#ilphaer

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Coming in with a second, hard right hook to offer a second submission. So that we can force him to diversify his emo portfolio within the village

so far vhaeraun has a black cat and a deep rothe villager in his animal crossing town. calling all the vhaeraun follower oc folks to make more of these critters so he can have a full town's worth.

edit 1: more cat!

edit 2: more cat(s), a wolf and a bat!

edit 3: another cat!

edit 4: some weird crocodile???

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Trying to have an adult conversation.

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Made VS sprites for my Vhaeraunites

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I would love to know more about Ilphaer - any tidbits you're willing to share that won't spoil anything you're writing?

Honestly I'm generally even willing to share spoilers. (I'm a believer that a story should be strong enough that even if you know whats coming, you should still enjoy reading getting there. At LEAST for the kind of story I'm writing.) The only thing I won't purposefully spoil are like. Character deaths. I need those to hit organically.

Except for Vhaeraun. We all know that motherfucker dies. But he's a god so it really doesn't count.

Anyway. Ilphaer! I actually have quite a few goodies to share with you, because I've been sitting on some art over the last few days (Save for one, they were mostly sketches, so this gave me an excuse to color them.)

As I've mentioned in the past, Ilphaer was born in the underdark, and originally trained up as a wizard. I think the themes of her story are two-fold. The first broader theme (And the theme a lot of characters carry, and is explored in different ways) is how absolutely suffocating and lonely she was in Lolth society, and how that lingers even after you leave.

Secondarily, however, she is the uhh. Gifted kid burn-out classic. Wizardry is, in my humble opinion, not a very subtle analogy for academia. She did the drow equivalent of "my life was 13 hours a day of studying for like 20 years and then I came out of it and didn't know what to do with myself"

But yknow. It was also survival through academia.

Her shifting into being an artificer is a reclamation of something she genuinely loves (Because she does enjoy learning and creation with magic) but allows her to approach it through a lens untainted by that past. She is someone who those associations seem to matter a lot to - She can't just forget her time in the underdark. Both good and bad things sit with her, and with equal amounts of weight, and she struggles to untangle herself from that.

She's also someone who personal identity and self-expression means a lot to, though thats something that she slowly builds on over the course of knowing Enclave for a good few hundred years.

Now. I'm still pulling together the threads about the exacts of how she joined up with Vhaeraun's church (I have an idea but I want to cook on it just a little longer before sharing), but she was absolutely involved by the time Enclave got there. She's actually planned to make her first appearance in uhhh the back end of Adjustment Period. Enclave steals her from a different Vhaeraunite group with her stoic charisma 8 charm.

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Here's a less story relevant and more just fun character thing I was working on. Something from when I felt like animating, you know, just for funsies as you do (and then crashed out because I remembered how much I <3 loathe animation.)

Some battle spites already colored and prepped up for her, with the notes of:

"Most of her sprites should look vaguely like she's dancing. When she's idle, she teeters back and forth. When she fires off a spell, the weight of her stave pushes her around, and she spins into stumbling back. When summoning her canon (Design a better canon Editors note: I did not, in fact, design a better canon), she pulls it up under foot, and then falls into sitting on it. The impression is meant to be that she looks like she's having a little too much fun throwing around as much firepower as she has, and is not taking the fight seriously."

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And finally, here's that ship art I was working on last night. No character thoughts here, just Enclave and Ilphaer bed-headed. I was thinking about them because one of my friends is rooting for them.

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Trying to get back into the swing of things.

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🚫 🍃 🍛 😥 for Ilphaer please and thank you!

🚫 PROHIBITED — does your oc drink/smoke? do they do it regularly, or is it more on occasion or for special events?

Ilphaer on and off stress smokes. It's a habit she really shouldn't do especially being part of the stealth religion, lmao, and it irritates Enclave and Enclave complains about it when she does it. (Statement of character - Not for her health, but because if they travel together the smell sticks around the area that they're in and that makes her uncomfortable.)

She drinks, but not frequently. She will get black out drunk at celebrations and festivals, though. I think she's someone that doesn't hesitate to indulge in the things that speak to her. It's just that she has a bit of self control when it comes to when she's indulging to that extent.

🍃 LEAVES FLUTTERING IN WIND — what is/was your oc's favorite subject in school?

.................. Magic school or normal school?

Magic school wise, she was an evocation girlie. Her design is meant to purposefully evoke the idea that something looked like it just blew up in her face, even in her prime wizard era. She also has a sleeper agent focus in Abjuration.

Real life schooling she'd unironically really like math. She thinks of it like puzzle solving, it's easy for her to wrap her mind around the logistics of it.

🍛 CURRY AND RICE — what does your oc's typical dinner look like? do they usually eat dinner?

She gets better about eating dinner later in life. Cooking is one of those things she comes to enjoy doing when she's not limited to mushrooms, and I do think she's good at coming up with new meals with what they have access to on any given day.

Before that, I think she'd have a pretty unreliable diet. She eats when she remembers to. Really here, emotionally she goes from having the equivalent of a redbull and handful of cashews for dinner to figuring out how to make a roast that will last over the next few days. It's her personal growth (and probably part of why she feels less like shit later in life, among OTHER THINGS.)

😥 SAD BUT RELIEVED FACE — is your oc prone to getting stressed out, or is it easy for them to keep their cool?

I think Ilphaer spends a lot of her life a little bit stressed all of the time. For the most part, she's good at coping with it (Or, more realistically, compartmentalizing it), but I think she's really bad at controlling her emotions when it's something she actually puts a lot of care and attention towards. There are a few moments in the WIP's as is where she gets up and leaves a room because someone started talking about Sabdra. I think if you know the things that would work to get under her skin, it's actually not all that hard to do. It's just figuring out what those things are.

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Dumber things have been done in the name of lesbianism. And all that.

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My dear friend, how do I begin to understand you

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It's an in-universe item btw

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First Impressions

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Sabdra sketches i did during my lecture

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Enclave 5, Ilphaer 29 for the recent ask game 👀🙇🏻‍♀️

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5. Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Will they give one, and what about?

She really doesn't like being the center of attention (It makes her more uncomfortable than scared. She can fight discomfort, but she doesn't WANT to) but get her drunk enough and she CAN make one. I think she'd actually make some pretty damn good victory speeches, and if you let her villain monologue she'd have a LOT to say in the heat of a battle.

But for the most part, at like. A feast or something? She's going to have someone with a bit more confidence in the eyes of others do that.

Ilphaer

29. What recurring dreams do they have?

I don't think she has recurring dreams, but I think she's a weird little lucid dreamer.

This is actually something I've thought about before and want to play into if I write from her POV? Plays into the fact that she's someone that so in her own head about a lot of things in a very literal sense. I don't think it's a particularly cool kind of lucid dreaming though. She's not like, controlling aspects of her dream and flying around, she's just sleeping and then suddenly very aware of her own presence within it. And go forth with the repercussions of that.

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Sketchy Elf hug board.