#ask cayde

[destiny2skeleton]

-🦜

Hello, this is the first time I’ve contacted you, so you don’t know me, but many of our enemies do…

Just checking to see if you and Cayde are doing alright. Well, as alright as you two can be doing, given the circumstances.

-Sincerely, ☀️🌑

Why do you ask…?

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[caydesaceinthehole]

How many boxes of Dawning cookies and gifts filled with loot do you think you can fit in one of these ask boxes?

I'm not asking for me.

I'm asking for a friend.

No really.

This time I'm being serious.

[turtletoads]

*astro bots your microsoft ips* (and some extras)

[sylenth-l]

bungie feeding us Andal and Cayde lore this dlc 😭🙏

(Hunter journal lore) Cayde used to draw Andal?? romantic.

And a direct reference from Cayde? The fondness in his voice had me kicking my feet- I WANT MORE.

Ignore me fangirling over here

I DEMAND TO SEE THAT DRAWING

I hope Cayde's style of drawing Andal is on par with his style of writing about Andal

[cayde-6-hunter-vanguard]

So, cayde, i heard you'll be stepping up to be the jolly red man this dawning. so who's on your naughty and nice list?

Word spreads around fast huh?

Yes, yes. This year I'm in charge of the naughty and nice list. I've got a few names here.

@baede-6 -Nice

@crimsonmischief -Nice

@crow-the-hunter-vanguard -Naughty

@aislinavalbane -Nice

@beyond-the-light -Naughty

@ask-drifter -Naughty

I'm....still undecided where you're landing this year....I think I can be persuaded though with some ramen though...

[of-golden-guns]

*sits this down and waddles away*

Edit: I have it up on my tiktok for you to download to your phone and listen to this when ever you need it.

Take care of yourselves, my lovlies. It'll get better. -❤️ teakup

[great-shot-terrible-gambler]

Hey Andal! It's been a while! How have you been buddy? Paperwork still a slog? You know that offer is still up for me and Shiro to give you a hand if needed.

Spades! It has been a while, but I've been pretty good! Lost my sniper bullets, though...don't ask how.

Heh, I think I've lost count on how much paperwork I have. It's not a problem, though--you should see the amount the others have. And you know I'd love the help, but, I need you two out there in the field. You know. Where all the fun is.

[emmster]

Question for your AU, are is your Guardian, Soap and Ghost friends with Cayde? Or any of the other Vanguard? Do you think they would end up being friends with Crow?

Soap and Cayde are friends. Cayde is one of the first Guardians Soap meets (and Andal)

Cayde first thinks that Ghost was a Titan at first because of how tall and large that man is. He also thinks Ghost is trying to be an edgy hunter.

Both Soap and Ghost have respect for Zavala. Price is a bit more friendly with him.

Soap’s also known Ikora (because of comic spoilers) for a while and they’re good friends too.

[art-caneglitch]

sketch idea: Cayde's ghost (lowercase g) doing this pose in front of his memorial

absolutely massive brained for this one, you've gained my respect

thank you for the funniest sketch request ever

[yourfavaschips]

can you do cayde-6 from destiny? :)

Cayde-6 from Destiny would be Pringles Jalapeño Bacon!

[trilobitepunch]

favorite art you made?

(｡﹏｡")

This question is too haaaaard

And a bit vague, haha! Is it in general? Specific fandom or something? I don't...particularly have a favorite, that position is always subject to change every time I draw things. It's hard to narrow down, that's like picking a favorite child or something lol

I have consulted my scrapbookish thing to see if anything has popped up and since I went to a Destiny Art Show today, I'm inspired. So here is one of my favorite pieces- perhaps my best piece of my favorite Exo, Cayde-6. Done quite a while ago, but I consider it fitting since my style has leaned more into this type of traditional media with grays and washes.

[destiny2skeleton]

🦜 Not a lot of people ask about you. I'm curious how you fell into the rag tag gang? How do you deal with everyone else's antics? (Mostly Cayde's shenanigans and Tevis' moodieness.) Are you as stoic as people say?

Shiro Reply - Found Family

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🃏 Shiro found the group at first as a quick glimmer grab- but luckily for Andal and Cayde- he stays. KEEP ASKING AWAY I AM LOVING THESEE!!!!

[caydesaceinthehole]

So Cayde; Me an my friends where doin' that mission that you and Crow (that dude with the ugly haircut) gave us, the one with the camp?... We wanna know why you gave 3 people one tent. You tryin' to start somethin' there pal...? Or did you just want a warlock, a hunter and a titan to have to figure out how to share the tent... Cause i'ma tell you.... :( I ended up in the middle.

Budget cuts.

Too soon?

I did what I could with what little I had. Things work differently in the Pale Heart.

And technically if your friends count as a full fireteam of three,I hate to break it to you kiddo,but I gave FIVE people one tent.

Where do you think Crow and I slept?

[thefirstknife]

glad to see that ppl are aware that nimbus doesn't deserve the hate they get bc it stems from them being nonbinary! but i also see them be compared to cayde a lot, which i understand. but ppl are like "they're basically another cayde" and idk how i feel about that. it seems weird and ignorant to sideline them as cayde but nonbinary when nimbus is more than that despite our lack of interactions + lore w/ them. ppl already had a hard time comprehending how they processed their grief through humor and their recklessness in the deterministic chaos mission so it's no surprise they just view them as a cayde comparison :/ sorry, i could be overthinking things i'm not sure. what do you think?

I feel similarly, it feels a bit reductive to just boil them down to another Cayde, though I understand the comparison. People mostly say it because a lot of the hate for Nimbus is the, genuinely, fake outrage over a character being a little silly and humorous at odd times which is strange because everybody loved Cayde who acted the same. And imo, with fewer good reasons for it as well; although both Cayde and Nimbus hide behind a persona to mask their feelings, I feel like Cayde, one of the Vanguard leaders with hundreds of years of experience under his belt should be a little less silly than a rookie Cloud Strider who's never had anything happen to them in their short life until the start of the expansion.

They're both different characters, but share some similarities in how they're perceived so I understand the comparison especially when people ONLY hate Nimbus for "making jokes." And you have to ask "If you dislike characters making jokes, how can you like Cayde then?" It's always people's first association when someone complains about a character making jokes. I don't think people often think of them as just copies of each other, it's just a natural comparison to draw when people pretend to be bothered by jokes.

I also feel like both of these characters have jokes that are a product of their time; this isn't unusual of course, but people tend to look down on anything new. Naturally, the jokes from MY youth were good and funny, the jokes the kids have these days are cringe and bad. That's essentially it.

I like both of them for their own reasons and I enjoy both of their humour styles. Also, a lot of people thought Cayde's behaviour in vanilla D2 was super cringe btw, I remember people being fairly annoyed that he was "cracking jokes" in the middle of one of the, arguably, worst situations the setting has ever been in (Red War, loss of Light). A lot of people don't remember that, but people did NOT like Cayde's silliness. I understand why, but I never really had an issue with it; it was just a relief from all the gloom otherwise. I think it makes sense to add a little bit of silly, and I think the same applies to Nimbus.

This is why people tend to compare the two! And then you look at all of that and you wonder why Nimbus is the one getting the hate and in most cases it boils down to transphobia. Not always, people can dislike the character for other reasons; but in a LOT of cases, online especially, it's just that. It's evident from the misgendering and the type of hate being hurled around which went as far as insulting the devs and the VA (who is nonbinary and spoke publicly about finding it hard to find work because of their identity). Again, people can dislike Nimbus for other reasons too, but it's really hard to divorce the overwhelming hate for Nimbus from their identity and the state of the gaming community currently.

[sylenth-l]

short king Tevis

Every single group pic they take is like this:

[cayde-6-hunter-vanguard]

Hey you. Yeah you. Over there scrolling through Tumblr.

You've got this. Doesn't matter what you're going through right now. Just take that first step or even second step towards your goals. I promise you it gets better. Take it from me. Got my own demons and all to fight, but you? I've got your back kiddo. With you through and through. So...chin up, eyes forward and take the steps to being a better you.

I've got you. Always have. Always will.

My door is always open.