Welcome to Helios

I post art and share other posts about Tales from the Borderlands here. Mostly Gayperion stuff, but anything else TFTBL I love too.

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hey, are you still on tumblr? :c

Hey anon! I am still here. Things got difficult for me in the second half of 2016, which limited my enthusiasm for ... well, anything. Drawing. Keeping in touch with people. Plus work got crazy. I’ve noticed a lot of activity on my blog recently, which actually makes me want to start drawing some gayperion again. Hopefully soon! We shall see. But thanks for sending a message!

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In the flower scene you can actually wait and not have to take the flower at all! The scene after is much more funny and not shippy b/t rhys and sasha, its cute in a friendship way ( im sorry i cant word this right

MAN i always forget that you don’t have to choose an option at all. thanks anon, i’ve been wanting to do a playthrough of tftbl recently, i’ll try that this weekend!

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do you take requests or anything? because i'd really love to see more rhys! :3

I’m always happy to take requests, I have several in my inbox! Work has just been kicking my ass so I’ve had no time to draw. My hope is to find the time this weekend. But I am definitely happy to oblige with more Rhys, don’t you worry anon.

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how do you play out rhys's relationship with Sasha during the game? I usually keep the flower but I feel bad :/

Hahaha, I also usually keep the flower, it’s just so hilariously awkward. In general, I don’t like that whole sequence. I mean, I’m happy for Rhys and Sasha to be a shipping option, my gripe is that it’s the only option with no way to avoid it. It’s extra weird and frustrating considering how much choice you get in some parts of the game, and how vastly different they can make your play through (trusting Jack vs Fiona, reject or rule Hyperion, intervening with Cassius and Athena, etc). If you’re going to offer romance options, why not let me choose from everyone? Or at least make it so that only certain interactions with Sasha unlock that pathway. Anyway, yeah that part is just sorta weird to me.

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I did some 10 minute face studies a while back using Rhys, and since I don’t have any time to draw anything new right now, I’m posting my two faves: super adorable over-the-shoulder Rhys, and emo Rhys.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Rhys and Vaughn finally tie the knot with help from their Maids of Honor, Yvette and Fiona.

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A little something for @mandaocity after talking about these two getting married! I got a bunch of new brushes for Clip Studio so I sorta wanted to try something different, a little cleaner and bolder. Anyway, Rhys and Vaughn get married in a beautiful, touching ceremony. Where do they get tuxes on Pandora? Look, I don’t come in and ruin your fantasies, buddy. Let them be dapper on their big day.

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Oh my god I love your Uni-gayperion AU. The world needs more of this

Thanks! It’s more “this is what I imagine they were like at uni” but I guess until Telltale gives us more details, it is destined to be an AU forever. I actually want to draw the whole Vaughn-on-the-curb thing at some point, so I will continue to draw their dorky uni selves.

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In uni rhys and vaughn would probably walk in on awkward moments with each other, like rhys doing yoga and bending over right when vaughn walks in

Omg anon you have no idea how much I live for Rhys obliviously making Vaughn a wreck. I was gonna draw a comic of Vaughn walking in on Rhys stretching or something, but it, uh, just kinda turned into a fan service for all of us. I apologise for nothing.

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mandaocity replied to your post “Hi everyone, I got some bad news today so I am going to be MIA for a...”

Take all the time you need. <3 <3 <3

radqot replied to your post “Hi everyone, I got some bad news today so I am going to be MIA for a...”

I hope you feel better soon.

Thanks guys <3 Just need a bit of time

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Hi everyone, I got some bad news today so I am going to be MIA for a bit. This is kinda the only place I reliably share my art these days so just wanted to say I won't be posting anything until I get my head straight. Thanks again for all the support you guys, I'm glad I found people to share my love of these two nerds. I'll see you around.

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Been sitting on this for a while and I don’t think I’m gonna finish it soon. Hoping that just calling it quits dislodges my art block. I kinda love thinking about Rhys and Vaughn at uni, and I am convinced that Vaughn has been in love with Rhys from the moment they met.

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how come you drew sasha? i thought you'd probably hate her

Oh man, this has been sitting in my inbox for a while because I didn’t really know how to answer. In the interests of disclosure, this was sent before I posted this standalone piece of Sasha, so I think you were originally talking about this ensemble post.

I’m going to take a wild guess that your reason for assuming I hate Sasha is because she is the only romance option available in the game for Rhys, and I pretty clearly prefer a different pairing for him. I know that some people get somewhat possessive over their ships, but I’ve always enjoyed reading/seeing stuff of my favourite characters, even if they’re in other pairings that aren’t otp status. I’m not saying everyone needs to be like that, more that I’m trying to explain to you how weird I find this question. Just because I pair Rhys and Vaughn together doesn’t mean I can’t like Sasha? I’ll be honest and say I did not like the Sasha romance plot. It felt out of place and shoehorned in, and I didn’t think she and Rhys had great chemistry. Honestly, I think Sasha would get bored or even annoyed with Rhys! And of course not everyone agrees with me on that, which is... great! It’s part of what I love about fandoms, seeing how different people take different things from the same source material. But I was really bummed out to see her story arc get relegated to The Love Interest (which is what I was afraid would happen to Fiona at first, tbh). But that’s not Sasha’s fault, it’s the writers/producers/whoever was in charge of making decisions about her’s fault. And I feel like this about Vaughn too, btw! He got sidelined a lot, and kinda reduced to a punching bag. But I really love Sasha, and I wanted WAY more out of her than we got. And she deserved more than we got.

So... to answer your question, I drew her because she’s a badass and I love her.

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I don't ship the same thing you do, but I just saw your thing about feeling a little down and I want you to know that your art makes me want to ship it. So cute! Have a good day 😘

Aww, thanks anon. I’ve not been so great recently, so thanks for the message. I’m glad to hear you’re on board for the Rhys/Vaughn train, there are lots of people out there who make cute art and write cute fics for this pairing. And if you’re ever in the mood to talk about them, I’m always happy to shout with other people about how dumb and in love they are.

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Vaughn carries rhys bridal style everywhere to fluster rhys and also to keep him safe, to keep him from disappearing on him again

yes this is extremely adorable. i wanted to draw this, but i’ve been busy and feeling a little down lately. but vaughn picking up rhys is something that i always think is stupid cute. like his way of showing off how BUFF he got and impressing his skinny boyfriend

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[OTP Challenge] - 5 - Baking

These are college boys who then immediately went to being spoiled by the hyperion food courts so i’m sure there cooking skills are rusty, though i like to think vaughn has a bit more skills to cooking then the ‘human disaster’ rhys does lmao

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Aww thanks, my day has already started giving me a stress headache, so this was nice to read! Don't worry, I am not planning on stopping the Vaughn art train anytime soon.