#shadowcard

They start out kinda as grumpy x comedic relief. Ruby has the mentality of never trusting anyone as anyone could betray you and hurt you, and Ryan uses jokes and quips to brush off the seriousness of their 'almost dying daily' lifestyle fighting against an evil magic organization. Ruby reluctantly teams up with Ryan after he saves her life, but eventually starts warming up to him. Ryan has a nasty habit of trying to protect her even at the cost of himself, and she drills it into him to not do that. Ryan also shows his more vulnerable side after a while, to which Ruby is there to be a shoulder to lean on. Overall it's two rather broken people finding safe places to rest within the other, while also being a badass Power Couple.

They have some bumps in the road during their relationship; Ryan reveals a big secret that shatters Ruby's perception of him for a while. Ruby almost dies to an evil entity trying to possess her to kill humanity. Ryan almost dies to a different evil entity later on. But they both live!! They get a happy ending after all of it :) Which, for a while it was Ryan did just die at the end of Legends of the Cosmos (a kind of collection that CoV's the start of). But he doesn't anymore, yippee!!

Art of Ryan and Ruby. Ryan is the brunette on the left, Ruby's with the red highlights on the right. Ignore the middle guy for now he's not important lol

Risabell/ShadowCard (the second name's a new ship name I thought of legit thirty minutes ago lmao)

THIS ship is easily in my top three, maybe even my top two for CoV ships. It's got Riot, a perfectionist jester themed villain who takes joy in manipulating and making wisecracks about people, and Isabell Casimiro, no-nonsense Agent of Chaos (that evil organization that Ruby and Ryan fight) who tries her damnedest to focus on her mission and serve well.

They're great.

Riot has a habit of getting in people's personal space, and Isabell is no exception during the brief period the two work together. And she does it especially more since Riot quickly develops a crush on Isabell. Isabell kind of indulges in Riot's half advances, but she doesn't let it get more than that as relationships are often dangerous in the Agents of Chaos.

Then later, when they work together way more, it's more of them ignoring feelings and trying to not say things out loud. It devolves into messy on and offs of them bantering and flirting, then suddenly Isabell not seeming to want to do anything with Riot at all (often to put more focus on work/her job as an Agent), and then back again, all with the occasional (more than occasional) secret sex.

Eventually they do get their shit together and actually start dating, when they're in a safer place to do so. But I love the secretness and 'will they wont they' part of their relationship a lot, it's fun :D

Art of both Riot and Isabell. Riot has the purple jacket and mask, and Isabell has the black and bronze outfit <3

WorldsDuo

WorldsDuo isn't a part of any sort of WIP I'm making; it's moreso me mashing my and my partner's Minecraft OCs together for funsies. WorldsDuo is the ship for Reaper x Yoda (no, not the green guy. But fret not, Yoda is due for a name change soon as my partner reworks him. I just have no clue what it is.)

'Reaper?' you might be wondering. 'From Souls of Black?"

Yes, in fact. Only, this Reaper is a version further into the future from her SoB self. She meets Yoda after Souls of Black takes place.

And their entire aesthetic is 'doomed immortal soulmates'.

Reaper and Yoda have been through a lot of shit, both together and separately. Reaper has the entirety of Souls of Black. Yoda has the entirety of his origin story, currently called Recreance. Both face heavy losses, and when they meet, it just gets worse. They start off rocky--Reaper still has her distrustful tendencies, and unfortunately no memory of SoB or its lessons-- so they're not exactly friends. But later they slowly start becoming it. They go on a mining trip, Yoda gets possessed by sculk; Reaper has to kill him to save him. She hates and faults herself for it. She befriends his ghost. His ghost kills himself after finding out about Yoda from a book from a mysterious entity called The Game Master. Yoda doesn't hate her. She ends up accidentally helping someone who hates Yoda have him killed again. Later Yoda gets possessed by a much worse, much more evil and cunning entity, and then kills all of Reaper's friends in that World, and himself, and leaves her alone under its influence.

Then, in a new World, they actually start dating. Things go well, Reaper gets her SoB memories. They live in a nice quaint cabin together. Then it's revealed Yoda has secrets he isn't willing to share, while Reaper wants to share everything between them because she's worried about secrets getting them killed. It's a never ending argument and she breaks up with him. She hates herself for this and is nigh suicidal yet she can't die. Yoda hates himself for losing her and descends into alcoholism.

In a newer World, things still suck. Reaper's trying to forget about Yoda and has adopted a son, but Yoda shows up in that World again. They are always destined to find each other. They kind of co-parent Reaper's adopted son. When said son gets infected with a parasite they argue about who will kill him if the need arises. Reaper and Yoda start mending again. Later it's revealed Yoda made a deal with the evil entity that possessed him, called The Origin, for it to handle threats in his life so he could try and live normally after never having been able to, and that's one of the big secrets he was keeping from Reaper. The Game Master's back, and both he and The Origin are taking turns whacking Reaper with the Trauma stick. Reaper hallucinating Yoda's ghost, and wanting her friend back, gets possessed and tricked into killing Yoda permanently. Reaper doesn't trust herself anymore and hates herself further for killing Yoda again. She can't ever not kill the people she loves. Yoda's ghost doesn't even remember her, and later history repeats, and he finds the book from The Game Master again and dies again to bring Yoda back. Yoda helps Reaper from a breakdown, and finally tells her his other secret: that he had a wife and son before but his wife died and he unwillingly was torn from his son. They've slowly started mending again and confronting their feelings.

Reaper reminds him of his wife. Yoda reminds Reaper of both Phoebe and Galisa. They each see both their past joys and past biggest mistakes in the other yet still want so desperately to be loved, to finally have rest from the torment that is their lives.

Many such things are left out because I'm going off the top of my head, but least of all to say their history and relationship is so complicated and sad. And I love it! :D

WorldsDuo is just... they're destined to find each other but never stay together. One of them will always die. One of them will always kill the other. Both of them wish for an end that will never come. Both of them simply want a quiet peaceful life with the other, but the Worlds seem to not want to give it to them sob

Look. They even have matching thematic art with the titles the Universe and their lives have given them. I'm gonna throw up.

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