Community Rainey's VaMMas Special - Rainey and Friends!

Rainey's VaMMas Special!

Welcome to the seasonal event where I (Rainey) celebrate the community in a special way for the holidays.
This year I'm switching it up a little by doing a focus on six people who I have come to consider friends in real life, not just in VAM.

Each will feature Rainey and a model made by them, and a little description of how we got to talking and where we are now.

Stay tuned, starting on Sunday the 14th you'll get a new set of screenshots and fun little "about" from Rainey and her friends.
Every 2 days up until Christmas Eve will be someone new.


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See you on the 14th! ​

Day 1 - Ark1F1




I (Rainey) have been here with VAM since February 2022. The very first friend I made was @Ark1F1. He was kind from the jump and helped me out a lot!

Ark is the reason we have Elf Month in March - it was his idea in March 2022 and it’s been an annual celebration every year since with great success.
Ark is the reason I gained confidence to start being more active in the community despite being the community manager,
and was one of the main people to introduce me to so many more of you fine folks who have become real life friends.

The model in this photo is one of my very favorites of his, Phoenix, who he recently did a revamp of, so that’s who I’m using in these pictures.





Happy Day 1 of VaMMas, and thank you Ark for being my friend. <3​

Day 2 - Pogdaddy

I was in one of the other VAM servers when I saw someone talking about Vox Machina’s animation on Amazon, and helped clarify some things about the show -
I mentioned that I also liked Critical Role, an online D&D game that streamed regularly and was gaining in popularity -
and @pogdaddy, who was in that group as well, reached out to me to talk about it.



That was in April 2022. We’ve been talking ever since on nearly a daily basis. He’s a great friend and VAM mentor, and I am so grateful to be friends with him!
We’ve done a couple of collabs together (Heather, Luna’s remix, and Luthien from his Lord of the Rings project to name a few), and regularly brainstorm for more cuties.
He works really hard on making each model special, and he is truly one of my favorite people.

Even now we watch Critical Role on voice call every week with each other, which is always more fun than watching alone. <3



Featured in these photos are Luanne and Rainey; Luanne is teaching Rainey how to skate - while Luanne herself is quite talented at it!
Pog told me Luanne is one of his favorite models he’s made recently, with one of his other favorites being Talaedriel, this lovely elf whom Rainey sat by the fire with.



<3 Happy Day 2 of VaMMas, and big humungous thanks to Pog for being one of my best friends.​