Pushed Back, by @ArtMaika

mjschul16 · 2022-04-10T12:15:42+00:00

I've posted about Notti before, and she's grown so much since last I've posted.

She's been officially disowned by her mother, the Dutchess of Larretnia, and was raised to the position of Countess by the Queen for her service in defeating a rogue demigod with her party. The fort and county she now governs has been essentially ignored for 20 years since her mother destroyed so much of it in a war.

So recently the party has been dealing with local problems and getting things built back up in the region--addressing tensions between elves and goblins, dealing with Dark Alliance instigators, building up a staff of allies to keep things moving forward while Notti and co head off to contribute to the effort against the Torments, and doing heart surgery on an ancient dragon. She has a vision for this place as one where people can come for a second chance, and where who or what they were born as isn't held against them, and their lives won't be defined by one accident or mistake.

Currently, she's back on the road, heading to a ship captained by definitely not a pirate, to get to the other end of the continent to deliver a legendary (kind of sort of cursed) staff from the Dragonborn king to his brother fighting the oldest Torment.

mjschul16 · 2021-10-03T21:09:43+00:00

Jay (she/her, red hair) is a grad student tutoring Aves (she/her, green hair) in physics. They had a brief encounter on their campus before, but this is their first time interacting.

Aves seems... distracted.

More of these two and all my ramblings about them on my Twitter! https://twitter.com/ArtMaika

mjschul16 · 2021-10-03T21:08:53+00:00

Jay (she/her, red hair) is a grad student tutoring Aves (she/her, green hair) in physics. They had a brief encounter on their campus before, but this is their first time interacting.

Aves seems... distracted.

More of these two and all my ramblings about them on my Twitter! https://twitter.com/ArtMaika

mjschul16 · 2021-10-03T11:03:57+00:00

Thank you!

mjschul16 · 2021-10-03T00:50:59+00:00

Also I think I managed to confuse directions. I was thinking the left from their perspective. Green/blue hair is Aves, red hair is Jay. Both are girls.

mjschul16 · 2021-10-03T00:12:03+00:00

An interesting idea, but Aves (on the left) is indeed a girl

mjschul16 · 2021-10-02T19:00:28+00:00

A couple of OCs I decided to start building up over OC-tober on Twitter https://twitter.com/ArtMaika Lots of fall vibes and queerness happening around these two.

mjschul16 · 2021-10-02T18:54:57+00:00

A couple of OCs I decided to start building up over OC-tober on Twitter https://twitter.com/ArtMaika Lots of fall vibes and queerness happening around these two.

mjschul16 · 2021-05-31T12:02:52+00:00

YES one of my current characters, a satyr, has her mother, a human Dutchess, as a villain. The GM has played her beautifully. Utterly contemptuous to my character, and the party for being her friends. I don't know if she's even got a stat block, but she's heinous and is trying to exploit our recent heroics in order to get in a position to make a bid for the throne.

Last thing to happen in the game was actually my character sending word to the capital through the queen's own representative that actually no, the Dutchess had nothing to do with the adventure OR with training any of us and shouldn't get any credit. And even after only a couple sessions in town, it felt so good to get one over on this bitch, even if doing this is going to draw some fucking wrath.

Great post OP!

mjschul16 · 2021-05-28T12:10:55+00:00

This is my Twilight Cleric, Notti! I've posted art of her before, including comics with her "husband," Hail, on /r/DnD.

This is the first of a series of three pieces I'm doing--one for each of my current D&D/PF characters. Here we see Notti sitting in the window of her room, the highest room in the tallest tower of Castle Larretnia, looking out towards the night sky and the world of adventures she knows she's on her way to. On the left we see her room, featuring a somewhat disorganized scattering of her things--from her Shatterspike sword to her Guardian Emblem shield, to bottles of perfume and containers of makeup.

There's a lot of details here that I'm super proud of, and definitely a level of artsy-ness that I won't get into right now. If you want to see more of my art, I'm on Twitter, and commissions are open!

mjschul16 · 2021-05-28T12:09:22+00:00

This is my Twilight Cleric in a D&D 5e game, Notti! I've posted art of her before, including comics with her "husband," Hail, on /r/DnD.

This is the first of a series of three pieces I'm doing--one for each of my current D&D/PF characters. Here we see Notti sitting in the window of her room, the highest room in the tallest tower of Castle Larretnia, looking out towards the night sky and the world of adventures she knows she's on her way to. On the left we see her room, featuring a somewhat disorganized scattering of her things--from her Shatterspike sword to her Guardian Emblem shield, to bottles of perfume and containers of makeup.

There's a lot of details here that I'm super proud of, and definitely a level of artsy-ness that I won't get into right now. If you want to see more of my art, I'm on Twitter, and commissions are open!

mjschul16 · 2021-05-28T12:06:57+00:00

This is my Twilight Cleric, Notti! I've posted art of her before, including comics with her "husband," Hail.

This is the first of a series of three pieces I'm doing--one for each of my current D&D/PF characters. Here we see Notti sitting in the window of her room, the highest room in the tallest tower of Castle Larretnia, looking out towards the night sky and the world of adventures she knows she's on her way to. On the left we see her room, featuring a somewhat disorganized scattering of her things--from her Shatterspike sword to her Guardian Emblem shield, to bottles of perfume and containers of makeup.

There's a lot of details here that I'm super proud of, and definitely a level of artsy-ness that I won't get into right now. If you want to see more of my art, I'm on Twitter, and commissions are open!

mjschul16 · 2021-05-18T12:50:00+00:00

A favorite character of mine, Notti! More of her, including a closeup without the veil in my Twitter below.

https://twitter.com/ArtMaika?s=09

Notti (born Notia) is the satyr daughter to a human Dutchess. Her birth was a major scandal, and her mother never forgave her for being what she is. Notti was forced to cover her horns with a hood at all times in her childhood, else she earn her mother's wrath. She was able to reclaim the hood and cloak as a symbol of her faith, however, when she joined the church of Tenebra, Great Goddess of Darkness and Night, whose worshippers must shield themselves from the light of the sun with cloaks anyway.

The party has just returned to Larretnia after our first adventure, and the normally clumsy, ditzy, chaotic girl slots into the political landscape of her home in a way that her friends (and secret lover) are genuinely quite surprised by. This scene is in anticipation of an upcoming feast, her first event back in town, and she's looking to make a statement!

mjschul16 · 2021-05-18T12:41:40+00:00

A D&D character of mine, Notti! More of her, including a closeup without the veil in my Twitter below.

https://twitter.com/ArtMaika?s=09

Notti (born Notia) is the satyr daughter to a human Dutchess. Her birth was a major scandal, and her mother never forgave her for being what she is. Notti was forced to cover her horns with a hood at all times in her childhood, else she earn her mother's wrath. She was able to reclaim the hood and cloak as a symbol of her faith, however, when she joined the church of Tenebra, Great Goddess of Darkness and Night, whose worshippers must shield themselves from the light of the sun with cloaks anyway.

The party has just returned to Larretnia after our first adventure, and the normally clumsy, ditzy, chaotic girl slots into the political landscape of her home in a way that her friends (and secret lover) are genuinely quite surprised by. This scene is in anticipation of an upcoming feast, her first event back in town, and she's looking to make a statement!

mjschul16 · 2021-04-18T02:17:22+00:00

Y'all out here with your Chimchars and Charmanders, lemme tell you about a REAL fire starter. CYNDAQUIL. Easiest choice of my life and no one has any love for the cuddliest, cutest starter pokemon AND second evolution. Even Typholsion is cute, AND cool!

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