#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

[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.

[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!

[just-eyris-things]

Valoop hugs you. Also how do you treat aquabreathers in your own canon and do your characters enjoy using them?

I hug Valoop too. I feel so loved!

You see, water area is the hardest for me to think about. I don't have it cleared out yet, but I will answer to the best of my ability.

Aqua breathers are mechanisms keeping water out of one's mouth and allow for communication underwater. For the breathing part, it's mostly magic that does the trick.

Non-magical breathers however need an air pouch and a tube connected to it, pouches can be attached to armor easily. Pouches also can be enchanted to have a bigger capacity. There are also underwater plants which gather air bubbles under their leaves/in their flowers, those bubbles can be used to refill the pouches.

Some professions/races can do without breathers or use their own gear

When it comes to elementalists, they can simply manipulate water and air to create an air bubble around their heads. By elemental manipulation they can replenish the air bubble as they see fit. Some can even use an enormous bubble to keep dry under the water!

Engineers/asura can use their golems to traverse the underwater terrain and they can be accompanied by air-storing golems. They will also have breathing pouches and masks to be able to explore things outside golems in case of necessity.

Some sylvari can breathe underwater and they only wear masks to keep the water out of their mouth. Those who cannot breathe underwater can grow leafy masks of different plant-kind than the rest of their bodies. As the mask is naturally attached to their bodies it is like a natural aqua breather.

I divide revenants into two groups: those who died and came back and those who were born like that.

The first ones do not need to breathe that much, their bodies function a bit differently. They are not dead but they are not alive either, but they cannot be qualified as pure zombies either. They are an enormous question mark to everyone. They usually wear masks only to keep the water out. The alive revenants need aqua breathers like everyone else.

Out of my characters, Eyris and Airell use sylvari masks to breathe, Yvrell can use a sylvari mask but he mostly works with his golems and inventions, Freya, Njal and Nia use magic aqua breathers. Achilles does not dive, he is afraid of deep waters. Pirate queen Seadhna doesn't need anything, so she uses a mask to keep the water out of her mouth when she needs to speak.

[commanderfloppy]

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

Floppy first quickly excuses herself to go change out of the fuzzy robe and slippers she was wearing. She then decides to show Valoop the dragon research currently being done along with Taimi and Gorrik, the progress is slow but it’s certainly leading up to something.

Then she’d probably make tea or something for her guest so they could talk, they’d probably bond over being very small Commanders, and how the public never expects them to be like that. The conversation would then probably flow over to talking about the enemies they had to fight, and allies they (begrudgingly) made. Floppy would rant about how Phlunt is still trying to interfere with Taimi’s research, jokingly revoking his kneecap privilege as well as the rest of the arcane council.

[mystery-salad]

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

The crossover of the century omg!!!!! What an amazing ask to wake up to lmao, okay let's plot this out I dig it!

She would absolutely be confused but, u know, life is so weird this might as well happen. She would first off ask what Valoop's world I'd like, if her title of commander is from the same series of events and if the elder dragons are still the biggest threat. Trying to find the differences, maybe there's something that could be extremely helpful from both of them for the other. Her mind never strays far from work after all.

Once that's all settled though, Laighe would show her around the Pact! How things are done here, what her team is like, let Valoop get the lay of the land and comfortable with the people she'll likely interact with for the duration of her stay. They're all much better at casual conversation than Laighe herself after all unless it's a work topic.

Someone they'd kneecap together!!! Hmm, who's alive in this route who can be kneecapped still lmao, I could absolutely see the two giving Anise a what for, if she tries to weasel her way into having the Commander in her pocket again. A sleazy secretive government official who would take advantage of either of their positions? Square up 👊

I think Valoop and Laighe specifically would have such interesting conversations, they're both so far removed from their roots and family, so changed in demeanor and reasoning by this job. It's rough, and they both deserved so much better, bit it's some common ground and that could really go places!

[cousinslavellan-archive]

Valoop is here to read you a poem and make you a salad. The Salad is mostly seaweed. The poem is mostly Os and Us. It's about how sometimes biting things is a good way to solve problems.

Valoops poem is very appreciated and I highly agree with the sentiment of biting to solve problems right now ♥️♥️ ty very much for the lovely poetry, Valoop.

[revolutionoftenderness]

Today is Cole Porter’s Birthday! We’d like to celebrate by sharing the lyrics to his song, “De-Lovely”:

The night is young, the skies are clear

And if you want to go walkin', dear

It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely

I understand the reason why

You're sentimental, 'cause so am I

It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely

You can tell at a glance what a swell night this is for romance

You can hear, dear Mother Nature murmuring low "Let yourself go"

So please be sweet, my chickadee, and when I kiss ya, just say to me

It's delightful, it's delicious, it's delectable, it's delirious,

It's dilemma, it's de limit, it's deluxe, it's de-lovely

Time marches on, and soon it's plain

You've won my heart and I've lost my brain.

It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely.

Life seems so sweet that we decide

It's in the bag to get unified.

It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely.

See the crowd in that church, see the proud parson plopped on his perch.

Get the sweet beat of that organ sealing our doom. "Here goes the groom, boom!"

How they cheer and how they smile as we go galloping down that aisle.

It's divine, dear. It's diveen, dear. It's de-wunderbar. It's de victory.

It's de valoop. It's de vinner. It's de voiks. It's de-lovely.

The knot is tied and so we take

A few hours off to eat wedding cake.

It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely.

It feels so fine to be a bride and how's the groom?

Why, he's slightly fried.

It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely.

To the pop of champagne off we hop in our plush little plane,

'Till a bright light through the darkness cozily calls, "Niag'ra Falls."

All's well, my love, our day's complete, and what a beautiful bridal suite.

It's de-reamy. It's de-rowsy. It's de-reverie. It's de-rhapsody.

It's de-regal. It's de-royal. It's de-Ritz. It's de-lovely.

[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

[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.