#Asura Engineer

[smokinsid]

Synchroneer Enid: Tenured professor of Relative Extraplanar Access, Penetration, Egress, and Research, or REAPER Studies, for the College of Synergetics. The successful one in the family. She's seen the world turn inside out and had lunch on rocks floating in the alchemical abyssal zone between realms. Fearless, unflappable, and always prepared with a backup plan for her backup plan. Ma & Pa's favorite. Her ambition is matched only by the heights to which she piles her thick, gorgeous hair- she's the first in a generation not to start going bald right after puberty.

Troubador Rucks: Enid's daughter. Freewheeling poet and musician working hard for an easy living. Flunked out of the College of Dynamics after spending too much time doodling on her reports. Sailed away to Cantha seeking her fortune, only to fall in with the fisherfolk of a village frequently assailed by naga. Cobbled together a "motivational" combat style based on yelling and swinging a stick around. Loves with her whole heart, even if it's not a good idea.

Sidney "Smokin' Sid" Figleaf: Enid's estranged older brother. Late night host of Smoke Signals, on 103.3 KRUE, Venlin Vale Radio. Married a gorgeous Sylvari who says he "makes her laugh," he spent a good long time working on the docks beneath Rata Sum after flunking out of the College of Statics in his first year for, quote, "stickin' stuff up my nose when they didn't want me to." His career as a journalist picked up during the Pact's assault on Orr, where he found himself using radio equipment to report on the war back to the mainland. Now he's trying to live a more comfortable life, and only smokes two packs of unfiltered Shadhavar Wides a day.

The gang's all here! Coming to a Super Adventure Box near you!

[golden-golem]

[starlightsuncrow]

To everyone’s suprise i DO have a tiny rat <3 and their tiny golem assistants Trying to find how to draw them tho is another pair of hands

[guardian-instincts-bad]

okay none of this is new information but as usual i am thinking about gorrik and arenanet just. really never considered the timeline of his life and the implications of that at all, huh

like, okay, for eod you needed him to have a relationship to ankka and you needed ankka to have connections to the aetherblades, so you threw them both in thaumanova, fine

except. thaumanova. which blew up in 1324.

and no, we don't have a canon age for gorrik. but we know taimi's age, that she was friends with blish, and that blish is older than gorrik

now. taimi didn't know that the brothers had joined the inquest. which means either they'd kept it a secret from her, or more likely, it happened after they lost touch

taimi was born in 1313, meaning that the absolute oldest she could have been when she last saw them, is ten

now sure, taimi skipped a couple years, she's a prodigy even among asura - but age really matters when you're in single digits. for blish to be a friend, rather than a mentor, he can't be much older than maybe four years above her? i'd put that as the reasonable upper limit, they could be closer

(i'd also honestly guess that gorrik is a bit younger than taimi, given a) how much he looks up to blish, and b) that taimi prior to s4 only thought of him as blish's weird little brother, they weren't friends. and again, at that young, age matters - if you're 7, your friend is 10, and his little brother is 8 or 9, your first connection to him is probably not "oh, the little brother", because he's not little to you)

but assuming im wrong on all of that, just going back to our facts, that puts gorrik at the most about 2-3 years older than taimi

which means that the age we're looking at, for joining the inquest, thaumanova, all the stuff with ankka... he was somewhere between 9 and 13. could be even younger but im giving him the benefit of the doubt

gorrik says he never thought about ankka romantically and i believe him, but if there was ever anything there from her side, it was definitely a kiddie's first crush kinda thing, like oh we are a boy and a girl who are best friends clearly this is what romance means

because both of them were so fucking young

god knows spending her teenage years in the aetherblades was not great for ankka's everything, and by the time we find gorrik and blish in bug in the system, they've been working for the inquest for at least 8 years

that's almost half his life, at that point. working for an organisation that the thaumanova fractal and rata primus make incredibly clear does not value the lives of its workers in any way at all - they'll feed you to their latest experiment just for standing there, and gorrik wasn't just keeping his head down and going along with it, gorrik was actively sabotaging their research when he morally disagreed with it

(and this isn't even getting into why they joined the inquest in the first place, which i will bet anything i own on being because of blish's illness and needing the technology to save him)

and to their credit, i do think this comes across in bug in the system! because if you go back to early gorrik, first half of s4, having played through the rest of the story? the difference is shocking, like he is so distrusting and snide and defensive as hell of his brother, he talks like he expects you to attack him or blish at any moment

but then they never do anything with that ever again, and like, i love all the new gorrik content, genuinely i do, but arenanet there are layers to this character that you have entirely forgotten about, and god i wish we had a story that actually explored that

[couple-o-commanders]

A Captain and A Commander share a moment <3

Art by Via

[sushisketching]

IO FORGOT MY ASURA

yeah im just out here wildin' with my art posts as usual

[mmigrainee]

[bluebudgie]

Alright gw2 peeps, here's one for all of you with a lot of alts:

All your characters of the same class (e.g. all your rangers) are stuck together in an escape room.

Which of your "class groups" is off the worst and who gets the job done with no problem?

[ohpollenpowder]

Part 6 of our lovely [VS] (NA) party!! Lemme know if yours is here!

Rama With No Hat Captn Mai Trin Laika Blindwraith Jon Garfield [AUX] @guildwuff2 Artificer Lucasta @catmanderratmander Qirri Tinkerfist [OOPS] @ratasum Ambrose Wolfsbane [ily] @commander-gloryforge

Bamboozle The Clown [AoE] @tequatls-favorite-spoon Mínister Caudecus Finnegän [FoF] (I had to crop the photo but still had to include them, okay?)

Falconer Selena [TBBP] Freja Owlsong [VS] @leafofkudzu

Liath Slaughterclaw [OOPS] @ratasum Magiscientist Kudo @catmanderratmander Ragni Alwyn [FOOL] Rad Corduroys [HELL] Rhithwir [TDF] Henry J Harker @kamiporterbridges

[starlightcleric]

Breaking my tumblr break for a moment because I need someone else to appreciate that my Guild Wars 2 asuras are named "Vimvi" and "Gedit."

[arob-jhendottir]

my two asura pcs! my lil skrunklies

Drexx (he/him)

a retired pre-college professor, loved interacting with and guiding progeny during his career

colleagues with Mamii way back when they were still studying in their respective colleges

prefers to work alone in his own laboratory/supply center at the Applied Development Lab, the Commodix Laboratory

suffers from Parkinson's, mainly affecting his forearms and hands. created B0LT (Benefactor 0: Laboratory Automaton) to assist him in everyday work and in tasks that require extra assistance

paternal, kind, professional, and patient

Mamii (she/her)

a Synergetics researcher that transfers between multiple krewes, not taking them very seriously

colleagues with Drexx way back when they were still studying in their respective colleges

a widow; had a late wife named Toraa, a peacemaker who lost to the Mordrem at the Silverwastes; graduated the college of Synergetics, joined krewes, and built their own laboratory together (in which Mamii occupies by herself in present time)

joined the Vigil as a 'calling,' mainly driven by her loss. met associates and formed a guild with other Vigil thieves that patrol Metrica Province

cunning, stubborn, decisive, and resourceful

[smokinsid]

spear is the best thing that's ever happened to sid

you can reach the bad guys

AND hit 'em!

[gristlegrinder]

CURSE OF MY OBLIVION.

khismat, my commander from a bad timeline. instead of stealing joko’s army from him, she bargains with kralkatorrik in order for them to stop balthazar together — becoming his champion in the process. and, like, it works, but...

[skrittposts]

and that’s the (piping hot) tea sis ☕🐁

gender status: unstoppable 🏳️‍⚧️💙🐁

[magiritsa]

Tried a new style with my elementalist and her little unpainted doll

[guildwarsgirl]

So a while back, I made a post detailing that the descendants of some of my GW2 characters formed an adventuring guild together, it was dubbed Fate's Razor (Special thanks to Rytlock who hated that name in LWS3). Well, due to a falling out with a former friend, I have decided to change the paternity of the guild's asuran member, Grexx.

His father was formerly my friend asura, Gabriel, his mother is my asura, Zmikku. But since we're no longer on speaking terms, I've created a new father for him.

Meet Engineer Riaz! I have yet to create him in game, same with Grexx, but I wanted to show off his design so bad! Praise be to Aestheticians in major cities like Rata Sum, as I sadly didn't have a Total Makeover Kit in my bank. Below the photo of Riaz is a photo of my boy Grexx for comparison. he has his mother's brown-ish hair and his father's eyes.