is uninterrupted by them. so it's basically just timelines where dust manages to succeed, which would make sense as to why they're darker; it's a shade afterall.

hey remember beeb. apparently i have his form saved in google docs. i'm in the middle of revamping the personality, but otherwise the form's completely untouched from the original creation.

and i know me and axel made this together, but i have ta say we did not do good. i'm only revamping the personality because i know i wrote that part, and i can do so much better without even changing the base characterization

Last edited by AshTheAvaricious (April 24, 2023 20:44:43)

anyways so here's the form. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i9SwfWMkYV_Dnzdvef3lJ6a0_yd7rkvVOqSxXjjHhfs/edit?usp=sharing

also wow i can't believe beeb briefly made christianity real in forengard

i think dust matter interacts in one of three ways depending on which traits it's mimicking: skin=total absorption of light, scales=kaleidescopic effect due to reflection, and chitin=black mirror

i made the design in a picrew because i thought it looked fun. and then axel wanted to make him a full character so we wrote up the form together. and then beeb never saw the light of day i'm pretty sure

AshTheAvaricious wrote:

i made the design in a picrew because i thought it looked fun. and then axel wanted to make him a full character so we wrote up the form together. and then beeb never saw the light of day i'm pretty sure

oh i remember beeb

he must reemerge from his prison

I think that to be very nice character development imo

I would actually find that to be quite wacky as well. What will come of that I wonder?

i just remembered trove!!! they were a half-baked concept but i can do it better now. also whoops my hands slipped https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D510404389/

i've created a draft form for trove and i've added: a distaste for life, a reverence towards the preservation of life, a cocky attitude, the same undying nature as dust, an explicit lack of the ability to shapeshift or teleport through light, further connections towards the old gods that once were sealed within ash with them and dust, just as dust is the wolf trove is a hawk(although it can't turn into a hawk. yet), and great skill at wielding magicks. specifically plant magic, healing, and lightning

i may or may not have done an outfit swap on dust and trove.

dust looks great! very fun to look at. https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D510373248/

trove. well they certainly look but i'm unsure if that's a good thing or not https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D510438981/

Last edited by AshTheAvaricious (May 4, 2023 13:07:30)