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When your best friend is studying to become a medic and you’re too cocky to admit that you have a needle phobia & volunteer as patient.

(And pass out in the process)

Tena & Steb did the enforcer training program together and had a ~ thing during those years. She was a bit of a prodigy during the enforcer trainee years. She was meant to be more of a brawler and did exceedingly well. She came from a pretty well off family in Piltover and was a bit spoiled, sheltered, and incredibly cocky with all the positive attention she got during her police academy years. She liked Steb a lot, but picked on him mercilessly, and got on his nerves as much as he liked her back.

(I think both of them wanted to have something more serious, but she wasn’t emotionally mature enough to open up about it & Steb didn’t want to pressure her.)

They got along well, (despite her boisterous nature) but she acclimated poorly when they actually started working. Cracking under the emotional pressure of coming eye to eye with the raw display of poverty and misery in Zaun that she had previously been sheltered from, along with the creeping doubts about the morality of the job she was having, she escalated a violent situation during a mission in the undercity and ended up taking a life. She couldn’t bear the guilt and left the profession soon after.

She left Piltover shortly after quitting her job as an enforcer, not able to stand the societal divide she herself had been a part of upholding. Today, she lives in Zaun where she works as a sorta underground bouncer. She’s still dealing with immense guilt, but has found a community of people she feels at ease with. Steb and her haven’t talked since she left the field.

I like to think that Steb went to visit her shortly after she quit to check in on her, but she’d already left Piltover at that point

In s2, she joins the other zaunites to fight alongside Piltover in the war, where she unfortunately passes away.

I wrote a HORRIBLE hurt/little comfort Steb fic a while ago about an enforcer cracking under the emotional pressure of the lacking morality of their job and that’s how Tena was created. I couldn’t bear posting it because it was so damn sad. But here’s some art of her! 😀

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FIGURE SKETCH

Everyone has been so sweet regarding me tumbling back on here gosh; thank you <3 I missed you all immensely! A sketch this time which won't get rendered but still deserves to not rot on my iPad.

Also I'm tagging this with mild nudity because Arthurs is naked, but I hope my lack of details on certain parts is enough to not make anyone uncomfy.

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YOU'RE BACK!!! WELCOME BACK!!! 🥰

FEUXX!! I AM!!! AND THANK YOUU <33 (goes to everyone who's been saying welcome back and hello on my latest post ;;)

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🌟injured🌟

He’s fine really. Steb is just taking a chance to hold him being fussy.

This piece is from a scene from one of @choas232 AMAZING Steb fics and it’s been living in my head rent free ever since I read it. Fr my favourite Steb writer out there! <33

Mox is my OC. You can find out more character information about him along with his ref sheet HERE !

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HIDING

Looks who's back whaaaaa. I've missed drawing these two so much and now they just ended up being the perfect subject for a warmup that's also a re-draw (of sort), because the old piece never stopped bugging the living daylight out of me.

Enjoy some Merthur (finally) <3

Old piece under the cut:

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The way this is single-handedly convincing me to commit to bluesky

See the full piece on Twitter or Bluesky or AO3!

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I love this boy with every fiber of my body, I love him with Steb and the way there will be ART with them soon 🤝

Signing his way into our hearts!! Our little scaredy cat enforcer Mox!

I cant believe I made an enforcer OC actually.

A MASSIVE push to post (and to keep working on/developing!) Mox was actually the Steb x reader fics that @choas232 has written because they’re AMAAZING and it also opened my eyes to the fact that there’s not that many masc OC’s around Steb and there deserves to be more 😌

As mentioned on my other post I have intended for there to be a Mox/Steb dynamic in the future. But as of right now, their main interactions happen because Steb is sometimes assigned to be Mox’s handler, and Mox is afraid of him. Shucks 😀

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It can’t be denied, I too cry over your son online 😔🤲 hand him over

I CRY AND POST MY SON ON THE INTERNET

God this page took FOREVER!!!!! I got so many more sketches and content of this man, which I will try to post soon as well. Character description below! 😌🙌

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Mox was raised in Zaun in a commune of anglerfish-women. Despite growing up loved, Mox felt out of place among his kind: unable to relate to or live up to the tough, brawler-culture his commune thrived in, and struggling to find his spot as a transitioning male in a society where males spend their lives as codependent parasites. He left Zaun, and his large family, behind, hoping to escape the violence and hard headed fighter-culture in Piltover.

After a couple of years of residence, Mox joined the enforcers, specialising in search and rescue operations, using his light and natural ability to withstand harsh and trying environments to find lost enforcers or civilians after riots, explosions or the like.

Mox was held back from graduating with the other junior enforcers - mostly because of his zaunite background, which required further background checks - but also because of his lacking skills in reading and writing. He graduated alone, half a year after his classmates, and is usually paired with a senior officer when patrolling or standing guard. He has yet to work a shift without being assigned a handler. His patrols are scheduled mostly during the night, when his eyes can see, but sometimes also during the day, during which he uses an eye cover and is generally blind due to light sensitivity.

Anglerfish-women can speak, though with a distinctively guttural, inhuman voice. Anglerfish males can make stray noises, but has generally underdeveloped vocal chords not suited for speech. Generally, anglerfish-people are a non verbal species.

Mox, having transitioned during his growing years, can say a word or two with great effort, but with a generally slurred, somewhat incomprehensible pronunciation.

Mox is trained in both visual and physical sign language. (He has been asked kindly but firmly not to attempt vocal speech as his voice tends to unsettle his coworkers and the general public in Piltover. He sometimes follows this request.)

Despite his enforcer-training, Mox hates firearms, and is generally very afraid of all kind of weaponry. He will go a long way to stay out of all kinds of physical conflict. If he’s forced to use a firearm, he will purposely stall the shot, which has resulted in problems with other enforcers. Mox is generally seen as somewhat of a coward.

Mox has an underlying frustration with Zaun, having been raised in an isolated commune to feel lesser than for his lack of interest in physical combat and brawling. Due to the anglerfish peoples closed off nature, he’s seen very little of Zaun, and has yet to understand who the true oppressor really is. He believes it is a city thriving on violence, and felt a sense of pride joining the “opposite force” when he was recruited to be an enforcer. He has not yet realised that he himself is now a direct reason to why Zaun has to fight in the first place.

He naively believes that by simply guiding troops and choosing to stall shots, he can choose to avoid the issue of violence altogether.

Mox is, of course, wrong about all of this, and will have to find that out the hard way. 😌 it will not be a pleasant lesson for him to learn.

Mox’s true goal is to help people. He thrives as a search and rescue guide and navigator, leading other enforcers through dark rubble and finding trapped civilians in collapsed buildings and the like.

Mox is a flawed character with a lot of promised character growth!

and I! Love! Him!!!

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BONUS Steb and Mox are intended future boyfriends. Except absolutely not yet because Steb is sometimes assigned as Mox’ handler and Mox is afraid of him. 😌

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LOOK AT THIS RAAAHH 🦅

When the boyfriend draws the two of you in the current obsession universe 😔🫶

My little peppercorn @onepeppercorn drew these two AMAZING portraits of us in the arcane style a while back soooo I had to follow suit and make these of us!! There was never a question about who of us would be from Piltover (him) and who would be from Zaun (me) but I had to do both versions!! Also don’t TALK to me about geometrical shapes on outfits I don’t want to see them EVER AGAIN

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MmmmMmmMm I LoV E

Wow I really hate painting.

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GhAAAA I love sm

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I want this tattooed on my body unironically

Scraped knees... Taking your human boyfriend cave diving is not the safest idea! ((but don't worry Jayce's mask is just off screen in his hand I promise))

Lines under the cut

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STEB + SCAR

Because they fine af and I haven’t seen enough art of them. + a little Steb doodle study because he’s a cutie patootie.

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And I’ll do it again (and again and again) 👏

SO GLAD TO SEE MORE FANART FROM IT BC DESERVED

Science of the Soul chapter 1 has been out 24h and it has TWO fanarts? Excuse me???

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I think I'll upload an art chapter tomorrow. I'm shaking lol

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SCIENCE OF THE SOUL

Another JayVik ArcanexAvatar drawing based on @space-blue ‘s fic that I’m linking right here!! It’s brilliant so far and has me ditching responsibilities.

We don’t have to talk about Jayce in this one, but Viktor turned out nice 😌👌

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VIKTOR (+ a Jayce lmao)

ALRIGHT time to try get back on here ever so slowly. Starting with an ArcanexAvatar crossover that @space-blue hurled my way with their amazing art so I had to jump on it too because ? Yes ?

Couldn't be asked to do proper clothing so apologise for that.

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