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He doesn't even have to try to keep it out of her reach. What a brat. If he wanted attention, all he had to do was ask. Though, I imagine, making Temperance frustrated is half the fun for him.  He seems the type to think she'd cute when she's mad. (i mean, come on, her tail even trashes about like a cats. that’s adorable) The grumbling has a little infernal hidden in it. It reads "birdbrain, give it back" You know you've really annoyed her when she isn't even speaking common anymore. Anyway, Mykiel's player will mess with me sometimes when I'm reading, and no one can convince me that Mykiel doesn't do the same to Temp. also every boy in our friend group has held something out of my reach. Including him. So IMO this is the most in-character interaction I've ever drawn. 

Especially together. Temperance is fiercely protective of Mykiel; she’s willing to do whatever it takes to keep him safe. Even accept the bbeg’s deal if need be.

May 15, 2022 I’m just going to leave this here.  he’s fucking beautiful though. 

I tend draw Mykiel as this kind of powerful, elegant, or mysterious being when I draw him on his own, and he certainly is those things, but he's also a beautifully soft creature. He's such a complex character, and I try to draw as many facets of him as I can. I still fall short, he’s so goofy, and playful, he’s charming in a way that I don’t think images can display. His player breathes a life into him that I don’t know if I can ever truly capture. From Temp's perspective, he's just as much predator as he is prey: always a willing participant of their cheeky game of cat and mouse, sometimes taking the initiative, and sometimes making her work for it. Temp may give him grief sometimes, but she's wholly devoted to him and all his complexities.

Temp and Mykiel went on a little impromptu date and she's definitely the type of person to tease like that (as if they hadn't been, "keeping each other company" , the entirety of the night before.)

April 22, 2022 FORGIVE THE SHITTY FORMAT. You guys are just getting the Insta version because tumblr refuses to upload the original at a size that is legible.  I did like 75% of this in 4 days. I thought I had 10, and then the deadline got moved, so I had to get it done in 4.  Cautionary tales were a common thing in my childhood, and Temperance's mother, Verity, loved to tell stories. Temp still remembers most of them fondly, this one, she has some mixed feelings for now. I thought in a major port city like Molis, the ruling noble family having a child drown would definitely be used as a cautionary tale to keep kids from playing by the docks. Mykiel is only 10 years older than Temperance, but by the time temp was old enough to hear such a story, it had already turned into an urban legend. Index for those wanting the lore dump: Molis: A major port city on the great lake that separates the continent of Indra. It's ruled by the Amberfield's. A powerful noble family known for hating all magic and ruling with an iron fist. A giant clockwork tower is the city's seat of power, with the noble family's palace at the very top. Any powerful magic found within the Amberfield's territory is taken and locked away inside one of the tower's many levels. Yammery: A desert city known for it's college of magic, and vast library of magical knowledge. Many magic items considered "too dangerous" are sent to Yammery to be studied, catalogued, and then ultimately locked away. Other lore: While Amberfield in blood, Mykiel is no longer one in name. When his Aasimar nature was revealed, his mother sent him to live with his uncle fearing that his father would otherwise have him killed. Mykiel thus goes by his uncle's surname Douma (though he tends not to throw it around. Douma is the royal family's name; It usually attracts more attention than he would like). "in that cell" refers to the night the party met. They had all (minus Adriel) been part of a pretty nasty bar brawl, and had been thrown in a jail cell together.  Temperance was so afraid of being in that small space with Mykiel, that she had Adriel bail them out instead of just waiting out the night.

He's completely in his element here, and it's easy to see why Temperance finds him both beautiful and terrifying in equal measure. 

Temperance driven mad by the BBEG (aka her father). Luckily for my party I rolled well enough during this session that they narrowly avoided fighting this version of Temp. As I suspected, Temperance's father wants her to join him. There's something dark and more infernal about her soul than she knows, and I don't know if he's ever going to stop trying to convert her to this. To what he thinks the real version of his daughter is. worse yet, Verity (Temperance's mother) is still alive. Her father insists that she didn't leave Temp on purpose, but she doesn't believe him. She's feeling very raw, angry, and betrayed right now. She can feel this version of her, the potential version of her, underneath everything, and feels like she's a monster. She's worked her entire life to be better, to try to be good, and has never succeeded, and now she feels like this is why. Mykiel, on the other hand, refused to leave her alone with those thoughts, and was very quick to remind her that she is not a monster. 🥺 my heart

"It's 5 AM when you close the door I don't know who I am anymore And tell me, did you make your eyes blur? So that in the dark, I'd look like her. Four tequilas down Who gives a shit if we're messing around They'll never know, they'll never know So just hold me like you mean it We'll pretend because we need it" A drunken night of partying led to a (potential) one night stand with Mykiel. Our session left off with it being the next afternoon, with nothing having been resolved. They both keep avoiding each other at every turn, instead of talking it out like adults. Temperance was feeling a little guilty, and sorry for herself, because now that they're on the train and outside of the Dwarven kingdom, Mykiel is in contact with his Deva again, and avoiding him is impossible. Temp worries that he'll consider it a mistake, or that he wont, but his deva will have objections. Or, worst of all, that his Deva won't object, but she'll still always just be a sort of place holder for his Deva, never his first choice, just the one that was available. Between all of that, her fear of The Man in Black coming for her, and the strange book she was given that seems to tell the story of her mother's (or potentially her own?) life, She's taken to day drinking, much to even Dram's surprise (honestly, me too, Dram; drinking's what got her into this mess in the first place). Oh, and Adriel figured out what happened, and gave Mykiel a "fatherly warning" we'll call it (standard, "don't break my daughters heart" BS). Which can definitely only make things better, right? (Thanks, Dad)

March 14, 2022 This is Temperance's mother, Verity, when she was pregnant. Temperance is an only Child (as far as we know), so this isn't something she ever got to see. It's really just a little "technically canon" sketch to play with body types and posing.

Silly girl, don’t you know that this is exactly why he adores you? 

I haven't posted here in far too long. I guess it's time for an art dump.

February 11, 2022 This is the moment where Temperance realized that she was in trouble. This took so much longer than I originally thought. But for colored sketches I'm very pleased with them. IDK what it is about dodie's "She" that really gets to me. Maybe it's my sapphic little heart, maybe it's the deep longing in the lyrics, but this song hits me hard, and the gender neutral covers always get me so hard it hurts.

I've apparently lost my mind. I found a note on my phone from months ago that reads "Temperance wearing nothing but Mykiel's coat," And I couldn't get the idea out of my head. I was just going to do a b/w sketch, but I got a little carried away. 😅

Finally managed to get Temp's 2022 portrait done. Name: Temperance Race: Tiefling Age: 20 (as of 1166 AE) Height: 5'1" Eye Color: Gold (cat-like) Hair: Red, Curly (2C/3A) Class: Rogue, Artificer Main Weapons: Rapier, Daggers, Pistol, Magic Personality: Mischievous, Sharp-tongued, Resourceful, Headstrong, Secretly a romantic. My hand hurts. I tried a similar technique on her hair as I did with Mykiel's, but idk if it came out as curly as I'd like.