#rev tal

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Picked up Warframe again recently and updated my Drifter's deal. Theyre part Murmur, built like a rectangle, and are some sort of unauthorized imp

[voidtongued]

I assume youre not much of an oc type of person, but did you have any like backstory or smth planned for Rev Tal?

Oh buddy you have no idea how wrong you are about me not being an oc person. I have a spreadsheet of like 40-ish ocs. This here blog voidtongued used to be a full on warframe roleplay blog but. most of my rp parners went inactive in terms of the writing aspect (we still chat and play the game and talk about how much we miss role-playing from time to time but a lot of us are. adults with full time jobs now and it makes it difficult to do that)

ANYWAY. Short answer is yes. Long answer is beneath the cut lmao

Rev Tal is a Venusian-born Tenno, raised by people who would later become some of the first Solaris. They were on the Zariman Ten-Zero, and after the void jump accident their possible existences diverged into The Operator and The Drifter. Blah blah, events of the game story quests with some minor canon divergence (Rev Tal being far warmer to the Grineer in any situation because they recognize the average Grineer trooper as a brainwashed soldier and as much of a victim as they are, etc), and slowly began to develop an intense distrust bordering on hatred of The Lotus. After the events of The Apostasy Prologue, they effectively renounced the Lotus and became a full-time Arbiters of Hexis operative Tenno, preparing for the coming Sentient invasion.

Things... Changed after The New War, with the apparent death of The Operator, a rift opened to Duviri, where the Drifter had been. Drifting. Surviving. Trying to find a way out and back into the reality they were "originally" from. The Drifter learned how to navigate the Void's reality and unreality, and has had dealings with the Murmur that left them changed and bitter. During the events of The New War, the Drifter and the Operator met face-to-face and realized that they were technically two parts of a whole individual, now styling themself Big Rev to differentiate from the child Rev Tal had been.

Big Rev is the best of both worlds - The Operator's energy and drive to succeed tempered by The Drifter's perspective and adult emotional maturity.

I've written two fics on ao3 from. forever ago. regarding Rev Tal's story - How to Make a Martyr and Voidtouched. HTMAM was written after I finished the Sacrifice iirc and was determined to un-fuck the in-game depiction of Rell and TMITW in Chains of Harrow, and Operation Hostile Mergers was the impetus for me writing Voidtouched (iirc Hostile Mergers dropped like, while I was writing it and I went back and reworked some things? it's been like three+ years i do Not remember). I was gonna write more, but I got busy with school and life and my brain, computer, and hands decided to explode and I had to take an extended break from the game. I'm back now though, and very behind, and I keep toying with going back to what was going to be the third installment in Rev Tal's story, the Guardian's Song, which would've gotten into their backstory more formally, but with the number of things that have changed with TNW and the Duviri Paradox and now Whispers in the Walls and eventually Warframe 1999. I'd have to do a LOT of reworking and i dont. wanna.

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Lil' Rev!

In honor of the New War. A Rev Tal shitpost aesthetic.

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Big Rev design update sketches. Some sort of imp with terrible facial hair

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You will never walk alone You can always reach me You will never ever walk alone

Call Me Little Sunshine by Ghost did something to my brain. Here's my Drifter being hot.

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So I finally played the New War. I love Drifter Rev Tal.

[voidtongued]

I wuv themmmm auuauauaua

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Ok here’s… Most of my OCs I probably forgot a couple that I’ll remember after posting.

Starting from the top left we’ve got: Akker (dnd), Cecil (Bloodborne), Angelicus (Warframe), Dr H, Doc Skadi (Barotrauma), El’Na, Vincent/Vaektare (Warframe), Phylaca (Warframe), Panacea (Warframe), Rev Tal (Warframe), Kaus (Warframe), Rathka Duk (Warframe), Iliya Zalk (Warframe), Fetch (Warframe), Xenon (dbd/slasher), Thalia (dnd), Vire (tes/dnd), and Undolys (tes)

I will not stop making up guys