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funkypoacher · 5 years

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Multiples of 5 for the character ask thing

this was so many questions thankyouuuuuuuuuuuuu you wonderful so-and-so. I went with Vinya as I just finished her playthrough and we’re feeling very close 😍

Vinya Lavellan

What does your OC normally wear? What would your OC wear on a special night?

She’d never admit to having a style (because style is just for rich jerks), but Vinya is pretty conservative. Leggings, vest, and she’s ready to go. She doesn’t like showing a lot of skin other than her arms. She does appreciate embellished leather, though, and her vests are often intricate and high-quality. Also, she’d rather die than give-up her foot-wraps for boots (they completely throw her balance and spatial awareness). For going out, Vinya makes almost no additional effort unless absolutely up against a wall. In which case a long, plain dress with a fancy scarf around her waist is about as snazzy as she’s willing to go. Vinya won’t accessorize. Ever.

What does your OC keep in a special drawer?

Sex stuff? Actually, she probably hordes/hides old gifts in there. Any jewelry someone gave but she wouldn’t actually wear, she’d hide in a drawer. And food. She definitely squirrel snacks away. That’s about it. It’s a miracle anything makes it into drawers, ‘special things’ included, because she’s messy as hell.

What was your OC’s childhood like?

Good. She was a daddy’s girl, decently competitive, and happily involved with clan activities. Festivals/celebrations were her favorite, plus the week-long hunting-parties. Her childhood taught her to keep strong ties with her family-tree (whether horizontal or vertical).

What kind of mother/father would your OC be?

An absolutely awkward one. Vinya is a little afraid of children. Their tiny features are freaky, and they seem fragile as hell. Her insecurities would seep into her mother-role. She’d be so overly worried about hurting her child she’d be basically ineffective (or, at least, instill a crazy amount of anxiety in them). Vinya actually does want kids, though (largely due to encultured ideals from the clan)–she just doesn’t know what she’s going to do when she gets them. Luckily, her spouse is a bit more patient. Vinya would be the sort of mother who needs to be part of a team, but she’ll make a great support role. She’d make a better caregiver of the caregiver.

If your OC has a soulmate, who is it?

Haaaa who knows. Soulmate is such a crazy concept, and it depends on which version of this character we’re talking about. There’s two versions: a multiverse, and a canonverse (where she essentially ceases to exist by turning into someone else). I guess the fact that she ends up with Blackwall in the multiverse means he’s her soulmate? She ended up with Solas in canonverse, but that was through divine intervention, so… yeah, we’re going to go with Blackwall.

Did your OC participate in extracurricular activities, and if so, what were they?

Meh. Hard to say what an extracurricular would be in a clan setting. Activities would be directly tied to the clan as part of their culture’s focus on community (whether its dancing, sports, etc). Vinya was never one for alone-time, and would have spent all her time within the group.

How is your OC working towards his/her dream job and/or achieved his/her current profession?

Vinya is the least ambitious of like… all my OCs. So she’s doing ding-dang nothing. With the Inquisition finally (and thankfully) disbanded, Vinya has time to travel and dick around. So that’s what she’s doing.

How does your OC handle grief?

Well enough for a really long time, and then drinks herself stupid for a week. We’re talking when someone passes away, here. Any other grief, she’d probably just get mad. She’s a hothead, and gets feisty and angry before she gets sad. But she also deflects. She tries to blame her grief on other things, or she goes looking for things to blame her feelings on. Vinya gets in a lot of fistfights this way.

What are some things that annoy your OC?

People who are smarter than her (she feels stupid pretty easily), crappy beer, waking up late, magic (most of the time, but not always), racism. The colour yellow.

What secrets does your OC have?

Not a lot, to be honest. She’s basically an open-book. Except in the canonverse where she’s finding mysterious letters leading her to the creator of Corypheus’s orb. She’s not telling anyone about those.

What are your OC’s thoughts on death

It hits her hard, but she was raised to see it as an ‘inevitable part of life’. That doesn’t mean shit, really. It just means she hides her feelings, holds it together, but then breaks when she’s alone (and has some booze). Deaths of friends or close relatives would send her into a revenge-fueled pursuit, but she’d probably cool down before doing anything too serious. Vinya has a lot of bluster, but not much sustained rage. She would feel the need to move-on from grief for those around her, but if it was just her alone? She’d probably wallow for months.

If your OC could change one thing about him/herself, what would it be?

Vinya relies heavily on her friends. She absolutely loves them. So sometimes she starts thinking she should be more like them. When she’s with Sera (which is a lot), she thinks she needs to be busier with assaulting nobles or helping the little guy. When she’s around Bull, she begins trying to be more tactics-driven or perceptive (but it just ends up hurting her head). Even around Blackwall she believes she needs to change. She has very skewed (encultured) ideals about ‘boys and girls’, so she automatically becomes more sexual around him than she actually feels. This is all fairly subconscious, though.

What is your OC’s favorite drink?

Anything alcoholic. She loves booze, and she ain’t picky. (She actually prefers wine, though–sweeter the better. Don’t tell anyone.)

What is your OC’s favorite book?

Haaaa. Vinya doesn’t read. Like… ever. If there was a written record of Dalish children stories, she’d go nuts over that, though.

What is your OC’s favorite scent?

Baking.

What is your OC’s favorite dinosaur?

Vinya would say ‘that one that killed Newman–spitting poison is pretty bad-assed’.

#projectOC #vinya lavellan #thank youuuuuuuuuuuu for le questionsssssssssssss

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ruffoverthinksthings · 7 years

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What would Mal and bens kids be like

Warning: Heavy Bias towardsBal, skewing EXTREMELY towards negative realism.

Two general trends:

Emotional, unstable individuals with heaps of problems inherited from their parents and their inherent genetic/magical weaknesses to mental illness and emotional issues; or

Completely normal, healthy, pleasant people who just happen to be EXTREMELY out of the norm and challenge Auradon’s established norms and beliefs by the simple virtue of existing.

You have to understand: Mal and Ben are an incredibly volatilecouple just waiting to have all manner of issues come boiling up tothe surface. They’re also an AK Royal and VK couple, the veryfirst, actually, and any children they have will be subject to allthe criticism, the scrutiny, and the intentional and unintentionalscrutiny that comes with being a VK in Auradon and being a Royal inAuradon.

Think of it as the worst of both worlds.

On your VK side, your peers consider you “diluted” in that youare an Auradon Villain Kid (AVK), not nearly as “evil,” “rotten,”or “cunning” as any of them simply by virtue of your bloodlineand where you were born--they needn’t even be Evil Evil,just otherwise Good kids that get into mischief most days of theweek. You don’t just become an Isle Kid without growing upin the Isle and even if one of your parents were from there, becauseYOU didn’t live with the discrimination, the desperation, and therampant psychological and physical abuse.

Think of African Americans from “The Hood” and the sense ofshared anger and outrage at “Gangsta” being co-opted by peoplewho never experienced their hardships, oftentimes as a gimmick formoney and attention.

(I actually have a headcanon that Robin Hood’s kid and the restof his Merry Men and Maidens consider themselves AVK already, whichbrings a lot of hatred and conflict between them and the authenticVK’s, but that’s a different topic altogether.)

On your AK Royal side, you are on an even tighter rope than theoriginal Royals, as now you don’t have immediate support and loveof the heroes and beloved monarchs that the original AK Royalshave--in fact, there will be a LOT of (mostly unjustified) racism anddiscrimination simply by virtue of you having “Villain” in yourblood, and most of Auradon being heavily racist and bigoted.

You’renot invited to all the fun parties, but you’re expected to show upfor all the major, boring events.

People do not give you the benefit of the doubt, will rail againstyou on the slightest of mistakes, and will treat your doing thingsright as “exactly what is expected of you, nothing that would earnpraise” or since they can’t say it out loud, “I’m stunnedthat you managed to do this right because I expected you to failcatastrophically, and I don’t want to say anything else for fear oflooking even more racist and bigoted than I already am.”

You seeyour pure AK and VK peers belonging with their respectivegroups, while you stand outside their groups by virtue of yourbirth, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

And these kids are the KING AND QUEEN’S CHILDREN, so you know,they’re also inherently considered a class all their own, separatedfrom their own AVK peers, and constantly watched by the media andsociety because BOY HOWDY does Auradon love itself some eagerlywatching the 1%’s lives.

There’s two ways that their kids would develop in a society thatoffers them no stability, no community, and all the discriminationand the hatred because they’re an entirely new class of demographicaltogether and that is instinctively terrifying to everyoneelse:

One, you learn to carve out your own niche, take pride in yourdifferences and rally with your other exiled peers, and join or make your owncommunity where you let your Freak Flag fly proud, such asthe slurs being used against your community and turning them into anaffectionate nickname for your group.

Or Two, you forever remain an outsider, and come to terms with thefact that you’re always going to be an outsider, no matter howloved, popular, or invaluable you make yourself to the people thatshun you, and that’s just your lot in life.

Example OC’s of both groups are the following:

“The Knight in Sour Armour” Jacques “Jack” Maurice

Usually, Fairies come to bless newborns, granting them wisdom,strength, and cunning that will serve them well all throughout theirlives. As Jack will tell you, being the biological son of a fairydoes not make you blessed right from the starting gate, it saddlesyou with an awful, terrible curse.

1/4th Fae, 3/4th human; incapable of magic of any sort; naturallyresistant to most poisons, pharmaceuticals, and drugs both good andbad; cursed with both the supercharged empathy of his mother and hisfather and grandfather’s capacity for volatile, explosive rage.

Jack was always capable of experiencing exactly what otherpeople were feeling--their joy, their sadness, their anger, theircuriosity, their disgust, their fear--everything. It was a delight inthat he would happily lose himself in celebrations, literally lettingthe other’s enjoyment flow into him and lift his mood along with itlike a tide, but it was a nightmare when he could also be easilyknocked over and drowned in a sea of gloom, anxiety, and anger.

His parents were blissfully unaware of his distress, Ben thinkinghe was just a particularly emotional child, and Mal evenaffectionately referring to him as a “Cry Baby” because theoverflow of any sort of emotion oftentimes made Jack cry.

Then the panic attacks started.

Mental health STILL being terrible in Auradon, Jack being amagical-hybrid, and the public’s perception that he’s just beinga “yellow-belly who needs to toughen up and grow a thicker skin”whilst they laugh at his latest public emotional breakdown, he’sunable to develop properly or regulate his emotions in healthy ways,and in desperation, turns to Stoicism, using the anger and the ragehe feels at himself to tamp down on ANY emotion he feels or picks upin others.

By his teenage years, he’s an extremely logical and reservedman, eyes decades older than his actual age, a wizard in mathematics,programming, and behavioural economics, one of the foremost expertsand poster boys of rational thought and the study of emotional andpsychological biases, and frequently involved in numerous HIGHLYunpleasant tasks such as reforming the mental health system, fixingthe numerous systemic racism and biases that still exist in his time,along with not only opening the closets that contains theirskeletons, he breaks the doors down so they may never be able torecede where they won’t be noticed and will go unfixed.

When he ascends to the throne, he gains a reputation for being ahighly unpleasant and overtly practical king who has “no respectfor tradition,” just the rule of reason and hard statistics.

He will happily be called callous, cruel, and cold.

But don’t EVER imply that he is unfeeling, that he doesn’tlove his country and its people, or that all of his decisions aren’tmade with the needs of his people above that of his own interests.

Because the one thing that keeps him getting up every morning,that keeps him soldiering through the constant deluge of emotionsthat threaten to sweep him away and overwhelm him once more, is thepain he feels everyday, his rage that they aresuffering, too, and his determination to make it better, comehell or high water.

In his words, "Being a fairy's child is a three part curse:one, you feel exactly what everyone else is feeling; two, you feeltheir suffering extra hard; and three, you literally cannotstop yourself from trying to make them feel better."

His most iconic feature is his left hand: permanently curled into a claw, because of his childhood habit of constantly gripping things so tightly his knuckles turned white.

Rosa “Mel” Melantha

Mel is the spitting image of her grandmother, Belle: intelligent,compassionate, and brave. She even has her exact shade of lovelybrown hair, if her mother’s striking green eyes.

She’s funny. She’s an absolute darling in words and deed,whoever you are. She reads horrific, gory, personal accounts of thepolitical prisoners the likes of Grimhilde kept in dank, inhumanedungeons before bedtime.

For you see, Mel is obsessed with “Evil.” She wants to knowwhy people are so distrustful of her mother for being a “Villain”Kid even if she long stopped being a villain, and in some generousinterpretations, never really was. She wants to know why Auradon heldthe values of being a perfect society with all “Good” people, buther father Ben decided to bring back the “Bad” people to actuallymake it a better society. She wants to know exactly what makessomeone evil, with the ultimate goal of making an objective“Evil-O-Meter” scale, of which the official unit of measurement will be “Mal,” after her mother and grandmother.

In short, she wants to know, “Why?”

As Queen or one of the crown princesses, she becomes a prominentphilosopher, moralist, and attorney of law (and later, judge) whocompletely changes all of Auradon's standards on crime, “Goodness,”and “Evilness” along with earning the ire of most every religiousleader out there when she never stops questioning “What exactly ISGod's Will?” among other probing questions made in good faith andwithout the hint of malevolence, just childlike curiosity that stayswith her her whole life.

And no, she doesn't mind being completely ostractized by hercommunity for being so smart, intellectual, and asking no shortage ofuncomfortable questions, either--”I'd rather be the minority thatis right than the majority that just assumes they are right.”

Belladona AKA “Bella”

From the very beginning, Bella was an artistic soul, drawing andpainting with whatever she could get her hands on. Malenthusiastically bought her a giant collection of finger paints, anextra big canvas for her to unleash her creativity, and left her toher own devices, wanting to be surprised by whatever it was herdaughter was going to create with proper tools.

What she got was a mural of the Circle of Life, with all the gruesome, violent, bloody detail that a two-year old is capable of.

Throughout her life, Bella has always been accused of beingshocking, gruesome, and offensive for the sake of it. And while shewill never deny it, she prefers seeing it as her “portraying lifeas it really is—confusing, messy, and oftentimes horrifying, butbeautiful—always, always beautiful.”

She has donepolitical pieces of the kind of racism and discrimination that AVK'slike her can experience, complete with all the unhealthy copingtactics and the sheer depth of despair they can reach. She has doneinnumerable album covers for heavy metal, punk, and rock bands,hoping to do the artists before her justice as she crafts thecontroversial, graphic, and oftentimes littered with more femalenudity than is strictly necessary faces of the new generation. Shehas made tattoos and art for friends, and especially people who wanttheir very first tattoo done right—her favourite is that of awriter literally bleeding their lifeblood onto their magnum opus.

She curses in sixdifferent languages without a second thought. She will not hesitateto tell you that you suck to your face, that what you said was stupid,or that you look terrible in her iconic getup of ballet skirtsand combat boots. She walks through life ignoring the whispers andadmonishments of the royals and aristocrats of which she willeventually have to rub elbows with full time when she becomes Queen;she also isn't bothered in the slightest about the criticisms of herpeers about her not being “punk” enough or just being a really good “Posey.” (An Auradon Kid or Auradon Villain Kid trying to be more Rotten than they actually are.)

She does what shewants, and what she wants is to live a life where she and everyoneelse is free to do whatever they please, so long as they do not “stepon someone else steel-toed boots.”

She's a Goodperson, who loves hanging out with the Evil crowd, challenging bothof their ideas of if you really are just one or the other.

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