#mercurio draws

[mercurio-shadowz]

The ultimate crush or whatever💅

Let Shadow be stupi. He unironically says I m t h e c o o l e s t, he’s just a little weirdo/silly

Sonic’s into it but also endlessly confused by the whole ordeal

[atomicfolklorist]

Mercurio: "Are you...alright?"

Sebastian LaCroix: "I have this horrible headache that comes and goes"

the fledgling: "Hi"

Sebastian LaCroix: "here it is again"

[1800duckhotline]

I hope you guys enjoy this dump of my current mental illinois

[ligiawrites]

Matt is such a sweetheart but im so helpless in love with master Curio ngl </3

Aww, anon! ç-ç ♥ you and me both 🤝 here's a little something from the LtGBtK art book for you ♥♥♥

[camartist01]

💜LIQUID METAL💜

Traje echo de mercurio retrogrado 🫦💧

[mateuscosme]

[quentinfiletmignon]

MAESTRO STEVEN MERCURIO

A4 • STABILO point 88 liners & gold roller gel pen

[ivanutrera]

mercurio a lapiz

[girlvinland]

Last week I commissioned @wishfulsketching to draw my OC Mercurio for the second time! They’re so great to interact/work with, and I couldn’t be happier with this comm! I think the last one was in 2022, so it’s really cool to see how their style has evolved since then. I love how the smoke ended up looking, and the peek of stars from the underside of Merc’s cape! I’m super happy with the results, and highly recommend grabbing a comm whenever they’re open!

[mercurio-shadowz]

shadow is a gay parrot: the comic

(Y'ALL I HAVE NO CLUE HOW TO TITLE THIS I'M SORRY LMAO)

[snobgoblin]

had a dream last night where Mercurio had wings so i kind of wanna give him some sort of flying beast to deliver mail with (please ignore my poor animal drawing skills LMAO)

[archivlibrarianist]

Listed books below the jump.

1st place: 7 bans

And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell, Justin Richardson, and Henry Cole

2nd place tie: 5 bans each

The Family Book, by Todd Parr

Julián Is a Mermaid, by Jessica Love

4th place tie: 4 bans each

When Aidan Became a Brother, by Kyle Lukoff and Kaylani Juanita

Draw Me a Star, by Eric Carle

5th place: 3 bans each

This Day in June, by Gayle E. Pitman and Kristyna Litten,

Prince and Knight, by Daniel Haack and Stevie Lewis

Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress, by Christine Baldacchino and Isabelle Malenfant

Milo Imagines the World, by Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson

In the Night Kitchen, by Maurice Sendak

Baseball Saved Us, by Ken Mochizuku and Dom Lee

A Is for Activist, by Innosanto Nagara

12th place: 2 bans each

Unicorns Are the Worst! by Alex Willan

Sofia Valdez, Future Prez, by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts

Pink Is for Boys, by Robb Pearlman and Eda Kaban

Our Subway Baby, by Peter Mercurio and Leo Espinosa

Ogilvy, by Deborah Underwood and T.L. McBeth

No, David! by David Shannon

It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity, by Theresa Thorn and Noah Grigni

I Am Billie Jean King, by Brad Meltzer and Chrisopher Eliopoulos

Harriet Gets Carried Away, by Jessie Sima

Different Can Be Great: All Kinds of Families, by Lisa Bullard and Renée Kurilla

Bathe the Cat, by Alice B. McGinty and David Roberts

[vampemoqueen]

Hi there! I'm Vampy and this is my Vampire: the Masquerade blog. I almost exclusively post and reblog VTM and WoD content, though occasionally I might reblog other content from Baldur's Gate 3, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Fallout, and anything else in general. I'm a huge Bloodlines fan and a Sebastian LaCroix simp. I repost him often and I'm not ashamed of it. 😭😭😭💖I'm currently on the Night Road train again and will DEVOUR any tagged posts I see.

I'm an artist and a writer! You can check out my art in the tag here!: My Art and My Writing I take commissions on a rolling basis! I'm trying out a new platform called artistree which you can check out here.

You can check out my other socials here: Linktree Instagram Cara Bluesky NSFW Bluesky I'm the creator and admin of the WoD Art Discord server Gallery Noir! We run seasonal events like art exchanges, movie and game nights. Our current event is the WoD Valentine's Day Exchange! I run a Boston by Night game with my friends that I occasionally post about here: Boston by Night My list of Blorbos who show up in my art (after the break!)

Emily Boucher: OC tag

Clan: Ventrue Sect: Camarilla Embraced: 2003 Apparent Age: 27 History: The Ventrue Fledgling in my Bloodlines AU, was illegally embraced by a rival Ventrue ancilla before Prince LaCroix took his head. After being taken under his wing, she ended up in a heated and tenuous love affair with LaCroix before his own undoing caused him to lose everything. Years after the events of LA, she travels to Boston with her ghoul Mercurio in hopes of reclaiming her Ventrue lineage and clearing her name. Appears In: Featured in my Bloodlines fanfic on Ao3 What Lurks Beneath the Silvery Surface, Boston by Night Personal Note: My first blorbo! My most beloved and precious even though I put her through the most drama and pain.

------ Irene Dao: OC tag

Clan: Brujah Sect: Anarch/Independant Embraced: 2001 Apparent Age: 21

History: Originally from Mississippi, Irene Dao was a traveling con-artist and thief who was embraced by a disgruntled Brujah who needed an accomplice for his crimes. When said Brujah sire was executed for a crime that was too severe for the local Camarilla, Irene was left on her alone, made to travel the country herself taking odd jobs along the way to survive. Infamous for being fun, loud, and being a little shit who stirs trouble wherever she goes. Personal Note: A roaming OC who I place in different games! Currently has an NPC role in Boston by Night

------ Noelle Pelletier: OC tag

Clan: Ghoul (Ventrue) Sect: Camarilla Bonded: 2022 Apparent Age: 25

History: Hailing from Marsaille, France, Noelle grew up to become an entrepreneurial woman with a taste for the expensive and illegal. This attracted the attention of a Ventrue from the French criminal underworld to recruit her as a ghoul. After a series of mishaps and rejections by her original regnant, Noelle leaves France alone, scared, and disgraced, but still has the support of the Camarilla who is always in need of capable ghouls. In current nights, Noelle is in search of a new regnant and land to conquer with the goal of eventually receiving the Embrace. Personal Note: Also roaming OC who I place in different games! Currently has an NPC role in Boston by Night

------ Lorelai Chen: OC tag

Clan: Tremere Sect: Camarilla Embraced: 1986 Apparent Age: 22

History: Born to in Northern Florida to Chinese immigrants, Lorelai was a promising medical student at the University of Florida in Gainsville when she accidentally woke up a sleeping Tremere elder that was sleeping in the school's morgue. The resulting chaos ended with her life taken and her embrace. Through the sire's connections in the Pyramid, she was recruited into the Chantry and made to study the Occult arts. But with her coming from a world of science and logic and not of the supernatural, she becomes a poor student who frequently draws on the ire of her sire and the other Tremere. Will poor Lorelai ever find true acceptance as the Kindred and witch she was meant to be? Personal Note: My current PC in @underpaid-paragon's VTM game titled Red Romance game set in 90s Florida!

------ Suzumi "Susan" Nakamura: OC tag

Clan: Lasombra Sect: Independent Embraced: 1970s Apparent Age: 30s

History: During the 70s, Susan was on a Japanese science vessel as a researcher when a sea-faring Lasombra elder woke up from its slumber to attack and devour the entire crew. As Susan laid dying from her injuries, she was able to wound the elder enough to release blood from its veins and force it to flee into the sea. Upon accidentally ingesting a few drops of the vitae, Susan is embraced and reborn as a night creature. Being the only survivor left on the ship, she abandoned it and set out into the world herself to learn about her new condition, her abilities, and the world of darkness on her own terms. Fun facts: Her feeding type is siren. She's a water-type Lasombra who hunts by swimming naked and luring nearby seafarers to bite them. She's a damn fast swimmer and can use obtenebration/oblivion to travel through the dark waves even faster. By the current year, she's been to all 7 continents including Antarctica and has found supernatural entities on all of them. She stays out of politics as much as possible and will make temporary alliances with anyone to learn about them and get supplies before bailing. She has a ghoul named Jiro, a former grad student, who helps her with all daytime activities and research. Personal Note: Is currently not in any games. Would love to play her or feature her in a story at some point though

------ Madhuri "Madi" Videkar: OC tag

Clan: Ravnos Sect: Independent Embraced: 1999 Apparent Age: 20

History: Born in Wisconsin to Indian immigrants, Madi struggled to get by after dropping out of school and landing dead end jobs. Her parents had her sent to India for an arranged marriage, only for her to escape with a ghoul and be embraced by a Ravnos elder along with him. Not long after, they traveled to Bangladesh where they encountered the death of their own antediluvian and the start of the Week of Nightmares. Madi was the only survivor from her group to endure the damaging effects and escape. Years later, she's back in the States working as a courier when she gets caught in between a grand master plan involving Julian Sim, the Second Inquisition, and the Eagle Prince Lettow. Personal Notes: My Courier player character in Night Road! Featured in my Night Road fic series here: https://archiveofourown.org/series/4679083

[mortifying-macaroni]

for your VTM oc challenge: 7, 25, and 33 (also your work is so amazing omg)

HIIII!!! OMG! THANK YOU SM!! And another thank you for asking about my psychopathic blorbina 🥺🖤

7. How did their sire treat them?

Since I'm following the Bloodlines storyline Gretchen is without sire and never got to experience the ups and downs of having one. They've had a romantic history together before his "sudden disappearance". In all those years following his embrace, he longed to leave New York, away from the chantry so he could share his gift with her far away in the west coast and remain there together for some time. So hypothetically, if he had survived the court meeting then he'd actually take his role as her sire very seriously without abusing it, practically treating Gretchen the same way he had been in life, although with a bit more authority. Though regardless, darkness would inevitably find its way to sway her through her newfound power.

25. How often do they cause a masquerade breach?

Very, very often. She's so careless, she may as well draw in a whole SWAT team. Whenever she feels like causing chaos, Gretchen makes sure to do it away from any Sabbat hideouts. Hunters and police would be a heap of trouble she wouldn't want to put her brethren through. Luckily she can prevent her identity from being discovered by activating Blood Shield and/or hiding away in the sewers.

33. Would they like to have a ghoul if they don’t have one?

Mercurio would've definitely been Gretchen's first choice if it weren't for Vaulderie preventing the creation of new blood bonds. After severing his connection to LaCroix, she settled for siring him instead. It took a bit of convincing before he eventually gave in. She's not the kind of Tremere who looks for scholars, but rather trusted friends to pass her blood onto.

[brimo5]

Mercury, passionate suitor of Proserpina?

related post: Mercury, son of Proserpina and Liber?

Another strange story tells of Mercury's unusual love for Proserpina. It may originate from the cult traditions of Phlya in Attica, a certain aged man and a mysterious woman are identified in late texts as Mercury/Hermes and Proserpina/Persephone/Hecate, as suggested by M. David Litwa in Phikola, a Mysterious Goddess at Phlya. The following unmarked passages are quoted from his work.

There is, however, a portico in this (city)[Phlium of Attica], and on the portico is inscribed a representation, (visible) up to the present day, of all the words which are spoken (on such occasions). Many, then, of the words inscribed upon that portico are those respecting which Plutarch institutes discussions in his ten books against Empedocles. And in the greater number of these books is also drawn the representation of a certain aged man, grey-haired, winged, having his pudendum erectum, pursuing a retreating woman of azure color [or: depicted like a dog/a dogfaced woman]. And over the aged man is the inscription phaos ruentes(Φάος ῥυέντης/Φικόλα),  and over the woman pereeµphicola(περεηφϊκόλα).  (Hippolytus, Refutation of All Heresies, 5.15)

Other sources:

Cicero (106 BC -43 BC) Some copies without this line

One Mercury has the Sky for father and the Day for mother; he is represented in a state of sexual excitation traditionally  said to be due to passion inspired by the sight of Proserpine. (Cicero, Nature of the Gods, 3.55)

2. Propertius (50 BC-15 BC)

How can this face remain mortal, on earth? Jupiter, I'll let your early dalliances slide. Her hair is blond, her hands slender, her whole body's perfect. When she walks, she's a worthy sister for Jove, or when Pallas strolls to the Dulichian altars, covering her breast in the hair of the snake-bearing Gorgon. She's just like Ischomache, heroine of Lapith stock, who reveled in the pillage when Centaurs were taken mid-glass, or Brimo, the one they say lay her virgin body with Mercury by the waves of Lake Boebeis. (Propertius, Elegies, 2.29c)

3. Maurus Servius Honoratus (4th CE)

non nulli tamen quattuor Mercurios tradunt, unum Caeli et Diei filium, amatorem Proserpinae, alterum Liberi patris et Proserpinae filium, tertium Iovis et Maiae, quartum Cyllenii filium, cuius mater non proditur, a quo Argus clam occisus est, qui hoc metu in Aegyptum profugit et ibi invenisse primum disciplinam litterarum et numerorum dicitur: qui lingua Aegyptiorum ΘΕΥΘ appellatur, de cuius nomine etiam mensis dictus est.(Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid, 4.577ff)

4. Arnobius (4th CE)

Again, the first Mercury, who is said to have lusted after Proserpina, is son of Coelus, who is above all.  (Arnobius, Against the Heathen, 4.14)

5. Tzetzes (12th CE) There is a english copy in Topos, but it is translated by GPT

cf. Tzetzes, Scholia to Lycophron's Alexandra, 679, 698 & 1176

Tzetzes' scholium to Lykophron 679 indicates that Hermes had three daughters from Hekate (ἐπεισελθὼν τῇ Ἑκάτῃ τρεῖς ἔσχεν ἐξ αὐτῆς θυγατέρας).

In his scholia on Lykophron, Alexandra 698, John Tzetzes (ca. 1110-1180 CE) gives another version of our story from ancient tradition: 'Hermes attempted to force her [Obrimo/Persephone] while hunting. She growled (ἐνεβριμήσατο), making him stop his attempt.'

* The lines by Lycophron(4th BC) and the identity of Obrimo is unclear.

And passing the tomb of Baius, his steersman, and the dwellings of the Cimmerians and the Acherusian waters swelling with heaving surge and Ossa and the cattle-path built by the lion and the grove of Obrimo, the Maiden who dwells beneath the earth, and the Fiery Stream, where the difficult Polydegmon hill stretches its head to the sky; from which hill's depths draw all streams and all springs throughout the Ausonian land; and leaving the high slope of Lethaeon and the lake Aornus rounded with a noose and the waters of Cocytus wild and dark, stream of black Styx, where Termieus made the seat of oath-swearing for the immortals, drawing the water in golden basins of libation, when he was about to go against the Giants and Titans – he shall offer up a gift to Daeira and her consort, fastening his helmet to the head of a pillar.(Lycophron, Alexandra, 698ff)

6. Etymologicum Magnum (12th CE)

cf.Etymologicum Magnum s.v. Βριμώ

The Persephone/Brimo referred to in the story of attempted rape was widely identified with Hekate. In the Etymologicum (magnum) genuinum 263 (s.v. Βριμώ), we read that Brimo is Persephone who is 'also called Hekate.'34 In the same text, we hear another version of our story: 'It is said that Hermes, who fell in love with her as she came out to hunt, wanted to have sex withher by force. But she growled at him (ἐνεβριμήσατο). Terrified, he turned away. Hence she is called 'Brimo.'

[shadekhrocask]

Guidelines and Navigation for This Blog!

Hi! You may know me as Shade(or Zoroara but most call me Shade). I made a lot of Khr Ocs and wanted to share them! Here, you can ask them questions, give them items to see their reaction or any other thing. (Almost all of these are going to be done in drawings so they may take a little bit of time to answer)

All posts are going to be tagged for the specific oc and will be trigger tagged as well. However, do expect the following: blood, gore, violence, body horror, dark themes and some things of suggestive nature. These are also okay for asks, but Ocs will not always respond well.

Time is relative for each, some are in the distant past of Khr, while some are ten years in the future. Not all of these people are even alive when you'd be talking to others.

Though, sometimes talking to others, will allow you to see and then talk to another's future or past self using [Future] or [Past] when it's been successfully unlocked. Some will have different ways to unlock this information. Sometimes, alternate versions may also be unlocked, they will have a special [code] to them added to the Summary. Also, sometimes other khr characters will show up or be mentioned, provided they know the oc well, I'll let you ask them things too.

Many of these guys are unreliable narrators and can be pretty secretive, sometimes they're just assholes for the fun of it, should the ask be something I think should be answered anyway, I'll put it in the read more. They will also slowly learn to recognize you guys as you send in asks, while anons will lack this(more because I sure won't be able to keep track). Additional notes, you can ask me OOC questions by writing (to shade) in your ask if you want, of course there will be no drawing to this. Also, you may send in an ask as one of your own ocs if you desire but, a. You must write their name as a signature(helps me keep track) b. first time asks will be treated as if it's their first time hearing of them c. Due to this mostly being very canon adjacent I will not be swaying all that heavily on canon lore or characterizations, so do note this. Also for similar reasons you cannot send asks as canon characters with actually defined personalities.

Events such as holidays and oc birthday asks take priority BUT must be sent in at LEAST a week in advance.

Also, here is generally where everyone lies in the timeline, present more being an area of time more like 2004-2006ish

Now, click below if you want to navigate to an OC's page:

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