Would You Kindly...

I raised an eyebrow as he threw scraps and rubble into the air, pulling forth a black high hat smothered in dust. He  batted away the soot and turned my way, flashing a broad grin as he bowed and slipped the hat over his head.
“You’re late for tea, Alice. Surely we wouldn’t want to keep the March Hare waiting!”

This is probably one of my top favorite LyAlice pictures done because Lyal is so adorkably cute. Ignore the lame little writing I did up there, er er.

…”It’s not that, miss Edahsra.” He limped to my side, his thin lips a rigid line. “I’d like to ask about this.”

He raised a finger and lightly prodded a cracked fingernail into my forehead, close to a small, round scar resting above my right eyebrow. I stumbled backwards, almost flinching at the contact. McDougal stood there, stunned, but quickly masked it over with a coarse sneer.

“Fourteen years and still touchy about it, I see.”

Small excerpt from Gunners of the Wastes, Chapter Two

Story and characters (c) Holly Martin

Helen was born on January 18, 79 PN (Post-Nuclear) to Lauren Brigsby, a single mother. While growing up, Helen often questioned Lauren about her father, but was always met with silence. However, as is custom for all children born within the republic’s borders, Helen was pulled away from her mother at eight years old and placed into the Orleans Defense Training Program. Blindfolded, she and the other children were delivered to unknown territory within the republic, where they spent the next six years training to become hardened soldiers dedicated to protecting their isolated home. They learned to survive on their own for months to come, blend into the ever-changing environment, and disguise explosives as everyday products. Of the 120 children that were brought into the program, 105 graduated; the ones that failed were exiled out into the wasteland, their eyes and tongue removed as to never reveal the actions held within the land. At age fifteen, Helen and the rest of the graduates were able to return home, where Helen was surprised to learn that her mother had given birth to a son, Thomas.

Three months after coming home, Helen was deployed to the borders of the republic to hold back invading forces from the Iron Brigade, an army bent on unleashing anarchy into the Old States. During her two-year campaign, Helen took a round to the shoulder and the bullet bore a small depression into her shoulder blade. Upon being granted temporary leave for her injury, Lauren confronted her daughter at their home and told the truth about her father and the dark ‘tradition’ of the republic: every year, the leader of the republic, Samuel Roper, and three other men would individually select a number of women and impregnate them, as their genes were shown to be worthy of creating children, and that Samuel Roper was Helen’s father.

When Lauren revealed the truth to Helen, her loyalty towards the republic quickly shattered. She turned away from her fellow comrades and friends out of disgust that any or all could be her sibling. She began to contemplate killing Samuel with various plots, ranging from poisoning his food to shooting him at point-blank range. On her eighteenth birthday, Oswald Kohl, one of the men seen as ‘worthy’, picked her to be one of his mates and dragged her to the brothel. She fought with every step, clawing at his hands and eyes in hopes of escaping. Finally Oswald snapped, throwing her to the floor and forcing himself upon her body. Helen’s disgust shifted into rage and she grabbed Oswald’s knife and thrust it into his throat before stabbing him over forty times in the torso. Minutes spread into hours before realization struck Helen and she fled home. With their life in the republic over and Thomas already sent off to the ODTP, Helen and Lauren snuck miles across the land until they managed to step foot into the Old States. They found shelter and assistance from a settlement in Missouri, where they were, to their surprised, taken in. This lasted for three years, until the settlement was caught in the middle of a conflict between the Crossers and the Iron Brigade. Helen guided who she could into a building for shelter, but an explosion from the Irons caused the roof to collapse upon the survivors, Helen included. While she emerged with scrapes and a fractured arm, Lauren and the others were crushed by the support beams, their lives hanging by a thread. As Helen struggled to free her family and friends from the debris, she caught a glimpse of the Crossers leaving the battlefield and screamed for help, but none came to her aid. Defeated and exhausted, Helen remained at her mother’s side until they passed away some time later, then simply walked away from the scene, her mind plagued with revenge against the Crossers. She now works for a freelance mercenary corporation stationed in Delaware.

UHHH okay so I did another character bio wow. This here is Helen Brigsby, an antagonist from GotW. Uh.

Art (c) Ivy Stark, character (c) Holly Martin

This is the main villain of my story,The Hangman. It is unknown where he came from, or if he has an actual name, and is wanted for the murders of over 90 people. The first known sighting of his crimes came in June of 80 PN (Post-Nuclear), when twenty-five colonists from Brollen’s Grove, a settlement in the mid-west, were found murdered in a single night, all hanging from elevated platforms and missing their uvulas. The uvulas are removed because it is the valve that controls the flow of breath, and therefore life; as it controls life, so does he. He is labeled as an “omnivore killer”, meaning he has no preference to his victims, and after every fifth kill, he leaves a list stitched into the body, containing the names of his past murders. Wherever he travels, he is known to be carrying a gray rat with him at all times, and it is rumored the rodent is the only living thing he truly cares for.

EDIT: I’m keeping this so damn short because there is literally nothing much to say about him, er er. My other bios will be longer than this, okay? Okay.

Art by Ivy Stark, Character (c) Holly Martin

artsythangs:

Commission for Holly, ACEOs of some of the characters from her story Gunners of the Wastes. I hope you like them 8U!

ACEO commissions are open!

watercolors, gouage, colored pencil and ballpoint pen

AHHHHHHHHHHH AFGFDHDSFDSFJGFSDSDAF *dies*

You are awesome, thank you thank you THANK YOU!

So I get bored and think up cast members who I think would be perfect for my stories, should they ever be made into a film or whatnot. For my current project, Gunners of the Wastes, I picked the cast for the villains. Be warned this is gonna be a long-ish post.

Rudolf Martin as The Hangman, a wanted serial killer in the post-apocalyptic Old States. He is the most wanted man to the Crossers, a force that protects the land from harm. I loved him as Ari Haswari in NCIS, pretty much the best villain from the series.

Christopher Meloni as Alexander Wright, an ex-Crosser turned second-in-command to the Iron Brigade, an army that seeks to destroy the Crossers and control the Old States. Though I’m not a fan of Law and Order SVU, I did enjoy seeing Meloni’s acting from time to time.

Adam Baldwin as Ivanhoe Hellser, Commander of the Iron Brigade and second most wanted man to the Crossers. He is highly intelligent, and despite the Crosser’s attempts to apprehend him, he is always one step ahead. I fell in love with his character from Firefly and knew this dude would make a cool bad guy okay.

Sophia Myles as Helen Brigsby, another ex-Crosser turned mercenary. After an ambush that left her mother mortally wounded and abandoned by the Crossers, Helen turned her weapon against the force.

Kate Nauta as The March Hare, a chainsaw-wielding killer in the Old States alongside her partner, the Mad Hatter.

And last but not least, Hugh Laurie as The Mad Hatter, another chainsaw-wielding killer in the Old States. I don’t have that much info on these two yet, sadly.

Okay I’m done.

This music goes so well with Gunners I don’t even