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I FUCKING LOVE ENIGMA 😻😻😻😻

To be honest, I love the Rise! turtle brothers so much because they remind me of my own relationship with my brother. We’re annoying assholes to each other sometimes, but we still love and care about each other to the point he’d do anything for me and vice versa. The Rise! Boys feel accurate to teenagers and I really wish we’d get to see more of their antics.

This is only somewhat an emotionally fueled rant tbh lol. Moral here is siblings are wack but also they’re cool.

I put the sillies to digital :)

Has anyone done this yet?

I made a welcome home oc

Check out @partycoffin their stuff is incredible and stunning

Okay I know people have said that the player character in TMOSTH is a dog or a cat of some kind but may I suggest.

Red panda

I mean look at the resemblance

I rest my case

Edit: it seems they are actually a quokka!! Still super cute either way!!

Here comes the boy~

Hello dear

There he is~

He is here~

“…what the actual fuck- PUT IT BACK!” Alex exclaimed, hands flying everywhere around them. They‘d done enough things today that could make them criminals back in her hometown, and the same was probably true here, alternate universe or timeline or whatever! Honestly, Alex was getting really tired of this job already, and the Lieutenant wasn’t making any of it easier.

“Pft-“ The maniac in question cawed, spinning the bloody sword with a crazed giddiness. It made the other uneasy. “Why would I do that, mi amiga, when he’s already dead?” The bloodied silver of the blade was pointed right in Alex’s face, almost grazing the very tip of her nose. The girl shrieked, falling backwards onto the dusty, rocky ground.

“D-don’t point it at me!” She choked out rather squeakily, glaring daggers as the other cackles.

“Alright, alright, I will!” Phoenix waved a hand as she responded, spinning the sword one more time. Soon enough, she tossed it over her head. They heard it whistling flying through the air for a moment, until a shriek of pain echoed it. The blonde’s almost bat-like ears fell a bit, clawed hands grabbing Alex’s as they fell into a run. “Rápida, to the avian city!”

“To the what?!”

“Luego; I’ll explain after my shortcut!”

“That doesn’t-“ Her frustration was silenced by her own shriek as she was dragged head first into a portal. The golden glow disoriented everything, ears buzzing and ringing in tune with every single sensation of the universe. It was like being pulled like taffy and torn apart, only put back together by tape; All for a god damn shortcut! They should’ve kept that sword, so Alex could chop that cocky, careless head off it’s immortal pedestal.

Oh, right. Immortal.

God damn this job.

“Where did you get a sword?!”

“Found it.”

“Where?!”

“Dead body.”

Me, after finding an old Digimon fanfiction I never finished: Oh hey, this was something I liked maybe I should rewatch it

After rewatching the show: SOBS IN WIZARDMON’S GIFT

Also me: Hey I should draw myself with a digimon partner

So yeah I did that gonna go cry over my childhood now byeeeeee

Just a comic featuring two of my ocs, Ace (Brunette) and Phoenix (Blonde)

Might do some more of these…

Extra \/

Here is the obligatory pinned reference I will probably be changing from time to time :3

Please refer to me as Enigma or Lumen! I go by They/she pronouns and currently identify as Arospec

This account will be posting:

Character designs

Fanart for a multitude of fandoms

Possibly commissions, once I figure that out

Doodles and shitposts

Responses to questions

Personal headcanons for my comfort characters

Ramblings and writing

What I won’t be posting/allowing on my page:

NSFW art

Homophobia

Transphobia

Racism

Self harm

This account is mainly just for fun, but also as a way to see how my art improves and get good feedback! Baby Ramsey be upon ye fellas

Decided I would post a ref of my persona/admin representation of this account!!

I’m trying to stray away from the whole “ask the characters” thing I originally tried to do and failed at too…

Just some doodles with my redesigns and rewrites for fun. Along with a few of my own OCs!

Spindle, previously one of the smartest apprentices of the Bride of Endless Reach, foresaw something horrible that made him decide to take the written prophecy as soon as he was made to write it down, believing his Bride would make it come true much too soon. Smart but rather quick to annoy. He helps Vibran escape a certain evil doctor when he ends up getting lost on his journey.

Vibran, a trained and trusted ninja of the Bride of Constant Vigil. He was sent to find her son for her, though ended up being misled and almost turned into a robot by an evil doctor, who saw him fit for testing some of his experiments. However, he was saved by a rather kind spider that has a way with words. This guy may be kind of thick-headed at times, but he’s got heart and spirit out the wazoo!

Mithral, apprentice of the former bride of Rich Nights. Determined to follow her Bride’s final order- and hopefully restore her confidence and hope in the process- she has been wandering through the different zones of Mobius for years in an attempt to find both the written prophecy that was stolen and Constant Vigil’s Son. Her rather cheerful naivety has worn out slowly, leaving her a rather exasperated and level-headed character.

Was all of this just an excuse to talk about my OCs and personal fangirl stuff? Probably <3

Okay, so…this is gonna be a very very very lore based-rewrite redesign because I think there’s a lot that can be done with the Bride of Rich Nights, especially since she didn’t get much of an actual role in the comics besides…being murdered for her position. Alongside that, we never actually got an actual replacement for her? Which…is the clan just run by officials?

I’m going to try and spiff things up a bit here, so let’s get to it!

Bride of Rich Nights 💎

The Bride of Rich Nights, the former Matriarch of the Yagyu clan, the self-exiled hermit of the Dragon kingdom’s mountains, simply known as Diamona the bat.

Originally, Diamona inherited her title from the former Bride of Rich Nights, her older sister and mentor Echo, after she stepped down, feeling herself unfit for the position. She was able to manage the clan with little complications, even keeping most of her relations with other clans quite well despite the peace treaty between them being…less than enforced. Things were a bit tense between them. However, The Clan Wars that happened so long ago would soon be reignited by a horrible mistake…

You see, Diamona had very little complications, but she still had issues and problems. Specifically, her greed and paranoia. The Yagyu were known assassins and thieves, raised to favor gold and riches over all else. Wealth was everything and anything to the clan. However, none favored riches more than Diamona.

Her closest guards one day came to her with news. Little did she know though that this very information would flip her world around on its crowned head. The news? The Bride of Constant Vigil was planning something against her, something that involved her riches. Still much younger than the other Brides and far less wise at the time, she considered her options. But the most pleasing one came to her quickly.

Thus, she sent her apprentice, Mithral, to get rid of Vigil’s most precious thing. Her son. The apprentice, however, could not stomach this, for the Bride’s son was still a child and Mithral herself on the edge of adulthood. So, instead, she tricked him into venturing out, knocked him unconscious, and flew him far away enough that he would not be able to return easily. To a place called…Downunda, she would tell her bride later, reasoning that she followed her orders.

This was not what the Bride wanted though. She wanted Vigil to suffer for plotting against her and her clan! However, news reached quickly and, as it turns out, this still was impactful. Vigil became furious but blamed Reach instead of Diamona. As it turns out, Reach blamed Storm for theft of one of her written down visions, which Storm denied but blamed Vigil for it. As it turns out, Diamona’s command caused the treaty to break and war to begin once more with Diamona right in the center of it. The three attempted to get her on their side, each with riches of some kind.

Fo once in her life, she denied them every single time. She could not be bought. The riches she once desired and obsessed over now brought her pain and discomfort to look upon. What had she done? She didn’t mean for war, she didn’t mean to cause any of this. Diamona stewed away for days, alone until her apprentice finally broke that self-confinement. Mithral asked what she was going to do.

So she did the only thing she could do. Diamona told Mithral she would step-down, leave her people to pick someone more befitting. She wasn’t fit to rule and that was blatantly clear to her now. Her behavior had been horrible and inexcusable, clouded by her paranoia and greed.

However, she gave Mithral one more command as her bride. Find Vigil’s son, find the missing prophecy, and bring them both back to fix the mistake she can’t. She doesn’t deserve their forgiveness, not now and probably not ever. Mithral agreed and helped her leave without a trace, heading off herself after aiding her Bride one last time.

Present day, she resides deep within the caverns of the mountain areas, guiding any lost residents from the shadows who wander too deep. She lives alone, self-exiled until she can believe she deserves any chance at redemption. Her guilt eats at her, though Diamona is a bit surprised by how satisfied she is without all of her once precious treasures.

However, what she never realized was that her sudden vanishing made the other Brides believe that the same person who made Vigil’s son vanish made The Bride of Rich Nights vanish as well. This only made the fighting worse. Mithral is still searching as well, doing her absolute best to fulfill her Bride’s final order. Perhaps though…she may just stumble upon her goal soon enough. With help from the freedom fighters…or perhaps from a certain detective agency? That’s a story for another time though, isn’t it?

Okay, I know she got a ton more appearing time and (somewhat) development in the comics when she became an eggboss and all that but I wanted to make her even prettier

Apparently, she was a fan-favorite (and my gay ass honestly understands, she’s fabulous) but I feel like she could be made even better as well with a few simple changes. So uh

Bride of Conquering Storm ⛈

The Bride of Conquering Storm, one of the three remaining Brides of the Dragon Kingdom, head of the Raiju Clan, declared by most as the most aggressive and merciless of the Brides by far.

In the clan of Raiju, strength and power is everything. By far, the champion of this merciless clan was Storm and her blatant bloodlust is what earned her the title of Bride. However, this was not an immediate victory. She had to fight her equally as violent sister to the death, which resulted in the loss of her eye. Even so, she reigned victorious and adapted to continue fighting.

She is untrusting of outsiders due to her heavy training and conditioning in the clan, though values loyalty and strength over all. Her teachings are as harsh and militant, but are taken with pride as these methods trace back to the clan’s founder. Though a bit unrelated, it is rumored amongst Raiju trainees that their Bride is able to manipulate weather with her feelings; this myth has been used to explain why the Raiju clan tends to be shadowed in storm clouds most of the time.

In present day, she remains a hostile, antagonistic figure amongst the other Brides, who also tend to keep their distance from her and her foot soldiers. The only Bride that she had somewhat “okay” relations with was Rich Nights. Despite her hostility, Storm is emotionally driven and a cunning individual that will defend her honor to her very last breath.

Decided to do the other brides as well and this gal is probably my favorite design-wise out of the bunch.

Nothing really bothered me a whole bunch about her design but I didn’t immediately think spider when I saw her. I also thought she looked a little too plain, but maybe that’s just me?

Again, this is my attempt at adapting these characters to modern sonic (specifically the comics for the most part) from the Archie comics. I’m not caught up with everything in them though, though I guess this could be considered a rewrite or reboot. So, let’s get to the modernizing of…

The Bride of Endless Reach 🕷

The Bride of Endless Reach, one of the three remaining Brides of the Dragon Kingdom, The mysterious and prophetic matriarch of the Gossamer Clan.

She has an almost perfect accuracy with her prophecies, this and her other strengths and abilities earning her the title of Bride of Endless Reach. Her authoritative nature tends to hide her more gracious and caring one, the one that treats her people as her own children (despite actually having none of her own). However, she herself is still a ruler and her position demands respect, which she gets in return from her people.

Reach once fought alongside her people on the field, however, the Web of Fate’s prophetic power convinced her to go out less and less until she began to spend almost all of her time in it’s presence. She foresaw horrible things that made her wary of her fellow Brides and even with contempt at their actions, especially Conquering Storm.

In present day, Reach remains a figure shrouded in mystery to those outside of her clan. She is wise and a rather merciful woman, yet dangerous with a rather horrible temper buried deep under. Her prophetic gaze and connection to the Web of Fate has rather desensitized her to her unconsciously brutal methods of fulfilling what she foretells.

So I decided that, after seeing an old redesign attempt from February in my gallery, I was going to reattempt to give this wonderful woman from the Archie comics a new look!

While I haven’t exactly gotten caught up with everything from the Archie comics, I did hyper-fixate on everything Ninja related. So, let’s go ahead and attempt a modernized rendition of

The Bride of Constant Vigil 👁

The Bride of Constant Vigil, one of the three remaining brides of the Matriarchal Dragon Kingdom, Head of the Shinobi Clan, Mother and Master to Espio the Chameleon.

After having inherited her title from a young age, she hardened herself with training and the responsibility of keeping her clan safe. Due to the clan wars being endlessly brutal, Vigil made the decision to take her people and retreat into the shadows, using their honed techniques of invisibility and espionage to keep watch over threats. Even so, the clan still kept their distance from the actual battles, turning their eyes towards other zones in the mean time…just in case. Then came the peace treaty, though none of the Brides truly believed it would last very long…

She personally trained her child, making sure that he would be prepared for any enemy or trouble, should he have to face it. Despite this, Vigil forbid him from actually leaving to go on any missions, which led to him eventually vanishing, leaving only a vague note and a single Kunai. Furious and frantic, she sent a trusted and trained guard to find him. Leading up to present day, she has heard from neither her son nor the guard she sent.

Speaking of present day, the matriarch has become cold and closed off from others, spending most of her time meditating or training on her own. She has become brash and hard from time and will not hesitate to silence you for good if you step one foot out of line. While on the side of neutrality, Vigil remains as brutal as her fellow Brides.

Might end up doing this for the other brides and stuff too. I just really like ninjas