#drifter dove

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Dove please be normal for once, you're gonna hit yourself in the dick wearing those chains like that and Quincy will laugh at you

Shitty doodle rendition of her fate

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Imagine meeting your 12-year-old eldritch superpowered self who sees you as incredibly gender and then immediately calls you out for your poor life choices

Anyways I imagine that's how Lucille and Dove's first meeting actually went

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Trauma aside, check out the glow up

Lucille basically came out perfect and beautiful from the start, Dove got turned into dollar tree Mara Sov and needed a lot of tweaking

Oh btw if anyone needs a good blonde colour, the bottom row of the Valkyr Heirloom palette is what I used

Anyways, best birthday present ever, thank you DE

[plaguedoctorfinch]

Never accept weed from your local Drifter, kiddo

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"Try not to scratch the paint"

Dove takes the keys and walks a circle around the atomicycle, inspecting it briefly. She looks up at her new comrade with disbelief.

"You trust me to drive this?" She gestures dramatically at the vehicle. "It- it has like, wheels and shit!"

Aoi seems amused at her confusion. "You're telling me our girl from the future with spaceships and superpowers doesn't know how to drive?"

Dove isn't sure whether to be offended or not. On one hand, rude! On the other, she's used to flying horses. She stutters briefly, trying to hide her embarrassment. "I, well, I could drive perfectly fine if I wanted. How hard can it be?"

With an encouraging gesture from Aoi, she gets onto the atomicycle and fumbles the keys into the ignition. A deep breath, and...

The atomicycle revs to life and Dove takes off at maximum speed, careening away with a panicked shriek. Aoi can't help but laugh as Dove panics.

"GIRL, WHO THE FUCK NEEDS TO GO THIS FAST?!" Dove's rapidly fading voice echoes through the garage as the atomicycle continues to zoom away, the ruckus bringing the rest of the band around to poke their heads in.

Arthur gives Aoi a quick glance. "Is Marty okay?"

She stops laughing to give him a thumbs up. "I don't think she's ever had wheels before, oh my..."

Dove returns a short time later, only in place of the expected purr of the atomicycle announcing her arrival is the clip-clopping of kaithe hooves. There's a brief silence before she turns to Aoi with a sheepish grin.

"Yeah... so I broke it."

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All I want in life is to write lore about my scrungly little operator

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All is quiet aboard the orbiter, save for the faint hum of machinery. The place is quiet and, more importantly to Ordis, clean. He hovers about in his little owl body, eliminating any remaining speck of dust. Beautiful. Now he can rest.

“Ordis! You will not believe what I have!”

Oh no.

Lucille bursts through the door, arms full of those void-damned kubrow eggs. “Puppies!”

“Operator, no! You already have three kubrows and three kavats! How many of those did you find?” Ordis could almost cry as she makes her way to the incubator.

“Dove told me how to get the most outta one mission. Now I can have infinite battle puppies!” Her maniacal laughter echoes through the orbiter as she hits confirm on the incubator’s interface. “I’ll be unstoppable!”

Ordis sighs dejectedly. “The muddy paw prints will be unstoppable… stupid Drifter, giving the Operator ideas…”

[plaguedoctorfinch]

Having a trans tenno is so funny, I cannot stop picturing Lucille seeing Dove for the first time and going "Adult me is 6 feet tall and has TITS!!!!" and poor Dove is just sat there drinking her sorrows away like "Hello to you, too...."

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WIP, playing with art styles again, crying because it takes so much longer without linework to magic wand my colours into