have some salad asks! :) 2, 8, 10, and 18 for whichever one you most want to talk about right now! -kerra-and-company
Thank you for the ask! These ones I think work best for the entire Dumbass Brigade and, because they were designed together to an extent I feel like they need to have most of these answered together.
2) were they modeled after a specific plant? If not, what was your inspiration?
Not many of my Sylvari are actually modeled after real plants! Usually they are associated with plants later down the line, like Theitia is loosely connected to roses. I usually pick a colour scheme and run with it. In this case, they were kind of made as a group, loosely speaking. Arceidai was made first, they were my first character, they're my commander. Loosely their design was based on an oc I had back then for a different thing but that evolved very quickly in the design process. Until about, maybe four years ago, they weren't a proper character, which was kind of allowed by Theitia's involvement in their story.
That was prompted in part by going "Oh what if there could be different commanders and they could be in different timelines!" (Which have now evolved to be the five main Corvus Timelines) Then I came up with a series of, let's say design prompts. Their names started with G C A and T after the four nitrogen bases that make up DNA, their colour schemes cycle through Green/Purple, Purple/Blue, Blue/Red, Red/Green. There was also brief consideration of basing them off the four horsemen of the apocalypse, because every timeline that wasn't the main timeline, now called Corvus Luminiferous, was supposed to fall apart. I'm now properly writing their lore and a story with them so that might still be a thing if I can make it work.
The very first concept I had that got absorbed into Theitia was a revenant who channeled the commander and became the new commander after Balthazar killed them, became the new weilder of Caladbolg. Later I got to thinking about Wyld hunts being fucked up, she became a character foil to Arc, and once I had her figured out Ghainen and Caivere just fit naturally into the story.
8) during what cycle were they born?/12) how old are they?
Ghainen was born in the Cycle of Noon on the 13th day of Phoenix, 1322. He is 12 years old.
Caivere was born in the Cycle of Night on the 73th day of Phoenix, 1323 AE. He is 10 years old.
Arceidai was born in the Cycle of Dusk on the 28th day of Colossus, 1324 AE. They are 9 years old.
Theitia was born in the Cycle of Dawn on the 45th day of Colossus, 1324 AE. She's also 9 years old.
10) Would they take selfies?
Ghainen absolutely would if he was feeling cute, he probably would have the most fun with the act of just taking photos,
Caivere would mostly take selfies with friends
Arceidai wouldn't BUT they would show up in the background of other peoples selfies just slightly blurry or out of focused, usually looking kind of alarmed,
Theitia would prefer to have other people take her photo because it's easier for everyone to pose and they'd turn out better but she'd take selfies
