I’m Merlin and I use they/them and it/it’s pronouns. I’m a minor.
My main blog is @gryphonsoup but I’m more active here. DMs, tags, and asks are open. Deeply abnormal about that old man.
an incomplete oc page can be found here. I make art sometimes.
Did You Know: Tom Jones was a popular singer active during the Tiber War? He is most famous for his performance of the song "It's Not Unusual" for Lord-Admiral Amiel Richton at Port Hunding Palace on Stros M'Kai in 2E 864, following the island's occupation by Imperial authorities in the aftermath of the Battle of Hunding Bay.
So, I initially said I was going to draw the companions but I started the Dawnguard DLC on my most recent play through of Skyrim so I decided to draw Cat!Serana because she’s a cool character (I don’t like her as a follower for how she fights, it’s very annoying)
All my TES Cat art will be tagged under #TES CAT AU on my account for ease of access to them
Let me know if you want someone specific from me, I’ll gladly do characters from other Elder Scrolls games such as Morrowind, Oblivion and ESO :3c
I wanted her to be a crazy looking and visually different from most other Nords because of her families age and thus having an extinct fur pattern, so I drew a sort of super dark classic tabby, and a ‘skunk stripe’ which is an extremely rare pattern present in a now extinct cat breed and a few living cats.
Her eyes were fun to draw because it was me being more creative with colors and general style, different from what I normally do!
NEXT I drew a Vampire lord design, I know that in-game we don’t see her take the Vampire Lord form at all but I still wanted to draw it so I could experiment!
As stated on my Thieves Guild/Nightingales page, all Nords would be long haired, double coated, cats with fluffy paws, ear tufts and very similar to Maine coons, Norwegian forest cats and similar but none would have any set breed.
I also wanted to draw a more dynamic pose and see what I can change without loosing much of what made my design her, so I used the same colors, changed the shape language and added slightly more bat-like design traits. I feel like I could have pushed it more but for now I feel it fits still and I like the art as a whole, mostly the pose.
Again the eyes were really fun to draw and I feel like they add to the monstrous look Vampire Lords have.
If I draw more of these I wanted to include race specific traits the monster forms would have, such as the serrated claws present here on Serana for both dealing tons of damage with the claws and for traveling on ice.
I was tagged by @lobo-inu and I'm tagging @weirdisme @teethands and anyone elsen who sees this because I am blanking on names lmao
all I really have to show right now is a picture I was working on for fun of my TES OCs as kitty cats because it something quick and fun I can do while I am in college!
It's my OC Balneim with his kids Brigitte and Micah as kitty cats because I think it's cute!
I also have a line up I did of some of my OCs in the cat AU as a reference for myself that I am willing to share!
from left to right (and youngest to oldest) we have Amadeus, Micah, Brigitte, Balneim and Alfri!
Amadeus is Brigitte and Micah's younger sibling and Alfri is Balneim's half sister! I'll post refs of them normally some day, hopefully when I'm less busy!
my buddy @weirdisme did some posts of the Jarls (plus Elenwen and Tullius) as cats a while ago and it made me want to do my own take on them for funsies :3c
I wanted to take the elves into a even more fantasy cat-like design, so I gave high elves little wing like ears because I thought it would be cute! And the lion-like mane and tail are just something I thought would help with the silhouette.
tbh i’ll never forgive bethesda for how they handled the forsworn and EVEN MORESO the falmer. they bandit-ized the reachmen and goblin-ized the falmer. incapable of making interesting antagonistic factions without being racist
No fear.
"Elves in tes6 looking like pointy eared humans with unnatural skin colour, instead of having sharp features, forehead ridges, large tilted eyes, non-white sclera, and other features specific to their kin that made them look much more interesting and unique from humans, unlike most other fantasy Elves. "
One fear.
voice acting as a profession is so funny because you'll see someone being like "voice actors need to be paid better! like [obscure person you've never heard of]" and you're like "oh I wonder who that person is, maybe I've heard them voice a character" and you look it up and it turns out they voice 137 characters in Futurama and 94 characters in The Simpsons and 96 characters in Adventure Time and every one of the My Little Ponies and 27 characters in Arcane and 96 characters in Kim Possible and 4 characters in Phineas and Ferb and 296 characters in Dexter's Laboratory and all of the main cast of Fairly Odd Parents and at least 6 characters in every Pixar movie and almost every animated depiction of Superman and 473 SpongeBob characters and they've been in every installment of Mass Effect and Halo and The Elder Scrolls and Fallout and Call of Duty and they were in Star Trek and Law & Order and they were 12 characters in the MCU and they also invented t-shirts and the colour green and they got paid a sum total of $3.27 and a mothball for all of it combined. then you go burn down David Zaslav's house with him inside
neeed to draw faevhis i love her. my evil wife who wants me and everyone dead
