#serpion

Chapter 1

“I didn’t think you could reach up here” A quiet voice echoed around the cave, breaking through my thoughts. I sighed and shrugged. 

“I climb. Safer up here than down there anyways” I gestured towards the ground where glowing eyes were visible. 

“You’ll starve” 

“Nuh-uh. Just gotta wait a bit then I can get down and get found” The avian settled beside me, sighing.

“Nova-”

“Don’t you Nova me, Alan! I’m capable of taking care of myself” I growled, my teeth in full view as I turned defensive.

“Nova...when?” He asked, reaching for my face. I backed up further. I bit my arm and gave him a fake smile. 

“Just a way to defend myself” I closed my mouth quickly, trying to calm myself. I couldn’t risk being caught, not so close to my birthday. I thought I’d be safe up here. 

“Don’t lie to me. Show me” He reached for my face again and I startled further, my fake form slipping from my careful control. My fangs were the first to be revealed, followed by my more delicate build. Before more than a few minutes had passed, I stood there in my true form. 

“Shit. I miscounted” I glanced at the moon, rising once again in the past midnight arc. His hands were no longer reaching for me, not when I was so fragile looking.

“Nova?”

“Yea. Yea. I lied. You would too if you were one of the few left of your kind” I grumbled, rubbing at the base of my spikes. I hated how small I looked.

“How..? You can’t be. We wiped out your kind before you could have!” He babbled, reaching for his sword. I raised my hands defensively, rearing back on my tail as my wings flared. 

“Whoa! Whoa! I promise, I’m not deadly, I just...It’s still me Al! It’s Nova! I’m still me! I’m just...not what you thought I was” I lowered myself, trying hard to look nonthreatening.

“You could have eaten us at anytime! Dirty Serpion, you could have already! I bet you killed the real Nova!” He raised his sword, ready to stab me. I sunk my fangs into my arm, tensing up for the blow. 

“Nova!” My older brother screamed, and I heard the sword clatter to the ground. Before me stood Nik, his frills spread.

“Nik, no!” I screamed, trying to get between the taller men. Neither paid me any mind, and I winced when Nik approached. 

“Nova did nothing. She always comes here on her birthday, to make sure this doesn’t happen. If anyone is to blame for this, it’s you, Your Royal Highness. Now, go home, and forget this ever happened” My brother hissed, and Alan obeyed without a word. 

“Stay” Nik then growled to me and took off.  

Final Fantasy IX - Random Battle 41

Random battle from Final Fantasy IX, Festival of the Hunt concluded and the disturbing developments in Burmecia, Garnet's disappearance with Steiner and an old friend of Zidane's joining the part. Zidane, Vivi and Freya head out towards Gizamaluke's Grotto, a cave passing through the mountains to Burmecia, on the way the trio are attacked by a pair of Serpion's on the beach. #randombattle

For the full 2+ hour video of random battles from Final Fantasy IX check out this video. 

For the full 3+ hour video of random battles from Final Fantasy VII check out this video. 

For the full 2+ hour video of random battles from Final Fantasy VIII Remastered check out this video. 

For the full 3+ hour video of random battles from Final Fantasy X HD check out this video. 

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No trouble at all!

I’m rather bad at pricing so I’m afraid I can’t help you there, but I’d suggest going on any art site and searching the phrase “Paypal commission” or something of the like.

Just browse through commissions and see what people are charging. Look for artists you feel are around your skill level particularly to really get a feel for what you might consider charging.

Once you have a price in mind, gather up some examples (if you don’t have any for what you want to do, make some) and compile a page for commission prices. This works well as a list, or even in an image format.

When compiling a list of work to offer, think of specific categories to use. Think of sketches, lined work, shaded work— and also think of how much of the subject is being shown (like busts, fullbody, etc.) Consider how much you might charge for additional characters and backgrounds as well. Think of what your time is worth for each additional item, as well as the work as a whole.

If you want to focus on animals, I would recommend Furaffinity or Weasyl for commissions, but you can probably look into doing any sort of commissions on DA or Tumblr as well. From personal experience, I’ve gotten a lot more commission interest on FA as users are more understanding of commission prices— but FA’s currently dealing with a huge drama bomb and many of the users are hopping ship to Weasyl.

As for charging, I’d recommend either:

Asking for all payment up front.

Asking for half payment up front, second half after image completion.

Asking for no payment up front, but sending a heavily watermarked image to the person upon completion and not removing it until payment is received.

I started with the third option listed, but I’m now dealing with the second and first much more. I find that, if you’re uncomfortable with possessing money for work you have yet to do, the third option works best (and the watermark ensures you won’t get ripped off.)

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