#rainer graduation

[cadenzarose]

Touched up an old TAZ: Graduation drawing so I could order a print for myself! I tried to make it better match what I know now about the art nouveau style.

Original art from 2020 is under the cut

[subparprime]

beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful girllll

[fitzroycontent]

He’s about to get the cloak sucked into the ball return

[mooselybased]

Still got a couple more of these in the works, so here's our next hypothetical Adventure Zone platform fighter, hailing from Graduation, it's Rainer Michelle!

Rainer is at her best while she's able to keep her opponents at a distance, and thanks to her necromantic abilities she has plenty of ranged and disjointed attacks that allow her to do just that.

Rainer's neutral special has a dancing squirrel skeleton emerge from a hatch on her chair. The squirrel keeps moving as long as the button is held, turning around when encountering edges. Once the button is released, the squirrel explodes into bone shrapnel, damaging nearby foes.

Rainer's side special fires a stream of acid that pierces foes. The hit itself doesn't do damage, but instead coats foes in acid that steadily does damage. Acid can be shaken off by moving around.

Rainer's down special spawns a gravestone directly below her. If an opponent steps on it, skeletal arms burst forth, doing damage and briefly holding them in place. Spawning a second gravestone causes the previous one to vanish.

Rainer's up special will launch her chair in the direction held, doing a small hit. More importantly though, Rainer will then levitate where she ends up for several moments or until another button is pressed.

Rainer's finale summons the Skeleton Crew from Hieronymous Wiggenstaff's School for Heroism and Villainy, AKA Germaine, Victoria, and Rattles. The three skeletons will pursue different targets if possible, or go after the nearest target if all opponents are already pursued.

[puppetartz]

Rainier! She gets her own post! Love figuring out her design. It was fun 😊

[yardsards]

thinking about the way rainer michelle subverts the disabled villain trope

like. two of the facts we learn about her early on are that 1: she's disabled and 2: she's a "villain"

but a big part of rainer's role in the story is to illustrate how that world's definitions of "villain" and "hero" are completely arbitrary and wrong. rainer is there to make the audience question why someone like her, who is genuinely kind and helpful with no ulterior motives, is labelled a "villain", all the while a character like the commodore, who is just an absolutely terrible person, is labelled a "hero"

the way she was typecast into the role of "villain" over something inherent to herself that she didn't exactly choose (literally the type of magic that manifested itself in her from a very young age, but also metaphorically her disability)

and how she couldn't do much to reject that label short of leaving the system entirely, so she accepted the label and continued to proudly embrace the things about herself that got her labelled "villainous" in the first place, while outright telling people -including one of our protagonists who also got labelled a "villain" over things he didn't choose- that being labelled a "villain" has no bearing on how good of a person you actually are

idk how much of that disabled villain/villainization of disabled people metaphor was intentional but it is very much There

[christopher-bryant]

hot, dumb and bitchy barbarian x ambitious, bubbly and smart necromancer are quite possibly one of the best pairings of all time

[doyouknowthisdisabledcharacter]

Do You Know This Disabled Character?

Rainer Michelle has a chronic illness and uses a wheelchair.

[kronoose]

Rainer: how many more rock bottoms are you going to have to hit before you start taking care of yourselves

Thunderman LLC I'm thinking about a number between 11 and 25

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

Sexiest Podcast Character — Unscripted Bracket — Round 1

Propaganda

Rainer (The Adventure Zone: Graduation):

i'm not dead but she can raise me regardless ;)

Mercedes Oak-Garcia (Dungeons & Daddies):

MILF of the Year

[vivitalks]

y'know what, rainer and althea song underrated NPCs. i love those funky little gals

[deerteetharepretty]

I fucking NEED someone to draw Fitzroy Maplecort in this scene.

They are just missing the autism XD

[fitzroycontent]

These guys show up at your door and say trick or treat wyd

[anistarrose]

[Image description: digital art of Rainer from The Adventure Zone, seen in profile in an art nouveau style. She has has dark brown skin, straight blond hair with brown roots, and gold-rimmed glasses. She's smiling, wearing a wavy pink blouse lined with a red skull design. Images of animal skulls, tombstones, and white flowers encircle her head. Gold text on a purple background reads: "Rainer Michelle." End ID.]

Art nouveau-inspired Rainer!

This was theoretically going to be for Halloween, but here we are.

[yardsards]

so like. gordy talks about how he had to teach rainer that, despite the stigma, necromantic magic could be used for good. (and as i've speculated, probably also had to help her work through some of her resentment towards her own powers, since her biological family abandoned her because of them)

anyway. consider gordy using the squirrel skeletons as a tool to teach child rainer to love her magic, the same way festo used snippers to teach fitzroy to love his magic

[christopher-bryant]

if fitzroy and rainer dont get together at some point soon im going to be very upset