#paladin steve

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My third piece for the @strangerthingsreversebigbang joined with a wonderful fic written by dadpunsandmisery 🥰

Read the fic here on AO3.

[massivespacewren]

Art for the @cap-ironman RBB! I had the thought that for a World of Warcraft AU, Steve as a Human Paladin and Tony as Draenei Paladin who is more about analyzing the light than truly believing would be a fun idea! Luckily, my art was picked up by truthiness_aura, who wrote an amazing fic about these two slowly getting closer. I am super excited we finally get to share it with everyone. Go check out truthiness_aura’s fic “Redemption” here on AO3! Can be read without any Warcraft knowledge. You can just treat it as a Fantasy AU

[zadabug98]

Looking for a fic!

It’s a Steddie fic where Steve as a knight has to pledge himself to a god and none of the major ones feel right until Robin and Dustin find Eddie, who is misrepresented as a Evil God of Darkness when he’s actually (according to a different translation of one of his Holy Texts or whatever) just the god of like quiet nights and nocturnal animals and stuff. Steve finds his shrine, tries to fix it up and make his oath but keeps getting questioned and challenged by a random guy who is actually just Eddie.

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Another piece for the upcoming D&D fic, Devotion

A companion piece to this art.

[penny00dreadful]

Heyyy

I accidentally went down a rabbit hole for the devotion art, and I was wondering if you filled out character sheets for the boys and if so, would you be willing to share them??

No worries if not in either way!

The stat blocks need not exist, not do you have to share them even if they do.

Hello hello! Thank you for asking! I actually did fill out character sheets for the boys at Lvl. 3, Lvl. 10 and Lvl. 15 for my upcoming D&D AU, Devotion.

And then I put them down and now I can't find them again to share 😭😭😭

But I DO HAVE AN ANSWER FOR YOU! And I do have the few notes I could find. I saw your reblogs about Eddie's Lvl. 10 stats and you're so right, his health is really low 😬 BUT I have an in universe reason for it! 😅

When I was filling out their stats and figuring them out, I knew I wasn't going to be building them to min/max them, you know? Like I wasn't going to level them up the way one might usually with a character they are playing. Like I wasn't gonna say:

There might be battles up ahead so I need to increase their stats here and here.

Instead I went more in the direction of:

At this stage in Steve's life, he's 16, he thinks he's hot shit because he's got his expensive gold armor and he's at the start of his story arc so, for example, his Wisdom is very low (-1) at Lvl. 3 and he also has NO experience in combat of any kind, he's only fought when in training, never in a real world scenario.

Then as he gets up to Lvl. 10, he learns, he grows. He's 21 year old now. He's become more wise to the ways of the world, he's learned to fight, his weapons have changed, he's gotten stronger. He's at a +0 for his Wisdom now as he's learned more of the world outside his small town.

It's the same story for Eddie. While I don't want to say too much because of potential spoilers, I can tell you he has the 'urchin' background sooo... 😬😬😬 That might give a hint. 😅 But as a Lvl. 3 Bard at 17 years old, growing up in the poor part of town, he doesn't have a lot of access to the kinds of benefits Steve had growing up. Y'know, sometimes you gotta busk to eat and sometimes you go home empty handed.

So this poor fucker is STARTING OFF at a +0 Constitution.

Which... doesn't get better. Because his situation does not get better.

There is a reason he multiclasses into Wizard, and it is very reflective of his story in the show. Like, in a sense his situation gets better, he has his people around him, but he also ends up leaning into the freakishness, hence the School of Necromancy.

But none of this is conducive to growing up healthy. So by the time he is at Lvl. 10 at 22 years old, he's still at +0 Constitution because... well... because there's only so much one can do. Regular meals and a constant training regimene is not something he had access to for the longest time.

(And listen, as someone who's favourite character I played was a School of Necromancy Wizard who was the most glass of glass canons, I feel you, Eddie 😅)

So like, he's got 3d8 HP when he's at Lvl. 3 and I believe he rolled fairly high with his +0 and I think he was at 21. Then he took 7 Wizard levels (still at +0) which was 7d6, leaving us with ~30 HP gained.

So I suppose, long story short, I am approaching these stats from a storytelling perspective, rather than trying to buff them up for any future battles, you know? Along with a little bit of homebrewing or just straight up ignoring some things that I need to.

Like as a DM, if something needs to be ignored or overlooked to make the story more entertaining to my players, I'll do it. The Rule of Cool is always in effect with me. 🤣

So I kind of see it as me being the DM of their story, but of course, rather than me being the DM and them running off in the opposite direction I want them to, like my players so often do I am also the author, and I know exactly what direction the story is going to go in and what's going to happen and what their motivations are.

I dunno, it's a really fun thinking exercise and it has allowed me to get so deep into their characters.

Anyway I am SORRY this explanation has gone on so long and I've gone so far in depth when you probably just wanted something short and sweet but I love talking about this so, I took the opportunity and ran with it. 😅

So here's the notes that I found on their character sheets on scattered scraps of paper 😅 (and I know some of these might not line up with what's supposed to be done, but isn't the main point at the end of the day to have fun? 😊)

Eddie Lvl. 10:

Keen Mind Feat STR: -1 DEX: +1 Con: +0 INT: +3 WIS: +1 CHA: +3

Steve Lvl. 10:

STR: +3 DEX: +0 Con: +2 INT: +1 WIS: +0 CHA: +3

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And we have begun! I needed to get 21 sentences out for the D&D AU and I got way above that I'm so happy.

So here, have a look at the opening lines for this fic and let me know what you think!

Hold me accountable!

[frosthexe]

Vanguard - Chapter 1 - Aeremaee, layersofart - Marvel Cinematic Universe [Archive of Our Own]

https://archiveofourown.org/chapters/50330270?show_comments=true&view_full_work=false#main

“I found out what it was you weren’t telling me,” Steve said.

“That you broke his heart, and broke yours at the same time, and that you both fixed your own hearts with pieces of the other’s, and you’re building a dream together, except it also made you inseparable and kind of co-dependent?” Sam replied, unimpressed. “I wonder why we didn’t lead with that. ‘Yeah, you’re seeing memory flashes of this guy’s tattoos because you told him you couldn’t be together and then proceeded to marry him in all but name and now you can’t live without each other.’ Don’t give me that look, Steven.”

[penny00dreadful]

And a little bit of Devotion for you 😘 I needed 4 sentences for this and I got 10.

Hold me accountable!