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Corbin, Scion of Morrigan for Scion: becoming as gods ttrpg

Sniper for hire

According to information I found, Morrigan combined roles of war deity and fate deity, showing up in dreams of warriors who were going to die in battle soon. As soon as I learned about this, I thought her Scion should be a sniper who sends messages to the targets, notifying them of their impending doom in cryptic ways. Do you see the vision? Just like his mother, Corbin is an omen of death, but in his case it's self-fulfilling...

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I like to make myself suffer, so I took my gacha games OCs and tried to draw them in artstyles of games they're from (as close as I could get to, at least)

Disclaimer: many of these games have a lot going on in their lore, and I'm just a silly creature, so there will be some inaccuracies in lore of characters for sure x')

Disney: Twisted Wonderland

Horkos de Kalliste

Most of twst characters are based on villains from classical Disney movies. Horkos, however was based on villain from another animation studio: he is inspired by Eris from Sinbad by DreamWorks. So yeah, he's a troublemaker, playing devil's advocate, disagreeing with everyone for funsies and pitting friends against eachother when he can. His one redeeming quality is that he also never ever breaks promises.

Reverse 1999

Alexei Kashtanov

Alexei is an American spy in USSR during Cold War. That's it that's the man. His cover blew up and the day was going really badly for him, but in this AU or something that's when the Storm was coming and Vertin took him to St. Pavlov Foundation. Where he once again became a spy, this time spying on Manus Vindictae.

Limbus Company

Winston

So you might already guess that Winston is inspired by 1984 by George Orwell. Employee of the year, asking zero questions and obeying authorities to absurd extent. The easiest way to make him lose his mind is to give him conflicting orders and watch as he struggles to fulfil both. Speaks weirdly (Newspeak, if you know you know). Has a pet lab rat he named Big Brother, because I love my references a little messed up. Man, I wonder what awful things happened to make him so unwilling to express his will and opinions... (His story is a bit different from book Winston, of course, but is also similar enough).

Honkai: Star Rail

Aetio

(Rogue) doctor of chaos OC! Aetio's whole planet was blown up in war, with her and a soldier from another side of conflict being the only survivors. For a while they thought they were the last people in the world, since their planet was unaware of all the stuff going on in the broader universe. And then they learned that the war which was their entire life, their whole culture, their loved ones were nothing in scope of universe.

So Aetio found her new meaning in life in trying to find universal formula of resolving existential crisis, travelling worlds and trying to understand what makes people get up in the mornings. Her companion from her original planet became her friend, and then he joined Memokeepers, btw

Morimens

Laurel

An Awakened, loosely based on Lovecraft's short story "The Temple". Laurel is hailed from Atlantis, which was destroyed in war, so he really, really hates everything and everyone connected to it. His silver core was first discovered during one of wars, sadly, and his first Keeper was a soldier. Angry that his Keeper took part in war and not taking anything for an excuse, Laurel killed him, completely uncaring about the fact that he'll die next if another Keeper doesn't find him. And then it happened several more times, before his silver core was finally found by Keeper we play as.

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My sillies. I posted a bit of info and another art here. But in short, this is my crack-but-also-serious OTP of Imbued from Hunter: the Reckoning and Tzimisce from Vampire: the Masquerade... Yeah... Some yapping about lore™ under the cut

And Eudokia, or simply Dunya, is a Tzimisce fledgling with surprisingly high Humanity. She was studying medicine in uni and caught attention of her sire with her project for local competition. It got declined from the competition for being way too weird and out of pocket, but Dunya's sire liked her ideas about human body... After Embrace, Dunya's sire tried to ease Dunya to Sabbat's ideas slowly, knowing that Dunya will need at least a few years to radicalize enough for Sabbat, and that if Dunya's sire rushes, Dunya will respond to Sabbat's violent nature very negatively. So once again, Dunya lived with her sire for a few years, slowly losing her humanity, but not as much as Sabbat vampires probably should.

Mstislav, or simply Slava, is an Imbued of Judge Creed. When he was young, his father got turned into a vampire, granting Slava his Imbuing when they met after the fact. And then Slava's mother got turned by his father as well, because father was desperate to keep his family... Slava's turn never came, for both his parents were destroyed for breaching Masquerade and unauthorized Embrace, and Slava got adopted by his aunt, quickly figuring out that he needs to get a grasp on supernatural and how to deal with it if he wants to live, soon finding hunter.org and finding himself a mentor there.

And during those years Dunya accidentally found freshly captured Slava, whose hunt for Dunya's sire went very, very badly, in the basement. And Dunya was horrified. She wasn't as alright with idea of capturing and torturing humans as her had sire hoped afterall. A pity.

So these two banded together, ran away from Dunya's sire and now they try to survive in another city. They live together with Ananasi and Qualmi from Werewolf: the Apocalypse, because I made these characters when I didn't give much damns about common sense (and I kinda still don't in this case, these guys are my "I'm cringe but I'm free" zone, so I forgive myself for this crossover-abomination).

In short, Slava and Dunya like eachother. And sometimes they hunt eachother for sport because they have to train their survival skills :]

And these picture depicts one of such nights when hunt ended in Slava's defeat. Don't worry about him, Dunya will bully him a bit, then drink a bit of his blood, before they finally return home while holding hands. Not before Dunya vicissitudes her claws back to fingers, of course 🥰

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My Fate phase goes on 😌

Featuring a bunch of characters from all over Fate universe because I cannot be contained apparently

Starting with my favourite Disney princess, Robin Hood.

And then Gil and Hakunon from Extra CCC. Gil somehow has all of my favourite sprites from any Fate media. I try to redraw them and I fail miserably, but at least I'm having fun. And Hakunon is too precious to be left out. So here they are.

And then Diarmuid being treated like the babygirl he is. And Artoria living her best life as well

And then switch to something more moody incomes... Yeah, this artdump is all over the place. Anyways, I really like Sanson. A lot. I'm weak to bright blue eyes, long coats and characters deeply intertwined with death.

And now, ❗cw: blood❗

I saw that one post about a hawaiian shirt covered in blood again and immediately thought of Cu.

That's it. Thanks for viewing my art :]

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As a way to go even more insane during finals, I got myself into Fate. I'm not well-versed in all the media (obviously), but I liked these people enough to make an attempt of sketching them despite artblock. So yeah. Here is a sketchdump.

I wish these three interacted more in canon. I need a season of dark comedy sitcom of Lancer thirdwheeling The Bastards™. It'll break canon timeline and common sense, but it has potential to be fun. Hilarious, even.

And this is a poor redraw of my favourite sprite from fsn. Very normal and sane expression, Gil. Not a hint of maniacal glint in your eyes (😭😭😭)

Some flying heads. Lancers from both FSN and FZ are probably my favourites in all Fate for now, but their designs consist of stuff I have troubles drawing x')

And Artoria is based on image from pinterest.

I struggle with drawing so much lately ugh

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I've storytelled Changeling the Lost one-shot!

Players were changelings, still in Arcadia, who one "day" awoke to their usual place becoming a vast ocean with ruins of modern buildings sticking out here and there. Their Keepers disappeared, and so they decided this is their chance to escape Arcadia for good.

Stökk, Raud and Tauma – three changelings from different times and places, who banded together in Arcadia to become some sort of pirates. Only they aren't unnecessary cruel, so they easily switched from trying to rob players into cooperating with them to get... rocks. Because normal rocks are rare in this water-concrete post-apocalypse. And because they are a frailty of one of local True Fae, Mortician.

Stökk is a way too good swimmer who swam into Arcadia while trying to cross a dangerous river. Raud is an actual pirate from 18th century, who was obsessed with finding new land and eventually found Arcadia. And Tauma is simply a marine biologist who looked into sea too eagerly, bringing attention of True Fae onto herself. By the end of one-shot, player saved this trio alongside themselves.

Pythia and Jules. Pythia is an oracle who forsaw his own death not long before players arrived. Pythia is a former lover of Mourner, local True Fae, and they fall in love easily, most of their beloved dying the moment they move on, either to heartbreak, to environment or to jealous Mortician. Pythia survived due to his insane luck and sharp mind, and for a long time he was trying to help people Mourner dragged to Arcadia. Fruitlessly, unfortunately. Players prevented his death and helped him escape with them in the end.

Jules is a new beloved of Mourner, who has spent only several hours in Arcadia, hence his human appearance. He didn't understand what was going on, thinking it to be a mere dream. Pythia helped him survive and hid him from Mourner, before the truth came out and Mourner tried to drown everyone in their tears. That's where Pythia was about to die, and Jules finally understood that this not a mere dream afterall. Players got him out as well.

And now onto True Fae of this game:

Mortician

A Leviathan-type creature (literally, ocean boils around them) using their appendage with human-like scales to pretend to be less of a threat than they are. Madly "in love" with Mourner and spent their days imprisoning Deceased, their first beloved and another True Fae, before Deceased escaped and the cycle began anew. All three Fae were having something like fun leaving in this cycle, before Mourner broke it by falling in love with a mortal human, thus making other two realise humans exist as well.

Mortician chased after players, trio of pirates, Pythia and Jules (all crowded on one boat) in the game's finale. But players managed to slow Mortician down with a candy that was inedible for anyone who wished to harm someone (it's a reworked goblin fruit from the 2e book) and rocks. Yeah. And when the bastard trashed around, one of waves created carried everyone out of Arcadia safety. Hooray.

Mourner

A True Fae who started this whole mess when they began to take in human lovers, making Mortician and Deceased realise humans existed in the first place. After that all three began capturing humans somewhat regularly for their own reasons.

Mourner almost drowned everyone in their tears upon realising Pythia lied to them about whereabouts of Jules, but players distracted her with Deceased, their original lover, and escaped on the nearby boat.

Deceased

Mourner's original lover, a True Fae who got bored of being constantly imprisoned by Mortician on their "beloved's" behalf long time ago and especially after Mourner starting taking lovers among humans.

Deceased seeked to leave Arcadia, or at least this part of it, for a long time. Players initially assumed Deceased was another changeling and agreed to make a deal with them, thus learning about the way out, but promising to assist Deceased and not to leave them when faced with trouble from other Gentry.

In the end, upon realising what Deceased truly was, players fed them another reworked goblin fruit, fish who made Deceased lose their fear. So Deceased went to get revenge from Mourner, and players escaped, technically not breaking the bargain.

And lastly, a guy who greeted players upon them emerging on their boat in Amsterdam's canals at night.

Adlar, King of Summer in local freehold. He hasn't actually been to Arcadia, but because he is a son of mortal woman and banished Gentry (so-called Charlatan) (a fact Adlar abhors and hides to the best of his ability) he is still technically a Changeling stuck in this whole changeling business. He welcomed newcomers in and invited them to local sport complex, owned by Summer Court, to stay the night, and the game ended on this happy note.

I actually added him the night before the actual game, because one of my players, who played with me before, asked if he'd appear. And I said "oh yeah! of course! I've totally accounted for that!" and went to draw him at 1 am. That's why Adlar's sprite looks better than previous ones, which were ready a month before the game. But I like this, since Adlar appears in reality, unlike all others whom players saw in Arcadia.

There was also a map, drawn by Raud in-universe, but Tumblr doesn't allow more than 10 images per post, so yeah. That's it. Thanks for looking at my guys.

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Unknown Armies OCs! I'm waiting for an opportunity to grab the book, for now I've made some guys just based on vibes™ and lore I've gathered from internet. This game is built on a very appealing to me idea of mages who have to have some weird ideas about how things work and who have to make some huge sacrifices for a chance to affect the world. It kinda feels like magick asks too much from its users. And yet, magick users keep going out of determination, desperation and a strong belief that they can make something better out of the world. And, even more important, that they have right to do that.

Yeah, I love Mage the Ascension, why?

(Writers of this game are definitely connected to Delta Green and if I'm not mistaken are connected to World of Darkness in general and Mage the Ascension in particular. Like, they worked on these games. And yeah, it shows all over UA. But still, Unknown Armies is definitely it's own thing. A thing that on its own sounds really cool and interesting to me. So yeah. I want to get the book.)

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Self-indulgent CtD post with guys from my previous CtD posts 😌

Click on pic for better quality, you know the drill

Starting with redcaps at WcDonalds. Yeah, they are being way too civil for redcaps having a snack. They're doing their best. Don't say redcaps can't be polite.

The most normal local Unseelie Court meeting. From left to right we have sluagh, redcap (the very same from prev picture) and a selkie. And on the bottom we have a rare case of Unseelie piskie, made even rarer by the fact that this is the first time he stands out in a crowd. Only because he was taken by surprise, give him a second and he'll adapt.

Oh, and Tisha is a sluagh who was in actual crime gangs in some of his past lives, so yeah. He's in the next picture too, in fact.

Satyr and sluagh being frens. That's it :D

My otp among my changelings is these two. An autumn sidhe of house Liam and a redcap (the very same once again, yeah). Don't be surprised by this "noble x rebel" duo, both sidhe and redcap are on their way to overthrow local sidhe government :]

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Delta Green OCs! I want to play so badly 😔

Today I had a realisation that Wilt, red-haired guy, was a psychiatrist before Delta Green, which means that he's the only one in his cell who hadn't killed another human being before becoming a part of Program's business 🤡

Meanwhile, his cell: an FBI agent (lady in green sweater), a military veteran (blonde dude with sunglasses), and a former organised crime associate (lady with ponytail).

So I imagine Wilt wasn't as chill as the other three when they decided that getting rid of an Delta Green outlaw was the only way of doing their job at protecting population from knowledge on supernatural.

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Remember my self-indulgent MtAs shitpost? I drew people from there again.

Irwin is actually a middle child, and both his siblings are still siding with Technocracy. Rarely, but strongly, Irwin gets emotions™ about this fact.

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"Passed stage"

(Some older art I haven't posted before and lore under the cut)

So. This is Tulip. My Celestial Chorus NWO OC.

He was born in a family of christian choristers, had a crisis of faith somewhere during teenage years, and met a girl his age, who had an answer to every existential question he asked ready. These two became fascinated with eachother, but, unfortunately for a person who would soon become agent Tulip, the girl craved power, and decided to find it in the worst place. She was aiming to become one of Nephandi, not fully understanding what that means, but still.

One unfortunate night she and not-yet-Tulip sneaked out to meet with actual Nephandi, and that was the night Technocracy had finally decided to end that group of those. And two young idiots got caught in the crossfire. Tulip's girlfriend was proclaimed dead (wrongly, as Tulip would learn in the future; she survived that night, went down her chosen path and is now a proper Nephandus), the Nephandi were dead for real, and not-yet-Tulip was taken by Technocracy, who decided that he wasn't too far gone and would be better of with them, rather then Reality Deviants. So they re-programmed him, and agent Tulip was born.

Tulip remembers very little of his actual past, and what little information he has was given to him by Technocracy, so in his eyes Tulip was rescued from a cult or something. Still, he can't help but feel unease at the question about how much of him is "real" him and how much is fake, a tool, a Technocracy-made construct. And he can't help but be sympathetic towards some of Reality Deviants. That's why he is not very trusted by Technocracy and has gotten stuck in an "amalgam of losers": team of people, all of whom aren't very reliable in Technocracy's eyes. Tulip isn't terribly upset, though. He loves his amalgam. And they are doing well enough for Technocracy to tolerate them. For now.

That's mostly it. Now some more, previously posted art with Tulip in it. First picture showcases the aforementioned "amalgam of losers", with some old designs, unfortunately.

And finally, another old piece I've never posted here

❗Slightly suggestive

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May I interest you in messy sketch of my MtA OC? Some lore was here, but in short, this is Melanie, she is from Cult of Ecstasy, and, well, she has lots of survivor's guilt and grief.

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I'm tired. Have an attempt to find an appearance for OC in three parts.

His name is Adeth. He's a part of story called "Obituary of eternal". He's living in the last sanctuary dedicated to the deity of humanity. The sanctuary was remade into prison, and yeah, Adeth is there because he had made a huuuuge mistake in the past which had almost wiped out humanity. He was granted forgiveness and permission to leave a long time ago, but he's still staying in the Sanctuary, because he doesn't want to leave due to *reasons*.

Here are Adeth and the deity of humanity before old scores were settled and Adeth was forgiven. Fanfact, cipher in the left corner translates to "vae victis", or "woe to the conquered".

Adeth and the deity's relationship have evolved a lot since then. Nowadays the deity of humanity itself tries to gently nudge Adeth and his allies to leave and live as normal people, but it hasn't succeeded so far. Partially due to Adeth's fear of both changing and returning exactly to who he was, partially due to Adeth's desire to suffer as a revenge to the deity, who doesn't want him to.

Adeth is a protagonist of story through which I try to figure out meaning of life and find value in human existence, but mostly I try to have fun and finish it someday. But now it's still in a very beginning stage.

Also, Adeth is basically this post:

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I'm too tired to adapt this wordplay in English. It's something roughly like "To quote the Great Inquisition, we are fire", using "fire" as a slang term for being cool. It's stupid, historically inaccurate and referencing a pretty tragic part of human history, yeah. But it suits these two well. I'll talk about them under the cut.

If you're new here, then firstly meet Rezul, blonde man. He's a former MiB who has switched sides and is now with Cult of Ecstasy. And he is desperately trying to cover up his past.

Enter Lemuel, red-haired man. He's a Chorister (he was on second sketch here, actually). He does have a stereotypical pop-culture "inquisitor" theme to him, so yeah, he's a cold-blooded bastard. Lemuel also pretends to like his colleagues from other traditions, but privately despises everyone whose beliefs or lifestyle are "wrong" from his perspective. Which makes up pretty much all Mages in his vicinity.

As you can guess, he's not a fan of Cult of Ecstasy and their "sex, drugs and rock-and-roll" schtick (even through they are much more than that, but it's not like Lemuel has ever studied their ways). He's not a fan of Technocracy either (since while not being specifically anti-religious, Technocracy is pretty atheistic by itself).

So when a new Ecstatic with weird tech-savviness and mirrorshades appears in city seemingly out of nowhere, Lemuel is instantly suspicious. He figures out Rezul's backstory pretty fast, but he doesn't have any substantial proof to make Rezul a threat in eyes of other mages to justify acting against Rezul. So for now these two are locked in a perpetual mind-game, where Lemuel is seeking of a way to get rid of Rezul without staining his hands, his soul and, most importantly, his reputation; and Rezul, knowing full-well that Lemuel has figured him out, tries not to give him any real information to confirm his suspicions.

The boys are having fun, yeah (they both hate this, the only person having fun here is me >:))

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HUGO GASH 🦷💉🧵

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Quartz Crumbs of Wyrm's Teeth (a Dusk Abyssal OC of mine) and Demise's Elder Brother (a Deathlord OC of mine). I struggled with Demise's design so much. And now I finally can draw something akin to him yay

So, Demise is Quartz's Deathlord. And he's a bastard. He uses all of Quartz's weaknesses to make him loyal, and it's not like Quartz needs much – he led such a life that now even a glimpse of affection can win him over. And Demise wisely gives him so much more, treating Quartz as a younger sibling in need of care and guidance. Which also means that whenever Quartz fails, he has to face Demise's cold wrath, which is equal parts painful and terrifying. But hey! Who cares, if Demise takes care of Quartz's wounds and gives him a headpat afterwards? Definitely not Quartz.

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Two of my sluagh guys somewhere in their past lives, but I was too tired to design them properly :')

On the left we have Tycho (or Tisha as a nickname) and on the right we have Yerofey. You can learn more about Yerofey's lore here. But in short, Tisha spent the 90s in criminal gangs, and Yerofey spent them as an underground doctor, so this two definitely met despite living in different, albeit neighbouring, cities.

And let's not forget about High Tea. With Tisha being non-speaking and Yerofey being shy even for a sluagh and absent-minded most of the time, these too probably stick together during High Tea. And then they proceed to never meet and communicate with eachother outside of that. Which probably makes them besties by sluagh standards anyways :D