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color-spray · 5 years ago
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-bangs hands on table- minotaur revenant
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color-spray · 5 years ago
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gliss, my glacial golem from a dungeon world game i ended up not joining
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color-spray · 5 years ago
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hi, i exist, gonna post some old stuff i never got around to putting up here i think. some fun, mostly inaccurate face studies feat. dresk as a furry bastard
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color-spray · 6 years ago
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13 & 14 for Nimh
13. What gets them flustered
Not getting too saucy on main… side… whatever, Nimh’s pretty flustered by any overt flirting or open gestures of attraction. They’re a little on the private side when it comes to that kind of thing. Even just a good flirty smile and wink in the right situation can make them blush (and scowl).
14. Ingrained habits/forces of habit
I��ve mentioned their hair rituals a few times already, but am having a tough time thinking of other habits. Like, they HAVE them, but none are springing immediately to mind. I’ll have to come back to this.
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color-spray · 6 years ago
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3, 12, 22 for any character you want.
I’ll do my vesk ex-space pirate, Trizgrak.
3. Scars or painful spots
Trizgrak has plenty of old scars from her pirating days, the most significant being three deep grooves across her muzzle from a fight with a skittermander, and her missing arm from her final engagement with her one-time captain before she was ‘exiled’.
12. Grudges and vendettas
Imaginably, Trizgrak holds a pretty big grudge against her old captain for taking her arm and for taking her away from her home as a ship-slave, as well as a grudge against her good-for-nothing parents for selling her into slavery in the first place.
22. People who’ve influenced them greatly
Her life was immensely changed by @ostrichmonkey‘s human operative, Hijack, who she met when his ship was raided by her old crew and he was taken as a slave. Through their unlikely friendship, Triz was forced to reevaluate her life and finally take it into her own hands, even if it cost her arm and most of her sense of purpose. Stupid softskin.
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color-spray · 6 years ago
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17, 28, 36 for nimh/dresk
I just realized I have these to answer! Sooo...
17. Scars
Already answered for Nimh. Since then, they now also have a thin vertical burn scar up the length of their abdomen from a radiant sun blade that just avoided slicing them open.
Dresk’s only notable scar is a large, jagged one across his abdomen, from a time he was gutted with a weird glass sword by a Black Sun agent. He does kinda hope he gets a cool lip or eyebrow scar one day. Nothing too bad, though, don’t wanna damage the money maker. :P
28. Home
Nimh’s home is a continent far to the north of their game’s main setting, covered in ice-capped mountains, river valleys, massive pine forests, snow plains and the like. It is the ancestral home of all giant-kin and all the animals are pretty much megafauna, making it a real tough place to survive if you’re not one of them.
Dresk’s home is a tiny, grungy city-moon called New Caldena. It fucking sucks and he hates it there. Seriously, don’t go.
36. Sacrifice
Nimh has a bit of a self-sacrificial complex due to a tragic mistake they made in the past that cost them the life of their closest friend. They now have a dangerous tendency to throw themself on the sword for other people they care for. Recently, they very nearly gave up their life to throw the rest of the party free of a crumbling bridge that was sinking into a pool of lava. They only survived thanks to suddenly learning the misty step spell and just managing to teleport to safety before their support pillar fell. (I know that’s not how it really works, but I like to play up the “spontaneous” nature of sorcerer spells in roleplay.)
Dresk often thinks of himself as selfish and aloof, but in reality he’d probably give just about anything up for his crew. He sacrifices a lot of his own mental well-being to try and keep the rest of them happy, even hiding important information that he thinks will hurt them and suffering over it in silence. While it’s all well-intentioned, he’s really just scared that they’ll stop looking up to him or leave him if he doesn’t seem to keep everything under control, even when it’s far beyond his means to do so.
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color-spray · 6 years ago
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More aesthetics, this time for the party of the Couriers campaign, run by @thesnarkknight!
@aquaticnaho @dagothorsim @necromatador
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color-spray · 6 years ago
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Some spell aesthetics for Nimh, inspired by this.
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color-spray · 6 years ago
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Someone's gotta patronize him, gremlin he is! Still love this so much, your art is always such a gift~
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color-spray · 6 years ago
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Nimh Secrets!
39. Secret
Since the last few questions were a bit heavy, how’s this: Nimh’s a sucker for cute baby animals. Shove one at ‘em without them being ready for it and you might just get a squeak out of the big tough gruff. :P
(Also, drunk Nimh cries about puppies.)
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color-spray · 6 years ago
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11, 17, 42: Nimh
11. Best Friend
Years ago, Nimh was very close to another goliath from their clan: a young soft-spoken boy named Lamak, who was training to become a Raven shaman. They became quite good friends, but Nimh was something of a bad influence on him, often getting him both into and out of trouble throughout their reckless, rebellious youth.
17. Scars
While their ability to harden their skin does prevent a lot of the worst, Nimh has a pretty constant flux of various scars marking their skin from all the blows they take. Some of them magic healing is able to fade over time, but the more severe ones tend to stick. Their most prominent scars right now are six star-shaped blasts they suffered from taking a magic missile full on to the chest, which marked the first time they ever dropped in the game. They also recently got some pretty rough puncture wounds from being crushed in a crustacean-like hydra’s massive spiny claw, but those’ll probably heal up better than the many broken ribs...
42. Loss
In the spirit of not spoiling the story to my fellow PCs, I won’t elaborate much, but tying in to the first question, “something” happened a number of years before the campaign’s start that... painfully separated Nimh and Lamak. They don’t speak of it anymore, but it definitely still haunts them and drives their overprotective instincts towards anyone else they start to bond with.
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color-spray · 6 years ago
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11, 28?
11. Best Friend - Cornflower
Cornflower’s best friend is her adoptive brother, @necromatador’s big beautiful gatorfolk son, Beau! The two of them are an inseparable pair of lovable lizards, and Corn would do anything to protect him and keep him happy and well-fed. Most of her ventures out of the swamp are to find new exotic ingredients to improve her cooking, of which he’s the chief taste tester and the inspiration for her boldest creations.
28. Home - Tansy
Tansy’s home isn’t a place, but a huge gnomish steam-caravan, crewed by her very large extended family and headed by her gruff uncle, Gillian. The caravan loops around the continent, peddling high-quality handcrafted wares and offering the best repair services coin can buy, for anything from delicate jewelry to complicated machinery. Tansy never quite fit in, however, wanting to pursue her magic rather than hone a craft, and left for adventure as soon as she came of age. Even so, she does still miss the comfort and company of her family.
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color-spray · 6 years ago
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6, 8, 19 for characters of your choice?
6. Laughter - Nimh
Nimh has a big loud laugh when they really let loose, but it usually comes in the form of small chuckles and quiet snort-laughing. Also, they’d never admit it, but slapstick humor is really funny to them, especially when it stems from their goofy party members’ shenanigans.
8. Dreams - Dresk
Dresk suffers from some pretty bad chronic nightmares/night terrors that manifest when he’s stressed. (Which is to say, a lot of the time in his campaign right now.) He tends to sleep in short bursts to try and combat them, and thus rarely gets into a deep enough sleep to actually dream.
19. Summer - Hymn
Summer is Hymn’s least favorite season; it’s too hot, too bright, and there’s far too much expectation of a person to be out and about and enjoying that kind of awful weather. He cherishes the days when summer storms roll in to remind the sun of her place, which is out of his eyes, thank you very much.
(Probably doesn’t complain as much when certain handsome men around whatever town he’s frequenting come in from a hard day of working under the sun, though. :y)
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color-spray · 6 years ago
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To tide me through class today until I can properly write stuff, send me some of these too!
HEADCANON PROMPT MEME: Send in a character and a number from this list and I will write a headcanon based on the word
Love
Hate
Hopes
Fears
Crying
Laughter
Travel
Dreams
Music
Art
Best Friend
Worst Enemy
Hair
Eyes
Hands
Smile
Scars
Winter
Summer
Spring
Autumn
Family
Romance
Orientation
Religion
Beauty
Sleep
Home
Bedroom
Sex
Death
Birth
Safe
Affection
Guilt
Sacrifice
Vengeance
Sympathy
Secret
Scent
Memory
Loss
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color-spray · 6 years ago
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Baby Nimh! An extremely curious and pinchable little chub bean. Featuring their wolf pelt mantle in its original form: comfy baby bed.
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color-spray · 6 years ago
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Nimh’s campaign has been pretty dramatic recently. Poor thing needs a long, long nap.
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color-spray · 6 years ago
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Commission for http://color-spray.tumblr.com/
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