#oc: harley vuong

[antariies]

he has a way with words

#not sure which way. but a way #gw2 #guild wars #oc: harley vuong #xoxo happy valentines dayyyyyy

[hawkepockets]

GW2 CHARACTER PAGE

Thief

Pepiya PEP-ee-yuh

she/him 🪼 45 🪼 daredevil/deadeye/specter

Pact Commander, Statics graduate, ex-Priory tomb raider. Earnest, dry, authoritative, occasionally vindictive, always compassionate, out of touch with civilian social cues. Control freak. Dabbles in Void magic.

Romances: Tarakk & @pyroengi’s Teek.

Voice claim: Colleen O’Shaughnessey (F!asura, GW2)

Necromancer

Toxinologist Tarakk tuh-RACK

he/him 🕷️ 50 🕷️ harbinger

Gorrik & Ankka’s old Inquest mentor. Expert at synthesizing venoms, loves spiders. Narcoleptic & low in life force since a lab “accident” (sabotage) in 1326. Absentminded, compassionate, intense, exists at the intersection of dad jokes & professor humor.

Co-created with @antariies.

Romance: Pepa

Voice claim: Steve Staley (M!asura, GW2)

Mesmer

Prem Ikarion PREM ih-CARE-ee-in

he/him 🐒 32 🐒 martial artist (mirage)

Born a Zephyrite with a knack for disguise glamours, in a happier timeline Prem kept faith with his people and grew into a splendid champion of Vlast. In this one, he went wrong at every turn. Once Anise’s Second Blade/favorite brainwashed goon, now an exile from the Reach, emptied of magic, and half-corrupted by an oni. But he stays silly.

In @antariies’s canon, Harley’s childhood best friend turned worst enemy turned weird boybestie again (homoerotic).

Romances: Canach, Rama

Voice claim: Nolan North (M!human, GW2 • Nathan Drake, Uncharted)

Engineer

Dara Ikarion DAR-uh ih-CARE-ee-in

she/her 🐅 24 🐅 scrapper

Prem’s kid sister, Zephyrite airship engineer & inventor, Claw of Aurene. At 16, Dara survived the Zephyr Sanctum crash and chased after Aerin and the Master of Peace, intent on saving whatever the Master protected. Her hero complex and teenage delusion of invincibility drove her deep into the jungle, where she rocketed past Faolain, Caithe, Ruka, and Commander Pepiya to claim the egg for herself and the Zephyrite people. In that first moment of psychic contact with the unborn baby Aurene, Dara’s young mind was overwhelmed by raw magic and existential terror, forging an invasive, twisted bond between her and the baby dragon and leaving Dara nonverbal, magic-sensitive, and wilder than before. Reckoning with that trauma and Aurene’s ability to take over Dara’s body took years, but now their closeness is a point of pride, not a cause of horror. Dara is happy to call herself Aurene’s Claw. Intense, contrary, bright. ROCKET PUNCH‼️ YIAH‼️

Romance: Yao

Voice claim: Brenda Song (London Tipton, Zach & Cody)

Ranger

temporary look while leveling

Halimaka hah-lee-MAH-kah

they/he/she/it 🧪 33 🧪 untamed

Once a Flame Legion inquisitor called Halima Eyesear whose investigation into the nascent Molten Alliance led her to run afoul of “B” (Scarlet Briar). Their body was gifted to the Toxic Alliance, who modified it to see how Toxic mad science and Flame magic combined. The resulting creature, “Halimaka,” sizzles with deadly heat and poison vapors and drips burning acid with every step. It has no memory of its previous life with Flame, only a dizzying sense of lost community and purpose, and the worry that it wouldn’t like who it used to be even if it could remember. Undomesticated, wistful, weird.

Romance: —

Voice claim: Geraldine Blecker (Shale, DA:O)

RETIRED: Gilwynne GIL-win

they/them 🌿 31 🌿 druid

My oldest GW2 OC, from 2017! I still have them in game, but they’re so off model they’re unplayable. :^(

Thirdborn sylvari, intended to become the avatar of a second Tree but denied their Wyld Hunt to keep free will. Fell to corruption twice (Nightmare and Mordrem), got up twice. Haughty, blunt, sensual, hungry for knowledge of magic and their own limits. Accomplished alchemist, mender, and Shaper. Hylek lover.

Romances: Trahearne & @antariies’s Commander Harley Vuong.

Voice claim: Shohreh Aghdashloo (Shala’Raan, Mass Effect • Roshan, Assassin’s Creed • Grayson, Arcane • Avasarala, The Expanse)

Warrior

Acheloe ACK-uh-LO-wee

she/they/it 🪲 15 🪲 bladesworn

Dragon’s Watch guildie, Pale Reaver. A Valiant who’s been given an endless series of mucky, ugly, tedious, small, and seemingly suicidal Wyld Hunts since her awakening. Four-armed, winged, and oddly jointed, Achi has evolved to look more and more like an unkillable insect, the more dangerous & degrading jobs they’ve survived. Caledon sylvari consider her a bad omen. Her latest Hunt, the first she’s ever resisted, is to die for the Commander. Her luckier podtwin, Boru, died in Maguuma. Solemn, prickly, devoted.

Romance: —

Voice claim: Ben Prendergast (Patroclus, Hades)

Elementalist

Cirrus Kitetail SEE-rus KITE-tail

she/her ☁️ 33 ☁️ hammer weaver

Dragon’s Watch guildie, Zephyrite. Born Decima (“Deck”) Whiptail of Iron Legion, she was piloting a copter in a tryout for her grandmother’s airborne warband in 1320 on the day Kralkatorrik flew over. The copters lost power in the arcane storm, but she kept hers aloft with her air elementalism, which she’d always hidden in the fahrar, and brought herself and her grandmother Tenar Kitewing safely down on the far side of the newly formed Brandscar. Tenar granted her the honorary warband name Kitetail, and they wandered northern Elona together, struggling to survive and find a way back to their Legion, or failing that, a new home & purpose in Elona. The Zephyrites were the answer. When the Zephyr Fleet was able to offer passage back to Ascalon years later, Tenar and her granddaughter, now called Cirrus, refused, having fallen in love with their new people. Cirrus joined Dragon’s Watch after the Dry Top crash. Bubbly, combative, short attention span.

Romance: —

Voice claim: Mara Junot (Nyoka, The Outer Worlds)

Guardian

Razan Meziani ruh-ZAHN mez-ee-AH-nee

she/her 🌞 229 🌞 willbender

A rebel Sunspear inspired by Twilight Oasis. Formerly a cheerleader for the Sunspear Order, infatuated with Amala, until a series of atrocities during the invasion of Istan convinced her Elona belonged to Joko already. The lich king promised she could “have” Amala, once Amala had sworn fealty to him, but neglected to mention they’d both be Awakened first. Raz originally developed her fighting style to help support the Sunspears’ legendary dervishes by specializing in their weak points, but after turning coat she became Joko’s favorite dervish hunter, an expert at reading their footwork, getting inside their guard, and breaking their divine channels with brutal stuns.

As a Free Awakened, jumped to defend Istan from a kryptis incursion and chased the monsters through their own rift back into Nayos. Wayfinder/SOTO protagonist.

Romances: Amala…????

Voice claim: Mallorie Rodak (Frieren, English dub of Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End)

Revenant

Kishi Genji KISH-ee GEN-jee

he/him 🦢 mid 30s 🦢 vindicator

An affable mid-ranking Canthan noble of Kurzick descent, whose family had mostly fallen out of favor with Ihn’s court until Genji started talking to an echo of Saint Viktor and channeling his power.

An arranged marriage was set up with Onasis Ai, a noble of Luxon blood who was in touch with Archemorus. Though they didn’t choose each other, Ai and Genji have become best friends and devoted partners—but are unsure whether pursuing an actual romance is something they want, or just a pressure from their families, class, and the ancient lovers’ voices in their heads.

They’re both lavished and threatened with the court’s attention as a result of their magic, auspicious marriage, and developing combat skills, but they have a secret that threatens their status far more than any previous generation’s unwise investments or misplaced courtly alliances… their very young daughter Himiko has started talking about an imaginary friend she calls the Guard Man, who follows her around wearing old timey armor and dragging his swords along the floor, and gives her the power to petrify her parents with a frustrated wail, and turn small objects into jade.

Romance: Kishi Ai

Voice claim: David Costabile (Gale Boetticher, Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul)

Not In Game

Gale/Nan Ikaros NAHN & Glow/Phaibun Ikarion FYE-beun ih-CARE-ee-in

she/her 🎏 60s

Prem and Dara’s mothers. Co-captains of the Zephyrite airship Ikaros. Nan, a fire elementalist, grew up as a poor Luxon jade miner. She fell in love with Phaibun, an air elementalist and “princess” of the Zephyr fleet as a captain’s only child, while Phaibun visited the Canthan imperial court many years ago. Phaibun is elegant, nitpicky, and cool. Nan is skeptical, spirited, and pragmatic. They call Prem “Monkey” and Dara “Tiger.”

Eun Kattarins YOON CAT-uh-rinz

she/her 🐆 80s (norn middle age)

Hoelbrak’s ambassador to the Iron Legion for 50 years. A sly, charismatic, militant snow leopard norn who walked effortlessly among the charr, but always put her people’s survival first at the expense of all else, even her own blood. Longtime on-and-off lover of Eir Stegalkin. Mother of @pact-valkyrie’s Britta, Jormag’s last and most terrible fraenir. Killed by her daughter in 1333, survived by her brother Eiko (@antariies).

Romances: Eir & unknown other norn

Malachi Olowe MAL-uhk-eye OH-lo-way

she/him 🦂 66

An Elonian bounty hunter, born Olmakhan but too restless and greedy for their way of life. Took her surname from a human deadeye she got training from, then left for dead. Double-crossed her employers one too many times, got caught between the scorned Sunspears and the punishing Mordant Crescent, and was killed in 1327. Left a mate and cub behind. Years later, snuck out of the Mists under cover of the Battle of Dragonfall. Now roaming Tyria causing low-grade havoc, pursued by demons, envoys, and Priory operatives frantic to put him back in hell where he belongs. Great storyteller. Very funny.

Romance: Her mate Dinah

Ikeda Keino EE-kay-dah KAY-no

she/her 👹 15

The half-possessed Jade Brotherhood teen Prem rescued from Behemoth’s Gap. Even after months without the oni’s influence, Keino is a bitter, snappish, self-isolating girl who resents any attempt to care for her. She wants to become an investigative journalist and take down Xunlai Jade once and for all by exposing its corruption, but to do that she has to survive high school in Kaineng. Has a twisted bond with Prem, ever since the oni made her confuse him for her father.

Farrah Whitebear FAIR-uh WHITE-bear

she/her 🐗 32

Knut Whitebear’s adoptive daughter. An elegant, serious young norn who gave up her special interest in jotun magic to serve under Jhavi in the Vigil, hoping to eliminate Jormag’s existential threat to the norn and leave them all free to pursue their peacetime passions—a decision that got her stranded, alone, freezing from the inside out in Bjora Marches. She got better, though. Mostly. Follower of the inexorable Boar Spirit.

Romance: @pact-valkyrie’s Sovhi

Hemera, Duke of False Hope HEM-uh-ruh

she/her 🌸 31

The Nightmare Courtier who mentored Gil when they were a sapling. Hemera was a secondborn who developed without protection from Mordremoth’s influence due to the Pale Tree and the Dream itself being stretched too thin at the time. Despite her ethereal beauty and tyrannical-but-nurturing “fairy queen” persona, Hemera has never felt anything except hunger and momentary satisfaction. She learned to Shape other sylvari’s bodies from watching her student Gil at work, and carved out a place for herself high in the Court by offering to change courtiers—either for beauty or efficacy in torture and raids—for favors. Hemera temporarily corrupted in Maguuma, but when Mordremoth fell silent in death, she twisted her body back to a parody of its old shape and started a new Nightmare sect in Siren’s Landing, where she preys on sapling researchers who wander too far from camp. She considers it her Dark Hunt to create a garden of mutilated sylvari that swallows the whole world, as Mordremoth’s jungle failed to do.

Romances: @antariies’s Knight Arahn

Jubilee Shaw JOO-buh-lee SHAW

she/her 🪆49 (mind’s age)/29 (body’s age)/283 (chronological age; born 1053)

The Ascalonian Hero of Prophecies, accidentally possessing her descendant’s body after a botched attempt at channeling her as a revenant legend. Out of place and time, an elementalist in a necromancer’s slightly-too-small body, blamed for killing her great-great-grandchild when she didn’t even want to return, Billy struggles to find a place in this bright and hostile new Tyria.

Khepri Chisisi KEP-ree chiss-SEE-see

she/her 🌪️ 83 at her death in 1135

The Hero of Nightfall, a legendary dervish. Long dead.

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #long post #gonna post with a readmore so it doesn’t blot out the sun on anyone’s dash #ama about these fellas ALWAYS #pocket talk #oc: pepa #oc: tarakk #oc: prem #oc: dara #oc: gil #oc: eun #oc: malachi #oc: acheloe #oc: cirrus #oc: genji #oc: raz #oc: halimaka #character page

[antariies]

for the sun/moon poll i said harley was more sun-coded bc out of the two its more accurate but if he were ANY celestial body metaphor. then hands down he would be a black hole :3 and canach is the only person genre-savvy enough to realize this

#gw2 #oc: harley vuong #canach can put a name to it but ROX actually caught the vibe first before anyone #its why she left 💔

[antariies]

oh yeah harleys bday was yesterday. hes 35 now 👍🏼

#antalks #oc: harley vuong #CONGRATS ON THE MID-THIRTIES KING!!!!!!

[antariies]

in the (saint) nick of time, harley is ready for wintersday!

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #oc: harley vuong #HE IS WAITING UNDER THE TREE FOR U ! #my little. peppermint teddy graham #we have no desks but thats okay i set up the puters on cardboard boxes

[antariies]

in exchange for his services (art) i provide @bjoramarches with goods (kissies)

#and cuddles and meals and **** *** #LOOK AT MY SON!!!!!! OUR SON!!!!!!!!! #oc: harley vuong

[antariies]

unusual muse associations

tagged by @i-mybrunettelady !! ty nero <3

Commander Harley Vuong

seasoning: lemongrass

weather: partly cloudy! equal amounts of sunshine and shade with one (1) surprise rain shower that lasts five minutes. just to keep you on your toes.

color: dark, saturated blurple

sky: early morning when both the moon and sun are visible

magical power: time manipulation ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )

plant: blackberry bush

weapon: shield and rapier

school subject: music and geometry

social media: AOL instant messenger. he’s old.

makeup product: glitter eyeshadow

candy: cotton candy

fear: getting trapped in a timeloop... again :3c

ice cube shape: little spheres

method of long-distance travel: these boots were made for walkin’ 🚶🏻‍♀️

piece of stationary: blurple glitter gel pen. the end is a bit chewed up!

three emojis: 😈🎪🎶

celestial body: black hole

tagging: @dreamersterrace, @dalennaugw, @where-is-caithe, @kerra-and-company, @sunbat-commander, @thorns-and-brambles, @eggsordium, @yesterdaysallknowing, @commander-wame, @townofcan

#gw2 #oc: harley vuong #this was fun :D #had to rly sit down and THINK about some of these #tag games

[antariies]

just a couple days ago i was complaining about the lack of multiple dark saturated blurple dyes. dreams really do come true

#my problem was that fear was the only dark saturated purple dye #and it looks GREAT on the pants but it doesnt match on the chest and gloves. too pink #but now...... NOW!!!! #cant believe harley is walking around wearing dyes called fear and anguish. fuckin edgelord #gw2 #oc: harley vuong

[antariies]

thinking about aurene again. she and harley have a much closer relationship than what’s shown in canon—the two are basically dad and daughter. and thanks to harley’s influence, his aurene speaks more casually and musically, jokes around more often, and loves to try new food despite not needing to eat anymore.

their closeness is a double-edged sword, however! in his efforts to give her the most loving and normal childhood he could, harley ended up coddling her too much. she’s still reliant on him after she ascends, and it comes back to bite her in the ass when he gets shot by bangar and has to step away for the rest of ibs. his absence is something neither of them anticipated or prepared for and now dragon’s watch is arguing over what to do without the commander and they’re looking to her for Elder Dragon Wisdom and she’s like “I DUNNO!!!! 😰 just because i can see every possible future doesn’t mean i know what to do with that information!! this is so hard i want my dadddd 😭” she’s immature and sorely ill-equipped to handle a civil war.

it feels so unfair. of course she’s not ready for this, she’s never had to be before! one second she was a teenager burning herself out with brazen heroics in lws4 and now she’s the elder dragon of prismatic light. aurene thought she would at least get a few years to ease into it. she and harley also both operate on different timescales compared to everyone else bc their senses of time are warped; harley’s due to being a chrono and aurene’s due to being an immortal dragon. who was Raised by that chrono. both of them are very ‘big picture’ thinkers!

so when aurene suddenly finds herself having to make these big decisions, she calls her dad consults her champion. harley’s advice is to use her future vision to compare potential timelines, see which one has the best ending, and reverse engineer it from there. on paper it sounds pretty good, but by the time she finishes comparing and actually chooses a future, she comes back to dragon’s watch like “OKAY, you guys need to convince smodur to—“ “aurene, smodur got sniped two weeks ago 🤨 he’s dead.”

she takes too long deliberating and makes bad calls that get people killed AND jormag is in her head. she might as well be down for the count as far as the fighting is concerned. @hawkepockets’s prem ikaros is there to fill in for harley for the rest of ibs, but it’s just a horrible time for everyone involved :-]

#lost steam towards the end there but ehhhhhh #the important thing. is that this ^ is how i explain aurenes passiveness during ibs #second most important thing is that harleys aurene is a bit more ourple than canon. thats all #shes immature. shes lost without her dad. she thinks shes smart enough to debate jormag as an equal. SHES MY SPECIAL LITTLE PRINCESS!!!!! #when eod rolls around tho harley and aurene are BACK baby ! #every time i get Aurene Brain i just listen to sad machine on loop. its her song #gw2 #oc: harley vuong

[antariies]

so excited for harley and prem’s wizard 101 arc. they’re having one of their usual boybestie calls and harley brings up the disappearing wizard tower cause he read it in the news and thinks it’s funny. prem asks What Wizard Tower. harley says you know, in garenhoff. prem says Who? harley says no dude it’s a town in kessex hills. you’ve never been to garenhoff? prem says I’ve Never Been To Kessex Hills. harley says YOU’VE NEVER BEEN TO KESSEX HILLS???

then they both pay $25 admission to go see the wizard tower together

#gw2 #harley ‘98% map completion’ vuong and prem ‘the other 2%’ ikaros #and if anyone was wondering pirate 101 >>>> wizard 101 #i prefer the grid over the cards #oc: harley vuong #friend oc: prem

[antariies]

hc that chrono wells are normally just lame pink circles on the ground and any extra ornamentation has to be personally designed by the mesmer themselves. anyway unrelated did u know how much math it takes to make one of these stupid things

this is the graph of all that bullshit up there btw

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #harleys good at math. he just hates it so much #'then why-' ANYTHING for the sake of looking cool. even geometry #thanks to modern technology this was easy for me but harley had to graph this shit by hand #or maybe he borrowed taimis TI-84 who knows #technically he shouldnt have his horns bc he does this before pof but whatever its for BRAND RECOGNITION #my ocs #my art #oc: harley vuong

[antariies]

updated harley’s armor timeline :•] figured he should be wearing actual pact colors when he’s doing actual pact things!

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #vigil and med armor POSER 🫵🏼 #my ocs #oc: harley vuong

[antariies]

harley and caithe both taught aurene how to hunt. caithe taught her how to prowl thru the undergrowth and use stealth magic to pounce on pocket raptors. harley taught her how to leap between tree branches without losing her balance and use mesmer magic to stun birds out of the sky. they would watch aurene splash around in the water and hoot and holler when she came proudly toddling up with a fish in her jaws. no one can beat her at hide-and-seek. theyre her parents oh my GOD theyre her parents _(:’3 」∠)__

#gw2 #oc: harley vuong #when. when u and ur sister-in-law are coparenting a baby dragon. yeagh #mommy issues and daddy issues combine to form. a surprisingly effective duo

[antariies]

prem too

fine. harley and prem

#ask #notpockets #hawkepockets #my ocs #ARE U HAPPY NOW !! #oc: harley vuong

[antariies]

well now i Have to ask about folks' thoughts on logan asjldljkf (and anyone's thoughts on kerra if you want to do that too!) :) @kerra-and-company

harley and logan :•] oh boy.

bit of context! harley spent the first 14 years of his life traveling around kryta with his circus and has only ever had very brief encounters with any form of police (seraph and lionguard) so moving to divinity’s reach where they have THREE whole militant police forces was a big change for him. and his first real interaction with the seraph is after his dad dies in The Accident. where they tell his mom that bc she never officially married his dad, legally she has no claim over his stuff ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and they can’t take anyone to court bc they’re outsiders

they got their hearing, the seraph can’t do shit about it, go home.

so harley is already going in with the mindset of “this place fucking sucks and the ppl in charge can’t/refuse to help” and it’s exacerbated by the seraph, ministry, and shining blade being at each others throats all the time. like why even have three militaries if they’re constantly undermining each other?

with logan specifically. he and harley have this complicated relationship where harley sees him as a washed-up loser cop, but logan sees him as a rebellious troublemaker who has the potential to be a great loyal soldier! he just needs a good mentor figure! to show him how cool being a seraph is :D

except every attempt at trying to bond with harley ends in Disaster bc they’ll be searching minister zamon’s manor in lvl 10 personal story and logan will say something like

thinking harley will agree but he just looks horrified like?? logan you’re the fucking CAPTAIN of the seraph. you are STATE-SANCTIONED you can’t just destroy ppl’s property bc you think they’re rich douchebags.

and then more choice logan lines that make harley go “YOU’RE A COP YOU CAN’T DO THAT”

rinse and repeat. the copaganda is strong with logan and the only reason harley can see thru it is bc he didn’t grow up surrounded by it. if he had lived in divinity’s reach his whole life he definitely would’ve fallen for logan’s friendly “you and i, we’re the good guys! ;) but sometimes i need to go outside the law. that’s where you come in!” hand-on-your-shoulder tone. it’s framed as heroic!

to this day logan still thinks he’s on good terms with harley and thinks of himself as the commander’s old mentor. if asked about it, harley would say bongo the one-eyed was more of a mentor to him than logan ever was.

#ask #kerra-and-company #thanks! :D im gonna answer for kerra im just gonna do it on a whole new post bc this ones already long lol #harley says acab simple as that! #my ocs #gw2 #oc: harley vuong

[antariies]

harley used to speak very colloquially even within professional settings but after moving in with trahearne and gil who both have the same intense, archaic way of phrasing themselves he’s unknowingly adopted some of it.

which is to say ever since lws3 he speaks with a weird mix of too casual and too formal Which Is To Say he sounds like he escaped from a bill and ted movie. bc he’ll say things like “holy fuck dude. what manner of beast is that?” and “oh gods, the void’s like, encroaching upon the southern front and shit. most unrighteous :[“ in his surfer guy accent and not see anything strange about it

#gw2 #oc: harley vuong #harley: hmm strange things afoot at the wizards fief #a more minor and cute turn of phrase hes adopted is taimis double-greeting #she always says hi hi!! and now harley answers his comm with hello hello?