#oc: Áine

[hummingbird-hunter]

You could've killed him. But you didn't. Why?

Why are you here?

Can't I just visit you because I miss you?

No.

I truly just wanted to see you, little bird, to talk to you. It's been so long since we talked.

As if you couldn't already see my every move and hear my every word.

...

...

Your hair is beautiful. You've started to grow it out.

It is. I have.

...

...

You had quite a fight earlier. You let him live. You could've destroyed that creature in a fraction of a second. But you played along. Let him think he had an upper hand, even. Why?

Because it's interesting. Because he is someone with foolish plans and delusions of grandeur. Because I want to see what happens next.

...he made a deal with Fae, you know.

Is that a statement or a question?

Neither.

...

...

Why? You don't need to know of his deal to destroy him, if you would wish to do that.

I couldn't care less about his deal.

I believe that. Why do you ask then?

I didn't. Ask.

Birdie. Are you afraid that we're doing something you don't know about? That you left so long ago, you might not even know what is going on at home?

No. I don't care. And it is not my home. I don't care what is going on.

You spent too much time with liars, birdie. One would think you would learn to deceive better than that.

...

Our little community doesn't deal with humans. And we don't communicate with other Folk that often to know about any notable deals. If something peculiar were to happen, or someone were to strike a deal, we would tell you. I would tell you. You're family, little bird. You deserve to know.

"Deserve to know". Every deal. Except for my own.

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Come home, birdie.

And deprive you of your favourite pastime of observing me?

How can someone not want to watch you, birdie? You're a chimaera, possibly the only one like yourself in this universe. Possibly in the whole multiverse. You contain power of two, arguably most powerful things that there are, and that's only counting the power you were born with, not the power you managed to harness in your lifetime. You could be a God, little bird. Of course we want to see that play out. Isn't that what you're doing? Watching things that interest you, nudging in the right direction?

A God, huh? That seems like way too much responsibility for a little old me. And you're right, I do love watching things unfold. But I don't pretend to care about them.

I do care about you.

I don't believe that.

You've spent too much time with liars, birdie. Now you're accusing me of being one.

Oh, I'm sure you believe in what you said. I don't.

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Maybe that was a bad allegory. We do love to watch you. But we also care about you. I care about you. If someone dear to you was a creature so unique, so powerful, wouldn't you want to see what they're capable of?

I wouldn't know.

We want to be there for you. We want to see what power you're capable of.

And then take it for yourself, you mean?

We wouldn't. I wouldn't.

But you can. Would it even be considered "taking"? If a fundamental part of me, the very thing that binds my soul to my body, Is already yours? Do I even have anything left to take?

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I miss you.

I believe that.

[melanc0ffee]

posts art after 80 million years

Anyway, hi!! I've been reworking my characters for a while now, and now they have nice new refs that I can share. So, here's Áine and Fiachna! They have their own story, but they also appear in my main project (but not until much later and in different forms). They are married and they rotate in my brain constantly <3

[eyes-of-the-rave]

For the suffering ocs question: for as many or few ocs as you’d like, number 6, 15, and 25? *chinhands*

i literally saw this immediately after turning my computer off and turned it right the fuck back on so i could answer sgldkjfs thank you

i'll answer for laanving (my half-vulcan engineer), áine (my aasimar way of mercy monk), and bisera (my air genasi mercy monk/trickster cleric)

this is gonna be long as fuck so i'm gonna put it under a cut

6. How far would they go to save someone they love? Would they sacrifice themselves? Others?

laanving would never sacrifice anyone else to save someone she loves, but you bet your ass she'd sacrifice herself! she definitely would see saving them as the priority over keeping herself safe, and has the logic to back it up, even if the logic isn't sound

áine would only sacrifice herself if cynbel (her son) was old enough to take care of herself, or if she had orion's word that he'd take care of cynbel (orion being another party member who's the only other Adult & also a parent). if she had one or both of those things, yeah she'd definitely give herself up for them. depending on who the person is she's saving, she'd also probably sacrifice other people who aren't as important to her, but that depends entirely on who she's saving and how badly she's doing

bisera doesn't think she's worth saving so she'd be running straight into the proverbial or literal fires to save someone she loves, even if she knows she won't make it out

15. How do they kill? Do they try to minimize suffering?

laanving kills efficiently, and only when she absolutely has to - her phaser is perpetually on stun, and she very much prefers to do absolutely no killing, at all, ever, but she also understands she doesn't have a choice, so she'll just set her phaser to kill and shoot them where they'll die quickly.

for áine, it depends on who she's killing. being a soldier and then also getting monk training, she prefers to be efficient if she can, but if she knows you've, say, abused someone? death is the most preferable outcome for you.

bisera doesn't kill, to the point that, after she killed someone for the first time in the campaign, she had an entire crisis about who she was and if what she was doing was okay. if she has to kill something, she does it quickly and painlessly and tries not to think about it too hard.

25. Have they tore someone to shreds with their bare hands? With their teeth?

laanving: never

bisera: never

áine: not yet :)

ehehe thank you for this pain kay

[hale-of-stiles-heart]

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[xalygatorx]

I haven’t drawn in a very long time but I think this lil procrastination doodle from the end of the last chapter came out okay. 🥲

(Made with Procreate)

[eternalbattoru]

áine trying to look less intimidating

[akuma-tenshi]

oc posting on main today because i thought this was funny

picrew i used

[avatarskywalker78]

Chapters: 1/?

Fandom: The Witcher (TV)

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Relationships: Eskel (The Witcher) & Original Female Character(s), Jaskier ︱Dandelion & Original Female Character(s), Original Female Character(s) & Original Female Character(s), Eist Tuirseach & Original Female Character(s), Cirilla Fiona Elen Rhiannon & Original Female Characters

Characters: OC: Áine an Tordarroch, Eskel (The Witcher), Jaskier ︱Dandelion, OC: Ksenia, Eist Tuirseach, Calanthe Fiona Rhiannon, Cirilla Fiona Elen Rhiannon, Pavetta (The Witcher), Crach an Craite, Original Characters, Original Animal Character(s), Duny (The Witcher)

Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, Male-Female Friendship, Female Friendship, Non-Chronological, Families of Choice, The Skellige Isles (The Witcher), Fate & Destiny, Soft Eskel (The Witcher), Insecure Eskel (The Witcher), Immortal Jaskier ︱Dandelion, Human Jaskier ︱Dandelion, This never gets explained, Also he's unaware for a while, Season/Series 01, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Hugs, Developing Friendships, Canon-Typical Violence, Canonical Character Death, Book-Canon Eskel, POV Multiple, Áine looking at Eskel like 'is anyone going to befriend him' and not waiting for an answer, Áine befriends three immortals and wonders how this happened, Tags May Change

Series: the warrior, the witcher, the firebird and the bard

Summary: When Áine an Tordarroch starts travelling to the Continent, she doesn't expect to make any friends at all - least of all a Witcher and two bards - and for their part none of them had ever had a friend quite like her. A tale of four very different people across the years, and the growing friendship that binds them together.

[meloncoolie]

[trop1cal-punk]

Look at this drawing of my beloved oc Áine voland (nim/nim/nimbu/nimbus/nimbuself), zoom in on the details under the cut

[hummingbird-hunter]

Oh? Hello there, birdie. So you finally decided to come home?

I found my journals.

Journals? Is that something you picked up recently? Journal making?

I found my journals. The ones I was writing during the last eight hundred years. The eight hundred years I do not remember.

Is there a question in there, birdie?

Why do you erase my memory every time I die?

And what makes you think we're the ones who are doing it, little bird?

Answer the question.

That is a lot to ask, little bird. A truth, this big — what will you give me in return?

Weren't you the one to say it? That I'm family? That you wouldn't take anything of mine? That I deserve to know the truth?

You wouldn't like the truth, birdie.

That is exactly why I'm asking. Why do you erase my memory every time I die?

Exactly so you wouldn't die!

What?

You said it yourself, birdie, didn't you? That the name is what binds a soul to a body. Your name is powerful. You are powerful.

But I don't have my name.

You're catching on, birdie.

So when I die...

...there is nothing left to bring your soul back. Your soul knows it has died. It moves on. So the only way to bring it back...

...is to make it forget it has ever died.

See, birdie? We're saving you. Without us, your soul would've moved on a long time ago.

Without you, my soul wouldn't be moving on in the first place!

That is true, little bird. Had you got your name, you would've come back from the dead on your own. But, does it matter, really? If we're the ones bringing you back? The result is the same, birdie. You're alive. We're helping you. We're saving you. Don't we deserve a little bit of gratitude?

You're fixing the problem that you created in the first place!

What do you want, birdie?

I want my name back.

No. It was freely given, birdie.

Then it means it can be freely returned!

You gave us your name, birdie. It was your decision.

When I was five! I didn't know what I was doing!

We found you half-dead, little bird. We saved you. We're saving you now. We're family.

I will kill you.

You have spent so much time among liars, birdie, and you're still no better at deception.

[vsnotresponding]

púlsar headcanon 2020 lockdown edition

(idk how this happened. anyways enjoy a lockdown headcanon in the year of our lord 2022 almost 2023)

the gang plays among us

of course they do

ira and garvan already played before lockdown started but everyone joins after their baking supplies disappear in two weeks

the most reticent to join is sher. but because he's a fun dad and ádil really, really likes playing, he joins the call

it doesn't go well for him

ira always kills him first (or second if she sees garvan before him). karma will vote him on principle every single time no matter what. (well, except when sher plays with ádil. you can't vote the kid out). every time the vote is between another person and him he gets voted out. he's just too good of a liar AND at debating. he stood no chance. his words fall on deaf ears

he's a decent crew. ádil loves doing tasks so they always finish first. on the rare occasions when they listen to him he's able to sus out karma and sahare

emhi's a great detective. does 0 tasks because she's too busy going around fishing for info. she's also the best at venting as an impostor. once she managed to kill everyone but 1 player in the first round by luring people into reactor. (that 1 player was sher and yes it was ira's kill)

speaking of ira. she and garvan get competitive, even when they play with the kids. ádil gets a pass because he's ádil, but everyone else? ruthless. no mercy. (ira does hesitate to kill níniam and jhai but will do it if it assures her win). they always kill each other on sight no matter what. once the rest agreed to kill them with impunity/ to vote them out at the first meeting to play a decent game for an afternoon

after that they calm down a bit (they still kill each other on sight)

as a crew ira sucks. does her tasks when she feels like it and mostly trolls the rest being sus for the funs

áine won't play but she does watch emhi and helps her sus out the impostors from time to time. karma hates it because she always gets him

as for karma, he surprisingly wins a lot as impostor? ira won't vote for him and will gladly third impostor for him. sher also won't vote for him. he's not good at the killing and he often gets carried, but when the voting is between him and someone else he always wins. he's karma he can't lie for his life of course it wasn't him (he was, in fact, the imposter. he didn't kill or anything so he was saying the truth) he hides in vents and sabotages a lot

great as crew because he remembers where everyone was and the tasks they said they did. when ira plays seriously he always knows when she's the impostor but doesn't say anything most of the time (only when he plays with jhai) (ira forgives him for his betrayal, because, well, jhai)

garvan is decent both as crew and impostor. unstoppable when he's teamed up with emhi. sibling synergy or whatever. refuses to do long tasks

and finally sahare, who has the most wins under her belt. she plays casually, kills when needed, good at not getting voted out and at doing her tasks and fixing sabotages. loses on purpose to let ádil and sher win probably

as for the kids, they just have fun. kill on sight, forget to do their tasks and instead run around following people (not ádil, ádil is very serious about his tasks). they like watching in general because uncle garvan and ira are fun to watch.

jhai likes to scare people using vents. níniam (who's like 18 in here but I still call a kid because he's stuck at ten for me) joins when his schoolwork allows him to. they let him win because tired tortured collage student privileges (it drives sadaf mad even if she doesn't play and only watches)

[hale-of-stiles-heart]

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[xalygatorx]

just been making picrews of Áine for like 3 hours idk

https://picrew.me/ja/image_maker/626197

she's wearing astarion's camp shirt in this one uwu

https://picrew.me/ja/image_maker/1469769

https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/332600

https://picrew.me/ja/image_maker/1744829

https://picrew.me/ja/image_maker/644129

https://picrew.me/ja/image_maker/1342558

[eternalbattoru]

couple of refs for artfight

[nomaishuttle]

teehee what if i put all 3 of my 'oc' things 2gether. maximum autism,