#bjazz

Alright, me, my sibling and my boyfriend have made it to Claw Island on our joint play through. So time to introduce our characters!

Archaeologist Biarr (mine, pronouns: he/him, Chronomancer Mesmer)

Biarr showed a strong interest in history from a young age, always preferring to uncover old knowledge rather than discover new information. This was at odds with his mesmer magic, until he developed a mirror based backwards scrying technique that enabled him to discover ancient sites with an incredible amount of accuracy. This lead to him graduating with honors from the College of Statics. However, instead of pursuing fieldwork the way he wanted, Biarr was pressured by his politically minded father into becoming an aide for Councilor Ludo, an old mentor of Biarr’s. Stifled and bored, Biarr jumped at the chance to inspect and report on a Statics archaeological excavation in Bloodtide Coast. There he was shown a newly uncovered ancient Orrian mirror and attempted to use it to perform his backward scrying technique. The spell backfired, showing Biarr a horrific vision of the future where Zhaitan had corrupted all of Tyria before the mirror shattered causing the loss of Biarr’s eye. Returning to Rata Sum to recover, Biarr became involved in the events of the base game and ultimately broke ties with the Arcane Council and his father over the treatment of Professor Gorr and his research. Joining the Durmond Priory, Biarr rose quickly through the ranks and, surprising himself, become quite close with his partner Seiran. Loosing her at Claw Island was incredibly difficult for him.

Bjazz (my sibling’s character, pronouns: she/her, Engineer)

Biarr’s younger sister and a talented but highly distractible Engineer. She was very close to her father growing up and a bit of a poppa’s girl. This lasted up until she entered the College of Dynamics and began to struggle academically. Despite the myriad of tutors her father provided, Bjazz ended up flunking out. Her father, enraged and concerned that such a thing might endanger his current political campaign for a seat on the Arcane Council, disowned her. Bjazz drifted from krewe to krewe until ultimately catching the eye of Zojja during the fifth annual Snaff Prize competition. After some exciting adventures including the rescue of Professor Gorr and his research, Bjazz ended up joining the Order of Whispers as she didn’t feel strong enough or smart enough for the Vigil or the Priory. Despite perhaps not making the best field agent, any worries she might have had about that decision were immediately discounted upon meeting Tybalt Leftpaw. The two bonded incredibly quickly and work together incredibly well. The charr soon became a second, and much better, father to her. His loss at Claw Island was devastating to Bjazz.

Mortt the Bulwark (my boyfriends, pronouns: he/him, Spellbreaker Warrior)

Firstly... Here she is. Her current fit. Iconic. The gold eyes are out of place but she was born that way so rip sosiof (Although I did get a total makeover kit for the anniversary so... That might change, idk)

Bjazz Leftpaw (she/he) is a young adult Asura (barely 22 at the start of the game and either 23 or 24 at the point in game where I’m at now) and an engineer. She’s a college drop out (College of Dynamics specifically), which is a big deal for the Asura because the three colleges are as much a cultural thing as they are institutes of learning. Bjazz is by no means dumb but for a race of hyper intelligent little freaks (affectionate) being behind in school is a Big Deal. So dropping out entirely? Yikes.

Despite his father attempts to help him catch up for basically her entire life, he disowns her after she drops out. He’s a political man and trying to move upwards in the world and having a disgrace of a daughter isn’t good for his image. So... Out he goes. In the time between that and the beginning of the game’s story, she crashes with her friend and krewe leader Hronk (we love a good NPC). That’s where the game begins, with their krewe winning the Snaff Prize and Bjazz being named the Snaff Savant.

I cannot get too far into Bjazz’s story without bringing up Biarr. Biarr (he/him) is Bjazz’s older brother (a player character played by my older brother). Biarr graduated (I forget which college, whoops) and was pressured into taking a job with the government by he and Bjazz’s father. He actually studied to be an archeologist and accompanied a group to a dig of Orrian ruins. In an accident there, he becomes blind in one eye and is sent back home to recover. It’s at this point that he and Bjazz meet up again and their stories intersect for a while. Bjazz hides the fact he dropped out and Biarr doesn’t tell him about what happened on the dig so they’re both keeping secrets.

They complete the first parts of the personal story together, saving Professor Gorr from a corrupt Arcane Council (Asuran government) member and Biarr tagging along when Bjazz attempts to fix up an old project of hers (which of course goes wrong and causes Bjazz to kill an alternate version of herself which I actually never thought about the trauma behind that before huh). It’s around then that the two siblings split up again, both choosing to join one of the three orders. Biarr goes to the Priory cuz he’s a Smart Guy and Bjazz joins the Order of Whispers because she doesn’t think she’s smart enough for the Priory or strong enough for the Vigil.

In the Order of Whispers Bjazz is quickly paired up with Tybalt Leftpaw for a mission. Over the course of that mission, as well as through various others that aren’t a part of the game but exist in my head for Bjazz and Tybalt, the two of them bond. Tyblat become a sort of surrogate father to Bjazz, something he embraces easily (he calls her cub and it melts my heart y’all have no idea). Tybalt is one of, if not the, only people that Bjazz feels like he can fully open up to.

And then Claw Island happens. Because of course it does.

Claw Island is when Bjazz and Biarr cross paths again (they’ve been sending each other mail because they’re still Good Siblings, just in very different places). Both are there on behalf of their orders because they’ve both individually discovered something concerning that heavily points to the elder dragon Zhaitan and/or his minions will arrive in an attempt to get to Lion’s Arch.

(Elder dragons are the big bads and Lion’s Arch is a massive, multicultural city that I personally think of at the One Big City because I fucking hate Divinity’s Reach. If you wanna know more you should play the games. Or look it up, whatever osdfsoaifn)

Claw’s Island is attacked because of course it is, this is a video game and we need conflict to progress the story. Despite best efforts, the fort is overtaken and the Main Characters are forced to retreat. In a (successful) attempt to buy time for the groups’ escape, Tybalt (and also Sieran, a close friend that Biarr made in the Priory) return back to the main area of the fort to fight like hell. Bjazz attempts to go after them, fully aware that it’s a suicide mission and not willing to let Tybalt die, at least not without her too. Biarr and the rest of the group have to physically carry her to the boats to escape, but she is devastated. He’s barely able to stand, let alone fight, but finds the courage to do so anyway to avenge Tybalt and save Lion’s Arch.

I haven’t mentioned Trahearne yet. This is intentional. This is a Trahearne hate zone. If you like him, that’s totally fine, but I absolutely Do Not get it. I don’t wanna fight about this cuz I think it’s dumb to, but I just Do Not Like him. This extends to Bjazz because I’m not gonna make a character that loves a character I hate oaidsnfon

After Trahearne has his special big boy moment where his mama gave him a Cool Sword, he, Bjazz and Biarr (as well as the Lion Guard and the three orders) return to Claw Island to reclaim it. This is a successful venture and the city of Lion’s Arch (and the entirety of Tyria) are safe for a little while longer. Trahearne has the idea to unite the three orders to make the Pact, an army to defeat the elder dragons. He asks Bjazz to be his commander and she accepts cuz as much as she hates this fucker, he wants to fully avenge Tybalt and just generally have the elder dragons fuck off.

Bjazz has a Rough introduction to being the Commander of the Pact, almost immediately committing a war crime, whoops. Tricked by an enemy mesmer (a profession with illusion magic) into firing upon Pact soldiers, Bjazz is devastated all over again. She sets out to rescue an abandoned team while Biarr (who’s still here and is also a Mesmer himself) goes out to figure out what happened. Together they kill the enemy mesmer and move forward towards defeating Zhaitan.

I’m not gonna go into details about that because it’s just the in game events and you really should play it cuz it’s Very Good but it does eventually happen. A highlight of the event is that Bjazz tells Biarr that she dropped out of college while Zhaitan is basically right on top of them. After the elder dragon is defeated, in the middle of the massive Pact party, the two of them find some time to get away from it and talk about a Bjazz dropping out as well as some other things (I actually wrote this if anyone wants to see). The two of them are doing well, even though Biarr returns to the Priory while Bjazz stays in Fort Trinity to continue being the Pact’s commander. He takes Tybalt’s last name as a way to honor him and so a tiny bit of the father he wished he had more time with would always be with him.

That’s not going too great because Bjazz is Super Depressed (understandably). Around this time Newt Finknottle (he/him) shows up (another player character, played by my brother’s roommate). He’s basically Bjazz’s PR manager and government assigned gay best friend (I say that only half jokingly). He’s got his own backstory and motives but I am... losing steam odfinsaofd He’s there for the foreseeable future and Bjazz originally takes some issue with him (she doesn’t really want someone following her around and telling her how to act) but she warms up to him soon enough.

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