#DND: Stapes

[twisharkocs]

For the ask meme! Objects 3 - Stapes, Weather and Nature 7 - Raina, Community and Relationships 10 - Fall, Mind Body and Soul 15 - Magpie

Anything bat or skeleton related, but death imagery in general is their vibe. Stapes would absoloutely adore those anatomically incorrect skeletons that come out around halloween. probably collects them.

Raina cannot read a map to save their life. Them being incapable of this spawned from my ability to walk off of cliffs on pm every map where this is possible due to my lack of paying attention.

10) Is there a habit your character has that they learned from someone else?

No doodle for this one as tablet is having connectivity issues atm (need to replace the cable for it haha). Fall has her mothers habit of dancing whilst using a mop or broom. If its quiet you may catch her dancing but she tries to avoid doing it around customers as it can be akin to a bull in a china shop, as the saying goes.

Magpies sleep routine is very basic. Try to prevent hair knotting overnight, dress in her jimjams, attempt to suffocate her co-WOL with bunny ears whilst absorbing the absoloute heat he gives off (Theo is @thirstykateyes)

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[twilishark]

My sleeping pattern is fucked so I'm spending the nights away finally doing update reference sheets.

First up is stapes, my changeling bard of spirits from the strand campaign I'm in.

[twisharkocs]

Which of your characters has changed the most from how you’d originally imagined them to be? What was the biggest change?

Ive spent a few days thinking about this and went through them all trying to think about who this would be, initial thoughts of garret came to mind but then realised the OC that changed the most is Stapes....in a sense (more info below)

Stapes in their original form is not the changeling you're used to from strahd but rather, they were a mute grim reaper antagonist from a stor idea that me and Aaid have.

They kept the souls of those they reaped and used music to puppeteer both them and the dead into doing the bidding of their boss, The Wisp King.

Their was no real rhyme or reason to what they did. They're a rogue reaper, having disposed of their ferryman and just amassing an army for Wisp. Nothing they did was for money, not for fame, they do what they do for fun. Nothing more and nothing less.

A scene that lives rent free in my mind from this story is the two protags (Connor and Nial) coming to apprehend Stapes at an underground club they were DJing at. Only to realise too late its a trap, that the bodies dancing around them are corpses, one of which is the former partner/love interest of Nial.

Vs Strahd campaign Stapes

Strahd stapes is a different creature. Rather than a rogue reaper we have a changeling bard with a taste of necromancy. Instead of someone who fucks with the dead for naught more than fun, we have someone who does it for a reason....even if that reason is conning rich people.

ST!Stapes is less evil and more neutral, a little more sarcastic, comedically neurotic, doesn't want to help unless they get something out of it.

This stapes is more likely to perform with spirits in a haunting orchestral set where as original stapes will use the corpse of your dead lover to kill you to drum and bass

[twisharkocs]

I have been thinking of the idea of human/modern au stapes and the make up ritual they go through each morning to be their skull self

The concept of them over sleeping and opening the door, no make up, hair down, no binder on and unnerving whoever it is at the door.

[twisharkocs]

HELLO what would pat, a modern stapes, and a third oc of your choice wear to Pride?

Pats not overly keep of big crowds so i feel like they'd more than likely turn up with their twin sister (au dependant) Nessa! I feel he'd go for something that gives him gender euphoria when not binding (its hot out) so tends to go for rompers. 1000000% flustered because he was flirted with.

Nessa probably helped dress them and has spent the entirety of pride flirting with butch women. and by flirting i mean...welll...making a tit of herself.

Ignore the fact i gave up on forearms here

Stapes is the goth DJ who does an afterparty at a gay club. Does not attend pride. Keeps doing metal remixes of abba songs. Keeps throwing drinks at people who keep trying to flirt with them. Has ginger undercut because secret ginger,.

[twilishark]

seance/ˈseɪɒns,ˈseɪɒ̃s,ˈseɪɑːns/

noun

a meeting at which people attempt to make contact with the dead, especially through the agency of a medium.

draw stapes normally challenge: failed

[twilishark]

stapes/ˈsteɪpiːz/

noun

stapes

a small stirrup-shaped bone in the middle ear, transmitting vibrations from the incus to the inner ear.

[twilishark]

my mind is occupied with the thought that whilst Stapes is the only member of the strahd party who can’t do shit healing wise, they could very well be the only person who can provide a backing track to do CPR to and i think thats something special

[twilishark]

I think my favourite thing about playing a changling bard is probably that i don’t have to think too hard about what I picture their voice to be when singing as its everything

I get to think about the preference of style instead and stapes being college of spirits makes that even more fun 

[twilishark]

playing a changeling just means using your other PCs as disguises they already have All of these bar the Lost are PCs/NPCs from my own campaign or ones i play/have played with The Lost being Stapes human disguise 

[twilishark]

@misskhep : only correct way to make a DND character in Strahd. Mine was too serious so I made her a mouse.

Youre so iconic for this, yoyr lil lady makes me wanna draw her and stapes as a bat in cute outfits

[twilishark]

@trollybazoo

i would die for Stapes

and they would let you 

because they don’t know how to heal people mostly

but you’d get to be part of their ghost orchestra for tormenting the dnd equivalent of elon musk so its not all bad 

[twilishark]

Let me tell you about my changeling for the Strahd campaign i’m in:

I love them