#Anduin Wrynn my blorbo

[rain-harmonia]

I’ve developed a new vocal stim

It’s just Anduin’s name

Work has been AWFUL so far today and I fled to my car on my dinner break so I wouldn’t have a meltdown in front of customers and now I’m hiding in my car in the parking lot on a call with my brother just muttering “Anduin” over and over and listening to his commentary as he plays WoW and also occasionally repeats Anduin’s name to me

Echolalia (think that’s the term) nice. Brother nice. Anduin Wrynn nice.

[helenrira]

I hope he gets to see his horse again in TWW 🥺

[dragonace1555]

[first-and-last-neocount]

@straysinfiltrator thanks for the tag Kaley! :D

10 blorbos/fandoms/tags in no particular order other than that Gerald gets first place billing as always:

Gerald Tarrant - the Coldfire Trilogy

Damien Vryce - the Coldfire Trilogy

Anomander Rake - the Malazan Book of the Fallen

Jake Chambers - the Dark Tower

Anders - Dragon Age 2

Raistlin Majere - DragonLance

Andry - the Dragon Prince trilogy by Melanie Rawn

Vanyel Ashkevron - Heralds of Valdemar

Lestat - the Vampire Chronicles

Anduin Wrynn - World of Warcraft

11th place honourable mention - Astarion Ancunin from Baldur's Gate 3, I haven't gotten to play the game yet myself and he's too new to quite make my Greatest Hits list yet but I can tell I'm going to be extremely unwell about him for a long time to come so he gets a shout-out anyway. XD

I was trying to limit myself to one blorbo per fandom but Gerald and Damien both really deserve to be on this list so I allowed myself that one, lol. Surface-level trends are that sorcerers, healers, and blonds are all heavily represented on this list - bonus points to Anders and Anduin for being all three at the same time - but I would say the real themes here are survival through hostile circumstances, healing and moving past severe trauma, and self-made identity. Most of these characters are in a complicated place on the scale of good vs evil, antiheroes or good people with terrible deeds to their names, but they are all characters who have rejected the world's demands and chosen to become their own people.*

*very little of Anduin's development post-legion is canon to me and the attempts of the writers to force him into the Varian 2.0 mold will not be taken into consideration in the construction of this list

Like Kaley's list there is also definitely a common theme in appearance here. Most of these are very powerful men who prioritize their intellect over their physical strength, and several of them are directly stated to be quite lightly built, along with being notably beautiful or even effeminate in their looks. As a young person who hadn't quite found their own identity yet, I felt a strong kinship with these characters, and now that I've come to know myself better and grown into my identity as a transmasc that sense of kinship has shifted a little in understanding but only gotten stronger in a lot of ways.

I see Kaley already tagged Potato, so I'll tag @notwithstandingclause (no pressure of course!) and anyone else who wants to join in the fun. :D

[sergeant-angua]

warcraft for the blorbo meme (sent by someone who is definitely not you)

wow thank you mysterious stranger

blorbo: ANDUIN LLANE WRYNN, he is my SON, i LOVE HIM scrunkly: sika!! there's probably multiple characters i could put here but she is the Most Shaped scrimblo bimblo: i don't think ve'nari is underappreciated but there's hardly any fic with her on ao3 so that counts, i think. OH and moira!! OH and tess and lorna!! glup shitto: asric & jadaar, they are not exactly obscure but they are very much background lads. i screamed a little when i saw them in icecrown during the pre-expansion event poor little meow meow: oh god it's probably wrathion...i love him so dearly but man oh man has this boy made some MISTAKES. OH SYLVANAS TOO, she’s got some poor little meow meow energy. i’m so sorry about your writing, queen horse plinko: honestly so many...let's say zul and rastakhan lmfao, torment them TOGETHER eeby deeby: the jailer. go back to superhell shitlord

[helenrira]

I've been waiting to get my hands on him since he's been announced

Look at my boy 🥹

[helenrira]

Universe swap nyeh >:)

[helenrira]

Very self indulgent piece of art but oh well- Happy Halloween! 💜

[dragonace1555]

I need a release d for TWW I miss Anduin :(

[helenrira]

Oh hey, let me share my thoughts for two secs about Anduin's new appearance

*taps mic to make sure you'll hear me well*

I HATE IT

And I had a long and good night of sleep, I simply cannot digest this information. I knew there would be a beard after so much time not seeing him had passed, but for fuck's sake this haircut... His facial traits are hardly recognizable, I knew it was him only from the sword and the voice...

Anyways, here's how I would have done the breakdown haircut (doodle I did last night)

+ An alternative after seeing this post

[helenrira]

Last Pride hcs doodle post!

Demi and Pansexual Anduin! 💛

[dragonace1555]

Do you think that if we offered Anduin some of his favorite food’s he’ll come back? Let’s go and offer him a big plate of dumplings and see if he will come back.

[dragonace1555]

If Anduin comes back in DragonFlight I’ll do a happy dance and cry if not.

[helenrira]

Hello hello here’s some art of one of my blorbos

[dragonace1555]

In all honesty I didn’t think it would happen and or work.