#so i edited kazuma's sprite cause i wanted to use his npc

[inexplicably-spookified]

cairn's design looks really cool!!

what's their deal? as in, what is the character about?

oops i got this ask just as i was walking to work and then forgot to answer it :')

the short answer is that cairn is a character who i have a bunch of different and conflicting ideas/scenarios for, but there is some lore that's remained consistent!

when they were younger, cairn deliberately sought out and made a deal with a fae - in return for their name, the fae would give them 'cool magic shit'

however, the name they gave up was their deadname - their 'public' reason for doing so being that they wanted to see if they could cheat the system... which was part of their goal, but they also wanted to get rid of the weight of the knowledge of their pre-transition self

this, unsurprisingly, had consequences, and now it's as if they didn't exist at all before they stopped going by their deadname - they can't remember their younger years, or recognise any depictions of themself pre-transition, nor can anyone else draw a connection between the two. they claim this is the outcome that they wanted and they are happy with it, but are probably not quite telling the truth

also they currently live in a (possibly haunted), crumbling tower 'because there's no rent' and work in a bakery because they enjoy, uh, baking

#tldr i project my transgender feelings onto them and i have cool ideas for an rpg i want to make with them one day #their origins are funny actually #i threw together their design cause i needed an antagonist for a cave story mod for modfest (basically a game jam) #so i edited kazuma's sprite cause i wanted to use his npc #but in the version of the editor program i was using at the time kazuma was labelled as 'cairn' #because the guy who made the editor (noxid) #was working on a mod back in the day using a custom engine (king: strife and sacrifice) #one of the characters in K:SS was called 'professor cairn' and used kazuma's npc #so i guess he accidentally released a version with K:SS character names? #anyway i liked the name so i just decided to call them that and it stuck #anon #asks