#darksideofthemamon

[the-journey-was-the-point]

Aaaaa I hope you don't mind me yoink-ing some of your LOTRO characters to make into chibis 👉👈

Birthday hat means a recent birthday! (And I certainly hope I didn't forget or misremember)

Unthrangud, Eilian (@vinyatar ) , Medwed (@merilles ), Mentelossë (@elanna-elrondiel ) , Gallorith (@angbands-last-hero ) , Daerhovan (@loremastering ), Saephrond (@saephrond ) , Boingus (@shiremenace) , Margim (@a-lonely-dunedain )

[darksideofthemamon]

Flashing daggers, or pick-axe to the face?

Darkest Dungeon Grave Robber, my beloved

[radellama]

👜 and 🗝 !

🗝️ - character depicted with something revealing of their personality, secrets or motivations.

I've drawn him here holding his notes and some dried plants, they're something that cling to him and have included so much of his life and the choices he makes. His intent was always that they'd be helpful, but he has a hard time reckoning with the fact that his research has lead to some pretty harmful consequences.

👜 - Personal items carried by or associated with your OC, in an arrangement, labelled.

He will always have at least a few of these things on his person, across his pockets and his bag depending. If he's got a free afternoon, he's often either helping as a general handyman or out foraging for plants and such for his notes.

Send some prompts for my OC from here

[lila-chantilly]

It's no longer May, but whatever, have an off-season mermaid!

This is my Atlantica design for my OC Lila. I've had the concept sketch since... 2022? And decided to see it through this year!

Her lower half is based on the Siamese Fighting Fish. I just felt it suited her backstory as an underground fighting ring fighter, which also explains the seaweed hand wraps. Also, those fins are just gorgeous, I couldn't help but be inspired! XD

As for her top, my concept was based around The Little Mermaid 2, where Ariel's daughter turns into a mermaid. Unlike Ariel who wears shells, Melody wears a camisole because it's what she was wearing on top when she transformed. In Lila's case, a sports bra was what she was wearing at the time she decided to jump into the sea and become a mermaid.

[a-lonely-dunadan]

I am here from the quest objective! Ahhh yap to me about Tossdir! What's he about? What do you love about him? What type of situations do you like to put him in?

ok getting to this a bit late oops! (I tried to answer it earlier, had a bunch typed up, then my power went out and I lost the whole thing lmao)

Anyway yes!!! Tossdir!! my beloved silly little guy who's heart is so full of love for his friends and family that he might explode!! I created him as a joke character and had no intention for him to become a capital C Character™, let alone one this important, but here we are. His name is shrub man and I've almost gotten to the point where it sounds normal. I'm in too deep guys, send help.

This is just what happens when you get attached to the newest, tragic Ranger they just dropped and start thinking to yourself "Ok now what if he had a little brother? A little brother who adored him so so much and followed him into his self-imposed exile just in the small hope that he would come home with him? Or failing that just stay in exile with him forever because his big bro is that important to him? And Meneldir unsuccessfully tries to push him away because he believes that Tossdir would just be better off without him, he thinks so little of himself that he believes his presence in Tossdir's life will only make things worse, but only ends up hurting both of them more in the end?? But despite it all Tossdir stayed out of love??? and then Meneldir DIES saving Tossdir's life??? Making the ultimate sacrifice for him out of love but only leaving him utterly alone in the end???? would that be sad or what????"

And anyway the answer is: yes, it was very sad, and I'm never going to recover from this. the Unbreakable Bonds of Love™ sure do hurted don't they? and that was literally CHAPTER ONE of his story!!! there's just. there's so much more he has to deal with after that. Please he needs a break so badly (I say, not giving him a break).

And that's not even to mention his new weird and complicated relationship with the other Rangers now! He left just before he was old enough to be sworn in, so he was never branded as an oathbreaker like Meneldir was, but he also never technically became a Ranger in the first place, so can he really be considered one of them? He chose his loyalty to an oathbreaker over the rest of the Duendain, and while most agree it was an understandable choice (he was young and alone and Meneldir was pretty much the only family he had left, can anyone really blame him for following that misguided path? what else was he gonna do!), to others it might call his loyalty to the Dunedain into question...

He's literally just doing his best, he's trying SO hard because he feels like he has to "earn" his place among the Rangers. He won't wield his mother's sword or wear his father's star because those are both things that are deeply tied to his heritage, a heritage that he feels unworthy of on some level. Almost like Meneldir somehow passed his issues with this onto Tossdir or something, but instead of running away from that feeling of unworthiness like Meneldir did he is absolutely determined to do whatever it takes to fix it!! even if it kills him!!! (Eru's sake, somebody PLEASE get this boy a hug)

Anyway I think this is probably why he ends up forging such a deep bond with Golodir's Company after meeting them in Angmar. Here's a bunch of Rangers who left, explicitly against Aragorn's orders, to follow someone they were deeply loyal to and as a result stayed isolated from the rest of their kin for years! The Parallels! I'm eating my desk! Anyway it's getting too late for me to have coherent thoughts but did Tossdir adopt the Lost Company or did the Lost Company adopt him? the answer is yes. A sad ginger Ranger is something that can actually be so personal.

The only Situation I wanna put him in right now is a biiiig pile of blankets and pillows snuggled up with his dog and Ethedis and all his favorite snacks

[chrono-the-babe]

Harland 1A and Glenn 2A? :) also happy birthday!

Hehehe thank you for the bday wishes~~

Send a chrono character+ expression for my bday!

[the-journey-was-the-point]

Running in late for @aspecardaweek!! This fills both Day 1 and 2 (Asexuality + Aromanticism)

This is Nellriel! She’s my aroace 17-year-old Ranger-in-training! She’s headstrong and good with a sword, but… also impressionable and materialistic ^^” but her heart’s in the right place!

She was initially created as a side character for another OC-centric fic, but ended up developing as her own (she’s even on LOTRO now!).

I'll put the Discovery prompt under the cut so this post doesn't get too long (and tag for discussed aro/acephobia)

I don’t think Nellriel ever had a moment she “discovered” she was aroace, and I definitely don’t think she has the language to describe her experience, but she did go through that thing growing up where her friends started getting interested in sex and romance while she never did, and felt very confused and out of place because of it. She felt in realtime that whenever she came home, her peers became less and less interested in her tales and more absorbed in the lives they're building that are different from hers. She often gets called “childlike” and “innocent” (despite having orc blood on her hands) when she visits her hometown and there’s this underlying expectation that she’s supposed to “grow up and act like a real adult”.

She only feels that kind of alienation when she goes home though. Out in the world, she’s a hero and an adventurer. Evildoers beware!

[the-journey-was-the-point]

Art game Boingus for @shiremenace ! I enjoyed making this ^_^

(Clean variant under the cut!)