#choices immortal desires spoilers

[livelaughlovecassie]

That is THE most Them™️ moment ever

[hydn-jpg]

redraw of this piece!! i mentioned in that post that i would redraw it at some point and ig that time is now! (i meant to post this before id2 came out but i got really busy so y'know lol better late than never)

i like to think i've improved! still can't draw chairs though haha

side by side comparison under the cut + rambly artist commentary(?):

i still have a long way to go in learning proper anatomy but i think the new pose looks a lot more natural and comfortable! also ~sexier~ perhaps

i tried to make the bg look closer to the actual cg they used in the book, i am arguably better at doing backgrounds now i think! i used to not put a lot of thought into it and just blocked out random shapes and called it a day (okay, i still do that now lol but i put more care into it now !! i try to make the shapes a bit more distinct and actually plan and sketch it out rather than draw some blobs and hope for the best ldkfkhsl). also more colour range(?) to give it a bit more depth!!)

i'd also like to add that i think i'm also better at figuring out compositions now, idk how it is for y'all but when i look at the original my eyes can't help but just fall to the centre, bc there's no focal point(?) or anything that's visually interesting for the eyes to land on. plus with the way it's structured, my eyes just naturally fall to center (+ bottom half bc the skin showing through the rips are bright in contrast to the black) >_> in contrast, in the redraw your eyes are automatically drawn to the face bc it's arguably the most interesting thing on the canvas and thus acts as the visual anchor of sorts (plus there is enough contrast with the background to make cas stand out instead of blend in)

even though i cringe looking at the og i can't help but to also feel endeared bc this was one of the first immortal desires fanart i ever did and also one the first of my posts to do really well! i never expected to get that much attention since i was only posting casually but it really warmed my heart reading all the lovely comments and motivated to draw more :D

it's also really fun seeing how much my art style and techniques have evolved! i don't think i use any of the same brushes i used to use for my old pieces anymore now haha. i also watched the timelapse for the old one and am honestly kind of in awe at how my different my drawing process used to be!!

i still have a lot to learn (esp in terms of anatomy, lighting, shading etc.) but i'm happy with where i am rn! the great thing about being a hobbyist is that there isn't really any pressure for me to improve quickly so i can just take my time haha (except maybe from imposter syndrome but that's neither here nor there)

i think i could've drawn his face and expression a bit better but i think this is a satisfying enough redraw for now!

btw, these are just my thoughts! i am not an art student so the things i said might not be technically correct but this is how i make sense of things in my brain

[mercedesdecorazon]

The Push and Pull of Cas and Gabe (1/2)

(Okay, these guys live rent-free in my head so bear with me. Also this analysis has spoilers and headcanons, be warned.)

So pretty much everyone has been saying that Cas is being sidelined in this book and I think there's a reason for that.

Cas and Gabe are polar opposite people. Gabe is friendly, kind and warm, while Cas is snarky, mean and cold. (That's why people ship them together because opposites attract.)

At the end of Book 1, if you chose the poly route, essentially you're stringing them both along which they both are aware of and so they're competing even more.

While Gabe is competing by pulling you in closer and closer, Cas is sort of distancing themselves from you and I think there's some reasons for that:

They think MC is better off with Gabe in some way. Because if you choose the poly route in the end of Book 1, Cas says "I know you like Golden Boy/Girl but you like me too." Cas thinks that they're MC's second option.

They were hurt when the Venandis thought they were a traitor. When the Crimson Beech trio were on the run in Book 1 and they almost ran into the three of the Venandis, they overheard them saying that "Cas had been spending too much time with that human." Mind you throughout Book 1, Cas has been defending the Venandis to MC and Gabe and to hear that they thought so low and so little of him... it hurt them deeply. Cas thought that the Venandis were the only family they had and Venandis just accused them of being a traitor with no reason or evidence.

This is my headcanon here so bear with me: Cas is used to be abandoned all their life. They thought that the Venandis would have their back but they were wrong and since MC is with Gabe most of the time, they're worried that MC would abandon them next. So they distanced themselves first so that if MC does choose Gabe, it won't hurt so bad.

That's what I think is going on with Cas. The Canon story may not go into it like I did but us Fanfiction girlies can use these reasons. (And if you do decide to use this analysis for your fanfic, let me know and I'll read it 😊)

Gabriel(a) is next!

[puredoesnotmeankind]

CAS AND MC WANT TO FUCKING EAT EACH OTHER AND I SAY WE SHOULD LET THEM!!!

[gaiuskamilah]

jokes aside, i do actually like cas' backstory especially when put next to how they are with mc. cas postured themself like denise towards mc - the leather jacket, the cool bravado, calling mc "new kid" the way denise did them, and if you're playing with Black f!cas, even the blue dyed hair. but unlike denise cas cares about mc. cas is mc's denise but in the version where denise actually cared about cas.

[sporticus1234]

Kinda curious, for anyone that played today's chapter, did your MC also say they wanted to be with Gabe when Jade asked us to choose one over the other? While I have romanced both, I have a pretty strong feeling that unless there was a default option to choose both, I've always chosen Cas over Gabe, so I'm curious if anyone actually got Cas instead of Gabe. I've noticed that PB is a little...looser with handing out the romance points to Gabe over Cas, so I wonder if that was the reason why Gabe edged out Cas. It's no secret that PB often favors the golden love interest type more over any other love interest type.

But to be fair, if the MC chose Cas, the following scene wouldn't have made a lot of sense. And I'm a little disappointed that there wasn't an option on who to choose for the MC's very first time. It was either Gabe or skip the scene entirely. Might be the one diamond scene I skip in the story when I replay the chapter just because I've already decided on a Cas endgame if the poly-route falls through and we do have to choose one over the other. I just hope they don't automatically default us to one over the other because I will restart the entire series and strictly go Cas for every choice.

Not that I don't like Gabe...but like, you have a whole ass Cas right there...and you expect me to NOT choose him in the end?

[eccentricstate]

Poly ending truthers how we feeling???

[monyrawolf21]

Well, Cas is tall

[farizrz]

Did someone request to make vampire sandwiches?

[livelaughlovecassie]

Hey.

Hey.

Hey!

[m0nchoices]

finally finished immortal desires book 2! honestly i'm pretty satisfied overall, i liked a lot of what we got and rly only have like. one complaint tbh

so tldr; glad terri's keeping her memories, happy to officially pair up with both vampires, and very glad there's gonna be a book 3. hopefully without ai please please please

longer thoughts:

excited for the larger role terri might be able to have come book 3, since she was allowed to keep her memories this time around. i imagine she won't be the only one though, since the story briefly mentioned libby keeping some memories which like, on that note..

whatever happened to the whole mc's human friends plotline? at the start i thought it'd actually amount to smth but iirc it really doesn't? not even libby really gets much which is odd, considering how much we kept going back to her. it might be a book 3 thing? idk if there was enough setup in that case though

my only other critique was with seth's funeral bc like... again, i don't think they developed him enough to really make me feel much? like, i liked seth but... with how emotional everyone was in his funeral scene, i imagine they thought players would be sobbing and the mark was missed -- on me at least.

like, they had to invent a scene that we never even saw to endear him to us, during the funeral scene which shouldn't be necessary. he really needed a bigger role in this book to make this all work, maybe having him and mc train together (since they're both so new), and tag along during the little exile arc. just something tbh

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but negatives aside, SO so happy we could finally officially be with our chosen vamp. i went w/ both bc im a sucker and i enjoyed the scenes we got. i especially enjoyed:

solely bc it feeds into gabecasmc. i think gabecas has a genuine chance in the next book and im rly excited, happy for mc and all but i rly want all three to be down and shit. idk

and final thought . witches for book 3? with the mention they got at the start of the chapter + the runes on the tree and cas' powers still needing development, i think its the most likely route. wonder what the next collection we'll get will be, maybe mc could learn spells as well? just excited omg

and real final thought fuck this outfit in specific. gabe and cas r so lucky mc is whipped bc i wouldve denied

[mercedesdecorazon]

I want y'all to know that I still stand by what I said: I don't care about these covens and if I had a choice, I would watch the hunters cook them up into bits.

But since the story wants us to be Captain-Save-A-Hoe for these people, I want us to have the opinion to gloat and tell these covens that I saved them for the second time in a row and that I should be respected. I want that for us, PB.

And after this, I'm taking my mother, my boyfriends and Seth if he wants to come and I'm out of that nasty town. We could join the Flagstone Cove if needed. I do not want my MC with those covens at all. They don't deserve her.

[puredoesnotmeankind]

Me after finding out Cas was turned before Gabe:

[gaiuskamilah]

this backstory just does not hit as well with m!cas as it does with f!cas. m!cas is just "yeah i got betrayed by a friend in high school" while f!cas is this

like no wonder shes hurt so bad lmfao she went through a teenage lesbian situationship

[milasky]

Minimal spoiler for ID 2 VIP

The ID series might as well be a villain origin story. In my mind MC is one step away from going completely crazy (as she should). I say let her slaughter everyone.