This Is Something I've Been Wanting To Draw For A While. Hope To Update Soon With The Colored Version

[ID: A page of three digital illustrations of Orym from Critical Role. In all he is shirtless, his torso is muscular and dotted with battle scars. On the left Orym holds his sword in his right hand and holds his left hand up to his head, looking tired. In the middle Orym's back is facing towards the viewer, his sword in his right hand and a neutral expression on his face. On the right only Orym's torso and right arm are visible, his arm relaxed at his side. End description.]

Some muscle studies that inevitably became about Orym

[ID: A digital illustration of Imogen Temult, Orym and Ashton Greymoore from Critical Role. Orym is leaning forward on a table, resting his chin on his folded arms and smiling, looking to the left. Behind him, Imogen and Ashton are whispering to each other. Above them text reads "*strategizing*". End description.]

That cute whispering thing Laura, Liam and Taliesin were doing last episode but it's Imogen, Orym and Ashton!

imagine you are the director of the magic cia and you betrayed your home country because they denied your grad thesis and you thought everything was chill but then a group of people in bdsm gear burst into the room holding the god that you stole and you now have to babysit them and watch while they ruin the house your family gave them and you are also in a honeypot4honeypot situationship with their resident ginger and you teach him forbidden magics because he has nice eyes and you keep having to ferry them to fight dragons or some shit and they keep fucking inviting you to dinner so you go to dinner and they trap you, the traitor they’re looking for, in a truth spell and instead of asking any damning question they want to know which of them you find the hottest and what your moms name is and then they disappear for like two months and then you’re in disguise at the negotiation which undermines your past decades work and they fucking show up and they find out about your crimes so they paralyze you and drag you to their ship and instead of killing you the ginger kisses you on the forehead and they tell you that you’re family now and then they disappear for a long fucking time so you leave and go chill in the north and then they show up chased by a purple man with horns and a dead member of the fucking cerberus assembly and then they fucking dip and when you come back they take you to a flesh city to fight the purple man but they get really sad when they murder him so they revive him? and also you find evidence that the god that you stole is not a god and is some kind of hyper advanced magic computer maybe and then you just sort of fucking go home? and chill in a garden? every day essek thelyss wakes up.

The Storm in the form of a purple woman

[ID: A digital illustration of Orym from Critical Role. He is looking straight ahead holding up his swords and his shield. There are claw marks down the side of his face and his right eye is shut to keep the blood from getting in. There are claw marks on his arms too and blood spattered across him. Behind him is dark red background with Ruidus visible over his left shoulder, the Ruidus flare bathes everything in red light. End description.]

C'mon Chet!

[ID: A digital illustration of Vax'ildan and Keyleth from Critical Role. They are kissing while Vax flies, his wings partially wrapped around them both. End description.]

Smooches 🖤🧡

All it cost was my life in the sun. Now I belong to the shadows.

Look my favourite 'Starscream joins the Autobots' concept involves him absolutely playing up his victimhood in a manipulative attempt to win sympathy. He's a Decepticon! He's Starscream. Of course he does! He will act however weak and vulnerable he needs to, in order to achieve his ends.

This gives him a fascinating duality. He's a Machiavellian selfish would-be-tyrant who fucking dares the Autobots to feel sorry for him; while at the same time, he's a wheedling, snivelling mess, making puppy-dog eyes as he cunningly reveals tailored scraps of his abusive relationship with Megatron to win over the 'soft-sparked' Autobots.

Everything he shares is true.

In fact, things with Megatron were probably even worse than he portrays, albeit more complex - i.e., with far more goading and violence on his side, but which in NO WAY justified the ghastly abuse he was subjected to.

This is a way for him to feel like he's in control of the shit that's been done to him. If he's using his victim status as a weapon, it feels like it's his. He's taken possession of it. He's made it into something more powerful, in his mind (even if this defence tactic kinda... prevents him from fully recognising that what happened to him was actually really really awful).

I wish more fics engaged with this aspect of his character, where he's PERFECTLY WILLING to go 'OH THE ABUSE. OH I HAVE SUFFERED' if it'll get him ahead in life, while perhaps not even fully understanding just how much trauma he's gone through.

from a wee bit ago, while watching the cr bg3 vod ^_^

[image description: 2 digitally coloured pencil drawings of critical role characters. the first is of ashton, leaning on their elbows, smirking and and flipping someone off, labelled 'to chet'. the second image is a portrait of caduceus, based on his level 20 design. he is smiling slightly and looking to the side. end ID]