#switching hildegard's default weapon from sword to spear + amy's default weapon from dagger to sword might be one of the best decisions i'v | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

musicat9 · 2 days ago

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thinking about my octopath ocs and. man. how did amarynn end up going from the extremely loose base concept of 'a thief character who doesn't have as terrible of experiences with the fellow thieves from their past as either of the canon thieves' to this. liar girl who is defined by her bonds with others. who trusts almost no one but would literally die for those she does trust. girl who exists to protect. would do anything to save those she cares about (and/or desperately denies caring about) because she cannot stand to imagine what existing without them would be like. not just a knife in the dark but a shield in broad daylight. a knife in the dark so she still has people to shield in broad daylight. to the point where half her chapters revolve around protecting/saving people and the main plot mcguffin in her story is literally a shield. which she steals from a friend but still goes back to protect that same friend herself anyway. she may have lied her way into it but she's still the one with the tournament arc, signed on as a support fighter to aid and protect her chosen companion. loyal con artist indeed

#✨🔩✨#there's a reason amarynn's the one with the befriend path action. is what i'm saying #switching hildegard's default weapon from sword to spear + amy's default weapon from dagger to sword might be one of the best decisions i'v #made for either of them actually. for both visual design and what other characterization spiraled out of it #amarynn with her fake friendly front she presents people with that isn't actually as fake as she thinks it is #swords are larger + more dangerous than daggers but paradoxically seem safer bc they're harder to hide. and see? she's not hiding anything #but also the classic pairing of swords + shields + how that relates to amarynn as a protector even though she tries to deny it +#pretend her protectiveness is as fake as her smile. she's just looking out for herself. nothing more #and hildegard a common mercenary with a commoner's weapon #learned to fight by picking up whatever sharp thing was on hand to protect herself + her brother #growing into the role only to turn around years later and realize no one sees the woman she is anymore. just the spear #not even her brother. who she hasn't spoken to in years bc she's been too busy traveling + fighting #but hildegard could have a whole other post of her own. this is an amarynn post #but seriously between piper leaving the church in his ch1 to chase revenge + oliver being a stagehand + amarynn's whole. *gestures at post*#i would not be surprised if i shared all my oc stuff + people thought i was deliberately trying to make them all as far away from the typic #*typical image of their jobs as possible. which i wasn't. but i do really like the characters i've ended up with #oh and can't forget cassius + tiphania whose base character concepts were literally 'what if a guy like one of the canon merchants' ch1 bos #*bosses was the protagonist + had to learn to be a better person over the course of his story' and 'what if apothecary but not selfless. wh #*what if she had a deeply selfish reason for her journey actually'#well cassius's is less different from merchants in general + more different from the octopath merchants specifically #which was the point of him. but still #wow this was a longer tag ramble than planned. might as well namedrop olympia + teo for completion's sake at this point #i should probably like. make a post actually properly introducing them all at some point #but some of them/their stories are more developed than others + i'd feel bad not having as much for the less developed ones #maybe i could just give the briefest summaries of what each of them/the starting points of their stories are about #but then that runs into the opposite problem of How in the World do i condense piper's whole deal into a few short sentences??#anyway hey have i mentioned i have ocs

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