#Porrim Vantas

[kayforpay]

Mutant Porrim, maybe with Jade Kankri?

he's a grubsitter, with shrewd, sharp eyes and a quick hand to report her, but he's a push over.

not that he started that way, of course, growing up in a compound just beside her facility, whispering with her through the holes in the fences that he was going to change how things were done. he was a different kind of jade, he said. he was better than that.

she never believed him, but he also never asked her to. it was easier to think, privately, that each of them were lying; she never left her facility, he wouldn't report her if she did.

safety bought only with complete surrender of personal freedom was no safety at all, but it was lucky that Kankri was paired with her, even if he immediately forced her to begin dressing in accordance with the style guides laid out by the empress.

she could tolerate it, covering her arms in case a flash of red at the veins in her wrist, her elbow, caught some wader off-guard and made them sick. mutants were meant to be leashed, she said.

he would sigh. that isn't how we speak about ourselves, Porrim.

it was a joke, honestly, their entire relationship. he acted like a lusus and a younger broodmate at the same time, whining for a moment before demanding authority she had no intention of handing over. she thought it was almost sweet, and it was comfortable.

that's what mattered, comfort. beforus was frigid, sterile in its approval and refusal of creature comforts; carefully monitored relationships, censored films, sleek pink drones lurking beside doorways to subtly record conversations inside.

Kankri called her ridiculous when she mentioned it, on a rare, approved outing to the coast, where monitoring was light because seadwellers didn't break the law.

it won't be safe for us forever, Kankri.

he had smiled one of those strange, sly smiles. are you admitting that you worry about me, Porrim?

time passed, as it does. wipes. cycles. sweeps.

she never said, of course I worry about you. of course you're important to me. you're my friend. you're the only person close enough to safe for me to bother with.

when he woke her, suddenly, in the middle of the day, she couldn't ask him any questions. he was speaking too fast, his eyes wide and terrified.

we have to go. we have to go, now.

her limbs were slow and sloppy, dragging through the air as he dragged her outside, checking three times that her face was as covered as it could be from the sun, and his hand in hers felt like a block of ice. the cold almost stung, but she held on tighter, letting him lead her away, to a transport buggy rigged with fabricated identities and schedules.

headed to the coast. he said, I know someone, and she didn't ask how, startled by the severe tone in his voice.

the person he knew was a seadweller, their voice clipped, and she had to pull away from their hold to look at him. Kankri, what are you doing?

he stood still in the bright sun, haloed by light, and shook his head. trying.

[hurtmehurtmeluv]

various twt drawing requests

[joshe-vethat]

more alpha Au

[kennnnnie]

Trying sr pelo artstyle🙌

I tried to draw meenah,,💔 but she just,,, aodnKodjjUGLYdkansux7kDJ

[c4tsc4pe]

dancestor redesigns

[macksartblock]

they hate each other. they've been roommates for thousands of years. they'd kill one another for the opportunity to talk to someone new.

close ups below - back to your regularly scheduled program soon

[cupid-tune]

EEEEE!! ur art look like how I feel the tricksters would feel like!!!! I would love to see some tricker art from you eventually! Xp

Pov you just woke up what are your last words

[eridude]

they are so important to me

[missbehavior0u0]

Kanayas, plus some more design work! :U

[yayyps]

humanstuck design doodle but porrim stays a vampire because i say so

[landoffreaksandfrogs]

do you ever remember the embarrassing thing you said in your past life and your brain crinkles like a piece of paper

[joshe-vethat]

first contact and some children.

[eyeonyou]

KARKAT => RELUCTANTLY ACCEPT THE SPUTTERING SCREECH-AMP BEING HURLED WILDLY YOUR WAY. SOME ARE BORN WITH MICS, SOME ARE MADE MIC-HOLDERS, AND SOME HAVE STRIDER LOSE GRIP OF HIS PURLOINED GOODS AND SEND THEM HURTLING DIRECTLY INTO THEIR NEARBY INNOCENT FACE.

YOU ARE PRETTY SURE THAT'S BLOOD. YET AGAIN, LIFE PISSES UP YOUR TROUSER LEG, AND APPARENTLY STRIDER IS TODAY'S ARBITER OF PISS.

YOU'RE GOING TO GO TELL HIM THAT.

[peanutspencil]

No cap

Ye, Kankri bonus

[cringefail-clown]

very quick sketch of porrim and kankri from tb au because ive been thinking bout them lately. will pretty it up later

[nekropsii]

ALPHA TROLLS RANKED BY HOW WRONG THE FANDOM AT LARGE IS ABOUT THEM:

This is a personal challenge, based entirely on my own experience and perspective, and also ranked from Most to Least Correct. I was bored, and thought this might be fun.

Putting this under a cut, because it's long as hell.

MEULIN LEIJON

People get her mostly correct, from what I’ve seen… Most of the time, fan content of Meulin is absolutely recognizable as Meulin, but her pride in her deafness + joy of learning new ways to interact with the world through/due to her disability is always removed, and I do not often see people tackle the Toxic Positivity aspect of her character. That seems less like character assassination, though, and more like a combination of people not actually playing through the Openbounds, people not being able to fathom disabled people (especially those who gained a disability later in life rather than being born disabled) being happy, and general fandom distaste for the idea of touching anything uncomfortable, especially when that uncomfortable topic is highly mundane, normalized, and potentially applicable to them or their loved ones. Meulin’s toxic positivity was, of course, commentary on Tumblr’s ecosystem at the time, so… It was much harder to touch back then.

ARANEA SERKET

People tend to get her general, broad strokes personality right, but unfortunately she gets treated pretty roughly for the crime of Being A Serket. People refuse to understand her motivations, and she often gets demonized for what she was doing around/during [S] Game Over, even though that was something she’d gotten pushed to and also was cool as fuck to watch. God forbid a woman do anything.

DAMARA MEGIDO

People are right about the racism, 100%. It is completely despicable, hard to look at, and extremely blatant. She does, however, have character outside of that. No, it isn’t “whore”, it’s more like “angry, dysfunctional abuse victim”, and she’s genuinely a very interesting and tragic character. But, again, people are right about the racism, so she gets to be placed way up here.

MEENAH PEIXES

She is such a chaotic little bastard. I love her. I really do. Please understand that she genuinely does not understand the concept of consequences. This girl didn’t have a Lusus, she didn’t have parents, it was functionally illegal to tell her “No, you can’t do that.” That would fuck up literally anyone’s moral compass. That’s not me hand waving away all the fucked up and bad shit she’s done, we all know what she did, but people tend to forget this aspect of her character and it pains me deeply, because it is a very genuinely interesting concept that I want to see more of. She’s capable of regret, we’ve seen her feel it, I just don’t think foresight is her forte. No one raised her to consider consequences, or help her experience them in a healthy way, because nobody raised her period.

Also, her ass is not butch, she is the girliest girl in the entire comic. She is about hot pink and glitter and kiss marks and unicorns and cute little puns and you will respect that. She is not masculine. Her ass is not masculine nor is she butch. Let her be her hyper-feminine self.

LATULA PYROPE

Please for the love of god there is more to her character than “Gamer Girl” and “Mituna’s Girlfriend”. You are falling for her fucking ruse. Please. Please. Please recognize that her entire character is about internalized misogyny, and being forced to overcompensate for misogyny in gaming circles as a gamer who happens to be a woman. Please. I’m begging.

KURLOZ MAKARA

His character is not that deep, it’s mostly just a string of events he is mysteriously, inexplicably involved with. The Makaras are extremely Function Over Form- their characters practically do not exist, they're mostly just plot devices that exist to push the story along. I'm sorry to Makara fans. You just invented a guy in your mind and decided he was real. He is also not that soft, though, and his relationships with both Meulin AND Mituna are not healthy. Hard to stop people from ascribing cutesy squishy lovey dynamics to random men who happened to have looked at each other once, though. Some people truly haven't graduated from 2012.

HORUSS ZAHHAK

I am begging people to consider that maybe the biggest issue here is not that he is “Bad Otherkin/Therian Representation” and is in fact maybe the fact that Hussie was actually making fun of Systems when he was writing Horuss. Because Horuss is canonically a system. He uses the word system. He uses the word switching. He uses the word host. He literally talks about his Plurality at length in extremely upfront, plain terms. I don’t know how him being “Bad Otherkin Representation” was and still is the main discourse about him. It makes me insane. That is a commentary that truly writes itself. Talk about having your priorities out of wack, honestly...

PORRIM MARYAM

No, she is not a MRA, she’s just a regular feminist who happens to live on a different planet with different politics and social hierarchies from Our Real World Earth’s USA. Whatever argument you’re about to pull out of your ass to say that she sucks is bad. She already explained what she meant by that, in more detail, very clearly, and she was right. Half the time she’s literally just giving you factual information about what Beforus was like, and literal plot synopses. She isn’t saying anything insane. She’s literally normal. I don’t know why people cannot handle or process this. Porrim has not ever said anything controversial. If you disagree with this you’re either misconstruing her on purpose or you fell for Kankri’s bait, and that’s just fucking sad at that point.

Also, she’s more than a sex object, and her tits are not huge. Honestly, half the shit she was saying was just “I am more than my sex life”, and so many people took that and made her main character trait her sex life. Just pathetic.

RUFIOH NITRAM

This man is a fucking war criminal and I will stop at nothing until he is behind bars for his crimes against Damara. Raging misogynist. Total fucking cunt. Just the worst. If I talk any more about this, this part will be 1,000 paragraphs long. But also, I’m begging people to recognize his relationship with disability, too. He was similar to Meulin in the sense that he didn’t mind his disability, and his biggest gripe with it was the way that Horuss tried to “fix” it… Which is an interesting way to expand upon how Beforus’s culling system is not only very explicitly ableist, but mimicking real world systemic ableism. I also want people to recognize that Hussie is actively having a conversation about the reclamation of slurs with Rufioh’s character, and how not letting people reclaim such language is doing nothing but giving the word power against them while stripping away their own personal agency. Rufioh’s a complicated guy, and he’s interesting and also the worst, and I am really tired of how he gets watered down to nothing but “Pretty Boy Victim Of His Inexplicably Psycho Ex”.

MITUNA CAPTOR

Holy Fucking Shit, You Guys Are Ableist.

KANKRI VANTAS

To this day I see people saying he was just Hussie making fun of SJWs. To this day. To this day people think Hussie was trying to make Every Tumblr Leftist look bad, and that he hates them Because They Are Leftists. When will people recognize him as a bootlicker to the oppressive class and the violently bigoted. When will people recognize that. When will people recognize that this is more of a commentary on the legitimate real flaws of Tumblr’s politics at the time. When. When.

When will people stop portraying him as a lovey-dovey Catholic Whore. I’m going to stab my fucking eyes out and then kill everyone in this building. Me when it's based and cool to ship an aroace character with a sexual predator. I GUESS.

CRONUS AMPORA

I say this with every ounce of sincerity I can possibly muster as a person: What the literal actual fuck.