#unprepared casters arc 6

[couldthatreallyhavebeenit]

sometimes i remember i have a tumblr acc, so have some kipp art. the signature is my tiktok btw! i mostly post dimension 20 edits there

id: two digital drawings of kipp tupper, from arc 6 of unprepared casters. the drawings are slightly realistic, with cartoon style shading he is a green satyr with green hair and beige horns. they are wearing a paper crown, a greyish brown button up and red suspenders. he is resting his head on one of their hands, and the other is in front of him. the only difference between the two images is the lineart, the first having a lineart that blends with the colours of the rest of the drawingz while the second's lineart is completely black. my signature is on kipp's left shoulder and the background is a solid greyish blue /end id

[milkactivist]

unprepared casters the aurora protocol is out which means I can finally talk abt the special ai Haley made for me specifically in a lab

[silly-goofy-mood]

anyone else think about the parallels between remeny saying "you never really chose to follow me, none of you did" in ep 6 and then "whoever wants to follow me is welcome to" in ep 8 and character growth and i'll never stop being insane about this fucking arc :)

[leasdoodles]

That's how episode 6 went right?

[mystic-crochet]

Day 8 of my UC crochet project

This time it's an eirden for Arc 5: Lives of the Party!

Basically just an owl's head in the colours of the eirden art we've seen, and in two different lightings so you can see the little grey markings.

[wall-eye]

Also, thinking back to the lore established in tightrope, I am even more curious about the general ghost like ideology in the Unprepared Casters world. I've been curious about it since arc 6 and Lottie but this has just made me even more.

Theres been 3 ways ghosts exist: They used to show up where they died in the way past before the gods left. Modern/post-gods leaving Spirit bards, like Lottie. And, this last one might be a stretch, Soul coins.

What is the general publics idea of ghosts? Is it like ours, where ghost belief is wild varied and much ghost proof is considered hoax? Does everyone who doesn't go to a God's plane or get reincarnated turn to a ghost? Are there days, like in the past, that the ghosts maybe still around can become visible and corporeal? They arent locked to where they died anymore, which we know from the end of arc 6. Can they do magic if they could in life? Could they learn magic if they didnt know, if they are dedicated enough? If they can, is divine magic off limits, lest they get the gods attention and get yoinked to their plane? Could, in theory, there be a ghost adventuring party going on ghost adventures in the material plane?

[yarn-dragon]

New fic! I think about Beryl's emerald eye A Normal Amount

[motherofmabari]

Unprepared Casters Arc 6 Episode 2 spoilers below

"If you had died, if Beryl had died, I would have blamed myself for the rest of my life but it would have been your fault."

Lottie omg just shatter my heart and show it to me

[weareallfuckingfruit]

I need to stop listening to Unprepared Casters in public I keep crying

[vo1tur3]

Ignore the watermark from the snow filter pleabe

[silly-goofy-mood]

Sup bitches i wrote some more sad shit

[leasdoodles]

Here's some more fanart because I watched the Battle Royale the other day and it made me gayer

[hellebore-petall]

I feel like I am in my corruption arc because my favourite arc 11 PC has been shifting from Atelut to Foq.

[yarn-dragon]

UC Celebration Week Day 5!

Favourite Relationship: Beryl x Remeny

Confession

[igniting-quill]

Hiiiii

So for the fanfic writer ask thing (definitely didn't forget what it was called), i'm asking you about, surprise surprise, your arc 6 fic haha

Her captain, unbelieving, leaned forward until her forehead almost slid up against Beryl’s. Remeny’s electric blue eyes glared at Beryl. The red-head did her best to pull Beryl’s defenses apart. Cute as the captain was, Beryl didn’t break. “Seriously. I didn’t cheat.” Beryl said, her tone taunting, beckoning her captain to make that accusation. She used a hand to push against the captain’s shoulder to give them a bit of distance. Remeny continued to back away, eventually slumping into her chair while Beryl continued, “After all, I’m not as vile as you are. I’m not going to be shoving my playing cards anywhere else… suspicious” “You're making fun of me.” “Yes Remeny, because using your cleavage to hide your playing cards is not as clever as you think. Especially when you’re drunk out of your mind and have terrible sleight-of-hand.” The sky pirate captain, a legendary leader who single handedly led her crew through numerous successful feats of crime, shut her mouth, scrunched her nose, and pouted at the insult. Beryl's smile grew wider. “It’s just the truth, captain.” "Ahhh— you're so smart Beryl!” Remeny said as she swiped the stack of cards from the table and aggressively shuffled them for the next round. “That’s why you're our crew’s quartermaster. Now, if I was quartermaster, we would have all been dead a long time ago.” That was such a Remeny compliment. After all, it was rare to hear something so humbling from someone with such a big ego. Beryl chuckled goodheartedly as Remeny passed out the cards for their next game.

Okay so ... This is just... Impressively in-character, i just... Wow. Like you know that meme that's like "he would not fucking say that"? Yeah, well this is "they WOULD fucking say that".

anyway i guess this is an ask so how did you manage to read these characters' minds and how can i do it /j

Yes! The question I’ve been waiting for! 

Lea is asking about a writing ask which I reblogged here. 

Onto my complementary below the cut, SPOILERS by the way. If you want to read this for yourself first, check it out on ao3 here.

First of all, you’re compliments are so nice haha. I don’t think I can give you the best answer to how I managed to “read these characters' minds” lol, but perhaps you can clean something from what I write down here.

Some background before I get into the scene itself.

I had this structural idea for this fic, which was done sorta well (I had no idea how to do it for Solas). I think we’ve both heard of the “life flashing before your eyes” before death, and here I wanted something like that for Beryl. But her life consists of her pirate crew, and finally in this fic, herself. Each flashback scene consists of a memory of a member from the crew: Remeny, Lottie, Kipp, and Kix (a small one for Salas, if you want to count that). 

I had different “triggers,” some more obvious than others, to initiate a flashback. In the one you chose, the flashback with Remeny, begins with Remeny collapsing in real time. Each other time a flashback occurs, someone is either dying, or in the case with Kipp I just had his flashback sequence come as Beryl was dying herself… I couldn’t find the perfect place hahaha. Additionally, each flashback ended with an ominous reference to death in some sort of way. I mean look: if DM Gus didn't nerf his combat (good choice), Death is what would have happened for everyone in a TPK. 

And well, I like to think of my fanfic of the version in which DM Gus didn’t adjust. The player characters in my fic have trouble speaking, continually take “cold damage” from the water, and Beryl ends up dead.

Alright, let me transition into the section you asked about specifically.

I was thinking of what would fun moment could link Beryl and Remeny together, and I immediately thought of the scene that happened during canon Arc 6. Them playing cards, (I think?) Remeny winning, and Kix doing this preprogrammed Beryl vs Remeny scoreboard. This means that Beryl and Remeny? They have HISTORY with this. They fucking love playing cards against each other, and they’re like rivals about it. So I had to choose that as the backdrop to Beryl’s flashback with Remeny.

But any memory with Remeny would be a moment filled with chatter/teasing/roughhousing/accusations but in the best way possible. Like, in the way that you’ll call your best friend a “Bitch” and roast them, but it’s all in good fun and you don’t actually mean the insults. (We see how this dynamic is bad during Arc 6 Episode 6, but most of the time this is the extent of how far Remeny will go.) So I had to have Beryl and Remeny banter. Of course the first thing Remeny would do if she lost would be to accuse Beryl of cheating.

Now, this next part I’m going to talk about is funny, because it wasn’t until talking with you/ reading your fics (of course other people were part of this too) that I started seeing Remeny/Beryl as a like. Ship ship. Which is stupid, because they literally have all the pieces and parts that would make any large fandom squeal with delight (gay rivals to lovers!). Although this fic is posted without any romantic pairings, I really leaned into that. This scene was meant to be read as possibly romantic. My treat for ya ;)

That’s why Remeny leans forward, and they’re foreheads are touching. It’s tension: are they going to kiss? Her eyes, I nearly settled into the fanfic trope of overembellishing them, but I think electric blue is exactly the vibes I wanted. In my head, I think Remeny wants to kiss and is pushing her luck… that is before Beryl pushes her captain away, and that’s why when Remeny relents she’s slumping in her chair (Like “dammit Beryl, a kiss just this once?” / “No. Kissing me won’t make me get rid of your loss.”)

During this physical moment, they keep up that friendly banter I was talking about earlier (in fact this banter continues throughout this whole section haha). The best thing for Beryl to do is bring up one of Remeny’s past cheating schemes, because let’s be honest Remeny’s definitely cheated before, and is smart about it. Like, Remeny is being hypocritical for calling out Beryl for cheating when the captain has done it before. But of course, I mentioned they’re rivals with inside jokes right? So Beryl’s going to choose the most embarrassing moment she can muster which for the writer (me) I had to ponder a bit. So like. What the fuck would Remeny do? 

Of course it’d be cheating by hiding cards with her boobs.

And like, damn that’s a good roast, so Remeny let’s Beryl have it (captain cannot think of anything else to roast Beryl back and concedes that Beryl won without cheating), and in her lack of a comeback she also admits that Beryl’s smart: that’s why she wins in cards (and wins Remeny’s heart but also this isn’t explicit).

And finally, my odd foreshadowing of death to end the flashback. “Now, if I was quartermaster, we would have all been dead a long time ago.” ← that’s what I mean. 

But it felt too cruel and ominous to end the flashback there. I mean, that’s not what the memory felt like! I didn’t want to warp it like that when the current “present” scene was so tragic, so I ended it off with them continuing onto another game. Past Beryl and Remeny are having a great time. And that’s what makes their deaths feel worse.

Thank you so much for asking! This was incredibly fulfilling and I appreciate your choice of my fic haha. Now, onto my sad irl responsibilities :p take care everyone!