#spyderart

[indigospyder]

You know what’s useful in times like this? Friends.

[twistedwebs]

Eager as I am to answer to the call

I couldn’t give it what it aimed for, no no

Cat’s eyes and rose buds

[kackaljackal]

Consider Taako but as a cat instead 

[indigospyder]

[twistedwebs]

I have seen the light

And it’s so beautiful that I can’t even cry

I’m not a liar, I’m not a liar, I’m not a liar

[indigospyder]

Let’s roll the dice, see if fate keeps up/

Keep up, I’m on top, luck’s just my back up

[indigospyder]

✦ I know the whiskey on your lips, extends the fire in your heart/ You think you're tearing down the walls, but it's yourself you tear apart ✦

[twistedwebs]

Now I can speak at a pace that is fitting

Step with the confidence wisdom has given

I can keep my footing

And give it to the wind

[twistedwebs]

And so I hope our love will last forever

Just give me five to seven years and I’ll be yours

[twistedwebs]

Baby’s first Meet the Artist

[twistedwebs]

I got a spin cycle soul

Dry all my shirts till they shrink

My feelings fit, then they don’t

Cause I wear my heart on my sleeve

[indigospyder]

So please be sweet, my chickadee

And when I kiss you, just say to me

"It's delightful, it's delicious

It's de-lovely"

[indigospyder]

Hylas

Been talking a lot about my Tav Hylas and uh. I still haven’t. Shared them on here??

So here’s a post dedicated to my darling Hylas (they/them)!

(Under the cut is their lore/backstory and some doodles of them and Gale, so if you just wanna see the screenshots you don’t gotta go any deeper)

Hylas Lore

Hylas was born in Baldur’s Gate to a Human mother and Wood Elf father (side note: I think more Wood Elves should be green. It’s my reality, so Hylas is tinted green bc of their dad’s genes).

Dad bailed pretty early on, and because mom couldn’t afford to be a single mom, she gave custody of Hylas to a nearby Monastery of Lathander.

Hylas didn’t have to become a member of the clergy/monk, but they liked the teachings of Lathander and decided to dedicate their life to him as a monk. They started studying and archiving at 13, and didn’t start martial arts training until 15.

They trained as an Open Hand monk (I like to think their specific style is a mix of Shanghai- and Southern-Tiger Kung Fu style; I tried to draw them in a Tiger stance above) and they perfected their speed and placement of attacks.

At 25, the monastery was attacked, and Hylas was put in charge of getting the younger students to safety with another monk. They were attacked, and Hylas fought tooth and claw to protect the kids and the fellow monk, who was critically injured. The ordeal nearly killed them, and it left them with long-lasting scars, but if given the chance they’d do it all over again. Defending the people they love is the most important thing to them, and the monastery is their family.

A stereotypical “monk” pose from when I first drew Hylas—way before I actually put thought into their martial stylings. See it as a show of their flexibility, I guess!

At 31, they left the monastery to travel Faêrun on their own for the first time—they’d only ever known brief glimpses of Baldur’s Gate and the monastery. They traveled up and down the Sword Coast, meeting with other temples of Lathander (they even met Gideon Lightward from Elturel; they felt he was a little too ‘fire and brimstone’ to be a true priest of the Dawn Father, but they enjoyed his company and tutelage nonetheless).

After years of studying being an archivist, Hylas has a borderline unhealthy fixation on collecting books/missives/texts. It is, in fact, a problem. They read the Tome of Thay because of it. They don’t know they have a problem, and the fact that they’re romancing Gale doesn’t do them any favors.

And 10 years after they left—Baldur’s Gate 3 happened! So Hylas is 41 during the game; 20-25 in Human years! They got set back to Level 1 like the rest of the gang (and they were VERY mad they had to rely on a staff again. They spent a DECADE breaking their fingers to punch things into dust, dammit!/hjk).

Some fun facts about Hylas:

When their dad was still around, he took them to see a ballet performance (this is my reality, and in my reality Elves invented ballet, huff my jorts) and they wanted to be a ballerina SO BAD

Since they DIDN’T get to be a ballerina, they spent some of their 10 years traveling Faêrun learning some dances! It was fun to do, connected them to their past, and helped them keep in shape when they weren’t training.

They’ve had their vitiligo since childhood, though it’s grown over time.

Hylas’s non-binary/transmasc identity is loosely based on my own experiences as a demiboy! They actually made me feel more comfortable with my own they/them pronouns and I’m toying around with using them over he/him.

They’re very much romancing Gale—they find his intelligence and passion for knowledge and teaching very sexy.

Gale was also their first… well, almost everything relationship wise! First significant other, first hand hold, first time.

The only first Gale didn’t get was kissing, and that’s because when Hylas was young, they and another monk-in-training kissed each other to see what all the fuss was about. They both swore to keep it secret (intimacy was a no-no for monks at the monastery), but they both caved due to guilt and separately fessed up to the same monk. They had a LOT of extra chores that month.

(Hylas never sought out a relationship after the monastery simply because they didn’t really… see the point. The monks had drilled celibacy into their head for so long they just kinda. Didn’t seek it out. And then they pulled the wizard from the rock and everything changed…)

Spoilers for Act 3 for this one: in my play through, Hylas drowned in the Iron Throne along with… a lot of the hostages. They made sure Wyll’s dad got out safe, and kept the Sahuagin from getting to the sub while everyone else escaped, but they went down with the prison and have a phobia of water/drowning now (as well as a LOT of guilt over all the dead Gondians—they probably won’t ever forgive themselves for that).

Post-game, I think Hylas would become a priest of Lathander or a scholar/archivist—they’re done fighting for a nice long while. (They still train regularly though—gotta keep the mind and body sharp!)

Karlach is their bff. The SECOND Karlach could touch others, they JUMPED to hug her.

Hylas’s favorite stuffed animal growing up was a sabertooth tiger—and in my play through, Halsin became a sabertooth tiger a LOT :3

They let Volo take their eye. They. They did that. Volo they trusted you. Do you know what an honor it was for them to meet you, Volo? VOLO—

Between Hylas’s open hand attacks and Gale casting Disintegrate, these two are fucking lethal as hell. Lucky for you they just want to study and talk about books with Tara.

Hope y’all love my baby as much as I do—I have so so SO many thoughts about them. Once I’m able to draw digitally again I’m gonna be doing SO much art of them and Gale 💕

ALSO if you want to ask about them, or talk Tavs/BG3 in general, please feel free to drop me a line! I love talking about this stuff, it’s incredibly fun for me and I love seeing other people’s Tavs 🥰

[indigospyder]

✨I never had a dream come true/ Till the day that I found you✨

A promise is a promise—gay ice skaters are here! I’m quite proud of how this came out, though I know I can do better. (To be fair, I’ve only had access to colored pencils and not my art tablet for a year now, but whatever.) Once I’m able to I’m gonna do a digital version of this!

Their appearances are also not 100% set in stone; I like how Randall came out (on the left), but Leonardo doesn’t match the Leo in my head, so don’t be surprised if he they change in future drawings (yes, there will be more!)

And here’s a bonus unfiltered photo, though the filters only make it look more like it does IRL:

And the reference is from Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir’s Moulin Rouge Performance, which I CANNOT recommend enough:

[indigospyder]

Alright, finally finished drawing Gale! This is based off this wonderful screenshot that’s been living rent free in my brain ever since I saw it ❤️

I love this wizard so much, I plan to draw him a lot

(Also I KNOW his left eye is way too far up, please ignore it I’m begging you)

[indigospyder]

Miles Perour, Avatar of the Vast (ft. Avatar of the Dark and IT worker Kyran, by @mcskullmun 🖤)

Small lore dump below

Miles Perour (pronounced Per-Hour—yes, like Tails from Sonic, don’t worry about it) is an avatar that primarily feeds off of the fear of driving and endless horizons (especially highways).

Uses He/They pronouns

He became an avatar in the mid 1950s in the U.S. (Utah) and took on the uniform of a gas station attendant.

When the Utah stretch of Interstate 70 opened up (literally one of the most desolate stretches of highway—106 miles of no exits) he seized the opportunity to prey on unlucky travelers by revealing an exit to his gas station that should not be there.

The only part of him that screams “Avatar” is his eyes, which, when you stare into them, make you feel like you’re in the middle of nowhere. He hides them behind sunglasses 99% of the time.

He’s very “behind the times” with media and mostly listens to 50s music.

His knowledge of cars is stupid expansive, do not get him started or you will be signing up for a 7 hour lecture.

Easily both the best driver you’ve ever seen and the scariest driver you’ve ever seen. Has never crashed a car while driving but some of the maneuvers he pulls will leave you with gray hairs.

He’s very laid back and, while he doesn’t go out much, he greatly enjoys the company of others. This also means he doesn’t like killing his victims; just scares them and sends them on their way. (If they come back looking for him and find him, well��� that’s hardly his fault.)

His hair is naturally dark brown, but he bleaches it.

The piercings are a recent development.

Was almost a victim of the Web, but the Vast had a claim on him long before then (he really doesn’t like the Web because of this).

I’ve got a lot plotted out for him and how he’d interact with our wonderful Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London, but I’ll end this post here.