#valva

A Vâlvă is a type of spirit in Romanian folklore. They are broadly divided into two categories; the benevolent Vâlve Albe, or White Vâlve, and the malevolent Vâlve Negre, or Black Vâlve. They most often appear as shadows, but can also take on different forms including that of a black cat.

Different Vâlve are said to serve different purposes. The Vâlvă Apei is said to guard sources of water, while the Vâlvă Băilor protects mines and miners.

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Monster master list.

Second finished batch of commission examples. The pieces of the previous batch were all portraits that showcased how the character’s detail level affects the time used, but here I’ve tried to instead give examples of a few different styles I can use. All of these could naturally be combined with shadings and backgrounds, or on the other hand left completely transparent. I just have to really restrain myself in order to not go overboard with TOO many variation examples, because that would just make the final info sheet cluttered an unappealing.

1. Being living proof and a witness to all of Loki’s chaotic good neutral gneutral (?) behavior both at the end of AoA and in his covert War of Realms mole scheming, complete with chewing out of the gods/Standard Heroes for hypocrisy, ignoring the fact that the trash god is very much not the God of Evil/Lies they knew, and Freya being Freya, etc

and, biggest of all hopes,

2. Verity Willis becoming known to the godly and supers-community as the Professional Loki Tamer

As in, everyone becomes painfully aware and in awe of just how thoroughly wound around Verity’s little finger the God of Stories is. Like, theories are passed around at first that Verity is some bigger super-type in disguise and has the god hypnotized or some such. But no. Loki is really just that much of a smitten puddle in the mortal maiden’s hands.

It also becomes obvious that Verity simply existing is not only the reason they don’t have a premature Crazy King Loki running around after that phoenix-style rebirth (due to one fucking phone call), but also for Loki taking some measure of interest in Midgard’s well-being beyond making sure his favorite cafe and diner stay intact. 

Verity Willis lives on Midgard. While he could conceivably relocate her to some other cozy realm/castle/planet, he acknowledges that, like stealing her soul and making her into a piece of tasteful jewelry for safekeeping, she might be put off by such a change. Thus, Loki Helps Keep Midgard Intact.

Verity Willis becomes known within Asgardian and superfolk circles as the Trickster’s main incentive for leaning closer to the side of good than outright amoral I Do What I Want jackassery. She gets a file in numerous superhero databases and is given emergency contact buttons/phone numbers by the same. Those files thicken a few inches whenever something dares to inconvenience her.

Inconveniences could range from the expected genius moves of enemies using her as blackmail to get at Loki 

(NOTE: Seth the Serpent God makes a comeback. It is brief, involves him coming into physical contact with Verity’s shoulder for 0.0002 seconds, and the sort of screaming only dogs could hear. Loki still will not say where he deposited the body, but was seen sporting snakeskin boots and a matching wallet for some months after the incident)

Or some dumb schmuck trying to make her a hostage in a shootout

(NOTE: The would-be assailant survived. Much to the fellow’s lament. Doctors--both medical and Strange--are still trying to find a way to reverse the spell which converted the man’s eyes to bubblegum)

She’s also known as the god’s conscience and, much to her bewilderment--for fuck’s sake, all this because she went speed dating--is dubbed the Official Liaison between the Forces of Good and whatever the hell Loki is.