a nerdy awoken warlock

She/her 27 I play destiny a lot with my boyfriend and I draw some art // also very gay 💙💜🩷 // 🖤🩶🤍💜//My main: Bubo (Latin for owl) (an awoken warlock) // Bubo's ghost: Minerva (m) // My main Tumblr is ArtNoctowl

[awokennerd]

Ace of Spades Fireteam

So, here is my pinned post, with a bit about my guardians! In my head, the three guardians you make in D2 is the young wolf’s 3-person fireteam. I play with my boyfriend, so essentially we have a 6-person fireteam, buuuuut, some of them aren’t fleshed out, so here is the basic info. Also, I should add that in my head, my bf’s titan and my warlock are the young wolves, and it is not just one person.

Bubo (she/her)--awoken warlock. Dawnblade. The YW. Ghost: Minerva.

She was rezzed in the Dreaming City at the time the young wolf was rezzed. She loves her dawnblade, but she uses all the light/darkness subclasses (except for stormcalling). She is the student of Ikora Rey and focuses on history, mainly of the awoken and lightbearers. She hopes to establish a museum in the city one day. She often gets in trouble, such as being the first Shadebinder, learning too much about her previous life, and wanting to keep an Ahamkara bone in her house in the city.

Tripore (he/him)--human titan. Sunbreaker. The YW. Ghost: Edgewise.

Tripore was rezzed in the Cosmodrome, a few years before Bubo. He loves the archives and has become a hidden who focuses on better data management. On the battlefield, he yeets as many nades as possible (and says "where's my hammer?" every five seconds). He loves doing photography and becoming a Dregen in his downtime. Bubo hates how much she is dragged into Gambit by Tripore.

Violet (she/her)--awoken hunter. Nightstalker. Ghost: Rose.

She was on the same fireteam as Cayde and Andal Brask and ended up being on this new light fireteam when she found Bubo in the Dreaming City. A hunter who is probably not the best influence on any new lights, but is quite effective at what she does. She mainly loves sniping, playing with knives, and drinking way too much alcohol.

Cynthia-28 (she/her)--exo titan. Sentinel/ Behemoth. Ghost: Lawrence

Cynthia was rezzed in the early city age. She has an old exo frame that constantly has issues, so she became an exo scientist to learn more about exos and to help others who don’t have the light/can heal themselves. She also tries to take apart our robot dog.

??? (she/her)--awoken warlock. Stormcaller. Ghost: ???

She still needs a name. She was rezzed in the late dark ages and has stayed away from a lot of the fighting, focusing on her studies instead. She ends up on Bubo’s fireteam just cause they needed a bit more firepower fighting Crota, and Bubo just happened to know her.

Shiro-4 (he/him)--exo hunter. Ghost: Suzume

Okay, we haven't had any lore on Shiro since D1, and I want to know what he is up to, so he is the final member of the Ace fireteam. I think he was on the same fireteam as Cayde, Andal, Violet, and Tevis Larsen years ago, but now Violet and Shiro are the last two from that fireteam. Like the unnamed warlock, Shiro is more so just there to help when Ace needs it and he is a reliable hunter.

[awokennerd]

Bubo, the Young Wolf and student of Ikora Rey, and her ghost, Minerva.

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I absolutely love the robes from Season of the Splicer! It was my first paid season and it was such a fun point to jump into the active story then! The robes always remind me of that period of destiny which was one of my favorites. This armor set I use for my voidwalker set with Nezarec's Sin and my ghost uses the Gyro Shell whenever I use void. I have doodled this set, but I never did a nice drawing of it, so I thought this was a good time to do so. I love how this one came out!

[awokennerd]

This is what my desk looks like when I'm in the middle of doing artwork, especially a marker drawing. This isn't even the worst it's been (it gets worse when I need to draw multiple characters or a background). But honestly this is part of the fun. I love getting to put my supplies to good use!

[awokennerd]

"'It is my honor' --Chalco Yong to Ikora Rey"

"Find thy self. Know thy self. Destroy thy self. Shed thy self. Embrace a new skin. Become the many. We are as unseen. We are as death."

The Hidden agent turned Hidden leader, Chalco Yong!

[awokennerd]

My current Chalco Yong wip! I'm waiting to get some new inks in the mail tomorrow that I'm going to try out for the line art on this one. I'm definitely coloring this in with markers.

[eiramew]

can't reblog with videos apparently so here's that damn cursed edit im not tagging that

[awokennerd]

I'm going to miss Ikora so much

[awokennerd]

I'm sad we won't find out if Ikora Rey becomes Vanguard Commander. It has been a few years of getting little hints to it. After Targe died in Final Shape, I was very quickly wondering what Bungie would do with Zavala. Episode: Hersey gave us our first major change in the Mirror Imago lore entry. In it, Ikora tells Chalco she is going to be helping out with the vanguard even more and it's a full time job and she can't be the hidden leader anymore (she doesn't specify why, but it's obvious it's because Zavala is lightless and is stepping back a bit). Ikora wanted Chalco to become the hidden leader. Chalco of course agrees, saying she would've been mad if Ikora asked anyone else. And then in Edge of Fate, the Nine kept referring to Ikora as "Commander." Ikora even is annoyed at this, wonder why they keep calling her this.

Like I initially thought Zavala might step down, either stepping down as just Commander and staying Titan Vanguard or completely stepping down. But is the Nine planning on killing him? Or do they consider him so unessential to their machinations that they just call Ikora Commander instead?

And who would become Titan Vanguard after Zavala? They did a good job exploring the possibility of Crow becoming hunter vanguard long before he became a vanguard. But like most of the Titan's are kinda doing other things. Sloane is partially Taken and it seems like she's fine with having a lesser position. Saladin is on Caiatl's council (I guess Zavala and him could switch, but I don't see that happening). Saint has helped in a temporary capacity being titan Vanguard during the Final Shape, but I can't imagine he'd take it again and he's the trials vendor. And Lord Shaxx is busy with Crucible. Orin is another titan who now isn't emissary, so it's possible, but I can't see it (and she's lightless too).

And the whole thing with the city being in a very unstable place politically. Season of the Splicer was definitely one of my favorite seasons in terms of city politics lore. Bungie was definitely working towards another big change with the city's structure. It would've been interesting to see what they would've done with all this. I mainly just want to see my favorite warlock be commander, but also I just can't imagine who would fill the role of Titan Vanguard at this point.

[awokennerd]

Today is the first day I've been in D2 since the announcement. I've been wanting to go in game, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it because I knew I'd be crying too much.

I finally felt like trying to go on d2 and hang out with Ikora like I do some days. Just to sit and listen to her idle dialogue and listen to some of my favorite music. And her first idle dialogue happened to be, "Welcome Home, Warlock." And I couldn't stop myself from crying. That's what Destiny has been all these years. It's been a home to come to, especially when I'm feeling down. And Ikora has been such an important character to me. I don't even know how to begin to explain how much I care for this woman and I think about her on a daily basis.

I know it's unlikely, but I kinda hope other major NPCs who don't have a spot in the game where you can visit them, end up in like the tower or other locations. I went to see all the characters in the tower and when I went to see Saint, I cried because I can't see Osiris. I also just cried because not getting anymore Saint and Osiris lore is just heartbreaking. I love them so much.

[awokennerd]

Back in like 2021/2022, I drew this piece featuring 3 armor sets I loved to use! I never finished the background, but I recently found this piece again and today I decided to finish it. I'll miss getting new armor sets in Destiny and having new outfits to draw for my warlock.

[swhftt]

SWHFTT‼️‼️SUNDAY‼️‼️

103: the Ghosts are tired

[awokennerd]

I was so excited when I saw that Aunor Mahal had an official character model in Renegades. I was like, great! Another lore only character who is finally getting an actual design! Maybe Chalco Yong will get one now that she's the leader of the Hidden! And here we are now and Destiny 2 is no more. I'm so salty.

[awokennerd]

Ikora and Chalco holding hands, going to catch up eating dumplings (and copious amounts of tea) after everything that happened during the Final Shape (see this lore entry)! My contribution to Ikora week 2024! It's been fun making sapphic fanart of them. I need more gay fanart of them in the world!

[awokennerd]

While I don't actively post much anymore (depression is a bitch and I haven't really drawn much of anything in the past year), I still have my headcannons and think way too often about Ikora Rey, Chalco Yong, Eris Morn, and Eido. They are some of my favorite characters in all of destiny. And today when the news of Destiny 2 getting it's final update came, they were the ones I thought about immediately. I love the story and the lore and all the fanfics and fanart for destiny.

My bf played D2 during the pandemic, playing all the content for free that was about to be content valued. For some reason I just assumed this was some minor steam game that he found, that I wouldn't enjoy. Eventually, my bf got me to play the game in Nov 2020. He wanted to remake his warlock on his account, so he let me do the intro player campaign. He just had the condition that the warlock needed to be awoken, so he had a human, exo, and an awoken. I loved the warlock that I made on his account. I soon ended up making my own d2 account, setting up my awoken warlock. Somehow, this one minor thing he wanted me to do turned into me absolutely loving the lore about the awoken. I've played Forsaken through the newest content. I started playing the seasons during Season of the Splicer, which story wise is still one of my absolute favorites. Destiny 2 helped me figure out my queer identity. I was still so new to figuring that out only a couple of years ago. One of my first drawings I did to celebrate figuring out I was bi was of my warlock waving around a bi flag. It has helped me learn more about myself. And it has helped me on the hardest days, being a little bit of light when I'm struggling. I think about my headcannons about Ikora and Chalco on a daily basis, even if I don't play destiny every night like I used to before Final Shape.

When I heard the news about destiny 2's final update, I cried. I cried a lot today. I hope one day we'll be able to play another game in the franchise, but even if we don't, this has been one amazing journey. No matter what happens with the franchise, I'll still be thinking way too much about my favorite characters, reading fanfics, and drawing my own art. These characters and their stories mean so much to me.

[sylenth-l]

Nerds (affectionate)

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+ extra cute bonus:

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[awokennerd]

They are very cute nerds

[werewolf-w1tch]

thinking about ghost shells in-universe. thinking about guardians and their relationships to their ghosts. thinking about the loving the thing that gave you life back so much and giving them their own form in return. gough

[stasis-shatter]

Ghosts (canonically) being able to "smell".

Ghost shells being meticulously cleaned after being covered by gore and all sorts.

Ghosts wanting to try food so bad to the point of dunking themselves in their Guardian's meals.

Soft beeping, high pitched beeping when happy, low pitched when angry/grumpy.

Ghosts having a specific "perch spot" either on their Guardian (cape hood, pauldron, pocket, etc) or favourite resting area (library, Bazaar, dark halls of the Annex, ontop of laundry like a cat.)

Ghosts bumping eachother and other beings sorta being affectionate and a gesture of acknowledgement.

Ghosts grounding their Guardians, "vibrating" by tuning into frequency of their shared Light.

Ghosts being offered to land in someone's hand kinda being a big thing to them, because life is so fleeting, so if they do, they trust you. (And probably snuggle.)

Ghosts and their Chosen bickering or gossiping telepathically in their personal wavelengths.

Ghosts gossipping between eachother with hushed beeps and varied frequencies.

Ghost polycules, Ghost families.

Support groups for Ghosts because their charge is just as heavy, if not, more frightening then that of their Guardian.

Ghosts grieving as the thrumming life of one of their own gets quenched.

Ghosts having given up their search.

Ghosts who have never been, or made it to the City.

Ghosts who have returned to the Light but which still watch over their Lightless partners.

People like Micah-10, interacting and/or caring for multiple Ghosts.

Piles of Ghosts snoozing and beeping and cuddling you just because they trust you. Because they need that comfort.

Reclusive Ghosts who dislike humanity, whom are more swayed by the Darkness.

Hive Ghosts and each of their views on the Sword Logic. Vehement, or by necessity.

Hive Ghosts being preened by their Lucent Brood.

Ghosts who are still looking and are including Eliksni and Cabal in their scans for a spark. Either out of desperation or true belief.

Each Ghost's perception of Sol and of the Traveler.

Ghosts who are fed up of being infantilized and zap people when they get angered about it.

Ghosts being tired, so tired but supporting their Guardian through thick and thin because that is what they believe in. Sometimes to their own detriment.

Ghosts being people too.

[bioticgoddess]

Adding to the list...

Ghosts tucked into their Guardians lap whenever their shells are being repaired, replaced, or repainted.

Ghosts who hate when their core body is exposed, even the ones wh

Ghosts who awkwardly try to reason with the Hive/Lucent Ghosts.

Lucent Ghosts who wish they'd found a Human/Exo/Awoken instead.

Lucent Ghosts who try desperately to convince their Chosen to befriend the Guardians, not for peace, but because they miss the Tower Ghosts and are tired of seeing their Kin fall.

Ghosts have a secret memorial where they have kept track of every Lucent Ghost that's died. Their names recorded and pieces of shells laid out like tiny grave offerings.

Ghosts who can smell when a normal Human or Awoken are sick, not unlike some cats and dogs, and alert them to it discretely.

Some Ghosts who are drawn to a normal Human/Exo/Awoken (or even Hive) because they can feel, like a hum in the back of their minds, that when that person dies they're going to be a Ghost-Chose pair.

Some Ghosts/Lucent Ghosts who are drawn to people like Zavala and Osiris because they are meant to pair up but wait because they know the grief of losing their First Ghost is still too raw.

Ghosts who (canonically) come to regret raising their Chosen and leave them dead one day.

[wrigglewyrm]

wife 🏹

i wanted to draw eris but i couldn't for some reason :(

[antlerlad]

telic ii - the awoken of the reef

[night-dark-woods]

ID. a digital painting of mara and sjur. mara kneels before sjur, who is seated, and cradles sjur’s face with both hands desperately. sjur looks startled, and mara distraught. subtitles on the image read, “Sjur - Sjur, on the day you worship me, you cannot love me anymore, for to worship is to yield all power, and I cannot love what has no power over me.” End ID.

[awokennerd]

My bf and I want to make a stained glass window together at some point, because we are both creative and think we have enough nerdy creative juices between the two of us to do it. Of course we thought of simple things, and then we went into Eris Morn's apartment, saw her pretty stained glass window, and decided, yeah, that's the one we want to do. And I'm the one who takes fifty bagillion screenshots, so I quickly got a few. We are gonna have so much random d2 inspired stuff when we eventually live together. I really want one or two of those Turkish lamps it seems like everyone has. And I might have convinced my bf to try some woodworking projects of some furniture in game lol.