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#I have loads of F&B posts in my drafts I’m just trying to clear them out
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Some Daemon/Rhaenyra things from F&B
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“Enamoured of her uncle” 🤭
“Daemon was ever attentive of her”
“He brought her some exotic gift on his return”
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“The Prince was notably cool toward her children, especially his nephews Aegon and Aemond” - He’s so real for that, love him
“Daemon spent long hours in her company, enthralling her with tales of his journeys and battles. He gave her pearls and silks and books and a jade tiara said once to have belonged to the Empress of Leng, read poems to her, dined with her, hawked with her, sailed with her, entertained her by making mock of the greens at court, the "lickspittles" fawning over Queen Alicent and her children.” - Daemyra mocking Alicent and her kids is also so real of them, because same: fuck the greens
“He praised her beauty, declaring her to be the fairest maid in all the Seven Kingdoms. Uncle and niece began to fly together almost daily, racing Syrax against Caraxes to Dragonstone and back.” - LISTEN I JUST LOVE THEM SO MUCH OKAY
“Give her to me to wife” - 😭
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“An eye for an eye, a son for a son. Lucerys shall be avenged” — DAEMON LOVES HIS STEPSONS, NO ONE WILL CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE
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si-lantro · 3 years
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Questions for OC Creators
Late to this but do I care? Certainly not! Originally inspired by @tarberrymentats​ and art is done by you absolutely know who drew this @yesjejunus​.
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A) Why are you excited about this character?
Vestalis is a unique outlet. At first it genuinely /hurts/ for me to play as her. Why does she support slavery? Why is she an eugenicist? Why does she not care for the lives of others? The BEST thing that occurred to me was questioning the need to justify her. Why do I need to bother trying align her with my own morals? There is no deeper meaning! From any and all angles, she’s a bad person! Vestalis knows what she’s doing, "Won't have moral dilemmas if you don't have any morals!" She is not me, I am not necessarily what I create, but within this enclosed game world, I vicariously breathed life to this villainous piece of shit.
// Now, for the rest of the answers I have decided to place under a cut. First because it’s tidier and second because further down will have heavier mentions of eugenics, ableism, slavery and also mentions of racism, homophobia and transphobia. Not discussions, mentions. There is nothing to discuss, those things are horrible. Do not continue if these disturb you.
B) What inspired you to create them?
When I was recommended FNV by a friend they told me of the multiple endings. I really wanted to play as a villain for once in my life. That was the only idea I had, villain. I restarted the character creation again and again, switching female, male back to female, changed the race a good couple of times too. The only certainty I had was “Yeah! I want to play a bad guy!” That was Vestalis’ root. The second step, specifically what kind of villain, was cemented because of Doc Mitchell! Here are more details regarding that. Another one that made me so sure this was going to be ‘her’ is the thought of “Hey you know what that fascist faction needed? Eugenics”
C) Did you have trouble figuring out where they fit in their own story?
Yes! I’m not much of a writer, so I mainly work with what I’ve been given with the base game for her plot. I read beforehand that a Legion playthrough will cause many companions to hate you and Vestalis cares deeply about her own reputation. However modding Boone to like a Legion Courier wouldn't make sense now would it? So I took this approach of carefully planning my playthrough, being manipulative as Vestalis herself would be :V Should she massacre Camp Forlorn Hope before or after completing Return to Sender? Took a lot of tip-toeing and load files, unlike my other more impulsive characters.
D) Have they always had the same physical appearance, or have you had to edit how they look?
Not a lot. Her main features never changed (Asian, dark short fwoofy hair, athletic build, tall, cheeky bastard vibe). What has changed about her is the shape of her jaw (now more square) and in her very first draft, as seen in The Doc Mitchell Inspiration sketch she had a beauty mark and long lashes, both now removed.
E) Are they someone you would get along with? Would they get along with you?
In a modern setting I'd definitely enjoy her sense of humour! I massively enjoy puns so maybe we can go back and forth on that. But if she accidentally blurts out any of her ableism shit I'll absolutely distance myself from her. Still Vestalis is pretty manipulative so I’ll probably be one of those who got boo hoo-ed the fool and depend on her too much. She can handle me but I cannot handle her.
F) What do you feel when you think of your OC (pride, excitement, frustration, etc)?
/with a very fond voice/ She's such a bitch. On the very first post I made of her I already said, 'she grew on me, like the tumour on Caesar'. I like making it clear to others, that she is, such, a Bitch. Not out of hatred or even mockingly, that IS who she is. Look at my bastard daughter, she's a fucking rascal, I can't believe I made her but there she is!!!
G) What trait of theirs bothers you the most?
I’ve read about the eugenics movement in the USA and that was disturbing all on its own. Is she a reflection of the same racist movement? Not really, her vault lore has accepted that limiting their gene pool only for ‘an acceptable race’ is dumb. Vestalis is ableist however, there is no getting around that one. She literally equates individuals to money, and some are assigned price tags more expensive than others.There is also the issue of homophobia and transphobia as related to the whole eugenics part. Vestalis’ favourite sister is a tokophobic lesbian who holds the same philosophy, but Peony was made not with the intent to say “Hey look! Vestalis has a lesbeabn sister tho owo!!” Vestalis is vile, I have made this clear. Hell Peony’s vile too the entire vault’s rotten. Bottomline, there are aspects of her that I myself as her creator refuse to portray. I am not what I create, and this is evident because my own belief and boundaries are different to that of my character.
H) What trait do you admire most?
Vestalis keeps this from showing externally but in her is so much arrogance. Now I don’t admire that part, but this trait came about because she’s got such a strong sense of self. Sticks and stones may break her bones but Vestalis already knows where her weakness lies and words mean absolutely nothing to her unless you were her vault caretakers. She picks her battles because she knows herself so well! Her inner superiority complex causes her to want to maintain a peak performance streak. I admire it because this bitch utilized arrogance as self-preservation tactic instead of letting it consume her. Other than that Vestalis is really enjoying her second chance in life. Just here for a laff and honestly excluding all the slavery shit what a mood.
I) Do you prefer to keep them in their canon universe?
I do have a preference in keeping her locked tight in her own canon. There are some AUs that I have dabbled in with my friends. There’s factors that I myself am bad with sharing my OCs (hell I barely show her canon) but in her particular case…. containment shield. I cannot endanger my friends’ OCs and if Vestalis appears my knee-jerk reaction is almost always please just fucking kill her it’s for your OCs’ own good. Redemption arcs for Vestalis is so rare that I’ve only had one AU with a friend covering that and it was highly emotional, then another in one of the routes in the Companion meme that I made. Not even a proper ‘redemption’ in my eyes for the latter.
J) Did you have to manipulate or exclude canon factors to allow them to create their character?
Vestalis is largely canon FNV plot compliant. I mentioned earlier that I tiptoed carefully with her playthrough. There are so many grey areas with character creation in FNV and I utilized that to the fullest. Her story is not 100% compliant though! I added plenty of Legion headcanons, tidbits here and there but the largest one I changed was the time where Lanius' entourage arrived for the Mojave conquest :V Need time to woo the Legate
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