#gw2 drops

[tesserox]

Streaming GW2NIGHT

with @kasimsrin and @mysteriousgiantwoman now at 5:30PM PST! ¡Vamos!

[heart-of-tyria]

BEHOLD — "Draw two of your comfort characters like this" meme

10/10 absolutely recommend this if you're sad bc this consistently made me burst out laughing whenever I'd zoom out

[commander-henrietta]

Commander Henri

Heehee she's my main,,, a harbinger gremlin

Story !

Henri was a necromancer, alchemist and a student in the college of Dynamics, later becoming an assistant in a lab. She was as snooty and snobby as any other Asura (but even more brilliant, she says), especially passive aggressive and always reminding everyone of her genius. She would always swear up and down that she'd become the boss of everyone in that lab soon.

However, on one unfortunate day, there was an 'accident' at the lab. Some were killed, the rest were injured and escaped. Henri managed to escape as well, only to realize that her entire left arm was missing. It was a long recovery, more mentally than physically. Henri was left-handed and, even as a chaotic Dynamics student, never once anticipated that her pristine lab would end up as nothing but rubble, let alone take her dominant arm with it. Because of this, she was now considered useless, and couldn't get any work anywhere at all.

That 'accident' really bothered her. She was a very diligent and meticulous lab worker and kept things in tip-top shape, how could there be any accident at all? And she (generously) assumed all of the other Asura there were competent. Through some obsessive investigation on her own, and not much to her surprise, the Inquest had targeted the lab. Henri went back to the ruins of that lab and searched for any Inquest hideouts nearby.

Once she found it, she trashed the entire place with her necrotic minions and deadly elixirs. She tore off the arm of a golem, and tuned it into a prosthetic arm. Even if it was a crappy substitute, it still was better than nothing. It made her feel a little better, but she hides the arm by wearing a long sleeve and a full glove. Of course, she trained herself to do things with her other arm. Even while having a prosthetic, there are endless scenarios that could end horribly with it.

Losing her arm gave her a new perspective of things, realizing how quick Asuran society discards you for any little reason, your fault or not. Her Asuran arrogance fizzled out mildly, and she stopped using terms like 'Bookah'. She has a new boundless hatred for the Inquest, and laughs in the face of chaos and danger. She decided to go off on her own, distancing from Rata Sum. That made her perceived as a 'weirdo' and outsider, now that she finds more comfort being with the other races and other outcasted Asura.

With the threat of the Elder Dragons becoming more prominent every day, Henri became a commander in the Pact and later on joins Dragon's Watch even before its creation.

[lady-quen]

The roleplayer desire to write Mael a bit with someone's muse vs the cringefail main character syndrome fear because Commander OC, smh

I have a vision but this is me when I try to talk about it in a large(ish) fandom. Anyway. Hides my shame in tags

[ravens-lodge]

I just think he's neat

[squidaped-oyt]

Sylvari commanders watching everyone succumb to Jormag's influence at the start of the Icebrood Saga:

[brainiacmaniac]

Recently I was able to model for a magazine I have not yet been on the cover of! I look absolutely stunning! Behold my great looks.

[rata-whitz]

my Gay old man farmer cowboy goblin Kurrt that Kiqo did for me @kiqo-gw2-corner I love him so much he's shaped like a cube and he's 2.5ft tall

[wilsons-journey]

I really like this new emote from the BL Chest. Now time to apply some emote glitch to it :3c hehehe

[moth-tea-merchant]

was doing some shiz on Faolain in the grove and I was struck with the memory of how I once went and rez'd someone who fell and died from That Vista (u all know the one) they say "ty" and I go to /bow @ them but end up deleting the / out of habit and just said "bow" at them

They did bow and the comment was in character but god I've never felt so bitchy in my life

[tesserox]

I'M BAAAAACK

After a hiatus because of moving issues and problems, I'm happy to announce that not only have I fulfilled the millennial dream of actually purchasing a home (well, it's a townhouse, but it's SOMETHING), but I will also be streaming again tonight!

With only a handful of days left before I start working again, I best get on this alternative revenue stream (not that I expect to make anything from it LOL) because work is threatening to be spotty.

So come join me tonight for some GW2! Drops start today and Zula needs to finally have HER ONE TRUE WEAPON! Will be doing some base story before poking at housing and Janthir Wilds. Gonna have some fun starting at 5:30PM PST!

[king-there0f]

I, MATTHIAS

Breaking my tumblr hiatus and realizing I never posted my final piece for @gw2-zine woopss

[kp2brukgaming]

edited: add picture for sweetener!

hey tumblr, i have sudden random thought

between Pact Commander and Warrior of Light, WoL has much stronger mental fortitude.

only because WoL have amazing support system. WoL's immediate circle support them fully, has expressed so clearly, has acted thus. In each expansion, there will always moments where NPC (be it from scions, other NPC, or even random NPC) shares heart-to-heart moments with WoL. share their feelings, hear their thoughts. Your friends is there for you, even your enemies believes in you, even the star Herself will catch your tears. The bonds WoL forged between lives they encounter in their journey made them strong, strong enough to stand in the face of Universal Despair.

Commander... not so much. It was battle after battle. when the smokes clear, everyone disperse to do whatever on their own. It seems like they gave away a bit of themselves until theres nothing left. The only friend commander has that 100% trusted and support them is killed and the narrative never allow cmdr grief for him. they dont know when will they ran out of their 'it is what it is' and what will they do when that time came. They cant stop, if they stop, the despair will catch up to them. They have to keep running.

you know,

make WoL Commander's friend. I really wanna see WoL comforts Commander. WoL has aura that made people around them open up their hearts, so maybe this time we can start to heal cmdr's heart for real wwww

[gristlegrinder]

me and some guildies finally did the lonely tower tonight—anybody have any idea what location this could be? potential teaser for somewhere in the next expansion?

[mistfallengw2]

This is about to get rambly, but I headcanon that queerness is a completely normal fact of life in Tyria and that no one really bats an eye about whatever floats your boat, be it gender identity or who you want relationships with.

Labels are just vague descriptors for those who want to say “that specific thing” in fewer words. To an average person in Tyria it's like finding out there's a word specifically for “person who eats just vanilla and chocolate ice cream” and just going “oh cool that's me”, but they're rarely used in general conversation unless that becomes the topic of discussion and thus not known by many. Due to it being so normal, there might still be some general genuine ignorance about queer identities one hasn't experienced within their own social bubble, but it's not seen a big deal, while actually "challenging" others' existence is seen as a pretty scummy thing to do.

That said, of course different races and cultures had their own words for certain things and slightly different points of view: charr and asura are more culturally used to temporary/open relationships and even polyamory, due to their societal structure and lack of "marriage" in the human sense of the word; humans and charr are under societal pressure to procreate no matter who you're sharing beds with, because of their wartime circumstances; gender matters little in general, and gender-based discrimination is a thing only in specific instances/communities, usually in more "traditional" settings and often in negative ways, like the Sons of Svanir and the old Flame Legion; humans are the ones who most obsess about marriage, though often for reasons beyond simple romance; norn don't care who wants to smooch/marry who, as long as they're worthy of each other; sylvari are still relatively new to life, so they've been the more open ones so far; etc.

Also also, I headcanon that the Tyria Pride event is a minor festival that originated in Lion's Arch not long after its first reconstruction under Cobiah Marriner.

It's not known how it started exactly, but at first it was just a “let's celebrate different races working together as one" kind of event, rowdy, very pirate-y and held in the taverns and ships across town with little fanfare and plenty of drinking, and it became a recurring thing. Then, smaller celebrations of love started getting lumped in as couples (especially mixed ones, as Lion's Arch was the first place that officially recognized them) chose to get married at the same time of those events, and eventually it evolved and consolidated into an annual event sponsored by the city.

As the event grew in popularity, even non-residents wanted to join the celebrations, but only in recent decades it turned into a march across Tyria. First it started as independent groups in major cities (primarily Rata Sum, Hoelbrak and Divinity's Reach) organized themselves to follow merchant routes towards Lion's Arch, as their journeys evolved into smaller celebrations of their own before the big one at their destination. While unofficial, the numbers of participants in these extra marches swelled each and every year, and eventually they were counted as part of the event by most. Then, after the treaty was stipulated between the Legions and Ebonhawke, a big collective effort was made to connect all of those marches into a single one and extend it so that the event could start in the human city, and it got consolidated after the Pact's victory against Zhaitan proved once more the strength of all races working together.

Tyria Pride is still a minor festival by Tyrian standards, but even if not all can join the weeks of marching and partying across Tyria, it remains the biggest celebration of love in all of its forms and across all barriers.

[rosewoodroad]

Y’all I just realised--

The fact that everybody was so busy that they couldn’t attend Rama’s party? It’s a good indicator of how isolated the Commander must feel as well.

Dragon’s Watch, the Commander’s family, now have lives that no longer revolve around the Commander. Marjory and Kasmeer can’t even respond to Gorrik’s mail, and it’s easy to imagine the Commander’s letters meet the same neglect.

We also know Rytlock is busy politicking, Canach is running his business, Braham is still recovering, and obviously Taimi and Yao are busy as hell with the jade supply issue.

Without the dragons, without the bloodshed and war, nobody has a reason to hang around the Commander anymore.