#oc: ylva

[wardenofdragons]

| Homecoming |

Her thumbs traced the dark rings under his eyes and the crow's feet at their corners gently, as though trying to map every little change she might have missed over the course of those ten years. They drifted down to the bump on the bridge of his nose. Ylva tutted. "Oh, your poor nose... when did this happen?"

Iskar lifted his shoulders in a helpless shrug. "Couple years ago. I got into a brawl."

Ylva huffed, eyes moving up to look into Iskar's own. Her eyebrow arched playfully. "Did you win?"

Iskar laughed for what felt like the first time in a decade. His hands moved to hold onto hers and squeezed, while his heart swelled and threatened to burst out of his chest.

"Of course."

[gg-is-a-loser]

introducing my ocs (finally)

i’ve posted them without context a lot so here is the overview 🔥🔥🔥

important background info: they all live in an underground city (literally) called safehaven. it’s a refuge for criminals and outcasts. there’s no real government, several groups have their own turf that they control

there’s not really any rules for like. species or powers or anything. i kind of just do whatever i want i fear

this is stryder, boss of a group called the serpents. youngest of three adopted kids, he inherited the job when their mother died. in a relationship with kestrel. don’t have any good recent art of it but he can transform, growing horns and extra eyes and claws. it can be on command or when he’s angry.

kestrel, stryder’s partner and part of the serpents’ medical team. she came from money on the surface, fleeing to safehaven after killing her husband. the serpents took her in and she fell in love with stryder. he calls her “songbird”. she can create wind, which goes out of control when she’s in distress. (part of how she got her scar- after the whole killing her husband thing, she panicked and the wind started up, which knocked over a candle and burned the whole house down. sad!)

hester, lead enforcer for the serpents and the middle child of the previous boss. she can see the future and has no control over when she gets visions. they don’t always come true, and sometimes she has a hard time telling the future from the present. hard to see in the headshot, but she doesn’t have arms. her bottom half is the tail/body of a reticulated python. best character to draw when anatomy is a nightmare

eden, a singer who works for the serpents. she tried to start a performing career on the surface but was cut short when she developed a… power? illness? no one is sure that caused flowers to grow out of her body. execs thought it would make her unmarketable and most people found it gross or scary. she came underground thinking the people there wouldn’t be put off by it, and was right. she performs in the bar stryder owns. technically she can control the thorny vines that grow out of her body, but it really hurts to do it.

melora, eden’s best friend and accompanying pianist. she used to be an assassin, but she really just wants to be able to focus on music now. she can manipulate gold (sorta like metalbending except just with gold) and would use her jewelry as weapons. technically she still can, she just tries to avoid it.

this is misha, a young thief. he and a few other street urchins tried to steal something from the serpents. only he and one other kid got caught. instead of punishing them, stryder saw their potential and now they’re both paid to do stealth work. misha has fairy ish wings. also he’s transgender. yay

rascal is the other kid who got caught with misha. except, they could’ve gotten away if they wanted to. they just didn’t want to leave misha behind. the two think of each other as siblings. despite being one of the youngest around, they’re the best when it comes to stealth and thievery. got the ears and tail of a raccoon. got a lot of scars from various scuffles, falls, other minor stuff.

anatole’s been in the group his whole life. his mom was a member and got killed in some fight. he really looks up to stryder. he’s probably the funniest guy around. he’s got a secret relationship with blair, a member of a rival group. he can also play bass (prefers upright but can do electric too) and plays with melora and eden sometimes. he’s basically a satyr but i don’t actually wanna use the word satyr yk

jasper is a mechanic. not technically a member of the serpents, but he works on their turf and does jobs for them. he’s got a few burns from various machines blowing up on him. it doesn’t happen as much anymore now that he’s a lot better at his work. he works on weapons sometimes. he’s got moth wings and antennae. he really likes olive but hasn’t done anything about it. tourmaline never lets him hear the end of it

tourmaline is jasper’s half sister. she’s a botanist and a gardener. she has a greenhouse which provides a lot of the food for the serpents and others in the area. she’s also got a few experiments going on in there. she’s good friends with olive and is completely not helpful to jasper about it

olive works in the serpents’ medical team. shes a bit odd. she says a lot of things that don’t make sense, usually just whatever thoughts float through her brain. think like. a calmer version of maddie hatter from ever after high. she doesn’t not like jasper back, she’s just never actually thought about it. romance just isn’t in her mind very often. she has feathery wings

esmeralda is the head of the serpents’ medical operations. she’s very serious, approaches everything with logic. she was really close with the previous boss. she taught kestrel everything she knows. she never really tells anyone how she got her scars, even hester and stryder have no idea. no one really pushes it. if i had an actual linear story she would probably die… very sad

julian is the bartender at stryder’s bar. he’s actually really powerful- he can shoot lightning out of the horn on his head. it’s hard to control though, it gave him his scar and killed someone close to him, so he tries not to use it. that’s why he’s a bartender and not an enforcer. he’s very pleasant, easy to talk to.

irene is the previous boss of the serpents. she adopted and raised avidor, hester, and stryder. she died peacefully of some illness and left the position to stryder. his snake tattoo is in honor of her, referencing her own face tattoo. she also had a pet ball python

ylva is a member of the blooddrops, a rival group to the serpents. she’s a bodyguard to the leader. she was the first person kestrel met when she came underground, and they’ve maintained a friendship where ylva provides insider intel. unfortunately for her, she’s in love with kestrel, who is not only taken, but uninterested in women anyways. she just has to keep herself useful. at least then she has an excuse to be around her.

bernadette is the leader of the blooddrops. she came from the surface after her wealthy husband left her and took their daughter with him. she’s the oldest of these characters and had the position even before irene rose up. in the same way stryder runs a bar on his turf, she has a brothel. it’s made her rich

raine is one of the girls at bernadette’s brothel. she isn’t very expressive and has a mean streak. she’s good friends with the others though. she keeps their secrets: she knows about ylva’s meetings with kestrel and blair’s relationship with anatole. she’s also a capable fighter and can create clouds which can rain and even produce lightning if she tries hard enough

blair is the most popular of bernadette’s girls. she has elegant wings that are too weak to actually fly. she’s generally very quiet and gloomy. she found anatole snooping around the place and really hit it off with him. they secretly meet whenever they can. i also want her to have a french accent even though france isn’t really a thing here

avidor is the eldest of irene’s adopted children. he’s ambitious and wants to create a real government for the city. that’s exactly why he wasn’t chosen as irene’s successor. she didn’t want him to abuse the position to gain too much power. he fought bitterly with stryder, which gave him his scars and left his right eye blind. now, he’s still trying to achieve his goal, having gained a small following.

carmine has lived in safehaven her whole life and never declared loyalty to any group. several years ago, she met stryder at the lowest point in his life, right after his mother’s death and his fight with avidor. they had an absolute dumpster fire of a relationship. she disappeared when she found out she was pregnant. she didn’t tell him. she knew trying to raise a kid in that situation would make for a horrible childhood. after leaving, she coincidentally ran into avidor, who offered help. her daughter grew up with him as a sort of father figure

beatrix is carmine and stryder’s aforementioned daughter. she sneaks off to fight in underground tournaments and is a reigning champion. her fighter persona is “beast”. stryder had no clue she existed until anatole admitted to attending a fight to make some cash off of the bets and noticed the resemblance. outside of the ring she’s super awkward and dresses like a school bully from a cartoon. like t shirt with a skull on it etc

bovie is a popular fighter and one of the only ones who’s come close to beating beatrix. when they aren’t actively beating each other up they’re actually good friends. she’s actually very sweet outside of the ring and balances out beatrix’s nervous energy. she is also transgender yahoo

pauline is a gun for hire. they work all over the city, traveling by motorcycle doing odd jobs wherever, whenever. they have pyrokinesis. also a really great cook and sometimes thinks about trying to open a restaurant instead

peaches is a freelance “doctor”. while he’s capable of genuinely helping a patient, he’s more likely to be hired by someone wanting him to torture someone. he’s got a weird kind of romance with pauline where he’ll patch them up after a bad job but he’s weird about it. also i named him five years ago . trust him with your vital organs !

[koifee]

Oc art dump + mermay

[azucarera-art]

dunmer oc

[leopardmuffinxo]

i can make you shut up, but you might moan a little

[pocket-vvardvark]

Alethia's stupid dad, Meriano✨

[fromtheboundlesssea]

Kissed by Fire

Initially, I had ideas for this to be a completely new story with no connection to TPS and I had the idea of Celia being a Wildling and her and Benjen having an arranged marriage to try and bridge the divide between their people. However, as I began to develop this idea. Here is the summary of a (possible) future side-story for TPS Benjen:

Benjen knew he was luckier than most at the end of the rebellion. Although his father had been murdered by the now dead king, his brothers and sister still lived and he now had a nephew and niece to help ease the ache of the lives lost. He had lost something though, and he knew he might never get it fully back. Lady Celia Tully had once been the air in his lungs and the first and last of his thought of the day. However, she could never be his—would never be his. His heart was hers but she would not have it.

If it was up to Benjen, he would be at the Wall already, pledging himself to the Black Brothers and celibacy. However, his eldest brother denied him that right and claimed he must sit in his heartbreak and think about what it is he truly wants.

Hundreds of miles away, in a camp amongst the Free Folk, Ylva Wolfsong sits amongst her late husband’s family watching as the corpse of her husband burned. She may not have loved him, but she had loved the babe his seed had given her. Soon, there would be talk of what man could steal her next. Her late husband’s brother or perhaps a man from another tribe. She was well wanted—kissed by fire. But Ylva feels called elsewhere, feels a song thrumming in her veins, calling her south.

With her child growing in her belly, Ylva makes her way to a land she had only heard stories of. The land beneath the Wall. A land where ladies were not stolen and the Cold Ones did not touch. She follows the songs of the wolves and foxes. She follows the voices of people long dead and yet living.

Tragedy isn’t always the end. Sometimes it is the beginning.

[showrunnerihardlyknowher]

hey dweebs

[thefrogwild]

silly thing of me and my friends multitude of FFXIV ocs :)

[the-anime-void]

My RWBY OC done by the amazing @yellownicky

Ylva Fenris a wolf Faunus standing at a staggering 6'2".

She lost her arm in her youth when she was living at an orphanage, warning this story will get a little graphic.

She was out playing when she got separated from her friend, and when she found her, she was being attacked by a Beowolf. It was alone, separated from its pack when Huntsmen tracked it down. But they had lost its trail, leaving the two girls alone.

In this moment, Ylva's Semblance awoke, and she went into a blind fury. It's called Berserk, and it causes her body to internalize her aura, allowing energy to surge through her body, allowing her to perform feats of incredible strength and not feel a bit of pain. The trade off being that it robs her of defense, and the rush of energy messes with her mind, making it nearly impossible for her to think straight.

And so, in this state, Ylva was able to overpower a Beowolf at the age of 12, with heavy cost. Her face and body were gouged and scarred, and the uncontrolled strength she unleashed as she pummeled the Grimm with her left fist caused the muscles to tear and bones to splinter. That, combined with the Beowolf's defensive bites and tears, left her left arm unsalvagable and it had to be amputated.

Soon after her recovery, she was adopted by a local retired Hunter who thought it best to train her to control her Semblance, least she get herself killed with it.

[shuruzy]

Unicorn Over...come the Labyrinth

[wardenofdragons]

WIP

I can't believe the first proper drawing of Iskar on this blog is the one where he looks the least like himself 😭 what an introduction

I'm feeling really happy with how this piece is turning out, so I wanted to share it :) Set about a month after Drago's defeat, when Iskar finally gets to give up on being the Huntsman and return home after 10 years. The woman is Ylva, Iskar's adoptive mother

[gg-is-a-loser]

they call me . the doodler

[skyhavens]

Wherever you're from, clearly they don't teach manners!

Astarion approves.

[azucarera-art]

unfinished sketch: ylva sathil of solstheim (my nerevarine)

[leopardmuffinxo]

just your typical meet cute ♡