#Valoop

[dalennaugw]

Went to a CC hangout a while back where we got to chill and swap doodles. Bit like the art parties, but for guildmates who hadn't been able to make those.

I held onto these for a while so I could draw some more from the references I'd gotten... but my brain. Meh.

So here's what I did get.

A gathering of barkfaces to talk shit swap notes about fashion and socializing.

Winter gives no fucks actually. Valyrion is definitely learning something from this.

Commander Valoop has seen far too much and not been able to bite nearly enough people to compensate.

You might be looking like a chew toy right about now. You should probably step back a bit.

Valyrion and Valoop are from @dasozelotvonnebenan and Winterlayt is from @ruderubicante.

[dasozelotvonnebenan]

Bunny's self reblog reminded me of the single best character moment I ever came up with for Valoop. That is so very indicative of turning point PoF represents for her.

The first ever moment we're she refers to herself in first person is when Balthasar says his iconic I am fire, I am war, what are you. She says "I'm still standing". Not Quaggan is, or Valoop is. I.

The Departing had made one big change in her. It had washed away her sadness, and only anger remained.

[i-mybrunettelady]

TUMBLY SQUAD REPRESENT

thalys @commanderthalys fedsy @vampiresi maelgwynn @creativebrainrot logan thackeray @guildwarsgirl mordrem rose @mordremrose uda @jaded-cactus zadina silversmoke (didn't get user) egg nightclaw (didn't get user) thalys @commanderthalys fedsy @vampiresi maelgwynn @creativebrainrot logan thackeray @guildwarsgirl mordrem rose @mordremrose uda @jaded-cactus zadina silversmoke (didn't get user) egg nightclaw (didn't get user) ezekiel deamonne (didn't get user)

Happy Tyria Pride everyone! I had to leave early because timezones, but here are some photos from the march <3 I ran with my bestie @uselessidiotsquad and our guild, but managed to get a little photo of some members of our tumbly squad (you've all been befriended btw :) )

i also saw @dasozelotvonnebenan and beloved valoop <3

Ruby and I, alongside our guild mates and some randos, worshipping/eating the O R B. morbin the orb even

Happy Pride, I had an amazing walk with y'all <3

[dasozelotvonnebenan]

Valoop planted it and a tree grew out of it

To clarify: by unique relationship I mean did something other than reforge it (left it behind, used it broken as is, gave it to a companion to carry instead, Trahearne never died so he still has it, etc).

[moonlit-grove]

Zhaleh and Valoop have come looking for knees to monch

Valoop belongs to @dasozelotvonnebenan

[kerra-and-company]

obviously got to throw Valoop at someone so commander pair it is

xD I am happy to have Valoop tossed at me! Commander pair it is, indeed :D

Kerra & Valoop

I like you // I love you // You’re one of my best friends // You’re like family // You are family // I dislike you // I hate you // I’d kill you if I got the chance // I want you to like me // I’m scared of you // I would adopt you // I’d date you // I’d sleep with you // I’d marry you // I’m worried about you // You confuse me // You’re annoying // I pity you // I respect you // I trust you // I feel protective of you // I’d invite you with me to parties // I’d lend you my money // I’d borrow your money // You’re good-looking // I’m suspicious of you // I’m hiding something from you // You’re fun // You’re boring // I’m upset with you // You’re nice // You’re mean // I’m envious of you // You’re smart // You’re stupid // I look up to you // I think you’re a better person than me // I think I’m a better person than you // I want to apologize to you // I wish I’d never met you // I never want to forget you // I want to get to know you better

Kerra would most definitely respect and like Valoop, and for her in particular, you get Kerra's dual protective and looking-up-to-someone emotions. Valoop's older than she is, and more experienced in a lot of ways, but Kerra would also very much want to help make sure she was safe (being commander is rough, and she knows it). Commander family in different universes :)

[commander-coppercogg]

A Mist portal opens up in front of Bertie, ejecting an armed and eager Quaggan. She quickly introduces herself as Commander Valoop, visiting as part of an Interdimensional Commander Exchange Program! What does Bertie show his guest that he thinks would impress a fellow commander, what do they talk about, and whose kneecap priviliges do they revoke together?

Ah a friend has come to visit! Welcome friend!

Bertie would be a bit confused but very excited to meet Valoop and would give her a proper quaggan greeting. He spent a lot of time with Shashoo and Baroosh after Falooaloo fell and picked up a fair amount of the quaggan dialect. So he’d love the chance to get to use that again. In terms of impressing her, I think Bertie would show her the fact that he can do the quaggan rage thing. He normally doesn’t do it on purpose in front of other people, but if anyone would understand it, I think it would be Valoop. They talk a bit about the Pact and how hard it is being the commander sometimes but focus more on who and what they’re fighting for. Bertie would be so excited to tell someone about his new relationship with Syrryl and would want to hear about the good and happy things in Valoop’s life too. Also I can imagine they complaining about all of the other races being so damn tall and how annoying it is when all the furniture in a place is human or norn sized. Small races unite! And Bertie’s really been wanting to revoke the Arcane Council’s collective kneecaps recently but that would cause a diplomatic incident so I think they go Icebrood hunting instead.

[dasozelotvonnebenan]

OK mixed answers for multiple commanders obviously

Valoop was never close to Zojja. After Heart of Thorns she was the one other's had to try hard to get in contact with and by the time she got around to talking to her friends again Zojja had long disappeared

Ruck and Aluen equally were not close to Zojja, and knowing that others were, expected those to look after her.

Yorg was friends with her, and tried to visit as much as she could, but Zojja was more and more actively ignoring and avoiding him.

Fenquin did not visit her while she was in recovery, and only started looking for her when she disappeared. He knows she joined some mysterious group and knows of several appearances throughout the years.

Posh was very close to her ever since she helped them win the Snaff Prize. They had been to the crucible of eternity together. Posh and Zojja had built a bunch of stuff for the pact together, including the MegaLIT Cannon. They regularly visited her during recovery and involved her in their research projects. That did not stop Zojja from eventually disappearing though. Posh tried to find them, but had to break off the unsuccessful search when Krakattorrik started threatening to tear the universe apart

Fuck Canon

[dasozelotvonnebenan]

⚔ for valoop?

Due to the limited regeneration that comes with the shapeshifting ability of quaggan and having some of the best healers around her thanks to being the commander Valoop has no scars. Her childhood scars slowly faded as she learned to use her rage. When she used the energy stored in the eater of souls to spontaneously generate a new body at the end of the departing she actually ended up more scarred because it brought back a bunch of old scars she remembered having that had long vanished. But by now she is, as Braham puts it, "unreasonably smooth" again.

[i-mybrunettelady]

A Mist portal opens up in front of Alysannyra, ejecting an armed and eager Quaggan. She quickly introduces herself as Commander Valoop, visiting as part of an Interdimensional Commander Exchange Program! What does Nyra show her guest that she thinks would impress a fellow commander, what do they talk about, and whose kneecap priviliges do they revoke together?

Commander exchange program, lovely!! Nyra would absolutely be astounded and impressed by Valoop. They'd exchange war stories, anecdotes, and Valoop would very much rank high in Nyra's really really respectable people list (alongside people like Forgal, for example.)

First order of business: meet Trahearne. Granted, a slightly worse for wear Trahearne without an eye and some leg scars from the blighting pod, but still a very living Trahearne. She'd show her around Divinity's Reach, take her to her fave krytan cake shop (which she is partial to) and in the interest of inter-dimensional alternate realities, ask her about her time as Commander. She'd take her to Orr, to Eye of the North to see Aurene, all the crucial Commander places.

As to whose kneecaps are getting crushed, Bangar's, Smodur's, anyone who does harm, basically. They'd be a killer duo, and rest assured Valoop's getting a lot of hugs (if she wants them of course). Nyra would feel a little weird at first because "Commander?? Like me??" but it would quickly dissipate and Valoop would get a good friend!!

Can they actually meet because wholesome wholesome wholesome

[starseers-garden]

Woops leftover pride pics time

Last year’s look versus this year’s! A thousand thanks to @dalennaugw for helping me make him look sharp in green; couldn’t have done it without you. I almost didn’t want to change it back!

Also, this is one of my favorite pictures from pride this year. Quaggan friend is Valoop, one of my guildmates (@dasozelotvonnebenan). Coo, quaggan likes you!

[dasozelotvonnebenan]

Frigg is my oldest character. Created on the 8th of January 2014 as Frigg der Pirscher and still carrying that name, he has for closing in on 10 years been my go to character for exploration, story and any time I needed to be sure I was going to survive something (please never nerf ranger downstate skill 3).

The character as you know him as now exists since roughly 2017 when I used him as a quest giver for a guild rp plot. He has had a few little changes, but mostly he just gained more detail -and a wife- with time.

As a character he is a scientist researching the various ways magic contamination affects the living enviroment. He prefers to study animals, but he does know what a plant is (though I guess that distinction doesn't work as well in guild wars). He likes spending time outdoors, and his outfits reflect that. He could run around in more typical asuran fashion, but he likes to think of himself as a rugged adventurer, and so the look must match. On his travels he also pursues his hobby, cryptozoology, which quite often intertwines with his field of study anyways. He also likes to buy souvenirs for his wife who is a surface-historian (as opposed to those whose study of history dwells mostly on asura and thus mostly underground.)

A big part of his character are the pets he brings home. Mostly small things like insects (though I guess this comparison ALSO doesn't work in guild wars what with the meter long grubs and all) or miniaturised basilisks. Some he keeps only to treat them and then releases them back into nature, but often cases require long term care, or warrant long observations, and he tends to grow attached to those. Most notably among them are Professor Knibbles PhD. and Felix.

Professor Knibbles the Juvenile Whiptail Devourer has been his pet ingame for as long as I remember, but the second spot has changed a few times over the years, in some old screenshots it's a snow wolf, and then since HoT it had been a bristleback for a long time, until settling on Felix the Snow Owl sometime during Season 4. Ingame the pets are named Artilleriespinne (Artillery Spider) and Schneule (Snowl).

Nowadays he runs Dagger/Axe and Shortbow on a tanky condi build, but his classical build was a longbow/shortbow hybrid. It was the very first build where didn't just click random traits and actually looked at what things did :D. That era ended with Lake Doric where I finally had enough of those projectile reflecting White Mantle Clerics. The weapons are what he carries around in rp context as well.

Also, enjoy his only ever alternate outfits:

The newest of the bunch, at last as far as ingame characters are concerned, is Commander Aluen. She was created alongside my four other co-mmanders because I wanted characters to go through all the early chapters of personal story, as my longer existing Commander Valoop only appears on stage in the fifth chapter.

I decided to set her down the Priory path as well, mostly since I already had two co-mmanders headed for the Vigil and one for Whispers, and since I personally like Whispers less than Priory her path was set before I even really decided who she was as a person.

I had very early on decided that she would don Bercilak's magic armor and I wanted her weapon choice to mimic Diarmid in Verdant Brink and Dragon's Stand, so I made her a warrior. Ironically my least favourite class, and breaking my inteded plan for what classes I would make characters off next.

I don't play her super often, partially because I foolishly made up a story that resulated in her being transformed into a Vinetooth during HoT, something that obviously is hard to show ingame.

hey gw2blr reblog this with your oldest 👴 & newest 🌱 toons i’d like to see em!

[moonlit-grove]

A Mist portal opens up in front of Zhaleh, ejecting an armed and eager Quaggan. She quickly introduces herself as Commander Valoop, visiting as part of an Interdimensional Commander Exchange Program! What does Zhaleh show her guest that she thinks would impress a fellow commander, what do they talk about, and whose kneecap priviliges do they revoke together?

"i am not valoop, i am foreign exchange commander"

First thing's first, Zhaleh is extremely surprised! An armed quaggan! She never thought she'd see the day! But she must show... what's the word... hospitality. She makes what sounds like a laugh and offers the quaggan to follow her. Or be carried if that would be easier? She does not know if being carried is taboo for quaggans, she is sorry if she offends.

I imagine they would talk about the differences between fights. How Mordremoth was brought down by Trahearne vs Caithe, for example. Probably a bit about their pasts, given that they're both uncommon races to be seen as they are (Valoop being ready to fight and Zhaleh being seen at all) and both from the Shiverpeaks. Depending on how long Valoop is there, she might even get to know what Zhaleh did to get exiled :Oc

She will definitely show her Caer Aval and Camp Resolve, as well as the several forts dotted around that the Pact has built up around Tyria and Elona. And most certainly she will get to see Aurene! They will absolutely talk with Aurene there about the differences between their Aurenes.

Bangar loses his knees. Rytlock might lose his knees if he's not careful. Faren will lose his knees if he doesn't stop flirting for two seconds. Trahearne loses his not hugged by Valoop privileges.

[kerra-and-company]

A Mist portal opens up in front of Kerralind, ejecting an armed and eager Quaggan. She quickly introduces herself as Commander Valoop, visiting as part of an Interdimensional Commander Exchange Program! What does Kerra show her guest that she thinks would impress a fellow commander, what do they talk about, and whose kneecap priviliges do they revoke together?

ICEP is a fantastic idea, and one I wholeheartedly support--thank you so much for this ask!! :D Kerra would no doubt be confused and have all manner of questions (such as how the portal was made, is Valoop able to get back home safely, does Valoop's world need help or is she really just visiting), but after she properly understood the situation, she'd be very pleased to meet Valoop! As for what Kerra would show her, hmmm...Valoop would probably end up meeting her sprout kids, which would be an experience in and of itself (as well as meeting Nisha, and Kerra's dimension's Canach). And depending on where Valoop wanted to go, Kerra would be glad to show her what Sun's Refuge, the Eye, and/or the Pact looks like in Kerra's world. And this last one wouldn't be shown to impress Valoop, but if Kerra learned that Trahearne was no longer alive in Valoop's dimension, and if Valoop wanted to see him in Kerra's, then that would definitely happen, too. They'd have plenty to talk about, I think. Even if their start towards the Commander job was pretty different (and they're decently different people, too), they've also gone through a lot of the same stuff, which is a hell of an icebreaker. Kerra would also definitely ask Valoop about herself, both out of curiosity and in order to make her feel as "at home" as possible while she's there. And this isn't talking, but Kerra and her partners sometimes help train folks in Lion's Arch, and I could see her roping Valoop into a sparring demonstration, if she was willing! And last but not least, we've got some revoking kneecap privileges! I saw that Fox already put forth Anise as a possibility for Valoop and Laighe, and Kerra would be happy to join them for sure. I've been trying very hard to think of someone else (who's still alive, that is) whose kneecap privileges should be revoked, and I have to go with anyone from the Consortium who Kerra and Valoop happen to run into doing sketchy things. Kerra trusts the Consortium about half the distance she could throw them, and they have done absolutely nothing to improve that perception since LWS1.

[dasozelotvonnebenan]

⚔️ I would love another bit of Valoop trivia~

@mystery-salad

All my commanders got a part of the broken caladbolg and went on their own individual journeys to grow it back (Ruck grows it into the shield, Posh into the scepter, Yorg into the Greatsword, Aluen into the sword and Fenquin into the dagger) except for Valoop who doesn't grow it back into anything useful and instead just lets it grow freely. When she is beating up Balthasar at the end of PoF Caladbolg is barely recognizable as having once been a sword, she's basically carrying a little tree around with her. Also the effect of the weapon ingame of generating butterflies around it absolutely does carry over. As she stands in the sky gardens face to face with balthasar and his forged warbeast there are flames licking at her from sohothin and a cloud of butterflies around her from caladbolg.

[dasozelotvonnebenan]

I think that would be Grolg the vegetarian Ettin. I don't do much lore breaking so that's the extent of if. Even the reason he stopped eating meat is anchored in canon (he learned bunnies are made of meat, and we all know ettins like bunnies) so I really can't call it breaking the lore. At most I'm dangling my feet off the edge.

Some of the extra canonical bits about him are that I decided the main reason most ettin don't seem really intelligent is that due to having two heads with entirely separate persons inside they spend a huge amount of the cognitive capacity fighting over who gets to control the body. The really strong Ettin are those where either the heads work together or one of the heads isn't controling the body for whatever reason. In Grolgs case the other head (named Greg) had an unfavorable encounter with another Ettin's club.

Thus Grolg has almost free reign over their body, only having to supress frequent spasms which is the source of his speech impediment. Everytime Greg shoots out nonsense commands to their body Grolg has to think a lot more and that brain power has to come from somewhere. He knows people already assume he is not very intelligent based on being who he is and that the way he talks only further strengthens that but to him speech is not really an important function. Also helps him to sort who's worth getting to know and who to ignore based on how they talk to him. He can understand others just fine and has been known to throw people who keep mimicing his way of speaking through the lost precipice's tavern.

Of course a notable lore break is also the people he works for, considering the gentlemens gang's founding event included a dimensional portal to our world where charrlotte grabbed two books (League of extraordinary gentlemen and arsene lupin).

Other than that my other lore breaks are Valoop as a quaggan commander, though the rest of her commander career goes mostly normally, Aluen for keeping Bercilac's armor, Posh for joining Scarlet.

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