Top-Tier Villain Motivations

Busy with comms, but I saw this video and I had to quickly project the mental image that appeared in my head of Wyll onto a sad little drawing, so here's a sad soggy man after a failed cantrip

Rhea Ripley X Karlach

Needed to not do commission work for a day, my brain is fried :P

Just a take on Wyll's transformation (spoilers)

Can we talk about how when Mizora turns Wyll into his devil-ish form as a punishment... it's like really messed up? I get that it could have been much worse, but she literally violated his body irrevocably. Not for the first time. I'd probably have a panic attack if my body suddenly changed like that. Not to mention that him now looking this way is kind of devastating to the heroic, evil-fighting image he wants to present. It's like Mizora saying smugly: "who will look at you and think you're a hero when you look like *this*?" Because she knows how deep that would cut for him.

I've talked about this before, but I wish Wyll was allowed to have more moments that show that he's hurting, and I wish that his reaction to the transformation had more emphasis. Honestly his interaction at the Tiefling party is kind of heartbreaking. He basically says "you go on and enjoy the party without me. I'd just bring everyone down". Just another example of him keeping his feelings neatly tucked away for the sake of others. Wyll is going through so much in act 1 but it's portrayed so subtly compared to other characters that I think people overlook it.

me: you literally have a disorder. this is symptoms

me: no perhaps my soul is rotten

Devastating to have more evidence that done IS better than perfect

As gen-AI becomes more normalized (Chappell Roan encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use gen-AI because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by tech companies. I draw not because I want a drawing but because I love the process of drawing. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

The ghouls working hours.🩸🧟‍♀️🧟‍♂️

putting bg3 point and click voicelines together to sound like a conversation has brought me great joy, so. here's gale, karlach, shadowheart, and astarion doing a terrible job of sneaking around

Character Designs for Wings Outstretched

I didn't want to waste time (or words - I can be verbose enough as is) describing original character designs outside of what's relevant to the story, so I'm helping myself justify that decision by sharing them visually here!

This is part one out of... three(?) posts, probably, given how the character introductions are staggered out (there's only five characters, that's not that many, right? I cut it down to as few as I could, I promise) for Honeymeans and Rilice, who are introduced in Chapter 2.

I'm keeping it below the read more so people can just ignore me and imagine whatever they want if they'd prefer, and also because I'm including some (probably quite long) pretentious character design rambles.

I have used some of the mods available from the in-game mod manager for these two, so I'll be listing the names of those mods "like this" (and authors).

Honeymeans! - (Pictured outside the magic mirror because her coat outfit is technically camp clothes so won't show up in there).

Her glorious curls are from "More Hair 2" (by eleanorroos), with "P4 Bangs Bangs Everywhere" (by padme4000) to give her that little fringe. Her hair's a mix of blond and brown through the highlights and the greying colours (using all three inputs to make really interesting and complex hair colours is like my favourite thing to do when it comes to character customisation in this game). It's not the most practical haircut, but Honeymeans definitely values feeling a little pretty over being 100% practical all the time.

Her outfit is the Longcoat from "FearTaylor's Camp Clothes" (by feartaylor) with base game yellow dye. It hasn't quite come up yet, but she's from a family of beekeepers, so I wanted her to have some honey-yellow in her outfit to show that connection, while the purple tint of her lip make-up is intended to symbolise her distance from them. She also has the neck ribbon from that mod (which I really wish was dyeable!) as a nod to her ribbon collecting habit. If I could dye it, I'd probably make it green to indicate her initial allegiance to Rilice, but a warmer shade to show how she's a friendlier character.

Rilice Torath - (She is technically wearing a Selunite outfit, but the Infernal Robe didn't look as good, so we don't see all those lunar symbols they aren't there shusshhh)

She also has a little extra bit of fringe from Bangs Everywhere just to add to the slightly-disheveled spikiness she's got going on, and frame those scales a bit more. She also has some faint green tattoos around her scales if you look closely, just to make them pop a bit more, and frame her whole head down to her neck. As much as they are pride of place, proof her claim, her right and her heritage, they're also something of a cage around her - the proof that she's part of a declining house forever embedded in her skin, unless she can find a way to save them.

Her Draconic heritage is central to her whole character and design, her whole family is known for it. Even her House name - Torath - according to this source means "mistresses of the dragons". Her little fang/talon earrings speak to that aesthetic - something she's done on purpose to embrace it even more. She accepts her role, she accepts her duty to her house, she isn't trying to escape it.

Her outfit is technically using the Myrkull dye from "FaerunColors" (by techroot) but that's not relevant to her character - she's just wearing green to again emphasise her Draconic heritage through colour, but a duller shade that you might use to lurk in shadows, to show how she's trying to remain beyond suspicion before her plan kicks in. Her choice of weapon is a sickle - a tool designed for harvest. I also gave a side view here to show off those light green panels on her sleeves that I think look really cool. They kind of remind me of, like, a lizard's underbelly if you can picture that?

That's all I can think to say about both of them for now, but if I remember anything else I might to add that as well in a reblog later. Or, if anyone has any questions for some reason, feel free! I welcome any chance to talk about the little weirdos that live in my brain.

trying to be a writer is so scary. like what if I’m actually a Wronger