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A small chocolate mouse for The Devoured year Oct

A properly written out backstory to come soon : )

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TDY Oct Art jam prompt: Modern Au

Bit of a challenge to figure out how to translate gladiator turned muscle/sword for hire into modern terms but what we went with is Avanea is a wrestler in a family of boxers who speaks up about the hazardous conditions the company she's performing under see committing.

She in turn gets '''accidently'''' burned by '''faulty'''' pyrotechnics and retires from wrestling instead working as a bouncer at local dive bars

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'Same Sinking Boat' -( A round 1 The Devoured Year rough sketchy comic. )

TW for : stabbing, attempted eye trauma and a broken nose.

Loveeeee Langosha so much and hoping to update this quality wise throughout the grace period and after (disclaimer the fully finished pages are the pages with handwritten text and the first page all others are slowly being updated and a page adding in sometime)

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Avenea Oates - 'The charred' Age: 28 She/her

Is my little Oatcake themed Wanderer for 'The Devoured Year' An original character tournament set in the last year of the Ravening war.

This is her audition page with a short intro comic on the way . :)

Image Id in Alt text, and all the text used on this sheet + some of the character building questions can be found below the read more:

Food type:

Oatcake - A savoury crepe/pancake made from oats and grains. 

Background:

A gladiator Provocotor by their very nature provokes, with fast attacks and faster talking Avanea has excelled at her one purpose:  putting on an entertaining violent show of spectacle for twelve long years of her life. 

Born in the outskirts of Pangranos and growing up the ‘runt’ of the military family, Ava was the youngest of four siblings. 

Growing up she saw two of her brothers leave for the latest battles and parades for family honour and the eventual grief that followed as each was lost to the winds. 

Refusing to see her last brother follow the same path Ava took on the arena with the aim to bring enough ‘honour’ to her family to keep them together. Being mentored by Ci Bretar, a retired (ciabatta) soldier , she found her skills lied in duelling more than following orders and that she could bring in enough wealth to her struggling family from the bets made on her winning. In the process Ava discovered she loves the adrenaline thrill of combat and what would have been a year long endeavour went on and on and on. 

Ava’s world came crashing down when her fast talking found her on the wrong end of a centurion's wrath. Turns out if you refuse to fight a frivolous battle for Imperator Foccacia’s honour and point out that the Centurions who sit partying in the Capital are celebrating other soldiers' battles and stolen honour you get quickly disgraced and almost executed being burnt in the process. Ava only escaped because a fan and ‘friend’ from her prime gladiator days - Melandra (A fruit loaf scribe) worked as a scrivener and forged a pardon for her.   

Fleeing the city with  a hastily left apology that she is unsure her family received , Avanea finds herself caught in the midst of the initial escalating conflict whether she likes it or not. While making the trek down the Imperial March she encounters Mel again agreeing to seek out Ceresian relics to repay the favor that helped her escape Pangranos. 

During the start of The Devoured Year Ava is making a living trading weaponry and guarding homesteads in the lands bordering Ceresia while hunting down relics. 

Affiliations: Ceresia (Distant Dairy Isle Heritage) 

-Avanea fights on behalf of the civilians of Ceresia but does not align herself with Imperator Focaccia. 

-She has a soft spot for the Dairy Isles having distant cousins living there and almost idolises the perceived  ‘freedom’ of a life on the yoghurt shoals in spite of the harsh reality.

-Ava owes her life to Melandra, a Fruitloaf scribe/forger looking for south Ceresian relics of the Wonderbread, and as such will align herself with followers of the Wonderbread and other lesser known common gods. 

Occupation: 

-Ex gladiator Provocotor turned Muscle for hire , Ava trades and sells weapons across the border towns. 

Skills:

Ava’s D&D class would be An Oath of Glory Paladin, her fighting style is Grappling heavy but this puts her right in the slashing distance. Her time as a gladiator has lent her the ability to tank quite a few hits without a sweat but she can over estimate , not from ego but from hope and self destructive tendencies , how much damage she can take before she falls. 

Other skills: Overthinking interactions and a mysterious Stoic energy that's just from lack of recent conversations

Weaponry: 

Ava prefers to grapple opponents but her weapons consist of her mentor’s butter-blade sword repaired with a roll of oatcake, and an improvised knuckle duster of toothpicks.   

Stake in the war:

While Avanea does not fight for Imperator Focccacia she doesn’t want to see the people of Ceresia suffer, her stake is in the preservation of Ceresias culture and relics

Virtues:

Avanea believes in honesty above all else, she is persistent to a cause but prefers not to jump to conflict preferring to subdue than attack and often goes for the non lethal type of damage.

Vices:

This honesty in turn can lead to a strong sense of justice where subtly may be needed. She can let her words get away from herself and cause more issues than she can handle, and her persistence can lead to stubbornness.

If they survive what will they do?

Depending on her battle wounds either work her way back to Pangranos to reunite with her family or retire to the yoghurt shoals.  

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Adore the art of all of your Vs on the train. How do they know each other?

AHH firstly thank you so much for the lovely tags and secondly thankyou for asking ! 💕💕💕

So to break it down in the simplest terms , all three Vs have in different ways met with and befriended Jackie that's the strongest link between them with their paths crossing in different moments.

So firstly Victory ,

Vic's pretty close with Jackie holding the odd concert for the community / to raise funds in the el coyote cojo, gathering different bits of intel while touring around about fixer gigs and going to him all the time for motorbike advice.

Vic is a bit of an underground hit (heavy early Kerry parallels I won't lie these three are very much just mirrors of main npcs) a bassist and in slower songs vocalist , she meets Van in a nightclub and both raise a toast to a lost friend realising they both know Jackie and somehow never met before now.

With Vann burning any ties from the Corpo life Vic gives her a place to stay in the meantime while she gets her footing again.

Vic is currently dating Vann after a summer of ' will they won't they' across a mini tour of most of the clubs over Night City. With the local radio picking up on the shared looks and ‘jokes’ from the snarky frontman of the band and the new fan always stood in the front row.

Vann is said Ex- Corpo turned 'manager' of the group:

Vann is as said dating Vic , she knew Jackie from a previous gig gone wrong: specifically Dakota hiring Jackie to help Vann bury a nasty ass guy who attacked her in the desert and get her back to NC to a ripperdoc. (she previously was a messenger using a doll chip but had a traumatic time and used said trauma to blackmail her way into an Arasaka PR role).

Vann and Val know each other as Vann while a full on Arasaka pay-rolled Corpo funded some of their gigs that helped out the community , maybe it was the guilt of working for such a place or maybe she just has a soft spot for the Heywood duo but Val and Jackie knew if they needed something for a gig Vann could find a guy .

On the note of Heywood there's Val . Val follows more closely with the regular Streetkid V plot but with one twist of her having met Jackie as a kid when Jackie was a teen , the Valentino's raided her home looking for her father. Jackie hid her during the raid and following violent wreckage meeting her again later in life as an adult and only clocking it was her , due to a distinctive scar and slip up when recalling the story (Val commenting a detail he did not tell in his recollection of the events explaining his excitement as he thought the kid had been killed by another Valentino) .

Val had been by Jackie's side since they reunited one morning when she'd wondered into Misty's shop looking for a reading and spotted him.

Val later on would be a bit starstruck when Jackie introduced her to Victory Jones in the el coyote after a gig gone well .

With Val meeting Vann their gig benefactor on a similar night in the same spot.

Val and Vann didn't initially get along but once she ditched the corpo ties Val was eager to find 'redemption' for this one.

They all reconnect at the funeral with the trio agreeing to work together to try to save Val from the relics slow malfunction and destruction.

(also depending on which sort of 3 Vs au I'm thinking of they either run the initial big league gig together and all get a bit of the relic malfunction or they can sort of transfer it between eachother but not prevent it's deterioration )

I hope that explains a little bit of their dynamics and thank you again for asking : D

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Procrastinating meeting Hanako at Embers by drawing all my V's in one scene.

Left: Victory, Middle: Vann , right: Val

POV: your Judy on the way to Watson for a double date:

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Loveddddd creating this piece based on this gorgeous fic! everyone go give it a read ! : )

i wrote acofaf fic and i even posted one! featuring incredible art made by @ljsarts

read here

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Realised I never posted these even though I finished them months ago???

Anyway silly goober time.

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Wip deleting later but- damn these bitches gay! Good for them

Feat left to right Victory, Vann and third wheeling Val w/ Dusty the rat.

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Sometimes you just gotta design an ex corpo whos been through the ringer.

This is Vann Zorikiv, an ex Arasaka Pr advisor . She got a bit sick of pushing Arasaka's dirt under the proverbial carpet and after her reason for working for the firm passed she had no issue turning foot.

She was burnt when leaving the tower when she got caught in the crossfire in an anti-corp protest and after her bosses enforced some aggresive repocussions on the protesters (see the latest obitoury list) and mandated her to use adapted optical camo at work to avoid questions she decided it was time to jump ship.

In an interview on a local radio station she'd describe her reaction to the attack: "they were pissed at the corp. they couldn't kill a god that's out of reach at the top of the tower and I , I was a tangible target something physical I was just there like a finger on arasaka's hand to be cut off."

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Pov : Your murders about to be solved in the weirdest way.....

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do you take commissions

Hi!! Thank you so much for asking so I am currently not taking commissions because I am getting settled into a new job, which means I don't have as much time free to take and complete commissions as I'd like.

THAT SAID , I may be open to like a chill slow art trade or request? so if that interests you anon DM me 👍🏻

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WIP of the week: the crossover no one asked for but me , hey put these two on one case and watch the chaos ensue.

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Don't want to spam the caption with two much lore but here's 2/3 of my Cyberpunk 2077 V's

Streetkid!V Val Torres :

- Has a pet rat named Dusty who goes on missions with her in a bullet proof hip holster and does recon with an adapted optical camo.

-Has a tattoo of the 'Queen of the night's plant that blooms once in the night and wilts by the dawn.

-Vik didn't have time to colour match the replacement optics on her shot out eye post betrayal but Val likes the two tone look.

And Nomad!V Victory (Vic) Bakker:

-Cannot sleep comfortable in anything but a hammock or a pickup truck boot.

- used to sell junk and make money from card games and selling recycled jewellery.

- Was originally just called V in the numerical sense being the fifth born of the family, but after a more spiritual clan formed an alliance with her family clan her name got changed to a virtue name.

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Surprises and Stickers [Lords of the Wings Family Fluff]

Fandom: A Court of Fey and Flowers (Dimension 20)

Characters | Ships: Esmé/Lady Chirp Featherfowl, Phillipa "Peep" (Dimension 20), Lord Squak Airavis

Summary:

Esmé and her daughter finally get to reunite with one Lady Chirp Featherfowl, Countess of Cluckingham… along with a couple of guests.

Notes: For my @d20exchange giftee, @nameless-is-nameless !! third time's the charm <3 a scene in this fic is directly ispired by @ljsarts fanart where Peep gives her own little gifts to Squak <3 (Funnily enough, they were my giftee last year HAHA <3)

trades/requests open on k0fi!!

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In her forty-two years of life in Hanavan, Esmé thought she'd seen it all. 

From meeting the most beautiful, out-of-world woman, to finding out that she was, indeed, the fey Countess of Cluckingham whose Grandfather invented birds (and not some delusional cosplayer). To her rather feathery wedding day with the most amazing, dramatic person in her life… to the magical adventure of getting to see their daughter grow, so much like her mothers. So when she looks up into the sky to see a thousand birds carrying forth a giant nest, Esmé is no longer surprised. Eagerly calling her Philippa over, they both watch and listen to this grand, sonorous spectacle of birds chirping, squawking, and peeping in a glorious melody that reaches its crescendo when they see not one, not two, but three figures astride two chariot ostrich being carried by doves.

Read the rest on Ao3!

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Happy D20 exchange!!!! heres piece 2/2 for the lovely ederiched over on twitter.

This piece is a sort of triptych of Porters past motivation , corruption by the rage stars and consequential future for the rat grinders.

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Happy D20 exchange!!!! heres piece 1/2 for the lovely ederiched over on twitter.

This one is themed around how Porter sees himself as a sort of hero in his own story (as do most villians) with the rageful warped version of Ankarna.