#aldreda

[doodlesfromthebird]

Part 2 of some of the last minute sketches I included in Kai's lore video, that feature characters I've never gotten to draw before until now!

#I have one more post to do of that goofy little sequence #between robin and leo but i'll hold off on posting it for a sec #MAGIC OLD LADY DESIGN 101 lmao #character art #ocs #robin #aldreda #leo #wymeradessa #brine

[apricotsndots]

Widogast's family BBQ, tiefling edition

#lucien tavelle #critical role fanart #cr spoilers #aldreda tavelle #elric tavelle #critical role #the nine eyes of lucien #tneol spoilers #bye sock brother

[valdrift]

memento

#cr #critical role #lucien tavelle #lucien nonagon #aldreda tavelle #doods #good FUCKING morning lucien nation hlw are we doing #tneol #the nine eyes of lucien

[selfproclaimedunicorn]

Commissioned @murmel-malt to draw mothers my OC Aldreda & Alicent Hightower from my series of HOTD ficlets. I'm so, so happy with how they turned out! So glad I asked for them, & I'm going to obsess over this piece now like I have the other ones

#fyeahhotdocs #asoiaf oc #other's art #mo tag #oc: aldreda farwynd #aldricent my beloveds #(also the way so many people have just latched onto my rancid seal woman) #(i love it so much. infecting everybody with her brain worms) #seal mommy art

[artiquar]

Tavelle siblings —

Aldreda was described as being magenta? But I'm not really happy with the color here, if I draw her again I'll mess around with the shades. Also wasn't sure what shape to go with for her horns — them being described as "piercing" through her hair made me want to draw them like straight spikes, so maybe I'll mess with that design too

#lucien tavelle #aldreda tavelle #or whatever her married name is idk i listened to the audiobook I'm not gonna try to spell things #critical role spoilers #nine eyes of lucien spoilers

[quinn-of-aebradore]

Mollymauk,

Please come to the estate at once. We’ve much to discuss, regarding recent developments in your life.

Lucien

Fuck.

Molly receives a summons back to the family estate from their older brother. It can't mean anything good, just a long walk through the past before an inevitable argument. But still, they go.

A look into the history of the recent history of the Tealeaf family and the scars left on its three remaining members.

The SWM Royalty AU returns, this time with a focus on the complicated family history present, and relationships of the Tealeafs. Molly has a Rough Time. They all do. Mind the tags, it’s a rough one. I hope you enjoy it  💜💜💜💜

(Contains minor spoilers for the Nine Eyes of Lucien)

#critical role #cr fanfic #quinn fics #quinn moodboards #mollymauk tealeaf #lucien nonagon #kingsley tealeaf #aldreda tavelle #elric tavelle #shadowidomauk

[dent-de-leon]

Still breaks my heart that Lucien was already living alone in the streets of Shadycreek Run for a few years by the time he was 12, and he was in the Claret Orders at just 19–

#he suffered for so long and so much of his trauma happened when he was just a child— #Lucien being so young and just wanting to have enough money to get by and a chance to take care of his little sister #Lucien spilling his own blood and trying not to think about all his scars #chasing the dream that if he just worked hard enough he could get out of Shadycreek and be someone ‘worthy’ of #reuniting with Aldreda #someone with enough power and influence that he’d never have to fear his autonomy being stolen from him #by someone like Azrahari ever again—

[sl0anart]

Al’s campaign ended, and as you can see nothing bad happened to her :)

#aldreda andilet #dnd #dnd5e #dungeons and dragons #dnd warlock #warlock

[captainkingsley]

I've been going through the audiobook and just relistening to scenes, and the way Lucien's voice breaks when he says "I didn't write because I had nothing to offer you".... I am inconsolable, he sounds so broken

#it is SO sad to listen to #and Aldreda's voice is also so good #nine eyes of lucien spoilers

[grayintogreen]

[lays down in bed]

[immediately sits bolt upright]

Lucien was an older brother who loved his (definitely dead) younger sibling SO MUCH.

THIS IS HOW THREELEAF AUS CAN STILL WIN.

#man all of us out here writing Lucien as a protective older sibling really nailed it #BUT NO LIKE… all my AUs where Lucien Molly and/or king can exist at once #THIS IS HOW YOU GET TO HIM #hit him in the sibling feels #just inevitably adopting Molly as an idiot younger sibling #trying not to think of Aldreda #every fic jossed is that many new fics gained at least #neol spoilers

[necrobratz]

oc content :33 ik this wont get much interaction but heres my big dragon lady in morticia’s fit <33

#my art #she’s technically a genshin oc even tho.. i dont like genshin anymore but whatevs #genshin oc #oc #oc art #original character #aldreda <3

[valdrift]

in a world where lucien wasnt a FUCKING DUMBASS he cldve been chilling with his sister and neice smh 🙄🙄

#cr #critical role #tneol #the nine eyes of lucien #lucien tavelle #aldreda tavelle #marii seriblo #doods #lmao. lmao . *starts crying*

[selfproclaimedunicorn]

director’s cut on aldreda’s childhood/emotional development!

This has activated something in my brain that’s probably gonna see me writing a full lore novel about Aldreda & (my version) of Dance Era House Farwynd, like, I’m literally typing this up on a google doc just for my own ease of answering, I have no idea how long this is going to be lmao. Anyway, I’m gonna start off with a couple things that definitely need to be known as the baseline & then I’ll move on from there with wherever the wind takes me.

The baseline of knowledge we need to go forward is this: Aldreda is the only girl out of 21 children, she watched her number of siblings slowly dwindle starting from the time she was 4 until she was 26, she is one of only 2 kids her dad’s rock wife/Ironborn wife had.

There’s not really any way to sugar coat either of Aldreda’s parents. They both suck in their own way. Their relationship was never good. but it’s definitely in shambles now. They are the source of a lot of Aldreda being the way she is, they aren’t all of it (we’ll get to the rest of it) but they are a big, big foundational part.

Alfric Farwynd, the Lord Reaver of Lonely Light is the archetypical Ironborn lord. He’s what everyone wants to be, but he’s so far away from every other noble house in the Iron Islands that he just kind of gets ignored a lot of the time & has unchecked power over his lonely little island. He has 3 salt wives, one of which he kidnapped/married before he even got married to his arranged islander wife. He spent his entire youth raiding & pillaging & he probably has an army of bastard kids he doesn’t know about amongst the thralls of other Ironborn houses & his own castle & even on the mainland if any women got left behind. This guy sucks, he saw a vat of “respect women juice” & dumped it into the ocean so no one could drink it. He doesn’t care about his wives, he barely cares about his daughter, & the only reason he doesn’t have any more kids is because his wives started getting menopausal & his dick stopped working when he was in his mid 60s (RIP Alfric Farwynd, you would have loved viagra). The only person who will ever live up to his expectations is himself, and he was the measuring stick he held up to his sons. He constantly criticized them & they never were exactly how he wanted by virtue of being their own people instead of extensions of himself like he wanted; they were sons though & they met his expectations better than Aldreda ever did. Especially after they died, when they could stop disappointing him & he could project whatever prowesses & perfections onto them he wanted (this was especially true of the ones who died in the cradle & didn’t even get tainted memories of their “failings”). Aldreda kind of wasn’t even a neat party trick to parade around, she was mostly ignored & if asked he'd really only be able to say “she's one of my kids, man, I don’t know. She has my eyes, I like that.” He was cold & distant & critical, & he loves his brothers in his own way but he’s not really “dad material” because he’s too caught up in the toxic pseudo-viking machismo of the Iron Islands. As a little girl, Aldreda was terrified of him, and even as an adult in her late 20s she kind of still is; but she covers that up by performing the same kind of toxic attitudes Alfric has & lashing out within the parameters of Ironborn Manliness As Filtered Through The Lense Of A Woman Victimized By It.

Lady Melusine Myre is…not mentally okay. She is resentful, she is full of grief, & she doesn’t know where to put any of it. She only had 2 children: Ronas & Aldreda. Her son died in the cradle before her daughter was even born, her husband blamed her for his death, & when he finally came back to her she had a daughter & he never came back. She blames the salt wives for her husband being Like This & harbors resentment for those 3 women who don’t even want to be there & each son they give her husband; she doesn’t celebrate when those boys & men die though, because how can she? Their mothers mourn like she does & she understands that pain at least. She has never been her husband’s first choice, & really he probably wouldn’t have been hers, but she was promised the story of “being a noble reaver’s rock wife, his real wife he can only have one of who will give him sons & carry on the family line & he’ll like you more than all those silly mainland wives he takes. It is a good thing for your husband to have those, by the way, it means he is prosperous & rich & can take care of that many wives & all their kids!” She tells herself she’s okay with it, but she isn’t. She wants love & closeness & intimacy, but she hasn’t gotten that a day in her adult life since she got shipped off to Lonely Light away from the other Iron Islands to marry The Absolute Most Ironborn Man There Is Currently. She doesn’t have a partner, she lost her son, she got abandoned but still has to live with the man who did that to her, so she uses her only kid to fill her emotional needs. Like, Lady Melusine’s boundaries with Aldreda are paper fucking thin, they basically aren’t there. Aldreda is her mom’s therapist, she has to live up to her standards that change every day, & she has never had a moment of privacy with that woman. “It doesn’t matter that you started puberty, I’m your mother & I don’t need to knock to come into your room.”/“It doesn’t matter that you’re a grown woman now, I’m your mother & I’m going to rant at you about some slight against me while you’re taking a bath or getting changed.” And in return for this fucky, laborious emotional incest, Aldreda’s payment is “I will support you doing your gender weird stuff & back you up now that you’re the only claimant to Lonely Light,” & yes that is tied to how much Lady Melusine loves her daughter, but it’s also got a small undercurrent of “if you want to replace all your dead brothers, that is my revenge against everyone who I think has wronged me when you succeed.”

So Aldreda has this just really intense parental situation while living in an incredibly isolated & insular court. Growing up her friends were either her half brothers, or the children of her father’s raiders, or some thrall’s kid: vast power & age imbalances. Aldreda’s oldest brother was 25 when she was born, & she was 20 when her youngest brother was born.

Her favorite person was her older brother Orwen (who was 20 when he died, & Aldreda was 13 when that happened). She looked up to him & wanted to be like him, at least in some respects, & he took care of her. Aldreda wasn’t just “his annoying little sister,” he taught her to fight & brought her little trinkets back from raids & told her cool stories about how badass he was during said raids. Orwen was great, but, like, also one of his best friends was their Open-Secret-Serial-Predator-To-Tween-And-Teen-Girls cousin, Westley. Orwen kept Aldreda safe from him, he warned her to not spend time with him alone & in turn told Westley to leave her alone, but Aldreda was still being nurtured in an environment where people were just kind of lowkey okay with what was going on & really only cared to protect her. 

Her childhood was never that idyllic, but when she was super little she tried really hard to convince herself it was. She was 4 the first time one of her brothers died, then there were 2 more a year later, & then things were okay until she was 9 & 1 more died; little baby Aldreda didn’t really get it but she knew that there were stories about House Farwynd skinchanging into seals & so she just got it in her head that early to decide that’s what happened with her brothers. “Sure, Winfirth/Faren & Edgard/Theon are gone, but they aren’t gone gone! They’re seals now! I went down to the rookery & picked the one(s) I think is him/them!” And she never stopped doing that. Because yes, her parents suck & her dad only kind of loves them & her mom wants her to not love her half-brothers, but they’re her brothers & she loves them. She grieves & mourns for the short time she allows herself by going pure copium & deciding “this seal is my brother & he will get to live on as that animal for another 15 or so years, maybe 25 if we don’t set him loose!” & then she moves on (or at least convinces herself she does) because she doesn’t want to be like her parents. Except she is. She has turned Orwen into a saint in her memory, she has built her dead brothers up in her mind to act as the voice of her own self-doubt & self-criticism; and she is full of grief that she’s choking on & doesn’t know what to do with. She can’t let it out though, so it eats at her from the inside until she does something either to herself or someone else to let it out with sex or violence (like, she was fully carrying on an affair with the thrall who used to be Orwen’s salt wife for a good 5 years & was just like “this is a normal thing to do”).

When she lost 3 brothers in one fell swoop at 13 (favorite included), she decided “I am a girl, but I’m a son, y’know? Daughter but in a boy type way” & cut her hair short & started trying to live up to the persona Lord Alfric wanted of his sons & joined her cousin’s crew to go on raids. Except Orwen was dead & there was no one to save Aldreda from Westley, his men weren’t going to stop him from grooming her & making her attachment styles even worse (because he threatened them). She’s been fixated on him since she was 13/14 & it was a “positive” fixation until she was 26, then he showed his true colors of just being blindly ambitious & also a little bit delusional but she can’t stop being fixated on him because that’s over a decade of being manipulated & abused & thinking they were star crossed lovers & that “when he says the time is right I'm going to give him my maidenhead.” She still romanticizes what happened to her before remembering all the harm she learned he did & then it turns into the most (justifiably) hateful & violent fixation known to man: it's still a fixation though.

She's not her mother or her father, she's something entirely separate & wholly worse: their daughter who never stopped being a sad, traumatized teenage girl in the middle of being emotionally abused & manipulated.

#asks #oc: aldreda farwynd

[artiquar]

This scene from The Nine Eyes of Lucien has burned itself into my brain so I had to draw it properly.

#smh Lucien if you weren't so stubborn.... #aldreda tavelle #lucien tavelle #lucien nonagon #the nine eyes of lucien #critical role #critrole #i learned a Lot doing this!! i might do a couple other scenes!!

[flashhwing]

the downside to kinda-vaguely-but-not-really designing your dnd pc after molly and then giving him a younger sister with magenta skin is sometimes a book about molly's backstory will come out that tells you he (or lucien) had a younger sister with magenta skin. and then u just have to be normal about it

#what if i recolored the eyes in my ezra + story drawings and published them and said they were lucien and aldreda #this has been a post #when i say i designed them after molly i just mean purple tiefling with dark hair and curling ram's horns #and no iris/pupil #they dress more conservatively than molly and they have no horn jewellry (ear and facial piercings are a go though) #so. really in a way. modelled after lucien #ezra and story have gold and silver eyes tho #not red

[dent-de-leon]

I do love that Molly promised Nogvurot he'd return one day--and not just as the Duke again, but as himself. Thinking about King visiting that town one day, and receiving a big royal welcome. Being so beloved, feeling regal--just like he did in his dreams. Molly always meant to come back and visit someday, but he never got the chance to (would he have like to?...did he mean to return one day, with the Mighty Nein?)

But even if he never got the chance to go back, maybe one day King will wander by, and be treated like an old friend. And it'll feel like he's back in that nice dream again--

#also man #could you imagine if #instead of seeing molly pretending to be king in a flashback or something #we see someone in animated mighty nein from nogvurot that recognizes molly-- #i do always wish that molly got the chance to go back there with the mighty nein ;; i hope its one of the things he gets to do as kingsley #soemday-- #other things i would love: king and yasha tracking down gustav (beau asking molly if he wanted to see him again in the lucien battle #still breaks my heart ;;) #and of course...king getting to meet aldreda-- #i also hope king finds out about lestera one day ;; or at least reconnects with the moonweaver. still flips through his tarot cards