#darkpath au

it’s amazing that i’m still getting asks about this even today, and I really appreciate that so many people loved this series- but I’m very sorry to say as I’ve mentioned many times before here on my tumblr, the series is 100% dead and I don’t have any plans to return to it

I’ve suffered harassment and all sorts of other things over the slow updates because when I had first started the comic I hit a really bad bout of depression and fell out of wanting to draw as much, which then turned the entire thing into a chore, so I just..... stopped updating. not because I didn’t want to. but because it was hard on my current mental state, that I had at that time, to /want/ to update. that and family problems that I really don’t want to disclose here. a lot of crap happened all at once and that’s just the way that cookie crumbled in my life.

while i’m doing much better today, i’m really sorry to say that I have no plans to go back to the comic /due/ to said harassment and the way I was treated over not updating it. i’m very sorry. but it was free content, and the way some people treated me over it completely turned me away from the fandom.

Tadashi Hamada from Runescratch’s Darkpath AU

“H-he almost...he tried...and you...” she stammered.

Hiro held her more firmly, causing her to gasp. “Hey, it’s okay.”

She huffed. “You could’ve gotten killed, you bloody moho!”

Hiro snorted, remembering that phrase from their childhood.

“Yep, you’re gonna be just fine.”

I wanna save that light

I can’t escape this now

Unless you show me how”

- Imagine Dragons “Demons”

I’m so glad this piece is finally done! Not 100% pleased by how it turned out, but since this is my first time drawing people (or anything like this), I’ll try not to beat myself up too much.

This is a major spoiler for my fic Stars in Shadow based on RuneScratch’s and B1ueflame’s Darkpath AU. I first came across it some months ago and not only did I fall head-over-heels for it, I’m totally inspired. It’s amazing and I love it!!!

I’m not a huge fan of Imagine Dragons, I admit, but I noticed that in the song “Demons” there are lyrics (especially listed above) that reflect Hiro’s thoughts about his growing relationship with my OC, Anwyn.

About this drawing: I love RuneScratch’s version of older Darkpath Hiro and added one or two tiny details (you have to squint to see them) to make it more my own. He’s supposed to be sixteen in the original AU, but I aged him up to eighteen for my story. I also had him standing in shadow with Anwyn in the light not only to be symbolic but also to hint at my fic’s title.

If the TF2 Mercs were in the Dark path AU.

this was an idea I've been working on for quite a while,

The Darkpath AU belongs to @runescratch

Info

This AU is set After the gravel war

After the war, the mercs were let go of their jobs by Saxton Hale, seeing that he didn't see much use of them anymore

The current team consists of mercs from Both RED & BLU. since most of their colleagues from both sides have either left or died

Demoman is seen as the leader of the group given that he led the RED team to victory during the war

Scout knows Spy is his father ever since the latter had told him, he does keep it a secret from the rest of his team since he felt it was a bit embarrassing

Spy and Sniper are best friends since before the war started. and even today, they still best buds

Demo and Soldier had rekindled their friendship now that the war is over

the following day after their termination, they somehow ended up in San Fransokyo. how they got there was a bit of a mystery to them, though Engineer has theorized that it might have something to do with one of his teleporters going haywire

Despite looking Clean and colorful on the outside, upon entering the city, they were shocked to see that it was actually riddled with chaos and corruption on the inside. the reasons for its state would unveil themselves in the form two warring sides, one a group of street gangsters, the other a certain group of heroes turned villains

after Soldier got caught in a war between the aforementioned groups (which caused him to inadvertently save a mother and her child from the fight), they were soon labeled as heroes by the public. something that they weren't expecting, and honestly weren't ready for, since they had just arrived in this world with explanation to it

it's also here that they would meet the city's other hope bringers, Tadashi and Wasabi (the latter of which who used to be mind-controlled by someone he called Hiro, but was set free thanks to Tadashi)

At first, Callaghan was still set on getting revenge on Krei like in the original AU, with him deceiving Tadashi in order to do so. but as time went on, he slowly became overwhelmed with the guilt from everything that has happened up to this point. now that things have gotten out of hand, it no longer became a revenge plot, all he wanted now was to stop hiro's rampage and finally free the city from corruption

there will also be other characters as well, so expect to see them somewhere in the story

Characters:

“Only a few days until we reach the fortress,” a Yama-sized humanoid with greenish-gray skin said to the cyclops-looking-thing with him. “Then we can finally kill Queen Anwyn and be rid of her.”

As they promised to stay in touch, she toyed with the bracelet that Hiro gave her for her eighth birthday. In the months since then, it had become her prized possession. Now that their time together was running out, she felt like an idiot for not getting him some kind of meaningful gift. The only thing she could give him was...

“Hey, Hiro?”

“Yeah?”

Anwyn removed the gold pendant and held it out to her best friend.

Anwyn choked as the incubus forced her chin upward to look into his dazzling face.