#bag a legend

[zeefaring]

how it feels to research an impossible theorem

[snippity]

Here's my character lineup of the Bag a Legend NPCs! It's not my favourite writing-wise but it's the one closest to my heart.

Design notes + pics split into layers under the cut:

april:

she's described as short and stocky ingame so i did give her a body type to reflect that more accurately compared to her ingame art. also let me have this one i like butch women

made her a bit older as well. there's text saying she has experience with infernal ammunition (like that used in the war against hell), making her at the very least in her 40s

fun fact she's 4'10" here. i did use a height chart as reference

sinning jenny: not too much to say about her since she has a canon design as well and i didn't really deviate here. in my mind she's tall to contrast april being short though

mother superior:

she has a gold and beryl mask at the end of the ambition which i thought was cool so it's there

holding an ankh because she's originally from the second city - you can see the influence too by how jenny's rosary resembles one. the mask itself was also ever so slightly inspired by egyptian death masks

that's meant to be a pistol in a holster but you can barely see it

scarred naturalist:

wanted to show off his real identity as a snuffer, so i had some of the snuffer tentacles/flesh peek through the skin

gave him a green waistcoat partly to show his connection to the vake

remember the bit where he ripped a guys upper lip off just to wear his mustache. i didn't until a friend reminded me

the vake: looked at fallout deathclaws and venus flytraps for inspiration! i'll be honest i personally think making the masters just straightforward anthro bats is a little boring so i took some more liberties with it. that's a liver it's holding. whose? who knows.

[the-dye-stained-socialite]

you like Vake hunters because you hate the Vake

i like Vake hunters because i want to fuck the Vake

we are not the same

[thedeafprophet]

I find it really interesting the insights we get into veils when pretending to be it during BaL. Speaking as someone with chronic pain, the way the texts describes the way it hurts to speak and pain in general just was particularly poignant to me

I just think veils is a fascinating character in its own right, with just how much complications there are behind A Killer. This bleeds into the way I made my own BaL character in response

[dandelioncasey]

Hmm. I am. Uncomfortable.

[waterlogged-detective]

Boots' flawless Vake catching plan, thwarted by his good kitty status...

Bonus:

[the-masterless-press]

IT'S OFFICIAL: BETTY HAS COMPLETED HER AMBITION!

God, it has been a very arduous journey. But thanks to Christmas events I have been able to do it

Get fucked Veils

[im-ej-arts]

first three of my bag a legend lineup! this i would like to affectionately call "doesn't matter if they're out of their prime they will kick a millennia old bat's ass"

more to come soon!

individuals:

rowan asher, the frigid-hearted professor, owned by @the-avaricious-meddler

samuel weatherbee, the laconic captain, owned by @house-of-mirrors

and finally; betty horvat, the bumbling pugilist, owned by me!

[hahaheart1]

ALMOST FORGOT BUT

I completed my ambition!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now all of London is in my debt >:D

[peliginspeaks]

I generally deal with the canon paradox of having more than one successful Vake hunter by not thinking about it (pretty easy since there's hardly any BaL players in Hallowrove's close circle) but I do think it's funniest if April works in all our labs and just rotates on different days of the week. She'll be in there helping Hallowrove improve their harpoon gun one day and gone the next and they just assume she's busy with Revs Stuff, but the next day she's back and offhandedly mentions I like Lieutenant Tetra's supply organization better.

And Hallowrove is just ?????? How many labs are you working in??

( @the-perspicacious-mercenary might as well tag you as The Example Tetra In Question)

[asleepinawell]

sensing a theme in the ambition tie-ins in firmament

[capn-twitchery]

get his ass, twitch

[drholmestuck]

holy shit i just need 2400 echoes for 60 copper cipher rings and then I'LL FINISH MY AMBITION this is so exciting

[thedeafprophet]

I feel like every disabled flondon player has a moment in the game that felt personally targeting with the unintentional ableism (ie. The seats on the train scenario, ableist physical assumptions with labour, body horror, etc. etc.)

But for me personally it's still that shitty moment in Bag A Legend where Mother Superior directly excludes a deaf person from a conversation via the hearing and purposefully blocking any attempt at lip reading.

Like that was such. A direct moment of ableist behaviour from a character (and uhhh hit quite close to home) that truly shocked me out of nowhere.

[maybesdaughter]

BITES YOU BITES YOU BITES YOU

[demansiabites]

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