#reaver: lol wild anyway

[cake-warlock]

Thinking about Sparrow talking to Reaver one day during a bad depersonalization/dissociation episode, very quietly whispering “What if…what if Sparrow died that night in the castle…? What if…I’m something else…something just piloting this body?”

And Reaver being so uncomfortable and sort of blowing her off (“What nonsense! What else would you be, foolish girl?”) because it touches far to close to how he feels about his life in Oakvale (though perhaps less LITERAL than how Sparrow feels)

[cosmictyto]

I feel like I’m on a roll with art so I’m milking this phase for all its worth, lol (also, omg. Somewhat decent looking humans. I never thought I’d get here :,) )

Anyways, my Fable 2 brainworms have reawakened so I finally designed the Sparrow I’ve baked in my brain for years now. This is her post-game during what are her late 30s, early 40s. 

Feel free to ask about her if you’re interested/curious about anything!

~ TWs! Mentions of EDs and light mentions of ableism and PTSD ~

“Clover ????,” A.K.A. Sparrow, the Hero of Bowerstone/the Hero of Bower Lake, (occasionally) Ranger - she/her - single - sexuality: it’s complicated - Alignment: Lawful good (with some sins, as a treat)

Final choice - Sacrifice

“Oggie” - Loyal companion - Breed: good boy

Current Residence - Brightwood Tower

Other Owned Properties - Brightwood Farm & Reaver’s Manor

Abilities

Mainly utilizes Skill & Will styles, but is also tough and handy with swords. Her preferred spells are Time Control, Vortex, and Blades. She used to use Inferno, but has since fallen out of using it in combat.

Stealth - After several incidents where she’s been caught off-guard (mainly the Thag & Howling Halls incidents,) she prefers to come into situations with as many advantages as she can. Taking an almost sneaky, rogue-like approach to missions and fights. Her full combat outfit includes the gloves + mask to hide her active will lines as much as she can. If she can’t take enemies out from a distance she’ll use crowd-control spells to turn the tide of the fight in her favor.

Survival Skills - During her youth, part of her hero training involved getting dropped off into the deep woods to hunt and forage alone with nothing but a knife (well, not completely alone. She had her dog.) As an adult she’s developed a respect and admiration for the wilds and would rather take roughing it in the woods over any crowded town. There’s a peace to the forests and coasts of Albion that she’d never found in a city.

Personality

Shy and introverted, mostly. She doesn’t really care for being around people and hates the pressure that’s on her whenever she’s in town. She could especially feel the hundreds of eyes on her whenever she entered any major city and it’s always put her on edge. These are thoughts/feelings she needed to push aside during her campaign against Lucien, but now that her “job’s” been done she’s allowed herself to mostly recede out of the public eye.

She’s somewhat serious and doesn’t want others to see through the walls she’s put up. If you’re lucky, you might see a smirk if you’re amusing. However, she does have a slight wild streak if you can coax it out of her. Mainly through drink. Hammer’s the only one who can really get her going while sober, though.

Despite her tough exterior, Sparrow has a gentle, generous, and kind side to her. During her early years she’d spare whatever extra coins she had to any orphans, travelers, or beggars she came across. But, once Theresa claimed the Spire and Sparrow bought Brightwood Farm from Giles, she found herself offering her home to those in need. The farm’s become a sort of mix between orphanage and abuse refuge where people Sparrow trusts can rebuild their lives out in the forests of Brightwood. Just like Sparrow did during her childhood within the Dweller Camp near Bower Lake. However, the place’s gotten full. So crowded that she moved over to the tower so she could get some peace and quiet and visit with the others when she’s prepared to.

As she’s gotten older, though, she’s just felt tired and worn down. Lonely, even. During her hero days she at least had Hammer. And even when she didn’t she had her mission to focus on. But with no mission and the other three heroes gone she doesn’t have anyone she can relate to. Most people find her too intimidating to talk to, or they’re star-struck and don’t fully see her as a person. There was a brief period where her loneliness grew too strong. The time between her final encounter with Lucien and when she got her dog back. After that fateful trip to Knothole Island.

Conditions:

Her Stutter - Sparrow’s had a stutter ever since she was little. Rose did her best to help her sister by writing stories, teaching her to read out loud, and remembering to be calm and supportive when practicing. But, because she was a child (and in, what? the equivalent of the 1800s?) she never had much progress. The other kids teased Sparrow so much for her speech issues that she grew embarrassed each time she spoke. One day, she just stopped. Save for one or two short words. When Rose passed, Sparrow spent the rest of her adolescence mute. As an adult, she’s healed some and opened up more to others. But, really, only around those she trusts. Mainly Hammer.

She mainly struggles with syllable repetition as well as prolonging sounds. The hardest sounds for her are mainly consonants like hard Ds, Ts, Bs, and Ps and will even drop these if they’re at the end of a word. Example: “Do-do-don’ go tha’ way.”

Regarding sound prolongation, it’s the “sh,” “s,” and “w” sounds she gets stuck on. But it’s less common than syllable repetition. Examples: “Sssssure, I’ll have some.” “Ssssometimes it’s frustrating.” “Wwwwhere di-did you go?”

When concentrating on getting a word out she’ll tilt her head, furrow her brow, close her eyes, and her jaw will start to tighten. Also, if she’s standing, she sways in place a bit and will fidget with whatever’s in her hands/whatever’s nearby. But those aren’t specifically secondary characteristics of her stutter, but rather self-soothing techniques from the anxiety spike she feels when really getting tripped up.

She’s not sure why, but she doesn’t stutter when she sings (it uses a separate part of the brain but she doesn’t know that. 1800s and all.) Singing/songwriting has been one of the few pleasures discovered post-Lucien as she finally feels like she’s found a way to express herself without much grief from herself or others. Her favorite thing is to head down to the pond next to the tower, sit by one of the large oaks, and just sing with Oggie snoozing nearby. (For a voice comparison, I imagine she’d sound similar to Ryn Weaver with that kind of neat warbley sound.)

Food insecurities - Growing up on the streets as an urchin rarely ensures that you get a consistent meal. Again, Rose did the best she could, but there were so many nights where she had to tell Sparrow stories just to keep their minds off of their cramping stomachs. As an adult, Sparrow’s… weird about food. Mainly going through periods of hoarding food and barely eating only to later binge the larder before it goes bad. The idea of food being left uneaten makes her skin crawl. On the bright side, she can make a mean bone broth from whatever meat she gets her hands on.

As she’s gotten older some of her issues have settled as she’s maintained a more steady stream of food. Gardening’s helped somewhat as seeing the produce actively grow reassures her that food will come. And living in Brightwood does mean hunting/foraging opportunities. But, she does still have occasional fast-binge periods (mainly in winter) and struggles to overcome them.

PTSD/general trauma - I don’t feel like I need to get into this too much as it’s pretty much a given that Sparrow would have some form of deep trauma from all the shit you go through in-game. Most of her nightmares are based around the loss of control she’s felt. Her inability to save her sister, how she couldn’t stop falling out of the castle, how she couldn’t stop the murder of Hammer’s father, how the Spire tried to warp her, how she couldn’t even save Barnum (one of the last living fragments of her childhood.) The list goes on from all over her life.

[m3wllo]

corpse bride au thoughts/hcs/lore bestie?

im so glad you asked! i literally have this almost fully figured out. i need 2 watch corpse bride.

okokokok SO! copy still lives at wammys. wammys is going bankrupt for uh. some fuckin reason idk near keeps blowing money on legos or something. (jk the bills r high and kiras causing issues)

so. wammys offers a collaboration with zayns dads insurance comapny basically like "we'll give you our currently number one successor if you sponser us". which is funny bc the Insurance company (still dont have a name for it) is very pro-kira. and wammys is Not very pro-kira.

it should be noted that zayn and copy r still exes so. snorts. anyways

so yeah stuff happens zayn and copy get engaged and oh look! zayns ring got fucked up somehow and is now like. way WAY too big for him! L

so instead of sending it back copy just. yoinks it and fucks off to the woods 2 practise his vows.

which, may seem weird but. but. copy wasnt planning on staying married to zayn for very long, already having a plan ready to uuhhheheheh (makes a throat cutting motion) zayn.

things go south. kinda.

so copys in the woods and he finds what he believes to be part of a corpse buried in the dirt. and hes like "oh fun practise!"

yada yada That Scene happens sparrow pops out of the dirt (oh right @fabledgalaxies icarus is a part of this lol) like "i do!"

copy gets spooked. very badly. yk how in cartoons there'll be this huge cloud of dust and then a characters like miles away from it? thats Literally what happened with copy.

so funny thing: under certain circumstances copy kinda. looses the ability to hear things. his brain just. forces him to block out noises with the exception of his own breathing and heartbeat.

so he runs to this bridge thinking hes far away enough from sparrow and stops running to catch his breath. and wouldntcha know it sparrow is Right Behind Him! and ccopy ofc cant hear a damn thing

so he like. taps copy on the shoulder, which causes copy to freak the fuck out and his AT fields go fucking WILD man almost disolves into LCL for a sec. but he ends up clipping through the bridge and almost falling into the water. i say almost bc sparrow caught him. lol

and copys freaked out bc he didnt expect A, a body to be attached to the arm and B, the body being sentient.

and thats all ive got so far! btw reaver is Also involved with this somehow. i know how in my mind but. hold on

so sparrow drags copy 2 his husband, reaver, like "look what i found :D"

so yeah husband of my husband is also my husband. no idea what happens after all of this (yes i do but. yknow) edit: hiiii its 10:30 am i wanted 2 add the entire time copys spritinign through the woods in fear sparrow is keeping a very calm walking pace like right behind him