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[artlory]

Colored lineart commission for @kiztra!

This must be one of my favorite artworks I have ever done... And my very first big commission! I loved the idea and whole process, outfits and characters. And all the details, I just love details! This piece gave me so much different chances to try new things and mix them with my old techiques, and I’m so glad how this came out after I had time to color it properly at last.

Thank you so much for commissioning me, my friend! You were so pleasure to work with and I really enjoyed doing this for you ♥

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[sunlit-dancer]

All of C: Comfort!

C: Comfort1. how do they sit in a chair?

Depending on if she’s sitting on furs, a cushion, or in an actual chair depends on the answer for this - and also whether or not she’s in an environment where she feels comfortable. Maral is a polite person due to this strict sense of self-discipline she puts herself under. So if she’s around guests and other people of import she will sit straight and proper. If she’s around people she feels she can relax around, she will slouch or (in Voren’s case), snuggle up to him.

(On an OOC note: I almost always have her sit straight at a kotatsu because otherwise the damn thing engulfs her)

2. in what position do they sleep?

Maral is sort of a sloppy sleeper if she’s alone, arms and legs and covers everywhere and every which way. When she’s sleeping with someone (she is comfortable with) she tends to curl up against them and is clingy.

3. what is their ideal comfort day?Well now it’s get up, spend some of her morning with Voren (if he’s spent the night, which seems to be the norm now), train in the sparring gher up to and including sparring with any interested parties. Maral doesn’t really have any hobbies outside of dancing and fighting, the former of which she hasn’t done of late. But after that once Voren comes back she likes to spend time with him in any fashion.4. what is their major comfort food? why?Sweets. Mostly anything soft that’s filled with something sweet, like jelly or sweet bean paste. She also tends to enjoy anything honey-flavored. She likes the sensation of biting down on something and there being filling inside. And she also just really likes the taste of honey.5. who is the best at comforting them when down?

Voren. In fact, a lot of that is the reason why they got together. Maral was going through a tough and trying time, and Voren was there for her as a friend, confidant, and kept her spirits up by making her laugh. He gave her perspective when she was confused (although in some ways he added to her confusion when he confessed that he loved her eventually, but eh, details) and in general has been good at calming her down the few times she’s been truly upset/agitated.

[artlory]

♛ - favorite hair color?

I like to see my own hair usually in very dark colors. Black is my standard, blueish black is the second one of my favourite choices. BUT I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO HAVE SILVERY HAIR LIKE LORY HAS ;; It would be so extreme after having dyed your hair to black almost 10 years now…

[artlory]

3. what song(s) do you listen to when you do art?

It usually depends what kind of art I’m drawing! I usually lose focus to everything I do if I listen songs with singing included, because it steals so easily my full attention while I try to listen the words. So cause of that “sort of problem”, I prefer atm retrowave and synthwave type of music at most, but also electroswing gives me nice vibes while drawing! My biggest faves to loop are curretly Caravan Palace - Dramophoneand Dance with the dead - Andromeda .w.

[artlory]

10. Are you right or left handed?

When I was younger I actually used more my left hand. It was difficult then to be the only one in elementary school class who were left handed - so I decided to be a fucking genious and learn to write, draw, etc. more with my right hand. I remember how my teacher was worried of that and wanted to talk about the fact that it’s okay to be different. But I was like yolo I’ll do what I want.

So I’m sort of “hybrid” nowadays. I still have some weird things that I do left handed, but I can example draw and write well only with my right hand.

[crimson-sunrise-ffxiv]

5. Would you or have you ever killed? What would drive you to kill?

Nerkhun looks uncomfortable as he carefully considers his words. “I have killed... plenty.” He grimaces. “Much more than I would like.” His facial expression settled, although his tail still displayed his agitation. “Were I younger. Still hopeful that I might still be a good man. I would say that only honor and duty would drive me to kill. I am not so foolish.” His fingers idly played with the knife hilt on his hip. “Necessity will drive a man to many things. Dealing death is but the least of these sins.”((Thanks so much for the ask!))

[nalaffxiv-blog]

5. How do they dress? What styles, colors, accessories, and other possessions do they favor? Why?

Norha is very simple when it comes to her clothes. She enjoys mage robes and simple and pretty dresses. She’s a very feminine cat and enjoys pretty things. A lot of her favorite things include pastels and colors that remind her of her spring time. Growing up in the Shroud gave her an appreciation for floral things and pretty much anything that seems naturey.

[sea-and-storm]

Copper: How I think my muse will end up when they're older

You mean Val isn’t going to live fast and die tragically young?

(Just kidding! Sort of.. Maybe….. Uh, hopefully.)

It’s hard for me to concretely envision Older! Val and what she’s going to be like, just because so much of what she becomes is going to depend on the path(s) she takes between here and there. But for the sake of speculation, I can kinda see two general, potential outcomes at present:

(1) Val’s fighting days are now behind her. She’s had a good run of it, but there will be no more life-or-death pit fights in her future. It’s finally time to hang up her gloves and find other ways to make a difference in the world. Maybe she’ll open a bakery of her own, just like her own mother did. After all, she probably has a child or two of her own by this point. What better way to teach them how to be compassionate and generous than the same way she herself learned?

It’s a quiet life that she has settled into now, without much drama or chaos. But after everything she’s been through in her younger years, she deserves to live out the rest of her life in peace and quiet.

OR..

(2) It’s taken years, but Val knows what her calling is now:  fighting for those who can’t fight for themselves. Her time in the slave pits, working to undermine them, has opened her eyes to just what sort of horrors really lurk hidden just out of plain sight. Horrors that many people don’t even know of, and that fewer still do anything to fight against. She can’t just sit back and rest easy, knowing that so many others continue to suffer.

Val continues her training as a Fist of Rhalgr with renewed passion, even long after the wise old Roegadyn that took her as his student is gone. Between what she’s endured and the relentless training, she’s no longer the scrappy street rat she was in her youth. She is a tried and true Monk of the order, honoring Rhalgr in her determination to destroy every den of cruelty, injustice, and theft of freedom that she catches wind of.