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I've finished another animatic!!! I've been working on this one for a little over a year now, and I'm so happy with how it turned out!

Here's the YouTube link for anyone that wants to watch it over there :)

This one follows the story of @antnutella-blog's and my dnd characters. Their lore will be under the cut <3

Characters:

Dragonborn - Sybil (she/any)

Aarakocra - Wetherby (she/her)

Half orc - Valscez "Val" (he/him)

Tiefling - Nyx (he/him)

Story:

Sybil was a pirate sailing the seas and terrorizing the Lucidian Ocean alongside her partner, Wetherby. She loved living out on the open waters, but she was at odds with their captain, Covell the Fierce, growing frustrated enough with him to attempt a mutiny against him. But even with Wetherby's aid, the mutiny was unsuccessful. In a panic, Sybil managed to escape, but in turn she abandoned Wetherby at the wrath of Covell. Feeling guilty but having survived, Sybil decided to run, leaving her seafaring life—and Wetherby—behind.

Val and Nyx grew up in Shadycreek Run together. Childhood friends to lovers, their hearts were in good places, but their circumstances led them to a life of crime. Nyx joined the Myriad, and Val tagged along as his bodyguard. It was all cut short when Nyx was allegedly killed. Having no reason to stay with the Myriad any longer, Val left to become a paladin of Bahamut.

The two met on their journeys across the continent, meeting new friends and eventually becoming a true adventuring party.

While they travelled, Tiamat came to Val with an offering to bring Nyx back from the dead, and Sybil discovered that Wetherby was still alive. Though it went against everything Val stood for, he accepted Tiamat's offer. The party followed these leads back westward across Wildemount with Wetherby as their guide, and they found Nyx in Nicodranas, working as a sailor. It turned out that Nyx had faked his death and started a new life away from the Myriad, but not wanting to get involved with a betrayer god, he rejected Val when they initially reunited. In turn, Val severed his connection with Tiamat and started to reconcile.

Meanwhile, Sybil and Wetherby slowly reconnected, enjoying each other's company while Sybil tried to forgive herself for all her mistakes. However, when they all ended up on the same ship heading to Darktow, it was revealed that Wetherby had been leading them into a trap. She briefly took Nyx hostage while an enemy ship approached, and slit his throat when he tried to fight back. Sybil made a quick and painful decision to take Wetherby out, but it was already too late for Nyx.

#Ant threatened me if I didn't post the thumbnail so that's tacked on here too <3 #also this campaign Did take place in Exandria!! one Kingsley Tealeaf makes one (1) cameo in this video lol #I also snuck in a dnd!Shinya and one of my other characters :) #anyways I worked super hard on this one and I'm incredibly happy with how it turned out so I hope you like it too <3 #I already made some friends cry :) #Val and Sybil are solidarity besties btw #also dw about Nyx!! he was revived and he and Val got married once everything was sorted out :) #quillnart #quillnocs #original character #dnd character #dnd #dungeons and dragons #animatic #animators on tumblr #artists of tumblr #Requiem stuff

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finally got around to making a ref sheet/character turnaround for Sybil!! she's supposed to have scars but I didn't end up drawing any of them ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

it's also my first time making a character turnaround and I think I did pretty good!! even if it's only the 180 :) I'm gonna work on making more of these for my other OCs so I can join artfight next year

#id in alt text #quillnart #quillnocs #Requiem stuff #dnd #dnd character #original character #it's weird seeing the turnaround. I feel like she's about to start moving in animation lol. #this design is all too complicated to reasonably animate though ahsjhakdaj #edit: OH NOOOOO THE ALT TEXT ON THE FIRST TWO IMAGES DISAPPEARED #it's fixed now but AUGH

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I said I'd get to inbox stuff real soon, but I recently had a minor surgery done so I decided to work on something else in the meantime while I recover :)

Happy Pride from me and my dnd group! <3

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@antnutella-blog @plaguedoctornoises

#Requiem stuff #quillnart #quillnocs #dnd #dnd ocs #dungeons and dragons #pride month #id in alt text #there is not a single legitimate straight couple in this campaign LMFAO #this piece also made me so unbelievably emotional #pride brings me so much pure joy #and the colors turned out better than I expected :) #I'm also very attached to these characters lol #Syby

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some paintings and other drawings I've done of some of my characters :)

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if anyone's curious about any of my ocs, my inbox is always open :)

#id in alt text #that drawing of Sybil is slightly outdated;; I forgot her eyebrow horns lol #Requiem stuff #quillnart #quillnocs #dnd character #original character

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SYBY LORE POST

Oh man this one's long overdue

to put into perspective how long I've been procrastinating this post, this was originally saved in my drafts as "Syby lore post because my campaign is ending this week!!!!" (that campaign ended back in June)

I'm not sure how many people are/will be interested in my pathetic little dnd character's tragic little love story (to say she is a disaster lesbian is an understatement), but it'll be below the cut :)

Sybil started out as an orphan on Darktow. Scrawny and just generally weird, she essentially fended for herself until she grew up to become a pirate, but her first crew she joined had been wiped out by an unexpected sea serpent attack. (That's how she lost her tail.)

Luckily for Sybil, she was rescued by another passing pirate crew. They fished her out of the water, figuring that disaster had hit, and Wetherby convinced Captain Covell to have mercy on her. He begrudgingly let her join the crew.

Covell was not very nice to Sybil, though. She was also not very keen on his general cruelty towards others. Still, she stayed—she was grateful that Wetherby stood up for her. They were quick to develop feelings and eventually became a couple.

But Sybil growing tired of Covell's tyranny. She came up with a plan to overthrow him and take over the ship, and with Wetherby's help, they made an attempt at mutiny—but it failed.

Sybil managed to escape, but in the chaos, she left Wetherby behind. She decided not to turn back, though, and fled across the continent, away from the Menagerie Coast and away from the Revelry.

She did not know what happened to Wetherby, but she felt guilty nonetheless. She ran for months, barely surviving with just her weapons and the clothes on her back, until she reached Asarius on the other side of the continent, where she met with an odd group of lost souls (with whom she would join their adventuring party named Requiem to lead a quest to save the world, but that's not what this post is about).

During their quest, they encountered Wetherby again—on the enemy side of an ambush in an alleyway. But during the battle, she betrayed her group of attackers and joined the fight on Requiem's side. After the battle had been won, an awkward (and slightly angry and violent) reunion between Sybil and Wetherby revealed that Covell nearly had Wetherby's head after the mutiny, but he'd evidently decided to spare her. Worse news for them yet was that in the time that Sybil had been gone, Covell had earned the title of Plank King, so now he was the leader of an entire pirate army (yikes).

Wetherby offered her aid to Requiem, telling them to travel to Darktow—that they could find something there to help take down their enemies. She led them back across Wildemount, headed west towards the coast.

A couple weeks' worth of shenanigans ensued. Some team bonding happened, we learned that Wetherby was a chaotic bitch. Wetherby was also apparently not mad enough at Sybil to Not sleep with her in a dark, echoing tunnel 20 feet from the party's camp. At one point during their journey, Wetherby had been severely injured in a fight against a troll. Instead of flying down to be healed, she stubbornly flew higher up out of earshot. In a silly joking manner, Sybil fired a warning shot with her pistol to try and get her to come down. It worked a little too well and she ended up hitting Wetherby directly—shooting her out of the sky.

Player's note: My DM said that I'd only hit Wetherby if I rolled a nat 1. You'll never guess what I rolled.

Luckily, the healer of the party managed to bring her back from the brink of death. Needless to say, Sybil was quite distraught that she'd nearly killed her girlfriend for the second time. But for some reason, Wetherby seemed unphased by it.

Either way, they continued travelling. Wetherby started acting suspiciously as they got closer to the coast, leaving the group for certain amounts of time. Sybil received a coin enchanted as a tracking device from another party member, which she turned into a necklace and disguised as an apology gift to Wetherby so she could see where she was going. Nothing of note came from that investigation, though.

(There was also an awkward reunion between another Requiem party member and his boyfriend-who-he-thought-had-been-dead-this-whole-time. This is relevant information, I promise.)

Once the team made it to the coast, they secured a ship to Darktow and started sailing, but it was only smooth sailing for so long. A few days into their journey, a hostile ship marked with one of their enemy's sigils attacked. Wetherby revealed herself to be working with them. She took the boyfriend-who-was-thought-to-be-dead as hostage, and slit his throat when he tried to fight back. He fell dead at her hands, just out of reach of the party.

In a moment of chaos and betrayal and clarity, Sybil raised her pistol and fired, shooting Wetherby down in one shot—intentionally, this time.

There was not time to reconvene or grieve. The enemy ship—led by none other than Captain Covell himself—was upon them. In an awful stroke of luck, the necromancers on Covell's side brought Wetherby back to false life. She rose rotten and spectral; a ghost. And she said to Sybil,

"It's too bad you're as weak as you are. We could've been immortal together."

They fought on opposing sides of the battle. It was a difficult fight, but Requiem managed to win in the end (surprisingly with no lives lost). Covell had been defeated—the final blow being dealt by Sybil herself—but Wetherby escaped with the rest of the enemies.

Requiem was left with the grief of being betrayed, and the heavy task of figuring out what they should do next now that they'd been led astray. They regrouped, went back to the drawing board, and figured out where to go from there—more traveling ensued.

They were ambushed in the forest, led into a trap by some cultists—and of course Wetherby was there. Requiem fought hard, but they were quickly overpowered and captured. (Some stuff happened when they finally managed to break out, but I'm going to gloss over that because this is a Sybil and Wetherby post. Long story short is that chaos broke out and Wetherby fled the scene again.)

They continued their quest, gaining more allies for the final battle—and they did not see Wetherby again. That is until a mysterious letter appeared on everyone's bed, asking them to meet at a certain location to collect a reward. One of Wetherby's feathers accompanied Sybil's letter.

Despite all their suspicions, Requiem followed the letters' orders to meet at the address—and they quite literally found themselves in a portal to Hell. They were face-to-face with the very cultists they were fighting against, and the cultists offered them a gift and a bargain—an attempt to sway them from being enemies.

The gift was practically heads on a platter. People that had caused the party grief throughout their journey, tied and gagged and handed over. Powerful enemies at Requiem's mercy. Among them was Wetherby.

But unlike her party members—who took great pleasure in striking the final blow on their offerings—Sybil could not find it in herself to kill Wetherby again. She was angry, but she was not vengeful.

She asked Wetherby if she'd ever loved her. She didn't. Not at the end, at least.

Both of them were resigned to their fates. Wetherby returned the necklace to Sybil, and disappeared when Sybil released her back in the material plane.

That was the last that Sybil ever saw of Wetherby. (During the campaign, at least.) It wasn't a violent, satisfying ending, but it was still the closure that Sybil needed.

Requiem and their allies fought their battle and won. With their newfound success, Sybil bought a ship of her own, and now she captains her own crew, free from the heartache that old bird used to cause her.

And that's it! Not including all the aus and epilogue shenanigans I have with them (through some silly circumstances, she has a son now <3)

They mean lots to me, even if Sybil is a disaster and the bird was a traitorous evil bitch !!!

(We revived the boyfriend by the way. They got married in epilogue, it was very cute)

I have their playlists linked too btw!! in case anyone's curious :)

[Sybil's playlist]

[Wetherby's playlist]

Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed my silly little rambles <3

#Requiem stuff #dnd #should I make a syby tag? probably #Syby #quillnart #quillnnotart #quillnocs

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more pen sketches from when I was at the airport yesterday :)

uhh featuring my dnd character, tiefling Shin'ya, and my thumb apparently??

and also shitty lighting lol

#this was when I was running on an hour of sleep so I was feeling Not Great™ on how the Shinya doodles looked #but looking at them now I'm actually okay with it lol #proof!! that you're not a bad artist! sometimes you just need fresh eyes!!! #also friendly reminder that Sybil is Not actually that cool. she is a pathetic little mew mew lolol #quillnart #kamihara shinya #dnd au #quillnocs #Requiem stuff

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I have humanized designs for them btw!!

#they're fruity I love them #I'll eventually get back to fandom stuff btw #I'm just. really obsessed with them rn 👁️ #dnd #quillnart #quillnocs #Requiem stuff #Syby

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anticipating a battle next session lol

#I keep dropping sneak peaks about them and their lore but I'm not gonna make a post dedicated to it or anything lol #unless someone *really* wants it #I'm like an oc lore vampire baby #gotta invite me or else I won't do it └⁠|⁠∵⁠|⁠┐⁠♪♪⁠┌⁠|⁠∵⁠|⁠┘⁠♪⁠ └⁠|⁠∵⁠|⁠┐⁠♪♪⁠┌⁠|⁠∵⁠|⁠┘⁠♪⁠ └⁠|⁠∵⁠|⁠┐⁠♪ #quillnart #quillnocs #Requiem stuff #dnd #Syby

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I think this sums up their dynamic pretty well

lol

#quillnart #quillnocs #Requiem stuff #dnd #Syby

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ok let's start it off with the bitches who've been rotting my brain from the inside out for the past... however long it's been.. and made me Physically Incapable of thinking about or drawing literally Anything else

I'm not writing out their lore today, but you can blame These Fuckers for the severe lack of gay fandom art I've been producing /lh

bonus Wetherby design very relevant to the most recent arc of my campaign <3

#quillnart #quillnocs #Requiem stuff #tw caps #THEY'RE SO GAY AND SO BAD FOR EACH OTHER AND THEY MAKE ME SO UPSET AUWHWIHAUSHS #dnd #edit: OLD REF #AUGH #Syby

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My party's been on the stupid topic of how they both lay eggs and I've recently been cursed with Too Much Knowledge on aarakocra and dragonborn reproductive systems, so .

(the aasimar is Covell—the captain of their old crew. more info on him later *fingerguns*)

real embarrassing on Sybil's 16 intelligence btw, but it's also hilarious

#my dm has confirmed. several things. that I was curious about but did not actually want to know. #aarakocra eggs are about the size of/maybe slightly smaller than ostritch eggs #(for reference Wetherby is. 5'1.) #since they're just Big birds they can also just. lay unfertilized eggs (as featured here) #this next bit is actually canon information I think. at least dm said it was. 3e I think? not sure; #dragonborn eggs take 105-180 DAYS just to LAY the egg after fertilization. #and then the egg takes another 420-720 days to HATCH #that's 2-3 years dude #my partymates have decided FOR ME that Sybil is an orphan because her parents were IMPATIENT /lh #they also speculated that the eggs would probably be the size of a WATERMELON which. I am a little bit afraid of this information. #sorry for rambling lol this information has been rotting my brain from the inside out for the past several days lmao #Zima (yuan ti cleric) has the funniest death in the whole campaign I think btw. gonna draw a rendition of it later if I remember #dnd #quillnart #quillnocs #Requiem stuff #Syby

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My friend asked me to draw their dnd character and I used it as a bit of rendering practice :)

Also some doodles of ✨my✨ dnd characters

#quillnart #dnd #speaking of dnd if anyone wants to get into dnd feel free to ask me abt it!! #I'm a pretty new player but I think I can at least explain the basics :)) #I hope to one day be well versed enough to DM but that day will not be soon #quillnocs

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I'm not really one to repost old art, but this one is something I'm still proud of to this day— which to me is impressive! I don't often like my old art styles but this one still charms me <3

It's a little animation meme I did of my oldest lasting OC (and the one I named myself after!)

I don't have the original file anymore (rip) so I hope this is good enough :))

(OH GODS I FORGOT MY INTERNET HANDLE USED TO BE SOLVEGOLIN IGNORE THAT SHDVDHSVD LMAO)

#I don't know *how* I used to animate in flipaclip man #I should draw Quill more. I miss him #I miss object shows in general. I grew up on those. #... does that make me an og? #hmm #quillnart #quillnocs #object show oc #osc #if anyone remembers me from the object show amino hi!!!!

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Sometime last week, I lost control and designed this robo-shark-cat-girl......

Idk what possessed me, but her name is RSCG 2-23 and I think she's very neat :]

#quillnocs #quillnart #idk if you can tell but I gave her a jellyfish haircut #I've always wanted an oc with that hairstyle :)) #also if you see some hints of previous edgejeanist snippits in her design no you don't /j #(I had a randomass idea a while back to do this sort of thing with Shinya but then I got sidetracked #and then I decided I'd like to just make that idea into my own original character #some parts of her design just sort of ended up being tributes to edgejeanist ig #they remain on the brain </3) #(also posting this now so y'all know I'm alive. for now.)

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AGHGHHHH HI I just came from an INSANE dnd session and I needed to draw some stuff from it

Firstly, here's my character, Sybil

((second drawing is older and a bit more accurate to her design. first one is slightly more cartoony because I like drawing her like that

Context for this session: My party was getting their asses kicked by some enemies (like, 4/5 of us were knocked out and running out of death saves by the end of the battle. it's a miracle that all of us survived). One of the enemies turned out to be Sybil's ex! Who Sy hadn't seen for months because she ran away!! But she helped us win!! Girlfriends reunited!!! Only problem is that Sybil and the ex are exes for a reason... (/lh, I can't talk about the backstory but they didn't fall out or anything like that)

(Here's the ex (who I will refer to as the parrot for now because one of my campaign members follows me on here and I don't want to spoil it for her))

And here's the scene from today's session that I drew ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ

Sybil was knocked out literally two seconds prior to that Lmao 😭

She just woke back up and then she immediately got knocked back out by her ex girlfriend (I'm not exaggerating, she was literally knocked unconscious again and had to be revived a second time LOL)

Btw! the bird-fearing elf at the end is Vivian. The parrot saved her, and she saved the parrot. Yet she is still scared of her.

#tw caps #quillnart #dnd #dungeons and dragons #dnd character #dnd drawing #I took some creative liberties with my character designs #please don't yell at me /lh #tw blood #why don't I have an oc tag #quillnocs #can you tell I'm a furry? #/hj /lh

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- Kusunoki Akito (5'7", 145lbs) benches more than just during matches.

- Kusunoki "I can pick anyone up if I want to" Akito, challenged by Futakuchi "anyone that short who *can* pick me up is allowed to" Kenji.

- Kusunoki Akito proceeds to swoop Futakuchi Kenji (6', 157lbs) off his feet (literally) and haul him around the gym, bridal style.

- Koganegawa Kanji (6'4", 177lbs) wants to go next.

- Kusunoki Akito wins.

(aka Dateko shenanigans feat. my oc)

#quillnart #quillnocs #haikyuu oc