#oc: vespera

[gallusneve]

This is cheesy and corny but here's my Shadow Dragons Rook, Vespera Mercar. I've put some of her "personality" on this paper lmao. I've tried replicating some of the tweets Bioware put out with the little messages. She's a messy coffee addict sweetheart.

Extra special thank you to the template maker, @riessene, for allowing full editing of their template! (x)

[friend-of-giants]

WIP Whenever

I've been tagged by @sheirukitriesfandom and @saltymaplesyrup to post some WIP goodies. No writing, but have some art!

Tagging @boethiahspillowbook @wildhexe @elfinismsarts @katastronoot @v1ctory-or-sovngarde and anyone else who wants to participate - consider yourself tagged.

A sketch of the lovely and feisty Vespera, who belongs to @boethiahspillowbook! I'm having fun working with her! Just wait til she has some color 👀

[orbees]

Re: that ace attorney post i just reblogged that is so vino and vespera... similar mannerisms/sprite animations. Vino emulating Vespy on a subconscious level... dork

[vershl]

your fankid looks alot like Emthim's fankid Steller... did you copy her?

@emthimofnight Sorry for tagging you in this fuckassery, but I drew Stellar. <3 To answer the ask:

TLDR; I didn't copy Emthim, these color palettes and markings are everywhere in the fankid community. I love her and her art, and I will eat both her fankids and my tiny one.

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No. I did not copy Stellar. Vespera's colors and markings were purely coinflipped (aside from the star, that was already going to happen because of Shadow's nickname 'starlight' for her).

Many fankids share similar color palettes AND markings AND backstories. Vespera shares the same origin story with Stellar and many, many other fankids. The whole test tube baby created by Eggman stealing DNA from Shadow and Sonic is a popular one, and mine does have differences.

The only thing Emthim gave me, was the aggressive urge to make my own fankid. Her art and posts of Stellar and her other fankids were attacking my feed while I was out of town in another state, the post of my Dadow and Vespera I drew the same day I got home from an 8 hour drive LOL.

[watanabes-cum-dump]

"In your darkest hour, in your blackest night... think of me... and I will be with you. Always. For where else could I go? Who else could I love but you?"

Dark Knight my beloved <3 Never thought I'd play a tank in this game but man DRK got me...

[s-milesart]

The Night Watchwoman of The Abbey - Sister Vespera.

ooh, even some lighting and glasses tests!

[foxybatty]

The wheel spoketh!! Babies upon ye The gorl on the right is @vershl 's oc baby Vespera <3

[prntrink]

pov ur watching Igora debate Sorcerer's rights

[beckstbosas]

Hello everyone! I was the anon that sent in the ask about Felix and Livia and my ocs: Vespera and Xanthos to @persephoneprice

So...without further adieu, let me introduce them!

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Vespera Maris Cardew Ravinstill

I see you as you see yourself through all the books you read

Overwhelmed with guilt and realizing the disease

Felix and Livia's daughter, Maris, is exactly like her parents. She's as witty as Felix and as beautiful as Livia. She is considered the it girl of her generation.

She is Xanthos' younger twin and the two are close to one another.

Maris, doesn't have much friends. By that, I mean true friends. Most people are only 'friends' with Maris because of her status and popularity.

To most people, she might seem mean, calculated, and cold. But, she's actually also very fragile. She often keeps all her emotions bottled up.

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Xanthos Orion Cardew Ravinstill

So take it all

The city's yours

Worth fighting for

It's all mine

Felix and Livia's son, Xanthos, is exactly like his parents. As charming as Felix, and as protective as Livia. He is considered the heartthrob of his generation.

He and his sister aren't exactly similar. For instance, Maris is considered calculated, whereas Xanthos is considered reckless to their peers.

Unlike Maris, he's not technically worried whether they're only friends with him because of his status or whatnot, as long as he has friends.

His personality is described as protective, fierce, and cocky.

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I headcanon that Felix Ravinstill and Livia Cardew died at some point when Maris and Xanthos were young because of Coriolanus' rise to power. Seven or eight, perhaps?

Their death caused Maris and Xanthos to turn out the way they are.

[hailtothepumpkinqueen]

I'm going to be jumping into a dnd campaign in April, so I rolled up a tiefling wizard~

Her name is Zenith Vespera and, if it wasn't obvious, she has a great interest in astronomy lol 🌠❇🌙☀️💙

[itsashowtime]

my twewy ikebukuro reaper ocs . . . They are GFs

[orbees]

Vespera definitely has transfem swag

[vershl]

...I made one. I'm very normal about them--

bites knuckles while sobbing

[watanabes-cum-dump]

I will forever think about this now because yeah this applies to an astounding amount of characters in ffxiv whom you could see their friendship with WoL as more of a convenience and how they use WoL as a tool. I think Aymeric is obviously guilty of it (bc of the above image) but I also think to some extent the Crystal Exarch is guilty of this (yeah ik it's not for HIS benefit but he still did kinda use WoL and he would not have taken it well if WoL stopped being a hero)

So many characters that are "friends" with WoL kind of only see them for what they can do. I think to some extent even the Scions are like that. Actually come to think of it, the Scions are the most egregious case of this because WoL is their champion. After we killed Ifrit that solidified WoL as something to be used and thrown at any danger that came at the world.

A lot of characters The Exarch included only know WoL as the hero. For what they can do for everyone else and it makes me insaaaannnneee. Likes yes OBVIOUSLY Exarch/G'raha admires the WoL as a hero and sure he got to know us for a time- but he just thinks that we are the hero from the books. WoL is inspiring; they give people hope and they give people the strength to push on but that's all he knows them for. Listen, I'm still on post Shadowbringers, but so far Exarch has done nothing but sing our praises as hero and yeah I'm sure he has good intentions but it's still a little dehumanizing that to him that's all WoL is. Everyone is free to make their WoL's relationships with the other characters whatever the hell they want ofc, but I kinda read a lot of the characters this way just because it's so easy to water down one person for only cherry picked parts of their whole personality. Celebrities are the best example of this but we also to this to the people around us every single day.

I think Aymeric and WoL's relationship has also sort of been put into question with this moment (for me at least) because now I'm thinking "Oh my god, Aymeric did extend his friendship to WoL for either his own gain or for that of Ishgard's" and it's not a rag on him I love Aymeric but he is a politician. I don't doubt he admires WoL for all they've done for Ishgard, but I also don't think that if Aymeric hadn't pushed us we wouldn't have ended the Dragonsong war. I wouldn't say he manipulated us, but he didn't exactly have any qualms about making us battle on the Steps of Faith for Ishgard- yk, the closed off nation that's pretty hostile to outsiders- despite not knowing us for super long at that point. He thought that we could get it done and was like "Sure. You can fight for my country" and yeah I think Alphinaud's handling of the whole thing was also to blame- but Aymeric being okay with letting an outsider deal with things that should be handled by the Temple Knights is kinda sus to me now lmao. Like you are in charge of Ishgard's military shouldn't YOU have dealt with this???? Okay lol.

Listen, obviously I still love Aymeric and Exarch/G'raha but I think the potential that they only see WoL for their deeds is great and would make for an interesting hurdle to get over in a relationship. Actually, you can literally just slap this onto almost any character you want to ship with your WoL and it will be an interesting point of tension. The possibility that they only love WoL for being the hero and not in spite of it.

Anyways I need to thibk about this more bc I just finished the little Elidibus plot of Shadowbringers which is sort of about how heroes are remembered and how history can easily twisted and/or forgotten so uh yeah. I have lots of thoughts and I am very normal.

[sanctuary-101]

Zenos loves his pocket sized ball of trauma and rage

[s-milesart]

working out Sister Vespera's body type, something that screams self-underfed, partly transformed vampire lady. a little too lank in the limbs, gaunt looking muscles that would feel like corded steel if felt.

the works.

gotta keep in mind that Vespera is the MOST DANGEROUS PERSON IN THE ENTIRE ABBEY. BAR NONE. someone that looks like a stiff breeze could blow em over -- taking chunks of stone out with her bare claws? sheesh.