eolande

[eolande]

give your characters exes.

give them a variety of exes. give them relationships that shaped who they are but did not last. give them people they tried very hard to love but it didn't work out. give them situationships that taught them things. give them something deep that was real but could not endure. things that hurt. things that ended amicably. people with whom hot passion cooled to warm affection and became undying friendship.

no more first and only. give me the context of what made them know the next or one after was final and right.

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day 1 of having an oc: i think shes gonna be an elf!

day 600: ive been pondering the elfs miscarriage

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guess you CAN always count on me to make my ocs related to canon characters.... 😔💔 ephemera is lusat's daughter.... berial is dane's adopted son.... danya and venatora are children of fortissax and lansseax.... tenanye is married to julien for a while and ashera is their child.... niko is menella's cousin.... navaya is inez's daughter.... maahes kind of counts since he's Rothias 2. yuette is ludwig's sister.... LOOOOOL. sorry i just like Connecting and playing touys

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sorry I have terrible oc brain again but since minthe is my canon arisen who goes thru the story as we see it...

ashera would be like 4 when julien is also in gransys... but I think neither he or anye knew she was pregnant again when she fled and minthe probably wouldn't mention it... (her and julien have met although minthe was a teenager when he last saw her) in my World an extra part of his motivation to come to gransys is that he tracked Anye there and is looking for answers...

I'm thinking now that she just quietly killed the kids and then left so julien doesn't Know if she did it but is highly suspect ... part of him wants answers so there's probably a confrontation between him and minthe but sadly he will find that anye disappeared off the shore of cassardis one day never to return 💔

I think him not finding out about ashera then, but later in her life when she's found herself a bit more is more compelling to me than whatever would happen if he found out who she was when she was 4 or 5... she'd probably end up going back to voldoa with him but I want her to grow up in cassardis... but I think them meeting when she's an adult Would be compelling in a "wow I was in this country and village when you were 4 and things could've been so different had I known..."

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going over note lore documents and SEMANTIC ERROR: julien is probably not like. Nobility nobility. but at least rich... idk if they'd actually have "servants" per say but hired help nonetheless. I guess I just figured he probably had close ties with whoever rules Voldoa since Mercedes is the king of hearthstone's daughter... but he does make no mention of it and he may just be prestigious or even manipulated his way into being the one sent to gransys to enact his Plots And Schemes

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realizing tenanye killed her first two children not out of scorn due to a betrayal or something else like interpersonal drama... but just out of suffering crazy levels of postpartum depression and such... i think it's a lot more compelling and tragic if her and julien Were happy (on some level even if only shallowly) and that it was just some very tragic negligence of her mental state and the difficulties of having so many children and living in a whole other country as an adult after having already left her hometown as a child... just not the best lead up and she's not the most well adjusted girl... on top of never having a mother figure of her own to guide her or be there for her and make it easier... obviously she'd have servants to help as she'd be married to nobility BUT still she has to carry and push those babies out. I think it makes her a bit more human and sympathetic... it feels like the final puzzle piece bc I never knew Why she would do it... I just knew I wanted it to happen for Plot

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THEY'RE ALL SO PRETTY I MISS THIS GAME... the top of this outfit is so cute on tenanye... too bad i do not like the skirt... i feel like i did an okayish job making ashera look like both anye and julien...

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sorry I can't stop posting today but I was thinking about ephemera again and i just think it was sooooo cool of me... to take an unbelievably random NPC with no dialogue and say ok he had a daughter that he used for weird magic experiments and now she's part glintstone/silver tear.

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i also decided Tenanye's parents are named Eglė (mother) and Žilvinas (father) after the myth of egle the serpent queen... the names seem to fit their vibes anyway and i like tying in the historical nods... plus she's vaguely supposed to be kind of eastern european/baltic so it also works for that 📝

[eolande]

when you and your man have both previously "made" and fallen in love with pseudo representations of your mothers / your Idea of a mother (in the form of pawns). normal daimon and tenanye bonding moments

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also just realized cameo would probably look really good in rellana's armor and that'd also fit with her having carian vibes/working under ranni. so when i wake up from my nap I need to go play dress-up with her again

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also a cool thing about leda and the needle knights is. clearly they were NOT CHARMED before leda went on a murder spree 😭💔 bc miquella was like OOPS and charmed her after to pacify her. so my point is there was a whole devoted troop of knights loyal to miquella WITHOUT BEING CHARMED INTO IT!!!

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just had a genius idea for an elden ring oc who's an ex-needle knight who either left before leda killed the rest or managed to escape. and then wears a helmet to conceal her identity when she runs back into leda and they can have toxic yuri about it. the idea that this oc maybe left before leda killed the rest and thus was the one who triggered her paranoia and Belief that leda is the only trustworthy needle knight... MY VISION!!! but also her being a revenge-minded escapee... I CAN'T CHOOSE!!! looking into swan inspired names to play off leda's name...

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i think vyke will be venatoria's father bc it'll give me an excuse to explore that side of frenzy too... as in staunch opposition and trauma at the hands of it. all my other ocs either have nothing to do with it ever or are cheren who Will become the lord of frenzied flame. vena does have a whole separate arc with siding with maliketh/gurranq that doesn't have much to do with her past, aside from sticking close to some aspects of farum azula/dragon culture... so there Is a thruline. but i also just really want to do some kind of oc x canon thing with maliketh. sorry for party rocking

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need to practice so i can draw my vision for lansseax in like a florissax style. but in my vision she'd wear white with gold motifs and have long hair and kind of be golden order vicar amelia esque. but still with a beautiful skeksi-like dragon face ⬇️ something like a mix of these bc i love the shape of the ancient dragon's faces that kind of get lost with florissax's more beak-like snout

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if I were to make an oc that was another child of the golden lineage. her name would be. Godiva. after all... who else is in the walking mausoleums... might as well make ocs... plus it hits that historical reference thing