The Original Knives Out

I knew what was about to happen, and still Dandadan episode 7 hit me like a goddam truck.

Characters going "we were brothers once": deceased, incapacitated in my next.

characters going “we were lovers once”: eh, it’s okay i guess. it’s nice enough

characters going “we were friends once”: absolutely devastating. one hit knockout i’m gone

so ever since watching Wizards and RotT I've been deep in the rewrite/AU rabbit hole and decided to actually write my ideas down instead of just having them float around my mind

This is what I'd imagine a sort of magic hierarchy would've been like, created in central europe amd spread around the whole world during colonial times, i'd say magical creatures went into hiding around the same time as not to be used as instruments of violence basically

I'm also changing the dynamics between the Camelot characters & what the fantasy-political climate of the time was like

So for anyone willing to decipher my fugly ass hand writing, here are my surface level notes on what i'm changing the character dynamics into:

I've also been playing around with character designs, because - and please noone take this personally - i absolutely loathe what some character look like, especially the characters in Wizards, like, ugh... Armor design isn't my strong suit but maaan... Also, can I just say that Morgana looks whack af?? Like, girl's NOT from medieval times - not saying that my design is much better on that front, but it's not like this is my job or anything, i don't get paid for this, it's just for fun

I also changed Merlin, to... maybe smth more generic, but idk i like long, flowing fabrics and long haired old men, sue me

Additionally I've been taking notes on how I'd characterise the Arcane Order as I am not a fan of their treatment in canon

Bellroc is by far my fave of the Arcane order to think about, so i've got the most notes on them

I'm probs gonna be updating my notes on them as I go, but these are to serve as my personal guidelines on how to write them

I've also got these dumb doodles, the one on the left was done in the middle of the night while i was taking notes on the arcane order, the other ones were just character design exploration

I've seen some people on here making comparisons between Hiccup and Jim Lake and you know what fair enough, not only do they both come from the same studio they are in a lot of ways cut from the same cloth so to speak. I can see those similarities, but the one place they differ drastically is their approach to their enemies.

While both are compassionate and capable of great forgiveness, Hiccup is so obsessed with peaceful conflict resolution he has put himself and others in harms way, he only resorts to violence when he has absolutely no other choice.

Jim Lake Junior has a body count.

A lot of people in the fandom treat him like a pure cinnamon roll of sunshine and sugar, and yes, he can't even bring himself to kill a gnome at the beginning of the series, but eventually he no longer has a problem drivinv a sword through his enemies.

Not all of them, he still has empathy, for example with Draal, somebody he knows is hurting and that ultimately would do the right thing if given the chance.

But with somebody like Bular, who is EATING PEOPLE and has been for centuries, somebody who wants him and his loved ones dead, he has no qualms against manifesting a sword inside of him.

And I'm not saying either one of them is superior because of their pacifism or willingness to use deadly force, I just needed to get it out there for my own sake. They share a lot of similarities, but they also fundamentally differ in some crucial aspects.

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DANDADANDADANDADAN 👽👻

they end up eating the entire set. the board is split like a pizza.

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