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My version of the apprentice from The Arcana, drawn in the style of the game's sprites! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ASK ME ABOUT HIM NO QUESTION WILL GO UNANSWERED I WANT TO TALK ABOUT HIM SOOOOOO BAD

His name is Vasily, and the LI he goes with is Asra! Here we have his base outfit, plus his more layered traveling outfit.

This is how he looks post-resurrection (i.e. throughout the main story), after just enough physical change to not quite look like himself anymore.

His pre-plague version is under the cut, as well as a version with Asra :)

Christopher Larkin I am so sorry that I played both Hollow Knight games without sound. I was not familiar with your game

#hollow knight #hollow knight silksong

honeyscomet

"theyll hate you for this" "but theyll be alive" is THE juiciest thing to me

honeyscomet

i will ensure you stay alive above all else. even if what i do to make it happen is horrendous. even if it violates all your wishes or moral principles. even if you can never look at me the same way again, even if you hate me for it. because at least if you hate me it means youre alive

#jayvik 🫶

Minutely back in the fucking building again

#life is strange #life is strange bts #grahamscott #nathan prescott #warren graham #they're sooooo fucked up like oh my god #delectable I tell you

The one thing stopping me from getting into Dispatch is that I can't make Robert a boykisser

#(except for that one time but I mean in a REAL way)#dispatch #dispatch game #dispatch the game #dispatch robert #robert robertson #AND ALSO THAT I HAVE TO CUT PEOPLE. WHY CAN'T EVERYONE JUST BE TOGETHER #AND WHY SHOULD I HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN PHENOMAMAN AND WATERBOY I SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO HAVE THEM BOTH

how does Vasily get along with Lucio? how abt muriel? which of the familiars is his favorite and does he have a familiar himself (whichever ones you feel like answering)

I'm afraid most of these questions may not have very pleasant answers lmao

Vasily and Lucio have a very fraught relationship. I think that there might be a world out there where they could be friends, but that world IS NOT this one. Lucio just has this unending festering jealousy for Vasily, because he basically has everything that Lucio wants, and that hostility is open enough for Vasily to return it. Lucio would 110% take any opportunity he got to kill Vasily dead and take his body back. They also just have fundamentally different views: for example, Lucio would do anything to come back to life, meanwhile Vasily still doesn't really understand why he's alive at all (or IF he's actually alive or just mimicking life). But if I were to talk about a world in which they are friends, they would be absolute rat bastards. They're both competitive enough that they end up getting into it in a serious way on a very regular basis. The only problem is that most of the time, Vasily is better at whatever they're doing, which only makes Lucio angrier. Oh well.

As for Muriel, I've actually talked about this before, but they aren't really friends either. In the Asra route, we see Muriel being pretty standoffish towards the apprentice, and that's something I've taken to heart. Vasily doesn't have a problem with Muriel the way he does with Lucio, but Muriel sure does have a problem with him. Mostly springing from the fact that Vasily tends to unintentionally take up all of Asra's time and attention; they've got sort of an unhealthy codependency thing going on. Obviously Muriel doesn't take particularly kindly to someone essentially taking away his only friend. He doesn't think that Vasily and Asra's relationship is healthy, but neither of them want to hear any of that. After a while, Vasily and Muriel's relationship does sort of cool off, and they become friendlier. But mostly just because Asra doesn't like that the two most important people in his life don't like each other. Their relationship never really progresses past them needing to begrudgingly wear a get-along shirt whenever they're together.

Vasily's favorite familiar is an easy question to answer: it's Faust! It's a similar situation to him and Asra, where Faust has technically known him longer than he's known her. She looooves him, because Asra loves him. Naturally she'll most commonly be found slithering all over Asra, but if it isn't him, it's Vasily. A lot of the time they can be spotted sleeping in a pile all together.

I've actually talked about Vasily's familiar situation before, so I'm just going to add that answer here!

I'd love to answer any other questions you have!! Vasily is very dear to me :)

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So like, I know TECHNICALLY when Lucio steals the body back he's shown just looking like himself, because the apprentice doesn't have a single canon design so it would be possible to show it this way. And I know TECHNICALLY the rules and logistics of body-swapping in the Arcana universe don't work like this. But damn if I'm not thinking about the hypothetical of Lucio stealing Vasily's body, putting on his own old clothes/makeup/styling his hair, and re-entering the party fully wearing Vasily's face but with Lucio's style and mannerisms. Maybe even Vasily's voice with Lucio's accent. Imagine the potential. Imagine how fucked up it would be for Asra to witness that. I'm certainly imagining it

#the arcana #the arcana game #the arcana a mystic romance #the arcana visual novel #the arcana apprentice #the arcana mc #the arcana oc #the arcana vasily #the arcana asra #asra the arcana #asra alnazar #asra x mc #asra x apprentice #count lucio #lucio morgasson

I saw this on Instagram so that's why it's a screenshot instead of an actual post but this is Vasily to me btw

#he STRUGGLES with this. a LOT #might have a fic brewing on the backburner that relates to this but we'll see if I actually write it or not #the arcana #the arcana game #the arcana visual novel #the arcana a mystic romance #the arcana apprentice #the arcana mc #the arcana oc #the arcana vasily #the arcana asra #asra the arcana #asra alnazar #asra x apprentice #asra x mc

Is there any significance to the red gem Vasily wears around his wrist? Also does he have a familiar? (Unrelated but I keep saying his name as Vah-silly in my head lol)

YES ‼️ AN ASK‼️‼️‼️

Anyway there IS a little mini significance to his bracelet but probably not in the way you think, it's really just that the bracelets on each of his wrists match Asra's necklaces! And I didn't want to make it EXACTLY exactly the same because that was a little too on the nose for my taste lol so I made it red, since he has a lot of red in his color palette! Which, to be fair, IS an allusion to the plague. So I guess you've got me there

As for whether he has a familiar, I talked about that a little in another post that I made but the gist of it is that no, he doesn't. I think that dying and being brought back to life really fucked him over in a lot of ways, especially in the soul area, and since familiars are a soul-related bond, he's not really able to bond with an animal anymore. One thing I did bring up in that post is that MAYBE if there was some other kind of super magically fucked up animal that he happened across, it could work, but that's purely hypothetical. Really, in my mind, Scout sort of acts as his familiar in a way? Not in the traditional sense, obviously, but in the sense that he and Scout are connected since his patron is the Fool.

But I imagine not having a familiar is something he sort of struggles with? Not necessarily in a 'feeling left out' kind of way, although that could be a small part of it, but more in an 'identity crisis' kind of way. Like, a 'he lies awake at night thinking "am I a real person anymore" and genuinely doesn't know the answer' kind of way. But that could be an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT post so I won't get into that right now hahahahaha

Thank you for the ask!!!! I'm so happy to have received it!!!! Everyone please send me more at your earliest convenience!!!!

(Also for your sake and the sake of others who may need it, it's pronounced vuh-SEE-lee lol)

#the arcana #the arcana a mystic romance #the arcana visual novel #the arcana game #the arcana apprentice #the arcana mc #the arcana oc #the arcana vasily #the arcana asra #asra the arcana #asra alnazar #azra x mc #asra x apprentice #asks

ASK ME ABOUT MY ARCANA OCS!!! I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THEM!!!! PLEASE COME INTO MY INBOX WITH LITERALLY ANY QUESTION I DON'T CARE HOW DERANGED I'LL ANSWER THEM PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

(See Vasily here)

(See Gwyndolina here)

So obviously what we see of Asra and Julian's dynamic shows pretty clearly that Asra takes on a more dominant role and Julian is more submissive, but honestly with Asra and Vasily I like the idea of Asra being able to let go of that a little sometimes. Because not only do I not imagine Vasily to be especially submissive (save for some certain occasions, he's versatile), but I also feel like there's something to be said about Asra's thoughts about Julian being sort of like "I need to keep complete control of this relationship at all times because I know our feelings for each other are imbalanced and I can't let this get out of hand or else we'll hurt each other" versus Asra's thoughts about Vasily being more like "I would literally do anything for you if you asked, bar none"

#long posting about the vasra sexual dynamic for fun ‼️‼️ frankly I could say more and go into further detail but I don't feel the need to #(unless prompted...)#the arcana #the arcana game #the arcana a mystic romance #the arcana visual novel #the arcana asra #asra the arcana #asra alnazar #the arcana apprentice #the arcana mc #the arcana oc #the arcana vasily #the arcana julian #julian the arcana #julian devorak

New character!! This is my irl best friend's version of the apprentice (drawn by me):

Her name is Gwyndolina, and the LI she goes with is Julian!

My friend isn't on Tumblr, but here are some things she wants you all to know:

Gwyndolina and Vasily are best friends in-universe

She is NOT the same apprentice who died in the plague; she survived it, Vasily died

She worked with Julian during the plague, but they didn't have a romantic relationship until after he returned to the city post-running away from Vesuvia

(So Gwyndolina and Vasily were apprenticing with Julian and Asra respectively at the same time!)

She's very prim and proper and maybe a little snooty, but Julian brings out her fun/chaotic side

(Height comparison with Julian under the cut, plus a version with Gwyndolina, Julian, Asra, and Vasily!)

#the arcana #the arcana a mystic romance #the arcana visual novel #the arcana game #the arcana apprentice #the arcana mc #the arcana oc #the arcana original character #the arcana gwyndolina #the arcana julian #julian the arcana #julian devorak #julian x apprentice #julian x mc #the arcana vasily #the arcana asra #asra alnazar

Did Vasily's eyes and hair change color because of the resurrection magic or is there a more specific reason? And do his eyes turning red symbolize something or is it just random?

Short answer: when is the color red ever random in Vesuvia? 👀

Long answer: there is a reason for everything!! I put it all in a comment on the original post but I'm happy to put it in its own post too:

It is, in part, because of the resurrection magic. Obviously Asra used his deal to bring Vasily back to life, and he came back a little different than he left, since his body had to be entirely reconstructed given that his original body was burned. BUT, the changes also have to do with the specific fact that the ritual was meant to bring back Lucio (AND, on a deeper level, that the ritual was sabotaged incorrectly the first time, so it didn't work perfectly).

Vasily's hair went from a dark red to a much, MUCH lighter almost-blond red because the body was originally supposed to be for Lucio (you can also see that he has a similar little pointy eyebrow detail in his post-resurrection form as the one Lucio has). His eyes went from grey to red both as an effect of the magic and as a remnant of the plague that both people (Vasily and Lucio) had — sort of a reconciliation of the fact that the new body wouldn't have it, so the sclera wouldn't be red, but it still has enough of an influence on both original bodies to show up anyway. Sort of a series of magical mix-ups, if you will. Also, his skin has just a LITTLE less warmth in the "after", because he died. It's stated in the Asra route that the apprentice is different now from how they were before, so I wanted to have a little fun with that!

I love him so much and I put SO MUCH thought into his design

#also I'd like to note that his original appearance is supposed to be somewhat similar to Julian for. reasons #the arcana #the arcana game #the arcana a mystic romance #the arcana visual novel #the arcana mc #the arcana apprentice #the arcana original character #the arcana oc #the arcana vasily #the arcana asra #asra the arcana #asra alnazar #asra x apprentice #asra x mc

THE MASQUERADE OUTFIT!!!

This took me a LONG time to fully visualize and then draw out, but I think he looks FANTASTIC.

(Also you just know all those buttons would have Asra mad as hell for reasons I don't feel I need to clarify)

#obviously it's based on one very specific dog. I couldn't help myself #but imagine vasily getting sent to the tower realm and stuff and then meeting scout dressed like THIS. the POTENTIAL #anyway if anyone can point out my favorite detail you win a prize (it's more drawings of vasily)#the arcana #the arcana a mystic romance #the arcana visual novel #the arcana game #the arcana oc #the arcana apprentice #the arcana mc #the arcana asra #asra the arcana #asra alnazar #asra x mc #asra x apprentice #the arcana vasily #tumblr keeps making his hair more dull in color. STOP TAKING AWAY HIS LUSTER #HE'S A GINGER LET HIM BE A GINGER YOU COWARDS

In my mind, Vasily can't bond with a familiar because his soul is kind of fucked up from dying and being brought back to life, so he's sort of screwed in that area since it's a "soul-bond" type of thing

But that made me think, maybe it WOULD be possible with some sort of equally epically fucked up animal

#I don't imagine him with a familiar at all #like maybe he could speculate that it would work with some massively screwed up animal but it would never ACTUALLY happen #but tbh funniest answer wins what is my boy bringing home to the shop and proudly announcing as his familiar #the arcana #the arcana a mystic romance #the arcana visual novel #the arcana game #the arcana apprentice #the arcana oc #the arcana original character #the arcana vasily #the arcana asra #asra the arcana #asra alnazar #asra x apprentice #asra x mc

Not sure you all are ready for the masquerade outfit tbh

#like let me tell you firsthand he looks DAMN FINE #vasily. vasily you look too good. they'll kill you Vasily #and then they STOLE HIS FUCKING PHYSICAL FORM #that's a crime #the arcana #the arcana game #the arcana a mystic romance #the arcana visual novel #the arcana mc #the arcana apprentice #the arcana oc #asra x mc #asra x apprentice #the arcana vasily

I feel that this can be applied to other arcana pairings too but I thought of them first

#the arcana #the arcana game #the arcana a mystic romance #the arcana visual novel #the arcana asra #asra the arcana #asra alnazar #the arcana julian #julian the arcana #julian devorak #asrian #asra x julian

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