#bellanda vanderbilt

[inky-the-artist]

🫧🐚the Vanderbilt sisters🌊🐠

[rxttenfish]

I finally finished the cover artwork for Caecilian, my current big fanfiction project, and right in time for Chapter 4: Crossing the Threshold to be posted! I wanted something that put both Miranda and Aaravi next to each other, to show off their physical differences that are at full display inside Caecilian, and also to practice rendering water, as much as it kills me.

If you don't know what Caecilian is, in short: Aaravi has just newly entered into a relationship with Miranda, but the full context of that relationship is beyond her. She might call her her wife or her girlfriend, but in truth they are something called "ul'kiha", which exists as a cultural concept within the Merkingdom but Aaravi can only approximate.

This is bad enough, but when Miranda is called back home to her kingdom for their largest holiday, Aaravi has to navigate both their new relationship and all the complicated baggage that comes with Miranda's very existence.

[fee-fi-fo-fum-draws]

WAVE 3

First, I would die for Commander Night Night

Second, I have not watched DC creature commandos, but I really want to.

Third, Lagonna was my first time drawing Gen 3 Monster High

Lastly, one more wave to go....Also, I watched a movie I forgot about from the earlyish 2000s, might cram in another character (any guesses who)......is this too many fish monsters yet?

Alright, that's all I have to say

@EmpressBe3 for the pose

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

This isn’t like the usual posts I make but, I played through Monster Prom Second Term’s True Calling ending, and what the fuck!!?? TToTT I’ve read before that the reason for the True Calling ending is to expand upon Miranda’s character, but why like this?? Why make fun of their own writing and ignore all they’ve already worked up to? :(

Miranda is heavily reliant on her servants and refuses pretty much all work, that much is obvious. She has her serfs do everything for her while she does whatever she ever desires on a whim, lost and aimless and without a clear purpose, but… wasn’t it always implied that she’s that way for a reason? That reason being her father spoiling her with gifts and money and royal privileges. Her parents already conditioned her to see torture, murder and genocide as normal things! I always figured that her talking about true love and romance and romanticising not-so-good-or-healthy fairytale tropes was a part of that, that her parents more or less raised her to be the perfect little princess whose only purpose is to be married off to a prince of another kingdom to strengthen ties or as a peace offering or something (or for political reasons overall? It is strange that a princess would find herself in a high school of a foreign land, hmm…). That would explain why she really has no aspirations, besides love! She was raised to be that way and she didn’t just decide to be selfish one day.

So, how come the game comes out of left field and has Miranda’s own sister yell at her for being selfish and vague??? Suddenly it’s her own fault that she's spoiled with serfs who’ll do whatever she says? Hello, who gave her those serfs???? Yeah, maybe her sisters are crown heiresses or high priestesses but clearly they were taught those roles! Those were roles that already existed, waiting to be filled! And now Miranda suddenly is the only one who needs to figure out what to be all alone?

Worst of all I can’t believe they’d insult their own writing and literally call Miranda flat :( I know that’s the fandom perception of her but this is your own damn game!! You know how you wrote her! Did you not keep track of all you wrote!? Maybe Miranda’s twist (“sweet mermaid princess is murderous”) is open and out for all to see but that hardly makes her flat. She loves tradition and finds it very important, she’s super into silverware and napkin-folding, she loves singing and water sports (water polo and gymnastics to name two) and fairy tales and stories and she dreams of romance and even though her family’s immoral and murderous ways have been hammered into her so hard she doesn’t know it’s not normal to torture and kill serfs, she’s still kind and worries for people and their well-being, even if they’re commoners! She’s not very “bright” in many things but in the Revenge ending we see her formulate and execute a blackmail plot without any serfs at all, which does require intelligence. Dare I say, just like how everyone has a twist in their personality, another twist of Miranda’s is that she can be cunning when she needs to be? I just can’t believe that they’d go and agree with the people saying that Miranda is flat and make a WHOLE SECRET ENDING TALKING ABOUT HOW FLAT MIRANDA IS instead of… I don’t fucking know. Making a route where they feel they’re actually giving her more depth? They’re just lampshading the issue! They’re talking about how they made Miranda into a flat character and how sad and awful that is instead of doing anything about it.

And they could’ve explored so much too. A character lacking direction in life is already a really interesting thing to explore. They could’ve surely done something with her basically being a tool for her family and kingdom! Alas… Maybe it’s silly to get so worked up about a video game but I don’t know. The game made me feel things. I love Monster Prom but sometimes it is a love-hate relationship :/

[royalreef]

(( A reminder for the night: Bellanda absolutely knows about your muse long before your muse knows about Bellanda.

[littleeyesofpallas]

[evallazz]

Batch of the au designs so far, now including Cal!

[greeeenhand]

Remember that one Bellanda sketch I made? I do.

[yakuniku]

I’m like crazy curious about who their fifth sister is...

[vanilla0chinchilla]

How about Aaravi X Bellanda?

ew / nonono / maybe / ship it / aww / otp / MY HEART

I’ve seen people talk about it quite a bit lately.  It seems okay.

[cannondisabledcharacters]

Today’s disabled character of the day is Bellanda Vanderbilt from Monster Prom,who is visually impaired

Requested by Anon

[four-eyed-floozy]

Here's bellanda vanderbilt!!!

[rxttenfish]

BEHOLD. the token example of "what is peak attraction for merfolk". bellanda's the handsome sister and she knows it.

also because now i can put bellanda next to the other two:

on one hand, GOD miranda really is tiny and noodly for a merfolk, little sister indeed. on the other hand, i promise i can do so much better in her artwork now i PROMISE but i cannot let myself be tricked into redoing her reference sheet already.

also. yeah bellanda is BIG. there's a reason aaravi is deeply intimidated by the elder sister here. they do make a very cute miivt'ia, though. :>

[fee-fi-fo-fum-draws]

WAVE 2

Wave 1 - https://www.tumblr.com/fee-fi-fo-fum-draws/774115868824256512/im-not-done-yet-i-still-need-to-clean-them?source=share

[skullphones]

And here are the rest of the minor character transparents. Excluding the fairy, cultists and the grass guy because I dont have access to those secret endings yet. If some of them look better than the others it’s because I realized halfway through making them that getting the images from when the character is talking rather than the title screen is a much more efficient way to get high quality icons. I may or may not go back and replace the low quality icons with higher quality ones.

(Reblog the post if you plan to use/save them.)

Bonus dumbass pride Fellow Student (that is now my pfp if tumblr is working properly)

[royalreef]

what kind of hot are you?

drunk girl in the bathroom hot

you're both wasted, she just somehow does it so much better. you're crying, about something your stupid ex did or said. and suddenly she appears, looking like an angel aside from the slight sway in her step. she's helping you our of your slump on the floor when you grow pale and catastrophy strikes. you're the most disgusting you've ever been, and still, this stranger holds your hair and rubs soothing circles in your back. gives you a breath mint and sits you back against the wall, asking what happened. you tell her, and her glittery, perfectly made face turns sour. with her heels in hand, she loops your arm around her shoulders so she can help you walk to an uber she called for you. your ex says something snarky to you in passing on the way out, and for her it's the final straw. she whirls around, fire in her eyes and a set in her brow and she slaps him hard across the face. calls him a jerk or a dick or something like that, you can't remember, you were busy smiling at the stunned look on his face as she drags you both outside. before you get home, she gives you a hug and kind words in a bubbling voice and you're thankful for her. thankful there are people out there who look out for people like you, who stand up for people even when they might have trouble standing themselves.