#lissandra league of legends

[zairasarthaven]

Lissandra's a zillion years old, she's not putting up with his running mouth if she doesn't have to.

[zairas-realm-gateway]

Jayce is bad with people. He's obviously both social phobic and can't keep his mouth shut so it's hard for him not to be a total jackass. But, considering that Jayce doesn't really have family and has trouble making friends, he obviously needs attention that tolerates him.

This is what's great about shipping his dumb ass with Lissandra.

Her power and grace is enough to make his brain stop working so that his mouth won't run.

She doesn't need magic to wrap him around her finger.

She has patience so great that she can easily put up with him when he gets in a mood.

She has the wisdom to counter him when he's being a smart ass.

She's no stranger to loneliness so she's not offput when he gets clingy and actually appreciates his attention, unlike most people.

She's been around long enough that she can expertly praise him in a way that strokes his praise kink rather than his enornous ego.

They're both workaholics so she doesn't get frustrated when he gets wrapped up in his work for months and doesn't visit her.

She's lived so long that she's comfortable with her status in his heart. Which is why she is unbothered by Jayce's extremely-clingy-low-empathy situationship with Viktor (Jayce is poly bi and apparently villainsexual, fight me).

Jayce's morals do occasionally rub off on her and she murders slightly less people now. She's far more lenient.

Also, Jayce bottoms in both his relationships, I don't make the rules.

[xxcherrydevilxx]

[togetherhearted]

Hello. Can I ask Evelynn, Ahri and Lissandra with S/O, who's unable to feel pain?

Of course!

I would love to write for these pretty ladies☆

EVELYNN,AHRI AND LISSANDRA WITH A S/O THAT CAN'T FEEL PAIN

Yours is quite the peculiar couple. Evelynn feeds off people's pain and your presence is both perfect and a "curse." Perfect for you because you can live peacefully with her while for Eve this is a "problem" because she can't use you as an emergency snack. Despite the odds you two seem to work just well.

Ahri finds your tolerance to pain a blessing. Despite her need to feed off emotions and memories she doesn't want to feed of yours and hope to never see you struggling. Sometimes she playfully "smacks" your face with her tail. They tickle you more than hurt and this makes you both laugh.

You caught Lissandra's attention when she noticed that no matter how cold it was you felt nothing;even when your skin turned blue for the cold. This awoke something in her; maybe her icy heart was getting warmer and wants to be close to you? She would never admit but she seems to like when you hug her since you don't get hurt when you touch her.

[aurelion-solar]

Battle of the Golden Spatula - Inkborn Fables Promo Art

Porcelain Lux & Lissandra

Hwei

Firecracker Teemo

Immortal Journey Soraka

Snow Moon Morgana & Kayn

Lunar Empress Ashe

Mythmaker Zyra, Garen & Irelia

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gender and the women(?) of league

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LoL - Skarner Is Right

"Oh man, I wonder if I'll draw other champions from this game later down the line"

<proceeds to have an idea that requires half the goddamn roster>

Famous last words, huh?

Real talk, delete that last sentence from the final paragraph of Skarner's bio:

"The only one Skarner can trust is himself, and he'll do anything it takes to protect Ixtal and its people. Even if that means becoming the root of their destruction, himself."

And his "destructive paranoia" immediately gets downgraded to "fully reasonable and healthy paranoia". I bet I haven't even pictured a fifth of all the insane bull-- going on outside of Ixtal, and half of the things on the pic would be enough for me to vote for eternal isolation, thanks.

This was a lot of fun to put together, even if it took a bit longer than I would have hoped. I ended up reading and/or listening to quite a few lore bits, all of which I really enjoyed... and my god, the story of Nasus and Renekton just nuked my heart. I want the god-warrior bros to make up and live happily ever after! I don't even care what happens to Azir and Shurima in the background, I want the brothers to get a happy ending, pls, Riot!!

So what's the lesson to learn from all this? #SkarnerIsRight

Other LoL-related works

Skarner sketchdump 24-04-03-06

2024.04.13

[bekkomi]

Song of Nunu commission I did for Riot Forge!

[ohnoitstbskyen]

Building a Better Ashe

About a year ago I took a pass at redesigning Ashe the Frost Archer from League of Legends with the help of Ainsworth "Apple_Cork" Lin (https://www.instagram.com/apple_cork/ || https://linktr.ee/apple_cork) who I commissioned for the artwork.

We took Ashe through a number of ideations and various approaches to her character design, which you'll find below the Read More cutoff.

If you want to watch the video version of our design process (it's pretty good!) you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fi5fuv1nLs

Goals:

The goal was to create a version of Ashe that puts less priority of simply making her "appealing" or look pretty, and more on doing storytelling for the kind of role she plays in the story of the Freljord.

Ashe as she exists now is basically a riff on the Drow Ranger from Dota, complete with WarCraft 3 style Hot Elven Ranger getup. She's a queen of the frozen north, but she runs around in a miniskirt, thigh-highs and a paper-thin cloak because

this design was originally put together to be running around sunny Elven forests on Azeroth, and got interpolated through Dota into League of Legends without ever really reconsidering the concept

it was designed for League of Legends at a time when worldbuilding and character storytelling simply were not priorities in their character design - characters were broad recognizable fantasy archetypes being thrown together Smash Bros style for a fighting tournament

Late 2000s high fantasy character design in gaming had a default preference for Sexy Cleavage Babes for female character design that permeated the entire design space, especially at Blizzard, whose influence formed the basis for League of Legends

Over a decade later, Ashe has been fleshed out as much more of a real character, with a place and role in the world and cosmology of the Freljord far beyond her original archetype. Now she is specifically constructed as a counterpart to Lissandra's imperious, manipulative, sovereign mysticism and to Sejuani's martial brutality. The Avarosa are the only faction in the Freljord (and one of the very few in Runeterra) who argue explicitly for a softer life with less violence and struggle as the ideal. Ashe wants to reform and abolish the blood-soaked warrior culture of the Freljord and replace it with communal mutual aid and sharing, with tribes pooling their collective resources rather than relying on constant raiding and warfare. She's also a notable champion of the Hearthbound, the "normal" people of the Freljord who are not blessed with Iceborn blood or noble lineages.

The Avarosa have successfully recruited a huge swath of tribes to their cause, and through collaboration and a focus on agriculture and mutual protection have become the breadbasket of the Freljord, able to extend their political reach simply by offering new tribes access to reliable sources of food.

The power and rhetoric of the Avarosa thus rests on

A rejection of martial warrior culture in favor of a culture of nurturing and mutual care

Embrace of vulnerability and "weakness"

The promise of plenty, of full food stores and protection from failed harvests and the bitter winter cold

So, the design goals are:

Contrast Ashe visually with both Lissandra and especially with Sejuani, who is her most direct opposite.

Tell the story not only of Ashe herself, but of the faction she represents, and represent its values in her design.

Make her unique and recognizable against the lineup of other League of Legends characters in a way that currently she simply isn't.

Early ideation:

Here we start by identifying silhouettes and the basic ideas of costuming that we want to run with. Since League of Legends women also generally have a bad case of Chronic Sameface Syndrome, we also explore a bunch of different face shapes and ideas for distinguishing Ashe physically outside of costuming and body shape.

Refinement:

We pick out a smaller number of variations to play with, and Apple_Cork explores various options for the costuming.

At this point we've settled on two main ideas: a "Warrior" Ashe, who is characterized by the hard life she's had to lead. Her struggles and suffering, especially the loss of her mother and the betrayal of Sejuani, are the emotional impetus that leads to her reaching the ideals of the Avarosans as an antidote to and rebellion against the Freljord's bloody history. We decide to use the A2 and A3 variation as a base for this, with addition of details like scarring and a somewhat bulkier musculature. This runs the risk of making her physically quite similar to Sejuani, which is a trade-off that might be worth it since the two of them are repeatedly positioned as sisters (even if not by blood) in their stories, and are very alike in their experiences and traumas, even if they've reached opposite conclusions from it.

The other idea is "Warmother Ashe." The Freljord is organized around matrilineal tribal leadership, with a significant emphasis on the social role of motherhood, with the leader of the tribe conceptualized as its primary mother figure. Most Warmothers we've known are hard-bitten, violent and domineering matriarchs, emphasizing the war bit of the name, and since Ashe represents a decisive break with that tradition, we want to create a design that puts emphasis on the mother part of the idea.

So an Ashe who is visually soft, associated with typical traits of nurturing motherhood and who visibly rejects struggle, deprivation and violence as part of her identity. The C1 and C2 variations form the basis for this character.

Both designs are intended to provide a strong visual contrast to the stark black-and-blue statuesque angularity of Lissandra, as well as the armored, hard-shelled, segmented look of Sejuani

A note on body politics and character design

It is generally Problematic™ to equate any one body type with any one set of personality traits, whether positively or negatively. A lot of common character design associations and shorthand is based on body stereotypes, and on a systemic scale, they can reinforce existing social bigotries.

The most common example: character design often employ the idea that good people tend to be beautiful and evil people tend to be ugly, and that a person's inner moral character can be read in their physical traits.

This is a trope with an extremely bad history, especially when it intersects with the politics of beauty, with eugenics and with racial caricature. Whiteness and the constructed features of whiteness are often used as the basis of beauty ideals, while traits and features associated with non-whiteness are considered ugly or undesirable, and thus in visual storytelling these traits can become markers of moral degeneracy or evil. Disney villains do this all the time, to various degrees of Problematicness.

I bring this up here because we decided to use a fat body-type on one of our Ashe designs specifically to code the design to be associated with softness, kindness, motherly nurturing and so on. These are positive traits, and it is meant to establish her as a contrast with Sejuani who is hard-edged, muscled and brutal. But also, yeah, fat bodies being associated with those traits is a reductive stereotype, just the same as associating highly trained, skinny and fit bodies with emotional coldness, lack of kindness and violence is reductive.

Character design is a tightrope walk between using available associations and stereotypes to create coding and shorthand so the audience can easily read the design on the one hand, and trying to redefine and re-associate traits in creative ways to create better storytelling on the other hand. League of Legends is a game that relies very, very heavily on existing and known archetypes, and we redesigned Ashe on those terms as well. It is fair to criticize our redesign for those trade-offs, within reason, and within the context of the problems of the design it is intended to improve upon. League of Legends as a franchise is generally unwilling to allow fat bodies to exist in ANY positive context, and especially not in women, whose visual priority 9 times out of 10 is to be conventionally beautiful and skinny above all else.

Final designs:

Warrior Ashe This design hews closer to her original design, employing the skirt, waist-wrap and thigh-high boots, albeit updated to look more appropriate for the fashion culture and environment of the Freljord.

The emphasis here is on Ashe as a war-leader and fighter, and we've added facial scars and her design generally features more hard and sharp lines and metallic accents to give her a more hard-bitten and warlike look. This is an Ashe who has led a heard and difficult life, marked by fighting and struggle.

Warmother Ashe This design pulls away hard from the original design, with only really the hood and cloak and white hair as identifying feature of the old version. She wears a lot of fabrics and furs, and is generally designed around stoutness and visual softness, and does not share the hardness or angular facial features of Warrior Ashe. Her clothes are finely embroidered with her tribe's iconography and she has pendants and trinkets associated with the various tribes that have been integrated into the Avarosa, or perhaps gifted to her by allies or friends.

She still has leather chest armor, albeit covered up by her cloak, and a shoulder pauldron, but it's ringed by fine feathers making it more of a showpiece. Same with the archery bracer, which is ostentatious and the bright brass makes it contrast with the rest of the design, which is meant to give the vibe of "this is a thing she puts on when necessary" but not a natural, integrated part of her fashion. Compare and contrast with the bracers on Warrior Ashe above.

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Fanart

[zairasarthaven]

Being on opposing sides of a morality and ethics scale is hard when you're secretly married to an evil ice witch...

[zairas-realm-gateway]

Zaira's Comprehensive Jayce Giopara and (Machine Herald) Viktor Post Masterlist

I have been spiraling into hyperfixation hell and rambling a whole fucking lot about Jayce Giopara and his grumpy mechanical ex-husband. So, for your convenience here's a masterlist of all the crap i wrote, if you're interested.

Please Note: All these posts are pro-Giopara BUT we also do NOT hate or rag on Arcane Jayvik in this house. So, be nice to one another.

My artblog is @zairasarthaven , I draw sappy ship art over there.

Thank you and enjoy.

Note: You're invited and encouraged to reblog these and participate with these posts in the comments or tags if they get your brain thoughts flowing.

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Jayce

Character Analysis:

_ Commentary on Jayce's base League outfit: LINK

_ A small discussion of the natural-feeling contradictions in Jayce's personality that make him human: LINK

_ [Mini Discussion] I have grounds to believe Piltover is abusing Jayce: LINK

_ An analysis of how Piltover is using and manipulating Jayce [This analysis is attached to a fucking amazing comic by @pepegle ]: LINK

_ Jayce is teetering on a very dangerous edge: LINK

General Commentary and Headcanons:

_ Jayce is a bottom, fight me!: LINK

_ Jayce, my contradiction king: LINK

_ Jayce is basically an unwanted puppy: LINK

_ Jayce is a nightmare on his period: LINK

_ Jayce is a sweet boy under all the damage and I really, really need you all to see it!: LINK

_ Jayce has sensory issues: LINK

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Viktor

Character Analysis:

_ [Mini post] Viktor still has his vanity: LINK

General Commentary and Headcanons:

_ Viktor's our best boy: LINK

_ The Viktor rework makes me very, very sad...: LINK

_ Thoughts/insights on Viktor being disabled: LINK

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Shipping

JayceLiss:

_ Why Jayce and Lissandra (She's another league champ to those that don't know) ship together so well: LINK

VikJayce:

_ NSFW Headcanons on Viktor and Jayce's respective sex drives: LINK

_ Jayce likes to cuddle after sex: LINK

VikJayceLiss:

_ Headcanons of our trio's genders and sexualities: LINK

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Fanworks

Fanart:

_ JayceLiss, Liss gently shuts him up: LINK

_ VikJayceLiss, Jayce happily holding his two perfect wives: LINK

_ VikJayceLiss, silly sketch of their morning tussle: LINK

_ VikJayceLiss, silly sketch of Viktor being enchanted by Liss's control over Jayce: LINK

Fanfiction:

[Note: if any of these scenarios inspire any fanfics, please send me a link]

_ Discussion of a short dark fic I wrote about Jayce killing Jinx: LINK

_ A short scenario involving Viktor comforting Jayce during augmentation: LINK

_ [Fic Excerpt, please heed Trigger Warnings] Viktor rescues Jayce from an charity investor and comforts him: LINK

_ [Mini Scenario] Viktor fucks up his mask and needs it fixed: LINK

_ A short scenario of Viktor and Lissandra taking matters into their own hands when Jayce is injured: LINK

_ A long scenario of Jayce's sex life and his first time with Viktor: LINK

_ Just a fun little concept about Jayce and Viktor dealing with the Harrowing: LINK

[korsalis]

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work that i have done for skintober so far

[aurelion-solar]

Garden Party Seraphine, Lissandra, Tristana, Garen, Malphite & Malphite Mythic Chroma - Wild Rift Splash Art