Zhou Yu will NOT give up, oh my goodness. 🤣😭 He’s been trying to recruit my girl into Xiahou Dun’s army since I first started this playthrough. This is like the fifth time he’s tried. Like. My good sir, I adore you, but no. Zhu Ran is my emperor- and sworn sibling. Leaving would mean he’d have to abdicate the throne. NOOOO. He still hasn’t had the rivalry battle with Lu Xun��s kingdom!!!
I’m just gonna headcanon he’s pining super hard because they had an A relationship rank before I had my character recruit (and marry) Li Dian and move to Zhu Ran’s kingdom to serve him because the game is mean and won’t let you recruit another person if they’re already serving a ruler unless you have a certain passive action unlocked via your rank. Sigh.
I should have married Li Dian and gotten Zhou Yu up to sworn sibling first before moving kingdoms. Ah, well. Makes for some good headcanon drama, at least.
Freaking hilarious though that Zhu Ran decided to make him and my girl sworn siblings first instead of promoting her to Marshall or Strategist even though I DID THE ESCORT THE RULER QUEST THREE HECKING TIMES. As soon as I decided to serve his kingdom??? Bam, sworn sibling. Where’s my promotion, bro?
Also.
Yue Jin and Li Dian being besties, but Yue Jin is serving Daqiao and Li Dian is married to my character, who is serving Zhu Ran??? More drama!!! Because WOW I have fought this dude in almost every single “quest” I’ve taken so far.
Two of Cao Cao’s most valued lieutenants, of whom sadly not much is known. So I’m putting my own spin on things.
Li Qian of Jiyin first meets Cao Cao when the young prodigy first take sup office in the capital as a Captain of the North Wall Gate. Li Qian serves as his Adjutant and demonstrates a forthright and honourable character which Cao Cao admires greatly. One might be surprised the famously crafty Cao Cao gets on so well with a man of upright morals but Li Qian understands Luoyang very well and knows that it’s no safe place for good-hearted men. While Cao Cao isn’t afraid to play dirty, respect for the law means a great deal to him and in this, the two are united and Li Qian rises beside Cao Cao as a stalwart and much-valued officer. Through Li Qian, another legend is born; that of his nephew, Li Dian.
Qin Yilu has never been a lucky individual and ever since his father, Qin Jie, raked up massive gambling debts with the powerful Cao Song, the boy was a hostage of the Cao family and became a friend of the young, impressionable Cao Aman. As Qin Yilu’s prospects improve beside Cao Cao’s, he uses his one reliable skill, that of being ignored and dismissed by others, to his advantage as he begins serving as Cao Cao’s spy, send into the courts of enemy lords to watch, listen, learn and pass on information. Qin Yilu’s no slouch in military matters either; while his father was a terrible gambler, he was an excellent commander of troops and as a commander of irregular militia, Qin Yilu can be counted on to appear in the most perilous of places, largely ignored by the majority of the enemy, ready to provide support for Cao Cao. One matter that a Cao Cao arranged when the two were young was Qin Yilu’s marriage to another hostage of the Cao family, Miss Du Jiaojun.
This may look very messy, but I wanted to show a bunch of sketches I've been making and the best way seemed to post everything together. Most of them were Instagram requests so they make no sense out of context haha and there is a lot of different fandoms, OCs and animals.
Gen V characters who kind of remind me of other characters (in a good way)
Marie Moreau reminds me of Diane Nguyen
Wants desperately to be a good person (because she is), empathetic sometimes to her own detriment, has a tendency to just casually say the deepest shit you've ever heard.
Jordan Li reminds me of Paris Gellar
Fiercely competitive, acerbic, more sensitive than what meets the eye, definitely a lesbian but also not really (it's complicated)
Cate Dunlap reminds me of Amy Dunne
Emotionally neglected, stands for something (although perhaps in not the healthiest of ways), she kind of sucks but you can't help stanning anyway
Sam Riordan reminds me of Ken
Part of a privileged class but in a situation where it doesn't really matter, quick to adopting the most extreme pov possible because he knows no better, cute but also a menace to society