#vampire ponies

Of Shadow and Blood - Vampire Tempest

A collaboration with the wonderful @astralmelodia-art! She undertook that incredible environment work, and I’m responsible for the character! We’re both posting this image, as a result!

This was a long time coming; what with everything that got thrown at both of us in the last half of last year. But with perseverance and a lot of communication between us, we knocked this out of the park!

Thank you again for collabing with me, Astral! c:

((Anon))

Deep Frost Refsheet - 2020 edition~

So I added a new gorl to my roster! A draft-built gal who is best friends with Blood Moon!

She was the Carnelian Protege, having been chosen by Lua herself right after the old unicorn spurned Blood Moon. There was a little bit of envious animosity between the two unicorn vamponies after that, though eventually Blood Moon and Deep Frost worked that issue over and made up with each other to become besties once more~

Her part in the story is minor, and abrupt, but I had to know what she looked like and so I had to draw her up! She came out super cute~ c:

Sombra isn’t obliterated! At least, not in my AU. lol 

Shadow tyrant boy, enamored with the Mooncurse and its power, afflicted himself with a similar vampire curse. The timeline leading up to his fall isn’t clear to me yet, but here we’ve got a glance at vampire Sombra after his defeat and during his atonement (sentence length: Eternity or until death, whichever comes first).

I’ve opted to darken his coat from my initial headcanon design, as a significant part of his backstory in ZenVerse Equestria is that he and his... She’s less a "handler" and more an “Observing Doctor”, sort of thing. Her name is Lieden; she and Sombra hail from the same settlement in the North, founded by Friesian-type ponies. He’s far older than she is, obviously. But due to his curse being different from the curse that Sekheti carries (Jetstream Mooncurse, which Lieden is familiar with), she was called upon by the Royals to study and keep an eye on the sassy bat-eared vampire while the attempt to reform him is made.

Sombra is not used to not scaring ponies. Getting used to Lieden took a while. Girl never let down her guard but she was very firm that he didn’t frighten her. Made her wary, yes. But after getting used to Sekheti, vamponies just are part of her life now and that includes this Umbracursed ex-king. Speaking of the Marwari-eared unicorn, there was one point where he actually kicked Sombra’s back leg out from under the larger unicorn, just to say, “She really is not fearing of you. Nor me. So this posturing, you can stop now.” Oh Sombra was offended! xD This smaller stallion just KICKED him! How dare! 

Meet Katharine Schneider of Acheron

The vampire before the grumpy old blue vampire pony with a short haircut and no patience for frivolity. In slightly anachronistic clothing for the period this version existed, but I don’t care~

So yes! Kat used to smile and not mean to murder you! She used to have more emotions than “I’ll end you” and “Try me, whelp.” She used to actually feel things!~ That was before The Incident(tm) though. 

I’d love to delve into her past more but I’m keeping this post short. So it was really weird to draw her with what I’d consider “unusual” expressions for her. But she used to be soft and not a b*tch! c:

Top left: Standard day-to-day “Oh really now?” Top right: A cold and dark night alone, with naught but bitter memories. Bottom right: A portrait, that’s all~ Bottom left: The face that the man she loved saw in the hour before his death.

A conversation between new acquaintances!

So @bluebrush09arts and I got to talking about how Rori’s new pattern makes her somewhat resemble Flintlock, and we talked about how they might react to each other if our AUs were to cross paths. Buckskin coats aren’t a common thing either one of them sees in their travels, we reckoned, so if they were to bump into each other while at port, that’s something they’d both notice. Also Rori would be checking a wanted board for posters of herself or her crewmates, and Flint might be checking out the same board, or something. 

TL;DR they run into each other, start a very awkward conversation, and eventually reach a comfortable chat level for each of them. Wherein Flint learns a little of how she was pressganged into piracy with a dread crew, and the included dialogue swings around. Rori politely declines the out, citing that while her crew are incredibly scary and it’s stressful, that somehow she does feel safe enough there to stay. We imagine that the two talk long enough while the two ships are at port to become almost-friends and part ways amicably. Also I just wanted to draw the two soft sailing horses having a nice conversation because these two both need a break. x3

No, they’re not shipped. Don’t even ask, please and thanks.