#a lot of this needs refining

[pine-needle-shuffle]

HI :3 does angeal die in riptide what's the situation there

at this point in planning, no, he does not die. But it's not all sunshine and rainbows either.

After what would have been his and Zack's last altercation in Crisis Core, Angeal survives. Zack couldn't finish him off, Angeal wasn't so desperate as to force Zack to kill him. Even if Angeal hoped he would have.

He flees in an effort to find Genesis again, who had been evading most contact the whole time. They both needed answers now, Angeal's condition was getting worse, like Genesis before.

During the 5 years between Nibelhiem and current day in the story, he's barely been living. Most of the time was spent in hiding, they didn't have anywhere safe to go. Once, maybe a year or two after his fight with Zack, he journeys out. He felt he needed to apologize, make ends meet, something. But he doesn't find Zack. So he goes back to rot.

I'm not sure if it will be in the scope of A Pulling of Tides, but in the future he and Zack do meet up. It's...bittersweet. Angeal has so much regret, and Zack, while glad to know he's alive, is still kinda pissed at him under it all.

[cautiously0ptimistic]

Do you even know whether you're running toward or away from something anymore? I guess it's all just running, all the same.

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[reallyhardydraws]

casual / club / wedding / gig

[padfootastic]

harry’s ‘saving people thing’ comes from james potter and if you disagree, u can bite me because that is the TRUTH

[serpentface]

man i am just in love with your blightseed setting, the world-building is phenomenal... especially enamored with all your creatures & the speculative evolution that goes with them. do you have a world map of the setting?

Ok so here's the thing- I don't (besides some VERY old and obsolete ones) and this keeps causing problems where people (naturally) have misunderstandings of the scale and distance between places due to having no reference. I keep putting it off because trying to make everything like, geologically/climatically plausible is going to be a whole project, and there's some developed regions that I know where they are In General but cannot DEFINITIVELY place on the map until I do (because I need their climates to make sense in the broader context)

HOWEVER for the public benefit I just sketched out a very, very, very rough idea of what's going on wrt the continental mass most of this takes place on. Unlabeled but slightly better than nothing.

This is a supercontinent slightly larger than Europe/Asia/Africa combined. There's two other continents (not pictured here), one spanning across the north pole, the other on approximately the other side of the globe.

Imperial Wardin is the blue bit. It's actually bigger than I thought but note that it is Very small on the global scale, its significance is mostly in its physical/trade dominance of the eastern entrance to the Inner Seaway rather than the size of its claimed territory.

[dailykallura]

Still obsessed with the crew going "yea they might not end up together this time, but Keith and Allura love each other to the ends of the universe" and kept posting all this art of other media where they're dressed as the love interests in that media – and did that whole con hunt with the storyboards for their Ark of Taujeer pre-escapade hangar talk – and had Steven put all the warmth and emotion into his voice for "Remember when we first met Allura..." in the conference room – and had him support her through the depths of her missions – and had Keith be told Allura would have been so proud of the man he became – and had them tell each other about how much impact they've had on each other – and made them embrace so lovingly but couldn't even animate them letting go of each other and and and

[pivsketch]

had an inspiring and riveting discussion about pixel art with some friends recently. heres some unfinished sprites of best friends + orange cassidy as a result. and a zoomed out version w/ some progress shots

[crowfaraday]

attempt #1 of trilogy style talksprite

[eebie]

donezo

[mitchmotch]

day 3 of 30 minute sketch mondays with @revalito! this time with jack zimmermann ^^ (he's 100% looking at bitty)

[psychopomparia]

Von Lycaon’s trailer dropped.

I am…really thirsting for this wolf butler at 2 am. I-

hear me out

[draggysden]

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[holeybubushka]

That overwhelming feeling when you have FINALLY finished your first draft of the Bridesmaid epilouge

[maskyartist]

gnight have a rabbit

[ace-malarky]

Happy Blorbo Blursday!

No question today, just give us a ramble about a character you don't usually get a chance to ramble about!

Beloved, I have so many characters I have never rambled about but also ok we're doing side characters with Relevance now so it's Drassa's turn

by the time of any story we see her in, she's a retired adventurer, well respected if distant member of society, definitely nobility if a bit strange, and

of course

our boy Jasper's mother

(and also the character I played in the game that spawned them both. No I don't know why Jasper then got the limelight but it's better this way because I can just allude to all of Drassa's stuff rather than having to write it)

Except! no one knows she is Jasper's mother because she is Unwed and Respectable and Surely Drassa Would Never so he's obviously just like. a foster child or a distant relative's because she is so Sweet and Noble, of course she would Help Out to give him a good start in life

but anyway. She starts life as like. almost a normal kid, actually! She's friendly, she has a family! There's no tragic backstory here, she's just kinda bored with it all. She just has a hankering for something more and, being stubborn and unwilling to listen to people telling her to cool her jets and also No, she just strikes out with whatever group is going and learns fast how to fake everything. She isn't a fighter but my god can she talk her way into and out of everything! In a world of elves and orcs and lizardfolk where they haven't quite forgotten that humans are only so many generations out of being colonisers, with no access to the magic of the world, she's got to be smart about it and she is. She moonlights as a thief for a little bit (this is how she meets her main party/friends) but rather than stealth, her strategy is to act like she owns the place and not give anyone an opening to suggest that she doesn't

Her main party/friends are a lizardfolk & elf couple who have their own enemies-to-lovers arc already sorted by the time they meet Drassa, and they become very ride-or-die in the... ten or so years that they hang out together. despite claiming that they themselves are retired at that point. they couldn't resist Drassa's charm either

I am still somewhat hazy on how she meets Jasper's dad. it was probably just for a good time! Jasper definitely wasn't planned! (and had she known about the curse, she probably wouldn't have gone there but my god she would have liked to have known before it all explosively comes to light)

but when she realises she's pregnant, she figures she's got to make sure the kid isn't like. caught in the little circle of enemies she's getting known by? So she enlists her friends to help her get off world (fraud is committed), sets herself up as Rich Aristocrat (crimes are committed, but politely), and settles herself in for a life of refined ease. There is absolutely never a moment where she goes "ha this kid is going to be someone else's problem I'm too busy" she just fully adapts to being a single parent

but ok yes, she's looking after a kid and settling into her place in society with her big house and her garden and the servants that she pays to help out when she has to, and as Jasper grows up she finds she's just. she's missing it all! She wasn't aiming for retirement this early, but she's got a kid, man, and by god is he going to grow up in safety and with the freedom to get into whatever the fuck he wants!

so she might still be doing some light facilitating and blackmail and information gathering on the side. Oh I need to write in her and Nuvian knowing each other, that's a necessity. You know she's working with our travelling crime merchant! He's definitely fencing stuff for her!

and she doesn't exactly keep this quiet from Jasper & Llinos but I think they're definitely mostly laboring under the idea that she's retired (or at least only still has like the vaguest of historic links to it all), so when they come back to find that her past has come back to bite, they're a little surprised to find that she's holding her own in whatever form the fight has taken haha

Tamhas and Tadhg do not know any of it, and this is for everyone's safety. It's bad enough that they wriggled their way into crime as it is, but at least it's where Drassa can keep an eye on them. This is why they panic when they realise that Drassa is in trouble, and like while she appreciates the back up it was not entirely necessary! She'd got herself out of tighter fixes before and she'll do it again

[scary-monsters]

well, i thought i had finished a starburster update but upon rereading it this morning i'm not fully happy with it.. feels a little rushed.. so i think i need to add a little bit more to it even though it's already nearing 5k 🤔 will likely have to leave off on a cliffhanger too LOL