#augmentedspartan

1. Steven Universe?

naturally

2. What is your favorite thing about the person tagging you in this post?

they’re super hella sweet and fun to talk with <3

3. Would you say he is a good friend?

yaaaaAAAAAAAS

4. What superpower would you like to have the most?

shapeshifting. turn into a dragon and rob a bank or smthn

5. Pizza?

please

6. Do you cosplay? If so, what’s your favorite cosplay/dream cosplay??

i rly wanna cosplay amethyst someday...

7. Favorite Homestuck character???

eridan ampora (problematic fish boy fave)

8. What fictional character do you feel most linked to and why?

kirby tbh. im just a genderless orb who wants to eat food and have a good time

9. What is your most valued possession and why?

my blanket from when i was a kid cause it keeps away nightmares uwu

10. What is your favorite animal (this includes mythological!)?

dogcopter lmao

alrighty so here are my questions for the nerds i tag

1. if you have a gemsona, what’s their gem and weapon

2. if you were an animal crossing personality type which would you be 

3. what’s your favorite sound

4. who is your favorite video game character

5. if two guys were on the moon and one killed the other with a rock would that be fucked up or what

6. whos ur problematic fave

7. which version of never gonna give you up do you prefer: the original or the tisdale

8. what’s your native language/what languages do you speak other than that

9. whos ur fave steven universe character

Ah. 

Nah, her ring was a ring that they infused with shadows. That’s why Solomon kept giving her new ones, rather than Valkyrie just wrapping shadows around her finger to form a new one. 

I think it had something to do with control. When Valkyrie’s ring was crushed by Melancholia, Solomon said something about the magic returning to her, but without an object to wield it, it was useless. Melancholia also bragged about not needing an object to wield her magic and that it was just a part of her (though obviously not a safe thing to do). Necromancers most likely just choose things that are easy for them in particular to use easily. Valkyrie liked a ring because it was something small that she wouldn’t really have to worry about losing and it was on her hand, so it was easy to direct her magic. Solomon used a cane and could use it to hit people and swing shadows around. The gun would be for someone who wanted endless shadow bullets. It’s more of a personal preference.

Skulduggery’s armour wasn’t a host for shadows - it was shadows. It was kind of like how Melancholia had them woven into her body and so SHE was the host, but the shadows themselves were Vile’s shadow’s host. It’s fair to assume that a) that’s a dangerous way to channel death magic, and b) it would be hard to do. Skulduggery can do those sort of things because he’s Skulduggery. Being dead would have meant that he didn’t have to worry about those shadows killing him like Melancholia had to worry about (when they kept draining her, or when the symbols got cut and it started messing up). 

That…. That makes very good sense.

Holy shit.

Also, when Valkyrie was dead in Mortal Coil and using Necromancy to threaten Nye, it was terrified - “But you’re dead! It’s death magic wielded by a dead person - you don’t know what you’re doing! You can’t control it - you’re not strong enough!” (pg.255). Valkyrie was fifteen there and obviously not as strong as Skulduggery, but her magic was pretty strong there and was more ruthless when she was using it, saying it “swept her up like an eager servant” when she tried to walk towards Nye. She was still pretty new to Necromancy as it is, and was way stronger than usual while she was dead. But Skulduggery is one of the strongest Elementals out there (aside from maybe Mevolent) and that's harder to use than Necromancy magic.