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He doesn't even scream or anything, no, he just kind of recoils back quietly and gracefully and clutches his brother's pin that he keeps on himself as a memento

i think the most fair comparison would be to edgeworth, who is probably the most similar animation-wise particularly with his 3d animations

even HES more dramatic, where his animations seems more snappier and hes also scowling too. something which barok isnt doing in his damage sprite

in contrast, barok is very reserved, slow and graceful and needs to pay way more attention to his presence in the courtroom... which i think you can kinda link the the mindset of ballet too

and YES. the scream. he doesnt scream or try to release anything in his damage sprite. it only comes out during his breakdown which i think really shows 1. how much hes holding it in and 2. how much pain he was in at the time

Thanks for the ask, Ray!

That's actually the Cévalindë AU! If you haven't seen it yet, @balrogballs created a beautiful wonderful Turgon artwork that is the Turgon from this AU.

Basically, Turgon gets reembodied in the early Second Age (~SA 800), promptly freaks out about it, runs off into the woods of Valinor, and has to be tracked down by Finrod.

No one is told when a relative/spouse is about to be reembodied, because no one knows until the second it happens. Word takes a little while to get to High King Finarfin in the first place, so it takes even longer for Elenwë and Idril, who live in Avallónë on Tol Eressëa, to learn about it. Elenwë was reembodied a short time before the War of Wrath, and aided Eärendil in his petition to the Valar. She's much more forgiving than Idril is of Turgon's actions (and inactions) during the First Age, and lives in Avallónë to welcome any returning Exiles. A core part of her character is loyalty, not blind but re-decided every single day. She followed the one she loves into Exile and she will follow him returned from it.

Idril, however, is still angry with Turgon for his short-sightedness in Gondolin, for "loving too well the works of his hands". She will welcome him back but she will not forgive him for a good while yet, if at all. A big part of the story so far is involved with repairing their relationship.

So, Finrod drags Turgon to Tirion for reasons of princely duty. Elenwë and Idril meet him there, and Turgon spent enough time both alive and in the Halls guilt-tripping himself for "letting Elenwe die" that it's a bit strained all around. Still hammering it out, but right now he's most likely to cast himself at her feet in supplication.

Fingolfin shuns him, cold and furious due to the abandonment that was Gondolin. Anairë shuns him, cold and furious due to the abandonment that was Exile. Aredhel and Argon are both returned and relatively happy to see him, but Fingon is refusing to come out of the Halls until Maedhros is released and would have shunned Turgon also (maybe? I'm currently figuring out any interactions the two would have had in Mandos and maybe they worked some things out).

Eventually, Turgon ends up striking out of Tirion because it's a polished prison and building his own city: Cévalindë. At some point (how far in the future? Who knows) he sorts himself out and starts taking in people who don't feel they fit anywhere else in Aman, like Lalwen (who is also mad at him for a while) and Maeglin after reembodiment (there will be yelling involved).

Other things that have happened/will happen:

Running joke about orgies in Gondolin (this is Aredhel's fault).

Turgon gets his Lords back (Glorfindel and Galdor first, but with them come Ecthelion and Egalmoth and at that point Rôg and Penlod say fuck it and join. Duilin has been living in the walls this whole time.)

Aegnor is bitter because Idril got to keep her mortal and he didn't.

Eluréd and Elurín! Not sure what they're doing but they're here!

How do you hold your festivals, keep your culture when nothing in the land is the same? The flowers of Gondolin do not grow here. The familiar spices are sourced from halfway down the continent, or across the sea. The metal you carve your lanterns from is in a vein you haven't reached yet.

Have fun supervising this clutch of eagle eggs. Surely Thorondor will not kill you if something happens to them.

Fingolfin is certainly not planning a coup. This certainly will not exacerbate any tension between any of the characters.

Maglor gets an orchestra.

An illustration style rendition of Turgon for @ignotr, as commissioned in February by @the-other-side-of-mirkwood 🥰 I really enjoyed hyperfixating on this one, especially with the embroidery and general white roses theme, his relative… er, turgidity, and everyone knows I love a good grey streak. Prosthetic fingers from the Helcaraxë years as well! Also @peasant-player pattern making a reappearance on his sash 🥰

Thank you so much; thanks both of you with every bone in my body!

This version of him is from an AU (I mean, could be canon; not like we get any information about Valinor after the First Age) that I'm slowly pecking away at, but I haven't posted any yet because I want to be decently far enough before I do.

I'm calling it the Cévalindë AU because that means "new/renewed song" in Quenya, and Cévalindë is the name of the new city Turgon makes after he's reembodied. If Elrond's Imladris is the Last Homely House East of the Sea, his great-grandfather can have the First Homely House West of it.

(Dynamic of guy whose life purpose is to keep people safe (Turgon) plus people who were harmed as a direct result of his actions or inactions (Idril, Fingon, Fingolfin, Aredhel, Lalwen in this story, Eärendil, Elenwe kind of, most of the Ñoldor, etc.))

(Although, Fingon is refusing to come out of the Halls until Maedhros is released from the Void, so it'll be a while before we see him.)

(Turgon's got an uphill battle, but he'll get there.)

The white roses are a huge motif throughout the story. Primarily, they're meant to represent Idril, as I've made her a gardener who cultivates them. Behind that, they represent guilt—Turgon's guilt for dying and leaving Idril alone, for not being able to save Elenwë on the Ice, and the rising realization that while Gondolin was beautiful and kept many people safe, he did abandon the majority of his people during a war in which they all died (his family included).

The circlet is so cool and I'll have to find a way to work it into the story somehow!

I've been describing Turgon mostly as wearing blue, even though Elenwë prefers purples and so he does as well (along with whites and reds). This is because, after reembodiment, his relationship with Fingolfin is incredibly strained due to the aforementioned abandonments. Turgon is trying to align himself visually with his father's house, but Fingolfin's not very forgiving so far lol.

And the prosthetic fingers! I like when there are physical reminders of the Helcaraxë so I started taking limbs. The way I'm doing reembodiment is that any wound/scar connected to a major emotional event remains even in rebirth if you don't come to terms with it in Mandos.

(Turgon came to terms with nothing in Mandos.)

The grey streak made its first appearance on the Helcaraxë and widened with the death of Arakáno. It then stalled for a while, but a couple more appeared when Aredhel, Fingolfin, and Fingon died. In Mandos, hair doesn't follow the scar pattern because of its growing nature, but he gets stressed enough in Valinor for the grey to come back hehehe. I'm glad other people like it.

Eagle feathers in his braids! I recently gave him a clutch of eagle eggs to look after, so Thorondor, his mate Glorfess, and I are watching him very closely.

yay turgid turgon

I wasn't ready for Saint-Just & Robespierre's moment at the end of La Terreur et La Vertu

Imagine Jean Valjean taking Javert hiking in the woods and afterwards tugging deer flies off his fluffy sideburns