#also i am dying for this to be her dawntrail fit

[coldshrugs]

I love Io so much 😭

I want her to have all the good things in life she can handle and more 🥺

here :> have an io. this one's on the house.

[maeljade]

Character lore poll

I am cooking an OC and my brain has come up with two possible variations of lore and cant decide so I am outsourcing it to Tumblr! Here's the OC, Jade!

And here's the poll, answer based on vibes or full information with Dawntrail spoilers below the cut!

And now under the cut the full lore. Once again, spoilers for themes of Shadowbringers +, things that happened in Endwalker and the entire second half of Dawntrail! Consider yourself warned.

As should be easily visible from the picture, she's my Solution 9/Alexandria OC. And yes, she is in fact the local shard of Mael, my lizzer and WoL. And since Solution 9 has the whole Regulator business its a great opportunity for some wonderful storytelling.

Her basic lore backstory is that she's working as one of the hunters keeping the outskirts of Heritage Found safe and thus naturally uses a regulator. Between Lightningstrikes and wild beasts the risks of death are high and hunters also use it for simple soul fusion to enhance their fighting (so no full transformation like Arcadion). Unfortunately for her there is no Hydaelyn since Endwalker sending a crystal of light with images of a starshower attached so no echo for her. Also she used to have a partner, which is at the center of both torments!

Now unto the 2 possible torments that my brain has come up with!

Torment of Forgetting:

Imagine having a loving partner, half the room decorated in her style, her perfume in the bathroom, small trinkets from her in your outfit. This partner also wears a regulator ... and dies. And because both of you had a regulator the memory is erased. Gone. Nothing there anymore. The memory has been erased leaving only an emptiness and a feeling of something missing. And looking around her home everything makes this void sting harder. Decorations Jade would not buy but that still feel right in the room. Perfumes the smell of which she loves but wouldn't wear herself. Accessories that feel close to her heart but she cant remember. The typical Elidibus/Solution 9 package.

Torment of Remembering

Same relationship as the other torment, same loving partner dying ... but this time her regulator had been destroyed before it happened so she alone remembers her love. Friend groups her lover introduced her to suddenly missing the connection. In laws who don't even remember how you met. The entire world moving on and forgetting, leaving you all alone to grieve. Let's call it the Emet-Selch deal, to be the only one remembering and mourning.

Both of these sound like horrible torment to heave upon her. Yet both feel fitting, especially when I consider both the connection to Mael as Dotharl and her beliefs and the parallels with the two unsundered.

And both parts would lead her on a path towards working with and maybe even joining the resistance, yet also being reliant on the regulator for fighting and doing her job.

And not least of all the potential angst of meeting someone new and struggling with fears of also being forgotten.