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[snakeryy]

✨The pretty moron✨

So, after some considération, me and @hissto decided that I will be the one designing Phoebus for our au, given my qualification in drawing french policemen and assholes >:D (so basically now I'm officially responsible for the both antagonists lmao)

Do not be fooled by the pretty face!

So, since Phoebus is still relatively young (24-26 smth), we couldn't sadly make him a captain for the au :( BUT it doesn't ruin much, and in some ways even adds to the vibe

Phoebus is one of the policemen working for a precinct to which the catholic school where the plot takes place is assigned by territory. He's got a pretty face and quite a bit of charm, but aside from that - he's not exactly good at much. He makes himself look big and cool, but in fact he's just a very irresponsible cop who just barely got a sous-brigadier rank (which made him oh so proud of himself), films some stupid "police thirst trap" videos for tiktok, smokes and drinks at student parties whenever he's invited to them by Fleur-de-Lys, and really lives on the money of the said Fleur-de-Lys, whom he's been together with since his academy days. Which, as you could guess, doesn't really stop him from constantly looking in the direction of and flirting with other women, as he's grown bored of Fleur quite some time ago.

Not surprisingly, was one of the people very happy about a new female wing in a nearby catholic school. No, the maximum age of the students being 18 doesn't bother him in the slightest, of course 🥰

[hissto]

Oops all merfolk

Mermay requests I did in my telegram channel

Merfolkalaised (??????) some of my followers OCs there based on their provided references and pictures on the water-related theme. Idk if they are on tumblr, so no links, names only In order:

1. My OC, Hellequin

2. Veresk (by TENEBRAUM)

3. Shira (by The Darkest Hour Art)

4. Digital sculptor (by Luka Craft)

5. Étienne (by strum)

6. Esmond (by Всякая Всячина Esmond)

[snakeryy]

Boys and their guardian

So, you see, one of my favourite things about Claude in canon - is the fact he genuinely loved his little brother, genuinely tried to care for Quasimodo when no one else would want to, and put a lot of effort into everything he did, including raising the children (until he let it all go down the drain during the plot lol)

So not surprisingly, I'm clinging HARD to the concept of their lil disfunctional family we came up with for the au! :D a big text with thoughts below

So, for this au we decided that:

1) both Frollo kids are a lil older when their parents die: Claude is 20, barely finishes his licence in chemistry when he becomes the legal guardian of a 2 yo Jehan (yes, Jehan is a lil older in the au for plot convenience). Of course, still adores his little brother to the core and care for him as good as he possibly can (given that, well, they have a family inheritance, money situation wasn't dire - the fact that Claude was himself barely adult was definitely more of a problem)

2) Raphaël wasn't just found on the stairs of the cathedral: he was, in fact, found by child protection services and assigned to a church based orphanage... By chance, it was the same parish Claude was a part of, and he quickly heard about the "poor misshapen child" who was brought in, "barely had chances for adoption", was "difficult" as by his 4 he still wasn't really verbal (due to his environment being, well... Not great), had some temper issues and, of course, required medical attention due to his birth defects, which would cost someone too much money to spend on an adopted child. Claude, as in canon, got sentimental about an "abandoned child whom NO ONE needs and is ready to care for" and made a decision to adopt the kid.

At 21.

Great decision, my dear: you're definitely not overestimating your capabilities of raising two whole kids with zero childcare experience before, and especially doing it along with your own start of adulthood

ANYWAYS, kids did not get along: you can actually read more about that part in the post by @hissto , and another one

[hissto]

Screen time

That’s just a fun little snippet into the modern!au Quasi and Jehan’s life. @snakeryy had asked, if Jehan, despite his disdain for Raphael, would ask to use his tablet once he got one, and SHE HIT A SWITCH IN MY BRAIN. A lot of text about this duo under the cut

So, Jehan and Raphael (whom he calls Quasimodo) hate each other. No surprises there.

This hatred has started as a simple childhood jealousy and dislike for someone so ‘ugly’, but had only grown, once Jehan was old enough to understand that Claude spends their inheritance on rehabilitating this kid who had a lot of special needs and wasn’t even a family.

 Raphael was older, stronger, and was easily getting violent once provoked. First such case happened when they both were just babies: Jehan (3-year-old at the moment) had annoyed 5-year-old Raphael to the point where Raph snapped – and broke Jehan’s arm as the result. Terrified for his brother’s safety, Claude had moved Raphael from his house to the school, where he teaches and spends a lot of time anyway. Ironically it made him spend more time with Raphael then with his own brother (who was watched by the nanny and, once old enough, had the whole ass house to himself most of the time).

(And yes, we aged Jehan up a bit from the canon, so we could send him to the university :D)

 Claude had to ban the nickname, it was getting out of control.

 They didn’t interact much after that (if at all) until Jehan turned 11 and started attending classes at the school Raphael lived at. That’s when the nickname Quasimodo first came about – a tame one, as far as the bullying nicknames go, but it’s not the words that hurt. It’s the fact of being bullied.

 Presumably, they weren’t just babies anymore and should have developed some brain. In practice, they were teenagers (who are arguably even more dumb then babies), Raph just recently lost his hearing, and having Jehan paint some shit in latin around him and clearly laugh about it was NOT pleasant for a 13-year-old. Raphael was lashing out at Jehan and his friends left and right, even knocking some of their teeth out, and his clear anger only fueled the bullying more.

 It had gotten a little better when their guardian intervened and had a long talk with Raphael (and another one of his -not really that effective- lectures for Jehan), but not much. They managed to interact less, but despised each other still. The real change came, when Raphael (17) got a tablet at the charity lottery and was allowed to keep it.

Until then they both had brick phones and were allowed near computers only for education purposes. The balance had shifted – Raphael had something that Jehan (15 and feeling behind his peers, who all had ‘smartphones and shit’) needed. Needed, perhaps, even more, than to hurt Raphael.

Gaining his trust wasn’t easy. It’s not like Raph has been fooled either – but he liked the attention, the feeling of power. In exchange for favors he let Jehan use his tablet from time to time, watching like a hawk, so he wouldn’t break it.

The pair got found out by Claude immediately. None of them even knew how to clean their browser history – it wasn’t hard. But Jehan managed to convince his brother that it was “a bonding experience”, and after a bit of persuasion and a lot of puppy-dog eyes it was finally allowed for him to use the tablet – only with Raphael’s permission.

(A bummer, honestly – Jehan had hoped that his brother may take the ultimate privilege away from Raph and divide their screen time evenly, but no)

The power quickly ran to Raph’s head and Jehan was not pleased, but they both had to fake friendship in front of Claude and make it believable, so the precious tablet wouldn’t be taken from them entirely. In doing so they ended up spending a lot of time together: Jehan with the tablet, Raph watching behind his shoulder. It was Jehan who first started to look for a way of sabotaging Claude’s restrictions on their internet access, and even though Raph protested at first, they quickly became partners-in-crime, watching age-restricted videos and ‘sinful’ movies on pirate websites.

(Note: there wasn’t any actual porn! Not because Jehan didn’t tried – he did, but quickly realized that with Raph for a company that wouldn’t work for just so. many. reasons.

Also Jehan once registered an account for Raph on a cite as ‘Quasimodo’, because old habits die hard. But since Raph was calmer, older and knew what it meant already, he just smacked Jehan on the back of the head once – and not even that hard)

The transactional staff had eventually disappeared. Raphael started letting Jehan use the tablet without any payment and sometimes even without close supervision, just staying in the same room and cleaning up, while Jehan was doing something on the internet.

Given another year or two, It might’ve grown into an actual friendship – but Jehan finished school and got into the university. Once he moved out and ‘lost’ his brick phone, got his own smartphone and access to the internet, he began to hate ‘Quasimodo’ again, remembering old grievances with a new passion. Perhaps even more so, since the time he spent dependent on Raphael’s favor was gnawing at his ego painfully.

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Raph: What are you watching?

Jehan: *absent-mindedly hands him an earpice*

Raph: *clearly upset* Ha-ha, very funny!

Jehan: Shit, I forgot for a moment how fucked-up you are *turns the subtitles on* Here

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[hissto]

So, @snakeryy and I are having a lot of fun with a modern-AU for ‘Notre-Dame’ right now, and that’s how I ended up drawing Quasimodo. A lot of text under the cut, you’ve been warned!

Meet Raphael

Because naming an orphaned 4-year-old kid ‘Quasimodo’ in the modern day isn’t an action of a learned man anymore, but a wierdo (Claude is a wierdo, just not like that, you know)

 So, in our modern-AU ‘Quasimodo’ is actually a nickname, given to Raph by Jehan – who, btw, hates his guts, and the feeling is mutual.

After an accident, which resulted in 5-year-old Raphael breaking 3-year-old Jehan’s arm, Raph was moved to live at the (made-up) catholic school where Frollo teaches chemistry, since Claude spends most of his time there anyway. It was supposed to be a temporary measure, but it stuck and Raphael never actually moved out.

As a kid, Raph was put in the gymnastics section by Claude – first as a part of the many correction curriculums for his body’s development, then it became a passion. At the age of 12 he had an accident at the gym and got hurt, losing his hearing almost entirely as the result. Which, unfortunately, destroyed his grades in classes he barely got to attend for a year and killed his already poor socialization, forcing him to rely on the private tutors for basic education since nobody else, besides Frollo, was willing to accommodate for him. Still, he grew up at the school and was eventually put to work there as a groundskeeper of sorts, because… well, where else could he go?

Despite Claude’s best efforts, Raph had found his way to the internet at 17, winning a tablet at the charity lottery. Frollo had let him keep it under a lot of restrictions and with parental control on, but all his precautions proved insufficient when Jehan got involved. The pair had made a fragile truce for a change and quickly learned to bypass restrictions on their screen time.

Once Raphael had found a video of himself at the gymnastics class with the inspirational captions about ‘defying the limitations of one’s body’, which lead him down a rabbit hole. First he saw all the positive reactions from people and was ecstatic, feeling himself somewhat of a star for a moment, and then he found… the comments from the ‘lower’ internet, so to speak. Drowning in the eugenics forums and incel subreaddits he got bullied to the point of quitting gymnastics by 18 and hating almost everything and everyone, most of all – himself. Now he’s 20 and is seen by the students of the school as the ‘Frollo’s lapdog’, the omnipresent scary groundkeeper, the Ultimate End Of All Fun, who’s only saving grace in their eyes is that he’s deaf and therefore not omniscient.

[honestly my only regret about this AU is that I had to give up boy's love for THE BELLS - we still want to include a Notre-Dame cathedral, but differently, and THE BELLS had to go. It hurts my soul, but I'll rectify it somehow]

[snakeryy]

Notre-Dame de Paris modern au? 😳

Sooo I accidentally re-entered my Notre-Dame fixation (for those who don't know - it's my favourite book of all time :D) with a modern au concept we thought of with my friend... And OF COURSE I had to take Frollo siblings' designs under my wing lol

Some more sketches and a bit of context under the cut!

Sooo yk, we decided that while Claude stays a priest of sorts, he's ALSO a teacher and administrative at a made-up elite catholic school! And as canon him was obsessed with alchemy, in au he probably has a good education in chemistry, so that's what he's teaching. He's one of those people who think internet is inherently evil bc it "ruins children's brains", and so both of the kids in his care (Jehan and Quasimodo, whom I might also bring some day) didn't even have a smartphone for most of their childhood

Jehan, on the other hand, is not rly sharing his brother's attitude lol. He's a first year uni student, as as soon as he moved away from Claude, he bought himself a cool phone, downloaded tiktok and is living his best life with it. Very unhinged kid compensating as hard as he can for his "boring" religious upbringing

[hissto]

@snakeryy Do I have to revive this god forsaken blog because of you and the worm you put in my brain with your little Notre-Dame obsessed claws? FINE OKAY JEEZ I'LL DO IT just give me a moment kid's and their fucking AU-s this day, i swear... /j

[hissto]

Loneliness

[hissto]

A paladin on a path to redemption

…or a road to damnation?

It was a terrible act of defiance – swearing the oath and attempting to sabotage her own design. She basically sealed her fate to be destroyed. But her sister hated her way too much to just kill – she wanted to unmake the fallen father’s favorite, and in a way she succeeded.

When Maeve awoke, she had nothing but her basic urges and the words of the Oath ringing hollow with anxiety in her mind. And not all of those urges were murderous. Putting bits and pieces together, she managed to paint herself a coherent, but absolutely wrong picture of her fate: she must be a Good Person, a Protector of Life stricken by a terrible curse of unnatural want for blood, fainting and amnesia, which tries to overtake and break her. But she won’t go down easily!

The real circumstances of her condition soon became surfacing to the light, but at this point she already had something she never had before – equal allies, almost even friends, and a clear enemy found in cult of the Absolute, who obviously wanted to control them. And she didn’t want to be controlled.

So she held on to her Oath, followed it as a guiding light, even though everybody around her agreed that she had way too strange and cruel sense of humor for a paladin, and it was very unusual for a “protector of life” to whistle a tune and laugh in battle. Also… you know, that one murder in camp?

She didn’t act of her own accord then, so her Oath stood. But way later in their journey letting out almost a seven thousand vampire spawn broke it. She couldn’t bring herself to order them killed though. Because if she got a second chance, and if she gave her trust to Astarion, with all his hunger for power and blood and his (loveable, but far from kind) personality, what right did she had to deny those innocent people the same simply because of some ‘vampire nature’ that was forced on them?

And so, when the whole ordeal with the Absolute was over, she ventured with Astarion into the Underdark to create at least some semblance of a community for this people. This had… many hurdles – scuttled, distrustful people with hunger for blood and a lot of trauma don’t easily come together.

But that’s a whole another story.

[hissto]

Don’t mind her, she’s just Urging in the Dark a little

Her name is Maeve, she’s a paladin/bard mix and, yes, as you can see – she’s a dwarf. Did I just introduced my player character like some people introduce their pets on tiktok? Maybe

I mean, she IS kind of a sweet puppy! After a severe brain damage caused her to forget basically everything about herself that is. But she still had that goofy energy before, it didn’t come out of nowhere.

She was very… playful. “…piles of bodies have always been your favorite, master!” and so

Before she met Orin she had very long hair, btw. Sceleritas was the one who kept it untangled and braided it since her foster family became… unavailable. She was so young back then she couldn’t do her hair herself, so he did it, and then she never learned, because why would she? He gave her pretty cool hairstyles and if she happened to soak her hair in blood (which btw happened A LOT) he would wash it clean even when Maeve became an adult. So basically, what happened to her ‘family’ was no mistake, but a happy accident 😊

But when she was called to the Temple, carved the path to the center of her Father’s sanctuary in the blood of his followers and faced Orin there for the first time, she was first met with disbelief and disdain. That soon changed to worship, but still – looking at Orin, who had all those beautiful things in her hair and did it all herself without a butler… It kind of started to dawn on Maeve, that her caretaker, servant and partner in crime might be a little overbearing.

She craved freedom and she thought her freedom was in Bhaal, but was that really so, if she needed help even to get dressed?

Cutting her hair off was the first act of emancipation.

It wouldn’t be her last

[hissto]

"Can I lift an owlbear?" and "How to lift an owlbear?" - questions that should never be asked before more reasonable ones, like "Should I lift an owlbear?" and "WHY would I lift an owlbear?" yet here we are. Answers with pictures from all of the core companions below. It's actually started with me drawing this (as a gift-card for my friend) with Shadowheart. She’s gentle with animals and fairly strong (compared to male companions in camp) so here we are. But I immediately thought – what about the others?

Karlach is a BIG HUG girl and I adore her for this. Look at the joy! (I wanna be this owlbear…)

Lae’zel probably wouldn’t do it, if asked, but IF she would, she would assert her dominance and make her annoyance known

Wyll is definitely gonna try. Will Wyll succeed? My bet is ‘no’, but he might eventually

Gale isn’t cheating, he’s using his strongest muscle – his brain! Oh, and magic, of course

Astarion tries to use his brain. After all, if magic counts, then owlbear jumping because of you should also count. Come on! Up, you beast! Urgh, why isn’t this working? STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THIS AND JUMP FOR THE DAMNED SQUERREL ALREADY!

Bonus: Minthara and Halsin.

And how would you (for an unknown reasons) lift an (extremely friendly) owlbear?

[hissto]