#I love butterfly cloak ngl

[little-demy]

Joanne the Hero has arrived!

Just recently finished drawing Joanne's full body for future references, so here we are! And more about her and her own lore below!

With helmet and cloak:

Colour palette for references:

Her full name is Joanne Blythe Michel, but she never really told anyone her full name so everyone just knew her as Joanne/Joan

She used to work as a courier around Oaklore region, until she signed up as an adventurer when she's 16.

Her father was a rogue adventurer and also her teacher. She learns most of her current skills from him. He also taught her lockpicking and bunch of tricks. He lost his life when Joanne was around 13 while protecting her hometown from wild elementals and monsters.

She stopped training for something after her father's death, but later continue her training under another adventurer from her town.

Her mother came from a family of merchants and hunters/huntresses. She also taughy Joanne survival skill after Joanne told her she's planning to be an adventurers.

During her time heroing around Lore, she started learning how to use different kinds of weapons and ended up becoming well versed with various type of weapons. The only weapons she avoids are bows and arrows, because she finds using them pretty hard thus avoiding them.

While she started off as rogue, she'll later started learning SoulWeaving from Tomix and using them for a while before finally settled mainly for Cryptic.

Her body was littered with scars from all the heroing works and from many battlefields. She mainly felt neutral about them but still somewhat self conscious of it. She always tried to cover as much as she could.

She used to have black hair before the ice incident.

After she thawed from the ice, she almost immediately going back to heroing. If not for Serenity, she probably won't take some rest and overworked herself almost immediately.

She finds the idea that everything around her will keep changing and moving on while she was there and just existing without any changes somewhat pressuring her. After the ice, she slowly changed, losing her naivety yet still the friendly hero of falconreach. Just more desperate to protect her homeland, friends, and family.

Due to the long exposure of magic from the ice, her body also changed. While she didn't grow at all for 7 years, her hair turned grey and her body temperature dropped and now always 35 at average. Due to this she always carried a warming potions around.

Maybe, if Cysero had some kind of heating pads for her to carry around, she'd have those too. I hc Cysero at least sometimes giving her prototype stuff but actually still something that'd be helpful for her no matter how crazy or weird those items are.

She also had severe cryophobia after the ice and now feels less comfortable with cold. She tried to keep up a facade and act like nothing affect her, but her body still reacted to the cold and aleays eant to avoid them. She tried to shrug it off and won't really tell anyone regarding this, thinking that as the Hero, showing weakness will be bad and she couldn't let herself be weak or even make any mistakes.

She never took a step back home after comign out of the ice. After she found out the Rose had bounty for her head for a while, she tried not to come back out of fear of her mother's and grandparents' life. Also considering how she also has some enemies, probably. At least she still sending letters to her mother at least once a month.

After two losses in a row, she almost lost all hope. If not for the talk with Serenity at the end of Calamity, she won't probably find her own peace and realized her own limit as a human.

It took her a while to process the grief, especially when she actually just act like it was never there and never actually process the emotions. Only when she finally had time she tried to embrace it and learn how to went through them.

Joanne usually only sleep for 3 hours. Mainly due to insomnia or nightmares. She also a light sleeper and could easily awake with just a small sound.

Since she's an only child, Joanne always likes the idea of having siblings. She likes to treat someome younger than her as siblings, especially Ash who she aleays thought so fondly as her little brother. (She also hates the fact that now Ash is taller than her tbh)

Don't know if they got them in DF, but if there's a therapist, Joanne is probably in therapy. It took her a long time to actually seek help, at leats after some talks with her friends she finally agreed to see one.

Tbh Joanne surpressed most of her negative memories and emotions by using her own Cryptic power.

My own hc, Joanne later learn how to actually soulweave from Belle in Ravenloss. She's the one who asked her to teach her and the first soulwoven item she made was a scarf, that later she put on Tomix's grave. She also made her own cloak (the current butterfly cloak she used was her own soulwoven item!)

The gauntlets she used are actually her spirit loom. She just used them most of the timea because she likes them and that way she could switch to soulweaver easier, probably.

She also loves children and they are basically Joanne's weakness too. Lynn is probably also the visibe proof of it. After Tea for Three sometimes Joanne met her and willingly become an unpaid babysitter just for Lynn and because she just adored her.

Arc, her dragon is also one of her weakness but she learn how to handle him properly and not to give in.

For now at least she's still doing the hero works. Sometimes still overworking to the point of tiring herself out. But at least she knew she's never alone and always has friends and supports.

[frosted-night]

Toothiana Concept Design Review

As promised, I tried to hunt down every single design of her and I think i got them all. (Or at least most.) It’s the Queen’s turn lets go, starting with her book designs!

According to Joyce, this is one of the earliest designs for Tooth. She started out as a suited human and not as a human-bird hybrid. If you squint you can see a widow’s peak/hairline on her head. She gives me more super hero-like vibes in this one and the peacock feathers are interesting! I can’t say I’m a fan of it. Below is another book design I found that is VERY similar to this one, so I grouped them together.

Rating: 4/10 Glad he made her more bird like.

As a bonus, here is the design for Tooth as a child. Her toy there looks almost like a tooth but I have no idea what it actually is. I like how u can see a tiny curl of her hair under the hat. Otherwise I don’t have a lot of thoughts on this one.

Rating: 4/10 Not a fan but this exists I guess. BUT SHE ALSO HAS A SWORD.

A tooth that appears in the Man In The Moon Picture book. (Heh it almost looks like shes hanging onto Aster’s sleeve here.) I just noticed shes got an F symbol on her bag that she has on the belt of her childhood outfit. She looks kinda angelic here ngl. Very wintery colors. Rating: 6/10 Wish she was more colorful just a little bit

THERE SHE IS. THE FINAL BOOK TOOTH. Her feathers are absolutely stunning and the feather-puffy pants combo is  A LOOK(A good one). The only things I got that bother me is how round her head is at the top. If it had longer feathers that stuck out it’d look a little less weird. And one other thing

Ear Feathers?????? Don’t know why but this AINT A VIBE. Rating: 7/10 looks like a queen and the swords are badass

I cannot stress enough how many movie Tooth designs exist so buckle up.

Starting with a mysterious human looking Tooth, this design surfaced from this post 8 years ago. The original poster claimed it wasn’t from the movie credits and I couldn’t find any other trace of this design so it’s dubious at best. However I included it just in case it was in the movies/plans at some point of production. (I’m a little skeptical but oh well.) I do like how her outfit does look similar to real life outfits of her home region and she just looks gorgeous here.

Rating: Dubiously Canon/10

This one feels more stylistic but damb I gotta appreciate how intricate her feathers look. Looks like she’s right out of a storybook and it’s very appealing.

Rating: 6/10 Not many thoughts just love her

A fascinating one I found in my search. This was one of three designs that had Tooth in a mask but if you squint you can see she has a knife/dagger. So she would have had that blade wielding quirk like her book counterpart. She looks a bit more human in this one(At least in my opinion) The little flared collar is a nice touch that I oddly like. She looks like a fairy queen here for sure. She almost reminds me of a fencer Rating: 5/10 Good but too human

The other masked Tooth! There are, a lot of thoughts I have about this one. The colors are GREAT and so are her wings. Her body however reminds me of the suited Tooth design Joyce had drawn up. It looks almost like shes wearing a shirt with holes in it over a pink one and I just don’t know how to feel about it. Something is just off about this one.

Rating: 3/10 Wings r great throw the rest away

Another rare Tooth. She looks very similar to the one above and still has that mask. Or it could just be her actual head and not a mask this whole time! What a twist. Anyway, given the lighting it’s hard to tell what her base colors were but I’ll work with what we got. She’s a little less colorful looking than the other Tooths so it’s a little disappointing. Her wings are still quite impressive in my opinion.

Rating: 5/10 It’s nice but very one note in this concept image color wise

Now this Tooth is an interesting one. She ditched the bird theming all together and is more butterfly themed. She’s more humanoid here but something about this design just hits a sweet spot for me. It’s very simple but I can’t explain it. Also I’m weak for her head covering/hood(?)

Rating: 8/10 Ignore the very blue white haired Sasuke lookin guy in her arms

Excuse the very poor image quality here. I could only find it in this resolution so we gotta squint on this one. This one.. Call me weak but its one of my favorites. Her puffy pants make a return and they look like actual clothes! Her feather-cloak is a nice touch. I *think* this Tooth has hair if you look close but it’s hard to tell. It works in this design oddly works! Rating: 8/10 No complaints! Just that its so JPEGY AAAAA

Oh man Y’all I

Her energy itself is powerful. This Tooth feels older than the final design and has a very seasoned look to her. Call me a simp I DONT CARE. She’s such a queen here and I can’t get over it

She lives in my head rent free and I will never ask her to pay rent. I’ll PAY HER. If I was forced to pick a favorite Tooth, it’s this one. She has fantasy elements and traits that remind me of an Indian Queen.

Rating: 10/10 Y’all already know i simp for this one I dont need to put anything else here.

The final Tooth having gold feathers to imitate jewelry is just as good so I have no complaints about her. Her eyes are absolutely stunning

They sort of remind me of a mosaic with light shining on it or gemstones even. That and her eyelashes are so on point. I fuckin ADORE THEM. No lash glue needed those are all natural baby. Additionally, she’s very humming bird themed(which is excellent) but her wings actually look more like dragon fly wings

Curious since they are one of(if not the) fastest flying insect. It makes sense when you see how fast Tooth can zip around. It never occurred to me until dragonflies came around this season and I watched them closely. Overall I adore this version of her all the same.

Rating: Macabre Queen of Teeth/10

[casperthecuriouswriter]

Could you do Jaskier x reader were the reader is a forest nymph. She lives away from people till one day Geralt and Jaskier are walking through the forest, and walk across the reader who is hurt because of the village people attack her. So they help her out and tell her to come with them. Slowly over time Jaskier falls in love with her.

can y’all tell it’s been a minute since I’ve written consistently? Because I certainly can! Jaksier is a sap, and Geralt is Soft™ for One Fool. Just a heads up that this might be the last week in a while that I will maybe be consistent? Move-In Day for my college (because of course we’re still moving in regardless of Miss Rona) is on the 15th of August and I still have some things I need to be getting ready. But anyway, here Ya Go!

Jaskier x Nymph!Reader

tw: mentions of an injury and pain, not very descriptive of anything. the ask was for a female reader, but it kinda ended up being gn on accident

wc: 868 words sorry she’s a lil short, I struggled with this ngl, but that could just be ‘cause I’m running on like, two hours of sleep??? but this was a really cute concept, so I wish I could have done it justice!!!

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You laid on the forest floor, chilled to the bone and the aching of your wounds distracting you from hearing the crunch of leaves behind you. A gasp sounded, and you lifted your head to find two men, one human and a Witcher with familiar white hair. The human rushed to your side, grimacing when you flinched away from his hands. He spoke in low tones, trying to calm you down as he looked pleadingly at the Witcher to help you.

You didn’t speak, the pain far too much for you to even entertain the thought of a conversation, but when the Witcher crossed the small clearing and hefted you up into his arms, the human smiled softly and tried to speak with you. “Who did this?” He asked, picking up your long since discarded cloak off of the ground. “Who are you?”

“She’s a nymph.” The Witcher said, waiting for you to point in the direction of your spring. As soon as you did, he began to stalk off towards it with the human in tow. “Humans did this.”

“What?” The human asked, his eyes widening when you all came to a break in the trees to find a glowing spring filled with birdsong, butterflies, and small creatures chittering as you were lowered into the healing waters.

You closed your eyes as you felt the cool wash of the water flow up your arms, and sighed in quiet relief once you were healed. Opening your eyes, you nodded your thanks to the Witcher, and you noted the awe on the human’s face when the water reeds began reaching for you as you stood. Hiding your smirk at the human’s blush at your rather naked form, you waved a hand and roots came up from the ground to give them a place to sit while you found some form of clothing.

“I thank you, Witcher. I would have undoubtedly bled out without your help.”

The human, who had politely turned away from where you were tugging on a pair of pants and loose tunic, quickly introduced them as Jaskier and Geralt. You paused, and a small badger walked forward with a basket of fruits and placed it gently into your open hand. You smiled softly at the pair of them, looking wholly out of place in your home, and told them your name.

“I must say, your spring is lovely!” Jaskier said, reaching for a bundle of grapes in the proffered basket. “As are you. Oh, the songs I could write of your beauty and,” he glanced at the grapes in hand with a grin, “hospitality.”

Geralt grunted, all but rolling his eyes as he also reached into the basket to pull out an apple.

You smiled at the bard’s cheery attitude, and the rest of the night passed on peacefully. You joked along with Jaskier, showed him the music of the forest, and the song of the earth, and felt the tender kiss he had placed on your brow when you had parted ways for the night.

The Bard works fast, you thought, the feeling of his lips on your skin lingering long after the moment was past. You found you didn’t mind, giggling ecstatically as you moved back to your own tree branch to sleep in. He was kind, funny, and something about him was comforting and familiar.

They stayed in the safety of your sanctuary until you had lost count of the days. You had noticed the lingering glances Jaskier made no attempt to hide, until eventually you found the courage to pull him aside and kiss him senseless.

Geralt, as much as he pretended that the “sneaking around” annoyed him, he was glad that both of you had found a moment of reprieve in the world. The day of their departure, after you had heavily supplied them with as many fruits and vegetables that they could carry, Jaskier pulled you to the side and asked if you would come with them. It was clear he had played it off to Geralt as having your abilities be rather useful, but the way the Witcher smiled, a small thing barely playing on the corner of his lips said enough. And so he stood under the willow tree by your small pond, and he held your hands in his as he begged you to follow.

“Please,” he had said, the waver in his voice stronger than it should have been considering how short of a time you had known him. “Come with us, I couldn’t bear the thought of leaving you to be hurt again.” The grip on your hands was strong, and his calloused fingers rubbed over the skin of your hands with such care and reverence your voice caught in your throat.

All you could do was nod, and you felt him sweep you up into his arms with a shout and a laugh. You might not have known him long, but you could feel a life full of warmth and love in the way he held you to him. It was settled. You would travel with the White Wolf and his Bard, and you would love Jaskier for as long as you were able.