every single platform i post this on i feel more bad tagging everyone who initially made these designs LMFKAOODKD SORRY. at least im finding them all on platforms i havent followed them on yet
ANYWAYS. trolling pinterest saving gillion fanart while relistening to riptide. collecting just absolutely Stunning designs. really cool to feel invigorated by smth again :-)
@skywerse, @saturndigital, @bananabugg & @sea_lems on instagram created the designs i drew here! and gillion tidestrider himself is from hit dnd podcast jrwi go listen to it NOW ok goodbye
worst part of being a JRWI fan (esp riptide) is that I want my friends to get into bc I just KNOW they'd love it but also...it's over 100 episodes long...and it takes a couple hours just to get to niklaus...and hole in your heart...and the nat 20 kiss...
they don't even know about viv and vex. they would love viv and vex. and grefgor. and Peter sqloint.
ok but hear me out: riptide x slay the princess (big ol yap sesh and closeups below)
Chip: The Spectre
109, obviously, but also the spectreās yearning for what once was, wanting back her āfreedomā of the life she had before. The parallels between the spectreās longing and Chipās longing for his life with the Black Rose Pirates work so well together. Another factor is how Chip needed to learn that he was not alone anymore. He had a crew, friends, captains, siblings. Through his ups and downs, he learned respect, trust, honor, and responsibility; he learned to love again with a fiery passion he had not felt since he sailed alongside Arlin.
āI offer you absolution, and you take my hand in yours.
You felt the pain you caused another, and you were willing to sacrifice everything you thought was you to set me free.
Without sin, there is no redemption.ā
āThis one is vaporous. She is a dream of a life she could never have, but that longing has given her so much capacity for Kindness. She will make for a yearning heart.
Do not mourn her ā she will finally be able to hold What she never knew.ā
Jay: The Cage
I was heavily debating between Jay and Gill for this one, but the Cageās final confrontation is what sold Jay for me. Her constant fear of abandoning her blood family because she has already lost so much (her sister, and soon her mother), that abandoning the last shred of family she has left would be losing everything. It is her inaction which drives much of her conflict, balancing the line between Ferin and pirate, because no matter which side she turns to, she is always afraid, because she always has something to lose. There are times where she feels like she can only watch from afar and see what will happen (especially in the case of lizzieās war), but she must understand that inaction is most often a deficit. She has proven herself time and time again to others, she just needs to prove it to herself.
āFear is a chain around the neck and a needle in the eye.
It was fear that made our prison, and it was fear that told the lie that
our spirits were not free to choose.
But together we left it all behind, and found a world free of burdens.
We found the beauty in accepting our dance.
This construct is a machine of fear. It has no place in our divine hearts.
Shatter it. Leave with me.ā
āThis one is a body that convinced herself she was only a set of eyes. She will make for a watchful heart.
Do not mourn her. She is now what she wished that she could be.ā
Gill: The Drowned Grey
Unlike the others, I couldnāt really find a princess that fit gill as well as the others did, so I decided to do a more specific moment of gillās story for his princess: his oath of vengeance and dunjon arc.
The Drowned Grey is a story of hurt, loss, and rebirth. Gill loses everything; his friends, his closest companion, and is taken away from the life he once knew to be trapped in an endless white void, to be judged by the apparitions of those who had always judged him before. He is raw, violent emotion, rage being the only way he knows to understand his pain, and thus inflicts it onto others. His actions endangered those who wanted to help him be because all he could process was his loss. And that loss he screamed at the elderās with his entire soul, only to be swept away in the dark depths of Niklausā control. But after the anger, was his rebirth. He was never meant to remain in an endless void for eternity, and Born anew in the eye of a leviathanās storm, the violence and grief was left behind him in the cold icy storm. He had his catharsis, leaving those demons behind him in the darkest depths.
āI kill you. You kill me. Back and forth we go, faster and faster and faster. I kill you. You kill me.
Hollow eyes watch from the dark corners of a forgotten place flooded by emotions left unspoken. The tide rises.
I kill you and me.
An ending is a passion that can only be expressed with a moment in time. It is a seed for a new beginning. To linger on an ending is to rob it of its life.
And without me, all that's left to do is linger.ā
āThis one is guarded sorrow. She saw herself as alone but in the end had courage to share with another. She will make for a deep heart.
Do not mourn her - she has finally been heard.ā
anyways uhh thanks for coming to my tedtalk, i lowkey wanna do this for other campaigns, currently thinking about prime defenders and the suckening so ye šš
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