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Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Dishonored, and Fable fanfic writer. Other account: CorytheSaxon. PFP by Doli Nemae

[bellonathedragonborn]

Hey y’all new pinned post relating to my FanFic tags.

So this account is STILL an Elder Scrolls and Fable blog. However it’ll also be for Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Silent Hill, Fallout, and Dishonored. Sometimes Final Fantasy.

If interested in my various stuff check out the tags I made below.

Also checkout my AO3 (CoryMeadows19) and my Wattpad (CoryMeadows12)

Elder Scrolls: Bellonaseries.

Resident Evil: Children of Mutants and OC Carmella Dimitrescu.

Fable: Fable4theFinalStep and Fable: Next Generation.

Dishonored: Dishonored Heresy Series.

Fallout: Fallout Three Heroes. Children of the Wastes. Vault 13 Legacy. The Odinson Clan.

My other accounts are BellonaTheSaxon and CoryTheSaxon.

[bellonathedragonborn]

Some Fable 2 and Fable 3 pics I took.

This is my canon Sparrow still.

This is not my canon Hero of Brightwall BUT one of the ones that exists in the multiverse and one of the ones Mathew (my canon HOBW) met.

[bellonathedragonborn]

I love these two.

[bellonathedragonborn]

Maxson is so fucking annoying. Fear mongers like himself are the reason such evils happen in the world.

[oh-dear-moon-give-me-a-kiss]

A03 is going to disappear if section 230 is repealed!!

My honest reaction to that:

[bellonathedragonborn]

I am kind of glad now that I stopped writing TES fics.

Not because I hate what I did or anything it’s just that I was burning myself out with it and most of the people who were reading Bellonaseries and Merging Worlds would just read it and either shit on it or be overly judgy.

It made my confidence and creativity whither away. I AM STILL not on the same level of writing as I used to be.

I’ve attempted to write some more (due to the remaster and all) and I just could not do it.

I am tempted to just make a story where I summarize it all and publish it.

[enpypie]

𝑴𝒂𝒈𝒏𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒂

[bellonathedragonborn]

Does anyone else think there was supposed to be a longer time jump between Innocence and Requiem?

Because they all look older.

[tantaliart]

barbarian and spell fingers 😝

I didn’t want to draw reaver. maybe later.

[bellonathedragonborn]

You gave Hammer WAR PAINT!!!

[bellonathedragonborn]

I probably won’t ever re-write my Fable 4 fic but if I do I will MAJORLY revise how Reaver and my OC Vyra got together.

Back when I wrote that fic in 2013 and then re-did it again in 2018 and published it I genuinely cringe at how I made their relationship healthy and how Vyra “changed” him.

Now that I am older I wish I hadn’t adapted the novels into my fic 100%. Because I made it to where Reaver was essentially keeping the family under house arrest and it is REALLY WEIRD looking back at it and how he got with Vyra. Who is my Hero of Brighwall’s granddaughter.

If I do revise it I will probably make Reaver close to how he was in Fable 2 and have a thing where he just slowly spirals and ends up wanting to die. Maybe he gets a soul sickness and is slowly wasting away and wants to go out on his own terms…

At least with that him and Vyra being together won’t be so weird. Plus Dorian (their son) won’t be as discriminated against.

[bellonathedragonborn]

I like the Fable novels but I hate how some of them make Reaver ridiculously evil. He wasn’t meant to be that horrendous.

I know people will argue it’s progression since he was technically using Logan as a puppet and him going after Laylah wasn’t shocking but eh.

I like the interpretation we have of him in Fable 2 more. He’s a dick but not THAT MUCH of a dick.

[floating--goblin]

Dene👏Carter👏never👏wanted👏this👏for👏his👏character!

The writers that stepped in after a great deal of the original devs jumped ship mid-way through making F3 made this ass-backwards decision! Dene said specifically that his idea for Reaver post F2 was a traveling sellsword! An adventurer! Because selfish and hedonistic as he is, his heart is in adventuring - that's why he became pirate king and continued to own and command ships, why he chose to go to Samarkand after F2, why his main residence is in Bloodstone despite him easily being able to afford homes in any number of better cities.

Reaver was meant to be an adventurer, and more importantly yet, a very rare middle-of-the-road character! And they took this charming swashbuckler that, despite being vain and trigger-happy, was written for us to understand as complex and possibly redeemable, and made him an unscrupulous capitalist, exploiter of children, women and the impoverished in general, a rabid colonialist and human trafficker (the sand furies are human! the sand furies are humans!! the game never touches on this but you read up on them AND THEY ARE NATIVES OF THE AURORAN CONTINENT),

and took his status as one of the first openly queer and polyamorous characters in gaming and made a mockery of it by implying he's a zoophile, calling him a deviant and defacing posters of his likeness with exaggerated "drag" makeup

And the novels, since they drew from that era of canon, followed suit and are VILE for that reason!

[bellonathedragonborn]

I remember reading the wiki back in the day and it said their species was “unknown” so where was it decided that they are human?

I agree with you btw I am just asking for an official source.

[floating--goblin]

The game separates enemies into types, mostly so the requirements for legendary weapon bonuses can be assigned easily. I can't remember exactly if it's only in its internal code or if it's shown in game, either way the Furies are at the very least Auroran (i'd have to boot up the game to check if they fall into the humanoid category too, which isn't possible atm)

Either way the human assumption primarily comes from the concept art. Since F3 was made on such a brutal time crunch, you can see that they didn't have time to go through more than at best a couple iterations of anything. The Sand Furies were originally called Dervishes, which is the name of a real order in the Muslim faith, they are described as desert-dwelling marauders, and their exposed hands and feet are human. Then in the game description for the desert fury pistol they're described as a tribe, and when killed with the shock spell, they have human skeletons.

That coupled with the fact they feature very heavily in the ruins of cities and temples implies they're regular people that have adapted to survive the Darkness' takeover. The continent of Aurora is massive, it could not possibly be only as big as the city of Aurora. It would be ridiculous, even with F3's pretty damn racist writing, to assume there is only one single settlement and tribe in all of Aurora; so the Furies seem to be a stand-in for any other groups on the continent besides the citizens

now, is that more or less racist, that we only recognize the humanity of the "civilised" citizens of Aurora while we have to kill the rest, despite the Furies doing objectively worse? WELP! THAT'S FOR YOU TO DECIDE

So in short the answer is it's a bit murky, but they're very very likely human.

[bellonathedragonborn]

You know you are so right.

I did remember their skeletons being human but I didn’t know if it was human as in the species or just humanoid.

[bellonathedragonborn]

I like the Fable novels but I hate how some of them make Reaver ridiculously evil. He wasn’t meant to be that horrendous.

I know people will argue it’s progression since he was technically using Logan as a puppet and him going after Laylah wasn’t shocking but eh.

I like the interpretation we have of him in Fable 2 more. He’s a dick but not THAT MUCH of a dick.

[floating--goblin]

Dene👏Carter👏never👏wanted👏this👏for👏his👏character!

The writers that stepped in after a great deal of the original devs jumped ship mid-way through making F3 made this ass-backwards decision! Dene said specifically that his idea for Reaver post F2 was a traveling sellsword! An adventurer! Because selfish and hedonistic as he is, his heart is in adventuring - that's why he became pirate king and continued to own and command ships, why he chose to go to Samarkand after F2, why his main residence is in Bloodstone despite him easily being able to afford homes in any number of better cities.

Reaver was meant to be an adventurer, and more importantly yet, a very rare middle-of-the-road character! And they took this charming swashbuckler that, despite being vain and trigger-happy, was written for us to understand as complex and possibly redeemable, and made him an unscrupulous capitalist, exploiter of children, women and the impoverished in general, a rabid colonialist and human trafficker (the sand furies are human! the sand furies are humans!! the game never touches on this but you read up on them AND THEY ARE NATIVES OF THE AURORAN CONTINENT),

and took his status as one of the first openly queer and polyamorous characters in gaming and made a mockery of it by implying he's a zoophile, calling him a deviant and defacing posters of his likeness with exaggerated "drag" makeup

And the novels, since they drew from that era of canon, followed suit and are VILE for that reason!

[bellonathedragonborn]

I remember reading the wiki back in the day and it said their species was “unknown” so where was it decided that they are human?

I agree with you btw I am just asking for an official source.

[bellonathedragonborn]

I am genuinely afraid that Asha is going to close Arkane Lyon. She’s cold.

[bellonathedragonborn]

I wonder if Jack of Blades was inspired by Doctor Fate? They’re both parasitic masks with immense power.

[bellonathedragonborn]

I see some npcs in the new game wearing flower crowns and I REALLY HOPE we get to wear flower crowns as well.

Skyrim has spoiled me when it comes to flower crowns.

[bellonathedragonborn]

You know, for all the years I’ve been consuming Fable content. It’s shocking I haven’t seen a SINGLE artwork of Reaver holding a bisexual flag for pride month…

Dude was the first bi character I saw in media when I was still figuring out my sexuality.

[blossomingtree]

Hey so here was the post right after yours

[bellonathedragonborn]

Yeah I saw that after I made the post. Made a comment on it as well.

It took this long to get an artwork of him holding his flag.

[bellonathedragonborn]

My boy got his flags!