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Liliana wearing the tortured mind mage costume from some party store in ravnica

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EVERYONE HAS TO PUT IN TO GET NOTIFIED WHEN THESE ARE BACK IN STOCK BECAUSE I NEED THESE IN MY LIFE

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Other foundations spoiler note I'm so glad my daughter made it in, she's so overpowered and I love her. This art of her looks incredible too!

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Imagining Ajani putting a single massive paw on Elspeth's head and saying in the most serious voice "Boop."

POV: You are Ajani :3

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Final one unless i get more last minute trick or treats! below cut backstory! May want to read NORA's before this one as they are closely tied.

Velocity, aka Venus Bolaños, is a clone. when the original Nora died, before putting her mind in a robot, he tried to create a clone of Nora and grow her to the age the original Nora was via Tachyon manipulation. This didn't implant her with Nora's personality however, merely some memories as if she was watching a movie. what it did give her was speed, from the ability to manipulate tachyons inside her body. she ran, and left to try and experience the life she'd seen but wasn't allowed to have herself.

To clean up after his mess, Chuck sent NORA after her to kill her as her first mission. She almost succeeded, beating her nearly to death. However Velocity convinced NORA to look up the death toll were there no heroes in the world, and she decided to save Velocity instead and rebel against Chuck. NORA helped her recover and spoke with her, and the two came to agree to live in different cities to keep resources tracking them down split up. they visit each other for holidays, and due to their civilian identities looking identically like the living Nora, they pretend to be twins.

Trick or Treat!

Go go step on the gas and run! Take this fast one to get to all your nightly events in time

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Alright trying this one more time, backstory below cut. If you've seen any gabrielle posts before this has some Edits because the game is having a Soft Reset so it will be a bit different

TWs for child abuse, nonconsensual unnecessary surgery, body horror, and cannibalism

Gabrielle is the fourth of a system of 7 (the other 6 are Alyssa, Jazmine, Red Bess, Banshee, Eliana, and Angelica), and the half doppelganger child of Viktra Mordenheim (the dark lord of Lamordia, basically imagine if Geralf Cecani was an abusive lesbian mom) and Elise Von Brandthofen (a talented graverobber and in our campaign a doppelganger). Viktra several times over their childhood abused them and vivisected and put them back together while awake in a demented attempt to teach them anatomy and try to make them be like her. elise fell into a coma, and when she did viktra got worse, adding neglect to the pile as she worked ceaselessly to make an artificial heart that could fix her. when it finally worked, angry villagers who had had loved ones dug up hy Viktra as test subjects came to burn down her castle and destroyed her notes just as elise awakened. the tragedy and terror caused viktra, gabrielle, and elise to be transported to Lamordia with viktra becoming the dark realm's dark lord, and elise seemingly disappearing. viktra seemed determined that if she could recreate the unbreakable heart, elise would return to her after seeing such a sign of devotion.

Gabrielle being their daughter, viktra realized she made the perfect test subject as she was elise's closest genetic relative. one of her experiments in this fashion killed gabrielle and transformed their soul into a banshee, unwillingly filled with a rage and hunger towards any living thing she saw, then left to deal with the emotions of being forced to eat a person after they had died. elise at this point found her, and due to her now frankensteinian Half Life did not trigger gabrielle's undead state allowing her to give some semblance of comfort to her. after years of dealing with this state, a Vistani woman named Eliana, the chosen one of Ezra (god of the mists) heard of her and came to try and soothe her. she succeeded for a year, using magic to keep her from harming her. eventually, while elise was absent, villagers decided the banshee must have grown weak, and sent people to kill her, leading to Eliana losing control and banshee killing everyone present and entirely devouring eliana. devouring a god's chosen infused her soul with enough divine energy to resurrect her.

leading her to discover to her horror her body wasn't in one piece. viktra had torn it apart and infused it in seven different people; all previous victims of gabrielle as a banshee. she tore herself out of their bodies and reassembled herself, and was stuck living with viktra for a bit. she discovered the seven people referred to themselves as the virtues, and bonded with one of them; a drow named Kindness. despite all their issues the others also saw gabrielle as a sibling due to them all having a shared "mother" in viktra. she and kindness escaped and joined a vistani theater troupe to have safety, with gabrielle writing scripts and helping perform in exchange for a safe place to live.

when they next returned to lamordia, viktra was angry, and sent an army of zombies to kill gabrielle's troupe, aside from Kindness and one member, who she kidnapped. she gave gabrielle an ultimatum: help her fetch a few resources or have her closest family killed.

seeing her in a plight where she would be easier for her to persuade, ezra made a different offer to gabrielle: become the messiah they murdered and take on her role of spreading the word and miracles of ezra, and she would give them the power to save her family from viktra

that took SO long to type out.

trick or treat!

A special treat! Have a Miracle for halloween! Just be careful what you wish for....

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The Will of Duskmourn

Happy Halloween everyone!

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Trick or Treat!

Go go step on the gas and run! Take this fast one to get to all your nightly events in time

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Here's the inbox trick or treating tradition this year: Send me trick or treat and I'll send a magic card I've made this year

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Access's Lore below the cut

The woman known as Althea Felicia Fore, AKA Access, is the only character i have ever made where *i* am the one who hates her most. Althea was born to well off Silicon Valley parents in the same universe as NORA a natural metahuman; she has the inherent ability to perfectly read, write, and speak anything abstractly defined as a "language". After a life of privilege and seeing the world suffer, she decided it was up to her to fix things, using her gift to become an incredible Hacktivist. However, her perception of what is a problem is distorted by being Terminally Online and being a classical weeaboo and proud fujoshi. hearing about NORA from sources online, she became obsessed. with NORA's processing power, she could take over the world, and make everything perfect by micromanaging everything in existence under her direct control. Surely if she could just convince NORA that a few people dying is a small sacrifice to a better world, she would let Althea take over her brain and use her as the ultimate weapon to make everything Perfect and form her own utopia. For her part, NORA disagrees, but it's not like she can arrest Althea as every time she tries to fight her, Althea hacks her body to stop working, forcing her to reluctantly accept her presence and try not to Set Her Off and make her realize NORA will never agree with her.

For an out of character note in this backstory (call it my Reading Comprehension note), the problem with Althea is not that she is Cringe, or that she's a hacktivist. that's fine. what makes her a villain is her want to leap into solving every problem without consulting anyone actually affected by those problems due to her privileged upbringing, and without consideration of the consequences of her actions on a large scale. her problem is not a want to enact change, it is that she always assumes that no matter what her way is the right way and everyone else must be wrong.

Trick or treat 🎃!

Have Althea! Please.... don't make me keep her....

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Here's Pearl's backstory. For TOTALLY no reason at all I'd recommend reading Vila's backstory first earlier

TW: Gaslighting, memory manipulation

Wicked Pearl, the Heartstealer, is a sea hag- and proud of it. Daughter of Dashilla, the most feared Sea Hag in all the waters of Exandria. After her mother killed some noblewoman named Vila who was offered to her as a sacrifice, some gnome came in all in a huff and sliced out Pearl's vocal chords before Dashilla scared her off. Not wanting that to stand unavenged, Dashilla sent Pearl on a mission; track down this woman, disguise as her so called beloved Vila, and murder her wearing the face of her lover as a cruel joke. In her efforts to track this woman down, Pearl joined the crew of the Ocean Master as their Bo'Sun, traveling with them and taking time whenever they made port to search that city. After a harsh storm, Pearl hit her head on the deck of the ship, slammed into it by a wave. After this she started getting.... Feelings. Positive, good, joyful feelings. and the sudden urge to start Smithing. As a hag she immediately assumed something was horribly wrong, and started panicking and asking the crew for help figuring out what was wrong with her emotions. Many tried but none could quell her rush of happiness and love and sadness. Eventually, a visiting hag shocked her. the hag tasted her blood and told her she wasn't a hag at all. She was a hexblood, a human cursed by a hag. She immediately asked the ship's wizard to identify her and verify this, to discover not only was it true, but far, far worse. her memory is entirely fake. everything she thinks is true is a lie. She didn't help Kill vila; she IS vila, transformed as a sick joke by dashilla to make vila kill her lover. she still can't remember much, she herself hasn't pieced together that she is vila yet or that it wasn't her lover who cut out her throat but dashilla. as of right now she's searching for a way to recover her memory. to find out what's real. or a way to purge it entirely and live forever in the comfort of her fake life as a hag.

Trick or Treat!

Have a sea witch! Mind the curse!!

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I'm gonna dk Gabrielle's later because I just typed out SO much at work and tumblr ate it and Caity Angy

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Backstory below cut!

A# (A Sharp, like the music note) Staccato Silverwind is the child of another character of mine (Viv Silverwind), the ghost possessing her body (Sigrid), the fragment of a deity in her body lending Viv power (Ishtar), and an Unseelie Archfey of Music (The Conductor). Do was raised mostly by rei fey mom, with Viv and the others paying visits. This is also why do has four arms; one for each mom. Fey genetics are funny and reality is what i want it to be. During one of these visits, one of A#'s Fey siblings convinced rei to stick rei hand in the mouth of Viv's steed, a Kelpie, while he held it open. This ended poorly and A# lost rei lower left arm to it. Keeping a positive attitude and not wanting anyone do cared about to be unhappy, do acts like it's fine and ignores any negative talk about this. In another project with another sibling, A# was rendered able to hear the Background Music of reality; AKA do is SLIGHTLY fourth wall aware, but only for music. After all of this, The Conductor tasked A# with traveling to Exandria and fetching several relics for The Conductor. this is roughly all that is relevant to know backstory wise.

trick or treat!

A musical card is my gift for thee, do name is A#, may rei influence make your holiday carefree!

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Another backstory beneath the cut

TW: Terminal Illness, Parental Neglect

Note: While most of my characters here are from fantasy settings, NORA is from an original Superhero setting

Nora (note: not NORA yet) was born the child of a West Point frat bro, Chuck Braun, and a woman he met on his spring break in Mexico. He promptly abandoned her and left both of them behind to start a successful political career in the Presidential Cabinet. Nora's mother in the meantime, discovered she had leukemia, and had nobody else to take care of the young Nora. so she blackmailed Chuck into officially adopting Nora with knowledge of unsavory activities he had taken in college that could ruin his political career in order to ensure she had a home when she passed. She grew up in relative luxury but with chuck absent from her life, missing every major event. She got fed up with this and decided to make a scene at his workplace, sneaking in past security. Unfortunately for her, what Chuck was working on was testing a new weapon, a drone made to kill superheroes for being threats. Due to her not being thought of to be exempted from the drone's targets, it shot her and killed her. Chuck immediately felt buyer's remorse for never having appreciated his daughter, and in a move most people would rationally call "weird" decided the best solution was to take the drone and every government resource he could muster and Astro Boy her, copying her memories as best he could from her corpse with alien technology and implanting them inside the drone that killed her, altering it to resemble her, and giving it a "camouflage mode" for "covert ops" as an excuse to the government to make it look like her. Keeping all this secret however, he had to program in a lie in her blueprints claiming she was not sentient and was just a generative algorithim, making the robot NORA (Neural Operating Rational Algorithim) believe she doesn't *have* emotions. After sending her to kill another hero (more on her possibly later if someone else trick or treats and gets her), she rebelled against her programming to murder heroes and decided to focus on her secondary program objective: preserve the maximum number of sentient lives. she hides out from the government in a city in Maine (Silver City) and has currently been taken in by a mechanic that found her robot form who is trying to get her to realize she does indeed have feelings and should stop seeing herself as just a tool, and start appreciating herself as a person.

Trick or treat!

Oh whatever is this for the Penny icon but a robot girl. just don't let the government know you have her.

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Once more, the story under cut!

Lizzie Jude is an ordinary woman who continually defies reality's attempts to make her extraordinary. Her parents were murdered as a child, and she was taken in by a human librarian, and sought to study to become one herself. She started growing scales in adolescence, but due to lack of contact with other elves (by her own choice, no fault of her father) she assumed this was just a Weird Elf Thing and promptly ignored it. A bully threw her in a river in an attempt to ruin her books, and the princess of the city she lived in dived in to help her recover them, and promptly fell in love. Despite marrying a noblewoman, she stayed humble and kept her job as a librarian, trying for the most part to stay out of politics. Eventually, she was assigned to take a tour to another nation to exchange information with them. On her way back, she died in a cave collapse. A life form she had discovered on her way back, a strange parasitic algae, offered the dying Lizzie the opportunity to let it use her body to deliver the news to her wife so she wouldn't be left wondering. She agreed and it took up residence in her, puppeting her body and fusing with her brain. Now, she's honestly not sure if she even *is* the original lizzie still, or if being algae inhabiting her brain has just given her all of the original's memories, swamp thing style. But she does know two things: she loves her wife and she wants to be a good mother and librarian!

Trick or treat

You get a perfectly ordinary elf woman! Don't look any closer at the typeline or her mouth.

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Backstory for her under the cut!

Vila Uludan is a noble daughter of a Marquis of the Exandrian city of Port Domali, known far and wide for beauty. She has rejected every suitor who approached her however, (save one Gnomish Smith who won her favor and taught her to smith) until her father set her for a political arranged marriage with another noble. She ran away on a ship to meet the smith and marry her to escape the marriage, however her ship ran afoul of the Diver's Grave and the hag Dashilla, with her being tossed overboard as an offering in exchange for the lives of the rest of the crew. What has happened to her since? Who knows, though you the reader may see it shortly in another of these posts...

Trick or treat!

Here you are! Have a noblewoman!