#kethri

[blujaydoodles]

well this was SUPPOSED to be a mistletoe doodle but I got distracted and ended up spoofing a corny romance novel cover instead, oops

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #fantasy art #character art #illustration #pirate #gnome #halfling #bard #this is where difficulties with height differences gets you #'how do I pose them how should their legs go' -> 'what if she's got a knee up like a romance novel pose lol' -> #[googles romance novel covers] [googles pirate romance novels] '... wait okay actually what if I just drew that' #also I go back and forth on whether Indigo even carries a sword (they fight with Druid Stuff they don't technically need one) #but it's important for the Pirate Aesthetic™ #my OCs #Indigo #Kethri #noncanon shenanigans #dungeons and doodles

[blujayonthewing]

AHAHAH HOW ARE YOU SO FUCKING SMALL

#fucking DELIGHTED that the instruments don't scale for small races lmaooo holy shit #I do actually really love that bards get a bunch of melodies they can just play whenever... bet Kethri'd be really fun to play #but I only built her because I did make an attempt at aubree and y'all it sucks so bad lmao #let my blorbo be FAT #sigh. #AAANYWAY I think I've got all the character creation dicking around out of my system #I think Idri actualy turned out the best? June's up there too though which is good #... jeez I still haven't actually shared my sweet girl lmao I'll have to screenshot her looking cute in a cutscene or something haha #about me #my OCs #kethri #bg3

[ridetheluck]

Obsessssssed with the character I made for my evil playthrough.

Kethri, wild magic barbarian, and a true soul of the Absolute.

#bg3 #baldur's gate #baldur's gate 3 #kethri #I wuv my good character too I'll post some pics of her soon #also photo formatting in posts is weird now? click to view in good quality pls #keth deserves it

[pillowfriendly]

The graphics update looks like it'll be huge for darker skinned characters and being able to actually SEE THEM

#JUSTICE FOR KETHRY #ffxiv

[blujaynoodles]

Indigo's Magical Girl Transformation™ starry form, before and after I added the effects. Obviously this does spoil the 'what's in your pants' joke but honestly they're not, like, actually private or secretive about their anatomy, and also I just think a naked little guy with a gun is funny

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #character art #illustration #gnome #druid #circle of stars #nudity #ALSO the way I finished the flintlock makes it look like some kind of deepfried jpeg with filters on it?? but I drew it I swear :') #man their starry form was the punchline for a shitpost so I kind of phoned it in #but I wish I hadn't cause I Don't Love It and it my mind's eye it looks SO extremely cool lol I should revisit it in earnest #I feel like a lot of people have lots of OCs that lowkey just exist to be cool and have cool aesthetics but Indy's my only one #I've played them once! and though I'd very happily play them again they're also just fun to think about aesthetically #a pirate for kethri to kiss? indigo. actually just anything pirate related? indigo. cool starry druid shit? indigo babeyyy #my OCs #indigo #(oh any pronouns btw)

[aeide-thea]

the problem for me with both witcher s3 and wot s2—well, okay, one of a few problems, but the one i'm singling out at the moment—is that i've just reached a point with SFF where i've largely used up what little patience i ever possessed for the 'young trainee gets frustrated that they're not progressing faster and gets reckless' trope?

like it's not that it's not a plausible way for someone to behave, it totally is! but. i don't know. i need a, like, decade-long break where i just get stories starring middle-aged people who have, probably painfully, learned some damn patience and slow perseverance…

#tvblogging #also honestly #bookblogging #anyway i grudgingly did a google bc it's good to take my own medicine wrt researching at least a little before you hit post #so i might try some of the things that came up #but like. idk. really at some level i just want‚ idk‚ someone to option a tarma and kethry show or sth #Competent Cheerfully Jaded Mercs Have SFF Adventures #…is this my cue to revisit ancient misty lackey in 2023. possibly. god. #but like. i just want more coherent writing and less petulant teens #wot is better than witcher and also has moiraine but like. we're spending too much time with the babs. i want my adult qpr back :( #also obviously all of this is Not Unrelated 2 my personal situation where i've like. aged out of really relating to Youth #but remain pretty deeply alienated by most (cishet‚ reproductive‚ *productive* for that matter) visions of adulthood #so it's like. where are the narratives abt ppl who are out of sync with the expected narratives #but also bc i'm having such a bitch of a time with life i'm very hard to please bc crankiness comes much more easily than pleasure #anyway. unfortunately i got the gnothi seauton bit down but in itself that gets you precisely nowhere #just like. deep in the omphaloskeptic hole. emphasis on skeptic

[cicelythereaper]

Five Comfort Characters, Five Tags

i was tagged ages ago by @notpotable (thank you!!) and promptly began to overthink the concept of "comfort characters" and "whether i even have any". here at last is a selection of five in no particular order:

uma (disney's descendants), by reason of Piratical Bisexuality

jiang cheng (the untamed), by reason of What If The Personification Of Stress Had A Lightning Whip

lan xichen (also the untamed), by reason of Blue

shikari (legion of super-heroes, dna run), by reason of Being Blorbo-Shaped

susan pevensie (the version from my specific narnia/box of delights crossover), by reason of Being My Beloved

tagging @neuxue, @chromatographic, @trueishcolours, @frog3798 and @neverthe1ess

#cicely speaks #cicely memes #and now: the outtakes #had to physically restrain myself from typing 'my ocs' bc it's not fair to list characters whose names i refuse to put on the internet #it is so lucky this is just 'five characters' and not top five or this would have been a bloodbath #as it is i've got a whole crowd of 'em huddled by the keyhole staring into the room #hi kethry hi tarma hi iruka hi [redacted] yes i can see all of you #hi entire cast of uwma hi school 2013 pals hi assorted ghibli characters #HELLO to kimi ni todoke characters politely lurking in the back there #hi dc characters [derogatory] hi barbie movie characters [shoving back into the box] #it is also an experience making one of these as a kpop fan bc let's be honest your bias is not NOT your comfort character #make no mistake he is a real man but let's not delude ourselves #about the emotional work this man being handsome and good at singing has been doing for me for the past nine years

[whump-ventures]

Return to Kethrys

-had a sudden burst of inspiration for this world as a whole and some old characters are getting a revival. Most of them are changing quite a bit (even though if anyone remembers my bastard Edwyn he's not changing much at all and I'm excited to bring him back). Similar world, new plot, similar characters, and a lot of new ones! Should be fun, and hopefully I actually get around to writing since I wrote maybe one (1) drabble last year.

~~~

Clawing her way to consciousness has never been this difficult, but her memory has never been quite as fractured either.

She doesn’t blink open her eyes just yet, letting the other senses gather information. The air is heavy and stale, a far cry from the crisp and clean mountain air that she’s familiar with. The smells are confusing- rats, she can smell and hear their warm bodies snuffling along the ground, humans as well, and hay. An odd combination, especially with some of the humans seemingly healthy- but others not so much. And above all there is the overwhelming smell and taste of metal and stone surrounding her.

Footsteps, from far down the hall. A soft clinking a hundred or so yards away. She’s certain that the stale taste in the air means that they are deep underground, but even here she can hear the faintest song of the wind. Curious- like an opening to the world in such a foreign place-

A miniscule twist of her head and a sudden striking realization that she isn’t in the right form. Arms and hands tied- no, bound- by harsh metal that is behind her back and attached to the wall. Her legs and feet folded underneath her, and there's a deep ache which means she must have been kneeling in this position for quite some time now. She can feel the biting cold through her wrists and on her shins, which is another sure sign of her flimsy human skin, not tough and beautiful scales that can stop even the most deadly weapon.

She would never contain herself to this body unless… unless someone with wards forced her into it.

Silver eyes flash open with a snarl, teeth bared ready for a fight.

There is no foe in front of her. She twists her head to each side, tongue flicking out to taste the air. It’s dark in the- cave?- but her predatory eyes adjust in an instant, adding to her already confusing intel. She wills her body to grow and shift, needing to be rid of this weak and useless body and back into the one that she belongs in: With wings that stretch with scales of glittering obsidian, fangs that are longer than some men are tall, claws that rip and shred with ease. Yet the attempt is met with a harsh flash of light from behind her, and her transformation runs into a wall of stone. Try as she might, the effort to become herself again is met with nothing but exhaustion.

None of this makes sense. In one last effort, her legs bend underneath her, trying to push her to her feet. But the metal bites, bites like a snake in the grass, and tugs her back down to the ground. Another snarl and a twist to fight, and it bites into her again, causing her to growl in a combination of pain and frustration. The claws and fangs that remain in this form are much smaller, practically useless against metal. After a brief moment of struggle to get away from the snake-metal, she finally stops with a hiss, panting in her frustrations.

How did she get here? In this deep cave, surrounded by trees of metal, with hurt humans and healthy humans both off in the distance? Where even is… here? And what is this place? Too many unanswered questions as her breathing slowly returns to normal- or as normal as it can get in this nasty stale air that has no hint of freedom, no taste of sun or grass or the moon or stars. Cold and unforgiving stone, not covered in a perfect layer of snow, not gleaming under the light from above, more stone blocking her from the world above. A dark and terrible place, and one that she has no recognition of. All she knows is that she is very far from where she belongs.

So lost in her thoughts and confusion, that she almost misses the footsteps approaching her.

Another sharp twist of her head- mindful of the snake-metal this time, and her eyes lock onto a woman with flowing hair. The hair is near-white: not the gold of the sun, but also not the pure color of the snow. Her eyes remind Kaelyx of an alpine lake- which only serves to anger her further about the way she has been trapped in such a manner. The woman is studying her intensely, a soft smile flickering across her face that Kaelyx knows means nothing good- she’s seen that expression one too many times.

“So…..” It’s drawled out, the focused gaze never wavering, “You’re finally awake, half-breed.”

A growl builds in her throat, claws scraping against the stone wall behind her as she imagines sinking them into the woman’s neck. But she keeps her mouth shut, eyes narrowed in on the woman like she’s nothing more than a tasty bite of prey.

“You’ll drop that tough act soon enough, dragon.”

Less of an insult this time, but the tone is still enough for Kaelyx to have a sharp image in her mind of ripping the woman’s throat out. She nearly opens her mouth to respond, but once again decides better of it, desiring to get a better idea of the situation before speaking something that she may regret.

The woman’s smile only grows, staring straight at her with that intensity that Kaelyx has only seen on other dragons before. A sudden strike rushes through her when she grasps that this is what it must be like for her prey. What they see, maybe even what they feel… There is no doubt that this woman has the power here. For now. So long as the snake-metal bites her wrists, so long as that strange flash of light keeps her contained in this body- for the first time in her life, Kaelyx is the prey.

“Well, I don’t see any point in delaying.” The tall, sparse, metal… trees- this place makes no sense- click and swing open, and the woman strides in. Kaelyx’s growl builds as she strides closer, and she pulls harder against her trapped hands, wishing she could swing her claws at the woman’s face. That smile could be wiped away with a single slash, and it would be so satisfying to hear the haughty human scream. Maybe Kaelyx can even rip out an eye in the process.

A hand extends slowly towards her, and her fangs flash and snap. As she lunges, that damn bite returns around her wrists. Kaelyx enters a fierce brawl with her own body, willing it to shift, and yet there’s simply another flash that leaves her exhausted.

The hand rests on her forearm, just above the wicked metal, carefully out of range of Kaelyx’s flashing teeth that have a strong desire to sink into flesh, tear muscle, crush bone…

“Any more words for now, darling?”

Darling?

That insult can not be ignored.

“How dare you?” Her words come out as a hiss of rage, shocked to her core at the utter disrespect towards her race. As if a human could even compare to the grandeur of a dragon. "We are far superior to you, and such a revolting slander is beyond—”

A sudden jolt runs through her body, like a living creature is walking through her veins. It's enough of a surprise, so foreign, that she cuts her words off to focus on it. Curiosity battling with apprehension. The energy knots inside her, follow by a grasp around her chest and then a sharp pull...

All the air rushes out of her lungs.

Shock rushes through her, and Kaelyx's immediate reaction is to turn and look at the mage kneeling beside her, looking for any hint to understand the magic at work here. The woman doesn’t speak, nor does she move, her studying gaze never leaving Kaelyx’s own.

An attempt to breathe, and there’s nothing.

Another, and still no oxygen.

A third, and the fear hits.

If only logic and reasoning would have stayed with her, but the dragon, the animal that she is, responds first. And that response is manifested in pure panic. Followed by pain. That terrible feeling of fire in her lungs that she remembers once before when she was young, trapped in a cave and running out of air. But this is worse. Worse because the air is everywhere around her. Worse because as hard as she tries, all that necessary oxygen just seems to get pulled away from her before it can go to her lungs. And then she’s thrashing, struggling, needing to get her claws to her throat, to open her airway, to get some breath into her, to stop the burning- burning- burning that continues to grow and spread.

Her panic grows like a weed, choking her as quickly as the woman that steals her air with just a touch. Her struggles grow weaker, the cave getting dimmer around her. A terrifying thought scorches through Kaelyx, as intense as the fiery burn in her lungs- she’s going to die.

The woman smiles right before her world turns black.

#my ocs #whump drabble #imprisoned #magical whump #oxygen deprivation #Kaelyx #kethrys #struggling

[lumpofwhump]

OC Picrew Masterlist

Here are all my OCs in one place! More details on each will be added if and when they appear.

Topher Farley (he/him)

Role(s): Whumpee / Caretaker

Continuities: Sci-Fi Whump Series

[Image description: White man with messy teal hair, darker blue eyes, and glasses. He has a plain white shirt and a brown coat. He has a shy smile.]

Clee Dternás (she/her)

Roles: Caretaker / Whumpee

Continuities: Sci-Fi Whump (The Scavenger & the Forgotten)

[Image description: Pale green woman with long pointed ears and fangs. She has bright blue eyes, freckles, and large, bushy hair light brown hair. She has a baggy brown coat over a white shirt. She looks skeptical or frustrated. Antennae and broken horns not pictured.]

Radu (E2218R7) (he/him)

Roles: Whumpee

Continuities: Sci-Fi Whump (The Scavenger & the Forgotten)

[Image description: A grey-skinned man with pointed ears and long, stringy grey hair. He has exoskeloton/horns and yellow-ish eyes. He has a blanket draped over a white shirt. His expression is frightened/disoriented. Not pictured are his larger size, older age, and wings.]

Harlowe (she/her)

Roles: Caretaker / Whumpee

Continuities: Sci-Fi Whump (Prisoners of War)

[Image description: Brown-skinned woman with short, dark brown hair and a yellow eye. Her other eye is covered in an eye patch. Her face is splattered with blood, and she has a scar along her face and a black eye. She's wearing a black t-shirt. She has a displeased or challenging expression.]

Byron Hackett (he/him):

Roles: Whumpee

Continuities: Sci-Fi Whump (Prisoners of War)

[Image description: White man with short, messy blonde hair, pale blue eyes, and glasses. He's wearing a black t-shirt over a long-sleeved white shirt. He's bandaged up on the side of his face, his nose, and his neck; has dark circles under his eyes; and is blood-spattered. His expression is frightened, and he's holding his hands up defensively in front of him.]

Samantha Koutoujian (she/her):

Roles: Whumper

Continuities: Sci-Fi Whump (Prisoners of War)

[Image description: A white woman with shoulder-length brown hair and brown eyes. She's wearing a collared white shirt and a grey collared uniform jacket. She's smirking.]

Barclay Fletcher (he/him):

Roles: Whumpee / Carewhumper

Continuities: The Enclave

[Image description: A young white man with almost shoulder-length dirty blond/light brown hair and odd eyes - the left green and the right a neutral color. He has freckles and dark circles under his eyes. He's wearing an off-white collared shirt. He has a smirk with large prominent front teeth.]

Other characters:

(From left to right):

Alina Maddox (she/her) [Pale white woman with long neon green hair and pointed ears. She has tinted orange lenses, and fangs. She's wearing partially unbuttoned blue overalls over an orange sweater over a black t-shirt. She's grinning or laughing with an open mouth. Not pictured: Yellow eyes with oblong horizontal pupils.]

Zail Quendatt (he/him) [Green-skinned man with unkempt brown hair and yellow eyes. His ears are long and pointed. He has a coat over a white shirt. He looks indignant. Not pictured: Antennae, left one bent/broken.)

Lenavee Yuim (she/her) [Green-skinned woman with horns and long pointed ears. She has long white hair and bright blue eyes. She's wearing earrings, a sleeveless black shirt, and a floral-patterned shawl of sorts. Not pictured: Antennae.]

Alaric (he/him) [Tanned-skin man with pointed ears, shoulder-length dark red hair, and red eyes. He has a beauty mark on the right side of his face. He's wearing a white shirt with a baggy brown coat. He looks unimpressed.]

Kethry (she/her) [Green-skinned woman with long, dark red hair in a pony tail and long, pointed ears. She has bright blue eyes. She's wearing a green coat over a white shirt. She has a shit-eating grin. Not pictured: Antennae.]

Paul Waldrop (he/him) [Middle aged white man with wavy grey hair and grey eyes. He has rectangular glasses, and is wearing a grey suit with a striped collared shirt and a blue tie. He has an uncertain look on his face.]

Sarah Kyzer (nee Maddox) (she/her) [White woman with shoulder-length pink hair, pointed ears, and yellow eyes. She has a grey bow in her hair, and is wearing a dark red and grey capelet. She's smirking and licking blood off her right hand.]

Usalmy Shem (she/her) [Green-skinned woman with long, pointed ears, dark purplish hair, and dark blue-grey eyes. She's wearing a lilac cardigan over a pink collared shirt. She has an unpleasant smirk on her face. Not pictured: Antennae.]

Jas Knossos (he/him) [Light tan-skinned man with pale grey eyes and black hair kept in a pony tail. He's wearing a light grey button-up coat. He's holding up a bloodied fist and looking quite unimpressed.]

#picrews #original characters #ocs #roleplay ocs #whump ocs #masterlist #Topher Farley #Clee Dternás #Radu #Harlowe #Byron Hackett #Samantha Koutoujian #Lenavee Yuim #Sarah Kyzer #Alina Maddox #Jas Knossos #Usalmy Shem #Paul Waldrop #Kethry #Alaric #Zail Quendatt

[catbatart]

Commission for @kethri of a tender moment between sylvari! Loved working with these colors!

#commission #gw2 #sylvari

[blujaydoodles]

HELLO IT'S MISTLETOE SEASON!!

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #character art #illustration #halfling #bard #gnome #wizard #mistletoe #WHAT is better than getting an idea for a drawing while in the middle of working on another drawing I ask you #this happens to me so rarely and I even more rarely actually follow through on that followup idea haha #at the risk of jinxing myself I've had? art energy and motivation? lately?? #I feel like I might actually have a bunch of mistletoe doodles in me again this year #speaking of I'm open to suggestions (although no promises) and if we're friends that includes your OCs just sayin #ruszca #my OCs #kethri #hidden fathoms #dungeons and doodles

[blujayonthewing]

me: [has a hundred other drawings I want to do or sketches I want to finish]

me: hmm time to draw my bard being aggressively flirty with an npc who's never shown any particular interest in her or in anything at all other than being a big nerd

#I've drawn kethri one(1) time #well I mean. two times now that I've sketched her getting all up in our wizard's business #the height difference is. outlandish. ruszca is a gnome but she's Tall and kethri is a halfling and short end of average #there's a 13in difference between them #idk if this is in character even for kethri tbh although she DOES think ruszca needs to get out more and have a little fun sometimes #kethri's really not an aggressive flirt she's got a very laid back and gentle sort of genial approach to every social situation #but maybe Drunk Kethri would be more inclined to be a little more forward even if just to be a tease #... anyway this is exactly the kind of thing that gives me hangups about drawing I feel like I SHOULD be doing that other stuff #and this time I happen to not be letting that stop me but it IS probably gonna stop me from posting this widely because Guilt #even though the PRAGMATIC thing would be 'just sketch a lot all the time without overthinking everything' #'you'll feel allowed to do silly nonsense that appeals to literally nobody but yourself once in awhile if it's mixed in with other stuff' #alas I gotta work on that :') #about me #my art #my OCs #kethri

[ridetheluck]

She's everything to me

#my evil little cultist darling #kethri #baldur's gate #bg3

[pillowfriendly]

hey i dont think i even know your oc's name? care to give some basic info for the new followers :>

hee hee hoo hoo thanks for enabling me. i have a few but the one im usually posting about here is my ffxiv character KETHRY!!

shes gods perfect jock and a complete fuckign weirdo. harpoon-wielding sailor turned dragoon adventurer after leviathan smashed her captain's ship in half. monster/primal hunter by trade, would love to wander around doing odd jobs and probably invent eorzea's first rugby league, but keeps getting dragged into geopolitical affairs instead.

she was doing alright and even learning how to read when she got thrown into two back-to-back wars and her brain scrambled like an egg. shes good at incredible violence but its not good FOR her you feel me. picked up fray's dark knight crystal and accidentally grafted his ghost to her soul. met zenos and caught his rabies. not really fit for polite society after all that and its a long project from shadowbringers to endwalker to reassemble her sanity.

she has immense difficulty doing anything magic. you cannot convince her that laws are real. thinks chocobos should get to eat at the dinner table too. abandonment issues out the ass. has a bug in her pocket Right Now.

#has reached the status of My Baby alongside my pathfinder cleric Neave #they run around in my head and knock everything over #ffxiv #kethry ament #<- last name is a botany pun #ask

[fantasmagoriam]

Aaaand here we are on the last day of the OC kiss week! Guest starring @pillowfriendly's Kethry! I hope that head kiss will fix her

#oc kiss week #ockiss24 #ffxiv #aaaaaaand that's the end everyone! #the crowd is cheering the jury is awestruck!!! #thank you everyone who let me borrow their blorbos for this uwu #it was a pleasure and I had a ton of fun with this little project #oc: nigen avagnar #matry's art

[nightmaskart]

Top 5 books

The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

Tarma and Kethry, The Vows and Honors Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey

Spiderwick by Holly Black

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsin Muir

Sabriel by Garth Nix

#this is just off the top of my head I'm probably not thinking of some