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dovelydraws · 7 months
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Another little backstory piece for my tiefling- I sketched this whole thing out nearly two months ago, and finishing it to this level wasn't the original plan then, but, well, here we are!
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jinbugs · 5 months
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Kwan Ha-eun. A young Goryeon scholar. Third son of a baron, a tinge of royal blood three-times removed, a beloved consort's child, passed the Imperial Exams three years ago, gleam of ambition in his eyes, but it won't take him far, the Kwan family isn't perfect, despite its assets, Kwan is average, average, average– A man like Kwan can work better as a foreign diplomat, wouldn't he? More opportunities to climb the ranks. Study and work abroad in Po Li. A worldly man and filial son. I'll live your life well for you. A worthy life. Kwan. Ha. Eun.
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eternalglitch · 2 months
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Vivere Backstory Snippet - Unraveling - Revun
As I'm dming for the Vivere Campaign, I've been occasionally writing little fanfics of my player's characters for fun. I've decided to share them every so often here since I've been having fun writing them!
First up: Revun
Cw: Violence
Credit to @dovelydraws for the character, general backstory, and the piece of art in this post.
Note: Vivere campaign spoilers ahead! Other players do not read
Basic character context:
An intro to the campaign. Some context to Mylene and Revun's relationship. Some context to Revun and Beyleth's relationship. This takes place months prior to the beginning of the campaign, and is the last night that Revun sees both Beyleth and Mylene alive. After several months acting as a guard to Mylene's family's vineyard, it turns out that Revun's mercenary group, the Ruby Syndicate, were hired for an ulterior purpose...
Mylene turned to look back at Revun, the moonlight haloing her soft brown hair into an ethereal silver. Her expression was mischievous, and she opened up her mouth–
The night was splintered into shards by a scream which abruptly cut off in a way that was not natural.
"Mylene–" Revun started to order, but her head had already swiveled to look back in the direction that they had just come from.
"What was that?" she quietly asked, but the rhetorical question hung in the air as she had already started to move, to slip off and go towards the sound.
Revun moved before his brain processed it, drawing his sword with one motion and grabbing her wrist with another.
"Don't," he whispered to her, his heartbeat echoing in his ears. His eyes darted around, along the walls; how many were there? Was this a random breaking and entering or planned? No one should have gotten this close to the vineyard without the Ruby Syndicate sending out an alarm.
Unless this was planned, and whoever it was was good enough to get around the others.
The two stared at each other, Mylene's eyes wide and scared yet her brow set and her jaw clenched in that stubborn little manner that until tonight had always made Revun laugh.
There's another scream, followed by angry shouting. Revun unconsciously shifted stances, his tail lashing once, but even as his gaze strayed for just one second, Mylene grabbed at his hand with her free one and wrenched herself free. She was sprinting away before Revun could react, too conscious of the sword to jerk around and possibly hurt her. He bit down a cry after her, because no, he couldn't risk alerting anyone to their location, he couldn't draw attention to her like that.
He cursed silently at whatever gods are watching and took off after her, sparing only a quick glance at the bloodied corpse of the groundskeeper left to bleed out right by the garden's gate.
Past the garden was chaos; one of the stable boys was trying to calm a rearing horse even as a figure in a hood darted around the horse, the moon pointing an accusing finger at the flash of metal and the telltale copper tang in the air giving away the rest. It was enough to give Revun pause, his eyes adjusting automatically to the dimmer lighting. Several other servants were trying to flee, but foreign figures flickering through the darkness were making quick work of the unarmed group.
Mylene.
Revun started to run again, only making a quick check for each corpse that laid at his boots. The house. She must have headed for the house, surely she headed for the house, she was smart and quick and could have made it to the house why did he look away from her for even a second–
He wrenched the door open, the lock already broken, and caught a glimpse of the back of her nightgown and now-loose hair as she turned a corner. Thank the gods. But the relief was fragile, short-lived; the house was not silent; there was loud banging and clattering echoing down every corridor, in every gaping and dark doorway.
"M– stop!" he dared to call. His mentor's voice echoed in his ears, no names. Nothing to identify you with.
But it worked, and she turned to look at him, skidding to a halt as her chest heaved for breath.
"My family–"
"It's not safe–"
"–have to make sure they're okay!"
Revun shook his head. "Beyleth will protect them– please, I promise we'll meet up with them, we need to go–"
Mylene drew in a ragged breath. Revun reached out, offering her his hand opened upwards, but she shook her head slowly at first and then harder. There's a scream, and then the two were running again, down the corridor, past the wine cellar, beyond the kitchen–
Mylene kept going. Revun did not.
There were bodies, in the kitchen.
But towering over them were two people, two distinct heights, one slightly taller and the other just shorter than Beyleth. And Revun would know, because he had seen him standing to Beyleth's right himself.
"Cordell-" his relief was cut as sharply as the bloodied knife he saw Cordell wrench out of the cook's chest.
…Oh.
Cordell and– the taller one would be Allumin, he recognized that slender build now that he was looking– straightened up, and Revun took an uncertain step back as Cordell grinned at him.
"Here to join the party? We're just finishing up this floor– hey!" Cordell shouted after him, but Revun was gone, moving, scrambling for the stairs that Mylene had already started to scale two at a time. "Revun!"
They made it to the top, past the family portrait, down the last hallway where more ominous new dark splatters adorned doorways. To the master suite, and Revun pushed himself harder, faster, closing the gap and grabbing Mylene by the shoulder–
"Stop, don't…" he trailed off as he stumbled to a stop, barely managing not to bowl her over.
Beyleth had often rapped his knuckle against Revun's horns before a mission, had told him to do well with a calm, steady look and a small nod.
That was the same expression he wore now. Calm. Confident. He emerged out of the darkness of the bedroom, the candles inside all blown out just like the rest of the house. He carried one of his blades in each hand.
There was blood dripping down them.
Mylene made a small sound, almost like she was choking, and that was all the time Revun had to brace himself before she screamed, throwing herself forward. Revun dropped his sword in his haste to yank her back, to hold onto her–
Beyleth sighed. "You're too loud," he said, sounding disapproving. Gone was the clinical business tone he had held with Mylene, his more casual, caustic manner of speaking fully coming to the surface. "They can't hear you from that realm, anyways, little miss."
Mylene went silent again, leaning against Revun's chest suddenly, and Beyleth glanced up to look Revun in the eyes. "Hold her still for me."
Like he was asking for Revun to pass the whetstone around the fire.
He would never know what Mylene's expression was at that moment. If she doubted him, or hated him for what he had brought as company to her doorstep. All he could focus on was the way her body was still limp and unguarded in his hands.
His eyes slid back to his mentor, but Revun couldn't think. There's just static. His mouth tasted like smoke, and he rasped out a question. "Why didn't you tell me?" He shoved Mylene behind him, and luckily she didn't fight him on it, mutely letting Revun protect her. "Beyleth. What… why?"
Beyleth raised an eyebrow at him. "Look at yourself, boy. Then tell me why." His eyes narrowed, his face darkening. "Now. Either you hold her still, Revun, or kill her by your own hands. Now."
Revun couldn't reply, couldn't voice his dissent. But he could give it, and give it he did, a quick shake of his head sealing it all into blood.
Beyleth had long called Revun inhuman. It had been both a praise and a colder statement of fact. But as Revun watching Beyleth tower over him, his mouth drawing open into a snarl, Beyleth looked far more inhuman than Revun had ever been.
Revun dove to grab his dropped sword just as Beyleth swung.
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[ID: Revun having a nightmare months later after the campaign has officially started about fighting Beyleth like that again. They awake with a dagger clutched under their pillow.]
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toadtusks · 1 year
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Was just hit with the thought that if/when TLOVM does its version of “A Bard’s Lament” (if it’s adapted close to the stream version) it might open with a flashback to Juniper Shorthalt being killed by the goblin ;_;
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Have you seen this tiefling?
WELL NOW YOU HAVE!!!!
Artfight art for @dovelydraws
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drefvalentine · 2 years
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[Meme format of two people shaking hands. One arm is labeled “Jonnit” in white text, the other is labeled “Teacher Wei” in white text. The handshake is labeled “shaming a man to death”]
it’s weird that it’s happened twice, right?
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amikoroyaiart · 6 months
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Some 22 and 09 angst doodles
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rhymewithrachel · 6 months
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Rip guys
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floweroflaurelin · 13 days
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How do you want to do this?
Goodbye, Faithful Caregiver.
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staticrevelations · 7 months
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i forgot laura’s pregnancy announcement, marisha sneezing so hard she cracked a rib, them being named The Mighty Nein, them getting their first magic item info card of the campaign, the first mention of The Gentleman, caleb’s “take them out take them out” backstory tease, the first appearance of the Bad Luck Bandits, them pretending to have “extreme syphilis,” them finding out jester's mom's whole deal, “the Ruby of the Sea is the best lay ever,” and the debut of Pumat(s) Sol all happened in the same episode
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jq37 · 2 months
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Knowing your chaotic dumbass friends so well that you feel confident in ordering a special vulture dimension set and custom graphic for an episode that has exactly zero to do with vultures is a love language unto itself.
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peach-skyies · 6 months
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in it for the long haul
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otterlyart · 1 year
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An Eleventh Hour Ally
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You know the plan is going great when the DM does this :
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egophiliac · 5 days
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innocently logging in to look at the Twst schedule for May like
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sapphichymns · 6 months
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