#engineer!will

7. Describe your OC’s fashion sense.

Xekken: Either perfectly average, or bedazzled. It depends on if he’s prioritizing comfort/practicality or fun. If the former, then something nice and presentable, but not exciting; if the latter, then at least 25% of his markings are on display and he’s wearing enough sparkle to blind the unsuspecting.

Will: A Mistake. Too focused on if he could to consider if he should. My go-to coat skins for him are the Stalker coat and the Bounty Hunter vestments, both of which heavily feature bones but in a scavenger disaster way, not a goth way. Not refined enough to be goth. Non-armor clothes have a distinct sense of “this was probably nice once, but you can only just tell under the wear and tear of an engineer who likes explosives too much.”Probably goth if someone else reigns him in enough, i.e. for a formal thing. 

Ahraminta: Armor. Edgy, in multiple meanings of the word. She’s blood legion, and it’s apparent. I have difficulty sticking actual breastplates on her, but idk if that’s her preferring to use magic or just me not particularly liking most of the breastplates on charr. She will consent to being dressed up for formal events, but that’s someone else putting their fashion sense on her, not her actual fashion sense peeking through. 

14. What is one of your OC’s secrets?

Xekken: Depends on the company. Some asura back in Rata Sum still don’t grasp the sheer depths of his capabilities. He’s not going to deny his relationship with Strix, but he’s also not going to be the one to bring it up with anyone outside Dragon Watch (and related personnel). He’s been pretty happy to let Pact people assume he’s Vigil, but that’s less of a secret and more of obligatory Whispers cryptic nonsense. 

Will: Well. I don’t think the vampire thing is public knowledge yet. He’s extra enough that his Halloween fervor could just be chalked up to him having holiday spirit, especially since he gets that way around Wintersday and the Lunar New Year as well.

Ahraminta: Ahraminta doesn’t have secrets. She just has topics that you don’t bring up unless you want to be punched in the face. Her sire might kind of be in that category? Except I think they’re doing better after the quest line.

19. Your OC’s life is a musical. What’s the title of their big show-stopping song?

Xekken: “(You’ll Never) See Me Coming” Which would thematically be a broadway fusion of “Whatever You Want” and “Tiptoe”, in that it’s all very “Look how big and loud and obnoxious I am” and then in the last verse it’s “oh yeah btw I accomplished this thing and you don’t even know because ~Look how big and loud and obnoxious I am~”

Will: Ok I was stuck so I went and listened to Toril!Will’s playlist for inspiration, and one of the songs has “God[s] Bless Catastrophe” as a line. And tbh. Feels correct feels organic let’s go with that. Dear god, a Will musical would need pyrotechnics. It would be so much.

Ahraminta: I’m not sure about a show stopper, but her introductory song is “Meet Me In In The Pit Bane” and is 75% showy bravado and 25% threats of actual violence. So actually, the show stopper is “Meet Me In The Bane (Reprise)” where those percentages are flipped.

2. Post a line of dialogue from your OC.

Xekken, after watching Strix launch his roller beetle off a goddamn cliff: “Is this revenge for the Brand tornado thing?? Because I’ll stop. I will stop studying that if you’ll at least wear a helmet when Torque does that, swear by the Alchemy.”

Will: “Okay, so before I get into what happened, I think we should all take a moment to appreciate that everyone is alive, and no one died -”