originally posted on tumblr, Apr 2nd 2024
Clay as a sphinx was the most unhinged yet fitting idea i've had in a hot minute. anyway fantasy au anyone??
anyway i blame dragon's dogma for this. i haven't played it but i am Aware
originally posted on tumblr, Apr 3rd 2024
how it started / how it ended
originally posted on tumblr, Apr 3rd 2024
i dunno man, more of a color and outfit ref than anything else lmao
also what if.... i held your paw..... while i thoughts about your riddle a bit so you don't fucking eat me.........
lions can be so stupid big like holy shit, i always forget
originally posted on tumblr, Apr 3rd 2024
anyway, Sphinx au tidbits:
- ‘general fantasy’ au but Mediterranean, Desmond is part of a mercenary guild that travel looking for work
- his group gets hired to get rid of a sphinx that took over a local temple, but it backfires when Desmond faces it and gets roped into a game of riddles
- Desmond and the Sphinx make a deal that he’ll keep getting riddles everyday, and for each he solves, the sphinx will spend a day without killing someone
- Desmond travels with Becca, Lucy and Shaun. they are less than thrilled by Desmond’s temporary solution, but go along for a while since at least people aren’t getting eaten and stuff
- the more riddles Desmond answers right, the more the Sphinx is amenable to lower stakes, so long as they can keep playing; eventually riddles get sidelined, for the sake of just spending time together
- he’s the one who nicknames the Sphinx “Clay”, since he doesn’t have a given name
- Desmond at one time tries to bring Clay a meal, to which he gets refused cus “a meal must be earned by my own merit”, as in he must beat it in a challenge, be it a riddle or a hunt
- inspired by the Dragon’s Dogma 2 riddles, at first the riddles are clever answers, but eventually they take a more 'fetch quest’ tone, including bringing people and items to the Sphinx as answers
- that’s how the rest of the group ends up meeting Clay
- it goes…. not too well, Lucy and Shaun being very put off by the Sphinx, Rebecca being mildly amused but not exactly at ease
- the fact that Desmond managed to sorta befriend the Sphinx is often joked about, if only to cope with the tension
- he also starts to realize why Clay took up the temple, given that the entities involved there are far from benevolent (yes it’s the Isu), and starving them of attention might make the curses they placed on the land eventually weaken, but first they will get worse
- the local village start pressuring the group to fulfill the contract to kill the Sphinx, which Desmond really doesn’t want to do for many reasons by then
- haven’t yet picked a resolution tho lmao
originally posted on tumblr, Apr 4th 2024
hey check this cool trick!! [selkies the sphinx]
wings are permanent cus im making the rules <3 also no he can't take off the pelt it's stuck to him by the shoulders
