#firemite

SO FIREMITE

He was like the first one (maybe second??) that i came up with an idea for, and it was actually the redesigns that did it! i mentioned that he kept his more sculk-y eye and half of his face hidden bc it could freak ppl out and then also i realized that i'd kinda visualized him as a happy ray of sunshine all the time and it perfectly opened the door to! suppression. like if he's perfect beam of sunshine all the time then he's gotta be suppressing/hiding A Lot Of StuffTM, both physically (hiding as much of his warden influence as possible) and emotionally (only showing others his happiness), so i made his helsmet based off that! :V it's also kinda what firemite is afraid to be seen as i think, bc if he saw his helsmet all he would see is what about himself would scare ppl.

Tyratone was my second!! I'm pretty sure! she might've been first. but Tyr looks around at her friend group and sees that everyone else contributes- fire brings up resources from underground, aqua makes connections to other folks to keep them on good terms, and razor keeps the group protected from physical threats. She just.. has her little indoor farm. Collects crops every so often. Mostly keeps her cats alive. Messes around with firemite n tags along with razor to scout out sometmes. Like what does she even do. (She provides for the group but thinks it a task that any of them could do and that she's not really needed, even tho they do all rely on her to keep them going. Any of them *could* step into that role alongside what they do, it's simple enough, but they all appreciate having her around bc she's fun and enjoys simple things, and keeps the group together.) She thinks it only a matter of time before she's kicked out bc she's not really doing much, and so her helsmet is based around proving her worth through what she can do for other people!

Aqua took me a bit to fully realize; i had a vague idea for a while but it was toeing the line of similarity to tyr's and i didn't want repeats, so i sat and thought for a bit. in his original bio, i'd put that he kinda missed only having two ppl in the group, and that he thinks he's the leader but isn't. ok, so throwing these two things together, i can kinda figure that maybe he missed only having two people bc it meant that his opinions carried more weight, because it was only ever up against one other, instead of three others. he gets ideas of what he thinks is best and what he thinks they should do at any given time and the others tend to go with razor's ideas more than his, and it gets to him. he feels like they don't really listen to him at all, which they do and give consideration to his input, but he gets jealous and upset that razor's ideas are gone with more. so his hels is someone that constantly strives to be heard and to be listened to and to be viewed as important! i'm not actually sure if how i ended up implementing that works or not, but that's what i was able to come up with :V (the cane is just to look neat, and also it's netherite so heavy bonking stick as well should he need it sdklfj)

and then razor! razor. good night he gave me trouble. i wanted to draw him so badly and could not for the life of me figure out what his hels would be of. like i knew he'd be a fighter, but like. why would he exist in the first place?? i kinda thought about how i'd designed him and what personality traits i'd given him- he wears a lot of layers, most of his face is covered, long sleeves, it's a kinda closed-off wardrobe. and he's phlegmatic, so he goes with the flow a lot. maybe his thing is that he's doing what he can to keep the group safe, sure, but he also wants to try to stay a little closed-off, so that if he fails one day to keep them safe, it won't hurt as much and would be easier to move on. tossing around the idea that maybe that had happened with folks he was previously with- before he and fire met aqua and tyr, and maybe even before he met fire. not sure yet, (still not entirely certain on his hels concept at all tbh) but that's the fun of being in the middle of developing characters and their stories!! trying stuff out and seeing if it sticks!!

ALRIGHT ALright so!!! firemite!!! warden influence!!! he's really really good at navigating around underground and is almost uncanny at finding resources :VV his other eyeTM is essentialy just a non-functional eye, but it looks neat bc skulkTM. it can freak ppl out tho so he's let his bangs grow out over it. he's also got Really Good Hearing, sometimes he gotta close his eye to focus on it tho bc it can be a bit much and blocking off one sense can help

aquafinity! i hadn't like Actually Been Committed to giving someone vex stuff but like i glanced over at aqua and it just like Felt Right for him??? so he's vex! i like the lore i'd seen folks do w vex versions of like scar and cub with limited access to vex abilities if not summoned, so i'm using that for him too :V he gets the wings tho bc they look cool but they're so small they're basically just aesthetic, they can't lift him at all. he's got some Vex Blue on his fingertips/ears/feet (he wears shoes all the time tho so u can't see that) and when he gets angy the blue on his ears turns red and spreads a lil, and he loses the color in his eyes to closer match the vex mob. maybe his hands get a lil more claw-y too, i'm tossing that idea around :V but yE he doesn't have much access to vex magic much bc he's a free spirit currently, but maybe he can do small things here or there!

razor is the blazeborn!! i contemplated whether or not to keep him Plain Human but like i just really like blazeborns so i'm making him blazeborn. he doesn't rly show it much tho aside from the hair and eye color, but then he slips into lava in a mining accident and realizes oh wait. oh this doesn't hurt actually. oh this is fine. and then he just keeps going sdflkj