#TSL OC

[alexissara]

The Iconic Matriarch

[Art by Kanesha Bryant from Thirsty Sword Lesbians: Advanced Lovers and Lesbians]

The Matriarch in Thirsty Sword Lesbians is one of my artistic prides and joys. I've created lots of comics, short stories and worked on several games. The Matriarch to me is a design stand out. I want to talk about the design of that playbook more specifically sometime but instead I just want to talk about the iconic for the playbook here. The iconic here is an AU version of my OC Jillain Owlnight. Jill originated as a NPC character in a roleplay that was the adoptive mother of one of my partners OCs. I really loved her and so did she. Jillian was a lawyer who did her best to help people, she was a scrapy woman in independent practice and single just doing her best. Still she was wise, she loved magical stuff, was a big fan of birds and was did her best by her new kid.

She recurred in some other roleplays as a mother figure as a staple wink and a nod or as someone's lawyer. Eventually though, she was brought into Love Beyond The Holy Light, which was a webnovel I had been working on for a while as a powerful witch with an affinity for owls, a POV character and the mother of another POV character. This fantasy version of her was probably my most in-depth dive into her as a character. This and the following modern roleplay really finished the refinement of what this character was.

Jillian is a trans woman who lived a really hard life with bad parents, runs away from home and has fend for herself or is taken in by some magical bird, either way she is living a fairly different life than other kids. She gets a lot of skills because she needs to be all around good to survive and the lesbian falls in love with a girl, typically after years there is a sad break up, she goes through a flop era and gets her shit together when there is a kid in need that she had to care for. From there on Jill is a mega mom, she does everything for her kids and tries her best to make the world a better place. Maybe she slips up at one point, sells her morals for the kids safety or comfort but eventually turns around to do right by her kids.

Which brings us to this iconic AU version of Jillian. I wanted a version of her to do something new with less baggage. I think I said to just warrior her up at first but I was asked to provide a bit more detail and I suggested a bit more of a Sci-fiy kind of vibe. Kanesha then used the very little guidance to make this master piece. I don't know what they intended but clearly they took inspiration form the playbook too, where they gave Jillian mob boss vibes since one of the examples for The Matriarch is a mob boss. The amazing details were basically all their idea.

After getting it here is kinda how I picture everything about her working but this is just my headcanon, I hope people take her and do whatever their brains come up with for her. To me this version of Jillian runs a queer gang. Their all about bashing back and smashing the system. She is a very proud mom of her kids wearing stuff they made for her. Each color of bean represents a different kid she has taken under her wing. The eye patch was made by a sweet daughter of hers as well and the bracelets were gifts from her oldest daughter. She rips off the rich and gives back to the queers posing as a CEO or something to explain the luxuries her organization affords people.

Her family mechanic is her right hand in the mob, one of her older kids and her wife. Jillian has Been around from her experience living on the streets and traveling for jobs and warm food. Then she has In The Family due to her crime family being a known force that is not to be fucked with.

Anyway, that was my idea for the iconic here. Have you played The Matriarch, if you have what were they like? Do you have any ideas for one or been in a game with one? Did the Iconic art give you any ideas like it did for me? I'm also just always happy to hear about any TSL OC, let me know in the replies and stuff.

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[vforys]

a birthday banquet for the lord of shadow

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some personal stuff

[willfullwanderer]

the ss pieces have been sent so i can finally post this bad boy <3

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it’s cass’s birthday today! yippee!!! (they do remember the 21st night of september)

[wyrmthrice]

marnie! new ttrpg character! (thirsty sword lesbians to be precise)

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Another interesting outfit for Miss Cas!

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gay AND a doggirl? are you sure you can do that-?

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[kattenkvvaad]

I played in a Thirsty Sword Lesbians oneshot for Roll For Good last weekend (27th of May 2023) and also doodled my character for it!

She's a special type of fire elemental that only burns underwater! Her "on land"-form never showed up because it was a full underwater adventure, but that's fine :3 (the ashy skintone is on purpose, because her fire is "extinguished" on land)

Character: Pamela or "Pam" (she/her)

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Thirsty Sword Lesbian Fanfic

hi team! this is an old fic i wrote for my darling TSL character desdemona, set while she is actively dying. it's certainly the strangest thing i've written style wise, as my main inspiration behind the project was my first read of harrow: the ninth. good fic! it's gay (as most things i write are)

[buchuza]

Another Mina (ft Ru's photo!)

[alexissara]

Tell Me About Your Thirsty Sword Lesbian OCs!

I am not just a girl who worked on TSL, I genuinely love Thirsty Sword Lesbians. Before I was asked to work on it I claimed on Twitter that I thought it was my favorite TTRPG I ever played. I was like a month after that that April approached me work on the game. I have GMed so many games of TSL since I discovered the game one shots and campaigns and played so many games of TSL. This game is such a huge part of my life even outside of designing for it. I've done multiple campaigns, tons of one shots, I plan on doing more too. If I had the freedom I'd do a TSL game like 6 days a week and the 7th day to test out other systems. [If you want to see me in action I GMed this game on steam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjcfw7krIVw&t=13s and played this game on stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_UtG6pdcnI&t=263s ]

This is to say as a big part of the fan side of TSL I want to hear about y'alls OCs and gush about mine. I'll start

I adapted one of my characters Serena [who debuted in my web novel Love Beyond The Holy Light] into a magical girl for a short Sparkle Heart Campaign with some friends. They were all retired magical girls who defeated a big bad in college. Serena was a Matriarch [which is a check reference cuz The Iconic Matriarch is my OC that is her adoptive mom] who settled down, had a family of kids who needed homes she was raising and left behind her old traumatic days. The girl had been brainwashed and turned into the evil vampire queen saved by the rest of the sparkle hearts she joined the team and helped them defeat the evil that once controlled her. Serena remembered all the broken promises and things she left behind and by the end worked at a Bakery with her long time crush now openly polyamarous with her and the rest of the team, living happily ever after, making sweets to bring ab it of joy into everyone's lives. It was such a good little story, there is way more but I wanna keep it short.

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doodles from our thirsty sword lesbians campaign! run by the lovely @walcutt ^u^

skylar (top left) belongs to yours truly

cherry tree (top right) belongs to @joculine

maya (bottom left) belongs to @wizardwithnogoodspells

and minerva (bottom right) belongs to @iiiridium !

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soft orc tummy

[willfullwanderer]

just a man

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season 3 jasmine!!!! YEEEAAAAAAAH

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