[fanfic] Silver and Scarlet - Paradigm Shift

[aroihkin]

Paradigm Shift (Zevran / Tannusen Surana)
Zevran, grabbed by a blood mage's temporary control, tries to murder the Warden and very nearly succeeds...
On Ao3 | kmeme
NSFW

Part of the "Silver and Scarlet" series.


(( I don't think I'm 'back' yet, but the ending to this was already written and I got tired of having two different fic-WIPs making moist eyes at me, so I posted it... ))

Comments

[varelishawt]

*drive-by skimming*

I haven't seen you post in ages! *hugs*

*runs off to wrestle with color* (I thought armor was a bitch to color - hair is worse!)

[aroihkin]

<3

Even this was me posting pre-written stuff that had been waiting to be read over more carefully. I haven't even been able to skim any communities or anything this whole time. >_>

Glad you're still doing arts! And hair is a total bitch. It's worse depending on the color, too. I want to shave Tannusen bald sometimes. Again, that is. It happened once in another fandom.

[varelishawt]

Ohnoes! I posted a five (yes, five) chapter Varel/F!Cousland story a few days ago, too, and more arts. :)

When are you gonna work on that Varel/Tannu fic, eh? Eh? *poke*

Yeah, I think I found a good tutorial, so we'll see how badly I mess up, LOL.

[aroihkin]

I need to walk Tannusen into Awakening first, I don't think I can skip and then jump back to endgame stuff with all the tattooing and kidnapping and thralling that will be going on.

My problem with Tannu's hair in particular is that I've never colored it with the same technique twice. Stupid long straight white-gold shit. From now on all my OCs will have dark hair, I swear.

[varelishawt]

Ah, okay - I will wait. More or less patiently. :3 You need to cheat-level that char and play on Easy mode, so you get through things faster. :)

I imagine white hair is pretty hard - I have to color Varel's and Elethea's gray hair, oi, LOL. And then Zevran's...

[aroihkin]

Oh, I meant I need to get there in the story, not the game. There's just some stuff I can't skip past. I have a copy of Tannusen waiting in the very start of Awakening for the very purpose of Varel tail. :P

Grey can be a bitch, too. I haven't done grey hair since the last time I drew Raistlin Majere. I'd suggest pulling up images of wigs for color-picking help, but beyond that I'm no good. XD

And Zev's hair took me over five hours to settle on a way to color it, lolol. But once you have a method to manage it with, his hairstyle gets crazy easy.

[varelishawt]

I discovered something interesting - my laptop's touchpad gives me more countrol than a mouse, but less than a stylus! It's pretty nifty - I've done everything but hair with it.

[aroihkin]

This makes me boggle, since I do everything with a mouse and precisely nothing with the touchpad. XD

[varelishawt]

My hand isn't steady enough - and I think after dropping my poor mouse umpteen times - neither is my mouse, LOL.

[andorin]

*Squee* for this! It's good to see you again.

[aroihkin]

^^;

It's still a struggle to work on anything at all, but I'm trying.

[scarylady]

It's lovely to see you back, m'dear. Once you are up to some comm skimming, you'll find that we've been wading knee deep in slash in your absence.

You can make a slash angel :)

[aroihkin]

Yay slash angel! ...Wait, what's all this goop? Ewww...

[darkrose]

Yay! More S&S!

I frequently want to cuddle Tannu and give him cupcakes; I wanted that for both of them this time around.

[aroihkin]

If you haven't seen the "Sanction" WIP yet, that's the one where I sort of want to hand them both some tea or something. XD Tannu nearly has a breakdown while domming Zev.

[twist_shimmy]

I'm glad to see you! <3 scarylady is right; we have been knee-deep in slash.

*adds new S&S to her "READ ME, SHIMMY" tab group*

[aroihkin]

I love that this gets reported to me. XD I write het too! When the setup manages to be interesting enough...

If I can un-blah it'll be hip-deep, I suspect. There's two other S&S fills in WIP status (one online and one offline), and some non-S&S but still slashy art in WIP form as well that I've owed the payer for, oh, months.