#1ore

good luck on your journey. come home safe.

and when you find him, guide him home.

@1ore and @beatcroc

Brun is the Bearer Of The OC Meme

1. Your first OC ever?

BUT GOTCHA GOTCHA. I mentioned before about my art purging habit, but coupled with my family moving like constantly and stuff inevitably getting lost along the way, I don't have a lot of traditional art I did as a kid! However I DO remember making stories about dogs and pokemon going on zany adventures together and dealing with the things that troubled me as a 6 year-old (mostly having to do with learning how to read). Here's some that have managed to stick out in my brain. Imagining 6 yo me losing my fucking marbles seeing these new renditions

love u both. <3

EYAL.......I LOVE HIM SO.....i haven’t cracked open my woods boy playlist in an age let me see

ragged wood - fleet foxes

everyone draws pho with such a kind face... i want to know more about him. he seems so nice.

You’ve activated my trap card i’m so sorry. I tried so many times to condense this post but i had to give up. Pho (whose actual name is Avenging Phoenix and whose name USED to be Ravenous Vulture Strips Clean the Bones of Creation) is a character i played for a really long time in Exalted, and refuse to put down even though his game is long over. 

I’ll spare u an in-depth description of the campaign bc it stretched over like 20 fucking years of in-game time. I was still in college at the time and I was really ass-deep in depression and struggling towards recovery, so I wanted to make a character who was at rock bottom and could only go up from there. Vulch started out his game as an ex-minion to a very powerful and very evil ghost, who had given him demigod status and saved him from death in return for life as an undead monstrosity whose very existence was in service in bringing about the end of the world. He’d eventually had a crisis of conscience which led to the last person he still really cared about from his mortal life being punished instead, and was kind of just desperately on the run without a real plan. When he joined the rest of the party it was as a recently-awol ghoul of a man who was pretty much completely eaten up by remorse and depression and self-hatred, and was only like...still anchored to wanting to life by the desire to avenge his mom’s ghost and put her fully to rest and the fact that one of the other partymembers was an old childhood friend he thought had died long ago. Over the course of the campaign he managed to slowly and agonizingly crawl upwards out of that pit, to make a lot of really deep connections with other people despite the fact his very nature as an abyssal cursed him for it. By the end, he’d gone from a guy who sat in the corner and waited for ppl to tell him what to kill to a guy who like would hurl himself headlong into trouble to hold out his hand to every person he saw who was also in a dark place. He became someone who decided he had to believe there was a chance that his old masters didn’t win, because if he didn’t he’d be letting down everyone who’d helped him get as far out of the pit as he had, so he got really intense abt it.

Even then tho, he wasn’t really thinking of his own future past avenging his mom and killing the Mask of Winters, he was kind of assuming he’d just like go off into the mountains somewhere and just fade out of everyone’s lives, so when those things actually happened, he had no idea what was going to happen next, and what ESPECIALLY smacked him upside the head at 10000 miles per hour was the fact that the sun god, who had been saved from self imposed exile by the party, took a long look at him and was like ‘come here i think you’ve got a smudge of black on you let me wipe it off’, and left him standing there as a living, breathing person again, full of the essence of the sun instead of the void. It really threw him a curveball, and he probably would have wandered around aimlessly reeling from it for a long time if his travels hadn’t taken him back to check in on a group of kids he and some other renegade abyssals had rescued from the lair of a ghost-witch they’d raided, upon which point he ended up staying there a week...and then a month...and then a year...and now he just lives there and is the official adoptive dad of at least one of them (Sachi, the other person in those images, who grows up to exalt as a Solar hersef, much to her dad’s parental anxiety).

So like Pho as a postgame character is a guy who was fully committed to seeing himself as a monster forever who was instead given a second chance at life, and who is still really struggling with how to reconcile with that, bc he’s got a lot of trauma to recover from and contrary to that the Unconquered Sun might have said he really doesn’t think he deserved it. If his arc during the game was about learning how to have something to live for again, he’s currently in the stage where he’s learning how to heal and to redefine himself outside of the violence that has set the tone of the whole rest of his life. He’s a gruff, tired barbecue dad who struggles with self worth and who would rather be planting sunflowers in his garden with his kids than doing any of the things people expect or want an extremely powerful elder Solar to do, and who can’t yet admit he’s really worth of Solarhood enough to show his face when he does without hiding beneath his old deathknight armor.