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i've been itching to talk about my skyrim characters. yes, i know skyrim is a 13 year old game with a meh plot, but it was one of my first "adult" games, so it has a special place in my heart

anyways, more under the cut

I have five (5) characters that I've played/come up with and have become OCs in their own right. Their stories include modded content (mods denoted in parentheses) and original plots. They are:

Hides-In-Shadows (any pronouns): Argonian Dragonborn, the one actually prophesied to defeat Alduin. Any pronouns are accepted; mostly doesn't like being referred to though. They were the one with their head actually on the block in Helgen, and rather than picking to go with Ralof or Hadvar, managed to convince them to work together.

Used to be amoral and callous, joining both the Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild and bringing back their glory. However, after seeing Sovngarde, defeating Alduin and being hailed as a hero, the cognitive dissonance got too bad for them, so they abandoned both the DB and the TG. Has been trying to atone since.

One of said efforts of atonement was joining the Dawnguard, which led them to meet Serana. Their relationship is platonic, but they both want something more; they just think that they don't deserve it (to be specific, Serana thinks she doesn't deserve happiness, while Shadows doesn't believe they deserve Serana's love).

Dagoth Tyrdan (he/him): Dunmer Dragonborn. His being a Dragonborn is mostly a side effect of being the secret son of Martin Septim and the Champion of Cyrodiil (later Sheogorath); no actual bearing on the prophecy, though he could have fulfilled it himself.

He has been friends with Hides-In-Shadows since before their passage into Skyrim; they were both captured together by the Empire.

He didn't learn he was Dragonborn at the Western Watchtower like Shadows; rather, they fought a dragon on the way to High Hrothgar, and Tyrdan happened to be closer (due to being a melee warrior), so the soul awoke his own nature. Things were really complicated for the Greybeards.

Tyrdan had no interest in the actual destiny, though, so after A Blade In The Dark, he split from Shadows and took up mercenary work, eventually joining the Companions. He's still a werewolf to this day.

He and Shadows reunited while on the search for the Elder Scroll, in which he led a suicidal charge (along the Circle of the Companions) into Falmer territory in Blackreach to give Shadows the distraction they needed to reach the Scroll. When the rest of the Circle arrived back in Whiterun, they said that Tyrdan had sacrificed himself to buy them time to escape.

His survival wouldn't be confirmed until later, when it turned out he had beaten the Blackreach Falmer back so brutally that he had become their new leader. Shadows only learned this when Tyrdan saved them and Serana in the Forgotten Vale, having led his own Falmer force against Vyrthur's.

Afterwards, Tyrdan would return to his role as the Companions' Harbinger. However, his wanderlust and some notes he found led him to find the reforged Umbra, Daumbra (There Is No Umbra), with whom he eventually started a relationship.

Felicitar (she/her): Altmer Dragonborn. This is where things get odd, so bear with me. Felicitar is the prophecied Last Dragonborn of legend; but not of this timeline. Rather, she's from a parallel kalpa, where she essentially held the same position as Hides-In-Shadows. However, after doing most of Skyrim's quests, the Numidium appeared off the coast of Solitude (DAc0da). However, unlike in the actual mod's plot, the Numidium fully activated halfway through it, sending Felicitar hurtling through time and space, until she landed in the College of Winterhold in Shadows' timeline.

Having lost her memories, she became an apprentice at the College and eventually its Archmage, and the owner of the Staff of Magnus.

She eventually became aware (again) of her Dragonborn status when Shadows went to the College to look for clues on the Elder Scroll. They fought a dragon together in the courtyard, and the soul went to Felicitar. From there, she joined Shadows, and eventually, the two became friends.

She's also the one to do Dragonborns' main questline and some sidequests, while Tyrdan did the other chunk of the sidequests. However, Felicitar, had regained some of her memories by then, and one of her regrets was being unable to save Miraak. This time, rather than fighting Miraak, she shouts two times at Hermaeus Mora himself, wrecking her throat for a time. The two shouts were Bend Will (she didn't think to actually command Mora, simply distract him) and Dragonrend (on the assumption that mortality would also be a hard concept to grasp for a Daedric Prince). It worked (barely), and she escaped from Apocrypha with Miraak in tow.

This act caused tensions amongst the group, for Shadows was in favor of killing Miraak for enslaving an entire island, and Tyrdan, while willing to give the benefit of the doubt, still didn't trust Miraak at all. In the end, Felicitar managed to bring a semblance of peace back by assuming the whole responsibility for Miraak.

Afterwards, the events of DAc0da started in Shadows' own kalpa, but they ended up far better this time around, in part thanks to Felicitar's returned memories. They were followed by the events of Vigilant (a group effort in the first two acts, but carried out solely by Shadows in the latter two), Glenmoril (which I haven't played bc it's still not finished) and Unslaad (also haven't played it yet).

However, things couldn't remain calm for long, with which comes the fourth character:

Marcus (he/him): Imperial, both in race and allegiance. He was a middle-ranking soldier in the Imperial Legions, who by pure chance discovered a copy of Ulfric Stormcloak's Thalmor dossier. When he tried to bring it to his superiors, however, the Thalmor captured him, and tortured him to near death.

He was freed by Tyrdan during the Missing in Action quest, but Marcus wasn't content with simply hiding from the Thalmor. Instead, he sought the means to get revenge, which he found by becoming a powerful undead lich (Undeath), and taking control of the Draugr in Skyrim's barrows (like that one necromancer wanted to in the base game).

With his undead army, he started attacking Thalmor agents wherever he could find them; however, his deteriorating mental state, owing both to his previous torture and his lichdom, led him to start attacking the Stormcloaks and the Empire too, which eventually led to the Draugr attacking innocent civilians caught in the crossfire.

Shadows and their party (Tyrdan, Felicitar, Serana and Miraak) took on the situation, and eventually tracked down Marcus and killed him once, only for his phylactery to revive him. However, with him now clearer of mind thanks to the resurrection, he could be made to see sense, and he ordered the Draugr to return to their barrows. Before he could destroy his own phylactery however, Shadows and Felicitar stopped him and sent him to the College of Winterhold, where he would become another member, though forced to remain permanently within the College's walls, as punishment and for his own safety.

After that situation was resolved came another, and the fifth character:

Angel (they/them): Bosmer in the past and main physical form. Felicitar's main travelling companion in her original timeline, her original name was Arwen. When the Numidium activated and Felicitar was whisked away, Arwen entered the Numidium to try and shut it down. However, its nature warped Arwen's very essence, and opened her mind to truths about existence, such as realities outside her own. Her mind couldn't take it, and she broke, her being subsumed by the Numidium.

After Numidium (eventually) destroyed the Aurbis, it refuted itself out of existence, but left the broken remnant of Arwen behind. This remnant regained a sense of self while in the void between the various Aurbes, but could no longer go back to their old self. Dubbing themself Angel, after the divine servants of the Christian God of our own world, they acted mostly on instinct, following after the life signature of their dearest, Felicitar.

However, an unexpected side effect of being subsumed by the Numidium, one that couldn't manifest in the inbetween void, was the ability to warp reality and refute existence just by being present. Angel unwittingly left a path of destruction wherever they went while looking for Felicitar in Skyrim.

After their reunion, Felicitar tried to explain that Angel had to leave the Aurbis for everyone else's safety, but they took it badly, and started tearing up reality, on purpose this time.

In the end, Angel was only stopped by Felicitar, Shadows and Tyrdan going inside their soul, and destroying their very essence. At least, Angel went out while having recovered a bit of Arwen's self, and in Felicitar's embrace.

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Showdowns between brothers are always so interesting and tragic

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Skyrim fanart

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do you think the doll finds amygdalas cute?

i think the doll thinks the amygdalas serve cunt. and she's right

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as a gift for @yharnamopossum, i fused mohg, lord of blood from elden ring and gaismagorm the archdemon of the abyss from monster hunter rise sunbreak

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the fact that safi looks like all its extremities are burnt. or necrotising. I can't get over that design choice. I bet if you left it alone long enough a third new weird dragon would start showing through the gaps

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I don't think I could do it justice, but I couldn't not draw POD Starscourge.

EVERYONE LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL ART!!!!!!!!

Thank you so much, Sorie, this is incredible!!! I love the dynamic perspective, the looming presence of the Dark Moon, Radahn's pose and the dramatic flair of his cape... You can feel the urgency in every line of the composition!

What medium did you use for this, if you don't mind me asking? I love the colors and the smooth shading.

From my fic Prince of Death - Chapter 190 - catcas22 - Elden Ring (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own], Radahn defends Raya Lucaria.

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oltura larval form-true form mashup!

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i can feel the monster hunter hyperfixation entering my brain and kicking out the armored core 6 one... what has this world come to...

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Mawmaw took her first steps (with crutches) since the car accident (which happened in June) today.

Reblog this with something good that happened to you. Did you pet a cat? Did someone do something nice for you?

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So. Those election results.

I'm not even from the US, and I already fear for my safety. I'm literally so mad that this could happen. Between Harris' campaign being stupid as fuck, and Trump voters (who I hope come to regret voting for him), holy shit. The ball really was dropped here.

And before people come to say "You're not even from America/the US, why are you complaining", have you forgotten that the US has its fucking fingers on the entire world? Like, my country went through a military dictatorship at least partly because the US promoted and paid for it it back in the 70s. And I don't doubt it could happen again under Trump.

Also, a good bunch of things on the Internet are bound to US laws iirc, which could spell a lot of trouble for the rest of the world, too.

Not to mention that Trump winning will embolden the right wing in a lot of places, or at least I expect that to happen. We barely avoided having an actual Nazi for president here in Chile; I don't want him to get a chance.

I'm not blaming anyone who didn't vote (though I'm side eyeing that group), because Harris' campaign was idiotic. I'm also not blaming anyone who voted for anyone other than Trump.

The blame is squarely on the shoulders of the fuckers that couldn't see past their own belly and and didn't have enough empathy to not vote for the worst fucking option.

God, I fucking hate everything about this.

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By popular demand, here's another one!

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Nerdigante

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Also for research purposes!