Im Roach, a guy from the Netherlands. Im fueled mostly by gay thoughts and my autism, welcome to the chaos~
Born 2001
Comms : check VGen
Trades : open, ask me :D
Requests : whenever i feel like it
Bluesky // Toyhouse // Vgen
Check out my current hyperfixation (archive tags)
Torrin | Cepharma | Dave the Great
If you dont want to see me talk/ramble, mute the tag Roach talks ;; ! <3
More stuff below
I generally draw my own characters, and not long before march 2025 i mostly used to do character designs! After mid March i started expanding, and now i thoroughly enjoy drawing detailed illustrations of my characters :0
Movies/TV shows :
Annihilation (movie 2018)
Alien Earth
Inception (movie)
Altered Carbon
Interstellar (movie 2015)
Arrival (movie)
Predator franchise (all of the everything)
Marvel pre-endgame
X-men
Games :
Sky Children Of The Light
Prey
Assassins creed (everything but mostly Black Flag, Rogue, Unity)
got kidnapped by a brief crochet hyperfixation, back with a new oc :3 He's also part of Torrin's world
His name is William Fell and he's the captain of the pirate ship the Serpent. Before that he served as the sail master on the Gambit, got ranked up to pilot (navigator) a few months before the Gambit got caught in a naval battle (there's an ongoing war in his story). The splintered wood debris from a cannonball hitting the ship is what caused the injury to his face which inevitably made him loose his eye.
BEFORE all this, Will had found out the captain had forced himself upon Will's sister Alenna, and that along with Will finding out the captain, quartermaster and boatswain had plans to keep a large sum of the next prize to themselves, he found himself in quite a neat situation, alone with the captain in the water-filled decks of the ship. William, already injured from the explosion, killed the captain, and to the unfortunate fate of the quartermaster who witnessed it, he killed the quartermaster too.
After that he jumped ship like most surviving crew, reached shore and set up camp. There he was approached by the then-boatswain (owned by @babblingblueberry) with the proposal that he would stay silent about what crimes William had committed, if Will stayed quiet about the plans.
The boatswain swayed the crew and Will was voted captain. He managed to secure a square rigged frigate called The Serpent, and since then has spend his times as captain, with the former-boatswain-now-quartermaster at his side.
got kidnapped by a brief crochet hyperfixation, back with a new oc :3 He's also part of Torrin's world
His name is William Fell and he's the captain of the pirate ship the Serpent. Before that he served as the sail master on the Gambit, got ranked up to pilot (navigator) a few months before the Gambit got caught in a naval battle (there's an ongoing war in his story). The splintered wood debris from a cannonball hitting the ship is what caused the injury to his face which inevitably made him loose his eye.
BEFORE all this, Will had found out the captain had forced himself upon Will's sister Alenna, and that along with Will finding out the captain, quartermaster and boatswain had plans to keep a large sum of the next prize to themselves, he found himself in quite a neat situation, alone with the captain in the water-filled decks of the ship. William, already injured from the explosion, killed the captain, and to the unfortunate fate of the quartermaster who witnessed it, he killed the quartermaster too.
After that he jumped ship like most surviving crew, reached shore and set up camp. There he was approached by the then-boatswain (owned by @babblingblueberry) with the proposal that he would stay silent about what crimes William had committed, if Will stayed quiet about the plans.
The boatswain swayed the crew and Will was voted captain. He managed to secure a square rigged frigate called The Serpent, and since then has spend his times as captain, with the former-boatswain-now-quartermaster at his side.
is there such a thing as shadowbanning on tumblr? My two most recent posts have gotten 1 single view combined and while i dont really care about the numbers, i am surprised and wondering why that is 🤔
Who is this Torrin fella you've been drawing lately? I'd love to know more about him!
hi yes ive literally been working my ass off to finish his refs JUST FOR THIS ASK KJHKJASDG <3 <3
ANYWHO this will be LONG. I also hope tumblr wont nuke me for posting this lol
Torrin is a guy i made about a month ago, mostly because i wanted a new character in an rpg server im in (hetherev, check it out its fun <3). I also REALLY love vampires and dark themes and dark backstories and men with sad puppydog eyes, so there he was on the canvas :3 This is now his outdated ref lol \/
He's from a new world im making all because of him, where elves and humans live among eachother and its kind of set around the time when pirates where a big thing. Pirates of the carribean times basically, but with more fantasy and weird stuff. He's a half elf (technically 3/4th elf bc his mother is a half elf and his father a full one lol-) who originates from the coast of one of the countries in the more warmer regions of this world. He looks pretty typical for most people there, dark eyes dark hair. (New ref freshly made <3)
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For his backstory ill tldr it a bit but basically
was raised in an orphanage since before he was one year old
it wasnt a nice upbringing since his country was at war/stuck between wars, it was a mess
age 10-12 he got adopted by a kind couple but they died tragically when the city got attacked by naval ships (its for the plot i promise Torrin-)
after that he lived on the streets (which he honestly already kind of did when he was at the orphanage)
when he was 16 he joined a trading ship and started sailing the seas, which he quickly fell head over heels in love with
at 23 a new guy joined the crew (Glen, owned by @babblingblueberry /blu3berry) and they end up getting entangled in ways Tumblr wont approve iykwim
at 25 Glen (23) goes home to support his family during the war and Torrin sails the seas for another half year or so before the ship gets caught in a sea battle (crossfire) and most of the crew strand on a remote archipelago
Torrin helps around at a local temple to get food and shelter in return, but some local extremists kidnap him and (in short) force a curse upon him from a cursed mummified skull
from that day onward Torrin carries this blood-hungry thing with him
The curse itself demands blood- it took his arm as a start until Torrin broke loose, but it has gone far enough to meld itself to the lizard/monkey/primal part of his brain, which gives him this predatory urge to feed on blood roughly every two weeks. He can't fight it when it happens bc as the hunger starts to get stronger the drive in the back of his head for blood gets louder, and as his mind starts to loose grip he starts to loose his will to right as well.
Torrin isnt a violent person but the curse turned him into one and he hates himself more than he hates the people that waged war on his country. He's a monster- a blood thirsty murderer. He tries to stay away from civilization as much as possible, only getting close when he needs to feed. OH RIGHT he also grows gnarly teeth when hes in his berserk hunger mode and his eyes glow red-ish, and his arm can do all sorts of weird stuff :3 Generally, when its fed and Torrin is resting, the arm takes the form of.. well, a real arm (as show in the refs) but it can also do funky stuff like this
The cursed arm feels heavy and cool to the touch and it makes a sound as if its like marble r smth. Yet it can shift and deform at a whim as if its merely made of smoke. Torrin can control this completely, yet he chooses not to because it reminds him of this side of himself that he despises. The fullbody shown above (third pic) is about as far as the arm can reach, probably could touch the ground while standing.
Also yes the curse spreads across his face chest and back like black veins <3