!!! I'm not sure if you've answered something like this before, but a la TMA, what would your OCs be avatars of? And I'm curious about whether you have any OCs on the backburner! I tend to have a lot of OCs that Ive made but don't necessarily have a whole story attached to them yet, and I was mostly curious if you do the same thing, and what kind of OC ideas you would be excited about in the future!
Haha you asked at a good time, because my friend and I just started a tma AU of our OCs last week so I have thought about it extensively lately.
Lucien would definitely be an Avatar of the Vast. Heās very Simon Fairchild about falling from heights. But also he has a thing for stars and the night sky, so heād have a very space-centric set of vast abilities, and his go to horror would be leaving people in the void of space, seeing and truly comprehending the sheer enormity of space and how much emptiness is in between everything.
Haruki would be an Avatar of the Slaughter. Heās actually acting as the first villain in our AU. Haruki uses a crystal knife that infects people with wrath. People who act on it become like Melonie was with the bullet, Slaughter aligned although not necessarily an avatar in their own right. People who try to bottle up their feelings and avoid their anger, afraid of losing control or of what they might do to others, will be devoured by it, the crystals overtaking them and feeding in their fear.
Roland was a victim of Haruki in the AU. But if he were an Avatar I think heād be an Avatar of the Lonely. He has a hard time making connections with others outside his close friends, it took him a long time to open up to the party in his canon campaign, and he spends large parts of his story outside the campaign alone.
Kiyo would be an Avatar of the End. Death and their relationship with it defines their life so much, even if they would want to escape it, itās inevitable theyād become a part of it.
Sai in the AU takes a role similar to Gerry. If she were an Avatar, Iād say...maybe the Corruption. Sheās been known to turn people she doesnāt like onto insects, so that in a larger scale. Either that or the Eye, because she is extremely intelligent and likes to Know things.
Kaius in the AU is an archive assistant. If he were an Avatar, heād be an Avatar of the Hunt. Heās a vengeful person when you wrong him, and he will hunt you down if he thinks you deserve it.
Morris in the AU is a former assistant to Jergen Leitner. As an Avatar...I honestly have a hard time picturing Morris as an Avatar. Maybe the Eye? But that doesnāt feel right. I could see the Stranger maybe. Yeah I think thatās the closest to true to him.
Umbrolus in the AU is Umber, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London. Because we decided it would be funny if it were him instead of Kleio (who is based on Jon). So in the AU heās going to be an Avatar of the Eye. This happened because he got traumatized by the entity that Umbrolus would originally have been aligned with, which is the Vast. Umber is on the radar of four entities: the Vast, the Slaughter, the Eye, and the Lonely. He has a lot of potential to fall to any of them from his combination of character traits. Although the Vast traumatized him and now he canāt walk outside at night without almost going into an anxiety attack.
As for characters I have on the back burner, I have two at the moment.
The first is Calio Caecos, an oracle who accidentally stumbled into just the right set of magical artifacts and rituals to start becoming a lich unintentionally. Calio is a bit of a narcissist, and because the beginnings of lichdom have caused him to start looking unhealthy (a la Voldemort) heās very upset about this and trying to find a way to undo it (not actually knowing that becoming a lich is whatās happening, he just thinks he was cursed or something). His backstory is going to just be a list of different things he touched/stumbled into/nearly got killed by/did that was a bad idea, which led to the lichy end result. This includes a year thatās basically the black out drunk Skyrim quest where he doesnāt remember a thing that happened during it because of one of the many rituals/artifacts he touched that he shouldnāt have. Heās going to be my character in a Reign of Winter Pathfinder game. I expect heāll die quickly because Iāve already rolled his stats and they arenāt good, but I think Iām going to have fun as long as he lasts. Heās going to be a bit of a terrible person and a huge flirt, which I donāt usually do, so thatāll be different.
The other is a elf magus named Caladrel. I made then to be a one-off character in an arena fight against Umbrolus in the RP I was doing with him, but I liked them a lot after the scene was over so now Iām holding onto them as a possible backup character for either Umbrolus or Calio. I donāt know much about Caladrel yet, except that they travel around seeking challenging opponents, are honorable, but also donāt like when others hold back against them so they are willing to egg their opponent on if itāll mean a better fight.
