#leiurus

OCeptember Day 8 - Formal clothes/uniform: Leiurus Omdur

And they easily can! All Lei has to do is go find Patches and they'll be entering the Stoned Age in no time 🌿🔥

To The Accursed: Leiurus the Scorpion

Leiurus the Scorpion is a former thief who hails from nowhere and has since taken up the hallowed title of the Chosen Undead.

A husky woman who stands a good 6 ft (182 cm) tall, Lei is determined above all else to prove that she can fulfill the prophecy and gain all the power and legacy that such a hero deserves. She relies primarily on both her dexterity and ever-growing skills in sorceries and pyromancies to get her out of trouble, but is certainly able to come up with other cunning means of ensuring her survival against the many hostilities of Lordran.

Those who have come across Leiurus will often describe her as an unnerving, dangerous sort of person. Some of these rude claims come from a variety of factors: the Carimian features she inherited from her mother, her clumsy social skills and strange behaviors, or the fact that she can never look anyone in the eye when speaking face-to-face with them. Yet above all of that, her most vexing feature lies in her purple hair. In reality it is nothing more than a very rare genetic mutation linking back to primeval ancient history, but to those in a world lacking such scientific knowledge it is proof that she is a poisonous, cursed being.

Lei has lived a hard life. Depression often haunts her, as does her unending sense of guilt for all the sins she’s committed, but even despite her distrust towards strangers she still tries her hardest to find the good in others who show her a mere ounce of respect. Though still, it is clear that her goals are inherently selfish in nature. What Leiurus seeks is a power and sense of self-actualization she had been denied her entire life; a goal which may lie not in the hands of the Gods, but instead the claws of their most ancient enemies.

Thoughts on Leiurus:

🖤🔥EXCELLENT QUESTION🔥🖤

I've got a good amount of stim headcanons for certain characters! Some of them may end up getting highlighted in To The Accursed, but this answer won't spoil anything for the fic per say so don't worry.

(I should also specify that this will only focus on DS1 characters since I'm not finished with 2 and haven't played 3 yet)

Well to get the obvious out of the way I know Siegmeyer is a major vocal stimmer. All those “Mmmmmmm, hmmmmm’s” he does whenever he’s deep in thought comes across like he’s trying to keep himself calm so he doesn’t get frustrated in each of his predicaments. I can’t blame him, and I’ve even found myself parroting his hums after first hearing his dialogue since it helps me out too!

Though we sadly don’t see much of Sieglinde, I imagine she too has a similar vocal stim as her father. We just don’t get to hear it because we never run into her experiencing the same bouts of indecision as he does.

Big Hat Logan I imagine is very tactile. He’ll rub the ends of his sleeves or his robe’s collar when he’s feeling anxious, and would especially love the textures of a book’s spine and pages (only the GOOD books though, he refuses to read any in bad condition unless they’re the only source of the knowledge he’s seeking). Logan’s also invented his own stim sorceries: complex but intentionally weak little glowing patterns with satisfying sounds he casts simply because the act of casting them feels so good!

We already know the Undead Merchant Woman hyperfixates on moss, so it wouldn't be a surprise if her major stim come from peeling the plants and kneading her fingers deep into each of the clumps. I can even see her talking to herself while she does it too. Her voice does kinda work for an ASMR lol.

Solaire... I'm actually not entirely dead set on his stims at the moment. If the npc models weren't so stiff I could definitely see him flapping his hands a lot, especially when he's allowed to infodump. Hell, his Praise the Sun gesture could be a stim for all we know!

Patches I can totally see as a nail-biter. He also used to pick at his hair often back when he still had any, and even after shaving it all off the muscle memory occasionally causes him to reach up and scratch his head. Though of course we mustn't forget his absolute favorite form of stimming: kicking people off of cliffs >:-)