#actually i think my last post about Caleb's cha roleplay was one of my first to get more than like 10 notes

[astrid-beck]

It's fucking crazy that Caleb has trent's ring of telepathy (oh my god a trophy, a trophy of his voice that you took from him, using his means of getting in your head etc etc) but it's even more nuts that the way I became aware of this is that he uses it to to make an intimidation check against a fucking betrayer god

[shoeboxgoblin]

I'm thinking about Orly’s stat tattoos, or stattoos, if you will, and I wanted to brainstorm tattoo ideas for the boys and Yasha for the following reasons:

Statistical Optimization

Aesthetics

Boredom

Because I felt like it

Anyways my ideas are under the cut

Fjord was the easiest, because he should obviously pick the ruby dust for strength (which would bump his modifier up to +2!) For his design I discovered that there's a commonly used symbol of the Wildmother that’s representative of her as a goddess of the sea. It's a swirly wave often depicted on a seashell. It looks like this:

And I think that it would be dope as hell if Fjord got something like this done. it could represent his gratitude towards the Wildmother or his commitment to her? idk if hes ready for that at this particular point in his journey but i can see it making sense somewhere down the road. Plus the red of the Ruby dust would match the red accents on his armor so you know. Consistent color theming. He'd probably get it like on his bicep because that's both a traditional location for a sailor tat and a location that makes sense for strength enhancing magic.

Second easiest was Yasha. Both her stat line and her design. If she got a tattoo done in Emerald dust, it would boost her dexterity modifier to +3, and give her the AC boost she so desperately needs (they should also get her those sick bracers she commissioned like forever ago) I thought about giving her a wis or cha bonus too because Yikes, but as a barbarian, mechanically dex is gonna matter more than either of those things. the green of the emerald also lends itself to my idea for Yasha’s design: I think she could get either a peacock feather, some flowers, or even both, as a way to honor the important people shes lost. She could get it pretty much anywhere but I think it would look cool like on her collarbone. I really think Yasha would like the opportunity to honor Molly or Zualla in this way.

After that was Caduceus. Caduceus's only uneven stat is his int, which is at a 9. Though I'm pretty sure Taliesin has no interest in raising Caddy's int score, for roleplay reasons, mechanically it would actually help him out a lot, by bumping his religion, nature, and investigation checks up by one, and getting rid of his negative modifier to int saves. so Caduceus could, in theory, bump his int score up to average by choosing the sapphire dust. (He would still be the least intelligent member of the nein, with Yasha and Jester tied for second at 12) if he did choose to do that, conveniently, because of his shaved sides, Cad actually has a lot of real estate on his head, where an int based tattoo would probably be located, and I would picture it as being something like the swirly designs he already has carved into the hair there.

Last was Caleb. Liam O'Brien said that Caleb hates tattoos but my personal enthusiasm for aesthetics and character optimization outweighs that at this particular moment. For Caleb I picked out the fire opal dust that would give him fire resistance. Pricey, but this is a post that exists in hypothetical, so that doesn't matter. I picked this because its thematic, and because Caleb doesn’t have any uneven stats. I've seen lots of art posts where Caleb gets half sleeves to cover up his scars, and I think that might be pretty cool actually. Also I like the idea of Caleb making the conscious choice to reclaim a part of his body that feels like it doesn't quite belong to him, and using that to protect himself and possibly his friends from something he fears. For the design I was really self indulgent and based it on my headcanon that Find Familiar was the first spell Caleb taught himself when he was fresh out of the asylum, and that casting it reminded him that he had agency over his life and his magic. so I decided to give him the Sylvan text of the spell wrapping around his arm in a spiral. Also because I think that would look cool as hell.

Anyways if anyone else has thoughts or ideas I would love to hear them!