#crow txt

[crow-mortis]

daniil and artemy ain’t beating the allegations in changeling route. those are homosexuals, your honor.

[mohntilyet]

my initial knee jerk reaction to lucanis/spite saying "family, enemies, contracts" was bad because it felt like an oversimplification but actually thinking on it i really love that lucanis forces himself into this box to make things make sense in his life. family is unconditional, enemies are to be killed, but contracts is so. interesting... man who promises mila that he will find her father because he does not fail contracts. the same man who tells effe that he will kill her slaver because he needs to turn her from a poor young woman that he sympathises with, into someone he can make a deal with. it's not kindness, it's not weakness, he's just fulfilling a contract, and crows don't break contracts. if he kills a bunch of racist blood mages during that process, then he's not breaking the rules, just bending them. a very convenient excuse to be a good man while still being a crow and assassin. and of course when spite is forced into him, he gets out of it with something familiar! by making another deal! something he could work with, something he HAS to work with, because being just an abomination is unthinkable. if he can work himself out of this problem like he's done with every other contract in his life, in his mind maybe there's some tiny chance that this becomes another job that he can claw his life back from.

[minyooon3012]

[cable-salamdr]

When the fandom normalizes characters swearing so much that it takes you a second to remember that the actual media has (little to) no swearing

[sharksliveontrains]

sooo funny to me when inej is like "kaz can always tell when I;m there. after the first time he told me not to sneak up on him again I kept trying but never could." and then kaz is just like "i always know when inej is there because i always want her to be there❤️"

[definitelynotshouting]

hunger au chap 11 is UP i am too exhausted to make a pretty post rn but I WILL DO SO LATER O7!!!!!

[ilumel]

not to be dramatic about crow’s haircut but it marks such a beautiful moment of character development for him. he finally met cayde, the man uldren killed, whose memory crow carried for years with a crushing sense of guilt, grief, and responsibility…and crow was welcomed by him instead of hated.

it allowed him to move forward. at least to an extent.

crow considered cayde to be one of the last pieces of his past life that he could never allow himself to be forgiven for—he was trapped by the knowledge of what his hands had done when they had been uldren’s. he kept uldren’s haircut like a punishment, an eternal reminder of the pain he had caused. i don’t think it’s a coincidence that the moment cayde embraced him as freely as he did, crow finally allowed himself to let go of that last physical tether to uldren.

he cuts his hair, and sees a new face in the mirror. his own. one that looks like him, not cayde-6’s murderer. he will always carry that pain, just as he will always honor cayde’s memory with newfound fondness…but now he meets his grief with the warmth and understanding that cayde gifted him. crow is free at last to allow himself to embrace his own identity, having finally been given permission to do so by the only person in the whole galaxy that could have granted it.

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

community that has only seen themselves represented in a small handful of romance stories that aren’t explicitly about their real-world oppression, watching a new show or movie where they are represented in a romantic story that isn’t explicitly about their real-world oppression: getting a lot of “that other show with a queer romance that isn’t explicitly about real-world homophobia” vibes from this

[grimmgrinningghouls]

Bloodborne characters if you asked them to buy you pads but its on tumblr.

[shizunitis]

i think when shizun smiles earnestly, it’s so beautiful and refreshing that everyone’s meridians in a five mile radius are cleansed and reenforced, their bodies purged of all impurities and their heart demons banished, but his smiles are so rare, so precious, it hits everyone like a freight train and leaves them speechless.

but when he’s trying to muffle his laughter—the loud, boisterous, uncontrollable, takes-you-by-surprise kind—i think it looks a bit like a grimace. his nose scrunches like he’s just hit his elbow and he’s trying not to moan about it, the corners of his mouth pinch downwards like when he’s scowling, but just a bit lopsided, and his eyes scrunch up in a way reminiscent of when he scoffs at the contents of a contrived story. the skin of his cheeks folds with the movement, his smile lines deepen and stretch, and he has shallow dimples on his chin when he pushes his bottom lip upwards to hold back his amusement.

he knows he looks ridiculous, so he attempts to stomp down any reaction whenever something funny happens at inopportune moments (which is always, in his mind—he should never look so undignified, immortal master that he is), attempting at a stony, unmoved expression, but it slips through sometimes.

thing is, he does look a bit ridiculous, a bit odd—but everyone, when they witness it, is enraptured. when the fan flutters, snaps open, and censors it, they all heave a disappointed sigh inside their hearts, and get back to what they were doing, now half a measure more wistful than before.

[crow-mortis]

Actual photo of me looking at all the love my paintings are getting on here. 😭🥺

[mohntilyet]

illario + lucanis growing up together means a lot for obvious reasons ofc like the fact they did not have to go through the dellamorte villa torment nexus alone really helps. immediately from the moment they are taken to that house, lucanis has had something to protect and love. the snark and jokes that they share in wigmaker job finally having a chance to shine outside of the only person lucanis is socialised with and he learns that wow, he's actually likable. because up until this point everyone around him calls him a demon and is freaked out by him but ofc the veilguard only know him as lucanis "he banished harding from the kitchen" dellamorte. sure he's a big bad crow assassin but his reputation simply does not carry that much weight with people who are just equally deranged (maybe a de riva rook but that's also a little different) . and then he's able to share and extend that love with his new friends, and able to try being something that he's not had the chance to before, and his goodness is actively encouraged rather than being an unfortunate sidequest that is tolerated. and i fondly think also of how much of that humor is copied and mirrored off illario ("shoulders....... feeling tight...... need a ..... MASSAGE!") and it's his best experiences with illario that turned him into the man he is. wish the game explored this just a little more because the betrayal would have been made a lot more intense if they had just bothered to show any of illario's redeeming qualities. he has them!!!!! nobody is just born a traitor. you have to love someone before they can become that.

[sharksliveontrains]

I do wonder sometimes whether Kaz did a poor job of teaching Inej lock-picking or if she just couldn’t pick it up as well because they both take the blame in her not having mastered the skill

[fangs-trait]

greying crow \ 28 yo \ real name is unknown \ ENTP

extensive lore below

wears an old mask of a crow with natural feathers. this mask once belongs to the famous black crow (better known as black raven whose more used nickname was kept a secret from greying crow) now in his possession

lives his life as a robber & might become a stalker (bastard route)

stinky and dirty. smells like carrion and blood

could eat a rat. would eat raw meat. most of time just hungry

got spine injury that didn't heal well. he has to wear a corset

he doesn't wash his swords he just throws them away when it gets too dirty or bloody. always buys the most cheap ones. same with his clothes except he just doesn't wash it at all or tries to "wash it" by going in the water clothed

already has visible grey strands due to psychological damage in his youth

motherless behavior. an orphan

got complicated conflict going on with a stalker in a white crow mask. she beat his ass when he tried to kill her off in an attempt of defending his mask's honor

he sleeps in white crow's bed in her house sometimes. they kiss each other's faces and drink wine naked while listening to good new records >:)

white crow really wants him to stop doing robbery and killing and become a stalker with her

the rest of time they mock each other. his most spoken line to her "if we were in the wild i would fucking eat you alive"

was on the way to krat when the game starts. wouldn't even try to come to malum district or main streets cause he doesn't want to deal with puppets or crazy stalkers like black rabbit brotherhood

might potentially die from petrification decease because he was touching infected people he robbed barehanded and maskless

[evenifitshandcuffed]

Leigh Bardugo has me tossing and rolling and giggling under the blankets

[pothosrays]

I drew a little guy with a scarf and hat

this.... this has made my entire week thankyou so much for this ohhhh my god SO COZY