#newbone

[cvbullshit]

Did artwork of NewBone Frisk

The asshole

I took inspiration from the Twin Runes art style as I wanted to see if it helped convey how I wanted NewBone(and maybe other Non-CV AUs) to be presented, even if it won't stay as part of this particular style, I am very happy with how this turned out!

[eastgaysian]

[curiousaur]

this is what happens when tav is away

[syn0vial]

[Astarion] is a cat. He's a black cat. There's a stray that comes into my house called Red... and he's quite feral. It took me three years before I could pick him up and hold him. He's totally cool with me now. Three fucking years. He gave me a lot of inspiration about Astarion.

- Neil Newbon, on developing Astarion's physicality and mannerisms

[sparklingthedas]

Astarion lectures of disappointment >>>

[marksandrec]

Marks and Rec: Misc #2605

Don't forget to feed your wizard. (Dialogue is just made up, lol.)

[julientel]

I just couldn't help it

[fangswbenefits]

Neil's acceptance speech at The Game Awards for Best Performance as Astarion 🩷

"You're not alone in this. None of us are."

[lady-valtieri]

Astarion in Early Access: "Hahaha yes I'm very charming and deceptive and evil and sex is so much fun and I really don't care about anyone."

Astarion in the Full Game: "I haven't had bodily autonomy in 200 years and I've forgotten how to be intimate with someone beyond using it to lure people to their deaths and I have so much trauma regarding sex and I seduced you because it's what I've had to do to survive for literal centuries and I needed you to be on my side but I wasn't supposed to fall in love with you but you're so kind and amazing that I fell anyway and I'm terrified of real emotions but I want *us* to be real because you deserve it and I really care about you but I need you to help me because this is all so new and I'm so scared but I want this to work and I-"

[vole-mon-amour]

here

bonus:

[falsesecuritysketches]

I couldn't resist drawing them in this setting...

[cvbullshit]

NewBone is back in business, baby!!!

NewBone is going to be in The Violet Banquet and have his lore expanded on after his no-context debut!

Have some paper sketches and stats!

These are mainly test sketches as I still can't currently do digital art but AHHHH- Me and Dani are working together to help flesh out his story for TVB!

If Redwolf wants to get involved, as she also helped develop a lot of the original story before we just never talked about it again, then it'll kinda become a shared project since I don't wanna ignore both Redwolf and Dani's ideas and help- Redwolf helped take the original cringy version of the concept become so much cool and Dani/The Banquet Event helped it come back to life and go into a direction I wanted so far! So I appreciate both of them!!

[ewesie]

Baldur's Sweep!

[anendtopursuit]

not to gush too much abt neil newbon's performance as astarion (and stephen rooney's writing for him) but like. he's discussed on streams before how conscious the decision to make him feel like he's constantly performing is (regardless of outcome; theatrical spawn astarion & operatic ascended astarion), and how stephen rooney leaned more into the whimsy and fun of the character based on things he saw in his portrayal (hence astarion progressively getting funnier and more charismatic through game development). but the thing that drives me absolutely mad tbh is the moments where all of it drops and he's suddenly so sincere, because it hits you like a truck to the face.

his voice going all soft and quiet and brittle when he describes cazador instructing his spawn to torture themselves. his mannerisms shifting from seductive and playful to a little more nervous. but the one that always gets me is in the graveyard romance scene, talking about what cazador has taken from him, how it was taken by force; "but he did take it," in this voice that's so full of sorrow that it almost sounds hollow, muffled by none of his usual pomp and theatricality, when even in cazador's palace his admissions of upset were sandwiched between attempts to brush it all off. dear god.

[waitedforgarridebs]

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They're the same picture.