Love Burns Bright (Sif/Iris art exhibit + more Sif Lore)


Behold my master piece!
This series of drawing has been in the works since… awhile, and I’m very glad to finally be able to show it to you all. Many hours of my time have gone into this, and I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do.

Content Warning: Kissing! Smooching even!
Sif Trivia
  • Sif has a habit of staring at people to study their ability in combat. This wouldn’t pose too much of a problem… if he didn’t constantly do it while just sitting in a tavern.
  • Due to Sif’s unique bone structure (ie: arcanium bones,) his hair also has some interesting properties. Mainly that it regrows at what Commodore Kai has dubbed, a ludicrous rate.
    • Several Naval barbers have tried and failed to get his hair into regulation.
  • As stated in his lore post, Sif wanted to be a Light-Singer (a light mage specializing in telling stories.) While this was in fact his own desire, it was slightly influenced by the fact that Sif is a legacy of Apollo.
  • Sif when pushed into a moment of extreme stress will… break for lack of a better term. Note this isn’t some edgy “oh I’m evil now” type of transformation, instead it’s a dissociation from himself. Basically due to how he was trained by Agamemnon, Sif’s instinctual style of fight (what he knows by rote and is written into his muscle memory) is incredibly brutal and not suitable for use against those without curses. When in this state that is what Sif uses regardless of who he’s actually fighting. The first time this happened it was against the Jaws Pirates at Redwake, and Sif was horrified by the results.
    • Later on he gives this trance-like state the name of Achilles.
      • Further note Achilles is not a personality, but a state of mind where Sif’s conscious thought and conscience is suppressed leaving only the battle instincts that Agamemnon forced onto him.
  • The reason Sif gained the title Achilles during the Psychopomp Initiative, is because of the “Final Exam” as Agamemnon called. Where all the subjects who were considered for the initiative were thrown into a pit fight with only the four remaining being crowned the winners. Sif was the only one of the four who came out of it unscathed.
  • Sif’s favorite food is Ravennan spanakopita
    • Sif also has a ridiculous tolerance for spice
  • Agamemnon played a Ravennan lullaby during the Psychopomp’s training, and Sif will occasionally hum it subconsciously.
  • Sif has terrible nightmares where he relives the emotions and pain of his time with the Psychopomps, and often hears the screams of those he killed during his time as a living weapon.
  • Sif has a branding on the back of his neck in the shape of the Order’s symbol, placed there by Agamemnon.
    • This has given him a fear of burns, something that became relevant when he fought Iris.
  • Sif while working as Achilles was responsible for the murder of the Acid Curse holder, one Mamoru Shura late daimyo of the Ryujin Dynasty.
    • Mamoru Shura is/was Shura’s father. However Shura doesn’t know that Sif was the one who killed his father.
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Is your user “GalleonThief” by any chance?

No actually, I’m actually not affiliated with the Church of Iris in any capicity

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I like the trivia. I know a lot of thinking went into that :ok_hand:

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What did i just witness…
Great art nontheless, along with the trivia, i suppose.

yo what? Agamemnon? Trojan War? huh.

Had to google what spanakopita was…interesting.

Agamemnon is this dude
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I go into more detail about him in this post: Agamemnon

Also yes Spanakopita is interesting and delicious.

oh i see, i wasn’t aware of the lore.

Yeah I’ve written a bunch about Sif, I’m hoping to one day make a full lore doc, but I don’t know if I’ll do that before or after I finish writing his backstory fic.

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nah, they won’t

this is so cute!

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i was sad while doing dishes and i became even sadder

Good : )

Why? If I may ask

Down Cataclysmic

Y’know you never see these kinds of comments, when people do oc x Morden or Edward. Or maybe you do I don’t actually know, just feel there’s something of a stigma against oc x Iris.

correct me if im wrong but i dont think you really see either of those ships
but yeah there is sort of a stigma against just iris in general

Pog! :open_mouth:

I’ve definitely seen Edward x oc, mostly in doodle threads, and there are a few fics on AO3 which are Morden x oc. Interestingly there’s very few reader or oc x Iris content in both the forums and Ao3. So yeah, I guess it’s just a stigma against Iris.

Long essay about the nature of fandom puritanism, and oc x canon shipping

I imagine this is because of the church of Iris painting all Iris fans as a bunch of grass hating degens. Which is unfortunate, because there are a lot of people who enjoy Iris as a character who aren’t degenerates (myself for example.) Honestly, while I enjoy Iris’s design on an aesthetic level, I have no serious desire to try and court her affections in game.

However, I enjoy her character and interactions with the MC enough to write stories where my version of the MC and Iris are in a relationship. Sif is not me, and I am not Sif his feelings are not mine. Therefore one cannot call me down bad, for I am simply creating fiction detached from my feelings.

Overall, one should be able to post oc x canon on the forums without being seen as “down bad” or “a degenerate.” It literally doesn’t matter, because of someone does go too far, then the mods handle it. Until then it serves no purpose trying to suppress or stigmatize this type of content.

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