#lyra the half-elven rogue

[karamore-aesthetic]

ㅤㅤㅤㅤTHE HEROES OF KARAMORE

xadom - paladin. tiefling. mercenary. born to the blackrock mining camps, escaped on the ships alongside his kind. has no recollection of any of this - no idea if he has any living family. joined the group at the request of cassidy conley, as an escort to investigate aron's fort. stuck around, because the looming threat urged him to help. keeps kaide's rock-poops in a bag for a variety of uses.

lyra - elf. sorcoress. unknowing princess. rescued as a baby when her kingdom was in the midst of falling, brought in by king gallen for Nefarious reasons ; sent out by Kyena to learn magic, found the rest of the team & decided the motley crew was the only place a little lost elf could fit in. she's hersha's favorite.

kaide - goliath. barbarian. nomad. lost her family & her homeland when the cataclysm hit. ventured across the world, gathering stories & making her own. she imprinted on the team, & now they're all her friends. they get no choice. they really don't mind that.

elijah - half-elf aasimar. cleric. depressed bitch. his human mother was trying to bring him to the elven kingdom, hoping his noble father would give elijah a better life than she could offer ; aforementioned noble father set out a raid party after her, as he didn't want his bastard child becoming known to the world. elijah carries her faith & her memory. he joined the team because he won't admit it, but he's alone & terrified.

vidarr - human. rogue. troublemaking punk. he's out here looking for adventure, striving to make the world safer for his dog back home. except someone else just saw him over in halluet? and someone else just saw him in etos ?? what is going on with him ,, ?

[theinvulnerabletide]

25 OC questions: 2, 9, 14, 10, 25 for Lyra

2.) What is a notablequite from Lyra, or their favorite quote?

Awheck. It’s been a while since I played as her, I can barely remember anythingshe’s said. Maybe “It’s called the Emerald Forest” to our ranger during our firstpathfinder game while we were looking for the answer to a riddle and it wasliterally right in front of his face. Or maybe “Magic is a crutch.Shouldn’t get to used to it, less it starts using you instead.”

Herfavorite quote though would be from Six of Crows: “When everyone knowsyou’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”

Shemay have a little Kaz in her. :P

9.)Who, for better or worse has had the most impact on Lyra’s life?

Hm. YoungLyra that would be Blackthorne. He built her a world and then he destroyed it.I think… hm. Adult Lyra’s might be Arannis? He’s been a friend to her fornearly 30 years now– or Lucien as her constant companion and first made. Oneof those three.

10.)What is the most badass thing this character has ever done?

SaveArannis from the mouth of a ramohaz? Or nearly singlehandedly kill aOblex. Though honestly, it’s probably getting back out of hell after going in after the demon that had been sending her nightmares, and not leaving anyone behind. 

14.)What is Lyra’s relationship with religion or the church?

It’snot that she doesn’t believe? In fact, she makes proper offerings to the Twinsand to Miren whenever they stop at a city large enough to have a temple, justin case. She just doesn’t have much use for it as a whole. Praying didn’t saveher mother, or stop Blackthorne from killing her friends. It didn’t stop ademon from haunting her nightmares. Near as she can tell they never gave heranything either. 

She’sgot nothing against them as a concept, but she’s got better things to do thanspend a few hours a week thanking them for shit she won in her own right.

25.)What does Lyra mean to you?

Lyrawas the second character I ever made, and I put a LOT of time into her and intoher backstory, first for a Pathfinder game that fell apart after a year, andthen for a 5e game… that also eventually dissolved. Which is a shame. I did a lotto flesh Lyra out—even started building her a system of slang (which I am now incorporatinginto other projects so it’s not a complete loss) and not getting to go throughand experience her whole journey is something I don’t think I’ll ever get over,though my DM has been kind enough to let me play her in one shots, and to bringher back as a semi-recurrent PC in our game.

Andat the very least, I know she has her happy ending. Sailing through the skieson the Star Song with her crew, making a haven for people like her, despite hernightmares, despite all her scars. She gives me hope.

[magneticmage]

More fic drabbles;

Rune watched the golden fire dance across Wyll's fingertips, "Pretty. But you do know most tieflings are fire-resistant, right?"

The warlock chuckled, cupping his lover's cheek with his hand and drawing him closer, "Hurting you is the last thing I'd want to do right now."

Rune smiled and closed his eyes, leaning forward as he savored the precious moments of anticipation before a kiss.

Instead, he got hit in the head with an empty mug.

Growling and turning away from the enchanting man before him, the tiefling druid growled at his twin sister, Lucine, from where she sat beside Shadowheart. She rolled her eyes at him, "Get a room! You've got the coin for it and I don't want to watch you two play lovers all night."

His brow twitched as he saw Shadowheart's lips quirk to keep from smiling. Then he grinned and waved a hand towards his sister. The vines that sprouted from between the tavern's wooden plank flooring beneath her quickly bound the two women together. Above their protests, he chuckled and wrapped an arm around Wyll's shoulders, "Sister, dearest, you really should find a playmate of your own. And I'm sure our lovely fellow cleric, Shadowheart here, would be more than happy to oblige you this fine evening. Now, come, Wyll, we have lots of ale to drink and things to do!"

As the two wandered off, the vines were quickly cut with a sharp sword. Lucine swore like a sailor as it nicked her fingers, "Careful! I need those!"

"Debatable," responded Roan. The human fighter sheathed his longsword and waved a hand in dismissal, "Now, stop, causing a scene and get some rest. Faenerys says we're leaving in the morning."

"Oh? And where is our lovely elven wizard at this time of night?" Gayle questioned from where he leaned against the surprisingly broad shoulders of Sable, their resident drow warlock. The mute man simply nodded his head in agreement, fingers dancing through the air to echo the question.

Roan sighed and ran a hand through his shaggy auburn locks, fingers curling into a fist and tugging at them irritable, "She said something about going out for a swim. Apparently, she wasn't comfortable here in the inn for whatever reason."

Lucine giggled, "Oh, no, Astarion's gone off as well. Such a shame if he were to catch her, isn't it?"

Roan scowled, "That's not funny, Lucy."

The tiefling cleric shrugged and stretched her arms as she brushed the last of the leaves from her hair, "It's very funny, actually. Because we all know Astarion is very good at sucking things, faces especially. And hers just so happens to be his favorite, it seems."

"Still can't believe they get along," Roan sighed, "Then again, I'm sure that could be said for the rest of us, as well."

Lucine shrugged, "Yes, well, brood later, I think Lae'zel wants your undivided attention, my friend."

There was the faintest brush of pink to his cheeks as the warrior turned around to stammer out a polite, if somewhat awkward, greeting towards the githyanki woman. She handed him a drink and motioned him off for some privacy.

It did not take long before the last two couples also headed off for their own evening's privacy. Left alone at the table at last, Lyran sighed and downed the last of their drink. They would never understand why people danced around their attractions like these people did, then again they had never experienced such a thing and had no desire to. The only things they wanted in life was to remove these damned tadpoles and then return to Baldur's Gate to continue living their life of crime and increase their hoard of shiny valuable objects. And yet at every turn, fate-and their companions-seemed to delay their plans again and again. It wasn’t enough to quite drive the half-elf mad, but it certainly came close several times, especially lately.

Still, at least it was quieter now.

The sound of a lute string snapping made them whip their head around with a menacing glare and a dagger flashing in their hand.

Saga gave the rogue an apologetic smile in the only way the halfling bard could to not get their face punctured. Then again, she was also the only one who could get away with cooling the grumpy temper Lyran often held about them. She held out her lute, "Would you mind re-stringing this for me, Lyra? Then I'll play that elvish lullaby you like."

"It's Lyran, today." They replied and moved closer to let her feel the coarse leather of their tunic, different from the soft silk of their feminine days and the layers of fur during their in-between days. "See?"

"Right," The halfling woman nodded, her dark curls bobbing about her eyes. The scars across them was still as red and disfiguring as it had been since they had barely escaped from that hellish prison. "Sorry, this is the first time I've touched you today."

"It's fine." They assured her, brushing aside some curls to press a chaste kiss to her forehead, "You don't quite have the same benefits as everyone else to tell which I'm feeling that day. And you're usually much to polite to ask."

"Usually, I stick to Lyre, but I heard someone mention something about a half-elven woman in blue and white silks earlier, so I assumed...."

"They were talking about some else, little Muse." Lyran handed back the lute, "Here you are. If I fall asleep-"

"You always do."

"Yes, but if I fall asleep, wake me in an hour, so my back's not killing me in the morning." They informed her, settling down comfortably with their head in her lap and bundled warmly in their cloak.

"Of course, Lyran." Saga promised, "I always do."

The magical melody had them in a fast and dreamless sleep in moments.

[jannaphia]

Trying out some new techniques on this lil painting for @omniaadastra ♥

So here’s Lyra, our resident rogue who carries the whole party on her small half-elven shoulders because everyone else is p much useless ✌️

[queerdilf]

My own speculation, subject to change in the future, from left to right:

1. Travis- Tiefling Warlock- Everyone is saying this is Tal, and while that’s totally plausible, I actually stand by the fact that this is Travis. I was also briefly thinking this was Sam in an attempt to have him playing a more serious character, but more on that later. I don’t think Tal would play a tiefling in this campaign, they’re generally too edgy, and Tal said he wanted to try something new. Travis on the other hand, totally wants to play a smart character, that’s just a fact. First off, tieflings automatically get a few cantrips, so already he’s handling spells which is different than before, and since I’m pretty sure that baby’s a warlock or paladin, I’m more tempted to go with warlock because I can see Travis playing an almost Percy-esque character this time around, an egg head with issues, which hypes me up.

2. Marisha- Human Monk- My first reaction to this was Laura, honestly, cuz I felt Laura trying a more physical class would be a cool change and also I wanted to see her taking on a Ray from Star Wars type character, but the more I thought about it, the more likely it was that this is actually Marisha. Marish is a very “Let’s fuckin’ go!” type player, quick to action, excitable and powerful. I think monk would be super cool to see Marisha explore. I myself am not very familiar with monk mechanics, as my least favorite of the classes, but I love the idea of Marisha playing this rough and tumble, knock me down get back up again type character, and I also like the idea of Marisha playing a semi religious character.  I also bounced Ashley around in this spot because of reasons I’ll get to later. 

3. Sam- Human Fighter-  Okay, when thinking about this one, I at first was approaching this like Sam was making the character, and I thought he’d want to maybe play something a little more serious, and I automatically went to the tiefling on the far left. Then, people began saying he was the small one, which also makes sense, he likes being small, but then I remembered a crucial detail. Sam isn’t making the character, Liam is. I actually saw a post on here, I cannot take credit for this viewpoint, but I don’t remember who gave me the idea, but it said that since last time Liam gave Sam the “lamest” combo, this time around, its likely he’ll try to theme it like that again and give him the most “boring” combo. It seems everyone and their mother is playing a human fighter and it would be interesting to see what Sam does with something so generic. Could also be a paladin or half- orc (cuz its mega tall and idk I could just also see paladin), but then that doesn’t really support the “boring” theory.

4. Liam- Human Bard- First things first, I automatically thought Liam when I came to this one, the outline looks so much like him in my opinion, but I’ll break down better reasoning for this one. First, evidence for the bard, you can see the tip of an instrument sticking out from the person’s back, and the boots just remind me of a bard. Now, I also think this is Liam for a better reason. I personally think Liam just wants to play something light and funny. No Raven Queen, no impending time clock, just song parodies and dick jokes. Also, I think since he told Sam to play a bard, he wants to give it a try now. Could also be a half- orc, giving another look at the ear areas, but that I feel is unlikely. As someone who plays a human bard, I’m obviously super excited for this one, oh my gosh I’m shaking just thinking about it.

5. Taliesin- Kobold Rogue- This one actually has some good reasoning behind it. Taliesin has gone on record saying he wants to play something totally different this time around, and I think this would be a really cool combo in order to do so. Taliesin also stated in the PAX Unplugged interview that his character would be the most likely to use the cantrip “massage”, which I feel just fits for this little monster type character. The other option for race is halfling, but I feel like Tal of all people would probably be the one to just play the out there member of this party, I feel like he’ll continue to play with races or classes outside the core PHB and try something weird and see what happens. (Also, I’ve been imagining him playing a small, weasely rat of a character for months now and it’s all I want)

6. Laura- Tiefling Cleric- So first off, Laura had talked about wanting to play a cleric before, which is mega exciting, because I honestly think she’ll make such a good healer, she has such good group instincts. This character is like a weird mix of Zhara and Lyra and I really am excited for her design. I remember Laura absolutely falling in love with Zhara and tieflings, so I can see her using one now, and I feel like Laura’s Kobalds and Catacombs character was a bit of a trial run for this one’s personality. I like the idea of this character being like a “you are more than your blood” type character and totally defying all tiefling stereotypes and becoming a sweetie pie cleric 

7. Ashley- Elf Barbarian- I’ve been bouncing back and forth on this one all night, and I’m still not totally 100% on this one, but hear me out. For player, it could be any of the girls. St first I felt Marisha cuz it looked vaguely like her and I had this idea of her playing a caster to say "Fuck you" to all her haters, however you'll see in a moment why I changed who was playing this character once I changed my idea of which class the character was. For race, it could really be anything, I just feel like she has an elven body type. For class, it could also be anything. I at first was bouncing around some kind of caster, then someone brought up barbarian, druid and ranger came up, necromancer was the one I found super likely, but the one I’m going with is barbarian for one reason. Ashley always wanted Pike to be physically stronger. This is the reason I actually toyed around with Ash being the monk for a little while, because she always wanted Pike to be physically strong. She was always saying she wanted Pike to be a “monstah”, and now she gets the chance to be. 

Sidenote: This actually was taking into account that some of the cast may play other genders,  I just matched the characters with what I felt best fit and it just so happened all the characters seem to present themselves in correspondence with the stereotypical body language of the gender said players identify as. Trust me, I play guys all the time in dnd, I totally understand playing as other genders, I just feel these fit the best for each person.

Thanks to @lupinsfurrylittleproblem for helping me talk through this list!

[feywildheart]

Sybilshitposting’s Characters.

Just in case anyone’s interested in the characters I play/want to play, I’ve made a list here. Feel free to ask about them, or…hell, anything, please just talk to my lonely ass

Kharaa Khurdan: Druid X (5), Land (Grassland), Centaur, Outlander, Neutral Good, Dragon’s Revolt. 14/12/12/10/18/12 + War Caster Feat.

Sporting striking black hair and dark tan skin, Kharaa heralds from the steppes far from King Azelstan's reach, bordering a great mountain range, thick forest, and bountiful lake within the Que-Kiyn (Kay-Keen) tribe. During one particularly horrible attack from what they called "Planesraiders" many of the centaurs, herself included, were displaced around the land via the chaotic magicks that the Planesraiders use, with no way to return. Now, she begrudgingly seeks the help of other races in Stohion to find a way to halt the invasions for good, and bolster her home's defenses should such an attack happen in the future. If she can bring antimagicks and abjuring spells, she will consider herself successful. Her journey lead her to a world of steel, smog and fire, where she has become distraught, empathising with the dying world’s aura of pain. Her motivation has not changed, but now wishes to return magic and life to a dead world, doing whatever necessary to restore natural harmony.

Nylah Al-Tazi: Bard 3 (X) Warlock 0 (3) Lore & Archfey/Tome, Half-Elf (Desert), Acolyte, Chaotic Good, Ocean of Sand campaign. 8/14/14/12/12/18 + Actor feat, Combat controller and support, Out of Combat illusionist, spy and party face. Born to Delasia, an elven Maiden of Shaeyna and an unknown human client in Penrith, Nylah was raised from birth under the roof of her mother’s goddess, and learned everything she had to offer, leading to her finding her identity as one of the Maidens, something that she had wanted to do, and simultaneously cast off her assigned gender at birth as male. In her early years of maidenhood, she learned the many arts that maidens were notorious for, with music and the Tanbur calling to her the most, showing great talent for musical prowess, magic and the gift of speech, training as a bard to further her goddesses dogma and the tasks, jobs and reputation that a Maiden of Shaeyna is responsible for carrying on her shoulders. Her most recent trip took her to a dwarven mountain town on the edge of a barren desert, where a wealthy elven noble, Lord Varnelis, has hired her and a handful of adventurers to expand into the desert through airship shanty towns, where Nylah hopes to share Shaeyna’s love and care to denisens, and demonstrate the resourcefulness and trickster nature that people overlook in the Maidens.

Kinsy Merrim: Bard 3 (1) Wizard X (5) Lore & Illusion, Forest Gnome, Harper Agent, Chaotic Good, Adventure League. 8/14/10/18/12/14 + Observant feat Combat control and deception. Out of Combat trickster, comic relief, and voice of reason.

Kinsy, a gnome with short, messy brown hair and freckled complexion, was raised in Mistledale within the Great Dale in a small community of Forest Gnomes, She is a sweet little gnome who absolutely refuses to swear, not one to adhere to the laws of the land just because they are laws, but prefers to ensure that people around her are happy and safe, regardless of what rules might say. As by Merrim family tradition, she sought to become a maker of magical items and spells, but the Harpers had other plans, especially after Kinsy had showed a great deal of cunning, cleverness, care and positivity, using her illusions and tricks to keep fights from breaking out, or weigh the odds in her favour. Under Harper training, she sought towards the city of Neverwinter, under the guise of training at the Neverwinter Academy as an illusionist and transmuter, all while aiming to keep her eyes and ears open on what the new Lord Protector, Dagult Neverember, plans to do with his control of the city, more so after being dismantled as Open Lord of Waterdeep. She has also been told to keep an eye on the newly ‘elected’ lord of Nightstone, a paladin of Bane, god of fear and tyranny, who has passively mentioned overthrowing other lords and exploit the civilians for personal gain. She is accompanied by a small owl familiar she refers to as “Zippt.”

Sybil Embermane: Druid 3 (0) Ranger X (5), Hunter & Land (Grassland), Wood elf, Outlander, Neutral Good, unused. 10/16/13/12/16/8 + Mobile Feat. Combat Area Control and Ranged support, Out of Combat survivalist, scout and herbalist.

Sybil, with auburn hair and unfeminine build, was raised and trained as a druid by a splinter faction of the Tel’Quessir hoping to restore the lands that had been damaged and lost to the Elves in generations past when they were annexed for the sake of war, now, her nomadic tribe hopes to survive, living off of the forests of Faerun, cutting down those who would wish to harm ancestral grounds, be they human, dwarven or goblinoid. Sybil had been given a task by her tribe to explore Faerun on her own to understand the hardships that isolation and distrust can bring.

Theresa Webber: Rogue 2 (X) Warlock 0 (1-2), Swashbuckler & Fey, Half-Elf (sun) Sailor background, Chaotic Neutral, unused. 10/16/14/8/12/16. Combat assassin/off tank, 1v1er. Out of combat sass, stealth, party face. Theresa has had the adventurer's blood in her veins since she was young, born to a seafaring sorcerer mother and the elven captain of the “Emerald Sun”, who had raised her into a life of harsh conditions, where no town was her home for longer than a week, leading to the growth of an adventurous, clever and reliable soul who saw others who didn’t live similar lives on the deck as dull and unfortunate. Her bias towards them meant that she wasn’t hesitant to scam them out of their money, or use her elven blood to her advantage. In her teen years, she grew more and more facinated with Sirens and the tales of luring men to their deaths, and hoped to imitate this in her own manner, where she took up the rapier, her own cunning words, and the allure her father had given her through his blood.

Eirthi Bannithlarn: Cleric 1 Wizard X (4), Knowledge & Divination, Moon Elf, Acolyte, Lawful Neutral, unused. 8/16/12/16/13/10 + Lucky Feat. Combat Area Control and Debuff oriented, Out of Combat Scryer, Knowedge buff and judge of character.

Bald, clever and lanky, Eirthi had a strong affinity for study, language and the future, even claiming she had clear images of possible future occurrences in her trances, and had thought that everyone had said images. She was handed over to, and taught by a temple of Ioun after some of the Acolytes had heard about her ability, and hoped to hone them, and excelled in historical, multi-lingual, arcane and religious studies as a Wizard. As she furthered her study, she began to spend more and more time consulting and learning from the acolytes in hopes to enhance her natural ability with the help of the Goddess of Prophesy. In her time in the temple, she has been commissioned by a great many people for readings, translation, and education, but one such commission has gone sour, and the acolyte of Ioun predicts that things are likely to worsen. Saheera: Warlock X (5), Fey & Tome, Fey’ri (Elf equivalent of tiefling) Guild Artisan, Chaotic Neutral, unused. 8/14/12/11/13/18 + Actor Feat. Combat ranged dps and debuff oriented. Out of Combat Party Face, Spy and Disguiser. With a natural lure towards beauty and perfection, Saheera saw her outwards appearance as something she sought to move past to be seen as socially accepted. Unfortunately, she wasn’t given the pleasure, and, in spite working as a tailor for a guild for noble goods and services, she still was scorned and hated, which slowly turned her towards a mutual distrust and spite. Her quest for normality and riches lead her to Yseult, a Sprite of the Unseelie court, who saw this curious individual as a puppet to use for her mischief and desire to break order and the norm. Granting her powers of deception and beguile, Saheera took the form of a High Elf to hide her demonic appearance of smokey skin and jet black hair to that of golden hair and skin like sunlight, to woo the hearts of unsuspecting folk, and since then, has not regretted her decision to work with Yseult.

Rebeka Remora: Cleric 1 Bard X (4), Life & Lore, Half Sun Elf, Acolyte, Chaotic Good, unused. 8/14/10/12/16/16 + Inspiring Leader feat. Combat Healer, buff and control oriented. Out of Combat Party face, skiller and negotiator. Orphaned at a young age as an unwanted birth, a temple of lliira lead by a Half Elf by the name of Lyra Varson along with other acolytes, took in said unwanted births and began to raise them as acolytes to the Joybringer. Rebeka, born with striking black hair and the gorgeous golden skin of her Elven bloodline, had a strong affinity for music and healing, be it physical, magical, mental or emotional, using her talents to care for those who had come for refuge in the temple and aiding in group prayer with the calm sounds of either a harp or flute, equally adapt and capable with both. She is of gentle nature, but Lyra feels that her sheltered life could be bettered by travel, asking her to leave the temple under the guise of a “quest” to spread the teachings she has been given through her music, and to heal those in need of aid. 

[theinvulnerabletide]

OC Ask Meme: wardrobe, poison, contact (Whisper); microscope, mixtape, hobby (Oriana); photo album, ufo, interiors (Celandine); fragrance, parachute, psyche (Lyra); conspiracy theory, shooting star (Maggie); lighting, love note, chess board, wild card (any)

Alright, this got super long so the answers are under the cut!

Whisper:

Wardrobe:What is your OC’s style like?

It’s kind of hard to describe; Whisper tries not to beas loud and clashy as, say, Ignatius, but after living with a carnival foralmost seven years, it is hard for her not to be a little bold. Far from themore simple, elegant style she started with. Bright, jewel-tone colors that compliment and play off the color of her skin,complicated embroidery, statement jewelry pieces on her ears, around her neck,and wrists and horns and tail. But while it is bold and eye catching, it is allpainstakingly coordinated, so it’s visually interesting but not exhausting tolook at. She loves cute dresses with diaphanous layers, or travelling breaches andblouses so tight they might as well be a leotard, stuff she can move in, or runin, as needed. Even when she tries to dress simply, there’s plenty of embroideryor an innovative cut to her clothes.  Her brand-new armor, the one with the mithril weave, is a play off of one ofher old performance outfits. It’s a sort of bold teal, the blue and the greensmixing and changing along the fabric, which plays interestingly with the darkerindigo of her skin, and it’s embroidered along the tight bodice with gold. Thesleeves come down to a midshoulder and there’s a bit of flutter to them, andthere’s a bit of a half-skirt, more of a sash really, in a bold blue-green,also chased through with gold. That ends mid-thigh, revealing a pair ofleggings in a darker blue, which disappear into a set of boots she can walk in.It clashes a bit with the gem on her focus, but it works.  Poison: Vices/Bad Habits? What are they?How do they affect your OC?

Whisper has quite a few vices, yes. Drinking, quiteoften, the occasional drug, or spot of gambling, and sex. You know, all themajor ones.

I don’t think they’re too out of hand. While shedefinitely self-medicates with whiskey, and sex when there’s a willing partner,she isn’t necessarily dependent on them. Like, she hasn’t had a single drinksince boarding the Star Song, because drinking and the subsequent hangoverswould impede her ability to work on this spell. But they are the first thingshe turns to when she doesn’t want to deal with her emotions or with whatevertraumatizing thing just happened.

Contact:how does your OC feel about touch/physical contact? Are they affectionate? Ifso, ow do they display affection to others?

Whisper is very touchy; the circus she spent the lastfew years in was very, very close, and there was basically no such thing aspersonal space. While she knows other people aren’t usually as touchy as sheis, she definitely still gets in other people’s personal space quite often. Shehugs people, cuddles up next to them, jabs their arms and high fives and allsorts of things. No forehead kisses though, she thinks that might bemisconstrued. Or construed correctly, as the case may be.

Oriana:

Microscope:Zoom In: describe the little, insignificant details about your OC.

Oriana’s nose is small and slender, upturned at theend. Between that and the freckles that constellate across the bridge of hernose and along her cheekbones, she can almost be called cute, though she won’tthank you for saying it. Her eyes are gold, molten and dark towards the centerand lightening outwards. Her ears are ever so slightly pointed, barelynoticeable under the sable of her hair, even when her hair is pinned up and outof the way.She is shorter than most of the rest of the party, 5’ 4’’ or 5’ 5’’ on a goodday, but broad shouldered and well-muscled, with a little bit of a belly, whichno one ever sees because Oriana is rarely out of her armor, even if her newarmor clings a little more than she’s used to.

Mixtape:5 songs that describe your OCs, or songs they themselves would like.

Take Up Your Spade – Sara WatkinsWaking Up the Giants – GrizfolkNever One Thing – May ErlewineSpark – Backstage CastWhite Flag – Bishop Briggs

Hobby:What do they love? What captivates them? What are their passions?

Oriana has surprisingly few hobbies. She reads, a lot,about everything: copper dreadfuls to ent philosophy, to religious doctrines tohistorical texts. She loves the simple act of reading, of being transported, ofassimilating knowledge and understandingthings.

Stories are what really captivate her though: strongand vibrant heroines and the men who support them, toppling evil empires andmaking their worlds safe forever after.

She also likes to knit, though she hasn’t had a chanceto do that in a very long time. Yarn has been hard to come by recently.

Celandine:

PhotoAlbum: Describe one of your OC’s favorite memories:

Probably the first time she felt like the Lunch Bunchwere really her friends, and not just humoring her or setting her up to be meanto her later, all of them laughing together at their lunch table.

UFO:Identity! What are some of key identifying traits of your OCs? How do theyidentify in regards to gender/sexuality?

Celandine is a 13-year-old super genius, so her intelligenceand creativity, her inventions, are what she puts the most emphasis on. Sexualitywise, she’s 13, so she’s still exploring, but she’s definitely had crushes onboys and girls and enbies before, so she thinks she might be pan.

Interiors:Describe your OC’s bedroom/home/place they consider theirs? What’s in it? Docertain items have special significance to your OC?

Celandine’s room is a little small, even by gnomishstandards, made smaller by her insistence of having an entire workbench in herroom, stocked with tools and materials. Her bookshelf is full to bursting, withmore books stacked on top—fantasy novels intermingled with instruction manualsand text books—and on every other available surface, her projects are laid outin various stages of readiness. Half-finished music boxes balanced on herbooks, her armor on the bed, the heelies she’s working on the actual workbench,and whatever is currently taking her fancy balanced on her lap as she sits inalmost the perfect center of her room.

The only part of her room that’s clean is her dresserand her closet—she keeps that meticulous. Clothes are the last thing she wantsto worry about, so she makes it so she can just grab an acceptable outfit andgo in the morning.

The walls are covered in band posters and schematics,with the one from Kaylie’s last word tour pasted right above her bed. She doeslove music, so she, of course, has a radio that she “fixed” on her bedsidetable, and it is always on while she works.

Lyra:

Fragrance: What does your OC smell like?

Lyra doesn’t wear fragrance—perfumeheralds your arrival as much as an errant step can—and all her soaps arelikewise unscented. So she smells of the leather she wears (leather gloves,jerkin, boots), and the polish she uses on every one of her weapons after takingthem to the whetstone, and possibly, after spending so much time in the crow’snest and at the bow of the Star Song as it races through the skies, a littlebit like a strong headwind.

Parachute: who does your OC trust the most? Who makes themfeel safe? Who would they do absolutely anything for?

There are exactly 8 people in theworld Lyra trusts at all, 8 people she will drop everything to help if theyneed it. Her old party: Arannis, Cora, Atrauk and Haskell, Esssstefan, the Yuan-Tiwho taught her how to fly, Elissssabeth, Lucien, and the milliner who makes herhats in Kamery.

But it’s none of them individually thatmake her feel safe, though having her party at her back helped, as does Lucienwhen he brings her back from a panic attack. The first time she ever felt safeafter the catastrophe in Kamery was when she and her party took the airship upfor the first time. It’s probably the only time she feels safe at all, really,when they’re a thousand feet off the ground and the world below looks small andinsignificant, and she knows nothing down there can touch her.

Psyche: what’s their headspace like? Do they have any mentalillnesses? How do they process difficult or emotional situations? What aretheir coping mechanisms. Lyra’s headspace is… dark, for lack of a better word. Functional, but not muchelse. She spent quite a lot of her time scraping by on the streets of Kamery,in all kinds of deprivation before she was swept up by one of the more highprofile gangs as a sort of catchall, though her expertise was infiltration andtheft, and the occasional murder. She can manage to charm a pigeon into herhand for a small amount of time, but she is just as like to stab them as liftthe thing she needs from them.

Blackthorne tried to hone her into anunquestioning weapon in his arsenal, using pain and necessities as punishmentand reward, and mostly succeeded. The rest of the Magpies—Cyrene in particulartried remind her she was a person, but Lyra pretty much snapped when they alldied around her, killed at Blackthorne’s orders.

So basically, Lyra has some prettymajor PTSD and an inability to handle more complex emotions. So mostly shejust… doesn’t process them. She shoves them back into the recesses of her mindand tries to remain more or less emotionless. It doesn’t work, obviously, butshe has managed to make it so she doesn’t have emotional responses like onemight think. And they always come out in her nightmares and occasional panicattacks.  

She’s gotten better since Lucien hascome into her life; forcing her to talk about them, just being at her back; halfof Lucien’s job is to play therapist after Lyra has a particularly bad episode.He keeps her from breaking apart into a million pieces.

Otherwise, Lyra meditates onoccasion, and keeps her skills sharp. She makes sure she’s never anywherewithout a weapon—which has become easier since she gained some magic of herown—and keeps daggers hidden all throughout her room. She counts them beforeshe goes to sleep, making sure that they’re able to be slid out of theirsheaths and be in her hand at a moment’s notice. And woe to the crewman whotries to slip into her room while she’s asleep without announcing themselves;their like to get a dagger in the eye for their trouble.

Maggie:

Conspiracy theory: what are your OC’sbeliefs? Are they skeptics or do they believe easily? Who acts on blind faith,who needs to see to believe?

Maggie’s relationship with religionis… complicated. It’s not that she doesn’t believe in Avacyn—she sees the magicpriests have, and she assume it has to come from somewhere—but she does distrustthe church, perhaps even the Goddess herself, and has a hard time believing thatthey have the people’s best interests at heart. After all, they’re in power now,and people in power very often will do anything to keep it.

Maggie does also tend to be a bit ofa skeptic, at least when it comes to people, but she knows magic can make quitea few things possible, and that the world is a complex place. Even seeingsomething doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s real. Shooting star: If your OC could have onewish, what would it be?

To see her father again.

Any:

Lighting: Who is the most impulsivecharacter? Who is their impulse control?

Honestly, I love impulsive characters?So more often than not my character is going to just say “fuck it” and do whatthey want. Basically because I have no impulse control myself. I think Az’ar andOriana might be the only charactersof mine who doesn’t give into their impulses more often than the do.

But of my other characters, I thinkWhisper, Lyra and Celandine might be the most impulsive. Whisper is held backby Thia and Oriana and her mother’s voice in her head, Celandine is pretty muchheld back exclusively by Caela (the poor girl), and right now Lyra doesn’t haveanyone to hold her back—maybe Lucien, but crew seems to be just as bad as sheis—she’s had to learn how to hold herself back, now that Arannis and Atrauk andCora aren’t around to council her to be careful.  

Love note: who likes who? Crushes? Relationships? Are theymutual or unrequited?

I think of all my D&D characters,Wren is the only one who is actually in a relationship, and whose love is requited.In fact, finding Narissa, who was taken back to the Feywild, is her wholereason for going on this adventure.

Whisper expects her attraction to mostof the party is mutual—why wouldn’t they be attracted to her, she’s gorgeousand clever and an absolute delight—but the feelings she may or may not have forsome of them she expects are completely unrequited.

Celandine is 13 and has basically hadbrief crush on half the school, though her most enduring one is on KaylieShorthalt, who is also her favorite singer. Since Kaylie and Celandine areyears and years apart and have never actually met, it’s safe to say that’sunrequited.

Lyra has something for Arannis. She refusesto think about it and stubbornly tells herself that it’s just admiration andrespect and friendship, but even if it were mutual, Lyra would never let ithappen. Chess Board: who is the most logical? Orthe schemer/planner?

Az’ar, Lyra and Celandine are all schemers.They’ve all got plans for days, though Lyra less so than she used to. EvenWhisper has schemes of her own, though they’re mostly borrowed from Ignatius’play book. Az’ar is probably the most logical of them all though.

Wild card:

I stole this question from another askmeme, and, well, as someone who loves angst, I couldn’t resist:  Is your character afraid of death? Ifthey got to choose how to die, how would they want to go?

I think, of all my characters, onlyOriana is not scared of death to some extent or another. Az’ar is so terrifiedof it that she’d kill the god of death to secure immortality, and Whisper woulddo almost anything to avoid it herself, at least until her appointed time.

But Oriana would like to die inbattle, Whisper would prefer to die completing her mission, Maggie merely wantsto die ‘doing the right thing’, and I think Lyra has no preference. She’shonestly surprised she continues to breathe. But she expects to go down in ablaze of glory with the Star Song when the years finally catch up with her.

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Major Arcana Asks: The Fool (Lyra), The Lovers (Celandine), The Hanged Man (Oriana), Reverse Lovers (Whisper), Reverse Chariot (Az’ar), Reverse Moon (Maggie)

The Fool: When hasyour character been excited to start a new journey?

Theonly time that comes to mind is when Lyra and her party went up in the (then unnamed)skyship together. It was the first time she had ever flown, and as they roseshe felt this unbidden wave of hope and delight and excitement– like she hadjust gotten her hands on something priceless– all emotions she hadn’t felt for months. She thought,in that moment, freedom might actually be within her reach. 

Evennow, every time the Star Song takes flight, she feels that little tremble ofpossibility and excitement, except this time she knows it is.

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The Lovers: Which ofyour character’s relationships has been the most positive (romantic orotherwise)? 

Asidefrom Celandine’s relationship with her family, it isdefinitely the ones she has with the Lunch Bunch. They’ve simultaneously helpedout of her weird “I only want to build shit and I don’t care about other people”attitude and gave her someone to build for,which has actually pushed her to make cooler and more complicated things. She neverwould have gotten the idea for heelies or for a hand-held gaming consolewithout them.

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The Hanged Man: When has yourcharacter needed to step back and look at things from a different perspective?

I think the first time Oriana hasreally had to try and take a different perspective, at least in game, was in Vrykolakas,when the vampires greeted them not with fangs and steel but with friendliness.It still really disturbs her to think that even an ex-paladin of Wahreightwould corrupt a town like that though

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The Lovers in Reverse: When has your character experienced heartbreak?

Whisper hasexperienced heartbreak plenty of times; every time she was not allowed to leavehome for a festival, when her brother got sick and died, when her crush on Ignatiusproved to be… misplaced, when she saw one of her best friends get murdered (ifonly in a dream) and when she pried into a friend’s past and learned his TragicBackstory. Whisper’s heart has been more than a little bit battered over theyears.

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The Chariot in Reverse: When has your character’s pride or arrogance beentheir downfall?

Az’ar’s deathwas definitely predicated by her pride or arrogance. She has always had a certainamount of pride in her abilities, and arrogance in that she believes herself betterthan the gods and like… every person. But the night she died, she was summoninga pit fiend, which is something she’d never attempted before. It was unlikelythe fiend would have simply given her the information she wanted and gone away,but the chances of that were reduced to zero when the paladins that were huntingher (probably because she’d killed others of their order) broke through her defensesand into her laboratory and set the pit fiend free to kill them all.

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The Moon in Reverse:When does your character mistrust their feelings or intuition?

Maggietrusts her instincts for the most part… except when it comes to magic. Sheknows that whatever gifts she received from her patron have a price, she knowsthat whatever her patron wants isn’t going to be good for anyone in the long run.But just like she couldn’t stop herself from going out into the woods when shewas a kid, she couldn’t stop herself from agreeing to the deal.She’s tried to mitigate the temptation by not leaving the city anymore, but sheknows it’s only a matter of time before something happens, and her patronoffers her more power. She knows it’s only a matter of time before she saysyes.

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Get to know my character: 16, 25

I’ll do this one for my precious Lyra, rogue of all trades and skyship captain, since she’s onmy mind a lot right now.

16.Is your character the athletic type or more of a couch potato? What are somesports/games that they like?

Lyra would be the sporty type, I guess, though not forsport’s sake. Like she’d never play anything organized. But she would definitelybe into parkour, or acrobatics, or maybe even crossfit, heaven forfend.

25. Is theresomething traumatic from your character’s past that greatly affects them evento this day?

Honestly, it would be easier to ask what traumaticevents in Lyra’s life are not affecting her to this day. Her mom’s death, herpatron’s betrayal and the death of her entire crew, as well as the events that leadup to her getting that weird white streak in her hair, all of them haunt her tothis day, and she’s got some major PTSD because of it.

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Space Things: moon, Betelgeuse, Centaurus, sombrero galaxy, wormhole for Whisper; Neptune, aldebaran, delphinus, bode’s galaxy, comet for Oriana; Jupiter, deneb, Phoenix, andromeda, black hole for Maggie; mercury, Canopus, Orion, cigar galaxy, nebula for Lyra; earth, Sirius, Libra, cartwheel galaxy, supernova for Thirteen; mercury, alphard, Cygnus, Milky Way, meteor for Celandine; Uranus, Vega, hydra, sunflower galaxy, pulsar for Az’ar; Pluto, Rigel, Cassiopeia, black eye galaxy, comet for Kori

H’okay this is going under the cut because it is almost 2000 words and got very, very long. I apologize if you are on mobile. 

For Whisper: my terrible disaster tiefling sea sorceress:

Moon: What are you currently studying/hope to study?

Whisper is currently studying like…one and a half things in her free time. Which is taking forever because she’snot exactly a bookish person. She is currently learning Primordial (and is onlyabout 130 days from fluency!) and is muddling her way through spellcomposition.

Betelgeuse: What’s something you can never forget about?

Oh man. There’s a lot of things thatweigh on Whisper’s mind, but her obligations might be the heaviest, especiallywhen her loyalties start to conflict.

Centaurus: Favorite holiday?

Fisher’s Respite. Back home it was likea full-on Irish wake (after a very long church ceremony, which Whisper foundfascinating) and Whisper was even allowed to party with the adults for a littlewhile after she was old enough. Some of her favorite memories are from herfamily’s celebrations.

Her second favorite is probably TheGreat Hunt because of all the food. Though meeting a certain Wizard might havesoured that some.

Sombrero Galaxy: Do you have a crush right now?

Define “crush.” Because Whisper wouldcrush you for insinuating anything. In her own words, she likes most of theparty well enough, finds them all pretty attractive and would probably sleepwith them if she knew they weren’t going to be weird about it.

That’s what she tells herself, and Ithink she’s probably even convinced herself of it. But there’s definitely areason she’s only slept with an old friend and a professional since the partyjoined up. *waggles eyebrows*

Wormhole: What’s something you wish would happen, but knowwon’t?

Whisper has been waiting for a veryspecific thing to happen almost her entire life, and she’s half given up hopeof it ever occurring, so… being told she can come back home.

For Oriana, my aasimar paladin of Wahreight, and the Lady of Ambrose Grove;

Neptune: When’s your birthday?

Oriana doesn’t know her actualbirthday, but she chose day 197 (16 Alma'artius) as the day to celebrate on.

Aldebaran: What’s something you care desperately about?

Doing her job the best of herability. The weird thing about Oriana is that she definitely believes in hercalling, in protecting and serving and making the world a better place. Shedesperately wants to protect the people she cares about and those who can’thelp themselves.

Delphinus: Favorite study?

I won’t say that Oriana hatesstudying, because she was methodical about it growing up and placed pretty highin all of her classes because of it, but she’s not a cleric, so she’s not inthe whole research division. More retrieval and dissemination.

That said, she really is enjoying theent philosophy books that Shade gifted her with, and I’m sure she’ll pick up afew more in the same vein once she’s finished with them.

Bode’s Galaxy: Have you ever had a secret admirer?

Not that she knows of. Though theremight have been someone who came up with her through paladin training and justnever came forward?

Comet: What’s your big dream?

Her dream used to be to make headlibrarian and perhaps get a small temple of her own to administer, but now it’sjust making the town of Ambrose Grove flourish again. She just wants to bringpeace and prosperity to the people she’s been made the guardian of.

For Maggie, my brand-newhuman warlock~

Jupiter: Do you have any siblings?

Yep! Maggie has a younger brother namedJack, who is training to be a wizard.

Deneb: Have you ever been out of your home country?

I don’t think Maggie has even been outof her province. She’s been out of Estwald a few times, to go into the forestto meet her patron, or out to smaller villages to help out with supernaturalthreats, but that’s probably as far from home as she has ever been.

Phoenix: Favorite thing to wear?

Maggie has a thick dark woolen long coatthat she wears in leiu of armor, a blue scarf she usually pairs with it. Theclothes underneath change, but her boots probably never do.

Andromeda: Do you consider yourself social?

Maggie’s entire world basically comesdown to work and her family, out of necessity. Letting people get too closecould expose her and give the Church exactly what they need to see her hung.She’d rather not have that happen.

Black Hole: What’s the last thing you want to see?

The last thing she would ever want tosee is her faerie godmother again. But the last thing she wants to see, like before she dies? Hm. I don’t know. Maybe a sunsetover the ocean; she’s never been to the ocean, but she hears its beautiful.

For Lyra, myhalf-elven rogue/pirate captain of the Star Song.

Mercury: What’s your full name?

Lyra Cooper is her whole name. Her mother never gave her a middle one. 

Canopus: Have you ever broken a bone?

Lyra has broken more than a few bones.Some of them from jumping off of buildings and not being able to stop herselffrom hitting the ground, some of them deliberately done by the head of the thieves’guilds she’s been in to teach her a lesson. She had an arm and her nose brokenby Blackthorne himself.

Once she jumped off the bird’s nestand tried to swing down via a rope, but she missed the rope and hit the deckwrong and broke her ankle.

Orion: Favorite month?

Hm. It would probably be Mirius. Lyraalways did love the spring.

Cigar Galaxy: How’s your flirting skills?

Pretty good, all told, when she turnson the charm. She has been taught how to engage and flirt and be all kinds ofcharming. But she never flirts if it’s not for a specific purpose.

Nebula: If you could undo one thing in your life, what wouldit be?

Her mother’s death. If only hermother had survived, well. Who knows where she’d be now? Definitely not thecaptain of a skyship, but all those intervening years of pain and near-starvationand killing and hurting people for a living would also not have happened, andshe wants that almost as much as she wants to see her mother one last time.

For Thirteen, myfish-out-of-water Tabaxi rogue/monk.

Earth: Where’s your home?

Thirteen hails from a jungle islandoff the main continent of the world we were on. Faraway or something like that?Idk I can’t remember what it’s called and I am Too Lazy to get up and find thecampaign map.

But she grew up in a hidden Tabaxisociety and has since been exiled.

Sirius: Have you ever failed a class?

Hell no she hasn’t. She was in thetop percentile of all her classes because she is that damn good.

Libra: Favorite color?

Gold.

Cartwheel Galaxy: When was your first kiss?

Tabaxi don’t kiss like humans orother humanoids do. I don’t think their mouths are made for it. They do touchnoses though, and I think that would have been at about 16, with some male inher class who she just managed to beat.

Supernova: What’s one thing you want to do before you die?

Find the asshole who killed hermentor and rip his guts open.

Celandine, my preciousgnome wizard prodigy

Mercury: What’s your full name?

Celandine Salvia Darkhollow.

Alphard: Have you ever lost a friend?

Yes, I think she has. Aside from hersister, Greldamine, she had one good friend until she was about 6 years old,Emelina, who lived next door. Celandine doesn’t quite remember if she died orjust moved away, only that when they started 2nd grade, Emelina wasn’tthere.

Cygnus: Favourite weather?

Thunderstorms, definitely. Rain helpsher focus and the lightning provides power for all sorts of experiments.

Milky Way: Who’s your oldest friend?  

I think she would count Greldaminehas her oldest friend, since Greldamine has been there since before she wasborn.  

Meteor: What’s something you wish you could tell, but can’t?

The thing is, Celandine doesn’t havemuch of a filter on her, and she doesn’t know when shutting up is the bestoption, so most of the things she wants to say get said.

Maybe she wishes she could talk toher parents more frankly about what being a teenager is like, but she knows shewould get grounded and her tools taken away if they learned 1/8th ofthe shenanigans her and her friends have gotten up to this first year of highschool.

For Az’ar: the Shadar’kaiLore Wizard

Uranus: What’s your hobby?

Az’ar doesn’t really have anyhobbies. She has one goal and basically everything she does furthers it in someway or another.

Vega: What’s something you’ve done that you wish you hadn’t?

I think the only thing she regrets atall is having to kill so many Shadar’kai on the way out of the Shadowfell. But theywere in her way, and since they were offering her violence, she had to returnit. I bet she regrets not stealing away while most of the tribe were asleep,though, or hiding her attempt to leave better.

Hydra: Favorite sound?

The not-quite silence of an emptylibrary.

Sunflower Galaxy: Would you date/make friends with someoneout of pity?

Oh, hell no she would not. I thinkthe furthest she’d go out of pity is to kill them.

Pulsar: What do you hope to do in the next 10 years?

1.) Determine a non-lich,non-necromatic way to remain alive forever.2.) Become the most powerful mage in all the realms.3.) Find the gods wherever they hide and kill them for good.

Kori: Oh heythat’s me!

Pluto: What time is it right now where you are?

5:56pm, CDT

Rigel: Have you ever gone on a rollercoaster?

I have. And I do enjoy them a lot,though it’s been a while for me. I think the last time was when my family wentup to the Wisconsin Dells and we spent the day at Mount Olympus? Good day.

Cassiopeia: Favorite book?

Oh, gosh. This is such a hardquestion because not only does it change all the time, but I have like 60 ofthem at once.

I’m going to go with the His DarkMaterials series for my favorite books of all time (followed very closely bythe Abhorsen Series by Garth Nix), and my current favorite book is Space Operaby Cathrynne M. Valente, and my favorite short story collection is theConservation of Shadows by Yoon Ha Lee.

Black Eye Galaxy: Do you believe in love at first sight?

Love? No. Weird visceral attraction?Yes. I have had some very intense first eye contact before. And even that muchsounds super weird so I’m going to stop there.

Comet: What’s your big dream?

Oh, man. A partner or two, a house orapartment that’s big enough for everyone, maybe with a yard with just enoughroom for a garden in the back, and a room I can use for a library/office. Abook series that’s actually making money that is still in print, even if I haveto work a job or two on the side of writing. We’re living comfortably andpaying our bills on time and I get to see my friends pretty often, and there’sd&d on the weekends and maybe I get invited to stream stuff occasionally.

That’s really it. Quiet mornings, a cat or two, lotsof reading.

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Headcanon meme: (answer for whoever you can think of things for I guess) 1, 8, 11, 12, 23, 26, 29, 30, 34 :3

Okay okay okay. This got long because some of them turned into vignettes, so it’s gonna be under thecut.

1.) Love

Forsomeone who professed to be a loner, Lyra has loved so many people in her life.Her mother, first and brightest and most dearly, murdered on her way back fromher shift at the pub, the Stone Crows, her gang growing up, including her bestfriend Kora, who got scooped off the streets when some passing mage saw her set something on fire with her mind (which now strikes Lyra as ironic, consideringher current travelling companions, and her own predicament).

And then her newfound family,her Magpies. The ones that were murdered so cruelly in front of her.

Love and loss are intertwinedfor Lyra, the brilliance of lightning followed by world-shaking thunder. Whichis why she has, wholeheartedly, decided to stop caring about people. They won’tleave if she doesn’t get attached, and even if they do, well, she won’t feelanything right? Win win.

8.) DreamsIt’s not uncommon for Whisperto dream of water. Even if it wasn’t literally her element,she spent so much of her life surrounded by it; snow and rain pattering on thestone, the underground inlet, the blighted mermaid tank, that it of course itwould enter her dreams at some point.

Tonight though, tonight isdifferent. Tonight she dreams of depths, of an ocean so deep there is nogranulated sunlight to illuminate it, and even her comfort with the dark isn’tenough to make it feel less… crushing. She sees in staticky black and whitehere, feels the way the currents tug insistently at her. She has to remindherself that she can breathe.

There’s movement there, in thedepths. It takes up the whole of her vision. It’s just the suggestion of agreat thing slowly winding and unwinding, pulsing slightly as if with laboredbreath. It does not move against the current. It directs it, and it makes herown breath catch in her throat. Not with fear, but with excitement. 

When she wakes, she swears shecan still feel it, the current tugging at her, the great thing directing herforwards. The letter appears the next day, and the day after that, she isgone. 

12.) Worst Enemy

According to Az’ar, her worst enemies are the Godsthemselves.

The Gods are arbitrary and cruel things, starting and endinglife as it pleases them, for mere entertainment. They set up laws,contradictory and unforgiving, a universe full of pain and misery, and createdsentient creatures to wade through the mud and experience every bit of it.Growing up in the Shadowfell, Az’ar has witnessed it all, and grew to despisethe traditions of the Shadar’kai, the same traditions that honor Hala by tryingto protect the living things she holds so dear, especially from the unnaturalundead things she abhors, the traditions that pretend to honor Her brother bysending them back to His domain, and by dying well.

She left her people, somethingelse that was forbidden, and fought and killed far too many of them in order tocross over to the Prime Material Plane, the tear she made between worldsallowing a few of those undead monstrosities to cross with her. It was aregrettable loss, ones that she lays again at the feet of the Gods; if herpeople had not been obsessed with their supposed sacred duties, they would nothave needed to die.

Az’ar intends to wrest their claws from her chest, by making itso she can never die, and then, she will end their grip on the rest of thePlanes, even if it means killing them. She hope it does. That would be a sweetirony indeed.

23.) Romance

Orianais a romantic. Probably in the classical movement sense as well as in thehopeless romantic sense. She has this ideal of herself: knight in shiningarmor, a blazing paragon of Wahreight’s mercy and light, beating back thedarkness and protecting the innocent.

She also is kind of obsessedwith romance novels, and novels that we might consider romance novels due tothe way books are sold, but, unlike Whisper, prefers the ones that hold a highideal of love than the vulgar. Which isn’t to say she won’t read books with sexin them, only that she prefers more comedies of manners. Jehanne Augere’s Dignityand Discrimination remains her favorite novel (and she finally got a copyof her own the last time we visited Fantasy Half Price Books), and she’s morelikely to blush at the scene where the elven hero confesses his love for thevery human Elisabet. 26.) Beauty

Thecostume is… well. It’s tight. And barely there. Whisper runs her hands thelength of her torso, fingers skimming cut-outs in the shimmering golden fabricat her sides where her midnight skin provides contrast, and she lets out ashuddering breath. She doesn’t know whether its nerves or awe that’s making herstomach clench uncomfortably but… either way.

She sneaks a peak in themirror and looks away almost immediately. Salt and storm, she is glad hermother will never see her in this, or she’d be dead. Brutally and messily andall over the place.

She sneaks another look, outof the corner of her eye at first, then straight on. The leotard is almostblinding in the way the golden cloth catches the light (Ignatius’ choice, nodoubt), small black stitching and sequins giving the illusion of scales downher stomach. At her hips is this strange, diaphanous half-skirt, more like thefrills of a tiger fish than an actual garment. The neckline—if it can be calledthat— plunges far deeper than anything she’s ever worn, and she mutters a quickprayer that she won’t spill out of this thing at an inopportune moment. Or anopportune one. She is not being paid enough for that.

But the effect… She takes astep back, so she can see the whole effect, the golden ribbons wrapped aroundher horns and pinned in her hair, the ridiculous amount of eyeshadow, thestreaks of gold shimmer on her cheeks, she looks… ethereal. Magical. Shestretches one indigo hand out, and her reflection does the same, lightlymeeting her in the mirror. She watches herself smile.

“It looks beautiful on you,”comes a voice from behind her, wobbling like the owner is about to burst intotears. “You look beautiful, Whisper. Just brilliant…”

She whirls around, a scowlslotting into place. “I can’t believe he wants me to wear this, Terrance!”  

The huge man doesn’t seem tohear her, dabbing at his eyes with a handkerchief. “Oh, I outdid myself. Just wait until the audience see you. You’re going to dazzle them.”

Whisper laughs under herbreath, and sneaks another look at herself. Okay. Maybe it’s not so bad afterall.

29.) Bedroom (and 11.) Best Friend).

She wasclose, she was so freaking close! If she could just figure out thethaumodynamic stabilizers and the aetheric channels and how to connect them tothe theurgic couplings, then the armor would definitely be finished beforeschool started. Her tongue peaked out of the corner of her mouth as sheconcentrated, wand on one hand, tweezers in the other, a soldering ironfloating above her, held by her mage hand. 

The workbench in front of heris littered with such tools, awl and a few other small sharp blades and hergrindstone, linen thread and an assortment of needles, little colored glass ballsshe’d spent weeks making and enchanting so they wouldn’t break when she used them,and small gems that had cost quite a chunk of the money she made from selling herclockwork toys, not to mention all the other tools she didn’t currently needfor this project. The bed next to her, on the other side, had the rest of thearmor, chest plate and second gauntlet, both nearly finished save for the collectorsthat would collect the untethered thaumic energy from the aether.  

She’s so close. She can feelit.

“Celandine!” her mother calledfrom downstairs, “Celandine, your friend is here!” 

“What?” she freezes, and thewand released the spell it was holding… at the wrong part of the gauntlet. Andsomething started smoking. “Shit!”“Celandine?”

A quick prestidigitation puts the fire out but it definitely smelt like magic gone wrong and scorched leather.“Oh, hell. Coming Mom!”

”I’m sending her up!”  

“Shit!” Celandine cast a lookabout her room. Her chairs were full of clothes and her bed was covered in armorand there was spare leather and clothes and books all over the floor and why hadn’tshe learned the invisible servant spell.

“Hey, Celandine? Your Momsaid—” Caela pauses in the doorway, the top of her head nearly brushing thetop of the doorframe. Her eyes widen as she takes in the state of the room. 

“I know! It’s messy I’m sorry.I got uh…” she looks down at the gauntlet and then back up at her best friend,smiling weakly. “I forgot you were coming over. I’m sorry.” She puts the gauntleton the workbench and reaches over the small space to her bed, which at leastonly had the breastplate and the other gauntlet on it. “Sit down and give me asecond, I’ll have this place tidied up in a…”

But Caela is already bendingover, gathering up the nearest books that had fallen over. “It’s okay. I’llhelp. Why don’t you tell me what you were working on?”And Celandine beams.  

30.) Sex

Oriana pressesthe pillow harder over her head, trying to block out the sound from the onlyother bed in the room. Since she’d been knighted in the service of Wahreight,she’d been moved out of the general barracks and into a shared room;unfortunately, her roommate decided that that was enough privacy in order tocarry on her… assignations with one of the paladins still in training. And theidea of actually talking to Ritika about it was blighted mortifying, so hereshe lies, pillows piled on her head, face burning as she tried to pretend shewas not hearing what she was hearing.

34.) AffectionIt’s not that Whisper’s family was not affectionate. Sheremembers her father’s hand on her head, her mother’s approving smile. Hugsfrom her brothers, kisses on her forehead from the governess. But compared tothe carnival, her family was as touched-starved as any dwarf.

Affection wasphysical and platonic and above all, free among them, holding hands and huggingfor no reason, kisses on cheeks and foreheads and lips, giant cuddle piles inone of the main tents the afternoon after a big show, all of them just waitingfor the inevitable cry to start packing up. 

And the sex. Oh, seaand storms, the sex. There was just so much of it. After the first year she’dgone from having sex once in her entire life to having had more partners thanshe could count, of so many genders, in several different… permutations. Things would just…escalate. Someone would be feeling bad and a cuddle pile or a platonic kisswould turn into make-you-feel-better sex, someone would decide that they wereboard and seek someone out, or two people would be fighting and suddenly they’dbe up against the wall (that happened with Ignatius and a few of the othersmore than she would care to admit), or they’d be coming down off a high of asuccessful heist or a show, adrenaline still singing high gospel within them,and next thing you knew you’d be tearing off someone’s clothes. Maybeseveral someone’s.

But the real world doesn’twork that way. And after a bad experience or two on her way to Hazelscar, she isthoroughly aware of that. Most people don’t like being touched.

She meets Adoraor and Keithiafirst, and she makes sure to keep her hands to herself. Even when Adoraor isbleeding out and she has the stupid idea to stick a knife in his chest to seeif it’ll heal him, because, hey, it worked on that orc, or when Keithia (notThia, not yet) places a hand on her shoulder to press healing magic, warm andtingling, into her skin. Not even when they’re barring the door of a cold stonechamber and waiting out the night, and she knows she could stop them both fromshivering. 

She’s almost starving from it,achingly aware of where people are in relation to her at all times. She finallygives in and hugs Keithia about two weeks in. She feels Keithia freeze up for ahalf a second and she closes her eyes, waiting for the rejection, before Keithiasqueezes back, just for a second, before she eases back. Whisper has to forceherself not to cling, to let her new friend go. 

Oriana, she learns, hatesbeing touched at all and the boys are weird about it, so she has to make ithigh fives and playful slaps and punches to the arm. She can hug Frank, atleast, he’s not strange about it. Sing-songtoo, until he vanishes. 

She nearly cries when it getscold enough that they have to huddle in the Magnificent Bubble (also screw Leomund,she’s the one casting the spell, she’ll call it what she wants), and the Bubbleis just big enough for them. If they huddle. It’s almost like the piles she’sused to, and she plays it off with a few sighs and rolled eyes, but when sheends up cuddled next to Twiggy and Isao of all people, she has to bury her headin her arms, so no one will see her face. It’s almost good enough.

[theinvulnerabletide]

Microstories: Lyra, 15

Trembling Hands

The first thing Lyra does when she wakes is haul herselfto the bathroom. She vomits everything she’s eaten in the past twenty-four hoursinto the chamber pot and strips herself of her armor and clothing, all of it stiffwith dried blood. Her dried blood.

She vomits again, all of it bile that sears heralready aching throat.

Then she forces herself into the bath, and scrubs herselfclean of the rest of her blood, noting that… she seems fine. There are no newscars on her body, just the old, white ones in their usual places. The one onher stomach when she was stabbed by a guard, the jagged ones on her arms like littlefeathers where she jumped out a broken window, etc, etc, etc, her whole life mappedout in pain. Except for the dagger that had just opened her up, when…? Longenough ago for her blood to dry.

She tries not to think about what that means, or whyshe woke up, when she knows the corpses of her friends still lay in the receivingroom. Tries not to think about the way her hands tremble.

The next hour or so is a blur. She dries herself off,clothes herself, grabs one of the communal bags of holding and fills it with whatevershe might need. Clothes, emergency rations, stuff that might make sleeping rougha little more comfortable. Weapons. Coin. Plenty of coin. She takes nothingfrom the bodies of her friends but cleans out the vault. It’s not as much as itshould have been—Blackthorne must have been in there recently, but he’s notgetting the rest.

Then she grabs the oil for the lamps and spreads it onevery surface, and sets the hideout ablaze.

It is the best she can do for them, for now. The bestshe could do to put the souls of her companions to rest.

But she’ll do better,she promises them, in the fifteen seconds she allows herself to watch theflames. She’ll get out of Kamery, survive as best she can, thrive, even andwhen she’s found the means, she’ll send Blackthorne’s spirit to the hells tokeep them company.

[theinvulnerabletide]

1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 11, 18, 22

I thinkthis was for the “Send Me a Headcanon” ask? If I’m wrong please let me know(and I’m sorry it took me so long :0 

1.) Light sleeper:Lyra. 

2.) Has nonstop puns:Celandine 

5.) Likes rock music:Whisper 

7.) Is a sweet angel:Oriana. Literally, it’s Oriana, though Celandine has some people convinced she’sthis. 

9.) Looks sweet butwill murder you in cold blood: Definitely Celandine. 

11.) Will eateverything if they could: Lyra. 

18.) Has veryexaggerated facial expressions: Hm. I think Whisper does this on purpose. Especially when she’s mocking people. Naturally, it’s probably Celandine. 

22.) Likes dragons:Celandine. 

[theinvulnerabletide]

OC most likely to: 3, 4, 14, 16, 17, 21, 30

3.) Most Likely to Fall Asleep Literally Anywhere:

Hmm… I want to say Celandine. She is often up late working on projects and she’s got school and her parent’s shop and extra curriculars all going on so I bet there are times when my dear little gnome is justso exhausted she conks out wherever she happens to be.

The other answer is Lyra, since living on ghe streets means you basically have to be able tl sleep wherever you can find a safe spot, whether that be the rafters of a church or a cold, wet alleyway. She sleeps very light though, and can come out of sleep as quickly as she went in.4.) Most Likely to Get a Crap Ton of Tattoos:

Is it cheating to say Az'ar since her body is already covered in tattoos? Tattoos and scarification are a definite Shadar Kai thing; Az'ar has these swirling sigils all over her body, the highest one curling up on her left cheek.

Whisper I think would get a bunch of them if her skin was lighter. I bet human!Whisper has sleeve tattoos and everything.

14.) Most Likely to have a shotgun wedding:

Oh gosh. If it’s for a con, it would be Lyra I think. Married just long enough to some noble to clean out his coffers.

For real though? I have no clue. Most of my characters would never allow themselves to get into that situation and have no desire for marriage.

16.) Most likely to get into an argument with an animal?

Az'ar definitely argues with Isamine.

Whisper probably argues with Irusan at times, if he’s playing too rough with Steven. And let’s be real, Whisper argues with everyone, animal or not.

17.) most likely to use any and all excuses to take off articles of clothing.

Whisper. She knows she’s gorgeous, she likes being the center of attention and the carnival destroyed any body shyness she might have had.

21.) Most likely to get attacked by a bird?            Az’ar probably, after insulting Isamine one too many times.

30.) Most likely to have had an embarrassing middle-school emo phase.

Hm. It’s hard to say because like… Az'ar and Lyra are kind of still in their middle school emo/goth phase and are not embarrassed by it in the slightest.

Whisper probably would be the only one that would have an emo phase that would also be embarrassed by said phase when she grew up.

[theinvulnerabletide]

12, 15, 23 for Whisper; 4 (but book instead of movie), 16, 28 for Oriana; 9, 14, 19, for Lyra; 11, 26, 29 for Az’ar (if you’re cool with questions for her yet. Also shout out to discord search function for helping me remember the name :p)

Gosh I’m going to getsome fully realized characters out of this, the rate we’re going.  :D

For Whisper, my lovelymess of a tiefling sea sorceress:

2.) A Song that DescribesThem:

I’m going to give youtwo: Trouble in Mind by Larkin Poe for that title, and Black Wave by K. Flayfor every damn lyric. Both of them, though, give me a shot by shot music videoof Whisper doing terrible and wonderful things when I listen to them though. 15.) What would their Hogwarts House Be?

Oh gosh, Slytherin. My girlhas more ambition than sense. 23.) Opinion on pets.

Well, Whisper has nothing againstpets as a whole? She really, really wanted a blue-ringed octopus as a pet growing up, and obviously she wasn’t allowed to have one. bBther magic fish, Steven, does just fine for now and she loves him very much.

Aside from the octopus though, she wasn’treally allowed any pets as a kid, save for the cats the house already had—she nevermet the hunting hounds because she wasn’t really allowed outside, so she onlyknew them by their barking and was kind of afraid of them— but she liked thecats because they kept the rat population down. So I guess she’d be a catperson.

For Oriana, my darling,stressed-out aasmiar paladin:

4.) Do they have afavorite [book]?

Hm. She has quite a few,to be honest. And while I think she’d tell you her favorite book SaintJosephine’s Doctrine on the Heavens andthe Heirarchies Therein, it’s probably Dignityand Discrimination. That one’s a classic. (J/K it’s obviously The Lord of Rogues, but she would never,ever admit it).

16.) Did they graduatehigh school? If so, did they attend college?

I’m not 100% sure how the educational system works in Sprin’Torel, or even just in Arwyl, but she has completed theequivalent of high school. Idk likewise, I would assume paladin training ismore like going into the military than it is attending college, but I bet forthe god of knowledge, it’s a good mix. So she has completed both basic trainingand her graduate degree in library science. :P

28.) Do they have anydistinctive features or marks?

Her eyes are bright gold.Not like completely gold, not like Whisper’s are completely white, but her irisis unmistakably gold. Otherwise, she looks human. She does also have a smallmole on her left cheek.

For Lyra, my dear, dear half-elven rogue/shadow sorceress who is this close to actually jumping at shadows:

9.) Greatest Regret?

Oh, boy. I know what thisone is!

See, Lyra was a spy, anda thief, and a con artist, and an assassin. And she was part of one of the mosthigh profile gangs in Kamery before shit went bad. If she has one regret shehas a thousand, but they all center around their last job, the job thatshattered around them and cost all of them their lives. Except for Lyra,somehow. She regrets not doing more research on their target, she regrets notbeing more prepared, she regrets not realizing Blackthorn, their master andpatron was planning a double cross, and when she saw her friend’s body at hisfeet, she regrets not launching herself at Blackthorn and sinking a dagger inhis heart then and there.

But most of all? I thinkshe regrets being the only one who survived.

14.) What is their vice?

Her vices are greed andenvy and pride. The greed and envy are obvious; she likes money and the safety itprovides, as well as all the Nice Things you can get with it. She’s definitelypracticed her fingering on some unsuspecting pigeon more than once just becauseshe liked the shine of some bauble they had. The pride isn’t unfounded. She’s good at what she does, and her rigorous training(and years on the street) have necessitated her being able to do a lot. But because of it, she tends tothink of herself as the most clever person in the room, doesn’t take otherpeople’s complaints or thoughts seriously, and she does some stupid, stupidthings when her pride is up.

19.) Has someone brokenher heart?

Aside from her formerpatron (who I am sure she had a crush on at the beginning)? No. She never letsanyone that close. I am sure she has broken hearts in her time, though.

And for Az’ar, my newestD&D character, who of course I will take questions on. My evil, obsessive,Shadar-Kai lore wizard:

11.) Biggest Flaw?

Her arrogance. Not onlydoes she think she’s the smartest person—and possibly the only competent being–in any given room, she thinks she knows better than the gods themselves aboutthe way the world should be. Also, she basically wants to become immortal todeprive the god of death the pleasure of ending her.

26.) Do they have acertain aesthetic or style?

Um, black. Black doesn’tshow stains and it is easy to coordinate. She does kind of have this wholewaifish tuberculosis patient vibe to her though. Maybe a little bit punk, withall the tattoos and scarification inscribed all over her body.

29.) Do they enjoy coffeeor tea? Hot or iced?

Yes, please, all of theabove in mass quantities, please. She needs the caffeine to keep herself going.I think she prefers it hot, though, because the Shadowfell, where she’s from,is a chill place, and she appreciates anything that can keep her warm.

[theinvulnerabletide]

Psychology edition: 7, 19, 27 for Lyra. 1, 19, 30 for Whisper. 12, 18, 29 for Oriana. 2, 21, 24 for Az’ar. 6, 14, 28 for Celadine.

Welp, this got really, really long so it is under the cut.

Oh Lyra. My precious, panicking won’t-do-anything-about-the-PTSD-she-definitely-has half-elven rogue. Someone help her. 

7.) Does your OC have any irrational phobias?

I don’t know if they’re irrationalgiven the life she’s lead? But she definitely has some fears, idk. After almostdrowning twice during that storm, I think she might have gained an acute fearof deep water or drowning, but I don’t think it’s a full-blown Thalassophobia yet.

The only thing I think is intenseenough to be called a phobia is her cleithrophobia—her fear of being trapped, and even then it’skind of specific— it’s a kind of mix of heliophobiaand agoraphobia; when the sun is bright and there are no shadows to hide in,she gets this feeling of being pinned down, like there’s nowhere to escape to,nowhere she can run. On days like that, where the sky was ceaselessly blue and the sun was high, shewould retreat inside the ship, even though she usually preferred the crow’s nest,and hide in Arannis’ library to distract herself with reading and research (upto and including stealing books to go read them in a dark corner if he objected).19.) What boosts your OC’s confidence the most?

Lyra needspraise. She likes being good at what she does (there’s nothing like the snickof a lock opening or the death rattle of enemy’s last breath), but it’s nothingif someone’s not there to tell her what a good job she did.

That comesfrom her time with the Magpies. Their praise as she learned the things theywere teaching her meant she was being accepted, meant she had a home, meantthat she was probably going to get an extra helping at dinner that night.

She putson a good show, but in truth, her confidence in herself has been flagging eversince they all died.  

27.) Does your OC practice any kindof escapism? If so, what kind?

Oh man, Lyra used to love faerietales growing up, and her mother was a great spinner of tales, and for a whileshe followed that tradition. She told herself stories of her father, who wasdefinitely a prince of some far-off country and was definitely some day goingto come for her and her mother and they’d live happily ever after in hiscastle.

Nowadays, she continues the grand traditionby imagining her friends are still alive, and thinking about what kind of heistsand cons they’d be pulling off if their patron hadn’t betrayed them.

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Whisper! My lovely disaster tiefling sea sorceress

1.) What’s your OC’s biggest insecurity and how would theyreact if someone pointed it out to them?

I think, despite everything, it’s herappearance. Growing up, she was very aware of how different she looked fromeveryone, even her family, and even though her appearance was treated assomething that made her special and as a signifier of how important she was goingto be, it still caused her some distress.

So, when she left home, and sheexperienced mistrust, and even hostility from how she looked, that insecurityintensified. She learned how to wrap herself in illusion to avoid that scrutiny.After spending some time with the carnival she’s learned to put on a bold frontand to walk through the world like stares don’t bother her, or are even a goodthing, but a snarky comment about her horns or her tail or even her color areenough to get her to either lash out, or to sink deep into herself and fadeinto shadows.

Knowing Whisper, it is very often thelashing out. 19.) What boosts your OC’s confidencethe most?

Praise! Praise the all mighty Whisperand her arcane knowledge!

But really, as much as she preens atbeing complimented and patted on the back (like she lived for her mother’spraise back when she lived at home, and she did live in a carnival, so she grewused to applause), the bulk of Whisper’s confidence comes from being useful. Feelingneeded. If she’s useful, like, in battle then she’s doing the Magic properly,and when the time comes, she’ll be able to fulfill her purpose.

Or like when Thia came to her forhelp with social situations; Whisper was swaggering through that keep for daysafterward.

30.) What makes your OC defensive quickest.

Someone implying she might not knowsomething about magic, or that she’s not smart. Magic is her job, it flows throughher veins, how dare you say there might be something about it that she doesn’t understand.

-Oriana, my aasimar paladin and now Duchess of Dawn’s Home Keep: 

12.) What is one of the most primary things your OC thinks ismissing from their life?

Oriana is a woman of simple tastes,and as a paladin there’s not much she thinks she needs in life. That is, untilshe was saddled with this castle and its environs.

Like, she had a home. She had a jobshe loved, a job she was good at, she had a Purpose, given to her, if not fromWahreight himself, then from the Academe himself. That and the mundane needslike food were all she needed.

Now there’s so much she needs to doand defend; she needs to have the keep rebuilt and find money for that, and sheneeds to find a way to take care of all these people she suddenly has toprotect and ensure their livelihood, and she can’t do it alone, but I don’tthink there’s anyone in her life right now she would cede even a little bit ofpower to.Basically right now she feels she needs an advisor who can explain everythingto her, someone she can lean on while she does everything herself, maybesomeone she can confide her doubts in.

What she needs is a damn friend, butshe won’t talk or lean on the ones she has.

18.) What kind of intrapersonal values does your OC have?(values about their self, what makes them a valid person). Hm. Well, Oriana’s values are simple, and very oriented in the structure of hertemple. If she’s doing her job—or really, following her calling— as a warrior of light, a paladin of Wahreight and alibrarian, she is valid and useful and has value. And now being a good noble and caring for her people has been added to that.And somehow striking the balance between them.

Oh, god, she is headed for a majorbreakdown soon, isn’t she.

29.) How does your OC behave in the faceof conflict?

She tries to mediate first, ofcourse, to see if a peaceful path can be made. If it’s merely a verbalconflict, she will try and bring the two parties into compromise or tounderstanding.

If a fight is inevitable, she triesto shut it down as quickly as possible; fast and efficient and quite possiblybrutal, to mitigate any damage or pain that might be caused. She’d rather knockpeople out of she can, but she has no problem killing if need be.  

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Azar, my neutral evil Shadar’Kai Lore Wizard who just wants to be immortal and maybe kill some gods some day. 

2.) If your OC wants to buy a firearm, what might it be for?

Insurance probably. Just in case hermagic fails, and she still needs to eliminate a threat, the same reasons she wouldhave any weapon. Or maybe she would take it apart to see how it works and thentake those principals to make some kind of awful, magical supercharged versionthat spat fireballs (or a thunder cannon, maybe take a little detour into artificer?)?

But I honestly can’t imagine her everwanting a firearm of any kind in and of itself though, she’s confident enoughthat her magic is enough to eliminate any threat she may come across, and shehas no desire to kill for the sake of killing.

21.) Does your OC hurt others intentionally? If so how?

Azar thinks most people are beneathher, so many ants next to her anteater, or whatever, but she takes no pleasurefrom causing people pain. She’s not a sadist, she’s more… apathetic.

If she ever hurts someone emotionally,it’s entirely a byproduct of her thoughtlessness. If she does it physically, it’sbecause she needs someone to experiment on, or because she was trying to putdown a threat to her or her studies. She doesn’t toy with them then, she putsthem down hard and moves on. 24.) How would your OC react if they gothumiliated in front of a group of people?

Oh geez. Az’ar is a creature of coldnessand pride, so it really depends on who they are and how she was humiliated.

Like, if she was beaten magically orintellectually, which are the only ways that matter to her, she would teleportout of there and sulk for a while; and I think that’s the only way I could eversee her plotting revenge or actually wanting to cause someone pain. She’ddissect what happened, come up with a thousand and one plans for it never tohappen again, and then go grind that person to dust.

Socially? Like if someone got a jabor an insult at her, and everyone started laughing, she would just stare, Ithink. Cock her head and stare at theperson with her too-intense purple eyes like they were an interesting specimen untilthey got freaked out and left, and everyone was more creeped out than amused.

Celandine! My brand new rock pyromaniac gnome wizard who just happens to be a freshman at Eberron High.

6.) Does your OC have a realistic image of their ownintelligence?

Well, I mean. Celandine does have a20 Int. at level 1 (18 rolled +2 for being a gnome bitches!) and she’s beenmoved up two grades because she wasn’t being challenged enough in class.

That said, everyone—middle schoolteachers, and her parents– acting as if she’s an infallible genius may have inflatedher sense of self a bit. Like, I wasn’t exaggerating when she assumes she’sright at least 95% of the time. She also thinks she can do magic and handle substancesshe is probably not equipped to handle yet. I can 100% see her trying to attempta 2nd level or 3rd level spell at level 1 and knockingherself out for a few days after channeling her power her body wasn’t readyfor. 14.) If your OC gets into a fight withtheir best friend, would they wait for their friend to make up with them, orwould they try to make up with their friend?

Oh gosh. I think her pride would makeher try and act aloof for a little while, and she’d try and wait until herfriend came to apologize to her first.

But Celandine doesn’t have manyfriends. And she’d get lonely really quickly. I think after an hour or two, she’dbe at their door, her big eyes shimmering with tears, to apologize. 28.) How would your OC react if a bully stoletheir lunch money in high school?Celandine’s parents are merchants, and more or less devout followers of KolKorran, so money and trade are literally holy for them. What’s more, her focusis a lucky coin.

With that in mind, anyone trying to take money from her would definitely geta firebolt to the face. Or a witchbolt, depending on how pissed off she is.

Oh man I love them all so much. :3