#captainderyn rambles

[captainderyn]

Con day is here!! I can safely assume that most of my followers are not in the eastern Missouri area, lol, but none the less yall have been here through my whole art journey!

I will most likely be offering prints & stickers for sale over in my kofi depending on what I have left over the next few days

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Hi friends! I’m very excited to announce that I will be a vendor in the Crafter’s Corner at HeroCon in mid-Missouri at the start of May 🥰

I’m trying to be good and not blow all my money on prints and stickers to sell, so my offerings will mainly be umamusume/mass effect/Fate focused and limited quantities to test the waters.

I doubt most of my mutuals are anywhere close to this area of Midwest but HeroCon supports KVC Missouri, a nonprofit that supports children’s mental health and family services.

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Playing swtor again, specifically Emeldir, has me in my feels about him and tweaking some random things about his backstory and Rielay’s as well. In no particular order:

- Rielay was pulled out of her dead end ‘job’ in the Coronet City Shipyards as a teenager by her old smuggling captain because she was a damn good mechanic and small enough that she could fit in all the tight spaces the rest of the crew complained about. Her captain was horrible, but it was Rielay’s ticket off Corellia and introduced her to her love of flying.

-Her crew got stuck in orbit around Coruscant during the Sacking of Coruscant. Her captain was killed while on a transport to the planet’s surface and Rielay held the ship and crew together and out of imperial fire until they were recovered by Republic forces. Despite her best attempts, the crew disbanded and went their seperate ways and Rielay was forced to sell the ship for scrap due to damages from running on fumes.

-With no way off planet and no options or connections due to her captain’s ah…loner approach to business, Rielay enlists in the Republic military and does a few year stint there to pay off the debts pinned on her by her old captain’s death. There she flies jets older than her, and it’s why she can fly her clunky old ship like a cracked out raccoon and still survive.

-Rielay is now ~31 at the start of the smuggler storyline instead of in her mid 20s. Emeldir is 23 at the start instead of 20.

-At the end of her contract she buys another ship, her current ship the Promise, in all its rust bucket gory from Emeldir’s father—a ship salesman on Coruscant. Who’s she had previously sold her captain’s ship to. It’s here that she meets Emeldir, now 18 and restless within the cityscape of Coruscant. He begs to join her “crew” for “life experience” (as he justifies to his unimpressed parents and Rielay). She tries to deny him, because it’s a tough life, but he’s there the next day with his bags packed and a CVS receipt long list of reasons this is Good Actually. They agree he’ll fly with her for a year or two then come home to Coruscant like the Good Senator’s Son he’s suppose to be.

- Just over a year into his time on her ship they’re working a contract on Hoth. A flash storm rolls through, separating Rielay and Emeldir’s speeders. He ends up wrecking his trying to get out of the storm, and in trying to shelter in place meets with a pissed off undecided creature that are the source of his facial scars and scars that extend over his shoulder/chest. His injuries were severe, and being stuck in the cold for hours nearly did him in. Rielay feels horrifically guilty about it still, years later.

-This event is the reason Emeldir has a perpetual tremor in his hands, specifically his right (the side with all his scarring too) (thanks Aimed Shot animation with its perpetual shake that gave me this character quirk).

-This event is also the reason Emeldir pursued becoming a captain in his own right. Rielay, without his knowing, paid his extensive medical costs from saving his life and pretty intensive fixing of his face and right upper body. He’s become a light sided smuggler in an attempt to ‘pay her back’ even if she staunchly refuses every credit he tries to give her.

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Guys you aren’t going to believe this but I actually have the urge to redownload swtor and have an inclination to play the smuggy storyljne with Emeldir again. I miss him and Risha lol

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This is going to sound so silly but out of my many bones in the bones for picking pile, one thing that makes me irrationally angry about Veilguard is the way that the loot pops up. The little puff of confetti. The pop up in the corner.

It makes me feel like I’m playing Destiny. And it makes me very, very upset everytime and smacks me out of the feeling like I’m in Thedas lol. I like Destiny, I like Dragon Age. I don’t wanna mix it into Destragon Age.

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I’m planning to go to my local anime con in November in cosplay and I’m hardcore considering testing out making some umamusume and maybe Fate stickers just to hand out for funsies 🤔 gives me an excuse to practice making them and test out a printing service

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Hey y’all, late night Deryn post. I just got some job search news that has absolutely wrecked my shit (on top of the stress of well…*gestures to all the things*. What positive hopefully things do y’all have going on? Pets? Good things? The sky looked pretty? Anything.

I’ll start: I coaxed the mustang with alfalfa pellets to give me hugs this evening. It’s hit or miss whether she allows that. She was stinky :’P

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New banner for my ko-fi page plus an influx of new followers means it’s time for a (re) introduction.

So, hi! Welcome to my page :) I’m Deryn (she/her), a writer and artist constantly at odds with all her ideas vs her current hyperfixation. My tumblr goes through phases, but inevitably they all circle back around.

Irl you could call my two personality traits by the names of Native and Saber. My 8 y/o BLM mustang mare I’ve spent the last 2.5 years restarting from the ground up and my rescue german shepard.

Over on my ko-fi you can find an easy to browse gallery of my art, my current commission offerings, and starting either this month (June) or next (July) I will be creating a monthly illustration in lithograph style highlighting a different BLM herd for my ko-fi followers to download. It’s free to follow, so it’ll be free to download.

I post ramblings, fanfic, screenshots, and fanart here on tumblr. Here are some of my usual rotation:

- Mass Effect

- Dragon Age

- LOTRO

- SWTOR

- Cyberpunk 2077

- Elden Ring

Thanks for being here! All are welcome 💜