#red claws flashing

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SMASH or PASS: Red Claws Flashing

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Voting ended onJun 15, 2024

[quintiliusheartripper]

Red Claws Flashing working the docks for @guildwuff2

Also bonus ourfit for her to have in a casual setting. Made sure she had sandles so that she can protect her beans on that hot lions arch concrete

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doodle backlog! mu disguise, maid outfit, beaw,

rat expression practice, body type practice (i saw that one post by rosewoodroad and i was inspired!), a funny charr man, and homage to a comic/video that was way too formative for my sense of humor

i'll post commission work soon hopefully! still pluggin' away at it 👍

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in other news, in the gw2 dnd campaign we just started, my kodan monk punted the asura artificer 20ft for insulting her 🏈

[guildwuff2]

gotta catch up on posting some commissions! starting with a sketchpage of thistle briarbottom, thief extraordinaire and the burr that won't let go of my kodan, red claws flashing

the both of 'em are gonna be in an alternate tyria dnd campaign, and i'm excited!

[guildwuff2]

⏳ one more for red claws flashing <v<

Red levels you with a dangerous look.

"I have told you people enough. Too much. I have nothing more to give."

(She's all caught up on her story she's told! I do play her in a Tyria AU D&D game, but that's a whole nother can of worms, haha)

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⏳ more for red claws B)

"Red Cl-- sigh. I grow weary of this charade.

"I stayed with Mournful Edge, learning from him, as he taught me to defend myself. All I had was my magic, by ability to heal and soothe. He taught me to hone it, to use it as a shield, to wield it like a fire. I grew stronger, and soon, I was a force of my own to contend with.

"We are still connected, Mournful Edge and I. We share a bond, a commonality and camaraderie in our grief and anger. The injustice done to us. ...Sigh. Against our better judgement, we travelled south to the land city of Lion's Arch, full of filth and heat and its loud, small denizens. I dislike it there, but it is where we find work, and sometimes the work takes us out of that infernal city.

"The people who hire us, their understanding of the world is as deep as a spring sapling's bark is thick. They know nothing, and they do not care. They pay us to look scary, 'guard this', 'watch that', 'protect me'. Southerners do not understand how little power gold is actually worth. But it is the language they speak, so we are forced to speak it.

"...It is not terrible, ultimately. It is annoying in the moment, but they are moments that pass. To camp on a cold winter night with Mournful Edge, to share a firepit and a meal and each other's wordless presence, makes the senseless work tolerable.

"I no longer believe in the inherent balance of all things, no. But I think I still believe in the power of connection. He and I work together, and he and I are as a unit. Perhaps we would have made a good Voice and Claw, had we stayed; but our camaraderie is different, not so intimate and sacred as that. At least here, I know we are not doomed to tear each other apart."

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⏳ more red claws flashing because i love kodan....

"...When the Voice snapped, they mauled Gentle Guidance and her fellow attendants. They turned on the Claw and his apprentice. And after so much bloodshed and death, the Claw put down the Voice and stepped down.

"The Voice had wanted Gentle Guidance to succeed them one day. The Claw has chosen his successor too. But, the two of them refused. For how is this balance? How is this fair? Koda tips the scale himself when he drives his Voice to violence. It was not right. This cycle was not like the great ice sheets, nor the chain of life and death connecting us all. This was not natural. This had no purpose.

"...Gentle Guidance died on that Sanctuary, along with the former apprentice. They became Red Claws Flashing and Mournful Edge, and when their wounds had healed, they set out for a new life, free of the old cycle..."