#My OC Altia

[heretic-altias]

I need to start actually posting my own swap gifts in a timely manner. So!

This is what I created for @starrysnowdrop in the latest FFXIV Swap! It's a desktop pet of her OC Hali, written in python using gifs for animated sprites. A note if you decide to look at it, Windows Defender tends to dislike exes from python. The source code is on that github though, so you're welcome to confirm for yourself that the code is safe bc I promise you it is.

Here's an early clip I took of it breaking containment and getting onto my second monitor bc it was funny:

(She now stays on the one screen in the final build lol)

[alexissara]

My Favorite NPCs

We're at it again talking about my OCs. We've talked about Current OCs and my favorite OCs who never really got to see play so today we're talking NPCS. I GM a lot, more than I play. So of course, over that time I've made some characters whom I just love so much and have become some of my favorite OCs despite them never really being PCs or only being PCs very briefly. Honorable Mention to Jillian Owlnight whom I have already wrote about when I wrote about The Iconic Matriarch from TSL.

Grifta Scamsly

System: Anyone I can fit them in

[ https://picrew.me/ja/image_maker/296093 ]

Grifta Scamsly first appeared as a one off joke NPC who was intended to divert the players in my Fellowship campaign just a little. However, Griffta Scasmsly, They/Them, as in THEY got THEM deals but seriously please use the right pronouns was a big hit with the players. Since they were well liked I had them show up in little bit roles again and fleshed out a backstory from jokes I told during appearances that actually lead to them being a big part near the end of the campaign establishing firmly The Scamaly and their backstory of being part of a group of Orphans who were abused by the adults running the orphanage and managed to take over the joint and get all of them out of their lives by conning everyone they could in an elaborate scream proudly taking on the Scamsly name they formed for themselves.

Griftta would appear in multiple worlds since then with the consistent beats, They/them, is from a found family of orphans and actually a very helpful friend who just also happens to be a con artist. They even went on to inspire me to make the playbook for Thirsty Sword Lesbians The Swindler which also started as a joke that I could make the Griffta playbook since they didn't fit any of the playbooks perfectly.

Celeste

System: Fellowship

[ https://picrew.me/ja/image_maker/332600 ]

In the same campaign that Griffta appeared we had our Overlord Celeste. A chaotic being who altered areas to make them strange, fun and weird wishing to alter the whole world to her amusement altering reality wherever she went. In truth the woman was possessed by an evil force who simply wished to ruin the world and had attempted to burn the world before and was sealed away in a Crystal the girl found. She was a weirdo who just had her crush and best friend in a very uptight community of light mages. She wanted to make the world break through all the norms and everything for her beloved taking it too far.

She was really fun to play because she had a very fun voice to do and a very strange manner of thinking and doing things while being rooted in one of the PCs in a positive way and in a negative way with the other two. Celeste was a house of mysteries for the players to crack and a force of chaos that was hard to get pinned down. Then getting to play a touch of her without the force inside of her at the very end was very rewarding and her being united with her mutual crush and them getting together was just very sweet. It was overall really great to have this very recurring villain that the game itself put under protection and the effects of could be felt every single step of their adventure.

Altia

System: Thirsty Sword Lesbians and King Is Dead

[ https://picrew.me/ja/image_maker/227881 ]

Altia was "Her Holiness" the voice of the goddess of The Pure Light was another villain that was just an utter blast to chew up as a GM. She is really special becuase she was really fun on multiple layers. There was her while she was possessed by the Pure Light both as mostly herself but swayef and more of a direct take over. Then there was her post being free of The Holy Lady fully herself but trying to make up for past wrong doing. Then her more exploring herself phase but equally fun was showing the counter balance to her. Altia always posed herself as a reformer, progressive, to The genocidal churches left and improving monster relationships. Since her personality was mostly involved in most choices she really had made some strong reforms and having The Holy Lady move to her more conservative counter part and war errupting right away and policies shifitng to further fash then the existing bad fash was fun and only had the impact because Altia set up varying degrees of awful for us.

It was fun to have this religious and political agent, the ways she changed the world when she was evil and the ways she wanted to actually change the world, the ways she was twisted and the ways she resisted. Altia was just a really fun character and as a shared NPC in a CO-GM campaign she was really fun to build on with others and go through varying twists I'd never have made myself but loved.

Queen Azure

System: Masks: A New Generation

Art by Littleinksheep

Another Villain and this time one that didn't get to see too much spotlight but even found herself in lore in a future campaign so one I have a ton of fondness for. This NPC was a little bit different in that it was an NPC I designed from a PC perspective with the Masks Playbook, The Innocent. The playbook has you make a future version of yourself that is a big time baddy or otherwise messed up and have that be the main focus of conflict for you.

Azure was the princess of a Fire Emblem land on Earth that was taken from earth and into a space collector of abnormally magical and powerful places to "protect the universe". When this tech was being used to move it Azure was hit between a pivotal moment in time and space duplicating herself one being shot through time far into the future 1418 years into the future and the other, Queen Azure remaining in her place in time but in a new universe captured by the man.

Her farther killed before her and her people and culture being wiped out while she was captured by him to remain part of his "preservation of history" lead to her getting angrier and more aggressive, she had fought in a war before always with the power of friendship and with hope to reach every opponent, now she wanted death for her enemy no path to redemption or understanding. Azure managed to lead other captured cultures that hadn't resisted and therefore still had numbers left to rise up against the man who captured them and kill him and sized his operation. With his tech she took her old castle and turned into into an intergalactic spaceship and reality traveling ship. Azure then went to start conquering worlds with the intention of using her domain over them to protect them from a force as powerful as that man and threats that might grow to his level gathering the strongest warriors to work under her directly.

Over time Azure also learned the dark secrets of her own culture and embraced all sides of her abilities to become more powerful in order to protect the multiverse. After so many years she finally found her home reality and home world returning to find her first and truest love was still alive and had become a vampire in her absence but rejected the path she had taken and fought back against her. I GMed the first encounter session as a set up for my character coming into the campaign as I switched characters and I was in tears as she fought her beloved and they reached that moment of impasse where she realized the only thing left from what she knew, the woman she loved most, all of that were no longer compatible with her but refusing to let go of her role as the protector of The Multiverse and Queen of The Arondite Kingdoms.

I can't help myself but ramble about her as you just saw, I got so much more to say but she is such a tragic villain who isn't like mind controlled or corrupted just brought to a radical position by radical trauma but genuinely doing her best and what she thinks is the kindest option. She worked really well as a natives foil to Princess Azure and this looming threat of the kind of person she could become, she would become if she saw what she saw. Azure doesn't deny that if she suffered the same trauma she would have been different, she knows they are the same exact person she is simply a younger version of her but she wants to remind her of why she fought, why what they fought for matters but she also had to come to terms with the reality her life was fucked up too and that part of what was going on with Azure started well before "that man".

Mona

System: "Masks: A New Generation"

[ https://picrew.me/ja/image_maker/86774 ]

Mona was from my very first dedicated TTRPG campaign that actually had consistent games. There was a session I made specifically to present a bunch of hot NPCs to the players and attempt to get them to hook up with someone. Our Alien Stoner Pizza Delivery girl fell head over heels for one of the most silly of my silly sexy characters Mona. She has a magic staff that can do anything but it's totally random and triggers off her saying magic. One day Mona found it on the ground, she brought it to The Lost And Found and they ended up returning it to her when no one claimed it. Since then she has used it and her super power to jump really high [above average] to work as a part time gig hero on apps.

This bisexual dork fell head over heels for the cute alien girl being mutually considered fuck ups but both seeing only the amazing things about one another. Over time they stood up for each other and fought for each other and time and time again despite how wild, scary or out of this world things got Mona was there to provide magic.

I had a really funny little voice I did for her and to this day randomly I'll just say "Magic!" in her voice and get a giggle out of my fiancé or my girlfriends who were in the campaign.

Sapphire Riches

System: Masks: A New Generation/Thirsty Sword Lesbians

[ https://meiker.io/play/11994/online.html ]

Sapphire Riches actually started out as PC in a Thirsty Sword Lesbians One Shot I did on stream. I started a Masks Campaign shortly after that stream and in the first session of the shared GM campaign I ran I decided to put Sapphire in as a bit NPC still in her rich bitch era with none of the introspection I gave her for the TSL game. She was a rich girl super hero using tech she mostly just bought along with maybe a few of her own mods added in and part of a corporations super hero department. She ended up with a romance with one of the PCs and she did in fact manage to fix her, mostly, kinda, she improved a lot.

I really enjoy playing a terrible rich girl but typically those characters can not be fun to have around long term but here everyone knew where I was taking her so it was even more fun to be able to lean into it and show that development. She remained a fairly minor character even after the time skip where we switched to Thirsty Sword Lesbians. Sapphire is just one of those really fun characters to have show up and be a little cute or sassy or out of touch and remained a high light any time I brought her in. Most recently I used her in a private RP as a main character but leaning more into the toxic elements for spice and that was a really fun take too.

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[griffinsandpeacocks]

The Prince and His Wolf

Phoenix was not one to typically resort to violence. The key word being typically. There was a short list of things that could spark the urge in him though. One being someone hurting his lover, his Prince, Ben Florian. He saw Arie tighten his hold on Ben’s wrist saw the wince and slight flinch from his boyfriend and he saw red. Ben saw his eyes go wide and fill with rage and he held up a hand to him to try and calm him only for Arie to grab his chin to force him to look at him and then suddenly Phoenix was there a fist connecting with Arie’s face as a stream of angry ancient greek is leaving him and Ben is grateful the punch freed him as Arie went to the floor and side away from him. Phoenix moves placing himself between Ben and Arie and he is seething.

“You ever touch Ben like that again and next time it’ll be Shaderoot that connects with your face. Scratch that I see you touch ANYONE like that here and I will gut you!” Phoenix is shouting many students have turned to look and see what’s going on as now it’s more than just loud gibberish to them it’s a language they know, and a voice few people had heard at the current volume. Ben moves and wraps his arms around Phoenix who relaxes but he keeps his eyes trained on Arie glaring daggers at him.

“You still hit like a girl.” Arie says flatly and Ben sees Phoenix’s eyes flash before suddenly he is clutching at air and a large sandy pale wolf with cherry petal pink highlights stands over Arie snarling and Ben acts quick scruffing him and pulling him back though he struggles as Phoenix struggles snarling as he tries to lung back at Arie. 

“Phoenix you can’t rip him to pieces just becuase he was rough with me!” Ben says forcing his voice to be as sure and commanding as he can. Phoenix stops struggling and bares his fangs at Arie and growls a low threatening sound his ears are flattened to his skull and his tail is almost like a board it’s not up nor down, he shows what Ben recognizes as what a beta status wolf would display. 

“Congrats Prince Ben, it seems you have a large attack dog.” Arie sneers at Phoenix who lets out a vicious sound like a snarl and bark and the demi god flinched away standing quickly and backing away even as Ben pet’s Phoenix stroking along his spine and watching the fur spring right back up.

“I have a protective boyfriend. Who really seems to hate you. I’ll let the mess up pass this once. Phoenix won’t be stopped the next time though. I can’t always be around to stop him and I doubt anyone else capable of doing so would bother if you’re the one he bites. Never touch me again, don’t talk to me, leave me and for that matter, Phoenix, alone. Is that understood?” Ben asks calmer outwardly but panicked that his father will do something once he catches wind. Arie glares down at Phoenix and holds up his hands.

“As you wish... Your highness.” Arie says and it’s hissed like a curse as he turns and storms off a quickly forming bruise is blooming on his cheek and Phoenix wishes he’d not just bared his fangs when he’d been inches from the bastard’s throat. He keeps growling a wild fierce anger burns in his chest but once the demigod has long gone and his scent is fading slowly the fur that’s raised over his back and haunches lowers though his growling doesn’t abate he paces in front of Ben head lowered. He can’t look at anyone he just wants to run through the woods until the anger stops burning his chest like a blazing inferno. 

“Phoenix.” It’s the King someone had fetched him. Phoenix froze mid step and stops growling. He sits at Ben’s side and looks at the King as he takes back his human appearance and keeps his eyes down.

“Dad, I-” “Don’t start Ben. I heard he only lashed out to protect you. I’m not here to punish him. Only remind him he should meter his responses. I heard you punched a demi-god. Not that you’d taken on a wolf form to scare them and everyone else that saw it.” Adam says and Phoenix sighs and looks up at the King he is angry still can feel it can tell Adam sees it by the mild surprise on his face. After all Phoenix had never felt this angry since he’d lived in Auradon.

“If I’m to be honest, your majesty, I only shifted form when he had the gall to sass me when I told him to mind his manners. I didn’t want to scare anyone else just remind...” Phoenix clears his throat to stop himself from swearing “Him I can in fact hurt him. That and he should mind not to hurt those weaker than him.” He explains feeling twitchy and he wants to go into the forest. It’s wild there there’s small rabbits he can chase down or maybe even a deer. He needed to do something with this burning rage. Arie dared lay hands on Ben and all he wants to do is rip the demi-god into pieces to scatter to the winds. 

“Ben?” Adam asks and Ben smiles to cover up everything that had gone wrong. 

“I misread a situation and he made an advance and when I back peddled he grabbed me and Phoenix intervened. He was just protecting me.” He says and Adam looks closely at Ben wondering if he doesn’t have the full picture he looks at Phoenix and then at Lumiere who had fetched him when he had heard Phoenix raise his voice initially. He had heard a death threat and gone for Hades but found Adam first. 

“Mon Roi, I think it best to leave them be. It looks like Phoenix was just acting in the best interest of Ben.” Lumiere says and Adam sighs looking back to Ben who smiles wider looking hopeful and Adam caves he growls and Phoenix bares his teeth a bit in a wince as he fights the urge to growl back. When Adam leaves Phoenix looks at Ben. He is still feeling on edge he gently takes Ben’s hand and pushed back the sleeve to peer at his wrist and rubs it looking up to check if Ben will wince and reveal any pains. 

“I might bruise but it’s not sprained if you’re checking for that.” Ben says softly and he wraps his arms around the godling when he rests his head against him.

“Phoenix, I heard you’re little outburst in greek... Please next time get me or another adult. I don’t want you to get in trouble becuase of that piece of trash.” Lumiere says patting his shoulder as he walks away. He tosses a reminder to Ben over his shoulder he had a fitting for a new suit and he shouldn’t be later for it.

“I’ll be out for a run, you go ahead and get fitted, love.” Phoenix says softly smiling at Ben though it is a fait and weak one it is an attempt Ben appreciates. Phoenix walks out past people that clear away from him and he ignores it and once he’s past the trees he lunged forward and shifts to run wild. He doesn’t howl he just dashes out until the smells of civilization are distant and faint. He catches the scent of someone and follows it deciding to distract himself as it’s odd a person ventures this far out into the forest. He recognizes the smell once he’s closer he trots after them.

“Altia, what has you out here? Practicing some hunting to keep those skills sharp?” He asks shifting as he gets close to Altia, Artimis’ daughter, well adopted daughter, another demi-god. She looks at him unimpressed a rabbit skinned gutted and prepped to cook and a small fire in a carefully dug pit starting to burn. 

“Aye... I wanted to make sure I don’t get rusty, Mom would throw a fit.” Phoenix nods and sits by her. She radiates a calmness he needs right now.

“My twin brother’s pissed you off has he?” She asks keeping focused on her task and he nods not looking at her. She and Arie look nearly identical. The only difference is she had their mother’s eyes, a cool bright green like summer leaves. Arie looked like a mini Apollo. Blond, blue eyed, and arrogant to a fault. Altia refused to acknowledge her association with Apollo instead asking Artemis to train her to be a huntress under her wing. Artemis had accepted merely to annoy Apollo.

“He grabbed Ben who I saw wince and I saw red. Only time I think I’ll willingly get near him.” He says softly in anger as he takes some small dry twigs near them and carefully adds them to the flame. He sees Altia out the corner of his eyes take a second rabbit from a side pouch and butcher it as he builds up the fire.

“He’s got a knack for making you crack, I’ll give him that; though really he should know better after the last time. I’m shocked he isn’t dead.” She notes and Phoenix sighs. He doesn’t like the idea but Arie set him into a dark place in his mind and it could get him killed one day if he kept poking at it. Or perhaps Phoenix himself should just learn better control.

“He owes that fact to Ben. He pulled me back off Arie before I got the idea in my head to snap my fangs on his throat.” Phoenix sighs and he lays back watching clouds roll by as Altia cooks them some rabbit. After that they discuss some of the classes they’re taking and Phoenix enjoys helping her through some of the math she is struggling on. 

They eventually come back and Phoenix watches as Arie gives him a wide birth and he paused to give the demi god a cold stare and watch him skirt the area. As angry as Phoenix is faintly that old fear is rearing it’s head. Currently he’s too angry to really flinch back. He goes back to Ben and smiles as the Prince jumps up from bed having been reading.

“How was your run?” Ben asks as he kisses the godling and Phoenix smiles. Ben being so affectionate was always nice and calming.

“Met Altia out in the woods, we sat and chatted and I helped her with some math examples. We came back a bit ago. I’ve calmed down. I won’t go looking for Arie. Though I wasn’t joking Ben.” Phoenix says suddenly his face looks serious and solemn and Ben realizes his boyfriend can look startlingly alike to Hades.

“About?” Ben asks cocking his head curious and Phoenix looks down and sighs. Ben preferred to go for nonviolence. The greek gods tended to only do violent.

“I could hurt or kill Arie. I am a full blooded god intentionally or not I could hurt him easily becuase I wasn’t watching the strength behind a blow. I’d like your help in getting it arranged so I can either go to a different class than him or at least the teachers keep us away from one another.” Phoenix asks and Ben nods and the afternoon is spent asking teachers if it be possible to swap Phoenix’s classes so he and Arie are not together in them or if that isn’t possible for him and Arie to not be near each other. After all if all they could do was make sure exposure was low at least they had done what they could to prevent an altercation.

[foundationsofdecay]

today’s feeling like a good day to draw, i have some hopes

[heretic-altias]

I am trying this out experimentally (there's only 5 slots rn) to see how it goes, so if anyone wants a desktop pet of their OC feel free to commission me for one! I'll do both the sprite and the coding (I can use my code from the first I made as a base, but it'll most likely need tweaking if you deviate from the default package or I decide that sprite needs more frames than the default). The sprite will also be easily replaceable as long as you use the same image size and frame rate I did. If you're comfortable doing this yourself you're welcome to just do that with my code on GitHub, but if you'd rather get one made just for you feel free to comm me here!

I did the first one as a FFXIV Swap gift so I imagine other xiv players might want one of their WoL, but I'm also down to do whatever other OCs. Or canon chars if you want one, it says OC but hey I won't judge lol.

[heretic-altias]

New intro post time bc it’s long overdue.

Hi hello I’m Jacky (she/her), your local aroace dragon lover. I spend most of my time on tumblr being a nerdy gamer on main, mostly focused on FFXIV with a side of Minecraft. I’m 18+, but my page is totally sfw and also romance free. So despite appearances, just be aware you’re interacting with an adult.

You can find my FFXIV WoLs on my blog’s characters page, I may try to move it to something actually usable on mobile eventually but for now that’s where it all is. If you ever wanna ask me anything about them feel free! I mostly play on Altais Narluu on Lich, and A’kito Noro on Diabolos. If you ever want a buddy to run content with, I’m always down to do stuff ingame when I’m free.

Most of the time if I post about Minecraft it’s bc I make my own mods and mod packs. You can find me on CurseForge as HereticAltias and Modrinth as Altias if you’re interested in that stuff. If you really like my mods, consider donating to my ko-fi I just made recently.

I’m also a bird owner, and will occasionally share stuff about Pepper, my pineapple green cheek conure.

On super rare occasions (usually after an interesting update) I might post star stable online, but I wouldn’t follow this page for that as I just don’t do it often. I used to be a star stable blog when I started tumblr (went by zebra if you’ve been around long enough to remember this) but I just don’t play it a lot anymore.

Everything on here is pretty much tagged as what it is, so filtering shouldn’t be too hard. FFXIV posts always use #ffxiv, Minecraft always uses #minecraft, posts about birds will use the species of the bird involved and the general #parrots, and etc you get the idea. Anything new I pick up will always be tagged literally like this, so nice and easy to filter out stuff you don’t like. FFXIV spoilers are tagged by patch (#6.4 spoilers for example) but I’ll only tag the current newest patch. So it’ll be tagged until the next patch comes out and I start tagging that one instead. Other newly released games I mention will use ‘[name of game] spoilers’.

For curious souls, the dragon in my pfp is an OC of mine, but I’ve never posted her on tumblr. Her name is Phoenix. She’s from an original story I have living in my brain that maybe I’ll finish someday lol. I just like sticking her photo everywhere bc I love her.

[heretic-altias]

There’s that job tier list going around but honestly my characters have such narrow skill sets I can just talk about my OCs for once and tell you what they’re good at.

Altias started out as an archer, but picked up mch in HW and with it engineering as a whole. She’s a SUPER talented magitek engineer and weapon creator. She could easily rival Cid if they didn’t have such different focuses. That just comes with being a super good gnb and mch as well as things like blacksmith, armorer, and carpenter. Whatever you need to make weaponry, she’s talented at. Her gnb is more Garlean based than bozjan, but she definitely has pulled inspiration from both and then also summoning magic. She studied summoner extensively, and while she’s never actually been a summoner, she incorporated their way of summoning egi into her weapons to empower them. This led to her being corrupted by an actual primal, a strange fusion of Bahamut and her own insecurities that just lives in her head rent free now, but it kind of worked out bc she can draw on his power now, it only took an entire expansion of her being high risk bc the primal was trying to take over her. Her studies focus now on fusing magic and magitek in a way the Garleans never could being incapable of using the former.

Akku’s talents have always been more diplomatic than anything else. Even his echo lets him see people’s emotions (he later learned that the more accurate description was he could see their dynamis) like an aura around them. He was initially a ninja by chance, the rogues helped him out and gave him some training when he ran away from home and ended up in Limsa. Zelda (a friend’s OC) later took him on as a student to specialize that into ninja. He was decent enough in practice, but in battle he’d freeze up. He spent a long time seeing himself as kind of a useless warrior of light since he couldn’t fight like the others. So after ShB he resolved to do things his way instead of trying to be like the others, and learned conjury leading into white magic. This is his real skill set, he’s a healer not a fighter. His offense magic is generally water aspected (Enbarr is very helpful) and non lethal, just keeping enemies away from him so he can focus on healing his allies. In ingame job terms, his only REALLY GOOD skill is whm, but ninja is something he’s trained in.

Kito has a lot going on, but his skill set centers around his unusually dark aspected aether which is really strange, particularly for the warrior of light. DRK has always been his number one talent, to the point he was genuinely afraid of his own power for awhile. But he hung up that sword after EW, and picked up rpr when traveling to the void which also matches well with his dark aether. But he uniquely also combines the class with drg, he was accidentally soul bonded to Twintania freeing her from the binding coils (think an inheritance cycle dragon and rider type relationship between them). So instead of a rpr avatar, he draws on her power and his own dark aether creating an odd mix of rpr and drg that’s ultimately mostly rpr in training and appearance. He’s also a really good botanist, he studied plants in bozja before it exploded, but those are really his only canon job skills.