#denalien

i had to make a second version because photoshop is a bitch as i have said before

was listening to this while making:

Number 12 on the list: Go fishing with Rox

I’m doing some experimenting while i draw these things. Sadly i don’t have much to say about Rox because she was very absent from the story and even if she was in it her storyline got a backstage-focus-kinda treatment where if you paid attention her story progressed but the main plot took the actual spotlight from her.

I can 100% understand those that don’t like her (for this reason) and/or don’t even care for her.

My commander did pay attention to her (mainly because i am one that likes to take a look at everything and talk with everyone before i can progress with the storymode but also because it’s pretty canon to Beasteye Denalien since one of his core personality traits is that he is observant)

I was getting lost in a tangent there... so anyway my commander did pay attention to her and actually planned to train her as his replacement if anything were to happen to him in action.

Beasteye Denalien wanted her to be his second in command. (My out-of-universe reasoning for this is that if you noticed the commander likes to put her on point a lot in missions whenever she gets to be one of the companions in a story instance, ALSO if you pay attention in most instances where she appears she is the chosen companion to go ress you if you are downed. Plus the coincidence that she is a charr ranger and Denalien is a charr ranger...)

I got lost in a tangent here again.... SO ANYWAYS that’s what he planned but enter the Olmakhan and Denalien witnesses something he forgot to think about and thus didn’t think was a possibility: That someone so similar to him (near gladia - gladium, charr ranger- charr ranger, occupation beyond legion’s spy/ warrior in the form of beastmaster/miner, i could go on) could find a life to lead that’s fullfilling to her, a life that she can return to once the world is saved.

From that moment of realisation on, Beasteye Denalien let’s her go, so she could have what he can’t. (Which is also pretty canon, if you notice since the first introduction of the Olmakhan the commander doesn’t really order Rox around much, stopped putting her in frontline position, and only put her in a mission that she would already do without being ordered to: basically leading the Olmakhan for you.)

So this picture is really that, the commander visiting Rox’s life that she found so he can have a taste, buuuuut although he can see what Rox sees in this life, in the end it isn’t his. He is a bit different from Rox after all.

Music i listened to while drawing this:

Thank you very much ^^

WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT?! When people let me live atleast for a few days my inspiration and patience to draw comes back! Who knew?

There are far more “reincarnations” of Denalien since i use this name for most games (where it’s not taken already in that case i’m Hungarianbeast / kehideni) but those are too minor to mention.

Ahh BeastW my tauren druid on Tauri wow server... how i miss those days (those days something 12 years ago when my biggest problem was school grades) He is wearing T5 Druid set, those were my glory days as a feral druid tank. My guild kept doubting me and then i solotanked Karazham and most of the T5 raids :T they ate their words and i will never forget that ~

And most recently Charr Ranger a good 7-8 years now c: man i love GW2 (even if the Wintersday event gets on my nerves now)