#it’s-sixxers

[its-sixxers]

A courier at the edge of the Storm.

Kansas, 2284.

#fallout #fnv #the courier #art #fanart #oc: carmen / courier six #im not happy w this but FUCK IT #TORNADOES #sixxers lore: twisters are a special interest of mine

[crownedinmarigolds]

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM YOUR LOCAL NOSFERATU and Quinn!!!!! <3 May 2024 treat you well!! Thank you every single gorgeous person who drew their characters with Ralph! Omg! I only had to do VERY minor editing, I hope that's okay! Mostly just filling in a shoulder or two! These are in kind of order but not really!! But all gorgeous and stunning!

@its-sixxers - Elaine de la Saules, Casimmir, Briar Mary, Adam Romaniuk @themarginalthinker - Blue, Charlie, Tweak @tzimizce - Quinn @confusedwithglitter - Orpheus @the-art-block - Oginn, Atena:ti, Lamb, and Wolf Mother @holly-bearie - Angelo @problemsynth - Nere @m4rloe5 - Charlie and hiding place

#vampire the masquerade #vtm #vamily #vtm oc #world of darkness #wod #nosferatu #thinblood #duskborn #its-sixxers #themarginalthinker #tzimizce #confusedwithglitter #the-art-block #holly-bearie #problemsynth #just ralph is my art the rest belongs to who has been tagged! #happy new year! #2024 #vtm collaboration #so much love i'm dyinggg

[wakinguponsaturday]

Almost a year to the day after first asking @its-sixxers if I could print out and bind Half Light (after figuring out how one actually does that), I've finally finished it!!!

She's 825 pages long, has some of the early pages warped from glue, and blood (?) staining the text block, and I am so excited to fall in love with Nines and Mary all over again. Thanks for letting me do this, it's been a really rewarding project and I got a new hobby out of it!!!

Please go read Half Light and everything else Six has written, she is immensely talented. Mary is my favourite character in Bloodlines bar none and reading her story endeared me to VTMB when the game itself did not. Six's Fallout works are also masterpieces, and I haven't checked out her newer stuff with Elder Scrolls but I fully intend to because even if I've never touched a Skyrim game in my life, I know I'm going to adore it too!

More info about the process under the cut.

SeaLemon was an invaluable resource starting out here because I barely know how to sew and I had no idea how to approach the actual construction of a book. I'm gonna plug her right off the bat because she's very beginner-friendly if anyone else wants to learn.

But before all of that I had to format everything in Word! Chapter by chapter I copied the text over from the downloadable PDF from AO3 and would scan through the fic to ensure the formatting was correct (italicization, bolding, paragraph breaks, etc). I'd do this for about an hour at a time over the course of a couple months, until I decided to do the rest of it all at once after one March night at 10PM where I decided to learn how to bind it all, because fuck it, why not. (Answer: I was freaked out about my upcoming departmental talk and this seemed like a good distraction).

Printing all of it just on regular printer paper (don't know if I'd do that again in the future, but it's what I had on hand) it ended up being 52 signatures, or collections of 16 pages (4 pieces of paper) folded in half. Pierced holes in all of those using an awl and an old phonebook to hold the pages open, and then used my old embroidery thread to sew them together. This part took me maybe two days because I was just so damn pumped about it lmao. I also don't have any kind of bookpress to weight down the pages, so I had made due with old textbooks and MCAT prep material.

It stayed this way for LITERAL MONTHS as I gathered all the other supplies - chipboard and brushes from my local craft store, PVA glue online, and by far the hardest part was fabric. I've since learned that you can make your own fabric using book cloth and basically anything you want (if I had known this book would have been coated in red silk I swear) but for now I just wanted to be sure it was something designed for this purpose, as the woman at Fabric Land assured me it needed something specialized. So binder's buckram! Took a while to find something local and the color selection was pretty limited, I was hoping for a dark red or a dark blue but the green was the best they had in stock. Took even longer to get here. And by that point I had enough going on that it fell by the wayside until uh.... last week.

I glued the spine, again realizing that maybe I should've just made my own bookpress but powering through with textbooks to hold things in place, and let that sit for a couple days to fully dry. Ideally it would be flat, but beggars cannot be choosers. Gave her a lil ribbon too.

Not pictured because I forgot, the final text block with black construction paper glued to it to form the inside cover (would probably use something thicker/crisper in the future, something more like cardstock perhaps?). But then it came to putting the cover together! And that was just cutting chipboard to fit and gluing it correctly onto the fabric, leaving gaps around the spine.

Let that dry, and then I glued the text block in and let everything sit for just over 24h, again with makeshift weights to prevent the fabric warping (it's the second book from the bottom).

And then tada! Finished book! (This one's from before it was pressed but it looks the same now)

All in all extremely cool to hold in my hands and I look forward to the next fic that makes me this insane. If I get permission to do The Sun Is Now Fading I might take a crack at that and make a little set! Follow your dreams and one day you too will be able to take notes in the margins of your favourite Vampire the Masquerade fic.

#vtmb #vampire the masquerade #its-sixxers #bookbinding #mine #cant wait to read this on my flight and pray that no one asks me what it is lest i have to respond with #..... uh are you familiar with the 1991 TTRPG world of darkness and its subsequent media #em.chats

[mxldito]

  Indie Vampire: the Masquerade OC written by Ravis. Crossover friendly. Semi-selective and mutuals preferred. No prior knowledge of VTM required to interact. 18+ only, 21+ mun. Personals, read this please!

Info: Carrd | Mun | AUs | Lore | Resources | Art Credits Interacting: Opens | RP Memes | Interest Tracker   Blogs: @longdeadblonde​ |​ @usurpblooded | @cmen5150 (IC)

#Current PFP by @its-sixxers on Tumblr #Blog sidebar by @joltergeist on Twitter #Doll Coyote made by @himb0protector on Tumblr #Carrd includes same information on main blog. #That resources link is for RP graphics!

[meatcrimes]

happy bday my present is this ask is free reign to go on about ur oc of choice and everyone has to read it

oh gosh which one do i pick… i’ll reblog this later once i come up w something but thank u ☺️

#ask #its-sixxers #0329

[slmcreative]

📚📐🌗 for artist asks!

How many layers do you typically use?

I'd say about 6 on average, depending on how much shading and coloring I'm doing.

Whats your favorite kinds of lines to draw?

BIG OL THICC BOI LINES

Is night or day better for drawing?

Day. By nighttime I'm tired and antsy and want to do something else.

#its-sixxers #thanks for the ask!

[boghermit]

gimme a lacroix and a tommy shelby for character bingo

Idiot Ventrue can't even get bingo 💔

Tommy ALMOST got bingo but if he tried to flex on me by pouring soup in my lap I would give him a swirly. I might give him a half-assed apology if the soup is cold on not on my lap. Love him though <3 Still need to finish those last two eps but I'm not sure I have it in me 🤡

#its-sixxers #thank you for the ask!

[gorbalsvampire]

Penelope Germaine Armitage-Stoneleigh / Mother Superior

Lasombra; Graverobber; Path of Death and the Soul. She wasn't always like this, but her little problem with believing in diablerie as holy communion and a love language has rather caught up with her. My exquisitely English pack priestess from @pathogenic's Sabbat game. Her concept was "Hedy Lamarr, but extremely Catholic and well evil." I didn't know how gay she was until I started playing her and then things accelerated. She was never meant to survive and now I'm stuck with her, and I'm really considering a version of her as an antagonist for a future story...

art by @its-sixxers

#lasombra #sabbat #vtm rp #vtm oc #clan lasombra #vampire the masquerade #vtm #oc: mother superior

[lgbtmi]

More Willow (toreador, gen 12) art!! by @its-sixxers!!! what a good day to be alive 💕

#willowtalking #my characters #vtm #vampire the masquerade #Toreador

[neopuff]

im in the place where i wanna draw a bunch of scenes from The Partner Program by @its-sixxers

#psychonauts #sasha nein #milla vodello #sashamilla #lunchtime yoga #carro art #im in a MOOD. must have sashamilla content

[maddymoreau]

I read this interesting post:

https://www.tumblr.com/rocket-69/691648665881886720/its-sixxers-fallout-fallen-knight-let-me?source=share

That discusses how while Victor is a lovable character he's a product designed to lure Courier Six into New Vegas. This post got my brain juices flowing so bad I made Tumblr glitch with how much I tried writing in the tags. So I had to make my own post.

I find it EXTREMELY interesting how all the AIs Mr. House created while fun and lovable are also products.

Jane being a copy of Mr. House's favorite girl a starlet he dated before the Great War. She's designed to entertain him similarly to how the workers at Gomorrah "entertain" customers.

Jane: "Mr. House has a lot of needs, sugar. I take care of all of them, and a lady doesn't kiss and tell."

There's also an emotional aspect to the services she provides him.

If he wanted her just for sex he wouldn't have specifcally scanned her brain. He could've gotten anyone. While famous Jane wasn't even a star but a starlet. A young actress with aspirations to become a star.

While he might have liked Jane's personality which is why he picked her. Ultimately their relationship was a business transaction.

Raul: "She said they never, um... don't make me spell it out, boss. Anyway, she said all he wanted to do was scan her brain and make her dress up in different outfits."

Mr. House scanned her brain to create an artificial relationship (separate from the real Jane) designed to satisfy his needs post Great War. Mr. House had the technology to save the real Jane but chose not to.

A lot of people also seem misunderstand the reason why Mr. House doesn't have sex with Jane. It's because he physically COULDN'T.

Ignoring cut content. Mr. House was already attached to the machine keeping him alive. He's connected to an Electrode-studded command helmet on the day of the Great War.

It's how Mr. House protected New Vegas:

Raul: "I remember there were some weird stories about him, especially near the end." NEAR THE END.

Mr. House takes Jane's personality to the EXTREME. Designing her to stoke and inflate his ego by being able to only say positive things about him. Jane is a product designed to provide Mr. House a service all while managing his snow globe collection. She doesn't even respond when the player says goodbye to her.

Then there's Mr. Vegas who was an AI created before the Great War. A charming DJ for Radio New Vegas to play music but also spread the news.

Mr. House also did to the same to the tribes by turning them into The Strip AKA a money making product.

He molds people into exactly what HE wants for his benefit.

The BIGGEST example of this was Benny! However that didn't work because Benny is human. Benny had his own ambitions and desires.

Mr House: "I have to think that he found out about the Platinum Chip and mistakenly convinced himself that he could use it to his own ends."

Mr. House even flat out admits it to the player.

Mr. House: "Benny has led the Chairmen ever since I recruited his tribe seven years ago. Until his recent misbehavior, I'd planned to make him my protege. Maybe if I'd begun grooming him sooner, none of this would've happened..."

Protege meaning a person who is guided and supported by an older and more experienced or influential person. He wanted to GUIDE Benny into a specific role. Which the player can even ask about.

Courier Six: "What use would you have for a protege?"

Mr. House: "To achieve my aims, I require a capable human agent to perform certain . . . tasks."

HE DOES THE SAME WITH COURIER SIX!!!

Testing them to see if they can get to New Vegas on their own.

This awesome post goes into more details about it:

https://www.tumblr.com/maddymoreau/741007168343588864/veronicaroyce-it-always-bothered-me-that-mr?source=share

Mr. House even mentions you being a more-than-suitable replacement for the role he wanted Benny in.

ALSO during your first meeting with Mr. House this exchange can happen:

Courier: "Why the VIP treatment? I'm just a courier."

Mr. House: "Oh, don't be coy. You've been playing a high-stakes game ever since Victor dug you out of the ground. Don't be afraid to admit it."

DON'T BE AFRAID TO ADMIT IT. HE'S TEACHING YOU!!!! HE'S GUIDING YOU INTO THE ROLE HE WANTS!!!

Mr. House: "You see that you and I are of a different stripe, don't you? We don't have to dream that we're important. We are."

While Mr. House may act like he's above feelings and relationships. HE'S NOT!!!! It's why the player's karma can affect his ending SO MUCH!!!!

Another incredible post discussing it:

https://www.tumblr.com/maddymoreau/740922764666585088/veronicaroyce-something-i-think-a-lot-about-is?source=share

A lot of people think Mr. House is an idiot for picking Benny but people forget Benny's drive. Hell just rewatch the intro cutscene where he shoots Courier Six.

Mr. House being human is also WHY he picks Benny despite Swanks being far more loyal. Swanks is an unimaginative employee.

MR. HOUSE LIKE'S BENNY'S PERSONALITY. HE NOT STUPID HE KNOWS WHAT BENNY PERSONALITY IS LIKE!!!

Mr. House: "I have a certain tolerance for greed. I expect my business partners to be self-interested - but smarty so."

However he misjudged Benny and even admits it.

Mr. House: "Obviously, I miscalculated his drive for supremacy."

In the Yes Man ending we learn.

Yes Man: "I found some code snippets in one of Mr. House's databanks that will let me, um, reprogram my personality! To be a little more assertive, basically!"

Meaning while small Mr. House has programming to allow characters like Victor and Jane free will. He WON'T use it though because he wants the specific services and relationships they provide him.

HE'S A WEIRDO CONTROL FREAK WHO ACTS LIKE HE'S ABOVE HUMAN EMOTIONS BUT HE'S NOT AND I LOVE IT!!!!

In the ending with high good karma it even says: "Mr. house afforded him/her every luxury at his disposal in the Lucky 38, out of gratitude - and a quiet sense of pride for his choice in lieutenants."

Of course because of his ego (look at the obituary that appears when he dies) but GRATITUDE. Spoiling Courier Six with all the luxuries he can provide doesn't sound like a basic employee and employer relationship he likes to act like what they have is.

Mr. House: "In any case... this is an employer - employee relationship. I've given you an assignment, and the directions are clear."

If you want to take the G.E.C.K script notes into consideration they even says:

Mr. House: ''You know, I've had thousands of employees in my time. Few met my expectations, fewer still surpassed them.'' {You know, I never had much time for a family - if I did, you'd be the daughter/son I wish I'd had. Benny was almost like a son to me, but well...}

Courier Six being loyal to Mr. House means so much more to him then he'd ever want to admit. EVEN AT THE END OF THE GAME WHEN THE PLAYER HAS FINISHED THEIR WORK AT THE SECOND BATTLE OF HOOVER DAM HE AUTOMATICALLY GETS EXCITED DISCUSSING THEIR NEXT PLANS!!!!!

#Courier Six doing and being exactly what he wanted them to be allows Mr. House to feel comfortable with them. #I wanna ramble about this emotionally stunted 261 year old man HE'S SUCKS SO MUCH I LOVE IT *EXPLODES*!!!!! #Please correct me I'm wrong about anything or just talk about him with me akjdlfhnov; s #Anytime I make a long analysis post about a character I get nervous that I missed a detail that would contradict everything I wrote. #Fallout New Vegas #Mr. House #MadisonPlaysFalloutNewVegas #Long Text #MadisonHouse

[its-sixxers]

ah yes, the its-sixxers nosferatu pantheon. i’m familiar with (looks at smudged writing on hand) a dumb romanian, brian may, cazador, gelatin, euthanasia, effigy, mad susan, and absent-minded bastard

(this was funnier in my head but im sending it anyway)

you made me laugh so its successful either way

tag urself i'm mad susan

#the its-sixxers nosferatu pantheon #i should make that a tag tbh #euthanasia for athanasia is p inspired tbh that's basically her job

[crownedinmarigolds]

2 10 and 14 for noa💖💖

its-sixxers asked: #14 and #19 for Chloe and Noa! dahfkljdsfOUGH thank you guys so much!!! :0 <3

2. Did you design them with any other characters/OCs from their universe in mind? Noa - Noa was made to fit in a party for a tabletop game, but otherwise I had made her completely unaffiliated with the characters that surround her. I of course made her a family and such to have, but otherwise - nope she is whole cloth her own character! Khloe - Another character I made first and the world semi-bent around her. Khloe was made when my husband/ST mentioned wanting to run a game after I said I had a few conceptual ideas for characters I'd never done before! If anything - Khloe was a Thinblood to fit into the greater narrative but I had pretty much wanted her to be Thinblood to start with! 10. If they have a LI, how much of their character is tailored to be compatible with that person? Noa - Noa is her own person and personality and any LI I may have made for her tailored themselves. Haha! I think Nyth may be the closest thing she has to a "love interest" though they're not lovers in that sense. They are soul mates though. Her being a bit more quiet and a bit more romantic may be in reaction to Nythanel being more prominent in her story than he had been in previous incarnations, but otherwise - nope! Noa is not tailored to suit anybody in particular. Khloe - Khloe is the same, not tailored to anyone but instead the world is tailored to her. It's a fun indulgent game she's in! She may've grown more chaotic being with her love interest, but I think that's normal if you're dating someone a little wacky... you just become wacky yourself. 14. If you had to narrow it down to 2 things that you MUST keep in mind while working with your OC, what would those things be? Noa - Hm two things.... Noa is conservative as hell/repressed as well as a big macabre nerd. I feel like conservative covers a huge list of possible things, but essentially she likes to dress without exposing too much of herself, she holds back on ravenous desires... she doesn't necessarily mind other people being a bit more free, but she is staunchly sticking to whatever morals or code she has. She also in every iteration I make of her a big fan of the afterlife and macabre and death, so - conservative necromancer in pink! (That's three things actually ooops) Khloe - Khloe's two things are that she is firmly in the "if I don't do it who will" camp and extremely loyal. She is the doing it scared woman. She will run out in the middle of the fight if she has a way to combat whatever is going on because she knows that no one else could or would. She loves her friends and would die for their cause, even if it's revealed to her at the last second that she'd been lied to to get shit done. (Not by her friends per se, but what they serve? It's complicated.) 19. What is your favorite fact about your OC? Noa - My favorite fact about Noa is - after discussing with some friends over fun shipping things - she would actually be very forward if she likes you. I know, not very exciting, but I was thinking how she's been a rock the entire time I've had her when it's come to romance... but if she were actually trying to be with someone for real, she would be incredibly: "Are you flirting with me? Yes, I do like that you are. Come, dance with me. I want to spend time with you." Etc! Khloe - My favorite fact about Khloe is simply that she is me and she is dating my husband's sexy self insert so together he and I are giggling and having a great time both in game and out RP'ing Ralph and Khlo. :3Just lots of fun!! (Even if the high stress danger times!)

#everyone thank you soooo mfun #noa #khloe #vtm #vtm oc #vampire the masquerade #answered ask #answered asks #oc ask meme #oc ask game #its-sixxers #svampira #muah!

[ineed-to-sleep]

15 OC Associations

Saw @its-sixxers version of this a while ago and decided to do one too <3 if you see this prompt and would like to do it as well, consider yourself tagged(+ feel free to tag me on it, I'd love to see your ocs)!!

NAWEN FARLONG

ANIMAL: moth

COLOR(S): blue, black, silver, gold

MONTH: nightal/the drawing down

SONG: Fire With Fire - AlicebanD

NUMBER: 7

DAY OR NIGHT: night

PLANT(S): wispweed, daggerroot

SMELL(S): incense, lavender, leather

GEMSTONE: sapphire

SEASON: early winter

PLACE(S): taverns, castles, bridges, hideouts, abandoned temples

FOOD(S): mashed potatoes, soups and broths, bagels

SIGN: scorpio(cancer rising tho)

ELEMENT(S): water

DRINK(S): wine, rum, coffee

#found this lost in my drafts half finished wnsjkakakxkx it's been in there for a while #but anyway I love her your honor 🫠 #she is my babyy rogue w a heart of gold babygirl grew up in a swamp moved to neverwinter got coerced into becoming a shadow thief #went to baldurs gate at 45 got her ass kicked by the guild then abducted by the mindflayer ship and tadpole'd #I've got an app with about 20 different documents with notes about her and her backstory #as you can see I am very normal about her. normal and sane #oc.nawen #bg3 #sleep.txt

[meatcrimes]

is there a better au than the murder absimiliard one

its the peak imo

i agree wholeheartedly and i’m slowly gathering a band of people who are like “if you ever do that lmk i’d love to be in that”

#ask #its-sixxers

[proserpinewrites]

Hekate (Ἑκατη): Greek goddess of boundaries, the moon, magic, and ghosts

‘Whom she will she greatly aids and advances: she sits by worshipful kings in judgement, and in the assembly whom she will is distinguished among the people. And when men arm themselves for the battle that destroys men, then the goddess is at hand to give victory and grant glory readily to whom she will.’ - Hesiod, Theogony

I commissioned the incomparable @its-sixxers to do a portrait of my Lone Wanderer and protagonist of my fic, you who wish to conquer pain, Hekate Dorothea Talbot.

Needless to say this is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen, and now I really need to get cracking on finishing off chapter 14.

#fallout 4 #fallout 3 #lone wanderer #you who wish to conquer pain #insp: hekate talbot