#familiar ties

[feyringo]

A collection of my Familiar Ties characters and their mini introductions.

Soren. Mage in-training and looking for his grandmother.

Lux. Hunter of the supernatural and currently tracking one of the most dangerous creatures of the past hundred years.

Eira. Powerful mage on the run. Lives in a pocket dimension in her lantern.

Salamander. Eira's older brother who died years ago. Ghostly botanist studying eternally in Eira's lantern.

Camille. Soren's first friend and singing companion. She helps guide him in most social situations.

Ruri. A traveling merchant of enchanted jewelry and works with Lux when they run into each other.

Beck. Retired warrior and currently the enchantment specialist at the hunter organization. Mentor to Lux and Ivy.

Ivy. Lux's fellow mentee at the hunter organization and deemed a prodigy of understanding dark energies.

[roselinbooks]

From my sketchbook: Freyr concept for Familiar Ties! Decided to change up his outfit a little, and I'm thinking maybe violet/lavender for his heterochromia instead of differing shades of blue?

For a drawing that was mostly to serve as clothing ref (since that's really the only thing I changed), I am very pleased with the pose and expression!

I love my stupid bratty faerie prince~

[roselinbooks-archive]

For the tree ask game: Ginko, douglas-fur, and pawpaw

Gingko: What part of your story is the oldest, has stuck around from that original idea?

For The Alliance Saga, since this is commissioned work that was originally based on a roleplay, there are still a few plot points for the original roleplay that stuck around! We did change up a lot of things and move the order around a bit, but several events are still in place from ~15 years ago.

Douglas-Fir: What's something in your story that pretends to be something its not?

So many things in Familiar Ties are disguised as something else. Kind of ties in to one of the major questions raised in the plot being "Should magical creatures reveal themselves to humanity or stay hidden?". My personal favorite is the soul of one of the last living dragons being transformed into a mural on the walls of the Morgana Institute; it can move and comes alive to defend the castle from attack when needed.

Pawpaw: How do you name your characters?

Sometimes characters come to me with their names already generated. Otherwise I'll look into the character's background (ethnicity, time period, any family traditions that might factor in) and then pick something I think suits their role or personality. Example: Ann is a very simplistic and common name for a seemingly unassuming character; it also means "favored by god" because...well, if you've read Like Falling Stars, you know.

[poobirdy]

a bingqiu witches x xianxia fusion, as prompted by cass and fulfilled as part of an ongoing fundraising event at svsss gotcha 4 gaza!

[goingdownorup]

Thinking about limited life again.

It made sense Etho went with TIES.

Etho went with TIES because he’s comfortable with the three of them. Because even though Bdubs was there when Scar asked if Etho could be their dad, Etho wasn’t comfortable enough with Scar and Cleo to even attempt…whatever they were trying to do with him at first. He had been with Tango and Skizz once before, and Impulse and him worked really close together the previous game, even if it was mainly for Etho and Bdubs benefit. It was based around being comfortable with each other.

All three of them knew Etho’s flaws. All three of them were well aware of Etho’s bias to Bdubs, and honestly, used it to their advantage. All three of them knew how to work around that, how to plot under Etho’s nose and sometimes even in front of him if it meant Etho could keep plausible deniability. They knew his strengths too, his loyalty, his mind. His mob farm was probably the biggest supplier of gunpowder that season, for everyone. The flaws and strengths didn’t matter as much as the fact that Tango, Skizz, and Impulse all wanted him on the team, and that the team never felt like it was fracturing. It wasn’t two and two like BEST was, it was four strong from the beginning. It was comfortable, because all three of them wanted Etho there. Not just Bdubs, not just Scar for a bit, SIT was prepared to do what it took for Etho to commit to their team up.

And maybe, that’s why it hurts so much that they had Etho take the final kill for Skizz.

They had built a comfortable place for Etho and now they were asking him to destroy that. Etho could go back to TIES tower and be greeted by people he KNEW were friends and allies. These guys would never betray Etho, just like he would never betray them. All three of them had the same kind of loyalty that Etho has, self-destructive in the name of character. Etho had just been hunted and hunting his own family down for time, getting knocked down time and time again and had finally come back to his home with his tail between his legs. He was panicked, more panicked than normal with his clock ticking down at the corner of his screen, he was walking into a scene half done and taking it over with a frustrated cry, which isn’t something Etho usually does.

But he did, because he felt comfortable doing so.

And then Skizz throws him the ax, Tango acts like someone shot his dog, and Impulse just stares.

And suddenly, it's not comfortable anymore.

It’s not comfortable that Impulse is one step away from dissociating. It’s not comfortable that Tango has tears trailing down his face, that both of them look almost angry that Etho picked up the ax in the first place. It’s horribly jarring, to come into a meeting expecting comfort for his failures and be greeted with a worse opportunity.

Because Skizz- the nicest guy in this match, the man who looked at Etho and said “i want him to join us”- is telling Etho to kill him. Ordering him to, actually, his final order of the game. No amount of pleading looks will get Tango and Impulse to do what Skizz wants done, Etho’s only defense is quickly shut down when they bring up just how much time Etho still had.

It’s not comfortable to see Skizz’s head roll off the edge of skynet. It’s not comfortable, the next session, when Impulse and Tango look to him for leadership. This game wasn’t meant to be comfortable, and Etho forgot about that. TIES was the most comfortable team up for him, and in the end, it created one of the most heart wrenching ends for all of them.

[herearedragons]

can we talk about pillars of eternity rangers for a second. what do you mean I have such a strong bond with this animal that our literal souls have fused together and if one of us dies the other will likely follow

also? ghost heart rangers? what do you mean this animal loves me so much that it returned from THE AFTERLIFE to keep hanging out with me so that when we go we go together

WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT

[naffeclipse]

Double Toil and Trouble

Chapter 4: Black Thorn Rose

Familiar!Sun/Moon x Witch!Y/N (SFW)

“My witch, it is safe to speak,” Moon rasps as if he just awoke. Perhaps this is the first he’s speaking today, content to sit in your quiet while his brother prods the thickness in the air with questions and appeasements. You straighten where you sit, eyes widening. The pulse in your throat quickens.

Word Count: ~11,500 Warnings: Blood and Abduction.

A/N: I'm so happy to return to this fic! It's only been since, hm, 2023. Interesting. At least it's before Halloween this time!

Again, thank you for your patience as I'm slow to update this fic but I do adore it and I hope you do as well. Now then, I've kept you waiting long enough. Shall we slip back into the witch's garden with two lovely familiars?

[miasmadevil]

Episode 8 in a nutshell

w/o text <3

[crabsnpersimmons]

What if y/n from have you eaten? Au had eating disorders?

oou! good question!

yes! that is definitely a scenario i would like to explore in the fic when i get to it. also why i want to write the fic with multiple different Y/Ns so we can explore different experiences and relationships with food

there is a "main Y/N" who is a glutton who likes to try anything and everything. i haven't done the research for it so i can't say whether or not they have an eating disorder, but they DO have an unhealthy relationship with food as a result of being shamed for their appetite. so that, coupled with their job that emphasizes appearances and first impressions, they eat smaller meals, seemingly healthier meals, safe meals. but when they're alone at the restaurant with the DCA boys, without having to worry about who sees them or how much they eat, they're able to enjoy their food openly and honour their body's cravings.

[nyxi-pixie]

if your ship has never said anything unbelievably suggestive to each other that the mainstream audience somehow can ignore like it didnt happen or sound like that then are they even your ship?

[alaraxia]

finally finished some full body art of vesper and her three main outfit variations

[feyringo]

Kabedon?

[iamthemaestro]

when the air is getting colder and the skies are growing darker and it’s starting to feel like the snow in the mountains was melting and bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation

[roselinbooks-archive]

I tried to make a short animatic last night because "Let Me Make You Proud" is SUCH a good song for Freyr. That feel when you're trying to have a heart-to-heart with your father but the best you can do is yell at a painting.

Thank you to @aerielart for editing the frames together for me!

[liath-art]

Finished a commission of Ena and her familiar George. ;w; She is one of the characters for the campaign I run.

[puppyeared]

When you backread through a fun conversation you had with someone for hours an angel gets its wings