Fleshing out Sxorr's character a little more, have some fun poses.
Extra character tidbits below
He's a fan of Metal Legion. Initially, he listened to them to annoy his mother, but grew to genuinely enjoy their music. It's edgy! He's also upset they disbanded.
He's obsessed with crystals. Jade technology fascinates him, and he is determined to obtain more for reverse engineering to understand what makes Canthan jade such a great magi-battery. He dreams of incorporating even a sliver of Aurene's brand into his cloaking body suit, which currently runs on a rudimentary prototype of his current crystal theorems.
His current stash of jade tech is small, having been acquired through less than legal means. Legitimate import fees and scarcity due to the Canthan jade energy crisis made it unaffordable with his current bank (that, and he's heard that human trade bureaucracy is somehow worse than the Colleges').
His mother, Xiintra, is a golemancer who supplies special golem units to Rata Sum's security forces- mainly the Arcane Eye. Militaristic, uptight, and loyal to the Arcane Council, she's everything Sxorr aspires not to be. Her relationship with her son is strained, and she makes it very clear that she views Sxorr's little 'rebellion' as an ugly mark on her otherwise flawless and upstanding records. Regardless, she tries to keep in contact with him, if only to get him back under control.
Sxorr is 19ish as of SoTO. He had been a student of the College of Synergetics before he decided to drop out during the events of the Icebrood Saga. The attack on Rata Sum shook him enough to reassess his life priorities, and he took the chance to bail when his mother was too preoccupied with combating the dragons to notice.
Pink is his favourite colour. He will fight you over it.
Art dump of rat college days (ft. @valiant-portabella-pirkko's Ruju to the right with the kitty nose 😻)
Smaller segments and tiny wysma lore below!
Wys is ~15 here, running on the assumption that Asuran college = highschool years (Taimi was 13ish when she began studying)
We don't get a lot of insight into college culture, but if it's full of teenagers, it's full of teenage drama. Wysma doesn't learn how to be assertive- or confident- until much later, so he gets pushed around a bit 😌
Some doodles of Hass (Has Seen Things)
Hass accidentally ends up in Inner Nayos through one of the rifts that opened in Tyria and now terrorizes the local eyeball kryptis
I had a lotta fun sketch these
this guy
Kevske's good and straightforward plan:
get some nice, useful qualifications in dynamics-- nothing too flashy, the kind of skills to maintain and repair ubiquitous equipment.
make plenty of connections (easy when you're this likeable) and angle for a high-paying position fixing golems or defense turrets or something else the hoity-toity geniuses are too good for
use the good will earned in the previous steps to secure a decent position for Alga (friend/partner)-- probably something with lower skill/social requirements, of course
profit in relative comfort, keep out of everyone else's business.
problem 1: Alga wants to go fight dragons all of a sudden. this is a stupid idea, of course-- he's a meek little nerd with no applicable skills and besides, the best thing the asura can do while everyone else is getting themselves killed is come up with new ideas and tools, not wander onto the frontlines like cannon-fodder. end of subject.
problem 2: okay Alga has disappeared. probably dead already. whatever, who needs him anyway. the plan should still be on track except, the demand for work is moving away from the big labs and populated areas and further into active, increasingly dangerous warzones. it can be avoided for a time, certainly, but eventually that offer to trek into the newly rediscovered rata novus is just too good to pass up...
problem 3: it turns out the expeditionary team scrambling for dragon data in a dead city does not particularly care if you get your face blown up by a decayed ley-energy battery, and they'd actually prefer if you stopped complaining about the "side effects" and got back to work. oh it turns out Alga's alive, though-- maybe this can all be salvaged if the two of you just get back home, nevermind the plan. surely he'll see reason.
problems 4-???: social and professional bridges all burned, the ley-poisoning sure hasn't worn off yet-- does it even do that? things are looking desperate. time to stop being picky. the charr need someone to work on their tanks? time to learn fast. the durmand priory needs someone to play handyman to their miserable little remote outposts? sure. some priory magister needs an escort to go study worms or something? ...why not.