#(well... not abandoned- its repurposed as a game for my ocs)

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[OLD ART: APRIL 17 thru MAY 5, 2022]

hell yeah (last 2 pics are a sequence from a dream i had at the time lol)

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Vera: Witch of Identity and Introspection

Finally got around to making a witch OC! I had gotten an OC designed by Lati Oni (https://bsky.app/profile/lati-oni.bsky.social) which I named Vera (Veh Ruh, short for Veronica), and she kinda became a bit of a self insert (though has her own self indulgent lore as well). During my second Umineko read-through, when I saw some others had repurposed old OCs for Umineko OCs, I finally figured out what to do for a witch OC! Actually got Lati to design an outfit for Vera to fit in with the fashion of the other witches, and probably went overboard writing a little bit kbdbkfbkd.

Between writing this excerpt and posting, I actually finished that read-through and my partner has finished their first read-through and are starting with the Higurashi vods! So I also wanted to add an additional thank you for creating an accessible entry point for the When They Cry series (again, I don't think I ever would've engaged with the series due to the reputation the Deen anime gave it and my proverbial weak stomach), and with performances of such quality to boot! I also met some cool people and made some more friends here so an additional thank you for fostering such a lovely community! But that's enough rambling, onto the OC Lore™©®!

...is what I would say if I hadn't written 6 paragraphs lyclhckchjh. Condensed version: Vera, Witch of Identity and Introspection, was once furniture. She found herself trapped in a logic error by a transphobic witch, and only by looking deep into the pieces and reinterpreting them was she able to escape. She helped Kaida solve her logic error, Indigo acknowledged her core through the gameboard, and now Vera and Kaida travel the sea of fragments together, being very gay all the while.

Full lore under the cut

(CW: transphobia)

Formerly one piece of a pair of furniture, Vera ascended to the status of witch. Using various spells, she can shift her own appearance at will, but tends to settle on an average height woman with fox features. Her first summoner originally hadn't intended to summon her, and had ignored her for a long time, but found her to be a source of comfort after she became exhausted from the other part of the pair, one that she has since discarded due to the damage it was doing to her and others close to her.

As furniture, Vera specialized in creating and recreating identities. If a gameboard called for a disguise, she was one of the best at it. However she would try to only lend her skills to witches that wrote their tales charitably towards those who needed disguises. The one time she didn't, she found herself just as trapped as the gameboard's culprit was. 

There was a string of logic there, but one she would never acknowledge for it was a cruel one to anyone like her. The witch who summoned her abandoned that game shortly after Vera found herself deep in its inner workings and refused to help further, too deep to be able to leave. Forced to sit with this tale, she looked deeper into the pieces, probably deeper than that witch ever had, and found something she recognized. Whether these were pieces the witch had crafted or borrowed from another board, they clearly hadn't been loved enough to be fully understood. It is from there that she took this gameboard and began to tweak a few things. The culprit remained the same, but the motive, how other pieces treated her, and her actions differed. The other pieces, she had found, had other aspects that were never explored; relationships, personas, and identies that had never been considered by the witch. One of these was a piece by the name of Kaida, a relic of a game written before Vera was involved. 

It took some time, but it was through this reconstruction that she found more of herself. She found an opponent, that same witch that abandoned the game, and challenged her to solve it. The witch was taken aback by the gall of this 'furniture', thinking 'he' could take her game and make it 'his' own? Despite it originally being her gameboard, the witch failed to solve Vera's rework. She didn't truly engage with the heart of board, scoffed at these reinterpretations, leaving her clueless to what truly happened and why. Vera, disappointed but unsurprised at this outcome, went to find more opponents. She searched and many opponents didn't engage fully with her board, always failing. That is, until she came across Indigo. Due to her circumstances, she too could easily see to the heart of the game and the core of these pieces. 

Delighted that someone had been able to solve her board, she created another, and another, and another, exploring the different possibilities for these pieces identities. One by one, her newfound opponent solved each one, with her acknowledging Vera's core each time. She became excited that someone could acknowledge her as she acknowledged the possibilities for these pieces, so she set out to find more who could understand.

Now she has been acknowledged by several witches, she continues to travel the sea of fragments with the promoted piece Kaida, the Witch of Heart, looking for other witches to acknowledge not only her pieces, but herself. Surely the owner of a certain catbox would understand.