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Last session Frankie discovered that his ex-wife Jolene, through the power of an incredibly potent wish spell, had him placed in an already on going time loop to "give her as many chances as she needed to win him back". Not only that, but that he forgets every time the loop resets (twelve times already). Resonably enraged, he responded by doing whatever he could to piss her off the most. And aboard a ship with about 600 crew members, there's a lot he can do.

Casdia, goddess of chaos and pirates, whom the wish spell bound to carry out, occasionally stops by Jolene's to give her news on the happenings.

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Frankie Houston I love you so much >:]

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Yes absolutely. I think all pixies bite people. Here's two pixies of mine, Punch and Teeth, who definitely bite people.

do u think Tinkerbell ever just fuckin bit people? she's tiny, angry, and easily mistaken for an insect, surely she gave into that tempation

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Been playing some Dragon Age games and figuring out character creation

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Behold my old man D&D character Frankie Houston. He's a 440 year old divorced fire genasi and the Cheif of Engineering aboard a freighter sized pirate ship in the Aether Sea.

Buckle up folks, it gets long

Frankie was born in slums of the City of Brass on the Elemental Plane of Fire to an efreeti by the name of Deserai. His father, a dwarf by some name his mother couldn't care to remember, was not present nor ever would be.

Deserai made the decision to keep Frankie, resulting in conflicts with work. She managed to scrape by for most of Frankie's childhood, but retired as soon as he was able to work himself. He worked a variety of odd jobs, whatever he could physically manage as he wasn't built to survive the fiery plane due to his partially mortal heritage. His mother did her best to keep him alive, and he eventually gained a hearty resistance to the harsh conditions of the plane. He aged slowly compared to that of his dwarven lineage, but seemingly similarly enough.

From the ages of 80 to 230, Frankie worked. His mother never found it necessary for him to attend any formal education, especially since it would cut into his hours at the various jobs he worked. But eventually he convinced her to let him go to school. He learned fast considering his late start, and made good use of the resources now available to him. For a few decades he returned to full time working to afford furthering his education and supporting his mother.

Through school and continued higher education, he found his passion for arcane engineering and managed to get a long term scholarship to a prestigious university on the Prime Material plane. His mother was proud enough to not fight him on leaving, and he left as soon as he could with promises to visit.

Frankie studied at the Velichaishi University for 50 years, learning everything he possibly could pertaining to his major and future career. During these decades, he participated in several internships and gained a great deal of recommendations.

It was in his last year of school that he met Jolene Highwhirl, a djinn from a wealthy family from the plane of air who was in her last year of school as well for accounting.

Despite their differences and the animosity between their cultures, they hit it off and started dating. Frankie's mother wasn't thrilled at first, not wanting him to end up like she did when it came to relationships, but she was happy he was experiencing life. The relationship was casual as far as Frankie knew, and neither ever tried to make it more.

Jolene however was receiving a great deal of pressure from her parents to get married. She was the eldest of three sisters, and her parents complained that her two younger sisters were already married with kids in their teens while she was turning into a spinster. Nothing she could say to them would get them to leave her alone. She began telling her parents she was dating a well-to-do individual by the name of Francis. She talked up Frankie past exaggeration and into bold faced lies. Instead of them leaving her alone, this only changed to them pestering her to get married, saying it made the family look bad that she hadn't settled down yet.

Jolene eventually brought her woes to Frankie with the suggestion that they get married just for the hell of it. She explained that not only would get her parents off of her back, but they'd have a house in the Plane of Air right off the bat once they graduated. Frankie was hesitant. They'd only dated for about a year and he wasn't sure it was the best idea. He liked their relationship as it was and didn't want to rush into a big decision. Jolene assured him that they would be getting married as friends and if they wanted, they could always get divorced. Not to mention that they'd both have a great deal of job opportunities in her plane. Eventually Frankie gave in, trusting Jolene to follow through if they decided to go separate ways.

The wedding happened quickly, Jolene's parents insisting they plan and pay for all of it. It was bigger and fancier than Frankie was comfortable with, but didn't want to complain when he didn't have to pay for anything out of pocket and give a bad impression to Jolene's family. Unfortunately he never stood the chance of giving them a good one. Once her family met the real Frankie, not the Francis their daughter had been building up, Jolene's lies began to unravel and they were not happy. They were against their daughter being married to someone so far beneath them in class and argued constantly with her after the wedding. Her sisters protested as well, though more privately, complaining that there was no way she could take him to any of the family gatherings or country clubs. Jolene ignored them all, knowing them well and long enough that their words had little to no sway on her.

Frankie did not have the luxury of ignoring Jolene's family. Any time he was around them they went out of their way to make him feel unwelcomed. After several years of trying, he eventually gave up and stopped attending her family gatherings. He put his efforts into his work, always able to find good work. The more he worked, the more he came to realize just how much he genuinely loved it. He started putting in extra hours and taking personal projects home, much to the annoyance of Jolene. She would constantly be asking Frankie to spend more time with her, to get out of the garage and come to bed early or to go out.

As the years passed, Frankie began to realize that he didn't love Jolene the way she wanted him to and that he in fact loved his work much more. Once he came to this conclusion, he sat down with Jolene and explained his feelings. He told her it wasn't fair for him to stay married to her when she could find someone else who could love her the way she needed, that her family was making him miserable and he couldn't take it any longer. He asked for a divorce.

Jolene would not have it, having fallen in love with him- though she hadn't felt the need to confess her feelings. Despite having told Frankie divorce would be easy, she did everything she could to prevent it. She demanded they go to couples therapy, which Frankie shut down. She refused to sign any documents and the divorce was taken to court. Jolene dragged it out as long as she could, trying to wear Frankie down into giving up. After over a year of bitterness and seeing how exhausted and miserable the whole ordeal was making Frankie, she herself finally gave in. In a last bitter and petty act, she wished him an extra pair of arms, saying "maybe with two sets of hands, you'll finally be able to make time for someone else".

Frankie adapted quickly to the extra pair of arms, finding new and efficient ways to utilize them at work. He quickly found another job on a ship on the Starlit Sea plane and took it. Anything to get far away from Jolene.

He worked on the SQ Derian for three years as the chief engineer, developing only a few vague friendships as he was still emotionally recovering. He seemed happy only in the engine room, but tried to make an effort every once in a while to socialize with the crew.

One day he woke up and went about work as usual. A good four hours into his shift he realized he was no longer on the SQ Derian. Nothing about the engine or engine room was familiar despite feeling familiar. Confused and enraged, he confronted the captain who redirected him to he benefactor of the massive ship he found himself on only to be informed that he'd already been working there for over a month, had a signed employee contract and brought on as chief engineer, was being paid three times as much as his last job, and that they were a pirate ship. Having no memory of the last month or how he got there he decided that he must've had a good enough reason. He decided that he shouldn't think too much about it lest he drive himself crazy, though mainly because he fell head over heels for the engine and power system.

However, there was this device they had on board called a computer that he had allotted time to use. The maddening thing about it wasn't that he learned about emails and dating sites, but that Jolene had been emailing him for the past month. More so that he had been emailing her back. Reading through the past emails, he saw that they hadn't talked about anything other than their work days and free time. It bothered him, but he wasn't sure what else to do. He eventually convinced her to set his mother up with whatever she needed to email and call him.

That was all two years ago. During that time he decided to catch up on all the dating he never got around to, dating anyone his age on board or at the various ports.

Timeline

Birth to 80- raised and taken care of by mother in the City of Brass on the Elemental Plane of Fire

80 to 230- working

230 to 270- school

270 to 320- working

320 to 350- school

350 to 400- attending university at Velichaishi University on the Prime Material Plane

400 to 435- married and working on the Elemental Plane of Air

435 to 438- divorced and working in the Aether Sea on SQ Derian

438 to 440- working in the Aether Sea on the pirate ship

You made it this far!! Have a fun, slutty picture of Frankie

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Enjoy a speedpaint while I get my characters and affairs in order

This spear/harpoon belongs to one of my characters, my beloved old man Frankie Houston.

I do plan on eventually posting here more often, I've got a lot of characters and finally the space to post all their lore! With the burning of tiktok soon at hand and the ai on insta, this will probably be where I post the most. That is not a garentee. But it is a potential. Who knows what the future will bring!

Get ready to enjoy me info dumping about every single one of my beloved OC's and D&D characters, suckers! Some of them take an adverage of 10 to 15 minutes to verbally explain so work on those reading attention spans. Scandals, messy divorces, rage filled siblings attempting to commit fratricide, stolen bones, and more!