#genzou

No thoughts only Vampire Genzou.

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A really funny moment from when I was replaying Our Fantastic Wonderland to get the second route. I was skipping the already read dialogue, so when I got to this moment, I was like... W-wait, why is it only Orlam and Iggy here? Where's Genzou? Where is he?! What happened? Is this because I'm choosing to be preferential towards Orlam for this route? Does Genzou abandon the group in this scenario (and I've accidentally skipped over this part and didn't notice)? Did something happen to him?! My god, what have I done! I shall descend into pit of franctic panic and regret, and rethink my choices, both within this game, as well as my life!

And then, with the most perfect timing, Genzou just slowly strolls in, past Iggy, as Iggy himself is having his own little crisis.

He just had to catch up XDDD

Why's he angry? I don't know, probably heard Orlam breath air or something.

(Also, probably my first tine drawing Genzou except for maybe a few doodles)

"Have you ever created any OW characters in another game?"

Prolly the only one I'll make, lol, but I always wanted to share it eventually.

I made an invader Orlam build in DS3!

He was really challenging to do, considering DS3's notoriously unruly character creator. But while I don't think this is how Orlam would look irl, and I had to compromise or improvise with stuff like lack of proper freckles options or vibrant hair colours, I guess I'm still happy with the vibe I managed to capture? At least his hairstyle has a rat tail, albeit braided!

But that's not the end. Making cosplay builds is my fave thing to do in this game - it's fun to try making them viable in PvP, decide which class/build is most fitting, and I like how it gets me in the characters mindset. And of course, there's figuring out what they should wear to look as accurate as possible.

(...did I nail it?)

So in Orlam's case, he's wearing Wolnir's Crown, Archdeacon Holy Garb and Deserter Trousers. His main choice of weapon is a Butcher Knife, very fittingly obtained from a cannibal NPC.

He also uses daggers sometimes, but not too often. At first I wanted him to use Brigand Twindaggers or a Bandit Knife, too, to reference his OFW character, but... well. Butcher Knife is pure strength weapon, and daggers usually work better with sharp infusions for Dexterity builds. At first Orlam was a Quality build (50:50 Str/Dex distribution), but was underperforming at the level I wanted him to stay at, so I reallocated his stats to become pure Str build. Pity, since weapon infusions for Quality builds are called "Refined", and I thought it suits him so well haha. But at least now he's doing much better damage-wise, and that's good, since his clothing makes him a rather squishy target!

Gestures also need to be in character! Orlam is so delightfully theatrical and dramatic, so obviously he gets the edgiest bow of them all, the Duel Bow, as well as Welcome, Clap, Toast, and anything else that I think would suit him.

Some stories from invasions:

I find it very fitting and almost fateful that his invasion debut was in the Lothric Castle, exactly where many Pus of Man reside - aka beasts that spring out of hollow people and look like they're made of black goo...

It's really up to a chance as to whether I'll make Orlam act ruthless or benevolent... I had a situation where I invaded some guy, did "Welcome" gesture... and the guy kneeled! I dropped him some embers as a gift, too (we shared a toast as well, I believe?), Orlam let him go on his way, and promptly left his world. I just thought Orlam would be pleased to be so readily recognized as a king. It was really wholesome encounter :D

There was also a situation where I invaded a fight club at Pontiff, and some bored invader interrupted a duel, and thus Orlam sided with the Host and a few other phantoms to chase the guy. We defeated him, and returned to rule-abiding dueling, which Orlam, to my surprise (considering how many fights in a row I've already had), has won, eventually even against the Host himself, so he had a jolly toast to celebrate the victory. I have this and many others encounters recorded, and I dream that one day I'll make a proper compilation of my invasions, each themed around a specific cosplay... but I'd have to parse through like 400 gigs of recordings to do so XD

Anyway, that's about it! Overall, Orlam's incredibly fun to play as! Oh, and as a bonus...