So I saw a post about this concept and thought it would make for a interesting ask. Magical damage, like a necromancers fingers slowly turning black and losing sensation or a wizard with lighting bolt scares across their arms. What dose it look like when your oc's push their magic beyond what their bodies can handle?
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So for Liya, like most cases of magic, it mostly depends on her host. Outside of a host, she becomes anchored to the ironwood tree that makes her grave on Melenas, or to the former heart of the Selesnya conclave in the 10th District on Ravnica, where the leylines meet. The more she fights against it, the more transparent she gets, and the foggier her mind becomes. Itâs like a slower acting anaesthesia.
Though Yriâs magic is small to match its user, she can still push herself too far. Her hair starts losing its fight against gravity, and it becomes harder for her to fly. Less obviously, food (especially sweets) loses its flavour.
Vasilâs magic is basically whatâs keeping him alive, so using too much means he starts drying out, as it were, and his bones start weakening their connections. Like Liya, he starts getting fuzzy around the edges before becoming a temporarily inanimate pile of bones.
Caidiâs magic powers her telepathy and projection, along with their shapeshifting. They remain sentient, but become unable to communicate effectively.
Kolya unfortunately finds himself in this position too often. Utilising precognition puts stress on the brain, so he develops nosebleeds and sharp headaches as a warning sign to avoid damage from continuing. Heâs pushed himself into a coma before, and could risk death.
Conversely, The Coterie rarely push too hard, being able to channel power through all three of them. Unless in a literal life or death scenario, they donât tend to fight together, meaning thereâs at least one of them in reserve. If it comes to it, they collectively start weakening and aging, their shared mind generating screams internally. This heals over time with rest, but leaves the triplets vulnerable in the interim.
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I'm interested in Caidi (me interested in an Ooze person, can you imagine?). They have limited polymorphism, what does that mean exactly? How well can they interact with the non-ooze folk? What do they want in [waves hands] all of this?
Caidi has the ability to transform into basically anything, but they will always look like ooze, be the same colour, and be only vaguely defined. Something like this. They also canât become anything larger than an average person, due to the laws of matter. For example, they could become an intensely dense mouse, or a person-sized elephant. The sole exception to these rules, is when they assume their âdisguiseâ form: a copy of Kolya as he wouldâve been at 16 without transitioning.
They also have telepathy, though their language is formal and stilted, having only really learned from reading. With their mental projection ability, they can allow people to see an illusory space and change it as they want. Think of like the Holodeck, for example, but if you could also change yourself.
Their desires are fairly simple: to experience more of the world (and since being made aware of it, the Multiverse), to enjoy life, and to protect Kolya where possible.
I recently asked for advice on how I should approach an ongoing writerâs block and drain of enthusiasm, and collating the results suggests that people want to see the overall plans I have for going forward, and hoping I can get to a point that I feel engaged to continue. So with that in mind, letâs go from the top:Â
First, the published pieces:
Chapter One: Once Was Lost - Set on the plane of Melenas, common farmer Liya al-Amundi runs afoul of a deserter in the ongoing war between two nations, ending up being falsely accused of unlawful use of magic and condemned to death by hanging. At the instant of her demise, her spark ignites, severing spirit from body and allowing her to persist past death. She uses her new-found possession ability to watch over her now orphaned son as he lives his life and gains a family of his own, using his passing as her cue that her time to remain on her home plane had come to an end, and ventured forth to explore the Multiverse with eternity ahead.
Chapter Two: Dream A Little Dream - Liya travels to Theros, inhabiting Myka, a terminally ill child with a connection to Nyx. She gets noticed by Erebos, due to her undead nature, and enlisted into service to usher souls to his domain across the planes. She uses the opportunity of a renewed youth to learn to read, making friends with another child, Spiros. The two learn of a plot to assassinate the king, which Liya sacrifices herself to disrupt, knowing that Myka would have been dead already if not for her possession. As she dies for a second time, she reveals that Spiros has he skill of magic within him as Myka did. In the future, Spiros, a now renowned warrior hero, is visited by a mysterious individual seeking information.
Chapter Three: Future Past - Liya travels to Tarkir, possessing Chaka, an outrider scout of the Abzan house. A spokesperson of the Temur summons Liya to attend a vision ceremony after one of their seers foresaw her arrival. She receives a prophecy cryptically concerning her personal future and how she might overcome the dangers ahead. Liya pretends to be magically weakened to cover for her lack of combat ability to train. As predicted, a Sultai force presses into Abzan territory, as Liya is given command. She encounters a fearsomely skilled foe who recognises her by name. Confused, she doesnât notice as a dragon descends to blast the Sultai. The mysterious combatant melts into an oily-substance before disappearing in a similar, planeswalking fashion before Liyaâs eyes. Before she can investigate, the dragon condemns the Abzan for engaging with necromancy, sensing Liyaâs spiritual presence and using that as evidence before obliterating the entire troop, and reporting to the Dragonlord Dromoka, potentially setting the future of the clan in jeopardy. Liya attempts to apologise as her spark pulls her home.
Chapter Four: Pulling Loose The Threads - Further honing her combat skills, Liya trains on Melenas until an eclipse signals her need to planeswalk. She travels to Innistrad, finding the body of Claude, a hunter, an experiences the opposite side of the gender divide for the first time. She returns Claude to his home in Gavony and spends time with Claudeâs wife Cynthia, culminating in her first shared sexual experience since her death, and first time ever as a male. Upon waking, Liya learns that she had spoken in her sleep, revealing names of people from other worlds. She attempts to confess her existence to Cynthia, but is thrown out of the house instead, the names believed to be women in other villages. Liya takes a young boy, Derrich, on a hunt as an excuse to be out of the home situation. Unfortunately for Derrich, nightfall reveals Claude to be a werewolf, and losing control, Liya kills and devours the boy. In the morning, her form reverts to that of Claude, and she respectfully buries the boyâs remains. Still needing to know the next step of the prophecy, she retreats into the woods, away from town. Liya learns that by accepting the transformation, she retains control. She also encounters Nahiri, the shaper mentioned in the prophecy, and follows her to witness her confrontation with Sorin Markov. Liya gets cornered by Avacyn, and confined to the Helvault alongside Nahiri in her spirit form, causing 1000 years of soul-rending pain as her spark fights to recall her to Melenas while the Helvault fights to keep her contained. When the Helvault is destroyed, Liya returns home, finding her magic changed. No longer able to choose a host at will, she is now placed into one at random; a fact she discovers inadvertently by traveling to Ravnica, and taking over an aspiring Rakos entertainer Jasen. She is overwhelmed by the sudden situation and runs into the streets, her new-found claustrophobia and fear of angels causing her to faint at the sight of a Boros guard.
Now we get to the unfinished pieces:
Chapter Five: A Tale Of Two In The City - Damzak, goblin tinkerer experiences a strange event causing her to pass out, but awakens with her mind racing with new thoughts and ideas that eventually get her a position with the Simic Combine as a biomancer, specialising in Ooze metaphysiology, and begins work in constructing a serum of immortality based on the oozeâs ability to reproduce, to many failing attempts, leaving herself immutably morphed into half-ooze. Meanwhile, Zoe has trouble dealing with her burgeoning abilities of precognition. After a sharp impact to the head, she encounters a strange boy who looks after her. As they spend time together, he reveals his name to be Kolya. Zoe recognises the feelings of gender dysphoria as she grows, without knowing the cause, an Kolya helps her on a path to transition, teaching her, now him, what it means to be a boy, and taking him to a therapist that helps Zoe fully realise his intent. The two grow closer as friends. Zoe asks his parents to help with the medical/physical side of his transition, but they refuse, denying his rights. Zoe runs away from home, intending to live alone. As he tells Kolya, Kolya reveals that he is nothing more than a hallucination caused by the injury combining with the precognitive powers, and is essentially his own future self guiding him along the path to where he could be happy. Zoe eventually accepts this, and changes his name to Kolya as he recognises it to be the name of his own grandfather, an a name he had been considering anyway. The newly minted Kolya signs on with the Azorius guild; his precognitive abilities useful to them. Struggling on his wage to afford transition, Kolya enlists the help of an underground Rakdos-aligned surgeon to handle his top surgery, but is unable to o further. The surgeon guides him towards Damzak, who is still working on her theory. In return for providing a sample of genetic material for transitioning hormones to be synthesized, Damzak would provide Kolya with what he felt he needed to become a man. Secretly, Damzak also used this sample in her project, getting results for the first time. However, the project goes awry as the ooze awakens and kills its creator before fleeing into the sewers. Though his supply of hormones had been secured through Damzakâs will to maintain progress on all her experiments, Kolya feels he owes the goblin closure, and seeks out the escaped ooze. He encounters it in the sewers, awakening to its own sapience. It reaches out telepathically, recognising Kolya as its genetic donor and introduces itself as Caidi, an alteration of the project designation âKDâ. Unwilling to slay the creature, Kolya takes them home, and learns more about them and their abilities. One day, Kolya encounters a screaming elf in Rakdos colours being questioned by an angelic Boros Legionaire, and takes him away to a nearby doctor.
Chapter Six (Ravnica) - Liya awakens on Ravnica, being assisted by one of the Azorius, Kolya. She tries to explain, but ends up sounding mentally unwell. Not heartless, Kolya takes Liya to see the therapist that had helped him in his dark times, Jiâmaz. In confidence, Jiâmaz reveals himself to Liya to be a planeswalker like herself, using telepathy so she can communicate as herself, not through her host body. Liya recalls that upon possessing Jasen, she heard his voice whisper that he âjust wants to be acceptedâ. As time goes on, Liya adjusts to her new understanding as Jiâmaz helps her get over the accumulate traumas of her planeswalking life to date. Liya gets set up with a job in a bakery, utilising her homemaking skills, under the guidance of former Selesnya guildmember Elnaya, who is also brought into the circle of people who know Liyaâs true identity and planeswalking situation. Liya makes friends with Kolya and Caidi, eventually using Caidiâs skill in telepathic construction to form a more serious relationship between the two and they become lovers on a mental level. Liya gets Jasen accepted to the Selesnya under Elnayaâs recommendation after finding out thatâs what his goal had been before she had possessed him; he was too nervous to go against his familyâs wishes to join the Rakdos. Feeling Liya had reached a level of comfort with her abilities, Jiâmaz suggests she take a planeswalk for her own mental health, to prove that itâs not all bad out there, and to emphasise that imprisoning people against their will via possession might not be the healthiest thing. Liya agrees, and resigns herself to being less connected each time she visits a plane for her hostâs sake.
Chapter Seven (Kaladesh) - Liya inhabits the body of Elra, a skilled Dwarven pilot and racer recovering from a near-fatal crash leaving her with an artificial arm and leg, imparting Liya with a desire to âjust win one more timeâ. Liya uses Elraâs inherent magic to modify her racing engine with the help of her pit crew, and sets her up to race in an upcoming tournament by qualifying on Elraâs behalf.. Following her win, Liya is congratulated by a pale woman with an odd accent before leaving the plane, her adventure successful.
Chapter Eight (Lorwyn) - While possessing the form of Galumvol, a treefolk, Liya encounters Yri, a faerie who is curious about her friendâs sudden movement; Galumvol is apparently known for being a stationary figure, and self-proclaimed defender of the forest. Thinking this has something to do with her request to âwarn everybodyâ that the treefolk left her, they team up to investigate the potential problem. The pair discover that a lingering remnant wave of the Great Aurora is soon to pass over the land of Lorwyn; not changing it back to Shadowmoor, but acting as a refresh, erasing the memories of all the residents of the plane, save those in the palace of the fae. Yri and Liya try to save as many people as they can in the time they have, but get caught outside as the wave approaches. Yri freaks out, not wanting to lose her memories, and her spark ignites, catching the slower-moving Liya in its wake. She âawakensâ still in Galumvolâs body, but the whisper tells her that her job is done; she can go and he can rest as easy as he could. Confused, Liya planeswalks away.
Chapter Nine (Equilor) - Immediately following the events of the previous chapter, we follow Yri as she experiences her first planeswalk, exploring the deceased plane of Equilor. She meets the only other living being on the plane, a pale man with an odd accent who is studying the plane to learn about its existence, and why it seems to be at the end of its life. He explains what being a Planeswalker is to the faerie, how it works, and introduces himself as Neris. Together, they explore more and learn the history of Equilor that is left to learn. Seemingly disappointed he didnât get what he was seeking, Neris departs, but tells Yri of a place where she might âfind a friend or two to help herâ: Ravnica.
Chapter Ten (Ravnica) - Liya inhabits the body of Zoda, a Loxodon cleric of the Orzhov. She meets back up with Kolya, who is untrusting at first, until Caidiâs magic reveals the truth. Kolya recieves reports of a troublemaker in the markets, and Liya follows to find Yri trying to steal food, not knowing about the concept of money and trade. A small spark of memory flashes in Liyaâs mind as she recalls Yriâs name. After a brief questioning, Yri learns about Liya and is brought into the inner circle using Caidiâs telepathy to show her true from and learn of their adventure on Lorwyn and Yriâs first planeswalk. Yri gets a job as a messenger with the secretive Dimir syndicate owing to her illiteracy and tiny size. Though Liya is enjoying her growing relationships in her home away from home, she starts experiencing nightmares of hurting people, culminating with a belief that she had planeswalked in her sleep, until she realises sheâs possessing the body of the deserter that invaded her home on Melenas, leading to her own death. She learns that the manâs name was Vasil Iashvili, an orphan from the neighbouring country that her husband had been drafted into war against. Whenever Liya tries to avoid interacting with her past self, she reverts to the beginning. She tries a variety of methods to change her own fate, all of them unsuccessful. She finally gives in, and reenacts the memory as it originally happened, and learns that the intruder was killed by the townsfolk after her past self was taken away to be hanged, but he possesses a similar power to Liya. Instead of being a spirit though, he remained in his own body; a living corpse. Not lonog after this discovery, she is taken by a force of creatures hidden beneath the earth of Melenas, learning that they are Phyrexians attempting to reach their home. They torture and maim Liyaâs host in a process they call âcompleationâ, causing the manâs spark to ignite properly. Liya learns the man ended up traveling to a Phyrexian stronghold on Dominaria; information that is imparted to her host, and subsequently her, during the remaining compleation process and mental domination. Liya is flung out of the memory to learn it was just a dream engineered by a shadowy figure who simply laughs at her pain. The figure reveals that they had gotten this information from the man himself, and thought it would be fun to deliver more than his warning that he was coming. They also show Liya another nightmare; the man believes that if Liya hadnât managed to planeswalk away when she did, she wouldâve been the victim of the Phyrexianâs research, and the figure shows what could have been: Liya, Herald Of The Phyrexians. Liya wakes up screaming.
Chapter Eleven (Ravnica) - Still shaken by her nightmare, Liya tries to calm down. She brushes Kolya, Caidi, and Yri aside and tries to walk it off. Out of nowhere, she is knocked down by a tackle from behind. The assailant reveals himself to be a cloaked skeleton, dripping a thick black ooze. As soon as her calls her by her real name, she recalls the voice: the Sultai fighter that vanished before the dragon attack on Tarkir. He goes on the mention that she is the cause of his pain, and the pieces fall into place; this isnât some random assailant, this is Vasil out for revenge. Vasil mentions that he felt the pull to Ravnica, following Liyaâs travels but alsoo from an external source. Liya apologises to the dormant Zoda in her own mind, and attempts to planeswalk away to save herself and seek help, only to find her ability blocked by the appearance of the Immortal Sun. War had come to Ravnica. The two undead planeswalkers struggle for a moment before they feel a calling. They slavishly follow it, walking together, finding the dragon Nicol Bolas and the necromancer Liliana Vess summoning an army of zombies. Curious as to their appearance, Liliana learns of both of their true natures, stops Bolas from killing them right there, and commands them to join join the Dreadhorde on their mission to find planeswalkers and harvest their sparks. They would of course sacrifice themselves too, but after they were useful. Between Vasilâs natural combat abilities and Liyaâs borrowed clerical healing, they proved an effective team. Unable to control her own body, Liya meets Jiâmaz, and throws him to the metaphorical wolves, as Vasil takes his spark and life. They encounter the trio of Kolya, Caidi, and Yri trying to help civilians. They were pleased to see Liya was okay until Caidi tried to reach out, warning the others of the danger. Before Liya and Vasil could catch Yri, their spark-wielding target, the compulsion was broken. While the chase had been going, the Gatewatch had succeeded in ending the threat. Vasil took his opening to escape, not fancying his chances against Liya with her friends to back her up. In the following cleanup, Jace Beleren senses Liyaâs domination of Zoda, and reads her mind, learning of her role under Liliana. She is given a chance to explain herself, and reveals her true name and nature to the mind-mage. Apologetic that she had gotten caught up in their conflict, Jace asks the elementalist Nissa Revane for a favour. Nissa entwines Liyaâs spirit to the leylines of Ravnica, granting her a proper home on the plane which would counter Melenasâs ownership of her soul and restoring her magic-borrowing capabilities. In return, as she fades back to Melenas, temporarily unable too be heard, she swears a her version of the Gatewatch Oath, overheard from a conversation between Jace and Gideon.
Chapter Twelve (Ecruna) - Liya travels to the plane of Ecruna, a plane of endless daylight. She discovers that she is in her own form, not possessing anyone. This is due to the nature of death on the plane; direct sunlight destroys the dead, but they otherwise continue to live normally. Liya learns of a ritual designed for people who no longer wish to linger as one of the shadowkin, and witnesses one such event as a person is conveyed to a cave and engulfed in light. Some people go missing, and Liya assists in the search. She discovers a secret tunnel in the cave and finds that the people who seek their final end arenât being given that at all, but kept prisoner by a mad scientist trying to research how to reverse the effects of the plane, and allow him to walk in the sunlight without fear. Liya tricks the scientist into standing in direct light and he is destroyed. Before she can free the others, she finds them already freed, but mostly annihilated. She asks a survivor what happened, and they tell her of a place stranger who wanted to talk to the scientist, and lashed out when they discovered Liyaâs intervention. She departs the plane, mulling over the new information.
Chapter Thirteen (Ravnica) - Liya takes time to rest and spend time with her friends, and try to overcome her fear of angels as she possesses the body of Brakne, an angelic Boros legionnaire. Yri shows her some of her favourite spots around the city, usually all but impossible to access without flight. The two bond as Yri talks about her honest feelings regarding her spark.
Chapter Fourteen (Sym-Po) - Liya travels to the plane of Sym-Po, having to adjust to life without sound due to the planeâs effects. She learns rudimentary sign language, and enters into the Harvest Festival, choosing cooking as her specialty, but is outclassed by the aesthetic styles of the competition. Liya picks up some tricks to improve her technique for her part-time job at Elnayaâs bakery.
Chapter Fifteen (Dominaria) - Vasil recovers and plans, as he recalls his life. We learn that time moves a lot faster on Melenas than other parts of the Multiverse, and that Vasil played a significant role in the Phyrexian conquest of Mirrodin, as well as other nameless worlds.
Chapter Sixteen (Amonkhet) - Liya travels to Amonkhet, and assists with the restoration efforts. The surviving god of the plane, Hazoret, senses Liyaâs presence and asks for an explanation. She explains herself, and has a discussion about the nature of deific entities, as it relates to Erebosâs deal with her.
Chapter Seventeen (Arcavios) - Liya travels to Arcavios, to visit Jiâmazâs homeland. She has to balance her host Aavaiâs study schedule with her own desire to explore and learn from other departments. While there, Liya meets the pale woman she last saw on Kaladesh, who gives her name as Syren. She is interested in necromancy, but is drawn to Liya after Liya lets slip that theyâve met before.
Chapter Eighteen (Mercadia) - Liya travels to Mercadia and gets embroiled in a plot between rival merchant families.
Chapter Nineteen (Plin) - Yri gets bored and begs Liya to take her on a planeswalking adventure. She agrees, and the two arrive on Plin and have to adjust to the dual-bodied nature of the planeâs magic. They discover the history of The Coterie, and the dangers they represent.
Chapter Twenty (Alara) - Liya travels to Alara
Chapter Twenty-One (Fiora) - Liya travels to Fiora. A confrontation with The Coterie is teased, but the three escape before Liya can seek aid.
Chapter Twenty-Two (Dominaria) - Liya travels to Dominaria and ends up in the body of a Sliver, corrupted by an external hivemind. Struggling to make sense of the alien sensations, Liya ends up completing the sliverâs mission to betray its entire colony to the other hivemind. Liya feels terrible that this seemed necessary.
And this is what I currently have, even as my brain attempts to spin more. But at least now anyone who was every interested in Liyaâs story is roughly on the same page I am, stuck as I am on Chapter 5.
What is your ocs magic? Dose it have a proper name? What dose it look like? How do they cast it? Dose it require any extra components to uses?
Liyaâs magic is spiritual possession. Before the Mending, she would have to sense a compatible host, and enter their body, but now she is just shunted into a host upon planeswalking. The requirement of her possession is the host has to have spark potential, but not ignited yet, which can be limiting.
The closest name for Yriâs magic Is Prestidigitation; harmless, showy effects intended to distract. Sparkles, puffs of smoke, little sounds: all tools at her disposal. The only thing necessary is that Yri is actively concentrating.
Vasil technically doesnât have magic. He generates and oozes a prototype Phyrexian oil from his skeletal frame due to experiments from a sleeper cell on Melenas to understand his spark and immortality. As the oil is biologically part of him, he can manipulate and shape it in combat for short periods of time; itâs still a liquid after all. Requires enough loose oil to make what he envisions. Could technically be called Elaiokinesis.
Similarly, Caidi doesnât have actual magic, being a product of Simic science. They can transform their ooze body into different shapes by concentrating, though the form will still resemble an ooze, but canât maintain it. The only form in their repertoire that isnât instantly recognisable as an ooze is to take a genetic copy of Kolya as he couldâve been at 16, which upsets him, so they donât do it often.
Speaking of Kolya, he possesses the power of Precognition. This has made him a valuable member of the Azorius guild, as his visions come in the form of dreams as opposed to the usual visual runic effect. And there were also those times where he hallucinated versions of himself from the future to reconcile the fact that he was transgender, but mostly dreams. Requires a sleeping mind.
The Coterie possess numerous magics, due to their multiple nature. By drawing a series of sigils with their non-dominant hand (or both, in Eyrnâs case) they have access to Vitality Extraction, Precognition, Duplication, and Necromancy, though their necromantic power is something theyâre working on. Duplication takes a lot of energy, moreso while not on Plin, so it tends to be a temporary effect. Requires a free hand, and a small amount of time to draw the sigils, which must be accurate.
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Age: Unidentifiable
Color Identity: Blue/Green
Race: Ooze
Home Plane: Ravnica
General Profile:
Caidi has developed telepathic abilities in order to communicate, allowing others to be connected through them, and experience a world of though powered by Caidiâs imagination. As a mutagenic ooze, Caidi can also replicate a variety of forms, though all but one resemble an ooze. The one exception is a replica of their genetic donor: Kolya; frozen in time from the moment of donation, thus appears to be a normal 16 year old human female.
Backstory:
Struggling goblin, Damzek strove for legacy in a world that was ever-growing and changing. Unbeknownst to her, she harboured within herself a Planeswalkerâs spark, unignited but waiting. The Mending caused wideswept changes across the Multiverse, altering how sparks operated, limiting their power. From the feedback, Damzek found herself with an increase of knowledge, allowing her to enlist with the Simic Guild as a biomancer, after many failed attempts in other career paths. Experimenting with the mutagenic properties of the common ooze, she registered her desires to create a krasis to serve her experimentation but was told her planned project title had already been reserved for another member, forcing her to alter it to be the Krasis of Damzek Project, or KD for short. Oozes are a notoriously difficult subject to genetically alter, as Damzek soon discovered. In fact, one attempt backfired on her, altering her lower body to change over the weeks of recovery into an ooze hybrid. She didnât care much, only finding it useful to work from all angles of her workshop as the ooze gripped walls. Finding an unaltered genetic donor proved key to the project, though the guild denied her requests for a test subject. Eventually, her underground connections paid off, as a young Azorius trainee sought her out to seek a genetic transition from her female body to a male one, and had been similarly turned away from the higher ups. Damzek agreed, using the childâs sample to develop a formula that would alter hormone production as desired, though she kept some in reserve to use as a catalyst in the KD Project. Finally, it was a success, after many years. Damzek had her ooze/ooze hybrid, intending on discovering a path to immortality through mutagenic recreation of cells. But the experiment rebelled. Whether a case of self-defense, revenge for the pain, or simply hunger, the ooze attacked the biomancer and left her for dead before fleeing into the sewers. The ooze was experiencing an awakening of sentience; pieces of identity flashing through its mind as it attempted to make sense of things and survive. KD became Caidi, and âitâ became âthemâ as they developed a sense of self. Investigating the attack, the young trainee, now a fully-fledged member of the Azorius, and a grown man, Kolya discovered Caidi in the sewers beneath Zonot Two, the Simic branch of the Sixth District. Displaying their abilities, Caidi asked him for help, and Kolya agreed. Caidi now resides in secret in Kolyaâs apartment, only sometimes wandering the city in wonder in their borrowed form.
Character Development âHard Modeâ Meme: dealer's choice for character, 22 and 42!
22: What does your character like in other people?
Liya respects people that help others, even if it could mean a negative outcome for themselves.
Yri likes the gullible, especially if theyâre also wealthy.
Vasil admires the fragility of flesh.
Kolya respects honesty, and integrity.
Caidi admires creativity.
The Coterie respects wit, and quick-thinking.
42: Has your character ever had a parental figure who was not related to them?
The closest Liya got to an unrelated parental figure before going through therapy would be Daghatar, Khan of the Abzan. He took her host under his wing for personal training, unaware of her abilities and overwritten personality.
Yri technically had Oona, though never paid much attention in that realm. Ironically, Liya fills this role for her; both in her time as Galumvol the Treefolk prior to Yriâs spark igniting, and as herself afterwards.
Vasil never respected his commander in the armed forces, being a conscript. Duty and obedience became a stronger factor after his attempted compleation thoughâŚ
Kolya would happily renounce ever having parents, were it not a biological impossibility.
Caidi sees Kolya as their sibling and their sire at the same time, due to genetic experimentation.
The Coterie do not recognise any parental figure in their lives after their mother passed.
If your characters were in our world, would they dress up for Halloween? What would they dress up as?
Disregarding the fact that Liya is technically in disguise all the time, I think sheâd find the classic sheet-ghost costume clever and amusing.
Yri would wear one of those pumpkin suits you see people put their dogs in or similar, so she could pull her limbs and head in, and scare drunks and stoners by being a flying pumpkin.
Vasil would get huge compliments on his impressively realistic skeleton outfit, before people realise itâs not a costume. Oops.
Kolya would try and avoid it if he could, but everyone knows heâs got a replica Jace cloak at home.
Caidi can transform into all kinds of things, as long as those things still look like ooze!
The Coterie in our world would have matching Power Ranger costumes, but wouldnât ever wear them. Theyâd just be fascinated by the internal lore.
