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inamindfarfaraway · 1 year

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Perhaps the funniest League of Legends character interaction that's also highly plausible in-universe, thematically appropriate and emotionally charged is Rell and Veigar teaming up.

They’re both extremely magically strong and skilled. Rell controls metal, a product of the earth from which she can directly rip ore. Veigar draws his celestial magic from the stars.

They both have dark, tragic backstories: because of their magical talent, they were taken into custody by powerful, corrupt Noxian authorities, isolated, abused and forced to use their magic harmfully for a long time, at least relative to their respective lives. This traumatized and broke them so much that they now see inflicting pain as the only thing they’re good at, even capable of. They have no friends. They've never known or have forgotten what it feels like to be loved, joyful or carefree. All they were left with once free was so much guilt and grief and so much power. From that, they have forged new identities - roles to play - built around singular, combative ambitions that they cannot imagine lives or futures beyond. Rell identifies as a gritty, edgy antihero, having noble intentions but using brutal, destructive and downright gruesome methods. Veigar identifies as a villain, but is good at heart despite not comprehending this himself.

They’re both currently roaming around the Noxian countryside in order to find and defeat as many powerful, corrupt Noxian authorities who mistreat people as they can. Rell does this to make the guilty pay for their crimes and liberate and protect the oppressed. Veigar does it to replace the authority and prove that his evil is greater and cooler than theirs, but in practice doesn’t really bother hurting anyone innocent and just ends up making the guilty pay for their crimes and liberating and protecting the oppressed.

They’re both connected to Mordekaiser, and would be primary enemies of him holding personal grudges if his plot about trying to dominate Runeterra is ever developed. Rell was such an important project for the Black Rose because they hoped that she would be able to defeat Mordekaiser. He embodies everything she stands against. Mordekaiser was Veigar’s captor and abuser, responsible for who he is today. Rell can manipulate metal; Veigar wields incredible cosmic magic; and Mordekaiser is a magical suit of armour, so if anyone can finish him off, it’s these two working together.

Rell is practical, pragmatic, cynical and consumed by bloodthirsty, vengeful rage. Veigar clings to and imitates an immature ideal of Villainy, fashioning his outfit after Mordekaiser’s stereotypical fantasy evil overlord aesthetic, his behaviour after all the most theatrical tropes that archetype can be associated with and having very dramatic and flashy magic, but inwardly lacks the cruelty (not to mention dignity) to back that presentation up.

They both want the Noxian people to respect them as a threat. Rell has wanted posters and become widely feared by the elite army less than a year since her escape. Veigar has been ‘conquering’ for centuries and is still not taken seriously.

Their respective magic colours are yellow and purple, and the rest of both of their colour palettes is grey, silver and black.

Everything about Rell is played completely straight. Almost everything about Veigar is played for comedy.

Rell could come across a village that Veigar has seized and accidentally benefitted, like Boleham in his story on the website, and try to challenge him. Or they could both arrive to kill the same tyrannical warlord at the same time. She realizes that he is a) really bad at being bad, b) just a silly little guy and c) an extremely useful asset to her quest.

So she directs him at the Black Rose and they go and utterly fuck Noxis up while helping the downtrodden. There's so much comedy to get out of their contrasting personalities and perspectives. Rell always acts like the protagonist of a grim, action-packed young adult dystopian series and Veigar is standing right next to her emanating campy children's cartoon villain energy; they both think the story is a different genre and the acting and tone should reflect that. This premise is hysterical with the proper execution.

But it isn't just funny! They can genuinely bond and learn, or in Veigar's case remember, what loving and being loved is, and begin to process their trauma and help each other cope with their C-PTSD and be kinder to themselves and have fun and become fulfilled. And then kill Mordekaiser, whose return is one of the subplots. And then live happy, safe, peaceful lives together, because they were never meant for all this violence.

Other subplots besides Mordekaiser include LeBlanc, Rell's mother and the Black Rose's operations; the wider Noxian politics they tie into; Samirah hunting Rell; Annie also wandering around Noxis causing trouble and eventually getting adopted by Rell as a little sister (they deserve it); maybe the story of a Yordle who knew Veigar before and thus can supply some of his backstory that he's forgotten, a 'normal Yordle' foil to him; and generally lots of Noxian and Yordle worldbuilding and lore.

While I'm talking about Veigar, here are my ideas for a redesign of him, because his design is... not that great:

As yordles are generally animalistic or at least furry, he strongly resembles a black cat, with gold eyes with slit pupils and a dark purple nose. Black cats are associated with the supernatural, magical arts and misfortune, they're bad omens to some, but they're also fluffy little babies. He is covered in fur. You want to scratch his checks. You want to kiss his little forehead. He's so adorable and he hates it. His large pointy ears, visible under the brim of his hat, move to signal his emotions for more expressive animation. They both have notches, which help him look pitiable and allude to his past as a prisoner and victim of abuse. He has big 'weathered street cat hissing and growling at you when you try to pet it because it's reflexively afraid of people and shows that through aggression' energy.

@ohnoitstbskyen's idea in his "What's the deal with Veigar?" video that Veigar's face (his cute kitty face!) is never fully in the shadow of his hat despite him trying to look mysterious and ominous is brilliant. He’s very lively, since he acts like a classic cartoon villain who’s so excited and gleeful about being evil, so he has a habit of jostling his hat or lifting his head to reveal his whole face and then hastily pulling the hat back down.

His robe no longer has the spiked metal hem and is of a soft, loose, flowing fabric. It’s dark indigo with silver sparkles all over it like he’s wearing the night sky, in homage to the stars he draws his power from. Except the beautiful pattern is interrupted and partly obscured by a leather belt - not spiked and black, a bolder and more ‘evil’ colour than brown and a Noxian colour - with a tasteless spiky silver buckle that clashes with the stars. I love what TB Skyen said about the armour and spikes working best as a parody of Mordekaiser’s aesthetic, so I want those aspects to look tacked on and out of place. To feel wrong. Inadvertently on Veigar’s part, but deliberately in a meta sense. Between the robe, his big purple wizard hat matching his nose that also makes his body look smaller and cuter and the black cat associations, you’ve got a perfectly good yordle celestial mage design; but the influence of Mordekaiser is intruding on it, corrupting it, even. That is the clear conflict of this design. While the robe is comfortable, the armour doesn’t appear to be. This impression is helped by it all being at least a little oversized, because Noxian armour doesn’t come in yordle size and therefore Veigar has cobbled his together out of scraps he scavenged (I mean, he STOLE, how wicked) and he isn’t really a great blacksmith. His boots aren’t clown shoes or anything, but they’re big enough that his attempt at an imposing villainous stride is awkwardly clunky. They could have black leather straps on them to hold them tighter than their metal fasteners will allow. His spiked pauldrons were cut out of human ones and still jut out too much, one of them having an irregular shape that gives him a dash of Noxian asymmetry and marks him further as a flawed imitation of a fantasy supervillain. The message that he’s incompetent at something and did it anyway out of passion, perhaps not even realizing his mistakes or at least too proud to acknowledge them, makes him come across as comedic and yet an endearingly earnest, hardworking underdog, and adds to the surprise of his genuine incredible cosmic power - he couldn’t learn to smith properly before forging his own armour, but he can command the energy of the stars to smite you? Yeah. That’s Veigar. There’s one silver ring around the base of his hat that has five spikes on it, thick, long and evenly positioned so that from above, they form a star shape. Specifically, an inverted star with one spike pointing directly forward. Symbolism! His belt buckle could also be an inverted star to establish that as a motif of his; it’s spiky, but more personal and iconic than just spikes themselves.

Moving onto Rell... she has her sigils. I don't know why she doesn't in her model or artwork, they're such a crucial part of her character design! Her biography and short story both bring them up. There are even bare sections of her arms, which would only make sense if her sigils were visible in them because it's impractical and she's so averse to vulnerability, but the sigils are missing? What? Why, Riot? So yeah, in my redesign she has sigils right down both her arms. A few more recent ones are on her back (symbolic of her betrayal by her family, the Black Rose and the government). They're always hidden, even in her lighter armour on horseback, as she's deeply uncomfortable around the concept of being exposed and seeing them herself. We and Veigar only see them in dramatic character exploration scenes when a) she feels safe enough to take her armour off, b) she needs to due to injury or to hide her identity or c) someone else damages or removes her armour. Taking TB Skyen's advice again, her outer armour and therefore horse are spikier and less polished and regular, products of her undiluted heartbroken rage in the moment she destroyed the academy. They're highly distinctive, almost organic-feeling and definitely don't look like the work of a smith.

#i NEED this dynamic do you understand me?#almost everyone recognizes rell on sight or when she uses her magic and reacts with fear and awe #and veigar always gets something like *blank stare* '...who are you?'#'oh god it's the iron maiden! and... a little furry magician?'#'wow rell you got a pet?'#and he goes ballistic and whines and stamps his little foot #he insists that he has the title 'veigar the terrible' even though nobody ever calls him that except to humour him #rell even says it to cheer him up once they have a solid rapport #after seeing veigar evolve from bad at being bad to good at being good she eventually asks #'why do you think you're evil? because evil is about hurting people who don't deserve it and you only seem to hurt people who do'#and he gets all broody - not in a funny way this time legitimately serious - and says in a truly broken haunted voice #'you know nothing of my deeds. i have done Terrible things and so i will always be veigar the terrible'#referring to what mordekaiser made him do during his imprisonment #and instead of sounding silly like every time before it's like 'oh. oh. he Hates Himself'#and rell says thinking of her fights with other kids that led to them being nullified #'yeah but i was made to do some terrible things too and that doesn't make me rell the terrible... does it?'#and her voice cracks and her eyes well up and she's sixteen #and suddenly the wacky buddy vigilante sitcom adventure is two survivors of abuse believing themselves to be unlovable #do you see my vision? DO YOU SEE IT?#title idea is 'terrors of noxis'#rell #lol rell #veigar #lol veigar #noxis #league of legends #legends of runeterra #runeterra

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singsweetmelodies · 7 months

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Well you HAVE to be delusional to be a lestappie, I mean you have to be delusional to even like max lol but yeah, to be a lestappie you have to be delusional bc they literally spend no time together willingly, max is just delusional and Charles is polite

so true anon 🙏

#asks & answers #anon #anti lestappen #'max is just delusional and charles is polite' might be my new favourite thing someone has said LMAOOO #LITERALLY SO TRUEEEEE TOO #like if you bother to watch any of charles' interactions with ANYONE he actually likes...#you'll see so quickly that he's just being polite to a coworker #they might not hate each other but they sure aren't friends #you really DO have to be delusional to see more to it than that...#but then again like you said; you have to be delusional to like max in the first place #i feel like a lot of max/lestappen fans really feel like fic!max is exactly what he's like irl #and i don't know how to say it any more clearly than OH GOD HE'S NOT #fic!max is the most idealised and likeable (and; yknow; non-racist) version of who max verstappen could possibly be #the reality is NOT that #and i think a lot of people need to snap out of it and realise that #it's that whole thing of ''yeah im delusional about my drivers but at least im not THAT delusional'' y'know?#ALSO!! so sorry for only answering these now... yesterday got unexpectedly super hectic 🙈#but one of my favourite weekend activities is being a hater on tumblr dot com 🤭🤭 so cheers anon!!#ilyyyy and hope you're having a great saturday!

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swordwife · 8 months

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I GOT TO EXPERIENCE THE ERIK HOUSE AT HHN

I AM NEVER GOING TO RECOVER

#ok to be fair henry and jack were also in it and I loved seeing them :) mwah :)#but erik was the star.... and I do also ship with the specific version of him that exists in hhn canon #so it adds to it #oh my god oh my god oh my god ohm yogd #I was shaking on the way in. so excited.#the entire time I was shouting and cheering and had the biggest smile on face. died andwent to heaven #IT SMELLED LIKE ROSES!!!!!!! AAAAAAAA!!!!#THEY MADE HIM WORSE!!!!#I LOVE HIM ITS SO GREAT!!!#I GOT TO GO INSIDE HIS HOME!!!!#FUCK!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!#I WAITED FOUR YEARS FOR THIS!!!!

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lavenoon · 1 year

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Hi! :D Hope you slept well! I saw a call for prompts so here's mine! 20: Get away from me! in reverse AU because that whole dynamic with Sun currently has me in a grip and won't let go XD (Also, if we can send more than one then also 12 for canon AU. No simping reasons at all dfkjhgkhj)

Paint you a Picture, AU AU AU drabble, ~1.3K words

Looking back, Sun can hardly believe how far he's come from the rival regarded with suspicion. A glimpse into their happy ending, as far as they have an ending <3

#answer let luce #chaotikanvas #fnaf sb #fnaf sb au #fnaf sun #accidentally undercover #AU AU AU #my fic #THIS IS THE FLUFF PEOPLE READ THIS SECOND LMAO #This is probably far from what you imagined but after the angst of the previous Dawn drabble I just had to make this one sweet af #still uh. he's still Like That(tm) tho dw #oh this scared me for a second because it wasn't saved as my newest draft #acting like I drafted it the day you sent it #god I was scared for a second oh wow #only one drabble prompt left! Made good progress today hehe #again for clarification: i posted two drabbles today #one angst one fluff #unrelated to each other in every sense except both being about reverse Dawn #i recommend reading this after the angst to cheer yourself up again #or do whatever floats ur boat gsfvj

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imaginepostingonmain · 8 months

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if theres one thing i could say to roleplayers and writers and oc makers it would probably be that you don't have to make your oc good at the things they enjoy!!

i remember one of the first people i ever really roleplayed with (we fell out of contact a long while ago; i hope they're doing alright now) was a big doer of this- their ocs would have talents or hobbies that they were very, very good at-- they never needed to learn or practice or anything of the sort- and i ain't condemning them for it in any way! the world of fiction is a wonderful place and a great form of escapism! that's what the "you don't have to" aspect of this is all about!

but it led (at least in this case) to this vein of thinking that was centered around "(x) aspect of my life isn't how it is in stories; does that mean i'm doing it wrong?"

when you don't have any other reference for things like hobbies or relationships- or when trouble with hobbies and relationships comes first, and you make ocs that are very, very good at dealing with these things to cope- it can sometimes skew your way of thinking about these things-- which i know because i did exactly the same and it did exactly the same for me. there weren't any characters out there who sucked at what they liked and liked what they sucked at, and honestly it just began to make me feel worse about myself. was i not improving fast enough? was this not the sort of route of life i should be pursuing? would my favourite characters be disappointed in me?

sometimes it works with escapism! sometimes it makes you feel worse abt your own life! sometimes- and this is entirely possible- it does both at once!

and honestly, there's a lot of things you might be able to accept in the worlds you create and the fiction you consume that could help you- like that it's okay if you (and your characters) don't fall in love as a teens, or it's okay if the relationships said teens build aren't concrete aspects of their life. it's okay if you (or your characters) never fall in love at all! it's okay if your characters are messy, complicated people and it's okay if they're not right or good or nice all the time!

but the biggest (and funnest, and perhaps most freeing) thing is they don't have to be good at what they like!! you can have singers who aren't prodigies and artists who aren't secretly talented and bookworms who aren't geniuses- and you can have people who like romance and aren't good at falling in love, or who like being good and aren't skilled at being morally upstanding!!

you truly can do what you want forever!!!!!

#sorry this all got off the rails a bit #just thinking abt mel. again. and how freeing it really is to suck so hard and be like oh my god im just like her #im the biggest fuckin defender of mary sue ocs! i LOVE mary sue ocs!! if mary sue ocs make you feel great and wonderful and fufilled then #im cheering you on!!!!!!#all im trying to say is if you feel bad about the things you enjoy #if you keep comparing yourself to characters and coming up short #its okay! youre allowed to make a character whos just like you in that aspect #or just like you but worse #you can do! whatever you want! forever!!#long post

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mayoiayasep · 11 months

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look.look at him

#mairuma #alice asmodeus #THIS IS CO CUTE????#mairimashita! iruma kun #oh ym god #this is my speciallistlittle guy adn if you do not clap and cheer for him im going to blow us all up. oh my god #loook at themm they're showing him offff im gonna do spin kickflip out a window. i lvoe them so much.#the. the fucking.d the mini crown...and the embarrassed smile wauuaua #thats it i need someone to sedate me. good fuckingnight

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boxwinebaddie · 3 months

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hi friends, from whatever time it is where you are <3

i just wanted to say really quickly that i am sorry if all of my ask memes are coming out a little slow; to be honest, it's because i spend a lot of time on the answers to make sure they are thorough / put a lot of thought / heart / soul into them, which often results in them being...very long...so posting them takes me a second.

i also apologize if you've been waiting on an ask meme for a long time ( and i do mean long, like multiple months ) i promise that i see it and am stoked on it, i just get rlly distracted by the asks at the top of my box ( me actin all surprised when they diagnose me w/ adhd )

bc theyre so shiny/relevant to the content i am posting usually ( ie. something that has to do with a drabble i recently posted that needs clarification ). i also...x2 have over 90 of them in my box ( some of them are asks i answered but didn't post / repeats...anyways, )

that is not to say that you should not send me asks because i love them and i will answer them even if i have 200, but due to the volume of them, my lack of time, my poor fingers and how much ( lowkey criminally insane ) effort i put into them, posting them is slow goings.

( i also love them so much, i srsly do not care that there is a fuck ton of them, getting them is like christmas to me, i mean that lmao when i wake up in the morning and see them in my box i am STOOOKED )

however, i know you have all told me multiple times you are willing to wait for my content and enjoy it ( tho my brain tells me otherwise ) so thank you for that and know i will get back to all your ask memes as quickly as i can. again, i just take my answers very seriously because i feel very seriously abt responding solidly to all of you. <3

-uncle nina

#my therapist tells me i'm not supposed to apologize for things #but uh i cannot help it #bc i am weirdly inactive on my twitter and tbh don't like it at all because the sp fandom on twitter is so gnar #i prefer to post my updates on here #but yeah i'm sorry they are taking a second it takes me really long to answer them bc i put a lot of effort and love into them #and they ( i hope ) are very thorough #like oh my god rn i am attempting to answer one abt why jersey kyle cant say i love you and its so complicated #bc his brain is soooo complicated and its also really sad and upsetting so my chest hurts lol #but please know its gonna be good when its out and its gonna give you a lot of good information #it will also hurt ur feelings #cheers! mazel <3 #p.s. the asks getting sent to the box provide me a lot of comfort and validation also #bc it reminds me that people are reading them and care abt me and the content i post and stuff #so pls do not ever feel like you are spamming me i like to know how you are doing and if you are enjoying or being traumatized by my work #so sorry abt that and also if it seems like i'm not responding bc i want to there is just a lot of them haha

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umberandmochaagate · 3 months

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You know what fuck it bro

I'm tired of seeing "but Joe Biden is our only chance and if you don't vote for him—" I'm tired. I'm so tired. I'm tired of bearing witness to the crimes America has done over and over to so many places and people. I'm tired of the ways they try to crush us under their boots. I'm tired of the illusions of choice. I'm tired of trying to make it in this world as a black femme. I'm so tired. And I'm not near as tired as my family and my friends' families trying to survive in Haiti. I'm not nearly as tired as those suffering in Congo to provide the very devices that we're all using. I'm not nearly as tired as the journalists in Gaza who get on the internet when they can to report the genocide around them. I'm tired for them, and if the weight of it all is breaking my heart from the pressure, I can't imagine it for them. What can even an atom of compassion mean? And every day those people in power get up on their podiums all spick and span and look into the eyes of the millions watching them and go

"Keep killing them"

"We want these people tortured and suffering"

And I'm supposed to act like none of this is happening?? Because this guy wearing one color says he's not bad like the guy wearing red and vice versa??? People are fighting, have been fighting, and continue to fight for their liberation and human rights. Yet these handfuls of people, those who's greed and lack of humanity, go "But we don't want them to."

For years. For decades. Centuries even.

All they have to do is stop. Stop. And they don't. They won't. And I'm supposed to suck it up because one seems better than the other, rather than the truth that none every ACTUALLY have ALL of our best interests to heart. None. But I'm supposed to settle. Because that's all I'm supposed to do as an American. Settle. I'm so tired.

#gave up trying to make sense cuz I'm crying #left and right and up and down and all around #people are fighting for their liberation #for quiet #for rest #for ceasefire #no one I know can just get to to get groceries without being set back for weeks #and they take what little money we have here to go kill others #and it's not new #I think that makes it worse #I know there's progress but it really doesn't feel like it in these moments #when you look up and see that you're all still fighting the same things in different forms #we're doing it #but oh my god #to just keep hearing 'but it's so simple just vote blue'#like there's not blood all over those blue suits and ties #like we're not seeing these people actively cheer on genocide #watching them lie and gaslight us to our faces CONSTANTLY #I just can't pretend like it's all so simple #as if this is all just some fucking children's board game with set rules that everyone's following #idk all I can hope is that we don't let them make us forget #we've seen the truths of the past. we're watching the future in the present #we can't forget none of it

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