#oc: lyn leures

[pemokiandkenacia]

Leures Redesigns!!

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AU where they have a tentative truce during July and Hero always shows up late to their meetings.

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2-In-One Tag Game 🙃

So I got tagged for two different games. @writingpotato07 tagged me for Last Line, and @the-stray-storyteller tagged me for Heads Up Seven Up. Which made me squeal with joy, but also I'm kinda unsure what to do since these games cover pretty much the same ground. I've technically got two WIPs if we're counting Theodore Diaries (which, as I mentioned before, takes place in the middle of Book 3 from the perspective of a character I haven't introduced yet), but pretty much all my lines in that document are very spoiler heavy. So instead, I'm thinking I'll post my last seven lines from P&K 1 and call it a two-for-one. Unless you all revolt, in which case I'll post both, but don't say I didn't warn you about the spoilers.

Thanks so much for the tag, by the way! The fact that y'all actually wanna see my most recent writing really motivates me to write more stuff (that way I won't just have chapter 4 material to draw from).

Tagging @sunhunger, @bookish-galaxy, @god-of-identity, @graciecreates, @the-child-of-darkness, @unluckybasil, @moonandris, @aye-write. If any of you are interested, take your pick from these two tag games. Better yet, do both! If you don't want to/if you've already been tagged, no pressure! I'm also leaving this as an open tag for anyone else who wants to participate! :D

I'm not exactly sure what a line is in the context of prose, so I'm just gonna post the last seven sentences.

Be warned, this passage is very new, so what you're seeing is basically what my writing looks like unedited. I promise it's better after I've had a couple days to revise.

Ok, no more blabbing. Here we go!

From Pemoki and Kenacia:

“That soon?” Lyn’s eyes widened. “Catherine—” But before he could say anything else, Catherine stood on her toes and kissed him, and again his eyes went dark. "Try not to count the seconds, love," she said. "Just hold me. Relish every moment you've got left with me, and then take comfort in the knowledge that there'll be many, many more when I return."

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I made a chart.

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Incorrect Quotes Tag

Thanks for the tag, @graciecreates!!

Rules are go here and make incorrect quotes for your OCs. Post an unspecified number of quotes. Tag the same number of people.

Ok, here goes!

Winson: Did you take out Adriel as I requested? Levi: Adriel has been taken out, yes. Winson: You have my grat- Levi: It was a great restaurant. Levi: We had a romantic candlelit dinner. Levi: Adriel proposed afterwards- we’re filing the wedding papers.

Adrona: You three, explain right now! Sergei: It was Aorin. Sverlyn: It was Aorin. Catherine: It was Aorin. Aorin: Aorin: …fuck.

Sergei: We’re kind of missing something guys. Aorin: Cohesion? Catherine: Teamwork? Sverlyn: A general sense of what we’re doing? Rolyn: And Adrona is not here. Aorin: Oh, and that, yeah.

Rolyn: We can’t tell you because you’re not a member of the club. Adriel: What club? Winson: The hating Adriel club. Adriel: …The fuck? I should be the leader of that club!

Levi: I never tell people off the bat that I'm gay. I wait. I wait until they say some homophobic shit and then I laugh and am like "you know I'm gay right?" and watch the look of terror on their face. Adriel: Adriel: I like you.

Lyn: You’re drunk. Catherine: Correction: drinking. Present tense. Grammar, Lyn.

Tagging @pens-swords-stuff, @sockscosyquarters, @daisywords, @dogmomwrites, @antihell, @adrielcastlyre

If you've already been tagged, I'm sorry.

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Note that there are knives in all of these pictures and violent stuff relating to knives in one of them. Also minor spoilers, but that’s true of most of my OC art. I blotted out the words to avoid revealing anything major.

I like looking back sometimes. My art style has certainly changed. As has the dynamic between the first two characters I created for P&K and my ability to draw knives. I wonder if I’ll ever redraw this again. Who knows? It’s been a while. Anyway, meet Sera and Lyn, two more characters from my novel in progress.

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Lyn Leures:

Resident trainwreck. Violinist, pianist, and freelance composer. Is always stressed, but when he’s really stressed, his eyes do that ^

(Unfortunately my technology skills are shit, and I couldn’t figure out how to resize the GIF to match the other bios if that’s even a thing you can do. Anyway.)

Age: 21

Height: 6’4 (So pretty tall)

Magic: Technically yes, but it doesn’t do much

Pronouns: He/him usually, but likes they/them, too

Country of Birth: Kenacia

Religion: Atheist (formerly Christian)

Random Skills: Guessing the time and rambling endlessly about music he likes.

Quote: “You built a shrine to yourself?”

Don’t Mention: His height. He’s painfully aware.

Stuff He Hates: Sleep, exhaustion, being alone, being in crowds, loud noises, total silence, irony, Levi Niacera, door handles.

Stuff He Loves: Soft blankets, hugs (when he’s been warned in advance about them / when the hugs were his idea to begin with), overcast weather, music, cleaning.

Crimes He’d Commit If You Paid Him: Identity theft, but only of one very specific person. Also you’d have to pay him a hell of a lot.

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Yet Another Silly P&K Guessing Game: Results Are IN!!!

And thanks so much to @the-stray-storyteller and @clairelsonao3 for the responses! I did not get many, which means, as promised, I'm bumping up the number of pictures I'm doing.

Without further ado, here are the answers. (Participants, DM me with info about y'all's OCs and their quotes you want me to use for the drawings. I'm looking forward to it!)

Easier Round: Two Drawings

Quote the First: Levi Niacera "I won't say I didn't mean it; I found it comical, to be honest, watching you gaze at that sandwich as thought it were the only thing on Earth . . . Tell me, is the sandwich more handsome than I am?"

Quote the Second: Catherine Leures “Your friend's an ass, is what he is—all wrapped up in a net of pretty manners and idiosyncrasies, but an ass all the same."

Quote the Third: Aorin Khozlova "It will not save us, but it's a trace of hope in the dark. And if I am wrong to place my faith in your kindness, I'll hardly be worse off than the others. I'll live and die like them, as your king sees fit."

Harder Round: Two Drawings + Extra Clout

Quote the Fourth: Adriel Castlyre "Don’t soften your words on my account; I know what you think. And I’ve got nothing against travel, so you know, only the idea that it somehow endows you and the rest of your state institution lot with more wisdom and cultural perspective than people like me can dream of.”

Quote the Fifth: Sera Selney "It’s not your face that’s familiar, strangely. It’s your confidence in dealing with me and . . . and that strikingly-colored jacket you’re wearing. Curly little monogram on the lapel, if my memory serves me, but since you’ve got the collar up, I can’t be sure. Anyway, I’d guess you’re the Santel heir’s latest toy. Am I right?"

Quote the Sixth: Lyn Leures “Really? First I’ve heard of it . . . but I’m flattered. Care for a drink, fellow corner-dweller?”

Bonus Round: Three Drawings

Quote the Last: Theodore Swan "Is someone there?"

Once again, thanks for joining in. These games are a lot more complicated and time-consuming than the regular sort of tag game stuff I do, but I really do love them. It means a lot that y'all let me take part in your stories like this.

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Some context for the peeps who've never done my art games before:

Once again, I am tagging literally everyone for thoroughness's sake. @clairelsonao3, @sheepbitch, @lovely-ashes09, @j-1173, @nanashi23, @penspiration-writing, @late-to-the-fandom, @rexxles, @royal1asset-if, @bardic-tales, @souplover96, @kiraofthewind, @wearfinethingsalltoowell, @kiirpich, @saiwestfield, @thepixiediaries, @marinesocks, @lvckyrabbit, @alwaysastrophel, @burr-burr, @dogmomwrites, @daisywords, @angelasscribbles, @common-grackle, @redmoonrises, @aether-wasteland-s, @the-stray-storyteller, @thatonecrowguy, @kyofsonder, @isabellebissonrouthier, @moonandris, @harinawa, @sockscosyquarters, @thegreatfallcomic, @adrielcastlyre (again. Do with this what you will.) @yellowikeadog, @ghostface3100, @fragrant-stars, @birdsbats-madness, @waterfire1848, @dallystrings, @nicdrawssometimes, @ruhrohherewego.

So the way I've done these games in the past has basically been me just seeing what my mutuals can gather about my characters from their bios and the information I've posted about them in my snippets. However, as I have many more posts to sort through now than I did the first time I did one of these, I'm gonna add a little guide to my guessing games here for anyone who might find it useful.

In the past I haven't put up any kind of hints or guides for these games. The effect of this is that I get to force my mutuals to scrape their way through my blog in search of information about my OCs. I've basically been Goncharoving my whole universe from the get-go, so that's what everyone's got to work with.

Think of it like a writeblr scavenger hunt.

And then in drawing your OCs, I also have to go through your blogs to learn about your characters so I can draw 'em.

So Some Basics :

All the quotes come from characters I have both mentioned and called by name. In all but one case, I have pictures of them, which you can find under my #art tag. You might also find information relevant to the characters' personalities in their #oc: [insert name] tags. Most of the main cast has these, and in this particular game, all the quotes come from characters with oc tags.

Rules are: limit yourself to one guess unless you want to guess the bonus question, too.

Usually, I don't get a lot of responses, so most of the time I'll draw your guys whether you guess right or not.

This time, I'm gonna wait a bit before I tell you whether you guessed correctly or not. We'll say you have until July 30 to guess or revise your guesses before I do the big reveal.

Names For Reference:

Here is a complete list of every character I have ever mentioned on my blog in order of appearance (excluding the ones who no longer exist in canon, the ones who I've only mentioned for the first time after I put up my Guessing Game post, and the names that are technically pseudonyms for characters I've already told you about):

King Levi Niacera

Alan Winson

General Darion Adrona

Aorin Khozlova

Catherine Leures

Sverlyn Kjovra

Adriel Castlyre

Lyn Leures

Captain Sera Selney

Victoria Leures

Petra Leures

Eva Leures

General Kasia Arkhonieva

General Yono Aamitok

Jan Lekzej

Nikolaj Sonej

Rolyn Czeres

Sergei Kjovra

James Blightwood

Theodore Swan

Bhaanai Sochilyen

Lviszki Nezjety

Ernest Wolbert

Queen Rolova of Aleon

Lennox Graaf

Hugh Oliver Castlyre

General Paul Firesky

King John Niacera

Lieutenant Charles Curtis

Hero Santel

Nicholas Leao

Lots of people, right? But lucky you, I like to make sure these guessing games aren't so ridiculously hard that nobody could possibly guess right. A safe bet's that if I haven't mentioned a character in at least 5 posts, they won't appear in my guessing games.

If you're planning on looking through the oc tags, the name I use is always first and last. And for convenience's sake, I should warn you that a lot of these characters don't have oc tags, so if you want to find them, it might be easier to scroll straight to the bottom of my blog and do a Ctrl+F than use the search function.

But like I said, for all except the bonus question, you'll be fine limiting yourself to the cast I have drawings for.

Now here's where we start getting into hinty territory, so if you don't want that, quit reading.

In the case of the first three quotes, they make for easy-ish guesses (in my opinion, but that opinion may very well be incorrect.) They're pretty consistent with how their respective characters act most of the time.

The second three are a little tougher because they might be misleading. I imagine people are gonna be a tad more surprised when they figure out where they came from.

The bonus round is gonna be hard. I think. And I doubt anybody's gonna get it right, but if you do, congrats. And if you want a massive hint for the bonus round, it's under the cut:

I've already given you the bonus quote. It's in one of my posted snippets. You just need to figure out who says it.

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Hey hey! I have zero context for your ocs so howabouts you introduce me to them! Tell me some fun facts about them, if you have any favorite ocs, if any of them have notable traits or features!

Ooh! Ok! Well, now's as good a place as any for an introduction. Warning, this might also be kind of long. I could list fun facts about my characters all night, since I've got so many. But I'll limit it to the main cast of book one for now.

Catherine Leures (pronounced "Loy-ray" for a couple of reasons, but neither of them are good ones): Book one's MC. When she's not running the family farm, she's operating the Suvlin Chronicle's printing press or waiting tables at Carrigan's Tavern. Tragic mess of a human being. Basically if pent-up fury were a person. Likes to think she's super practical and down-to-earth about everything, but she's definitely a hopeless romantic. Emphasis on the "hopeless" part. She loves reading poetry and singing, and does neither because her busy schedule doesn't allow for it. Her life goal is to have all her financial worries suddenly vanish in a puff of smoke.

Lyn Leures: Her husband. He's also a tragic mess of a human being, but he's a lot more self-aware about it than Catherine is. His job is to handle all the housework (and most of the farmwork, since Catherine's usually at one of her other two jobs). He's pretty much given up on all his dreams, but if he could have any career, he'd want to be the Baliszkan (fancy-ass southern Pemokese city, but not quite as fancy as Drosil) Symphony Orchestra's first chair violinist.

Victoria Leures: The eldest of Catherine's younger sisters. Her life goal is to become an architect, but she pretends her life goal is to help Catherine and Lyn avoid bankruptcy.

Petra Leures: Middle girl. Also a hopeless romantic. Her life goal is to transform into a princess and never set foot into Pemoki's north end again. (Catherine would never admit it, but she thinks Petra's got the right idea.)

Eva Leures: Baby of the family. The only one who actually enjoys farmwork because playing with the big draft animals is the closest thing to a childhood she'll ever have a lot of fun! Life goal is to eventually take control of all the farm management stuff.

Ernest Wolbert: A baker. Used to be close with Catherine's mom. Aside from getting with Catherine's mom, which is unfortunately no longer a possibility, all his aspirations have been realized.

General Darion Adrona: Super important military guy. Aleonian-born citizen of Pemoki. (Aleon's a hell of a lot bigger and more powerful than Pemoki is, and also they're allies, so Aleonian-borns living in Pemoki don't have to deal with half the shit Kenacian-borns do.) Was General long before Levi was coronated. But until that happened, there wasn't much international conflict going on, so Adrona mostly worked in diplomacy. Now he's leading the Pemokese in the war against Kenacia. Also, he's Aorin and Rolyn's dad.

Aorin Khozlova: Adrona's confidante. For "no-military-rank" reasons, he really shouldn't be, but he is. Adrona has his reasons; in spite of all my previous claims to the contrary, Aorin's actually very intelligent. He's fluent in Pemokese, Lewyndan, Aleonian, Kena-Anglian, and Qhironese. He was top of his class in university, and he skipped a few grades to get there. He just also happens to be a reckless, self-sacrificial idiot who absolutely should not be allowed on the battlefield for any reason. (That's Adrona's thought process, anyway.)

Rolyn Czeres: Rolyn is Aorin's brother. He's technically older, but he was adopted second, and he gives off major younger sibling vibes. Adrona doesn't let Rolyn near the battle plans, but he trusts him more with field assignments, which Rolyn appreciates, since he never thought strategic stuff was much fun anyway. He is extremely snuggly, and somehow also the most prickly person you will ever meet.

Sverlyn Kjovra: The badass cinnamon roll. Son of a Pemokese legislator. We torment him unnecessarily. He was one of Aorin's best friends in school, and they basically consider one another family.

Sergei Kjovra: Sverlyn's sweet but uptight twin brother. When Adrona isn't around to serve as the family's brain cell, he leaves Sergei in charge.

General Kasia Arkhonieva: A powerful Pemokese general who works closely with Adrona.

General Yono Aamitok: The leader of the Qhironese rebellion. (For reasons I'll explain in the next section, the Qhironese really hate Levi.) She's also General Arkhonieva's wife.

King Levi Niacera: Levi's existence became common knowledge in Kenacia after the rest of the Kenacian royal family died for very mysterious reasons, leaving him—a then twelve-year-old kid—as the Kenacian throne's only available successor. At the time, people were pretty relieved. ("He can't be worse than his father, right?") Levi took the throne at eighteen, and then proceeded to try and conquer every country he could get his hands on. His first major military success was in Qhiron. Now he's got his sights set on Pemoki.

General Paul Firesky: Kenacia's youngest general / one of Levi's military advisors / the reason Levi's conquest of Qhiron was so successful / a very sad and tired boi.

General James Blightwood: Another one of Levi's generals / military advisors. He isn't too important until book 3, but you should know who he is in the meantime.

Alan Winson: He dropped out of medical school, but thanks to his connections with Levi, he's also Kenacia's most famous—and possibly the whole world's second most famous—trazian systems scientist. (That's just another word for my pseudoscientific magic system.) And it's thanks to his invaluable contributions to the field that he's one of the only people who can get away with acting like an asshole to Levi.

Adriel Castlyre: Rags to riches? More like sad janitor to sad interrogator. You could make a case for this guy being the first book's other main character. His older brother, Hugh Oliver, is the world's first most famous trazian systems scientist. But Adriel really doesn't want to be remembered as "that one awesome guy's unremarkable little brother". So instead he makes a name for himself as "Levi Niacera's boy-toy".

Captain Sera Selney: She's a notorious Miaccoran pirate hired to scout the seas for Kenacian spies by the Pemokese king, who I haven't listed here because he's that much of a non-character. She's not too fond of being a law-abiding citizen, but she still takes her job very seriously, since the king has promised to grant her citizenship and a fresh start (and also a fuck ton of money, but that's totally not why she accepted his offer) in exchange for her services.