welcome!

1: An updated ref for Eva. Her campaign is sorta winding down to its conclusion, so I'm making a new version of her that's less tied to a single campaign.

2: Lazarus, my Fallout 1 OC! I've had him on the mind a lot lately (and some mutuals posted Fallout characters and influenced me).

3: Abbey, a character from an original setting/story I've been working on

I've said it before, but I'll say it again. If you like Dragon Age, play Small Fires.

I know Matthieu and Arden technically appeared in the prologue, but I'm going to hold off on drawing them until I have some more vibes. I feel like we really got to know these two in the prologue. And I adored them both dearly. I drew my own Knight-Corporal (again) but I wanted the main attention to be on the companions. Here's Milo:

So far, he's sorta in the middle with Simon, but leaning towards friend. They get along and they definitely bonded over their common enemy: Sardou. Milo's not as strict as Simon would prefer, though. Plus...ultimately Milo chose to blame Baker. IYKYK. I keep comparing them to Tulio and Miguel.

I don't think I would call Milo and Anasha FRIENDS yet, but I think he respects her. At this point in the story, he's pretty in for a penny in for a crown when it comes to stealing off into the night to go help Saga. If he got his way, he'd help raise her. She's family to him as much as Baker was. Is he gonna be Saga's uncle? Cousin? Some sort of vaguely familial but hard to define role that one could say indicates that in adulthood, Milo's turning into Baker? Who knows!

Yeah I'm not done drawing Small Fires art. I'm gonna draw up whatever Milo is gonna be wearing in Chapter 1 once he ditches or stows his Templar armor.

I also wanted to draw up a more detailed look at Milo's face, even though this is only half of it. He's 34, and I think he's starting to get a few greys, even if the vast majority of his hair is still red. I wonder what Baker thought of the scrappy little kid he took in starting to go grey.

Also the stress of everything going on the last few weeks has made his rosacea flare up. Not the biggest thing on his plate right now, but it sure ain't helping.

Small Fires is back and I had a lot of fun with the prologue! I'm very much enjoying the dynamic between Milo and Simon. He's still kind of in the middle as far as friendship and I'm still deciding how much I want to press my thumb on that side of the scale.

Milo still sorta thinks of Simon as a kid in his head, though he would *never* call him that. He's been doing his best to guide him and support him without being too overly overbearing.

I'm really looking forward to seeing how their relationship builds after...all that. They don't always see eye to eye (in fact they OFTEN don't) but there's still mutual respect. Anyway I was getting Tulio and Miguel vibes from them, and so I referenced this frame from The Road to El Dorado, but with some rivalry I got during that scene in the barn when you're learning about Simon's grandpa.

100% inspired by this post, I've been working on drawing all of Mortimer's outfits during their week in Scarlet Hollow. I'll probably re-draw their Monday and Friday outfits and make a whole lineup eventually. Tuesday they just kinda threw a different shirt on the same jeans and sneakers that they were wearing the day before. Wednesday, they were feeling kinda cute and wanted to put together a fun lil outfit to ghostbust in (aaaand they'd already slid into Kaneeka's DMs so they were feeling good.) This would be the last outfit that they actually put thought into for the whole week though.

Just finished Chapter 5 and I figured I'd draw the OC I've had brewing. I'm planning to replay with them soon now that I have a more solid idea of who they are as a person. I think once they started talking to animals as a child, Vivian started homeschooling them to prevent anyone from finding out about the bit of Scarlet Hollow weirdness that followed them down to Florida. I feel like there was some sort of Incident(tm) but I haven't decided what yet.

Mortimer was always a bit of a troublemaker with an unlucky streak. They ran into some legal trouble in their teens/early 20s (things like drug possession and a bit of other criminal mischief). This means they already had a record when the cops started getting suspicious.

I have a general idea of what happens between that actual end of Fallout and Lazarus eventually ending up in Arroyo. If we go with the canon timeline, there's a couple months in between "You're a hero, and you have to leave" and reuniting with the folks that left Vault 13 to join him in the wasteland. I've gotten attached to the idea of him and dogmeat crashing in Shady Sands while he tries to get his shit together once everything kinda fell apart around him. I think the whole group came together a bit after Lazarus' seventeenth birthday.

I haven't played fallout 1 in FOREVER (honestly I think I watched other people play it more than I played it myself). So I'm playing it now and this is my Vault Dweller.

Well, the last time I played it was before I made a conscious effort to abandon cringe. So I made an OC to rotate while I play. I'm deviating from the memoirs in the Fallout 2 manual a tad but kinda playing with the broad strokes of the "canon" timeline for him.

He was sixteen when he left the vault to retrieve the water chip. Until then, he was a pretty rank-and-file repair technician. I don't know the EXACT date he's going to get back on this file, but I think he's just shy of seventeen (I'm going with December 2161-May 2162 for the sake of his actual canon tho)

He's definitely a stealth over direct combat kinda guy. Brains over brawn, but he's got brawn if he needs it. He's a decent shot but he's pretty nearsighted, and with his luck he might end up hitting a friend, so he usually sticks to his spear.

I'm not sure yet exactly WHEN his egg cracked out in the wasteland. It was definitely before he delivered the water chip to vault 13, so he did field some questions back at the vault that he intended to answer but then...the whole super mutants thing and ultimately getting exiled. He named himself Lazarus because he's a little nerd and he felt like coming to terms with his gender was a sort of rebirth.

I just finished the demo for Small Fires (@smallfires-if) and I'm already attached to the character I was playing as, so I'll probably play Milo again when future chapters drop.

Thus far he leans towards empathetic, rebellious, and devout. We'll see how that goes with the rest of the story. Bonus shitpost: