#legion
Buddy of mine is hosting a fallout themed Aggie! Come on over and draw your courier or whoever, fallout only please!!
Morning drawing times with @tnnineand@trip-o-trips and a bunch of others (Lemme know who else made it!) group drawing is very fun y’all.
The Ascent of Caesar Malpaís- The Fort, 2277
After the successful campaign at Hoover Dam under his guidance, The Malpaís Legate made the decision to relinquish Caesar of his title. It was not swift and he did not go quiet. This portrait was painted only hours after the event. The skull was found among the first Caesar’s belongings.
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I was really influenced by @periculum-dulce. Her Caesar Inculta piece really cemented the idea of just killing Caesar and replacing him with Joshua, I also really love her use of color reds and golds ahhh❤️
Decanus Iulius Valerious is a horrible spy, he’s actually been banned from going to the strip ever again. He still finds a way tho. Just my legion oc still working out the kinks lol.
There is a neon devil that slumbers in Zion, have you heard of the burned man?
Decanus Valerious is 24 and a fucking mess. No one really understands how he rose to the position of decanus but underneath his aloof, relaxed persona lies a bag of anxiety. His girlfriend is a vault dweller named Cherry who travels as a merchant. She supplies him with sunset sasparillas, the occasional cigarette and a lot of lovin’. They engage in very bad rp when she is captured by his men and brought in for “punishment” two of his men are onto their relationship but keep quiet.
He’s from old Mexico originally , is a red head and refuses to get a buzz cut. He’s 6’3, unironically a himbo and enjoys being read to. His time running a small camp allows him a lot of alone time in his office that he uses to his advantage. For a legionnaire he’s quite polite to profligates as long as they don’t stick around for too long. His favorite words are shit and Fuck. Hadrian, the prime legionary that gets assigned to Valerious’s camp is dead set on exposing his “degeneracy” jokes on him, Valerious’s men are fiercely loyal to their leader and pay no mind.
Come with me to the other side
anyway it’s monday afternoon and i’m mentally checked out at work so here are some more legionthoughts.
dan stevens brings this boyish, desperate vulnerability to the role of david haller that is often missing from the source material, from what i’ve seen. i don’t think he receives nearly enough serious critical appreciation his work in legion, and i feel like his acting is a kind of afterthought in analyses of the show. but adapting a comic book character from one-dimensionality into the four-dimensional fever dream that is legionis so, so impressive and hugely undervalued.
for example, his heel turn is deeply convincing despite some pretty weak writing in much of season 3; dan makes the audience buy it through the sheer force of his personality. he is so compelling, so terribly convincing in all his manic rages, depressive episodes, and naive puppy love. he feels like an actual person you take a journey with, and it’s heartbreaking to watch him gain ground and backslide repeatedly. when he fucks up, it’s hard to watch because you want him to succeed–even when he’s become a monster you almost want to protest, but this really isn’t him. which is, of course, the thematic center of the show.
you’re forced to empathize with his cruel, selfish, immature man and that empathy humanizes him so it’s more difficult to actively cheer for his demise like we do with more typical antagonists. some of this success is indeed in the writing; credit where it is due. but dan brought this character to life in a way that i doubt others could have, because he didn’t prejudge the material. it wasn’t “this is a comics thing so let’s take it less seriously.” watching dan act in legion is like watching a man fight for his survival, and if the show has any reputation a decade from now it should be for that. and, perhaps, as an argument for the artistic value of these stories.
