Amulet Series - Blog Posts
a color in of this wonderful person’s art! ^^^
DISCLAIMER: the original lineart is NOT MINE, i did this for fun and lighting practice, if the og creator wants this taken down, i will oblige
Og post down:
Hope ya’ll like it :)
Okay, dear @motherstone, I mostly really like your redesign of the elven prince
A 14-year-old teen vs a 16-year-old teen
My inspiration and reference 😍
I want them to hug more often
Yeah, and others doodles
I really wanted to draw something. I came across the cover and here it is, so let it be
So yesterday I finally read the first two books on Amulet (thanks to a friend who gave them to me for my birthday). So I've drawn Emily and Trellis so far (it's really hard to draw armor lol)
Waterbearer
I'm crazy. Don't ask me how I managed to draw this, all I knew I blacked out and it's nearly 4 am and I'm achy and dehydrated and this happened. Hyperfixation sure hits different
I probably shouldn't have gone to that trippy ass mirror maze the other day because holy shit I had a dream about amulet getting adapted into an animated series, except that it was combined with other books I didn't even know about getting adapted in it too?
It was more confusing that the concept of a handwich, basically there was some sort of show about a disillusioned girl or whatever from this unknown graphic novel about ghosts and stuff. Where Emily Amulet comes in is the part that she's somehow an illusion (or at least fictional) in the in universe world of this story in the animated adaption alongside some other comic characters I didn't know shit about. Somehow the amulet fanbase was happy about the animated adaption but the fanbase about the other graphic novel wasn't and were pissed cause it wasn't a faithful retelling of the story.
Personally, I have no words on what to think of if except for this, "what the actual fuck was that"
Another Max drawing :)) I don’t have much to say apart from that I HATE DRAWING ARMOUR IN PERSPECTIVE. Ok bye :)
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16 years of Amulet!
GOD it's finally done, this took a month to work on, so uh, I hope I did them justice. Thank you everyone for this journey! ^_^ Uhh I'm sleep deprived so not much notes for now.
Individual character illustration under the cut:
and pose refs:
COMMISSIONS OPEN!
Will do:
fantasy
mild nsfw/blood
anthro (only in stylized, to be discussed)
OCs
Not do:
mecha
gore
heavy nsfw
real people
animals/pets
DM to commission! Reblogs appreciated ^_^
I have nothing much to offer at this time,
Emily || Trellis
Obligatory Hades game x Amulet series crossover? YES. I LOVE THIS GAME.
Edited by @/tacehxilef on instagram. Art and voice work by me. Pose from wha. Video credit. I don't own the game (no money, but I've been watching playthroughs) so apologies if it's not too accurate, but we tried our best!
Emily portrait below!
When you keep reading Miskit as Mitski:
Context: Navin introduced karaoke and Miskit misread his name on one of Mitski's songs and is now a Mitski fan.
Also Emily is running away in the background
I'm sorry Amulet fans
This sounds very specific and I'm wondering if you have any unresolved issues (I know I do lol)
The best way to describe the amulet book series is to pretend you find a really cool water slide. You can’t see inside the slide because of the exterior but it looks cool enough so you go through it. The first half is fun and entertaining and you can’t wait to see what’s next, then the second half comes and it’s covered in shit. Like there’s an inch tall layer of shit in the water of the tunnel. You don’t leave because you are already in the shit waterslide and it’s too steep to climb up and leave. As you go down the shit stained slide gets smellier and dirtied and there is more shit in it and before you know it, you are neck deep in shit water. When you finally exit the slide, you are glad it’s over but you still smell like shit and no matter what you do, you can’t get that smell out.
Loni? Roni? Nah, your mommy
Hate Loni and Roni’s names so I have convinced myself to believe that they are both nicknames for longer, much cooler traditional Elven names. I get they are twin characters but the rhyming, similar sounding names makes them seem so juvenile and non-serious 😭
Someone please edit the Tv Tropes page for Amulet especially the YMMV section I am BEGGING YOU. Someone please update it already It's been a few months since the series ended PLEASE. I NEED MY TV TROPES CONTENT PLEASE. PLEASE. PLEASE. PLEASE. PLEASE
Aww I wanted a candy 😔
Are you an Amulet veteran who's been around book 6 and below??
Congratulations Old Stuff! you desevre a badge of honor!
Have a Gold Star!! ⭐🤩
So guys... Waverider huh? More like... Waveloser haha... so what's everyone's thoughts?
Made some Amulet doodles in class and man... They should've been friends, besties, maybe a couple. Why couldn't they be closer 😭
Time to go back in time and beat my 12 year old self for thinking that Tremily would ever happen
finding out from reddit that tremily isn't canon in amulet book 9 has got to be my last straw
My brain hurts from reading all this lol
I just read the book today AND HOLY MOLY-
It aboslutely blew my mind!!!
For someone whose read all 9 books, my mind just thinks that it comes full circle and kinda connects them all together. Just some things I've theoretically put together is that you know how Vigo was taken to the void by Ikol, but then was transported 300 years back in the past? Take it with a grain of salt.
I suspect that something similiar happened to Silas Charnon; that he is from the future who travelled back to the past. In Book 1, Silas seems to know about Emily--whose been in Alledia--despite the fact that they never met. I don't think Silas was still in his house on Earth when Emily was born. He would only know about her if Emily was Silas's ancestor. There's also the inventions and sketches in this man's house on Earth. Things like the cardbot and the boat thing seem futuristic to me despite Karen thinking that they were some sort of puzzle.
Another thing I found interesting is that he was able to use magic without the use of an amulet, similar to Ikol's masters. You could see the glow around his hand that just lifts up the amulet Emily wears. There is absolutely no image of Silas wearing an amulet on him while his death bed because Emily IS wearing his amulet. In Book 9, one of Ikol's masters provided a way for Emily to get inside the giant mech robot without doing damaged.
It is revealed in Book 9 that Silas is the one who created Ikol and the machines/Ikol's masters. Not sure he's like the founder of the Intelligent Kinematic Operations Labatory, but he does have influence with it. However, I do believe that Silas wasn't responsible for Ikol's belief in that destruction is human nature, but maybe the machines.
Remember how Ikol's masters wanted to make room on Alledia, an alternate version of Earth, to live on? The reason was because their planet--Earth--was dying. In Book 3(?), Ikol does show Emily a city on Earth being destroyed. Ikol may have shown Emily what exactly happened to Earth in the distant future (a.k.a future vision). And in Earth's distant future could be testing with these powers via technology. Could be from the discovery of something similar to the Mother Stone or the fabric of time and space. Maybe even the Intelligent Kinematic Operations Labatory was responsible for these amulets!
Perhaps Silas found a way to travel back through time through the void in order to prevent this from happening. But then he ended up FAR into the past, got married with someone at some point, had Karen, and then disappeared into Alledia where he may have hoped for people to help him via amulet. Unfortunately, Silas couldn't accomplish what he had to set up to do because of aging, and leaves it up to Emily to try to solve this issue in preventing the end of the world. That's a lot of responsibility and faith he's putting into a teenager-
There are things that could be disproved, but that's what I tried making sense of this section of lore. But I'm curious what people think about this theory tbh. It's been a fun journey with the Amulet series. Despite its flaws, it will always have a place in my heart.
Thanks for telling me!
I just like seeing women kicking ass but I do get your point and it's nice to see someone in a different viewpoint
Do you have any thoughts on Karen as a character?
Book 1 didn't leave me a good impression of her. She's a loving mother who does her best in her situation, but she definitely prioritized her own feelings over Emily's during that time, maybe unintentionally, and it hasn't left me since. I genuinely think that should have been given focus, and more story about Karen's trying-her-best-but-falling-short-anyways parenting.
That said, Idk why people want her to be this badass fighting female character. Like are you people allergic to characters that isn't necessarily a fighter but instead provides comfort and safety and a home to go back to. Amulet has no shortage of badass characters, but there's definitely a huge shortage of characters who provide genuine emotional support. Karen isn't perfect, but I liked that THAT'S her role in the story. A fighter helps one survive, but people like Karen is why we live.
On Stone Magic
Hm. Yeah, this was a needed distraction from the atrocity called Waverider. 💀
Notes:
Really needed an excuse why I draw the stonekeepers using elements in my art, ended up getting carried away!
[1] The outfits they're wearing is around post book-4 or 5. My rewrite I jumbled things around, so technically in this timeline he should be wearing his armor in the og series. It's intentional he looked uncomfortable in it. It's a revamped design of his fit in book 6.
[2] Magical fire can only be dispersed by magic. It'll burn forever otherwise. Guess what Emily used on Ippo.
[3] We never really see Emily be silly or undignified, and to me, that's what she was lacking on why she didn't leave much of an impression nor appeal to me. this is an attempt to make it seem like she's still just a kid learning and stumbling and getting into embarrassing situations.
Still haven't finalized the design on Max, but I have some idea. If you noticed, he has the same collar as Trellis, meaning Trellis borrowed some Cielan attire before discovering a healer's robe, which is more elf-like attire.
[4] Trellis's magic may seem silly or trivial than say, what Emily developed to give her advantage in combat. It may also give you the impression he just did it to have an easier time for chores. But if you dig a bit deeper, that's extremely useful magic, especially for a society like Alledia.
[5] the Elf King didn't show up on the other scale because we don't know his level of skill. Other than that, he's insanely powerful.
[6] Every other stonekeeper can manifest both if they're skilled enough, but Trellis was the first to perfect a defensive style and do it consistently.
[7] Just a nice lil joke. Also, Max is wielding an ice pickax that can split into two or combine. Very dangerous.
You can tell I've been rereading wha and dungeon meshi for this.
I remember I drew some Emily redesigns but I got too lazy to color them so they're just blank for now. Imagine that most of the color palette is in warmer colors. Also please ignore the unnecessary drawings I totally didn't do those parts
I would've just swapped their roles and let Vigo die instead of Daniel but this rewrite is great too
Wanna hear me say my asinine writing ideas again
You know what would be really cool? If his motives for driving stonekeepers insane and stuff was not for serving a different species (looking at you, you creepy ass shadows) but something more malicious.
TW: Genocide
Lemme explain, so in my headcanon I thought the Voice caused people to go mad and become monsters to cause destruction but only to their own species or people protecting them. This is because the Voice wants a superior species living on Alledia. Other previous species have gone extinct by previous stonekeepers that lost themselves and unknowingly genocides their own people.
The Voice is like a toxic parent to Alledia, wanting the best for it but in its own twisted ways. I also headcanon humans to be rare in Alledia because of the curse that turns some into animal-like species (that Ikol still doesn't like) and also because of other human stonekeepers the Voice had turned mad. The Voice will only accept a species he thinks is best for Alledia, to preserve its planet while also having lifeforms in it.
Also, each species in Alledia isn't native to the planet at all, because the motherstone was the one that created the portals to other planets that other people went into. And after pieces of it was borrowed the motherstone grew weaker until the portals started to close. Ikol as a part of the motherstone became well, the voices to every stonekeeper and corrupted them to turn on their own kind. And when all the stones have been released from their deceased masters, the motherstone will join again and open up the portals leading to Alledia, thus restating the process of finding a superior species... until a certain group of shadows came in secret
And that's basically how I would've written Ikol, just a picky and evil spirit of the stones that manipulates and watches over the planet until it finds a species it prefers on it. Almost like a collector of toys that throws away stuff they don't want later on until it finds something they favor and decides "welp, I don't wanna play with theses anymore" *throws away rest of the Alledians.
I wished he was more interesting to the story but alas, he's was a servant to the shadows and probably isn't gonna be fought or anything. But he could've been scarier, he could've been like a villain you get anxiety from every time they're on screen. He could've been a nightmare to deal with, just not in the annoying way
Any thoughts on Ikol? He’s a bit confusing to me
*grasps your shoulder* I don't get Him either.
Controversial thoughts below:
The Voice is unnecessary as a character.
Unpopular af opinion I know. The Voice was a charismatic character and pretty much the lynchpin on why Emily came to Alledia but listen. He's a tumor on the story. There can be another alternative that could push her to go to Alledia. If he was done well then maybe yes he could've been the horror and mystery factor the story had but no. More often than not he's pretty much the default reason why characters get absolved of their actions bc "wah they were influenced by the Voice that's why he was pushed to transform into a giant" wenk wenk that's kinda boring I say. Where's the agency. He's basically just a really loud conscience/impulsive or intrusive thought turned into an entity. People already do that themselves. Like the entire premise is already terrifying enough on its own. Idk. Maybe it's bc I'm already viewing it as an already older person lens that I can't seem to incorporate the more lighthearted part of the kid's fantasy but seriously. A dark entity can make things interesting I guess but ngl people can already be horrible people on their own. No dark spirit required. It's already about war and tyranny. It's already about putting power and responsibilities and blame on already fragile shoulders. It's about adults who failed children. Wouldn't be more interesting if they focused on characters with autonomy who fucked up and then explores on how those mistakes affect everyone else.
Agh fuck I know the story is also trying to discuss abt fate and choices and whether or not a person has the freedom to make those choices and actions and it's about defiance against that helplessness, but my main complaint about the characters is that they have zero fucking agency. They don't push the plot at all. The plot just happens. It's so ironic for a series that's supposed to be a celebration of that defiance have a protagonist that is only is what she is and does things she does because she feels like she has to be and has its entire plot crumble in on itself by characters that are treated not as characters but just paper maches. What then.
Understandable, I just thought your art and writing was really good and could even fit in an Amulet series too. Also your rewrites are quality, because they add more character to the, well characters. Also thanks for answering!
What would you do if you had the chance to write an adaption for the Amulet series? I feel like you'd be the best candidate to make one
Adaptation is a far off dream ngl, I don't really have the means nor skill to do so. I do enjoy making up rewrites in my head however, but that doesn't mean it's quality!