#vernon roche in a funny hat

[sassaffrassa]

hat

[bomberqueen17]

another inclusions update

listen

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the window-climbing scene, as envisioned by @cacheth​:

fucking brilliant 

Inclusions chapter 10, on AO3

[Image description: a scene from chapter 4 of peace-tied, drawn in comic form: Vernon Roche, a human man in a silly hat, sits on a windowsill holding an enameled metal badge in his hand, recoiling in startlement from something offscreen below him, muttering “oh shit” to himself]

also I cannot get over how funny it is that I described Iorveth as “looming like a spectre of nightmare” and this is how he looks:

[image description: Iorveth, a tall elf wearing a scarf over one eye, hair loose and incredibly shiny, gazes downward, lit dramatically from one side]

(that’s accidentally a meme template with the lil speech bubble, i hereby request submissions for whatever the most hilarious thing would be to put above that speech bubble there)

baby i like your nightmares better than mine also: this Iorveth, plz step on me

[sassaffrassa]

listen, he's doing his best

[sassaffrassa]

good news now that @bomberqueen17 is posting Give A Dog A Job, i get to unleash my unhinged love for it for everyone to see

roche is a mess and iorveth is a dramatic bitch

i love them both dearly

[sassaffrassa]

lil sketchy sketches from last year explaining that in my hc the most accurate 1:1 of modern headwear for Vernon Roche's silly chaperon is the cowl scarf for the dual functionality of it: Tube Hat and Cozy Scarf

yes this was for @bomberqueen17 's fic Give A Dog A Job bc we were contemplating roche's assorted headwear and how much fashion he actually knows (none) and how many hats he has (lots)

[sassaffrassa]

The mob Boss au?

mob boss au

ok so i’m tagging @kuwdora bc i was supposed to answer her ask from The WIP Game from idk years ago probably, BUT

mob boss au

so: modern with magic setting, 1930’s prohibition era, film noir style gangster au feat betrayal, gun running, vicious retaliation, iorveth as a femme fatale, you know, all the good stuff

Foltest is from one of the big old style mob families, but he’s been taking it in a new direction, divorcing himself from his father’s legacy. Roche is his best enforcer, hired on as a teen when Roche took out the pimp who ran the brothel his mum worked at, and was brought in for discipline and then kept. Foltest can use that kind of fire and spark. point it somewhere useful and who knows what might happen.

the Blue Stripes are Roche’s personal crew, built out of a gang of orphans and other street rats Baker St Irregulars style, and absorbed into his family structure. any time Foltest puts out a hit on someone with a family, any kids gets adopted into Foltest’s family to show them what real loyalty looks like.

the Scoia’tael are a much older gang, built out of the remnants of old neighbors and the old Aen Seidhe residents of the city, and worked more along the lines of a local militia protecting their neighborhood and running off intruders, until these new gangs started vying for territory, the Temerians and the Nilfgaardians and such. more mutual aid, if not entirely altruistic

bc all of this is heavily inspired by the Irish mob, there’s also a through line of religious discrimination— Roche is fantasy!Catholic and had guiltily buried his mothers practices for the sake of his boss/lover. his patron saint is fantasy!St Jude, saint of lost causes and things despaired of. Foltest is fantasy!Protestant and negligibly that at best, and doesn’t understand all this superstitious nonsense. Iorveth was forced into the equivalent of a residential school and had fantasy!Catholicism ground as salt into his wounds, and is (understandably) bitter about it.

Geralt is a well intentioned cop, working for Emhyr, the chief of police and fighting against a system designed to fuck him over.

Saskia is the bright eyed new District Attorney who’s putting in a bid for mayor of the city, working with the Scoia’tael to clean up the streets, ruining Foltest’s plans, and also still a dragon

this is Mostly Vibes, Partially Plot, but there are some words about it, and more on the back burner bc i fucking love an overly complicated au lol

violence and gun kink snippet:

also this all started bc i put roche in a funny hat and the KM discord took off with it, which is where most of my ideas come from

[sassaffrassa]

i gotta break out the full vernon roche in a funny hat sequence, things got experimental there