🧣- A fun fact about your muse's design:
1) Basra’s (in dnd) design was originally based off of crows, with a cape of crow feathers, bladed (but silent) boots and a perpetually angry/upset look to them :) but when I was actually rendering the piece, I realized that their features seemed more like a magpie-
2) they way that Basra’s clothing is described in RP is based off the armor she wears in DnD, so the occasional full plate armor or cowboy hat is purely because I thought it’d be funny to have that reflected in how I RP
3) Basra has a lot of scars all over their body from crows being a lil too exited to say hi and accidentally cutting into their skin with their talons. These are generally centralized around their shoulders, arms and hands. The nerve damage in their hands impairs their ability to feel/makes their hands tingly, but they’re still able to have more or less full motor control; and is caused by a few too many botched landings
4) Basra’s cape of feathers is a very sentimental item for them. It was initially made with a feather or two from every crow in their flock woven together for Salma so that she would feel more comfortable without her sealskin. Once she got the sealskin back, the cape became a reminder to Basra that they’re not alone, both through their flock and through Salma :)
🏳️- What's their nationality?/Headcanon about their nationality
While I had to keep their nationality vague within the original universe, Basra was always meant to be of middle eastern (or equivalent) descent! While a large part of their identity (including their name) is fabricated, they did genuinely spend a long time in Turkey (as it was where the “church” was located), before in some way traveling to the UK.
As for their passports, they hold two passports (one of an EU country and one Turkish (due to them living there for a while))
🖋️- What inspired you to create your muse/What inspired you to make a blog for your muse?
Basra’s creation was almost purely accidental! I was told I had to make a character for the first session of my DnD campaign the day of, so I used some previous ideas of a rouge that… just grew up on a farm and had to get good at not alerting people when they came or went to get a better understanding of the world. And as I RP’d, I brainstormed with my DM, which slowly but surely resulted in the current characterization that Basra has :) ((fun fact: in the original version, they didn’t even have crows-))
As for the creation of the blog, it was actually a number of things! I’ve known for a while that RP is one of the aspects of DND that I find most interesting, and found myself thinking about other potential RP opportunities I could raise for myself. I then found @gerry-the-archivist’s blog, which inspired me to actually start a tma RP account because I realized that Basra as a character is really eye coded- also I was just bored and starved for interaction :)
