Council Of Spiders.

Viper’s personality is so intriguing to me. I’m not sure if this makes sense, but she’s so aggressively chill/unhinged and uptight at the same time???

Like she’s second in command of the VP, has no piercings, wears no accessories whatsoever, doesn’t like to waste time on anything unproductive, wakes up at five in the morning and keeps to a very strict schedule, doesn’t really have (or acknowledge) any personal relationships outside of Brimstone and Omen, constantly thinks of life from an intellectual standpoint, is hell-bent on succeeding in her revenge mission, has a bit of a sadistic streak, holds onto grudges like it’s nobody’s business, holds her teammates to an extremely high standard, dislikes anything less than perfection, has the most bare-bones living space ever because she literally never relaxes, etc….

But also casually calls her superior “old man,” calls him just to talk at him when she’s trying to figure something out, gets a thrill on the battlefield to the point of genuine laughter, swears a lot when stressed, cracks vaguely intimidating jokes for her own entertainment (NO ONE else is laughing at them, I’m sorry lmfao), regards her mirror self with a frankly unnerving amount of amusement most of the time, literally plays with her enemies and laughs at them when they can’t figure out where she is or what she’s doing, drinks a ridiculously expensive type of coffee just because, owns an actual viper for…what? Aesthetics? Just because she likes them?, and seemingly refuses to wear any color that isn’t green or black.

None of these qualities are inherently exclusive to one another, mind you, but this combination of behaviors/traits is just so interesting? Wdym the same woman who half the protocol publicly acknowledges is insane also has a voiceline basically saying “Please don’t die, I bet on all of your lives with Brimstone and it would be embarrassing if I lost :(”

Wdym she genuinely hates being called by name by unfamiliar colleagues and will not hesitate to forcefully shut them down, but she will also PLAYFULLY correct them in the same breath? WHAT?? Like I understand that none of these things necessarily contradict each other, but she’s just such a mixed bag of peculiar personality traits and it’s so fun trying to figure out how the hell she would act in any given situation.

viper doodle

viper wip #92838392….rendering practice :]

2 TALIA DRAWINGS IN THE SAME MONTH??? OMGOMGOMG

my imagination is really working overtime trying to write without the usual academic guidelines LOLOLOL 😭 but thank you for the encouraging words i rly rly rly appreciate it :DDD <33!!!!

i have come to find out that fanfic writing is NOT as easy as academic writing and that i am a terribly slow writer 😭 yesterday i managed to muster two (2!!!) paragraphs after damn near two hours it’s so cooked chat LMAO

what do you mean "alone", idiot? i was there all along

just wait till i organize all my f1 au thoughts….JUST WAIT! i fear it’ll be all i draw

just to share a bit of my thoughts:

reyna and viper, despite being rivals, were romantically involved in their early years of F1 racing, but they never actually labeled anything. later on in their careers, viper constantly came close to winning world championship, but always fell short. because of this she put all of her focus into racing and became emotionally distant. so, reyna ended things.

hello! i don’t think i’ve ever announced it here officially, but i do have ko-fi comms open! i currently offer rendered portraits ($35) and sketch busts ($10) :] examples:

might render this later :P