#adelaide triste

[rookfeathers]

hella and adelaide as a hellelil and hildebrand study 💜

[boo-cool-robot]

Hieron Zine Comic: The Violence of Its Maintenance

[Read the left side as one storyline, the right side as another]

"For every inside, an outside." / "Every border implies the violence of its maintenance."

For me and @wellnoe's piece for the Hieron Zine, we were excited to tell a story about Hella’s semi-involuntary status as a mascot of Ordennan empire and borders as a literal technology of death that played with comic borders and formatting! The title is, of course, from the Ayesha A. Siddiqi quote.

Script for the comic below the cut, which also serves as a rough image description:

Layout note: Panels are small relative to the page and “float” in the gutter space. Adelaide swims freely between them and speaks to Hella inside the panels’ borders. The comic is laid out vertically, mostly in two columns. Panels on the left are labeled L, the center labeled M, and right labeled R. Panel numbers denote which row of the overall page they’re on.

Page 1: 3 Rows 

Panel M.1.A: Adaire hunched over a map of Hieron in a dimming twilight room.

Panel M.1.B: Close up of the map having Nacre added to it near the shore, and an outline sketched of its border, the pencil in Adaire’s hand. 

Panel M.1.C: Adaire’s hand in close-up, partially erasing the border around Nacre. 

Panel L.2: Hella outside the Ordennan border, at a tall gate. A guard looks at her suspiciously from the other side. 

Adelaide to Panel L.2: Adelaide looks at Hella condescendingly. 

Adelaide: Do you imagine that walls will keep Nacre’s gift out? 

Panel R.2: Hella and Hadrian ride in a halfling-driven cart through the refugee camp towards the Ordennan military camp. Hadrian watches Hella for her reaction to seeing the refugees. 

Panel L.3: Hella displays the emblem of the Tristes to a crowd of cheering soldiers, brandishing her sword in a stabbing gesture. 

Soldiers: Is that– From the cleansing of Nacre– She killed the queen! 

Adelaide to panel L.3: For every inside…

Panel R.3: Stornras Glasseye shows Hella and Hadrian a map of Ordenna’s planned invasion of Velas. 

Adelaide to panel R.3: …an outside. 

Page 2: 4 Rows

Panel L.1: Hella reads the book about her family being a line of traitors, inside the undersea cave. She is hunched over awkwardly, wet from swimming in, and visibly perturbed. 

Adelaide to Panel L.1: Adelaide reads over Hella’s shoulder. She’s draped over the panel like a cat, one hand dangling inside and the other holding an apple to her mouth.  

Adelaide: Our dear father did like that ancestor of yours, only for her to betray Nacre and then Ordenna. Varals love to hang people out to dry.  

Panel R.1: Hadrian and Hella interrogating Iduna Fel. Hella holds a torch up. Iduna, seated and hands bound, looks up at them and snarls at the torch, speaking of how Quintrona should burn Rosemerrow to stop the undead. 

Iduna Fel: We should be burning every place–every person–the curse has touched. 

Adelaide to Panel R.1: A family of traitors fits right in with the Tristes.

Panel L.2.A: Hella is on tour of Ordenna. She looks out distantly at the countryside. A clothesline with clothing hanging from them forming figures like people separates Hella in the panel from a mine like the ones her father worked.

Panel L.3.B: Hella on tour in an urban center, looking lost. Train tracks separate Hella from a guard station. 

Ordennan soldiers: Queenkiller! It’s the Queenkiller! 

Adelaide to panels L.2: Adelaide’s teeth are bared, her lazy demeanor dropping for one vicious moment. 

Adelaide:At least I remember that you should be called Kingkiller as well. 

Panel R.2: Hella and Hadrian walking back through the refugee camp. Refugees do laundry, multiple clotheslines crossing the panel, the clothes partially obscuring Hella and Hadrian. 

Adelaide to panel R.2: Do you believe your people to be better than me? They decide who dies to expand the borders of Ordenna. 

Panel L.3: Hella marching in front of a company of Anchor in a square formation, Ordennan soldiers crowding around them. Hella is smiling stiffly, uncomfortable. She is wearing a shiny new uniform. 

Panel R.3: Hella standing equally stiffly in front of a line of Pala-din that guard the Ordennan camp from the refugees. She watches a circle of refugees cooking and crafting, going about the business of their survival. Some are visibly undead. Two of the refugees are a Nacreite young Black sibling pair with an older boy and younger girl, invoking Calhoun and Adelaide.  Hadrian in the background examines a pala-din, his stance mirroring theirs. 

Adelaide to panel R.3: Adelaide looks at the siblings in panel R.3 but speaks over her shoulder to Hella on the left. 

Adelaide: Is it so monstrous that Nacre grows so that more may live after death? 

Panel L.4: Hella alone in a lavish Ordennan bedroom, looking out of place and small. Maybe in plain underclothes and curled up on a chair, looking angry.

Hella: Yes! 

Her dialogue fills up the panel, crowding her. 

Panel R.4: The refugees notice Hella and Hadrian and look at them warily. The boy steps in front of his sister. Hella looks small in the crowd of people. She holds a hand out to the boy. 

Page 3: 3 Rows

Panel L.1: Hella in a lavish Ordennan ceremonial chamber, on a stage. She is dressed in fine clothing given to her. A pearl-studded brooch with an Ordennan motif is being pinned on her by some military-uniformed functionary. 

Military functionary: For you, the spoils of our first battle. 

Gathered soldiers and civilians: Queenkiller! Queenkiller! Queenkiller! 

Panel R.1: Hella makes an awkward ‘open your hand’ gesture to the boy, who warily opens his hand. 

Refugees: Isn’t she….That’s the Queenkiller. The Queenkiller?

Panel L2: Hella, with her head bowed, has her arms and shoulders draped with garlands of gems and pearls looted from Nacre. The ends of the strands run down out of the bottom and side of the panel. 

Military functionary: May you always bear the fruits of our holy empire. 

Panel R.2: The boy has a handful of apple candies poured into his palm. He looks up, defiantly. A few candies fall down outside the panel. 

Adelaide, to both panels L.2 and R.2: She holds the end of a pearl garland in one hand and an apple candy in another 

Adelaide: Then tell me…What are you going to do about it, Hella Varal? 

Panel M.3.A: Adaire’s hand drawing the refugee camp in Knoll Hollow into a map of Rosemerrow. 

Panel M.3.B: The Ordennan military camp being drawn outside the refugee camp. 

Panel M.3.C: The wall around Rosemerrow being drawn between the refugee and Ordennan camps as a border. 

Title Text: The Violence of Its Maintenance 

Subtitle: Story and words by Will Xia (boo-cool-robot)

Art and lettering by Brenna (wellnoe)

[karinhart]

boat party, with guests

(ID in alt)

[mrmarielda]

missing them!

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

Sexiest Podcast Character — Unscripted Bracket — Round 4

Propaganda

Kravitz (The Adventure Zone: Balance):

Grim Reaper. So hot he managed to date Taako from TV

gotta be krav

Adelaide Tristé (Friends at the Table: Seasons of Hieron):

NO PROP FOR ADELAIDE??? Adelaide is literally the Queen of Death, she takes over being the GOD OF DEATH AND PSYCHOPOMP OF THE DEAD. She haunts the woman who killed her physical form and forced her into the aforementioned Queen of Death role. She FLIRTS WITH THE WOMAN WHO KILLED HER! Anyone who slept in her city for a night would take the city with them, spreading her influence over the world. She holds the power to allow people to truly die, or to force them back into life as undead. The woman who killed her took her to a magic city INSIDE OF HER SWORD and Adelaide's time there made her rethink how she ruled as Queen of Death and she decided to make an AFTERLIFE REALM TO ALLOW PEOPLE TO PREPARE FOR BEING RELEASED INTO NOTHING!!! She is That Bitch, she wears pearls and beautiful dresses and I'm pretty sure one time she tried to seduce Hella Veral by looping pearls around her. I will not stand for this, she is one of the BEST NPCs in Heiron

I'M SORRY DOES MY PROPAGANDA MEAN NOTHING TO YOU ALL THIS IS THE EMPRESS OF PEARLS! SHE IS IN A POLYAM RELATIONSHIP WITH HER MURDERER AND HER MURDERER'S THIEF ASSASSIN GIRLFRIEND WHO IS ALSO TATTED UP. ADELAIDE CAN FUCKING GET IT!!!

Adelaide Tristé, queen of death, empress of pearls, deserves the title of sexiest podcast character purely for the ephrim death scene in winter they had to cut, are you KIDDING me. Except then we also have another *three* seasons of her being magnificent and brilliant and scheming and also building a compassionate afterlife for the people of a very indifferent world.

Hella Varal (Friends at the Table: Seasons of Hieron):

brown lesbian with red hair and big sword. used to be evil but got better. one of her girlfriends is the queen of death who she killed. i'm bad at these she's hot though promise

Huge gal with a huge magic sword. Has TWO girlfriends.

big evil woman... she's in a polycule with Lesbian Saul Goodman and Death

Art of Adelaide and Hella made by @amaranthsynthesis.

[lustrecannon]

hella/adaire/adelaide retail workers au. they're all employed at a fancy department store and adaire keeps the receipts from really weird purchases so she can smack-talk them later with her girlfriends

secret samol piece for @theunacceptablepylades !!!!! this was so much fun - it's the first secret samol i've ever been in, and drawing these three was a delight :]

[elkinboots]

coupla good boys and some less good girls, i cannot BELIEVE ive never drawn adelaide tristé in my life its a travesty im fixing immediately

[kuzupekos]

Happy Secret Samol! My gift for @ketraia is an embroidery representing Hella as Adularia's knight.

I originally intended to write something, but the characters ended up just outside of my comfort zone enough that I was more comfortable doing something visual. So then the trick became, how do I make ship art out of non-representative textural embroidery? I ended up straying a little far from the prompt (rip to Adair you were supposed to be in here somehow), but it was fun to stretch my creativity and represent characters I normally wouldn't.

Bonus: look how sparkly it is! (Check under the cut for more detail/progress shots.)

The materials used are silk and velvet scraps, polyester organza, craft pearls, acrylic stones, Swarovski crystals, dollhouse mirror frames, and pen&ink drawing with liquid gold leaf detailing. All came from my stash! It's embroidered with a combination of tambour beading and needle and thread.

[ernestinapickman]

First piece for @fatt-pinups, for the second prompt, blasphemy/devotion! referenced off of a shot from black sails lol. I/D under the cut!

I/D: A drawing of Hella and Adelaide from Friends at the Table lounging on a bed. Adelaide is a Black woman with dark brown braids wearing a pale blue robe with pink flowers on it and a pearl bracelet. Hella is a brown woman with curly red hair wearing a brown tunic. She's clinging onto Adelaide's leg affectionately. End I/D.

[casspalmer]

Angelo

there’s no blood on the stone floor. there is no shame in following through you knew what was coming you made a deal with death for your blade and his son’s reluctant salvation.

do you let go? and maybe your hands will ache from the feeling of his trachea between your palms but pain is to be expected when you are the will of a god.

do you let go? you’ve killed better people for worse reasons you’ve never claimed to be a saint you’ll keep your hands around his throat till his breath stills till the spine breaks.

there is no blood on the cell’s stone floor. only his tears and perhaps a few of yours your grip remains steadfast his eyes open, his pulse is quiet the job isn’t done yet do you let go, killer?

no. though your knuckles pale and your breathing stutters you will watch his form become undone as you have watched the others.

[metronn]

POISON AND PEARLS - A HELLA / ADELAIDE / ADAIRE PLAYLIST

no place ezra furman i'll believe in anything wolf parade corpses saint sister hard to kill bleached bridge over troubled water simon and garfunkel the last limit of bhakti the mountain goats and more...

click the link above for the full spotify playlist!

[blackholefriends]

beach day!

collage of Adelaide Tristé for Friends At The Table Pinup Week 2023!

[banneduserthechaogardener]

"I can't stay mad at you" 😭 😭

i made my bed i’ll lie in it

i made my bed i’ll die in it

[mrmarielda]

beach day!

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

Sexiest Podcast Character — Unscripted Bracket — Round 2

Propaganda

Aubrey Little (The Adventure Zone: Amnesty):

bicon

Adelaide Tristé (Friends at the Table: Seasons of Hieron):

NO PROP FOR ADELAIDE??? Adelaide is literally the Queen of Death, she takes over being the GOD OF DEATH AND PSYCHOPOMP OF THE DEAD. She haunts the woman who killed her physical form and forced her into the aforementioned Queen of Death role. She FLIRTS WITH THE WOMAN WHO KILLED HER! Anyone who slept in her city for a night would take the city with them, spreading her influence over the world. She holds the power to allow people to truly die, or to force them back into life as undead. The woman who killed her took her to a magic city INSIDE OF HER SWORD and Adelaide's time there made her rethink how she ruled as Queen of Death and she decided to make an AFTERLIFE REALM TO ALLOW PEOPLE TO PREPARE FOR BEING RELEASED INTO NOTHING!!! She is That Bitch, she wears pearls and beautiful dresses and I'm pretty sure one time she tried to seduce Hella Veral by looping pearls around her. I will not stand for this, she is one of the BEST NPCs in Heiron

[rozecrest]

Top 5 friends at the table characters?

ohoho….

1. kalvin brnine

2. fourteen fifteen

3. clementine kesh

4. gucci garantine

5. hella veral