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NCR's Finest

[wolfofwhiterun]

EYE FOR AN EYE Big thank you to @foulserpent, @w6-art, @baiobey, and @scarila, who's art and writing were all huge inspirations for this piece!

[lelelego]

I was just wondering, which software and brushes do you use for your art? It's so clean and beautiful to look at!

hello! :D thank you!! i use photoshop and a customized texture-y brush based on an ooooooooold brush i downloaded from god knows where, probably deviantart in its glory days lmao!! and of course the default hard round brush for colouring :^)

also for the record, a lot of my art looks clean because i work on a huge canvas (around 4000px wide/tall) and then post a smaller version here so no one can really "sense" the little mistakes or bumps and ridges <3 love wins

[roystory4]

Honestly just wanted to say that Tua is one of the most nuanced, intricate, and human characters I’ve ever had the pleasure of coming across. The writing and art you do for her and Nick on here and on twitter genuinely brings me such joy whenever I see it, so keep up the amazing work my dude.

ive been keeping this in my inbox for a while bc its just so kind... thank u so much...

[cameronaugust]

Roach is Zeke’s little bro and the Atom Cat’s personal fry cook. He along with his brother left Diamond City after the ghoul-ban to find the essence of “cool” in the Commonwealth. Even though he’s an original member of the gang he has not earned his Patch. This is due to mucking up the easiest of challenges and causing more damages to the group than benefit. (Even Polly has earned her Patch, that should tell you how bad he is.) Though he’s a hot mess, he’s family. The Cats enjoy having him around, he kinda makes them look cooler. Plus he has a talent for preparing edible substances made from pre-war finds and what produce they are given from the Warwick clan. Roach is affectionate and loyal, he’s not the brightest nuka-quantum but he makes up for it with perseverance. His prized possessions are his mint-Mr. Jangles doll and collection of Manta-Man comics that he can’t read.

[datura-tea]

7, 8,10, 11, 18, 21, 27 and B for Moz! Also one that's not in the list, but what do you think will happen to Moz after the events of New Vegas?

7. What triggers nostalgia for them, most often? Do they enjoy that feeling?

the smell and sound of sizzling bighorner, johnny guitar on the radio, the click-pssh of a beer bottle being opened - tiny things that remind her of home, of her family’s restaurant. being around tribes gives her a ton of nostalgia, too; zion and the great khans reminded her a lot of her childhood. the feelings are warm and welcome, but make her more than a little homesick.

8. What were they told to stop/start doing most often as a child?

going off on her own! when she was a kid, sometimes she’d get bored of her chores and lessons and just explore the area around their tribe’s lands. (the first time, she returned to see the tribal elders comforting her grandmother, who was in hysterics, worried that moz had been taken by the desert.)

and then, after the sandstorm wiped away most of their tribe and her family were wandering around and looking for somewhere to settle down, moz would “scout ahead” and disappear and come back an hour later with a few cuts and vague news about how everything’s fine up ahead.

10. What lie do they most frequently remember telling? Does it haunt them?

she isn’t really into the habit of telling lies? she…embellishes her stories a lot, yeah, and sometimes pretends that she doesn’t know information, but she sticks to the truth as much as she can.

11. How do they cope with confusion (seek clarification, pretend they understand, etc)?

it depends but moz is so curious that she’d ask question upon question until she’s satisfied that she knows everything. when things don’t add up, she’ll go to other people, sometimes even go through personal property. it gets her in trouble more often than not but it’s usually worth it, in her opinion.

18. What embarrasses them?

the biggest one is not being able to live up to a promise that she made, and another is being seen crying - as in the ugly, snot and tears running down her face, soul-wrenching kind of crying. no one needs to see that.

21. Why do they get up in the morning?

because the sun is bright and shining and there’s more of the world she hasn’t seen, because her friends are out there, because her brother and stepmother and nieces and nephews are waiting for her to visit. during fnv it’s mostly because the mojave has so many problems and she’d promised that she’d help it solve them

27. What causes them to feel dread?

nothing, really? she tries not to think about the future so much. she’s more angry and determined to fight the legion than to feel dread over the threat that they hold tbh

B) What inspired you to create them?

honestly? when i was still lurking in the fandom in like, 2013? 2014? all the couriers i saw were these swooning waifs who wore tank tops and shorts in the fucking desert, and like, nothing against these kinds of couriers of course, you do you, but they just don’t seem like they’d survive out there?? so i wanted to make a courier that flies in the face of all that. and that’s moz, my wild pink-haired sunshine.

oh and AFTER NEW VEGAS she tries her best to make sure vegas doesn’t devolve into riots and madness. there’s a lot of going to and from factions to negotiate deals and create this council that can rule vegas with her, because wow moz does not want to deal with ruling a whole desert by herself. lots of going to the big empty to get new tech to help the mojave, lots of going to the divide to get ulysses’s advice (among other things ;)), and lots of visiting her brother to get away from it all sometimes.

she dedicates maybe a couple years to this before leaving everything to yes man and the king and the rest of the vegas council so she can explore more of the wastes with ulysses :)

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SWEET NEREVAR

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"Nothing interesting ever happens in this city anyway." Nowhere Kings is a dark, low fantasy, dungeon-punk thriller that tells the story of Fletch, a thief and con artist, and Ryn, a half-elf vigilante, both of whom are forced into joining forces as amateur monster hunters, all whilst becoming embroiled in the strange occult events occurring within their home, the dilapidated city-state of Reign.

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