#corvuscapra

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Carry Me 💙

Korbin takes Capella on a tour of Draenor - naturally she feels most at home in the zone that has Ardenweald vibes :3

Full resolution version, time lapse video, and drawing stage snapshots are up on my Patreon (along with some other stuff I haven't posted here yet)!

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Ah crumbs I did it again and ran out of time for a proper anniversary drawing - so Animal Crossing villagers it is! Today it's 19 years together with @enkiefae! 💖 More than half my life, waow!!

Of course today is a headache day, but as with last year I'm considering it bad luck to not do a drawing for the occasion! I better lock in early for next year and actually do something good for the big 20 😤 Got a couple ideas already huehuehue

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I am sometimes very bad at remembering to actually post personal art after it's had its 1-month Patreon cooldown :D;

But I cleaned up the refs I sketched a while back for WoW-AU Corbin and Capella! Waoooow. I like them I think they both look really good in the Warcraft universe :3 Especially Korbin (but I'm biased obviously, being an arakkoa-lover.)

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Today's mine and @enkiefae's 18th anniversary of togetherness! I didn't have time to do a fancy Traditional Annual Drawing, but it felt like it'd be bad luck to not do one at all, so here is a mock sidewalk chalk doodle xD

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Quick annual anniversary doodle! The date snuck up on me but it felt wrong not to have something for today.

Happy 17 years, @enkiefae! ❤

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Annual celebratory drawing of me and @enkiefae :3 This year's our "champagne anniversary"! 16 years on the 16th!

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Old things I keep forgetting to post :D; Non-anthro "Magical AU" versions of our sonas that I originally made up solely for Try to Fall Asleep head-stories xD

Since I can use readmores on Tumblr, here's some extra info about them that you don't have to read but I wrote it so I may as well include it! \o/ It is, however, partially out of date now since I read the ACOTAR series a while ago and decided “Hmm yes I should make my self-indulgent characters even more self-indulgent.” (In short: Capella now has celestial powers and Corbin is the Forest Lord with amnesia.)

Capella

A glaistig fae, and a powerful witch.

Has magic of her own but mostly uses herbs and other reagents to create spell "bundles" for specific, powerful effects. She spends her mornings doing rituals while preparing these spells (did D&D Wizards do something like this in 4E? That's the only Edition I played and have a vague memory of).

The staff she carved herself out of birch wood, and is used as a conduit to direct spells.

When out in society she wears longer dresses to hide her hooves, and uses a minor glamor spell to camouflage her horns amongst a hat or other headwear.

Corbin

A shapeshifting forest spirit. His true form is that of a natural-looking raven, and his base shifting abilities allow him to transform into things that are approximately his own size (ferrets, housecats, etc, though always black with a bluish sheen).

With the enchanted birch twig that Capella gave him - and other more permanent rituals down the line - those powers are drastically amplified.

In addition to simply enlarging his whole body (giant raven form), he can grow birch branches over his body to create additional limbs. Any of his more defined forms can be mixed around to any degree (ie/ "harpy" form, just having wings in human form, etc.)

His human form is the most taxing to keep up, and he can't quite get it to 100%, hence the untransformable bird hand.

When the birch twig is active and growing into limbs, it simply grows at hyperspeed. When shrinking down or changing "skin" (to human form), the spell effects involve white "fire" and peeling birch bark.

Backstory

One day while out gathering in the woods, Capella was attacked by a gargoyle. She was caught off-guard and at a disadvantage, so she called for aid from the forest creatures, and the raven that had been watching her swooped in. She tossed him a heavily-enchanted birch twig that she carried in case of emergencies. Capella was only anticipating the twig to make the bird larger so she could escape on its back, but the twig reacted with the raven's natural magic and the wood sprouted, resulting in a giant, birch-legged bird-beast. Turns out he was a fully-sentient shapeshifter spirit.

They live in a cottage in the woods with a garden next to it and a stream nearby. The ocean is very close - the nearest town is a harbor town.

The "universe" they live in is something akin to the world in Ancient Magus Bride - where folklore and traditional witchcraft are very real things. There isn't much of an overarching plot to their story - they just have random little foresty/magic-related adventures. It's "slice of life".

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Annual fursona doodle for our anniversary! Fourteen years with @enkiefae!! Loved every minute of it <3