Snal, chugging along

From my government RPGroup assigned mascot, my art blog! I'll be posting all my RP group art here, along with my non-RP group stuff whenever I remember to! [I can aslo do requests and such!] 

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A video...? A meme...!?

More likely than you think.

Done for a friend's bday but also a little self indulgently, here is kris' drunken imagination running a little wild. (This may be the start of them truly acknowledging/recognizing feelings beyond deep admiration...)

[hellothisisangle]

Drew a bunch of concepts for curved horns and uploaded the lineart assets for use on Patreon

[ztudiolaire]

When did Orryx tell Astarion about his family, and how did Astarion respond? Love, love, LOVE your art!

I love that my art is able to reel in so many like-minded individuals, thanks for sticking around 💪

As for that question hooo boy that's a doozy.

Orryx follows the typical durge storyline when it comes to the amnesia. Throughout the beginning of his relationship to Astarion, he wouldn't know he had a wife or child in the past to begin with.

Not for sure, anyway.

He does own a locket (which belonged to his wife before him).

When Aramit is killed, Orryx takes the locket and keeps a picture of her and their son in there.

All these years later, he'd still have that locket, albeit the pictures are faded. He would be able to figure out this woman and child meant SOMETHING to him for him to carry the locket with him. He assumes either its an image of him and his mother (his kid looks like a young version of Orryx) or his wife and child.

He concludes wife and child as the answer when he has a dream about sleeping with Aramit the night after he first sleeps with Astarion. And almost like she's really haunting him, she teases him for his reactions to her despite not remembering her name.

But that's something he struggles with silently for the rest of Act 1, simply because he has no confirmation. Only a hunch.

Now we get to Act 2. This is where his memory storyline differs from the original durge a bit.

When they attack Moonrise, and find the Chosen of the Dead Three in its bowels, everything comes rushing back. It's all of those emotions on top of nearly losing Astarion in the fight against Myrkul that cause Orryx to transform for the only time into the Slayer, finishing out the fight.

By this point, Astarion and he have a much closer relationship. Astarion has confided in him and trusted him with a lot, and he feels safe enough to do the same. They sit down and talk about it that night after they take Moonrise and kill Ketheric.

Astarion's first reaction is, of course, how this is going to affect Astarion. Will this random woman and kid affect his relationship? Orryx is married to her, and surely, if he's the man Astarion has come to know, he would choose his wife over a vampire he just met this year? He's already plotting how to move from here, pushing oh-so-valiantly past the idea of sabotage, until Orryx gets to the next part of his tale.

The part where he murdered, nay, slaughtered his own wife and child. 20 odd years ago.

Astarion is quiet in mind and mouth after that.

Orryx has already attacked him in his sleep once, so they know about the Urges. Even moreso with Orryx's returned memory. And Astarion leans into that. He says softly that Orryx was nearly chewing his own wrists off to try and kill Astarion after only a few weeks of repressed urges, he cannot imagine what a decade and a half of repressed Urges would do.

Astarion would tell him that yes, Orryx is a danger to him. He'd be stupid to deny that. But if he can be forgiven for the thousands of people he lured to the slaughter under Cazador, then Orryx can be forgiven for the murders he committed under the Urges.

Orryx stays in Astarion's tent that night, just to be close to him, and shows him the locket for the first time. The woman staring back at Astarion has a passing familiarity, but he keeps that to himself, and simply comments that she's beautiful, and clearly Orryx has a type.

He also comments that he knows Orryx was a good husband and father, simply because of how he is with Astarion himself, and with every tiefling kid they've run into.

Privately, though, Astarion does worry for his own life. He worries that Orryx is a much more noble man than he originally thought, and that eventually he'll wisen up and leave Astarion in the dirt.

He shoves those thoughts down by spending the rest of the night asking about Orryx's son, and what he was like. When his family becomes too emotional of a topic, he switches to asking about Orryx's life story, now that he remembers it.

If there's one thing Astarion knows how to do, it's talk. And talk he does, until they've talked for so long that he's lulled his beastly partner into sleep.

Until he's alone in his thoughts, finally able to understand and meditate on the weight of Orryx having lost his family. For a while, he'll focus on how he needs Orryx to overcome that. For both their sakes.

Full real empathy will come later.

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Stairway to the Stars, we got better things to do - Submitted by: fastman27

#362350 #814C92 #DD9CC5 #EED0DF #FEECEE

[nalydraws]

I hope you're not tired of seeing Kris/pf2e stuff because I'm sure not!!

A couple of different interaction doodles but also showing off their fancy special demonic form of the "demon" of their nightmares that they TURNED INTO IN FRONT OF THEIR PARTY 😀(they have not been taking it well)

[nalydraws]

"And then I saw it. In a broken piece of mirror. The reflection of the monster that must have done this. Ashen eyes, ashen, burnt hair. Much shorter than it had ever been. And a face, an all too familiar face… Covered in that same, pale white… Stared back at me."

[look-a-diversion]

having brain rot about your own TTRPG character is so embarrassing. yes i love her and i think about her all day and i’ll take any excuse to talk about her. no, there’s no book or anything for you to read. she’s my emotional support rogue. she’s my fidget toy. i wish you could meet her. i made her up inside my head.

[nalydraws]

I've also got some party interaction doodles of the ttrpg characters from the big poster-like image!

There's Priscilla (The orange-coded one), Isabella (The red-coded one), and Otto (The yellow-coded one)! Kris joined the party some time after Isabella and Priscilla started travelling with another party member, and then that member swapped out with Otto not long after Kris came along. (Kris likes Otto much better tbh)-

Anyway These people are all near and dear to Kris' heart already, and if anything were to happen to any of them well they'd probably just go right off the deep end! :D

[nalydraws]

I see a couple of you are TTRPG fans!! Good news: I have even more art of that TTRPG party!!!

First here's my character, Kriswara! (Last name still TBD Th' Oracle is just to continue my trend of driving the GM insane by naming characters like Doryu Snickellia (Do you want a Snickers) and Merric Gen'eric (Pronounced Jhe-neh-reek)). No real chronological order here but thats ok

[impactrueno]

i wrote down some notes about coloring skin in case people are interested 📝

[nalydraws]

I CAN FINALLY POST THIS ONLINE TOO

PATHFINDER CAMPAIGN PATHFINDER GROUP I AM OBSESSED WITH YOU!!!!!

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Abyssus and Noctiluca for Practicalproblemss from ArtFight! 🥳

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Starting to amass a backlog so slowly gonna start to trickle out artfight attacks...!

(The uncovered version of) Sete—and my own OC Des—for KimeDoggo on ArtFight! 🥳

[nalydraws]

Some recently finished Comms!! Thank you to those who've commed me so far!

My Comms are still open, for anyone else interested! Thanks for sharing!

[nalydraws]

EDIT: SHOP UPDATED!

Also. Kirby Popsicle stickers have arrived and they're even more shimmery than I'd hoped for!!

Thanks to everyone for the likes and RBs on the initial post; I pught to have shop links up for these guys soon, too!! (And I'll update this post once that's done!)(It's done!)

[nalydraws]

"My new, old friend. "✨️

[EDIT: NOW UP IN SHOP, With custom commission option!✨️]

FInal Fantasy XIV Character Portraits! This kisting will be updated over time as I create more and more beloved NOCs from the series! There'

Wanted to try and do a print or two for the store..... So starting off with mr purple haired bestie from FFXIV!! :^)

[nalydraws]

I don't think I can stand to look at and adjust this any longer so I'm releasing it into the wild now—

COMM POST TIME!!!

First time ever putting out an accepting proper comms, please be kind to me LMAO—Also just headshots for the example, but in due time I'll update it with full-body examples too!