not today or tomorrow

I don't acquire commissions nearly as often as I could, mostly due to the Mortifying Ordeal of Deciding What You Want And Then Asking It Of Another Human Person. Horrendous! What if I just threw myself very dramatically onto a sword instead.

Fortunately I managed to get over myself long enough to commission an artist I've admired for a long time; though she mostly does Destiny work, it was her Pillars of Eternity art that inspired me, and I now have a gorgeous portrait of Neus :) One of the game's fun quirks is it allows you to upload custom portraits, so I no longer have to settle for the generic pre-builts and can instead enjoy all the fungal, sharp-toothed glory that once only lived inside my head. The downside is I am spending too much time staring at the character page.

I also just today 'purchased' an adorable little ficlet from dear Nem for the price of a donation to a raptor centre, as part of her 'Horizon Day of Service' - Shepard/Jack/Shiala in the same pocket universe as this fic. They are deeply weird and I love the way Nem packs in the xenobiology.

Apropos of starting to poke at Deadfire again occasionally, some headcanons on death godlikes in general / Neus specifically:

( to be born of the turning wheel )

Deadfire is certainly looking ready to throw some curly choices Neus' way. That it is all Very Personal only makes it curlier.

( spoilers for poe 1 and the deadfire prologue )

Meanwhile I cross-posted the old PoE 1 adventures over to this blog for centralised storage, so that's all there under Neus' character tag now.

[crossposted from Tumblr]

Neus backstory musings! Subject to change should canon slap me with conflicting info, but decently supported I think.

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