#temerik

[new-hyperfixation-every-month]

various shrue shitposts i never posted. shruitposts

[puriteenism]

Adjudicator Shrue on the radio

[3584-tropical-fish]

Season 3 (part 1) bookbinding complete! This is chapters 30-37, the rest will be bound into a part 2 when I have time again over the summer. (As for season 1 and season 2, they’re here and here if you haven’t seen them!)

Progress photos under the cut:

[catwyk]

finally listening to the tsv final qna and learning sarah griffin was risking clonking their head against a random fucking pole every time they read for shrue is the most cosmically appropriate thing ive ever heard

[radioactive-yuri]

i feel like the theme of loneliness with adjudicator shrue has always been one of the strongest parts of their character. like, in the very first episode they appear in, not only are their campaign managers killed, but the saints that attack them are called love-saints. it's almost like the narrative itself is taunting them about just how unloved and alone they are.

then, in s3, they're consistently mocked and shunned by their colleagues, and they have an entire thing about being uncertain whether they actually have a family or not. if the idea of a loving wife and children was merely placed into their head, because in truth, they're still completely alone.

[marzipan-alligator]

thinking about my miserable best buddy Adjudicator Shrue and their probably fake family again. Just got to the part in my relisten where they show up for the first time and almost step in a bear trap. RIP to a real one

[griseldagimpel]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Silt Verses (Podcast) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Characters: Temerik Shrue Additional Tags: Canonical Character Death, Character Study, Flashbacks Summary:

An illustration of Shrue's final broadcast, along with the some of the moments that got them there.

[new-hyperfixation-every-month]

errr. grueve doodles. bc i have no shame.

[siltblogging]

No I don't think I want them to find this one.

Adjudicator Shrue trying to connect with the murder twins in their first appearance by nervously dabbing.

[valtsv]

What you find compelling about VAL is easy for me to intuit; I'm curious about what you find compelling about Shrue with regards to pairing them? I love them both as characters; I just remain perpetually confused as to pairings. Your writing is great btw; just interested to hear you talk about Shrue.

first off i need to confess that i shot myself in the foot a bit by using fandom shipping terminology to come up with the "VALshrue" portmanteau, because i don't have any desire to ship them in the typical romantic sense (or even sexual tbh, but that's an essay for another ask or post). in the best case scenarios where they aren't abusing each other and making each other worse it's still extremely aromantic - in fact any amatonormativity tends to contribute to the (unavoidable) toxic elements and make them more miserable and that is by design.

anyway! the anathema formerly known as adjudicator temerik shrue. my silly rabbit. i don't often talk about them in as much depth as VAL (which is truly a failure on my part) but i do absolutely adore their horrible ass just as much and want goodbad things for them. the easy answer to why i find them compelling is that a weaselly, hypocritical alcoholic public servant complicit in some of the worst abuses and exploitations the societal values they uphold are built on, contending with an impending inevitable divorce that will seal the nail in the coffin on their profound loneliness by drowning their regrets in more liquid shame, and denying their hand in their own and others' misfortunes at every turn - until their back hits the wall and there's nowhere left to run - is just such a fun character for me to play with. what if harry du bois was even more of a pathetic loser and a massive (but extremely funny) cunt about it too.

the slightly more thematically coherent answer is that i absolutely love a character whose hell is self-made and who can never balance the scales of that suffering, or their complicity in it, and has to understand that in order to ever develop as a person. the potential there is an absolute goldmine to me. how can you stand to live with yourself? why should you? why shouldn't you? and as much as i think their canon ending is beautifully written, i love to explore what might have happened if they didn't get an exit, and still didn't get what they wanted. if they had to put their money where their mouth is and try to build a better world, despite being cynically convinced that it probably isn't possible and that most people, them included, don't deserve to see it. honestly a huge part of the appeal of VALshrue to me is that not only are they absolutely awful people who've sacrificed everything that might have made their lives worthwhile to a heartless, insatiable cycle of violence that will never love them back, who less "redeem" themselves than succeed in recognising that the harm they've done has no justification and no meaning beyond feeding the same system that will eat them without remorse in turn when its use for them runs out - which is far more interesting and important to me than pure fantastical heroism - but they're immensely pathetic and selfish and self-sabotaging in very ugly, human ways about it. and that's SO much fun to play with as a fan creator.

also personally i think that they have a bit of a repressed sadistic streak that, while very much the result of the way they're constantly degraded and manipulated by everyone around them, is still incredibly destructive and maladaptive and extremely fun to unleash by poking them with sticks until they snap about it. and even more fun when VAL is the one poking them, intentionally or unintentionally ^_^

[unbloodiedmartyr]

nothing good has ever happened to temerik shrue under my watch

[seners-art]

Set of images I did of my OCs (Xatrix, Izotz, Arya, Simetra, Vordur, Temerik, and Varic)

[radioactive-yuri]

adjudicator temerik "babydoll" shrue really just showed up, served spineless moderate, and promptly got horrifically traumatized while making some of the most miserable, pathetic noises ever recorded. and in the very next season, they were essentially trapped in a torture maze of loneliness and humiliation until they were successfully radicalized, got named anathema by the state, and then just fucking. died on live tv while advocating for mass deicide.

and ever since then, i've been fantasizing about carrying them off into the sunset in my arms bridal style

[enochsworldofgreyhawk]

Lake Temerik

[marzipan-alligator]

its a desolate wasteland out here

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

TSV ch21

Glad to know Mercer and Gage are still their absolute murderous selves, what do you mean this is entire thing is going to end in goddamn suicide sacrifice with your own god eating you both? Or atleast that's what Mercer wants, Gage wants it to welcome them?

Shrue, i don't want to be mean but like are you a dumbass? Cause just, how are you surprised that hiring murderous lunatics would be bad for elections??? Especially those who go complete Scorch Earth??? Just how??? HOW??????

I like Jeff and Ann :(. Sad that happened to them and also Shrue

This episode was pretty much Shrue having no idea what the hell is going on half the time.

I do like their intentions though of them not wanting war, despite everything

Also Hi Faulkner!!!!