#nestposting

HIKARI - you could actually convince hikari to do basically anything if you framed it as needing help or assistance, but she probably wouldn't stick with it without continued requests. 2/10 difficulty.

AOI - aoi actually knows a few traditional designs, so she'd be easy to convince, especially if youve got nice paper. i dont think she would make a hobby out of it, though. 1/10 difficulty.

LIA - really it depends on what stage of her life you meet her. she's often busy and won't really give you the time of day in that case, but if she's not doing anything she'd love to learn something new. keeping with it depends on your ability to convince her that fucked up squares are a form of magic notation. 6/10 difficulty.

NEST - if you make her fall in love with you, she'll do anything. how convincingly do you need a strong and handsome girlknight in your life? she'll stick with it as long as shes in love with you. 6/10 difficulty.

VIOLET - violet gets weirdly neurotic about it. she loves the concept and you can convince her in a heartbeat to try it, but there are some folds (squash, probably, among others) that she will just categorically refuse to use. she'll definitely keep doing it as a hobby though! 1/10 difficulty.

VALYRIE - largely uninterested. if you catch her in a very specific mood, she'll indulge you, but god you'll have a hell of a time catching her. 8/10 difficulty.

DR. MARION - hmm... how would ann feel about origami..... i think you could convince her to give it a shot, but she probably won't keep with it. 4/10 difficulty.

CASSIDY - eh. gives her somethin to do i guess? the hardest part of this is getting her out of her own head long enough to think about it. she'd probably keep the designs in her head but not really stick with it in a meaningful sense bc its hard to come by square paper in the woods. 7/10 difficulty.

ADELA - i know this is the one you've been waiting for. unfortunately youre not convincing her to do any origami at all. theres no way. *maybe* if you met her when she was still alive and sane. but thats ancient history. shes too far gone. 10/10 difficulty.

ELYRIA - i think she'd love it if you show her the right designs. something cutesy or romantic. her whole vibe is like a playful cute veneer over a darkly ominous and corrupt heart. so yaknow, if you teach her to make something cute that she can use as like, an assassination calling card, or some shit, she'd be way into it. of course, getting her to like. spend enough time sitting still with you to learn is the real hard part. 5/10 difficulty.

ETOILE - a doll will play with you, sure, but it won't play on its own. 1/10 difficulty.

CAROLINE - of *course* she'll learn one or two simple things. but no more, and she definitely won't keep it up. it'll be a neat little trick she occasionally does with napkins at the bar to make her friends think she's cute and interesting. 2/10 difficulty.

ROBIN - eh i mean she'd give it a shot, she'd probably be into you. but its 100% ulterior motives, she doesn't keep with it on her own. 3/10 difficulty.

ANGEL - ahahahahaha girl get out of there....... she's watching your fingers *so* closely... 9/10 difficulty.

MEL - mel is uh. gonna have some mechanical difficulties here. 10/10 difficulty.

PEACH - you can absolutely get her to try it. she may or may not do it occasionally to pass the time. 2/10 difficulty.

ELTAH - she can't see the paper. 10/10 difficulty.

VASCH - oh shes *so* into it. she thinks thats the coolest shit. but then she only uses her skills to make increasingly fucked up paper airplanes and throw them at her sisters. 1/10 difficulty.

LEFAH - she'll probably try it? but she won't stick with it. 4/10 difficulty.

REESE - she's got better things to do honestly. 8/10 difficulty unless you can convince her there's money to be made.

VANA - she has to be better at it than you. but she won't continue it. 1/10 difficulty.

IRA - you should probably just back away slowly. 9/10 difficulty.

ERIN - she doesn't have the attention span for such delicate work. plus her fingers are probably wet. 7/10 difficulty.

ALETHA - if you make yourself annoying enough she might do one to get you to go away. but you KNOW she won't do it on her own. 8/10 difficulty.

ORCHID - easily. the hard part is getting her to let you leave afterwards. she won't do it ever again if you leave her though. 2/10 difficulty.

ZALEA - eh maybe. probably won't keep at it tho. 4/10 difficulty.

2) Who's your OCs best friend? How did they become best friends?

Valyrie - valyrie is very much not the type to make friends. she lives a lonely life and doesnt really know how to interact with somebody in a casual setting. the closest she has is elyria, which. whew.

Nest - im honestly not sure at this point. i wouldve had an answer before but now that she's been co-opted by the theocracy story i need to rethink her backstory somewhat.

Adela - you *know* adela doesnt have friends.

5) Do you ship your OC with a Canon character? If so who?

all my ocs are canon characters to their own universes. but i do ship some of them

Valyrie - she gets shipped with elyria at first bc i thought it would be funny to annoy her but the more i think about it the more i really love it

Nest - technically she has 3 possible heroines but my favourite ship is her with Lucia bc of how horrible and toxic it is

Adela - i ship her with @treesurface

6) If your OC is in a fantasy setting, what profession would they be in the modern day?

Valyrie - mmmmmm. harangued secretary who hates her fucking job so much

Nest - god. nest is a fuckin, trust fund kid whittling away her parents' money getting picked up at lesbian bars by worryingly older women. she has a shitty minimum wage part time job she constantly bitches about bc she wants to feel independent but she's still absolutely living on her parents' money.

Adela - leader of a civil rights group advocating for violent revolution.

8) What hobbies does your OC have? What do they do to unwind?

Valyrie - i dont think valyrie unwinds. i think she smokes.

Nest - nest finds it really therapeutic to like. practice the basics of her various skillsets. going through sword forms, repeating basic cantrips and such. she likes to retreat into some secluded place and just do the same thing over and over again

Adela - modern adela isnt allowed to have hobbies. i guess scheming counts. and plotting. original adela i think liked doing things with her hands. weaving stuff out of wildflowers and such.

9) How does your OC handle their physical health? Do they take care of themselves?

Valyrie - i dont think valyrie [takes care of herself]. i think she smokes.

Nest - nest makes sure to stay active, i would say. she works out. she eats a lot.

Adela - shes a corpse so she doesnt really do anything to take care of herself. before everything happened, she kind of just lived normally without thinking of much out of the ordinary, but after her revolution began she wouldve started training for combat.

10) How does your OC handle their mental health? Do they take care of themselves?

Valyrie - i gotta be honest. i dont think valyrie [takes care of herself]. i think she smokes.

Nest - nest's aforementioned hobbies provide her with time to clear her mind and sort out her thoughts. beyond that, there's always getting into fistfights at bars.

Adela - adela is straight up a cursed entity with a broken mind. in the before times she sort of channeled her rage into rebellion, and prior to that she had a support network of family and friends she could rely on.

11) What was your inspiration for your OC?

Valyrie - literally a carbon copy of menou virginroad. and then i made her hot and trans

Nest - yknow that art that goes around sometimes of a cute battle-scarred ginger swordswoman in a tank top? her.

Adela - i was reading discworld Witches Abroad and theres a bit in there about granny weatherwax being essentially a bad person who's got no choice but to do good things, and i was like. what a fascinating characterisation. what if i made a character out of that but made it way more shitty and heavy-handed? her visual inspiration as a corpse was laudna criticalrole, and as the witch of the veil it was laplace sexiled. and her revolution arc is inspired heavily by squealer shinsekaiyori

12) Does your OC interact with other people's OC? If so, who's their best OC friend?

hmm... i dont think any of these three interact with other people's OCs.

23) Is your OC reliable? Can I call them up at two in the morning if I have a flat tire?

Valyrie - if you're like, in her good graces? yeah absolutely. she'll bitch and moan about it but she'll show up and take care of things.

Nest - nest lives to be a beautiful older woman's loyal knight. if she thinks she'll score with you she'd drop everything to come change your tire. and otherwise honestly she would still come even without the ulterior motives if she's free.

Adela - you'd have to ask her handler. as the witch, no absolutely not. as a revolutionary, she would 100%.

24) Can they play any instruments? If so, what do they play?

none of them can u_u

alone: How does your OC deal with loneliness? Have they ever been completely alone before? How do they act when there's no one around to see them?

Valyrie - she is frequently lonely. she is alone basically all the time. she doesn't really change the way she acts except that she relaxes a bit. but not very much.

Nest - i dont think nest likes loneliness. she probably doesn't realise this much herself but being alone makes her kind of retreat into herself. she gets really quiet and kind of loses her edge. it takes her a bit to get back into her aggressive persona when people come around.

Adela - adela has a weird relationship with loneliness. during her reign as the witch of the veil, she wasnt ever lonely because of her cursed items that constantly whispered in her head. now that she's resurrected, she's essentially alone all the time even when people are around because she doesn't have her cursed items. she hates it and shes desperate to get them back

break: What would cause your OC to break down completely? What do they look like when that happens? Has anyone ever seen them at their lowest?

Valyrie - i think if she found out the truth of whos responsible for her birth family's death, that would come pretty much the closest. she's already a machine made for vengeance, but now she has a target and wont be stopped. nobody's seen her there yet because it hasnt happened. as far as the lowest she's actually been, probably when she was orphaned? she kind of just shut down and did whatever she was ordered to do by the people from the church who took her in.

Nest - god what would break nest. its so hard to say because nest is gonna fuckin go Through it in her story and i dont think she actually breaks down for any of it. its more a slow descent into acceptance of her increasingly bad lot.

Adela - shes fuckin always at her lowest bestie she's hanging on with nothing but pure hatred and insanity. previously though i think the thing that pushes her to her lowest is being unable to make meaningful progress in her revolution.

fear: What is your OC's greatest fear? What do they do when confronted with it? Are they open with their fear, or do they hide it away?

Valyrie - valyrie's greatest fear is being discarded. she deals with this by refusing to get close to anyone so no one can throw her away, and by overworking herself so she's invaluable to those who already have her. she would never in her entire fucking life admit to any of this.

Nest - what the hell does nest fear... nest fears losing those they love. they want to be strong enough to be a protector so that when they love somebody, whoever it is, they'll be able to shield them from harm no matter what. once again, would never admit this publicly.

Adela - adela fears the silence. its so quiet without the voices of her cursed artifacts in her head that she cant stand it. she's going mad. she mutters to herself and responds to imaginary questions she hasn't been asked. she isn't *open* about this fear but it's quite obvious from the things shes saying. prior to this, as the witch she feared nothing, and as a revolutionary she feared losing everything again

future: What's the worst possible future for your OC? Are they taking steps to avoid that outcome? Are they even aware it's a possibility?

Valyrie - i think the worst thing would be never having a target for her revenge. if she wasted her whole life trying to pay back the shit shes been put through and never manages to do anything but spin her wheels until she dies. she's of course trying to avoid it by finding out whos responsible for her orphaning, but yaknow.

Nest - things are going to happen to nest that make her idea of the worst future look like a kid crying over the wrong colour birthday present. and she is barreling towards them at a hundred miles and hour because she has no idea. basically the worst future is that her need to be someone's knight gets manipulated to make her into a monster, or at the very least a monster's dog.

Adela - literally shes going through the worst future. she's dead and her corpse is getting dragged around by a kind of assholeish priestess who keeps smoking cigarettes to deal with her problems the stench of rot. she failed in her revolution and shes being paraded around like a circus attraction by the patrons of the god she tried to overthrow. she cant even do anything about it.

ghost: Who or what haunts your OC? What happened? How do they live with their ghosts?

Valyrie - i dont think shes sentimental enough to get haunted by the ghosts of people she's assassinated, but in a more conceptual manner she's haunted by elyria and her dead family. for her family she tries to get revenge. for elyria she tries to ignore her and fails. or gets drunk and fucks her until she cant be annoying anymore.

Nest - this i think ties in with the best friends question. im not sure exactly what happened, but i think she failed to protect someone and now deals with it by idealising knighthood.

Adela - its hard to say if she's the most haunted creature on earth or if she desperately wishes she was haunted at all. i dont think theres a difference for her. she lives with it because she has no choice.

heartbreak: Have they ever had a relationship that ended badly? Experienced some other kind of heartbreak? What happened?

Valyrie - i think valyrie has dated girls before, as a sort of outlet for stress. it ends badly every time because she's emotionally unavailable and the feeling of danger that makes her hot in a bar also makes her uncomfortable to be around in any more intimate setting. even if youre into knifeplay, she's just gonna keep being a little scary after you're done, yknow? that and the girls she dates dont know how to deal with the fact that she has no genitalia and isnt comfortable getting naked or being touched below the waist.

Nest - i think nest has never dated anyone yet. but she's lost friends, probably. due to them dying.

Adela - no relationships for the whipped dog, i think. none she can remember, at least. she experienced some level of heartbreak before the revolution, which was the inciting incident basically.

midnight: What keeps your OC up at night? Do they have nightmares? Fears? Anxieties? What do they do in the small hours of the morning when they should be sleeping?

Valyrie - god you know valyrie has nightmares. long-term abuse from the church and the lingering ache of the scar between her legs. getting to sleep is no problem, but when she wakes up too early to start the day, she'll have a shot or two of whiskey and sit outside with a cigarette to see if she can induce enough drowsiness to get back to sleep. sometimes it works.

Nest - i dont think nest has really any of these in enough quantities to affect sleep. she's out like a fucking light and snoring. if she does find herself up, she's probably going through sword forms again.

Adela - does the corpse sleep? i think probably not. she hates the night, though. its too quiet. she talks to herself until she gets kicked out of the room so valyrie can sleep. prior to acquiring the cursed artifacts, she'd wake up in the middle of the night worrying about the revolution and spend a few hours sitting at a desk going over strategy or just mulling things over and spiraling because she's out of her depth.

secret: What's one secret your OC never wants anyone to know about them?

Valyrie - does she have any secrets? uhhh. well she does keep it under wraps that shes an assassin. i think the real secret though is that she actually cares about elyria a lot.

Nest - i think nest doesnt want people to know she's nobility. she doesnt come off as well-bred but like. yaknow. theres a kind of conceptual stink on her.

Hikari Finalfantasy - Hikari's a pretty mid-level melee fighter. she uses a sword and shield for quick attacks and a scythe for more powerful ones. she has a position-dependent block with her shield, and her . idk the term for these. fatalities? her Big Attack is summoning a series of divine blades and piercing you to death.

Aoi Furukane - Aoi summons one of three creatures: one focused on playing defensively, one focused on quick, light attacks, and one focused on big, heavy attacks. aoi herself, as an accountant/shipping worker, uses paperwork-based attacks. she has a block on both sides where she sits at her desk that has big stacks of forms and papers piled on either side. her Big Attack is that her creatures pack the opponent up into a crate while she signs some paperwork, then the crate is loaded onto a boat which sails off the edge of the earth.

Mel - Mel is the hardest character to play. she has no ranged attacks, no block, and no magic. she relies entirely on fluid swordplay and very precise dodges. her dodge *can* be used without sacrificing movement speed, but nailing enough dodges to close the distance to a ranged fighter can be nearly impossible. her attacks aren't flashy at all, but she's quite powerful in the right hands. her Big Attack is anticlimactically just dashing past in an instant and cutting the opponent's head off

Lia - Lia is a versatile ranged fighter who uses magic. she uses Ice, Lightning, and Fire to augment basic spells for different effects. Lightning has higher knockback/stun potential, Ice slows the opponent, and Fire deals higher damage without any knockback. her shield is omnidirectional and her Big Attack traps the opponents soul in a gem or labyrinth, which kills them.

Nest - Nest has two forms. One is a fast-paced, unarmed fighter with high speed, high damage, and no defense, and the other is an armoured sword and shield fighter that plays more defensively. She can wrap her blade or fists in magical energy for her more powerful attacks. Her block is directional in both forms (form 1 uses arms, form 2 uses shield), and the shield block is stronger. Her Big Attack is a flurry of fast-paced punches to knock the opponent into the air, then pinning them to the ground with her sword as they land.

Violet - Violet is a complicated time and probability magic fighter. many of her attacks involve setting traps to be activated later, though she does have some more normal ones. her block surrounds her with spectral clocks, and getting hit causes her to warp backwards, but if she doesn't get hit, she gets dizzy and is temporarily stunned, so be careful. her Big Attack speeds up time on the opponent until they get old and wither into dust.

Valyrie - Valyrie is a very short-range melee fighter who fights using a knife. her attacks are augmented with divine magic and there's a mechanic involved that lets her deal extra crit damage, but idk what it is. she relies on maintaining a debuff on the opponent that marks them for vengeance. her block is a precise, directional block with her holy scriptures. it's not very powerful though because youre supposed to dodge attacks better. her Big Attack is freezing the enemy in place with a piercing glare, walking up to them, and slitting their throat.

Anarcha Marion - Dr Marion is. fuck it we'll make her a grappler. she Gets you and quickly does a dangerous surgical procedure on you for big damage. her other attacks are like. spells that rot the body, and quick slashes with a scalpel. she doesn't block, but she can heal damage. her Big Attack is a grapple that lets her do magic brain surgery on the opponent to make them no longer want to fight and the battle ends.

Cassidy - Cassidy is , i think, what one would call a zoner. she fights with a bow at long distances and sets traps on the field. she can temporarily become invisible due to camouflage, and this also functions as a powerful dodge in place of having a block. her Big Attack sends a fairy to daze the opponent while she takes aim with several arrows at once.

Adela, Witch of the Veil - oh god oh fuck. we're using Original Adela for this since her corpse form can't fight. she's a versatile fighter who wields a very large sword in one hand and a staff in the other. she has powerful, sweeping melee attacks and quick flurries of dark magic. her block is omnidirectional, but stronger from the front because she uses her sword too. her Big Attack is lifting her veil to reveal a Horror Face with glowing red eyes, and the orifices on the opponent's face bleed black ichor as the camera pans back to reveal she's stabbed them through the heart.

Elyria - god. whats the most annoying kind of character? Elyria fucking sucks to fight against. she's fast and slippery and really good at interrupting your attacks. she fights with a variety of weapons for different attacks, though primarily she uses twin daggers. she dodges instead of blocks, but if youre precise you can block more powerful attacks with her own weaker dagger strikes. her Big Attack is that she puts on a nun's habit and strikes a sexy pose, and while the enemy is distracted she appears behind them and slits their throat. if the enemy is canonically ace, they will be distracted by confusion instead of arousal.

étoile - étoile is a short-range magic fighter. it's very small so it can duck under a lot of attacks. most of its magic attacks are in the form of mana blades, like an attack that causes a ring of blades to spin around its body, for instance. the blade attacks typically have that kind of vibe you get from like, snes-era games where there's a single one, then in motion several move one after another like an after-image, and then they combine into one at the end of the animation. its ranged attacks are slow but powerful starfalls, and it has an omnidirectional block. its Big Attack shows the Witch of Ascension watching through its eyes, then the opponent is struck by lightning and turned into a lifeless doll.

Caroline - Caroline is a music-based fighter! attacking in time with the beat empowers her attacks with music notes that hit the opponent an extra time, and doing it multiple times in a row stacks extra music notes, up to 4. this *does* mean that she has an advantage on maps with specific music, which i will not apologise for. its funny. most of her attacks are like, thrown weaponry like knives, but she also has some gimmick attacks like a loaf of bread that heals the opponent but slows them. her block is directional, with her pulling out a giant millstone. her Big Attack is her putting on a concert for a crowd, including the opponent, and a hail of arrows rains down on them all as she thanks them for coming.

Robin - Robin is just a powerful scythe wielder. Her attacks are difficult to manage, but her actual playstyle is pretty simple. she has good reach and her animations feel satisfying. you'll get out of her what you put in, basically. her block is directional using the scythe, and her Big Attack is just a flurry of spinning scythe attacks that kills you.

Angel - Angel is a very slow, devastatingly powerful dual greatsword wielder. Her swords are wreathed in holy flames, and she can use her wings for short bursts of flight. she does more damage the lower her health is. she uses the swords to block on both sides simultaneously, and her Big Attack knocks the opponent on the ground, where she looms over them ominously and the screen goes dark. when it lights up again, she's sitting in a dark room with her chin in her hands looking at the opponent's eye in a jar by candlelight. the flaming swords are leaned against the wall in the background, crossed over each other and releasing no light.

Peach - Peach is the floating weapons girlie! we'll call her midrange? she's got four of her blades floating around her and she sends four more off for attacks that do low damage but hit 4 times in a row. her wheelchair seems to move on its own bc she can use her powers to move it. her block is omnidirectional and uses the four defending blades to guard against attacks. this doesnt interrupt her normal attacks, but you might be limited in which ones you can do since you have to be hitting block. her Big Attack is sending out all 10 blades for a devastating storm of attacks. the elemental girlies have secret bonus animations for if you do their Big Attack when theyre at 1% hp or lower, and in peach's she uses her power to tear her bones out of her arms, legs, and ribs and launch them into the bladestorm, impaling the enemy.

Eltah - Eltah's relatively straightforward, using mostly short and medium range water attacks. if the map has no water on it, her attacks are red because they use her blood. her attacks are mostly piercing types, and her block is directional, using a sweep of water. her Big Attack is grappling the enemy and, in most cases, cause their blood to burst out of their eyes and extremities, and in lowHP cases, she pierces them with dozens of spikes of her own blood.

Vasch - Vasch floats and does a lot of lightning attacks! the vertical ones all have very specific and tight ranges, but they hit really hard, and her horizontal ones are weaker but easier to hit with. she can create patches of the map that are charged, and use her wind powers to knock opponents into the charged patches, causing powerful lightning strikes on them. her block is an omnidirectional wind sphere that deals minor lightning damage to anyone attacking her with melee weapons, and her Big Attack captures the enemy in a tornado and electrifies the whole thing. at lowHP, she places herself in the center of the tornado and calls down an enormous bolt down through the vortex.

Lefah - Lefah has a mechanic where using her makes the map dangerously hot. Enemies constantly lose tiny amounts of HP, putting them on a timer. she relies on maintaining very long range and hitting enemies with her laser guns. she has a weak directional block with her guns, and getting close to her increases the damage enemies take from the heat. her Big Attack amplifies the sun's (or the moon's) light into a huge, destructive beam that evaporates the enemy, and at lowHP she holds them in place as she creates it, and they blow up together in a massive explosion.

Reese - a gimmick fighter. she flicks gold coins onto the field and summons some schmucky cutthroat you can kind of control to attack the enemy. she can have up to 3 at once. they die pretty easily but she can summon more of them if she uses an ability to restore her gold. she can also attack herself by flicking gold coins at enemies, or slashing at them with solid gold weapons that don't do a lot of damage. her block calls one of her summoned goons to take the hit for her while she escapes, and her Big Attack is her examining a treasure map, looking out at the enemy, and pointing at them to send her whole gang digging for treasure. they all stand around your eviscerated corpse leaning on their shovels and sighing dejectedly bc there was no gold in there.

Vana - a swashbuckler type. fluid motion, short range, annoyingly cunty animations and poses. she temporarily disappears if she leaves the enemy's line of sight, so she can use that to get some cheap hits in. directional block with her sword, and her Big Attack is some annoying bullshit where she covers the screen with roses and bishie pictures of her face and sparkles and when it clears the enemy's lying dead on the pavement.

Ira - Ira has a rage meter that slowly builds over time, increasing her damage. her attacks are short-range unarmed types, but she also has instant-speed projectile attacks that don't necessarily do a lot of damage but are hard to predict. she can increase her rage meter by meditating and taking a hit. it fills more the longer she's been meditating and the more powerful of a hit she takes. rather than a block, she has a precise counter that can deal devastating damage if timed perfectly. her Big Attack makes her eyes burn with dark red flames and she unleashes a combo of attacks that ends with her punching right through the enemy's ribcage.

Erin - another gimmick fighter. her "attacks" are just flirting attempts, and if you pull off a combo the opponent will become seduced and you can do a.... "grapple" attack on them, for big damage. she can also do ranged attacks by throwing heavily pixelated objects at her opponent. her block is directional with a very long pixelated object, and her Big Attack shows her dark, swirling, half-lidded eyes with the opponent falling into them, then a collage of heavily pixelated images appear one at a time of her and the opponent in compromising positions as the sun and moon pass quickly overhead, and the last image is her with what is clearly a corpse lying in bed while she has a cigarette.

Aletha - the slowest character on the roster. she doesn't have any attack animations besides the flashes of her sword attacks bc she herself moves too fast to see. extremely short range, but massively damaging. her block is directional and very precise, and her Big Attack is just a slash that cuts the screen and displaces the top portion, cutting the opponent in half.

Orchid & Zalea - These two fight as a team bc Orchid sucks by herself. Zalea can only attack while she has food, and you have to use an ability that makes Orchid put like a stick of jerky or squid tentacle or some shit in her mouth. Zalea's attacks are slow magic spells with long range, and Orchid does close-range stabbing attacks with light knockback. Their block is directional, using a comically oversized piece of food, and deals damage as Orchid stabs the enemy three times if theyre in range. Their Big Attack is a flurry of knife attacks from Orchid as the screen goes white, and when it clears they're sitting together at a table sharing a plate of worryingly bloody meat.

and, since i promised boy girlies for marketability, heres some uh. less girl girlies.

Chase - Cassidy's identical twin brother, a wildly successful merchant. Another gimmick fighter. attacking enemies increases his Money meter, and with the money meter you can buy giant powerful weapons to use against your opponent. All of them are extremely ornamental and gaudy. directional block through a huge heraldic shield. his Big Attack requires a maxed out Money meter. theres an animation of him going to a car dealership, buying an extremely expensive sports car, and running the opponent over, sending them careening into the sky team rocket style. it freezes as he drives past the camera giving it a thumbs up.

Ano - a very tall, androgynous black elf with longer ears than you normally see on elves. they wear a snappy red ensemble with gold trim, a big matching hat with an even bigger feather, and they wear their hair in long dreadlocks. A versatile fighter with long-range bow attacks and short range unarmed strikes. they can charge up power for later attacks by playing music if theyre out of the enemy's range. their block is an omnidirectional parry, and their Big Attack creates a massive earthquake from which a mountain rises, knocking the opponent into the air. They wink at the camera and shoot the opponent as they fall.

Achrann - an imposing, very androgynous human figure. rivals Adela in height, dresses in a thick black fur cloak and boots, has very long, straight, pink hair, and carries a massive double-bladed war axe. more feminine than Ano, but still distinctly Not Girl. their attacks are huge and powerful, and they have a lot of animations with superarmour so its harder to knock them out of attacks. Omnidirectional block using the axe. Their Big Attack is leaping up off the screen and landing as a flaming pink meteor, obliterating everything in sight.

Curtis - a huge, powerful green orc dressed in fine black robes about to burst at the seams over their bulging muscles. Wears a pair of round glasses that seem way too small for their face. Very polite posture. melee attacks somewhere between the quick, fast type and the slow, powerful type. can attack with unarmed strikes or a wooden gavel, and throws a book of law at the opponent for their ranged attack. omnidirectional block using a force field around them as they leaf through a book. their Big Attack summons a tribunal of judges who all pronounce the opponent guilty, smashing them with a giant mallet.

The Ice Dragon Lia Fucked Once - what is gender to a dragon, really? anyway have you ever wanted to be a wall boss? now you can! Ice Dragon is locked in place at the edge of the stage. uses ice dragon attacks, claw attacks, wing attacks, etc. Blocks to the only relevant side with its claws and wings. its Big Attack is to freeze you in a massive block of ice and add you to its hoard.

HIKARI - hikari is a notorious dumbass. and! she largely doesnt *actually* speak the language of eorzea. her comprehension is a consequence of the Echo, which (in canon) gives her the ability to understand even animal languages. she knows a bit of eorzean from her time in the military but only enough to like, get by, if necessary, and she definitely didnt learn to read it. with the echo, spoken language i imagine is fine, but reading is a lot more mentally strenuous. so she just isnt interested unless she needs to read something for a quest.

AOI - aoi likes reading! she likes steamy romance novels and non-fiction stories about heroic exploits and such. she also likes to keep up with tabloids just to see if there's any hilariously false stories about hikari in them.

LIA - basically nonstop reading, but exclusively magic theory and spellbooks.

NEST - she'll act like she doesn't read because she needs to be training, but she secretly stays up late reading really trashy knight romance.

VIOLET -

(thanks lico)

VALYRIE - despite carrying a holy book around with her, she doesn't read it. or anything else.

DR. MARION - she is like *deep* in the weeds of medical textbooks and magic theory.

CASSIDY - nah. not much for reading.

ADELA - absolutely not (sorry)

ELYRIA - i think she's perfected the art of Pretending To Read but she doesn't do it properly.

ETOILE - theres not much to do in the tower after she's cleaned everything, so she'll read some of the witch's books when she's free.

CAROLINE - she reads! it's hard to really pin down what exactly she reads because she kind of just reads whatever, but she likes fiction. she also keeps a field guide in her bag that she looks through if there are animals around.

ROBIN - im gonna be honest i do not know if she *can* read.

MEL - im gonna be honest i am pretty sure she can't read either.

ANGEL - at the risk of repeating myself....

PEACH - hmm... i imagine she's prone to reading since she's often chair-bound and doesn't have much else to do. i think she likes low-stakes calm slice of life type stories, though who knows how many of those exist as books in her world. i think they do exist, for her.

ELTAH - provided she can read with braille, she would absolutely rip through science textbooks, particularly chemistry and engineering.

VASCH - nah

LEFAH - *definitely* reads sappy romance novels.

REESE - not so much anymore, but in her youth she read a lot of books on finance and governance in preparation for taking over after her father's retirement. she used to be quite ambitious!

VANA - vana definitely reads, but mostly to keep up appearances

IRA - she tried it as a meditation exercise, but it mostly just frustrated her.

ERIN - i mean. is there an in-universe equivalent to the kama sutra?

ALETHA - actually reads quite a lot, as part of her immutable routine is studying history and etiquette. she's read through the manor library a couple times so far.

ORCHID - doesnt really read so much as she squirrels away zalea's books whenever she's left alone. but she probably looks through them.

ZALEA - ravenous reader. if she's not teaching at the university, she's reading. sometimes she's doing both. while also chewing on something. easily the most prolific reader per day out of any of these girlies.