#mc: nia

[stephschoices]

Cinder Block Gardens -- side characters for @infamous-if

did I make a whole band just so I could have a character to ship with Pope? Maybe. 🥺

🌇 Cinder Block Gardens is a 5 member band that leans towards the singer/songwriter genre with a little country and pop mixed in. They average about 900k monthly listeners on Spotify. Did not audition for battle of the bands because they are currently on a small tour of their own.

🌇 Info on the individual members below!! ⬇️

Rosemary "Romy" Rainn

She/her

Lead singer

Writes the majority of songs

Cinder Block Gardens got recognition because Romy has kinda popular YouTube channel where she does vlogs and gaming

Real name is Rosemary but goes Romy ("row-me")

Some netizens don't believe her and Reese's last name is actually Rainn, it is lol

Some netizens also don't believe her heterochromia is real, it is!!

Likes to wear the bracelets her fans give to her a lot

Rooting for Soft Violence in BOTB

Relationship status: single, has a big crush on Pope from Soft Violence (some fans theorize her and Atticus are together, they are NOT)

Reese Rainn

He/him

Drummer

Older brother of Romy (by 1 year)

Clown of the band, likes to make people laugh

Rooting for Soft Violence in BOTB

Relationship status: taken (by @griffin-wood 's oc Liliana 💕)

Atticus Kiser

He/him

Guitar & back up vocals

A big teddy bear tbh

Rooting for Soft Violence and [mc's band] in BOTB

Relationship status: single

Nia Borden

She/her

Bass & back up vocals

The intimidating one of the band. Don't be rude to her or her friends, you'll regret it

Rooting for [mc's band] in BOTB

Relationship status: single

Nik Aiken

They/them

Keyboard/synthesizer & back up vocals

Quiet, first time meeting them you'd never guess they're actually a great singer! But they prefer the keyboard

Rooting for [mc's band] in BOTB

Relationship status: single

[erixadraws]

Forgive me…

You cradle Nia in your arms, but she lies still and cold. The wound in her chest is deep, its edges charred from the blades heat.

[urdilfred]

Blades of Light and Shadow(Fanart)

[garlickk]

the heroes of morella are tired !! let them rest !!!

[bedtimegiraffe]

Meeting Aerin in the Afterlife if He Left the Party

Oooooh, I have the screenshots of what happens if Aerin never came back during Book 2 and they are good!

Here's what happens once the party you actually brought with you is all accounted for:

And after everyone's well deserved breakdown:

And from here, you have a few options:

Rude

Rude and funny

And the most surprising of all (don't mind the background drift on this playthrough):

My personal thoughts:

It's super interesting that MC introduces Aerin as the heir to Morella, not the guy who summoned the Dreadlord.

I find it so funny that even after months hanging out in the Shadow Realm together, no one ever once mentioned Aerin to Valax. Not even to talk shit.

Aerin, please never prove your awful father right again! At least it took Aerin a couple months to get mauled? Unless there's still a time difference between Realms...

Cause of death is also interesting to me. No offense meant, but hiding is kind of one of Aerin's best things.

I'm playing at the general release pace, but if more interesting changes come up, I'll post them as I play!

[niaerinisms]

Blades 4ever famous 2 me because whenever their white boy says something mean or snarky, instead of anyone laughing or fondly rolling their eyes, they all look at him like this

[the-unconquered-queen]

The cast of Blades of Light and Shadow and their Perfect Match types

Ever since I did my Blades/Elementalists attunement crossover to mark the anniversary of the Blades series, I’ve known I wanted to do something like this to mark the wide release of book three, and I love me some Perfect Match and the types system, so what better way than by incorporating that into a piece?

So the match types you see here are based on what we’ve seen of these characters up to book two, so any character evolution they may undergo in book three is not accounted for. You might also notice that, when deciding each character’s type, I went off of the core four traits instead of the match name or description, unless I needed a tiebreaker.

Finally, MC’s type is pretty subjective, as I’m sure everyone has a different idea of what their MCs are like, so for the sake of this edit set, Raine’s type is based on which traits she displays most in canon.

So, are you swiping right?

[crowlion]

Nia is so hot + my wife

[choices-binglebonkus]

That magical moment of seeing the Blades 3 AI cover for the first time <3

[malachitezmeyka]

Nah cause I still cannot believe Hürrem's "I'm pregnant" gambit worked. It had like a one in a million chance of working and it did

[still-a-morosexual-help]

Yes yes virginity is a particularly stupid social construct and shouldn't matter unless it's a kink you're sharing with partner(s)

But also BOLAS MC fucked two virgins and seems to be on their way to fuck a third and 2/3rds of those virgins were evil and all three have tried to kill them at some point and I can't explain why this is so funny to me but it is

[uselessgay10101]

If this is supposed to be scary you've failed. Bc this looks dope as fuck

[darkfictionjude]

In the future where MC and the RO'S are in a relationship and the RO'S do something stupid and come home late

MC is like 🧍🏻‍♀️ in the dark staring at them and scaring the beejesus out of the RO'S with a "what are you doing"

Imre: he hangs his coat up, takes off his shoes and wakes past mc with a brief “good night.” As if he could care less

Nia: “since I don’t have a mom I didn’t think I would ever get the ‘waiting for me in the dark’ shit.” It makes him almost smile to see how imposing you’re trying to be and since you amused her she’ll let you think you got her

Lorcan: “holy FUCK!” He jumps and falls against the wall. Breathing heavily. After he calms down he starts swearing at you to hide his stupid reaction and then he stomps like a child to the bedroom

[daydreaming-dummy]

As a little gift for myself and all my blades/Aerin fans I decided to whip up an edit of our favorite dark-haired traitor and my elf MC 🌙

This one is based off the last edit I did that takes place in an au (still figuring out a name for it) where Myra is born in Undermount instead of being a Riverbend orphan

Lady Myra Nightbloom dancing with a mysterious human prince at the elven winter solstice ball? Scandalous!

All the elves are clutching their pearls at the sight of someone with ears that aren’t 6 inches long while Myra is just trying to figure out which royal brother she’s waltzing across the ballroom with

[bedtimegiraffe]

Here are all of the visions you can have if you pick Nia's elite skill in Book 3, Chapter 4!

(No spoilers, please, vip friends! We general release players are still in the dwarven afterlife)

Aerin

Imtura

Mal

Tyril

Valax

My wild speculations in the tags! (I don't want to encourage confirmation too much knowing there are people out there who have the answer)

[somerandomjewelleryonthefloor]

Bolas. But instead of saving the world, mc & co have a picnic by a river and have a good time.

Imtura is catching fish in the river to test her eye-to-hand coordination bare hand, Tyril is reading a book on the blanket next to MC, Mal is trying to make the largest mountain of food on his plate and is stealing off Tyril's plate, Nia is sitting by the riverbank and listening to the water run down stream, Aerin is having his fill of sandwiches in peace next to Valax, Valax is laying down on the blanket with sunglasses on and chilling for once.