#OC: Nimileth

[dirty-bosmer]

Pluck but one thread and the whole web unravels.

Poor dumb baby joined a cult

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lghajrkghlkahg LMAO IT'S SO PERFECT

I used to be a human then i was godlike and perfect for a while and then I got tired and now im an beast. you know how it is

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The Illusionist: To New Beginnings and Old Conclusions by SeydaNeen / @dirty-bosmer

fandom || Oblivion rating || T categories || f/m, gen pairings || Raminus Polus/f!OC genre || coming of age, adventure, romance characters of note || Raminus Polus, Fathis Aren, The Gray Fox, Methredhel status || 18/18, 107k

Following the death of the Emperor, Nimileth escapes prison and with it, the shadows darkening her past. But she's a skilled illusionist, a thief, a swindler, and old habits it would seem are hard to kick.

"I needed this during quarantine, and there's a part 2 (!!!)" -- Goo

"GOOD LORD THIS HURTED ME IN THE MEOW MEOW ; A;" -- memai

"Nim is immediately a compelling character right off the bat. She wants to do good, to be good, but she struggles with anger and darker impulses, and this being the prologue makes me immediately want to read on and see how she's faring in the future." -- FourCatProductions

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The Hero of Kvatch, Nimileth, on her way to ruin someone’s day

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Wip Wednesday

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my smut got infected by a character study so upcoming chapter ft. Lucien reminiscing on life as Speaker and becoming better acquainted with his new Silencer, which will cause problems for no one, never. Also brief Arquen ref because I love and miss her <3

The remainder of the week brings more of the same. They eat together, work together, spar together. Idle hours spent in front of the fire, reading by themselves, alone but together. Lucien allows some sense of normalcy to find him amidst the working hours, taking comfort in the quiet rhythm, the predictability it supplies. In the months he’s been away, Fort Farragut has barely changed. The same faded wool tapestries drape along the walls, earthy scent of stone and beeswax greeting him every time he enters. In the evenings, his Silencer hangs in his periphery like a painting, and when he softens his gaze, she’s a faceless blur before the fire— could be anyone. It’s not so unlike the life he had as Speaker. Calmer. Familiar. The life he had before her.  If only his duties as Listener didn’t chain him to Bravil... Lucien permits himself a thought so irreverent it borders on sacrilege, and though he scolds himself, swiftly sweeps it from his mind, he can’t stave off the plunging dread that fills him at the mere thought of returning home. They spend the late morning preparing the last batch of paralytics to bring to the Cheydinhal sanctuary. Speaker Arquen had offered to come to him, but Lucien can’t stand the thinly-veiled contempt in her eyes every time she visits Fort Farragut. No better than a managed skeever, she'll says with shake of her head and smirk too cold to be teasing, because Arquen hates this place even more than she hates his ramshackle house in Bravil, and it’s an impressive feat, all things considered. Lucien hates Bravil too. Ashamed to admit it, he wishes he liked Arquen more or that she liked him more; he’s unsure which. All he knows for certain is that she is the closest thing to family he has left. Ever since his ascent to Listener, he’s developed a begrudging reliance on her, just the two of them rebuilding the Dark Brotherhood from the ruins of Bellamont’s treachery, and despite the months spent toiling at each other’s side, he’s still not sure she trusts him fully. He’s not sure he trusts her either, but she’s all he has, and for now it’s enough to take comfort in the frigid kinship they've recognized in one another’s merciless sensibilities.

Art wip update

I decided to go full baby and draw Nim as a wee child, so here is a school portrait of her from her days in a daedric cult :)

[dirty-bosmer]

Oh my gaaaahd the detail on this piece is incredible!! And she looks so adorable in your style, I can't stop staring. Thank you so much, my friend 💕😭💕 I am so touched and it's more beautiful than I could have ever imagined.

@dirty-bosmer’s darling Nimileth at the height of her Arcane University career. :3

Lines under the cut~

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“You are a true daughter of Sithis. Everything you touch dies."

His Silencer just killed the entirety of the Black Hand and he doesn't know whether to be mad or 🥵 about it

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creepy lil Nim sketch today. Was fretting over the fact that she looks like an actual baby here then remembered she is only 20 and all the undergrads I taught looked like babies to me too so whatever lol

Not sure where I'm going with this piece yet. Want to add a floral border and will probably cover her in blood cause what's new :)

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Sujamma Sundas

Topic: This week, Sujamma wants to know about YOUR OC's special someone. What makes their relationship special? How did they meet? Were they enemies to lovers? Lovers to enemies? Lovers AND Enemies? Are they romantic or platonic? What's their favorite way to cuddle? Favorite date night? Anything and everything you can think of 💕

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I will share a bit about my dumpster fire pairing, Lucien Lachance and my HoK— his ex-Silencer Nimileth. They are enemies but underneath that they are lovers then underneath that they are enemies again.

They met in the way many Dark Brotherhood assassins seem to meet Lucien, which is to say unpleasantly and with much annoyance. She had just killed Countess Alessia Caro in what she would claim was a bout of justified vengeance and righteous fury and NOT at all uncontrollable blood lust and/or an act of butchery. Never :) Lucien, after learning the grisly details, was like "ooh 😍" But after his many horrific attempts to woo her were met with disinterest that bordered on disgust and inevitably disdain, he was like "ugh, well now I must gain her favor because the Black Hand ordered a purification, and I have no one else to appoint to Silencer. Also my ego is bruised. Woe is me!" Then they smashed and it was of course very sexy and nasty, and afterwards, it over for them. Fate sealed.

They have a very messy, very toxic relationship given the power-imbalance, Lucien's sadism, and Nim's inclination to like things that are bad for her. Their favorite way to cuddle is in a pool of each other's blood, entangled in such a way that it could be easily mistaken for strangulation or erotic asphyxiation depending on the angle <3

I am always so embarrassed when I talk about them. Like omg just kill and eat each other already!!!

Them in a hell of their own making or something

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Aakijdvfkw crying for days on end 😭😭She’s so beautiful, and I am still so flabbergasted you asked to draw her!! I love seeing her rendered in your style. Thank you so much my heart is so full, it hurts ❤️❤️

@dirty-bosmer's turn! This is their OC Nimileth. I like the one without the wrap, she likes the one with, so I'm sharing both versions. 09-04-2023

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Disaster Ship!!

I've always wanted to do this one. Passing it along to @theoneandonlysemla @justafoxhound @skyrim-forever @unironicallytes @chennnington @thequeenofthewinter @lady-iizsil @elavoria and any mutuals with a ship that might fit the theme (tag me cause disaster ships are my fave) <3

Sorry for terrible hand-writing: Nim, my HoK, and her Speaker

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@skyrim-forever the dumb Lucien Lachance/Silencer modern AU from the ask

Inspired by these:

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I took advantage of the fact it's Nim <3 and got a lil artsy with everyone's favourite bosmer faildaughter Mad God. This is what Vogue would sell if they slayed, this is what women really want :P I hope you like her <3

DUDE WHAT THIS IS SICK AS HELL!!

I've read it over and over again, and honestly I don't think I could come up with better cover art for my fic because "Tired of guilt? regress further into a pit of your own undoing" and "We discuss the decay and rebirth involved in losing oneself" captures exactly what I was hoping for with the conclusion of that story jehkglahgjkl I feel so seen 😭

This is genuinely so sweet and touching hahah I'm getitng misty eyes over a vogue cover meme <3<3<3

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Chipping away at chapter 2 of post-applewatch Lucien/Nim smutchaos. He's slowly discovering that his girlfriend is the Daedric Prince of Madness and he's uh... not happy about it :)

Mountain air and forest musk. Sharp sting of pine on wind-chafed skin. Past the battlements of Fort Farragut, the sunlight grasps at all it can touch, scours the world until it’s clean, gilded and glimmering. Lucien has seen enough of Tamriel to know that this is as close to paradise as he’ll ever be again, so he breathes it deep, permitting himself only a moment of idle fantasy, where alone, he dreams of the life that he’s since left behind. One with the security afforded by the familiar title of Speaker, one where he still knew with certainty what Sithis wanted of him. One where he didn’t question the power he’d rightfully earned. The life before he met her.  But now? Now as Listener, bearing the highest honor that can be bestowed, he’s become frayed, unfinished, a stranger to himself. Now when the Brotherhood needs him the most, doubt rots him at the root, hollows him out in the xylem. And it sickens him, revolts him, and he knows this isn’t him, knows in his bones that this weakness comes from powers beyond comprehension. Strange magic she's infected him with— she's changed. She changes him, for he has never been this man, and it’s her fault. Hers. The sin no prayer will deliver. The poison he’d have to let himself bloodless to relieve. Him and his Silencer who's no longer his Silencer, growing together like lichen, alike in that desire makes them even more frightening. How they want so completely. How their love consumes all. Even here, hundreds of miles from their home in Bravil, he can’t escape it. Trapped in the whirl of it, he watches himself orbit about her as if hovering a foot above his head. Lucien's fists strain against the railing, because he is the Listener; he is not this man. Duty comes before all and if she threatens it, she'll reap the consequence, and yet he knows, in his bones, that he'll return to her out of instinct, some animal inclination, by some foreign presence inside him. Inhuman and shapeless, unable to vanquish the final act of longing, he opens his heart to her like a fresh wound. Like something torn apart. 

It's them.

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Tagged by @arnaerr to share some fun facts about a tes OC. It was really nice to revisit my disaster baby, thank you :) Especially considering I had no wip to share today...

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This is Nimileth, my Hero of Kvatch | Sheogorath

Terribly afflicted by foot-in-mouth syndrome

Fled life as an orphan in Kvatch only to stumble into a Daedric cult. Learned a lot about alchemy and illusion magic while in said cult so it wasn't all bad, sacrifices aside :)

Brewed skooma for the Renrijra Krin in her youth (she has a very strong work ethic, really).

Not keen on authority figures

Stumbled into yet another cult after she just kinda tripped on her bow and shot a countess in the neck and maybe dismembered her a little?? Such bad luck phew 🤷‍♀️

Big fan of red wine and also white wine and also the rubbing alcohol you stick eyeballs in for science

Instead of delivering the Amulet of Kings to Jauffre, she stashed it under Methredhel's floor boards and forgot to do the main quest for two years. This was a time of great self-growth and even greater self-destruction.

First in her family to go to college and also first to be kicked out 🤪

Will break into your house and rearrange the pantry.

Not a big fan of whiskey

Following her apotheosis, she may or may not have eaten Lucien's soul, I mean stolen his heart <3

Loves a juicy pear on a summer eve

Moodboard very kindly made for me by @skyrim-forever <3

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wip I'm late

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They are about to kill each other or kiss with mouths full of blood.

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