Aaaaand here it is, the next installment of our Merman Valley series...
MerShane! (And Jas :D)
They went scavenging for human trinkets lost on the surface. Jas found a human-polished shell and Shane got a little chicken pendant! it was a good day :>
Here's our previous winners, who were decided by poll. Keep an eye out for future polls to decide who is next to get merm'ed!
Miss Lucy Westenra got three marriage proposals in one day!
I first intended to draw fanarts in semi-realism, but stylisation and shapes won, so I hope now I'll manage to keep consistent style throughout the characters
Jonathan | Mina
Has sparrows ever seen caper without his face plate on?
she Is his Mechanic (which is like.. a doctor almost) so like every month, yes! sometimes it should happen more often but Euros hates sittin' still with his puppet. if he's already Focusing on it and Using it, it bettah be feckin movin
It’s ungodly late/early but I don’t feel sleep coming on so I wanna ramble about griddlehark and one of my favorite ship tropes, that also involves Nona. Nothing super deep but it’s making my insomniac brain happy
So if you compare Nona and Harrow, they’re almost completely opposite—friendly, innocent, forgiving, trusting, vs. reclusive, jaded, vindictive, prideful. (Though it’s also interesting to think about the things they have in common, like a sense of loyalty and compassion and self-sacrifice but that’s not what this is about). pretty much, there’s one sunshine-y character that’s almost instantly liked by the people she meets and connects with others easily, vs Harrow 1000-Emotional-Walls Nonagesimus.
I’d gamble that if you put both of them at a party and asked all attendees who they preferred after five minutes, Nona would take the W.
But you know who immediately clashes with Nona, and would clearly prefer Harrow in all the ways I listed above—who in fact misses her so desperately that she’s described as “the saddest girl in the whole world”?
i should...... gonna start right now cuz ive actually thought about mitsugiyu for the GiyuusFuckingSad au- when hes still moping around in the cafeteria corner she pops over because she saw shinobu, shinobu stops her excited rambling and explains that its Quiet Time and shes like 'oh! okay! i can be quiet!' and she just hangs around to doodle in her sketchbook across from them. giyuu once again baffled by another random girl deciding she wants to hang out near(with?) him when hes literally never said a word in response.
she sees him in the halls and tries to talk with him, he responds minimally but shes encouraged by any response at all and talks to him outside the cafeteria any chance she gets- giyuu's incredibly confused as to why she likes talking to him so much, but one time when he realizes he missed the turn to his class about three halls ago finally notices how much he enjoys listening to her stories (he ended up just walking her to class to hear the end of the story, he was a few minutes late when he got back to his own)
when shinobu starts inviting him to little outings with her friends mitsuri's the first to welcome him, kyojuro and suma quickly follow and hes. very overwhelmed. why did he get introduced to the loudest ones of the friend group first?? contrary to what he thought would happen though, they actually love him and despite how hype the three of them get (and how not hype he usually is) he doesn't ever feel left out or pushed to the side (physically speaking too- suma frequently hangs off him since hes the most stable one around now and mitsuri & kyojuro aren't hesitant to pull him in to make him focus on whatever they're talking about. he likes how free they are with affection towards him like that)
months later he's acquainted with and knows the whole group and they're all out at a restaurant chatting and having fun- giyuu notices how entranced everyone else is at kyojuro's retelling of a story and he can't help but think how much sabito would like them all... mitsuri stops paying attention to kyo and turns to him, "Giyuu? Are you okay?"
"Yeah, why?"
"You're crying"
the grief finally hits, the tears get heavier despite his attempts at drying them before he starts to panic and excuses himself- he practically runs out and mitsuri worriedly glances back at everyone before excusing herself and running after him. she follows him to the side of the restaurant in the little alley where hes having his breakdown and hugs him- he buries his face in her shoulder and holds back shaking like a leaf for a while before the worst of it passes. she asks what happened, "I-i just- he'd like you all.. he would've loved to meet you.." she knows who hes talking about- well.. she knows he was extremely important to giyuu, and that something happened and he's not around anymore, and that its extremely painful for giyuu to talk about so he just doesn't. she says shes honored by his thought and goes on to try to calm him down/cheer him up, his face looks a mess from the splotchy flush and eye liner- it got smudged to hell and back and hes a little embarrassed by it. only for a moment tho because mitsuri immediately offers to fix it for him. when they're finally ready to go back in they notice obanai standing at the entrance of the alleyway, blocking the view from outsiders.
"aw! you're so thoughtful obanai!"
"You two good to head back inside now?"
"how long were you standing there?"
"long enough, you worried everyone running off like that"
"sorry.."
"don't apologize, idiot. c'mon, lets go eat"
and they followed an excited mitsuri back to the rest of the group.
after that mitsuri started inviting him to her apartment to practice makeup art on him since she knew he was okay with it. he was good at sitting still and he liked how gently she touched and moved his face however while she worked, quiet and serene with her music playing from the room over- the first thing she tried out was a simple little water-esque mark on his left cheek. when he was finally allowed to look at it he remembered the time when they were kids and sabito backhanded him there for saying he wished he had died with his sister. remembered how badly he wished he could have gone with sabito too. remembered his final words, 'promise me you'll love again'
he looks back up at mitsuri with a little smile, maybe that promise isn't as impossible for me to keep as i thought. "i like it"
"oooh! i just had another idea! what if i made it look like a stream of water coming out the corners of your mouth!?"
Looking at Sunny Starscout screenshots on Pinterest and crying because she's literally so perfect 🥺💗 The cutest little horse to have ever horsed, one might even call her a little pony... (altough you'll find she's actually of average height). But yeah Sunny is like actually my favorite pony period. I will stand by this I love G4 as much as the next guy but Sunny is so precious to me! I wish they'd use her character more like come on I want to see her more in mym 😭 (I love her quite a lot in tyt though) But yeah she's so great she's really interesting to me and cute and funny and I would love to be friends with her 💕💕💕
A belated birthday present for my dearest friend @me-and-my-gaster, of the trustiest of dwarves Varric Tethras himself! I love and appreciate you so much Gasty, seriously so happy to have you in my life! ❤
I’m really happy with how this turned out, really proud of the hair and the colours overall, had so much fun just colouring and figuring things out!
based in central florida, port lucia was established as a camarilla city in the early 1900s, making it a comparatively young domain. despite its middling size and harsh climate, port lucia rapidly became a hotbed for information on the wider reaches of vampiric society the exchange, a neutral ground, is a particularly popular space for trading in rumors and navigating inter-city relationships.
from left to right : elle, harvey, margaret
from left to right : soorah, faye, leera
it is overseen by [ prince ] elle cavill, the city's founder and former mayor. other notable figures are elle's eventual successor [ steward ] harvey hayes, [ sheriff ] margaret weber, [ keeper of the elysium ] leera daymont, the exchange's archivist, soorah jeung and its human daytime manager, faye hammond.
more on leera's specific dynamics with each at some point ( !! ) but the tldr :
elle welcomed leera into port lucia under the expectation of absolute compliance and cooperation in all city affairs. while on relatively friendly terms, she is one of the few people in port lucia that genuinely scares leera enough to inspire any modicum of respect.
she and harvey have bonded over a mutual dislike of margaret and are, of the figures pictured, most often seen together.
margaret was assigned to shadow leera when she first came to port lucia. the pair have hated each other ever since.
soorah was turned in the '70s by leera. she regards leera with a disgruntled but maternal fondness and often acts as her primary point of counsel. soorah in a nutshell
faye is a human leera hired after she'd wandered into the exchange and unintentionally caught the attention of margaret. though now considered an irreplaceable part of their circle, faye hiring was explicitly to spite margaret.
when jill told chris that when she was under control of wesker and all she could think about was "killing all of you". rly did... break me ! to know she tried so hard to desperately fight off wesker but failed to do so and that self hatred she must really feel is so insane to me.
like i do believe that even after his death, jill pretty much felt like a horrible person. i do feel like that there is some sort of survivor's guilt because i do feel like she would have thought that she should have been killed right along with him. the way she considers herself weak, etc. the way she lost herself along the way to recovery. the way she covers herself up because if she looks at that scar, she's just going to be reminded. i know people bitch about her old model being used in death island and like i too am the one that bitches; but her trying to find herself and going back to where she was even more traumatized... girl. i just feel ill. i might go into full deetz tomorrow.