all the little jibes... all the little taunts...

as marshmello once famously said "lately, i've been, i've been thinking... i want you to be happier". you know what would make me happier? more skulduggery pleasant YURI.

currently on ao3 there are 1549 works in the skulduggery pleasant fandom. just 150 are tagged as F/F, many of which are multifandom fics which only include wlw ships from other fandoms.

the thing is, the issue is certainly not that there's NO interest in these ships. wlw ship valancholia (which i am totally not biased towards in any way) won @sp-fanclub's 2025 Skulduggery Ship Wars by a landslide, winning over 73.2% of the 82 voters in the final poll. so clearly... the potential is there. what we need is a motivator. like a splash but it's not a thinly veiled metaphor for drugs.

and so..... may i propose............ SKULDUGGYURI PLEASANT. a dedicated period where we make a collective effort to create skulduggery fanworks that centre relationships between non-men, romantic or otherwise. because there are so many amazing dynamics between characters in this series who are female or gender diverse, and they deserve a little boost :)

NOTE i put writing event in the poll because i'm losing my mind pretend it says fanwork event xxx

Need to make some decisions about the Mortal Coil Deck and you- yes, YOU!!- get to help :]

The Mortal Coil Spoilers, obviously, but also just assume spoilers for all of Phase 1 are in these polls.

First Poll- Spoilers: MC n DB

Should Hokum Pete, Lightning Dave, Hieronymus Deadfall and Brobding get Necromancer Cards?

They appear for one chapter, and they all die horrible deaths to Tesseract. They're not entirely relevant, but they weren't entirely relevant in the Faceless Deck either soooo

They're kinda in the same vein as Ranajay and the two Funeral Home directors too actually, now that I think about it...

Alright I'll lump them all together. A lovely bundle of 7 irrelevant characters, most of whom are named, two of whom have been repeatedly requested by Reddit xD

Ceryen and Graft fall into the same vein of Irrelevant named characters (that die pretty much as soon as they're introduced lol) as Stentor n Civet and Sev n Zephyr. They help the Torment and Madam Mist bury Tesseract alive.

Remnant possessed Mortals! There are four that I would consider Relevant enough for Cards: Eamon Campbell the milkman (And his Jogger Rival) , and Muriel and James Hubbard, the wife and the chief of police. Their daughter Ashley was murdered by her remnant possessed friends. They fall in the same vein as Mr. Fedgewick.

You wanna know what character got the short end of the stick?

It was Scapegrace.

Because of course it was.

Cain and Abel - SP addition

A drawing I made of the reflection's death in the second book! It's actually inspired by a painting of Cain and Abel from the game "batman arkham city" (which I highly recommend!!!)

(yes, the reflection technically wears Valkyrie's jacket and clothes in this scene, but I thought it'll look better and a bit more symbolic if she wore normal "mortal" clothing haha)

Extra versions!

✦ no blood version because I liked how the shirt looks :)

✦ black, white and red version inspired by some art in "batman arkham city" :D

Random fanfic fact!

So because the reflection evolves into one of the most important characters in the crossover fanfic I'm making with my sister, this scene is quite important there! :D

And the Cain and Abel - Valkyrie CAIN and her reflection (which turns into Miria Echo ABEL) is absolutely on perpuse, I'm WAY to proud of it XD

Closeup + the original painting:

For the Valancholia shippers

Creator Notes

The highlight on Val's hair shifts from a blue grey hue when she's still conscious to a redder grey when Darquesse takes control :D

I think it's fun if Melancholia's scars glow when she's using her magic to do Death Bringer stuff. Would they glow if she was just doing regular necromancy? Eh I don't think so, just 'big feat' stuff... like killing people lol

The patchwork also does a miniscule amount of storytelling here, but I still want to note it because it's fun

At this point in the story Val's back is completely scraped up and she's missing a lot of her fingernails. Ouch xD

Also she's not wearing her red sleeved jacket anymore, but since this jacket was made for her off-page I took the liberty of including some red still.