Hekiheki - Asura Madness

okay that sketch page does make alga look extremely skrungly but that's a misrepresentation they're actually comfortably at the top of the got-their-shit-together scale of rats, see:

*hahem* We NeEd MoRe GoRrIk !!

I love him <3

A piece I made a little while back while waiting for EoD to drop

Meet Veffo! They are fabulously goth and enjoys being a cryptic bitch at the most inopportune times

“Hello welcome to the Apple store”

[Loud stupid cackling]

Specter shroud - Inquest Agent L

They grow up so fast…

Inquest Tea Time!

"Aren't you really just someone pretending to be the commander?"

Did I turn a joke line from Cloudseeker into angst development for my commander? Yes, yes I did.

I imagine being the Commander slowly became less of a privilege and more of a performance art over the years. When you've felled Elder Dragons, Gods, Liches and all manners of infallible beings, people start to think of you as one of them.

But you love them so much, you don't have the heart to betray their expectations. So you keep pretending you've got it all under control.

And the more vulnerable you feel- the more weak you are- the less you feel like the Commander. Right now? You're nobody.

this guy

Kevske's good and straightforward plan:

get some nice, useful qualifications in dynamics-- nothing too flashy, the kind of skills to maintain and repair ubiquitous equipment.

make plenty of connections (easy when you're this likeable) and angle for a high-paying position fixing golems or defense turrets or something else the hoity-toity geniuses are too good for

use the good will earned in the previous steps to secure a decent position for Alga (friend/partner)-- probably something with lower skill/social requirements, of course

profit in relative comfort, keep out of everyone else's business.

problem 1: Alga wants to go fight dragons all of a sudden. this is a stupid idea, of course-- he's a meek little nerd with no applicable skills and besides, the best thing the asura can do while everyone else is getting themselves killed is come up with new ideas and tools, not wander onto the frontlines like cannon-fodder. end of subject.

problem 2: okay Alga has disappeared. probably dead already. whatever, who needs him anyway. the plan should still be on track except, the demand for work is moving away from the big labs and populated areas and further into active, increasingly dangerous warzones. it can be avoided for a time, certainly, but eventually that offer to trek into the newly rediscovered rata novus is just too good to pass up...

problem 3: it turns out the expeditionary team scrambling for dragon data in a dead city does not particularly care if you get your face blown up by a decayed ley-energy battery, and they'd actually prefer if you stopped complaining about the "side effects" and got back to work. oh it turns out Alga's alive, though-- maybe this can all be salvaged if the two of you just get back home, nevermind the plan. surely he'll see reason.

problems 4-???: social and professional bridges all burned, the ley-poisoning sure hasn't worn off yet-- does it even do that? things are looking desperate. time to stop being picky. the charr need someone to work on their tanks? time to learn fast. the durmand priory needs someone to play handyman to their miserable little remote outposts? sure. some priory magister needs an escort to go study worms or something? ...why not.

A friend send me this, saying: “How to explain the essential gameplay of Guild Wars 2 to someone who never played it.”

Lmao.