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Kai | 19 | They/Them | 🔞 Minors DNI ✨ Out in the woods playing dice games and showing up blurry in photos ✨

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I'm so proud of the lighting for May's Cynth pinup, they're very graceful when not being utterly pathetic for Lucia <3 Speaking of her, go check out this month's Lucia piece—ft. siren Lucia for Mermay—at @/rainewitcher over on Bsky!

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Look back at the Cynth pin up pieces so far this year ^^

I love this silly little vampire so much, thanking them so much for helping me improve my art skills <3

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Sketch of a very prevalent NPC for the campaign I'm working on (using the Old Gods of Appalachia RPG with a homebrew dnd-esque setting) Meet Hatchet Harbinger; wood elf turned lycanthrope guildmaster for a hunter's guild called H.U.N.T. ^^

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Can you believe we're already a third of the way through 2026? Which means another Cynth pinup to add to the collection <3 Lucia's April piece—by @/rainewitcher over on Bsky—is quite scandalous, check it out ;)

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Concept sketches vs. most recent reference for my favorite Gangrel Lucia <3

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Making some of the important items and trinkets that Briar has, which includes their bag of desert flower seeds and their stoneware teapot and cups — will be making their quarterstaff next ^^

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I will never shut up about Briar's side profile, they are so beloved to me <3

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Concept sketches vs. most recent reference for my favorite Gangrel Lucia <3

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Making Briar's hair even fluffier and no one can stop me :3

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Another month, another even more pathetic Cynth for your viewing pleasure (but mostly mine ;3) Can check out this month's Lucia piece—which features her in the cutest maid outfit—at @/rainewitcher over on Bsky!

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Look back at January and February's Cynth pinups as I work on this month's piece — very proud of these so far ^^

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I love my big lycanthrope puppy <3

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Gently holding the most pathetic toreador I've ever seen <3

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ideal evolution scenarios

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Briar reference sheet that's coming along nicely, will continue this (like making them less bald) at a later date after this month's Cynth illustration is done <3

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First concept sketch of my new D&D character Briar Rosewood — a circle of dreams druid for a friend's homebrew world.

I'll eventually post their full outfit and reference sheet (plus some spicier references on my bluesky), going for a very natural druid-esque take on wasteland style to fit the vibes of the campaign.

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I haven't even had a chance to play Vampire the Masquerade yet, however I have created a very complex and lore-rich Gangrel for a London chronicle who rivals the complexity of most of my other characters.

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Ask and you shall graciously receive:

This is Lucia Castell, an Ancilla (soon to be Elder) Gangrel currently living in 1885 Victorian Era London. Embraced in 1588 at the age of 26, her true age is 322. Before becoming a kindred she was studying astronomy and all things to do with the stars, her childhood dream to learn all that she could about the vast sky above. It was while studying that she gained her love of art, picking up painting between the years of schooling she had.

It would be coming back home after a late night of studying that ended up being her introduction to kindred society, becoming what would have been simply a Gangrel's next meal if she had not fought back. Though far outmatched for such a kindred, that spark of resilience she showed was enough for the end of her life to take on new shape and be embraced in the shadowed streets of the city. After her embrace she was left to fend for herself with any aid as a fledgling, struggling in these few years but eventually finding her footing—and immense grief in the loss of people she cared for the most—after being taken into the Camarilla. Over the decades she grew from once abandoned by her sire to a well respected member in kindred high society, rejecting the control her beast craves and remaining in London as one of the few city Gangrels of the time.

In the present time of the chronicle, Lucia has taken ownership of the high-end brothel called The Scarlet Parlor. Here in her haven she spends her time painting and yearning for more in her undeath between feeding off parlor regulars and fooling those who came for a night of passion. Between the constant threat of others in the Camarilla looking for power and her own unresolved issues that've been simmering for several centuries, I'm quite excited to see how it plays out.

There are many other intricacies to her life that I'll some day talk about when they are brought up during the chronicle, but for now I hope you enjoy this look into one of my favorite characters <3