This is a Nihilego appreciation post! (My favorite lil bean)
What, you expect some random morse code thing again? It's a Nihilego appreciation post. No morse code!
Real
I LOVE MY FRIENDS SO MUCH I'M JUST STUPID AND FORGET THAT FEELINGS NEED TO BE EXPRESSED IN ORDER FOR THEM TO BE FELT
Sometimes I get too timid to send asks to ask. I want to see how many people are ok with artists drawing their OCs!
@asternomikal
This AU has me in a CHOKEHOLD.
@starlightwoofwoof WARNING: SHIT TON OF LORE AND YAPPING
Okay, time for a yap-a-thon for the hell of it. Glisten and Alga are two sides of the same coin, if that wasn't obvious from their similar means and reasons for akumatization. Glisten strives to be perfect, to be perceived as some confident, flawless person to others, despite his crippling autophobia and atelophobia. Alga is the opposite. He's tired of being known as this chivalrous gentleman who can't even change his appearance without literally killing himself! He wants to get his hands dirty, to be someone who has flaws, but he can't. Being a gentleman is permanently etched into his brain; he can try, but he can never fully change himself.
When Perfect is in play, he can project his insecurity about his imperfections onto others, forcing them to hyper-fixate on every little mistake and perceive themselves negatively, all while acting like an untouchable god. Dionysus, however, makes it so that everyone completely forgets anything about their worries. It's almost like Trickster Mode from Homestuck; they act so wild and giddy that it's downright unhinged and worrying, especially relationship-wise. Someone could do something to strain a relationship, like, oh, I don't know, break the other's wrist accidentally! (cough cough Dionysus with Finn, cough cough.) When the two of them are de-akumatized, they are essentially forced to suffer the weight of their guilt together. Glisten has the guilt of causing others to akumatize, and Alga has the guilt of harming his friends. Both of them thrust themselves into the same time of coping mechanism while going through this grief. Try to return to that same normalcy beforehand. It doesn't really work, and both of them are just stewing in their guilt. Only when they finally accept that hey, somethings can't be changed fully and no matter what, there's always going to be some bits of you that remain forever, and you don't have to be perfect to be good do they get over their grief and get their respective miraculous, Glisten with the snake Miraculous and Alga with the Dragon Miraculous. In terms of power, both of them are fucking swole. The reasons to become akumatized due to Perfect are slower; the reasons swallow you whole before spitting you out like you mean nothing. Meanwhile, Dionysus' reasons hit you hard and fast, like a freight train. You could blink, and everything fine and dandy before could turn chaotic and terrifying really quick. Admittedly, this is more a reason for someone to be handed a miraculous, but I can also see someone having a panic attack and getting akumatized because of Dionysus. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
@fizzyboy
I've been seeing a whole shit ton of Dandys Wasteland OCs, but all of them are toons. What about blots? Allow me to fix that!
This is Milady (I would put "Milady" in Lucille, but the text doesn't let me do that without changing the entire thing) She's a Maiden Blot, if it wasn't obvious from her appearance alone. She's a very incredible, rare blot, because she doesn't have a matching Gentleman blot. Now, lore-wise, this wouldn't make sense, but what I think is that sometimes, a blot would have trouble evolving to the next form and remain in the same form. This is exactly what happened to her Gentleman blot. Embarrassed, the Gentleman blot ran away, leaving Milady to fend for herself. She wanders about the wasteland and eventually finds the "Suffering Together" gang and just starts following them for some apparent reason. Now, Milady is very...indecisive in a way. She's like a cat in a way. She could be clinging onto you 24/7 one moment, the next she could be 0.1 seconds away from ending you if you breathe too close to her, since she technically doesn't need to 'mourn' in order to actually fight or use her whole spike thing. She wants to be independent, but she also wants to be revered and treated like a princess or royalty. She acts a specific way for each member of the "Suffering Together" Gang as well. For Poppy: Milady acts very neutral, occasionally trying to wrangle Poppy's premium pop bottle out of her hands so she can try it. This never works out, and Poppy always gets the bottle before Milady can get it. For Boxton: Yet again, very neutral with him. Maybe a little more protective in crowded situations, but she doesn't really do much with him, minus Boxton sometimes giving Milady his wrench so she can go break some ankles. For Shrimpo: Now this is where things get interesting. Milady sees Shrimpo as her main protector, her bodyguard if you will. Which means. She's all over him damn near constantly. Which means Shrimpo just. Deals with her. It's draining, and he hated it for the first few times. Eventually, he's learned to deal with her and the constant babysitting he has to do. Out of everyone in the group, Shrimpo knows what to say and do to get her to calm down and stop throwing a fit.
Got the person trying to kill themselves away and now it's finally time t-
Oh.
Huh. I was hoping you all would aggressively multiply for no reason. No matter!
@diggitydoggo
I gift you, the new and revamped design of Twisted Claude!
He's themed off an iron maiden!
And yes, he is stupidly tall.
Pspspspsps @mrs-nightshade
@fizzyboy
Yeah what I've been doing recently lol
@diggitydoggo
@mrs-nightshade