#trickster rogue

[luqlustra]

I finished my first attack against my dnd party for artfight!!

This was a very silly joke that I ended up running all the way to hell with, that as well as I really wanted to draw some good old 90’s anime haha

The characters belong to:

EeveeVsHo-Oh Aldigond EthirePyrus Tsurakeru !!!

[auntphibian]

A really cute pic of Lyn

[zephyrbug]

Hoax, herald of the shadowfell: 2024 edition!!🗡🦇🔮

I’m preparing for artfight I wanted to redesign an old fav of mine! Hoax the arcane trickster! I’ll need to make some references of their slight face patterns but after all these year I finally got him someplace I really like! They’ve been a struggle in the past cause I found rendering white skin a challenge and couldn’t quite get the vibes right but were finally here!

(Also I wanted to draw my favorite feywild x shadowfell pairing in honor of pride month so Hoax needed an update haha💜)

[snejkha]

Finders Keepers in her winter outfit :3c

[joyousanarchist]

hey guys! ^-^ posting an art dump once in a blue moon, ive been pretty busy w school and band practice plus sum personal stuff so heres all my little pictures ive made in my free time!!! (first 2 r my newest little fantroll)

[incorrect-dnd-classes]

Rogue: I GOT INTO A MAGIC SCHOOL!! 😍🥳🥳🥳 They left a first-floor window unlocked and I’m just walking around in here!

[steamclouds]

Tell me all you've ever known, and when you believe there's no more, tell me again. Let me know you like you know the universe.

my arcane trickster tav Voradras and Gale, sharing a moment of magic

[helene-art]

(this is based on the comics between 1960 and 1985) 🙇🏻‍♀️

I found it fun to do and I thought it might give ideas to the struggling fanfiction author (and I don't even have the same opportunity because I would also like to start writing some 🙇🏻‍)

I kind of abbreviated some of the information because I didn't really know how to word it ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ

I'm not sure it's all true because the comics I'm basing it on are in English...I have difficulty understanding English 🙇🏻‍♀️ With that, I wish you a good day 🥲

[arachnidsgrippysocks]

i have a pl8 with at least seventy three t8or tots on it right now

[alienturnipp]

River Kingdoms Daredevil, Cayden Cailean enthusiast, dual-wielding troublemaker, aspiring Azata, Commander of the Fifth Crusade 🦋

[ahfrickenfrick]

flash: kf said he had a school assignment and couldn’t come fight

the entirety of flash’s rogue gallery: oh well, we can always reschedule?? we know how much he likes chasing us… is there anything we can do to help? like we can tutor him, no problem at all:D

[trucbiduleschouettes]

Participating in a fun little art event and got to draw @zephyrbug's character Veil for it!

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[futagoboshi]

the other side

[undead-knick-knack]

Ashley Johnson can do whatever she wants forever

[indigo-casson]

something that i've been thinking about lately is the parallels between star wars: andor/rogue one and tamora pierce's trickster's queen duology. primarily because the star wars brainrot is real and the tamora pierce obsession is forever, but also because they are kind of both tonal and thematic departures from their main 'verses in some similar ways?

in both the star wars verse and the tortall verse, the majority of the media has focused on one individual (or a small group of individuals) who make a profound difference in the world. Whether that's alanna singlehandedly finding the dominion jewel/becoming king's champion/making way for female knights, or luke skywalker blowing up the death star, or daine and numair going to the divine realms during the immortals war, or anakin skywalker becoming a sith and dooming the republic, most of the original material has seen battle and political change as something that is affected by either an actual chosen one or simply a single very plucky and well-placed individual.

trickster's queen and andor, however, really look at rebellion as something that has to be done by a diverse group of flawed people who work together despite their differences. mon mothma knows that her role is raising money. ulasim, chenaol, and the other members of the raka conspiracy each take their individual roles in the rebellion, and recognize that even though they might not want to work with aly or the luarin nobility, they need their skills and influence to make it happen.

both stories also show rebellion as extremely costly and something that requires making tough calls. nobody has their hands clean by the end of a civil war. notably, trickster's queen explicitly narrowly avoids having the protagonists kill a group of 5 year olds. luthen is ready to kill cassian when he becomes a liability, and cassian does kill lots of people, including some allies whose only "crime" is being susceptible to giving up rebellion secrets.

in rogue one, we don't like davits draven because he orders jyn's father killed, and that just feels wrong. jyn is our heroine and it upsets her, so emotionally it's distressing. but of course, draven and cassian and jyn are all working towards the same goal. draven did what he had to--galen erso is a liability as long as he's alive. dove and sarai's little brother elsren has to die because he's a direct heir to the throne, ahead of his sisters. it doesn't matter that he's five and totally innocent. as long as he lives, a luarin has a greater claim to the throne than a raka, and as long as that's true, the rebellion can't succeed.

in the star wars original trilogy, people for sure die! i'm not trying to say that they don't, but it's definitely not something that's shown affecting our protagonists on a deep, emotional level. they're all side characters, or else they come back as force ghosts. the prequels are uh. fucking tragic, but at the end of it, almost all of our heroes make it out. even the casualties of the war are droids vs clones, which is to say, totally interchangeable cannon fodder on both sides!

the number of character deaths in the tortall 'verse is fewer, probably because it's primarily created for middle grades, but even when people do die, they're either demonstrably bad people or minor enough characters that the emotional resonance isn't the same.

by contrast, at the end of trickster's queen, almost the majority of the main conspirators die in battle, not to mention those who don't even make it to the final conflict. at the end of rogue one, all of our heroes are dead, and people aren't exactly making it out of andor s1 in good shape either. more than half of the aldhani team dies on that mission.

I could go on further, but I think my main takeaway is that once you've invested a lot of time and attention and fandom into a 'verse, you have a lot more leeway to tell different kinds of stories. tamora pierce could not have written trickster's choice until after the values and world of tortall were so clearly established, and if she had, it wouldn't have had the impact that it did. similarly, part of what makes rogue one/andor so striking is the fact that it is such a departure from the preexisting values and story format of star wars.

for every chosen one we see in media, there are hundreds of people working behind the scenes to make their big, death star destroying moment possible. the only way to improve society is through collective action, and part of that is that everyone's hands are going to get dirty. i think lots of people want to imagine that they could be like luke skywalker and swoop in 2 weeks before the battle of yavin and become a hero, but the fact of the matter is that that's not how the world works! war requires us to do things that would ordinarily go against our values, but in the context of a drawn out, bloody, thankless battle, maybe we decide the ends justify the means.

[do-you-ship-this-comic-ship]

propaganda:

Listen. I know Countdown sucks. But genuinely Hartley and James in this comic were so so homosexual its insane. So. They start as the classic handcuffed together troupe. Everyone thinks they killed Bart so they are on the run together. James makes so many homophobic jokes to Hartley it has to be compensating for something. I'm not kidding there are so so so so many gay jokes. Eventually they end up on a train and Hartley gets fed up with the gay jokes and James says "What? The gay jokes.... They stopped being funny?" And "Which is such a shame, really, because riding the rails like some nineteen-thirties tramp? I'm pretty sure I could've come up with a knee slapper about how you've turned me hobo-sexual..." and he calls Hartley by his name for the first time. Then they are attacked by deadshot and James saves Hartley TWICE, the second time saying "No! Nor him... not now!" Before being killed. Then Harltey drags James's dead body around for basically the rest of the comic hallucinating that James is talking to him. So yeah, Countdown sucks, but it was really awesome at unintentionally making gay ships.