Various Family Portraits

intermission ✦ izek + victor

--- ko-fi // creator commentary

Still thinking about earlier tweets. Scenes that happened between Van Richten, Roma's mentor and pseudo father figure:

Roma being brought back to life and tended to after dying

Exchanging of spells and healing/buffing during battle

Van Richten pulling Roma aside to A) break the news that he won't be here forever and B) informing Roma of his actual name all the while referring to Roma with his name rather than "boy"

Roma telling Van Richten literally everything about his life ever since he's last seen the guy

One time Roma had a screaming crying meltdown over his deal with Osybus and the whole time he was just crying about how he wants to be near VR and not Where He Was

Hunting with Van Richten one morning and asking if he can travel with VR after Barovia is over and VR begrudgingly conceding and then admitting that he has a GREENHOUSE THEY CAN VISIST!!!!!!!!!!!!

You're 19? Do you think things will get better or worse from here?

i think i will grab things by the throat and make them what they need to be

flower

twitter stuff

let's go to the tower!

a quick ez doing The Pose (TM) (her official art pose) to soothe my soul

Outfit Update! We're going into Vallaki and trying not to get hanged by High Inquisitor Maurer

Party (+ Ez and Izek!) did and infiltration mission and Ez did a charm person curse on some guards, and while it was just a curse it really did make Roma feel Some Type Of Way about it!!!!

more thoughts under the CUT

One of roma's deep core beliefs is that the world is full of Beasts, and when Beasts are hungry, they Hunt. All Beasts Hunger, without exception. When Hunting, the strong crush the weak and then then everyone who isn't strong must Struggle or Die.

It's very defeatist, and he believes in this in both a neutral and negative way, in that while he's accepted many ... systems isn't the word he'd use, but that's basically what it is, in the world operate like this, roma is still sometimes Soooo bitter about it because. he doesn't consider himself one of the Strong, and while struggling is an Option, Struggling Sucks Ass. Being Prey Sucks Ass. Being Weak Sucks Fucking Ass. And he carried SOOO much anger and bitterness about it because he Knew there weren't folks who weren't struggling and being a person who Used To Be A Part Of A Human Family, roma Knew things didn't have to be this way But They Were And No One Was Helping Him.

I dont think that anger is gone when he talks with VR, but I think that his anger is part and parcel with how much he loves VR. Roma adores VR because he has a certain understanding of how shit and hard things can be and he's SO happy VR does actions that go against the weird cycle of the world, so if VR were to abandon the morals that roma Assumed VR had and loves so much, I dont think it'd be hard for roma to key back into his anger and be So reckless about it, bc the origin of love and anger are the same thing in him

WAIT i can talk about secret character lore bc none of party is on tumblr

one thing i Do Think About is that roma's big backstory secret is tl;dr that he was a cannibal for a little while, like hunting and killing actual people, and then VR saved him and he stopped being a cannibal and awful person bc the rescue was so affecting, but recently the party came across a diary where VR was talking about. killing All The Vistani bc he was aggrieved over his dead son and inwardly roma was like :) you're not allowed to do this and then yelled at vr to not do this

but if there ever came a point where VR didn't back down on doing that i imagine that roma would spiral So Hard... like mileage may vary but roma would do his best to Be The Monster Van Richten Told Him Not To Be