#just a girl and her archfey

[travelbystarlight]

beep beep new oc incoming :3

#her name is Agnyssa and shes an archfey warlock #i think canonically she actually is part of Xanthe's party for a time lol #pink girl squad lol #also technically not a tav bc I dont think she has a tadpole??? i'm still figuring her out #also take wild stab at why she was created lol #i guess i just have a thing for wizards man #bg3 #bg3 oc

[thedeadthree]

-`. i need to be more unhinged about her so here is yana in this picrew. 🥀🌸<3💀

#oc: anasyana an enaviryn #leg.ocs #t: picrews #*holda her up* hiiiiiii my murderous murder muffin <3 #she’s a star elf! she’s an archfey warlock (tasha is her patron! she’s bhaals daughter! my dark urge! in love with one archduke !!!!) #fathers favorite daughter !!!!!!!! #i havent been as unhinged about her here so i bring her in this pic few i found while looking for pictures to intro my bg clowns 🌸💕 #ye olde creative brain has been making clowns and her aesthetics i need to make EDITS of dearie i need to teach myself how to make gifs !!!! #I WANT TO MAKE PRETTY GIFS FOR YANA !!!!! (and learn how to mod for the yanagortash brainworms 🥀🥴 *giggles*) #what do you mean there’s blood on her it’s just strawberry syrup 🥀😌✨🍓 #her house wished for a savior to see the return to their world that was lost to them and they got murder muffin 🌸💕✨😵‍💫🤭 #(also sliiiightly unrelated bc the archduke has the braincell i plan to ship him as well with a few other nondurge clowns <3) #(i will offer lore soon but i love castellan and vaermina having ships with him !!!!!! yanagortash you’ll always have my heart but they’re!) #aaaaanyway y’all are welcome to send asks of my baby girlie i will never not want to talk till the cows come home about her 🌸🥀✨😖 MY BABY!!!! #she’s not evil she’s never done a wrong thing in her life <3 #if yana and una were in the same verse they would be the best of friends i can feel it !!!!!! #she also has a thing with a*starion who i think’ll be ascended in her playthrough? they both should be allowed to be unhinged i think! #sarspira will get vampire pookie un ascended and will resist her urge <3 #OH and she is not the one in my icon that is my sweet girl tissaia <3 i am so so stoked to intro her as well!!!!!! #reading word on the street that the d*urge was created purely by b*haal adds a whole new LAYER to her house wishing for a child of #destiny to save their world they lost bc RAHH at the thought he though OO here’s my opportunity + then created her + they got their ‘savior’ #i think i read its in a note you find AND I HAVE TO FIND THAT NOTE 🥀😵‍💫✨ !!!!!! #like from his own viscera?? INCH RESTING for the lore for yana and what was meant for her VEERY #q #q: from the drafts

[wizardnuke]

beau....ohhuuugh

#youre telling me this character that was originally supposed to have frat boy vibes didn't keep that vibe bc it was a front she had put on #to protect herself... ure saying asshole with a heart of gold over here... angry women supremacy. I think abt her so much all the time #she's The Character I can't look directly at bc. Well. day one when I watched cr and saw her I was like #oh yes this one I love her <3 I understand her <3 and by GOD do I understand her. too much. ow! #characters that scramble your brain #she's so smart and she's so angry and she was talked down to and ignored and treated like a burden for so long ohhh #she's not a burden. she made a show of shoving her way into tmn but they had always wanted her there #even when they fought. when she started shit or when someone else started shit and she spoke up #she's an extra perspective she's incredibly loyal she wants people to be safe and sane and she helps with that in her way #oh my god and she is so nonjudgemental. caleb told her his backstory in ep fuckin 18. that's SO early. and she gave him some shit for it #for a while but when it comes down to it she didn't tell the others and she didn't start a fight then and there #she cares. she's just not the most careful. but then she learns how to be. ohhhhhuggh #her character growth was her learning that she's respected and an equal and feeling less like a burden and more like a friend and getting #VALIDATED. being told by not only tmn but The Cobalt Fucking Soul that what had happened to her shouldnt have happened #I am going to. Die #also DEEPLY insane to me that it took as long as it did for her backstory stuff to come up not because I think it should have come up #sooner but because that's so thematically appropriate. you have sea gods and evil archmages and archfey cultists and yasha's missing #memories and then you have a girl from a winery who wasn't raised kindly or fairly and that's it. the hag wasn't her fault. it shouldn't #have been something she had to deal with. most of it is so mundane but that trauma is treated with the same seriousness as everything else #hbbngngnhngnnhnh...

[tomurakii]

Look Kristen is a kid so its understandable and Ally is great and I'm sure has a plan for this. But Kristen should not be a cleric lol. I hope that after the wizard synogue incident Cassandra takes the Archfey deal to keep herself safe and Kristen loses her powers because honestly based on her RP that girl has NO wisdom. She has NEGATIVE wisdom. If you don't like the gods currently on offer but can't take responsibility for keeping a new one alive (because you're a kid) then you should just respec. Pick a charisma-based spellcaster class that doesn't require a bunch of work like the Int classes or responsibility like the Wis classes. Give up your soul to Fig (or just give it back to newly-Archfey Cassandra) for Warlock spells idk.

#like I know kristen is a vessel for exploring the experience of growing up in an abrahamic religion and like. developing as your own person #which is why they're working within the existing forgotten realms universe but foregoing the usual pantheon #and replacing it with Sol and Helio which are just God and Jesus metaphors #but that kind of self-exploration usually ends up in either atheism or non-abrahamic philosophies like buddhism no? #neither of which are compatible with the cleric class. like kristen clearly doesnt really like being a prophet. she cant handle it #have her awaken latent sorcery or something. I'd honestly accept her becoming a druid even though they also have a lot of responsibilities #but like shes GONNA kill cassandra if cassandra doesnt leave her first #and that'll be the second god that she created and then killed with her neglect. she may have been helio's chosen but shes a shit cleric #pretty much all teenagers would be shit clerics #maybe she can come back to it later #but cassandra girl you gotta flee. take your cat and your magic and run #d20 #fantasy high #fhjy #kristen applebees #fantasy high junior year #dimension 20

[stickandthorn]

Sorry I know we just had a huge moon lore drop, but I’m still fucking thinking about Fearne and Mori. Imagine you’ve trekked across the feywild, through the perilous domain of a dangerous archfey known as the fatestitcher in order to trade away something in hopes of her doing you a favor, and as you get to the hag’s dangerous abode the most adorable little faun girl you’ve ever seen in your life tries to take your shoelaces and the archfey is just like “oh that’s just my granddaughter <3 anyways give me half your soul”

#critical role #cr spoilers #fearne calloway

[wall-e-gorl]

hellooooo ive made a uc fankid oc <3 more about her under the cut, so that this post isnt a mile long <3

her name is Dyllin, because i had to, and shes SO cute. Shes got a little lopsided grin, and one dimple, and the cutest smattering of freckles on her nose right where her fur starts to turn pink. Both Rian and Atty are trans, so they raised her gender neutrally until she could tell them who she was herself (thus atty using they for her in that one art), and when she was about 3 she said she was a girl and now she wears all the pretty flowy dresses she can get her hands on (uncle foq supplies many of them)!

in the art above shes: 14, 16 (colored in), 19? (lines), ambiguous age younger than 3, 5?, and also 5. I think that ill mainly draw her as a little kid or around 14, cause those ages are where more interesting dynamics happen with people. Lots of funny kiddy moments, and growing into your own person moments. Which! is what im about in fankids! beyond just drawing a cute kid and having fun with design (which im also all about but just to give an explaination for why im drawing her at those ages). I dont think i want to go into adult ages for her yet, cause for the moment its about her being a fankid for me.

She takes after Chet and mostly Foq much more in personality than either of her actual parents, so shes a very carefree happy-go-lucky kid. To Rian's absolute horror (see below, for their rage at finding out), Foq flounces his way into being a archfey and becomes her warlock patron when shes a little kid, but its alright Aunt Scenda is her cleric deity so shes got a balance for his chaos! (she doesnt balance shit but it does make rian not kill foq over the pact so! whatever works!)

#my art #unprepared casters #off the rails #if you dont want to see her block this tag -> #dyllin wright #(no judgement if you do obvs) #anyway. ive been holding onto her since on the rocks part 2. before we knew they both made it #i made her and then went aw fuck i made a fankid (whoops) for characters that may or may not make it (whoops!) #SO ive been holding onto her for a while cause i was like. doubting myself if i should keep her officially cause while fankids are normal- #for me to make. they arent like usual content for dnd shows i think? it feels a lot more personal and i had a whole debate with myself for- #a WHILE. and it quickly morphed into a debate on whether i should POST her cause i uhh didnt stop drawing her? as you can see? #eventually decided that i would test the waters (talked with friends privately about it and also posted a more like usual oc with kor) #it all went well so i figured id wait til a between arcs week and then post her. and here we are! #we miiight have a post mortem still coming for 12 idr buuuut i want to show her now i think #aaaaaannnnnd POST

[zorlok-if]

if the zorlok cast were bg3 characters, what would they be and what kind of decisions would they make?

I'm assuming you mean who they would be in BG3 and not what kind of characters they would play. Also, hmm, don't want to give away spoilers here, so if you look below the cut you can see what I think they'd be up to (just beware of spoilers).

Tommy: Human, Level 9 Warlock (Fiend + Chain) / Level 3 Bard (Valour)

Dev: Wood Elf, Level 11 Rogue (Thief) / Level 1 Warlock (Archfey)

EJ: Human, Level 12 Sorcerer (Wild Magic)

Adam/Eve: High Elf, Level 7 Cleric (War) / Level 5 Paladin (Vengeance)

Lucía: Half-Elf (Wood), Level 7 Ranger (Gloomstalker) / Level 5 Rogue (Assassin)

Ciel: Lightfoot Halfling, Level 6 Barbarian (Wildheart) / Level 6 Druid (Moon)

Danny: Drow (Seldarine), Level 9 Paladin (Oathbreaker) / Level 3 Warlock (Fiend + Blade)

The Celestial: Aasimar Forest Gnome, Level 10 Wizard (Transmutation) / Level 2 Cleric (Knowledge)

Rose: Human, Level 12 Bard (Lore)

[Beware of Spoilers Below!]

Tommy

Not romancing anyone (obviously, he's 15)

Best friends with Wyll, Karlach, and Gale. Shadowheart is too cool for him, he's way too intimidated by her. Lets Astarion do whatever the hell he wants. Lae'zel scares the shit out of him. Adopted by Halsin the moment he meets him.

Just wants to hang out with the cool tiefling kids

Very easily persuaded by Raphael. Wyll and Karlach are constantly trying to talk some sense into him.

Aylin is the coolest person he's ever met

Sobbing his way through the horrors of Faerûn—I can see him in a little crumple at Withers feet, blowing his nose on Withers' decaying robes as bone daddy breaks the fourth wall and stares into the camera miserably

Eventually hardens into a truly terrifying force to be reckoned with (Karlach is very proud)

Tommy has two hands, one for Scratch and one for the owlbear

Dev

Romancing non-Ascended Astarion and fucking Halsin occasionally, Lae'zel and Shadowheart are xyr besties (xe forces them to get along), Gale amuses the hell out of xem, Wyll and Dev are constantly trying to one up each other's stories

It's either Ethel or Volo, whoever xe comes across first, but that eye's out of xyr head comically fast

Just wants to talk shit with Withers all day, hates that he never has much to say to xem

Wants to kick the shit out of Rolan but keeps saving his life somehow

Always covered in blood. Like it doesn't make sense half the time. How did that much blood splatter on xem? Why is it still on xem?

EJ

Absolutely head over heels in love with Gale, friends with and trying to fix everyone, Astarion terrifies them but they won't give up on him, they know there's a good person hiding beneath that veneer

Panicked and accidentally yeeted a gnome

Tried a tadpole once, wasn't for them

Holding Gale's hand and squinting through every dark space

Sleeps cuddling the owlbear and is always covered in feathers

Adam/Eve

In a relationship with Lae'zel, didn't get along at first but Laez grew to respect A/E and A/E was charmed by Lae'zel's... strengths. Shadowheart is their sister, hates it when the girls are fighting. Friends with Gale and Karlach. Doesn't trust Wyll fully. Never let Astarion join them. Immediately enamored with Halsin but Lae'zel is... stronger.

Normally out of spell slots cause they're terrified of long resting

Loves potions and alchemy, will stop every 30 meters to pick yet another sprig of balsam

Doesn't make deals with villainous beings. Doesn't trust any voices in their head. Doesn't respect any gods they come across.

Loviatar loves them

Lucía

In a relationship with Karlach, best friends with her and Wyll, had a crush on Shadowheart before meeting Karlach, never liked/trusted Astarion and staked him the minute he tried to put his fangs on her throat, Jaheira is her idol, probably left Lae'zel to die (cause she didn't want to upset Shadowheart)

Speaks to every single animal, picks every single lock, looks in every single barrel, fails almost every charisma check

Scratch is always by her side

Will go to Hell for her besties 😉🥲

Ciel

Dating Shadowheart, really close with Astarion and Minthara... But, seriously, they have a big redemption arc. They grow and change alongside Shadowheart, both goth edgelords are completely changed by the end

Starts the game eating every tadpole (like the Guardian barely has to suggest the idea, it's already in their mouth) but goes one step too far and suddenly becomes terrified of what it means to be monstrous(/illithid)

Diplomacy? Ha. Sorry, that's not for them. They only like talking to animals and corpses.

Loves permanently seeing invisibility...

A loot goblin, their high strength score is great for fighting and jumping and shit, but mostly for the increased carrying capacity

Mol is their idol

Danny

I'm honestly not sure who they'd be in a relationship with, I think they'd be close with everyone but I don't think they'd be in a headspace for anything more than friendship over the course of the game, maybe after the fact they'd grow closer with Shadowheart but that would just be my headcanon, they wouldn't romance anyone (no matter how much Withers mocks them for it)

They are doing everything they think is right in the moment, though they'd regret rash actions later

They empathize greatly with the undead and hate people like Balthazar who twist them to their will

No one threatens a child in their presence. Well, no one who's still alive.

They cannot pretend to be under the Absolute's thumb, they are going in swinging every time, no chance for diplomacy or manipulation

They pick up a teddy bear early on and it never leaves their inventory

The Celestial

In a physical relationship with Halsin, slept with Astarion but now they're just very good friends, sees Karlach, Wyll, and Shadowheart as eir children, loves and is very intrigued by Lae'zel, doesn't like Gale at all (cannot and will not trust a wizard like him)

Always has the Disguise Self spell going, and it's always a different disguise

Eir traveler's chest is filled with the weirdest collection of random shit you've ever seen: noble portraits, rotten eggs, gold chalices, a couple goblin corpses, poutine, 30 mindflayer tadpoles, etc.

Chats with every corpse, even the ones ey killed

Lorroakan can (and does) eat shit

Despises everything about Orin, zero redeemable qualities—even her shapeshifting, eugh, it's so... crude, no grace or skill

The moment the Celestial learns Otto's Irresistible Dance is the last moment Faerûn knows peace

Rose

In a passionate romance with Wyll but he's very good friends with everyone (they are all his children)

Does everything within his power to avoid violence. Will charm, sing, and sneak his way across Faerûn

Adopts every child and animal he comes across

The hardest thing he has to do is tell people to stay in camp. Why can't everyone always be in his party? They all make him feel so bad...

Always taking long rests (doesn't want people being tired or hurt) and spends an hour cooking a delightful meal with Gale every night

#yes i'm a habitual multiclasser #if you can't tell #thanks for the ask! #asks #bg3 #cast #tommy #dev #ej #a/e #adam/eve #lucía #ciel #danny #the celestial #rose #dnd

[masterqwertster]

Fantasy 2 + the soulblooms au if i can add that on??

Fantasy 2: "You saw that too, right?" So it really doesn’t use the quote, but this is what I was inspired to write: People looking at that plethora of soulmates Bells Hells has and knowing that likely means Fate has Big Plans for them.

Gaze upon your Fate

There was much celebration in Hishari when Efterin’s child was born. After all, their great leader now had an heir.

An heir born with three soulmates that increases to five in a few short years.

It’s a good thing, Efterin tells himself. A large soulmate group is often indicative of a powerful Destiny. And what is reviving the Primordial Titans but a very powerful Destiny? Hishari’s success seems all but guaranteed with the many blooms upon Efterin’s, their leader’s, own heir.

(He does his best to ignore the burning jealousy he feels of his child. That he only blooms for his wife and has had to travel the world to get any acknowledgement of the great Destiny that is his)

___

Lord Wyvernwind looks upon his second-born son, healthy and strong as his first-born.

Unlike Cyrus, Brontë has seven soulmates from the start, rather than a more… normal one or two.

It’s not a terrible thing. Many soulmates often means a noteworthy existence, which can be… difficult for a second-born son of a high-standing family to achieve normally. So often the second-born lives in the first-born’s shadow, an ever present support that goes unremarked upon by most.

Though a part of Lord Wyvernwind does wish it was Cyrus with so many blooms. It would be a reassurance that the Silken Squall would be in good hands when it’s time for him to step down. A noteworthy leader is good, a noteworthy backup… just a little bit concerning.

But only time will tell whether Brontë’s blooms bode ill or well for the Squall.

___

Alma watches her boy practice with his sword in the yard. Orym is determined to follow Will (who’s following his father) into the Tempest Blades. Determined enough to practice what he’s learning even at home so he can be one of the best. 

It’s not the worst thing in the world that her boy wants to protect people, especially the ones he cares about. But, she worries about what Orym may be asked to guard against one day.

After all, eight soulmates is an awful lot for a fifteen-year-old. The last time Zephrah saw those kinds of numbers, it was the Voice of the Tempest herself. And just look at Vox Machina: slayers of the Chroma Conclave and saviors of the world by sealing away a newborn evil god. 

Any reasonable mother would worry about what Destiny has in store for her child with that kind of precedent.

Still, Alma will support her Orym as best she can.

___

Morrigan the Fatestitcher looks at the child left in her care, her new granddaughter.

The little faun is six years old and she has nine soulmates. It’s rare enough for a fey to have one soulmate, but nine? Practically unheard of. And special even on Exandria where most everyone has a soulmate or four.

More than that, Fearne is the child of a minor archfey Lord in the Unseelie Court purposefully born under Exandria’s Moon of Ill Omen. A powerful bloodline, a cursed birth. Such plans that were put in place for reasons Morrigan can’t yet unravel to make this child so. 

Yes, her granddaughter’s thread hums with all the possible Fates that await her.

She’s something special, Morri’s little Fearne, so it’s best to keep a finger on that thread and make sure no one fucks up what is hers.

___

Relvin watches his daughter run off with the witch from the woods and supposes it was inevitable.

Seven soulmates, and that witch is one of them.

He’s spent a long time trying to deny that his little girl has enough soulmates to be a victim of some big Destiny, but everyone has to wake up and face reality someday.

It just hurts.

Liliana left nearly twenty-five years ago because she saw that writing on the wall and thought she could cut it off by leaving and looking for answers about her, their, powers. Now Imogen is gone too. Maybe for that same search. Definitely because of the soulmate she found who’s not welcome in Gelvaan (and Imogen isn’t really either. Not after leaving as she did. …And maybe before that too, with her difficulties with the townsfolk).

All Relvin knows is that his girls are gone, and this blooming Destiny has got at least a little something to do with it.

___

Dancer sits beneath a jungle tree, bloody and sweaty and scared, as far from that godsforsaken mine as her tired legs would carry her. 

It’s not as far as she’d like, thanks to the fucking bloodloss of having her fucking arm hacked off. The hasty bandage she’d wrapped around it as she ran is already soaked through with blood.

They didn’t think FCG had it in him to attack anyone like that, much less their friends.

But folks can be deceiving, Dancer supposes. It’s what they get for waking up an ancient machine they have very little understanding of. Never know what someone else has built until it’s coming for your throat.

The worst part, she thinks, is that FCG has soul blooms. Seven different ones. And those poor fuckers are going to think their big Destiny is a good one. Dancer doubts it. Not with a monster like FCG in that group. And that’s assuming he doesn’t kill them first.

___

It’s unconventional to let one so old attempt the Hunter’s Bane.

The Bane is harsh, deadly. Not all who attempt it survive, and many of them are younger, healthier, than the old gnome they found turned in the Savalirwood.

But he has gumption, this one. Gumption and a mess of seven soul blooms.

Reviled as they often are for their sacred duties, the Claret Orders still serve the Matron of Ravens, and part of her Domain of Fate is soul blooms. How could they claim to follow Her if they did not heed the warning that this one was needed for some larger Fate?

So they give the old man turned new wolf the Bane and wait and watch, to see if he will rise stronger, ready to face his Fate.

___

Delilah watches from behind her vessel’s eyes as a ragtag little group of adventures, of soulmates (as if they will ever know what true love and devotion are), comes together.

Just a little bit, she is reminded of that awful, pesky Vox Machina. Adventuring soulmates, both them and this tentative unnamed group.

As much as she hates Vox Machina (and she loathes them for separating her from her Sylas again and again), even Delilah can admit that the group has had quite the impact on the world. 

So it is a little hopeful that her poor, naive vessel has come into her own group marked for greatness. After all, greatness need not be for the good of the world. And even so, there’s quite a lot Delilah can do with a bit of greatness to influence and command.

Maybe, after thirty tedious years, she’ll finally be able to collect the power needed to bring Him back to her side once again.

Yes. It will be quite interesting to see where little Laudna’s Destiny leads.

Also on AO3

#MQ&A #genre prompt #MQfic #MQ AU machine #soul bloom au #bells hells

[equalseleventhirds]

fell asleep for a bit and woke up and am FERAL about binx actually and the revelations about her and like, the implications of her, right? surena was like ‘what if there’s someone who wants to break it’ about the game the rest of the archfey are playing and YEAH WHAT IF THO

like!! binx as an archfey with relatively little power!! ‘court of craft’ and i thought oh, craftiness sneakiness disguise whatever, but no she is MAKING things, and they are wondrous but she makes them with her hands bcos she’s used to having (maybe still has) very limited magical power

(the magic that other fey throw around like it’s nothing, and how it fucking galls, but how she has made it work, how she has managed to disguise what she does and make it look like she’s totally capable of throwing just as much magic around, bcos she’s so fucking good at her craft)

but she’s a warlock patron, which yes is work which the idle rich do not have to do, but that’s also a sharing of power? she gives magic to a mortal, to a being ignored and despised by other fey, which she herself has so little magic to give! mika asks for more spell slots and binx can’t, she has not more spell slots to give her, but she asks her to thank some wood and pull string from her clothes and binx helps her make an unseen servant to help her out, i am so 🥺🥺🥺

(i am wondering so much abt next episode and her saying she’ll look out for someone and brennan w/ the ‘are you a mortal’ bit, is binx helping out a mortal in the fey realm hhhhhhhhhhh)

but thennnnnn is warlock patroning like. an investment. u give a mortal some magic and that mortal grows stronger and then u can siphon off some power so u can give them more magic...... is that what that is, as a job, is that how fey like binx survive when their courts aren’t strong enough to be like the court of wonder.

is that what any of the rest of the courts have to look forward to if they lose their status? the lords of the wing have a threat of their own house weakening, is this the future their marriages would prevent?

as fun as the romance and drama of regency stuff is, all of that romance and drama and reputation and society is all a big delicate fancy rich-people game around... power. resources. after all, at the core of pride and prejudice is the inescapable fact that if they do not marry, the bennet girls will be destitute and homeless. they are lucky, to make love matches, but there is a fear beneath that. there are choices made.

and, under all the games and the wealth and the romance and the drama, we’re told at the top of episode one: the bloom is a manifestation of the feywild’s natural magical resources. the resources all of the characters, all of the courts rely on. the natural ebb and flow of magic, the bloom is the center of magic being high. being so very available for use (or overuse, or misuse) (and of course, mainly by those in power).

and rumor has it, this could be the last bloom............ ever.

#long post #acofaf spoilers #losing my WHOLE MIND at the implications!!! #and at how GOOD binx is!!! and how clever and resourceful and sneaky and also GOOD #and hhhhhhhhhhh maybe she's right to break the bloom to break the court of wonder to tear down and expose the waste and the malice #(i say 'maybe' as tho she's not exactly the sort of person and the sort of cause i fuckin root for) #the bloom is beautiful and fun and god i love the drama of it but GOD i want binx to get to destroy it by the end #take her friends and alliances and show them who she is and what she stands for and make! something! better!! #fjdsklfksd i am Here for the ships and the romances adn stuff but alsoooooooooooo u kno...........i love me a good revolution #acofaf #a court of fey and flowers

[mariana-oconnor]

The Beryl Coronet pt 2

We continue the tale of Mr Holder, who last time made an astonishingly bad sequence of decisions that ended in him accusing his son of theft and handing him over to the police.

And I definitely, in no way decided arbitrarily that other characters were guilty. There was evidence. I presented it.

Mary did fail the vibe check. Although I do sort of support her given that a) she was stealing from the state/the royal family, and it's not like they can't afford it b) apparently her uncle wants her to marry her cousin and c) I want her to break out of the conventional Victorian gentlewoman mould the narrative is painting her into.

Sure, if she's guilty, she's causing a national crisis, but really Bertie, Prince of Wales, did that already, she's just leading everyone else's dumb ideas to their inevitable conclusions. Can we really blame her for that?

Yes, we probably can. And it does seem likely that the (not at all an archfey) Sir George Burnwell may be manipulating her into it, which would detract from her agency in the matter.

I suppose it could still be Lucy the maid, but I still think it's more likely that Arthur is covering for Mary.

“She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She is four-and-twenty.”

She is a baby.

Also, she doesn't go out and Sir George Burnwell has been around 'several times lately'. Yep.

But yeah, this does twist it more towards a 'Georgie has been manipulating and grooming a young sheltered girl' and less 'Mary is breaking out of her societal prison with a jewel heist.' Pity.

“Terrible! She is even more affected than I.”

Yeah, he took the jewels and ran off and left her.

Well, let's all hope he dies in a shipwreck.

"If his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?” “Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie?"

Guy's too damn honourable for his own good. Refuses to lie, refuses to condemn the woman he loves. It would be romantic if not for the whole... cousins sort of raised as siblings thing. She calls your father 'dad'... that's weird. Maybe not weird for the time. But it feels weird.

“What did the police think of the noise which awoke you from your sleep?” “They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his bedroom door.” “A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door so as to wake a household."

I love how outraged Holmes is by this theory. The exclamation mark is perfect. Of course, the door might have been slammed by the wind, but then you wouldn't go and steal the gems immediately, you'd wait until you were sure people weren't getting up.

"Consider what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?"

I confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted explanation.

Once you have jumped to a conclusion, any evidence to the contrary, no matter how ridiculous it may make your theory look, must be completely dismissed.

I'm not being fair. Caught holding the remains of the coronet is not a good look. But if they can't find the missing beryls, then clearly someone else must be involved at least.

Disregarding my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand over his head with a sweet womanly caress.

The phrase 'sweet womanly caress' upsets me on a fundamental level. But also it makes me really want Mary to be the villain of the piece. Like, I'm 90% sure that Burnwell has done a runner, but I want Mary to have set some part of this in motion just so she can scream and go a little feral, y'know, as a treat.

I kind of want her to catch up with Burnwell, maybe make sure the police catch him with one of the gems, then take the other two and go off on her own.

“But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will be sorry for having acted so harshly.”

Woman's instincts or... knowing he's innocent because you're the one who is guilty?

“You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?” “Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet.” “I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery.”

But why would Arthur protect the maid? Also, I feel like Mary is a little too eager to push the possibility of Lucy's guilt here. She adds that bit about the drawing-room all by herself. Yes, she seems concerned about Arthur, but still... she's very much been leaving all the breadcrumbs about Lucy.

Lucy makes sense as a suspect apart from why Arthur would be covering for her. Unless offpage they are having a romance, despite him having canonically proposed to Mary multiple times, then I just don't see that happening. But then we have also been told that canonically Mary dislikes Burnwell. There is clearly a secret romantic relationship somewhere in this tale. I'm inclined to think Burnwell (who has been noted as a wrong'un) rather than Lucy.

“Which key was used to open it?” he asked. “That which my son himself indicated—that of the cupboard of the lumber-room.”

If Mary locks up at night, she also has access to all the keys. Just saying.

“Then I will.” Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but without result. “I feel it give a little,” said he; “but, though I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my time to break it."

Even Holmes, who once bent an iron poker back to straight again, cannot break off a part of the coronet on his own. So... struggle.

"I understand that you give me carte blanche to act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you place no limit on the sum I may draw.”

Considering the sums of money involved in this story, I fear that Mr Holder is going to be left bankrupt even if he does recover the jewels. Buying them back might be the only way to recover them. But maybe he won't have to actually buy them, just pretend to be willing to buy them in order to lure Burnwell in. (I'm pretty sure Francis Prosper, the one-legged greengrocer is not involved, but I hope he and Lucy are happy).

He hurried to his chamber and was down again in a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he was a perfect sample of the class.

And Holmes is in disguise again! Always fun to play dress up. I assume he is fact gathering in order to work out where Burnwell is and how to reach him to try to 'buy' the gems, but I have no idea why this particular disguise is the way to go.

I'm not sure how happily this can end, as the coronet itself has already been broken, so there is clear evidence of it having been tampered with. I fear that Bertie is going to have to have a little chat with his mother about this. Clearly it's going badly so far.

#Letters from Watson #Sherlock Holmes #The Beryl Coronet #long post

[waltwhitmansbeard]

loosing your mind when they tilt your chin to look you in the eye + Perc’ahlia

loosing your mind when they tilt your chin to look you in the eye set in tlovm!

Vex is deep her cups, the kind of dangerous inebriation that entails reviewing every poor decision one has ever made ad nauseum. Tonight, in this dingy bar filled with loud goliaths and Scanlan's god-awful call-and-response, it's her dismal display in the Feywild, how easily she let that bastard of an archfey get to her. Fuck, to be so quickly taken in, so quickly read and dissected and spat out by a loser of a tree—it's like he saw her coming a mile off and just knew what delicious misery she'd deliver him.

Keyleth's passed out on the table and Pike has fucked off to some arm-wrestling competition with a tattooed orc four times her size, so Vex drinks alone, a battalion of empty tankards surrounding her. She has no idea where her brother is, and she can only imagine how plastered Grog, even with his hearty constitution, has gotten at this point. She know it's not good, to drink so much and let her thoughts swirl around, biting and caustic, but after the day, week, month they've had? She's earned a bit of wallowing.

Her reflexes are dulled to the point where she doesn't even flinch when a familiar posh voice to her side drawls, "Well you look miserable."

"Fuck off." She downs half of the tankard in her hands.

Percy slides onto the barstool beside her. "You really need to drink like this to steel yourself for a dragon fight?"

Gods above, she'd forgotten about the dragon. "No." She slams the tankard down. "At this point, I welcome the chance to skin one of those lizards alive."

She's still not looking at him, but his hand comes into view as it waves toward the evidence of her evening. "Then why the sudden onset alcoholism?"

Her head hangs low, eyes fixed on the table. What the hell does she say to that? What the hell does she say to him? What a fool she must have looked, Saundor's twiggy finger caressing her chin, his saccharine voice in her ear telling her all the things she's longed to hear, like a child clinging onto an imaginary friend. She must seem like such a little girl, so desperate for her father's love, which any idiot with a few brain cells to rub together could have seen in Syngorn that she's never going to get. She's embarrassed to even look at him, much less confess the maelstrom she's been caught up in ever since they left her father's house.

"Vex'ahlia." There's another finger beneath her chin now, this one warm, soft. It pulls her face toward his, and oh. There he is, not nearly as intoxicated as the rest of this tavern, looking at her as if all of the Herd and Vox Machina and Westruun had disappeared into thin air, and only they two were left in this ransacked town. The swirling, drunken thoughts come to a violent halt as her eyes meet his, and even through the din of the revelry around them, his low voice cuts through, an arrow through the air. "You were a force of nature back in the Feywild. I hope you know how proud we are of you. How proud I am."

It ignites instantaneously, a fire so crackling and hot in her belly she cannot believe she hasn't burst into flames before his very eyes. It is only by the grace of her drunken limbs that she does not snatch him by the collar and yank his mouth to hers, sloppy and hungry and so very, very needy. If she manages a response, she has no idea what it is. But he smiles at her, the corners of his eyes crinkling, and then gently pries the nearly empty tankard from her hand. "I think it's time you had enough."

Except oh, no, she has not had nearly enough, she thinks as he walks away. Not yet.

#ask #tiamat-zx #critical role #critical role fic #cr fic #tlovm #tlovm fic #vox machina #vox machina fic #perc'ahlia #perc'ahlia fic #my fic

[leomonae]

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Cheers @senualothbrok !

Last song: I Want To Break Free - Queen. 9 to 5 by Dolly Parton by the time I finished this up, though!

Favourite colour: Orange

Currently watching: Word of Honor with my partner, Till the End of the Moon sporadic rewatch + Wheel of Time solo.

Last movie / TV show: My memory is so terrible you guys, let me just go look it up/attempt to forensically reconstruct my past to figure it out.

Okay, so it's looking like either Howl's Moving Castle or Derry Girls!

Spicy/savoury/sweet: Assuming this isn't yet another euphemism I'm missing, savoury and sweet.

Relationship status: In a longterm queerplatonic partnership, otherwise single.

Current obsession: Baldur's Gate 3, this dumb vampire, and apparently illithid now too, yay. No but seriously illithid are so cool you guys, did you know that -!

Also my current illithid-focused fics, after which I plan on going back to working on my six book original fantasy series. And while I've largely finished writing in the setting, I will forever remain at least a little obsessed with my Eberron-based dystopian torturers in love (aks the Changeling Monitoring and Containment Division verse) work. Someday I may even start posting it, too!

Last thing I googled: Stacy's Dad. The song by Subradio. I woke up with it in my head.

People I'd like to know better:

@tragedybunny who has always been lovely in my experience and who is someone I think I could come to like quite a bit!

@ollysoxisfree a new friend with amazing (aka pleasingly similar to my own) taste in fic and a gorgeous Astarion/archfey WIP

@lumienyx twins!

@khloris-the-escapist of impeccable taste and kindness who always shows appropriate appreciation for my kitties. I should probably send you more pics of them, huh? It's been a minute, you're probably starting to feel deprived, there.

@kringle-c my fellow weirdo and dark fic enjoyer of the gorgeous artwork, just scroll down a little other people and you will see some of it <3

@wufflesvetinari who wrote some amazing cleric Tav fic! Seriously guys (especially you, @tragedybunny) go check it out!

@aniseandspearmint who is so so so nice to let me babble on at her about my current hyperfixation despite in no way being into it personally, I owe you some nice, extended listening to you go on about your own obsessions whenever you feel like collecting!

and also back atcha @senualothbrok though you don't need to fill this in a second time XD Send me a message whenever if you'd like to chat!

#people I'd like to know better

[verdantglow]

Okay so @plumadot’s posting about her D&D Traffic AU has made me remember how much I love my Dungeons & Traffic AU & I Must Talk About It Now.

Basically all the characters are in a modern setting, playing a rotating cast D&D game DMed by The Watchers. (I never really decided how that works. Plan was for everything in out of game space be completely mundane except for the floating purple eye behind the DM screen lol.)

But yeah! So I picked classes & heritages that the characters would pick themselves based on play styles & preferences. &, uh, here they are!

Bdubs: Firbolg, Light Domain Cleric of Helios

Of course he’s a light cleric. Of course his god is literally the god of the Sun. This man does not fuck with the night & darkness At All. (Also he wanted to be tall lol.)

BigB: (???), (???)

Okay, gonna be honest, BigB is the last one I need to make decisions for ‘cause I feel I have too many knowledge gaps about him to figure this out. Was thinking Paladin maybe??? But I will totes take input, please help me here. Only restrictions: I’d prefer if he doesn’t double up on heritage or subclass with anyone.

Cleo: Reborn, Circle of Wildfire Druid

Cleo’s gotta be a zombie, so Reborn is perfect. & who can deny Cleo the opportunity to have a skill set based entirely around setting shit on fire?

Etho: Shadar-Kai, Way of the Shadow Monk

He’s a ninja lol. Also in this AU I was thinking he & Gem would be siblings, so having him play an emotionally flat dark elf played nicely with what Gem goes with. Which…

Gem: Eladrin, Eldritch Knight Fighter

Gem had to be a fighter, that girl is a fighter through & through, but she’s definitely not playing a boring character. Eldritch Knight adds some magical flavour that goes well with her being an Eladrin. & she had to be an elf of some kind; I think she’d like the versatility & expressiveness of Eladrin.

Grian: Changeling, Pact of the Tome Warlock of the Archfey

Okay, I know this is probs controversial but hear me out. 1) Grian being a Warlock I think is just very in character. 2) Pact of the Tome lets him cast catrips from other classes & you unknowingly he’d get a kick outta that mechanic. 3) His patron is a homebrewed version of The Traveler, half way between 5e canon & Critical Role canon. Trickster vibes are real. 4) This dude has had so many skins. Changeling energy. (Also I just love changelings & Grian made the most sense to me.)

Impulse: Hill Dwarf, Forge Domain Cleric of Tharmekhûl

Another controversial one, but I’m not a fan of demon/tiefling/horned Impulse. & he legit has been a dwarf before. Hill dwarf because they get a Wisdom buff & that makes sense for Impulse. Cleric of Tharmekhûl because forge/light vibes & also he’s the god of smiths & that feels… like something Impulse would choose. (Impulse’s character is also min-max’d to hell. This man is going to win at D&D.)

Jimmy: Human, Oath of Glory Paladin of Tyr

Jimmy got overwhelmed by all the heritages & just went human for simplicity. He takes regular human rather than variant because he doesn’t want to learn all the feats & getting +1 to all stats is pretty good, right? Oath of Glory Paladin of Tyr because he really, really plays into being Lawful Good, & being The Law of the party.

Joel: Half-orc, Path of the Berserker Barbarian

Half-orc for being the closest I could get to an ogre. Path of the Berserker because he’s all about The Rage.

Lizzie: High Elf, School of Enchantment Wizard

Idk Lizzie just has big Wizard vibes to me, but like. Not the best wizard. Like she’s powerful, but rolls shit. She couldn’t get anyone to sleep in the Secret Life campaign because her DC is kinda low & everyone kept making their saves. (Except Joel. He failed his save on purpose. <3) High Elf for Queen Lizzie.

Martyn: Tiefling, Swashbuckler Fighter

Another natural fighter choice imo, but Swashbuckler for The Performance. Tiefling because he’s a bit impish & also so he can have Thaumaturgy to constantly scare everyone with monster/mob noises.

Mumbo: Rock Gnome, School of Evocation Wizard

I need to Mumbo to be a glass canon. School of Evocation Wizard does that so well. He can blow shit up so good, but he takes one hit & he’s out. Rock gnome because he just wanted to be a little guy & so he can be a Tinker.

Pearl: Wood Elf, Beastmaster Ranger

Beastmaster Ranger so she can have Tilly as an animal companion. Also more combat than magic focused, ‘cause that feels right? Elf because that’s her vibe, wood elf because it made sense for her build.

Ren: Werewolf Shifter (Doglike), Bannerette Fighter

Ren really wanted to be a fighter, but he put all his points in charisma RIP. So yeah, he’s the fighter class that does the least actual fighting lol. Doglike werewolf because of course.

Scar: Half-elf, Wild Magic Sorcerer/School of Eloquence Bard multiclass

His first few levels were in sorcerer, to reflect his absolutely bonkers all or nothing luck. School of Eloquence because he’s the type to talk his way out of most any situation he can. Also: Scar is 100% a charisma caster. (He still uses a longbow, don’t worry; he gets proficiency with it from being a half-elf.)

Scott: Fairy, Lunar Sorceror

I have changed my mind the most about Scott. Landed on Fairy, because the Vibes. Sorcerer because I felt he’d have innate magic, Lunar because it gives him access to a wide variety of spells that make sense for him. (Like Shield. He uses Shield all the time. Can’t hit this man, no sir.)

Skizz: Protector Aassimar, Path of the Ancestral Guardians Barbarian

He attac, he protec. & most importantly, he place high value on bonds between folks. So giving him Ancestral Guardians just… yeah.

Tango: Fire Genasi, Battlesmith Artificer

I don’t think I need to explain this much. His Steel Defender is an Iron Golem.

#I tried very hard to keep this party as diverse as possible #they could use another healer other than Bdubs & Jimmy #can’t remember if Imp has any heals #Maybe BigB is a Warlock of the Celestial??? #For that warlock but heals goodness??? #I don’t actually have any other reasoning for that though. #Get in the tags & tell me what to make BigB #Also these are like. Early on in their campaigns #I imagine there’s more mutliclassing as things progress. #But yeah. #Thanks for coming to my TED talk. #dungeons & traffic au #trafficblr #traffic smp #life series smp #verdant rambles #OH FUCK what if Warlock of the Celestial Scott…. #Gods Scott & BigB are really the ones I can’t nail down. #Too many ideas for Scott #Not enough ideas for BigB

[twilight-skies]

WIP tag game!

If you’re tagged, make a new post and share one to two sentences from your most recent unposted WIP(s) with zero context. Let your followers guess!

Tagged by @nelson-and-murdock

All of my most recent things have been outlines that wouldn’t really work for this, so instead you get 2 slightly older excepts. Also below 2 sentences does not work for any of my writing soooooo

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Lysta’s eyes widened in utter shock. Syrus’s shot to her, as if in disbelief. The shadow of a bird passed over them from high above, and the next thing Erin knew, they were getting dragged through the forest by the Renfaire Duo.

“Hey—hey! Where are we going!?” Erin shouted as they stumbled over a rock.

Archer-girl-Lysta’s grip on Erin’s arm didn’t falter. “It’s not safe out here, but you have to meet our friends.”

“Define not safe!?”

She elected not to define it. Though perhaps it had something to do with how eerie this forest was; like everything in it was watching you. Erin just wanted to know who these people were.

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Captain Kamo pressed the barrel of his blaster into the back of General Celarsi’s neck.

In front of him, the Jedi knelt on the floor of the docking hallway with her hands above her head. He couldn’t see her face, but knowing her, she was probably sporting a glare that would have Dooku himself shaking in his boots.

A few feet away, Commander Grey was explaining their apparent mutiny to the boarding party of clankers. To her credit, the General had done a good job at making herself look like she’d just gotten jumped by roughly a hundred troopers. She’d even given the Commander her lightsaber, to make it believable. Kamo…decided to ignore the side-eye Crasher and Sunny had given each other when they watched him clip it to his own belt.

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@coelakanths @roman-cup @penny-anna @transboysokka @archfey-edda

#writing #tag game #ao3

[mor-alternate]

Dungeons & Dragons (inspired) AU

Mozart is a Kalashtar Bard

If you disagree, you are wrong /j

Bards are basically based on him fr

Kalashtars get a +2 in Wisdom which is really funny, and +1 in Charisma which he would

They also get advantage on Wisdom saving throws and resistance to psychic damage

Salieri would 100% know and abuse Vicious Mockery

I mean just look at the musical, he's doing it already and Wolfgang doesn't seem to be hurt or even touched by his words so I assume he's defended against it in some way

Also, the Quori spirit his family is linked to is named Euterpe

She's big on music and really close to him, but barely talk to his dad and sister

She used to talk a lot to Nannerl but stopped at one point

She appears to him as a younger version of himself, not unlike in the German musical "Mozart! Das Musical"

She calls herself "Amadeus" with him for some reason, which explains the "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart"

I swear Kalashtar make sense for him

Also he's trans

He's level 12, high but not too high

Salieri is a Yuan-Ti Pureblood Warlock

+2 in Charisma, +1 in Intelligence, tell me this isn't perfect

Yuan-Ti are associated with poisons and know the Poison Spray cantrip and have poison resistance which considering the rumors, is perfect

Yuan-Ti Purebloods are seen as somewhat outsiders in both Yuan-Ti and non-Yuan-Ti communities, being too humanoid for one and too serpentine for the other

Salieri was seen as too much of a German composer in Italy, and Austria never forgot where he was from despite his best efforts to fit in

That being said, Yuan-Ti are usually pretty detached from their emotions and act pretty cold

Also, it allows him to know 3 languages which fits his real life repertoire (Italian, German and French to my knowledge)

Basically, it's perfect

As for his Patron, it's a Homebrew called the Shadowmaster

Essentially it works like Archfey but with reflavoured spells

He knows Dissonant Whispers

I will not explain why this is absolutely perfect

His Patron eventually kills Mozart and Salieri can't do anything about it

It's very sad

Oh, and his brooch is actually an Arcane Focus

It used to be an Orb but it shattered and the shards were used to make his brooch

And his dagger is his pact weapon

Pact of the Blade, of course

He doesn't have a single Bard level but he did learn Vicious Mockery on his own and doesn't need his Patron's approval to cast it

It does count in his known cantrips

He wishes he had learned healing cantrips instead

My man has the stoopid

He'd be around level 14, or at least that's the level I'm basing him on

The Weber Family are Eladrins

Both parents change with the seasons while the daughters stick with only 1 season

Josepha is Autumn

Aloysia is Winter

Don't try to argue, it's perfect

"Contemplation and dolor, when the vibrant energy of the world slumbers"

I see Aloysia as a deeply hurt character, very in touch with her emotions and cursing at them, not unlike Salieri, but also trying to find a way to use them to her advantage instead of just shoving them away

Tell me this doesn't fit well with what we see of her in Bim Bam Boum

Speaking of Bim Bam Boum, she has 6 levels in Lunar Sorcery

Again, it makes sense

And eventually she multiclasses into Bard (College of Glamour ofc) because her aspiration was to not just practice magic but also get some base understanding of how it worked

My girl did NOT want to get into a Wizard school tho

When Mozart sees her again, she took 3 levels in Bard and was feeling more confident than ever in her magic, both learned and innate

Constance is Summer

She's a Wild Sorceress, not that her parents care much for her magic

She's kinda jealous of Aloysia for being able to cast a spell without risking blowing up the place

Sophie is Spring

Level 2 Life Cleric, surprisingly

She was a nurse IRL, that's why

Joseph II is a Human Paladin

Level 18, Oath of Conquest

His deity is probably associated with Light due to his link IRL with the Lumières and the enlightenment period thing

"He has been ranked with Catherine the Great of Russia and Frederick the Great of Prussia as one of the three great Enlightenment monarchs" (Wikipedia)

Basically, I'm right

People still called him an Enlightened Despot or smtg so Oath of Conquest? Makes sense

Those only need to make sense to me

He's an Emperor, he needs to be powerful

Gassmann was an Half-Elf Cleric

Cleric of Milil so Light Domain

Salieri wanted to be a Cleric too at first, but no deity believed in him enough due to his race

Gassmann is actually the one who suggested he finds himself a Patron

He believed in Salieri

He was right to do so

He would be so proud

Also a little sad to see all the self hatred but eh

Basically just a good dad

We love ourselves a good "second dad Gassmann"

I do at least

Colloredo is a Human Cleric

Ambition Domain

Not very open about his deity

I swear it made sense when I wrote it

Everyone else are commoners

Level 0

People don't realize how powerful even level 1 actually is

Rosenberg is a Kobold

Small, cowardly race used to servitude and who basically needs to be in a group or have someone tell them what to do? Perfect

Da Ponte is a Changeling

Unlike Salieri, in real life, people often forgot about his nationality, so I think that him being an exotic race yet no one noticing is fitting

Cavalieri is a Half-Siren

I will not explain

If I didn't name them, either I named direct family members (Léopold and Nannerl are Kalashtar for instance, but Anna-Maria is Human) or they are Human

#mlor #mozart l'opera rock #alternate universe #dungeons and dragons #au #dungeons and dragons au #dnd #dnd au #mlor au #mozart l'opera rock alternate universe #salieri #mozart #mozart x salieri #mozalieri #rambling #idk how to tag this #yuan-ti salieri

[ferdydurke]

Could you write something about your dnd character/s? Love hearing about other people's ocs!

hehe i finally have a moment to answer >:3c this is gonna be long so im gonna get a read more involved

my only character thats actually from dnd (my online group plays other ttrpgs) and "active" (we played two sessions 3 months ago ;w; but! might play again) Is Yeshe :3

Its a mdzs inspired campaign... im pretty sure, i havent watched it... so i based her off of tibetan folk clothes and ofc off of a pallas cat. She hadnt had time to shine as a character yet and her backstory and motivations are bit murky =w= but the gist is that she takes care of her magically gifted little sibling (another player character, my sketch attached), they were raised in a remote commune and are now going to the big city.

Now, the character from a finished campaign of City Of Mist (really cool system!!!) thats been on my mind a lot recently is my beloved Theooooooo

He was originally an oc completely detached from any specific setting, then I put him with my beloved Rochelle (in the blue dress, she started out as a dnd character but got only like 2 sessions back in 2020 :'3) in my own version of feywild (ill get to it later).

And then!!! I decided to play him in that CoM game and it was the best decision everrrrrrrrrr he was so so so so sos ososoosososos fun :3. CoM is urban fantasy where people become "rifts" for mythical beings and are able to use their power.

Theo was a Detective and a Fey and i really enjoyed playing an absolutely devious, controlling and charming guy =w=. His main motivation was power, he thought most people (except for his wife rochelle altough they have a tomshiv thing going on) are beneath him and mostly there for him to order around like chess pieces. And something that made this campaign insanely fun for me was that in order to get more powerful he had to do a task for the fey queen - kidnap and deliver a singer to her. A singer which also happened to be the person we had to protect during our investigation... dm and me kept it secret.

It was so insanely fun to walk into every scene thinking of how to find an opportunity to do that... in the end I managed to, in a very tense scene (the greyscale sketch at the top, the girl smiling behind theo is one of the fey messangers). The other PCs didnt stop him because they had some trust in him... got away with it completely :3. Tho I agreed not to play him in the next campaign (even tho id love to >_<) bc his jig was kinda up. Great character tho, and thanks to my dm i finally get warlocks, i might play one sometime!

Now, still in the city of mist im playing Valerie :3

Her mythos is "Vampire" but she refuses to drink blood... she gets all sorts of issues bc of that, has trouble keeping down frineds and jobs ect... Still very early in the campaign but shes pretty fun :3 tho i prefer chracters who are a bit more commanding, i made her more of a follower to let my group breathe after theo but i kinda naturally fell back into organising the party again last session so i think i just need to stick to making charismatic characters next time sidugfsd. shes a nice change of pace tho, im excited for whats in store for her.

My feywild!!! It's a setting ive had in my head ever since i made Rochelle, Its sort of an early modern france mixed with Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell which sounds pretty lame and ig it is isudgfsd.

Theres a lot of ideas and a lot of characters that i dont really have time to develop and am prolly gonna rework a million times =w= but its fun, and its fun to make plalists for random archfey.

Last character I'll mention =w= even tho i never got to play him because the campaign fell apart before the fist session, as they often do, I really love Byk and I wanna show you guys...

Tadeusz Byk born in 1880 in Poland, Emigrated to the usa (boston then moved near new york) with his mother and grandma when he was 13... Operates a temporary house for immigrants that his mother started. Now 40, works as a tailor and sells moonshine on the side. Depressed, repressed and with a big heart... hope i get to dust him off for something someday...

#barking #ask #I bet this is very unpleasant to read forgive me ive dyslexia and had to write it without autocorrect #if you guys are curious about any of em feel free to ask ^_^ also i have a million more ttrpg ocs so if you wanna see some more lemme know #i tried to stick to some relevant to dnd ones sdugsd #except for byk i just know you guys like old man yaoi #he got that hat from a childhood friend he had a thing for... all very tragic