#DoL: Other's stories

[dollya-robinprotector]

Once upon a time... Reference: Hylas and The Nymphs by John William Waterhouse

[yet-another-haven-of-dollya]

Today is an "Answer without drawing" day, instead I use my barely coherent English to spread some more Lya/Lyah lore into the crowd.

And I'm doing it with great joy. Good job me.

[fyepertine]

Something to Cry About, Part 2

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Part 1

[unmerrymagdalene]

I’m trying to draw Sirris and Sydney today and (this is personal preference btw) I think I prefer design wise if they look distinctly different.

Only because it affirms “Sydney got his hair color from their late parent and is following in their footsteps and Sirris has to get reminded of their late partner constantly-”

[likesunsetorange]

— 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐬

[cotton-candy-jester]

Help, that’s too cute! Sirris saying that anybody would be fortunate to have Sydney as a partner. When Sirris knows that Sydney knows it’s a crush, Sirris becomes more playful about it. “Give ‘em the old family charm. If I could get your other parent, a member of the temple”. Sydney cuts them off.

HELP THAT'S ADORABLE 😭

Sirris just gets more excited when Sydney lets them know things went well. They make sure Sydney knows they can ask any questions they have about dating and what PC might like as a gift. Sirris is practically glowing when/if they see Syd's promise ring 🥺🥺

[rohirric-hunter]

I know the actual reason behind the random Bree brigand encounter in The Battle in the Tower is probably just that the devs needed something that would stand out for the encounter boss and realized they hadn't used their Bree-land brigand model in a while and that the whole thing had better be left untouched and considered non-canon... but given the things I've already established about Hathellang and his relationship to various Bree-adjacent brigand gangs and the fact that he does Dol Guldur in the Wind Will Set Me Racing 'Verse I feel like I have to do something with it

[degrees-of-lili]

Y'know if PC wasn't an orphan; it'd make Bailey's story less weird. They could have been someone from another [country] who came to DoLland to go to university (to keep the school aspect), maybe you needed a visa and couldn't get one so you go to Bailey but now Bailey expects you to work for them or they'll ship you off (but not back home obvs.). Except Bailey's "work" is running around town fucking, stealing, and maybe working a semi-normal job. Like some aspects are questionable like Whitney, but Whitney is a parody of an actual bully. Like, the shit Whitney does (and to the level they do it) isn't something that'd anyone would reasonably get away with. Also, how the school works from a gameplay point of view because college you usually pick and choose your classes are.

[coldshrugs]

make your own WoL reference sheet!

hi there! this was a quick project inspired by @mages-ballad's gorgeous reference sheet, and i hope it'll be useful to others.

what it is:

A public template made with canva, made to be accessible and easy to use. knowledge of photo editing or art programs is not required.

Three core reference pages designed to be clean, comprehensive, and customizable - Page 1 - Main glam reference and key details - Page 2 - Face reference - Page 3 - Body type reference

Optional pages for each expansion - Space for a close-up (show off that hair journey) - Space for two glams - A place to talk about style choices - Favored Title during that part of the story

A library of XIV job icons, sized to fit the template. Doh/DoL included!

[get the template here] *you will need a free canva account to make a copy and edit it.*

[conundrumoftime]

One of the fun things about shipping Haladriel and about Galadriel's story in Rings of Power, for me, is that we know exactly where this is going to end up. And I wanted to babble for a bit about where that place is because I have seen so many people view it as "she is retired to some woods to be a passive wife-and-mother who can do magic but in a mystical New Age-y way", and: no! No.

So a quick overview of where she will end up by LOTR:

Very much not removed from the war against Sauron.

She is constantly mind-battling against Sauron: One of the lines that inspired McKay and Payne's whole show was her talking about this: "I say to you, Frodo, that even as I speak to you, I perceive the Dark Lord and know his mind, or all of his mind that concerns the Elves. And he gropes ever to see me and my thought." In one of the versions of the Annatar story in Unfinished Tales, Sauron immediately realises she will be his 'chief adversary', and has apparently not changed that assessment 3500 years later.

She co-ordinates joint efforts against Sauron: The White Council that Elrond talks about in LOTR, the combined force of Ring-bearers, wizards and elf-lords that first drives Sauron out of Dol Guldur - she's not just on that, she founded it.

She gets Gandalf back after Moria and the Balrog: Galadriel learns what's happened to Gandalf from the Fellowship when they arrive in Lothlórien. The the Fellowship are sad; the elves of Lothlórien mourn; Celeborn loses it a bit and says Gandalf 'fell into folly'; but Galadriel sends Gwaihir the eagle to get him, returns him to health, updates him on the situation with Boromir, gives him some messages to take to the others, and sends him back on his way.

She is possibly in Lothlórien because of its position of strategic importance: from Unfinished Tales here, she 'saw that Lórien would be a stronghold and point of power to prevent the Shadow from crossing the Anduin in the war that must inevitably come' and that's why she and Celeborn go there. (There are other versions as with almost everything else in Tolkien, but this is one of them.) She's not there to hide away from Events.

2. Calmer than in TROP, but not all-wise and all-sweet and still pretty scary.

She is still tempted by power and world domination: "I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired to ask what you offer [...] In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the morning and the night!"

And, she doesn't just turn down the One Ring because it's abstractly eeeevil. She turns it down because she knows what she, specifically, would do with it. Sam sees a vision of the Shire, and tells her "I wish you'd take his Ring. You'd put things to rights. You'd stop them digging up the Gaffer and turning him adrift. You'd make some folk pay for their dirty work," to which she says that yes, she would: "That is how it would begin. But it would not stop with that, alas! We will not speak more of it."

And saying she wants to rule the world here is not me joking about! This is Tolkien describing that moment in LOTR:

It was not until two long ages more had passed, when at last all that she had desired in her youth came to her hand, the Ring of Power and the dominion of Middle-earth of which she had dreamed, that her wisdom was full-grown and she rejected it

People are scared of her: The only scary moment we directly see is the Ring temptation, but she does other unsettling things. When she meets the Fellowship she tests them by reading their minds and offering something they really want to see if it would make them "turn aside from the road and leave the Quest and the war against Sauron to others." (She offers Sam a garden; the One Ring later on tempts him with the same thing.) Even the hobbits are a bit disturbed by this and Boromir, who's already said he doesn't want to go into Lothlórien because people who do that never leave again, absolutely does not trust her.

Éomer, a few chapters later:

'Then there is a Lady in the Golden Wood, as old tales tell!' he said. 'Few escape her nets, they say. These are strange days! But if you have her favour, then you are also net-weavers and sorcerers, maybe.'

She's scary! She's ancient and powerful and people are scared of her.

3. Married, but not in the character-limiting way the nerdbros want it to be and would have you believe it is.

I am not telling anyone they should ship Galadriel/Celeborn or even find it interesting just because I do, but, the angry nerdbros fancasting Celeborn as Henry Cavill and talking about how he'll come back to tame her and tidy her neatly out of the narrative are writing their own little AU headcanons because that is not what's in the text.

She's the more powerful one. Partly because she's one of the 'High Elves' - she's Noldor and has lived in Valinor seen the light of the Trees - which for various reasons about the way Tolkien's elves work just makes her more powerful, partly because she has a Ring of Power and Celeborn doesn't. It's her Mirror; she's the one reading people's minds; she's the one locked in endless mental battles with Sauron; she's the one the Rohirrim (whose lands border Lothlorien's) tell each other scary stories about. Celeborn at no point ever seems to have an issue with this, and calls her his 'treasure'.

They work together. Even in a big-action-sequences sense: after Sauron's defeat, Celeborn 'led the host of Lorien over Anduin in many boats' to Dol Guldur, where Galadriel 'threw down its walls and laid bare its pits'. But the rest of the time, too: she says of him that 'together through ages of the world we have fought the long defeat'.

You really get the sense that they have been married for a loooooong time. An actual sequence of events in LOTR, somewhat condensed:

The Fellowship reveal there's a Balrog in Moria;

Celeborn goes "!!!!", complains about dwarves waking it up and says he'd never have let Gimli into Lothlorien if he'd known that;

Galadriel smacks Celeborn down for being rude to their guest;

Celeborn apologises to Gimli;

Galadriel tells the Fellowship that Celeborn is accounted the wisest of elves;

Boromir says something about "old wives' tales";

Celeborn, whose wife is one of the oldest beings in Middle-earth, tells Boromir not to be so dismissive because "old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know";

Galadriel hands Celeborn a drink.

Whatever is going on here is clearly something that works for them, is what I'm saying! And you don't have to find their marriage interesting just because I do, of course; but what it's not is some trad fantasy of domestic subservient-wife anything.

So where her TROP story ends up is ultimately with LOTR Galadriel: powerful, important, tempted to rule the world, a bit calmer than in TROP, a bit happier than in TROP, co-ordinating big strategic efforts in the war, married to someone who's got her back and adores her and they fall out a bit sometimes but generally work pretty well together, and still having Sauron constantly trying to get into her head. I am fine with this! I am more than fine with this.

[dollya-robinprotector]

Once upon a time...

Ref: Fern fanart (Sousou no Fieren)

Inspiration and song: Star Sky (Two Steps from Hell)

Happy New Year 2024 DoL folks.

The clock just strived a new day of the new year in my country. A new beginning is upon us and I wish for this year to be gentle to all of my loved ones, including you. Thank you for staying, and please continue to kindly look after me, too.

Sincere.

Your Dollya.

[hakusins]

cw // blood, snakes, cigarettes

DOL x SCP AU

Been taking a trip down memory lane lately and the best way to do that is to make a DOL x SCP AU wkwkwkw, I've loved the SCP stories and lore for years now (since I was 14 or something), so it only made sense to make this AU! I mostly just chose SCPs I really like or I think are very fitting with the characters.

For the sake of this AU, we can just assume they're all under Bailey and located in the same Site. Will be making the other LI's and PC for this AU soon 🥺🥺!! I'm thinking of adding a few other non-LI NPCs as well into the story but it's taking me a while to draw them out.

[alorhna]

I’m sorry too ivory. You’re a weird ghostie. Who steals PCs pills.

That’s it guys. I must admit. I like the weird ghost. I’m weak I know-

DOL RAMBLES OF THE DAY

Man it’s been a while since I’ve done one of these lol-

Originally this guy was extremely creepy, like who randomly kidnaps a random person out the room.. RANDOMLY. Like unless you join the church and go through ivorys memories, you will most likely never know the full story of this ghost. So when my first Pc was really just one day abducted like that I was like”- aight- guess this is my life now-🫥”

But then after learning his lore, I must say as a writer myself I’m enthralled, I’m attached. OBESSED even.

Especially after the latest temple update. Ivory has so much potential not just as a possible future LI, but as a solitary character. They have presumably reasons to hate the PC so much that they’re willing to drag both of you down to the pits of despair.

But even if PC isn’t the one who screws them over ivory still becomes obsessed, because their obession with PC didn’t begin out of hatred, it was from love. From knowing PC in a past life, of loosing them to their enemies of the opposite faith. And finally FINALLY when they see their past lover again…

They’ve been born anew. But why? Ivory is a ghost damned to the lake, why does pc get to run around and fall in love all over again. and not with ivory?, no, no. PC has the freedom to love whomever they wish.

Because they’re Alive.

But that’s not fair, ivory and pc were bound “forever as one” they should have never been born anew!

And just for PC to even have the possibility of forming another “bond” with a member of their same faith? To have the nerve leave ivory and bind themselves to someone else!

Such a dirty, lying, retched,....lover.

I don’t believe ivory could ever truly hate the PC, because they never did. From the beginning ivory was always going to see the PC and become obsessed. Because originally PC was theirs. Solely theirs to love and defile. Their obession to the PC is only shadowed by their obession to their necklace.

Whether or not PC does anything. Ivory was always going to do something. That’s all there is to it.

((Which is a mentality a lot of the LIs internally have towards the PC. Some more obessively than others.))

All the PC can do is avoid them but that doesn’t last for long. Eventually they’ll be caught.

Because they are loved, deeply. And love is obsessive, chasing you beyond your grave, possessing each waking thought. And leaving nothing expect carnage in its wake.

[bitkahuna]

“I love you, Bilbo.”

“I love you too, Thorin.”

The rest of their picnic would be filled with cloud gazing, sharing stories of their childhoods, and gentle laughter. Both of them relished in the warmth of the day and each other's company. Each would remember that day as one of their happiest.

Bilbo's tattoos danced with life as he performed small feats of magic, creating patterns in the grass or making flowers bloom for Thorin's amusement. The acts were small. But each and every one made Thorin smile. Made him laugh. That was when a hand gripped Bilbo’s heart as he realized he was absolutely hopeless. He’d do anything for that smile.

“What’s wrong?” The king would ask as he noticed the unshed tears and pained smile.

“I didn’t know love felt like this. More than I ever imagined anything could feel like. And it’s just so much.” The hobbit shook his head. “Do you know I would do anything for you?”

“Bilbo, ye done so much. Killed for me.”

“I would live for you, too.”

Thorin was silent for a moment, his mouth agape before he closed it. “Ye already have. Died, and gave up your paradise to come back to me and to Erebor.” He shook his head. “You never had to leave your hobbit hole in the first place for a dwarf you didn’t even know, on a mission that would have been doomed if not for you.”

“I’d choose it again.” His lip trembled. He didn’t know why. “I think I would always have chosen you.”

Thorin’s fists clenched, biting back any tears that threatened to fall. “I love you.” Was all he could say. “I choose you.” Was all he had.

That moment between them in the restored forest of Erebor, a forest that hadn’t been whole since Thorin was a child, would be one of their last moments of peace until it was time to retake Dol Guldur.

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lmao they gay

[velvet4510]

Despite the conservative sides of his viewpoints that have been written about time and again, we really must give Tolkien some credit for the unique embrace of diversity that he does provide at the heart of LOTR.

Three times across history (four if the legend of the ancestors of Dol Amroth’s princes is true), a Man and an Elf fall in love and break the rules of Elven culture to be together.

Four Hobbits, two Men, an Elf, a Dwarf, and a Maia - a total of five different races - come together from completely different walks of life, form a Fellowship, and become a family. They each share pieces of their own culture with the others, and the others embrace those pieces.

When a Dwarf is treated with discrimination by Elves, the rest of the Fellowship stand up for him and insist on being treated the same way he is (i.e. blindfolded), and he and the Elf of the Fellowship break through the barriers of cultural prejudice and build an unbreakable friendship.

A Man sacrifices his life to save two Hobbits.

A Man, an Elf, and a Dwarf forsake all other possible tasks and run on foot for hundreds and hundreds of miles on a rescue mission for two Hobbits.

The teamwork of two Hobbits and a group of Ents overpower their mutual enemy and turn the tide of a war.

A Man provides two Hobbits with encouragement as well as extra supplies which end up helping them survive the rest of their journey.

A Hobbit finds a father figure in an elderly Man.

The teamwork of a Woman and a Hobbit brings about the death of an evil it was said could never be killed.

The teamwork of a Maia and a Hobbit save a Man’s life.

An Elf and a Dwarf do not hesitate to follow a Man down a dark and dangerous pathway.

The combined forces of Men, an Elf, a Dwarf, and a Hobbit take on a hopeless battle merely to buy time for two other Hobbits to complete their mission.

A Man bows to two Hobbits at his own coronation.

A lost kingdom is restored by a dynasty begun by a Man/Elf couple.

A Maia offers a special gift to two wounded Hobbits and personally escorts them to a place where they will finally find peace.

Two Hobbits, eventually followed by a third, leave their homeland behind and build a new, beautiful life among Elven culture, into which they are accepted with open arms.

An Elf resists the “irresistible” call of the Sea to stand by his mortal friend, a Man, for as long as his friend lives.

A Hobbit names his son after a Man whom he has befriended.

A young Hobbit girl is honored by an Elf queen and later names her children after honorable figures of Elven history.

Two elderly Hobbits are warmly welcomed into a city of Men to live out their last years, and the ruler of these Men requests to be buried beside them.

The Elf/Dwarf odd-couple duo break the rules one last time and sail off together to a place where Dwarves are usually not allowed to be … a place where they can reunite with their other surviving friends, two Hobbits and a Maia.

Middle-Earth is a melting pot of love and acceptance across cultures and races. Tolkien may not have covered all the bases in his exploration of diversity, but by golly, did he cover a lot of them. He wrote a story in which people of completely different backgrounds form unbreakable bonds that change the fate of the world for the better.

[yanaleese]

I love Eunsung! I just love pretty and seemingly or genuinely sweet people! I hope he gets some more fans soon. I just wanna give him a hug!

But most importantly, I do have a question.

What dark/yandere tendencies does Eunsung have? How bad can it get in the right (or wrong) circumstances?

(✨️🐇 Anon)

OH RABBIT ANON HOW I'VE LONGED TO SEE U AGAIN 😭😭😭😭

Me too! He's so sweet that if he vomits, he would vomit candy and rainbows ^^

Ok so based on this chart here, Eunsung falls under the Posessive type - specifically the Deprived: Clingy type. He will not stop clinging on to you, and if you leave him - he will be so unstable and won't be able to continue his career. But that doesn't mean he won't try and find you.

So the current story I have in mind is that the cult is trying to bring Soregujitsah (Eunsung's mom) to Earth to kill off unworthy souls, and to recreate Earth in her own image with her followers surviving the process. Originally, this plan almost worked successfully when Eunsung was born. However Eunsung's father, Pygulamon (PIE-GUHL-LAH-MON), split Eunsung's power into two - making the ritual incomplete.

Enraged, Soregujitsah decided to find Eunsung's father, but could not find him. But knowing how much Pygulamon loved his childen, she took out her hatred and disdain on Eunsung. Eunsung could not even go against his mother since his power was split.

The cult, fearing her hatred, swore that they will do everything in their power to bring Soregujitsah back to earth. But to do so, they needed to find the other half of Eunsung's power.

And that power, was unfortunately in you.

And so, with this power, you are able to develop and change his personality - regardless what type of MC you are. Your actions and decisions are extremely important, and will determine whether you two will live peacefully, or die as offerings to Soregujitsah.

It can also change the type of yandere Eunsung can be:

Imo, Eunsung is quite similar to Milo in @perfectlovevn (amazing vn!!! Love the MC); Eunsung can have multiple routes in how he wants you.

This is just a little overview of how various Eunsung can be. It's not everything, but hopefully this can give you an idea:

Deification vs Actual Deification:

Deification - Eunsung worships you like you're his god (ironically). Actual Deification - You become an actual god/goddess, while Eunsung fully embraces his god form.

In terms of the asterisks:

*Delusional - This one is a rabbit hole. You can enable him into taking drugs, making him lose sleep, etc. You can possibly encourage him to think beyond his capabilities (which he can cause he's a seahorse-siren deity). This can send him to an early actual deification, corruption route.

*White Knight Syndrome - Eunsung, realizing that you can't always be together, will do anything it takes to protect your "delicate" existence. This will put him back on the original route, but due to being corrupted by your advice, the ending will change. Can also lead to actual deification.

Explanation on Perseverance:

Perseverance is a meter that shows how determined he is in keeping the two of you together. This can appear in the Posessive and Obsessive Routes, but having a low and mid meter just causes bad endings (lol).

also guys even tho i put this in visual novel language (or DOL langauge?), it's not an actual game. it's just my way of explaining things to you all

hope this helps, Rabbit Anon! ✨️ ✨️ ✨️ ✨️ ✨️ ✨️