#also idk anything about real dnd lore so i make everything up so

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mhm okay here are some random brainstorms about this possible human sorcerer’s backstory (his name is reef atm)

he is 17 years old (im flexible on this but i think it’s very fun to play either very young or very old characters and also i’m the youngest player by about 5 years i think so Give Me This it will make the dynamic more #realistic. if all else fails he can be 23)

he’s spent the majority of his life sailing (i still have to talk to my dm but i’m thinking a merchant ship or a ship of discovery would make the most sense), as both his parents are sailors and they don’t really have A House outside of their ship. for a long time it was like. the only life he knew

he started like working on the ship when he was pretty young because one. it’s so fucking boring if you aren’t Doing Anything on a boat and two they mostly accepted his help although for a long time he just cleaned a lot of stuff which in his opinion was still better than Doing Nothing

when he was like. 15 he got a job on a bigger ship with another crew member. his parents were sad to see him go but they aren’t really worried about him and they still see him every once in awhile when their schedules match up

it’s a running joke that his family likes burnt food; at night when the sailors would exchange stories he’d be told that an ancestor of his gave a hand to a phoenix and now his whole family line just really likes to burn food. the story is different every time and embellished constantly and it’s not that reef disbelieves it because maybe they’re all a little superstitious but it’s like. a joke. they do it to poke fun at him.

(once when he was very young and ashore he just stuck both of his hands into a fire. he got yelled at for it and he hands were COVERED in burns and he’s never been able to explain why he did it. it’s been chalked up to him being ten years old but he still gets the urge to do it when he sees fire and he can’t explain that)

when he’s sixteen, almost seventeen his powers manifest in full for the first time during a very bad storm. no one could see anything or here anyone over the storm and he was so freaked out that he just like snapped and went mantle of flame

anyway. no one died in the storm and the rain kept the deck from catching fire but it’s still clear to everyone that he doesn’t have control over this and practically no one knows what to do about it

there’s no bad blood— he’s been a good worker for his whole life but reef’s only sort of an idiot and he knows a ship, on the ocean isn’t like. a great place for uncontrollable fire magic, so when he’s seventeen he leaves to try and find anyone who can teach him more and works odd jobs and travels a lot 

he’s not the sharpest tool in the drawer but he’s honest and hardworking and charming in a weird sort of way. like when u talk to him ur like. oh. this is my child now. im adopting him

he pretty much considers himself an adult. he’s informed his parents about his plan but did so by leaving a letter for them with his captain and has not spoken to them and they are probably not super duper happy with him but he’s An Adult Now And He Can Do What He Wants

he’s like. 17. he’s going to join an adventuring party the second one will have him

he conceptualizes his magic less like a part of him and more like he’s being possessed. not in a mean way necessarily but he has trouble with control because it feels so at odds to literally his entire previous lifestyle that he has trouble accepting that it’s him. especially because it can still fucking burn him i mean what the fuck is that

he’s bi that’s not important i just love him. anyway