Night_honoki

"Blood Angels and their Successors would make amazing Noise Marines" alternatively titled "Tertius is not in a hurry to save his friends from daemons"

Featuring Ajax, Aiya (and Aiya's sentient guitar) and Ethrian of the Song Whose Scales Reflect Time

Audio/Inspiration below the cut, Aiya belongs to @nytemyst

EDIT: reupload with proper cropping

If I made this into its own thing (changed the names, built a proper world, restructured the plot into something functional) how many of y'all would read it?

I hope Thira gets a cool dress when she's King

WIP featuring the Cruciblen't and another potential endgame design. Unfortunately I think it's really boring, but I'll keep working on it...

EDIT: How do we feel about the white version?

Still working on this, I think I'm gonna do a full piece! I like him with a lil scruff =D

Closeup and link to the fic under the cut

I WILL end Doctrine at some point

Excerpt under the cut

In the spirit of the Human Urge to Defend Opinions on the Internet, I do genuinely like Princess Thira, but I also have a lot of thoughts about her that demands some nuance

Why do I like her?

-Girl pretty, magic cool, relatable for hyperspecific personal reasons that I won't get into because they fall firmly into "my business" and therefore should not be brought into a discussion about a character's objective quality, damsel trope make brain go brrrr, and I'm really taken with the potential behind her.

Is she a good character?

-No, not really. I don't think the writers can fix it within the structure of the story they have built either, but I DO hope!

Is she a Mary Sue?

-I don't really think so. If anything, she's a MacGuffin, but that feels like splitting hairs so I don't really burn too many calories over it. More on the Mary Sue thing later

Do I hope she ends up in a canon romantic relationship with the Slayer?

-No. Speaking from the canon (bible definition here) lore, it's not a good idea. She isn't a structurally sound character, and it would desaturate the meaning behind the Slayer's character and utterly obliterate what little impact she has anyway. She doesn't have a clear personal motive, she doesn't have a cohesive development arc, she doesn't have any meat to her writing besides Fridge Mom and Cool Powers.

Am I going to keep shipping them?

-Yes! At this point in my creative style I'm not really the type to create a self insert (could change over the years, who knows). I love seeing everyone else's self inserts and I've loved what everyone has done here, it's just not my style right now.

I like the IDEA of what a relationship between two characters like them COULD be. I liked it so much that I wrote it myself! I don't need the canon to tell my story for me to feel validated, and even if they do end up a thing, I'll never be entirely satisfied because I like my interpretation a LOT more than what the actual source material provides. The Doctrine fic IS an alternate timeline where Eternal pretty much doesn't happen. It's my own little dollhouse with a Barbie and a G.I. Joe, and I've learned a lot as a writer and had a lot of fun with it, so it suits me more than anything I could consume anyway.

I think it is worth considering the lack of women in DOOM. They're either villains or Dr. Peterson, no complaints about any of them, but I appreciate the attempt to put a heroic woman into a setting that is overwhelmingly masculine. Women in fiction are (unfortunately) difficult to write in a way that people like anyway, and you WILL catch flak for any kind of attempt, particularly when the audience is largely chud-dudebro or incel-gamer type guys. I am a bit of an apologist about this, but I hope to make up for it by aiming to write my own women as cohesively as possible--and I only get better with practice. TO BE CLEAR, I also don't think it's an excuse for why Thira objectively isn't good. We ought to have high standards for the media we consume, as creators. I can, however, see why they failed, and I hope to better understand HOW so that I can be better in my own work. I think it's a call to action for those of us who write and draw. Anyway, that's why I don't really care for the term "Mary Sue". It feels like a buzzword for "Woman I Don't Like for Reason X/Y/Z" to me, rather than something constructive aimed at solving a really prevalent problem in media. It's healthy to understand failure and try again later, that's what critique is actually intended to be.

EDIT: I really do truly like her! I like her for the same reason I like cookie dough oat milk ice cream: it satisfies a taste, and that’s all liking something has to be. I’m not about to get in a fight over ice cream, so I’m not going to double down and pretend that she’s this groundbreaking character that changed my life and psyche, I just like her! I like all of the characters (ranging from “neato!” To “I’ll jump off the porch and kick your ass”). I like Doom! It’s fun and its cool!

Doomkids! Introducing Novik II and Isabelle, Crown Prince and Princess of the Sentinels. Isabelle is the next bearer of the Heart of Argent and possesses many of the same Wraith powers as her mother. Like her dad, she is near completely mute and beyond ruthless in battle. Her twin brother however, has virtually no powers beyond the ability to talk about anything and everything for as long as he is alive and conscious. He’s charismatic and has a lot of energy, and grows into a gifted pilot, warrior and diplomat. No one is sure where he gets it; the only signs he’s related to the Slayer at all are his cheekbones and a temper, and rumor has it, Novik II actually takes after his grandfather more than the Slayer.

From my fic DOCTRINE, refs under the cut

More High School AU stuff and misc sketches I'm not going to finish

Shit.

Taggart looked at her briefly. She was beginning to sink into the rock, dragged back by whatever owned the squirming mess of feelers. He experimentally touched the stone and found it pliable, then carefully tugged on Thira’s arm. She didn’t budge.

“Flynn, I…” she murmured. Her eyes unfocused for a moment. Her skin was beginning to glow an unearthly, pale light. “I’m sorry.”

“Don’t you worry your pretty head,” he said softly, caressing her cheek with the back of his knuckles. “I’m not going anywhere.”

Then, he did what he did best. He punched the stone with enough force to buckle iron, burying his arm to the elbow. He managed to push his arm around Thira’s waist and wrapped himself around her like a human shield. Then, with his free hand, he drew his crossbow, leveled it at the Walker, and disengaged the safety.

“Yes…” Ulsamir whispered in the back of his mind. The Walker was heaving her massive bulk upright, blood slopping to the floor in sheets. Her eyes widened a little, and he grinned.

Call the bluff, time it right, and let the jaws of the trap shatter. They’ve already underestimated you.

“Say ‘cheese,’ bitch.”

Not really Goretober themed but Skie is in a lot of pain and rage as she unleashes her inner Wraith soulfire. It takes a lot for Skie to unleash this kind of fiery fury. She will probably sleep a handful of days to recover.