#HHHHHH i love them

[saintchaser]

“good morning, sirius,” euphemia said, stepping into the living room with a cup of steaming tea in her hand. “have you slept well?” she asked, sitting down next to him, sighing as she did so.

“fine, yeah,” sirius replied, glancing over to the window for the fifth time already.

“nervous about getting your OWL results?” she asked. “because if so, i’m sure you did great. james says you’re very intelligent, and do great in school, so there is nothing you should worry about, really.”

“has he now?” he absentmindedly replied, fiddling with his hands.

euphemia placed a reassuring hand on his leg. “it’s going to be fine, sirius. and even if your grades will be lower than you expect them to be, that does not make you any less worthy of love, respect, or happiness. you’ll be able to do better in your next exams.”

sirius glanced at her, blinking as if he was a deer in the headlights.

“would you like a cup of tea?” euphemia asked, groaning as she sat up. “sorry,” she laughed quietly, “old age does that to a woman. fleamont says i’m as beautiful as i used to be years ago, though. raspberry?”

“sure,” sirius answered, looking over to her, putting on the kettle. “you’re a pretty woman, still.”

“thank you, darling,” she beamed, “i could say the same about you. you have definitely gotten good genes, and i can tell you that longer hair suits you very well.”

“thank you,” he smiled, the corners of his eyes crinkled, “it took me a while.”

“i can tell you are putting effort in it,” euphemia hummed, rummaging through the cupboard. “it looks very good, you know.”

“may i help you?” sirius asked, suddenly jumping off the couch and looking at her.

“oh, no, don’t worry, but thank you for the generous offer.” she smiled, waving a hand dismissively. “i will be back shortly, just need to let it settle and i will come back to you.”

sirius sat back down, although a bit reluctantly, and euphemia smiled. she was happy to finally have him there, to have him have someone who loves him right, like a mother is supposed to.

[w1lmuttart]

They are so cool what-

[rai-draws-stuff]

I’m incoherent oh my god 

[feroluce]

So I'm well aware this is probably a case of "it isn't that deep" but I love looking at all the fiddly little accessories and bits and bobs of Hoyo designs and trying to justify them. Sampo's is particularly funny, because. What even is all that dkkxjdkd

His outfit has so many straps wrapped around him, like they're restraining or holding something in to keep it from bursting at the seams, and not all of them look like they're even connected to anything! But I'd like to think they are useful in certain situations, like if Sampo takes a hit out in the Fragmentum from one of the monsters.

He's hurt, his arm is bleeding, but he is ALMOST done, he just needs a couple more things to fulfill his quota to Natasha and he doesn't want to turn around and go back now. So Sampo frees a strap from his shirt, winds it around his arm above the cut, pulls it tight with his free hand and his teeth. He'll treat it properly in a minute, once he's done scavenging.

There's also the strange chains that resemble snake spines. Given how they're way longer in his splash art and the way they wind around-

I'd like to think they can extend somehow, and Sampo can use them to scale heights. Firefly clocks him as a covert fighter without even being within 20 feet of him, so it would make sense for Sampo to have ways to get around that don't involve usual/obvious methods, like stairs. Think assassin skill sets.

He's also the only one known to be able to get between the Underground and the overworld, and while he's pretty tight-lipped about his method, having some sort of device to help traverse vertical heights is probably insanely helpful there.

And the little metal ornaments across the backs of his wrists! You can see it a bit better in his reference sheet (everyone say thanks @/dragaliareferencearchive!) as opposed to his splash art-

they aren't flat, they stick up a bit off his arms. And so I wonder if Gepard has ever gone to arrest Sampo, and found that they interfere with his handcuffs haha

The ornaments don't match, the one on his right wrist is actually shorter and doesn't extend down to the back of his hand. Which probably doesn't make it nearly as annoying for handcuffs as the left one, but it would make sense for Sampo to have them like that, since he seems to be right-handed! I think a certain proficiency in being ambidextrous is necessary to dual wield daggers like he does, but. Sampo uses his right hand to

hold his blade in his splash art

throw his blade in his skill

play/show off with his dagger in his idle

lob smoke bombs in his technique

cross over his heart when he bows

and to flip his bangs during the cutscene where he saves the trailblazers from Bronya

So a shorter guard on his right hand would help him keep his wrist's flexibility to be able to do all that unimpeded (loving the thought now that Sampo is naturally right-handed and still better with it, but he practiced constantly with his left until he could do things passably ambidextrous).

I also love them because I wonder if they're in the perfect place to help block a hit, along with the chain wrapped around his left forearm.

Like I love the image of a hired killer soundlessly sneaking up behind Sampo in some shady dark alley, knife sloooooowly raising, and then all at once, they strike!

And instead of feeling the blade sink into his back, they get the unpleasant resonating of metal-on-metal shivering up their arm and rattling their bones, because Sampo has turned around at the last second and raised his crossed his arms to let the knife glance off the guards on his wrists.

And the mercenary is left to realize that oh, they are fucked.

[lammydraws]

narilamb for my soul

[gunsatthaphan]

how it started 📿 // how it ended 👔

[sysig]

Hello! I feel like rereading Vargas these days so, I'd like to request some Edgar, Scriabin interaction (maybe one of them being vulnerable), if that's okay?

Day 14 - Stop making your lack of imagination my problem ò///q

[theangrypomeranian]

what, my canon rarepair? nah I'm SO normal about them, I swear!

see?? I even looked at them and didn't cry!

narrator: that was a lie, she proceeded to stare at pictures of them and sob about how much she loves them for hours

[cerpiscool]

Ethan and silver but slightly older and I also drew them with some of my design hcs

[hoenn-pride]

today i am thinking about hhh… how your rival picks the type your starter is weakest to and archie specializes in water type pokemon…….

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

LIVES WERE RUINED

[mazojo]

Never in my life ever will I ever speak about anything ever again

[nonbinary-arsonists]

fairy boys

[lyxchen]

Look I know my gender is a bit weird and I'm not fully sure what to identify as but I am pretty comfortable in being afab and percieved as a girl. I like my name and I like my she/her pronouns, I tried other pronouns too but they didn't feel right and so I'd say mostly I'm comfortable with my gender. But. Why the fuck do I always get such massive gender envy for male characters??? And male characters only!! I don't get it

[artistfingers]

kuroo & kenma studies ❤️🐱🖤

[turnipoddity]

cupiko brainrot has not left my head

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