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I am finally done with this o|-< - "Blorbo thoughts through art memes : Lana edition"

#might rb later with some additional thoughts/info on some panels hehe #i put so much effort into this when it's just a hairstyle meme but it was rly fun to use it as an excuse to flesh her out a bit ! #lana #lanare #paracosm #symphonia #zellk #beary art #art meme #hairstyle meme #hairstyle art meme #oc #ocs #zellk oc #zellk ocs #with a lil zoom on some of my fav panels hehe

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I made Fenqor in Baldur's Gate and I HATE how right I was about how beautiful he'd be... HE'S SO PRETTY SO HANDSOME I HATE HIM !!!! My flamboyant asshole child... (old art for reference... initially they were a sylvari elementalist in gw2 !)

#baldur's gate 3 #dragonborn #bg3 #fenqor #zellk #oc #ocs #sorcerer suits them just fine on top of it all #his whole theme is 'phoenix and peacock' and birds in general #his scales are slightly iridescent... it fits the bird & beauty motif too much im MAD #the stars are truly aligned for them rn

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Funny romance charts - Dangerous Babygirls edition (empty chart)

#i know i did spriggan and mitas but really i mostly wanted to do these two #but it always takes longer to complete for these two because i have to THINK so much more fkmdjhsmgkjh #helps me develop them properly tho >:) so it's good #lana #rena #lanare #renaiel #paracosm #symphonia #oc #ocs #zellk oc #zellk ocs #i am laughing SO fucking much at how fucking toxic Lana has the potential to be #like it's also hard for me to fill these (esp for her) because she changes SO MUCH as she grows through the years of her story #(and gets to a point where she can have a “healthy” relationship with Rena) #(healthy between quotes because they are both unhinged but together and for each other so it causes slightly less trouble to everybody) #(they do sorta balance each other out fr fr) #(but they also cause unhinged behaviours in each other and i love it kfdmjshgmkjdhgmkjh) #anyways when they were younger Lana was an abusive gaslighting bitch - glad she got reality checked a few times and grew out of it #someone told her “be better” and she took that personally

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Funny romance charts - FFXIV OCs edition (empty chart)

#well technically Mitas isn't just a FFXIV OC but it's one of the universes he's most developed in certainly #but he's my son so he exists in *a lot* of universes #oc #ocs #zellk #zellk ocs #mitas #mitas aubrey #mitas camcara #el mimi #spriggan #wild spriggan #ffxiv #ffxiv wol #warrior of light #ff14 #ff xiv #ff 14 #spriggan is the WoL #mimi is just a little guy (the wol's spouse in his timeline) #romance chart #oc meme #ocs meme

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Feeling bits and pieces of Lana & Rena's story fall into place these past weeks/months since I've started to re-think about them is so satisfying.... I really wanna find something better than the first/old version of their dynamic ! (I don't blame young me, I didn't know any better back then haha) There's still a lot of weird spots and events & changes to figure out (especially their order of arrival) but it's so so fun thinking about them again aaaaa, I missed my messy girls so much

#truly figuring out that Lana is a bitch was what broke the dam I think #their story just wans't really working bc Lana was a very... passive paticipant ??? like very reactive / stuff would happen TO her #but not BECAUSE of her #now though ??? oh boy hahahaha #she grows a lot though... rn I'm trying to figure out the moment she starts to accept her really check slap #and understands she has to make ammends (but later... understand that she has to forgive herself) #I need to spend more time thinking about Rena in the future but for now I've been pleasantly surprised to figure out the person she is #outside of her traumatised self fdksjhk #she is so soft she kinda makes me want to cry ngl #paracosm #lana #rena #renaiel #lanare #beary talk #oc #ocs #beary ramble #symphonia #zellk #zellk ocs

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re: Lana, what is the 'energy between energies'? That sounds super interesting.

Hi there ! So, to explain roughly, in my head world there's 3 kinds of energies :

White Echo : the most known and used of the Echoes. Most living beings on the planet use it to exist. It is also mostly ruled by 'logical rules' that are studied and learned by people who wanna use this energy for magic. When manipulated, it manifests most often and easily as 'physical reactions' and 'physical phenomenons' like fire, wind, wood/trees, light, etc. .

Black Echo : Much less known. This is the Echo that created and is used by the Eadras, who live on the planet's moon. This energy is more flexible as it is governed by emotions (a lil bit like Dynamis in FFXIV if you're familiar). It tends to manifest outside of Eadras' bodies either as sporadic bouts of raw energy (lasers, explosions), or in invisible & abstract phenomenons (Rena uses hers to 'eat' other people's emotions sometimes :) ) . These two Echoes are communicating vessels! If you empty one it will fill the other, and vice versa (Things Happen if there is too much of an imbalance between the two). .

Blue Echo : The 'energy between energies'. It's the state that Black/White Echo takes when it transitions into the other one after being used. It also acts as an isolating layer between the two energies (who cancel & destroy each other out if put in direct contact)! Barely known by anyone save a few people (some are keeping the knowledge, some die by experimenting with it, some study it but keep a very small Knowing Circle). It is also sometimes refereed to as 'Entropy' ! Blue Echo is very unstable and tends to quickly grow exponentially in intensity and consequences (think a little flame that would suddenly touch an open barrel of gasoline). There are (complicated) ways to 'manage' it and finding it is one of Lana's main challenge while learning to use her powers (after first learning what the fuck is going on with her). Blue Echo is the only one (so far, because tbh I haven't given proper thought to all of this in like a decade) of the Echoes that can physically manifest as pure stable energy. You can give it shape and have it take up space etc! It's the most flexible Echo but also the most unruly. Most of its users use it sporadically (preferring to convert it to either white or black echo before using it to stabilize it) because really no one actually found a way to use it continuously without fucking dying. But Lana is very stubborn and her out-of-the-box thinking and inquisitive mind help her experiment with ways to manage Blue Echo (which is a whole other thing in itself). Out of all my characters, she's the one with the slowest start and a very hyperbolic power spike. But watch out :)

And here you go ! It's nothing really new under the sun, but I hope it was interesting to you \o/ ! Don't hesitate if you have more questions :>

#ask #asks #symphonia #ocs #oc #ocs talk #oc talk #Lana #Rena #beary ocs #blue echo #white echo #black echo #zellk #zellk ocs #Rena (who is composed of B and W Echo) can survive only next to Lana because she exhausts Blue Echo passively #and Rena's organism latches onto it to get an isolating & transition layer so both her parts can communicate rather than annihilate e-o

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Githyanki doodling on post-it notes that I cleaned up a lil bit Lae'zel from memory on the first (im only happy with the profile tbh), and Anma and Mitas on the second (It was SO easy to fit them in BG3 lore it's insane... I even have a whole storyline roughly figured out for them and it came together in like 30 minutes on my walk home from work.) I don't have any energy to draw nowadays except on post-its, but it's better than nothing.

#baldur's gate 3 #ocs #oc #mitas #anma #lae'zel #beary sketch #mitas camcara #anma camcara #mitas and anma aren't really classic “crèche” githyankis... or well they used to be but :^)c #let's say that Anma follows Voss' ideals #Mitas tries to help her but she's never in the same spot so Mitas gets to be Tav's companion #while Anma is an npc you meet on his storyline #the meeting goes.... very differently depending on your choices :^) #zellk #i made a game with the two of them together in it #and most of the time i have lae'zel in the team too (after she learns a few things Anma would get along quite well with her) #so it's like #3 giths team #it's so fucking funny #3 toads #bg3

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Please perceive my daughter..... I love her so very much

#i just rly wanted to draw her ;;;;;; #qalaari #qalaari croquelune #zellk #oc #ocs #art meme #oc meme

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Realized I hadn't posted these slightly cleaned-up doodles of Baraanka :>

#baraanka #baraanka orl #au-ra #ffxiv #ffxiv au-ra #ffxiv aura #aura #girlfailure #they use all pronouns but they are 100% a girlfailure certified #the tatts on their body are from Arcanist books so they don't have to use one to throw some spells around (they are a mix of Rogue & ARC) #beary sketch #zellk #also ty for the asks abt OCs ! ill be replying to them during my work breaks >:^D !!!!

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Qalaari is Going Through It... this dungeon/campaign is, so far, really challenging her beliefs and making it hard for her to avoid using violence / finding a peaceful solution to things ;;;;;;;; It's taking its toll on her.

#yeah she's a barbarian but she really dislikes violence I love her okay #giant killing machine actually hates this and WANTS TO AVOID HURTING PEOPLE AND THINGS #the group dynamic is so fucking funny for this like everyone looks at Qalaa 'welp here she goes again trying sth useless' #but she believes !!!! #she'll never stop trying #qalaari #qalaa #qalaari croquelune #zellk #dnd #minotaur #dnd barbarian #barbarian #path of the beast barbarian #dungeons and dragons #dnd 5e #dnd 5e character #oc #ocs #beary sketch #sketch #rkgk #doodle #in another lifetime (a better one) she'd be a druid

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I participated in a wee Art Secret Santa with a few close coworkers this year. Here's the gift I made ! It was for someone I don't know THAT well so it was really fun to have an added layer of investigation to find what to draw for them 🕵️ (I also put Qalaari in there bc it's the "Red Gang")

#secret santa #gift #art gift #beary art #zellk #qalaari #qalaari croquelune #jehtt #oni panda #other's ocs #but also #my oc hehe #it was fun to sneak her in #red gang !!!!!!! #me and them are red enthusiasts so that was perfect as a base theme for their gift

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- Sleepless Night·s - Mitas has recurrent insomnia ever since he was a child. One of the reason he picked up sports (and cooking, and making/playing a bit of music) is to occupy those idle hours in the night. When he was young his older sister would often stay up with him to look at stars and talk his feelings out during those nights (it’s after one such conversation where she tried to help him calm down from an anxiety/emotions surge that she gave him the nickname ‘stardust’ which is really close to his heart....)

#zellk #beary art #mitas #mitas camcara #mitas faceshift #el mimi #oc #if people wonder why he'd have his jewelry at night : i sleep with my jewelry on lmao #aside from like a few very specific necklaces and earrings I tend to always keep what I put on for the day when i go to sleep #im just lazy and they don't bother me mkfsjdmksjdf #ANYWAY #i love my bean boy

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My question is about Qalaa! She’s got an amazing design in every iteration so I wanted to ask what were your main inspirations for her? Also could you tell us a bit more about her story?

Hi there ! Thank you so much for your kind words about my babygirl ;A; !!! Everything started circa 2014 when I started to play Wakfu again with @shuuzaar and decided to make a red-skinned osamodas. She also now exists in multiple universes (a minotaur or tiefling in DnD, a demon/oni, a dragon, etc etc).

It wasn't a very conscious & willed thing but since I put a lot of 'myself' into her (more than all my other OCs, who have more... handpicked bits) so her build started to grow towards the larger / bigger side naturally. I'm definitely not as big, nor tall as her though (I am short and she's like, 209cm tall or sth).

Her general themes / traits are : A kind, soft & gentle soul in a body that is 'made' for killing / hurting easily because of it's size and strength. Feeling inadequate / dysphoria / struggling to accept her body because it doesn't fit what she likes (petite and feminine girls). Struggle to control flares of emotions & physical strength. And being very, oh so very gay about girls and feminine people (this is a very important part ok).

In time I've been slowly collecting pictures of athletes and people that make me think of her and trying to refine how she looks in my head ! Though, like many of my characters, the specifics tends to change depending on how I feel on the moment... sometimes I want her nose a bit more like this or like that... don't be surprised if her gallery isn't the most consistent in terms of facial features :,^)

One thing that definitely DID inspire me for her though are the marks on her body ! They are inspired from scarifications of the Chambri tribe in Papua New Guinea https://bodyartforms.com/blog/sepik-river-scarification.asp)

As for her story, well, my current DnD group where I play her has given me a lot of opportunities to flesh it out a little more >:^D I'll try to keep it short.

Qalaari was born from an unplanned pregnancy. Her mother, Aamira Molandine, was someone with a very weak health due to a blood curse running in her family (more on that later) ; but despite her health she decided to keep the child and see the pregnancy through. Her father, Temhos Croquelune, is a member of a tribe of "beast folk" (this is tweaked and adapted to fit in various universes when I can) and, while enamoured with Aamira, was really not ready to have a child, and to potentially have to raise it alone should Aamira die while giving birth. After yet another argument with her about getting an abortion for her sake and the sake of them both, Temhos ran away during the night and never came back.

~6 month pregnant Aamira found refuge in the Croquelune tribe under Temhos' sister roof, Olgha (who also had a crush on Aamira & both her and her brother tried to court her). The travel took a heavy toll on Aamira's already weak health and yet she somehow miraculously survived the delivery of her (very) big and healthy baby girl Qalaari. Qalaari was raised in a very loving home by Aamira and Olgha, but developped a big resentment towards her blood father, especially since after giving birth, Aamira remained a very sickly person with a broken heart. Aamira died when Qalaari was 13, which kind of forever scared her and worsened her struggles to control her emotions.

Remember the Cursed Blood thing ? Well basically, it's a curse that either 1) eats you alive if your body is too weak to handle it (Aamira's case, which is why she had a weak health from the beginning) OR 2) enhances the physical potential of your body, but tends to make you lose control and become little more than a beast (Qalaari's case). So yeah... she's trying to get better but she has a lot of healing to do with her inner child and that's not easy... especially with the layers of self hatred the cycles of her life are bringing in :^) !

EDIT : I FORGOT TO ADD that Qalaari is currently exiled from the Croquelune tribe. The circle scar on her clavicle is the mark of the exiled, who are sent away from the tribe for 3 years before they can come back. The practice exists to try and get people to grow 'outside of the community' before coming back in it as a slightly different person. The once-exiled people are reintegrated in the tribe when they return if possible. Olgha, Qalaari's aunt-in-law and adoptive parent, has a mark like this! This exile is definitely not the best solution ever but it's been done for so long in the tribe that it's hard to yknow... challenge the system of it.

Anyway if you've read to this point, thank you for listening to me fail miserably to keep this short... Qalaari is one of my dearest OC, so it's really hard not to gush about her in a 3 hours TED Talk everytime...

Thank you for this kind ask ! Hope you'll have a good day :> !

#qalaari #qalaari coquelune #wall of text #ask #beary ask #answer #ocs #oc #oc talk #ocs talk #zellk #zellkabellk #gritpyre #“ill try to keep this short” <- me when i fucking lie #im sorry it's so hard to not want to gush about everything like i've been discovering so many details about Qalaa's parents / familly #im SO INVESTED in them fskmdjghmkj like ??? the unplanned pregnancy ??? Olgha having a crush on Aamira and ending up taking care of her #because her dumbass brother left her in the dust like an asshole ??? #Olgha never talking about her feelings to Aamira but Aamira knows Im sure ??? but she's still heartbroken and yet she's so thankful ??? #Qalaari growing with this pure HATRED towards her father for what he did to her mom #but also being such an unreliable narrator because let's be real Aamira wanting to keep the child with her health #WAS NOT REASONABLE #she didn't leave Temhos a choice but it's still an asshole move from Tem to have just LEFT AND RUN AWAY #anyways they are my little drama sitcom in my head and I eat it up so bad

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It's been a long time since I've done one of these but it's always so fun to play dolls with OCs ;;;

#Lana #Rena #LaRe #zellk #oc #ocs #beary sketch #relationship meme #relationship chart #character relationship card #helmie #symphonia #headworld #paracosm #this is like the chart when their relationship is stable and they're older because #boy #were they fckn toxic for each other when they were young LMAO #they Went Through It before they learned to communicate #(and the fact they were Forced in each other's lives for a long time both did and absolutely didn't help their relationship) #when you're an imbalanced being that should tear itself apart (rena) but you find a person that generates energy that stabilizes you (lana) #blorbo #blorbos #blorbo chart

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Teeny tiny Lana doodles bc I’ve been thinking about her again... I recently has a ‘oh’ moment and ‘got’ her and it’s made thinking about her (and Rena) SO much more fun and interesting :^)c

#Lana #Lanare #zellk #beary sketch #symphonia #basically i understood that she is a lil bit unhinged #a lil bit obsessed #a lil bit problematic #and i love her so much #oc

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Lil shopping date between Anma and @rkgkSORA’s Syèl ✨💅🍸🍰

#anma #anna-maria #syel #syèl #ffxiv #ff14 #rkgkSORA #other's ocs #ocs #oc #other's oc #elezen #miqo'te #miqote #ffxiv elezen #ffxiv miqo'te #ffxiv miqote #zellk #beary art