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wolffyluna · 4 years ago

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list 10 different female faves from 10 different fandoms, then tag 10 people

I was tagged by @chocochipbiscuit!

Characters listed in no particular order, faves are subject to change

Mu Nihuang: okay, so this pick is a risky one because I am less that 1/5th of the way through Nirvana in Fire, and it’s quite possible that by the end of the show I’ll be like, “[Liyang/Gong Yu/Someone I haven’t met yet] is my fave!” but at the moment it is Nihuang. I love her moral centre, and the way she is so good at ~improving with Mei Changsu, and the pining, oh god the dramatic irony pining is so good. Also, I am always a sucker for warrior princesses.

Ling Wen: LING WEN DID NOTHING WRONG. She has done many bad things, but your Honour, I love her. She is a wonderful character. I am a sucker for characters who are the one person good at organisation, and everyone will rue the day they take them for granted, because without them the trains do not run on time and dramatically derail. I wish we got more detail about the Bai Jing thing, but I do feel like we were given enough to make a good guess at what was going on there.

Zana Mathos: I love hard bitten mercenaries, I love her “I CAN’T TAKE YOU ANYWHERE” and her threatening to kill Owain if he nearly gets himself killed again. She is great. I also love the fight between the voice actors and the author about her and Owain’s relationship.

Dorothea Arnault: Picking a fave from Three Houses, but it’s gotta be Dorothea. I love how driven she is, I love her charisma and how she makes a point to befriend the outcasts I love how the narrative treats her (relatively) sympathetically about her desire to marry for gain. She’s really great.

Alphys: Nerdy socially anxious lizard scientists for the win! (I also have a lot of feelings about what happens to her in a [spoiler] run, and also how she’s mentally ill and gets to be ~messy and fucked up about it, but she’s still a sympathetic character.)

Wen Qing: I didn’t expect there to be such a theme of people being nerds, tough and no nonsense, or in this case, a no nonsense nerd. I prefer the book version of her: even if we see less of her, she gets to be less of a ~fluffy-fluff good guy. She has presumably done some bad shit. She is understandably annoyed about her brother dragging her into his betrayal scheme. But she’s still a person who cares about people, and who doesn’t deserve to be executed.

Tar Miriel: I love the tragedy of her. The last Faithful Queen before the fall of Númenor, too late to fix things, relatively powerless despite being the literal queen-- I love her

Merrill: Merrill is smarter than she looks! She is very smart and I love her ambition (her audacity--) and I love the glimpse we get through her of the Dalish attitude to the fade. (”All spirits are dangerous.”)

Primrose: I haven’t finished Octopath Traveler yet (and it’s been [mumblemumble] since I played, but I love her story so far. Revenge plots are great. And I love performer characters in general.

Gertrude Robinson: She tried to save the world! Okay, her methods had flaws, but with the information she had, what she did make sense. Valid to be ruthless when trying to stop the literal apocalypse.

I tag: anyone who wants to do this! :D

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transfemininomenon · 6 years ago

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hey alice I've seen you mention then before and they seem really interesting and I was wondering if you could tell us more about your dnd characters! (Whichever your favorite is or who you feel like talking about) or even a tag you have where I could read up more!

:O i would LOVE to talk about some of my dnd characters

my three main ones are my half-elf raven queen warlock gwyndolin (aka gwyn), my human swashbuckler rogue gertrude, and my life cleric alicia

gwyn was the character i played when @speechjam was DMing who is a half-moon elf with Parental Baggage (because what’s a half-elf who doesnt have an iffy relationship with their parents) who is very gay and very trans and canonically Really Hot because she has a literally goddess gifted body. her parents raised her in an elf city where she experienced a lifetime of racism for being a half-elf, and that combined with not having a great relationship with her parents as well as dealing with dysphoria eventually led to her attempting suicide. however when this happened, she suddenly found herself before the raven queen, who told her it was not yet her time, and offered her a deal - a new body and some of her power in exchange for making a pact with her. she readily agreed, and was reborn as gwyndolin

since then she’s spent a few years acting as a servant of the raven queen, acting as a sort of soul bounty hunter tracking down people who had unnaturally escaped death and dealing with necromancers/undead infestations. eventually she happened to take a job that led to her meeting the party, including happening to bump into her elf druid cousin solira played by @lyssatbqh

she’s also a total Disaster Lesbian and cant talk to women to save her life which is a problem when Lots of women want to talk to her on account of being Really Hot. she has a thing for knives and has like 8 of them on her. she also has a spirit familiar in the form of a raven named crawford who she always makes keep watch for her at night instead of doing it herself

THEN gertrude is the character i play in @lyssatbqh‘s campaign, which is a homebrew campaign set in the dark souls world. gertrude’s whole life was spent believing that humanity didnt matter and only existed to serve the gods - lessons instilled in her from birth by her parents. often being left alone while her parents were off doing whatever religious things they were off doing, she grew used to wondering the city of anor londo by herself, exploring every alley and climbing every roof top, having just a dagger given to her by her parents as a form of protection

as she grew older her parents tried getting her more involved in the way of white (the religious organization they were a part of), and gertrude never really quite got the whole “sit and study and pray” part of it, but she found ways to use her natural charisma and dexterity to instead serve the gods by acting as a spy against people who might speak out against the gods. this is how she met the party initially, being sent by one of the gods to spy on a book club founded by @speechjam‘s character brillin. long story short the party ended up encountering some of the witches of izalith, went to izalith right as the witch of izalith was trying to recreate the first flame, and they all fucking DIED

some long period of time later the party all mysteriously came back to life, and have since came back to life any time they have died, always returning to whatever fire they’d rested at. the whole experience of dying and coming back forced gertrude to, for the first time in her life, have to think about being a human and what humanity meant and what her place in the world was, and she proceeded to go into a several week long existential crisis. during this time the party investigated some mysterious happenings around the city of new londo involving other people coming back to life, fought some demons, and eventually made their way back to anor londo

the whole time gertrude was hoping returning to anor londo would get her some answers from the god she had been working for by the name of flame god flann. however, upon returning he offered no real help, and seemingly didnt even remember that she had worked for him. this furthered her growing crisis and fear and doubt, and eventually the party confronted her about her sneakiness and dodging questions, and she confessed the nature by which she’d originally joined the group, and asked for their forgiveness and explained that she’d suddenly had a Lot to think about and that a lot of things she thought she’d known had been thrown out the window. the party was initially hurt, especially brillin, and gertrude suddenly found herself for the first time Caring about other people and how her actions had effected them, but they eventually forgave her and they continued to all work together to maybe figure out a little more on what was happening

encountering two strange people known as skin man and skeleton man, the party worked with them and eventually learned that skin man also was coming back from the dead, but also seemed to be fading away more and more each time he came back - becoming less of himself and more just a blank husk. eventually skin man went missing, and the party found him by a mysterious machine that could answer questions for them - in exchange for memories

gertrude used it to ask two questions, choosing first between the memories of her time working for flann, her time with the way of white, and her memories of brillin, who she had grown increasingly close with throughout their travels (because gertrude is a Fool and JUST kept jokingly flirting until she fooled around and caught real feelings), eventually choosing the way of white. she then had the option of flann, brillin, or her forgetting the memories and associations that her daggers had with her, eventually choosing daggers

her questions were if the gods cared about her, about people, and then the second was if she, too, was gonna steadily fade away the more she died. she received a simple answer for both - no, and yes

initially going into another crisis, she soon shock that feeling off and decided on a new course of action, a flame suddenly lighting in her as she realized that she couldn’t rely on the gods anymore, and that it was people, and her new found friends, that she had to rely on. the gods were seemingly uncaring about their current plight, and she would find answers on her own. no longer being shackled by the gods, she would suddenly live as she was meant to - as a person, as a human

the party eventually fought a couple more demons and, with the help of skeleton man, defeated them. in the aftermath, gertrude and brillin FINALLY smooched and it was RAD, and they later had a roof top discussion about everything and about Them. they came to the conclusion that neither of them really knew what was happening, or what their place in the universe was, and the weight of the inevitably of them both hollowing was ever present, but they wouldn’t focus on that - they would focus on the now, on living as best they could in the moment, and deciding that they would eventually figure things out, and they would do that Together

dang i didn’t mean to do just a plot summary of that whole campaign so far but i got TOO into talking about gertrude i just……………….. love her so much guys she has learned and grown so much she literally started off as half a joke character i literally threw her concept together 10 minutes before the first session started and she became so!!!!! much more than i could’ve ever expected

anyway my other character is alicia aka the Divine Lady who i cant talk about TOO much because i just started playing her and friends in that campaign follow me and there’s #spoilers but she’s a life cleric who was once a shy awkward little boy named joey who has grown in to a slightly less awkward but no less shy but STRONG woman. she’s a life cleric and JUST wants to help people she’s really caring and is always worried about someone and i love her she’s such a change of pace from my usual edgy characters she is TOO good for this world and has two beautiful lesbian blacksmith moms and a million adopted “cousins” who she all loves dearly

she’s surprisingly Buff, enjoys blacksmithing (she made all of her armor and weapons), is a big fan of beauty in all forms, is an avid reader, and is constantly writing letters home to her family and keeping a diary of her adventures. she worships lethandar (aka god of birth & renewal) as well as sune (aka goddess of beauty), with the symbol of sune crafted into her shield and her mace designed to have a sun motive for lethandar, and she has big dorky glasses because she’s blind as a bat

some other side characters include primrose my college of swords bard who is JUST primrose from octopath traveler, ailce my water genasi druid that i usually play in one shots who in the most recent one shot i played her in adopted a wonderful child who has bat ears and was NOT appreciated by their parents and she loves them with all her heart, and ari “the banshee” who is a city cleric in a modern space based campaign who is an anarchist and part of a punk rock band

oh! also i have a tag for gwyn (which is just #gwyn tag) and TWO for gertrude (#former gertrude tag and #gertrude tag, former being for dagger related things since she lost her love of them) and im sure i’ll get an alicia one going! its all just like aesthetic stuff or things i relate to them but you can get a good sense of those characters through those

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blazlngblade · 1 year ago

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Project Path Action Weekly Art Prompts

I mentioned the other day I as hosting a small weekly art challenge on Project Path Action, so I wanted to share it here on tumblr too!

The point of this idea is to get us to September 30th when Sign-Ups will close.

Here's a link to the tweet on Twitter.

And here's a link to Prompt 1/Week 1.

If you use Twitter, feel free to quote retweet either of the posts and I'll retweet your drawing!

You can also reblog this post if you do participate!

Here is the information about the prompts.

Any type of art finish level is okay! Full body, half body, or chibi! Full drawing or sketch! Anything goes!

Now onto the characters per each prompt!

WEEK 1 - Main 8 (Octopath Traveler): Ophilia, Cyrus, Tressa, Olberic, Primrose, Alfyn, Therion, or H'aanit

Since I am posting this really late, you're welcome to post Prompt 1 a little late (at least by August 25th), I understand I should have posted this earlier!

WEEK 2 - Initial 8 (Octopath CotC): Millard, Sofia, Theo, Fiore, Lynette, Gilderoy, Viola, or Scarecrow

WEEK 3 - Guardians of the Light (Octopath CotC): Bargello, Rinyuu, Richard, Solon, Araune, Elletrix, Rondo, or Sazantos

WEEK 4 - Main 8 (Octopath Traveler II): Ochette, Castti, Throné, Osvald, Partitio, Agnea, Temenos, or Hikari

WEEK 5 - Octuplets (Octopath CotC): Menny, Telly, Dorrie, Conny, Sunny, Billy, Harry, or Penny

WEEK 6 - Arena 8 (Octopath CotC): Tikilen, Glossom, Varkyn, L'eeto, Gertrude, Yunnie, Yan Long, or Largo

WEEK 7 - Free Week!! (OT1, CotC, or OT2): Just make sure you choose a Traveler! (Check the Spreadsheet!)

And here's an Art Summary you can use to compile all your drawings for each prompt!

I look forward to seeing your art if you choose to take part!

#octopath traveler #octopath cotc #champions of the continent #octopath traveler 2 #project path action #octopath art prompts #art challenge #art prompts #weekly art

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