#Have some OC backstory I guess

[demaparbat-hp]

“Zuko?” Ming searched for the Prince in his silence. He was staring intently out of the window, mouth blown wide open, eyes distant and awed and sincere. Oh. His whisper was a fragile, breathless thing.

“We're here.”

Ming’s doubts and concerns are hers alone, but that doesn't mean the rest of the Crew doesn't share them. This sudden mission, Zuko's change in attitude, his obsession with the Water Tribes...

Ming tries to discover the root of it all in For the Spirits Chapter VIII: Make You Stay, but will Zuko let her in?

[v1p0]

Ok FINE since everyone has been dropping their amazing irkensonas and cool ocs I'm gonna share mine as well, ehem...

BE AMAZED!!!

This is my sona, an irken without antennae, and this is her tragic backstory:

[trappedinafantasy37]

I guess I'll start my Daedra questions with one I've been curious since the beginning (since I think about this stuff way too much). What build was Daedra originally? Like class level division, notable feats or fun things you did/memorable moments that never made it into the story? Did it change for the story?

Also, which Tav voice? I have big feelings about all of them :3

Lots of good questions @alicelufenia! This will be a bit of a long one.

I'll do the easiest question first, Voice 4.

Before I get into it, since many people don't know what Daedra looks like, here's some Daedra spam:

Daedra's build

Her split was 5/3/4 Gloomstalker Ranger / Assassin Rogue / War Cleric of Lolth. I picked this build because Gortash describes Durge as an assassin so I wanted to go a full stealth build which is where the Gloomstalker Assassin came in. I also knew from the beginning that I was going to have her be a cleric of Lolth, but it was more for roleplay rather than any mechanic. I picked war domain because war actually is one of Lolth's domains (with the other one being Trickery. And we know from Shadowheart just how absolutely atrocious Trickery domain is). I started Daedra as a Ranger and then took the cleric dip at level 2. Afterwards, I focused getting ranger and rogue to their desired levels before finishing off with cleric in Act 3.

Like I said, I picked cleric more for the roleplay aspect rather than the mechanics. So, I did not anticipate how much synergy there would be with war domain. With War Domain you get a war priest charge in which you get an extra attack for the turn. So, you can start the game off being able to do two attacks. And then once you get 3 Ranger, you get Dread Ambusher which gives you an extra attack at the beginning of the turn. So for the very first turn, you can attack three times. Once you get to 5 ranger, you get the Extra Attack like with the other martial classes. So on the very first turn, you can attack four times.

Daedra also had all the brain worms (there actually are enough worms in the game in which you can max out two characters). For feats, she had Sharpshooter and Ability improvement for Dex (with Auntie Ethel's boon she has max Dex at 20).

Gear: Frayed Drow Hood, Deathstalker Mantle, Spidersilk Armor, Craterflesh Gloves (I forgot to give her in the story), Disintegrating Night Walkers

Jewelry: Amulet of Bhaal (gave to Minthara in the story), Shifting Corpus Ring (gave to Shadowheart in the story), Eversight Ring (gave to Minthara in the story)

Weapons: Justiciar's Scimitar, Knife of the Undermountain King (gave to Minthara in the story), and the Deadshot

Lemme tell ya, this build is nasty. It got to the point where it felt like Daedra was soloing the game. There were some times where Daedra would kill everyone in the first turn (so Minthara and Shadowheart never even got a hit off) and this was in Tactician! If Daedra didn't end the fight, then Shadowheart and Minthara would. The only time things were really tricky was during the major boss fights. But, even on the major bosses, if I had Daedra focus on the boss alone, she could get them very low on HP in the first turn. Daedra absolutely humiliated Orin.

Story Cuts

Now, onto the things that never made it into the story. First, Wyll and Karlach. Yes, I did initially have it so that Wyll and Karlach were in the story. But, I realized when I actually starting writing that Wyll and Karlach would not let the grove raid stand, so they died in the grove raid which was really hard for me to do. I also thought it was just beautifully tragic that Minthara was the one to kill Karlach in just the worst and most painful way possible.

Second change, I had initially planned a chapter were the elves met Ethel and Araj in Act 3. The reason why I wanted to do it was to kind of show how Daedra is starting to indulge on her urges as she would have chosen to kill Lora (the mom) completely on her own without discussing it with Shadowheart and Minthara. I also wanted to have Minthara interact with Araj as House Baenre was the one responsible for the destruction of House Oblodra and I wanted to have this interaction in which Araj would ask Minthara if she was here to finish the job her house didn't. But, when it came time to actually write the chapter, I really didn't want to do it, so I didn't.

Third change, I had two chapters planned in which the elves would destroy the Foundry and then go kill Gortash. Later that night, Daedra and Minthara would sneak back into Wyrm's Rock so Minthara can sit on a dead man's throne and then fuck Daedra on it. But when I was thinking about it, I couldn't find any logical reason to do so other than "just because". Minthara had made an alliance with Gortash and wanted to keep it until it proved inconvenient. But, it never proved inconvenient so there was no reason for Minthara to turn on Gortash and destroy the Foundry.

Fourth change was Mizora. I actually did have three chapters in which Mizora would just randomly show up just to be a pain in the ass. Because Mizora is a little upset that she lost her "favorite little pet" and she knows Minthara is the reason why. So, Mizora shows up and basically tells Minthara, "if I can't play with my pet anymore, I will play with yours" and Mizora just starts tormenting Daedra. There was a moment where Mizora stole Daedra's old bow and snapped it in half (which was the reason why Daedra bought the Dead Shot in Chapter 38), another moment where Mizora actually threw Daedra off the bridge between Wyrm's Rock and the Lower City, and another moment in which Mizora not only revealed the locations of the elves and broke their stealth in the fight with Dolor in Chapter 39 but she was also the one who snitched to the Fist Guards and prompted the chase. I cut Mizora from the story because I really could not find a reason as to why she would be there without Wyll other than "just because".

Another thing that didn't make it into the story was Withers! But, this was not actually intentional. I just forgot to write him in there and when I realized he was missing I didn't feel like going back and writing him. You see, I already knew from the get-go that Bhaal was gonna murk Daedra (that was a very hard in stone decision I made very early on as I was always going to have it so that Minthara killed Orin). So the question of resurrection became very tricky for me to answer, and I almost didn't resurrect Daedra. And then I remembered, Lolth is right there. The next tricky question was determining whether or not Lolth is actually willing to resurrect someone, at least with their soul intact and not as puppets. But, from the lore I've read, Lolth would resurrect a drow if she had really good reason to.

I also had a One Shot planned called "Dread Ambusher" that was meant to take place during the events of Chapter 38: Old Acquaintances. At the end of that chapter, Daedra sneaks back into the mansion in the middle of the night and Minthara questions if Daedra killed someone. "Dread Ambusher" was meant to go over those events. In this one shot, Daedra actually does sneak out of the mansion with the intent to kill someone and she runs into Orin. And the two of them hunt together, and they both enjoy their time together. Daedra even begins to feel somewhat of a sibling bond with Orin and how nice it is to have someone around that doesn't look down on her for her urges or treat her like a child. And Daedra ends up killing someone that Minthara told her not to (the victim was a patriar and someone who most certainly would be noticed if they went missing) and Orin almost convinces Daedra to kill children. But, Daedra reigns back some self control and spares the kids, but she injures herself as a means of control. This is why she is limping when she returns to the mansion and its because she has a massive stab wound in her leg. The reason this was cut was because I had ended up finishing the entire fic before I got around to writing the one shot. So, when the publications in AO3 caught up to Chapter 38, I had lost the steam to write this one shot and could not find the willpower to do so. But, I do want to be clear, just because I did not write it does not mean it doesn't happen. The events that I had planned for this one shot all actually do happen that night and are canon to the story.

There were also a few more one shots that I had wanted to do but also ran out of steam. There was gonna be a one shot that took place immediately after Chapter 44: Parting Wisdom in which Jaheira would get all the elves high, because they needed that good self medication to help them get through their damn problems and stop all this "woe is me" nonsense. I thought it would have been really funny to write Minthara completely zooted out of her mind. Another one shot meant to take place after Chapter 44 that I called the "One Eyed Paladin" in which Minthara is training and learning how to fight again now that she only has one eye and her depth perception was off. During the training, Minthara gets extremely frustrated with herself and starts beating herself up in which Daedra actually calms her down and helps her.

This post probably had more detail than you were probably expecting, but I did want to talk about all the things that I almost did, but didn't do. Really good questions! Keep 'em coming folks!

[pestercide]

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[7roaches]

assorted old and somewhat unfinished oc art (except the second one thats recent)

[memento-morri-writes]

It's been well over a week now (maybe two??) but I'm still plugging away (ever-so-slowly) at this vignette about Zara and Rook. Zara's POV is a lot of fun to write, now that I have a better sense of her character. Writing this has really solidified in my mind the kind of person she is and how she acted when she was Rook's captain and mentor. She's very calm and collected in comparison to Rook, even when under a lot of stress.

Anyways, have a little snippet that I'm proud of from today, featuring the origins of the coin trick!

Pacing back and forth across her cabin floor, she rolled the coin back and forth over her knuckles again and again. The motion was easy, almost mindless, more muscle memory than real intent. The coin trick had been her favorite way to soothe her nerves for years now. She’d picked it up out of idle curiosity after watching a street performer dining in a tavern in Bon Largo, who had chatted with her for over an hour as she fretted about something mundane, never once dropping the coin from their fingers. The same performer had later tried to steal her coin purse and ended up with nothing but a new scar for their trouble, but Zara had learned two important things from the encounter: Not to trust a warm smile and a pretty face, and that keeping her hands moving kept her mind from dwelling too much on worrisome things.

one-time tagging @space-writes because they commented on my tags about Rook learning the coin trick from Zara in one of my other snippets from this piece.

[thranduel]

"you drew stars around my scars."

[triple1st]

thinking about rassilon's (lack of) characterization in gallifrey time war

[eff-plays]

Wish people would stop tagging my BG3+shitpost things with Hira and Astarion as Durge x Astarion. Cuz no I did that myself. The parallels? I made them up in my head. Hira's bloodthirst and lowkey suicidal vibes? I did those all on my own. No canon or Bhaal needed. I'm just spicy like that with my own thoughts and headcanons.

[blujayonthewing]

save me bulletpoints,

[rivilu]

I have scientifically created the most mutually uncomfortable dynamic in my fucked up little lab that the world has ever seen. I'm being arrested for unsound character keeping practices

[lieutenantselnia]

I've been thinking about whether my way of naming my self-inserts might be a bit inconvenient ... to clear it up:

Selina with an i - My modern day s/i that I ship with Doofenshmirtz, she's probably the closest to my actual self, though I still take creative liberties in some aspects.

Selena with an e - My PotC s/i, I have two different AUs for her to ship her with both Barbossa and Davy Jones. She's a bit more like an oc, but I still also see her as a self-insert.

My original thought was to give them slightly different names, so I won't always have to mention about which universe I'm currently referring to. Since they're all based on the same "template" character though (which is just ... me I guess😂), I didn't want to give them entirely different names, plus while I didn't want to use my actual first name anymore, I still wanted a name that I can identify with. In my head it makes total sense, but I can see that this may also be a bit confusing😅

[grass-s0fa]

hey! this is chance & here’s week 2's prompt. when you write or create an oc, do you like to reference elements from your life? if yes, name a few. if no, why not?

I definitely do this!

One of the main examples is Lenora, whos a indirect self insert. Their music preferences, height, and personality for a the most part are based off of me irl. Also, many of my background ocs are based off of classmates or people I’ve met in public (examples: Lucian, Ruine, Xen, Maven)

[brokenhardies]

neverafter ocs reading list

The Story of the Three Bears - Southey

Goldilocks and the Three Bears - Steel

Bearskin - Grimm

The Raven - Grimm

The Story of King Frost - Lang

[shinmiyovvi]

That's Not My Neighbor Ocs Information

Delora Steding

Age: 27

Height: 5'8" (5'10" when wearing heels)

Occupation: Office clerk (formerly) Doorwoman

Information:

The current doorman of the apartment lost her job as an office clerk from a company she worked for that went bankrupt. A very cautious woman who will do everything to cover her identity outside due to the horrific death of her parents after a doppelganger of her aunt killed them while she was away. She would sometimes let the D.D.D. handle the caught doppelganger or she would take matters into her own hands and entrust the janitor Ruslan to do the cleaning for her. According to the accounts of the tenants, she can be seen holding a weapon (A crowbar, a sledgehammer, or a pistol) while exterminating a doppelganger.

LORE:

After Delora becomes a doorwoman of the building, she begins to become more curious about the D.D.D. as she slowly goes ahead to dig deep into the organization and the Trojan Horse Project that leads to the foundation of how doppelgangers exist.

Ruslan Gulliver

Age: 47

Height: 6'4"

Occupation: Doorman (formerly), Janitor

Information:

He mostly does the cleaning of the apartment building. Rus would atleast burn the doppelganger's body on the furnace after cleaning up the mess Delora made. He has a large scar on his torso after an encounter of a doppelganger that entered the building and would take a smoke on his cigarette during break time. He may look grumpy but Rus cares for the tenants of the building and will do his best to keep them safe and help the doorwoman when it comes to dealing with doppelgangers. When Delora couldn't kill the doppelganger on the run, he would deal with them by himself to give her some slack.

LORE:

Ruslan is a former doorman of the apartment during the late 1940s before becoming a janitor for a company, later coming back to the apartment as he wants Delora to find out the truth about the origins of the doppelgangers and the D.D.D. His wife was a member of the D.D.D. which piques his interest but his wife Aditha doesn't want to tell him about the experiment until he finds out that his wife died at the hands of a doppelganger who was imitating him. Due to the events, he wanted to bring justice to his late wife as he would do everything to reveal the hidden secrets the D.D.D. was hiding from the world.

Detective Lazaro Palmiotto

Age: 36

Height: 6'5"

Occupation: Detective

Room Floor: F04-2

Information:

A sleep-deprived detective who happens to be the one who investigated the murder of Delora's parents by a doppelganger years ago. He is the youngest of the Palmiotto family and the uncle of Ollie. His family took care of Ollie after a doppelganger killed his parents. He was concerned for his nephew's health and well-being and he knows how dangerous motorsports games are, especially how injury-prone the sport is. Despite all his efforts of not letting Ollie pursue that dream, Lazaro lets his nephew do the things he loves rather than make him regret his decision to follow what his family wants for him. He may look irritated and grumpy, but Lazaro is a calm, tired, and sleepy detective who needs some rest.

LORE:

During the early 1950s, he is one of the officers who investigated and interviewed Delora about the death of her parents at the hands of a doppel acting as her aunt. He met her again at the apartment building as Delora is the new doorman of the apartment where he and his nephew Ollie Palmiotto are residing. During the plot, Lazaro helps Delora find out the true intentions of the D.D.D. in which he is mindful of the consequences of intervening within the organization but he is willing to sacrifice himself to find out the truth as he slowly begins to form such feelings towards her.

Dr. Stanford Abelforth

Age: 45

Height: 6'0"

Occupation: Therapist and Physician

Room Floor: F04-4

Information:

A British therapist who happens to become Wilbert's personal therapist due to Delora paying him money despite trying to decline the offer of being a therapist to the office manager. Among the patients he have dealt with in his life, he finds Wilbert a bit stressful to be with. But with Delora forcing him to deal with him, he has no choice but to keep on consulting Wilbert even if he wants to give him a piece of advice about getting lobotomized.

LORE:

Stanford is a member of the D.D.D. and a colleague of Dr. W. Afton and Aditha Gulliver. He doesn't like how the D.D.D. lets the doppelgangers roam around the city for the sake of their experiments. He gives Delora some information about the D.D.D. and the secrets behind the organization as he continues to make sure he doesn't get caught.

Wilbert Colemann

Age: 31

Height: 6'1"

Occupation: Office manager

Room Floor: F04-1

Information:

A problematic British office manager who seeks affection after breaking up with his lover from getting caught cheating on him. He may look happy and sometimes a suave man who tends to be flirty with women, but he is rather a desperate man looking for affection and hates being taken for granted. Sadly, despite Wilbert bragging about not being scared of doppelgangers, he will turn into a coward upon seeing a glimpse of his doppelganger. According to Delora, she considers him a mentally unstable person and needs to be put on hold.

LORE:

Wilbert is a bit of a nuisance to Delora as she thinks he is just a distraction to her goal of revealing the true intentions of the D.D.D.. Despite being one of the tenants of the 4th Floor, he is very keen to overhear conversations about their plans to find out the truth about the said organization. Throughout the plot, he slowly gets lovestruck by a female D.D.D. agent he feels like she's the one for him (very delulu of him /j /pos).

Ollie Palmiotto

Age: 25

Height: 6'2½"

Occupation: Motorsport driver

Room Floor: F04-2

Information:

Ollie is an Italian-American driver from a motorsport game. He is the nephew of the Italian detective Lazaro Palmiotto. At a young age, he lost his parents to a doppelganger who was impersonating his father (Lazaro's older brother) Lazaro came to save him from the doppelganger in exchange for getting his right eye scratched. Ollie then moved out to live with his nonna and Lazaro as he was fascinated with learning cars and also interested in joining motorsports. He is rarely seen in the apartment building since he is joining the competition every year. He won at least 2 world championships in his career.

LORE:

Ollie is afraid of dealing with doppelgangers as he was traumatized by seeing his mother getting killed in front of him by a doppel that was impersonating his father who is also dead while going home from work before getting ambushed by the said doppel. Whenever there are no grand prix needed to compete, he stays at the apartment and keeps an eye on the apartment room in case he encounters a doppelganger of one of the tenants or his uncle who is dealing with investigating the D.D.D..

Noriku Hirawa

Age: 24

Height: 5'5" (5'7" when wearing heels)

Occupation: Receptionist

Room Floor: F04-3

Information:

A shy Japanese immigrant who works at a hotel as a receptionist. She is not fond of conversations with the other tenants in the apartment building but Noriku slowly begins to feel comfortable around them and gets a crush on Steven Rudboys. She gets scared easily when she sees a doppelganger of herself but she always feels safe when Delora and Ruslan are around to deal with them. She also happens to have a crush on Steven Rudboys, a pilot from F03-3.

LORE:

Being a bystander of the apartment, she doesn't dwell on knowing where are doppelgangers came from of what is the D.D.D. really is. But she is more of a damsel in distress in which she gets protected by Delora, Ruslan, Lazaro, or Steven from doppelgangers she encounters she feels like a burden to anyone around her for being useless even if they reassure her that she is no burden to them.

[foxcassius]

this would actually be such a dream job if i ever made it big from writing and it turns out i did like all my writing on the clock here. in an interview ten years from now and they ask how i found the time to write so i say lol i wrote on the clock and the library like sues me or smth