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[Prompt from @flashfictionfridayofficial.]

[Logo design by me. I'll probably redo it here soon tbh]

TITLE: Don't Be Afraid

PROMPT: Don't Be Afraid

STORY: Souls of Black (more oneshots here!)

SYNOPSIS: Galisa attends an enchanting ceremony for the first time, as part of her Archivist training.

WARNINGS: None

WORDS: 1,009

Hello!! I'm bored and thinking about the guy, so I've decided to start the Character Spotlight of my character Doc!

Doc is one of the main protagonists in my story Souls of Black, which is a Minecraft inspired fantasy novel I'm working on and posting on AO3 as I do! His is one of the major POV characters in the novel's first part, with the other being Reaper. You can look here to see her Character Spotlight I did for her (and any Spotlights following).

Now, if you aren't aware, character spotlight is a neat thing by @did-i-do-this-write, basically you babble about a specific character for as long as you choose, until essentially you have nothing left to babble for! It's great :)

[Doc, like Reaper, will have a week dedicated to his Spotlight, starting from September 22nd to September 29th. Each day a new post about him will come out, and any character asks I receive will have him as their focus. Feel free to send in any follow up questions! I'd love to answer them! :)]

And because I'm uncreative (/j) I'm going to use the same format I did for Reaper's.

Day One: Personality and Appearance

Day Two: Background and Languages

Day Three: Beliefs

Day Four: Relationships with Others

Day Five: Motivations

Day 6: Inspirations

Day 7: Free Day! Send in as many questions as you want, or I can try to think of another topic I can reasonably get a long post out of, lol

That being said, today's topic is:

Personality and Appearance

One thing I always find funny thinking about, is that Doc is very much unlike Reaper. He's sociable, Abyssalist, and has a more positive attitude than she does when it comes to people. I suppose though that's kind of the point--it'd be boring if both the POV protagonists were the same.

The unfortunate thing, though, is Doc's sociability is never well received. Doc is one of the decently high percentage of people who once regenerated, and didn't come back identical to how they Awakened.

Doc has scars.

Even worse, he has many more than the percentage that have any.

Scars aren't something highly seen around Dridon, mainly because of the stigma around them and the general bad reception they get, so anyone who does have them, hide them. Now, scars can only be gained through one way: being killed with enchanted weapons. Usually, that means whoever has them either got on the wrong side of a particularly powerful individual, or, were sent to one of the more sophisticated prisons around Dridon, where they have the kind of resources to keep enchanted weaponry around at all times. Which Doc suffered, will be for a later post :)

Despite his scarring, Doc does his best to not see them as something to be shameful about, slowly learning to do just that by making himself scan his marred face every morning and night. It's a sort of ritual to him, as he forces himself to memorize his new appearance, and tells himself that he will not be dragged down further by others' hatred for it.

Unfortunately, due to his scars, Doc now has a permanent limp in his left leg, and uses a cane he made himself to help with it. Currently, his cane is made of swalik wood, from the swalik trees native to the Swamp Biome, where he currently resides.

Most of the time, Doc wears a layered and tattered black cloak and a matching black, wide brimmed hat, using both to hide his body and (attempting) to hide his face. Underneath it, though, he has a loose shirt with a collar and ruffles down the front, and baggy trousers that are tucked into knee-high boots, which are a rarity in of themselves due to being colored leather (though they're often muddied up by the Swamp, though Doc cleans them regularly). This outfit is mostly not the one Doc Awakened with, the main new pieces being the cloak, hat, and boots.

People can in fact change the outfits they regenerate in, and usually do it in small pieces. What happens is they add a piece to their outfit with the sort of intent and want to keep it there, and essentially The Black goes 'okay, you can keep it' and regenerates them with that added article of clothing.

[Art by me :) that I made literally today lol. His color palette may not look complex but it took me a bit to decide on it T~T]

also Plupps I SWEAR I didn't just yoink Reven I PROMISE dude 😭

Despite his moreso wealthy appearance, Doc doesn't like living lavishly, and prefers the quiet simplicity that life can bring (and also he's kinda poor-). Doc much prefers loose and baggy clothing over tight and prim wealthy clothing, mainly because looser clothes don't agitate his scars.

Personality

Now, Doc has a main area of expertise, and that is the world of alchemy and potion making. Obviously I had to give someone that in the Minecraft inspired world, lol. Now, the thing is, potions in Souls of Black are created differently from base game, with the main reason being that the Nether doesn't exist here. I have mere ideas for an explanation of the specific mechanics of potions and brewing, but they're susceptible to change. So take it with a grain of salt lol:

Brewing stands, instead, are crafted with iron rods, rather than blaze rods, and are cuprite (redstone equivalent) devices. The stands are then either heated from below, or imbued with a fire enchantment, one of the Elemental enchantment types (if you can afford to do that). When turned on, the stand will intake the heat and start to melt the ingredients of the potion into the water, and eventually mixing them altogether. Or maybe it spins to try and mix the ingredients. I'm not sure lol, I'd have to research for more ideas.

Generally, there's two categories of potions: benevolent, and malevolent. Good and bad, assistive and harmful. I have the idea that for each potion, it has an opposite that counteracts it in the opposite category, but again, I need to do more research to see if I could get away with this.

When under the influence of a potion, the user's eyes glow with that potion's color, as does their breath, which comes out as glowing steam. More wisps of this steam/smoke stream from the user's body, and they feel their body buzzing alongside the potion.

Doc knows a decent amount about potions, how to make them, what they do to the body specifically, and how to counteract a lot of them. And he mainly uses that knowledge to try and heal people, thus his name of 'Doc.' This causes his analytical mind, which mentally notes interesting things about, well, everything, because of his joy for learning. Too bad that Doc can be rather forgetful sometimes.

For a long time, for nearly every day of the near 11 years he's been Awake, Doc has tried to help people, and in the current day his best way to do that is with his potion knowledge. He currently does this mainly for the small village of Klarak in the Swamp Biome, a village that he lives a relatively short distance outside of. He's been helping heal their people for nearly a year, now, with special permission from their chief, Zalis.

The unfortunate thing is, a lot of people in Klarak still don't like him. They hate him for multiple reasons: he's an obvious outsider, with pale skin and white hair from the Jagged Peaks, rather than the Morassian people's bronze skin and dark hair. And again, his scars, which are usually associated with trouble makers (who got on a powerful person's bad side) or criminals, who were terrible enough to get thrown in one of the more powerful prisons. They see him as a possible threat, and don't really like that.

Doc, however, tries not to let it get to him, and for the most part, it doesn't fully. Doc is one to see the patterns between people, not in merely one Biome but throughout all of Dridon. And he understands that the general consensus is people with scars are discriminated against, due to people's beliefs. It is something he's come to accept, due to his main philosophy: hatred does not need to be replenished.

As an Abyssalist, Doc worships The Black like a deity, and a generous one at that, one that allows them to continue living, one that encourages them to live to the fullest, as it even grants them Soul practically wherever they go. Doc doesn't believe that The Black appreciates how hateful the world is, and as such, simply lets hateful comments from everyday people fade. However, he does believe in ridding the world of those he believes generate the most hate, particularly those with high power who use it to do so. These are the people he reserves his hatred for.

So overall, Doc is a very polite person, giving respect where it's due, wishing everyone he comes across a pleasant experience, and helping cure the sick and hurting. He is also a bit odd, not only for his scars but for his love of philosophical questions. Doc likes to wonder what people's beliefs and views are, especially on what is inherently good, and what is inherently evil, or if others are simply following their view of the world.

Another large part of his character, due to his religion, is that Doc believes everything happens for a reason, preordained by The Black. He sees his scars as some sort of lesson, though what that it he has yet to figure out.

The last thing is that Doc is someone that, despite his best attempts at confidence, is truly a man still searching for himself. His sense of identity, both personal and religious, have been heavily skewed. Both of these are really because of the fact that Doc used to be a part of a cult, only that kicked him out of their ranks a year prior to Souls of Black. This damaged Doc in a few different ways, but mainly his identity. He isn't quite sure who exactly he is anymore, but he's trying his best by formulating his new self around the fact that he helps people whenever he can.

The last two are ones i made in picrew so credit goes to Maddel_art and LizzieKitt so credit to the picrew makers. So originally I played minecraft bedrock on my switch and i was able to make my own skin.

This is gonna be a long ramble session so strap in!

Yes, I am a warden but I assure you I am not like aggressive like my kind has been in recent years.

Anyway, I heard about this... "tumblr" from some of the other players and figured I would give it a go. I am unfortunately blind so uhh...im using text to speech for this.

Anyway, um...ask questions I guess...

Ephraim/Eph (my friend!) - @ephraim-fromthe-end

A strange person ive heard lurking lately...(Sen heard ya buddy.): @theblood-ofhunted-blue

More information below...

About half an hour later…

Kaleido is sitting on the floor of her library, holding a blanket against herself. She seems tired, shaky, and weak, but is straining a small smile. It appears she found some more comfortable clothing, though it hasn't seemed to fully dry from being cleaned and stings her skin a little.

"I'm... awake now," she says. "I don't think I've ever used th-that much power before..." she takes a look at her still-aching hands. "I was only, uh, unconscious for a few minutes, I think, but I dragged myself to here. Probably should have gone to my bed instead, but...ah...the brain's a bit...scr-a-ambled..."

This is a master post of all of the full oneshots I've done for Souls of Black. It will not include snippets of oneshots I've posted alongside other rambley information. However, if it is a full oneshot I've written in an occupied post, I will add it, and highlight those in green.

It will be categorized by which character's PoV it is written, and will list other characters it majorly features. The date of its post will be highlighted in blue.

Any oneshots written for any sort of Writeblr Event will be highlighted in pink, with the name of the event in brackets.

If it was inspired by a prompt but not apart of any official event, it will be highlighted in purple.

[This post will be updated accordingly.]