For Day 6 of The Heart of Aphrodite – The Vast / Self-Sacrifice / Indulgence. Azu bowing before her goddess.

[Image ID: A coloured digital drawing of Azu from Rusty Quill Gaming kneeling in front of Aphrodite. Azu is a brown-skinned orc woman. She has her left knee down in Aphrodite’s palm and her right knee up. Her shoulders and torso bend forward and her head is low, though up to suggest she is looking at Aphrodite. Azu wears pink armour and has her back towards the viewpoint. Aphrodite faces the viewpoint. She has brown skin and a human form, but is much larger than Azu, who is in her cupped hands. Her features are fine, and we focus on her eyes, which are pink and look down at Azu placidly. Blue, pink, purple and green highlights dance on Aphrodite’s skin and hair, which is coily and dark. The background is dark purple. /end ID]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Rusty Quill Gaming (Podcast) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hamid Saleh Haroun al-Tahan & Azu Characters: Azu (Rusty Quill Gaming), Hamid Saleh Haroun al-Tahan Additional Tags: Cuddling, Sharing a Bed, Literal Sleeping Together, Queerplatonic Relationships, Hurt/Comfort, Drabble, Drabble and a Half, The Heart of Aphrodite | Azu Fan Week (Rusty Quill Gaming) Series: Part 2 of Rhiro’s Heart of Aphrodite 2021

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Rusty Quill Gaming (Podcast) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Azu (Rusty Quill Gaming), Sasha Racket Additional Tags: Betrayal, Drabble, Blue Veins (Rusty Quill Gaming), The Heart of Aphrodite | Azu Fan Week (Rusty Quill Gaming), Angst Series: Part 3 of Rhiro’s Heart of Aphrodite 2021

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Rusty Quill Gaming (Podcast) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Azu/Sasha Racket Characters: Azu (Rusty Quill Gaming), Sasha Racket Additional Tags: Self-Sacrifice, Angst, Character Death, Drabble, The Heart of Aphrodite | Azu Fan Week (Rusty Quill Gaming) Series: Part 5 of Rhiro’s Heart of Aphrodite 2021

The End!

Happy Valentines to those who celebrate it, happy Azu week to everyone and all. Thank you so much for participating or reading or commenting, thank you again to @snakewife for our beautiful blog header art.. There will still be posts coming up in the feed from folk responding to prompts in their own time, but we’re very grateful to everyone and so very happy to see so much love for Azu. You’re all delightful.

Until next year,

Aphrodite loves you.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Rusty Quill Gaming (Podcast) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Aphrodite/Azu (Rusty Quill Gaming) Characters: Azu (Rusty Quill Gaming), Aphrodite (Rusty Quill Gaming) Additional Tags: [check ao3 pls, snipped for tumblr purity], Pre-Canon, The Heart of Aphrodite | Azu Fan Week (Rusty Quill Gaming) Series: Part 7 of The Heart of Aphrodite 2021 Summary:

Azu gets a visit the night after she takes her vows at the temple.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Rusty Quill Gaming (Podcast) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Azu & Grizzop drik Acht Amsterdam, Azu (Rusty Quill Gaming) & Everyone Characters: Azu (Rusty Quill Gaming), Grizzop drik Acht Amsterdam Additional Tags: Conversations, Friendship, Love, Religion, Grief/Mourning, Ghosts, Episode 182 - The Garden of Yerlik, The Heart of Aphrodite | Azu Fan Week (Rusty Quill Gaming), Paladins Summary:

There’s a weight on her shoulders, a scent of, well, whatever it is Grizzop smelled like.

For The Heart of Aphrodite Azu Fan Week, day 7: Dedication and Loyalty

For Day 5 of The Heart of Aphrodite (am behind) – Vengeance Azu, wrecking the factory after finding out about the hostages (and taking a pause to angry-cry).

[Image ID: a coloured digital drawing of Azu from Rusty Quill Gaming. Azu is a brown-skinned orc woman wearing pink armour. She is holding her pink axe close to her chest. She has one broken tusk and a scar over her left eyebrow. She is backlit with low light as well as the pink glow of her armour. She is surrounded by broken and intact pipes which she is pausing in the midst of breaking. Her mouth is open and contorted, and tears stream from her eyes. /end ID]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Rusty Quill Gaming (Podcast) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Aphrodite/Azu (Rusty Quill Gaming) Characters: Azu (Rusty Quill Gaming), Aphrodite (Rusty Quill Gaming) Additional Tags: [check ao3 pls, snipped for tumblr purity], Pre-Canon, The Heart of Aphrodite | Azu Fan Week (Rusty Quill Gaming) Series: Part 7 of The Heart of Aphrodite 2021 Summary:

Azu gets a visit the night after she takes her vows at the temple.

I missed Heart of Aphrodite Day 4 because of a bad headache yesterday but I have really wanted to draw this. So here’s Friendship – with Zop, of course!

[Image ID: A coloured digital drawing of Azu (left) and Grizzop (right) from Rusty Quill Gaming. Azu is an orcish woman in pink amour with hearts on the breastplate and pauldrons. She wears a pink tunic underneath. She is smiling up at Grizzop, who is sitting on her left shoulder. He has his right elbow propped on her head, and he has his head resting against his right hand. His left hand is resting on his right leg, with his foot up on his left knee. He wears knee-high boots, a breastplate with the Artemis insignia, and a hooded jacket. his red eyes are looking down at Azu, and we can see his incisors. Grizzop is coloured lightly and some of Azu’s colouring peeks through. The background is purple, with blue and purple shadows and highlights to suggest foliage. There is dappled sunlight and shade on Azu and Grizzop. /end ID]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Rusty Quill Gaming (Podcast) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Aphrodite & Azu (Rusty Quill Gaming) Characters: Azu (Rusty Quill Gaming), Aphrodite (Rusty Quill Gaming), Background & Cameo Characters Additional Tags: Afterlife, Temporary Character Death, Gods, Friendship Series: Part 6 of The Heart of Aphrodite 2021 Summary:

Azu finds out what’s waiting for her, at the proper end of things.

Day 6!

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Rusty Quill Gaming (Podcast) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Azu/Grizzop drik Acht Amsterdam, Azu & Grizzop drik Acht Amsterdam Characters: Azu (Rusty Quill Gaming), Grizzop drik Acht Amsterdam Additional Tags: Drabble, Double Drabble, Kissing, First Kiss, Practice Kissing, Platonic Kissing, Fluff Series: Part 4 of Flammen’s Azu Week Summary:

Grizzop has a question for Azu, Azu has an offer for Grizzop.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Rusty Quill Gaming (Podcast) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Azu & Zolf Smith Characters: Azu (Rusty Quill Gaming), Zolf Smith Additional Tags: Drabble, Angst, Betrayal, Implied/Referenced Character Death Series: Part 3 of Flammen’s Azu Week

Azu is one of my most favourite characters in any RPG podcasts ever, I love her SO MUCH. So I really wanted to write something for The Heart of Aphrodite Azu Fanweek, and this prompt fit well with the prompt for Day 12 of Febuwhump. So here it is!

Prompt: “Who are you?” (Febuwhump) / Restraint - Revenge – Rage (Azu Fan Week) Fandom/Series:  Rusty Quill Gaming Characters: Azu + mentions of the rest of LOLOMG Pairing: - Rating: T Length: 2,584 words Summary: Azu feels just a little bit lost after the events at Shoin’s palace. She wanders around Cel’s village and finds someone who seems just as lost as her. Warnings: lots of mentions of character death and revenge; mentions of murder and childhood trauma; grieving; emotional hurt/comfort

“Don’t you want revenge, too?” Naria frowns.

“Yes. Maybe? I’m not sure.” Azu takes a deep breath. Of course she has thought about revenge. Has thought about returning to Rome and wreaking havoc on whatever stands in her way, screaming out her pain and laying waste to the place that took her friends. But she also knows it wouldn’t help, not really. Sometimes, satisfaction can be found in the knowledge that someone who has perpetrated evil can no longer do so and is gone forever. But this? They cannot fight time, or fate itself, or an actual god, for that matter. Her fury would only serve to damage herself and do nothing to bring back those she has lost.

“Revenge isn’t as easy as killing and moving on,” she says eventually. “Sometimes it works and makes you feel better. Sometimes, killing does not bring you any satisfaction, just makes things worse. Sometimes, there’s nothing to kill.”

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Rusty Quill Gaming (Podcast) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Aphrodite & Azu (Rusty Quill Gaming) Characters: Azu (Rusty Quill Gaming), Aphrodite (Rusty Quill Gaming) Additional Tags: Anger, Betrayal, Confrontations, Gods Series: Part 5 of The Heart of Aphrodite 2021 Summary:

Azu confronts her goddess about Rome.

Day 5: Rage