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bromeoanddudeliet · 22 days

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from the Tav Ask Post but... 22 and 1? 🤔

Thank you for responding!! I super appreciate you!! 🥹💖

# 1: What would your Tav's greetings be (at different levels of approval)?

I’m actually officially working on Tesni’s responses ironically!! I’ll post them when they’re all done but here’s negative through positive approval for you!!

# 22: How is your Tav's relationship with their family? Their parents?

So this one is a little more complex lol 😂 Tesni’s mom died when she was around 8 years old (Tesni never knew her father, nor he about her, so he never left just never knew she existed), Tesni was playing around in Wildshape, and drew hunters near her home, in a more rural area, just outside of Baldur’s Gate. Tesni’s mom was the first to spot the hunters, tried to step in between Tesni and the hunter’s arrows, and unfortunately she was seriously injured as a result. Tesni being a child and scared easy, ran off into the woods where she was found by her eventual mentor, Maren.

That’s the context behind what happened to her parents but her relationship with them was perfectly normal! Tesni loved her mother very much and her mother her (off topic but her mom was a Selûnite! So Tesni grew up learning Selûnite teachings, which is a part of why Tesni has a tumultuous relationship with the gods because of her mother’s death, and why she eventually heals her relationship with Selûne and becomes her chosen) Tesni never knew her father, her mother left before she found out she was pregnant (Tesni’s mom and dad were adventuring partners) so Tesni never knew here father. I would say she has a little bit of a complex about that, but I think it would be overshadowed by everything that happened with her mom.

Anyways, her relationship with her mother was healthy, and her relationship with her mentor was a lot like Tesni’s relationship with her mother. (That was a mouthful 🤣) Eventually Tesni, after Maren is gone, groups together a bunch of the street kids in Baldur’s gate and they all become something a lot like a family. Tesni and her best friend, Grub, take care of the other kids. Here’s a pic of Tesni and her mom (fun fact! Tesni’s name means “the warmth of the sun” in Welsh, so Tesni’s mom call her “sunbeam”!)

ANYWAYS Thank you again for responding!! 😭💖

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marshmallowloves · 2 years

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Zelda OC #4 - Tesni

>> (list of posts for other OCs)

(this has become kind of a trend - this post is very long under the cut, due to how much development went into this character. You have been warned, and I am very sorry if you accidentally click "read more" on desktop and have to scroll through it all kdjfhg)

I had Iphenia as my main Zelda OC for a long while, and replayed Skyward several times for the sake of dialogue so I could have more shipping fuel with Cawlin and meme material for Ghirahim's weird ass. Not long after, my friend lovingly introduced me to Hyrule Warriors on her WiiU. I'd never touched a Warriors game before, so this was an absolute blast to play, especially co-op. I remembered playing mostly as Midna, probably because I also had a massive crush on her at the time. Since I was coming fresh off the trails of Skyward, I also messed around with Fi and Ghirahim, who were both very fun to play as (despite people's protests that Fi was one of the weakest characters, but I had no trouble with her git gud deku scrublords). Slowly, Ghirahim became my preference for several reasons - not only was Midna was a bit tough to get the hang of, but Ghirahim's attacks were quick and powerful, Anri Katsu did a fantastic job with his voice this time around, and... oh. Oh no.

It's worth mentioning that around this time, I started realizing that I kind of had a thing for voices. Despite hearing a lot of Ghirahim's voice while playing his source game, I was too preoccupied with the fact that he was a total creep the whole time to really care for it. However, I'm sure Mr. Katsu was told to crank up the Large Ham factor to 11 for his Warriors reprise - which included the anger, the boastful laughs, and the, um... bizarrely suggestive sounds of self-preening. And that's when Marshy broke. This was the first time I had gained some form of attraction to a character I had previously mocked and tossed aside in favor of others. And I went into such hard denial about it that I created an entirely separate OC, with the intention of tossing her aside too, all for the sake of venting this weird sexual frustration (because let's face it - that's what it was). Enter Tesni.

Tesni's first iteration was very different from where she is now. In fact, I think she went through the most change of all my OCs, in terms of background, personality, and appearance.

The very first paper about her was simply a written concept, where I labeled her a "secret Zelda OC" due to my utter shame in my attraction for the Demon Lord, as well as labeled her simply as "Ghirahim's slave." Bear with me here, even though I know you're probably looking into the camera like you're on The Office.

Tesni's original purpose, first and foremost, was supposed to be a vessel, entirely separate from myself, for the purpose of exploring this weird attraction. My brain, for whatever the hell reason, figured that if Ghirahim would be into anything sexually, then his sadistic ass would favor a vessel of his own - someone to use to vent his frustrations, to play with however he liked, to relieve any stress of thhe'd want to be the master of a sex slave okay

Despite the mindless, baseless, loveless and purely indulgent nature of her creation, a small part of me wanted to add a bit of substance. I gave her a fancy name and made her a Twili - the latter of which I specifically remember doing because of a post I came across about making a good Zelda OC, which stated in one part something along the lines of "make your OC of a race that isn't very commonly used, like a Rito or a Twili!" and I was like "oh hell yeah, I love Twili!"

But at the end of the day, she was still just Ghirahim's property, as evidenced in the clothing she wears in the image above. Skimpy, yet reminiscent of the fabulous Sword Spirit. And even though this was the case, I didn't write or draw anything about it. Everything pretty much consisted of saucy daydreams and images in my brain that came and went and didn't pay rent. Nevermind the question of how in the world a character from the timeline of Skyward Sword came to possess a Twili from (presumably) thousands of years in the future.

...Except, somewhere down the line, I must have felt the need to justify this bizarre crossover. Or I started becoming more serious and less wanton about my attraction to Ghirahim. Or both. I honestly can't remember, but whatever the case, I decided to pull a small origin story (and a slight redesign) from the place where all my greatest ideas come from - my ass.

(The first drawing here is from 2015, when I first started developing this origin story. The second is from 2018, after I'd fully established the story I have now - and I also gave her outfit the sleeve from her original design~)

Now Tesni was a young girl who had become very close with Princess Midna after the latter helped Link defeat Ganon - to the point where the two Twili have an unspoken but mutual romantic affection for one another. My way of shoehorning in my less shameful crush on Midna, I suppose. Tesni turned from a blank slate into a sweet, demure, and rather airheaded ball of curiosity who loved to roam and explore the realm she called home. One day during a walk, she comes across a strange red light that pulls her in and drags her to another world, where the Demon Lord greets her and bullshits an explanation as to why he brought here there.

This explanation became more and more thought out as I continued to descend further into "ah shit I actually like this pile of trash" hell over time, but I can't exactly create an extensive or detailed timeline of development from this point on. Adding more substance to Tesni as a character and her backstory was a very gradual process, and thus it's hard for me to divide it into a step-by-step like my other posts. All I can really say is that over the course of a couple years, Tesni went through a vague process of:

blank vessel to vent sexual frustration

vessel With Some Substance™

a whole entire OC

okay I'm putting way too much time into this

self insert (for various reasons)

...as well as share the (relatively) condensed version of the story I've settled on. Just be warned that it really makes zero canonical sense, because to this day it's purely for self-indulgent purposes - that much has not changed - and I'm really not too worried about keeping true to canon. 😂 Also it's lengthy, so be warned!

The current story starts out much like before - Tesni, a close confidant and mutual crush to Princess Midna, wanders the paths of her home in the Twilight Realm, eventually being lured and captured by a strange red light into an unfamiliar world. She is greeted by a man who calls himself Ghirahim. He had performed a magic ritual, intending to summon a being with enough power to revive his master, the rightful ruler of this realm. At first glance, Tesni doesn't look like she'd fit the bill - Her timidity is palpable, and she's hesitant to speak to him. But Ghirahim is certain he performed the summoning perfectly as he always does, and doesn't wish to lose out on an opportunity to further his goals. So he does his best not to scare her away and spins a sugar-coated lie...

According to Ghirahim, his master was a glorious king who ruled the entire realm and was respected by his subjects, but was wrongfully imprisoned by jealous and self-righteous creatures who yearned for his position of power. The means that these villains used to seal him away could only be broken by a power so strong it rivals even the gods' - and Ghirahim is confident that with enough training, Tesni can help him achieve this power, so that his master can regain his rightful place as king of this world and punish those who stole his throne.

Though Tesni is hesitant, it tugs at her heartstrings to hear that this world is without its rightful ruler - especially since what Midna had to go through was so similar. She eventually agrees, and Ghirahim begins to train her while they both eagerly search for the only power that can break the seal - the Triforce. During this long stretch of time, the two grow closer, all while Midna frantically searches the Twilight Realm for her lost friend.

Somewhere down the line, Ghirahim and Tesni must separate and regroup, and the former later returns bruised and battered. He reveals that he was able to see his master for a short time, but got into a scrape during his visit - and he accidentally lets slip that it was his master that left him like this. Tesni of course questions why such a "glorious and respected" king would treat his own second-in-command in such a way. Up to this point, Tesni's cooperation has been crucial to their success in finding the Triforce. But Ghirahim not only fears this will cost him his best chance at doing so, a small part of him also fears of losing Tesni as a companion.

He takes a huge risk and comes clean about his master's true identity and nature - Demise, a ruthless and cruel demon who desires power for the sake of power, and who will do worse than just renounce Ghirahim as his right-hand man (or rather, tool) if the latter fails in his task to revive him. Thus, Ghirahim had no choice but to string Tesni along, though he feels guilty for it after having come to know her as a person.

She's understandably hurt at the prospect of being used by him, and it makes her question what else he's lied about - namely, Ghirahim's own care for Tesni that he's supposedly grown to have. But, true to her nature, her care for him is still very much real, and it pains her more to see that he's being treated in this way. So she suggests that they keep searching for the Triforce, but for a different purpose - to create a new, separate realm in which Demise can reside and have an endless bounty of power and slaughter at his disposal, without actually affecting anyone.

Since Ghirahim was literally created to serve Demise, he has an inherent and incessant need to please him, but he also has a degree of autonomy (shown in game by the fact that he's not stuck in the seal with Demise, he makes his own decisions and crafts his own plans to revive him, etc) - and in this instance, Ghirahim makes the decision to protect both himself and Tesni while still fulfilling his master's wish.

At some point (which is to say that I... haven't actually thought this part all the way through kjdfg), Midna finds the portal that Tesni had gone through, and searches for her in this realm as well...

And that's the end of the story I had written. Yeah, no, really. I completely blanked at this point. I always vaguely imagined that when Midna found the two of them, she and Ghirahim would fight but be stopped by Tesni somehow and things would be fine. I wanted to ship the three of them together - or rather, I wanted to ship Tesni with both Ghirahim and Midna, and have the latter two just kind of tolerate each other for the sake of their shared love interest. But I never knew how to go about writing that, so that's where it just kind of... drops off. XD

Perhaps Midna finally finds Tesni and Ghirahim just when they have the Triforce within their reach, and after learning of what happened, they both agree to let Tesni make her wish, which lets Demise get his own realm and lets Tesni be with the two people she's come to love most. It'd be a total BS explanation, but hey! That's kind of what this whole AU is about.

In the end, Tesni (as well as her ship with Ghirahim and Midna) was never about making a decent Zelda OC to one-up the old ones. She started with self-indulgence, and ended with self-indulgence. At this point, I've devoted so much time into this character and ship, not to mention that it got me through some less-than-good times during my school days, that it's become too precious to me to change much, and honestly that's perfectly fine with me.

Tesni, I think, is a reminder that not every character you make has to be "good" or "believable." Sometimes you just want to have a little gal be in love with her tall girlfriend and taller evil boyfriend, and it costs zero dollars and zero cents and is not illegal to do. ❤️

#zelda #legend of zelda #loz #oc #Tesni

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