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Stand Down pound cake with black raspberry lemon glaze 🤙

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Plotting call! If you'd like to write something with Audrey, especially if you've got something specific in mind, feel free to get in my DMs

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Audrey ignored his asessment of her situation. If he was hoping for a hint he'd be disappointed. True he had man power. Or monster power, she clocked with a derisive sniff. But the poisonous oil slick aura silver wasn't evident as far as she could tell, just gunpowder and gasoline and magic. Lucky for her. Her lip curled nastily.

She pointedly looked away from the demon to glance at his flunkey she'd caught by surprise. He was another werewolf, probably bitten, not born. By the looks of things she'd broken his arm and probably a rib or two if his breathing was anything to go by. He growled at her weakly. "He'll be fine."

She twisted her lip as if giving the demon's statement due thought. "Hn. Can't's a strong word. But. I guess I've had my dinner so now it's time for the show." She shed her riding jacket, letting it thud to the floor to reveal a white Rolling Stones tank top, and punched a cutoff gloved fist into her palm. She flexed arms that would make Clint Eastwood cry and her grin looked nearly big enough to split her face in half, sharp as barbed wire.

"You want paying pretty boy, you'll earn it. Pull up a table and impress me."

Audrey strode into the shop like a Valkyrie come to collect her chariot. Other unfortunate vehicles and parts sat around the floor but she only had eyes for Stella. She stopped short, the hairs on the back of her neck standing to attention. Even though the air was thick with the hot smell of oil and shaved steel, there was no mistaking the stench of Hell. Her eyes shifted from sage to molten gold while her teeth took on an inhuman edge.

"Actually I was looking for somewhere to piss. But now you mention it, it looks awfully familiar," she said, although her attention was no longer on her bike but locked firmly on the handsome figure with unnaturally violet eyes standing beside it.

It was just her luck to catch a demon topside while she was taking a break. The only decent weapons on hand were her claws and the wolf cross around her neck. Not ideal. But... he didn't have the air of a King or Prince. Possibly she could still have an advantage. She glanced around the shop, calculating.

"This is a sweet setup you've got here. Still, your dogs could use better training."

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Audrey backed off as if struck, and in a way she had been. The goblin market was so thick with magic and magical beings, it was hard to sort out one scent from another. But turning the corner had given her a nosefull of old fey, deep and dark as a forest rooted into ancient stones. It had been enough to make her snarl in surprise but she tried her best to recover gracefully.

At least as gracefully as she could for being suddenly faced with a testy elf. "If I wanted entertaining there's a flaming sword juggler on the main drag. Which I'd go back to. If I knew how to get there." Audrey shook herself and huffed to collect her composure. She wasn't used to being lost. Blindfolded and spun in a circle she could still point north ten out of ten times. It was a decently good party trick and could reliably produce free drinks to see how many it took for her to fail. Even along the roads between worlds where physics was a suggestion instead of a rule she knew with certainty where she was going to and coming from. But the market was strange, a parasitic node of fairy sitting on the surface of the mortal world like a tick on a dog. The avenues and alleys twisted around and in on themselves, leading back, eventually, to their start or sometimes a dead end. And the Ogham signposts weren't helpful.

"Look, I just need to find the bloody apothecary, do you know where it is?" She was well aware that asking for directions was risky but the only alternative was wandering the labyrinth of halls and alleys until she found her way out.

@houndofgod|| LIKED for a STARTER with NUADA

"Your presence here neither irks me nor interests me. If it is violence you want, you shall have it - - but if not, leave me. I have no curiosities in keeping you entertained."

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Shaped

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Hallo, I'm just popping in to say I aent dead, just busy and worn out. It must be catching huh?

Business as usual will resume... at some point. When there's less that needs doing irl. I hope it'll be soon, I want to write and plot and chat again.

Until then, safe travels 🌻

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A neighbor came over saying he noticed our garden and wondered if we'd like some volunteer tomato and kale plants. The girls have been ridiculously generous this year so I gave him a half dozen eggs in return. I'm feeling so fucking cottagecore rn 😂

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What inspired you to create them / how did you create them? Were they originally a fancharacter? What was their personality / design like when you first made them?

I have always loved rough, unconventional, direct female characters with a tragic past and the persistence of a freight train. A gal like that with animal shape-shifting powers has been rattling around in my head since middle school but when I watched the og Hellsing anime sometime in high school it was like it was made in a lab to slot into my autist goth kid brain 😂

I don't remember her name back then but proto-Audrey was involved with Alucard, besties with Seras and Integra and generally a run of the mill power fantasy/shipping oc. The logical conclusion for any lonely weird 15 year old I think.

And then life went on, the manga finally finished, other weird supernatural media started filling up my head, and by the time I got out of college I was ready to do something more interesting with a rough around the edges werewolf lady. Fortunately I had a friend who encouraged me to solidify her story and bring her to rp on Tumblr and Skype.

One of the things that I enjoy about Hellsing is there's a lot of room to play around with the lore while still having some obvious inspirations to jump off from. So weird occult nonsense was a must in Audrey's backstory, as well as some actual history and folklore.

I don't think of myself as being a particularly creative person (Audrey's general design is embarrassingly common across Hellsing werewolf ocs 😭) but I am good at putting pre-existing information together in interesting ways. Thus came the Hounds of God, Thiess the werewolf wizard, and the Nazi occultics lab at Archangelsk. Friedrich is my self indulgent excuse to stick David Bowie into a proper vampire villain role and a white three piece (the resemblance to the Hunger is a coincidence) and her relationship to Captain Hans is a self indulgent way to explain the similarity of their weird bullshit powers (tho my husband rp'd him at one point and I give him credit for SEVERAL diabolical twists to that ship).

And that's pretty much it. Audrey's still very much a power fantasy but I'm proud of how far she and her world have come and the stories I've gotten to make with her and all my writing partners along the way. I'll still leave you with two embarassing baby pictures tho (circa 2005 and 2013)

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I knocked out one big thing that's needed doing for ages today but there's still two more next week hanging over my head so I'll probably be away until then.

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I wouldn’t call it excessive violence. It’s just enough to make my point. 

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The burden of loving Audrey so fucking much and also being the #1 person responsible for creating media about her is unbearable y'all

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I'm still getting used to a different schedule but I hope to get to drafts (especially the oldest ones) this week.

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i love the world so much. why do i often forget this

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So move me, baby

Shake like the bough of a willow tree

You do it naturally

Move me, baby

So move me, baby

Like you've nothin' left to prove

And nothin' to lose

Move me, baby

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One of my favorite things about writing threads for Audrey is I learn about the best kinds of cryptids