#ordhan

ahhhh good questions 8D

A character you rarely talk about?

Honestly there are a lot I don’t talk about much because I don’t think they’re particularly good, such as Vahal or Mica, or the ones I didn’t end up using much, like Ayarie or Theya. Of the ones I actually care about, I don’t talk about Caleb (**NOT WIDOGAST I HAD THE NAME FIRST) much for how much I love him :]  Which is ironic given this blog is 99.999% DnD now and he’s my only worthwhile DnD character

Introduce an OC that means a lot to you (and explain why)

UHHH ALL OF THEM…. Probably Dathen, particularly in his Warcraft incarnation. I had a very difficult time not projecting all of my issues on him, but he got lots of sympathy for those issues, and it was very…comforting in an odd way. Particularly since looking back I have no idea how anyone put up with him/me lol.  I’m probably more attached to him than anyone else simply because of him being my oldest actually fleshed out OC

I also have woven in things that are personally very important to me into an assortment of OCs, such as Jiyon’s unabashed aroace-ness and found family 

OC that has changed from your first idea concerning what the character would be like?

DEFINITELY Selk. His original idea actually came from the order of assassins mentioned in ASOIAF that would apologize to those they killed, with a side of “how can I design this character to look as creepy as possible while they’re really polite.”  I never expected him to be cute or give people feelings in any way, shape, or form.

Which one of your OCs would go investigate an abandoned house at night without telling anyone they’re going?

Ordhan….please grow a sense of self-preservation….  

Ask me OC questions!

*CRACKS KNUCKLES*

ACOLYTE - If your character were a deity, what would they be patron of?

THE FUN ONE okay let’s see

Fels - The god of calamity, new beginnings, and the edges of the winter season. Cracks in frozen lakes and flowers pushing through snow are considered his holy places. No one seeks his blessing, but it is considered polite to sing or hum near these places as a greeting.

Jiyon - Officially a god of fire, ambition, and wealth, Jiyon gets buried in a dozen more impressive deities of the same.  He is most well known for being a patron of the willfully unmarried and celibate. While he has no clergy, claiming to be a “priest of Jiyon” is another way of saying “I’m happy the way I am, fuck off.”

Matthew - Just your everyday minor nature god. Virtually indistinguishable from any number of other nature gods, except for some confusion that he’s also a god of the hearth.  Jumbled traditions resulted in his realm being where home meets nature, and sprigs of grass or flowers tied to a door latch or tucked under a mat is said to bring luck.

SAGE - If your character were to become a teacher, what subject would they teach?

Ordhan - Some kind of P.E. or sports…boring…  In a perfect world, he’d have learned an instrument and would teach how to play it, but wouldn’t touch on music theory or reading sheet music at all.

Caleb - THE TEACHINGS OF A CULT okay maybe a rambling mythology class digging into the most obscure stories possible, or a world religions course.  If pressed, ancient history.

SOLDIER - What is your character willing to fight for?

Carson - If fight means strive, then knowledge, particularly freedom of knowledge and its practical application.  If it means literal fisticuffs, it would be for his own survival, or a kneejerk impulse reaction to defending someone.

Seo - …Nothing.  Literally nothing.  Probably not for anyone else, definitely not for himself.  I don’t think fight is even in his list of options for how to react to any situation, no matter how dire. Shift the meaning to “strive” and it could be said to be for his own stability and independence–and even then it’s a stretch, since it’s mostly at the encouragement of others. 

god if Ordhan were still alive by the time the inquisition was remade, he would be on that in a heartbeat

I am downright flabberghasted at how identical his and Cassandra's alignments are and he would be making the exact same choices at this point, though with a lot less awesomeness (and from the place of a random knight rather than a Seeker commander)

Fels:  Your character has been granted 3 wishes, what would they wish for and why?

Fels would sit on these for literally months or years.  He’d want to wish something for peace or end of the conflict, but then hem and haw over the wording—what does “end of conflict” mean?  One side winning?  A stalemate?  What happens to the Chiss?  Would everyone truly be safe or would it be a quiet misery?  He’d try to keep one saved for an emergency, but being a medic and a soldier would be constantly guilty over not using it to turn the tide of a battle or to save a patient’s life.  It would be even harder not to use one each time Trisk is sent on a mission for the SIS.  In the end one would probably (after a ridiculous amount of reflection) go towards some sort of world peace wish and the other two would be stored up for his children’s safety (he needs one for each after all)

Skeli:  How does your character perceive themselves?  (Positive/neutral/negative)

An all-encompassing answer on this one is difficult because Skeli is a highly contrasting jumble of all of the above.  He’s very proud to be a Chiss but feels he’s a poor example of one; he’s proud of his mercenary skills but ashamed that’s where he ended up.  And then for other things, it’s shifted over time—he used to struggle a lot with his demisexuality, trying to blend in as much as possible and pretend away his true feelings, but as he got older worked through the sense of shame and is defiantly proud of the fact.

Ordhan:  What are their best and worst school subjects?

Totally not gonna list five of each I dont even know if i can think of that many at once so hmmm.  Best by far would be P.E.  After that, academic things really aren’t his strong suit, but he’d manage well enough in things like literature where he can just absorb and analyze—though he only would do well on works he gets really wrapped up in the story of, and maybe some poetry that gets to him.  Worst subjects would be everything else speech classes and anything that requires a lot of verbal communication.  Debate would probably be his biggest weakness, as not only is he really bad at talking, but is also impossibly stubborn and sees the world in black and white.  He’d just end up silently glaring at whoever was disagreeing with him.

Seo:  If he had one thing to say to his parents before they died, what would it be?

THIS QUESTION HURTS ME HOW DARE YOU

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the only thing stopping me was his age-old starry-eyed crush on PERSONIFICATIONS OF JUSTICE AND MORALITY AND REPUBLIC PRIDE but it was already so intertwined with delusional idolization and wishful thinking about what he wishes more people in the universe would be like than anything.  He'd think he's alloromantic either way but hey I used to think I was alloromantic because of my extreme affection for video game characters weirder things can happen but it's never been something he could actually imagine himself involved in, partly due to his self-loathing but also because there's this huge disconnect between "this is what I picture my ideal life to be" and who he is as a person

his friendships are extremely important to him (too important, to the point of being unmistakably unhealthy, but I kind of like that they can be both imperfect and important) and he's always had the option to take them in a romantic direction but has always shied away from the thought

there are just so many ways it would fit

the biggest hesitation I have now is the fact that I do like having an alloromantic character that is 100% satisfied with purely nonromantic relationships, that he wouldn't change the nature of those relationships for the world, and literally the happiest thing that happens to him is the fact that he gets to grow old with them

but at the same time that last part hits so much of a nerve with me (like the stuff this post talks about); he's physically disabled and struggles with mental illness (most of which stems directly from my own experiences), doesn't have kids or romantic partners, but still has people who care for him and look after his needs even when that can prove to be quite difficult 

like I already somehow ended up writing him as a personal aromantic wish fulfillment story without realizing it

I DONT KNOW

this face is illegal you’re under arrest

illegal?

as in broke law??