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New Drawing Series

It seems every year the Sander Sides regrabs my attention and I binge the series on YouTube over a weekend. And who can ignore when creativity strikes and makes you combine two interests in one!

Dnd and The Sides !! AU?

Is this too niche or am I hitting an untapped market?

I’m gonna make these for each side and maybeeee some doodles of them interacting cause I think it’d be cute! I already have who’d be what race and class, but I definitely wanna hear opinions on whatever you think would fit who!

And now, needless lore and explanation:

Picking a Rogue for Virgil felt obvious, but I think it suits him. At least while starting out, Virgil looks out for him and him alone, he can’t afford to serve others in a world that hates him. I made him a SoulKnife specifically because of their powers being linked to their mind, and their ability to mess with others’ minds (like how anxiety messes with your head and.. cognitive distortion. Stuff.)

I also decided his alignment would probably be Chaotic Neutral because while his panicking can cause chaos, he doesn’t have specific “moral codes” to stick to besides what proves his point better.

With Virgil’s theme of feeling like the “odd one out” amongst everyone, I thought the drow species would fit him perfectly (not only because it’s angsty and edgy) since he wouldn’t follow Lolth, he’d be ostracized from drow society, and he’d be ostracized from society in general for being a drow. I think he’d leave the Underdark pretty early in his life and wallow through the streets of various cities and towns, never quite settling down in one place.

At some point, I think a guild would recruit him for his psionic abilities, and probably would meet Janus and Remus while there. Deciding he didn’t want to keep doing whatever the Guild wanted him to do, he’d break apart and keep traveling (until meeting an eccentric group dealing with so many shenanigans)

Im not extremely happy with his design, but my excuse is he’s practical and doesn’t like to carry many things on him. I’ll probably tweak his design in bits. Also, welcome back Keith Voltron… I tried to make the bangs edgy and swung all the way around back to Keith.

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Lord of the Lies himself!

Janus! Honestly.. his design I may be the least satisfied with? I like aspects, like the coat and hat, but I wanted him to look grand. This design falls flat in that aspect, but, it is simple to draw.

Virgil

Roman

Logan

Patton

Backstory!

Janus was a changeling from the get go. It just made sense, with being able to change forms, and I couldn’t resist. However, his class is where I struggled. For a long time I had him down as an Oathbreaker Paladin. I thought that would be the right amount of subversion of expectations while staying true to his character, but at the last moment I changed it to Draconic Sorcerer.

My original reasoning why was because he’d have scales, and that it’d sort of make sense? Also the more I watched Janus clips the more I realized this man probably wouldn’t be anything as strenuous as a paladin.

Now for backstory, for now a lot of it is unknown. By other people, not him, but he’d rather keep it that way. Only two people even know his name, but what people do know is that he’s head of a Thieves Guild. He has a particular fondness for a certain Teifling in the guild, and a Drow that had recently fled from the guild.

More often than not, Janus is disguised as a human Draconic Sorcerer, sometimes only halfway. There are very few times, and people that have seen him as his true self.

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Dnd!Sasi Doodles!

Now that the core four designs are done, I wanted to doodle them a bit! (Don’t worry I still plan on making Janus and Remus soon)

And because my handwriting is bad:

2: “*Gasp* hellooo omg little furry thing!”

3: *sniffle*

“How is he allergic to cats?”

“While he is an aasimar, Patton is still in a mortal form. Even he has limits.”

4: A group like them tends to attract attention, so they use Disguise Self!

Elf Elf Human (sad he looses his specialness) Human

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Everyone’s favorite side, Logan!

Virgil !

Roman !

You may have noticed his emblem isn’t here. Well 1: I didn’t have an idea on how to make a brain with glasses more.. fantastical 2: Since he’s a warforged, the logo is imprinted on his actual chest rather than on his clothes

Reasoning and Backstory:

Making Logan a warforged felt like an obvious choice again (you’ll find that a lot of these probably are) but I don’t want to make Logan out as some completely unfeeling robot. And luckily, being a warforged doesn’t mean you lack emotions. Quite the opposite! As the description reads, they are sentient, feeling, and a blend of human and inhuman. Though I imagine Logan would still try to keep up the “I don’t feel anything” schtick for as long as he could before having to admit he does, in fact, feel things.

Making him a Wizard, Order of Scribes kind of felt like when Virgil gave Logan a newspaper because he “likes to read”… except there’s no secret puzzle or anything I just thought that was the only subclass that really fit him. But something cool that scribes get is a sentient book, and I think that was a great way to incorporate the orange side sort of effecting Logan in the series. (Of course, when Orange is revealed I’ll actually make him his own person, but for now he’s spiritually a book)

Logan’s original purpose as an Envoy Warforged was to aid the person who built him in various tasks. The person was a wizard, a bit older and a recluse, living in a classic wizardly tower with nearly endless bookcases. Logan did menial tasks here for years. Tidying books, cleaning, and engaging in conversation with the person. In his down time, Logan found himself reading every book in the tower, and it didn’t take him long to get a hand of magic after that.

Because of their age, and being human, they died some years after Logan was built. The warforged had no clue what to do with this new “freedom”, and carried on his normal menial tasks for a while until someone came knocking at the front door.

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Patton :)

Yes I couldn’t come up with a creative title name

But here’s Patton!

Virgil

Roman

Logan

I.. sort of forgot his glasses? I realized when I finished the piece, because i was sort of mulling over whether or not to give him some, and ultimately I figured it wouldn’t make too much sense for him to wear glasses as an aasimar.

Also! His emblem is Lathander’s symbol, but with a heart instead of a sun in the middle. Also just more blue and silver than red and gold

Anywho, Backstory!!

Part of me wanted to make Patton a short race like a gnome, but the part that wanted to make him an aasimar spoke louder. I think it adds to him theme of constantly wanting to do the good, righteous thing, and being somewhat blind to the harshness of reality (until it hits him in the face)

He’s a Protector Aasimar 1 because that was kinda the only one that fit and 2 because I think he’d truly do anything to protect his friends. Because he’s an aasimar, he needed some feature that outed him as “not completely human”, so I gave him glowing eyes and glowing freckles. And wings, but that’s typical for an aasimar. He’s a follower of Lathander, god of truth light and protection (if I’m remembering correctly?). Also when using a healing/protection spell, I like to think he’d obtain a halo for a few seconds, maybe his hair glows a bit too :]

Patton spent a lot of time simply observing the people below the Upperplanes, before he truly had a form or purpose, finding himself fascinated by the joy people could spread amongst themselves. Seeing happy families were what brought him the most joy, parents caring for and protecting their children. So when he had the opportunity to be amongst these people, to spread his own joy and protect the weak, he happily took it.

Things weren’t as how he saw them, however. The place he admired for being so happy also had its cruelties, and in abundance. For every good deed Patton saw, 5 horrible ones were made just in the same hour. Patton’s mission was clear now.

In an attempt to learn more about the history of this place, of the people who walk it, Patton inquired local townsfolk as to where would be the best place to learn. All of them pointed him to a tower, apparently with an abundance of books to challenge the greatest libraries.

Knocking on the door, Patton faces not the wizard he was expecting, but a warforged. A pretty unhappy looking one, at that. Who would Patton be if he didn’t try to cheer the poor thing up?

(I know a lot of this mayyyy not be canon compliant with dnd lore but honestly I’m hut using dnd as a device for this au and not necessarily sticking to its rules. Like every good dnd player!)