Tres Horny Boys TBH

[ID: 3 panel comic of Lup, an elven woman with a slight build, freckles, and thick, curly hair. In the first panel she looks intimidating, standing with flame magic emitting from the hands at he sides. She asks, “are you the one who’s been hurting my brother?” Second panel shows Edward, a male elf with short hair and wearing a heavy robe. He is looking up at Lup from within the umbrastaff, a look of fear in his eyes. He asks, “Am I—where are we?” Third panel is a close up of Lup’s face, the left eye focused, and the right eye a brilliant white, with a shot of white hot flame shouting. Over the flame ate the words, “I’m going to fucking kill you now. End ID]

alternate:

Beneath that is a series of line drawings of Lup and Magnus. Lup is a thin elf with freckles and short black hair with longer pieces framing her face. Magnus is a broad, muscular man with short black hair and thick muttonchops. Lup runs up to him, hand raised and smiling as she says, “Yo! Magnus! Highfive me, bro!” Magnus smiles and says, “Ok!!!” They high-five, and Lup’s hand flies off her arm with a “pop” as she looks horrified. Magnus screams and apologizes, clutching his face and looking distraught. Lup sticks her hand back from inside her sleeve, smiling and saying, “Haha gotcha.” She gestures to herself victoriously, saying, “I coulda done that with magic, son!!” as Magnus clutches his chest, sweating and recovering. “But I didn’t! Aren’t you proud of me?!” Lup adds. Magnus, still clutching his chest, says, “…yes…”

from a physics perspective, that means all the force he’s applying is concentrated at the point of contact between his sword’s edge and the target, and it moves at just the speed that breakage propogates through the material. too slow and it wouldn’t have enough force; too fast and he’d get ahead of the break, shoving the target over instead of cutting it.

like yeah here there be gerblins is about lup it's about you should have thought about that before throwing my dog in the fire, it's about falling in love with Barry Bluejeans, it's about trying to save so many people but failing, it's desperate odds and flying away from a disaster you couldn't avert, it's about being bitten in the back by an earlier decision to trust someone.

murder on the Rockport Limited is about Dav. It's about seeing the truth behind the illusion. it's about a town of people all with the same face. it's about losing the driver and trying to save the vehicle without him. it's about the youngest member of the crew holding a book that catches the truth and stops it reaching its destination. it's about beheading and loss of identity. It's about remembering to get your roommate pringles

petals to the metal is about Merle. It's about don't be chopping on these sweet sweet babies. it's about reaching out to someone you love who has been consumed by a power they can't fully control. it's about dying in the hope they can be saved. it's about racing as fast as you can, with all that you have, in the hope that something can be saved in the end.

crystal kingdom is about taako. it's about loving someone you've lost so much you'd turn the world to crystal to try and save them. it's about Kravitz. its about learning more from thousands of realities to make new and wonderful things. its about walking through your legacy. its about the best sandwich and taako's good out here. its about seven birds being seen, its about the thousands of lives that Boyland touched

the eleventh hour is about Magnus. It's about rustic hospitality. it's about recklessly breaking reality trying to protect people you love. it's about fate and choices you make in life. it is being a small town hero. it is making promises and keeping them. it's about the downfall of a corrupt leader and the people he took down on his way. it's about fallen temples and burnt out buildings. it's about embracing the inevitable and holding the hand of the clock that strikes your doom as the weapon that will save you

the suffering game is about Barry. It's about looping through endless pain again and again in the hopes of reaching a dream. it's about liches and death and love. it's about losing your body and being saved from permanent death by the power of your friends' love. it's about working out how things are working and then pulling them apart to understand them. it's about choosing to lose everything in the hopes that it might let you save something. arms outstretched. trust Barry, love Barry

the stolen century is about Lucretia. it's one hundred years of journals. It's learning world after world and watching them die. It's working to protect those you love by saving the light. It's about running away again and again, and loving only in goodbyes. it's about being alone and dying again and again. It's about bonds growing stronger even as something comes relentlessly to consume them

exactly. more people need to talk about this.

[ID from alt: quote from The Announcer from the start of Episode 47, reading: "I hope these boys never find my journal… my LiveJournal, that is! Unless you want to hear all about My Chemical Romance! It's The Adventure Zone!" End ID.]

and like, The Lover, The Lonely Journal Keeper, The Twins, and the Wordless One all foreshadow what Griffin was planning for the overall story and for those specific NPCs. and The Protector was a pretty obvious fit for Magnus after how much we'd seen of him so far

but I wouldn't really have called Merle "The Peacemaker" until we know about his relationship with John, and CERTAINLY not from what we knew just up to The Crystal Kingdom. and yet post-The Stolen Century, "The Peacemaker" is THE perfect nickname for him

so like. did Griffin pick something at random and just luck out that it fit as well as it did once the entire backstory was revealed? or were The Lover, the Protector, and the Peacemaker all thrown in as somewhat more vague nicknames that could be shuffled around as needed as the story progressed? Because if things had shaken out differently, I think you could manage to squeeze the one NPC left into any of those depending on what Magnus and Merle ended up

Poorly Drawn October

the adventure zone: balance fanart in 2025 that's right

based on this post

*taz amnesty theme plays loudly*

textless version under the cut!