Shikiya is a very long lived tengu from the Hingashi region. The first is of his younger self in his tribe's traditional attire. The second is his older modern self in his own flavour of traditional Hingan clothing.
I am so sorry at how long this got, these are probably some of my favourite questions...
🪪 — Have they gone by any other titles? Will they go by different ones in the future?
Oh absolutely yes!! I love the crossover between the narrative of FL OCs and the mechanical quirks of the game, and especially the epithets. Most of my OCs tend to have different titles for different arcs of their character.
Avci, or the Intemperate Director, was:
The Notable Accomplice/Abettor when they first arrived in the Neath (depending on what company they were keeping)
The Red-Handed Broker once they were in the thick of the Nemesis ambition
and finally the Intemperate Director after the post-ambition depression, once they found new purpose in the Railway
Once they get to the Skies timeline, they're the ___ Conductor, epithet pending.
Lira's titles are:
The Skyward Thief, when she was an upstart urchin that was newly adopted by her patrons, the Alleged Protege and the Red-Handed Broker
The Silvered Assistant, once Avci became the Intemperate Director and she eased into her own life in London
I'm toying with ideas for her future selves, namely post-abandonment by the Director and once she gets to Sunless Skies. Either something Ambassador related, or related to her role as Director Inherit.
One possible ending in Skies (the LoN leaning one) is the Darkened Devisee.
The Indefatigable Doctor is primarily known as that, and is until their final journey.
Viva's titles are:
The Heedless Novice when she arrives in London, and starts making waves in pious and high society circles.
The Perfervid Advocate in the future, once it's impossible to hide aspects of her slow transformation and she can no longer court a reputation based on being demure and harmless.
Mr Cards
⚔️ — Do they have a particular fighting style/signature weapon?
- The Intemperate Director was trained by the more ancient of Tomb Colonists in a graceful style, intended to move the least (lest someone's parts fall off). They refined this in underground fighting rings to be a tad more ruthless (and have a soft spot for wrestling after their years interacting with Reggie himself)
Nowadays, they are far more subtle. They have a reputation to maintain, and they're still renowned at the University for their work on toxicology. More secretly, as a Schismatic Licentiate and post-Station VII, they have incredibly refined, specific toxins for their purposes.
That said, they have an unspoken fondness for knives. They have two tattoos, one on the inside of each forearm-- one in the style of a ravenglass knife, and one in the style of a more common knife notably used by Jack-of-Smiles in the late 1880s.
- The Silvered Assistant avoids fighting as much as possible, but if she is caught, it's a slippery evolution of the Director's footwork, with something a bit more graceful (and French) as well. She would rather not fight and would much rather disappear.
- The Indefatigable Doctor is a Monster Hunter, with all the strangely reverent but ruthless rituals of one. They have the classic harpoon.
- The Heedless Novice lets others do the fighting for her, whether it's Neddy Men or her hired Clay Attendant. Why would she get her hands dirty? The Intemperate Director has something to say about this when they meet Mr Cards.
This one’s from Moon Knight(2021) #1 and damnit this panel is badass
I love the glowy effect they added for MK this run dhsudhsjjd
Pretty happy with how it turned out- only took about 5 hours, too, because I didn’t focus too much on bg details due to the fact that this study in particular i wanted to focus on color, compo and making mk and Khonshu not look wonk more
To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:
A post in 2023:
A post in 2014:
A zoom out of the same post:
This is what a community looks like.
See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.
It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.
Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.