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Thanks for the ask Alyona! 💕

From this oc ask game

Siavash

🎮 VIDEO GAME CONTROLLER — what are three of your oc's favorite hobbies?

Music will come as no surprise. When he has a free moment Siavash will always pick up his guitar. Sometimes he’ll just play through an old fave, but sometimes something new he’s working on – either an original composition or a challenging piece he hasn’t mastered (still trying to impress his dad).

Swimming! Usually only when it’s warm enough and with any luck skinny dipping.

Travel - part of the reason became a diplomat was to see the world. He’d been around Avistan as far north as Varisia and as far south as Osirion before the fateful mission to Mendev. He loves discovering the sights and smells of new places and especially meeting new people.

💯 HUNDRED POINTS SYMBOL — share three random facts about your oc that others may not know.

Wow three things about Siavash I haven’t already shared… tough one!

He’s a kindred-raised half-elf and has never suffered from a feeling of not fitting in, but he does have a certain unusual anxiety around elves, whose air of insular mystery he’s never been able to penetrate despite a sense of kinship. Of course there are individual elves he gets along with fine, but he’s secretly intimidated.

When he was a student at Almas U he and some friends were arrested for drunkenly climbing the golden statue of Talmandor. He talked his way out of spending a night in jail and is still friends with the arresting officer.

I’ve shared this with few: his nose has a slight crook in the bridge in profile. Adds character.

Saedra

🎮 VIDEO GAME CONTROLLER — what are three of your oc's favorite hobbies?

Sex. Saedra will take someone home at closing time two to three times a week, and she’s a fixture at local soirées. Being pan and active doesn’t mean she’s not picky, but her tastes run a wide range and are not at all restricted to the classically attractive. You have to be original and interesting enough to catch her attention somehow. She likes to say she’ll try anything once.

She doesn’t have time for much beyond studying magic, working at the bar and indulging her other hobby, but she’s pretty good at bar games like darts and trivia. She loves games but at the same time isn’t very competitive. As long as everyone has fun she doesn’t need to win.

When she was a kid she and the other orphans used to sneak out and walk along the harbor quay at night. There’s a spot where they could climb down and make sand sculptures. She would still do it if she had time. She likes the feel of soft sand taking shape in her hands.

🐷 PIG FACE — what is your oc's favorite animal?

Aaaaaaaand the second batch of OC requests, featuring:

🦊: opinions on animal companions/familiars?

I love them all so much they started clogging up my screen. Siavash has Tiger, Pipefox and Jharsygax, as well as his jerboa he calls Bean. Lann has Bismuth, Seelah has a warhorse named Mouse, Daeran has a wolf named Galfrey, and Sosiel has a leopard named Griffe. I’m not good with naming pets.

And then of course there’s Aivu. Cutest most fierce dragon of all time.

🔮: oc’s opinions on magic and the gods?

Answered here!

❤️: any npcs you liked, or even wished you could romance?

I really liked all the Desnan/Azata npcs. Ramien of course, but I wish the Azata Knight-Commander got to interact with him more even if Hulrun was still alive. He just disappears?

With a bard OC the game indicates that there’s some rivalry with Aranka, but I like her up there on the island trying to herd cats with the Free Crusaders and I picture them as good friends. Ilkes (the priest) is pretty cool showing up ready to kick some demon butt in the Fane, and Thall’s shy but seems sweet. I got a kick out of Kel Five Knives (the Pathfinder equivalent of Robin Hood) as well as “Sir Footstool” and company. Oh, there are too many.

3. What background, class, and deity did your OC take?

Well, Siavash is consistent I guess: a Desnan bard and Andoren diplomat, direct pipeline to true azata. He’s a pure Desnan at heart, who loves travel and dreams, whose life’s work is to bring joy and freedom where he can, unless he flakes off and does something else instead. He doesn’t lead the Crusade out of duty or ambition, but because he wants to.

13. Was there anyone your KC felt particularly attached to? Anyone they particularly loathed?

Woljif of course, right from the start. As everything was going to hell in Kenabres he needed someone he could really talk to.

He became close to Seelah pretty quickly too, but although she’s a paladin with a heart she’s still a paladin, so there will always be more distance than from someone like Woljif who won’t judge him for his practical approach to ethics.

He was put off by the aristocrats Camellia and Daeran at first, but became very good friends with Daeran eventually. I think he pitied Camellia once he figured out what was really going on with her.

Last song: Taste the Blood from Devil May Cry 3 OST

Three ships: Gann/Kalach-Cha (Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer), Atton Rand/Jedi Exile (Knights of the Old Republic 2: the Sith Lords)(always thinking about them), Geralt/Yennefer (the Witcher)(from the books & games; the Netflix show doesn't exist.)

Currently reading: I'm still reading the Lord of the Rings [I'm a slow reader, I know :)]

Last movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Last series: Murdoch Mysteries

Craving: the cold. It's already too hot where I live (in my opinion), I don't want to imagine how it will be this summer :(

⛺️: what’s your favourite camp banter?

A lot of people here have already put down every banter with Daeran and/or Woljif, but I have to give special mention to the banters Daeran has with Lann.

And, of course, who could possibly forget this little gem:

💔: any hated npcs?

Already answered.

🛑: least favourite quest, or a quest you refuse to complete?

Ask me about my AUs

Tagging @forestdragoncat since they also asked for this one :)

My Through the Ashes PC Ansoc starts out as a farmhand. He's never dreamt of going on adventures himself, though he often thinks about what it would be like if he were a different person, someone more exceptional. He's also younger in this AU, in his teens like Dorothy was.

Of course, the tornado comes and takes him to the land of Oz. His house lands on the Witch of the East. The Witch of the North explains the situation to him, gives him the ruby buckles and tells him to go to the emerald city to see the Wizard. To be honest, this is an AU I didn't really develop that much. I mostly focused on my other three Pathfinder PC's (Katala, Lenarius, and Irissil), who are the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion, respectively.

There is a twist to this AU in that, unlike other versions of the Wizard of Oz, the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion are actually happy with they way they are at first. They don't accompany Ansoc to the Wizard hoping he can fix them. They have their own reasons to go to the Emerald City, as will be explained in the next paragraphs (it should also be noted that Katala, Lenarius, and Irissil are still humanoids, and not actually props/animals; they just kind of take on the themes of those items/creatures).

Ansoc meets Katala when walking past a field. Katala goes into this spiel about how being smart is overrated and that it's much easier/simpler to trust her instincts. Also, many "smart" people are just up their own asses anyway. She volunteers to help Ansoc get to the Emerald City because she sees that this kid is lost and wants to help him get home.

They meet Lenarius in a village where s/he is the presiding magistrate. They find him/her hearing the case of a rich man who engaged in fraud. The man tries to bribe Lenarius into commuting the sentence, which only makes Lenarius slap on an even larger punishment, and the bailiff takes the man away kicking and screaming. At first Ansoc and Katala enjoy the spectacle, but then the next case comes before Lenarius: a struggling innkeeper is being fined for not keeping his business up to code. The man pleads with Lenarius; his business wouldn't survive the fine he'd have to pay. Lenarius does not budge and tells him he has to pay his fine within a certain number of days or face prison. The innkeeper walks away in tears.

Ansoc and Katala are horrified and confront him/her over this decision and ask how s/he could ruin this man's life like that. Lenarius gives a speech about how his line of work requires him/her to be heartless and derides them for being so soft-hearted and that they can never hope to make the decisions s/he makes every day. However, s/he is also headed towards the Emerald City, as his/her post at the village is done, and s/he needs to deliver a report to his/her superiors. Ansoc and Katala begrudgingly take him/her along.

On their way to the Emerald City, the group has to go through the forest. When they get there, they see signs posted everywhere, detailing the various hazards and warning to stay on the path. Katala gets fed up with the signs and declares that they can get to the Emerald City much faster if they cut through the forest. Just as she veers off the path, Irissil appears and tells her that the forest is dangerous. Irissil is the ranger of the forest and has set up the numerous signs. When Katala asks if maybe Irissil is overdoing it, Irissil tells her that the world is dangerous and uncaring and how easily the careless meet untimely and preventable deaths. Irissil would rather be fastidious and alive than bold and dead. When she asks, Ansoc tells her that they are going to the Emerald City, and Irissil tells them that she might as well come along and make sure they don't die in a ditch somewhere.

The three companions are forced to rethink their ideals when Ansoc is told that he has to confront the Witch of the West before the Wizard will see him and later when Ansoc gets kidnapped by that witch. Despite having carried out his/her mission in the Emerald City, Len cannot bring him/herself to let this teenager face a powerful witch alone (of course s/he justifies his/her decision by saying that they can't let this criminal keep running loose). Katala realizes that they can't just force their way through overwhelming odds and uses a special wit she didn't know she had to overcome. Irissil has to make a snap decision and throw caution to the wind to save Ansoc's life.