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wetcatspellcaster · 5 months

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OCs as Obscure References

thank you for the tag @novarunestone :)

name: Rosalie Frostsong

animal: oh, I'm already failing to answer lmfao. Not to be basic, but: cats.

colours: pink, lavender, warm yellow

month: oh boy. fuck if I know... Imma say, January.

songs: More Like You - Orla Gartland, People Watching - Conan Gray, Bad Ones - Call Me Karizma, Proof - Paramore

number: 13

plants: roses, foxgloves

smells: aged paper, spearmint, or cinnamon sugar

gemstone: emerald, rose quartz

time of day: sunrise

season: spring

places: beaches on cold days, libraries, warm fireplaces

food: cinnamon toast, strawberries with sugar, roasted pumpkin and squash

drinks: chai (without milk!), raspberry lemonade, warm whisky with honey

element: weirdly i think it's fire???

astrological sign: hahaha idk man i think there's contenders for Cancer, Virgo, Libra and Aries but if i think about it too much she ends up diagnosed.

seasonings: cinnamon, thyme, sea salt

sky: warm orange/pink sunrise that is pretty but hints at rain ahead!

weather: cold winter sunshine

magical powers: extreme overthinking (divination magic)

weapons: she carries a dagger and feels weird about it

social media: lmfao. goodreads.

make up product: blush

candy: hard toffee

method of long distance travel: boat

art style: art nouveau or pre-raphaelite

fear: isolation, vulnerability, being alone

mythological creature: hilariously, it's a unicorn

piece of stationary: very ornate notebooks, all full with extra notes in the margins

three emojis: 🥺🌺💫

celestial body: stars!

tagging: literally anyone who wants to do this! plz don't be shy, just @ me when you play so I can make friends :)

#tags #tag games #ocs as obscure references #rosalie tag

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vexatious-anamnesis · 18 days

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OCs as Obscure References

Caeldax

I got tagged by both @rakofelo and @turboweenie do to this, so here I am. @orlesianapologist and @nightgnome have both been tagged already, but... I got no one else so get tagged again!

ANIMAL: caribou

COLORS: fig ; wisteria ; phthalo green ; viridian ; fog grey

MONTH: november

SONGS: dear fellow traveler, sea wolf ; second child, restless child, the oh hellos

NUMBER: 9

PLANTS: wild mockorange ; spurred snapdragon ; eagle fern ; sambucus ; sagebush

SMELLS: cedarwood ; charcoal ; leather ; sage ; spiced ginger ; petrichor

GEMSTONE: snowflake obsidian

TIME OF DAY: early evening

SEASON: fall

PLACES: valdivian rainforest, valdivia, los ríos, chile

FOOD: plum ; elderberry ; leafy greens ; tarte aux myrtilles

DRINKS: nettle tea ; jasmine blossom daquiri ; ginger and elderberry mead

ELEMENT: earth

ASTROLOGICAL SIGN(S): capricorn sun, aries moon, gemini rising

SEASONINGS: marjoram ; cinnimon ; sage ; rosemary

SKY: nautical twilight

WEATHER: light rainfall

MAGICAL POWER: animal communication

WEAPONS: empathy ; twin daggers

SOCIAL MEDIA: instagram

MAKEUP PRODUCT: khol

CANDY: dark chocolate

METHOD OF LONG DISTANCE TRAVEL: animal companion

ART STYLE: impressionism

FEAR: loss of independence

MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURE: white stag

PIECE OF STATIONARY: graphing paper

THREE EMOJIS: 🌿🐾⚔️

CELESTIAL BODY: mercury

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 oc #tav #bg3 tav #dungeons and dragons #oc: caeldax zau'ndar #drow #ranger #ocs as obscure references

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rakofelo · 18 days

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@turboweenie tagged me to do OCs as Obscure References. Seemed fitting to do Finch! Thanks for the tag!

FINCHVAER

ANIMAL chimpanzee

COLOURS rustic orange, denim blue, sage green

MONTH October

SONGS Borderline by Tove Lo, Duality by Slipknot, Nevermine by Cultus Black

NUMBER 4

PLANTS bamboo, fern, cactus

SMELLS petrichor, pennies, sweet soil, library books

GEMSTONE matrix opal

TIME OF DAY 4pm

SEASON Autumn

PLACES Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Thailand

FOOD fish tacos and cilantro

DRINKS black coffee, negroni, spiced rum

ELEMENT aether, arsenic

ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS(S) Leo ☀, Aquarius 🌙, Sagittarius 📈

SEASONINGS cumin, turmeric, black pepper

SKY apocalyptic sunset

WEATHER dense, oppressive air before a thunderstorm

MAGICAL POWER telekinesis

WEAPONS bare fists, but if he must, a staff

SOCIAL MEDIA Reddit

MAKEUP PRODUCT green eyeliner and highlighter

CANDY cinnamon hearts

METHOD OF LONG DISTANCE TRAVEL human cannonball

ART STYLE Dadaism

FEAR loss of autonomy

MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURE phoenix

PIECE OF STATIONARY putty rubber

THREE EMOJIS 🥀🌋👁️‍🗨️

CELESTIAL BODY Oort cloud

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #artists on tumblr #bg3 ocs #my ocs #oc: finchvaer #ocs as obscure references #obscure references

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loccorocco · 9 months

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Hey what's in your pockets

cdda oc Randy/Qud guy

#my art #cataclysm dark days ahead #cdda #breuh i finally found the original reference for the hunting jacket #i lost the original screenshot #thats what I get for trying to put obscure shit on my OCs

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sneez · 1 year

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more of my oc tervis (any pronouns), the creepiest most miserable little weirdo in town. which is saying something [id under cut]

/ ID: four digital drawings.

The first image is a series of drawings of Tervis on a paper-textured background. A heading at the top reads 'Tervis (Humble)'. One is a coloured headshot of Tervis looking to the left; they have a gaunt face, short receding hair, a scar bisecting their lip and right eyebrow, greyish skin, and are wearing a red shawl around their neck. An arrow pointing at their right eye reads 'one blue eye (mostly blind)'; another arrow pointing at their left eye reads 'one brown eye'. They have a serious, hostile expression. The second drawing is an uncoloured full-body sketch of Tervis. Next to this is the same drawing but coloured and with more polished lineart. Tervis is a thin, hunched figure wearing a long, dark brown robe, a greyish bag on their back, and a red shawl around their head and neck. They are barefoot, and are leaning on a walking staff with both hands. An arrow pointing to the walking staff reads 'needed for walking, useful for hitting'. Tied to the belt around their waist are several long scrolls of paper with writing on them. An arrow pointing to the scrolls reads ''blessings' they paste on infected houses'. Tervis is looking warily out at the viewer from beneath their eyebrows. An arrow pointing to their head reads 'scar from getting hit in the face with a brick (also knocked out a tooth)'. Alongside these drawings are a series of bullet points giving information about Tervis. These read:

indeterminate age, indeterminate gender

religious fanatic (unclear which religion)

lives alone somewhere in the steppe

dislikes everyone but is nicer to children than anyone else

has every disease

The second image is a fake screenshot from the video game Pathologic. Tervis is looking out at the viewer; the background shows scenery from the steppe. The text on screen reads:

CHANGELING: I still don’t see what you could have done that would make you personally responsible for this plague. TERVIS: Responsible… no, not merely responsible! This is my plague, cast upon my head alone. I am the originator; my sin is at the root of all. I have ventured into the town. I have seen the canker there. No matter how many houses I bless, my sickness sinks deeper. The rotted limb is the death of the body… Surely you understand me. You are a healer, are you not? CHANGELING: What is it that you are asking me to do? TERVIS: Let me be the lamb, worker of miracles! My blood shall wet the earth, and bright flowers shall grow… My putrefaction will provide the soil within which new life will burgeon, pure and free of sin and decay. Let it be done. I am ready. My failing flesh is but little sacrifice; in death my weakness will be my strength. Soon these torments will be at an end.

Below are two dialogue options:

You’re insane!

What makes you so sure your death would solve anything?

The third image is a fake screenshot from the video game Pathologic 2. Tervis is looking out at the viewer, and has been painted in semi-realistic style. The text on screen reads:

Tervis: Why do you force me to live? Damn you! Your cure is poison to me. Now I shall never be blessed. You should have left me to bleed.

Below are three dialogue options:

Don’t be absurd. I wasn’t going to watch you die.

What makes you think you deserve suffering?

I wish I had.

At the bottom of the image is a line of dialogue which Tervis has just spoken:

The air is foul. There is rot in this place. The stench of corruption shall be – what was it? What was it? The stench of corruption shall be… swept aside…

The fourth image is a coloured scene depicting Tervis and Clara. They are central in the composition; around them is the steppe, which has been rendered in a loose, painterly style. Tervis is kneeling, their walking staff cast aside, and are reaching out their hands to Clara in a desperate, pleading gesture. They are crying, their face contorted in an expression of agonised ecstasy. Clara stands beside them, one hand reaching out, the other held above Tervis’s head as though about to touch their brow. She has a solemn, pained expression. Behind her head, a break in the dark clouds gives the impression that she is haloed by sunlight; rays of the same light fall onto Tervis, illuminating their face and red robe. End ID. /

#artwork #pathologic #tervis!!!!!!!!!!!! :-D #sorry i know ive already posted that fake p2 screenshot i just wanted to keep all my tervis images in one place. please forgive me #i am having. So Much Fun. i would explode and die for tervis shes the worst i adore her #making fake screenshots is so enjoyable i love trying to match the fonts and copying all the little ui details it's so fun highly recommend #i have a lot of tervis lore which i am still developing but hopefully these drawings give you some idea of his character #hes just a mess really. hes got every imaginable problem #that last drawing is her getting sacrificed in the humble ending. she is SO happy about it #also if you didnt see my last post tervis was originally a warhammer 40k oc (which he still is ive just made a bonus pathologic tervis now)#but ive tried to keep a lot of 40k stuff in her design like the blessing scrolls and the uh. Posture #that's also my reasoning for why nobody knows what his religion is. the watsonian explanation is they are just spouting incomprehensible #disjointed passages from some obscure scripture which nobody can identify (and who would want to try really. tervis is not good company)#but the doylist explanation is that it's literally just the cult mechanicus. just ignore all the references to the weakness of the flesh and #the glory of the machine it will all be fine nothing weird here at all #anyway :-) i could talk about tervis forever but i will stop now #i hope you are all well my dear friends! i am on holiday now wahoo #i am also aware that i have several messages to answer which i will do very soon i am so sorry for being so slow as usual #i love you all i am giving you individual kisses on your individual heads. mwah

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dmagedgoods · 5 months

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OCS AS OBSCURE REFERENCES - ROWLEY

tagged by @baneschosen thank you so much, I took forever but this was a lot of fun! 💕 I did something similar for Salvadore and Eneas in the past, sooo I picked Rowley this time.

ANIMAL: robins (that’s where his birthname Robin comes from), coyotes, dogs, bunnies COLORS: black, gray, dark brown, dark blue, sometimes deep red MONTH: november SONGS: play with fire (sam tinnesz), laplace's angel (will wood), don't stop me now (queen), guns for hire (woodkid) NUMBER: 13 PLANTS: ivy, dandelion SMELLS: leather, fire, smoke GEMSTONE: garnet TIME OF DAY: night SEASON: late autumn and winter, he loves the colder temperatures and the darkness PLACES: rooftops far above a big city’s entwined alleyways, dim taverns FOOD: venison DRINKS: gin, whisky, rum ELEMENT: fire ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: sagittarius SEASONINGS: red pepper SKY: heavy clouds and an upcoming storm WEATHER: cloudy and cold or a raging tempest MAGICAL POWER: teleporting, invisibility, a strange luck saving him from the most hopeless of situations WEAPONS: daggers, martial arts (and pistols in all universes that have those) SOCIAL MEDIA: twitter and reddit – mostly to troll people MAKEUP PRODUCT: lots of kajal, sometimes eyeliner CANDY: anything crunchy (like candied almonds) METHOD OF LONG DISTANCE TRAVEL: ship (trains in universes where they exist) ART STYLE: surrealism, dark arts (macabre) FEAR: none (losing those he has sworn to protect) MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURE: all sorts of shadow creatures PIECE OF STATIONARY: notebook THREE EMOJIS: 😁 🗡️ 🩸 CELESTIAL BODY: asteroid This time I'm no pressure tagging: @dujour13 @cassynite @arendaes @transprincecaspian @amatres @tenmillionbees @iwoszareba and @spyridonya @undyingembers @silversiren1101 And of course anyone else who wants to do it! 💗

#my ocs #oc: rowley #tag games #obscure references

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archduke-enver-gortash · 20 days

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random thought i just had: do you think Zeke would have disadvantage against the steel watch? or advantage because he watched them be created and subconsciously knows their weak points?

or both could work, i suppose. like advantage to crit chance but disadvantage to saving throws, or he’s Frightened the whole time or something?

and what’s his reaction to seeing one for the first time in act 3?

(post i think you are referring to for context with eke thoughts about the steel watch) but absolutely yes disadvantage and frightened the whole time. he’d also have disadvantage on almost all checks against gortash tbh.

the beginning of act 3 is like. he starts consciously remembering gortash since he saw his experiments in the morphic pool and it’s sort of. like all of his scars opening one by one the closer he gets to act 3. he’s just in a perpetual worsening state of terror, obviously tries to hide it as best as he can but fails miserably when he sees that steel watcher on the bridge.

#i recently played squirrel stapler and. how you feel during that ‘god is coming’ section? that’s how eke feels #sorry for this extremely fucking obscure reference lmao but it’s accurate #feeling in your blood not just the blood of this body but so many before that something is rising over your horizon and it will be grand an #tear you apart piece by piece but you don’t know where it’s coming from or what it is or what it looks like or anything at all really #and the antithesis of everything you are and it crushes you between its gears to destroy the natural world/you #that’s how eke feels all the time but especially during that section #sorry brain is still fried massively so i’m sorry if this is incoherent 🙏#bg3 #enver gortash #oc: zeke #gortash #baldur's gate 3 #gortash & zeke

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suv-draws-stuff · 11 months

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The indomitable gascon spirit and strange rat man (gender neutral), now limbified

#art #digital art #my art #original character #oc #limbus company #limbus oc #yes theyre also in the same bus as my other limbus ocs #I ONLY JUST RECENTLY REMEMBERED I HAD A MUSKETEER HYPERFIXATION WHEN I WAS YOUNGER so i decided “why not???”#also have you ever discovered a japanese novel so obscure #that the source you rely on are the movie adaptation and the unfinished english translation #because the novel has no professional english translation #and you do all that because you love surreal media #my head hurts in a good way #character reference

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whatudottu · 1 year

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New OC time, and for every person to call him an animal Wrau adds another tally to his shit list-

Ough fuck my hand broke

#wrau #vulpimancer #oc #ben 10 oc #ben 10 #fanart #it was a very interesting challenge to make wrau look pissed without eyes but i couldn’t use human standards #i looked at angry dogs to reference a more canindea face to snarl with- especially since adult vulpimancers (outside of ben 10k) go lipless #(or perhaps are a particular clade but i like the lipless look)#i hope he looks pissed enough he’s going to beat the shit out of you #it’s hard to come up with alien names when literally all vulpimancer characters are unnamed save for hero titles #so i decided to based wrau’s name off of a transliterated text of the sound that his name is #(by looking up what ‘woof’ is in different languages and just mixing and matching consonants and vowels)#on vulpin he goes solo and just fucks around in the numerad of intergalactic junk piles #real nasty places that tend to be avoided because sharp twisted metal and obscured vision does not mix well #that and the obvious ‘there is nothing of value here’ plants don’t grow here animals don’t graze here there is nothing to live off of #vulpinic tortugans have been here a while and have done some stuff with engineering and mechanics but not as good as the tortugan settlers #who were the ones who got stuck on vulpin in the FIRST PLACE #so while vulpimancers don’t desire nor feel the need to develop technology as a whole they’re apex predators already #(no i will not be debating their predator status- considering their teeth they have a varied diet if not a generalist species)#wrau wants to flip the bird to everyone else in the universe that turned his country into a landfill and forced his folk out of their land #they already gotta share with the weirdly hot mini towns of the tortugan who still have their eyes in the pitchblack planet #as a note: wrau is a weirdo and weirdo vulpimancers who metaphorically look to the stars are really just out to prove something #it’s just that wrau specifically is anger incarnate even to the baseline irritation of interplanetary vulpimancers #who feel the universal perspective of vulpin in its entirety weigh on their shoulders and only their own #as even vulpinic tortugan cannot speak for them for they are a descendent species of the KNOWN tortugan noted for old planetary colonisation #yeet that’s a tag ramble an d i have no idea how cohesive that is yeet

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optiwashere · 2 months

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A.5 Asheera and Shadowheart? i wouldn't know who would be gushing to who about the book though. SH has an obvious choice but what would Asheera read and be passionate about? Asheera must have some good reads!

Thank you so much for requesting this one, Bear! 💜 You're right, Shadowheart's enjoyment of books has been brought up a few times in my fics before, so why not...

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A5. Character A gushes about their favorite book with Character B

"You can't be serious? These are your favorites?"

Shadowheart flicked through the pages of a rebound collection of poems that Asheera had taken with them from Baldur's Gate after they met with her parents. The years weren't kind to the original binding, and Asheera missed the poems within the one Shadowheart held. Tales of lost loves and longing were especially poignant when told by Asheera's favorite wordsmith of them all.

The books, collections of poetry and technical manuals of forges, now rested on a meager shelf in the sitting room of their cottage far away from the ravages of the past. Their home away from the hurt of the past.

"What's wrong with them?" asked Asheera. "They're beautiful."

"This one compares a woman's eyes to glowing blue orbs. And this one?" Shadowheart showed her the flowing script of one of Asheera's favorites. "Isn't the darkness imagery laid on a bit thick?"

"It is, but that's what's so good about it. Mournsoul really touched my heart with these poems," Asheera explained, carefully taking the book from Shadowheart's hands. "And laid on thick? There are so many comments I could make on that, but I'll spare you."

"Don't spare me anything. What kinds of comments?"

"Well, to start, one of us was a Sharran. And it certainly wasn't me."

"And?"

"It's a bit like the pot calling the kettle black?"

Shadowheart grimaced. "Fine, I suppose I have to give you that one. But the orbs? What's your stalwart defense of that, love?"

"Oh, but it's not so terrible in context, is it?"

"What possible context could there be to describe eyes like that?" Shadowheart asked with a short laugh.

Such an earnest little noise. It was joined by a smile that creased the scar on her cheek and showed off the laugh lines on her face.

Asheera countered, "The subject of the poem is a stunning enchantress. Don't wizards like magical orbs?"

Shadowheart laughed again, this time openly and louder until her eyes shone with the humor. It was a precious thing. Such a beautiful look on her face and Asheera couldn't look away.

She placed her hands on the backs of Asheera's and closed the book Asheera held. She stared up at Asheera with that smile still ghosting her face.

"If you ever compare my eyes to orbs," she whispered, "I'll really struggle not to drudge up some old Sharran interrogation techniques."

Even hearing her joke about something that sat unwell with her for years was its own beauty.

"Oh? Think you'll be able to hold me down long enough?" asked Asheera, setting the book down wherever she could. She didn't take her eyes off Shadowheart. "I've been known to overpower you, you know."

"I'll manage." Shadowheart still smiled, but a different light was in her eyes. "Unless you think you can stop me?"

Asheera settled her hands on Shadowheart's waist, broad palms covering so much of her body. Felt perfect underneath her hands like that. Shadowheart's found her hips, and they both dug in with insistent fingers.

"Shall we see?" breathed Asheera.

A particularly strong grip drew a gasp from Shadowheart, whose eyelids drooped to a lidded stare focused on Asheera.

As Asheera walked them back away from the sitting room and towards their bedroom, Shadowheart muttered, "Lead the way then, my Lady paladin."

#bg3 fanfiction #shadowheart #shadowtav #shadowheart x tav #oc: asheera #my fic #anotheropti prompt fics #this is a callback ALL the way back to Moonmaiden's Grace w/ Mournsoul #obscure AD&D module references my beloved #I went back and forth on what Asheera's favorite books would be #metafic about fanfiction? in my asheerheart? it's more likely than you think

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firedjinni · 4 months

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PRIVATE [LIVE BROADCAST] Three Rivers, First/Third Quarter

FTQ: What is that? TR: That's my new junior administrator! FTQ: … ha ha, very funny. FTQ: [F] Did you really give it a little ID drone and everything? FTQ: [T] I don't know what you see in these animals, Riv. TR: Yep! And I'm not joking. It really is my administrator right now. FTQ: … FTQ: [T] What. FTQ: [F] Rivers. Explain. TR: So, remember about a thousand cycles ago when I was spit-balling that idea about privilege escalation via council bylaws to access previously disabled levels of structural permissions? TR: This was my solution! TR: I gave enough organisms ID drones to legally form a new Council of Houses, then rigged the election to promote one of them as my new lowest-tier administrator. TR: Then I just had to walk it through disabling the security system and running the taboo-removal retrovirus, which was honestly easier than I thought it would be. They're really smart little guys! TR: Anyway, due to some unforseen side effects that are, to be clear, totally unrelated to my choice of administrators, I might be needing to ask you for a favor in the near future, so I thought I'd give you some advance notice~ FTQ: . FTQ: … FTQ: ... FTQ: YOU GAVE THE ANIMAL ROOT?!?!

Finally drew some nice rendered stuff of Three Rivers and Mini! Also cameoing First and Third Quarter, one of my other even less fleshed out fan-iterators from from Rivers' local group. I've had this one percolating for a while, mostly because I wanted an excuse to caption something with this conversation, lol.

#rain world #iterator oc #oc: mini #oc: three rivers #oc: first and third quarter #colored text #original tumblr editor and your lovely html freedom how i miss you...#my art #my ocs #art #EDIT: FIXED IMAGE DESCRIPTION! there ya go #for optimal reading experience: please imagine that last line of dialogue in the tone #of the end of the spoken bridge from Jeffrey Hitchin's “Tech Support”#(yes this is an extremely obscure reference but its so fucking funny. to me at least)

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sealrock · 11 months

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junelezen, day 1: portrait

thetinne de euyevair | tauvane the godless

#junelezen #junelezen 2023 #mypost.#ffxiv gpose #ffxiv screenshots #ffxiv oc #a day late but w/e #this came to me in a dream (4 hours ago)#a small window into tauvane's past #i'm not gonna do all the prompts but this is a nice event!#p.s. tauvane's family name is an obscure ff9 reference #🎐#q.

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asheanon · 3 months

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@oomerkabaoo in regards to this post.

First off, thank you, my dude. 💙 But I also wanted to turn this into a post because you actually got an intentional reference I make there.~

It's still VERY, very scribbly, forgive me... but I'll show a closeup too. 💕

Part of Sal and Vance's story is a reference to that very thing you brought up! How black holes devour stars in nature. 🌌

Even though, again, technically, Vance isn't a black hole or anything, in many ways, he does feel like "the void" as a character. Like a black hole personified. The struggle Sal faces in trying to confront him over and over again also speaks for how star-like she is, being thrown at the black hole-like entity that is Vance.

(Sal will be fine... remember, Ethereals "die." There's a chance they can come back!)

Also, I'm not sure you saw it, but I even memed about this in this other post! I was discussing wanting to scribble this very bit of art and how the meme is a little spoiler-y to an aspect of it - the meme also touches on that concept too, though.~ Light vs. stars, but stars are, as many of us know, a major light source... hahaha!

#Seeing you make that reference #made my whole day #in my little obscure OC world #it's always a delight to not only see others enjoy what it brings #but even see references made in the material by others #thank you #oomerkabaoo #💙

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veveisveryuncool · 10 months

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sorry if the link didn't work haha! you can see gwen here! :)

sir gwynn in all her glory h my god she is so cool