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"He spoke not a word as he died. Not a whisper. Even in death, he mocked me with his silence!"

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Rin, a paragon of Soul Shriven, out from the Azure Plasm. Lyrics are from Poor Atlas by Dessa.

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My gf had me make her Code Vein character and I gotta say. If you have a character other than Sylence as the main character of Code Vein, you’ve been duped. She’s the best one. She’s a loverboy lesbian and she flirts with anything femme that moves. God bless.

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This was a late night look that was more vibes than person but I did like it very much. In the videos it was implied that the eye was because she was somewhat possessed. The dress is of course a wild fabrication, but a lot of my tiktok characters will be wearing black so I wanted to add some color to the lineup. And why the bird hands? Cause they’re neat.

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ESO vampires with Skyrim vampire eyes

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Gothic vampire for @nekomomoz !

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Listen, sometimes you just have to give your inner angsty teen addicted to gaiaonline what she wants.

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never speak to me or my horrible children ever again. Oh they lied to you?? Oh they manipulated your feelings?? Oh one of them bit you?? Grow up.

I don't draw a lot of chibis and it shows lol

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I made myself a motivational sticker with my eso oc. Rin has great advice.

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Divayth Fyr sketch

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mephala's sharpest dagger

tattoo reference under the cut

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Next in my tiktok post mortem is the Bride of Ruin. She's Miss Mist, but turned evil. We had a villainizing storyline and I went from Eternal Widow to Bride of Ruin. It was much fun.

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So that's all folks. TikTok is now inaccessible in the US. I've been there since 2017. It's been so central to me since then, every day I would at least check-in. It's going to be difficult without it and I'm not sure what I'm going to do. Please enjoy this edit of my work that I put a lot of effort into.

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The first in my tiktok post mortem. The Goddess of Obsession was the work of a single night, though I made something like 30 videos of her. I redesigned her to be more snakelike to play off the makeup you can’t quite see in those screenshots. They look a bit like cobra markings so I went full throttle to make her that much more unsettling. The tag was started by Noell_cosplay, who is a friend of mine.

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TikTok is getting banned and I'm going to make art about it.

I joined TikTok in 2017, back when it was still Musical.ly. Until around mid-to-late 2020, TikTok was absolutely dominated by cosplayers doing dances and lipsyncs—really incredible stuff. A subsection of that was a thriving community of Original Character cosplayers. Someone would make a tag with a theme, usually something supernatural like vampires or fairies or demons, and make a costume and makeup out of what they had on hand. It was an ever-shifting, ever-new, ever-weird cauldron of creativity.

I was one of those people! I gained some mild popularity at it and for a while it was my favorite and most exhilarating form of self-expression and art. Was it peculiar? Sure. Cringey? Eat my ass, normie. I made many characters, had a great time, and made some of the best friends I will ever have. We created communities of like-minded strange little weirdos (I get to say that not you) and I'm still in one, going strong, though we have moved to a private server and most write these days.

While going through my videos I revisited these characters I personally portrayed and felt such warmth and gratitude towards them. Many of my videos fell short of my vision, however, due to a lack of space, equipment, skill, and so on. But I have pretty solid digital art skills these days and I have decided to embark on a new project. I am going to draw most if not all those characters, the way I envisioned them. Or would have designed them if I could have. Some may still look like me, some may not.

To me, this is how I honor and respect that era of my life. None of that creativity and drive was wasted, each piece was a part of me I wanted to explore in the most over-the-top and dramatic way. It would be so easy to look back at it and think it was embarrassing, but I'm refusing to. I love myself and I love each of these characters for different reasons.

I hope you enjoy my series of what is essentially self-portraits.

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Gathering for a portrait... the Circle of 9, formidable all, for @jawsandbones - compelling and terrifying characters to play against in her homebrew D&D campaign <3

Some closeups! definitely click for full view, landscape images are tricky to share on here 🥺

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Tethys of the Deep, Mother of the Ocean, Nurse of the Waters. This is a redraw of one of my first forays into digital art and I really love how this turned out! She’s a character in a long time rp I’m in. It’s important to note she’s also several stories long. Big.