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A very long awaited meeting. Melliwyk's parents have been having a weird time of it lately; I think her mom's earned the right to yell at her a little bit
#dnd#dungeons and dragons#character art#gnomes#wizard#I wanna start doing more loose casual post-session doodles! (she says for the FORTIETH TIME--)#ANYWAY! melliwyk FINALLY got to see her parents again-- free and safe!-- after first learning they were being held by the BBEG waaay back#she hasn't seen or spoken to them at all since shortly before the campaign started for various reasons#and she was REALLY nervous about how this reunion was gonna go ALSO for various reasons#she sent baxter ahead to cast Identify on them to make sure they weren't Gaes'd or cursed or something (they were not)#so when we caught up he was on tuck's shoulder getting scritches :3#my OCs#melliwyk#tukklewyn#xenia#vale walkers#dungeons and doodles
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melliwyk's dad
#this is the pic she has for him in her contacts on her phone#me: modern au tukklewyn wouldn't have desoto as one of his names because that was a meta reference on my part#also me: modern au tukklewyn WOULD have desoto as one of his names as an in-world reference to this book#and someone-- or let's be honest probably way too many different people-- being like 'look it's you'#tukklewyn-- wistfully: I WISH foxes needed dentists#my OCs#melliwyk#tukklewyn#.... I don't know why I post about mel's dad so much. her mom's really cool too I just have less to say about accounting
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it was barely even loose, she just wanted to see if this actually works
#dnd#dungeons and dragons#character art#illustration#comic#gnomes#I think this is more or less fine but 1) it's better to let baby teeth fall out naturally-- her dad doesn't approve of premature yanking#2) this would have been. like. at the very first wiggle so her parents didn't even know she HAD a loose tooth yet#the momentary terror of 'my kid lost one (1) baby tooth and has decided to just start PULLING THE REST OUT???'#my OCs#melliwyk#tukklewyn#(implied lol)#vale walkers#dungeons and doodles
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I saw this video awhile back and was inspired to do this silly lil doodle of Melliwyk's parents :3
#dnd#dungeons and dragons#character art#illustration#gnomes#look at it. she is eating my croissant#I love them your honor#mel takes very much after both of them#my OCs#tukklewyn#xenia#melliwyk#(by proxy)#vale walkers#dungeons and doodles
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one downside of deciding one of my OCs' dads is a dentist is that I've spent more time than I ever would have expected thinking about the biology of different fantasy races' teeth
#elves gnomes and dwarves all live for centuries! WHAT is their tooth situation like#there's no way they all get their one(1) set of humanlike grownup teeth by age ~10 and have to take care of them for HUNDREDS OF YEARS??#I have already decided in my heart to lean into my semi-accidental design decision of gnomes having slightly bucky teeth#and say that they do also grow consistently over time and need to be worn down like rodent teeth#but what about molars then? apparently guinea pig and chinchilla's molars ALSO grow continuously#and there are a coupleof mammals who lose and regrow teeth-- only like three but among them elephants which live a really long time#what about elves? and dwarves? well-- what are their diets like?#AND THE PROBLEM ISSS I don't actually KNOW ENOUGH about TEETH to feel confident doing speculative biology about them#I only know enough to know that they probably NEED some kind of speculative biology done on their teeth shdlfjsldj#maybe elves were the first peoples to invent toothbrushes man idk#about me#worldbuilding#gnome stuff#melliwyk#tukklewyn
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me: okay time to go to bed and think about tomorrow's session and mel reuniting with her parents while I fall asleep :) [spends half an hour on wikipedia learning about teeth]
#did you know kangaroos elephants and manatees are the only animals that regularly shed and regrow teeth?? what the fuck#edit: MAMMALS the only MAMMALS lmao#and by contrast crocodilians are the only nonmammals that have tooth sockets! even though they do also routinely shed teeth--#around 50 times per tooth!!#anyway imagine a gentle looking gnome in a waistcoat very excitedly telling you all of this#I was JUST thinking about the fluff of mel telling her dad that boggle sheds teeth like a fish and showing/ giving him some#but of course I had to go 'what all animals DO do that anyway' because the reason so many of my OCs are nerds is that I also am a nerd#about me#my ocs#melliwyk#tukklewyn
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[hoarse from four hours of gnome voice] FINALLY REUNITED WITH MEL'S PARENTS...!!
#OOOUUUGHH#SHE WAS SO ANXIOUS ABOUT IT SHE FELT LIKE SHE WAS GONNA PASS OUT#the last time they all saw each other was just before the campaign when melliwyk was setting off on a journey no one had ever returned from#AND THEN WHEN SHE MADE IT BACK SAFELY SHE NEVER CONTACTED THEM HOPING THAT'D PROTECT THEM WHEN WE WERE ON THE RUN#so it's been over a YEAR where she was branded a war criminal and kidnapper and insurrectionist and also never once contacted them herself#she had to arrange for a very unorthodox rescue from a situation they didn't even recognize as dangerous and have them whisked into hiding#with very little explanation and again none directly from her#ANYWAY. HER MOM YELLED AT HER BUT IN A 'HOW DARE YOU MAKE US WORRY SO MUCH' WAY AND SHE COULD HAVE CRIED IN RELIEF#and they're safe and they're finally being caught all the way up to speed and ;n;#it's been so long and she's been stressed out about them and their safety for SO long ;n;#about me#my OCs#melliwyk#tukklewyn#xenia
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Melliwyk's parents met at the botanical gardens; Tukklewyn was (illegally) collecting insects and nearly bumped into Xenia, who was sketching ferns and the centers of coneflowers. They exchanged pleasantries, and he quietly watched her work for a few moments before wandering off. A little while later he returned and placed an empty snail shell, one of its outer walls filed away to reveal the growth pattern in cross section, onto her open sketchbook. "It's a common misconception that snail shells grow in a golden spiral," he said pleasantly, pointing to the meticulously diagrammed pattern she'd mapped of a flower's center. "It's actually a logarithmic spiral, but I still thought you might find it interesting."
#'it was love at first snail' xenia would recount later#'it was the absolute only thing about geometry I knew-- it was a desperate snail mary play' tuck would respond#I love mel's parents so much#I love that they didn't even exist until like four years into the campaign but#the more I think about them the more I realize they're just. INCREDIBLY in love with each other#they are the MOST married#my OCs#melliwyk#xenia#tukklewyn
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hard to razz your dad about being a big nerd for being a dentist when you also are a big nerd and he knows it
unlike SOME nerds, Melliwyk loves making toys 😌
#I've said this before but it's very funny to me that mel's parents didn't exist beyond 'I know she Has Some' for YEARS into the campaign#because now that they do I love them SO much#anyway this was going to be just a talking heads doodle but I couldn't figure out what to do with their expressions or bodies#so now they're watching rudolph lol#my OCs#melliwyk#tukklewyn#vale walkers#dungeons and doodles
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"#oc tag: my character's dad" okay but this is so real. Back when I was working on ABFHMM, one of the MC's dads got so cool that I thought about writing a whole spin-off book
kjghkdgjf MOOD, also please tell me about this cool spinoff dad
#I always end up loving my OCs' dads so much gkjhkfgd#although to be fair part of the thing with tukklewyn is I gave him some of my real life interests#so he gets a lot of stuff tagged for him because I'm already getting a bunch of bug content on my dash for myself lmao#.... ON THE OTHER HAND I NEVER TAG IDRI'S DAD IN LIBRARIES EVEN THOUGH HE RUNS ONE--#but that's more to do with that whole campaign feeling less relevant in general :') I don't think about buckram he's not very topical#about me
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"...and you can see what appears to be... gnomes who... have just kind of accepted the fact that they're being dragged through the air by a very powerful creature; they're like being held by their shirts, with their arms kind of folded"
Originally posted to my patreon as part of a larger WIP that I just never came back to, here is the one thing we do canonically know for sure about how this rescue actually went, courtesy of our druid learning how to scry
#dnd#dungeons and dragons#character art#illustration#gnomes#do you think Ancient Dragon Man explained literally any of what was going on because it surely Did Not Look That Way lmao#this was also over a year ago idk if I'm ever gonna properly finish it at this point#the thing is the first drawing feels so stiff I'd actually rather completely redo it :'D#but I love Tuck's thousand yard 'this might as well happen. my life is already so goddamn weird' stare skgjhdfghkjh#man. the problem is I DO want it to BE finished I just don't wanna have to actually spend time on doing that :')#so since I probably won't I'm releasing (part of) it from patreon cause I never intended for it to STAY completely exclusive#on the meta Mel's parents are so funny to me because it took me like four real life years to think of ANYTHING for them besides 'they exist'#but as soon as I was able to start building them properly I got very attached immediately dkfhgkh I lov them so much#my OCs#tukklewyn#xenia#melliwyk#vale walkers#dungeons and doodles
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my wizard sending a big dragon man to break into the palace and kidnap her parents without having any way to warn them about it was a foolproof plan 100%
based on this, lmao
#dnd#dungeons and dragons#illustration#dragons#gnomes#why are half my dnd arts shitposts and why do I always end up putting so much effort into them dkhjgkdfjhg#I wasn't even planning on coloring this but here we are#the dragon man is our party fighter's father currently possessed by the soul of the patriarch of all metallic dragons#and I don't actually know what he looks like kjhkhdjfgf my heart said black hair and very handsome so I just rolled with that#also if I was going to ACTUALLY design Xenia's current workspace it'd be different than this but I just didn't want an awkward empty desk#in OTHER NEWS.... LOOK AT MEL'S FOLKS..... I'M LOV THEM#*scoops her dad into my arms and smooches the top of his head* sorry about you being a dnd NPC :\#my OCs#Melliwyk#(tangentially)#Xenia#Tukklewyn#Vale Walkers#NPCs#dungeons and doodles
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@antique-symbolism OKAY I’m gonna try for brevity cause I’m inclined to ramble and there’s A Lot going on in this campaign but BASICALLY--
Melliwyk’s campaign setting is an isolated cluster of floating islands, and our party was exploring the lost mainland below, a journey from which no one in history had ever returned before. When we eventually DID return we were ambushed by guards and declared insurrectionists and just barely escaped being arrested; long story short it turns out the government had been covering up or lying about a lot of fucked up stuff that we've been uncovering and working to fix, so, now we’re Public Enemy Number One on the islands under propaganda’d false charges and definitely on the top of the govt’s shit list
Anyway, pretty shortly after just barely defeating an archmage sent to capture and/or murder all of us, our bard cast sending to just say hi and check in with his mom and got back a bunch of gibberish, having been Feebleminded-- when he sent an angry message to our BBEG demanding she fix his mom Or Else, the response was something like ‘if you keep acting out my hands are tied. Tell Melliwyk her parents say hello’ WHICH UM. YOU KNOW. NOT GREAT,,,
Melliwyk doesn’t know Sending (to her INCREASING frustration) and our bard has never met her parents, so, that was the only context we had about what was going on with them for quite awhile. Aside from Quinton’s mom getting magically lobotomized, we also found out not very long afterwards that Zhartook’s entire home island had been set on fire. Frankly, the fact that Mel’s family were the only ones who hadn’t been hurt yet was incredibly stressful for her; for the others the damage had already been done, but for her, there was just this looming threat that her parents could be hurt or killed to punish her for the party’s actions.
The whole situation has been complicated by the fact that, since our attempted arrest, Mel had intentionally avoided any and all contact with her parents, hoping this would protect them-- so not only were her parents being held by the bad guys as a not-so-subtle threat to Melliwyk, they were also completely unaware that those even were the bad guys because they were, like everyone else in the country, completely in the dark about all the conspiracies and stuff we’d uncovered. Without being able to contact them, Mel had no way of knowing what they were being led to believe about her and the party while at the palace, and no way of warning them that they were actually in danger. We’d already called in a favor to launch a rescue by the time we found out that her mom had been given a legitimate job helping hunt down resistance members, but at the time we didn’t know yet whether the rescue had been successful, so learning that they had some actual Use to the bad guys that didn’t involve terrible things happening to them was an incredible relief ^^;;
#we're a party of five but the reason only Mel Zhartook and Quinton's families were used against us#is that Artitian's actually like 3000 years old because of Destiny Hero Time Stasis reasons and has no loved ones the govt would know of#and Claire's mom is :) the BBEG :) and her dad is currently possessed by an ancient gold dragon :) so uh. you know.#Zhartook and Quinton's parents are fine now too btw we were able to get to Quinton's mom with a greater restoration and get her into hiding#and Zhartook's people had a secret hideout (more or less) on the island where his parents were sheltering#and we did a whole quest to stop the island from being on fire and save his dad from Magical Curse Burns (essentially)#it's fine! it's fine! everything is fine#... I hope this is intelligible gfkjhkdgfh I have forgotten how to write and also how to read and this campaign has SO much goin on lmao#not art#my OCs#melliwyk#tukklewyn#xenia#vale walkers
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happy father’s day to my gnome dads
#dnd#dungeons and dragons#gnomes#character art#comics#pour one out for player character families fdgkjhdfk#we still have not reconvened with mel's parents so-- again-- I still don't actually know what he has been told and/or what he believes#but we ARE Extremely Wanted for fake ass insurrection and kidnapping charges#...... meanwhile Idri accidentally wound up the leader of a thieves' guild which HER dad very much does NOT know skjhksdfg#my OCs#NPCs#Idri#Melliwyk#Buckram#Tukklewyn#noncanon shenanigans#dungeons and doodles
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working on PC backstories
justin: *writing a long, prose-style scene from his character's youth that weaves together important backstory elements and establishes a little bit of the personalities and relationships of the characters involved*
me, in bullet points: so she probably has a mom, who likes... math? and a dad who... collects... beetles. she Went To School At Some Point, where she met, you know, people, presumably. Whew that was a lot of work, time to take a break to look at the internet for six hours
#skdjdshsk TO BE FAIR TO ME-- part of my problem is I JUST can't fucking think of any backstory stuff for Mel for some reason#I've written-- or half-written-- prose style backstory scenes for other characters actually#BUT it's just really funny to me that- specifically asked by our DM to nail down backstory stuff and finally working on them on the same day#this is what we've both done today lmao#about me#boyfriend#melliwyk insp#tukklewyn#xenia#fiance
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bard, just before the session wraps up: oh I also wanted to do several Sendings during this travel time to check up on important plot things, and also one to say hi to my mom :)
dm: all you get back in response from your mom is a string of unintelligible babble
me: I love this
bard, immediately casting sending to The Evil Wizard of the campaign: we just killed an archmage and if you lay a finger on my mother you’re next
evil wizard: keep acting out and my hands are tied. tell melliwyk her parents say hello.
me: I no longer love this
#DONT ;A; skjhdgdkfjhg#it was just so funny cause the bard's player was like 'oh yeah I was gonna do sending to [names people] but we can talk between sessions'#and the dm was like 'oh no it's fine we can just do that right now :)' BECAUSE HE WAS SITTING ON THE MOM BOMB FKJHFDJKHG#and then I'm sitting there like 'heeheehoohoo juicy :3c' and then MY HEART ALSO GOT JUICED#IT'S FINE IT'S FINE IT'S FINE WHO'S WORRIED WHY WOULD I BE WORRIED#about me#melliwyk insp#tukklewyn#xenia
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