Date of reblog: October 8, 2023
warnings for: death, spoilers for series
hello, and welcome to another Mad Rambles.
today's topic: Escape the Night
EtN makes me mad sometimes. Not because it's about murder or my favorite characters die or something. It's because the characters are all content to be led like lambs to slaughter.
like, don't give me terrified lambs who can't handle themselves under pressure. I know these are YouTubers, they aren't trained fighters or aggressive people, but some of them have to have the fight response. don't give me rabbits who run from wolves, give me the wolves!
give me MatPat, utterly pissed that Joey was willing to trade nine peoples' lives for his own one life. give me Matt Haag, who fought with everyone until he gave up. give me Colleen, who blamed Joey for everything until her untimely death by force. give me Liza and Tyler, trying so hard to win for the both of them until they where cheated out of their victory. give me Brettman, who took no one's shit and celebrated his own victories. give me DeStorm, making no apologies for the way he chose to win.
I don't want little lambs content to die, I want fighters clawing their way to victory. if I'm to be hunted like an animal, I don't think I'd allow myself to be pulled down. you're playing with a new set of rules, ones that change with each challenge, should your key focus not be bickering and fighting, but survival?
give me people who survived and tore up their invitations. give me people who are furious with the person who invited them. give me people willing to do what it takes to win and survive. give me people who are the wolves, who'd just as soon turn the killers' weapons on them.
give me the Survivors being horrified and furious at Joey for the things they'd seen and been invited into.
just give me this...
thank you.
When does her trauma start?
POV: You stared directly at the sun.
(Been awhile since I made Shubble fanart and felt inspired by this sunshine girl! Very Anne of Green Gables-core!)
guiding star
My HC for Shelby’s new skin and comparing it to her WC skin is that after being cured of the sculk her hair color changed, and then she eventually becomes WC Shelby, however I think it was confirmed that WC was canonically in between empires seasons? Maybe she somehow traveled back in time?
I challenge! I've been thinking about this for quite some time, (you just gave me reason to write it all.) While I generally like what you put, I believe wholeheartedly that she would be a sorcerer. (Perhaps even unaware of her internal magic.) Because:
You decide to become a wizard in DND; while Shelby was born, and destined, for magic. That is clearly not the case for the other witches: while WC Joey was born with magic, WC Scott, Lauren, and Prismarina all definitely weren't. (I'm unclear about the others. But the term of "witch" seems to be incredibly loose.) So, Shelby was born with magic, yet still went to a school for witches, and that is all fine and good. HOWEVER, she was a horrible student, making mistakes and etcetera. She is clearly dedicated to the craft, yet she keeps failing. What if she wasn't being taught for her class of magic? And later on, she was able to open a multi-dimensional rift *on accident*. That is someone with substantial raw power. Warlock is out of the question, except when she was possessed by sculk. It gave her power, which is the whole identity of a warlock. But she already had power, she just seemed to have gotten better control over it, seemingly increasing what she already had. ANYWAYS, she also had a vision at one point, if I remember correctly, of the gnomes when she discovered the heart of the Evermoore and the portal there: more of a sorcerer trait. "The fog claims souls and those who go in there are don't come back out", well maybe the fog kept her alive because it sensed her magic. Maybe the sculk couldn't claim her as fast as it claimed Cub because of her internal magic trying to fight it. Or maybe that's why she still had some control and was able to feel the pain of the voices instead of being completely numb like promised. There are probably other things I'm missing... Oh well.
So, based on the information I gathered and remember, I'd say that Great Witch Shelby is a sorcerer, behaving as if she is a wizard.
At Level Three
Language: Gnomish (for nostalgia)
Skills: Investigation, Medicine
Language: Sylvan
I figured the witches were more of a guild and it fits more with her character instead of something like sage
Who should I do next?
Want more? Click the empires as dnd classes tag!
That's what you're going to talk about on your first date?! What do the second date conversation topics look like?!?! That you killed Joey, Jimmy, and Oli? That, while drinking with an evil Sausage, you released a demon that killed your headmaster?!?!
Ever think about the fact that when we last saw the two, Katherine had no idea on how Shelby was actually cure of the skulk. She didn’t know everything with the witch academy, the voices screaming in Shelby’s head, the spirits in the fog. She didn’t know that Shelby died.
NATURE WIVES PSPSPSPSPS! Perhaps Shelby taking Katherine for a moonlit ride on her broom?
I went a bit off on this
Sky siblings doodle
Bread forever
We should be fine as long as we do not reblog bread.
my complete series of trafficlife drawings! so far at least, i assume im gonna add more to these at some point :P
i had a lot of fun with these!! also since some people mentioned wanting them as posters - i dont really sell any of my art but i absolutely dont mind if anyone wants to print out something for themselves!! all the full-res files for these and some other drawings of mine are up on my ko-fi for free, so if you wanna print a poster yourself (personal use only, obviously) go ahead :D