#black-rose4

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could I request some fantasy weapon themed dividers? I know I've seen the odd sword in some of the fandom-specific posts, but nothing that's just weaponry themed

Hi, definitely!! 💖 I have some below for you, I tried to put together a range of weapons! ⚔️

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lots of beautiful faces here!

@koyotte • @missdandelion • @sassy-sweetness @awkwardalpha • @swoleas • @black-rose4

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OC Jesyka for @black-rose4 🩸

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Sunny! Don't know if anyone else has asked you this, but tell us about your Rook too please? Class, background, fun fact :3

HAAA I was JUST about to post my own little introduction when you sent this, perfect timing B)

This is my Rook, Ronnie Mercar (he/she/they), a dwarven rogue belonging to the Shadow Dragons faction.

I'm still hashing things out, but the idea so far is that they used to belong to one of the minor noble houses of Orzammar. In their youth they were heavily influenced by the political discourse surrounding the casteless*, as well as their anxieties surrounding what was expected of them by their family and Orzammar society, both of which fed into their more rebellious nature.

Long story short, years of animosity towards her family and Orzammar as whole made her leave the dwarven city behind, a final act of defiance of both. She did regret this decision about 5 minutes after going through with it, but the bridges had already been burned so she had no choice but to keep on going.

He spent the first couple of years just roaming about, surviving mostly of off the valuables he had brought with him from Orzammar and letting the wind take him where it might. This is where his personal and political journey truly began, discovering the world and just how sheltered he had been growing up. He became more and more involved with the "small folk" in his travels, both as a necessity and out of curiosity, which is how he eventually got tangled up in organizations like Red Jenny and later the Shadow Dragons.

It's this journey of someone who lived a very comfortable life, had an awakening that just shook their entire world view to their core, and slowly became more and more radicalized about it. Their activism was probably clunky as fuck to begin with, but after a few decades in the right company they figured their shit out, as you do.

The meta reason they're a rogue is bc I wanted to play one again. The in-universe reason is that they were primarily taught to fight from members of the various groups they ran into, most of which I imagine would be rogues playing fast and loose with the "rules" of combat. They have the body for it too, being very agile and strong in ways similar to a gymnast, with a good amount of upper body strength and a strong core.

Fun facts:

He absolutely cannot stand mushrooms. The texture, the flavor, the way they're in EVERYTHING down in Orzammar, it just all made him hate them with a fiery passion.

Despite being blind in one eye, they're a great shot. You only need one eye for aiming anyways.

She hates it when people shortens her name to Ron. It's either Ronnie, Fevronia, or Rook. Take your pick or fuck off.

*In my canon, the Warden was a casteless dwarf who was made Paragon after the blight, and thus had a noble house founded in her name. She let in all sorts of casteless to her house after its founding, as is the right of any Paragon who founds a house, and I imagine this in combination with King Bhelen making a (former) casteless noble hunter his rightful queen really stirred the shit pot in Orzammar.

For with a society as ancient and rigid as Orzammar, what do you do when that rigidity is fundamentally shaken to its core? When some of the most revered and powerful among you suddenly come from stock you considered a stain on your entire race? And let me tell you, my Brosca did absolutely nothing to make that noise any quieter, taking every opportunity to be just as defiant and scandalous as she could get away with.

I'm not sure how much change this actually ended up enacting, but it sure as hell kept the political discourse going.

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Commission for @black-rose4 of her durge, Jesyka. Knock 'em dead!

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happy birthday nin <3

🥰🥰 she is being given on so many treats and pets!

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For the tav asks - 6. Low health/asking for healing 7. Attacked by a party member

hello, thank you the ask! i decided to double up for atavian and daisy, so here we go!

6. Low health/asking for healing

Atavian

"A spare healing potion? Anyone?"

"Death's call beckons..."

(panting, afraid) "Evade it not, fear it not, evade it, fear it not..."

Daisy

"You- *gasp* you think I'd go down that easy?"

"Hells, I need healing, quick."

"Gods, this is getting ugly."

7. Attacked by a party member

Atavian

"You need to get your eyes checked!"

"No, your other left!"

"Do that again, and we'll be scheduling your funeral very soon, friend."

Daisy

"Go for your prey, not me!"

"Are you trying to be funny?"

(annoyed mom whisper) "Stop it!"

[blackjackkent]

2s from each category for whoever you've not chatted about in a while :)

(Super Long Hopefully Fun Character Ask Game)

Hmmmmm. Let's go with Lucas. :D He's been rotating in my mind a lot lately but doesn't get much airtime compared to my BG3 OCs. XD

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Appearance #2: What would your character wear if they were told they had to gussy up?

In the last few months I finally got Lucas into a more casual fit that he wears most of the time, but for quite a long time his standard outfit was the Exemplar's Attire, so presumably that is still his go-to for any time he needs to look fancy. ^_^

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Objects #2 - What gift would your character give to someone they didn’t like but felt obligated to?

At this point, Lucas is an old hand at diplomatic negotiations and he's habitually pretty cool and collected, so he would be pretty good at this. Tragically I don't think Kryta has the concept of a gift card, but the fantasy equivalent in this case feels like him forwarding the person to one of his various merchant friends and getting them a discount, which has the triple bonus of the recipient being happy, his friends getting business, and him not having to deal with the person directly.

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Food and Drink #2 - Would your character prefer baking, cooking or mixing drinks?

Lucas strikes me as someone who would enjoy baking. It's a low-key activity that could be done with friends but also solo for some introspection time, focuses on technical precision while also leaving room for artistry, facilitates carb-loading for the vast amount of physical activity he is forced into, and produces tasty treats as an outcome.

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Weather and Nature #2 - Has your character had a meaningful encounter with an animal?

As a soulbeast ranger, Lucas's whole life is pretty much nothing BUT meaningful encounters with animals. It is a running theme/joke among his friends that he makes friends with basically any creature that he meets, even the terrifying ones that are dangerous to everyone else; no one (including him) really knows how he does it, but it comes naturally to him.

The first time it happened, though, was with a wolf that befriended him during the leadup to the Battle of Shaemoor and helped him win the fights there that catapulted him into adventuring notoriety. He named the wolf Asher (after its grey coat) and they traveled together for a long time afterwards.

These days he has other animals he travels with more often; Asher lives out his old age wolf years with some of Lucas's friends on a farm just outside Divinity's Reach and is something of a local curiosity.

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Community and Relationships #2 - What is your character’s favorite kind of social event?

Lucas is very attached to and loyal to his friends and enjoys spending time with them but is increasingly stressed out by the Important Business that he keeps having to deal with. So his favorite gatherings are the ones where it's just people he cares about sitting around in a pub and telling stories, maybe drinking a little but not raucously, and enjoying each other's company without having to worry about putting on a good face or accomplishing some strategic aim.

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Mind Body and Soul #2 - Are there particular sounds your character is fond of?

In keeping with the above comments about his connection with animals, Lucas is very closely bonded with his skyscale, who he named Princess:

His friends are all pretty intimidated by Princess, who is very ornery with everyone else but Lucas and has a tendency to bite. But with Lucas she is extremely gentle, and they often sleep with Lucas kind of snuggled up against her feathers and tucked under one of her wings. She makes soft little snuffling noises when she sleeps or is very comfortable and it is a relaxing sound to him that means everything is (for the moment) all right.

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Hobbies and Activities #2 - Does your character have a secret hobby?

I can't say that I've ever given this much thought, so we're gonna come up with a new headcanon on the fly and say that Lucas knitted the scarf that he wears in his current fit:

Furthering this headcanon to decide that this was a hobby he initially picked up all the way back during his days as a bodyguard in Divinity's Reach; the nobles he worked for didn't REALLY have too much call for his services most of the time so he spent a lot of time standing around and needing something to keep his hands busy.

Occasionally this got snarky comments from others in the business but they never got much of anywhere because Lucas is very hard to rattle and just ignored them. XD

He doesn't have too much time for it these days, yet another thing that he has been forced to deprioritize against the constant need of saving the world.

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Efa Farrowgloom for @black-rose4

I hope I got the little details right. Astarion would appreciate it if she could bully his bf into eating his vegetables.

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Rooks for @black-rose4 and @wildfairies

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sending a lil' message to say I love your work and appreciate you putting it out there <3

thank you so much! I really appreciate you sending this and I’m so happy you like them. Hope you have a good day!! 💕

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template from here!

Rook doodles, thank you everyone who sent them in!! i got too many in the end so i went with whoever came knocking first, apologies to the others 😭 also sorry if i got any of the colors wrong, especially something like eye color is hard to see on a screenshot 🥲

these belong to @hawkeish @black-rose4 @bulbwizard @isseya-apologist @pixelizedprince @kiastirling

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— cmm: eVe #Cyberpunk2077

сharacter belongs to @black-rose4

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very important questions: what's Ronnie think of Harding's food?

He weeps every morning for the loss of his beloved's taste buds.

Okay on a more serious note, Ronnie is actually a pretty good cook! He spent a lot of time in the kitchens as a kid, picking up little things here and there, getting a grasp on the basics. When he left for the surface he started craving food from back home, but since Orzammar cuisine is so obscure outside of the dwarven city he had to take matters into his own hands.

Over the years he's gotten pretty good at it, and is probably the one who cooks the most after Lucanis. He mostly cooks surfacer foods though, as most surfacers don't seem to care for Dank Cave Ingredients™ like lichen and deepstalker meat.

He is kinda horrified with Harding's concoctions, and has tried on several occasions to make more palatable versions of them, but Harding really prefers her original drunk college kid versions. I think maybe she surprises him a few times with something that's actually good though, with combos he hadn't really considered before, so he has to keep tasting all of it just to make sure.

She thinks his Orzammar food is really weird though, so they kinda rib on each other for liking weird shit haha. He does however cook most of the food in their household post-game, and Harding doesn't mind much as long as it doesn't get too weird. They probably have days where they just agree to make and eat their separate Weird Meals (still eating together at the table though, of course).

Anyways thanks for asking and sorry for derailing lmao

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Really fun and different commission for me to work on from @black-rose4. These designs are Efa's battle axe and how it evolved as their D&D campaign progressed.

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🍓🍓 - one for caerilla pls, one for dealers choice

send me a 🍓 and one of my OCs for a random fact about them

here's a little caerellia lore drop that i've certainly talked about before but it's one of my favorite bits of the lore from her game: her family runs a place called the asperan citadel, which is one of the biggest repositories for relics and books in the plane system, and the people that work there are called aspirants, a position that caerellia has been trained for. the aspirants take care of the relics but one of their more infamous duties is transcribing historical texts and using magic to see the historic events playing out in front of their eyes like a magical light show, so that they can have more accurate depictions. the lights from the magic usually cause them to go blind, though the time frame depends on how much work they've done and how much they've seen. sometimes this work has also been known to cause the aspirants to go a little bit insane. one of the ancient aspirants that trained caerellia gets confused and ends up believing that he is a historical figure from whatever his latest project has been.

for number 2, i'll chat about my girl talia gay bc i've been playing her a bit today! she is a classic handy dyke with lesbian audacity who sees a project and thinks "oh, i could do that!" so she's constantly doing projects like building furniture or rebuilding cars. one of her favorite projects was a) rebuilding and modernizing the inner workings of a vintage truck for her future wife and then b) custom designing and building a rack for the back that can fold down into the bed of the truck but also raise up that stores all of her tools (castor, the future wife, is also a construction girlie).