#Adalia

[d011zk1ll]

Art dump (mostly feralnette au but some of my own future au that I'm going to start writing soon!) I *really* hate the last two so when I'm not sleep deprived and can function ill redraw it :3

[nathan-moth]

Just a simple heterosexual couple... UNLESS

[alexissara]

Probably The Top 10 Characters of 2023

It's time for the hardest top 10 list of the year, deciding who my top 10 characters of the year are. I am a very character focused writer and GM and that translates to my enjoyment of art too. I love characters and it's so hard to pick between the amazing swath of fantastic characters I read this year. Lowering the list down after eliminating stuff I had the list at like over 20 characters so getting this down to 10 was an exercise in self doubt. Of all of these lists this really is the list that I want to thin about next year and see what characters I am still thinking about in one years time. Unlike my other lists this is not even roughly in any order it simply is the 10 characters that at the moment I was writing this I managed to cut a list down to. My 45th character at this moment might be number 2 tomorrow and you can't see my 45th character, you can only see 10.

Mary Satome [Kaguri Twins]

I watched this early in the year but Mary stuck with me. She's funny, she's clever, she is messy, she's an asshole, she's sweet, she's passionate and determined and I just want the best for her and her girlfriends. It's rare to see a woman be as messy as her and remain the main character but she gets to both be kinda noble and heroic while also clearly being self motivated.

Prospera Mercury [gwitch]

Easily mother of the year, Prospera Mercury is a litness test for me on someone's taste and makes for an easy read on if someone will have utterly trash politics or not. If Prospera was a man she would probably be one of the most beloved characters in anime as a passionate loving mom who tries to teach her child hard lessons and is willing to do anything to give her child freedom and get her revenge. However, she is not a guy so from the start everyone suspected she was awful and abusive and terrible when the text never not even at the end supports it, she is mean to Sulleta exactly once and that is so she is not an accomplice to her crimes in case she ends up getting stopped.

Tilty Claret  [MagiRevo]

My favorite "side" character of the year has to be Tilty, this little freak. Tilty is sweet, she's kind, she deserves a girlfriend, two girlfriends, she should be dating Anise and Euphy. She is funny, she's well used, she does great emotional support and understands Anise so well, I love her so much and I love how loyal and great she is to the people she loves. I love her sciencey freaky attitude too she's just great.

Honey Trap [Super Women In Love]

Villain to Hero Honey Trap is utterly endearing. She starts as simply simping for Rapid Rabbit but it's fun to watch her evolve as a character and as a person over the course of the manga. She's sweet, endearing and brutal at all the right times. She's so gay and really funny, and she is really a perfect protagonist for this romantic comedy action yuri series. She's such a perfectly crafted character who can really command a range from serious threat to tragic damsel to Hero to gay little goof ball all while feeling like the same consistent character.

Satya [Pink Sugar]

Satya comes in with an air of mystery but this trans lesbian swiftly shows how quickly someone can go from sexy mystery to beloved dork. Satya gets a lot of the most soft and sweet moments with her future girlfriends getting to be someone to listen to them, to ask questions as an outsider to the trio and to be the inciting incident to get them to go on their wild road trip to begin with. I am really curious where her story will go but it would be lying to say she hasn't already endeared herself to the top of my list despite being probably the least focused on girl of the quad so far.

Shadowheart [BG3]

BG3 has a lot of good characters, great characters even and that is in spite of it being attached to one of the worst IPs around D&D. Shadowheart stood out to me among the many characters of a character who had queerness as part of her character done well despite being a player sexual character and I think she has the most dramatic character arc of the batch on her good path. Shadowheart starts as a catty Mormon girl and evolves into this kind heroic adventurer who you could see saving the world many more times.

Adalia [En Garde!] 

While En Garde! might be a short 3 hour romp all three hours with Adalia are perfectly used. She's funny, charming, cute, and heroic. She's fitting a very classic archtype but is a spin on it by having it both be a woman but also be queer. These two factors do add to Adalia's charm, the gay side lets us see her enter dork mode where she is very gay for a sexy pirate woman and her animations change and she makes worse decisions then snap out of it when it's what needs to happen to help people. She's utterly lovely and a true delight.

Nova [Spellastra]

While almost every character here has a bit of a silly side, I can appreciate a more dramatic character. Nova is a character covered in tragedies, of angst, of wanting to love but feeling unable, she's rough and prickly and messy and makes bad choices but they all make a lot of sense for where she is at in any given moment. Nova is at once the older mentor who knows what to do but also the love interest who's fucked up plenty of times and blames herself even more than she ever should. Nova's a testament to the depth and layers you can really give a character while having her be lovable and desirable and still fit in for more fun moments while having these hard edges.

Jala [Thirsty Suitors]

Speaking of messy queers we have the disaster bisexual herself Jala. She's a character I really wanna dive deeper into because I think there is so much to Jala and the game does a pretty good job at leaving a lot of space for my brain to get cooking about why Jala is like this while also explaining a lot of why Jala is like this. Jala has hurt a lot of people, like most of the people in her life and her path to make it right with everyone is great. We get to see where other people fucked up, what complicated situations, where she grows and where she stands firm. Jala is a really perfectly envisioned character with a cast weaved so perfectly around her that every interaction is splendor to behold.

Astra [Grand Slam Romance]

Astra's on a quest to fuck every woman on the planet and more power to her. Astra is kinda the villain of the first book but she's also the romantic lead which places her in an interesting position in the story where we see her at her worst, we get to understand how she got there and we are cheering for her to tone it down like 10%. I am fully biased in my love for her and I make no excuses for it. Astra is designed exactly like many of my OCs with a personality similar to a lot of my OCs, I love everything about her, I want her great success and I look forward to people telling me I ripped her off even if I made characters like her like 10 years ago and have a record of it. I love her and I just wanna see more of her.

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[underfiends]

Yes, Your Majesty

Killing Time short story numero 3. DMed by me, played by @hannrenn and @peppermintpinklemonade. Features royal corruption, betrayal, and a semi-public execution. Enjoy!

“Can I get a ‘Yes, your Majesty’?” There is a sultry lilt to the voice, and yet there is no amusement glinting in those eyes.

There is a knight kneeling at the base of blue carpeted steps. He shakes so violently that his steel armour clatters together, informing all who watch the man’s fear. A terrified visage attempts to plead. Cold indifference gazes back atop a throne of stone and silver. There will be no mercy here.

“Y-Yes, your Maje-jes-es-”

“I bore of your gibbering. You have broken oath. What say you of this claim?” The King rests his cheek upon his closed fist, smiling gently as he waits for the knight to gather his thoughts.

“I swear! I have been loyal. Never would I betray my kingdom.” The knight bows his head, dark hair falling about his face. He grips his grounded helm tightly in gauntleted fists, fighting the urge to close his eyes. A threat is much more terrifying when it cannot be seen.

“This is your truth?” When he is given a nod, the King beckons someone forward from behind his throne. “I see. Would you be so kind as to tell my informant that he is lying, then?”

The knight freezes. It is as though his lungs have barred themselves, preventing any air from entering. His blood turns to ice, paling his face so fully he goes from prussian to azure. The image before him swims. Perhaps the arrival has conjured water in the throne room? No, the King would never allow that, and the Wizard would not dare upset the King.

No one dares upset the King.

He sucks in a lungful of air so suddenly his fingers begin to tingle. Is this another spell? He is sure that the Wizard is privy to magic he has never heard of. A kind of suffocation spell, perhaps.

The King turns to his companion, eyes going soft and fingers coming out to brush against soft albrecht blue robes. The Wizard grins, a corner of his mouth curling into a smirk a moment later. His hand is placed upon the King’s shoulder as he leans forward and presses a kiss to his brow.

“Suilad, muindor.” The Wizard casts a glance to the kneeling knight, disdain exuding from him in waves. “Why is this traitor still breathing?”

“Why mellon, you cannot expect me to execute him without a trial. That would be unbecoming of me. I am quite partial to fairness. So,” His eyes snap to the guard, who flinches under his scrutiny. “It is only fair that my informant give his side of the story.

The Wizard straightens, his hands clasping together behind his back. Bare feet glide across carpeted steps until he stands before the accused. Eyes harder than steel, a fury so deep it could reach across the world; this man would sooner kill the knight himself than allow him to so much as stand.

“While performing a routine scrying check, I intercepted a transmission from another orb. Being me,” He pressed a hand to his chest, grinning smugly at the King, “I cast a simple enchantment to allow me to see through the orb without revealing myself. What I saw shocked me greatly. For there stood our very own knight, one who stands before the chambers of my King. There he stood, speaking to our enemy. There he stood.”

A sharp clang makes the knight jump and spin around.

Or, he would have, could he move. His limbs were weighted down by unseen shackles. Not so much as his head could move. He was forced to stare up at the Wizard in horror, unable to look at his approaching demise. For all know what happens to traitors.

The King crosses his legs and pouts. “You are taking too long. My Paladin, show our audience what will happen to them should they follow in this knight’s footsteps.”

There is a grunt. Right behind the knight. The scrape of steel against stone; the straining of leather as arms raise. A whistle in the air.

A head rolls to a stop by the Wizard’s feet. He looks back at his King, a silent question passing between them. The King waves a hand, and so he crouches down to pluck a strand of hair from the dead knight’s head. He slips the silver knife from the knight’s sheath. After a brief inspection of the blade, he brings it down viciously on the knight’s jaw. There is a sickening pop as the bone is popped out. Blood squelches over the skin as it is cut. The wizard drops the now bloodied knife and rises with his prize in hand.

A chuckle has him turning to grin up at his Paladin. “Come virdulq, we must accompany our King to tea. I do believe the Princess is waiting.” He looks down at the mess in the Wizard’s hands. “You may not bring your jaw to tea.”

The Wizard groans, throwing his head back even as he turns and follows his King and Paladin to the doors.

“But vyir, I worked so hard for this! I must show the Princess. It was her idea, after all. Now I can…” His voice trails off, too far now for the knights and servants to hear.

They stare in abject horror at the corpse. Blood soaks the carpet, turning it black. Red spatters steel armour, creating a grotesque portrait for them to view as long as they wish. Though they do not doubt that if the King were to return to a bloodied throne room, his right and left hands would have many more subjects to kill. The Wizard would have more jaws to add to his collection.

Even with this threat hanging over them, they cannot move. They can only stare, only watch as the blood stops flowing from the knight's served neck. They can only look in morbid curiosity at the steel helmet that had been placed at the knight’s feet when he had first knelt before the throne.

It is perfectly clean.

[piouchas-basket]

I realized I never posted this and 4/13 is definitely the best day to do so So here's my bunch of idiots, close-ups and a relation chart under the read more

[supericee]

Adalia: Queen of the Hive

This one was partly self-imposed, partly a challenge from a friend: Designing a bee girl. The idea was a stoic queen, who acts for the good of the hive and her subjects. I named her Adalia, just sounded like a fitting name for her. I haven't done anything with her... should change that.

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[identifying-ladybugs-in-posts]

Harmonia axyridis, Asian lady beetle

Adalia decempunctata, 10-spotted ladybird

Also: please do not make it a mission to kill ANY type of ladybug on sight!

[sulphursock]

aghhh scary ladyauughhhh im scared right now do you see these ghost

[tatilgez]

Antalya turizminde 'en güzel kış'

Turist sayısına İngilizlerin de dahil edilmesi gerektiğini vurgulayan Yavuz, “Yalnızca nisan ayında 113 bin İngiliz Antalya havalimanlarına indi. Pandemi öncesi rakamın neredeyse iki katı. Nisan ayında Paskalya tatili Antalya’ya yardımcı oldu” Antalya’nın sezona moralli girdiğini söylüyor. “Deprem sürecinin ardından hemen hemen tüm oteller faaliyete geçti. Antalya Havalimanı’nın 2. dış hatlar…

[coffeecasualtydraws]

Did one!

A couple furry doodles I might polish later >:3c

[d011zk1ll]

AHH IT IS DONE!! I'll be putting these w/ marinette and alya's (making Alya's tmrw) at the end of chapter one when I finish it! I'm so excited ^°^

[nathan-moth]

I've been having trouble with drawing things lately, so I wanted to make something and know it wouldn't be perfect or what I thought it would be. Even the "lineart" is sloppy, but... I kinda liked it...

[pianta]

“no challenge can stand up to Adalia de Volador!” ⚔ en garde! is out now on steam!! 🤺💕

[underfiends]

Death Loop

A lovely little short story based off of a D&D campaign run by me and played by @hannrenn and @peppermintpinklemonade. This features the repeated death of a prominent side character and a player character's reaction to that. Enjoy and be safe!

His hands are shaking. They don’t usually shake. He’s poised, in control, because he has to be. Being the crown prince has its perks and its inhibitors. He may be well known for goofing off and rejecting authority, but he knows when he must act his status.

His hands never shake. He wields his rapier with a practiced precision, and his pickpocketing skills require his fingers to be still. Since he was a child, he’s been trained in the art of being steady and elegant; carrying trays filled to the brim with nearly overflowing glasses, balancing bowls of fruit upon his head, sewing the most intricate details into fine cloth.

And yet, there they are. His hands, his, his very own; they are shaking and he cannot stop them. In fact, his whole body is shaking. He isn’t cold. Or maybe he is and he simply cannot feel it. He can’t feel a lot of things right now.

Air, he needs air. Normally his lungs work just fine, pulling in the air that he requires without him having to think about it. But now, he couldn’t breathe even if he wanted to. He sucks in small lungfuls that he immediately expels as if it were the most distasteful stew he had ever tasted.

Perhaps it is the same stew Veris cooked when he was younger. Adalia was still a child, barely twenty, when most of the castle had fallen ill. Nearly every cook was bedridden, most of the servants confined to their quarters. Even his parents had been unable to get up. This left Veris to take care of the two young drow. The captain of the guard had barely touched a stove before this, and the stew had been lukewarm with chunks of fat instead of meat and all the wrong vegetables. After that, Veris practiced cooking nearly every day. It proved how much the older drow cared for them.

Why had he thought of that? Oh yes, he can’t breathe. That really is a problem, because now his chest hurts and there are spots in his vision. Maybe he should breathe. He sucks in another sharp breath, releasing it with a wheeze.

His fingers are starting to tingle, like when he and Adalia used to tie their hair ties around their wrists until their hands went numb just so they could pretend they had electric fingers and chase each other around. There are no hair ties around his wrist though, so why are his fingers going zappy? Maybe he’s dying. It sure feels like it.

He isn’t dying though. He knows he’s not, because his heart is still beating. It’s still beating, but hers isn’t.

….Oh.

Her heart isn’t beating. So that means she’s dead. She can’t be dead though, she was just walking around and laughing. The weight of the crown may have made her colder, more formal, but she was still the spitfire sister he’d watched grow up. She simply couldn’t have died from something as mundane as poisoned fruit. Especially not after Mandus had warned them of the possibility.

His fingers are still pressed to her wrist. Are hers electric too, just like his? Perhaps after this is over they can chase each other around like they used to. They could be children again.

But no, they can’t do that. Because she’s dead. His little sister is dead, gone, never to wake up. She won’t ever laugh again, or smile at him, or yell at him for yet another prank. He won’t get to hear her scolding him, she won’t drag him to their next lesson, or crawl into his bed when he has a nightmare because she always knows. Never, ever again.

Someone is screaming. There’s something wet on his cheeks, and his eyes sting. He can feel a firm hand on his shoulder, shaking him. He just wants whoever it is to go away. He wants everything to go away, everything except Adalia. Except this isn’t Adalia, this deathly still woman who had to grow up far too quickly in far too cruel of a world. His throat hurts now, and he wants that to go away too.

He gets his wish in the form of a sudden blackness. He feels like he’s falling. Then the world bursts into white. Colours fly past him in streaks of stark vibrancy against an ever-changing backdrop. White, then black, then white and black again. He’s falling, falling, falling forever with nothing to stop him. Down, then up, then sideways. He hopes when he lands, all of this will end. He’s been falling long enough that he should get his wish.

His back hits something hard. He’s very much alive, staring up at a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. He can hear a breeze and birds chirping. He knows what this is, and he doesn’t want to do it again. Can’t keep watching his little sister die.

The sound of his companion getting up spurs him into movement. He struggles to his feet, listening as Mandus rants and raves about the fruit, how they’d said it would be poisoned. He just wants to lie back down and not get up. But he can’t, because then Adalia would die for sure. So instead he trudges over the dirt path towards a castle whose walls he’s begun to despise. A home he no longer wishes to return to.

His hands are still shaking.

[underfiends]

He sure made some.....interesting choices. Of his own volition too!

To be fair though, his night vision did get fixed

Misc d&d doodles from back when my character decided to allow himself to be experimented on and gained retractable claws, small fangs, the necessity of eating raw meat and drinking blood once a day, insane base speed bump, and even better dexterity, oh and periodic short term memory loss. All unplanned for side effects by the way he was under the impression the evil scientist was just going to fix his lack of night vision from being resurrected a while ago. He…doesn’t think things through.

[albertweskerxchrisredfield]

Jose, to Adalia when she still doesn’t realize that he’s flirting with her…

@queeniebitch @piers-wifey @mirandawesker