#anzhelia

Anzy is basically a super old RP muse that I turned into my own original DO NOT STEEL character so of course I have to put her with the same man I been shipping her with for like a decade now. I’ve mentioned it a few times now, but Anzy basically survives a sea monster attack upon the ship she and Malcom (a water genasi) are on at the time. They are the only two survivors, and just barely make it back to land on the ramshackle ship that remains. Malcom is a man with a good heart and a sense of duty and seeing that Anzy has lived a sheltered life and that her father died at sea, he takes it upon himself and makes a vow to protect her and provide for her. It kicks off a slowburn romance story of them pining the FUCK out of each other and not realizing the other feels the same for a very long time. We all have that one, super feel-good ship that makes you feel all fuzzy an happy inside, right? This one is for sure mine.

Bellinor is a bit more complicated to answer because she’s my all-encompassing multi-ship OC. I ship her with a lot of characters and a lot of friends’ OCs so she’s smitten for… everyone, really! Bellinor is someone who tries to hide behind a façade of confidence and superiority when in reality she craves intimacy and comfort from someone she can trust. But you see, being a high-ranking demon in hell comes with a lot of responsibilities, and she is expected to act a certain way. She refuses to let people see she is weak unless she knows they won’t use it against her, which tends to lead to some slight slowburn depending on the partner. Aside from her abysmal opinions on humans, she tends to try and do “good” where she can, depending on who needs the good deed. Only if that person knows to keep their mouth shut about it though.

Coprini, ohohoho Coprini… she’s a character who I would label as a pretty free spirit, at least in the beginning of her attempts at sex and relationships. She goes with the flow and likes to have fun, so she’s not really looking for anything permanent aside from a friend with benefits situation. That is… until she started travelling with her current party. Coprini has been slowly but surely falling for her sweet and gorgeous warlock and her tough and kind ranger because as they’ve been looking out for each other it’s just sorta… happened! She’s never felt the stability and safety that she has with them ever before, and the way they tell her they care about her and want her to be happy just hits a new note in her, and it’s weird. She’s not entirely sure if she wants to be with them, because Coprini has some dangerous baggage that could muddle things up, but in a perfect world she could be with both of them, happy and free. It’s something that we as players and DM are slowly working towards. >:3c

Anzy’s biggest fantasy BEFORE her whole life got turned around was to go on an adventure and find friends, romance, and fortune. It’s something she read about constantly in the many books she would accumulate, which were either fictional stories of grand adventure or non-fictional stories of actual adventurers and their accounts. She read LOTS of other genres too but being cooped up in her fancy house all the time made her crave something exciting. She eventually finds the excitement when she begs her father to allow her on a trip out to sea, and he reluctantly agrees. Shit happens to the umpteenth degree and Anzy and the captain of the ship are the only survivors of a terrifying sea monster attack. Far away from home and her father now dead, Anzy’s excitement starts to crumble, and she develops a sense for calm and domestic living, like what she had before. The captain who survived with her is named Malcom and it basically sets off a narrative of them both trying to protect and care for each other as they try to find a sense of stability and comfort after the sea monster attack AND finding out about an event in their world known as “the purge” which happened while they were at sea. After all this excitement and some budding feelings, Anzy’s NEW fantasy is to settle down and live a comfortable life with someone she loves, which is slowly becoming Malcom. It’s a fun turn of events because despite her desire for quiet and peace she still craves some excitement, but now has a healthy fear of it. It’s especially fun because eventually Malcom will save up enough money to warrant buying a ship and going back out to sea, which Anzy reluctantly agrees upon because she wants to keep him safe. Her new life at sea with Malcom is her trying to attain that comfort and peace in a setting that makes her (eventual) husband happy.

Bellinor’s fantasy is fun because despite her being the “villain” of my OCs, she has admirable goals and just wants a better life for her fellow demons. It’s just… how she goes about it, really. Bellinor grew up on “the surface” which is Hell’s term for Earth and the material plane it resides on. She was raised deep in a forest by her adoptive mother and lives most of her early life there- this would probably be late medieval times. Bellinor’s narrative struggle is fighting for her right to be where she was born, the material plane, when demons are not favored there. Humans hate demons because they cause trouble and can hurt humans, whereas a good number of demons just want to live on Earth and be happy. I kinda pulled it from the old themes of Lucifer (good ol’ Satan) believing that humans weren’t all that awesome and didn’t want to cater to them or God, so he was banished to hell, right? It seems like a fitting theme then that demons resent being stuck in Hell and just want free reign away from God’s limitations on them. Bellinor views humans as gnats in the way of her goal of unification, and while she understands some humans may agree with allowing demons on Earth, she knows the whole of them disagree and thus generalizes her opinion. Just because there’s a few good apples in a whole rotten batch doesn’t mean you should waste the time plucking them out of it, is her thought process. In conclusion: Bellinor’s ideal fantasy is an Earth where demons and humans and anything else can mingle and get along without restriction.

Coprini’s fantasy is pretty simple: she was kidnapped and raised by a hag, the queen of all hags, the baba yaga. Coprini is still haunted by that hag despite the fact she escaped and is now adventuring with her group. As Coprini slowly understands that she really cares about these two people travelling with her, she realizes that her affiliation with that hag is eventually going to come back to bite her in the ass, one way or another. And so! Coprini’s fantasy is that she wants to sever her ties to the baba yaga, which is the source of her clerical powers and misery at the same time. Because Coprini doesn’t know how she would manage without her cleric abilities, this is VERY much a fantasy out of her reach, in her mind. However, me and my DM (the lovely lad asking this question) have come up with the possible path for Coprini already. She just needs to get there somehow! >:3c

Thinking of what Orona’s fantasy right now would be is interesting, because in the beginning, Orona had everything she could’ve ever wanted! She was happy on her island, living with her mothers and sisters and helping them butcher meat and protect their beaches from attackers. However, now that she’s left and started adventuring, finding love and friends and purpose beyond a simple life, her desires have obviously changed too. I know that part of her fantasy is getting married and having kids with her current fiancée, but that’s something simple and doable, yknow? I feel like Orona’s true fantasy would be a bit more complicated than that. She never really thought or believed that she would get to the level of power she is today, and so her goals have never been based on that… until now. In-game, Orona has already been performing small miracles on NPCs and slowly but surely she is realizing what she’s capable of, and what more she could do if she keeps going. With all this in mind, I think that Orona’s fantasy is to become as powerful as Edite will allow her, and in turn, Orona will be a conduit for Edite’s good will and good intentions. Orona wants to help people at her core, she wants the good hearted to be safe and comfortable and to be able to protect her loved ones, and if she can accomplish that by climbing up in levels, then by the moon goddess she’s going to DO it.

Taylor’s fantasy is SUPER relatable, she just wants financial stability and comfortable living. Taylor has been pressured by her parents over her academics and future career since she was little, and now that she’s run away from all those responsibilities, her fantasy is never ever going back to that and just living her life and enjoying all the things she loved but could never do before.