Thank you so so soooo much to everyone who reacts to the Eyes of the Swarm posts (even if you do it only every now and then), it gives me life, thank you thank you thank you <3333333333 And now for the replies!
@cienie-isengardu I would love to draw something for that but it would take much time and I don’t really want to spend extra time on showing backstory details when the whole game waits for us to have time to draw/write/program it/make music/you name it XD; But those adventures are certainly a very vivid episode! Before that both Vra and Otto had been rival lieutenants of the avatar, trying to undermine each other’s competence (at least Vra tried that) until that moment and then they were suddenly forced to journey together, and rely on each other to weather all kinds of tricky hazardous situations. Not to mention Otto got into that situation because he tried to officially stand up for Vra for the first time so they were just punished together XDD
On top of that they had been bonded to each other two times, once through the official Swarm bond, and second time through the underlying bond of the two bonded Realmsguard heroes (who were also lovers) whose powers Otto and Vra were forced to experimentally absorb, so the bond was very weird and powerful.
So that coupled with some crazy dangerous adventures led to many interesting situations of which neither of them speak XD
Anyway, different realms are a fun place, because the looks of realmshifters often temporarily adapt to the looks of the locals! (partially how Vra ended up looking how he does). Fun things are happening in different dimensions, for example there’s a dimension that makes you temporarily younger!
Behold younger Otto, art by @zlukaka XD
And there’s another younger Otto portrait here, sketches by Zlu as well!
I like the gradation XD But he’s resting now! Hadn’t been killed in years probably, despite some lost skirmishes, whoah, someone’s growing stale! XD
And he got to kill him personally XDD That was deeply satisfying. And haha, yeah, when you grow up in a lab coat and everyone else around wears like animal hides and potato sacks, and then you get to customize your own mission clothes, you go for it! XDD I’ll wrap Vra in blankets for you XD Otto sometimes does that when Vra falls asleep in the labs when he’s not even supposed to be in there.