#oc: moam

[emers-art]

Elder Scrolls dungeons and dragons party! Plus the titles they've earned through this almost two year campaign:)

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

about time the babies got proper refs

left is my Qursuk, right is @eastern-lights' interpretation of Fíronmas

[floralseokjin]

JORDAN LISTEN: IF you HAD to choose between MOAM!Seokjin and PBN!Yoongi AS A LIFE PARTNER LOVER HUSBAND THE ONE YOU SPENT AN ETERNITY WITH. LIKE, THE ONE. Who would you choose and why? The more rambl-y you get the better!

Oooh god, this question 😶 I thiiinkkk I would choose moam seokjin. As much as I love pbn yoongi, moam seokjin is more my type of guy. I’ve basically created my dream man with that fic so it’s only fitting I pick him. Personality/humour wise I think it has to be him. I think he’ll only get better with age too, so he would make an amazing husband and dad one day! Pbn yoongi is a lovely guy and so sweet but for me? I don’t know if we’d be a true match lol

[sizey-oc-smackdown]

Alright, everyone! The bracket has been made and almost everything is ready.

The Smackdown will consist of 3 rounds of week-long polls. Round 1 will have 6 polls with 3 contestants each. Round 2 will have 2 polls with 3 contestants each. The 3rd and final round will have 1 poll with the 2 winners of round 2.

The Round 1 polls will be up at 12:00 PM EST if everything goes according to plan.

We will have 3-day breaks in between all of the rounds and if I have the time I will run bonus polls featuring my own ocs.

If anyone has questions, feel free to send them to this blog's askbox!

And now onto the main event, The Bracket!

All creators' blogs and respective ocs under the cut. I encourage everyone interested to look at everyone's blogs!

@sizeshiftingdeath : Derek, Chase, Ash, and Quince

@kayla-crazy-stuffs : Kyo Miyama

@moontail13 : Y/n “Lune”

@stunkers : Hal and Bell

@wallspikes : Weld

@frostios : Staple and Crown

@data-expunged-0 : Minim

@guaxinimraccoon : Tobias "Toby"

@eyekaros : Amberlight

@da3dm : Irzayn "Irza" Heron

@enderman-pandas : Yuhor Moam II

@a-tiny-frog-girl : Mars

@coffehbeans : Estelle and Alaric

@phyre-anon : Jettison (Jet)

@bethncherry : Beth and Cherry

@pocket-ozwynn : Alice and Freyja

@poprockpanda : Beatrix and Amanda / Oliver & Morrigan "Shadow Bestie" (omg it's my guys)

[aufigirl]

What was it like meeting Mother of all monsters? What did you do together?

@mother-of-all-monsters is this you? 

Meeting MoaM was a really awesome experience! First impression I got when we met, “Oh my god, you’re taller than I thought!” (And I’m sure she thought the same thing in reverse. XP)

I took her around Sydney and had lunch in one of my favourite cafes. It was in places away from the tourist hot spots and got a few good views of the Harbour. Went to the Gallery of Contemporary Arts, Circular Quay, the Opera House and the Botanic Gardens. 

There was a lot of walking…I’ll tell you that. (MoaM, I’m really sorry for that. I um…walk a lot). 

We did chat a lot about history and what we were doing (her story writing and my artworks). I also told her a few Aussie history facts and trivia around Sydney and beyond. Everyone calls me the “walking encyclopedia”.

MoaM did ask about my Hetalia OCs, the Australian States and Territories which I’ll go back to after my Pokemon phase. :P 

Overall, it was a fun time! I promise to meet up again whenever she’s down here in Sydney! :D 

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

same as many other young dragons hatched from the eggs kept in the vault on Vroengard, Qursuk did not avoid some effects of the radiation on the island. the effect on his ability to fly is negligible and one he can easily compensate for, but it does give him a unique flight pattern he can be easily identified by

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

"Step back, Tama. That new friend of yours can't be trusted."

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

thinking about Daegred eventually inevitably undergoing a metamorphosis into a Lethrblaka and how terrible the process of shedding your exoskeleton probably feels

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

traitor to the human race

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

"How does it feel, to be disconnected from the rest of the world?"

once again thinking about the Ra'zac not having any magic and possibly not a True Name either

(feat. my oc Daegred)

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Can Qursuk, Tama and Daegred still communicate after he becomes a Lethrblaka? Btw Shrike seems cool. Second dragon to begrudgingly accept Daegred?

I think it will depend on the degree of dexterity Daegred can retain in his hands post-metamorphosis to still be able to use sign language. Other than that he might be able to write in the sand and ofc communicate via gestures and emotion-indicating vocalizations. He would still have the hardest time talking with Qursuk since they need Tama to speak for her dragon, since Daegred is incapable of telepathic communication.

As for Shrike...

Fly with me, young one. Let me show you something. Qursuk hesitantly complied and took off after the giant dragon. He no longer feared Shrike and managed to gain back some of the natural respect a dragon feels toward a larger member of its kind, but the old dragon's tone sent a wave of unease down to the tip of Qursuk's tail which now twitched constantly. The lush forests passed by below them, intersected by rivers and overgrown fields, until they eventually disappeared altogether. From so high above, it looked almost as if the land fell into a bottomless void. As the dragons began to descend, Qursuk was able to recognize more detail - the ground was not black, but all kinds of sickly shades as if all the life force was sapped from the earth itself. Dead trees were sticking from the discolored soil like thorns, with gnarled, misshapen branches the sight of which made his stomach twist when they got nearer. For they were not branches. They were the decayed, sun-dried bodies of countless Lethrblaka. Their skin had shriveled and turned pitch-black, their heads hung limp on their long skinny necks and their beaks gaped wide open in eternal silent screeches. Their toxic blood seeping into the soil, the long-dried trails of which could still be seen glistening blue-green on the wood, was the cause of the dead earth all around. There were rows and rows of trees with corpses impaled on them, going as far as the eye could see. During their travels around Alagaësia, Qursuk had seen the execution grounds near Dras-Leona where the leading members of the Helgrind cult were hanged after the Great War and their skeletons left there as a reminder of their crimes even five decades later. What he was seeing now was like a hundred of such execution grounds.

Worst of all were the Lethrblaka's eyes. Black, lidless and pupil-less, they were indistinguishable from how they looked in life. Despite his ancestral memories, Qursuk had little experience with their kind, and with limited ability to tell the subtle difference between individual Lethrblaka, every single one of these corpses seemed like his friend Daegred, dead and staring down at him from every direction. Qursuk was so taken aback by these horrible sights that he didn't notice where Shrike was leading him, not until he could feel smooth marble replace the dry soil under his paws. They were in a city, or rather a town, smaller than those in Alagaësia but rivaling the center of Aberon in style. Despite layers of dirt and grime, the walls still shone with white rock too smooth for plants to grow on. And among all this beauty, there was heavy, everpresent silence. There was only one place Qursuk knew with the same contrast of beauty and emptiness - the ruins of Doru Araeba. Qursuk already had more than enough, but Shrike apparently had one more grim surprise for him. In the middle of a wide town square stood a heap of bones. Human bones, bleached by the sun into near perfect whiteness putting the surrounding buildings to shame, and so old that some have already crumbled into fine dust that filled Qursuk's nostrils and forced him to fight the urge to sneeze. The most horrible feeling, he thought, sneezing due to dust that once used to be people. He barely noticed the familiar tooth marks on the most intact bones when Shrike spoke. This, the inner voice was laced with old indescribable pain, a deep sense of urgency and unshakeable duty. This was what we had fought against. This is the fate that we saved your homeland from. One yellow eye turned to Qursuk with an apologetic look. This is why I cannot bring myself to trust your friend.

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

10, 13, & 15 for Daegred :)

10. What is their main character arc in the story? Where do they start and how do they develop? Do they get a happy ending or is their story a tragic one?

The actual storyline isn't developed yet but Daegred as a character changes very little, actually. His species, the Ra'zac, are described as narrow-minded in canon and his father's upbringing left him with a set of rock-hard principles, so I don't think it's even possible for him to change much. His story is more about his struggle as the last member of a highly social species who struggles to find company that would accept him due to his nature as humanity's predator. Tragedy is inevitable here. There are plenty moments in his life when he finds a place he feels he might be able to settle at only to get rejected again. I don't know how the story ends yet, but he does find Tama, Qursuk and Fanghur who stick with him for most of the story. And there will be a period when he learns of the Helgrind cult and will have to deal with the temptation of a group of people who would accept and love (and even worship) him vs everything he has been taught by his father

13. Do you have a voice claim for the character? What do you imagine the character sounds like?

for that I would first need to pick a voice claim for his dad, because, since I hc the Ra'zac achieve human speech through mimicry, Daegred sounds exactly like his dad. He's 16 and sounds like a man in his 40s lol

His voice also has a sort of an odd "filter" that's similar to the slight voice distortion in talking ravens

15. Have you ever made a moodboard for them?

yes :)

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

a menthol drop flying through the sky

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Qursuk sketches

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Question 1:

The original thought that made you create your Ra'zac!

Honestly I really just read through the Eragon wiki page on the ra'zac and went

really I just thought about the fact that a post-canon ra'zac would have to be raised by humans with no other ra'zac or lethrblaka being around anymore, and about the tragedy of being raised to love people while still being a human-eating monster

[floralseokjin]

🤧🤧🤧🤧 moam!jon and oc would win the fight 🤧🤧🤧🤧

oh mybsjsjkssk i was actually going to bring up moam jin (jon i’m LAUGHING everytime that autos) and oc but i didn’t want to be THAT person who brings up her babies at every second available 🤧