#I tend to sketch saul in my notebooks a lot

[asylumdream]

I also want to know about your OCs with or without ref pics 👀👀👀👀

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I have so many, I make tons so I have a lot of flexibility while roleplaying with friends, but the one's I'll talk about right now... How about my beloveds Arabella and Saul Ginko. Please be warned I have some pastel gore drawn here too.

Arabella Ginko's current image refs and art

her current design

Artistic dipection of how she felt when she was still back home

Her when she first cut her hair and her boyfriend called her a sheep

HER STORY

she is from a world where Dragons are the end all be all of Devine Magic. Her parents were incredibly powerful witches who wanted to exert their will over the world- play 'god'. so they made a Dragon syntheticaly. They tried to make it into a dragon of stars, but ended up failing and makeing the dragon of dying stars instead. they also born a child of their own flesh (who I'll get to later).

They raised the dragon with the name arabella and forced her to be in a perfect human form all the time, with no visual hint that she is a Dragon at all. (which isnt healthy for her at all) to demonstrat that they had sucesfully 'tamed' and 'civilised' a Dragon. they forced their son, Saul, to be at her beck and call.

Saul, on the night of his 18th birthday snuck into his parents giant magic library in which they had sealed a powerful and ancient demon of knowledge. Saul released the demon and vanished from the house, causing Ara to be put under fire for her brother escapeing. She was set out to find him and bring him back under their parents control. so she dose try for 3 long years and suceeds in finding Saul who had traveled between wolrds and eventually found a new family in one (more about his misadventures in a bit).

Ara brings back news to her parents of one of Sauls new family, an incredibly powerful mana being in the form of a yongue child. Her parents demand her kidnap the child and bring them to her parents. She complys but the child gose a haywire with magic against her parents and all she can do to not get killed in the crossfire is run away between worlds.

she ends up stumbling into the grounds of a place in the same world Saul ended up, though she doesn't know it, and is taken in by the apprentice of the owner of the grounds. He is a fire dragon (though in this world dragons are not devine) and a cleric. He helps her learn how to Actually Take Care Of Her Body instead of just supressing all her dragon features, which had badly stunted her growth (she's somewhat short as a human, and Very Tiny compared to other dragons of her kind, about as big as a 1 car garage and very gangly.) Her wings are permanently torn from misscare, but her scales shine now and she's gained more weight, especially muscle mass, now that she is haveing a proper dragon's diet (weight gain as a sign of recovery baby!!!).

The apprentice had a crush on her the moment he saw her, and as he helps her recover she falls for him too, but they both talk about it and agree that they dont want to make anything official until Ara gets more therapy and feels more sure of herself as her own person.

She is a short tempered and crass yongue lady, shes had to be a Perfect Little Girl all her life and is frankly sick of it. Shes very blunt and spares no feelings nor takes no quarter. That said... she dose genuinly care about those around her, and will just as quickly defend them from others as she will critic them. She specializes in soul magics and star magics.

Only Saul can call her Bella, everyone else must call her Ara or Arabella.

She was originally designed as a throwaway villian for saul in Picrew, but was deemed To Pretty and redeemed

(it seems the link to the original picrew has broken on me, but it was made by Jeliceous)

As for her brother saul...

Saul Ginko's image references

I draw him a bit less then ara unfortunately

HIS STORY

H was a yongue and recklace witch desprate to do something with his life outside of his resitrictive upbringing. His parents were terribly powerful witches and completely dominated their feilds, and expected him to do the same. As well as expect him to be the perfect compliment to his perfect sister. He was forced into his studies, never given time for friends or recreation and quickly was driven into depression due to never getting positive feedback (he was never enough, they always found flaws in his work. He was a child.) He mastered color changeing spells easiest, it was one of the few things his parents would slightly approve of while also allowing him to be himself. Purple hair and golden eyes gave him a mysterious air.

When he finally reached 18 he was given access to the family library in the mansion. That night at midnight he snuck in to the forbidden section, with summonings and cursed items, tombs of ancient evils and eldrtich horrors for the calling. He got the most powerful artifact he could, under the most protection, and tried to use it (either hed impress his parents or die trying. He didnt know which hed prefer)

An ancient spirit of academia was unleashed in a most quite way, simply comeing up in whisps of smoke from the intrecate magical circle. Theyd been trapped fairly recently by two great mages and locked in their library, not for what they did, but what they could do with their knowledge. As a great demon these sorts of things are to be expected, not so is veing summoned out of it by a child.

They were curious at being summoned by their flesh and blood, but a quick glance through his memories told them all they needed. So they easily slipped past the boys phsycic defenses and fused with his very soul. They took control of the body, and fled.

They let Saul have control of his body in the morning, him waking in the forest, and they slowly explain that they had left, and theyd make a deal with him. They would lend him all of their vast knowledge, as long as the boy traveled for 5 years before trying to ever see his parents. He had to agree.

So travel Saul did, useing the demon's knowledge to traverse through worlds, eventually stumbling upon the home of a human cursed with immortality. He became something of a ward to them, calling them his honorable teacher, and meeting many more people too. Of those people is a yongue mana being in the form of a child who he takes a mentorship role towards, thanks to his extensive knowledge about magics.

Arabella arrives to try and force him to return, but he refuses, he still needs to honor his deal witht he demon of knowledge, and in his travels he's begun to understand his parents were not Good People and he wants nothing more to do with them. Then the mana child is captured and flees back to safety.

After Saul remeets Arabella and they reconnect, they end up being close and build a healthy siblingship outside of the shadow of their parents. They end up haveing something of a good cop bad cop routine, since Ara is rather short tempered where as saul is very measured.

Hes a quite and contemplative yongue man at heart with an insatiable thirst for knowledge. How convinient then, that his brain is augmented with the demon thereof. He can theoretically use any possible spell or ability, but he most commonly uses item summon spells, teleportation spells, levitation spells, and simple comand spells (as needed by magical objects). Because of this in direct combat when hes on the front lines,he tends to teleport around and summon book cases to be his sheilds instead of sheild spells. He also casts attacks from his tomes in the heat of battle, instead of haveing them memorized enough to just use a magic circle or quickspell for them. When in the back lines he can charge up some pretty terrifying stuff, but in the heat of combat he loses his edge of his vast health of knowldge for things more habitual to him (like teleportation and item summons.)

His demon on its own is a curious, amoral, and bored creature. They arent driven by anything save for new knowledge and the preservation of such. Because of thia theyve become a bit of a collector or rare items (more often the not of the magicall verity) to presezerve them. They enjoy their knew host due to a shared goal of the preservation and share of knowledge

Sauls soft spoken and awkward care for the world has left a huge impression on the demon as well, and over time their minds have grown to rely on eachother (think of a parasytic speices evolving into a sembiotic one)

The reason saul can't use limitless ability is, though its the demons power, its got to be filtered through sauls mind. Saul is most used to quick casting teleport and item summon, so those spells are then most easy for him to use at instantly reaction time in combat. Another reason is sauls own magic stores. The demon is knowledge alone, no magic to back it up. They know how to stretch sauls pretty much avrage magic stores by useing cheeper low level spells in the most effective way (like if youre fighting a water enimy, you could you your most coastly fire spell… or your weakest lightning spell for the same amount of damage)

Though the demon could liquify the magic in their collection, they are terribly loath to and refuse to sacrifice that for anything.

Saul tends to refer to himself in pleurals 'We would recommend...' 'Our honorable teacher..' 'it would be better for us...' because of the demon of knowledge.

Saul and Ara both end up adopted by the immortal human Saul met and take their last name of Ginko (Ginko is their adopted last name)

Saul was also originally designed in a picrew, though it's one I can't find any more