#oc: hrafn dekarios

[ardently-queer]

I feel disgusting so clearly it is the hour of focus on character and story ideas to distract myself. I'm gonna talk about Hrafn and Gale some more and you can't stop me. Please interact if it interests you because I wanna talk about blorbo.

Contrast. Contrast is fun. They foil eachother in a lot of fun ways but this is less about foil and more about just, direct opposites that amuse me.

On the surface, wizard and sorcerer are opposites by default. Learned knowledge versus instinct. It makes them a fun dynamic to play with to begin with.

But Gale's a weird wizard. He talks about magic as, it's the way he sees and breathes and touches the world. It's an extension of his senses. That's not necessarily sorcerer-and-not-wizard stuff, because it's something he's kinda, he started with a gift and he honed it on purpose to experience that sensory extension more clearly. But he's a weirdly instinctive wizard and I love that about him. It's something I understand intimately - I am autistic and I was considered a musical prodigy, but it didn't mean I didn't have to learn things, I just learned things voraciously and a lot faster than others because music was how I understood emotion and sense and the shape of the world and I wanted always more of that.

And Hrafn's a weird, weird sorcerer. Especially for a wild magic one. His magic is totally instinctive and unrefined, but his approach to it is the direct opposite - he records the details of each wild magic surge and how it felt as it came on, every spell he can cast, it's all detailed like one enormous scientific study. He's trying to develop a greater understanding of the nuances of his magic so he can predict and refine and redirect it, even if he can't directly control What it does - the controlling what he can control when everything is Out of control approach (he's also a Dark Urge, or was, which definitely amplified this tendency). His components pouch, his journal, it's all Meticulously organised. And he practices alchemy because he can control every outcome and nuance of that branch of magic with study and practice. And it's almost a wizard-y approach to sorcery where Gale is in some ways a slightly sorcerer-flavoured wizard and that makes me very happy.

And no. Gale is not allowed to touch Hrafn's notes or his components or the alchemy kit. Hrafn is not allowed to touch Gale's notes or components or desk because he's more of the 'you tidied it and now I can't find ANYTHING'. When they live together it'll be like, they have a shared living area, but they're gonna have their own floors of the tower for their own workspaces because that's the only way they don't drive eachother mental. I love these idiots.

[ardently-queer]

look i don't set out to write autistic characters on purpose. i do not intentionally infect the characters i fanfic about with autism like the werewolf i am definitely not. it just HAPPENS. I do not know enough about a neurotypical perspective to write one. if i write from their perspective at any point they tend to get the autism rizz it kinda just Works Like That. sorry. like it's not even self inserting it's that, this is how i see and experience and interact with the world i don't have clue how else to do it.