Rather than continue to cycle through my fics as pinned posts, I’m just making one:
and we’ll share my all is a 7k fic set in the Dusk era, following the Hells’ attempt to capture Treshi and featuring a great deal of jealous Imogen, puppetry angst, Pâté as coping mechanism, and Laudna figuring out her feelings. Here is some amazing art @avalencias did of it!
bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable is 7k of mutually confused pining on the theme of “Five times Laudna didn’t access that part of her brain, and one time she did.”
black and all blue is a 3k character study of Imogen’s guilty, self-blaming wrath and the way it explodes outwards.
until the mosses take root in thunder is 6k of Imogen poorly crafting Laudna a Definitely Platonic Engagement Ring.
stay tuned and find out with me which of my WIPs will manifest themselves and join this post!
[ID: a digital drawing of Imogen and Laudna from Critical Role. They’re drawn lying down with Imogen lying on top of Laudna. They’re both drawn from the waist upwards with their heads towards the right side of the picture. Laudna has her hand raised up to Imogen’s face and they look as if they’re about to kiss, their eyes almost closed. The background is brown and beige and the artist’s signature is written in the bottom left corner. It reads “laxi bbeb” in all caps. End ID]
Hey Ollie! Idk if you're taking one word prompts/any prompts right now, but if you are, I'd love to see what you do with "salt" (for Imogen and laudna, of course)
If not, just stopping by to fanboy and show my appreciation!
thank u for the prompt i made it a long one
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
"Wants to ask, Did the red come out? By red, I mean blood. Did you wash it out? Did the water pour out red? Did it smell of it, reek of it, the way it had back then? Sour iron. Did it not come out at all? Did you flip the flagstones? Did you flip them and find the effort was worthless, that it—the blood, I mean—had soaked right through to the other side? Did you tear up the floors, rip the stones away did you carve new bricks out of earthbone granite did you set them where the old stones had been perfectly sized did you tell yourself that it was a different castle now that the stone was gone do you think that ghosts care about things like that have you asked the faithful and devout if ghosts care about things like that would they care about me if my ribs are the same ribs if my heart is the same heart even if I reek like a thing decaying too? Did it help to remake the house the home the castle did it make it feel real again did it make it feel reclaimed do you know that I have remade a hundred homes all over the world and had to leave each one? Perhaps I should have tried with stone. How many tonnes of granite does it take to repave the past?"
Careful child, there’s a monster in these woods👁
Irae the drow turned dhampir, cause an unending well of spite and a lot of unfinished business is the perfect recipe to get yourself a vengeance paladin 🥀⚜️🗡
Zosha Aulak my ‘human’ noble celestial warlock!! 👁⛓⚜️
Older art! This was my character in the game I was in with the Wailing Wisteria, they had opposite vibes but both believed in no mercy and bonded over that
This piece was overall a lil rushed cause I wanted to finish it before our first session but this was on of the first times I began to play with my painting style! And I got to try having a character design where the main outfit color is black so I’m still pretty happy with the outcome!
Celestial of old and harbinger of war Navier has been around for a long time causing problems on the material plane and she’s always looking for some followers to join in her efforts👁🏹⚜️
This is a celestial patron character I’ve had in mind for a bit and since I hadn’t done an over the top design in a minute i thought this would be a fun one to come back to!! also tried out a color pallet that’s really outside of my comfort zone for her as a little extra challenge on myself!
i'm so sorry for another meta but this line has been sitting in my brain for DAYS now, and there are a few things about it that are just so striking and so so sad-
for one- it puts imogen's farewell to bertrand into a much greater context.
"i'm glad the noises stopped for you. i'm glad you're at peace."
how long has imogen been longing for that kind of peace? she's been dealing with her powers for a decade, now, and it seems like only in her time with bell's hells has she really been able to get a stronger harness on it.
how many times, has death seemed like the only escape? ever present, ever alluring, in the corner of her mind?
it's a layer that i couldn't quite pick up before, because there was context for what she said, but there also wasn't- but now, with the idea that "i don't know how much longer i would've lasted" at the forefront-
she's had a decade of pain, and ostracization, and voices she can't control, with no sign of reprieve, no sense that it would ever end, and for a long period in her life- with no one to support her.
it's been so obvious for so long, given the angst of imogen's past, but i've struggled to connect the dots of just how deep imogen's pain runs. laura has been dropping clues- her farewell to bertrand, talking about how bad it had gotten during what the fuck is up with that, her mentions of her father- but this was the final piece, to make it all so painfully clear.
these past few years, they've been everything.
because what did imogen have before, really? what reasons did she have to keep going? an absent mother, a distant father, and chronic, overwhelming, agonizing pain and dreams haunting her in her sleep?
who did she have to turn to?
no one, and no glimmer of hope.
and so of course she would be drawn to laudna. her musical thoughts a balm to her aching mind, her cheerful attitude a bright spot in the darkness of imogen's life, her support almost foreign to a young girl who has never had the stability of someone to lean on-
and of course she would be devastated, when that's ripped away from her again, when laudna dies. that hope, that happiness- it's intoxicating, and it's horrible when it's gone, and she's taken back to that place of hurt and anger and fear.
and of course she would do everything to bring laudna back. but it also paints her ritual contribution into a greater context- of course she wouldn't make laudna come back, either. she won't make her return to her home full of trauma, she won't make laudna leave the sweet embrace of death.
because who is she, to deny someone that tranquility, that escape- when she's been tempted by it herself? if laudna needs to go, to not hurt anymore, she'll let her, because she loves laudna so much that she wouldn't ever take that away from her, if that was what she wanted.
(however, if laudna didn't come back, imogen would most certainly struggle. especially since i don't think she's fully processed otohan's attack yet, she's been so determined on giving laudna that choice that she herself has thought about).
but it's also so beautiful- how two lonely, shunned girls could find such light and hope in each other, and find ways to battle back against the world. and it shows such depth to their love, and their devotion to each other.
it's such an intimate thing, to tell someone that they saved your life. and though it wasn't a romantic confession, it's clear that they love each other very, very much.
laura’s characters have a tendency in the beginning to be reluctant to outright say just how much they love their respective romantic interests whether it be due to being guarded or coy or outright shy considering vex and percy’s resurrection ritual or jester’s confession and immediately attempting to modify fjord’s memory, but then we get imogen and laudna’s resurrection ritual
imogen makes it clear that she wants laudna to come home but doesn’t outright beg her, she knows that in that moment the most important thing was laudna’s choice. ‘whatever hole she’s leaving, i’ll be there, to help fill it, alright? i’ll be there for you’ … ‘no one gets to control you anymore alright? just know that i love you, and i’m here’
i truly wasn’t expecting her to just say it, not to analyse language too heavily but imogen was speaking for herself not the collective group and that’s what i find so interesting. yes they’re a group now but laudna is still imogen’s person and her calling out for laudna’s return only included how she would do the absolute most to fill the gap that delilah left, and reminded laudna just how much she loves her. there’s no way (if it’s canon) that imogen doesn’t know she’s in love with laudna, that’s the one thing she’s the most certain of it seems.
honourable mention that i didn’t include because i can’t remember the actual quote: when someone says ‘she means a lot to you, yes?’ to the group and imogen quietly says ‘she means everything’
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