#oc: the tri-soul

[1000punks]

mask and midnight for festé, roiben, and janus?

mask: Does your OC wear a mask, literally or figuratively? What goes on beneath it? Is there anyone in their life who gets to see who they are under the mask?

for festé i think their mask really is the calm stoicism, and the tendency because of past experiences to keep people at arm's reach. they seem warm but it doesn't quite reach their eyes, as it were. inside, it's a lot of constant rationalization for things that do actually hurt them. for example, the post-araj confession with astarion? hurt. being called a complication in that way? hurt. but for fear of upsetting him, they kept it to themself. to a certain extent, the two people they don't feel like they have to fully hide from are astarion and mordren - but even then, they're not the first person to admit to being hurt or vulnerable in any regard.

for roiben, the mask is vengeance and anger. his way of dealing with the whole of faerûn's problems was to kill (almost) everyone. he can't quantify empathy even though he really wants to, deep down. the only people he felt empathetic towards (to an extent) are gale, astarion, shadowheart, and lae'zel. all of them were easily swayed and corrupted, however. >.> along with that, the first person he loved(? if you can call it that) was astarion. something something everything i touch turns to ashes, something something self-fulfilling prophecy, and here we are. roiben does actually love astarion, but because he's so emotionally immature, he would rather bring him down to his level than rise up and admit it. in his case, i don't think anyone is allowed to see behind the mask. yet. <.<

in janus' case? their mask is their kindness (a lot like festé but with a healthy amount of "nobody is allowed to know how tragic my backstory really was" a la halsin). to compare, i think janus is a lot more mature (debatable because ... *) about their kindness, and doesn't deal with it by keeping people at arm's reach, per se, but truly cares about making sure nobody is suffering in any way (and not being mean just for the sake of being mean). let me take your pain away, i'll do anything i can do for you! i can see them sharing this vulnerability with gale around the same time he shares with them about the extent of emotional damage he's suffered from the orb and mystra. after letting gale's story breathe for a few days, of course. *node context: janus is a functioning alcoholic but their use has significantly lessened since 1. losing their memories and 2. since they've been on the road to baldur's gate.

midnight: What keeps your OC up at night? Do they have nightmares? Fears? Anxieties? What do they do in the small hours of the morning when they should be sleeping?

in festé's case, it's the future. they're really tense about the fact that they are in love with someone who is immortal, when they aren't. the fact that they'll die and leave someone behind, best case scenario. not only that but the first person to love them for exactly who they are? hoo boy. they have to try not to think about it by focusing on a project in front of them. one, as i've explored in bonding., is sharpening their weapons, but i think others would be going for walks, moving around, cooking, gardening; things that keep them busy and require skill and effort for sure. it's hard to sneak away from your vampire elf husband though, so imagine astarion finding them in the kitchen baking bread and calmly guiding them back to bed with gentle admonishment.

roiben? the fact (well, he believes it's a fact) that he'll never be able to just... rest. it feels like everywhere he turns there's some sort of expectation on him whether from the gods above, below, or the earthly sort. he balked when thinking about how astarion wanted to keep him forever. he balked when he thought of serving bhaal for the rest of his life. he'll balk when he's fucking resurrected from purgatory and i think the both of those things are the reason he chose the ending that he did, after the netherbrain crisis. it's easier to become a mindless bhaalspawn than it is to continue contending with big emotional decisions. gods help this stupid murderer. i think out of the tri-soul, roiben would be the most likely to have an ophelia moment and just go... float in a body of water for a while. or see someone for pleasures of the flesh. anything to not think. i think nightmares are an absolute given though, given all the people he's choked the life out of. what if there's some small chance he'll have to answer for his misdeeds? naughty naughty

janus is more of the classic ptsd, night terrors, body sweats regarding their past. but they have nothing to connect it to due to the dark urge. because of the memory loss, i don't see them connecting the dots entirely until way late in the game. apart from that, i think they're anxious about being emotionally close to someone, especially someone like gale who is all about talking and connecting on a really deep level. i imagine them making coffee in the middle of the night and watching the fire. maybe astarion wakes up early from trance and goes to sit with them in a comfortable silence. or, later on, they move over to gale's bedroll/tent and curl up with him. hard cut to gale waking up to their arm tightly wrapped around him and/or half crushed under their weight. hahah questions are from this ask post

[aidakhar]

Some of my 2months ago drawn sketches

[lillymakesart]

my new OC: cempaka!

she is based on the story/universe that my friend @haydardotjpg's OCs indra and yuwei exist in! pls go checkout haydar's art he is amazing!! his ocs can be found more easily on his ig but if you're lazy this is his oc indra (cempaka's one-sided love interest) and yuwei (indra's fated lover)

also, cempaka means "magnolia" in malay!! (she gets a flower name bc my name is lilly which is also flower c:)

bonus first iteration under the cut!

i accidentally had "poinsettia" flower in mind when i did this iteration instead of an actual magnolia, hence the color scheme. but yeah, this is as self-insert as it gets LOL like she's literally MEEEEEE but still very different and i love her as she is <3

[spotaus]

Okay! This one is less rendered than the other two, but here's some doodles of Tulpa figuring out how to co-exist! (Aka Fresh not taking training seriously while Dream is trying desperately to get his friends to think he's normal.)

When Dream first returns to the Star Sans', he finds himself in a pickle, because he needs Fresh to move his body. Sure, they made a tentative agreement that Dream trusted Fresh not to break, but Dream hadn't been specific enough with the guidelines.

Fresh pilots Dream's body based on the commands from his soul, but more often than not Fresh simply decides not to listen. Sometimes when they're training, Fresh will suddenly make Dream fumble his bow or send an arrow flying way off-target. Dream is always frustrated by this, unaware that Fresh it doing it for his own good and is forcing the guardian to take a break.

Blue was also made aware of Fresh very early on. One day he was passing the kitchen where Dream was cooking and spotted how Fresh's little form was wiggling out of the hole on Dream's skull. Blue made Eye-contact with Fresh, but said nothing since it seemed like Dream was aware and didn't mind. He waited until Dream told him to acknowledge the parasite directly, but suddenly a bunch of Dream's weird actions made sense to him. Blue regularly makes sure to check in on Dream, before abd after he's aware of Fresh, because he knows Dream works himself into the ground.

Dream (eventually) figures out that Fresh was being clumsy for his sake and nearly cries about it (even his mother and the villagers never did that for him, and Blue was the only other person to ever pull him away from training for his own good) so he gets a bit emotional. He feels bad for how angry he used to get at Fresh for doing that, but Fresh never gave him a proper explanation either, so it was a two-way street.

And while Fresh was lienent around Blue and Ink, he never slipped up around Nightmare's gang. Though, he did fight seriously, which to him might look like goofing off, which is completely separate from Dream's fighting style. (For now Dream uses Arrows and his Bow, but I'm thinking Tulpa has a T-Shirt Canon or a Nerf Gun by the time they make-up.)

Ideally Fresh cannot be seen during combat because he actually pilots from around Dream's soul, but sometimes his parasite form expands to support Dream's weak joints and act like a shock-absorber.

[izscha]

the glory days

(back during chase young and soul's toxic era)

[schellis]

"It's just red past those clouds. It stretches on and on, nothing but forests of sinners molded to thirst for blood for eternity. But it's peaceful, in a way. Their cries become white noise after a while."

[reedscafe]

Hey @thestrongestjewel! I tried to draw your UT OC Raven, I used Clover as a base since I know you really like UTY and added little of my own touches as well. Hope you like it.

[blurrymango]

Remembered my old Undertale OC Kaoru all of the sudden. Decided to draw them and Kris.

[bartholomew-junior]

woe six (five actually) human souls designs be upon you. very fresh designs that will probably be more fleshed out in the future once i’m less busy

[1000punks]

bonding. ˡᵒʳᵉ//moonlight sonata & the tri-soul dossier.

this song is very important to Festé's backstory, and let me tell you why. (pathfinder/d&d canon lore to follow!) ⇘⇘⇘⇘⇘⇘⇘

okay! so in our pathfinder campaign i've talked about the bits of the time loop fandango that led to what we players lovingly call the Edhest Crisis which, the gist of it is that a very powerful sorceress obtained the means (by way of magic, obviously) to manipulate time itself. this threw the world (Edhest) into an infinite timeloop/simulation situation. wherein; everyone who was in the world was shoved into a simulation-version of Edhest while in reality-Edhest their very life forces were being sapped. so, now that you have that context....

JANUS

Who was the first person in the simulation? janus! Colloquially (and sometimes, only) known as "Two-Face" (just, by their nature in general), janus is a charlatan rogue (half-elf dhampir) who landed in Edhest and is trying their hand at toppling the local thieves' guild to establish their own. when i made them, i had two fictional characters in mind that they were a "blend" of: daario naharis and jack sparrow. honestly that is kind of cringey to me now but i made them ten years ago! i'll let past me live for that! janus' backstory, that they're aware of anyway, is growing up as an outlander in a local "camp" (i'm sure you can guess what kind) for dhampirs - dhampirs in this society are hated by most other humanoid races. they escaped that life and now they're a small time thief and big time loudmouth charlatan.

so, they ended up infiltrating the local thieves' guild, and one of the right hand people (named Borisu, an undine witch) to the leader (the sorceress in question, although it wasn't yet clear at that time) defected from the guild to join their party. the sorceress took that rather personally, and began to target them. with the help of a god, their party, and some new allies along the way, they began to forge an assault on the sorceress. the god in question (his name was Lhosdir) was a former adventurer that apotheosized to godhood through you know, heroic actions (not unlike the awe and pomp & circumstance with Balduran in baldur's gate). Lhosdir ended up making janus king of his city in his own stead once they and their party got some hero points breaking up the local corrupt government and putting a stop to the illegal human trafficking ring.

that was, until they discovered a deeper, more evil plot! :D Lhosdir got captured by the sorceress, who merged her consciousness with his before everyone's eyes in the middle of an abandoned clearing in the forest. essentially she corrupted him! this is where the song comes in: every. damn. time. something pivotal happened in this campaign, our DM would play this song. this is one of the first times i remember her ever playing this song. :)) there would be many more times after that! janus' motivation after this was to save the man he loved and the god he was now devoted to. the full weight of knowledge of the simulation, and the sorceress' actions, were unknown at this point. but she was, quite literally, just getting started.

i don't really have good ending notes here besides the fact that irl, the campaign party split up so it ended :')

ROIBEN

next we have roiben: a drow assassin, who's lore can only be pieced together with scraps of parchment and hearsay (i.e. i haven't decided on it yet ahahah) in a different campaign (with a different DM!) entirely, he was involved in a conflict with a man only known as the Quartermaster, and was well on his way to forming a guild of adventurers to defeat him. unfortunately, one of his allies (another drow) turned on him and poisoned him, killing him!

all i can really say with roiben is that he has vile relationships with almost everybody in his life due to most of his life being spent in the underdark. (isn't that nearly always the case with drow? sheesh) if someone had ever shown him an ounce of kindness, he would have been surprised and paid it back in full - but nobody ever has! :))

roiben is around 85, quite young for a drow in consideration that they live for up to 400 years (according to the wealth of FR lore). in human years, he'd be about 17.

his introduction into edhest was falling quite literally out of the sky into a tavern. he, at the time, had an inkling that he had never been in this land before, the world was unfamiliar to him, and had little to no conscious memory of his time before this day. then he started having flashbacks. memories that weren't his began to flood his mind at seemingly random intervals, and he wanted desperately to make sense of things and piece them together. unbeknownst to him, the memories were ones that janus had made. all he inherited was a lifetime of trauma and even more amnesia. his timeline, in canon, happens before the events of baldur's gate 3, but not too long before. imo, this is the reason he embraces his urges so easily in baldur's gate. it gives him a sense of purpose, and killing is easy to carry out when you lack the skills to make personal relationships.

the sessions i played him were quite short-lived due to irl stuff, but his crowning achievement in terms of lore was being the first of the tri-soul to meet mordren! mordren is one of the characters that is also really essential to this story, but we'll get more into him later. roiben and co. ran across the tiefling in a mountainside hideout, but they didn't really stop to chat. this was one of the other times moonlight sonata started playing, mysteriously. i wonder if that has anything to do with anything at all. /s :)

FESTÉ

lastly, we have festé, the gods' (apparently) least favourite princess, the them that really ties it all together in the end. festé is a mephistopheles tiefling sometimes ranger, sometimes rogue. you've met them! probably.

what can i say about them? a lot of stuff i've made mention of in this post, this post, this fic chapter and in their tag on my blog in general. their life in edhest takes place after the events in baldur's gate 3, and i can't get into why yet, because the reasons will become clear later in bonding. winks and cries

in edhest, they were part of the group that effectively halted the sorceress and the-who-knows-how-much-time-has-passed-potentially-hundreds-of-years of corruption with the land, the simulation, and life in general. one of their companions, jeinko, was the first to mention that something didn't seem quite right with their surroundings. a simple comment, even: "you can hear the birdsong, right? i don't know about you, but i've never seen a bird in this forest."

and he was right, there were no birds in the forest, just simulated birdsong. then he punched a tree in half (he was a monk) and that was pretty much it, the tree went up i was gonna say like a christmas tree but like a vegas show, like it glitched. and then we all lived in mortal fear of jeinko, the catfolk monk who punched through the simulation for the rest of our days, amen

the jig was up, the only issue now was figuring out the way to stop it. but before all of that, came mordren.

mordren is special: he's a tiefling sorcerer who is unaffected by this particular brand of time magic. he had been doing research for years on how to halt the progression of the sorceress' agenda, and the magic that went along with it. all of his research (and a spell that could potentially break the timeloop and the simulation itself) was in an unassuming cave in a cliff face of the mountains. and one day, a thief found it and stole it. :) he carved what he remembered of the spell into his face, and went about rebuilding his wealth of research from scratch. he has never found the culprit. many years of meeting the same people who do not remember him (as well as his own special backstory) had turned him into a recluse.

festé and mordren met through a comedy of errors. being that, after a long battle one night, festé happened to bathe in the wrong waterfall in front of the wrong cliff, and almost ended up losing their life due to the right sorcerer. this was another time that moonlight sonata played. :)) long story short, mordren ended up joining the party for a time, until another time jump happened and he disappeared.

the next time festé heard of him, a mysterious sorcerer was holding an arguably more mysterious contest for groups of adventurers to guess his true name - as it had been lost to time. festé didn't remember him or his name until they made eye contact. so romantic

this was the last time moonlight sonata played, because the gang was back together, and the only thing on their schedule was to take down the sorceress. cue a very matrix-esque scene

of all of them busting out in the real world. borisu and jeinko didn't make it, unfortunately. :(

anyway, the sorceress was finally defeated, and the timeloop was effectively broken! after five years irl of trying to finish this campaign

LASTLY...

another interesting bit of context regarding mordren and festé is that mordren. remembers. everything. every time they've met, every kiss, every touch, every wayward glance, every soft whisper of his name. every. timeline. and when a time jump happens, there's no use for the vessel body anymore. he's seen festé keel over and be a dead lump every time he meets them again. it's only a matter of time, really. nobody can really predict it, but it's as sure as death taxes!

OKAY... SO WHAT IS THE POINT?

why did i give you all of this context? well, now that the wedding chapter of bonding. is out, you might start to notice funky passages like this one:

Festé could hear the music before they reached the far end of the aisle. It was a slow melody, one that could easily be mistaken for a dirge. It had a hypnotic, dream-like quality about it that the tiefling could have sworn was familiar, but only just. They grasped for a moment, trying to recall where they had heard it first, but the moment of realization didn't come. The melody reached a small peak, climbing an octave as Festé started up the aisle. They closed their eyes as it climbed back down slowly, getting lost for a moment in a memory they had no idea of the source. They imagined themself walking into a clearing, one they had never seen before in their life. Their eyes snapped open and they shook their head. Wyll pulled at their arm gently, and smiled.

seems a little out of place, doesn't it?

well, i'll leave that for you to decipher. happy hunting! ♡

[chevvy-yates]

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Double Sleeved Long Sleeve by @johnau6ust & @veegeealvarez.

[ask-the-6-souls]

This question feels directed to the creator themselves but is there any rules when it comes to ocs/characters interacting with the kids?

OOC: I guess the big one is not to have canon characters- either from UT or UTY- interact with the kids. There's a piece of worldbuilding I want to establish (that has been partially done so but not explicitly yet), but aside from that, I don't think so!

[zethransolaris]

Tethys Deyalash

Ayyy it's the revamped version of my first OC!! I wanted to have a current version of his design for Art Fight this year, and here he is!!

[cerealmonster15]

while im here. take my stupid dog son and also sebeks there too this time. i think i decided he is in fact a first year in pomefiore and ALSO on the track team w/jack and juice. let him run. set him free. ok bye

[skydreamplayzz]

Experiment gone wrong 🧍‍♂️👍

(he's gonna kill it later 👏)

Just drawing this now bc i wanna use my drawing time to play project sekai.. So this is lazy 🤧

[pelcrow]

my oc Leah ! she's goin through a lot but she tries her best to be a force of positivity!