#fancanon

- an art post -

I Love the wild goose chase that is the deltarune character known as FRIEND

So I decided to make my own art of the IMAGE_FRIEND Because I have nothing else to do. I'm a really big Deltarune fan, I've followed every update it's had ever since the demo came on the switch!

A quick digital art sketch of the creature

Traditional art of the creature featuring two designs (Don't mind the microphone paw things, I drew some pluey art too but it's kinda bad even for my standard)

i like drawing him weird

in animal behavior we called this state of increased engagement with an environment "arousal" but I uhh. am not going to use that in this case.

Bonus: (Warning - suggestive)

Ok so, just ideas I had bc I hyperfixated on TWD and even tho I hate canon!Shane, I really like the version of him I made up in my head,

Also this is based on my own AU in which Shane never fell for Lori, and never went crazy ofc,

Shane is overprotective as hell, he never leaves your side, his gaze never leaves you, he is always, ALWAYS, on guard, observing and making sure you're safe.

He is also very indulgent, he'll do anything you want. Play hide and seek? He's the best seeker. Want to colour? He fought a walker to get a box of crayons. A tea party? He's already getting the tiaras.

He won't let anyone else take care of you, he feels the responsibility to do it himself and doesn't trust anyone to be as capable as he is.

Is the kind of caregiver that makes sure you never know when something bad happened. The group is running from walkers? He told you they're having a race. He won't let you suffer any sadness or anxiety if he can avoid it.

He is really good at protecting you and playing with you, but he is not the best at handling the hard stuff or the emotional stuff. You feel sick or got injured? He panicks and runs to Rick for advice. You feel sad? He is desperate trying to make you laugh and doesn't understand why Rick insists on letting you cry and vent your feelings.

He loves doing everything for you, choosing your outfit, brushing your hair, making you food and sometimes even feeding you. He likes feeling that you need him.

And he absolutely LOVES when you actually need him to do something you can't do on your own.

He goes feral when you're in danger though.

Or when he feels you're in danger. He will snap at anyone that dares to even look at you funny. An he doesn't give warnings, one second he is fine and the next he is throwing fists at the asshole that made a comment about you.

And then he is showering you with love, his bruised hands caressing your hair, making sure you never feel ashamed of who you are, and that you always know that he's got your back.

Every night he will tuck you in, sing you a lullaby of your choosing and cuddle you until you fall asleep.

And he won't leave your side until you wake up. He doesn't sleep much, he only falls asleep when he is hugging you.

He is the most happy when you are happy, and he will do anything to make sure you're happy no matter what.

VBA - Eight (PseudoConcept Art)

The jojoke:

Here I present one of my Ocs: Dansel Onnay

She is the daughter of Kenisis the overlord of Amber (Kenisis's character belongs to happymonkeyshoes on deviantart)

She is Orko's main rival at the magic academy and in Trolla.

Both powerful and popular magicians in Trolla.

However she was always the shadow of Orko the Great; she maintained the determination of her when she was younger and until the present day to be able to catch up with Orko in his abilities.

(Orko almost always won spell battles against her)

In my fancanon the magic academy of Trolla is ruled by Montork and the overlords of Trolla

Each one with his class: I base myself on the happymonkeyshoes fancanon; https://www.deviantart.com/happymonkeyshoes/art/Overlords-of-Trolla-FINAL-169227175

Art by me

Montork and Orko belongs to Filmation

Dansel Onnay Oc by me

I have come upon a compulsion to delve into the nature of the Coven Heads and what things might have been like for them leading up to the DOU. Most of this is just my interpretation and is only really relevant to my fanfic, After the End, but I figured it might be interesting to some. So, here we go!

Okay. First thing that we can all agree on is, quite simply, the coven heads were lied to. To my understanding, this is canon. They thought they were working with a witch. Granted, one who's been around for centuries claiming to be the mouth of the titan, but a witch nonetheless. This witch, who has been around for centuries, who has been working towards some grander goal, shares with them this goal. To attain paradise. AKA, bring the titan's skull into the human realm where they will be seen as "royalty." Presumably as a reward for carrying out the titan's will, but who knows really what the point of that promise was (other than to further entice the ruling coven heads at the time).

Now, on to my interpretation/fanconon: As Amity has just so blatantly pointed out in the latest chapter of my fic, them being lied to and manipulated doesn't excuse the way they acted while in their seats. And she's right. It doesn't.

But consider the reality they've all been living in up until the DOU finally happens.

Belos wasn't necessarily the poster child for team unity and kind cooperation between the covens. If anything, he wanted them to be wary of each other, distrustful of each other – while being forced to work together. After all, you're already creating a separation by dividing magic into its individual crafts and stating they have to be individual. It's easy to take that another step forward and make tweaks here or there to make it just that much harder to trust each other and work together because "you don't understand how this works," or "you're getting in the way of how I do my part" or whatever.

Not only that, but the coven heads were made into political entities at that point.

After all, when you have a whole sect of people dedicated to a single craft of magic, that sect of people is going to want rights in alignment with that craft, right? They're going to have their own needs and requirements and they're going to have to vie for those against the others of the "opposing" crafts. So naturally "leaders" emerge – which is how the coven heads were probably sparked into existence anyway. These leaders were supposed to be the figureheads for their craft and the people of their craft, with the point and purpose of preserving and protecting both. This is going to create factions. Which was exactly what Belos wanted.

These factions then, as stated, have their own goals to strive for and agendas to serve. And because it's just this *pinches fingers* hard to work together, trust each other, cooperate with each other, you get friction. This friction manifests in many different ways, generally none of them positive. From passive aggression to full-frontal insults, to clandestine operations to get what they want to straight up murdering someone because they're in direct opposition of a desired goal. This naturally leads to hatred, contempt and bitter rivalries. Of course, on the other side of the coin, this also leads to alliances between coven heads. Whether it's because they share a goal, if only for that one purpose, or because they just happen to like each other, or because they recognize their covens need to work together for the greater benefit of both (the plant and beast keeping covens are an example of this last one). These rivalries and alliances are never set in stone, unfortunately, whether it's just because of the natural occurrences that accumulate over time, or the subtle manipulations of Belos himself. So, as you can imagine, it's not easy – it's in fact harsh and even dangerous – to be a Coven Head.

Now, take this shitty social and political climate that exists at the top of the food chain and insert into it a common goal.

It's my belief that not long after the formation of his empire, maybe ten years in or so, Belos revealed his plan for the DOU to the coven heads. Because anyone with a brain could tell at that point he was up to something. And even if they couldn’t, he needed them on his side. He needed them to be aware enough to actively work as his appendages for this purpose as this was the next phase of his plan.

So. He shows them. Tells them it's the titan's will they "achieve paradise." Tells them the goal of "unifying the people to escape wild magic." Now, while he's still on this train of "wild magic bad, coven magic good" he's not hiding the fact that this is just a front, something they're going to tell the populace instead of the actual purpose of the DOU which is "paradise." AKA – transporting the titan's skull to the human realm. The specific reasonings he might throw out at any given time could vary, but the gist of the whole thing is – a new world with more resources and new opportunities.

This is very appealing. Each coven head has their own reasons for seeing this as appealing. Some are looking forward to a better life. Some are looking forward to better resources. Some are looking forward to more freedom to operate. Whatever. Their individual reasons for wanting this brings them together, whether they want to work together or not, to reach towards this singular purpose.

Belos periodically goes over the DOU with them over the years, always when a new coven head is inducted, and occasionally just as a reminder and general overview of the progress. But the point of repeatedly going over this plan, this lofty goal, is to reiterate that they all share this purpose. They all, himself included, are working for this. This is the end result of all their hard work and they ALL want this, after all – it's the "will of the titan" of course you want this, this is our grand achievement as leaders of the people, and we will lead our race into safety and prosperity!

So.

You have people who are forced to become hard, suspicious, sly, vicious, even cut-throat and ready to kill convinced they have something grand to achieve, something the titan itself wants them to make happen.

They're gonna wanna make it happen!

Enter people like Darius, Eber, and Raine. Each has their own reasons for seeing this as something other than what it is, seeing through these lies and suspecting this isn't exactly what it appears. And it just so happens that the three of them are all having these thoughts at the same time for once since Belos had first shared the DOU plan with the coven heads. See, in the lore of my fic, Terra goes into the reality that is the tenure of coven heads. The average tenure is between 12 and 15 years – an average taken since the inception of "coven heads" (give or take 200ish years), before even the title of Coven Head had been established. The reason for this tenure average is Belos. He has always found some way to keep a coven head from being in power any longer than that. Whether that be through "retiring them" either through persuasion or force, or finding a way to instigate their unfortunate death, sometimes even straight up murdering them if that's what it took. The reason he wanted this shortened tenure was because the longer a coven head sat, the more likely they'd start piecing together the puzzle of HIM and he couldn't have that. And this fear of his is valid, as there have been some coven heads through history that have become blatantly suspicious of him. And of course he's dealt with them. However, as previously stated, he's never had more than one with enough suspicion to act in power at the same time.

Now, I'm taking a bit of a detour to go over Terra, lol

She's the longest sitting coven head at 46 years, "running the coven for fifty if we want to get technical." There are reasons Belos was unable to get rid of Terra, and it wasn't because she was such a loyal prawn. Terra, through the simple desire of wanting to improve upon what already existed, made herself too valuable. Because she single-handedly turned a coven previously seen as nearly inconsequential and subservient at the time of her induction at the age of 30 into the largest coven by volume of members, most lucrative by value of items produced, most important in regards to asset management, and it's also considered one of the best to be a part of for the sake of "coven life" due to the community she's fostered between members. This collection of reasons alone make Terra a hugely valuable person to keep in power. Another point to add to her value, however, is that she's an immensely powerful witch. She doesn't brag, nor does she make a show of things (believe it or not) but she's not afraid to wield her power either. So A) she's grown her coven into the largest coven on the Isles and is so very respected and loved by said coven that removing her would actually be detrimental, B) she herself is a supremely powerful witch, and that power will absolutely come in handy should he need it and C) such a powerful witch will only allow for the draining spell to work even better and faster. Now, there are other reasons Belos couldn't remove her even had he decided he wanted to. However, those are spoilers and I'll not be getting into those, lol

Back to the main point – shorter tenure is something Belos wanted amongst the coven heads. And the sweetest irony is that concept is what allowed three new (Raine at less than a year), newer (Darius at 5 years) and newish (Eber at 8 years) members to come along and be like "Something ain't right here…"

The problem arises however in the fact that Darius, Eber and Raine see what the others just don't. There are a whole host of reasons why they don't see what's going on, whether it be that they're stuck in a particular mindset, or are too focused on duties to their coven and keeping their heads and watching their backs and trying to mediate this and instigate that, or even genuinely believe what Belos is telling them. Notable exceptions would be Adrian, who just doesn't give a shit – he's literally like "fuck yeah, I want to be royalty, you peons should have been kissing my feet years ago" and Terra, who actually does see through a fair amount of Belos' shit, but believes his end goal, the final result he's trying to achieve, is what's best for the whole of the Isles – and she is only working with him to achieve this goal and when it's finally fucking finished? … well. *shrugs*

The point remains, however, that the three are fighting against the other six because the other six, for one reason or another, believe they have to fulfill this grand purpose. So. This brings us to the DOU.

The six believe they need to make this happen. They are also hardened leaders who have been through some shit and had to do some things and if they have to make threats, either just for show or for the real deal, they will. Because this is what they've been working for. This is what they need to make happen because it's the promise of status, or the promise of reward, or the promise of safety and prolonging of their race.

Everything they have done has been to make this day happen.

And here we have some youngbloods (figuratively speaking) who want to wreck shit up for what?

Because they don't like Belos? Because they don't like the status quo?

Get in line, kids! We all got bones to pick and beefs to throw, but that's not what's important right now – what's important is "achieving paradise" and we have MINUTES to make this happen and you need to get in line RIGHT FUCKING NOW!

So yeah, some hands were thrown, some knives came out, some empty threats were made, and some words were said in anger (looking at Terra with that stupid "should have killed you when you were kids" comment that she absolutely realized was a low blow and unnecessary but – OH LOOK, shit's hit the fan and Paradise isn't real and she's on the floor now).

So. Without getting into all the gritty details of what happened in the 14ish months between the DOU and the start of my fic – at some point trials were held where each of the six were interrogated and evaluated and it was seen that all but Adrian held no guilt of true and actual wrong-doing. See, not only was Adrian in it for purely selfish reasons, but his tenure record was pulled and he was assessed to be incompetent for the role and also guilty of several crimes, including and especially the highly illegal act of going around to schools on the Isles issuing coven sigils to children who weren't of age to make such decisions. At the very least, those children weren't forced to take a sigil they didn't want at that time (not counting the situation with Gus because up until that point his act hadn’t been seen through) but considering they don't know how to actually remove the sigils, those poor kids are now stuck with that snap judgement.

This is how five of the six have been allowed to retain their seats. And now that they've been made aware of the truth, they are each working towards rebuilding and healing the Isles in their own ways.

This has been my dissertation on the realities and motives of the Coven Heads! (Again, all just my own interpretation and mostly relevant only to my fanfic.)