#fae rambles

Faerie Father au

Basically, a what if idea for my Children of Beasts au.

The idea is when Silent Salt runs from Dark Enchantress (recently transformed), he doesn't leave his doughlings by the witch. Instead, he opts to swallow his fear and go to the faerie kingdom, asking Elder Faerie to look after his children. Elder Faerie is stunned but agrees, deciding to raise the three as Silent Salt runs to draw away Dark Enchantress's attention.

Basically, instead of being trapped in a time spell, Gingerbrave, Strawberry and Wizard are raised by the king of the faeries, their aging slowed to match the other fae.

Elder Faerie is somewhat concern learning the tree is empty, only holding power, but it seems like Salt is convince they turned over a new left, plus the biggest threat current is Dark Enchantress. Even when she is 'defeated' there is a bitterness for the fae, as Silent Salt not coming back makes him assume his old friend is crumbled.

Elder Faerie raised them to the best of his abilities, caring for them as the guilt eats away at him, blaming himself for their parents fall.

Of course, Gingerbrave and his siblings love learning and accidently cause chaos, and the story starts because Wizard was messing with a spell and accidently teleports all of them.

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They would make really cool combat tonic-like forms. Would revert to your normal form for things like mounting and other special things, much like how combat tonics already work. But imagine having a really cool animal form while still doing your normal combat stuff? Cmon, that'd be so baddass.

The models would also need a bit of a glow up to today's standards, rather than the 2012 model, cos man, some of them are a bit rough. Both looks and animations. Yeah yeah, I know, little payoff for a fair bit of work. I can dream ;_;

It would also allow for norn revs to get the forms! Since rev utility skills are bound to the legend. I've seen far too many rev norn players be completely unaware that norn can transform. They see an npc do it and go "holy crap what's that!?" like they completely missed out a whole chunk of lore about their chosen race.

Turns out I've actually already seen every artist to draw Razer so far, so...

Xermánico - Designed an entirely new casual look for him, and he looks good. I can’t explain it, but his very first appearance feels like the Young Justice episode was used as reference. Eye markings aren’t quite there, but at least sometimes the colorists don’t make him bright blue. 10/10 I can't stop looking at those reunion panels

Amancay Nahuelpan - I'm sorry, but this one's rough. Those markings are pitiful, and what is going on with his hair? I can't blame the penciller for the colorist picking that bright shade of aqua, but oh baby does it not help. 5/10 the art itself isn't bad, it's just who is this?

Fernando Pasarin - Fares better than Aya, but still just a bit off. I actually use the color palette for this second version of his new casual look, so there’s that. 8/10 he’s a good artist, just not my first choice for these particular characters

V. Ken Marion - Only distance shots, can’t evaluate. NA/10 promising but needs more data

French Carlomagno - Now there’s Razer! Sharp face, big eye markings, even his suit is perfectly rendered. 11/10 tell the colorist to dial the blue down and he’s perfect.

you ever get ur feelings hurt or ur heart broken and just think ..“ wow.. stray kids would never treat me like this” 😐

*deep gut wrenching sigh*