@coolseabird because you asked🤣 and I have far too free time rn and so much art and fic of her and I could literally post about her for days
my Tav (who's real name is Tal'diira Baenre, who is also Minthara's youngest sister) [[I did NOT know Minthara was like... one of *THE Baenre's* for all of early access bc I thought she would just be like, a random/distant family member and not....one of Quenthel's daughters. But then come full release I realized Minthara WAS one of the daughters and had to basically face the fact I had unintentionally made my Tav her sister. and I had killed her at the goblin camp. and I felt sooo bad about it I wrote a fix it fic and modded Minthara back in]]
Class: Bard, with 2 lvl cleric dip
Baby girl is the annoying bard child of the family, she grew up idolizing her uncle, Jarlaxle. But given how strictly she was raised she became a lot more reserved as she got older (she's around 122 years old). She dyes her hair white, even though it's naturally black, at her mother's insistence. So similar to how Minthara mentions having a complicated relationship with her mom, I imagined Tav would feel the same. Feeling so weird about intimacy/safety because the person supposed to protect you most, who did protect you as a baby, also now tries to kill you maybe :/ but she has a younger brother (the true baby of the family) who she helped raise. I imagine her baby brother is like oddly softhearted and she felt like she had to protect/shield him a bit by being even More Intimidating so no one would try to fuck with her and by extension him. I'm of course like completely making this up but; I have decided the Baenre siblings all have a "yeah we'll kill each other but we'll double kill anyone who tries to hurt one of my siblings" vibe.
I really liked the idea of a high CHA character who was quiet/disarming/unsettling in the way they used it <- this was my entire basis for the character when i first played bg3 back in like 2020 lol and I happened to make a lolth sworn cleric and had so much fun that This whole fic thing evolved. She was raised to be a priestess of Lolth, until she fails her 5th trial and basically fled. Now furious that Lolth made her kill her wife, she wants revenge on a god, no big. So maybe several weeks into her escaping she finally makes it to the surface (see's the moon for the first time 😏) and is immediately picked up by the nautiloid, makes a new best friend (Shadowheart) and the rest of the gang drive her up the wall especially the vampire. So now she's unpacking all that :)
// Doing the thing I said an hour ago I wouldn't do— Minthara's younger siblings, in order: Jereth, Dhaunirra (☠), the twins Filgred (☠) and Beslanna (☠), Myrineyl and Aumon
Religion. Un vénérable bouddhiste tué par la junte birmane, des moines en “grève de l’aumône”
Des soldats de la junte ont tué un moine boudhiste de haut rang le 19 juin. L’armée a d’abord nié sa responsabilité, avant de la reconnaître. Plusieurs monastèr…
— À lire sur www.courrierinternational.com/article/religion-un-venerable-bouddhiste-tue-par-la-junte-birmane-des-moines-en-greve-de-l-aumone
Quick thought for the whole”AUs as Pokémon” thing!
Have you considered an Ink-Error duo with Ink being a Fairy/Paychic type and Error being a Dragon/Dark type? They’d both be immune to one of the other’s types, then (Dragon for Ink, Psychic for Error). Not a big thing, just a little thought I had :>
Oh! And if the Sakuratcha idea ends up being tea (I know you said it’ll probably be a cake or something but! Just in case!), you could make it part of a little trio and give Dream a hot chocolate inspired one and Blue a coffee inspired one!
Oh, I think I can make that work. I don't think I included it on that list of ideas/concepts I made, but I have a concept name of "Artisune" ("Artisan" + "Kitsune"). And the counterpart I was gonna make for Error, though I don't have a name for it yet, would be based on a Nekomata. As a small reference to my own little Yokai AU. I was originally gonna have Artisune be a Psychic/Ghost type, but I think Fairy/Psychic can also work pretty well. I don't know how I'll make the Dragon/Dark typing work for a Nekomata theme, but maybe I can switch the Nekomata for something else? There are dragon yokai, right? Or maybe I could save the Kitsune-Nekomata combo for something else, and these typings could be used for a new pair of AUmon. Choices, choices.
Ngl the typings give me Sylveon vs Hydreigon vibes. Or like, Gardevoir vs Hydreigon. I really like Mega Gardevoir, I wish they'd bring Mega Evolution back from the box of abandoned concepts.
Part of the problem I'm having with Sakuratcha is coming up with the colors/design in my head. I know that I need to incorporate both pink (for the cherry blossoms) and green (for the matcha) into it, but do I want there to be more pink than green? I don't hate green Pokemon (or, in this case, green shinies) but some of them, like Espeon's, don't have the... right shade of green, for me? Like Dragonite, Mewtwo, Teddiursa, and Salamence? Good shinies, I like these green Pokemon. But Espeon, Ursaring, Stantler, and Scizor? Not so much. I don't want my Inkmon to be a shade of green that I don't like. But matcha also typically isn't a lighter or mintier shade of green... at least, none that I've ever seen. I mean, I could just use existing cakes or something as reference, but you know what I mean.
Look at this green shiny. This is a good green. I love Teddiursa.
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