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Hel and Baldur vibing in Helheim subway. Because surely Helheim has subways.

These is my take on these two for "Scion: becoming as gods" ttrpg. It's a really cool game about being a child of a deity (from literally any pantheon, not just greek or roman like in original pjo). So of course there are deities and some mythical beings. And of course I have to make an attempt at designing my faves from those.

I find it really interesting and tragic how Hel and Baldur parallel eachother. Both kinda did nothing wrong except being Loki's daughter and Odin's son. Both ended up in the afterlife for this. They're children of sworn enemies stuck here because of their parents. I feel like there is some sort of weird understanding in spite of their fathers animosity towards eachother. Or, more accurately, because of it. Yeah, I headcanon that Hel and Baldur became friends really quickly upon meeting.

Honestly their duet of life and death, warmth and cold, growth and decay is so underrated. I get that most mythology fans get that from Hades and Persephone, but these two are so slept on :'D

I'm participating in monthly challenge this year, but, like, in the most incorrect ways possible.

Firstly, I'm drawing WODtober, but not with this year's prompts (they are too boring to me :( ), but with 2023 prompts.

Secondly, despite my deep love for the World of Darkness, I've decided that I had neglected my original settings for long enough, so now I'm drawing WODtober using original settings. Yeah. At least I'm having fun.

This is the first day, "The monster in me". My first attempt at making a picture move in years. I did it in hour or so, so I'm pretty proud of the result, even if this is pretty basic and even lazy animation.

This is my beloved girl, Evgeniya Kazarina aka "Three". Profecient in Mind Sphere, despite being only 19. One of the Hollow.

I have MtAs brainrot. Specifically, Technocracy brainrot. Send help these bastards won't leave my mind... N.W.O., is this your social processing kicking in? 🥺

Context under the cut:

This picture is honouring the fact that I got my hands on Revised edition Iteration X book and the way their relationship with Syndicate was described is hilarious to me. Check this out:

I adore how in-universe when ppl talk about Syndicate they sound like a gun is held to their heads 🤡

Oh, a bit more of explaining the picture.

Two people on the upper part are ItXers. In the lower part we have some proper Syndicate buddie. Behind him are a Syndicate Enforcer and a MiB (without his suit, a pity).

You may say: "Okay, Enforcer is maybe playing a bodyguard or smth for the higher-ranking Syndicate member, but what is N.W.O. agent doing here?". Well, here's the thing. Both him and the Enforcer actually share and amalgam with girl in upper right corner. So even if they aren't related to Iteration X needing Syndicate's money, they are still quietly mourning the fact that they probably aren't getting any financing ever again just by association with this mess.

THAT'S BEAUTIFUL

I adore the message of this poem and I'm honoured that you were inspired by my art 🥺💕

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The cipher on the right translates to "these swords still carry the warmth of your hands"

This picture was meant to be about touch starvation and trying to get softness where you can, even from things which harm you. To give your own meaning to things in order to feel just a little bit more loved, even if it doesn't make any sense in actuality. I don't feel like I did the idea justice. But whatever.

This is Quartz Crumbs of Wyrm's Teeth, my Abyssal Exalted OC, whom you might've seen in my previous posts. Of course I gave tragic backstory even to my aggressive and idiotic bastard (/affectionate). No character is safe from my desire to cry 😎

A bit of process and additional picture under the cut:

Process. I really like the lineart, especially my attempt at making Quartz's hands kinda relaxed and gentle in this piece. Nothing shows what I wanted to show better then gentleness to something that's killing you.

And additional picture. I don't know whose hand that is, by the way. I don't have an OC who would get this close to Quartz to show affection to him yet. I don't know if I ever will. I'm making myself sad thinking about it, mission accomplished, yay :'D

Goddess of death in one of my original settings

The cipher cannot be solved in English, sorry