#tzoam

[rennybu]

a Tzoam birthday gift for @jawsandbones ✨🌠

the pose and composition was referenced from Gustav Klimt's work Fulfilment, 1905!

[jawsandbones]

what did you do to that poor half elf and firbolg

I hope you have snacks!

Tzipporah is an NPC in the DnD Campaign I'm currently running (Titan!) and is a half-elf Drow from the underground city of Noise. Loam is played by my dear friend @rennybu, and is a Firbolg from the swamp based city of Tilden. Over the course of the campaign they've: gotten together, exchanged so many letters, gone on many dates, fell in love and recently got engaged. It has, however, not been without its challenges! There've been two major 'incidents', and uh, they might be going through a third at the moment. I love them both with all my heart.

Extremely long post, so I've put everything under a cut. I hope you enjoy!

The main antagonists of the campaign are from Noise (the Circle of Nine, or just the Circle). Tzipporah, by relations, was a part of this organization and they used the fact that he could blend in easily to send him to the surface. He was ordered to join the Four of Four, and act as a spy for them.

Tzipporah did, for a time, but his relationship with Loam changed things for him. He attempted to give Loam hints on what the Circle was planning, and tried to muddy the information he was giving back to the Circle. With him being less useful for them, they instead decided to use him as bait instead. While Tzip's half-brother, Vences, killed Loam (he got better) for distracting Tzip, other members of the Circle came for Tzip. He agreed to go with them, in exchange for leaving his teammates, his friends, unharmed. This is how most of the Four of Four, including Loam, found out he was a spy. (Talee was suspicious of him from very early on, and the confirmation led to a deeply victorious outburst of, "I knew it.")

The Circle took Tzip to the mostly empty, deeply cursed, and ravaged island of Demeter, and put a mask on him. This mask would allow their Titan to essentially assume control of Tzip's body. While his consciousness was 'sleeping', the Titan of Noise, Faith, could rummage through his knowledge and work his body into dust, essentially. Since this process is known and expected to hollow out a person, Tzipporah's warlock pact with Faith was broken at the same time - Faith essentially putting him in the recycling bin.

Loam, his team (fondly nicknamed LQH), and other members of the Four of Four mounted a rescue. They trekked through Demeter, and down into its depths to find him. They managed to subdue 'him' (as Faith was fighting them through him) and Loam removed the mask, saving him. This is how Tzip got his facial scars. As his body was driven around for months without sleep, he got one good look at Loam, smiled, and passed out in his arms. That's when Vences and other members of the Circle revealed themselves, expressing their disappointment that Tzip wasn't dead, and promptly began trying to 'kill' them (this is when Talee lost her arm).

The Circle wanted them boxed in enough to make a deal, so that they could get their hands on an item they had in their possession. After securing a deal for said item, the Circle allowed them to leave Demeter.

In the weeks spent sailing back, Tzipporah was mostly asleep the entire time. Odd Caster, his bff, watched over him during the day and Loam would watch over him during the night. When Tzip woke up, on Loam's shift, they got to have a very long and emotional talk, and reaffirm their love for each other. Tzipporah got to give him the full truth of his pretty horrific upbringing and show him the now defunct pact mark (a deep Void handprint on his back). Loam also got to cut and remove the threads that were sewn into Tzip's back in a large X, which were punishments he had received when he was in Noise. And they had their first kiss! Hooray!

They arranged for Tzip to be able to stay in the well-defended magical tower of a wizard they're close with, whenever he's not with them. While they had a period of relative normalcy, Tzip and Loam got to spend a substantial amount of time together. This includes re-doing their first date in a more open way, and sneaking away from a ball held in the Four of Four's honour.

As things started to pick up again, they learned of intense False Wisp activity in multiple different cities, at the same time. The Four of Four went to different cities, to see if they could help halt that activity. LQH went to Talee's city of Quietus first, and while there, they had reason to call in Tzipporah. They were traversing the Infinite Library, searching for a way to repair the damage done to it by the Circle. They were also acquiring information there, and they quickly realized that their information was coming from Tzipporah's deceased mother. They wanted to involve him, so he didn't have to hear it all second-hand. They were also facing some members of the Circle who had a direct hand in raising him, including Kiri, who was the one to stitch the X into his back. After, they helped the Wide Smile vanquish the False Wisp, A Reap of Faithful.

Tzipporah then went to help his former team of Four of Four in the Widow's Wood while LQH went to Ilsa's city of Zilpah. They spent some time there, recovering pieces of the Silence and protecting the Titan from the False Wisp, Singing Reaper. While they were doing that, Tzipporah and T3 managed to push the False Wisp back and then went to back up T1 in Impius. LQH managed to come to an agreement/alliance with a member of the Circle, Tivee - who is one of the people from Noise fond of Tzip, and he is fond of her. While they were beginning to talk, she wanted assurances from Tzipporah, which is when Loam discovered that he couldn't get in contact with him. He did have something precious that Tzip had given him, which was enough to allow Tivee to put her trust in them. Immediately after, they quickly put together that no one was able to get in contact with T1 or T3 either.

They eventually got news that Impius was encased in a sand storm that no one was able to cross, cutting off the city from the rest of Winyul. LQH went there, and were able to cross the storm through their dabbling/familiarity with Void-related magic. Inside Impius, they learned that the Titan, Gatekeeper, was dead and the False Wisp which devoured it, The Harvester, was dormant and becoming ??? Something. All of the people of Impius were also in a sort of stasis. They also found T1, T3, and Tzipporah! He and Loam had a good teary eyed reunion hug.

After they fought their way to the mechanic keeping Impius encased and shutting it down, they left the city and the changing False Wisp in the hands of the Scarabae leadership. Everything seemed to calm down after that, which opened up a substantial amount of time for Tzip and Loam to spend together - from dates in Dina and Vagari, to traveling through Tilden's bog together, and meeting Loam's parents! Tzip also proposed to Loam during this time, with rings that could transmit the beat of each other's heartbeat. A few more dates and then LQH was off to Themis!

Themis is their current predicament. Themis is a location which wasn't shown on any maps, with mentions being far and few between, and they had to work to ferret out a way to get there, the only route being through a singular person, Valda, a Direction in the Quarter Cities. Themis is the 'base of operations' for Ercilia, Winyul's trickster war-criminal divination-using nightmare. LQH had a few run ins with Ercilia, learned really close up about a couple of her war-crimes (including being the reason Demeter is as fucked as it is), and don't like her very much. They were teleported to Themis and the moment they arrived, one of the first things they notice was the day-night cycle being extremely fast, as though whole days were passing in seconds. This change in 'time' was also in Loam's ring - with individual heartbeats being replaced by a steady and constant thrum.

This was also when Loam realized he'd forgotten to give Tzip a heads up that they were heading for Themis before they left (although Tzip knew what was in their plans). They ticked off a bunch of methods of communication and found that they were not working at all. They had to work through most of Themis without knowing what was going on outside, and if the accelerated time was real or not.

During a safer time, Loam decided to try Dream - which is kind of their thing. When travelling as separate Four of Four, they spent time together in Dream, and it was a source of strength for Tzip during his time in Demeter, which they of course kept up after. This time, Loam got to experience time-lag/time catching up, where he was in Dream every time Tzip was asleep. Loam couldn't really move, slowed down to an incredible degree, while Tzip was flashing around him through the different nights, over months. Seven - to be exact - discovered when they finally opened up their little letter bags for the first time and a whole bunch fell out, informing them of things happening in their absence.

Ercilia, being a bit of a right cunt, allowed them Dream and Letters only once, before cutting off those methods of communication for them. So they're traversing through this nightmare carnival labyrinth with no idea of how much actual time of passing, no way to find out, and Loam's ring is stillll going! After getting to the final area, finding Ercilia at last, she had a lot of fun telling them that they're just in time before counting down from 5. At the end of the countdown, Loam felt his ring go suddenly completely still and silent. <3

[rennybu]

press all my mind against the thought of you, and hope you feel me there

loam and the shape of tzipporah, from @jawsandbones's dnd campaign

[rennybu]

u ever willingly but unwittingly get trapped in a pocket dimension inside a magic crystal with your best friends, unable to contact the outside world by any means, but u still try to cast dream to contact your lover and reassure him you're alright, only to send him an immovable spectre of yourself which haunts his sleep every night for months, while it feels like barely a day has passed for you or. or just loam.

@jawsandbones runs the dnd game of all time and it is HER sad scarred half elf weeping in the bottom left corner. and this is the only way i can fight back

[rennybu]

life-affirming and very cutieful moment shared while camping in the woods a while back :'] tzip carries a lot of guilt surrounding the circumstances of his recent rescue. loam uh. well he knows that's bunk!!!!

@jawsandbones is our game's DM and the mind behind Tzipporah!

[rennybu]

loam thursday... save me loam thursdayy.....

hii jane HII!! I WAS PRACTICING DRAWING KISSES ft. THEM!!! LOVE WILL SAVE US!!

(darling elf is @jawsandbones oc 🫶💗)

[rennybu]

Loam Thursday!

YEAAAAAH! AND A BACKLOG OF STUFF!!! most of it tzoam.... they drank magic liquor that made them swap bodies a while ago. very silly (image 4)

tzipporah (half elf!) is @jawsandbones oc <333

[rennybu]

post loam right NEOOOOWWWWW

OK!!!

[rennybu]

MISSED LOAM THURSDAY Tzoam Friday?

TZOAM FOR EVER… im always thinking abt them….. how they fit together, where they overlap, how they’ve changed each other… etc. and with @jawsandbones it is an honour

[rennybu]

if tzoam sat in each other’s laps and smoked a j how would they do it. @jawsandbones i have big campaign questions

[rennybu]

wip wfriday. (self indulgent imaginary future) Tzoam in the tub. How is everybody doing

(tzipporah (idle spellcaster) is @jawsandbones oc!)

[rennybu]

Bought a lemon (fav flavor) cake slice to celebrate the engagement

i love you austin. they are both so happy, incandescently happy rn. i hope the slice was delicious

[rennybu]

tzoam?

tzoam... they went on a date in the city where they first met each other and got to indulge in all their love and attraction but with none of the baggage or secrecy they started the campaign with... well... a little baggage... new, shared, together baggage... i have to finish packing and cleaning or i would be drawing non STOP

they've known each other for a year now and tzipporah hit him with the "so what's your name" over a nice dinner date, and loam got to lean in close and tell him "rahara", the name his parents gave him, which tzip already knew ofc, but. the implication. that loam trusts him enough now, to know he could've told him that on the first day they met.. what the fuuuckkk man

[rennybu]

post... even more loam...... :^)

HERE please accept an oldie wip…….. blurting out “I don’t think it’s your fault” after your bf expresses guilt over the consequences of being rescued from Evil Dungeon on Plague Island (because How could it be his fault. Baby the extenuating circumstances)

There are 100,000 tiny moments throughout the campaign I want to draw in 2-4 panel comics… but i get too bogged down in detail and burn out cus I skip thumbnailing or over complicate the framing… I MUST PRACTICE MORE!!

Tzip (cozy half elf) is @jawsandbones npc 💝

[rennybu]

Is Loam having a good Valentine's?

in my mind he is..!! i can imagine. anything!!!!! he'd be the type to plan an extremely indulgent night in. before dating Tzip he would've been the wild valentine's partier. now that he has something he feels secure in he wants to chill whenever the universe will allow it.

currently ? the party is in a sprawling cavern offshoot from a strange and warping liminal space known for disappearing people. As a critical rescue mission with uhh unknown threat levels ahead. While everyone is slightly injured and depleted in spell slots. And Tzipporah is safe(r) at the other end of the continent awaiting news <3

[rennybu]

hi i need tzipporah to kiss the scars on loam’s abdomen Right Now or ill be forced to do it myself

do Not worry anon. great minds think alike Tzip has this covered