#Semper Supra campaign

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RAHHHHHHHHHH guys look I drew my silly guy Cora :3

(Ooooooh you guys wanna ask me about them sooooooo bad)

[the-teddy-bear-butch]

I’m thinking really hard about my D&D characters again. I’ve seen a bunch of stuff about the indomitable human spirit trope recently and to me that is just the entire basis of Cora’s characterization, but less in a survival way and more in a sense of humanity kind of way.

Like. They’re this thing made in a lab, a beast, a weapon, nothing more than a tool for years before they escape. And then they’re free and on their own in the big, wide universe. They’re thrown into the deep end of learning to survive, and people can be so cruel—

But then she finds camaraderie. She finds people who treat her as a Person, as a whole, sentient, human thing. She finds her own humanity and learns to love it in others.

There is still cruelty, of course. She still remembers the lab. They still are treated poorly by small minded people—but they hold onto their humanity and refuse to be corrupted by the world around them. They do their best to be a light in the world and refuse to believe anyone is just evil, is just a monster.

In a universe that is full of pain and cruelty, they refuse to standby when they see others being treated unkindly. They refuse to let go of their kindness and their love for the world around them.

[the-teddy-bear-butch]

Man. I fucking love D&D. In one session, Cora rolled a natural one to not experience the effects of downing an entire glass of cheap, very strong, very nasty cake vodka and also. Saw an oblex take the shape of the woman they saw as a surrogate mother for the 20 years she spent in the cruelest place she could ever imagine, who she hasn’t seen for 3+ years and thought might be dead (possibly even at her own hands). They will never recover from the crushing feeling of realizing the woman before her was nothing more than a spectre. They’re having a great time!