#blacksmith girl

[ahammz]

Sun Haven's blacksmith, Lynn

[leidensygdom]

And another outfit for the OC Outfit challenge! This time it's Adallind, a Centaur forge Cleric for @/seanjhermanart on instagram! I have never drawn a horse centaur until now which I'm a bit ashamed to admit. I've had dragontaurs, griffontaurs, mantaurs, but somehow not a normal horse centaur. Not like I've drawn many horses--

Anyhow, I wanted to play a lot with the forge aesthetic and went with a blacksmith/fire theme here. And somehow, green is also on the menu, since it's Adallind's favourite. All in all a very challenging piece, but one I'm quite proud of!

[moxpunk-art]

Gobtober Day 2: Blacksmith

Need something hammered out? Look no further than the most-reliable smith in town! She's been itching for some rare materials to work with to prove her mettle with metal!

[withdenim]

Lullaby <3

[reticulathefirst]

Today I made an Axe

It has a heart on it because I love it

[bitchfitch]

I've started playing Potion Permit, and so far it's one of my favorite games I've messed around with, but the most big brained move the devs made was giving you a dog on day 1, and then making that dog able to track NPCs and lead you directly to them no matter where they are in the town.

[springspiritsummoning]

youre telling me that xilonen invented a special glue that lets her walk up and down walls

[icapturedthecastle]

Dammon's letters to Karlach, depending on whether or not she went back to Avernus

[itsclydebitches]

Let's tally things up, folks!

Ruby's entire depression arc is "resolved" by a one sentence exchange wherein she just... decides she's better now? 'Is this the message?' Ruby asks, on her knees in front of a not at all subtle broken piece of glass. 'That I'm just supposed to give up?' and then literally the next moment she sees Crescent Rose, the weapon she's been flinching from because it represents all the failures she hasn't actually grappled with this season, and decides that depression and suicidal ideation are for losers. Let's go fight a randomly evolved cat!

The group still doesn't care about Ruby's Volume-long struggle. What are you talking about, evil kitty? Ruby's never been confused, or weak, or feeling like she's broken. We're oblivious to all that. That's why we follow her, because we can easily ignore everything that's going on in her life and instead just focus on ourselves. Didn't she have a breakdown a couple of hours ago about having to lead all the time? Should we really be announcing the moment she steps out of the tree that we expect her to be in charge again? ... nah, it's fine!

I guess the overall message is that any and every horrific act is excusable because you're just being yourself? Sorry we doomed a Kingdom and have actively helped Salem in trying to take over the world. The horrors we've enacted are good things though because it means we're being ourselves.

Ruby is conveniently the only Ascended who retains all her memories. Can't have the protagonist undergoing any kind of actual change, after all.

Neo throws herself into the tree despite that going against every iota of her characterization. Will we ever see her again? Who knows.

Is the blacksmith lady Alyx? I still have no idea.

Jaune is made young again, because of course he is. Love that they act like this is some curse he's suffered from - "It's been so long..." - and not an actual life lived across several decades. If I got stuck somewhere for twenty-ish years and then someone tried to magic me back to my 18 year old self I'd be like wtf? No? I'm not a teenager??? Will the show ever acknowledge that Jaune is actually an old man in a de-aged body now? I doubt it, considering this plot-line had no impact on his personality, skill, or outlook.

Also love that the brothers' story is treated like this wonderful tale of growth and exploration. The blacksmith is going on about how amazing it is that you don't know what you'll get when you create something, tone all fond for the demi-gods that have left her world to toy with new ones, and I just wanted one of the characters to start screaming about all the horrors they've caused. They killed an entire population in one fell swoop and have cursed two individuals for funsies, with the entirety of Remanent permanently under threat of annihilation if they don't meet the Gods' ambiguous standards of unity. Oscar didn't fall into the void because if Ozpin had been there he would have gone feral and attacked the blacksmith with his bare hands.

We're heading back to Remnant and Ruby still doesn't know that Jaune killed Penny! Ruby didn't even get her sword back. Or consider her in the tree therapy session. Why was killing her off necessary again? Oh yeah, Jaune angst🙃

We got a "when you're needed" from the blacksmith, so expect that time-skip in Volume 10. Can't wait to see how much important stuff the story skips over...

Also, this is so minor in the grand scheme of everything else, but I YELLED when Summer admitted that she'd lied about the mission. For nine Volumes these characters have been dragging Ozpin for every problem under the sun including, in Volume 7, for the mysterious disappearance of Summer, only for it to turn out that she LIED about where she was going and on whose orders, setting him up to take the fall when she doesn't come back. Who's going to have Qrow apologize to Ozpin for blaming him for years? Who's going to have Ruby unpack that her whole family is made up of liars and she was foolish to think that anyone, including Ozpin, could survive this war with a completely clean record? Hell, who's going to have Ruby simply tell anyone - including her sister - what she now knows about her mother's death? Not the RT writers, I'd wager.

Especially when they gave us a scene of Summer leaving on what she recognizes may be a suicide mission and leaves a token of affection for one daughter but not the other. Summer is Yang's mom too! Yeeeeeaaah the story is really bad about actually writing that.

Overall this Volume just feels like a colossal waste to me. The story ignored most of what was set up in Volume 8, introduced a world it didn't have time to flesh out, threw in an unnecessarily shocking story line about the hero trying to kill herself, 100% dismissed the ramifications of that, reset everyone so that none of the characters have to actually grow or change, and has now implied that all the plot important stuff - the Atlesians' survival in the desert, trying to ally with Theodore, Salem's next attack on Remnant, the development of most of our B Team, etc. - has occurred off screen.

The only thing this Volume accomplished was getting the bees together, which was something we should have had years ago. That admission hasn't changed their dynamic in any way, or introduced new conflicts (remember, no one cares about Ruby's breakdown, including her correct accusation that Yang has cared more about her girlfriend than her struggling little sister). It's just... there, not queerbaiting anymore, thankfully, but that feels like a very low bar to meet.

2+ months later and all I'm feeling is

[pinkfey]

i may be obsessed.

[artinandwritin]

I forgot to post this haha (that's what being too busy with animation brings you oops) but anyway!! Older gussiri designs bc I think they deserved that (they did have designs in my mind but I had never made a reference for them haha)

Plus some notes on what they're up to at that age! They're so silly <333

[imaitetsuro]

Neko Blacksmith

[kipplization]

Forge cleric Sugi of Koseki Mountain 👹🌄🔔

A sprightly young oni in search of love and ore 💜💜💜

Referenced a costume (that I desperately need) by ArtisansAzureLARP on Etsy :))

[isdiaz]

A shortstack angel whose human persona works as a mechanic and blacksmith. Despite her human form's small size, Vesper hides a massive serpentine angel form.

She operates a large workshop on the outskirts of Kallion, largely keeping her distance from the archdemons who run the city behind the curtains. However, that doesn't mean she never gets involved, and actually works directly under the archangel Juno, who's overseeing efforts to rout Kallion of its demons. A large part of Vesper's blacksmithing involves forging divine anti-demon weaponry for angels who cannot conjure their own weapons yet, or the few human operatives chosen by Juno.

On rare occasions, Juno taps into Vesper herself to work as an agent. She does this sparingly, as Vesper's modus operandi when fighting demons is to take an overwhelming, fully destructive approach with her gigantic angel form.

Most of the time, Vesper is aloof, speaks only as much as necessary, and always has a seemingly irritated look on her resting face. That said, she does tend to show hints of enthusiasm when engaging in things she finds fun, like an interesting smithing project, or a particularly resistant hunting target.

[anthurak]

Okay so...

Given that the Blacksmith never introduces herself as "The Blacksmith", the fact that she was shown carving wooden figures in her workshop, and how The Girl Who Fell Through the World featured a character known as "The Lively Carpenter" who Team RWBY never actually encounters, what are the odds that the Lively Carpenter was just what Lewis called the Blacksmith?

After all, we only see her blacksmithing when communicating with RWBY. Who's to say she wouldn't perform OTHER creative tasks when speaking to different people?

So this is interesting one because on the one hand, I'm inclined to agree simply out of process of elimination, ie; the Blacksmith is kinda the only character we see in the Ever After left who could be 'The Lively Carpenter', and has just enough in common with that description to fit.

But on the other hand... we know that Alyx met with the Blacksmith, however do we know if LEWIS ever met her? It's entirely possible that he could have gone through the Ever After and returned to Remnant without being offered Ascension.

One note that particularly stands out to me is how Ruby clearly DOESN'T recognize the Blacksmith upon first meeting her in the marketplace. Ruby KNOWS the story of The Girl Who Fell Through the World, so if the Blacksmith is, or rather was the inspiration for, the Lively Carpenter, shouldn't Ruby have had at least made some connection?

[misersdream]

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