my creations get put through The Ringer here 🎉🎉

PHIGHTER’S CANON HEIGHTS AND BODY TYPES YAAY

This is not an OC! That's official art from (I believe) SMILES, whose also been listen as a reference for other Redcliff lore, so I believe they're part of the official phighting team.

This is on the Redcliff's wiki page now!

Caltrop's section has actually ALWAYS said that he had a child, however they were previously unnamed and had no design. We now have the youngest wrangler (that we know of), Cowbell!!!!

THEY'RE SO CUTE I ADORE THEM DBSJGSBSHXJBSX

stage combat is seen as the art form version/branch-off of phighting. some retired, professional phighters go on to perform/coach in stage combat, and it is generally seen as a respected profession for most regions. some participating phighters even use stage combat as a way to train (restricting themself to a small space, the stage). blackrockians, more specifically ones raised under the korblox administration, tend to see it as frivolous.

using one's actual gear in stage combat rather than just props would be another subset, probably a specialized version as gears are unique to the user and each have their own feel (partially inspired by how Venomshank says something along the lines of gears being connected to the inphernal wielding it in ditf*).

^ example: an inphernal with the wand of flurry gear could use it to push a partner across the stage, perhaps even turn it into a metaphor of resisting an opposing force as their partner pushes past the wind to make contact with the inphernal in question.

*"An inphernal's gear is as [an?] direct extension of one's self," Venomshank, Page 64 of Death In The Family

anyway if you get a comment like this, chances are that they are bot and their goal is to do whatever it takes to get you to delete your work, most certainly (from what I’ve heard) it’s because they want to “safely” steal your work, use it to train their ai without you being able to rightfully claim ownership of your work since “there’s no proof that the work was stolen/was posted elsewhere first by you” because the original source has already been deleted.

THEY ARE ALL BOTS. at first it was “ao3 is deleting fics and your entire account will be affected unless you delete the fics yourself” then it was “this work contains contents that are illegal and they have already reported you and your fic to the police” (yes, that’s how desperate these bots are), and now it’s this.

report their comments to ao3 for spam—in this case, specifically, I think you may be able to report them for harassment too—and don’t pay attention to them, most importantly don’t delete your works, don’t feel discouraged by their comments. remember that they are bots and they mass comment something like this on people’s works at random to get people to delete their works. (or even if they’re not bot, they are still pathetic bullies who don’t deserve your time or attention.)