#gill deepcurrent

So first my eponymous Foreststar! They are the chief figure of the pantheon of Flaime, and unlike the others who are mostly elemental-themed (all dragons, I love them all dearly) she is the patron of story. Bardic culture my beloved. She has a counterpart, Darkstar, who is also story, but they cover sort of different aspects of that—he’s like the yin to her yang type of thing, honestly still fiddling with how exactly that works and where they do or don’t overlap. But basically he’s death/the ending of a story and the beginning of a new one, while she’s the living that happens in between! Foreststar is very benevolent hedonistic trickster vibes (I will admit to being inspired by Loki’s god of stories marvel comics arc). They do have a main dragon form like all the other elementals (which my amazingly talented bff @fridgefanatic has done wonderful art of for me several times before, see here for example. There’s also another I don’t think she has posted but the starry wings on it are like my favorite thing ever), but they tend to shapeshift and spend significantly more time among the mortals than the others do, to have some fun and find new stories to be told or perhaps incited. Tries to be a generally decent god, and does care a lot, but can also come across as detatched or like if an author was allowed to interact with their own characters lmao. Occasionally sort of reincarnates herself to live among mortals properly for a few decades

Which brings us to Silva and Orion Starfate yayyy!!! They are the main characters in my sort-of-retelling-mostly-just-inspired-by Castor and Pollux story (which is actually something I did manage to write a full manuscript of a few years back that I really need to revisit and revise). It’s very night sky themed dark fantasy, pretty much every character is inspired by and/or named after some stars-related myth. Anyways Silva and Orion are codependent orphaned twins that live in this nightmare cursed forest infested with unkillable undead hostile moon knights that make it so the inhabitants of the forest basically have to be nomads or die. Silva is unfortunate enough to run into one of them and is shot through the heart with one of their cursed arrows essentially made of frozen moonlight, which turns her into one of them. Orion thinks she’s dead and vows to find a way to kill every last moon knight or die trying. Silva also thinks Orion is dead and vows to destroy the moon knights from the inside (they don’t suspect her bc the cursed arrow was also supposed to brainwash her. It did not, at first at least hehehehe then Eclipse <3) with the help of the nature spirit Rot (I almost put them in the tags too I love them). Oh no :) don’t worry there’s a happy ending. But lots of angst first :) oh shit right appearances, I have no art for them alas but. Identical twins (different genders yes I know transgender is magical. Which one of them? Yes), built like unhealthily pale sticks, long straight dark brown hair on Silva and short on Orion. Silva’s eventual moon knight fit is black mail emblazoned with a silvery crescent moon, mostly covered by a big black hooded cloak that’s silky black on the outside and starry on the inside, wields two khopesh w blades made out of moonlight. Orion’s fit I don’t remember how I described atm but he eventually gets the stars of Orion’s belt glowing on his forehead and also he has that kind of side cloak used as an offhand parrying thing (look up people fighting w sword and cloak) and a rapier also made of moon/starlight

Last but not least, my dear Osprey! He was part of the first group of elves to pop into existence. He and his bestie/brother-by-elemental-fascination Gill loved the ocean above all else in nature. But while Gill preferred to swim beneath the waves and play in the reefs, eventually learning enough water magic to grow himself. Well. Gills, Osprey preferred the view on the crests of the waves, where the ripples in the water made it look like a living thing and it stretched out as far into the horizon as even the elfish eye could see. He spent most of his time sitting on the cliffs by the sea, looking out at that horizon with the ospreys and gulls for company, wishing he could fly away into it like them. He wished he could join Gill, but he could only swim so far without being able to breathe underwater. So one day he got it into his head to use a big piece of cloth to try to get it to catch the wind so he could fly like the ospreys. To his credit it did work for all of 10 seconds before he got tossed into the raging sea during a pretty vicious storm, and the only reason he didn’t drown is because Gill happened to be swimming through there at the time (poor Gill nearly had a heart attack and tended to be rather overprotective after this, not that that ever managed to work on the ever-impulsive Osprey). Then he thought hey what if I put the cloth on a floaty wood thing so I don’t sink? And that’s how ships were invented in Flaime! Lol yeah basically he’s like if you crossed Will Turner with Tuor. I have not thought much about what he looks like tbh but I do think I want him to turn into an osprey upon his death to watch over his family (he drowns in a big world-saving naval battle 😔), so maybe bird-y features like that