Armando, As A Jaquin For The EOA Discord Weekly Challenge, Week 2!

Okay so I got tagged in this little game by my cool friend @blueflyingturtleontheway, here it is: Rules: Post the names of your WIPs, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you asks with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! Then tag as people to do this as well. (You can make your own post or reblog this one!) I have deemed that this isn’t just for writing either. Sketch titles? Comics? Dnd campaigns? If you have an unfinished project, it counts!!

Here they are, my works in progress:

Elena of Avalor:

Ghost of the Past Grove of Memories Peabunnies On Coronation Day Science + Magic = Chaos Snow Day To Queen or Not to Queen Continuation AU Untitled Encarcelado sequel +Various mini fics

Other fandoms: Marnie's Magical Moniker Mystery (Stardew Valley) Parents to the Rescue (DC Superhero Girls)

Tagging: @cc-starship

Elena of Avalor writing requests. Choose one character from each list, and I will write a mini fanfic with them!

List 1: Elena Naomi Gabe Mateo Isabel Esteban Luisa Francisco Doña Paloma Victor Carla Ixlan

List 2: Skylar Luna Migs Dulce Antonia Olivia Zuzo Armando Higgins Quita Moz Carman Julio

So for one week of the Discord weekly challenge, the prompt was “Night On The Town,” so that inspired me to make these sketches & a drawing, and a tiny fanfiction. Where together, Victor and Ixlan went out for a night on the town, (since he hadn't been out for this kind of stuff for around 9 months, and she hadn't been out for something like 3009 months.

[Image ID: Ixlan and Victor standing together playing music. Victor is playing a green & gold accordion and Ixlan is playing a Tambor Trueno. End ID]

[Full disclosure, I drew this before “Elena's day off" came out, and this would be set before that].

[Image ID: A 3 panel pencil sketch drawings.The scenes in the images are described below. End ID]

 -First, they both rode horses through town, Ixlan was both excited and nervous about this (although that was hard to tell from just looking at her). Victor helped her with horse riding tips, and then later she helped him not get captured by a group of citizens who remembered this face from a wanted poster. The horses got pretty scared by that event, so they decided to go to Doña Paloma’s Emporium and leave them with her. She could return them to the palace later. They could just continue on foot for the rest of the night. (I'm assuming by this point they’ve probably met the whole Grand Council).

-After they dropped off the horses at the emporium, Doña taught Ixlan about different kinds of fans and which one is the best to buy, while Victor tried out every accordion in the emporium as loudly as possible. He eventually found one that he liked (which also happened to be the first one he'd actually picked up and tried out) and bought it. (Don't worry, Elena had given them some money beforehand). 

-Then they went out for dinner and drinks at Cafe Angelica, (Since Julio had recommended it to them). Afterwards they walked back through the city playing music, Victor on his new accordion and Ixlan on her Tambor Trueno. 

-At the end of the night they rode the Hydro-Gondola back to the palace, although Ixlan rode it a bit differently than intended (by siting on the roof on it). Victor not-so-calmly asked her why she was doing that, and she replied, “I can see the stars much better from up here.”

She may be a good fairy now, sure, but around her celebrity crush? Not a chance.

(Extra Context: in this comic, and this picture).

I would be delighted if you wanted to show off your pokemon scarlet team

Sure! Here are my lil'buds :

Group photo! (Not all are shown here because I consider my full team to be larger than seven, since I can just rotate them around whenever I want.)

This is Fern, my starter! I didn't actually know what she'd look like when she evolved, since I tried to avoid any spoilers for new Pokémon in the game, so I was a little nervous at first with how she would look and what type she would become, but my fears were unfounded in the end. I just love my magician cat.

Skully the Clodsire, and Mariza the Finizen

These are the cute little guys and I absolutely 100% needed to have on my team as soon as I saw them. Scully is named that because of those little crossbones he had as a Wooper (By chance, he is the only male Pokémon on my team). Mariza is all I've ever wanted in a Pokémon ever since I was 8, she is adorable and sometimes she glitches on buildings and starts to fly into space ("So long, and thanks for all the fish").

Trenza the Dachsbun, and Imentet the Espathra

Trenza carried my team with a lot of type coverage and also carried it by being a very good girl, good dog, good bunbun. Imentet is here to fight enemies with the power of the setting sun (and a psychic laser she shoots from her mouth).

Anguila the Wugtrio, and Hawlucha (the currently unnamed) 

I love garden eels so much I needed the garden eel Pokémon so much. Hawlucha is the newest member of my team, she helps me beat normal types into the dirt. (I'm looking for name suggestions for her so feel free to suggest any).

Chien-Pao (exuberant ferret) and Chi-Yu (the sensible one)

I don't normally nickname my legendaries, so these two just have their regular names. Chien-Pao is the only member of my team fast enough to keep up with me while I'm riding Koraidon, so they follow me around the most. They will sporadically stab things then fall asleep at my feet. Chi-Yu is very pretty and melts things with fire.

Muffin the Naclstack, and my noble (and very goofy) Koraidon

Muffin is probably the strongest member of my team, she's got me through some tough fights with her salt powers and is so powerful that my files of direct pictures of her kept on going corrupt and refused to be transferred to the computer, so here’s a glitched overlaid picture of her instead. And finally, my very, very eccentric motorcycle dragon and my favourite box art legendary, (I'm so proud of them).

Thank you for answering my ask about Carla! It ALWAYS bugged me the way Elena handled the Delgados. They weren’t threats anymore post “The Magic Within.” The entire reason Victor was turned to stone was because he ended dark persuits. Prisons exist to keep dangerous people safe from society. Victor and Carla were no longer threats post “The Magic Within.” The idea that they would’ve been kept there forever, despite a change of heart bothers me. I also love your idea with the dog!

Yeah it haunted me after The Magic Within. I mean okay I can see why Elena and the Grand Council would be hesitant to give them a second chance, they had betrayed their trust on multiple occasions beforehand and even almost killed them, so there was some justifiable fear there.

The problem was that this time it was pretty clear that Carla couldn't be lying about this. Her father really had been turned to stone and she really was sad and all alone. Even if Elena didn't believe what Carla said about Victor wanting to change she could have used her scepter power to see what he had said. Plus she'd already forgiven others like Vestia and Cruz for the things they'd done, so it was annoying that she hadn't even tried with them.

The dungeon itself has always unsettled me. The cells are small and dark and we've never seen any proper beds or wash areas in them. Not even a pillow or a bucket. Plus if you look closely in some scenes, there are large piles of ash on the floor from the torches which could end up being a health hazard if they aren't cleaned up. I don't think it was the creative team's intent to make the dungeon look as unethical as it appeared to be, but that's how the cookie crumbles.

As for whether they would have been kept there forever, well, I guess my personal headcanon is that Elena was probably planning on creating a final ruling for them only after they had caught Ash and Esteban, so she wasn't lying when she said “I'll deal with you later.” (Still not a good policy though considering that it could have taken years to catch them).

Yes, thank you! After TMW I was watching a bunch of scenes with the dungeon to see if Carla really would be alone and I was very happy when I realized she wouldn't be seeing that in “To Save a Sunbird” it actually shows that there is also a dog in the dungeon.

This was actually incredibly comforting to know because even in the best-case scenario where Carla actually does become friends with some of the guards and/or palace staff looking after her, it's not like they could give her any true unconditional love considering the circumstances and their own judgments of her. But the dog would, because dogs are loving and adorable and pure. (All right this is straying into headcanon territory but it's a comforting headcanon).

[Here's a screenshot from “To Save a Sunbird” of the dungeon. The first arrow I added points to a large pile of ash on the floor which really shouldn't be there. The second arrow points to the dog sleeping in the foreground.]

if i’m not too late and you still accept requests may i ask you to draw gabe’s parents? thanks in advance if you’ll make it!

Sure! We don't see them much but they have a nice relationship.

Once I thought to myself: "How would King Pescoro travel around on land? Probably with a superchair." So I made this. Cristina is showing him how to use it.

Lineart under the cut. 

[Image ID: A pencil crayon and ink drawing of Cristina and King Pescoro from Elena of Avalor. They are both in wheelchairs and Christina is showing him how to properly use one. There is a potted plant and a barrel in the background. End ID]

These are felt dolls I made in 2019 of Sakura and Elise from from Fire Emblem: Fates! 

I made Sakura first and a few month later I made Elise. I also made a pegasi for Sakura, but both of them can ride on it. 

I made them both from a pattern I made myself. (Although Elise ended up being an inch taller then Sakura, I don’t know how that happened)

I put metal flowers on Sakura’s head ribbon, and crackled agate beads on Elise’s ribbons. 

Both of them are small enough to ride around in my shirt pockets! :D

Hiya Blue! Love your fics, and the ones for these prompts have all been amazing! How about the Delgados wizard training with Mateo with the prompt "Whatever you do, do not turn around."

Thank you! Okay this was a little hard but here it goes:

"I just learned something new about Delgados." The door slammed into a wall and closed themselves back, as Mateo bursted into her office. He collapsed heavily on a chair opposite to hers and pressed the ice patch to his head. "Pro-tip, whatever you do, do not turn around when one of them holds a tamborita and you can't see the other."

Naomi rised her brows at him weighing in her mind if she should yell at him for barging so unceremoniously in, pulling her away from her work, or ask about what lead him to this conclusion. Eventually her curiosity won.

"I suppose there's some story behind this thought?"

Mateo groaned, putting the compress over his eyes.

"Let's just say undergoing a resocialization process doesn't stop them from engaging in the prank war. And they have Flo on their side."

Mischievious sparks glinted in Naomi's eyes as she shoved away some document she'd been working on and leaned across the table, propping her chin on her hand, a wide cat-like grin stretching across her face.

"Oh you have to tell me the details."

Mateo sighed and folded his arms.

"It's a long story." Mateo frowned a little, thinking about his destroyed perfect afternoon. "But basically, you know that I have a few potted plants in my workshop, right? I think they really add to the interior, you know, make it more lively and help with circulation of the air, I prefer to be able to breathe comfortably in the room I spend most of my days in and-" Mateo stopped seeing Naomi's fake yawn. He pierced Naomi with a glare but when he realized it didn't have any effect on her, he cleared his throat and continued.

"Anyway, I haven't noticed anything at first, we just went on with the class everything was fine. Except that somehow my workshop kept changing. And I mean not in any significant way, but something was off, you know? Well, it took me over an hour but I finally figured out what it was."

Naomi leaned in a little closer, feeling the story was reaching it's climax. Mateo hid his proud smile at that view.

"You remember my plants? Well - they kept changing it's places." Mateo threw his hands around as if to add more dramaturgy to his finale. "Every time I looked at Carla, who messed something up - I'm now sure she were doing this on purpose - Victor would change their places, and Evey time Victor would mix the malvago spells with the wizard ones, Carla would change their place again."

Mateo took the ice compress from his face to see how big of an effect his story had on Naomi. But Naomi just stared at him, brows raised highly and her grin fallen into a single line.

"That's it?" She asked after a long moment of silence. "They just changed places of a few plants in your workshop? There's no real magic involved there, just simple sleight of hand, you know, something Victor Delgado is actually known for?"

Mateo turned his head away from her, making a stereotypical offended face.

"Well I'm sorry I can't tell if the same way to happened, I suppose you'd just have to be there."

"Well, then what even happened that you had to go to the medic?" Naomi finally pointed at the compress he was pressing to his head. Mateo's first answer was a frown.

"let's just say that Victor's levaluq and five flower pots, going right above my head were not a good combination."

Silence fell onto them again, before Naomi bursted out laughing. She was laughing so hard, she had to lean back from her chair. When she finally calmed down a little, she stood up and came to Mateo to put her hands on his shoulder.

"Your student messed up a spell and thrown and actual pot on your head? It's the best story I've heard all week."

I suppose that's it! This was actually quite hard to come up with for me, but I hoped you still enjoyed it. Thank you for your request!

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