I thought there was a parallel between Teresa's era Irene and Clare's era Irene in her appearances but those panels are only slightly similar; so here, have these two vaguely linked images

Claymore manga First image: Chapter 18 Second image: Chapter 38

Got some art done by the amazing @slackergami themself!

One of my favorite characters from the anime / manga Claymore :3 Irene / Ilena.

In Her Dreams They Were Monsters Ch 12

It’s been a minute, but in this chapter, another warrior emerges, and Irene and Teresa come to an understanding.

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Irene coming in clutch to assist Clare against Ophelia after being assumed dead for so many years is and always will be one of the greatest manga plot twists in history.

Another aesthetic I’d die for? More likely than you think

ok but when will your fav cut off their only arm to aid the protagonist???? that’s what i thought

on my annual claymore rewatch marathon rn and who could forget the queen herself, sonic the hedgehog quicksword irene

just a quick portrait sketch because i couldn’t think of a good pose ;;

Priscilla was even better at suppressing yoma aura than Rafaela. To be fair, Rafaela had been a warrior of an older generation and used to yoki release. It's not known if Priscilla even released her yoma aura before.

Priscilla could stand behind Teresa and not know she was there.

Teresa could track down Rafaela's faint aura in the forest.

Rafaela couldn't track Ilena until she started using her Quicksword again.

I saw a bunch of people doing the Composite OC thing and wanted in, so here’s mine. From the top left:

Waver Velvet (Fate/Zero)

Alan Richard (Trails in the Sky)

Misaki Kirihara (Darker than Black)

Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars)

Eleanor Varrot (Valkyria Chronicles)

Roy Mustang (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Laurent (Fire Emblem: Awakening)

Kiritsugu Emiya (Fate/Zero)

Quicksword Ilena (Claymore)

Cassandra Pentaghast (Dragon Age)

Nobuchika Ginoza (Psycho-Pass)

Zero (Code Geass)

Rather the mixed bag, but when all of them are tossed together the result is Valerian Ashe, my new OC. Since I have no talent for art, I’ll describe them instead. Ashe is somewhere in their late twenties to early thirties, with glasses because that’s my type and dark hair that’s on the messy side. At one point they served in the military, and they still have a penchant for dressing like an officer, in long coats and dark colors. In combat Ashe relies primarily on a sword, using iaijutsu (quick-draw) techniques, but only once other avenues of negotiation have been exhausted.

Ashe is articulate in conversation but tends toward bluntness, lacking the patience for dancing around the point. With most people, they are stoic and guarded. Their closest and most important relationship was with their former mentor. Both shared a strong commitment to the principle of justice, but the two of them went their separate ways some time ago due to philosophical differences: Ashe thought that even questionable actions in pursuit of a greater good were justified, while their mentor disagreed. Though Ashe still has great respect for their former mentor, they remain firm in the conviction that their view is the right one.

In Her Dreams They Were Monsters CH 11

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In this chapter, Irene and Teresa have a difference of opinions.

Wow, rewatching the Claymore anime, and I’ve got a specific thought I’d like to share...

So first off...I’m going to put these thoughts under a Read More line, because I got some shit to say. Secondly, spoilers, ok? Third, this is going to be mostly about just the anime, so if you’re here for anything about the manga, you’re in the wrong place, I’m just going to rant about the anime for a bit. 

So basically...Raki...Oh my fucking gods, you are so fucking useless. You did absolutely nothing throughout the entire series and I honestly just wish you hadn’t been there. Or if you remained, that it had been under different circumstances. If you had been removed, and Claire had overcome her almost-Awakening in the Cathedral all on her, own, I feel like it would have been much more indicative of her character’s strength of will and potential. I feel like you had no place in the series really...Even after the Cathedral, Raki does...Nothing...He’s useless and pathetic, and I just...Ugh...If he had gone north and run into Isley to legitimately train as a swordsman from like...The second or third episode, even fucking that would have been a dozen plus times better than what Raki did during the anime...And just think about how great that would have made the rest of the series...

Claire reverts to human form in the cathedral of her own strength, proving her willpower and potential as a warrior, rather than relying on a worthless character.

Claire managing to fend off Ophelia until the Awakened Being shows up and then runs away on her own because she’s not stupid enough to stick around.

After Ilena, she tries to avoid the Organization while she searches for information on Priscilla, and to gain strength as a warrior rather than looking for Raki.

After she gets caught by Rafaela, she heads north because of the information on Priscilla given to her by Rubel, with Jean in tow. They’re girlfriends, and we don’t have to deal with any of the painful-to-witness Claire x Raki bs.

Raki gets training from Isley because Priscilla takes a liking to him and Isley decides to keep him, and Raki develops a small crush on his teacher or even on Priscilla, which gives him some much more solid emotional development other than the absurd “I’m scared of Claire now and am going to continue being pathetic and useless until the end of this show.”

The ending happens as normal, except for the moment when Claire finally turns the tides on Priscilla, and Jean is the one to step in and stop Claire instead, on the pretense of she will not be able to revert from Awakened Form once she goes through with it, just like Priscilla did against Teresa before her. Having stepped in to save Claire, Jean lives, because I just think Jean is so good for Claire, they deserve eachother...And Raki scoops Priscilla up and takes her away...And fuck, that even sets up alot of the stuff for after the timeskip in the manga as well...

Also let’s just pretend Windcutter Flora lived and ran off into the mountains to live with Ilena as quicksword girlfriends please.

I just feel like Raki alone actually fucked up alot of the potential the anime had, and I would honestly have zero complaints about the adaptation as a whole if things had been different. Because let’s be real, Raki is only there for exposition, and for an attempt at emotional depth that kinda falls flat when considering how utterly pointless and cringe-inducing his presence is. He makes ZERO legitimate impact on the story, and it’s a bit of a shame to see...

i love me some quicksword ilena/irene

till they fucking killed her