#derpbent

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for old times’ sake

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Can I cosplay your design of bloodswap nepeta?

sure dude. heres a quick ref sketch for her, i dont think ive ever posted anything like that for nepeta. not much to her though, she is pretty simple. show me some pics if you end up putting it together!

“you havent posted for months and you come back with this” i dont really know what to post if its not in response to something, haha. i kinda subsisted on asks

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remember this

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I like your spin on Karkat and Vriska's relationship, it's very interesting! I always pictured them having a positive relationship (well, after a while). Do you think this could ever happen in any timeline of Derpbent?

talkin about denizens but also them, at the end, kind of. buildup

There are two denizens that must die in order to complete the land’s quest, Cetus (Feferi’s denizen) and Lachesis (Vriska’s denizen). Out of them, only Lachesis has an unavoidable fight; Cetus can be killed in several different ways depending on what players do in other lands and in what order, but Vriska has to lay the killing blow on Lachesis with her own hands, and it is impossible to do on her own.

Vriska’s psionics are weak, so that she is only able to lift herself and other small, light objects. Her real strength is in how fast those small objects can be thrown, and so her main weapon is wire, which she uses to immobilize, skewer and strangle enemies. Her class’ signature ability is a damage-over-time move that slowly rots the target from the inside out and she relies on it heavily to actually kill the targets she traps, because even at high velocity, her thrown weapons don’t deal that much damage. These tactics won’t work on Lachesis, who is already immobile, heavily armoured, and poison resistant. It’s meant to be a team effort that she could ultimately take credit for despite not being able to do much of anything for most of it, if she wants to, and difficult enough that maybe, if there is any semblance of a conscience hidden somewhere within Vriska Serket, she might not want to.

She can choose two other players to go in with her. Some choices are better than others, and those ones are mostly people she doesn’t like very much and/or has pissed off by the time she has to face her denizen—Karkat, Gamzee, Aradia, Terezi. I designed this part to be sort of a potential turning point, where depending on how things went, she might have to face Lachesis alone or go in with one or two others who won’t be able to make a dent because nobody wants to deal with her shit anymore. Or she bites the bullet and admits to Karkat that she needs his help, badly, because she really honestly cannot do it and he is the best guy for the job. Which is possible, just unlikely. I think that if everyone is angry at her including Karkat, but he knows that if he doesn’t go with her Vriska’s flying solo, he’s not gonna sit back and let her die. That’s not who he is.

And so I mean like, there’s a chance there’d be at least some grudging respect after that. It Could Happen.

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Anonymous said: could you please draw a bloodbent vriska? please???

she gets nepeta to tag the hives of people vriska doesn't like with her face because even though she thinks she is better at art there is something satisfying about getting somebody else to do it. also because this particular tag looks way more obnoxious than anything vriska could hope to paint herself. nepeta is promised payment for her beautiful works of art but has never gotten it

karkat probably has at least six anime vriskas on his walls at the beginning and his entire tower will be completely wallpapered in them from floor to ceiling once she figures out she can copypaste designs.

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TAVROS AND SOLLUX TAVROS AND SOLLUX TAVROS AND SOLLUX TAVROS AND SOLLUX TAVROS AND SOLLUX OMG

hELLO EVERYONE WE HAVE ARRIVED,

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companion to this post

feferi's usual dress is a roleplay costume in case you didn't know, aradia has one that kinda matches. it is a team uniform. i also didn't start feferi off with a sword but she has one as her weapon now because a sword like this one was used as a cosplay prop once and i thought that was cool, so it's canon

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How about Aradia and Feferi? :D

you thought i wasnt gonna do this because it’s been 12 days but i did. i did

Aradia and Feferi are the keystones of the whole group. If they hadn’t met and become friends, there wouldn’t even be a group, and if everyone had managed to come together in some other way, it would have fallen apart pretty fast without them to keep it together. So their continued friendship isn’t just personally important, it’s important to everyone they know. Not even Eridan tries to interfere with it (at least, not much).

They forged their bond in roleplaying games. Their first meeting was a chance encounter, a randomized FLARP session of complete strangers, Aradia clouding for Feferi and her teammates. They both have a shared appreciation for story-driven campaigns and a morbid sense of humour, and they exchanged their contact info afterwards so that they could play against each other again. They’re sometimes teammates and other times rivals, but either way their teamwork has evolved to be ironclad. They’re both sure that the other is dependable and won’t let them down. Playing a game where the opposing player is in control of your environment and could easily kill you if they feel like it (and they might, when you’re both highbloods) is a pretty good trust-building exercise, turns out.

Despite that I’m not sure if I’d say they are the most important people to each other? Feferi would probably list Aradia as her best friend, but she’d also say that about like, four other people. Aradia would reserve that label for Karkat only. I think there’s some sort of professional/work relationship angle to it, maybe they are in reality more colleagues than friends? They are friendly colleagues who work very well together.

They probably high five each other a lot.