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Watchers are confirmed long.
EDIT: Is it just me or is the Listener symbol to the right of the Watcher?
watcher speaker and listener
Designs mainly for @life-winners-liveblog
but I also will use the designs whenever I draw them
This is for my Violet Rage AU I'm writing on A03. I've never been good at comic strips though and I actually imagined this as an animation, but I also suck at that so . . . this is what I made instead. It's not full effort but it's something.
(Any good comic artists/animators are welcome to redo this as long as they direct credit back to me. I would literally sing with joy if someone made something good out of this messy sketch-work.)
(Read from left to right, top to bottom.)
I had it in my head that the two panels, the ones where Martyn's cloak (that is purely symbolic and not physically present) would shift colors, would be a moment of dead silence as things seemed to go into slow motion as Martyn lunges for Scott, and then there would be a cloth snapping noise, his cloak would flare and change color and Martyn's lung would be complete, his sword embedding itself into Martyn's stomach. Along with the cloak change the sky would change color as well and the green would leach itself from the world.
My comic-making skills don't really do the concept justice, but this is the closest thing I got to what I had imagined in my head. If it was an animatic, I feel like Heilung music would definitely be playing in the background.
Lore for Violet Rage AU
Dropping some facts relevant to this Limited Life AU I'm writing. (An AU story revolving around the concept of Corrupt!Martyn.)
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To create another Listener, someone who is already a Listener must hug a regular player and the hug must be willingly reciprocated. (Of course, this won't work for any random hug. The Listener has to have intent and to be purposeful in their desire to turn the other person into one of them.)
I like this idea because it's a complete antithesis to the Watcher's controlling and cruel nature. They feed off the despair and suffering of players, while Listeners actively encourage player prosperity and happiness.
A hug felt like a fitting way to do a power transfer.
Violet Rage AU on A03
This speaks volumes about how scarred we were at a point in our lives that asking for help automatically designates to being an annoyance or becoming an inconvenience to those we ask for help.
What we need in our life, in general, is people who won't make us feel like shit, who empathizes in the most genuine manner; who don't look at us as being pathetic or wanting to be pitied. We need people who listen, and I mean full-on, see-through-the-veil, kind of listening, who wouldn't leave when you told them "you're doing well now" or "I'm better" even if you say that you swear and promise otherwise, and will sense that you're in desperate need for help, and will help, without expecting anything in return.
