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picrew game! thank you for the tag @klywrites <3

i couldn’t choose between my gals so! i did both. talitha on the left, & alinora on the right!

OC Height Comparison

tagged by @elliotlpowell & using this site

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i did this for the mortal champions / metanoia gang, because of course i did

from left to right—

Asa - 6’4; 194cm

Lyr - 6’1; 184cm

Alinora - 5’11; 180cm

Viviana - 5’10; 178cm

Elaena - 5’9; 175cm

Talitha - 5’7; 170cm

Ava - 5’7; 170cm

Aishlynn - 5’5; 168cm

XD ah yes. these two are fun together! they'll become a lot more fun when the team is completed & they actually get to like. hang out. but until then, here's what's going on w/ them :P

as i've mentioned before, elaena is immortal. she's old. she gets bored easily. (though that may not have much to do with being immortal, as talitha ALSO gets bored easily). talitha, though. tali is INTERESTING. elaena, despite her best efforts, can rarely predict talitha in her entirety, and that's FUN.

also, talitha has not once, ever, been in awe of her. to the rest of eldora, elaena is a minor goddess. to talitha, she's a particularly interesting puzzle & also, funny.

so.

(she likes alinora for the same reasons, i think, given alinora stabbed her during their first meeting.)

to talitha, elaena is. fun. she's a little bit creepy & imposing, and she's powerful, & definitely keeping secrets but like. she has really neat powers, an insight into magic that most people don't have, and centuries worth of knowledge that talitha would very much like to get her hands on, stat.

talitha does have the tact to not turn every meeting into a full scale interrogation.

just.

you know.

most of them.

elaena thinks this is amusing, as stated above. she does not often answer talitha's questions, which some people might find annoying, but talitha just sees as a challenge.

EVENTUALLY talitha may get answers to her questions, & by then their relationship will have evolved some. seeing as they share a mischievous streak. (currently unacted upon, due to the big problems. eventually, though. eventually that will become a major source of amusement for them, and sometimes lyr. the rest of the team? well. that's their problem.)

the twins!!

i love them sm

they are SO ride or die for each other. like. one of them (lyr, probably) could come up with the STUPIDEST plan, and the other would follow them to the bitter, bitter end. while calling the other an idiot, of course.

they've spent their entire lives together. they were born with a soul bond---which created a telepathic/empathetic link between the two of them. it took a while for them to learn to close it off at will, and so their early years were spent with a direct line in the other's head. they've never been apart for more than a few days, and even then, never over great distances.

they love each other. they're extremely close. no one knows the other better than their twin---though tali could maybe claim second place where lyr is concerned.

however, there is NO ONE better at getting on the other's nerves. which can and has lead to some of the WICKEDEST fights, and the most vicious prank wars.

(altho god forbid anyone outside of themselves & a very select group of people messes with them, even when they are at odds)

all of that said.

ava would absolutely sell her brother to the devil for a single corn chip. (lyr would at least hold out for two.)

thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk about Them bc i love their dynamic SO MUCH. they're one of my faves, honestly (all of my character dynamics are fun to me! but there's something about this one that just. Gets Me.)

'cause like

u have aishlynn, right? and outside of like. certain arranged settings with clear etiquette, aishlynn Does Not know what to do with people. she does not Get them. she misses social cues, subtext, hints, etc. slang often passes over her head. (in modern times, she would have No Idea what a meme was even without the age difference!) she's just. awkward. a bean. she sticks her nose in a book and pretends the rest of the world doesn't exist because that's easier. because she cant do the wrong thing if she just... doesn't participate.

and then u have talitha. talitha, much like aishlynn, is an odd duck. she's loud. she's, and i say this with fondness, really fucking annoying. she's smart & she doesn't like pretending otherwise. her brain moves faster than her mouth does (which is a feat) and she often makes connections between things that don't make sense to people outside of her head.

and then you have the two of them together.

& they MET at a meeting tali wasn't even supposed to be at. like. her brother in law was the one with the invite, but she was like. "no this is sketchy af, i'm going too". and then she got there and was like "oh okay, this is a good cause. here's how i can improve it." & aishlynn was understandably pissed that some stranger just came in there and steamrolled over her carefully calculated meeting w/ a clear script.

& then they kept butting heads.

and like. it took a while for them to start listening to each other. i think it was after aishlynn almost died, and after talitha's family DID die---though it may have been before the latter? the timeline is fuzzy :p it takes several missions of being forced to work together & the other's plans working out despite initial doubts, and also having to make plans together despite opposing styles.

but they do start listening to each other, and finding that the other has valuable things to say, and contributions to make. both of them are capable, & they come to a mutual understanding and even respect.

and they still argue. talitha thinks arguing is fun & aishlynn appreciates being around someone who doesn't flinch if her tone is a little too sharp, her comments too barbed. who thinks its GREAT, actually. they have to learn each other's boundaries; what things they can poke at and what they can't and in the end---

they Get each other, in this weird, argumentative way.

no one else really understands it, tbh, bc like. 90% of the time they DO sound like they hate each other but like. thats how they show affection, and somehow it works for them. they also do have like. emotional / vulnerable moments in private??? i've written about one of them before. but that's between them & the gods :P

anyway

the point is i love them, thank u for letting me rant about them