Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill i will conquer -
Meet iulia, one of my dnd characters, formerly an Oath of Conquest paladin. Like Leondras, the founding mother of her former order, she decided to break her oath and raise her sword towards the very institution that instructed her.
She’s my character in @royalsea-art’s grand scheme of things
First image is how she started on the campaign. Recently turned 19, fresh in a different city, trying to be lawful and impose peace (yes, she was a cop, bear with me)
Second image is from the customary masquerade session.
Aaaand then the incident* happened *we got bamboozled(she trusted her order and an old friend against the party’s advice and all she got was treason)
I did not choose the song so do not perceive me, Iulia’s song is Queen of peace by florence + the machine but they made me use ed sheeranagainst my will
So! Long story short, she sacrified so the rest of the party could escape, dying in the process. This is the moment when i think she definitely broke her oath and cut ties with her order.
Eeeexcept she did not die, and was saved from the fire and rubble by Nirilde (the eyepatch one) (gay behaviour enemies to lovers shit if you ask me) (i may have some homoerotic swordfighting sketches) a member of the cult the party has been fighting against from the beggining. (the party members still think she died)
She was held hostage for some time but in the end managed to escape and partially recover from her burns. she looks like this right now:
She now marches for The Sun, ready to defend the people she loves from the same people that managed to corrupt Leondras’ legacy, the same ones she fought all those years ago.
Sunlight brings warmth, but it can also start a fire.
Spent two hours in a meeting with The Most New Yawk Accents, felt the shape of my mouth physically changing to keep up with them, got out of the meeting and listened to a carefully constructed playlist of George Strait, Randy Travis, and Midland to reset, got called into an unscheduled meeting, spent fifteen minutes expositing unchecked, got a text from the IT rep (the only other overlapping person) after that said ‘lol you sound so diffrent now’
hey why are the Van Helsings always the Vampire Hunting Family in modern Dracula stories. Abraham Van Helsing might be the guy who knows stuff but his family is off in the Netherlands and/or dead and totally uninvolved in the plot. Abraham’s great-great grandson has no reason to be doing backflips and chopping off heads or whatever
You know who is a family who hates Dracula so so much and would totally teach their kids how to hunt vampires? The Harkers. Give me a modern vampire story where the protagonists are about to die when out pops Quincey Arthur John Lucy Abraham Murray Harker the Fifth, armed with a giant knife and an encyclopedic knowledge of train schedules
underrated comedy that i dont think english only speakers get is when dc comics gives one of their characters a name in a foreign language that sounds cool when spoken in full (ra’s al ghul = head of the demon) but then they treat it like it’s the character’s legal full name (first name ra’s last name al ghul) and you end up with batman villains with the legal first name Head. like, oooh it’s my feared enemy, fucking Cranium
Talia turns it backwards in English and i.e. ran Luthorcorp as Talia Head, which is. I’m not sure if that’s better.
[Image description: four screenshots of Mr. Quinn from Leverage, overlain with Troubled Birds quotes.
1) As Quinn rears back to punch Eliot: “Looking for trouble and if I cannot find it, I will create it.”
2) Quinn smiles and holds his hands up, showing that he’s wearing handcuffs: “My only crime was that I was down to clown.”
3) Quinn and Eliot in a plane hangar. Eliot is bent over as if he’d just thrown a punch, and Quinn is doubled over on the ground: “The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math.”
4) Quinn leans over a desk. He looks at Chaos, thoroughly annoyed: “I’d sell you to Satan for one corn chip.”
