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I continue my exaltedposting. Here is Hope for a Universal Summer, my Zenith Solar lady. She's from Whitewall, so I tried to include both asian and slavic elements in her design.

And something like Modern AU! Quartz, my Dusk Abyssal OC, whom you might've seen in my last, like, three posts. Only I have troubles designing modern characters in interesting ways, but oh well. I still like this pic :]

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Hel and Baldr vibing in Helheim subway. Because surely Helheim has subways.

These is my take on these two for "Scion: becoming as gods" ttrpg. It's a really cool game about being a child of a deity (from literally any pantheon, not just greek or roman like in pjo, for example). So of course there are deities and some mythical beings. And of course I have to make an attempt at designing my faves from those.

I find it really interesting and tragic how Hel and Baldr parallel eachother. Both kinda did nothing wrong except being Loki's daughter and Odin's son. Both ended up in the afterlife for this. They're children of sworn enemies stuck here because of their parents. I feel like there is some sort of weird understanding in spite of their fathers animosity towards eachother. Or, more accurately, because of it. Yeah, I headcanon that Hel and Baldr became friends really quickly upon meeting.

Honestly their duet of life and death, warmth and cold, growth and decay is so underrated. I get that most mythology fans get that from Hades and Persephone, but these two are so slept on :'D

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I have MtAs brainrot. Specifically, Technocracy brainrot. Send help these bastards won't leave my mind... N.W.O., is this your social processing kicking in? 🥺

Context under the cut:

This picture is honouring the fact that I got my hands on Revised edition Iteration X book and the way their relationship with Syndicate was described is hilarious to me. Check this out:

I adore how in-universe when ppl talk about Syndicate they sound like a gun is held to their heads 🤡

Oh, a bit more of explaining the picture.

Two people on the upper part are ItXers. In the lower part we have some proper Syndicate buddie. Behind him are a Syndicate Enforcer and a MiB (without his suit, a pity).

You might say: "Okay, Enforcer is maybe playing a bodyguard or smth for the higher-ranking Syndicate member, but what is N.W.O. agent doing here?". Well, here's the thing. Both him and the Enforcer actually share and amalgam with girl in upper right corner. So even if they aren't related to Iteration X needing Syndicate's money, they are still quietly mourning the fact that they probably aren't getting any financing ever again just by association with this mess.

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So. Uhm. Remember MtAs one-shot I've storytelled months ago?

There was an NWO agent who was really close to becoming one of Technephandi.

Well, my players managed to redeem him. And get him away from Technocracy for a while. So he has spent some time with Cult of Ecstacy of all people. And now he's one of them.

He's currently on a run from both Technocracy and Traditions, because the former is obviously not glad about the betrayal and potential information leak and the latter would like to "ask him a few questions" since not every day MiB turns Ecstatic, they need to make sure he's not a double agent and also get some information about Technocracy from him. And he doesn't want to give any information to anyone, he wants to be left alone. Oh, and also Technephandi are curious about where has he disappeared to as well, but they haven't caught up on the latest events or his traces. Yet.

For now he stays with one of Ecstatic loners and desperately searches for a way to blackmail each and every organisation looking for him in a way which will allow him to have some peace. Good luck for him, I guess. I mean, he has a chance since I, the Storyteller, am rooting for him. I blame my players for making me really invested in life on an NPC who was meant to die at the end of the one-shot. What a bunch of people 🙄 /affectionate

So yeah. Have a weird conceptual piece about personal growth and putting yourself in danger for it. From NWO agent to almost Technephandi to Ecstatic. What an insane character arc.

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Quartz Crumbs of Wyrm's Teeth and First Among the Chickadees

Quartz and Chickadee, an Abyssal and a Lunar, fight about whether or not the world is worth saving almost every time they meet. Almost every time.

(Some more lore under the cut):

Quartz Crumbs of Wyrm's Teeth (he/him) is my Dusk Abyssal in servitude to a Deathlord. You may have seen him on my blog before. He's pretty much with the bad guys and is one of those himself.

First Among the Chickadees (she/her) is my Changing Moon Lunar. She is traveling with some Dragon-Blooded (loooooong story) trying to prevent Deathlords from another attempt to take over Creation. She is also tied to Quartz via the Solar-Lunar bond.

Their bond, as usual, means they have difficulty ignoring eachother; however their view on life is completely opposite. Usually this means that every time they meet a shouting contest begins, which looks roughly like this:

Quartz: you don't get it, the world is rotten and nothing but suffering is left!

Chickadee: no, YOU don't get it! That's how YOU perceive the world, but there's more to it than suffering! What about simple life pleasures? What about lying in grass? What about talking to friends? You're the one who is taking your own joy away!

And so on and so fourth. These two can go on and on. It's kinda funny, actually. While their companions seriously fight eachother with, y'know, weapons (while also exchanging pleasantries and having small-talk about the weather, because that's their way of doing things), these two are just standing there and arguing.

But as you may see, this time it was not a case. Something really messed up should have happened for Chickadee to accept consolation from her enemy – at least, that's what Quartz is worried about.

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Kiasyd and Dauntain from my last post but with a bit more effort

They won't leave my head send help

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I dunno if i wanna post my stuff on Tumblr regularly... Most of my stuff is actually on another social media platform. But I am in my twst era again, and that's why I'll slowly post my old twst fanart here. Starting with some Octavinelle scribbles because why not :D

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Quartz (my Dusk Abyssal OC) gets a watermelon because I like him. My silly evil son. Not a single thought behind those beautiful eyes...

(Quartz has actually bought the watermelon. With actual money. Terrifying everyone in the local village by appearing there and peacefully making the purchase. I mean, more like throwing money at some poor farmer who was ready to give Quartz anything for free in exchange for mercy for themselves and their family, but still. Quartz didn't want the unfortunate person or their family, he wanted a watermelon and decided to be somewhat nice about it. And afterwards Quartz just left without really harming anyone but still refusing to elaborate.)

(The money he gave to the farmer was probably thrown out the second Quartz left, and the farmer is probably now getting a lot of side-eye glances (at best), but oh well. It's their problems, not Quartz's.)

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My Hunter the Reckoning guy. Imbued of Judge Creed. He was actually among my first WoD OCs, so his lore is pretty silly in places, and not in "WoD is incredibly silly by itself"-way, but rather in "I wasn't aware of all the lore and was just creating whatever I wanted to without any canon or common sense stopping me"-way.

That's why this guy shares a flat with: a Tzimisce fledgling with high Humanity from VtM, an Ananasi (a werespider from WtA) and a Qualmi (werelynx from WtA). Is that an absolutely insane collection of neighbours? Probably. Do I want to change anything? Nah, these characters are my "I'm cringe but I'm free" zone 😌

Anyways, this Imbued really likes his Tzimisce roommate (insert obligatory joke about roommates here), and the feelings are mutual, so I started to forget that he actually y'know, destroys vampires. Not just cutely talks to one of them at night (when else, really?) and even shares his blood with both Tzimisce and Ananasi when their hunts go really badly. (And gets saved by them and Qualmi too when his hunts go to hell-)

So I drew this edgy picture to remind myself about how dangerous this dude can be while working. Not as dangerous as an experienced vampire, but still.

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My Dusk Caste Abyssal from Exalted ttrpg

His title is Quartz Crumbs of Wyrm's Teeth. Or Quartz for short. Or, if you're a meanie and a hater, Crumbs. Fun fact: "crumb" in my native language is also a slang for "babygirl". Do what you will with this information 😌

Quartz is that one anime character type who is just idiotic (/affectionate) and aggressive while also being a loser. It's not that he's a huge danger (to other Exalted, normal mortals have my condolences). It's just that his default settings are loud and screaming threats which he may or may not execute afterwards.

Honestly, he was an idiotic and loud creature when he was Solar as well, so personality-wise little changed after his Abyssal Exaltation. He didn't actually want to take the whole Abyssal deal, but Deathlord who laid his eyes on Quartz managed to, well, convince him. It wasn't a pleasurable process, but it happened. Now Quartz dutifully (yeah, very, he's the most dutiful servant to have (no)) serves his Deathlord, while quietly pondering whether he should try to get his freedom back or if the risk is not worth it.

Expect more pictures with this bastard sometime soon, he has my brain in a chokehold

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My pathetic little mew mew aka my Changeling the Lost OC.

He's an Elemental Fireheart.

Also he's a Loyalist. Which means he is out of Arcadia but still serves True Fae. These sad eyes will be the last thing you'll see before he sells you out to Gentry 😌

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Tap on picture for better quality, as usual :]

The cipher on the right translates to "these swords still carry the warmth of your hands"

This picture was meant to be about touch starvation and trying to get softness where you can, even from things which harm you. To give your own meaning to things in order to feel just a little bit more loved, even if it doesn't make any sense in actuality. I don't feel like I did the idea justice. But whatever.

This is Quartz Crumbs of Wyrm's Teeth, my Abyssal Exalted OC, whom you might've seen in my previous posts. Of course I gave tragic backstory even to my aggressive and idiotic bastard (/affectionate). No character is safe from my desire to cry 😎

A bit of process and additional picture under the cut:

Process. I really like the lineart, especially my attempt at making Quartz's hands kinda relaxed and gentle in this piece. Nothing shows what I wanted to show better then gentleness to something that's killing you.

And additional picture. I don't know whose hand that is, by the way. I don't have an OC who would get this close to Quartz to show affection to him yet. I don't know if I ever will. I'm making myself sad thinking about it, mission accomplished, yay :'D

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I've lost control of my Mage the Ascension OCs and now they're looking at each other weirdly, I wonder what's going on 👁️👁️

These are Melanie, my Ecstatic, and Irwin, my NWO-turned-Ecstatic, in some hypothetical future where they get therapy. More lore™ under the cut.

Melanie's life was messed by Technocracy pretty badly, which lead her to survivor's guilt, depressive episode and desire to isolate from other mages and this whole Ascension War. She has a strong aura of mourning around her even when she smiles (which means most of the time), but her helping nature and kind spirit persisted. Even if she really hates Technocracy now.

That's why when Irwin, a former NWO agent who has switched sides in favour of Cult of Ecstasy, was looking for a place to stay while on the run from former colleagues, Melanie took him in. She doesn't give enough damns about her life to be scared of attracting Technocratic attention and she's curious about this weird redemption arc Irwin has going on. She also may have some less benevolent reasons to help, like entertaining her ego with some resemblance of power over someone who was one of her enemies, but she will never admit that.

At first they had troubles living together. Irwin is naturally blunt and rude and doesn't quite notice and process his feelings and sensations, from emotions to hunger. And Melanie has too much hidden resentment towards Technocracy and doesn't tolerate Irwin's mean remarks too well, but also she hates seeing how little he cares for himself. And also they have Technocracy after them.

Time slowly makes them better at communicating with eachother, though. Irwin tones down his defensive rudeness and starts considering feelings of people, himself including, Melanie lowers her mental walls and finally acknowledges her grief and then starts a difficult path of moving on. Basically, they finally start processing all they had to. Yay.

Whether or not they'll be able to shake Technocracy off will be determined in upcoming oneshot, but if they do, I feel like they have a pretty good chance of a happy future together. They quite like talking to eachother even while their relationship is rough at edges, and I think it only gets better after the turbulent period of active self growth is finished. So yeah. I believe in them. Have a picture 😌

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Meme redraw with my satyr gorl, Zlata

Original under the cut

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My Changeling the Dreaming OCs in the post-Shattering era.

Januarius of House Liam, sidhe who didn't leave for Arcadia and so continues to rule over his freehold, comes to Kirsa the Bloody, leader of the local redcap band, to hire the band to help with dragon problem. Because apparently, redcaps were mercenaries who hunted chimerical beasts after Shattering happened. Their kithbook is now my favourite.

As you may see, Jan is pretty terrified of negotiations going wrong, but he shouldn't be — Kirsa the Bloody finds his poor attempt at drawing a dragon amusing enough to go and check out what it actually looks like :D

I'll let you decide, whether Kirsa thinks the drawing is cute... Or Jan himself is cute. Maybe it's both 😌

No text version is under the cut :D

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I decided to start flufftober, because damn, I need it. Prompts under the cut, they were made by @ tomseus on X.

Day 1, "Kitty-ing around". I chose "shapeshifter" part of the prompts.

Drew my Lunar, First-among-the-Chickadees (here you can see her in her human form), and her Dragon-Blooded adventure companions, Elof (Air Aspect) and Leroy (Fire Aspect) of House Ledaal (they are brothers, though not by blood).

Yeah, Dragon-Blooded who were born and grew up in Realm are traveling with Lunar. They did hate eachother before, but now they are just annoying eachother sometimes. Even centuries worth of animosity and a lot of personal trauma can be cast aside when a duet of Abyssals haunts amd torments you for long enough.

But it's a long story for another time, I suppose. Definitely not something you'd associate with fluff 😌