Grumpy Book Horse

Mod: Finally drew my own ref for Hex!

Seven years after the catastrophe. The world has made some sort of recovery. The peace is more fragile than you’d think…

A for-me comic. Slowly sketching up a backlog and will eventually post one post a week. Some will be full comic pages, others ‘panel’ posts.

Characters wont be askable directly in the typical ask blog sense. I will answer asks as mod, and might do some character ama’s if people have asks that are best answered by characters.

This is an AU branching from my cannon version of Hex’s story, even tho i didnt finish telling the cannon version but i just wanted that to be clear.

Its already written and ready, just drawing it out. So look forwards to this tale of adventure! ( ^w^ )

Hex: I don’t think you understand ‘voices in head’…

I see @ask-tuesday posted again so wanted to doodle something silly with our OC’s. While Tuesday has only met Raph it’d be hilarious if she crossed paths with the 16 yo of a grump that is Hex.

Good to see you’re okay! And don’t worry about having several year gap I too am guilty of this and still have large gaps between posts even now XD

Nice try. But the whole point of all that is to explain the ask mechanics for this blog. But thank you for the ask!

Banan and Clone also are going to be the only ‘hallucinations’ because I just don’t want to do ask cameos anymore. If I wanna colab or have cameos I’ll reach out but I just don’t like asks that insert themselves. It’s something I’ve mulled over these years and decided.

“I try not to let it get to me… I still hate that doctor.”

Asks by @diminished-dimential @lumiere-angel-90 and anon!

“Let’s just add that I am NOT a fan of Miss Daring Do. And I had to move a second time to get away from her specifically after I’d already run from my family…”

Ask by @mysteriousdreaming

Mod: Me? Stay on model and be consistent with Hex’s freckles and face? Nah.

Looks like Hex didn’t sleep too well… like always.

Book in the first panel is a feature from @askinquiry as Hex too has an extensive rare collection lol

Asks by @redventure @askvisionary @regulardd @shut-up-and-take-my-likes and @ask-treats-sweets

“Anger should not be our first reaction ever again. Of any of us, the only innocent party is Celestis. She is the one that deserves apologies, not excuses. And I am sorry for attacking you Tierrahnor,” Sol turned to Cel and hopped on top of her head to sit, “And I am sorry to you Celestis, for not hearing your pain sooner than I did.”

“I know,” Ventanus perked up, “Let’s make a permanent reminder for ourselves, something we can gift to Celestis? Something important to each of us?”

Tierrahnor nodded in agreement, “Then I will offer some of the earth I have gathered here…” he pulled at the underside of the plains and moutains, using his pull to form this extra into a ball instead of the flat plane he had created.

Sol, remembering he had already given away the Stars to her announced, “I will gift a way to light to this dirt ball you’ve made, it will be reflective and bright enough that my suns can make it glow when the stars are out. I’ll even put away my biggest sun so your stars can shine sometimes.”

Ventanus looked at the many pockets of water, the biggest being the pool of salty tears, “I don’t have as much to give but I will happily let this influence the water and weather here, at a lesser extent than I.”

Cel smiled as her tears had quieted and she reached out and hugged the other two gods, “Thank you. I love it, this moon has a bit of all of us now.”

With all four touching, and cheerful now, a sense of harmony spread across them and the base world we know now was connected through them.

She let them go and in turn decided to commemorate this they should make each other gifts to have closer than just the moon as well, and the artifacts of the divine were made…

Hex stamps out the last embers of his fire and sighs as the story ends, “And that concludes the creation of the base of the world we know. The birth and growth of the divine to how they are known in the remaining stories in this old book,” he kicks some dirt over the fire pit before heading into his tent…

Mod note: This is pretty much a good scale of their sizes to each other, does not mean I’ll keep to it but it is. And credit for the mlp style moon is based on mattbas’s vectors on deviant art

It was drawn to a sudden stop when Celestis unfurled her coils, releasing a flood of salty water between the mountains and finally she just wailed in shattered sorrow, her chiming voice cutting through the very hearts of the others, “Stop it! Stop fighting I beg you!” Her scales shuddered as she shivered in the rain of the storm from the cold and grief, “Please… I beg you.”

Ventanus let up the rain and landed near but was too ashamed to approach closer, their wings drooping as they looked to Terra, “Perhaps we… we went too far. Order isn’t a bad thing to have…”

He huffed and relented as well, his fur bristling in his embarrassment and shared shame, “…and some chaos is needed,” he looked at the wild mountains scattered about, the largest made by Cel’s first fall. The scene illuminated by the sun in the slowly clearing blue sky.