jo-asakura.bsky.social
writer, artist, gamer, comic colorist
Find my original works here: https://www.patreon.com/c/ajvanderpoel
And my fanworks here: https://archiveofourown.org/users/JoAsakura
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“Need a hand? 😄” “Do you even understand the word Stealth?!😑”
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And finally, Caretaker, piloted by Teyrim “Rook” DeRiva
#dragonagetheveilguard
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Dragonfyre/Taash
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Ballista/Lace Harding
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Archive/Bellara Lutare
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I’m too worn out to write descriptions right now, but please enjoy the rest of the team!
Coldcase/Neve Gallus
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What the Warden lacks in speed, as the heaviest frame on the field, it more than makes up for in armor. Piloted by Davrin, The Warden is an immovable object against the enemy. #davrin #dragonagetheveilguard
To fight gods, you go big or go home
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Unlike The Lich, a reliable long-range heavy bombardment frame, Spite is a temperamental high-speed unit designed for stealth and close quarters combat. Pilot: Lucanis Dellamorte
#lucanisdellamorte
#dragonagetheveilguard
To fight gods, you go big or go home
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What’s your preferred class to play? XD (<dual class paladin/dragon~blood sorcerer Tav; bard/paladin Durge (don’t recommend, he sucks but it’s also funny how much he sucks))
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BRB, going off-roading with these guys
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The road I LIVE on is rougher than this.
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I wish I was a muppet so my face could adequately deform in the way I need it to to express the emotion this makes me feel.
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a slightly better mister disco fabulous
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But they're entirely different characters with very different motivations.
And sometimes, i just think up a terrible little guy (GNC) and they're not really ready for anything i've got in the pipeline at the time. Then bam, one day there is a story and they're like "my time has come"
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I threw their asses in the mental pear wiggler until they started to take on the very different forms they have today. For me, personally, each one of them still has a gag trait that *I* (at least) find a hilarious callback to their origins (Amon eating tide pods, for instance) (cont)
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The Nine is a really extreme, ridiculous example of this. Every character in the Nine is one i've used in another context. It started off as a joke that I had enough of these guys lying around to start a dating sim game. (cont)
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The outcome though is always the iterative character becoming someone new entirely.
I guess maybe it can bet better summed up is I have a stable of particular archetypes i like to work with and then I like to see how they develop within the framework of a given world or scenario. (cont)
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Now, Imma be real here. A lot of these guys spring fully formed like idiot Athenas from my brain. But not always in the right context.
What I end up doing frequently is iterating them. I will throw certain characters at various stories and see what sticks and what doesn't. (cont)
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he had it comin
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Alfainn is at once a holy beast, a sin eater for his people and a very tired old man falling in love with a sapient hunk of aerogel who used to be a meteorologist.
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Here's a couple of pix of Alfainn from some older posts on Patreon . He is a cranky, small, plant/animal chimera who gets described as an angry cactus man through a great deal of the book.
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So i'mma say that newest OC- one that is not a recycle/refresh/re-imagining of one already in the stables, would probably be Alfainn (?), one of the lead characters in the new novel i am desperately trying to bring myself to edit. (my ADHD addled brain hates editing. this is awful)
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I think it's important to realize that it was the Late 70s when i came up with him, he *is* absolutely disco fabulous and drawing him in the five minutes that picture took makes me realize some uncomfortable truths about having A Type.