#maheloas

[taxkha]

I revisited my ocs today and refined their designs a little. I've been redesigning these over and over since the last 4 years. Not quite there yet and maybe I will never be completely happy with them but they have come a long way.

[taxkhoe]

Praying that Tumblr will allow my ocs having shower sex on this website

[rjalker]

I understand why Don Quixote was written now

Now I will tell you, and listen well, who were these counts and kings. With a rich escort and one hundred extra mounts Count Brandes of Gloucester came. After him came Menagormon, who was Count of Clivelon. And he of the Haute Montagne came with a very rich following. The Count of Treverain came, too, with a hundred of his knights, and Count Godegrain with as many more. Along with those whom I have just mentioned came Maheloas, a great baron, lord of the Isle of Voirre. In this island no thunder is heard, no lightning strikes, nor tempests rage, nor do toads or serpents exist there, nor is it ever too hot or too cold. 121 Graislemier of Fine Posterne brought twenty companions, and had with him his brother Guigomar, lord of the Isle of Avalon. Of the latter we have heard it said that he was a friend of Morgan the Fay, and such he was in very truth. Davit of Tintagel came, who never suffered woe or grief. Guergesin, the Duke of Haut Bois, came with a very rich equipment. There was no lack of counts and dukes, but of kings there were still more. Garras of Cork, a doughty king, was there with five hundred knights clad in mantles, hose, and tunics of brocade and silk. Upon a Cappadocian steed came Aguisel, the Scottish king, and brought with him his two sons, Cadret and Coi—two much respected knights. Along with those whom I have named came King Ban of Gomeret, and he had in his company only young men, beardless as yet on chin and lip. A numerous and gay band he brought two hundred of them in his suite; and there was none, whoever he be, but had a falcon or tercel, a merlin or a sparrow-hawk, or some precious pigeon-hawk, golden or mewed. Kerrin, the old King of Riel, brought no youth, but rather three hundred companions of whom the youngest was seven score years old. Because of their great age, their heads were all as white as snow, and their beards reached down to their girdles. Arthur held them in great respect. The lord of the dwarfs came next, Bilis, the king of Antipodes. This king of whom I speak was a dwarf himself and own brother of Brien. Bilis, on the one hand, was the smallest of all the dwarfs, while his brother Brien was a half-foot or full palm taller than any other knight in the kingdom. To display his wealth and power, Bilis brought with him two kings who were also dwarfs and who were vassals of his, Grigoras and Glecidalan. Every one looked at them as marvels. When they had arrived at court, they were treated with great esteem. All three were honoured and served at the court like kings, for they were very perfect gentlemen. In brief, when King Arthur saw all his lords assembled, his heart was glad. Then, to heighten the joy, he ordered a hundred squires to be bathed whom he wished to dub knights. There was none of them but had a parti-coloured robe of rich brocade of Alexandria, each one choosing such as pleased his fancy. All had arms of a uniform pattern, and horses swift and full of mettle, of which the worst was worth a hundred livres.

[nerice]

So what is court of the dragon about?

!!!!!!!!!!!!! court of the dragon is the noah/damia dynamic tag!! as well as refers to their death match at the end of dream game >:3!!

wanted to draw fresh art for the occasion but i'm low on wrist stamina so oc site icons are all i got ;w; the title is pulled from this trivium song which i am profoundly normal abt,,,,,

in spite of all the hate behind these eyes, i've seen that only one of us survives; i'm here to destroy you, i'm here to avenge, in the court of the dragon i descend....

^yeah. _(:3」∠)_

the tl;dr is that together they make up the true ruler of issei (a world that's 80% ocean) and they're stuck in their underwater lair bc they are not immortal enough to brave the water pressure. reina offered to bestow portal powers onto one of them, in exchange for aiding her in the war against azra. damia refused to condemn noah to a solitary life at the bottom of the ocean; noah accepted :) fwiw he had good intentions, utilizing their bond (bone rings forged from each other's ribs, which lets them see through the other's eyes) to show damia the outside world they always dreamed of !

oh also points of clarification, noah's natural form is that of a black dragon (he only gains a human form as another favor from reina after the war) and damia's pronouns are whatever/works. ww

noah genuinely planned on returning 2 damia after the war, but he keeps finding excuses (mastering a human form, hunting down maheloas, settling the score with garvith, being leah's bodyguard, atoning for displacing lucie into another world (issei, no less) chaperoning linn) a million sidetracks until the weight of responsibility and guilt slowly breaks him </3 and by the time he n damia reunite in dream game they are both changed beyond recognition in their own respective ways. (damia, for their part, LOATHES noah's human form bc without meaning to he made it to resemble damia's original body which damia spent centuries ship-of-theuseus'ing himself out of) + ofc never having forgiven noah for leaving, but also taking him back without question or judgment <3 complicated.

Court of the Dragon proper is their final endgame, after noah loses his human form when reina turns statue & damia bars the rest of the main group's way into the 3rd world cycle, meaning to chain them to dead world space alongside herself. ((taking linnea out in one shot, just btw. ask me abt vengeful girls trio next ;3c)) which ends in noah+damia having a grand showdown inside their lair [ open mouth / swallowing the king / gods devoured whole / light extinguishing.... ] and that's the end of it. or is it? >:^)

& ANWY THE REASON. why that cap is so funny for them is that damia, at the end of the day, is such a sensitive little bastard i love tagging them in shoujo caps. all he wants is to be with noah (more complicated than romance, though kissing is a great way to establish dominance. lol <3) they're extremely messy and complicated and full of hypocrisy! noah is even more annoying than jumie when it comes to loyalty concepts & damia knows exactly what she wants except she doesn't ww

[ally-fr]

Lore topics I need to cover:

• Set up Varwyn’s backstory; show his father and show how much of a horrible person Vin is

• Something more about Cohen, dreams maybe?

• Reunite the members of the foreign court (a lot needs to happen before this)

• The return of Giles’s wife (needs to happen after the next bullet point)

• Once this nest hatches, hopefully some lore about the progen’s kids (I’m impatient so I may boon the two day left nest)

• Write about the shade cult, particularly Atlas

• Cover Maheloas and Naal (though I’m super unsure where to slot them)

• chanting More Innes (and by extension, Perseus and Ambrus)

• Further explain Lotus’s ulterior motives

[thetwelfthdeity]

Hey guys! Doing something a little bit different today...

See, these guys are not Gen1s, but the dragon who fathered them is a Gen1 who came with art that I bought from Gainstrive awhile back...he’s very dear to me, so it only made sense to me that I give his kids art before I sell them too. He had Triplets, but the third I am keeping. I will be posting art of her at a later date.

Mettalise is a being of fragile elegance. With her charm and wits, she can navigate a room full of merchants and politicians with ease. Even religious leaders are weak to her charms. However, what lies underneath it all? Underneath that bright and smiling face?

Do you dare find out?

Mettalise is a Gen2 on her father’s side, and is Pearl/Mist/Bronze.

Maheloas is many things; Mage, wanderer, artist... With a keen eye, he can turn tiny colorful shards into detailed mosaics with the same clarity any painter has with a brush. He uses his magic to melt glass in his hands, and shapes it with such skill and grace that watching the movements of his fingers could very well take your breathe away. From place to place he wanders, searching for inspiration, and selling his creation. Will his journey come to an end?

Will he find a muse among your clan?

Maheloas is Robin/Royal/Algae 

Both are in the AH for 500 gems each, and each of their bios have some really cool outfits I came up with for them in the dressing room...but they’re just suggestions. Feel free to do your own thing!^^

[shadowblogging]

ok but garvith/noah/maheloas monster boy trio??????? squad: never adapted properly to human forms / never even had one

noah rlly is the only one!! there is a rad semihuman design i have for maheoas but he rarely takes that form & garvith never took a humanoid form even though he was the only one who could have been truly human

it says a lot abt them !!!!!

[taxkha]

I love you, I love you, I love you.

[taxkha]

Is there a genre/story you want to do for your future webcomic?

I think your use of color is fantastic! Do you often rough in colors before finishing your lines? Was peeking at the wip you posted, and was curious about your process(👀👀👀)

my planned comic story, if I ever end up working on it, is gonna be fantasy, horror, tragedy! These three are my main characters:

And Maheloas is currently getting a redesign because I want him to be more asymmetrical but jfc its hard. I'm capital S Struggling. And thank you so much! Hm my progress really depends on how serious I take the drawing I work on and how easy it is for me to draw in that moment! For example for that one og trilogy AA fanart I did recently I only did this very rough sketch here:

and then I went into the lineart already without doing a clean sketch. Or I guess in this case my clean sketch is the lineart lol.

So for this drawing I didnt do any color blocking at all!

I then colored everything in. I usually just pick whatever color feels right so during this step I usually dont even fix much at all unless its super off. And then I start adding effect layers. For this one the amount of layers I put on top is very limited as I wasn't trying to do any crazy mood setting so this is what I did:

I usually put a light beige color on top of my drawing and then try out various layer settings and copy and paste it and then I play around a little with gradient maps, this purple to orange one being my favourite. Then at the very end I add a paper like texture on top and put it on 50% soft light to get that grainy look. Since you asked about me doing the color blocking in my wip, I usually do that when I draw something that is more out of my comfort zone to establish the shapes or when my sketch is becoming too incomprehensible for me so I need something to tell things apart. I hope this was helpful and thank you for the interest in my progress! :]

[taxkha]

so who are your favourite characters and what is their favourite animal?

Ohh, thanks for the interest in my ocs, I love them so it makes me happy to see someone being interested in them x) Okay so the guy with the long dark hair is Delbert Im still working on his design and Ive been redesigning him for 39023 times at this point.. but this is the closest thing I have to a character sheet, plus a drawing of him with a more finalized (HOPEFULLY) design:

He is 22 years old and 171 cm tall and unfortunately, all of his family members and friends are taller than him so gets teased a lot, imagine Edward Elric lol. He has a pact with the titan of time so hes able to use time based magic. I cant say too much about the story yet because I would love to do something more with it and dont wanna spoil the cool stuff but theres lots of lore lmao.. The white haired guy is Maheloas, he is 27 years old and 192 cm tall so he towers over Delbert 8") Maheloas is a cult survivor and a glass mage:

Both of my guys are pretty damn traumatized and they also dont get along well at the beginning. Aaaanyway, to answer your question about their favourite animals, I just think that Maheloas would probably love cats as they remind him of Delbert. But for Delbert...I dont know. A big white dog?

[taxkha]

could you single out your favorite wlw, mlm, mlw ships?

do you have specific goals for your art, whether in technique or in projects?

what's your favorite dinner for a night with friends?

wlw: franmaya and an oc ship Ive never gotten around to making art for but they are on my mind a lot! mlm: Klapollo and an oc ship! Those I posted about before, they are called Delbert and Maheloas if you are interested in them! mlw: May and Drew from Pokémon! Hmmm I want to keep improving my art and artstyle and I want to start a webcomic at some point. And I want to run my own zine!

Usually when my friends and I eat dinner together we order pizza. Pretty basic but its always a good time :D Thank you for the questions! <3

edit: I cant read and only now saw you said single out a ship for each. Uhh. Hope you dont mind that mlm and wlw got more than one :"D

[nerice]

"find the word" snippets round 2!! wahoo!!!

reasonable (eligray banter ft. whatever this implies abt worst man's idea of a fun pastime)

eliada stirs more sugar into a tea he no longer has any desire to drink. his story is much too reasonable to dismiss outright, but that does not mean he has to like it. an existence manifested in the cradle of creation, an existence come face to face with the elusive observer... that would make gray a true ruler. but he cannot be, he isn't, eliada would know. eliada is the only person in this thrice forsaken universe able to say so with certainty. the gold stitched into his spine shudders whenever reina and him have the misfortune of sharing the same physical space, but gray, as aggravating as he is, leaves that part of him cold. he has the sudden suspicion that he is being scammed. "you are certain of your immortality?" he asks. gray dismisses the idea with a wave of his scarred arm. "plenty."

extinct + threaten (this will not end badly, don't worry abt it :)!)

hunting shadows is meant to be more of a patrol situation; keep them out of the palace, keep them from wandering into the surrounding settlements, but cait hunts them with a ferocity. she hunts them for sport. venturing out erratically, drawing circles far and farther still until she finds a nest, or until one is dumb enough to mistake her for prey. her kills are always vicious, her chase relentless, as if she could actually drive them to extinction. all to draw out their leader, the scorpion that took her sister from her—unaware that maheloas is not a shadow at all, but a god—so it's no wonder sky tries to dissuade her from the path of revenge. maheloas may be less threatening than garvith or noah, as far as true ruler power levels go, but even with all her natural talent for swordsmanship, if cait were to ever track him down, she'd only get herself killed.

value (more early eligray content! just rail him on the couch its ok)

surely, if gray clothed himself in better suits than rags, he'd make a fine man. even a man someone such as eliada could fancy. but all of that is tangential, a temptation for when they share too deep a drink. now eliada only has eyes for his true interest: the conspicuous bracelet slipped from under gray's sleeve. it rises and falls with his sleeping breath, the shifting opalescence within the marbles following a stranger rhythm. he'd only seen it twice before; both times gray had quickly pushed it back under his sleeve. both times eliada's attention had been drawn, and both times this interest had set gray in a bad mood. it could be ornamental. it could but that's as unlikely as ever seeing this man in anything that could even loosely be termed an "outfit." no, gray does not value fashion and it follows that he does not wear this bracelet for vanity, either. which means there is a story. and any fragment of an existence as impossible as his is bound to be worth a little risk.

cunning (that one canon jumie/gray dance long before 🐇. :)))

"you two are close?" gray asks to divert her attention. "i pledged my life to her," jumeira says, using his moment of genuine surprise to overtake the dance, clasping his hand and locking him into her own interpretation of the rhythm. all faux seduction gone, she is clean, businesslike composure now as she measures him up, step by step by step. he recognizes a cunning in her that, for the first time this night, worries him. forget the soul-bound pup figuring him out, this woman is worse; a single exchange enough for her to glean the murderous impulses he has kept concealed all night, though she wouldn't know him as soulless even if she cracked him open with her bare hands.

priority (queen of (fucking up) everything 💔)

"i abandoned them. i was at the peak of my power, veiled, i did not feel pain—but i fled. because i could not bear the dead, thousands torn apart in a blink..." nerice was different. reina can barely stand to think its name. it was a different world, a different war. how tired she is of war. she was the beginning of this universe and she has yet to know peace, but now, as the last remnant of her world, she is azra's priority. now she can become a shield; do for these worlds what she couldn't do for her own: face azra, and fight.

relate (like f*ther like d**ghter moments <3. + throwback 2 their talk in lhnh)

gray's daughter has changed since the last time they met, in more ways than one. the bandaged sleeves replaced by long gloves over hard muscle, her once-pale hair now kept in tight braids pulled back and dyed a rusty black that absorbs the dim light of his study. "you associate with soulless, we both know that well enough," sky says, trailing the long edge of his drafting table with two fingers. eliada folds his hands in lieu of a smile. her threat has a familiar flavor of indifferent dominance. "they seem drawn to me," he muses. "a position you can surely relate to, rabbit." the mahogany beneath her fingers cracks. last time her birthname had sent her scrambling for the door, but that, too, has changed. she leans onto the table, the splintering around her fingers deliberate, controlled. annoyance flickers through eliada at the thought of having to patch those cracks after she leaves. "that dark hair can't mask the resemblance." "good," she snarls. "i'm not trying to." (((((a lie))))

adventure (the girls are not ok but once upon a time they were)

lucie remembers the attic with crystal clarity: derelict as the rest of the house, a simple mattress in the corner waiting for her whenever she escaped from the orphanage. avery in her hammock. avery with a foot flexed against the ground to keep herself steady while she aimed rubber bands at the rats infesting the woodwork. avery, head tilted back at the sound of her hasty ascent on the rusty ladder; brimming with excitement for the tales from lucie's latest dream, the next adventure they could replay.

&&& bonus 白花 adventure snippet under the cut due to #tw linn

linnea restrains her with a tight fist in her hair, pouring the liquid down faye's throat until she sputters and chokes, spits some of it back up at her. "vulgar," linnea remarks and shoves her back into the blankets. faye begins to stir beneath her, coming awake, aware as their skin contact draws on. as soon as linnea withdraws her touch, she curls back in on herself, panting and gasping. "not long now. soon you will forget everything, forget the pain," linnea hums as she lays out an assortment of pills in a neat line. pressed herbs, polychrome powders, dried fragments of mushroom. last, right by faye's twitching fingers, a small vial of fluorescent liquid, a syringe, and a tourniquet. "we are going to have an adventure."

CHEERS >:3c

[nerice]

oh pls tell me about azra in general

ah! bane of my and reina's existence lmao!! azra is the name given to/claimed by the failsafe mechanism that was triggered when reina split her soul !! it is a force of nature and, as a mechanism, inherently neutral, but has developed a fixation with reina due to its original target being the destruction of her and her world before undoing the moon core itself. but bc reina created new worlds, azra kind of. glitched out and singularly targets her now lol

azra sorta develops a personality due to reina continuously trying to reason with it (by default azra is just an invisible force but can take over corpses to have short conversations, before whatever body it's in decays rapidly bc its the embodiment of annihilation) their debates are largely useless since azra is pure rational "things are broken im just doing my job here" though as reina keeps thwarting it despite her waning power, azra develops some street smarts, corrupting parts of ensei (the world most of the war takes place) i.e. where the shadow scourge comes from, and at times targeting people close to reina :) azra's rationale tm did get to maheloas n is why he switched sides, seeing the cracks in the world as similarly unsalvagable and thus choosing to help azra return it all to nothing

ultimately reina traps azra in the ruins of her world (bandaid on a bullet wound) n faye has to clean up that mess later bc it's kind of hard to fix the verse when the delete button is stuck on On lmao

[nerice]

extremely cute design trait i don't talk abt enough so. all true rulers have heterochromia since they're born from the touch of the two eternal cities n their unique melody interplay (applied synesthesia smth smth) anwy this translates to

a/s minou (pink+blue)

og true ruler reina (red+green) of which reina inherits red post-split and garvith green & is further passed on to all the sei3 rulers bc [plot reasons]

linn (red2x) but her left eye is a shade darker in an almost imperceptible way ;3 only sei3 ruler born of city touch but still a little tainted by reina forcing it uwu

noah (red) & damia (green)

maheloas (green) / c* (gestures at Red Room)

naru (violet+black)

[nerice]

if you’re still doing those cursed oc asks. Kelly green, apricot, amethyst, cornflower blue & walnut for linn? :3c

❤️taste❤️

& am still doing nasty oc exposure hours if anyone wants to send me more wink uwu wonk :3

what is a time they got jealous?

high territorial levels but low jealousy levels bc nothing rly threatens her position (there's playful jealousy involved when it comes to gray's mild obsession w/ reina but it's more a source of entertainment in which she constantly enables him in it i.e. sneaking them into the masked ball etc. rly more her whims rather than Calculated Plan 2 get him close to reina but she enjoys seeing him Go Thru It) & same deal with faye,,,, the danger never rly manifested but if gray had actively gotten involved/drawn into faye's moon talk............ yeah. linn is not having that >:) but bottom line is territorial>jealous

do they have any vices? smoking, drinking too much, etc?

^^^^^this at her core. more than anything a nymphomaniac to the core + all extremes that come with it redacted for public discussion, a glutton for any type of experience no matter if pleasure or pain. alcohol stays more of a sidebar activity, fantasy weed is in sporadic use but she carries blunts with her rather for the fun of putting them out on people than smoking em. there was an extremely ironic hardcore drug abuse phase & gray was having the time of his life watching her go thru withdrawal after that lmao. zamaa miro n all that lol

have they ever killed anyone? on purpose or on accident? do they regret it?

victim list longer than reina's hair & regular black swan murder-suicide activities etc etc. for an actual fun/new-info angle on this: post-memory loss !! when maheloas attempts to kill her, it displaces linn's soul out of her body (fun true ruler quirk. bc she cannot be killed but isn't aware of it at the time) & she hangs out in leah's body for a while, which exacerbates leah's already highly unstable soul situation [trying 2 pour all of a true ruler into a mortal=bad idea unless ur going for proper soul fusion like avery/garvith) so after linn is back to her own body leah's condition starts to worsen to a fatal degree & linn is not dealing with that well at alllllllll. first and only time she cries in canon :) unwittingly killed one of her two closest friends.

also as a fun (??) aside. this directly leads to sky attempting to stabilize leah with the soulsong until they get her to the mage societies, which in turn hastens sky's own bloodrot & makes her condition terminal by dream game. oops :))))))))))))))

what advice would a therapist give them?

stop.

describe the outfit(s) they’d find most attractive on another person

not picky in this regard! fun fact is that lingerie does little for her bc there's more fun in stripping people out of garments than appreciating what they're wearing. faye in a summer dress is hot bc's it's flimsy and alluring & makes linn want to peel her like a fruit. faye in power armor is also hot bc she wants to crack her open like a bug <3 gray can wear whatever he wants so long as he squirms pinned by her touch <333

[nerice]

i have not fully given up on raiu/faye subplot it’s just very hard 2 workout when faye is multitrack drifting grooming half of the sr kids & red hurting sun (belle) in dream game IS the most important dynamic here, of which the raiu arc took away bc it’s not like faye needs any more practice nd for shadow revenge she is mostly occupied trying to trick lucie into getting herself killed & raiu is doomed to his Very Bad Maheloas Adventure either fucking way but i miss!!!! the very specific flavor of raiu ‘id do anything to save my gf and this nice armored lady is helping me out’ but i do think it’d result in the entire setup being a little stale by dream game when it rly needs to hit