#dm asks

[rhonuscorner]

for no particular reason, about how tall are your alien boys? :3

So I've answered this before but I'm terrible with numbers (hello discalculia my old friend) and also feet and inches will never make sense to me even with a converter.

So I tossed together a quick height chart! The y/n is from my other AU but I draw them all the same anyway.

[pynkhues]

I’m not sure how into DM you are but how much of them do you think we’ll get? Since Loustat is going to be full of conflict this season are we eventually going to have both our major on-screen ships constantly bickering/ having a love-hate relationship? Because I can see Loustat eventually falling into a comfortable pattern but with the AMC version of Daniel I can’t see him and Armand ever having a relationship that isn’t in constant turmoil. I actually have trouble picturing DM fluff or domesticity

Prior to the trailer I thought if DM is going to be more of an ongoing and major thing as opposed to the books then they’ll be the ones who are always at each others throats and Loustat will be more lovey dovey (eventually). But that doesn’t seem the case now either the interviews + trailer. I’m a little puzzled on how they’re going to play this so it doesn’t become repetitive with both ships

I'm into DM, anon! I'm not a hardcore shipper with them, but I enjoy their dynamic a lot in the book, and the journalist-with-a-puzzle-box element they've played with in the show so far has been deeeeelightful to me, haha. Plus I think Assad has really great chemistry with both Eric and Luke.

I do think they'll be A Thing next season, but I suspect they'll very much be a subplot, and that it won't be until the QOTD seasons that we really dive more deeply into their dynamic, which makes sense to me. There's a lot of story to get through in TVL generally, but it also deserves to be primarily Lestat's story in the same way the first two seasons were primarily Louis'. How Daniel and Armand figure into that ultimately does make them beholden to Lestat's story at this current point of time, in no small part because Daniel's supposed to be helping to tell it, and Armand is a pretty huge part of it.

Prior to the recent flurry of press, I'd actually been speculating that Armand might not come back into the contemporary timeline until midway through the season (especially given he's such a significant part of Lestat's backstory, Assad would still have plenty of meaty work to do both in the 1700s and the 1940s), but with Eric having said that he'd already shot an intense scene with Assad at SDCC, that theory is probably dead in the water (unless it's a flashback to Daniel's turning maybe? I could see him either dreaming about it or Lestat pulling it from his head). If he is in it earlier though, I do think it might play out a bit more as a game of cat and mouse rather than let's burn each other's houses down, which it seems Lestat and Louis' arc might be (and is true to them in Body Thief, haha).

That sense of challenge I think could be charged in some really fun ways, especially as Daniel's getting Lestat's perspective of his maker, and could lay a really fun groundwork for QOTD which I think has more room to make Daniel and Armand's dynamic come into its own, as it's literally where Devil's Minion was written. (That mosaic novel style of QOTD too makes it no single character's story in the way that IWTV and TVL are too, so Armand and Daniel both can be less beholden to Louis and Lestat on a narrative level).

Funnily enough though, I think both Armand and Daniel and Lestat and Louis have their own pathways to domesticity? In some ways, I actually think it might be easier for Armand and Daniel to get there, because I actually think Daniel's as indulgent as he is self-indulgent, and there's a pretty huge part of Armand that loves to be indulged (at least in my reading of him). I think they're both less explosive personalities than Lestat and Louis too, even though they both have their own boiling points, and their desire to lay each other out and figure the other out does actually involve a quieter, constant curiosity than Lestat and Louis have.

I was actually just talking to someone about this last night, but I suspect the show will wrap up with The Tale of the Body Thief, which is a pretty logical end point for the series, especially with them only dropping seasons every two years. Rolin's talked pretty openly about that being what he's planned up to, and if that's the case, I do think for Lestat and Louis at least, it's the dynamic he's drawing on, which I personally love. They're constantly torn between being so loving in that and literally burning each other's houses down, and the polarity of that is I think what makes them really interesting. I don't think Armand and Daniel have that polarity, so I think their dynamic can and will feel really different on the show. It's less planets colliding and more anthropologists on two different planets, trying to stick the right labels on the other's insides first, if that makes sense? And personally I think that could be really fun, haha.

[aboleth-eye]

I love ridiculous 'Evil' things DnD characters would do. Example: A necromancer who raises the dead to attend the piano recital to their nephew for morale support! lots of cheers and clapping

Or even a necromancer who just raises the dead to throw the best spooky halloween party ever

Do you ever do silly/dumb stuff just cause why not?

Haha I love that. One of my d&d players loves necromancers, so these are right up their alley. One time in a dark campaign I was hosting the group faced a razor boar that had taken over an abandoned apple orchard. They defeated it and left it for about a week in-game. During that time their elf necromancer leveled up and decided they could skeletonize the razor boar carcass. Tuskzor was a wonderful skeletal beast used not only for carrying stuff, but also intimidating every npc it encountered.

I personally don't like to play evil characters, let alone ridiculous ones. I've only ever been in one evil campaign one-shot and I just couldn't connect with the character I made. I also haven't hosted any settings that have more freedom to do ridiculous happenings like that. I leave the shenanigans to my players usually.

However, I have been hosting a new game and one of my npcs has been digging themselves a hole of ridiculousness. A town guard who pined after a girl he never actually talked to, and made it everyone's problem when she got engaged. The guard got tricked into stealing a relic thinking it could make the girl love him, and never apologized for the theft (or knocking out the cleric guarding it). When brought in for their crimes, he decides to go off in the opposite direction--he's become super "emo" and is now torturing the players with his bad poetry and lamentations while they're escorting him to prison in the next town over. I get to really go all out with how ridiculously aggravating this guy is.

[dnd-on-a-budget]

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[rhonuscorner]

(again bases on that DM spin-off) I have a feeling that if Eclipse set guards to follow us around i would NOT be able to shut the fuck up, like, i know they can't understand me, but baby, I'm about to yap about every little thing from my feelings and thoughts on the situation to what i think of their planet and culture and my life back at Earth, they don't know a thing Im saying but they are being forced to stay around me so yes, Im going to fill in the empty gaps that language barrier created for as long as i need to, thank you very much

Please have mercy on the poor guards forced to listen to the incoherent gibberish of this weird little alien 😂 They'll be begging Eclipse for a different position before long.

Hoo boy I can tell I haven't drawn nebuterrans in a while. Still trying to kick this very persistent artblock, figured I'd take this opportunity to design a very quick-n-dirty-basic-definitely-not-final design for the soldiers. The final design will probably be quite different and actually look decent but for now, good enough

[rhonuscorner]

This.. is for science...

*takes a screaming cicada & through it at silence sun*

Please refrain from throwing bugs at my precious boys 😭 They're already traumatized.

You try explaining to him that they're harmless when he can't even understand a word you say lol.

[rhonuscorner]

What do you mean one of your first priorities shouldn't be showing your new alien roommates silly cat videos on the internet? That's like peak human culture! How else are they supposed to acclimate to life on earth??

Quick doodle because I'm still feeling somewhat artblocked and I had a shitty weekend where nothing was working out for me and uuuugh.

Anyway. There's a reason why I gave Y/N a cat. I will turn these two into extraterrestial cat moms or so help me!

Yes I know the anatomy is all over the place I don't care lol