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fitz pride icons bc im getting back into drawing digitally and i miss him!!! feel free to use as long as you give me credit somewhere :]

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tidied up an old-ish sketch... ms gris...

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The Hand of Devotion

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They are trading fashion tips in my heart

ID: Digital sketch of Montrose Pretty and Devo la Main from The Adventure Zone. Devo is showing off his jacket to Montrose, who looks on admiringly with a finger to his chin. End ID.

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nice

Finally, finally finished this :D

Chapters: 13/13 Fandom: The Adventure Zone (Podcast) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Amber Gris & Devo la Main & Zoox Characters: Devo la Main, Amber Gris, Zoox (The Adventure Zone), The Hand of Guidance (The Adventure Zone), Original Characters Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Blood and Injury, Animal Attack, religious trauma, Found Family, Angst with a Happy Ending (Eventually), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Takes place instead of the Menagerie arc, Basically they just go on a different mission, Guidance only appears briefly but the OCs are all Parish goons too, Devo is straight-up not having a good time Summary:

After Devo is badly hurt deep in the Ethersea, Amber and Zoox are frantic to find help. But when that help appears in the form of a Benevolent Parish research ship, Devo may need saving from more than his injuries.

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Finally, finally finished this :D

Chapters: 13/13 Fandom: The Adventure Zone (Podcast) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Amber Gris & Devo la Main & Zoox Characters: Devo la Main, Amber Gris, Zoox (The Adventure Zone), The Hand of Guidance (The Adventure Zone), Original Characters Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Blood and Injury, Animal Attack, religious trauma, Found Family, Angst with a Happy Ending (Eventually), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Takes place instead of the Menagerie arc, Basically they just go on a different mission, Guidance only appears briefly but the OCs are all Parish goons too, Devo is straight-up not having a good time Summary:

After Devo is badly hurt deep in the Ethersea, Amber and Zoox are frantic to find help. But when that help appears in the form of a Benevolent Parish research ship, Devo may need saving from more than his injuries.

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At even longer last, chapter eleven is up!!!!!!!!!!!

Chapters: 1/10 Fandom: The Adventure Zone (Podcast) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Amber Gris & Devo la Main & Zoox Characters: Devo la Main, Amber Gris, Zoox (The Adventure Zone), The Hand of Guidance (The Adventure Zone), Original Characters Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Blood and Injury, Animal Attack, religious trauma, Found Family, Angst with a Happy Ending (Eventually), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Takes place instead of the Menagerie arc, Basically they just go on a different mission, Guidance only appears briefly but the OCs are all Parish goons too, Devo is straight-up not having a good time Summary:

After Devo is badly hurt deep in the Ethersea, Amber and Zoox are frantic to find help. But when that help appears in the form of a Benevolent Parish research ship, Devo may need saving from more than his injuries.

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Not all exits are created equal.

Amber was starting to think that all of them were specifically designed by some divine artist with an especially sick sense of humor.

{I’ve been running my brain like a little hamster wheel bc I feel like there has to be a reason for Amber doing what she did at the end of Episode 43. And it ended up with…well, this. Enjoy}

She held Koda’s unflinching red gaze, willingly herself to blink as little as possible, keeping her expression composed. Well, composed and a little pained, given the dragon that had attempted to turn her into Coral Chow. Not that it really mattered now, given the much bigger threat in front of her. Kodeira’s dark eyes sparkled with ruby flashes, reflecting her God’s guiding light. Anyone else would think that none of Oksana remained behind that stare, as cold and impersonal as a laser sight, boring into Amber’s forehead. Of course, not everyone had spent 26 years knowing her, memorizing the meaning behind every glance and twitch. Amber certainly didn’t do it intentionally; it honestly came as a slight surprise that she was able to read Kodeira so well during their fight. So either she was intimately familiar with the warring deity piloting her friend’s meat sack - or Oksana was still in there, giving every last shred of will to resist Koda’s influence.

Well, if Oksana was willing to destroy herself to keep Koda from getting to Amber, it felt impolite to not return the favor.

But not unless her boys were safe. No use trying to escape if Koda was able to threaten the people she actually gave a damn about and lure her back.

It was stupid, really. Amber had long prided herself on her ability to remain detached. In 25 years, she’d had a smattering of casual acquaintances, a handful of flings, and never learned more about a person than the best place to land a punch. She knew Joshy well, but if push came to shove, he’d save his own skin over hers. She respected him for that, no false pretenses of “never abandoning the other” and “sticking together no matter what”, because if she’d learned anything, it was that you didn’t get to make that choice, life did. And when life decided to sweep your loved ones overboard, or make them sick, or get them into drugs that made them less than human, or give them a permanent psychic connection to God - well, either you wore yourself ragged crying and screaming and hurting or you learned not to care so much. Maybe it was lonelier, but it was livable.

And then these two idiots had to go and get mugged in a back alleyway of the Knuckle and Amber, unofficial peacekeeper, had to fish them out of the deep shit they were diving into. She quickly realized that without at least a little adult supervision, the delicate-faced little punk and the trigger-happy Brinear would get into even more trouble, so she followed them. They were so young, so open and curious about the world, and Amber had grown so used to being surrounded by others, jaded and exhausted by the end of the world as they knew it. It was interesting at first, a breath of fresh air, and before she realized what she was doing, she was signing her name as Captain of a ship, out on adventures to see the great big ocean. She was reaching out to catch Devo as he fell from various heights and attempting to coach Zoox through new conversations with various marine life. By the time she realized she cared, it was already too late. It broke her heart, watching them learn that the world was mean, and that people were cruel, and that you had to toughen up to survive. Even as she grew frustrated with Devo and his outbursts, a part of her wanted to rage alongside him, while another wanted to hold him and tell him she was sorry, that he didn’t deserve everything he had been through and that everything would eventually be all right.

But it had been twenty five years since she’d even tried caring. She didn’t know what to say or do, how to make things right. She could throw a good punch and try to toughen up her boys to keep them from hurting and that was pretty much it. What use was there in lying & saying things would be all right? The world itself had fucking ended and Amber was barely able to scrape by, just surviving, not living. Even with how much she cared, just saying the words felt hollow.

She would never know what to say to Devo and Zoox, how to make amends for the fight in the street, how to say she knew that the world sucked, but they were both capable of so much good, and she knew what wonderful beings they could become. How much she loved them and how far she would go to keep them safe. So maybe it was better that she didn’t get the chance to say anything at all.

She could hear his footsteps on the stairs and hear his labored breathing - he was injured, badly, but he was alive. Only one set of footsteps…but she didn’t dare look away from Koda. He had to believe that she was going to willingly submit, and she had to ensure that he wouldn’t move against Devo or…

“There’s only one being left in the tower, Amber.”

Amber clenched her teeth. Goddamnit Zoox. Walk away for two minutes and-

No, not now. Swallow it down. You have work to do, Gris. You can never save everyone, but if you give up now, you save no one.

She could feel Devo standing over her shoulder, imagine his awe staring out into this new world. At least he’ll know where she’s gone, even if he may never know why.

“All right, Koda.”

Not all exits are created equal. Sometimes you watch, bleeding from the chest, mind and voice raw and exhausted, as your last living friend suddenly bursts forward, moving far faster than you would guess for a woman her age. You watch as she slides gracefully through the outstretched arms of a vengeful god and throws herself headlong towards an ocean of predators. You don’t understand why she’s doing it, what she hopes to accomplish, as Koda howls and throws himself after her. But she turns, just a little, in the air, and she catches a final glimpse of you. And she smiles, and screams an unusual war cry:

“Kela Sai, guppies - Mama’s home!”

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mlm/wlw hostility representation <3

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Sing it, friend

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uhhh uhhhh did you know that Amber Gris. im in love with her

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SHARK! HEAVEN! NOW!!!

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past, present, future.

[image ID: three digital drawings of the the adventure zone: ethersea player characters on tarot cards. the cards are dull blue, with pale blue text and black-and-white illustrations that contain hints of bright blue. the background across all three drawings is a gradient that fades from a deep indigo to bright turquoise.

the first card is death. the illustration shows devo lemain, a young half-elf man with long hair and a long coat, walking up a flight of stairs that seem to be in the process of forming as he ascends them. his hands are balled at his sides and his expression is determined. the hints of blue in this illustration are shown in his eyes and a glow surrounding his head.

the second card is the tower. the illustration shows zoox possessing the bleached coral tower from the benefactor’s folly arc, turning it bright blue. the tower rises out of a pool of water, and beams of light shine out of two windows at the top of the tower.

the final card is the hanged man. this illustration shows amber gris, an older woman with long, curly hair wearing a vapor suit. she is shown upside down and falling through a portal, with one leg crossed behind the other, her arms outstretched, and her expression calm, but triumphant. the blue in her drawing is found in the ripples across the surface of her vapor suit, her spiritual arms, (which sit just below her real arms and are flipping off the viewer) and the portal she is falling through. end ID.]

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The Hand of Devotion

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COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN!!

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But can you imagine if that worked tho

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i just finished TAZ Balance for the first time and also for the first time in my life, I have a little bit of a crush on a character. Love is stored in the Lup (also badassery, badassery is also stored in the Lup)