my short lil CoC campaign wrapped up this week and i,,, HAVE to dump about my character and what happened cus DAMN
tws: gore/injury, horror, general traumatic things yknow - scroll at your own risk
SO my character was Laney Harlow :) a silly little zookeeper from florida helping her bestie Evan Morrgan move from georgia to montana, where the campaign took place!! they arrived at Aurora Point, a tourist location known for its cryptid myth: The Aurora Point Angel... but it wasn't just a myth.
Laney and Evan were the sole survivors of the Aurora Point incident, the other 3 members of their party either becoming infected by the "bugs" or dying to them. In the end, the town was blown sky high, Evan left to resuscitate her best friend in the wake of their own explosion that took out the Brood Mother. Evan succeeded, recalling how Laney had taught her CPR and saved her life, but both were changed forever.
Evan survived with 3 HP and 14 Sanity, while Laney survived on 1 HP and 5 Sanity, past her insanity threshold of 15, leaving her indefinitely insane until she received help.
It would be so easy to misinterpret Yang’s protectiveness over Blake here, but that’s not what’s happening. We’ve always seen Ruby as happy-go-lucky, follow-your-heart and do-the-right-thing, and it’s easy to forget that Yang raised Ruby, and the implied subtext there is that it *wasn’t* always sunshine and rainbows.
Yes, Yang is protective over her newfound relationship. Yes, she’ll maybe feel a little wounded that her sister is lashing out. But what we see here is Yang shifting ever so subtly into mother-mode. Yang knows this isn’t about Blake, or her and Blake’s relationship, she’s stepping in front of Blake to protect her before Ruby can say or do something she regrets. In essence, protecting both of them and trying to control the situation from escalating. Yang is stepping in front because she can take it, she’s GIVING her someone to yell at, because god knows she’s probably had to, at some point, take some lip in the past while the others have only ever known her as a strong, positive leader. She doesn’t shout at Ruby, she’s calm, lets her get it out and just looks sternly with a simple “Hey!” as in, ‘hey, that’s enough now’.
Yang has expressed concern, and is concerned, but this is 100% Yang shifting into parent mode. This is brilliant because earlier in the episode and even last episode we’ve seen examples of Yang’s ‘concerned big sister’ side which is soft and supportive. There’s no malice in Yang’s expression, and it’s difficult to catch it because we haven’t had the best representations of ‘good mothers’ in the show, especially not ones that have had to chastise their kids at some point, but you can bet your ass that this is Yang’s parental mode stepping in to bring calm and stability to a chaotic situation. And that doesn’t always present as ‘let’s hug this out’, sometimes it’s stern, tough love and recognising that the younger one isn’t in the space to receive comfort, so the best you can do for them is diffuse the situation and be an authoritative voice of reason because she recognises her sister’s fragile mental state.
This is without going into how amazing Ruby’s portrayal was. Going after your sister’s new relationship is RAW, and personal, but it’s also what siblings do - they lash out sometimes when they’re under stress. The way Ruby says ‘we’re sOoOo happy for you by the way good for you’ - just SMACKS of younger sibling cutting loose and saying something they don’t mean, which makes Yang’s response all the more realistic for me. She recognises the tone, the almost-petulance and steps in before it can go any further.
It’s so subtle, but it SPOKE to me so massive kudos to Miles Luna and the animators for this. And god bless the clowns that use it as some sort of Anti-Bees discourse - the nuance is entirely lost on you.
cant believe i havent drawn the scrimblo yet
welcome back
working on new refs for my warriors!rwby au,,,, rwby's been finished, so strq is next & half way done weeeeee yippee!!
im gathering an army of pathetic, sad, sobbing creatures. avengers assemble
left to right; cryingpaw/wetpaw @thecommunistlovesong - milkwail @quitedisastrous - twigpaw @bee8467 - longdog (mine) - puppypaw @nanistar
silly funney little feesh....
tried my hand at the grey cat/blue eyes trend,,,, i have designs for all 4 of them stowed away but crow and blue got some edits lol
barely a person, still a saint.
very much so not my usual content but i think the ppl of tumblr would like to see my meme
lil doodle from the other day born out of an overwhelming annoyance that for some reason body hair is associated with masculinity despite Everyone Having It. so why not draw a cute hairy girl about it
[image description: a drawing of a tan-skinned woman with brown and blond dyed hair pulled into a ponytail and copious body hair and stubble. she is smiling and doing a peace sign gesture with her hand. next to her is text saying "body hair has no gender!" end id]