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VerAthena14

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adult, they/fae, artist/animator/fic author
occasionally 18+ art/fic (will mark as 18+)
kh/twst/(tg)aa
more active on tumblr: verathena14
ao3: VerAthenaWrites
NOT SPOILER FREE (kh, twst, aa)
main ships: soriku | ⚔️⚡🦉 | ♥️♠️🍎🐺 | asbrry (not exhaustive list)

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VerAthena14

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WAIT I NEVER SHARED MY AA CAT DESIGNS HERE OMG
these are from the pwaa trilogy :3
#myart #catsattorneyau #aceattorney #aa #pwaa #aa1 #aa2 #aa3

Ace Attorney characters as Warrior Cats. Blazeheart (Phoenix Wright) is a blue-gray cat with brown eyes. His fur is spiky, especially on his scruff and his tail. He wears a red collar with a golden tag, resembling his attorney's badge. Lilacpaw (Maya Fey) is a purple-gray cat with brown eyes. Her fur is very fluffy, and has a lot of curling tufts, a common trait among the Feys. Mousekit (Pearl Fey) is a small, fluffy light brown tabby with grey eyes. She has a short tail and very large ears. Brookspirit (Mia Fey) is a dark brown tabby with blue-grey eyes and a golden earring. She has a tan-colored scarf with her attorney's badge pinned on it. She is less fluffy than Lilacpaw and Mousekit, giving her a slimmer appearance. Mistystar (Misty Fey) is a gray tabby with brown eyes. Much like Brookspirit, she is less fluffy and has a slimmer appearance than Lilacpaw and Mousekit. She has a small pale gray star on her chest, partially covered by a swirled tuft of fur.

Ace Attorney prosecutors as Warrior Cats. Winterheart (Miles Edgeworth) is a pinkish-ginger cat with gray eyes. His chest is very fluffy, and he has a dark spotted patch of fur on his shoulder. Lashtail (Franziska von Karma) is a grey colorpoint cat with a long, thin tail and grey eyes. She has blue earrings, tufted ears, and her chest fur fluffs outward rather than down like Winterheart's. Thundersnap (Manfred von Karma) is a grey colorpoint cat with blue eyes and tufted ears. His irises are very small, and he has a scar on his right shoulder that is partially covered by his chest fur, which resembles Winterheart's. There is silvery gradiation on his muzzle, eartips, tailtip, and paws to show his age. Redmask (Godot) is a pale cream cat with brown eyes, and Godot's mask covering them. He also has dark brown coloration on his tufted ears, nose, chest, toes, and short tail. There is a small scar across his face, and it peeks out slightly from beneath the mask. He has a very fluffy scruff and chest, but the rest of him is fairly slim, perhaps too much so.

Ace Attorney characters as Warrior Cats. Dahliablossom (Dahlia Hawthorne) is a calico tabby cat with brown eyes. She has much more ginger-red coloration than brown-black, and the end of her tail has a Fey-associated swirl. Irispetal (Iris Fey) is a calico tabby cat with brown eyes. She has much more brown-black coloration than ginger-red, and her markings are an exact inverse of Dahliablossom's. She, too, has a Fey-associated swirl on the end of her tail. Brightbreeze (Matt Engarde) is a brown cat with grey eyes. His chest fur is very large, resembling Engarde's large collar-lapel-things. He has a lock of fur over one eye, and a close-up on the side shows the covered eye has claw marks over it. Riverwhisper (Adrian Andrews) is a golden cat with glasses and brown eyes. She holds a card with a pink seashell on it close to her chest.

Ace Attorney Characters as Warrior Cats. Lightningpool (Damon Gant) is a calico tabby with green-blue eyes and pink sunglasses. He has a short tail. His muzzle, eartips, and paws have a silvery gradiation to show his age. Stormsky (Lana Skye) is a brown tabby with blue eyes. She has a red scarf, and her fur tufts form distinctive "chunky" shapes. Skypaw/Skydust (Ema Skye) is a brown tabby with blue-gray eyes, a pinkish-red bow, and pink glasses. Her fur forms the same "chunky" shapes as Stormsky's, and her markings are very similar to Stormsky's as well. Yarrowclaw (Angel Starr) is a pale golden-brown cat with very fluffy fur. Her eyes are grey and her ears have hoop earrings. Cactusdusk (Jake Marshall) is a dark brown tabby with olive-green eyes. He also wears a tan cowboy hat and a red bandana.

November 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM

VerAthena14

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my sweet baby my majestic girl. she is so precious
#athenaspets

OP's cat, Poppy, a shorthair tabby tortoiseshell with green eyes and a pink collar, is curled up sleeping on a gradient rainbow body pillow. It's laid lengthwise on a couch, and Poppy is pressed against the couch's cushioned back. Her paws are tucked under her chest, and she is very contented.

OP's cat, Poppy, is sitting alert on the kitchen floor. Her eyes are wide and expectant, looking at a countertop as if preparing to jump. The countertop she's trying to jump on is blurry, but shows a bit of a half-made salad: arugula and cucumber in a bowl. Poppy likes to eat arugula and other leafy greens.

OP's cat, Poppy, is sitting on OP's lap in a reclining chair. She's looking just slightly off-center of the camera, and her expression is fairly neutral. Her ears are turned back a little, signaling that she is growing bored of cuddling.

OP's cat, Poppy, is laying down on a table, and harsh yellow-orange afternoon sunlight illuminates her through a window. Her head and part of her legs are laid atop OP's drawing tablet, making it difficult for faer to draw. She is looking directly at the camera, almost in an unapologetic manner.

November 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM

VerAthena14

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behold: my cat Poppy
she is so sweet and i miss her a lot. ill get to see her on tuesday though, thank goodness

OP's cat, Poppy, a shorthair tabby tortoiseshell with green eyes. She is loafing on a fluffy rug, looking below the phone camera. Her pupils are unusually dilated for being in a fully-lit room.

Poppy is curled up inside a small cat bed with a half-roof, her head sticking out and looking up at the camera. The fur on her cheek is slightly smushed, as if she'd been curled up asleep just a few moments before.

Poppy is curled up on a blanketed chair, her back pressed against OP's thigh. She is asleep and very content.

Poppy is laying on her side on top of a table, interrupted during a self-bathing session. Her eyes are wide and pupils are dilated, making a comically shocked expression.

November 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM

VerAthena14

@verathena14.bsky.social

i may not have chosen this username because it's an aa rarepair but i felt obligated to draw some art of Them as soon as i found out LOL
[tags: #verathena #athenacykes #veramisham #aceattorney #aa #rarepair]

October 4, 2025 at 11:33 PM

VerAthena14

@verathena14.bsky.social

hurghuhrgurhgur dragons 👍
[ #asobaroryuu #baroasoryuu #ryuuasobaro #myart ]

September 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM

VerAthena14

@verathena14.bsky.social

lebsian cats,,,,,,,

[tags: #dgs #tgaa #ginasusarei #ginasusa #susagina #susarei #susahao #thegreataceattorney #myart #catsattorneyau]

Catified versions of Gina Lestrade, Susato Mikotoba, and Rei Membami. Gina is a pale ginger tabby, Susato is a black cat with medium white spotting in the shape of flowers, and Rei is a greenish-dark-gray cat. Susato is between Gina and Rei, with a surprised and blushing expression. Gina and Rei are on either side of her, each touching her cheek with their nose. Rei looks contented, and Gina looks mildly embarrassed. They are also both blushing. Behind all of them are a multitude of hearts, made in an orange-pink gradient reminiscent of the lesbian flag.

August 29, 2025 at 3:23 AM

VerAthena14

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yall aint ready for the similarities between these two

[tags: #barokvanzieks #saixkh #saixkingdomhearts #isakh #isakingdomhearts #khisa #khsaix #tgaa #kh #myart #ryunosukenaruhodo #kazumaasogi]

A sketchy minicomic of Barok van Zieks, Ryunosuke Naruhodo, and Kazuma Asogi in a modern AU. Kazuma and Ryunosuke are curled up on a couch together. Kazuma is playing Kingdom Hearts and Ryunosuke is watching. Kazuma comments that "this Saix guy" reminds him of Barok, and Barok turns around to look at them. The next panel is a screenshot of Saix from Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance. Barok squints at the image, claiming he doesn't see the similarities despite making a nearly-identical expression to that in the screenshot. Kazuma and Ryunosuke both give him deadpan stares, unamused.

August 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM

VerAthena14

@verathena14.bsky.social

tgaa2 spoilers, artistic nudity
be nice to me please, this is the first time i've drawn or posted anything like this ok
#myart #asobaroryuu

A canvas full of doodles of Ryunosuke Naruhodo, Kazuma Asogi, and Barok van Zieks. In each doodle Ryu is fat and has many freckles, Kazuma has a scar on his left eyebrow, the back of his head, and his left hand, and Barok has many scars in addition to the one on his face, including one on his left shoulder, over his heart, on his right collarbone, and one large scar across his back and down his left thigh. Ryu and Kazuma are both depicted as trans men. The first image is Ryu and Barok in a tender embrace, Ryu having thrown his arms over Barok's shoulders with a close-lipped smile. Barok has one hand at Ryu's nape and the other at his side, and is looking down at Ryu with a fond smile. The second image is Ryu and Kazuma; Kazuma is hugging Ryu from behind and burying his face in Ryu's shoulder. Ryu is looking at Kazuma with a fond, if slightly concerned, smile, and has a hand raised as if he's going to run his fingers through Kazuma's hair. The third image is of Barok and Kazuma; Kazuma is in a pseudo-piggyback ride on Barok's back, his legs wrapped around Barok's waist and his arms are holding himself up off of Barok's shoulders. Barok has his arms crossed. Kazuma has an annoyed but flustered look, and Barok looks unamused. There are little cat ears and a flicking cat tail drawn on Kazuma, indicating his catlike behavior of "wanting attention but refusing to admit it." The fourth image is of all three of them, snuggling together and sleeping. Ryu is in the middle, chest-to-chest with Kazuma, who is nestled under Ryu's chin. Barok is behind Ryu, his chest to Ryu's back, and his legs are tangled with Kazuma's. In the upper right corner, there are fullbody doodles of each of the three with different animal features; Kazuma and Barok have cat ears and tails, while Ryu has the antlers and tail of an Eastern dragon. There is an empty space in the lower right corner, where there are small amongus versions of each of the three, captioned simply with "mogus."

August 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM

VerAthena14

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i spent an unreasonable amount of time on this,,,,
"pray forgive the discourtesy of flaunting my superior and functional footwear"
#barokvanzieks #tgaa #dgs

A screenshot of a tumblr textpost thread by user manywinged. It reads "wore my thigh high boots on a walk today and we had to take a path through some long grass and while everyone else was rolling their pants into their socks and putting on jackets to protect themselves from ticks i was standing there smug as hell in my thigh high leather boots." there is a reblog by OP, reading "a hoe never gets lyme disease." the next reblog, by user perditionsflames is an image of a person leaning against a tree, with "a hoe never gets lyme disease" as a caption, but in the image Barok Van Zieks has been drawn over the original person in the image.

August 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM

VerAthena14

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legally-distinct dnd asobaroryuu be upon ye
#myart

Digital art of Ryuu Wright, a dragonborn ranger, and Kazu Adder, a tabaxi rogue, based on Ryunosuke Naruhodo and Kazuma Asogi respectively. Ryuu is a pale blue anthropomorphic Eastern dragon, with golden antlers and fluffy dark brown fur along his spine and on the tip of his tail. His eyes are brown. He wears a white undershirt, beige trousers, his blue armguard, a dark green tunic, hooded cape, and shin guards. He also has a brown fingerless glove on his right hand, a quiver of arrows, and a pouch on the belt around his waist, as well as a dagger tucked behind that belt. Kazu is based on a Japanese bobtail, having a tuxedo cat coloration in addition to small orange spots - particularly on his brow, eartips, chest, nose, tail, and fingers. He has a small nick on his left ear. He is wearing a dark gray outfit, skintight and with bold red highlights along the seams. He also has even darker fingerless gloves, and a strap around his right thigh that holds a dagger. Over his outfit is a long, dark hooded cape, held by a pin that resembles a spinning top. He has two criss-crossed belts, one holding his katana Karuma and the other a rapier. He also wears the same leather chaps as his canonical design, but is barefooted. His eyes, nose, inner ears, and finger/paw pads are a stormy gray.

A pen-and-paper drawing of Zieke van Reaperr, a Cthonic Tiefling warlock based on Barok van Zieks from The Great Ace Attorney. Pencil sketches are visible below the ink. He has horns, pointed ears, and a long, thin tail ending in an arrowhead. Zieke wears a loose shirt, ruffled at the collar and forming draping sleeves over his arms. He also wears a metal breastplate, upon which is attached a shoulder pauldron and a long cape. He is wearing fingerless gloves which attach to gauntlets on his forearms. His pants are skin-tight, resembling riding trousers, and he wears tall, knee-high heeled boots. He has many weapons on his person, including a sickle and rapier attached to the belt on his waist and two daggers on a strap around his left thigh. A note to the side indicates that he possesses a total of six daggers. The page shows a close-up of his eye, his ears - which show that he has asymmetric earrings; one of Kazu's symbol and the other with Ryuu's. Another close-up depicts his outstretched arm, showing the lacing under the gauntlets, a jagged scar on his inner right arm, and that his cape has finger loops that, when attached to a finger, form the illusion of wings. Notes also indicate that Zieke has bats that live on the underside of his cape.

August 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM

VerAthena14

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club wear sebek….. save me club wear sebek…..
#twst #sebekzigvolt #myart

A digital drawing of Sebek Zigvolt wearing his Equestrian Club Wear outfit. He is leaning backwards, one leg raised, as if off balance. He is pulling on one of his white gloves, and he looks toward the viewer with a mildly confused or surprised expression. In addition to his canon design, he also has a scar beneath his left eye and on his left eyebrow, as if he had closed his eye when the scar was made, and a spattering of green and brown scales, most of them small enough to be mistaken for freckles. There are two stars that form the image's background, one the same golden as his eyes and the other a vibrant chartreuse like the gemstone in his cravat.

July 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM

VerAthena14

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HAPPY SORIKU WEEK YALL!!!

I'm not going to be doing the daily prompts, hope thats okay 💦 cuz im working on an animatic that i hope to release by next friday

so instead of the daily prompts, each day i'll be posting a few frames from the animatic :3

December 7, 2024 at 6:14 PM

VerAthena14

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Stop! If you see this, you must post 4 of your favorite characters from 4 different series! Pass it on!

The Dorm Uniform Groovy art for Silver from Twisted Wonderland

Riku from Kingdom Hearts III, sitting on a beach at sunset

The cover of Wings of Fire: The Poison Jungle, showing Sundew

November 14, 2024 at 11:39 PM

VerAthena14

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lesbianssss <333
#silbek #silsebe #sebesil #twst #twistedwonderland

Silver and Sebek from Twisted Wonderland, but they are both presenting feminine. Both are wearing purple, black, and green sportswear, and both have ample musculature. Silver's medium-length silver hair is pulled into a high ponytail, while Sebek's long green hair is braided. Sebek also has a crocodilian tail, and scattered scales on her arms, shoulders, collarbone, and cheeks. Silver has a small gold cartilage piercing, and a dangling green sword-shaped lobe earring, as well as a small gold nostril piercing. Sebek has a small golden stud lobe piercing. Sebek has sharp black nails, like claws, and Silver has her nails painted black. Both Silver and Sebek have small scattered scars, especially on their faces and arms. A smaller picture at the bottom has Silver braiding Sebek's hair, while Sebek rants about something angrily. Silver is smiling fondly at Sebek, just listening.

November 7, 2024 at 2:03 AM

VerAthena14

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love is just a currency so take my pockets, take me home
take my life and take my soul
wrap me in a wedding ring
you know i swear i'd give you anything...
#soriku

October 26, 2024 at 3:46 AM

VerAthena14

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silbek almost kissing meme.... save me silbek almost kissing meme....

The Almost Kissing Meme by number11train, drawn with Silver and Sebek from Twisted-Wonderland.
Right before: Silver cradles Sebek's face, only inches apart. Sebek looks surprised. Both are blushing.
Not on the lips: Silver is leaning against Sebek's shoulder, and Sebek is holding a book. Sebek kisses Silver's head, unaware that Silver has just woken up.
Interrupted: Silver and Sebek, both disheveled and with their shirts unbuttoned partially, shove each other away with blushing, mortified expressions. Lilia has just appeared upside down between them, and is grinning, since he has not yet realized what he's interrupting.
Refused: Silver, wearing only a towel around his waist, throws his arms around Sebek's shoulders and is trying to kiss him. Sebek, embarrassed, is pressing a finger against Silver's lips, explaining that Silver smells like coffee and that they're in the public locker rooms.
False alarm: Silver has his training sword at Sebek's throat, holding his wrist and pinning him against a wall. Both of them are disheveled and blushing. Silver says "I win." Both of them are thinking "just kiss me you idiot." A note at the bottom indicates that no kissing took place.
Wrong atmosphere: Silver and Sebek are both crying, and Sebek holds Silver's face as he passionately reassures his friend. Simple drawings of Athena/Yuu and Grim stare blankly at them, and Athena/Yuu suggests that maybe they shouldn't be observing this.
Losing courage: Sebek cradles a sleeping Silver, pining and debating kissing him. He decides not to, convinced that Silver would not appreciate the thoughts he's having.
"This is good enough": Silver and Sebek cuddle together in bed, both blushing slightly and tightly embraced beneath the covers.

October 26, 2024 at 2:50 AM

VerAthena14

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i got one more! it's not colored yet but i figured i should still include the sketch

October 24, 2024 at 11:20 PM

VerAthena14

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i was drawing this during a class and the whole time i was just thinking "they don't know im drawing disney anime boys" lmaoooo

October 24, 2024 at 11:19 PM

VerAthena14

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made this animation for a multi-animator-project! the theme was fire/chaos, and i kinda associate riddle with fire bc of his dorm uniform card (and his overblot in book 1 is definitely chaotic lol)