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WARNING: SPOILERS FOR LIGIT ALL OF SCARLET AND VIOLET
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Ok. So I’m like dead set on Birar being the main villain of Indigo Disk, but I wanted to elaborate a bit on my theory:
Briar is a descendant of Heath, who was a writer and historian. The other professor (I’ll be using Turo for this so it’s easier to write) isn’t even a professor at all- he’s an author, admiring Heath’s work long after his death. Later in life, Turo meets Sada, who also admires Heath, and Briar, who wishes to continue her grandfather’s research by going down to Area Zero again to find Terapagos. Turo and Sada fall in love during the expedition, but they also find the Paradox Pokemon, along with Miraidon and Koraidon, which the team takes in and keeps in their lab located in Area Zero.
Later, Sada gets pregnant with her and Turo’s son, Arven. They take a break and move into the greenhouse next to the lighthouse in Cabo Poco, much to Briar’s dismay. She tries to convince Sada and Turo to come back and bring Arven with them after his birth, to which the parents turn down the offer. Within the time that Arven grows up, Briar becomes a teacher at Blueberry Academy, and decides to visit one day. Sada and Briar get into an argument about the expedition, but Briar manages to convince Sada to continue the expedition with pity points.
Turo reluctantly brings Arven along into Area Zero due to Briar’s request and gets the boy a Maschiff (“So it would be easier to watch him”) as a present. Briar’s insistent nagging of Sada to continue for the good of Paldea makes Sada start neglecting her son, and he befriends Koraidon as a result. Miraidon becomes friendly with Koraidon as well, but Briar is only concerned about finding Terapagos so she can receive the power of the Terastal phenomenon. Fueled by this, she keeps Sada away from those Briar perceive as “threats” to the expedition, namely Turo and Arven.
Turo, concerned about his fiancé's well-being, tries to convince her to come back home and take a break, leading to an argument between them that makes Sada realize her misdeeds. She tells Briar that she and her family will no longer be participating in the expedition, only for another argument between the two women to unfold. Briar, snapping, realizes that the only way Sada will stay is if Turo and Arven are gone.
Soon after Maschiff evolves into Mabosstiff, Briar causes a security breach after intentionally hurting Miraidon to make Koraidon rage. Sada pushes Turo out of the way, and Mabosstiff saves Arven, only for Sada to get killed on contact and for Mabosstiff to get almost killed. Briar tries to convince Turo to stay, but he refuses, breaking off of the expedition and bringing Koraidon and Miraidon with him, seeing that the two Pokemon are his responsibility now. Briar goes back to Blueberry Academy, now not being able to go down to find Terapagos without a permit.
Turo goes into a spiraling depression, creating an AI version of Sada that later realizes its purpose and hides in Area Zero. Turo spirals, leaving Arven and Koraidon in the lighthouse and retreating to the greenhouse with Miraidon, telling his son to never leave the lighthouse until his return with the Scarlet Book while Turo himself takes the Violet Book with him. Turo spends his days trying to pinpoint the location of AI Sada… Until a familiar face greets him.
The familiar face tells him about how she’d seen Arven leave the lighthouse and give Koraidon to some kid trainer who didn’t know what they were doing, and that Turo’s son, the trainer, and two other kids were going into Area Zero. Turo, taking advantage of this, activates a duplicate Miraidon that is extremely hostile towards the group to slow them down, only for AI Sada to stop it. Turo, now knowing AI Sada’s location, takes control of it, hoping that by beating the kids, she’ll return to him. The trainer that Arven had given Koraidon to beat her, which makes Turo lose control of her. AI Sada retreats into the past via a time machine, and Turo sobs into his hands…
… Before he feels a sharp object tear into his chest. He flops over the desk, blood staining his ragged clothes, leaving only Briar standing before him, having had enough of his failure. Now that Sada and Turo were out of the way, she only needed to get their son out of the way… And with the transfer project of Naranja and Blueberry Academy that Cyrano had specifically planned out for her, she would simply use Arven’s little friends to lure him in.
“… And that’s where you come in,” Briar says, her gaze looming over the boy, who stands with his back to her. “I hope you’ll prove your worth, unlike that useless man. Don’t disappoint me, Kieran.”
Anyways thanks for coming to my Ted Talk
𝓑𝓪𝓽𝓽𝓵𝓮 𝓓𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓢𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮 - {ᴍᴏᴏᴅʙᴏᴀʀᴅ}
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Ask my Goosebumps OC's!
Marilith; The robot puppet Naga. She was created to spark fear into children as a gimmick yet seems to not want to harm them at all. The three snakes on her head seem to be sentiant. Martin, Barton, and Lazarus
Serephina the fairy princess marionette. She was created by an old puppeteer to cheer up his granddaughter; she was designed for a play were she is a fairy princess. So she dedicates herself to fulfill her role.
Nora, the porcelain doll; she works with cosmic and moon magic ✨ yet oddly...she's stuck in a bird form...and I don't know where she is at the moment but I get notes on her replies
Briar Vinter; a vampire countess from the 1600 hundreds. She has immense amount of blood on her hands. She is a truly cruel temptress of the night
So... once again. I am thinking of crossovers, and it just sort of crossed my mind of Jinx, X-23/Laura Kinney, and Ace or Harley Quinn. Or maybe all four of them together.
It's one of those things where I think all would somewhat get along. Just going with all four, Harley would probably do her best to help all the girls out. Maybe help them go over their problems, in a way.
Laura I could imagine trying to take on a bit of a sisterly role to Ace, the two of them having been raised as living weapons. Maybe to Jinx as well, just for different reasons.
I imagine Ace would just kind of role with things, her only desire to be normal. At least that is all I could imagine. She highly likely doesn't trust Harley all that much, for good reason.
Jinx would probably get along with Harley for the most part and maybe feel some amount of sympathy for Laura and Ace, I'm unsure. Even if she has not had those same experiences as the two girls and is a bit unhinged in a way, she knows even what they went through is messed up.
Wish I could think of more to do with these four, but my mind is in a bit of a low or mild-creativity mode, I guess. I'm still creating, it's just nothing is coming to me easily.
I had also thought of maybe including Briar and Daken into this discussion, but it just felt like too many characters to talk about.
It was as Laura and Briar sat in the crowds, watching the latest match for Sett’s fighting pit that the two of them chatted, talking about moving on and going to explore more places. As they talked and watched, one of the newest challengers, a Noxian bounty hunter, would walk into the ring carrying a big sword. The bounty hunter's opponent? A decently buff man who carried a broadsword.
The fight would last a while, a war of attrition in a sense, with the Noxian bounty hunter winning out in the end. She would request another challenge, asking for her own choice of opponent. Sett would grant her request. The general pointed into the crowd, right at Laura.
Pointing to herself, the woman nodded. Putting two hands on the banister and vaulting over, Laura landed in the arena. Now both women stood across from each other, a small staring contest. The bell rang and they charged, the bounty hunter would slide under Laura’s tackle, pulling out a gun and aiming for the shin, only for the mutant to quickly pull her legs out of the way, rolling into a crouch. The bounty hunter would smirk, liking the challenge, then whip out her sword, spinning and throwing it forward. Laura dodged the thrown weapon only to get hit by a flying kick. Skidding backwards, she dug her fingers into the ground, not wanting to show off her claws just yet.
"You're good, but aren't you afraid of chipping a nail?" The bounty hunter asked in mockery.
"Nah. More afraid of just what I might do to you if pushed far enough." Laura replied, adding "By the way, got a name?"
"Name's Samira. Try not to forget." Said Samira as she whipped out both of her guns, firing rapidly.
Laura sped out of the way, outrunning the bullets. Faster than Samira thought anyone could. A thought got her adrenaline pumping, for this would be a challenge!
Grabbing her sword, Samira dashed in a swung, Laura dodging by bending backwards and sliding underneath. Spinning around quickly, Laura tripped Samira, the woman landing on her back and rolling out of the way as Laura aimed a punch at the bounty hunter's head, cracking thr ground just a bit from the force. Pulling her guns out again, Samira got in close, aiming to for sure put a bullet in Laura somewhere with close range shots. Laura would block and dodge multiple of the these strikes from fist, foot and gun, eventually popping all her claws.
That got everyone's attention.
"Now that is interesting. Got anymore cards you haven't shown yet?" Samira inquired, not really expecting an answer.
Laura was quiet was expected, her eyes roaming the area quickly before landing back on her opponent. Speeding towards Samira, the bounty hunter dodged as expected, allowing Laura to grab her ankle and swing the woman around before throwing her. Twisting and spinning, Samira launched more bullets Laura’s way. Dodging the bullets, Laura was about ready to run one of claws through Samira when the bell rang, calling for the end of the match. Both females looked up at the Boss, at Sett, sending him questioning looks, only for him to start speaking to the audience, saying this match would have to continue another day. That closing time would soon be upon the fighting pit. Annoyed, both Laura and Samira would leave the arena, agreeing to another match another day.
I need to take a moment to address something absolutely incredible in Tamora Pierce’s Briar’s Book/The Healing in the Vine from her Circle of Magic Quartet.
While Pierce, as a rule, doesn’t back away from some of the gross thoughts humans have, I think she was incredible during the scene where Flick’s fever is growing worse and worse and Briar - for the briefest of moments - just wishes she would die already.
We don’t see a lot of caretaking in fantasy - sure, there are healers and such, but nothing remotely long term. In this situation Briar is in a forced quarantine because his friend was patient zero in an epidemic, and he’s healthy enough to continue caring for her and the other individuals who were initially diagnosed. And he HATES it. He likes Flick, but being stuck there taking care of her grates on him. Even when the disease reaches full outbreak in the city, he’s still not allowed to go home because the blue pox hasn’t reached the temple city yet. So he’s stuck. And tired. And at one point he thinks that her dying is preferable because then he’d at least get to sleep.
And then he hates himself for it.
I just… I think this is so real, and I love that Pierce let’s him sit with this intrusive and uncharitable thought. And even when he chastises himself and knows it’s not totally true, he also knows that it partly is.
Doodle!!
Briar best girl 🩸
Tamlin and Briar for @goforth-ladymidnight for the ACOTAR Secret Santa 2022 gift exchange @acotargiftexchange
I must admit that I was quite stressed out over how this work would end up looking, primerly because I'm not too used on drawing backrounds, but I actually think I'm quite satisfied with it! I had so much fun being the secret santa for @goforth-ladymidnight, who is a lovely soul and gave me a ton of ideas for how to visualize Briar and Tamlin for her. Please make sure to check out her fic A Garden of Thorns if you would like to read more about the pair, she's one of the most talented writers who's work I had the pleasure of reading so far in the actoar fandom.
Art by me (vivictory_draws on Instagram). Please do not repost without my permission, but likes and reblogs are very much appreciated.
I heard that it's @tamlinweek and thus I had to draw the obligatory Brilin art piece... This was originally intended for Day 3 or 4 (Mates or Happily Ever After, respectevly), but I unfortunately couldn't finish it in time for either. Well, I suppose that by posting it for Day 6: Dreams, I can also use it as an excuse to promo my brilin fic as well.
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I couldn't finish the drawing I had of these guys that I started in May, so I made a simpler one!
Feat. vessels Mimic, Thorn, and Briar (left to right)! Thorn is mine and the other two belong to @hollypies and @original-character-chaos respectively!
Agahsgsgshsgs its so cute
i LOVE them 🥺❤️❤️
Can i see more Lost Kin and Oro? :0
doodles of them :]
Rabbit, Colored version, currently cherished in private collection.
(that's right I sell things)