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Figure I post these here, lost my drive to finish the rest lol

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fun commission of Yappok for @mystery-salad! Always a delight to draw your characters <3

#OH YOU POSTED IT :D turning off reblogs for mine if tumblr lets me everyone give sheep notes for this!!!!! #yappok looks amazing and I'm delighted to have an accurate bust of the little gremlin #still staring adoringly at these #i love the little speech bubble yappok wants your pretty objects

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love the quail :3

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Amazing art of my asura/opossum-spliced test subject Yappok, made by the ever wonderful @vampiricsheep 💖 Sheep really captured Yappok's hybrid look and desire for shiny things

#daytime reblog 💖💖💖

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Amazing art of my asura/opossum-spliced test subject Yappok, made by the ever wonderful @vampiricsheep 💖 Sheep really captured Yappok's hybrid look and desire for shiny things

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #gw2 asura #asura #yappok

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Hisa's back to committing atrocities.

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fake ass idgafer. I saw you gazing off into the distance like you were looking at something far away, something no one else could see but you

#matthias reyes

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Something something... meat grape... something something

#YES YES YES YES YES YES YES #i love them so much

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im a blorbo apologist but also they did every bad thing they did and i will get mad if u ignore that. complexities

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Asura are cool

#YEA!!!!!!!!!

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mordrem girls are out tonight huh

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idk if there's already a post about it (there probably is) but i've been thinking about path of fire again.

like. the commander and aurene kill a god, specifically the human god of war, and it got me thinking about how there might be a cult out there that worships the commander as the new god of war (which. New gods taking the place of old ones isn't unheard of. Grenth. Kormir.) And i kinda wish we got to see that play out, even a little bit. Like, commander trying to convince them that they're not the new balthazar despite being engaged in various wars, campaigns, and conflicts almost constantly for a decade and being exposed to so much magic and ley line energy etc.

i just think it'd make for an interesting thing to explore a bit, because i feel like there maybe should've been more repercussions(?) for killing one of the human gods and it sort of just falls to the wayside pretty quickly (having to deal with kralk)

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Anaya Bladesong in Godlost Swamp

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Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism 👍🏾 you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.

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okay FINE I’ll write a post about the emperor, if tumblr’s going to give me thirst posts either way I might as well. huge endgame spoilers for bg3

the emperor is a goddamn masterpiece of game design, because he’s YOUR powerful, abusive manipulator. Wyll has Mizora, Shadowheart has Shar, Lae’zel has Vlaakith, etc— and Tav has the emperor.

They position him as your guardian. They let you design him a face so he’s trustworthy to you. MOST of his advice is… technically true. You CAN get power from the tadpoles, the githyanki ARE dangerous, you CAN beat the elder brain without Orpheus.

But it’s all a misdirect. He doesn’t care about you. If you do his “romance” scene, he’s pulling a nastier version of Astarion’s “I slept with you so you’d protect me” stunt. He needs you to obey him, to trust him, to see him as an equal.

You learn the fates of his last two “equal partners”— Ansur, whose death the emperor tries to keep you from discovering by claiming he never existed at all, and Stelmane, who the emperor claims was his friend and business partner right up until you mouth off too much, when he admits she was his thrall, and you aren’t because you’re more useful with your wits about you.

Can you really trust his “ethical” brain harvesting claims, given the other lies and half truths? Whether you think eating criminals is a lesser evil or not, there are cages in his quarters. He had thralls. His “shared memory” where he shows himself as a mindflayer in a cloak doesn’t account for the record of a glamor in his quarters that kept kitchen staff from noticing human brain meat until leftovers were removed from the room. He was manipulating people’s senses when they were around him.

But he CAN help you. He IS on your side. As long as you’re on his side, of course. His own self preservation comes first, and that’s not inherently terrible, but he will twist whatever he needs to to get you to help him, no matter how much harm it does.

He’s an incredible character. He fascinates and horrifies me. He’s perfect for his role and I love how they used mind flayers, how he’s setting you up before you even start the game.

TL;DR: long live Prince Orpheus, asshole

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Make way for the Heroes of Tyria!