#aureva

Here's a fashion/growing timeline of Aureva that nobody wanted but I'm doing it anyways.

Aureva means a lot to me. She is my first level 80, my first character period, and she has grown with me over the past couple years. All my best stuff goes into her. In my canon she is about 5 now, not doing too bad for a salad, and she's been through some emotional turmoil to get where she is.

Her connection to the dream and her personal Wyld Hunt has been tenuous at best. She's done a lot of beating around the bush, no pun intended.

Pic 1: About level 40, a couple months into playing. Aureva didn't really want anything to do with anyone. She ran around Tyria and did whatever pleased her, but nothing approaching difficult. She covered her face and made herself look intimidating so people would leave her alone.

Pic 2: Probably around level 60, she got a little more playful. She started hanging around a mesmer, and got a little more experience. That backpack man, it's her favorite.

Pic 3: Still covering up a lot, and with the mesmer they starting doing things that challenged her. Fighting got a lot more interesting, and she changed her color scheme to reflect. It really was a weird time. 

Pic 4: Here is the turning point. Level 80. Aureva started to understand that she would make it. She started doing things on her own, and covering up didn't feel so important anymore. I started pouring gold into buying her nice things, and sweet ass daggers. The world was in an upswing. As you can see, here is where I got really into GW2. I starting looking up blogs, realized I could take nice pictures, and I really got super attached to Aureva.

Pic 5: Here is where things got complicated. She started doing everything alone again because she knew she could. In my life, I started gravitating away from my boyfriend, and Aureva didn't see that mesmer around so much anymore. She wanted to be fabulous and beautiful and have people know it. This is when I first began saving for a legendary, but I was still reluctant to do things like WvW and I sucked at bosses. Not long after this, I got all my closest friends to buy GW2 when it was on sale, and suddenly Aureva was the know-it-all and she had to guide everyone and suddenly she started doing big world things. And it was fun, and she had fun.

Pic 6: The mesmer was gone. Aureva reflected my emotional state. I spent money to get her looking just how I wanted her, and I played furiously, grinding and farming and just doing all the things I said I would do because I needed to PROVE I could do it, and do it alone. The Aureva in this picture is angry, and hurt, and she will burn anyone who gets too close because she won't be hurt again. I made real progress on my legendary and map completion, but I crashed not long after and didn't play for a month or so.

Whatever, let's just start off this dumb side blog.