#and meanwhile i'm writing him as this caring healer lmao

[not-poignant]

Hi Pia.OC ask meme. Please tell me about Temsen Questions 1, 2, 7

Since you didn't pick a story, anon, it's going to be dealer's choice and I'm going with The Nascent Diplomat!

What memory would your OC rather just forget?

The period of time where Temsen had to save the vench offspring / youth from a deadly fungal infection, and so many vench ended up scarred from that generation. I think that period of time was extremely stressful for him, and I think it was the first time he realised something as simple as a vicious fungi could literally wipe the vench out. I think after that, he definitely worked to understand viruses, infections etc. and how best to deal with it if it happened again.

2. What's something about your OC that people wouldn't expect just from looking at them?

That Temsen enjoys sex a lot and really wanted to have it with Gwyn (and Augus) and was just great at not pushing for it lmao.

7. What's one way your OC has changed since you first came up with them?

Temsen wasn't initially meant to be much of a character at all. He was a powerful healer which I really needed for Gwyn in that scene, and he didn't even exist in my original worldbuilding notes. The vench that Gwyn was supposed to get closer to was Kimerrin, but it just wasn't working.

In a weird way, Temsen nominated himself. He was like 'well I'm his healer and he needs to trust me and I need to be worthy of that trust so I'm going to be Around' and he just kind of looked at me and I was like 'okay man we'll see what people think of you' and folks enjoyed him!

Just going from like, 'throwaway side character' to a more main character in the ensemble (really, the third or fourth main character depending on where you put the Raven Prince) was a huge change! He really rose up, I think, to the challenge of being able to carry Gwyn's suspicion and reward it with gentle firmness, which I really think Gwyn needed at that time in his life!

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From the edgy OC meme!