Redesign for Piper!!! I’m gonna play them again!!! In space, Treasure Planet style!!!!! In a wild turn of events they’re also a sorclock now, which is not something I ever expected but definitely something I’m excited to taste.
As fun as it was portraying them as a chipper, goofy little kid, I didn’t feel like it left much room for conflict or development, which are really my favorite things to explore in D&D. So here they are, a little more mature and a lot more scarred, but I think their arc now is going to be learning how to reclaim a childhood they never got, and how to keep their sense of wonder in the face of a world that wants them to grow up too fast. I’m looking forward to it. We’re two sessions in and someone’s already shared a session note with me that just says “wtf is Piper???” so evidently I’m doing something correctly.
They’ve got a lot of my heart on their sleeve now, and I thought maybe it was about time I made a character who looks somewhat like me. So I referenced my own face quite closely for this, and suffice it to say I’m quite pleased with the likeness (and they also had to have the obligatory eighteenth-century-troubled-teen-in-space haircut, which I also have, because I am also an eighteenth-century-troubled-(just-past)-teen-in-space, and it makes me feel so cool). I don’t have so many freckles and my hair isn’t made of pure copper, but I was more going for a feeling.
[Image: a digital drawing of Piper, an aasimar sorcerer/warlock, viewed from the neck up, in profile. They have olive-toned skin with a lot of dark, prominent freckles, ears that are ever so slightly pointed downwards, and dark brown eyes. Their hair is made of copper, pinkish-orange and fluffy on top, falling just over their eyes, and ‘undercut’ where it’s burnt and oxidised and much darker beneath, save for a tiny braid at the nape with an orange puffy end. They are looking subtly toward the camera with a reserved smile. End ID.]
