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headcanon! despite having such a hard rough life growing up and being denied basic amenities, even as a rogue trader rue doesnt have much of a sweet tooth! too strong and cloying, and she prefers milder sweet flavors like buttery baked goods

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canon!! I would go further and say she doesn't like MOST food you could label as "haute" or expensive because she can't stomach it (funny coincidence that the last Rue ask I got was about her having IBS and GERD); like a lot of things she inherits as Rogue Trader, she also finds it excessive and feels guilty about indulging in those luxuries (though clearly not enough to give them up entirely)

even as she gets more comfortable as Rogue Trader she still snubs much of the food she's offered on the upper decks and privately stuffs her face with the slop she was eating before

she wants her gruel abelard

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rue has IBS and GERD 🙂‍↕️

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10/10. canon. her nervous system is so messed up

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🌺 Tell me a preconeption/headcanon you have for one of my characters... 🌺

And I’ll rate how accurate it is on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being way off and 10 being basically canon!

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#i love that if rue isnt a psyker she loses all main character energy dkskdlsmd #here i was thinking shed end up scavenger -> crime lord -> sniper operative #the BESTEST scavenging crew in the system 😤 #but rue being like um! no thankies uwu and then going back to footfall is so funny

That's the thing! The only reason Rue concedes to Abelard when she tried refuse the Rogue Trader title even as a psyker (due to her moral and personal opposition to it) is because she's too afraid of what might happen to her if she didn't. Abelard literally tells her she doesn't "have a choice" and her "fate is pretermined" —

— and she believes him because her entire life since being sanctioned has been predetermined for her. This is the first time she's truly had a choice in anything since then and she doesn't realize it yet. But even if that wasn't the case, she'd still be too afraid of getting dropped off on the nearest planet to fend for herself against Kunrad (or worse, get sent back to the Inquisition).

A version of Rue who was never sanctioned or sent off as canon fodder to the Inquisition wouldn't have that deep sense of self-preservation instilled in her and would not be afraid to sacrifice her wellbeing in the long term to stand by her convictions. I'm honestly confident in saying she would be able to find a way off of Rykad Minoris on her own and go back to whatever scavanging she was doing before.

Could she still have that sense of survivalism instilled in her some other way and still become the Rogue Trader as a Crime Lord instead? Sure! But Rue is fundamentally a character deeply shaped by her circumstances and I don't think you could remove her from those circumstances without shifting the trajectory of everything.

SURPRISE RUE ASK

if rue wasnt a psyker, but still a von valencius heir, how would that have panned out for her?

OH BOY!!

Overall, Rue would be a much less misanthropic and miserable person. She wouldn't believe Humanity was doomed or expect the worst from everyone she meets, her compassion for people beyond her inner circle would be sincere, and she would not be motivated by self-preservation or the preservation of her self-image (of a "rational" and "principled" person) that she tries to maintain.

I imagine she'd either end up as a scavanger and/or working on a starport like Footfall (which is what I imagine her mother did). She might be labeled as a Heretic depending on where that work takes her (since I doubt she would be any more loyal to the Imperium than she is now), but I can't actually imagine her aligning herself with the Ruinous Powers either, at least not willingly or knowingly (unlike Rue in canon, who probably would if she were a little more ambitious and less afraid of the consequences). I can see her becoming a pirate in the right circumstances.

I doubt she would ever gain a big enough reputation to be considered as a candidate for the von Valancius title like that, but if she ever did anything notable enough to garner Theodora's attention and were selected as an heir anyway, her ending would look much like the one I got when I finished the prologue for the first time:

yeah she would have refused to become Rogue Trader because this version of Rue could actually put her money where her mouth is

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SURPRISE RUE ASK

if rue wasnt a psyker, but still a von valencius heir, how would that have panned out for her?

OH BOY!!

Overall, Rue would be a much less misanthropic and miserable person. She wouldn't believe Humanity was doomed or expect the worst from everyone she meets, her compassion for people beyond her inner circle would be sincere, and she would not be motivated by self-preservation or the preservation of her self-image (of a "rational" and "principled" person) that she tries to maintain.

I imagine she'd either end up as a scavanger and/or working on a starport like Footfall (which is what I imagine her mother did). She might be labeled as a Heretic depending on where that work takes her (since I doubt she would be any more loyal to the Imperium than she is now), but I can't actually imagine her aligning herself with the Ruinous Powers either, at least not willingly or knowingly (unlike Rue in canon, who probably would if she were a little more ambitious and less afraid of the consequences). I can see her becoming a pirate in the right circumstances.

I doubt she would ever gain a big enough reputation to be considered as a candidate for the von Valancius title like that, but if she ever did anything notable enough to garner Theodora's attention and were selected as an heir anyway, her ending would look much like the one I got when I finished the prologue for the first time:

yeah she would have refused to become Rogue Trader because this version of Rue could actually put her money where her mouth is

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thank you!! 🫶

it's nice to see Morana happy for once haha

some of my recent artfight attacks! for @maud-lin, @freejamtime, @donttouchmyasymptote

I haven't been keeping up with posting all my attacks here but I finally hit 100 attacks this year! Find me ~percevale

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I love your art style so much it reminds me of Darkest Dungeon 🫶🫶

thank you!!

I haven't actually played Darkest Dungeon before but I've gotten this comment enough times now that I feel like I should

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quick question for people who are uh. weirder about Orin than me

how old do we think Orin is?? I'm asking because my comic (set during MiBG) will heavily involve Orin on the sidelines and I need to know roughly how old she would've been during that time. A while ago I saw someone say her Manifesto could be from the year she killed Helena, but if she was 7 in 1482 (the year MiBG takes place), she'd be 17 in BG3 (1492)

and that's just. nuts. No

since 1482 is the year Bhaal was resurrected I have to assume that's why she wrote it (since he went straight into picking his Chosen afterward - re: the whole plot of MiBG) and it doesn't necessarily indicate anything about her age. But is there anything that does or is it sort of just up to me to decide what feels correct

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ugh. what a freak (affectionate)

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Messy Draft Monday

it's neither monday nor am I able to share most of my active WiPs because they're for Art Fight and I don't want my friends/mutuals to see them yet but I'm using this as an excuse to WiP dump

thank you for the tag @arach-tinilith !! (go look at their post)

tagging @baldursghaik @happiartsy @dustybones @gewhanaa @thenugking @swordbisexual @lorithescrump and anyone else who wants to participate! (just trying to tag people that I know haven't been tagged)

drawing, fanfiction, virtual photography, OC lore posts – anything goes!

Dirge also belongs to @majorasnightmare <3

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one more art fight attack before I let myself breathe for the day!

Judith belongs to @arach-tinilith <3

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AAAA I saw you attack me earlier today, thank you so much!!

Artfight attack for @maud-lin's Alias/Morana !

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For the random doodle prompt if you're still doing it, how about one with Daedra but her hood is wrapped around her head kinda like the Haunted One logo for the Dark Urge origin background and her blood red eyes shining through.

she dark on my urge til she. uh.

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augh I think I'm finally gonna go through my inbox and do some drawing requests I got a couple months ago

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another art fight defense!! pathfinder character this time <3

Dietrich belongs to @triflingshadows !!

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AAAAAAAA!! the amount of detail is amazing augh, thank you !!!

ART FIGHT 2025 011

Rue for @maud-lin !!!

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I'm drawing Rue's reference again because I rushed the first one for Art Fight and I'm not happy with it. I want to play around with her design more

BLEH!