#moonlighters

quinn has changed a lot in these past nine years... he was originally a long-lost child of a magic portal fantasy kingdom who could shapeshift into a wolf. lowkey he was the very classic emo brooding hoodie-wearing oc of a 12 year old

when i made him, he was very much like an older kid who i thought was sooooo cool. and now he's like a kid i mentor who i see my younger self in. crazy how the passage of time goes, huh?

now quinn's an aspiring superhero with a vaguely masculinity-shaped chip on his shoulder. he's retained some of that guarded standoffishness but has gained a lot more insecurity and goofiness. he's one of my favorites ever tbh

still wearing the grey hoodie of insecurity tho. some things never change

Before his abrupt departure for the surface, Athren fully expected to marry a woman and devote the prime years of his life to caring for their children, as his father did for Athren and his brother Adinar. (Although Athren likes kids, he *is* aromantic and uninterested in monogamy, so this bit didn't quite gel for him.)

7. Is there something that would cause your OC to question their identity? What?

I wouldn't say "question his identity" but recontextualize his identity, sure. Since coming to the surface, Athren's gotten to see many different ways of being a woman or man, plus learned that trans and nonbinary people exist! His world is bigger than ever :)

[Mixolydan]

12. Does/did your OC ever wish they could change the way they are? Why? If it's in the past, how did they get over the feeling?

Lydian was more interested in getting a change of scenery (moving away from home) than changing anything about himself.

Lydian wasn't the kind of kid who asserted "I'm actually a boy!" from a young age. He's naturally people-pleasing and likes to conform to a group, so it's hopefully not a surprise that he was a feminine little girl and young teenager. He didn't even act on any of his crushes on girls while living at home (although it took starting on fantasy-HRT to be attracted to anybody besides women.) Only when he entered his late teenage years did some things about his gender presentation (and gendered expectations his family had for him) start to feel bad.

Although Lydian primarily went to Elturel to pursue his dream of becoming a Hellrider, a strong secondary motivation was to start presenting as a different gender in a way he really never could have explored while living with his rural hobbit farm family.

[Galsariad]

7. Is there something that would cause your OC to question their identity? What?

This is a funny question for Galsariad, because I believe in his own head, he doesn't really have an "identity" as much as he has experiences. For his sexual orientation, he has the embodied physical/mental experiences of falling in love (and in lust) with women, men, and nonbinary people. In his view, what could ever cause him to question things he experienced firsthand? He has his own senses for empirical evidence!