Stupid freaking thing taking up my past two weeks. We in the Chesterverse now folks.
Tooooooo much to explain for mr og Snake (he’s getting his own long character summary later) but just know that I made him so complicated to the degree that I often even confuse myself. Projection party central with a pinch of social commentary here and a bit of angsty self indulgence there- but all in all it’s mostly a long-winded writing exercise that got a little out of hand and has no relation to me wanting to wear his skin around like he’s an exotic animal.
The Ssssserpent… From my Bartman AU - and patient zero, I fear. He’s the closest thing to pure evil I could make this guy. Yeah, he’s got a tragic backstory and is treated as badly as the rest of them- but in this one I like to focus on how he handles that. See, this version of Snake has unlearned remorse and is NOT about to put himself into any kind of vulnerable position ever again. He’s sneaky and actively manipulative (more so than usual) and grants no mercy to anyone who stands in his way.
He’s escaped death once, fleeing a broken system that conflates suffering with taking accountability (thus instilling the same belief in him and teaching him to avoid it at all costs), and that turned him into the monstrosity he is now- because what other choice did he have? But now it seems that even the new him, his new body with all its perks, isn’t the saving grace he once thought it to be. In fact, it’s only accelerating his demise, and he’s back at square one. There are people who could fix it, just like the others who had been transformed as he had, but he’s dug himself too deep. He just regained his autonomy, and he knows they’ll take it away as soon as they can. They’ll just be another hurdle in his race against death, he’ll have to deal with this his own way.
I like to draw him best bc I don’t have to fuck with legs (which you will see is an ongoing struggle here).
Vaekk is the DnD npc that was accidentally turned into a whole thing. His name means “Snake” in Draconic, though my players didn’t know that and would always call him “Benjamin” and I love them for it. He’s basically an anti-Indiana Jones where he steals magical artifacts of religious importance from museums and studies and puts them back where they belong. Not out of any good will or respect for the original culture, but out of spite bc he was kicked out of the archeological community.
He’s currently looking for a way to bring back his friend who’s been locked in a magically-induced coma after saving her husband and the rest of her new home from a fate worse than death. He joins a party of adventurers contracted by the mob to return a very important piece of treasure that had been stolen from the city vault, one that could potentially have the power to help his friend. Initially, he intends to steal it for himself, but he grows closer with the party and finds out that they all have their own people who need saving. He’s torn between being loyal to his friends and sympathizing with the party members he’s grown affectionate towards. AND WE HAVENT FINISHED THR DAMN CAMPAIGN YET SO IDK WHERE IT GOES.
This is where I refer to snake specifically as Chester bc that’s how all of my friends know him. He’s got basically the same backstory as the og, but around 1992 he joins the criminal organization HYDRA out of desperation. Fresh out of a 2-year prison sentence with the scars of a tragic loss and a failed relationship that refuse to heal, he signs up for job that will at least get him a decent amount of money. Seems easy enough, break into some fat cat’s house, steal some documents, pocket a few valuables.. but he’s caught pretty quickly because this fat cat is a notorious supervillain. Helmut, the 13th Baron Zemo, doesn’t take kindly to anyone poking around his business. However, upon seeing what exactly Chester was mean to retrieve (the last of his father’s, Heinrich Zemo —> Nazi scientist and one of the former heads of HYDRA— concepts of a weapon of mass destruction), he agrees to hire Chester to essentially double-agent for him and bring him whatever information he can find about HYDRA’s plans to utilize his father’s creations (this is where Chester adopts the alias “Albert Knickerbocker Aloyisious” because he just stole the identity of the dude who used to work there 💔 the joke with his hair is that it’s completely obvious that he is not who he says he is but nobody at HYDRA notices bc they’re all idiots).
MAN this one in particular is what I’ve been hyperfixating on for the past year. I love making him get into scuffles with superhero’s and villains and be the subject of horrible maiming and GGRSAAHHHH IM HAVING SO MUCH FUN!!! As per MARVEL tradition, he’s died and been revived like twice so far, he’s been abducted and replaced by an alien once, he’s interacted with two immortal gods, got turned into a vampire and was cured a week later, and now he’s learning the importance of community as the Cobra in the Serpent Society❤️ I love the MARVEL universe because anything is fucking possible.
But I like to focus on Chester’s relationship with Helmut Zemo a lot bc this is my self ship with extra steps (I.e. I wear his skin around and kiss dudes). But basically Helmut reminds Chester a LOT of the people from the aforementioned loss and breakup and it’s just tearing him tf up bc he’s catching feelings FOR HIS BOSS EW and he’s scared of how Helmut would even react and it isn’t until Helmut makes him explain why he’s being so weird that he actually confesses. Surprisingly, Helmut doesn’t cut his head off and is like “damn…..” (bc he’s going through his own shit but this ain’t about him) and after like some big dramatic 4 part fic I’m still writing they get together and it’s nice and blah blah blah- BUT!!!! They legit just be enabling each other’s bad behavior like Chester is terrified that he’s going to mess this up again so he uncharacteristically bends to Helmut’s every whim, while Helmut encourages and rewards his morally dubious behavior. Yikes.. but ig they can have their fun yk..
GUYS I FUCKING LOVE DRAGONS!!!! DragonHeart also has a huge place in my heart so I wanted to put my own kind of spin on it. My dragons are kind of horrific chimeras of different animals, much like how they are depicted in a lot of ancient art around the world. There are also a lot of stories of dragons who can shapeshift into humans or other things, which DragonHeart incorporates into its lore and that makes me so happy.
This guy, Ir Ghyeva (“One who speaks twice”), is kind of a reclusive loner. He’s been in some dragon drama before and did some things he regrets, and apparently it was so bad that he believed his soul to be at risk of never making it to Draco (dragon heaven). One day the wife of a wicked Baron comes to him and pleads for him to save her husband, the very man who’s lineage grew their power through slaying dragons, Ghyeva thinks this is the perfect opportunity to show that he is capable of good. He gives half (DragonHeart lore magic) of his heart to the Baron to save him, with the only exception being he must be the last man of his name to have ever slain a dragon. This doesn’t last, of course, and though the Baron himself has ended his hunting days, his son has not. There is another dragonslayer in the land, so now Ghyeva lives in shame and fear, growing resentful of mankind.
(The dragonslayer is Helmut btw and they kiss. “I don’t remember that happening in the mo-“ SHUT UP!!!!!!!)
This is just him in college (also as a King Cobra). Well, sort of post-college research phase. Before everything went to shit. I made a post about that here and it pretty much follows the og lore…. except Helmut is also there. Stares at the red dot on my chest. And my friends’ ocs. Sometimes they’re animals and we like to explore Beastarsish themes bc my friends are furfags and sometimes they’re not just depends on how we feel.
Takes place in 1987 at Middlebury where he’s teaching world history while he works on his PHD. He’s thousands deep in debt, losing sleep, giving lectures, and making friends with pissy graduate students. But man if this is the life for him. He’s not a jaded prick just yet, in fact this is probably the most professional he’s ever been, but he’s still got this sort of rascal energy about him that he can whip out at any time. This has also been feeding my motivation when researching the sociopolitical climate of the late 80’s under Reagan and just stuff like. How drastically universities in the US changed.. Gay pepol.. masculinity… personal responsibility for one’s success….. I’m learnding .
He kisses Helmut in this one too I’m SORRY.
Uhhhh thanks for making it to the end here is him riding on a dragon with an aesthetic filter
