#barend robbasson

Since there wasn't a character specified, I'm having @ratasumportauthority pick for me and they picked Barend Robbasson: norn warrior, true of heart, dumb of ass.

R4: What does your character’s friends like about them? Barend can always be counted upon to try and lift the mood when it seems like the guild is getting a little down. Obviously he's not going to try and make people ignore the thing that's getting them down, but he's going to point out the things that are worth celebrating. Like ale! And food! And that cute animal over there. And how pretty Danica looks today. Maybe that last one is just for him, though. But still, there's always a silver lining in his eyes!

R8: Does your character care about others' opinions of them? Barend barely knows what his own opinions are. The only opinion others have of him that he really retains is that "not everyone likes my singing voice".

I meant to post this yesterday and I forgottttttt I blame being sick. I was tagged by @forsaken-constellation.

Let's do Barend, I haven't talked about him in a minute. What class would your character just absolutely blow at? Honestly Barend would blow at anything that isn't being a warrior. He's built to hit hard and that's it. He's not creative enough to be a mesmer, not clever enough to be an engineer... He can maybe be a guardian? If someone really needs him to be?

My bestie’s norn Barend Robbasson. We were leveling together since both him and my ele Agaue are at around 50-55 right now.

He has a party tit.

I still have a couple more characters to do backstories on that I haven't gotten to yet. So it's poll time once again!

Send me a character + a number and I’ll tell you my headcanons for:

2. Their emotional/moral weak spots

For Deshauna, her emotional weak spot is anything concerning her older brother, Abioye. The two of them were just less than a year apart, and they were almost as close as twins. His death in Maguuma devastated the family, and out of all their siblings, it hit her the hardest.

Anyone implicating that if he had been a better soldier he may not have died will very quickly learn that she doesn't just carry her weapons for show... and she does not hesitate.

The only comfort she takes in his loss is that her path as a revenant has given her a means by which to reach out to Abioye beyond the mists. It's a hollow comfort, being able to occasionally hear his voice when she's tending to matters of diplomacy or helping refugees...

But it's something.

9. Humiliating memories

PSYCH, I'm going to talk about my friend @the-proofreader's Barend, because he's fantastic and head empty.

So this one time at a moot, they ran out of literally all of the ale. Barend decided, at that point, that he was going to go to the next haven over in order to get more ale from them.

But being so absolutely fully plastered that he didn't even know which way was up, he walked in the completely wrong direction and found himself in the stronghold of a bunch of Sons of Svanir instead of the haven he'd been heading towards.

So there he was. Witless, weaponless, none the wiser. He doesn't remember the rest of what happened.

Which is honestly the embarrassing part for him. He knows he absolutely trashed the Svanir, but not only did he not come back with the ale, he also didn't come back with a fantastic tale to share of his exploits.