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So...my JoJo OC, I guess...
Coppola Gatto, or as I call him, Il Gatto, with his Stand, Synkronized.
He's a villain, I supposed, in the setting of Part 5. His Stand's power is teleportation, with a range of about 10-15m. Basically how it works is that, from point A, Gatto will direct Synk to where he wants to go (point B). Synk will move at lightspeed to B, and once it arrives, Gatto will appear in a blink at B.
If there's an obstacle between A and B, like a wall or a person, Synk can move past without causing any damage to the obstacle. Which makes Gatto's job as a thief pretty easy. However, if the obstacle is at point B, Synk will appear through the obstacle and once Gatto arrives, whatever part of the obstacle that touches Synk will get erased into the void to make way for Gatto. Which...could seriously injure or kill, should that unfortunate obstacle be a person.
Think about it like X-Men's Nightcrawler having Vanilla's Stand Cream.
I made him to counter Hol Horse's shooting speed and infinite bullets, so as a challenge, the enemy has to be at least as fast as light. I only offset him on his strength and durability, meaning if a Stand can go up to speed with Synk's movement (like The World or King Crimson), Synk can be maimed.
I don't develop Gatto's background much. He's probably 19 or 20. Obviously an expert thief. I was planning to have him as part of a small thief gang that has no connection with Passione, with gangmates that have Stands of their own, but I'm afraid if I develop that more, I might feel obliged to actually make a spin-off of my own there...
So yeah. I feel embarrassed sharing this because I don't always share my OCs, more so OCs from already established premises. And I can understand if the design for this one is somewhat problematic, given that my main reference is the band Jamiroquai, and I tried my best to tone it down (except the colours; I think I made Gatto's attire too colourful...)
Also, reference dump:
Not sure when else I will draw this OC...maybe a fight between him and Hol next?
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five good things
What the hell, it's time for one of these again I think. Let's see.
I am actually rather looking forward to getting back to work tomorrow, after three weeks off. This basically never happens. XD I love my jobs, but I always love my time off more. This time, though, I feel like I've had enough time at home, and I'm looking forward to getting back to work on all my various projects and pet things.
I finally finished installing the lighting in Lego Rivendell after a WHOLE YEAR! I really enjoyed building the model over the holidays last year, but the lighting kit was really fiddly to install and the instruction photos weren't particularly clear, and it really rather sucked the joy out of it. However, it only took a couple of hours to get it finally finished, and now it looks amazing. Photos at some point! I have a display case for it, although of course it's been sitting gathering dust for a year so it needs a good gentle brushing-off first, and I need to figure out where all the bits that got knocked off while I was fitting the lights need to go back on, which is more or less impossible given the length of the instructions. Then I need to rebuild the smaller sets I had because they all got smashed when the missus pulled an extension cable out of my hands before I was ready over the summer, and THEN I might manage a few fic illustrations or something XD
I'm having enormous fun with a very delightful AU that @malkaleh and I are working on in Discord, most of which is never going to see the light of day but it is so much fun pinging ideas back and forth and bits of it are going into something I've been working on over the holidays and I am loving it! <3333333
I've also been having enormous fun with my friend over in the Måneskin fandom - we've been writing a collaborative fic, then she suggested something for me to write in the same 'verse, and then I've been absolutely devouring an unfinished work of hers which she began back in the summer of 2021, picked up in the summer/autumn of 2023 and hadn't quite managed to finish. I read and loved the first few chapters about a month ago, and then finally managed to free myself from my own talkative muses long enough to be able to read the rest and comment flailingly - and then the last few days we've been brainstorming an ending and she's finished it this morning! I am delighted, it's been so much fun. I've really missed this sort of collaboration, and I've missed writing with her so much, she always has the funniest ideas. It's been going on for 15 years, and I am so glad we're in a fandom together again!
The missus and I are preparing to have a really thorough declutter and sort the house out properly this year. I am very much looking forward to it, although it's going to be long and stressful and a lot of hard work and, doubtless, arguments XD
I've finally finished the second block of my MA course, which is cause for celebration because I have not enjoyed it. It's been a whistle-stop tour of various theoretical concepts in linguistics and it hasn't been at all clearly written. I also struggle to grasp most of these things - theoretical concepts are not my thing, I need concrete examples - and also Chomsky's universal grammar sounds like absolute bullshit to me; an innate template for learning language? Give me a break. Language is acquired from interaction and I can't help feeling that there's some sexism at work here because who do children traditionally interact most with? Heaven forfend women's work gets credited. I do need to read the history of women in linguistics that was mentioned in the first block, but I just haven't had the brainspace yet. Anyway, I've ploughed through it over the holidays and am now about three weeks ahead, and I just need to get the assignment done. I am reminding myself that this course is an introduction to linguistics so as to give us as many avenues as possible to choose from when we specialise, and I don't have to be interested in everything, and I don't have to understand what I'm not interested in, as long as I can do the assignments well enough, and I think I can. Well, they haven't released the final assignment yet because it's a new course, they're releasing the course material and assignments gradually, which I will absolutely be complaining about, because we haven't been able to look at the final assignment and figure out what we need to be concentrating on, whereas students on future presentations will get the whole lot up front. But ANYWAY. Block two is done, and once I've got the assignment out the way I can move on.
We went for a lovely walk in the Forest of Dean with my parents on Friday - it was freezing cold and very sunny and we went round part of the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail which was absolutely delightful. Photos under the cut! I am something of a modern-art-and-sculpture nerd, in a fairly specific way (I can't describe what I like but I know it when I see it); I took LOADS of photos in galleries in Finland and I still haven't sorted them out to post here, but I am DETERMINED.
I have made progress on my I-am-not-going-to-sabotage-myself-any-more, as reported elsewhere, and have got myself tickets for Soul Asylum and Damiano David (I am going to be a very old person with an identity crisis in a sea of screaming young persons but actually I do not care XD ), and am contemplating seeing Bloodywood in Bristol just after my birthday.
I've been learning Italian via Duolingo, having finished (boom-boom!) the Finnish course before I went to Helsinki and become a little bored with the daily review; I had a bit of a go at Swedish given how much of it I come into contact with in Helsinki, and then got thoroughly distracted, probably to nobody's surprise XD but I'm greatly enjoying spotting the echoes of Latin, and the faint similarities to the French I learned 30-odd years ago. And I've started spotting words in Måneskin's lyrics and that's always an awesome feeling, when something suddenly makes sense :D
I think that's probably enough for now. I am not fond of January Photos of the sculptures we saw in the Forest under the cut!
We only saw three or four out of the 18 on the trail, but I'm going to go back for a walk round the whole route when the missus is out there on her mountain bike :D So...more later, maybe!
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Niniyx: Family Reunion (Pt. 2)
You know that flavor of writer's block where you'll write just about anything except what you probably should write? Yeah...Not to mention I've got the whole college thing going on, weird to think that the semester is almost over already. I'm also maybe a bit too much of a perfectionist with my writing and if something isn't the way I want it I'll just let it gather dust. But anyway, enjoy my former dnd character continuing to have a shitty father.
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The saltwater flooded the hold of the ship as the cannon fire became too much. The crew scrambled to try and save it, but in the slight chance they managed to, it wouldn’t be for long.
Thirteen.
She walked towards the helm and signaled to the crew to leave the drowning vessel. Something hit her shoulder, stopping her in her tracks. Looking over at the other ship, she watched as an archer was surrounded in a ring of flame. A moment later she felt the chill of blood being dried onto her clothes and then pain that threatened to bring her to her knees.
"Captain!"
"I'm fine," she snapped. “Just get us away from that ship.”
The crewman hesitated, then nodded and she stormed into her quarters, her wolf following close behind. She reached for the nearest bottle of alcohol knowing full well it wouldn’t help much, but it was the thought that counted.
“Had to be a fucking arrow,” she muttered under her breath before pulling the cork form the bottle with her teeth. She took a long drink while tugging her dagger from its sheath.
The wound burned, the pain making her dizzy as she carefully removed the arrow. It fell to the floor, and she followed shortly after it, gasping in pain. She pressed her hand to the wound and drew on whatever arcane energy she could manage. The pain lessened but didn’t subside.
Mind reeling, she reached for the arrow, checking for any signs of poison or intended adverse effects. Forcing energy into another spell, she watched as a magical aura surrounded the seemingly normal arrow. The unfamiliar curse clung thick to the projectile, she swore loudly and snapped it over her knee, the wound seething at the movement.
The rest of her body hit the floor with an audible and heavy thud as she attempted to simply will the pain away. A mass of white fur came into view. The wolf sniffed at her, nose butting gently against her hand.
She halfheartedly patted his side. “I’m alright buddy.”
In the middle of bandaging her shoulder she heard a knock on the door, immediately followed by Lander entering her quarters.
“Why didn’t you come to me when you-” he paused. “What are you doing? Let me heal you.”
“Don’t waste your energy,” she said as he stepped closer.
“Stop pulling that bullshit with me,” he scolded, reaching out and putting a hand on her shoulder.
“I already tried,” she clarified and shoved his hand away. “It didn’t do much.”
Any annoyed reply he had prepared was lost as he furrowed his brow. “What?” he asked, looking her up and down as if it would answer his question.
“Whatever the fuck kind of magic was in that arrow is some nasty shit.” She followed his gaze to the splintered arrow on the floor. “It was made to make somebody suffer.”
While he was already visibly annoyed, she could see the way his jaw tensed and the twitch in his ears. He nodded and took a deep breath that did nothing to relax him.
“Okay,” he said simply, taking the bandages from her and finishing the job.
“Thanks,” she muttered.
There was a heavy moment of silence between them before he spoke again. “You really couldn’t have had a less sadistic father?”
She laughed lightly, glad for his attempt at distracting her with humor. Despite his, at times, harsh disposition towards her, he had his own way of showing he still cared.
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If you stuck to the end of this, thanks! I appreciate it.
#dnd#dnd oc#dnd5e#dnd character#dnd backstory#dnd homebrew#tiefling#tiefling ranger#tiefling character#pirates#there's going to be so many pirates#niniyx#captain lily#rage writes
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