My favorite part of TSSW2 is that when you're on manerkol romance, during straasa soul stone part, if you choose to stay behind, a group of vampires burst through your door, take a look around, see you, and promptly walk right out back like "Nothing to see here fellas" whereas Mc is left there,ready to fight, completely dumbfounded like... "What just happened????" LMAO, I always laugh.
For anyone wondering...this is Rai, the Dragon who saves the MC and gang from their Cnamh Briste heist at the end of book 2 😳😳😳
I wanna gush over them, but it somehow feels that words are not enough... Aaaaand, if any of you are interested in seeing them in all their full body glory, you can subscribe to my Patreon or Ko-Fi!
Patreon has SFW art of them, while Ko-Fi has both SFW and NSFW~
Maybe I should write a spicy snippet for them at some point........ Hmmm 😈
A big, HUGE thank you to @mooreaux for drawing them!!
SO I FINALLY GOT AROUND TO PLAYING THE SOUL STONE WAR, and I made this basic bitch and I love him, he is the only normal one besides Strassa maybe. At least as normal as a person trouble loves to follow anyway, but I digress.
The Soul Stone War is a lovely little game made by @intimidatingpuffinstudios, I’d probably play it sooner if I had… money, BUT I managed to get some and got both 1 and 2, they’ve been a blast even if 2 was a lot more, emotionally draining.
I’m gonna get into more deets about Isak here so, if ur not interested I’ll cover it up with a read more! Also it contains spoilers for books 1 and 2 so, if u wanna avoid that don’t look lol
Now seeing as the deets about the origins in game haven’t been revealed yet, I unfortunately cannot tell you exactly what happened to him, however I can give you how he reacted to all the shit that went on and how it affected him!
Isak grew up with his brother Jorgen and his mother, until she passed away probably around the time Isak was starting to reach maturity, he was heart broken of course, but Isak needed to be strong for Jorgen so he coped by looking on the brighter side of things. He tried to be a positive influence on his brother, and always did his best in taking care of him, either by working his absolute ass off in a toxic work environment for money or by telling Jorgen grand stories he made up based off of the tales in the scrolls in his village. He truly loved his brother and would do anything for him, including taking abuse by the locals that were particularly nasty to him and his brother.
He still tried to be friendly to the locals, even if they were cold, at the very least to try and make life easier for him and his brother. Of course the only person he considered a friend was his neighbor, who was the only person that was kind to him after his mother’s death, seeing as everyone would remain cold or even hostile to him despite his efforts.
Bain was his reoccurring tormentor, he tried many methods to placate him, appealing to him, letting him beat him, hell he even faught him once! But Isak lost, seeing as he avoided conflict where it would arise. Still none of these worked, and Bain continued to abuse him, but his brother especially
Which is probably what led to Jorgen’s subsequent death.
I cannot say what happened specifically, but regardless, Isak was completely crushed. For the first time in his life, he decided to give in to his rage as a way to placate the grief he would feel for the rest of his life, and he regretted doing so. Very much so.
After fleeing his village, he honestly considered just killing himself then and there, he couldn’t see a bright side his situation and the death of his brother was still fresh on his mind, but of course dear old lady Conch was there to remind him otherwise. With her help he regained his positive attitude, if not shaken now, and managed to pick himself up as much as he could from the depths and press on. To live a good life, one Jorgen likely would’ve wanted for him.
However Isak did develop a bad habit of spiraling if he doesn’t manage to convince himself that things will be ok, which usually leads to panic attacks, but of course he still tries despite this.
Hopefully this more or less sheds light on who he is a bit! He is an absolute peach and I love him, his design is probably a bit too bright for the setting but eh, it suits him, I’ll probably edit this to add his relationship dynamics so far if people r interested enough
Playing through Manerkol route in book 2 with a character whose highest personality stat is Honesty is a ride. She always manages to catch him by surprise by saying thanks and being sincere in wanting to be with him and I'm down for every time he is like "... wait, what?"
Like yes sir she loves you and wants to spend time with you, possibly her life, no she won't throw herself at you while you have her friend in prison and her other friends are in danger because of you.
As promised, here’s our adorable half-dragon, Eledwen!
I think the eyes came out decently??? Either way, It’s impossible for Elly to not be adorable so i’ll take it.
I don’t know if it really came out in the final product but for some reason, I always imagined Elly to look and sound like Cassandra from Dragon Age. I don’t know why but the section she came into the story, that was the immediate connection my mind made and I have not been able to shake it. Because everything from her appearance to her behaviour and mannerisms just screamed ‘awkward badass seeker, awkward badass seeker’.
@intimidatingpuffinstudios the cast is complete! I hope you’ve liked them :)