#Swiftspark Topaz

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Swiftspark Topaz reference sheet

GW2 AU of Topaz is scarred up to hell, has lots of hardware (and mech wings!) and is extremely off-model for a sylvari. Over the years I’ve never been fully happy with her look in the game but right now I’m at least content. She talks and has mannerisms more in line with charr or asura than a Grove-raised sylvari, and is Soundless. She currently runs a successful scrapyard business in the Plains of Ashford adjacent to her treehouse made of salvaged materials. Her voice modulator and arm replacements are from a nasty injury she sustained a few years ago from a shrapnel mine going off while she was holding it as they got ambushed by bandits, back when the White Mantle had just re-emerged. Leg replacements are unrelated, and she had to take more of her right leg in Jahai Bluffs from too much Branded crystal injuries. Eye replacements are just for vanity and because she wanted them when her mentor was testing out new tech. -------------------------------------

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Didn’t get to spend my time in the Cliffs as much as I would have liked this year, but at least I got my requisite screenshots of Topaz relaxing in her element. She has some Zephyrite trade connections and is planning on setting up a second satellite shop there, as much for her mental health as monetary gain.

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Yeah sorry for this place sort of being half-dead lately, most of the stuff I’ve been working on have been commissions that aren’t finished yet, art show stuff or lewd stuff for offsite pages. I need to get to my asks and all that but here’s a rather poor, rough inked reference still a wip of Swiftspark Topaz and her current level of modification. She’s made of a lot of metal these days.

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~Enjoying the view from high vantages is still Topaz’s favorite pastime.

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Art continues to be like pulling teeth and I really need to get back into practicing and studies and throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks. But anyway here are more sketches of my screwed up cyborgvari, Topaz. She seems to get a new scar or a new implant with each new campaign or region she decides to explore in.

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OC Meme: Swiftspark Topaz

Got tagged a second time but honestly you don’t have to tell me twice to want to fill out more of these!

B A S I C S :

  Full name: Topaz, Swiftspark is a nickname she got when she was just out of saplinghood.   Gender: Female   Sexuality: Straight   Pronouns: She/Her

O T H E R :

  Family: She possesses no pod twin or anything similar so nothing in the way of biologically close family. Instead she considers her close friends and golems her family.   Birthplace: The Grove.   Job(s): Very much a Jack-of-all-Trades. Started off as a records clerk for the Vigil, apprentice for the Priory archives in Lornar’s before applying to be an exchange student in a krewe in Metrica for an experimental enterprise. Was a brilliant tech and got top marks but was let go after the Scarlet fiasco and distrust of sylvari was high. Was a Pact scrapper during the Mordremoth campaign, ordnance tester in a charr-centric Pact squad after that, became a combat medic understudy to an asura named Dr. Leta and got her catastrophic first injuries and implants while under her. Now runs her own scrapyard and tech shop.   Phobias: Enclosed spaces and deep, cramped subterranean passages.   Guilty pleasures: She’s an incorrigible thrill-seeker and stuntwoman, the more dangerous or ludicrous the challenge the better, ESPECIALLY if it has anything to do with heights or extreme speeds.   Hobbies: While tinkering and inventing could be considered her actual job, she also genuinely just loves messing with machinery, fixing and “fixing” things. Has also recently taken up the charr electric guitar.

M O R A L S :

  Moral alignment: Chaotic Good   Sins: lust / greed / envy / gluttony / pride / wrath / sloth     Virtues: charity / chastity / diligence / humility / justice / kindness / patience

T H I S - O R - T H A T :

   introvert / extrovert    organized / disorganized   close-minded / open-minded    calm / anxious / restless    disagreeable / agreeable / in-between    patient / impatient (varies; infinite patience for projects, none for most other things)    outspoken / reserved    leader / follower / flexible    empathetic / unempathetic    optimistic / pessimistic / realistic   traditional / modern / in-between    hard-working / lazy

R E L A T I O N S H I P S :

   OTP: Is in something akin to a civil union with a sylvari blacksmith named Pyroxenite but this relationship is very much considered open, so technically none.    Acceptable ships: She can fall for a surprising variety of types! Rule 1 though: Anyone that can take her constant sass and can dish it out just as easily.   OT3: None    BROTP: Is close friends with a lot of people, such as @spookygothmoth‘s Headmaster Whitby, Phlogistician Gankk and Enforcer Rilvor. She doesn’t believe the title of “bestie” should be limited to one individual.    NOTP: Anyone that shows signs of being too self-absorbed, morally bankrupt or too much of a wallflower but outside of that anything goes. Tends to not get along with those in law enforcement positions but exceptions can exist. Has an especial hatred for a scientist named Lady Absinthe though.

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Swiftspark Topaz’s experience in Jahai Bluffs thus far. Pain, lots of crunchy pain.

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Topaz has always belonged to the sky.

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A tidy little collection of Topaz out on an aerial foray in the Highlands. In actual character canon she doesn’t have a griffon and instead has her mech wings to fly now but that doesn’t mean I still can’t make pretty screenshots. Featuring a photobomb courtesy of @spookygothmoth.

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🌸 For any character(s) I want to hear some happy songs. =)

🌸 Swiftspark Topaz: This song is iconic Topaz regardless of what setting version she is. It represents her when she’s at her best and most hopeful and the song is just jammin’.

🌸Ingwar Thardisson: This song seems dark to some but is in fact a very uplifting one. “Raido” is the Old Norse rune for “adventure” among other things and this whole song is the excitement of the journey.

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Been doing more development on Swiftspark for a few months now. No matter what universe version of Topaz it is she’s always important to me. She’s been getting steadily more and more tired of people’s bullshit and ingratitude in regards to her race and how nonstandard she looks for a sylvari, despite all of the things she’s been through on behalf of commoners. More than a few individuals have likened her to a knockoff Scarlet, which these days is greeted with open anger and annoyance.

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Looks like the Inktober for today is a crop because the full image is definitely not SFW.

If you want to see the full image you'll have to go here.

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Anyone ever wondered what would happen if you gave my characters an opportunity for a cheesy pick-up line? No? Well I did it anyways so this is my gift to you for Valentine’s Day, featuring Yuvee, Zepp, Antella, Topaz and Oort who is having none of it.

This is what happens when you leave me alone in the house and left to my own devices.

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Screaming mute, Swiftspark Topaz sans vocal synthesizer!  Her arms and throat look like they’ve gone through a woodchipper due to a horrid accident involving a sabotaged shrapnel mine. Without a special magitech collar installed that Doctor Leta made for her, the best she can do is a shrill wheeze. She wishes she could take it off at will to use her gnarly wounds to scare off morons. 

I have a plethora of characters but almost never post anything about 70% of them. Literally just a 30 minute sketch and just like her scars, isn’t meant to look pretty.

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A compilation of characters and their mounts that I’ve been amassing over the months. From top to bottom:

Phlebotomist Zepp

Swiftspark Topaz

Magister Antella

Actuary Xervexx

Oort the Truncheon

Peacemaker Vragg

Madame Hena

Sonosmith Euphix

Subject Z1-9