#farell

These fantastic pictures, which were commissioned from @charlieslowartsies , are images of my Rito OC’s from my fanfiction “The Rito and the Witch”    

On the top row we have the boys: Leri (violet) and Farell (teal). Then on the bottom row we have the girls: Jade (brown) and Ollet (white)

Mother's day isn't for another few weeks.

-Dancing-Hands's mother was, in her younger years, an imperial guard as they were investigating the Kami rifts during the Era of Enlightenment with the Jukai's help. After the creation of the Merge gates, she married a kitsune of the Jukai she had worked with, who later became Dancing-Hands' father. She was the one to initially introduce Dancing-Hands to origami, but their relationship didn't fare too well along the years. His parents had very little authority on Dancing-Hands come his forties, and she regrets what happened to him. They've met again since and she knows he's alive, but it's been tough to rebuild things.

-Arnoss didn't have a singular "mother", that's not how the Family's typically raises children, he was under the care of all the adult Beldruns. As far as biological parents, he's never met his mother (at least he doesn't think so), his egg was bought from another family that couldn't support any more Ghavaleks. This is also not uncommon in the Family between caravans that trust each other.

-Nyrhen's mother was incredibly proud of her boy, even if he didn't do anything particularly glamorous or important. He was always Perfect to her eyes. Also she was a Lorwyn elf, so, y'know, the baggage that comes with that. Weapon-carver, some of which were deemed worthy of being used by Perfects.

-Farell's mom is Lady Leana Javori, born Bassola. She's cunning, positive, and confident. She's well-versed in politics and etiquette. She uses them as she needs to, but isn't fond of what comes with it, so she sometimes ignores convention when she thinks they're wrong.

Her birth name is an old, powerful and respected one on Fiora, and she very much married under her station when she did a newly ennobled merchant and had to give up her name for his when she did. She further mudded her name by carrying to term a bastard child from a shapeshifter who tricked her, and giving him her birth name. Despite the events of that night, she loves Farell just as much as she does her human children. She encouraged Farell into finding his own way, to be proud and keep his head high. The aristocracy may see him as lesser, but it's their loss if they underestimate her eldest son.

-Vaalin's mother was killed during the current phyrexian invasion, so he's still processing that, especially considering he had to keep working after learning of her death, alone in his head for long periods of time. She was a Vodalian merfolk from the Volshe caste, a mathematician, who had briefly studied at Tolaria (of the Depths). She joined a diplomatic mission to the surface world and met Vaalin's father, a human, there. She laid Vaalin's egg not too long after coming back from that year-long expedition. Knowing the xenophobic caste system underlying Vodalian society would be very harsh on a half-human, she sought refuge for her and her child in Tolaria's waters, where minds were more progressive.

Arnoss: Was on Ocaelum prepared to defend it from an invasion that never came. Now feels bad he did "nothing to help" during it.

Zarunpel: Worked alongside her sisters to keep her home and land safe even after the courts fell. The Alernis territory has the advantage of being closer to the Wilds and their influence, which the Phyrexians had a very hard time dealing with. It doesn't always make sense to Phyrexians which tend to be very scientific about things. Also, with the help of a couple of her sisters and borrowing her mother's sword, she fought @socialpoison's Traenor in his compleated arm and armor, and subsequently cut.

Ysara: She defended the Kaladesh village her home was nearby from. She died in the process, and left to her apprentice/assistant to clean up her skull and bring it to where she was from.

Farell: Heard about the troubles in Paliano, and couldn't resist coming to help Celin, the woman he loves. She was fine, though there was a lot destroyed. Also them being in contact again has led to exchanges about Farell's brother's death that makes everybody involved very sad, because they're living a tragedy.

Dolores: Thankfully her home on New Capenna was in the Mezzio, not on Park Heights. Her partner, @astrisjanus's Inza, stayed back on Capenna to fight the Phyrexians while Dolores herself took advantage of the chaos to go back to her home plane of Ferely. She was aiming to enact a vengeance there unnoticed. She was noticed.

Lhur: Recently consolidated his position on power and prepared his troops when he heard of what may be coming. When it happened, he saw no choice but to climb on his father's throne of shadows to coordinate actions and defense all across his country while channeling his own magic to limit the appearance of branches and portals over it. He emerged from the invasion exhausted, and then came the weeks more of exhausting work to manage the aftermath.

Jaspar: He was on Ikoria, in Indatha, trying to both survive and learn what he could of Nethroi and the Whispers. He fought how he could during the invasion and capped it off by using his magic through his Elderfang and spread over Indatha by Nethroi's whispers to call upon the echoes of Indath and essentially end Phyrexian (and some non Phyrexian) life in the area. He came back to Kaldheim to news of the death of his deity, Koma, and of the very foundation of Kaldheim. He doesn't yet fully accept the truth of that.

Alamir and Nksdv: They had been on New Phyrexia for intel and action for months by the time of the Invasion. Their last contribution to hinder the phyrexians was to remove their anti-planeswalker defense that scattered the assault team, before the Invasion even begun. It turned out to be a compleated planeswalker linked to Realmbreaker, @socialpoison's Ellidus. Alamir removed them and carried them away from the Tree, trying to reason with them and break through Norn's programming. Alamir knew what it was to be made and treated as a weapon and empathized with them. Seeing the planar instability before the end of the planar swap, Nksdv took them back to the Haven, and left Alamir to choose for themselves if they wanted to see the end of their world.

Sezashi: The orochi was fighting on Kamigawa, grown to oppose a compleated mech, and got stabbed by a branch of Realmbreaker in the back. He survived, and Norn's death rendered the oil inert before he could be compleated, though he might have a more metallic scar in his back now. While he was out, he received visions and ideas from the Myojin of Cryptic Dreams, but the Myojin is aptly-named, and he hasn't fully understood them yet.

Nyrhen: Fighting on another plane, then as soon as he got wind of the fact the attack was on every plane, went back to Eldraine to defend his Sanctuary in the Wilds. He killed a lot of Phyrexians that "happened" to find their way towards it.

The Cursetamer: She lost a lot of her collection of Apostates from Ferely on Innistrad and most of her planeswalking agents to compleation, and even she and her wife had trouble getting things under control after that. Her people actually helped her for once instead of the other way around, even if their home gave to Realmbreaker. Her latest Mana Core prototype was also lost, but that one self-destroyed before it could be compleated. Due to its nature, it had more safety features and contingencies than actual functions.

Kinahel: She was on Winrovah, fighting in a corner more desolate than average, in case she needed to use the Worldslayer or lose it into Void and hope for the best. Anything better than letting Phyrexians get their hands on it, even if she had no idea of the potential consequences. She burned herself out fighting and died as soon as she stopped (this is fine, she's a phoenix).

Something I’ve found very fun to do with my fanwalkers is giving them “reprints” of fitting, existing cards flavored around them. Some are easier to find than others, but overall it works pretty well!

Alright, let's see, while keeping most of his story...

Ravnica Farell: Farell raised on Ravnica probably ends up in the Boros, might even get convinced of going undercover. His shapeshifter parent was likely a Dimir agent, but despite multiple attempts of the Dimir to recruit him, he's managed to turn them down for now. At least he thinks so.

Innistrad: On Innistrad, Farell's parent was likeley an Identity Thief, and possibly kept up the charade for much longer. His nature is much more of a secret to try to protect him because humans get scared of anything that isn't. A monster hunting monsters, there's a few of those.

No shapeshifters we know of on Arcavios or Theros so I'll skip over those and move on to a few others.

Kaldheim: Farell on Kaldheim eventually makes his way back to Littjara and learns more about the culture of his kind. Possibly gets help to hunt down his renegade parent.

Alright, let’s say a few words on the core cast.

Anedia would likely take traits after her spellbugs upon compleation. Sleep doesn't transfer well through a species that doesn't do that, but I would imagine she'd be a spy or informant of some sort, skittering at speeds on walls and ceilings, maybe even equipped with wings if needed.

Arnoss would be a tank of some sort, or a living armor. Simple, assigned to more important phyrexians so that they can wear him or keep him near them from protection when they don’t want to bother with getting their limbs dirty. Bigger than he currently is, scales replaced by metal, and mostly hollow.

Dancing-Hands would have an engine installed to harness the power of his telekinesis inside him to generate a lot of energy and fuel his body and all the weapons and shields that would be integrated into it. He would be a weapon, sent alone to a settlement or a battlefield when whoever controls him wants it razed or depopulated.

Dolores wouldn’t change that much compared to the others. She’d be an ambitious phyrexians and try to climb the ranks wherever she’d be. Her augmentations would mostly be integrating her tools and improving her body’s performances overall, but Azras like her were already engineered to be efficient soldiers.

Farell wouldn’t be changed at all. Compleated, them? Noooo. They don’t look like it. Although they’re a shapeshifter... But they’re one of the good ones, they’d tell us, right? Unless...

Compleated Icalia is the one I have alternate for her. She’d have accentuated bird of prey features, but would still be about balance... And it tipping one way or another. She’d lead a Phyrexian Arena, handling judments by oil and by weapon as well as providing spectacle and entertainment to those that earn it.

Ivegard does not feature flesh nor metal and burns any oil that’d touch her. She cannot be compleated.

Lhur would be compleated towards something not so important for him right now, but would be much more valuable for Phyrexia, and that’s amplifying ideas and desires. As powerful and efficient as Phyrexia is, they tend to have an issue innovating and testing new concepts, which he’d help bring up. In New Phyrexia, he’d probably be plated in the Orthodoxy’s porcelain.

Nyrhen’s magic allows him to resist compleation and possibly even cure phyresis, and his beliefs are completely incompatible with voluntary compleation, he’d not be the same character at all if he was compleated. However, if it somehow happened, he’d be very oriented towards survival of the fittest. Survive until the day of your compleation and you may have earned it. And survive his hand as well.

Name: Farell (Bassola, but he doesn’t use that name) Pronouns: He/They (sometimes she/her when her form matches it) Species: Shapeshifter Age: 26 Plane of Origin: Fiora First Planeswalk: Unknown so far Colors: Blue as a core, with a strong Black lean and Red and White dashes Appearance: Farell’s a shapeshifter, but they can only copy existing people. As such, they’ll always look like someone. However, they always keep any eyes they have blue, and have a blue mark somewhere on them at all times to be recognized and never be mistaken for the person they have the appearance of if able. Generally a strand of bright blue hair, a blue armband or a blue flower pinned on their clothes. Backstory: Farell’s story starts at a low point. Farell is the result of the union of a human noble woman and a shapeshifter impersonating her husband. While the shapeshifter was never seen again (or at least, never noticed again), the deception was of course uncovered, but unsure on the parentage, the parents decided to let the child come to term, both parents accepting the responsibility of raising it as their own no matter what happened. When the child was quite notably not human, they were kept and raised with love... As an illegitimate child, and with, from early on, knowledge of the circumstances of their birth.

That didn’t stop them from growing with love from their mother and father both, and towards them. They were given many opportunities, and great tutoring... Just kept away from some of the more leading-oriented ones. After a year they got a brother, Tassaro, then a sister, Malonie, a few years after. They all ended as close siblings, with Tassaro and Farell being inseparable growing up. Farell took Tassaro’s form as his default, with of course his signature blue hair to tell the brothers apart.

Upon becoming adults, Farell was already a confident duelist with sharp wit and mind, and as dashing as his brother, Tassaro, who had their father’s mind for strategy and enough presence to inspire a battalion despite his young age. It’s at that time that they were sent to Paliano, to join Brago’s army as an officer, possibly later knight. At least Tassaro was, but as always Farell was right alongside him.

From there, Farell sparked after a dramatic Cyrano-inspired affair that probably is better standing on its own, resulting in a broken heart, a dead brother and a lot of grief and regrets.

Nowadays, Farell doubled down on being a duelist, seeking strong and skilled foes and literally one-upping them at their own game, learning what he can along the way. He only allows himself day to day to wear the forms of ones he defeated in a duel, as a stake he adds to those. When he needs money or a break, he often takes to tutoring whoever hires him in the matter of arms. His ability to exactly gauge his students’ level and how to improve on it makes him an effective teacher, even if his nature and techniques make some shy away from him. Still, he shies away from Paliano, not wanting the heartbreak of seeing Celin again or being reminded of his brother.

Magic, gear and/or abilities: As a shapeshifter, Farell is able to copy the appearance of anyone he sees, clothes included, though changing mass or material too much takes time and effort. In other words, being a human and turning into a flamekin then a giant then a golem is not an option under any reasonable time frame, but any one of those could probably be done within maybe half an hour. As noted in the appearance section, he always adds his own “signature” to the shapes he take to avoid being mistaken for the original. He doesn’t want nor like impersonating others, even when he looks like them.

Farell is a duelist at heart, and his own skills relate to that, with mastery over his balance and a number of weapons. In addition to his shapeshifting and skills with a rapier, Farell can temporarily copy skills and spells from people he touches or is close enough to. He uses them as reflexes, and can combine them with his own knowledge somewhat, but some of the more complex spells or skills might lack the context necessary to use them effectively.

As far as his weapon, he carries with him a rapier that can shift with him, a gift from his (adoptive) father, and that’s only usually a rapier. He can fashion other weapons out of his own body if he needs to, but it’s much easier and quicker with this one already existing.