#arkhalis

Drawing memes really helps me unrust

10. Is your OC sentimental or pragmatic? Do they keep mementos or only what they need to survive? Have they always been this way or did something happen to make them change?

a bit of both, but he doesn't keep a whole lot of trinkets. he never had much when he was young, and sort of got used to pretty much just having what he had on him. he tends to travel pretty light since he doesn't really need much, so there's not much room for little mementos. what he does have, he holds onto, though. his trusty axe is held together by his average repair skills and hope, but it's not failed him yet and for that he really cherishes it.

15. What places hold significant meaning or memories for your OC? Do they have a positive or negative association with those places?

ark is from ishgard, and he's got some uh. Complicated Feelings. growing up in the brume, he hated the place for the longest time, and when he left for limsa he planned to never go back. the events of the game, of course, forced him to go back. and after witnessing real, tangible change and making some close bonds with the kinds of respected, noble people he never dreamed would have a shred of decency in them (and, you know, murdering the pope as you do in rpgs), he honestly started to come around himself. nowadays he actually goes out of his way to help with heavy lifting in the restoration efforts in the brume, wanting to do what he can in his old home now that he's realized it can change

16. How does your OC make money? Do they have a respectable profession or work a series of odd jobs? Are they a criminal? Or do they get creative in the pursuit of coin?

The Arkhalis is not a sword, but a tiny shard of a bigger one.

In the days of old, an eldritch titan threated Terraria and her habitants. Asking for the power to protect the world has he knew it in exchange of an eternity of servitude, a humble goliath blacksmith [a really really big human-like humanoid (not a giant though)] made a deal with the spirits of light and dark. The trickster spirits had another idea in mind.

They showed him the way to a meteorite that fell millenia ago, promesing him a "blessed metal" to smite his foes. With it, he forged a sword unlike any other he had made before. The sword was longer than he was tall, the blade was as broad as his muclular arms were and had a dim blueish glow.

When night fell, the the goliath, along side a valkyrian harpy who seeked revenge for her fallen sisters, fought the fiendish titan. The hulking behemoth rised his blade-like arm to strike his foe down but, with his heaven-sent blade, the goliath parried the mortal blow, shattering the titans arm in dozens of pieces, making it kneel. The harpy, without hesitation, lifted her ally above the titan's head and dropped him, going on a free fall right after him. The goliath slammed the sword into the demonic behemoth's skull, but the force of the impact shattered the blade, enveloping the heroes and the titan in a white light.

The titan fell dead onto the land and, due to the blast of the impact, the shards of the blade were scattered across terraria, with the heroes nowhere to be found.

But the titan had the last laugh beacuse it's rotting corspe released a ravenous curse onto the land. A bloody festering illness that twisted the soil where the corpse laid. And the spirits of light and dark found joy in their new-found "toy".

Break and Skin for Lizard

skin: How comfortable is your OC in their skin? Do they grapple with anything that lives inside them—a beast, a curse, a failure, a monster? How do they face the smallest, weakest, most horrible version of themself? Are they able to acknowledge it at all?

god this is like 3 or 4 different questions let me. focus on the first one and address parts of the rest in combination with the next bit -

ark is... not exactly constantly agonized by what happened to him in shb/generally being a giant freak, but if it were at all possible, he'd definitely prefer to go back to normal. even after he got through the adjustment period to the new height, he still gets a bit weirded out by everything else. while his mind is largely safe, his body's aetheric makeup is very physically unstable and greatly affected by its surrounds, so he regularly experiences and has to deal with aetheric buildup, slight physical changes and oddities, and just general quirks and limitations he didn't have before.

he also just... doesn't like standing out from a crowd as much as he does now. he's not exactly shy by any means, but he's never been great with words or presentation. he draws a lot more attention now and he doesn't entirely know what to do with it

break: What would cause your OC to break down completely? What do they look like when that happens? Has anyone ever seen them at their lowest?