#summer lightwalker

As I said earlier, I’m trying to write and STRUGGLING for ideas, so I thought I’d list out a couple OCs and then you guys can prompt me if the urge strikes! Anything from a single word to song lyrics to a trope or something - I can’t promise how close I’ll stick to it or that it’ll get written tonight, but I’ll appreciate every single one!

Behold, the characters from whom you can choose (yes they are all from World of Warcraft, don’t at me)(I’m sorry there’s so many but I figured I should be thorough):

@i-like-to-listen​ prompted:

I WANT SAD SUMMER AND BRAT SUMMER TO MEET

Well, here you are, you bastard.  It’s kind of weirdly structured, but that’s what came out and you can deal with that.

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They feel like it should be like looking in a mirror, but it's not.

It's like looking into something cracked and distorted, stained with age and returning a reflection that bears no resemblance to the original. Gold eyes meet a single gold eye and an eyepatch that doesn't cover the scars that creep out around the edges. The eyepatch is mostly obscured by dark reddish-gold hair, just past chin-length, uneven and loose and let to act as a curtain, contrasted sharply to the long sun-bleached golden-red braid on the other side of the reflection. The single eye holds shadows and age that her reflection lacks, for all the world-weariness the reflection shows. They are the same age and they are separated by a chasm of experience.

There are two! They started out the same but branched off at one pivotal point and SO MUCH HAS CHANGED SINCE THEN, so you’ll have to specify. ;) Or someone will. SAD SUMMER OR BRAT SUMMER? (neither one are what they’re described as, really, it’s just a silly shorthand)

11. Within their group, where do they fall during emergencies? The leader, the support, the cause of the emergency, etc.?

So, Summer doesn’t so much have a “group”.  She grew up in a really shitty situation and then ran off to make friends with wolves, so really the main person she spent time with was her brother, and then he died (he got brought back thanks Lich King, but it’s still A Thing), so there’s a lot of shit she’s still working through.  Which means she doesn’t really work with people very often.

That said, usually she’s pretty good at being *directed* in an emergency, but not particularly confident taking charge.

12. Do they have someone they trust during their own time of need, or do they prefer to handle it alone?

She often handles it alone, either from necessity (not having anyone) or because she doesn’t feel like her issues are worth bothering her brother with.

But when she *does* go to people, she goes to Winter (her brother, yes they’re seasonal themed, it’s this whole thing, they have cousins from two different families named Autumn and Spring).  Even with him being different than he was before he died, he’s still her brother and he still gives a shit, and he’s pretty much the only person she trusts 100%.

16. Do they have any regrets in their life?

Oh boy howdy.  She does, though they’re not really things she could’ve changed or foreseen.  The biggest she’s got right *now*, probably, is the death of her oldest companion, a wolf named Faolan.  He died protecting her when she got attacked by Alliance mercs when she was travelling with him (old and slow) through an area that was supposed to be safe, and he saved her life, but she lost him, an eye, and an arm that day.  It was this whole thing, and she regrets not being able to save him even though she almost died and had no reason to think it wouldn’t be safe.

Kirsi

1. Does your character have siblings or family members in their age group? Which one are they closest with? 

Kirsi’s youngest brother was about 8 years older than her, but she had a smattering of cousins who were closer in age both above and below?  She was never particularly close to any of her cousins - loved them, hung out with them, played with them, but she was probably closer to her brother and his girlfriend (later his wife) than she was to any of them.

Her sister-in-law had no sisters, only brothers, so she loved having a little sister to dote on even if Kirsi wasn’t particularly “girly”, and her brother had been especially fond of her since she was born.  He’d been the youngest of the family of 4 siblings at the time (and had been expected to be the last), and Kirsi was so small and helpless and LOUD and he just immediately declared her his favorite - partly because his other sister was being mean to him that week, but it actually stuck.

She misses them desperately.

17. Already answered

22. What does your character like in other people?

She tends to like what she respects.  She respects determination and conviction, she respects kindness and a respect for your ancestors and family (unless they don’t deserve it obviously).  She is also strangely fond of this one girl who has a thing for TREES, which just baffles her, but whatever Neela, you do you.

27. How does your character normally deal with confrontation?

Violently.

Summer

2. What is/was your character’s relationship with their mother like?

Summer doesn’t actually know who her mother is, aside from “a human who your father should never have stooped to having relations with, let alone spawning you.”  When she was little, she liked to imagine she’d been stolen away from her mother, who was just as noble as her father, just a human, and that one day her mother would find her and take her home to raise her like she’d always wanted.

She found out when she was about 15 that her mother - whether noble or not - had been paid 2,000GP to never mention her and forget anything ever happened.  She stopped dreaming about loving parents after that.

11. In what situation was your character the most afraid they’ve ever been?

While she will never ever ever tell him this, the few hours after she thought Winter had died.  They had gotten separated by undead at night in the woods and circumstances were such that both believed the other to be dead, and neither of them handled it well.  Winter killed a bunch of undead and then lived in a cave for a few years, the smelly man.  Summer on the other hand spent a couple of days huddled up a tree, terrified and heartbroken and keenly aware that (as far as she knew) she had gotten the only person who ever loved her killed.

The prospect of facing the world without at least knowing he was out there, without anyone at all giving a rat’s ass about her, was the worst day of her life.

After that she pulled herself together, found the nearest town, and got some mercenary work, swearing to never give a fuck about anyone but herself if she wasn’t getting paid, ever again.

19. What is your character’s biggest relationship flaw? Has this flaw destroyed relationships for them before?

She is extremely selfish and extremely slow to trust and extremely quick to piss people off.  I wouldn’t say it’s ever destroyed a relationship before, but it’s definitely prevented her from ever developing them.

24. How quick is your character to trust someone else?

She isn’t.  She’s never really come to actually trust anyone (Winter excluded, as usual) except Evaia, and 99% of the reason she even started to trust Evaia was because Winter did, and because Evaia had helped Winter when she couldn’t.

She is a selfish, suspicious little bat and I love her.

Percy

4. Has your character ever witnessed something that fundamentally changed them? If so, does anyone else know?

......Is it a cop out to say that while she definitely liked and was attracted to her girlfriend Kithri before this happened, the time they used wildshape and held actions and shit to take down an orc leader with a one-touch exploding spell scroll in 12 seconds starting from 60ft away changed her life in that it was the moment she really realized “oh shit.... I’m UNEQUIVOCALLY IN LOVE with Kithri.”

And then she got stabbed a little and she ripped the guy’s throat out with her teeth.

I’m pretty sure Kithri is not 100% aware of how hot her girlfriend found that. Though she definitely knows she found it at least a bit hot.

...They had lots of sex.

15. Is your character preoccupied with money or material possession? Why or why not?

Nah.  She grew up in the woods with basically nothing, as long as she’s got something to eat and a place to sleep and preferably (but not necessarily) clothes to cover her ass, she’s good.  She’s kinda crunchy.

33. In the face of criticism, is your character defensive, self-deprecating, or willing to improve?

I’d say it depends on who’s doing the criticising, and what’s being criticised.  If her form is being critiqued or something, or she’s hurt someone and they’re telling her how, she is absolutely willing to improve.  Otherwise she’s most likely to say something like “Honestly I don’t really care what you think? Sooooooo bye?”

44. How easy or difficult is it for your character to say “I love you?” Can they say it without meaning it?

It’s very easy for her to say - she’s an emotionally open, extremely affectionate person.  That said, she doesn’t think anyone should say they love someone if they don’t.  That’s just MEAN.

Calliope

4. Has your character ever witnessed something that fundamentally changed them? If so, does anyone else know?

It’s less “witnessing” and more “experiencing”, but her parents kidnapped her from where her older sister had been keeping her safe, to use her as a vessel for the lich their cult worships or w/e, and while her friends did their best to save her, it... actually worked.

They booted the lich out a few days later, thankfully, but it was... kind of a crystallizing event when it came to her parents.  She’d always known, even before she was willing to admit it, that her parents didn’t love her and were bad people.  But the cruelty and callousness that they showed burned away any remaining scraps of love and desire for their love that she felt.  It made her want to learn how to defend herself, instead of just being useless and defenseless in her archives, and it reinforced that her friends (and her girlfriend) and sister loved her and had enough love to make up for anything at all her parents could’ve given her.

Pretty much everyone she knows knows about what happened, it was kind of a high-alert emergency on the moon.  Most people don’t know why it was SO high-alert that the shy archivist was kidnapped, though, because most of them don’t know that the Director is her sister.

12.  In what situation was your character the most calm they’ve ever been?

So, Calliope was unconscious for a while after getting rescued, and then slept in the infirmary A LOT for a few days after.  One night, though, at probably about 2 in the morning, she woke up from a bit of a bad dream, and Virx (her girlfriend) was asleep curled up on top of the covers next to her, and her feet were being pinned by Virx’s wolf Thistle and Calliope’s smoke dog Baron Magnus, and there were flowers and little presents and cards on every flat surface, and her sister Alex was asleep in a chair next to her bed with a book on her chest and her glasses crooked on her nose and a Light spell starting to flicker out.

Kirsi

5. On an average day, what can be found in your character’s pockets?

Pocket knife, whittling knife (she has multiple knives for different purposes), a few coppers, a little good luck charm from Neela, a small bone of some sort from Vola that is, in theory, ALSO a good luck charm.  Probably it was left over from Vola’s lunch one day, but that doesn’t invalidate the luck.

17. What was your character’s favorite toy as a child?

Honestly, while Kirsi had toys, she was never much of a toy player.  She preferred climbing and playing make believe or tag or something with other kids, or peppering her father with questions while her mom was out on the fishing boats.

But if she had to pick, it would probably be the slightly crudely made stuffed seal doll her father made while her mother was pregnant with her.  She misses it.

20. In what ways does your character compare themselves to others? Do they do this for the sake of self-validation, or self-criticism?

“They’re faster than me, I won’t be able to protect people.  They’re stronger than me, I won’t be able to protect people.  I have to be the best, otherwise people I care about will get hurt.”

26. How does your character behave around children?

Awkwardly.  Not only do they remind her of the life she lost, but she doesn’t really know how to deal with them when they don’t have the shared culture she grew up with.  These kids just act DIFFERENT, she doesn’t know how to connect with them, they don’t know any of the same stories or have any of the same folk heroes.  So mostly she avoids them.

Summer

5. On an average day, what can be found in your character’s pockets?

Some money, a pocket knife, some small knick knack Evaia stole the last town over that Summer is hiding so Winter doesn’t know Evaia was stealing shit, and a handkerchief that probably DESPERATELY needs washed.

10. Does your character feel more comfortable with more clothing, or with less clothing?

Honestly, she’s got very little in the way of shame, so it’s entirely based on climate.  She will always bundle up to hell and back in snow and cold, she hates the cold, how does anyone LIVE like this?? but in warmth and humidity she’s happy cutting down to just the most basic (cropped) undershirt under her leather armor which mostly covers her shoulder, chest, and arm, since she’s an archer.

16. Which does your character idealize most: happiness or success?

Really, neither.  Her idea of “success” is “have some money, have Winter (and Evaia), don’t let anyone tell you what to do”, but she also doesn’t really expect to be happy?  She’s a mess.