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"Light" snack warlock
11/Jan/24
The original drawing for Charlotte. The idea came from Roze that I should draw a warlock eating their grenade as I kept eating my solar grenade and floating around in the Vox Obscura exotic mission. Also, because I know Roze will probably read this eventually; Hiiiiiiiii, thank you again for the idea,
#illustration#artists on tumblr#Charlotte#oc#destiny#destiny art#d2#destiny fanart#Warlock eating their grenade#wait....#if Charlotte is eating a light grenade and#my name is Light then...#is she technically eating me....?#eh whatever#Light's silly lil posts#art#my art
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Thoughts and doodles
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(Please do not use, or repost my works anywhere without explicit permission from me thank you <3)
#deersart#my art#Psychonauts#psychonauts 2#psychonauts raz#razputin aquato#psychonauts razputin#coach oleander#morceau oleander#psychonauts oleander#truman is technically also there but it’s plant Truman so does it even count#maligula is there to but like Truman she’s not relevant enough to count here#i have so many thoughts#like- how long did it actually take Raz to get to camp#we know he went by horse and got dropped of by a truck at some point#but what else#how long was it#the longer it is the more concerned it makes me#mr eats nothing but candy and the occasional roasted animal#i also have thoughts about morry’s tiny little ‘office’ y’all get this man an actual office smh#raz thought plant Truman’s fire breathing was cool. nuff said.#coach is built like a yam /aff#I’m not as content with that train painting as I’d like to be but hey practice makes perfect y’a know#tw vomit#tw emetophobia#i mean not really really but kinda#saw someone tag it so I figured I probably should just incase
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DP x DC Prompt
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There are no more heroes.
Well, okay. Rewind a bit.
Danny has been doing the hero thing for a while now. He’s had a big reveal; everyone has accepted him (including his parents), the GIW disbanded, the Anti-Ecto acts repealed, and generally, everything is going great. Some of the A-Listers are even training as junior ghost hunters to help give him a break from his rogues! (Being Ghost King makes things hectic sometimes, and he just needs the extra help. Sue him!)
The point is, literally nothing is wrong with Danny Phantom’s afterlife.
And then Valerie Gray, the Red Huntress, disappears in front of his eyes.
Danny is baffled! She’s just…gone! Valerie just popped out of existence, like she was never there. But no matter how hard he searches in the Ghost Zone, he can’t find her soul anywhere. His core isn't broken in grief. So she’s not dead. Which is good. So then, where is she?
Some of the others come forward with ideas on how to find her. A few ghosts volunteer to go out into the mortal realm, an area Danny had declared off-limits, to see if she was out there. Danny approves it. He rounds up some of the friendlier (i.e., discreet) ghosts and Amity Parkers and demolishes the outside travel ban.
So everyone spreads out, looking for their dear frenemy and teammate. But it becomes apparent very quickly that something is wrong with the rest of the world.
There are no more heroes.
Every single living superhero on the face of the Earth has just…vanished. Villains are running amok; the countries are in chaos! Some aliens are invading Earth, mythical deities are trying to take over, and society is crumbling to the ground. Everything is on the brink of collapse.
Well, Danny was still there. And so were his people. They were pretty spread out, so could they just…take up the mantles? He also knew where to find the souls of dead heroes in the Zone; surely they wouldn't mind coming out of retirement for a little bit, especially if they couldn't die again. Oh! And that skeleton army leftover from Pariah Dark's reign might be useful in repelling those invading forces.
Honestly, there were more than enough hands to go around! And with the heroes gone, Danny didn't mind letting everyone out for a little break, as long as they followed his rules. They wouldn't stop the search for the other heroes, but hopefully, when they found them, the heroes wouldn't mind Danny's intervention too much. :)
In other words:
Someone fucks up, and all of Earth's living heroes are either wished out of existence or are whisked away to some far-off realm where Danny hasn't checked yet. In the attempt to figure out what's going on, Danny lets the dead run amok over the Earth as they search for clues. The skeleton army repels the invading armies, the souls of dead heroes deal with the world leaders, and his rogues and other Amity Parkers set up shop in place of famous heroes, trying to get the cities under control again.
Basically, they just do their best to keep everything from imploding until the Justice League and others are back.
(And why is it that Danny hasn't disappeared? Well, whatever caused everyone to go poof! only affected living heroes. Anyone heroes that were dead in the first place, or even just half-dead, stayed behind.)
#pondhead blurbs#danny phantom#dpxdc#reveal gone right au#ghost king au#for plot reasons#it doesn't count if the hero had died and then came back to life#lots of heroes would still be around then#but this is me pushing the halfa!jason todd narrative work with me here he deserves the fun#deadman is there too#and he's just thriving honestly. it's so nice to be around his own kind even if the world is ending#maybe ellie is whooshed away too cause she never technically died but she took up danny's moniker when he was crowned#vlad is ecstatic cause danny put him in charge of several states while they looked for clues including Wisconsin#skulker is replacing superman and just has a shitty S painted on his chest and just eats kryptonite like candy the first time he meets Lex#Kitty and Johnny take over in gotham and sam is now the new wonder woman#idk man just stupid stuff like this#the press is flabbergasted cause the fucking KING OF GHOSTS just showed up and he's 14 and just looking for some friends#Danny: hey guys sorry about the zombies and fire i'm just here to find my coworker and lil sister and maybe the other heroes#Danny: in the meantime i'll just let my army into the mortal realm to defend it while we figure out what's going on pls don't yell at us :)#the press: how do we explain this to the justice league when they come back. how do we explain that earth was saved by a 14 year old boy-#also idk which heroes are technically dead but are still kicking so if you feel like someone deserves liminal status slap it on them idc#some villains are trying for world dominance and some are just trying to find their buddies. their fight buds. where'd they go? :(#joker gets bitch slapped by a skeleton two days in and waylon becomes bffs with wulf#danny uses the watchtower as a base of operations and it's the only thing he doesn't want to give up when the heroes are back#i have no plot ideas beyond this#i just want everyone to be baffled that an army of the dead showed up while they were gone and just made sure everything stayed cool#later danny realizes he was technically the ruler of the world for a bit since his people were everywhere keeping the villains in check
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Had a horrible thought -
What if - Imogen cannot maintain control. Predathos takes over completely. They have to fight their friend, their girlfriend. Its long. Its tough. Its hard. But they do it. Predathos goes down.
Imogen's body remains, cold, lifeless. They beg someone to heal her, resurrect her.
But no Gods answer their call. They just released something to destroy the Gods, so why would any God answer their pleas?
#critical role#bells hells#cr spoilers#technically#it came to me in a dream.#alternatively - maybe the gods do answer#but Predathos is a being that EATS divine magic so none of it actually reaches her#and shes still lost forever#the ultimate version of fuck around and find out ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES
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Even more instances of the fam being up to no good
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Have this as a parting gift 💜
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#jwct#jwcc#jurassic world chaos theory#jurassic world camp cretaceous#ben pincus#darius bowman#kenji kon#sammy gutierrez#brooklynn jwcc#i love you ben youre my boy#yasammy#i mean technically#ben darius and kenji scare me#baldlynn#bald brooklynn#isnt she beautiful#ben get down youll hurt yourself#kenji you can slip i dont give a shit#die Kenji#i mean#be nice to my boy you hear haha see ben we're getting along#no im not holding a gun to his back thats silly go back to eating dinner
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I'M GOING TO LIVE
#lobotomy corporation#lobcorp#lobotomy corp spoilers#lobcorp spoilers#it was intended for 100% abno codex though technically...#library of ruina#angela lobcorp#angela lobotomy corporation#angela lor#eep.. enough tags i hope#the smile she had during the cutscene stuck with me. i got spoiled on what it looked like but the context of it still has me pause#i wanted to try and have it look hurt? a desperate wild thing thats burning with loneliness. a laughter you make when youre rejected by the#very thing you desired and sought after#its hard to describe the feeling. it hurts so much and feels like its eating you inside but it just feels so laughable#it was such an earnest want... to live. project? greater good of humanity? Sickness? What does it matter? what does any of that mean to her?#unable to even see the humanity they wanted to save. only seeing and suffering the horrific steps the project entails. not even having#anyone to call a friend in that eternity. of course... of course she wouldve. oh baby bird#anyways enough semi coherent yappin. the piece still feels like its missing smthn. ehh...
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Give me three kitties...
ignoring the fact it took me months to get to this; mhin acquires a third kitty!!
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a link to my other two posts on this mini-series since it really has been that long:
one kitty
two kitty
#gave myself a little treat drawing this since I got a new drawing tablet today#technically yesterday but whatever#kitty counter:#3#touchstarved#touchstarved game#mhin#touchstarved mhin#mhin touchstarved#im getting the hang of drawing cats#just as a small fun fact to this series#the kitty on mhins shoulder is the one they found first (with white fur)#the second kitty they found is eating away at the cat food placed in the bowl#she's ginger#third is a black cat#enticed by the smell of food and other cats#if there's a next i want to make the next kitty a calico cat#feel free to give me suggestions on different breeds also!!
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asks user why they whitewashed anthy in their recent art (as in, paler even than movie anthy)
gets told to go fuck myself basically
lol
anyway: anthy is brown and if your draw her as paler even that her movie design you've done a racism.
#revolutionary girl utena#utena#technically they told me to “take care of my ass” in french. so i guess that's the equivalent of 'go fuck urself' or 'eat my ass' or smth#this art has over 200 notes#did no-one else think it was just a little. off.#i actually didn't even use the word whitewashing. i just asked why she was pale#and what a childish response from op#all they'd have to do is admit they made a mistake (it can happen) and alter the art huzzah problem solved.#been a while since i've seen whitewashed anthy art tho so there's that at least. at least this isn't the star wars fandom
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"Isn't that what you always wanted?" "That's not what I want!"
Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997) / Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
#rgu#lolita#incest tw#csa tw#please dont take the 'she seduced me' line as me either doubting dolores or nanami. thats not what she wants. so what is it you want?#things that didnt quite make the cut:#nanami and touga's pictures -> lo having a picture of a guy from an ad labled H.H.#the stabbed apple (technically directed towards kanae but its from e32) -> various apple moments in the book#nanami telling touga to leave in e31 -> lo telling H.H. shes not going with him at the end of the book#nanami not allowing miki to move into the ohtori's place on her behalf -> lo not inviting a friend H.H. was interested in over anymore#a frog that eats a fly during a pause in e31 -> a butterfly pinned to a wall when H.H. picks lo up from camp#also considered doing something with nanami moving in with the ohtori's -> lo going off with quilty but it didnt quite work#maybe its unfair on touga to make these comparisons? i could probably make a similar post with utena and akio. but i made this instead. so.
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horror is so BLESSED he's the only one out of the murder time trio that has actual good people trying to influence his story 💔💔 dust and killer were both driven to INSANITY because of the choices of their respective humans but horror??? every time without FAIL the polls for horrortale's plotline have always ended in a good place for aliza (either by bettering her relationships/reputation or for her to just. not DIE)
horrortale's potential alternate timelines my beLOVEd🙏🙏 they're SO lucky that we're being kind and benevolent hehe (≧ω≦) now where are the aus based off the possible different outcomes that could've happened in horrortale HUH???? (like how aliza couldve killed toriel or chosen horror's puzzle or gone with undyne to the core........)
#something something all three of them have their fates determined by an outside force#ermmmm but horror doesn't- yeah he does. what aliza does decides EVERYTHING for horror and horrortale#just because its not direct like dust or killer doesn't mean theyre all subject to the same community x3#PARALLELS MTT PARALLELS FOR THE 500TH TIME THEY HAVE SOOOO MANY PARALLELS OHHH MY GOOOOOODDDDDD#mtt going to visit horrortale would just be dust eying aliza (out of paranoia. he knows shes a good kid)#and then killer knowing in his head that the poor kid aliza that horror weirdly seems to like doesn't have control over her actions#she doesn't know horror doesn't know nobody knows except killer. is that a bit sad?#theyre all living in the dark unaware of the reality of their world. i mean thats how its meant to be after all thats what the players want#but....... it would be tempting to tell horror...... hehehehehe- and then he's interrupted by horror and dust#(theyre trying to get killer to eat papyrus's spaghetti in their place. he's the only one that can stomach it even though there's no human)#mtt i love thee SOOOOO much. theyre back in horrortale for the holidays ✨✨ coming back to visit the family ✨✨ WHAT horror's visiting.......#not dust or killer of course. this isnt their world noooope thats not papyrus. but that doesn't stop dust from having everyone like him#its just like the good old days :333 except now there's three sanses and triple the insanity :333 almost like nothing's changed!!!!!#oh killer??? yeah he's there. probably won't try taking up the sansish type of role horror and dust do but he'll find a way to get used 2 i#after all the point of this is whatever he wants it to be now ;33333 were these tags all just a reference to my mtt fic. yes. yes they were#LMAOOOO i forgot that aliza didn't fall into horrortale yet in my fic. still a fun thing to imagine tho!!!#i think it would be fun having aliza be the first of humans for horrortale to deal with that they won't instantly kill#itll be hard but really rewarding for all of them........ especially horror i believe!!! man he didnt even go through therapy but#just being away from horrortale and out doing new and FUN and NOT MURDEROUS things has done wonders for him :3#i need to get to writing smh..... winter break is the day after tomorrow (TECHNICALLY AT 2:32 PM SINCE THSYS WHEN SCHOOL ENDS SO HAHAHA)#so ill probably work on it more over break since i'll have nothing to do hehe.......#today was an amazing day for me ✨ TWO mtt angst death related hcs..... some work on my latest chapter i've yet to post..... SWAPINVERSE FAN#ARE YOU KIDDING ME MORR SWAPINVERSE ART THIS IS SOOOO AMAZING THABK YOU UNTITLED29876011111 I DONT EVEN KNOW WHY YOU DO THIS!!!!!#tricule rant#killer sans#dust sans#horror sans#murder time trio#utmv#sans au
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colored a sketch from yesterday
#my art#pokemon#pmd oc#toto#chimichang#infernape#feraligatr#hero/partner#hero x partner#i actually rlly liked how the sketch turned out yesterday lol otherwise i woudln't have colored it#friend said this is what love looks like.. that made me so happy. it means a lot that ppl enjoy this art#even if it's not fully original? idgaf#like im glad ppl are like YAYYYY LOVE WINS and not WHYY ARE YOU DFAWING THESE POKEMON TOGETHER#it is kinda funny seeing it without context i suppose. technically there is no context actually. i havrn't fully Made it#but i enjoy them together so much. brings me joy personally#so comforting. idk. my type of relationship i guess HAHSHJS#my water/fire duo loving ass back when i was a kid would probably be eating my fanart up if she stumbled upon it#that's cute to think about <33#totochimi
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#joongdunk#LINEMANONLYxJD#jd werbezeugs#meine grafiken#jdgifmine#adrm#when this happened momentarily all i could see was me and my own dog#(well my mom's dog technically lol)#she was the smallest of all her siblings and so she always had to fight to feed#and when she came to us she'd get really hyperactive when we fed her#so we taught her to sit and wait for our command before she starts eating#nowadays she'll sit down by herself and she'll make eye contact with me to check in before she starts eating#she's such a good girl <3333#ANYWAY THIS WHOLE STREAM WAS EXTREMELY FUNNY I WAS IN STICHES MOST OF THE TIME
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Kai raised Nya
And what I mean by ‘raised’ I mean: Of course they had babysitters. But Kai is the one who mostly nurtured Nya. Sure the Babysitters and the Village could have been providing for these two, but what about the other needs?
I imagine he was the one who sometimes cooked for her when the other babysitters were busy. The one who probably helped her with homework, helped her with chores, did his and her laundry. We already see that he at least played games with Nya.
Something I usually do with my little sister is not only help prepare her clothes for school but also prep the table so we can both eat. (Sometimes for the entire family) with Nya and Kai obviously leaning towards Asian cultures, usually the older siblings are seen as the Secondary Parents.
So in a way, he DID raise Nya, not in a sense of a ‘parent’ where they provide the needs and support for the child. But in a way that a brother could possibly provide. Love, Care and Respect.
I would also imagine that the Babysitters never really stayed for long since they have their own homes and families to go back to. Especially since both Nya and Kai remark ‘it was just me and my sibling’ cause most of the time It was just Kai and Nya.
That’s just my interpretation on the ‘Kai raised Nya’ thing. It’s more of an elder sibling instinct than a parenting instinct.
#ninjago#ninjago au#ninjago kai#ninjago nya#it’s complicated to explain#but I myself am an older sibling#and most of the time I am technically raising my sister#I tend to remind her of certain things#I tend to cook for me and her#I prepare her clothes in the morning#her lunch#her snacks#I prep the plate so that most of us can eat.#after school I have the need to look for her#when something’s wrong I panic for her#When she’s sick I have to give her medicine when my parents aren’t around#basically sometimes older siblings in some cultures have some sort of ‘parent role’#and again they are usually viewed as the second parent
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making a fankid but shaking my head the entire time so people know i'm against the societal belief that everyone's goal and only purpose in life should be to have kids and form a family
#i snapped and made a rock kandi fankid#she was meant to be a one off design to cheer me up and give me something to do#but i made her too cute. now im attached#her name is lacey :) princess lacey at that#idk what im going to do to be able to fit her in my thing. rock kandi or just a kirby kid in general was Never meant to be a thing#that guy's an adult in my oc timeline. and he does fuck all all day as he always has. it's a part of his bit that he's not anyone important#outside of being the hero of popstar of course. he's not a knight or a king/prince. he's not even an adventurer. he likes his planet#and wouldn't want to be too far from it so the idea of being an explorer doesn't appeal to him.#at the end of every adventure he always returns to popstar because popstar's his home#he likes just being a normal guy who just saves the world from time to time. he likes fishing and eating and sleeping#and making friends and juggling children. it's just what he does all day. he loves it.#he's always been happy with simplicity and living in the moment no matter how boring that moment is#and i fear that this would accidentally lent itself to a like. kind of a deadbeat dad?? or take away too much of his carefree bum-ness#technically this is ribbon's and fluff's spawn since kirby can't have kids. so maybe i'll just make the world's first kirbyless rock kandi#whatever you'd call that. Fluffbon?#they all live in different places so i always figured it'd be kind of impossible for it too work out in the long run??#or it wouldn't be That serious. not serious enough for a lacey#which is why i didn't make it canon to my AU and shit and only enjoy it at a distance slash in like a vacuum#so I don't knowww i don't knowww but i'll figure it out i guess#text post
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Dani sucks in a breath, and prepares for the worst. "There's no way you're fitting in that."
Blades gives her a blank look, the dress halfway up his thighs. "Huh?"
Even if there weren't love handles spilling over the waistband of his boxers, there's no way in hell Blades is fitting into anything Dani owns. He's taller than her, his shoulders are broader, and he's far more filled out. "You're not fitting in that."
"Why?" Blades asks, seemingly genuinely curious.
Because you're fat, is on the tip of Dani's tongue, but she holds it. Blades isn't even human on most days, she shouldn't subject him to human problems like body image issues. "We're not the same size," she settles on, tapping a beat on her arm. "You're bigger than me. And I'd rather you not rip that dress."
Blades' frown gets deeper, but he shimmies out of the dress and pulls back on the old tshirt and jeans from her dad, the only clothes they had that would fit him. "I could get smaller?" he offers.
Dani shakes her head. "No, you can't," she tells him. "You're not... y'know."
"Right," Blades mutters, crossing his arms over his chest. Dani can see the outline of his stomach through the shirt. How can he not be insecure about that? "But I don't like these clothes, I like your clothes. Your dad has no sense of style."
Dani cracks a smile at that. "No, he doesn't. But, uh..." she shifts, staring at the dress crumpled on the floor. Maybe she should've let him stretch out that dress. She always looks a little off in it... "I could take you shopping," she offers, and Blades absolutely lights up.
"Really?" he says, grabbing her hands. "Can we go to the mall? Oh, I've always wanted to do that-" he cuts himself off suddenly, eyes growing wide. "Oh my Primus. You have to buy me a pretzel."
Dani bites the comment on her tongue and forces herself to match his energy. "Of course!" she promises, squeezing his hands back. "You should enjoy your time as human!"
Blades' grin lights up the whole room.
Dani sighs when he turns away, babbling about all his plans and gathering up the clothes scattered on the floor to get an idea of what he wants. He's so excited, Dani wishes she could genuinely match that energy.
Maybe I could stand to learn a thing or two from him.
#this ones short and sweet#blades is the tallest I won't be taking questions#okay so this is not TECHNICALLY an au of an au#but in the smoke and mirrors au I'm planning to write a little story where doc greene creates some like inator or something#and traps the rescue bots in their holoforms#it goes about as well as you'd think#emotional regulation is at zero#basically they get all my sensory issues as they now have to taste and chew and eat food and experience textures and stuff#REGARDLESS#they appear in outfits corresponding to their professions#firefighter gear for heatwave#bulletproof vest and shit for chase#fighter pilot gear for blades#construction gear for boulder you get me#because they're all around the same size at their partners or the other burns kids give or take they kinda dress them in old clothes#but as we know in switcheroo blades really likes dani's clothes#and she's super conscious of her weight and body and stuff#and yeah was in the mood to write that. SO#might write this soon#maccadam#transformers#transformers rescue bots#thanks for the ask!!#s&m ask game#smoke and mirrors au#tfrb blades#tfrb dani#humanformers
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Before release, I always kind of thought of Ver's usual haunts in Minrathous being part of an industrial-ish area (factories, docks, the surrounding blue collar residentials, etc.), but I've been thinking, and with Dock Town being what it is in-game (and with what it is to Neve), I think I prefer her being more tied to one of the (no doubt many) entertainment- and nightlife districts of the city.
I'm thinking of one of those moderately seedy parts of town that have pubs/taverns/hookah lounges/drag bars/"specialty shops"/etc. and little mom-and-pop eateries that are definitely not fronts for something all lining the streets on the bottom floors of workers' apartment complexes, and at least three larger nightlife establishments (like a casino [gambling den], a circus [it's a cointoss whether you'll see the best burlesque act or a cagefight], and something they only affectionately call a "dancehall") are all sharing view of the same street.
As of right now, I'm tentatively calling it Redbrick Ridge in my mind, because Minrathous seems to use primarily light-colored stones and red and teal magelights (and I think poorer, mainly Soporati-owned places using red accent-bricks to imitate the red of magic would be a cool touch), but I also like the idea that colloquially, it'd more be known as the Catsbane Quarter, or just Catsbane (after the codex entry for the Sun-Blonde Vint in DAI)- in part because of the way a certain Tevene alcohol is typically served, and in part because, like Dock Town, it's also home to a large colony of feral/stray cats.
(Maybe one of the ways you could easily spot an outsider is that they'd be the ones who say that something is "on the Ridge" or "in Redbrick", but the people who actually live there would say that they're from Catsbane, or refer to the people there as "cats". Like, "where in the city are you from?" "oh, I'm a cat.")
(Lots of fun cat-wordplay for a more "low-class" area, too... "A cat may look at a king" being a bit of a slogan for non-mage and slave rights, or an expression of commiserating over injustice? "All cats are grey in the dark", both as a "we're all equal here", and as a way to say "no officer, I didn't see anything"? Someone suspected to be an informant is someone who "wears a bell"? So many opportunities, and they all work really nicely for a place with pronounced Shadow Dragon presence!)
Since Ver was a (military-trained) Soporati guard/rent-a-cop before joining up with Varric, I originally figured that having her mainly guard (and spy on-) slave-keeping construction sites was a fitting thing, but I think now, knowing both her character and the game as I do, I prefer her as a security guard during the week, and a bouncer during the weekends.
Like I like her not as a go-to problem-solver like Neve, but more like... some sort of a neighborhood Red Jenny, someone who somehow (at least tangentially) knows everyone in her bubble.
And like... she lives in one of the dingy little apartments above a moderately run-down lunch-place (at first I thought it would be run by her uncle, now I'm more picturing an older person who emphatically calls her things like "columba mea" and acts like a doting grandmother, but isn't actually related to her). Her friends are all line cooks, busboys, dancers, dishwashers and all kinds of entertainers, as well as bar owners, bartenders and barflies, not a small percentage of them Liberati- which, with her reputation as a useful person to know and the open secret of her being a Shadow, would be something that probably would have drawn someone like Varric to her very easily. (I mean, he primarily seems to network by just... going to bars and asking the drunkest people still capable of speech about who's worth knowing, lol.)
Plus, I also really like the idea that if the owners/workers at a place know that someone is about to cause trouble, they'd see if she's around, ask her to step in for the night, and maybe crack some heads together.
Like imagine being a big, hotshot wannabe-Venatori swinging their metaphorical dick around over a game of Archon, and in comes this quite pretty, but overall unremarkable woman who is kissing 5'7" from the bottom and is not particularly intimidating, but she still lays you the absolute fuck out to dry without breaking a sweat. Probably one of the top ten most embarrassing ways for that night to end, lol.
#squirrel plays datv#oc: verbena mercar#i also quite like the contrast of her being a bona-fide city girl and Davrin being; well; a Dalish elf#I think the both of them exploring each other's lives and cultures is a lot of fun#he takes her to Arlathan on walks and picnics and adventures like that to refresh and relax#she takes him to dance and eat weird food at her favorite hidden little places in Minrathous where people greet her by name#and both are welcome outsiders in the other's world#idk i think it's really sweet#..... and i just remembered that as a Shadow and a cat; she'd be the closest to an X-man that Thedas gets#oh well; accidents like this can happen lol#isn't there a dragon in like. idk; Iron Flame or w/e that's named Solas?#that author for SURE didn't google that name before giving it to that character; so i can have a character who is technically (a) Shadowcat#watch me give a hoot
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