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Solaire of Astora!

A christmas gift for my stepdad.

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-{{ Corrupted Starcharts }}-

A No Man's Sky RP/Ask Blog following the journeys of two Travellers, Raskol and Onfim, also known as the Twin-Iterations.

Character references and info under the cut, as well as a deeper dive into the blog as a whole. Some liberties may be taken with No Man's Sky's storyline and lore.

-{{ Iteration: Raskol }}-

Pronouns: They/Them

Specialties: Astrocartography, Cosmology, Language, Agriculture, Communications.

Raskol is an incredibly old Traveller, one who claims to have been around since the early days; they have lived more lifetimes than they care to count. Taciturn and a bit socially stunted, it was until very recently that Raskol largely kept to themself. They dip their hands into many different projects and fields, but their work begins and ends with, well, the beginning and end of the universe. Known for being particularly grumpy, Raskol is finally learning how to relax and be a bit more... well, fun. It's probably the Nipnip. Particularly sensitive to the v̴͔͒̕ͅo̵͓͑̉i̵̧͇͋̊d̵̗̻̆.

Trivia:

Commander of Korvax freighter CS-16 Parhelion

Overseer of Korvax settlement Okinowa's Blight

Primary starship is a Sentinel Interceptor, callsign: Purged-EVA

Often settles on paradise, swamp, or desert planets

Runs a pirate radio station alongside Onfim; Raskol broadcasts from Isdoraijung Galaxy

Cultivated a strain of Nipnip that will knock your boots off

Spent many lifetimes convinced they were a Korvax entity

Difficult to anger, but their anger sure is terrifying

Raskol's Tags:

Character Tag

Travels

Broadcasts

-{{ Iteration: Onfim }}-

Pronouns: They/It

Specialties: Tech Development, Mechanics, Piracy, Smuggling, Hacking and Data Siphoning.

A much younger Traveller, Onfim met the early legs of their journey with unbounded enthusiasm and optimism. They were reckless and feared little. Onfim loved to dig for information, to pull things apart and study them, but trouble only followed when they dug too far and found only c̵͚͖̝̈́r̸͚̀̇i̵̗͐̒m̷̨̧͑s̴͈͚͗̿o̴̬̜̅n̶͖̓͐̈́ and g̷̩͂̀l̴̡̠͊̔͝a̵̭̲̻͗ś̴̢̄s̵̗̱̀̇. They're back now, though, feeling more stable and yet incredibly discordant. The more social of the Twin-Iterations, Onfim is eager to meet with others and constantly be in a crowd.

Trivia:

Commander of Korvax freighter CS-22 Tresserhorn

Overseer of Vy'Keen settlement Sajiru's Crossing

Primary starship is a particularly nasty Sentinel Interceptor, callsign: Hellrider

Frequently settles on paradise, dissonant, or anomalous planets

Runs a pirate radio station alongside Raskol; Onfim broadcasts from Eissentam Galaxy

A bit of a silly goose to the point of being a menace to society

Deathly afraid of lightning storms

Their physical form seems to stutter, glitch, and lag

Onfim's Tags:

Character Tag

Travels

Broadcasts

-{{ OOC Blog Info }}-

Hi, call me Shy! I'm the fool running this blog, my main is @blackcr0wking, and I have an art blog - @blackcr0wkingart - as well. I've been playing No Man's Sky since 2016, and have fallen off now and then, but currently play fairly actively on PS5. My PSN is saintvoid if anyone would like to add me and/or meet up!

Posts on this blog are made both in and out of character depending on content as well as my energy levels at the time. In- and out-of-character posts are usually tagged as such, though I tend to make clearer distinctions in the text of posts as well, as follows:

》 Raskol's broadcasts are denoted by purple symbols, and ten-.. -kzzkt- ..-o have very little interference.

-{{ Out of character text posts will be in brackets, like so. }}-

》 Onfim's broad-.. -kzzzkt- ..-oadcasts are marked with - with orange symbols, and their corrup-.. -kzzk- ..corrupted signal is - is - is evident in text.

I also have No Man's Sky playlists! Check them out here:

Fell Into A Black Hole But It's Fine // A simple, chill, lo-fi playlist with songs that felt (to me, at least) like calmly drifting through space in your starship, or slowly wandering planetside. Chill beats to explore the galaxy to, if you will.

Corrupted Starcharts // A little bit weird, a little bit sad, and a little bit silly, this playlist somewhat centers around my interpretation of both the canon of No Man's Sky's story, as well as the journeys Raskol and Onfim have undertaken. If I'm being completely honest, it's a collection of songs I'm picturing silly little NMS animations/music videos to. For best/most fun results, shuffle.

-{{ Tag Directory }}-

I'm a monster with an insatiable need to sort things, so I figured this could potentially be helpful to newcomers. Commonly used tags are as follows:

Answered Asks

Vibes

Other Travelers

Memes

Planetary Records

Artworks

Bases

Filler

Old NMS

Queue

Scheduled Posts

And I think that about covers it, thanks for reading! Inbox is always open for questions and such both in- and out-of-character. :)

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hello youths! 🥰🫶🏻 story time!

the above pics are from 1997: spring (pic 1) & fall (pic 2) --

(btw -- @blackcr0wking was just over 2 yrs old & already drawing! 🥺🥺🥺)

-- & here is how we got pics of ourselves (ie: selfies; we didn't really call them anything but "OOC pics," haha) online in the 90s:

you got friends to take them (the 1st pic was taken by my friend in her car), or you used, say... a ruler to push the button on yr camera that was precariously set ~just so~ on yr dresser (pic 2.)

you wasted a LOT of film; it was embarrassing asf to bring it to get developed if you were using a standard or those one-time cameras.

then you either had a scanner, a friend with a scanner, or in my case POST-MAILED yr pics to an online friend with a scanner... and THEY got them online for you... & then mailed the OG photos back.

phew.

basically, in the 90s world of BBS's, IRC, & AOL, you were ~hot shit~ if you had photos of yrself online. 💅

ps: pic 2 is one of only TWO shots that remotely worked out, out of 16 sheets of polaroid film.

in the IRC/AOL roleplay days (WoD: VtM/WtA, MtA, VtDA, & just any medieval fantasy) we used ourselves as our char pics ...

(y'all call them PB's now & idk what that stands for? help? 🥺)

& i was playing an old-clan tzimisce vampire named nakita taktarov, lolol, & ohhh, but this was considered a banger photo back then. 😬😬😬

by like 1999 people started using fantasy art or celebrity photos for char pics/PBs, & the bottom of our IC profile page would credit artist/name celeb.

& oh yes -- those who could draw their own characters were highly envied!

& that's how selfies & PBs were in the mid to late 90s.

like, now i wanna get into how long-distance/online friendships worked in the 90s... 🤔

::sighs in autism hyperfix & drops into porch chair; half-heartedly waves random kids off with her cane.::

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He Is The Moon. She Is The Sun.

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@blackcr0wking‘s Thames! We decided to do a little art trade bcus we havent in forever, Rough Boy Edition. I accidentally fucked it over with that orange pen lmao, so its kind of...overworked ,sorry about that! I think the nose n hand r pretty good tho.

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the gang's all here! my little quartet of No Man's Sky characters. the first three have been finished for a while but i've had so much trouble designing Threnody, lmao.

under the cut is some info about these funny little space guys

Iteration: Raskol is, by an incredibly large margin, the eldest of the four. They've been around since the beginning, along with a handful of other Travellers. Raskol was humanoid, once, and lost their life while working and living on Korvax Prime. In the World of Glass, they stole the carapace of their Korvax partner, inhabited it as their own, and escaped. They have lived this way since, stealing or building new bodies before every 16th death.

Iteration: Onfim is considered a sibling to Raskol. During a rather violent death of theirs in the Odyalutai galaxy, a fragment of their soul broke away, forming into its own entity which spawned into a universe all his own... which proved to be incredibly unstable. Shunted out of his own universe and into his sibling's, most of his body had to be rebuilt at the Space Anomaly. Living large as a pirate, all the reckless anger that Raskol no longer has seems to be Onfim's bread and butter.

Iteration: Kestrel's origins lie entirely separate from the Twin Iterations. Not much of an explorer, more of a hunter, she was often contracted alongside bounty hunters and pirates alike taking out "big game"... meaning Titan Worms, Biological Horrors, and the like. After a job hunting a Cosmic Leviathan went awry (that shouldn't have happened in the first place), Kestrel lost an eye, was deafened, and sent to the World of Glass in a crashed hauler. She avoids her old life these days, becoming more of a historian and archaeologist.

Iteration: Threnody is, perhaps, the baby of the family. The result of a glitch, or perhaps the Abyss' meddling, Threnody is only a Traveler in part. It was a Living Ship, once, who perished alongside its pilot, its beloved friend. Something in their data scrambled, and they awoke together, alone, in a new body. At this point, Threnody doesn't particularly know what to do with itself, simply following where the others lead, mapping the stars, until it finds its calling.

[blackcr0wkingart]

Jesus of Nazareth told Mike of the Weeds: "I was born at this time for a reason, you see. When I'm dead, I'll be dead a long time; but the wine's so pleasing and so sublime."

- Sins of My Father, Tom Waits

doodled (and then stayed up too late coloring) my grave cleric Senka to. try and keep focus on dnd during dnd yesterday, lmao. i've had so many other OC things in my brain rn, so many sketches i need to finish...

our party ate at a fantasy Denny's inside the petrified corpse of a Purple Worm and our DM threw out a string of the like 5 best and funniest NPCs we've ever encountered. we could not keep ourselves together for more than 10 mins lmao. it was basically a beach episode.

[blackcr0wkingart]

You've been completely alone in the universe for a long time. Weeks? Months? Years? It doesn't really matter. You've been alone with your own thoughts, worst nightmares, and God on Its deathbed for company. This is no life.

You decide to die.

When you survive the crash- barely- you finally see someone. Someone like you. A ghost more real than any hologram at a grave, more real than even you.

They make you an offer. The softness of their voice, the sweetness of their words makes it easy to ignore the malice in that violet eye. You consider it.

But the offer is not as comforting as it sounds, and the choice is not yours- or theirs- to make.

Layers and layers of No Man's Sky AUs, baby. Or, rather, two of them crashing together. Took some liberties with the story around the current expedition, Adrift. We've been.. Very Normal about it over in the WoGL discord. :^)

This art brought to you by BT's 1.618 (x) and viewers like you.

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i've been struggling to draw lately so here have a silly doodle

we ran a little hunger games simulation in the No Man's Sky discord i'm in and. Raskol, my baby who is so chill that it's a little scary, immediately committed a lot of murder. i think they had 2nd place in the kill count

maybe doodling more of those shenanigans will kick the art block away lolcry

[blackcr0wkingart]

I'm awake for the midnight howl coyote croon; I'm awake when I meet the devil crawling in my room. He tells me,

"You're gonna wake up the sun. You're gonna hate what you've done."

Izzy, baby, you're not lookin' too good.

(experimenting with lineart and color, a little. but this paper sux)

[blackcr0wkingart]

izzy with space buns..... that's it that's the post

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These are from a few weeks ago, i was planning on doing some fun refs for my... five... No Man's Sky OCs, but I have yet to finish the last one. Height accurate and all. :')

Left to right are Raskol, Onfim, and Kestrel.

Raskol is the oldest of the three, a once-humanoid cosmologist who has lived far too long by finding or creating new bodies before every 16th death. Onfim is sort of Raskol's younger brother, but they're also the same person; a fragment of Raskol's soul "broke off" during one of their stints in the World of Glass, and formed into its own, new being. Kestrel is a former big game hunter turned archeologist and historian. After a hunt for a Leviathan went... as bad as it could have and then some, she left that life to pursue quieter interests.

There are two others, Threnody and Yamazyv, that i've still got to finish...

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these Mirandas have been in my drafts since march so. uh. here you go.

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DOG

fiddling around with a new look for my No Man's Sky OC, Raskol. I got really attached to their new, more robotic appearance in-game after a recent update and. Well. Couldn't resist changing their design lmao

This design probably isn't completely final (there are some things i'm not happy with yet), but it's a pretty decent start :'D There are lore reasons for the new design but.. still working on that :'3

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my No Man's Sky characters, Onfim (left) and Raskol (right), taking a little smoke break at one of Raskol's bases.

referenced from one of my screenshots ✨️

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Messages you'd tucked away for keeps have resurfaced to be heard amidst the butchery and beaks. You don't want the passengers to pass, you want each cow taxidermied fatter than the last.

trying to just let some sketches be sketches lately. here's that spooky little AU version of my NMS OC, Raskol, again. meant to post this a few days back and forgot, lmao.

lyrics from Crows 1 by Aesop Rock.