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wulfiestired · 1 year
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I have an interview in an hour and the “I want to die” mood has finally kicked in
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shrugsinchinese · 3 months
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Older Wulfstrid is a yaoi couple in a yuri kind of way
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aeoris4lovers · 10 months
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when caleb is talking to the nein about his past before the dinner with trent, he tells them that in the time he spent under trent, astrid and wulf never wavered in their dedication or willingness. after rereading his origins comic, though, i think he’s wrong. i think there was a pretty significant period of time where eadwulf specifically was having doubts about what they were doing right in front of his eyes.
exhibit a: the bodies
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this is the most subtle example of it, but it’s also the earliest and probably represents the very beginnings of whatever doubts were brewing in wulf’s mind.
in both of these instances, there’s a dead or unconscious body on the ground, and wulf is staring at it while bren talks to trent. it’s hard to tell where he’s looking in the second one, but a later frame makes it clear that he’s looking in the direction of a body.
in the first one particularly, he looks to me like he’s visibly upset — his face isn’t as stoic as the others, and his body language looks uncertain, not his usual crossed-arm stance.
these were the moments that first caught my eye. they brought up questions in my mind: what is he thinking? what’s going through his head as he looks at the people they just hurt?
exhibit b: the bath scene
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this comes immediately after the second body, and is what confirmed in my mind that wulf definitely isn’t entirely on board with the things they’re being told to do.
he closes the door behind them and just stands with his fist against it. none of them look happy by any means, but it’s clear that he’s upset to a point where even bren and astrid, in the midst of their own feelings, look concerned and go to comfort him.
bren in particular takes a long moment with him before the two of them rejoin astrid. i’ll get into why that — and bren’s role in general — is significant in a moment.
exhibit c: the morning after
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this is the most important point in all of this, and the significance of his reaction here really can’t be understated.
in this moment, trent has just drawn their attention to their “memories” of their parents defying the empire. these are, from their point of view, very real and undeniable memories. and yet, the reaction we see here from wulf is one of explicit and absolute rejection.
and he’s not just denying what trent wants him to believe — he’s angry. he’s standing up and slamming a hand on table and raising his voice. doubt has been simmering under the surface in him for a while now, and this is the moment that trent crosses a line. trent has presented something truly unthinkable to him and despite his own memories supporting it, he absolutely cannot believe it. on a very visceral level, he knows it can’t be right.
this moment is significant not only because it confirms beyond a shadow of a doubt that wulf is not completely sure of what they’re doing, but also because we literally never see another student of trent openly defy him like this, nor do we see any volstrucker do so.
let me repeat that: until caleb goes up against him with the nein, eadwulf is the only person we ever see look trent in the eye and say “you’re wrong.” even after all of campaign two, we never see someone actively working under him defy him that explicitly — it’s only caleb, who escaped his control, or people like the nein with no real connection to him. even when astrid acts against him, she does it very quietly and is clearly terrified of those actions being alluded to at the dinner. wulf is the only one we ever see who, while at trent’s mercy, dares to openly and completely reject him.
bringing his family into it was a step too far. at this point, wulf isn’t just struggling with what they’re being told — he’s absolutely not having it anymore.
so what gives?
we know that he ultimately believes trent enough to kill his parents, and is even the first of the three to do it, so how do we get to that level of agreement from such a powerful moment of anger and denial?
that’s where bren comes in.
looking back at that breakfast scene, we can also see how the other two react to their own memories coming to light.
astrid’s is one of betrayal. she’s confused and struggling to understand why they would do it, but she doesn’t deny it either.
bren’s, on the other hand, is one of defeat. he’s clearly upset, but he’s simultaneously totally certain that what they’re remembering is true. and of course he is — his memory has been impeccable his entire life. why would he start to question it now, even if he doesn’t want to believe what it’s telling him?
bottom line: while astrid clearly also struggles with it and may have her own doubts, though not as strong as wulf’s, bren takes it all in stride and never wavers.
and if there’s one thing we know about wulf, it’s that he trusts his people. throughout his scenes in campaign two, we see him looking to astrid for signs of what to do or say and deferring to her when he’s overwhelmed by or unsure of the situation at hand. when caleb takes his hand at the blooming grove, he follows, and when astrid takes his hand and leads him away, he follows her. where they go, he follows. he trusts them implicitly and he looks to them when he doesn’t know what the right call is.
so what is he going to do in that moment, when his own mind is telling him something that he absolutely can’t believe and he doesn’t know how to reconcile it? he looks to them for guidance.
astrid clearly isn’t in a place to offer much, and hasn’t been. she’s not as lost in doubt as he is, but she’s not certain enough to reassure him either. we can already see that in the bath scene — remember when i said it was significant that bren is the one to stay with wulf while astrid goes off on her own? she wants to comfort him and tries to because she cares about him, but it seems that her conviction isn’t quite strong enough to be a steady base for someone else. and in the breakfast scene, we see that again, with her not openly going against it but still struggling with it in a way bren doesn’t.
bren, on the other hand, is consistently certain that they’re doing the right thing, even when it feels bad. caleb says as much himself when he first tells beau and nott his story: “i was so sure, i was so sure, until i wasn’t.” hearing his parents scream as they die is genuinely the first time he ever has doubts. until that moment, he’s sure. he trusts his mind and he trusts trent and he believes in their cause.
so when he sees wulf struggling with it, what does he do? he offers that certainty, reminds him of why they’re doing what they do, assures him that they’re doing the right thing and he doesn’t have to feel guilty. he’s their rock, the one wulf and astrid can trust to be sure even when their faith is shaken.
and that’s exactly what i think happens in the time between that breakfast and the night they kill their parents: bren sees wulf angry and totally lost trying to make sense of the massive gulf between what he remembers and what he knows to be true, he sees astrid confused and not able to put the pieces together, and he reassures them because he trusts his mind and so do they and he doesn’t want to see them struggle.
and i think astrid needs less convincing, but once she’s sure too and it’s only wulf that can’t accept it, that’s when he starts to think that maybe the unthinkable could really be true. bren is certain of what he remembers and astrid is certain that bren is right, so how can wulf, who trusts and relies on them so much for guidance, not at least entertain the idea that his parents really are traitors? how can he deny it and, in doing so, deny them?
that’s how he can ultimately go and do what he’s told, with such a stern and certain look on his face as he does. because his people were sure that it was the right thing to do, and no matter how strongly he feels that something must be wrong, he trusts them even more than he trusts himself.
that’s not to say that his doubts are completely quelled, though, because there’s still more of this thread that we can follow.
exhibit d: the aftermath
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wulf’s move to knock bren out and save astrid is a quick and decisive one in the moment, but it’s clear that he isn’t at all sure if he did the right thing. he talks to trent — explaining himself, maybe even apologizing because he thinks he was wrong — and trent has to stop him and say that no, he was right.
this is significant for two reasons. the first and more obvious of the two is that this shows he’s still in a headspace of questioning what he’s doing almost immediately after doing it. that doubt was quelled long enough to allow him to complete the “exercise”, but not by any means gone for good.
the second, which i think is the most important to the person he ultimately becomes, is that this is the first time he’s had to look to trent for reassurance.
before this moment, it’s bren and astrid who comfort and reassure him. but now, bren is lost to them and astrid is in no shape to offer any comfort, much less give him the reassurance bren might have. and she might not want to do so even if she could — she wanted to save bren, not leave him behind, and may very well be angry at wulf for the choice he made. so what choice does he have, with neither of them able to support him, but to look to his mentor for reassurance?
and what happens once he gets that reassurance from trent? before, he doubted trent and even openly defied him, but can he continue to do that now?
if he wants to be able to live with himself after, to live with the choice he made and sleep at night, he has to believe that the reassurance trent offered him that night was right — he has to believe that trent’s judgment is right. if trent is lying or just wrong, that means he did the wrong thing that night, and where can he go from there?
that night is a turning point for wulf not just because he took his parents out of the picture, but because he made a decision that ended up forcing him to trust trent to an extent that he really didn’t before.
the new eadwulf
the wulf that we meet in campaign two as an adult is a far cry from the wulf who stood up at that table and said “no, they would never.” he comes across as largely apathetic to and even comfortable with the things they do — it’s just a job for him, not something to overthink or get hung up on. as far as he’s concerned, the lives they take are unfortunate but still necessary sacrifices, just like trent always said.
and if you ask me, his journey to becoming that person, to the doubt and the fire in him being all but completely stomped out, starts with the night he was forced to give up his one source of constant reassurance and finally put his trust in trent instead. everything we see him do to separate himself from his actions, from his belief in fate and his “good soldier” attitude to the drink he has ready after spending time with trent, stems from that moment. he is the way he is when we meet him not because he simply doesn’t care, but because he can no longer afford to.
caleb says they never wavered while he was with them, but i think it’s only because his vision was clouded by his own certainty that he never saw it. he just couldn’t believe that they might not believe in their cause as much as he did because it seemed so right to him, and how could he believe that the people he loved would doubt something so important?
but they did doubt it, especially wulf, and even as an adult, little bits of that stick around in him — he immediately gravitates toward caduceus after caduceus stands up to trent, and as soon as trent isn’t a threat anymore, he’s perfectly content to just stay with caleb (and probably would have if astrid hadn’t pulled him away when she did).
i think, if bren hadn’t been selected for the volstrucker program or just hadn’t been as confident as he was in all of it, it may very well have been eadwulf who found himself standing against trent in the end.
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ectokelpeigh · 2 years
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@of-science-and-stars gave me “Amity Park postcard” as a prompt and I kinda missed but this was fun. Shoutout to @we-serve-spirits for suggesting Walker and Wulf
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quinn-of-aebradore · 6 months
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… I’m going to have to give Verinwulf the same treatment I’ve given Shadowidoyussa & Co. aren’t I?
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mmm-monke-2022 · 1 month
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Jesus Bucky
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wandapinkay · 10 months
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OK so I watched the first episode of the new Clone High I don't understand the initial fuss about it, it was hilarious I'm sure it's because I have shitty humor and laugh at everything but that's beside the point
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piratespencil · 1 year
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Ok but Trent having Eadwulf present when he showed the beacon to the Mighty Nein at the sanatorium was one hundred percent a manipulation tactic wasn't it. Absolutely Trent pulling a power move on Caleb, and probably on Eadwulf too.
He knew Caleb was going to be there. He knew what Caleb and Eadwulf meant to each other. Hell, based on Caleb's backstory comic, it seems like Trent intentionally orchestrated, if not Caleb and Eadwulf and Astrid's romantic relationship, then at least their closeness and codependency. He knows exactly what he's doing.
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robottheodorlasso · 1 year
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My hyper-fixations are converging
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jade-of-mourning · 8 months
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besides the main duos(Ulf and Wulf, Hal and Stig, Lydia and Ingvar, Thorn and any of the Herons, Jesper and Stefan), which Herons are the closest, and have a friendship no one expects?
edvin? having no Duo™? </3 it's okay i'll make it up to him by (soon ish) posting an art i finished two days ago,,
lydia & jesper have some excellent dynamics according to my brain!
they are just such a Rascal duo. they're sneaky bastards, entire assholes (affectionate) who will bite your hand off if desperate, and they have a sort of mutual understanding about people and solitude that isn't spoken about, but definitely exists. they are also the most likely to shamelessly commit crimes to get what they want (or what they need) and will absolutely collaborate beneath hal's nose and against his direct orders to stay on the fucking ship in order to achieve said subterfuge inconspicuously if they're sure there's benefit to be found. sometimes they exchange sneaking methods — lydia is more forest while jesper is more streets, which are both valuable but not quite interchangeable places to sneak. they don't talk so much aside from aggressive banter (aggressive enough that at the start, some of the herons weren't sure if they genuinely had a problem with each other), but deeply value each other's company. they're the sort of people who you can go to in absolutely misery or with a knife lodged in your side without questions being asked, and that's what both of them prefer most of the time, so they tend to seek each other out.
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obsidianwolf36 · 1 month
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voidthewanderer · 2 months
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INQUIRING MINDS WISH TO KNOW——>
For the OC Ask Game! ✨Creating your OCs✨
1, 3, 8, 12, 16 and 19 for Ripper, Shae and Arsenic!!!
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Please :))
Pretty please :)))
(Don’t make me whip out my quadruple chin!!!)
@anonwyvern || Questions About Creating Your OCs
Under cut for length; I needed to talk about my babiesss.
What was the first element of your OC that you remember considering (name, appearance, backstory, etc.)? 
Shae: Shae was appearance, though and through. She'd gone through so many changes; species changes as she traveled through fandoms and back and forth between getting pulled from them to be from original concepts. Being online during the massive point online where "Mary Sue bad and you're a terrible person for making them!", she kind of just went onto this backburner with everything; looks, appearance, story, everything.
Ripper: Mostly appearance, but a super loose as hell backstory as well. Rips was originally a Left 4 Dead OC and of a concept that never actually made it to the game at that. Most of what did exist of his backstory was just that he was an asylum escapee who was turned. Rather than the straight jacket being closed up, his arms were free. He's had the most changes over his entire timespan.
Arsenic: Appearance 100%. He actually was originally a concept made by my nephew! He wanted a zombie chef, so I made a zombie chef!
3. How did you choose their name? 
Shae: I honestly don't even remember where her name came from. It wasn't exactly a popular name when I made her, damn probably about seventeen years ago now? Maybe longer, I think.
Ripper: Was originally a sort of punny name. "A scream ripping at one's throat". Where Joseph Trumoil came from, is one of those things that just... happened. Sometimes names just get stuck in my head. I'll quote him directly from the WIP of Chapter 26 of Mnemonic Impressions for why it's still Ripper: "Thanks to my old line of work, if it were humanly possible at that time, I could rip someone apart and know exactly how to do it to cause the most damage; didn’t help I used t’ do some body building. My friends were… fucked up t’ say the least."
Arsenic: I kinda thought it would be funny for an undead, zombie chef to have his name be the same as a poison.
8. What (if anything) do you relate to within their character/story? 
Shae: Let's just say that I am actually very mouthy like Shae it. And, just like with her current situation with Sinjin, I need to learn how to keep my mouth shut so I don't get hurt.
Ripper: There's actually not much story wise I relate to with Rips. If anything, I'm envious of my own character. He's charismatic, charming, his style is impeccable. I guess he did get a lot of my "do no harm, but take no shit" personality.
Arsenic: The cooking! Arsenic is literally probably the person I would become (sans the murders) if I actually stayed in the food service industry.
12. What have you found to be most difficult about creating art for your OC (any form of art: writing, drawing, edits, etc.)? 
Shae: It's actually been difficult to keep her silver tongued, combative, defiant, but also keeping her... alive. In all honesty, she would probably be dead by now if I didn't mellow her out a bit. She's legit supposed to be as vile as Sinjin is, cutting some completely reprehensible stuff, but I also know that she would have been long since dead before her story even started.
Ripper: No lie, actually nailing down his official design. Every time I think I have something solid, I go "oh, this would work with him!" and then things would change. Rinse and repeat. Now it's more just trying to nail down exactly who I wanna build his facial structure off of, because William Treat is EXACTLY how he smiles, but I also adore him having sharp features like Dum Dum from Cyberpunk 2077 has. Trying to blend the two together is... fun.
Arsenic: HIS FACE. HIS FUCKING FACE. I DID IT TO MYSELF BUT GOD WHY
16. What is something about your OC can make you cry? 
Shae: Her story. Like, god her story is fucked up and just the fact that so much about her kids was kept from her and knowing everything she's gone through, that she's the way she is through so much tragedy and just out of a necessity to survive.
Ripper: Also his backstory, but also like... this man is such a sweetheart and sensitive. Be it because he's just being so goddamn cute or because he's going through an existential crisis, he's probably gonna say something that would either turn me into a mushy mess or bawling my eyes out because why did I hurt you this much.
Arsenic: There's two things with him. When he lets his walls down and lets people in, showing that he's not just a hardened ghoul who hates everything around him. Also, if anything were to happen to Crow, this man's heart would absolutely shatter and he'd probably lose his goddamn mind. That sort of mental torment of feeling like he's lost his soul mate, knowing how he'd react to it, especially now with them in his life again.
19. What is your favorite fact about your OC?
Shae: Not so much of a fact of the character itself (because imho anything I really say with her will give away parts of Addicted), but the fact that she's the second OC I've ever created! She's my second oldest OC, being seventeen (plus) years old.
Ripper: He's only second generation American born in his family! His parents are the first born, his grandmother is from Palermo, his grandfather from Verona.
Arsenic: No matter what, Arsenic was meant to cook and I don't mean that just by his concept alone. He's someone who would be considered to have a natural born talent for what he does and I genuinely cannot think of anything else I would have ever even considered putting him in. If it wasn't a chef, it would've been a cafe owner.
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aeoris4lovers · 9 months
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Do you have any good Wulf songs or playlists? I’m working on a Wulf playlist but am really struggling to capture his essence
oh boy, do i have songs! i’ve been adding and listening to my wulf playlist nonstop for months now. here are some songs from that playlist, plus a line or two from each that i think is a good example of why i added it:
poor isaac — the airborne toxic event (“and i’d be less uptight if i knew the sight of blood was just a weakness and not the whole reason that you made me”)
lying beast — run river north (“lies, lies that i couldn’t see / i couldn’t see that the liar was me / so i flew away with myself / i was the beast all alone in my hell”)
it will come back — hozier (“don’t let me in with no intention to keep me / jesus christ, don’t be kind to me / honey, don’t feed me, i will come back”)
despite what you’ve been told — two gallants (“i guess i made this bed but i’ll take the sidewalk instead / that’s how we deal with boys like me / but despite what you’ve been told, i once had a soul / left somewhere behind a former friend of mine”)
meet me in the woods — lord huron (“i have seen what the darkness does / say goodbye to who i was”)
a good man — semler (“you poisoned the well of someone you called a friend / i think you’d rather they hate you but i don’t think they do / they’re just sad you keep killing the good man in you”)
it’s a job — wolfie’s just fine (“the life you need to lose is unspeakable / deny his mind, his crimes are versatile / everybody knows that it’s a job / everybody knows how much it costs”)
bones don’t rust — the mountain goats (“they can find a use for a scarecrow, depending on your stomach for crows / always gonna need a little muscle if you prove yourself worthy of trust”)
the mask — matt maeson (“with a piece happy home that they stripped from the bone / i did not react / i settled my grievance by crafting a mask and i never looked back”)
see the day — the altogether (“the sleeping slip has begun to fray / i never thought i’d see the day / the pious hunter stops stalking prey / i never thought i’d see the day”)
the anthem of mr. dark — the arcadian wild (“just do what you’re told without wondering why / don’t ask for a reason no matter the season / sit down and comply ‘cause we don’t want no free men / we’ll say what you are, decide what you’re not / you’ll go and you’ll go and you never will stop”)
wolfie — cottonwood firing squad (“how far we go sometimes to help us sleep at night / it’s not where you’re going, it’s what you’re running from”)
cry for judas — the mountain goats (“i am just a broken machine and i do things that i don’t really mean / long black night, morning frost / i’m still here but all is lost”)
better in the morning — birdtalker (“stuck inside a cycle of opinions where there’s two clear ways and i always take the easy one / and i’m always left with the taste in my mouth”)
the absolute best feeling — joshua bond (“and when i look back at this planet from the void between the stars in the arms of some celestial source of time / she’ll show me everything was bound to turn out fine”)
my playlist is longer than just these, but i think this is a solid selection and some of the others take a bit more explanation. i hope these help kickstart your playlist!!
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kinesmanda · 3 months
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Adam: There’s something not right about that guy.
Mercy: Why because he keeps threatening to kill me?
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I'm annoyed by the biphobic bs again. Nothing new to see here. If you read more don't come make it my problem.
I'm not even bi I'm just exhausted on their behalf because the biphobia in this fandom is such a fucking trip. Swear to god if I see L&I described again as lesbians I'm just going to start blocking. It's all plausible deniability and bad faith with y'all and I'm tired of it. People just keep moving the goalposts. Yes comphet is real, no you can't throw it out there for every situation involving two women forever because "you can't prove any previous encounter was real." We have canon crushes and an active attempt at a date with a guy and it's not enough. Don't think I didn't notice also how our Faun druid was allowed and welcomed into the dynamic until she wanted to fuck that old man and didn't say sike and now there's next to nothing about her. Forget ace L, because we are far, far away from the time where anyone is going to respect a physically...uninterested character not wired for sex saying "I turned that part of my brain off a long time ago" - this is still just straight up erasure of a stated canon intrigue and no it's "they're definitely lesbians, I can tell, why are you calling me biphobic/you sound like a t*rf/lesbophobe yourself" (what a hilariously bad faith reading of literally anything I've said as a demigray lesbian, but even if I wasn't, come the fuck on.)
I have watched y'all be fucking shitty to Caleb in real time in the name of your mollys and your drow war criminals and "will he shut up so we can get back to the lesbians," I watched people make the VERY reasonable hc that c2's barbarian was bi before it was "confirmed" otherwise in episode 90-something by her saying "not my thing" and they got ass blasted, I watched the be*ujes ship turn into a seething hotbed of t*rf rot that permeates this ship a campaign later, and I watched people crow about how Liam "finally" played a "real" queer character when our resident halfling said he was only into dudes. Get better soon.
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aceofwonders · 9 months
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just gonna ramble about my current story idea...fantasy setting; main plot, three childhood friends who reunite after years of going separate ways
THE TRIO
Emira “Em” -- she/her; wizard vibes; was sent off to the mage college once it was discovered she had innate talents for magic; she is kind and warm of heart but years of cutthroat politics at the college have forced her to not show it; ever curious she studies new facets of magic; she is investigating suspicious behavior of her fellow mages
Wulfgang “Wulf” -- he/him; knight vibes; was drafted into the army at a young age when the threat of (insert dark evil kingdom here) started making itself known in the land; he’s fiercely protective to those in his charge; his compassion knows no bounds and be just wants to help everyone he can
Rhiannon “Rhian” -- he/him; rogue vibes; while Em and Wulf were taken off to their respective new lives, Rhian remained in their home village which was shortly attacked by evil kingdom; he was captured and enslaved; he rose in the ranks to survive and used his minor influence to help others who were being oppressed; he got some sick shadow powers from the baddies tho; he’s def the type to deflect his trauma with snarky humor
THE PLOT
-there is a loose idea of the three of them converging near the beginning of the story; Emira is investigating sus mages and follows the trail to the border of the “evil kingdom”; Wulfgang is currently stationed near the border and going on scouting missions; and Rhian had recently discovered a powerful magical artifact that the evil ruler is after so Rhian decides to take it and run to keep it out of their hands
and basically all three reunite and come under the possession of this magic artifact which like three different factions are after (evil kingdom, some corrupt mages, and higher ups of the military) so the three are on the run trying to figure out what to do and also trying to reconnect after so long apart
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