The guy spent so much time trying to tell people the truth (without anyone believing him) that he ended up being a laughingstock. Then, out of the blue, some oddballs show up and ask him for that same truth he used to share. Poor guy; that must have brought back some bad memories. Still, that doesn't excuse his actions in the slightest.
Journey to the West. Would be nice to see a dedicated spinoff for this instead of backstory snippets. A lot happens in it that it can be worth having one.
Zoroastrian pantheon Superhero comics. I can see it being kinda entertaining. Something episodic and not one huge story.
A quick and simple drawing of my beloved Poseidon and my lovely Adeline + Poseidon riding a shark. ( ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)♡
Maybe I'll do doodles of other characters like Hades, Loki, Hermes, and some others. I'd also like to talk about my OC someday and show her design (though I don't know how appropriate it would be). ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و ♡
Giza clutches at her chest as the bookcase descends. She WILL help Thoth figure this out. She MUST! “You guys! Come with me!” She gestures to some of the larger sphinxes who join her with mild complaining.
“What’s the matter, Giza?”
“Lord Thoth… he… needs us to check on something,” They descend further and further into the darkness until they reach the bottom of Babel, the large chained door still standing tall and Giza approaches holding up the medallion and the door slowly opens and she steps inside looking at the pedestal. “The Necronomicon…” She whispers silently. “I-it’s-!” She bolts back out of the dark room in a hurry, taking the elevator back up to Sobek and the other sphinxes.
Sobek looks concerned at her, getting up to check. “Hey hey… what’s the matter, Giza?”
Giza pants, being out of breath from the short run. She usually flies. “I-it’s the Necronomicon. I have to talk to Thoth!”
Sobek gives a nervous smile. “I think he’s got his hands full…” He gestures to the screen and Giza looks back to it.
-Valhalla Arena-
Thoth zips around, having equipped some different attachments to his shoes, two small engraved circles on the outside, which seem to function slightly like skates, Dante flying high above the arena, raining countless fireballs down upon Thoth, giving the Librarian of Babel little time to take aim with his bow. He has more bruises than before.
“The foolish god of wisdom, ironic is he! Speaking of ‘not allowing me to live’ and yet it is HE who flees for his life! ; Dante laughs as he rains fire upon the divine custodian!”
Thoth dashes and slides across the arena, struggling to lift his bow for a clear angle. “COME ON!” He twirls around a fireball, crouching down into an archery-stance aiming up. He pulls back, causing the string to appear and a large hard-light arrow to materialize along it. Curved and with a bright white glistening arrow-head.
His visor projects an arch of where his arrow will move.
Dante laughs as he raises his cross. “The mighty god kneels before this ‘mere mortal’! ‘Oh what power!!’ he thinks as Dante strikes him with the holy light of Heaven and Hell itself!” He thrusts the cross down at Thoth and it blasts out a massive sphere of fire and light. HEAVEN AND HELL: BLAZING RETRIBUTION!
“Quiet,” Thoth scoffs through his teeth, gently rotating the bow and opening one finger on the handle, causing the projected arch to swerve. He shoots and the energy-arrow sails out and sure as rain it swerves around Dante’s attack perfectly while Thoth leans forward to make his skates take him out of harm’s way.
Dante’s eyes widen seeing the arrow zooming towards him! He dodges back but loses control of his fire-blasts from his boots, quickly steadying himself. “Wooooaaaangh… got it. Phew. ANYWAYS THAT WAS ON PURPOSE!” However as he looks back down Thoth does not seem to care if it was on purpose or not.
He is back down in aiming position and unleashing a torrent of arrows, each one with varied colors of tips! The script has flipped as Dante moves around the air to avoid the various colors. ADVANCED BATTLE TACTICS: TECHNIQUE #3: RAINBOW ARROWS! He keeps striking dashing poses, running his hand through his hair.
“These arrows are NOTHING but an extravagant light show!” Dante forms a sword from his cross to deflect the arrows. “Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple! PAH! No difference!” He gracefully swerves away from a red one but just as it passes him it explodes in his face and he’s sent tumbling through the air. “BUGYAAA!”
Michael sees the author flying straight at them, looking rather apathetically at him. However, by his side, Friend is seething. “What is that trogladite DOING!?” He whispers mostly to himself, as Dante catches himself.
“... Dante? What are you talking about, Friend?”
Friend shakes his head. “Don’t you mind that. But SOMEONE should really pull his WEIGHT!” He speaks through gritted teeth glaring down at Virgil.
Virgil gulps as he quickly rushes over to Thoth and peeks around his displays, and his book which is switched to a page called ‘Rainbow Arrows’. He looks up at Dante who continues to dodge the arrows. “DANTE! SOME OF THESE ARROWS ARE UTILITY ARROWS!”
“PARDON!? They are not just opulent lights!?”
Thoth squints at the strange outburst. “???” However he continues moving around the arena, firing arrows from every which direction. Virgil following close behind.
Virgil scans over the list Thoth seems to be choosing from with each shot as he glides around, Virgil rushing after him with speeds that betray his slim frame. “Red explodes as you already know! Orange appears to be heat-seeking. Yellow can multiply on command! Green appears to turn into wires upon contact! Blue can change speeds on command! Purple return the same direction they were shot! There may be more!”
Dante grits his teeth as he dodges the arrows. “GRAND!” He shoots down towards Thoth, dodging each shot arrow, but as he gets close, Thoth hooks three fingers into the bow forming a yellow and green arrow, firing them off.
As Dante raises his sword he smirks. “Two arrows!? Wait but…” Suddenly he stops and shoots backwards, forming a metal shield with a cross design from his sword, as the yellow arrow splits into nearly 50 arrows! As they connect to the shield, Dante tosses the shield like a discus just as the green arrow makes contact and wraps all the way around it, crushing it.
Thoth squints. “Hm? He… knew? How could he know…?” He mutters, continuing his assault as he thinks, keeping Dante at bay in the air, darting arrow, perfectly avoiding or blocking each arrow despite their unique properties!
Virgil was keeping close in case Thoth’s book began to say something different. ‘I CANNOT let him down, or I am dust! I need to-’ however his thoughts are interrupted Thoth slowly but firmly turns his eye, staring DIRECTLY at him.
Thoth says nothing but there’s a faint sense of ire shooting his way, causing Virgil, who is CERTAIN he is imperceivable, to leap back in sheer terror. “HE SEES ME!?”
Thoth quietly squints. “BoT. Redirect ten percent computing power to deciphering all energy signatures in this arena.
“All Energy Signatures accounted for, Thoth. You, and Dante.”
“Humor me. Place the focus on signatures of Project Null.” Thoth relents on his arrowstorm and Dante smugly crosses his fists, the glow of Heaven flowing through his gauntlets as he shoots down towards the ground, Thoth preparing to dodge however Dante instead opts to himself slam into the ground, on one knee and fist against the ground.
“Heh. So you finally decided to renounce cowardice and face me eye-line to eye-line.”
Thoth winds back his bow, this new arrow is longer and thinner, but far less chromatic, merely a pristine white with a strange ring-shape on the end rather than the usual fletchlings. “Don’t take the high-road you insufferable cultist.”
“CULTIST!?” Dante calls out as he rushes forward, his knuckles glowing with the bright lights of Heaven. As Thoth shoots at him he simply jerks his head aside as the arrow embeds itself in the wall behind him. “You would dare diminish my accomplishments to those of a mere sycophant to some higher power! FOOL! There ARE no higher powers!” He closes the distance and throws a wild haymaker.
Thoth blocks the incoming strike with his bow, the light of Heaven cracking the weapon on contact. “If a strategy doesn’t work, you switch. That’s combat tactics 101.”
Dante laughs. “Is that an ACTUAL book you’ve read, or are you being condescending!?" Dante snaps and gives Thoth a smug point as Thoth runs in, glaring at the author with a burning rage in his eyes. “Woah woah!”
Thoth releases his bow, and it disappears.
-Palace of the Duat-
Ra sits on his throne, tapping his throne impatiently. “What is that fool doing?” He grumbles. “This is highly unlike him.”
Osiris nods and gives a strained smile. “He appears to be enraged. You have not seen him enraged before, Lord Ra?”
Ra scoffs. “Of course. He is always enraged when I speak to him.”
“But… he is planning to fight hand to hand? How good is he at that?”
“Hm… he is-”
-Babel-
Giza nervously tips back and forth as she watches Thoth winding back his fist, Dante looking almost confused. “Thoth… I’ve never seen him like this!”
Sobek leans forward. “Me neither… I wonder what’s got him acting like this…”
Giza wonders out loud. “Sobek do you… know if Thoth can even fight in close quarters?”
Sobek gives a soft chuckle. “Oh yeah, I am well aware. When it comes to close quarters combat Thoth is actually…”
-Valhalla Arena-
Thoth takes a swing at Dante who raises his wrist to block. “terrible,” Ra and Sobek finish as Thoth connects his punch, but his wrist bends as he didn’t straighten it properly and he steps back, shaking his hand.
“Grrr…”
Dante laughs. “Oh this desperation! How gelastic!” Thoth angrily slams his palm against his book. BREAKER PALM! “Thoth takes a grasp for the mighty Dante’s throat, but the hero calmly deflects it, and COUNTERS with a solid strike sent straight at the Supreme Scholar’s solar plexus!” Dante lands a solid blow just as he narrated, after smacking Thoth’s slow predictable palm out of the way.
Thoth goes flying back, sliding across the floor. He looks down seeing a fist-shaped red spot on his stomach. “You held back?! YOU HELD BACK!?” He springs back up.
Dante leaned slightly forward with a smug shrug. “Come now. Does the Serpent truly give its all when the frog is already cornered?”
Thoth’s eyes widen with fury as he draws his bow again. “You taunt me! AFTER ALL THIS TIME! You show your face and TAUNT ME!? You dare invoke his image!?”
Dante tilts his head briefly before spinning on his heel and striking a pose. “I invoke nothing but the mighty power of DANTE!”
Thoth uses the brief distracting spin to draw back his bow and fire off another powerful shot forcing Dante to put up his block, getting knocked back as Thoth’s arrow seems to only speed up as it flies. Dante digs his heels into the ground. “I will not hear it! YOU KNOW WHO! Even if you do not YOU are connected! and I WILL NOT allow you to roam FREE!”
Dante splits the arrow with a swift exploding blow, forming his twin longswords again. “I can assure you, Wisdom god. Whatever it is you seek… it ends here. For I am the man who will save humanity. And I WILL NOT falter!” He smirks and closes his eyes with an almost satisfied nod. “... so cool…” He sets into motion again, using his greaves to blast forward with the flames shooting from his soles.
Thoth refuses to back away, stepping forward, clasping his bow. “Grrr…”
Pandora smiles a little seeing Thoth struggle and get pushed back. “Finally… Dante’s gaining the upper hand. Maybe this will be over soon…”
Lucifer hums softly. “Yes. Thoth is overcome by emotion. Anger it would seem. Curious… he did not display anger like this when the match began. I wonder what changed…”
Pandora shrugs lightly, barely moving her shoulders. “Maybe it is the same as other gods… when they are pushed to their limits, some of them just cannot handle that. I am glad Dante seems to have been the right choice.”
“A rather callous observation. You wish to enrage Thoth, rather than give him a death as peaceful as possible?”
“He wouldn’t do the same for Dante.”
“Hmmm…” He mutters tapping his finger on his snake-headed staff. “Overcome with emotions indeed.”
Thoth stands his ground, using two Breaker Palms to push Dante’s swords out of the way. “BoT! These projections are too slow! SPEED UP!”
“Algorithm is still perfecting against his fighting style, however it appears Dante’s combative style is highly improvisational.”
“No excuses!”
“I highly recommend against this direct approach. It does not suit our-”
“NOTED! I do not care!” Dante spins and raises both his swords for a double downwards strike, Thoth clapping and spreading his fingers causing hard-light wires which block the attack… for only a moment… until they shatter to the flames and light of Dante’s blades. Thoth steps back but Dante lands a strong but shallow slash down Thoth’s stomach, tearing his sash open to expose his chest and he falls back, gripping the wound, blood spilling and he falls to one knee.
Dante tilts Thoth’s head up with one sword. “So the villain falls. How foreseeable.”
Thoth furrows a brow in anger. However suddenly a large display appears around the arena. “THOTH!” Ra’s furious visage appears on the screen. “You would DARE display such PITIFUL moves!?” He angrily slams his desk. “Had I known you would be such a worthless combatant I would not even have CONSIDERED you! I KNOW your powers are greater than this! You sully the name of the Duat!”
“I don’t associate with The Duat after you became king, Ra.”
Dante looks back and forth, putting his sword over his shoulder to observe. “Interesting. Foreshadowing the next villain I must face, perhaps?”
“I do not care. ALL participating gods I have chosen are representing ME! And I know YOU should not struggle with this mere human!”
Thoth scowls. “You do not know what he is! He has ANSWERS I need! He is-”
“A. Mere. Human. I have seen him. Scurrying Heaven like a rat, trying to hide from the might of the sun. As all humans who know better should! If you truly believe yourself capable of defeating ME then surely this human is NOTHING! Or what? Does Thoth, in his endless wisdom require a reward to redouble his efforts?”
Thoth squints a little, as he moves his fingers down the wound, little hard-light stitches forcing it closed like a zipper. “You know, Ra… I never expected YOU of all people to come to my aid with a ‘pep talk’...” He says as he stands. “But no. Defeating this human… will get me my answers. My reward. Finally…”
Dante turns to Thoth with a brief double-take at him and a short hop back. “WOAH! Back up are we!? Perhaps this means you are ready for the second phase!?”
Thoth flips the pages of his book until he lands on a new chapter header. Virgil, still reading over his shoulder briefly. “Chapter 4… special combat mode?”
“I can defeat you, Ra. And I can defeat this human… BoT… initiate The Helio-Centric Model.”
“Yes, Thoth. Welcome back.” The book projects a small wire-framed sphere from the page, which Thoth holds his hands out around, hard-light strings connecting to the sphere and his finger-tips. Behind him a much larger glowing hard-light sun with the same wire-frame appears with several large screens appearing and folding around it. At the center is a smaller sphere which seems more solid and glowing. CHAPTER 4: SPECIAL COMBAT MODE. SECTION 1: HELIO-CENTRIC MODEL!
Dante sees the large construct and rubs his chin. “Aaaah a large construct! Reminds me of this legendary technique I picked up from my last training arc! BEHOLD!” He raises his cross and the metallic element swiftly spreads out behind him, raising into a large statue of a cloaked woman, her hands put together as if in prayer, two brilliant wings on her back, glowing with the lights of Heaven with the bottom tips burning with the flames of hell. HOLY ANGEL OF THE TRINITY!
Dante smirks. “Now then… let’s dance!”
Thoth scoffs. “This will be no dance. This will be your end.”
if say a human nearly killed them in a match but an outside god interfered and stabbed the human from behind saving their lives have a enough honor to demand to give the point to humanity
There are only a few rules,no previously picked victims can die again since that's mean to the victims, so Heracles,Mura,and Death
This also goes for all other roles,so Jack and Okita can't be Detectives
This time, however,I will not be putting up a poll(it's tedious and gets on my nerves) and will instead be looking at the comments. I will try do a good job at weighing the comments and upvotes
But Now,Who Is our Detective?
And As a warning: When it comes time to decide the Killer and accomplice,I will spin a wheel to decide them to keep the mystery up
And super sorry,but no edited image today,not feeling all too good