#c: lifebinder ranuk

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look at my sweet boy swing!

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your tag didn’t work but i found him anyway! hehehe

i love your traditional style, pen is such a good medium. and you made everyone look *so* expressive! ranuk looks much more noble than he deserves, haha. thanks so much! ♥♥♥

Went to the VS Art Party today with Emery and Mórgacht! It was super fun seeing everyone! I was hanging out with the charr pile in the corner, so here we have Charr belonging toooo @Drakeheart @thelifechaotic @ratasum @legionnaireintraining @meeeeeeese @full-of-skritt , and @the-cooler-sidestep !

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ranuk got some fancy new armor bits today

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got to join my first art party tonight! it was crowded, but i had fun. :)

i brought my goofy olmakhan boy, Ranuk and got @full-of-skritt to join me on his handsome boyfriend, Speratus. ain't they cute? ♥

i didn't get to take as many screenshots as i wanted because my sick-brain kept zoning out hard... but i at least got some fun ones from our little charr group, and will post them up soon with tags for the lovely folks i got to meet.

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our initial lineup and some dancing silliness!

from left to right:

Speratus Rapidstorm (@full-of-skritt)

Yamato Demonhunter (might be wrong last name, and i missed their tumblr too... :c)

Lifebinder Ranuk (me!)

Shaw Lostname (@legionnaireintraining)

Varro Hawkpaw (@the-cooler-sidestep)

apologies if i mistagged anyone, i was struggling to keep things straight through all the chaotic chat scrolling. x)

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olmakhan tea is the best tea!

you made ranuk look way too cuuute, ugh. all of them do! so soft... ♥

sand charr having a tea party

Sandshifter Bambi, Lifebinder Ranuk, and my gal Yana Shandshifter @drakeheart

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been going through my unused screenshots and sometimes you just get a gem of a facial expression

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Tell us about your cats that are in a relationship <3

sure, why not! also i lied, there's actually three, and they're all in relationships with characters my partner @full-of-skritt created, so check them out too! they got some good kids.

Felix (right) is in a tumultuous relationship Cole (left), a sylvari ranger who he met in Caledon after taking an accidental detour on a trip to Rata Sum. Cole offered to guide him to his intended destination, and by the end of the trek they were fast friends. they kept in contact, writing letters and occasionally visiting, too shy to admit their growing feelings for each other.

years later, the two were properly reunited when they both joined the Pact. they gladly worked together again, sticking side-by-side through Scarlet's uprising and all that follows, right up to the assault on Maguuma. then, of course, disaster strikes.

after the crash, Cole finds himself answering the call of Mordremoth, and Felix makes some difficult decisions that end with him saving Cole from total corruption, but losing most of his warband to the mordrem. they make it out alive, but their relationship is heavily damaged, with Cole traumatized and permanently changed by the dragon's influence, and Felix stricken with grief and guilt over the deaths of his friends that he can't help but blame himself for.

it takes a long time, but they gradually help each other come to terms with what happened and heal from it. in doing so, they finally admit to each other how they really feel, and begin a relationship in earnest.

Ranuk (left) is in a casual relationship with Speratus (right), an Ash legion elementalist who was placed on a "temporary" leave due to his stress-induced paranoia interfering with missions. Ranuk met him while exploring Southsun--or rather, ran right into him while fleeing from some particularly vicious karka, which Speratus promptly dispatched. the two got to talking, and Ranuk offered to try and help him work out his trauma "issues" through some Olmakhan methods, in return for Speratus providing him some extra protection on his journeys across Tyria. Speratus agreed, as anything was better than lying around on a beach with nothing to do. over the course of their travels together, they became good friends, and then a little more.

(and then the civil war happens, and Speratus is recalled to duty. we're still discussing exactly what that entails for them, as my partner hasn't actually gotten to play through IBS yet, but it'll probably be very sad and dramatic. charr do be going through trauma.)

finally, we have Sorex (right) and Vitalis (left), a pair of older gladium and fellow necromancers who both experienced the tragic loss of their respective warbands--Sorex to the Ascalonian ghosts, and Vitalis to the Flame Legion. feeling betrayed by charr society after their demotions, the two met and took solace in their shared experience, bonding fiercely. they decided to form their own secular warband, regardless of Legion approval--the Grave warband, functioning more like a family unit than a military one.

at some point, they adopt an orphaned female charr named Lexia and raise her as their daughter, teaching her important life skills such as how to properly scribe necromantic marks and which types of corpses are best for crafting a flesh golem. but with Lexia grown and on her own path, the two now spend their days adventuring together, chasing tales of ghosts and exploring ancient Ascalonian ruins, and generally just being a couple of feisty old coots--alongside their horde of well-loved undead minions.

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Do you like to share some Headcanons about your cats? <3 Maybe what they like to eat, quirks or things they like to do in their free time

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sure! i picked three characters that i haven't received an ask for yet: Amara, Ranuk, and Felix.

as far as food, Amara has pretty typical charr tastes, preferring grilled meats above all else. she likes her steaks especially peppery, blackened on the outside, but still juicy in the middle. she also has a not-so-secret love for norn-brewed mead.

Ranuk is autistic, and certain situations can trigger sensory overloads and cause him to shut down. he stims as a way to deal with this, his major stim being pulling on and stroking his own tail. doing this too much wears away the fur, so he wears tail wraps to protect the places where it's gone thin.

Felix uses his holosmithing talents not only for combat, but also for art. in his spare time, he likes to build miniature hard-light constructs, usually in the form of stylized animals. he's very shy about his hobby, and only gives them to people he fully trusts.

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aaah, you perfectly captured his goofy anxiety-face! your style is really good, i love this so much. thanks! ♥♥♥

got dragged to an art party in Gw2 with @morgacht on a whim so I had to draw some of the handsome battlecats that I got to stand next to Look Cool with!

@drakeheart - Lifebinder Ranuk

@legionnaireintraining - Shaw Lostname

@full-of-skritt - Speratus Rapidstorm