#sing-sing

[deathbypixelz]

Simple, sketchy, "hot springs episode"-type treat for the woman enjoyers out there (me) that I originally doodled in my notes during class.

Every time I draw Sing-sing, the more cloud serpent features he loses, and the more he becomes just A Critter...

[bulkbinbox]

um  huli pouco antes de realizar o sing-sing, uma dança cerimonial de boas-vindas, em papua-nova guiné, década de 1990. foto de jodi cobb.

[deathbydarkelves]

Happy 2nd irl/138th in-universe birthday to the one, the only, Tarinne Blackhelm <3

[misterculexus]

16 WIld

People continued to use transmog potions even though it was well known that they were both illegal and incredibly painful to use -potentially lethal. The government informed them there was a real risk they could be permanently stuck between person and animal.

It didn’t have the desired effect.

[deathbypixelz]

I've been dealing with some pretty stubborn art block lately, but my partner found a shirt with this caption yesterday and that was enough to kickstart my brain into creating this image.

I recently decided Cathala lowkey used to be a tasteful pothead and she's always been very touch-averse unless Tarinne's involved so it was a natural choice. Also I'm tempted to only draw Sing-Sing with dot eyes from now on, it feels so right for him.

[deathbydarkelves]

So turns out it's both within the EULA and within my computer's capabilities to run WoW twice at once using my main, paid account and a trial account to finally bring Cathala and Tarinne together in-game :,) Love truly wins.

The funniest part is that my computer's fan runs faster when I play Minecraft than when I run WoW twice at once on max graphics 😭 (The game does start stuttering after a bit though, so when I do this I'll be turning one client down to minimum graphics just to be safe)

Anyway yeah, you're allowed to multibox (they literally have a page on the website that tells you how to launch two clients) you're just not allowed to use scripts to automate or mirror commands. Which is fine by me because I'll be doing this for RP reasons :3c That Sandstone drake I won in a live auction ages ago is a fucking lifesaver here because the trial account (Cathala in this case) can't do shit 😔

[deathbydarkelves]

Ask and YE SHALL RECEIVE, @lynxfrost13

Sing-Sing's fun because he can change size at will. Mishi, Lorewalker Cho's cloud serpent, can do this and I decided that's a natural (though rare) genetic trait they can sometimes have. They're clearly very dependent on magic to fly, I'm sure their close tie to magic can have some other effects as well.

Anyway. When Cathala was stranded on Pandaria, the pandaren who taught her the language and helped her find her feet was a chill scribe named Paolun. She lived with him for a few years in a little (homebrew) village called Lake of Lilies in the same general vicinity as the Arboretum. Cathala understandably felt super out of place among the pandaren, even in such a small village, so after she learned the language and whatnot she found a little house on the very outskirts of town and lived there for a while, only going into town to buy food and other necessities. Paolun was one of a handful of people who visited her regularly, since they were really good friends by this point. Kind of an uncle-niece dynamic, I guess? Even though Cathala was older than him lmao.

Eventually she decided she wanted to do something with herself and went to study at Tian Monastery for a few more years. After she was done there, she came back for a bit to reconnect before she left for the Temple of the White Tiger to complete her training. Paolun, being a scribe, frequented the Arboretum. This also meant he had some friends in the Order of the Cloud Serpent, so as a parting gift, he gave her the freshly-hatched Sing-Sing to keep her company up on the mountain. I don't want to do the math right now but she was there for at least fifteen-ish years and he matured into an adult over that time.

Paolun died of old age not long after the siege of Orgrimmar (she met him when he was in his mid-twenties and she was on Pandaria for about fifty years), so Sing-Sing's all Cathala has left of him. He makes a great companion though. He's, uh… a little dumb and also very skittish but he loves his person and neither would ever do anything to put the other in danger <3

Behold some drawings I have made of him:

Some day I'll draw him full size… some day.

Also, a numbered list of extra Sing-Sing factoids:

1.) He's TERRIFIED of Tarinne's hippogryph, Storm, even though Sing-Sing is like three times Storm's size when he's big. 2.) Tarinne tried to ride Sing-Sing exactly once and immediately bailed to go barf somewhere. 3.) Cathala DID try to train him to be a fighting cloud serpent. She tried. It did not work, he has no aggressive instincts at all. 4.) He’s good at carrying her around though, and he can be a really fast flier when he wants to be. 5.) He makes little chirping and purring sounds when he’s happy :)