#our characters

Me with my girlfriend Quartz >333

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In one town Vanestra stopped by on her way to a ruin, she aided a handful of adventurers in stopping a bandit raid. After a post-battle celebration, the impromptu team would decide to travel together, aiding each other on their own personal journeys. Eventually the party would formally register with the adventurer's guild as Wild Dragon Ventures, and become embroiled in a mysterious quest involving lost histories and a powerful crime syndicate.

Vanestra investigating an inscription in an abandoned ruin. Art by @hazurasinner

During the party's foray into an ancient jungle filled with prehistoric creatures, the party came across a strange, glistening object in the middle of a large sinkhole. It appeared to be many different magical crystals fused into a single chunk. Vanestra's curiosity got the better of her, and she reached out to touch it. Energy coursed thru her arm as she experienced a vision of the area's past before being yanked back to the present. All seemed fine, but even days later, her arm was still experiencing a tense soreness that refused to go away, and became accompanied by a fever.

One night, while resting at an inn (or at least attempting to), her symptoms reached a breaking point. When her concerned party members came to check on her, they found that rough crystals, similar to those on her shoulder, had torn their way thru the skin on her arm. After quite a hectic evening of worry, confusion, and being taken care of, Vanestra was seen by a physician. It was determined that due to her elemental heritage, her body was similar to that of a living geode: rough, stony skin on the outside, with a lining of crystals underneath and a hollow center. The energy that shot thru her arm had exponentially sped up the growth of the crystals within her arm until they had no room left inside, and thus had only one direction in which to grow: out. Over the course of the next few days, Vanestra's arm would become solid (yet still flexible) crystal, thankfully stopping at her shoulder.

Vanestra's fever reaches a boiling point. Art by @lukasbestgirl

Vanestra and the rest of the party would continue their adventures, facing foes connected to both the crime syndicate and their own backstories, and gaining new abilities and equipment along the way. The game we play her in is still ongoing!

Vanestra's updated character sheet, featuring her crystal arm, as well as an altered wardrobe and her newest weapon (courtesy of the party's tinkerer). Art by @oxygenisachoice

And that concludes the first OC Wednesday! We hope you enjoyed! (Don't expect future ones to be /quite/ this long tho lol)

@acewithapaintbrush and me are Friends in every Universe 🥰🥰 merry Christmas my dear!

Yeeeessss these're good ones, thanks for asking!! These are all Nuri and Deyan talking about characters from our main human plot (which is in name limbo right now but I think we're changing the name back to Snapshots so let's call it that) and AU versions thereof~

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2. Do you have a personal favourite among your OCs?

Is "all of them" an option??

In all seriousness, tho: Nuri can never settle on a permanant favorite, so the answer changes from year to year. But Mo (more specifically, her Dragon Age AU) has been a very strong contender for the past few years.

Deyan's favorite for the better part of the last decade has been a 3 way tie between Zee, Kye, and Brae!

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6. Two OCs of yours that look alike despite not being related?

We don't have any super close lookalikes. Heck, a lot of the folks who ARE related don't even look similar, because there's a lot of adoption going on in this plot. but Sebastián and the Obsidian System look vaguely similar despite having never even MET.

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16. Which one of your OCs would be the best at biology (school subject)?

Sebastián! He's a pharmacist! And also just generally a huge nerd.

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24. If you could meet one OC of yours, who would it be and why?

Nuri would like to meet uhhhhhh... all of them?? But maybe Mario, because fae wants to understand him better. He's our very oldest OC and we adore him so much, but he's sometimes hard to write without ending up with some sort of like... [parody of a dudebro] situation.

Deyan wants to meet Kye because he desperately wants to be ocean buddies with her and also bond over Interfaith Family Things!

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31. Pick one OC of yours and explain what their tumblr blog would be like (what they reblog, layout, anything really)

We have to pick only ONE?? Okay leeet's go with Brae, because they are Very Online. And... also we've been playing as an AU version of them in BG3, so they're on our brain.

Brae's Tumbr layout would be exceedingly green. Probably something designed to make text-heavy posts easy to see, with a very thorough intro post and tagging system. Their icon would be of their fursona playing the lute (drawn by Lirpa or Mario), and their header would probably be a photo of some very old sheet music or something.

Their orignal posts would mostly be lengthy infodumps about (mostly Celtic) music history, anecdotes about their roleplaying misadventures, and occasional photos of their ren fair outfits. And their reblogs would be a hodge podge of:

Other people's music history infodumps

Other history, music, and linguistics posts (serious or funny, often very text-heavy)

Posts about endangered cultures, religions, and languages

Posts about Celtic reconstructionist paganism

Photos of historical instruments, clothes, and art

Other people's roleplaying anecdotes

Their friends' art (especially of their roleplaying characters)

The occasional fic or fanart from fandoms they're tangentially in (mostly fantasy RPGs or D&D podcasts), tho they're not super active in any given fandom

The occasional green or nerdy aesthetic post

The occasional green magpie

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38. Which one of your OCs would be the best dancer?

Aqui! She's not a professional dancer or anything, but she does have a considerable amount of formal training. Modern dance is her favorite!

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