#cailo suncatcher

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OC Kiss Day 4. It doesn't matter what anyone says about him now. It doesn't matter what he did, or how long ago it was. I remember the kind of person my brother was.

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Day 3 of OC Kiss Week: Cailo blows a kiss to YOU! She sees you out there. Go take a break and do something for yourself.

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Tagged by @arendaes for the little school Picrews. Lilindel sibling dating sim

I'm a lil sleepy and don't know who to taggg so I will be passing on this one sorryyyyy. If you are reading this and desire it... tagged in spirit

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I guess since I've posted them both twice this week I will give one note regarding the fact that their surnames appear to be different. Caina and Cailo properly don't have a "surname," but would use their clan name as an additional identifier to given name- in their case, it would be Lilin dai lae. Caina has gradually shifted to using a distorted form of the clan name which is easier to pronounce for Common speakers- years of having it mispronounced have caused him to give up on insisting on it, and he has complicated feelings about continuing to use it in exile anyway. It reminds him of home in the best and worst ways. Cailo, on the other hand, has taken her self-styled moniker out of a touch of rebellious flair- she has a rather jaded attitude about her home and her people, and the grandiose title in a foreign language is a marker of self-determination.

I swear to god the other sibling is normal about the clan name.

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Curiosity can never truly kill a cat when it's what always brings her back.

Rare instance of posting one of the random characters I sometimes tag posts with- this is Cailo Suncatcher, a self-taught genius wizard with a vendetta against the gods who has never known fear. I originally made Cailo as a backstory character for my rogue in Curse of Strahd- I wanted to flesh out his life before exile by giving him more positive connections, and one of those was a precious little kid sister he loved with all his heart. Cailo took on a bit of a life of her own after I became interested in the decades that passed between Caina's exile and Strahd- eventually she became a character I really enjoyed having in oneshots as both a PC and NPC. The bitter memories of her childhood have made her an ambitious arcanist fascinated by the makeup of the world. She has a knack for getting herself tangled in deadly situations for curiosity or to prove a point in her strange theory of the meaning of life, but somehow she always escapes unharmed and never learns anything except how to put herself in stupid danger more effectively. She has a deep love of people in general, but her flighty personality and contempt for the norms and structures that most rely on for stability mean that she seldom makes deep, lasting connections.

Although she left home with the intention of finding her brother and unraveling the truth of the tragedy that hung over her home, she doesn't know what she'd do if she actually encountered him, and there's a prickling unease she feels sometimes when she considers that the truth might not be what she wants to believe. As much as she claims to be pursuing him, the fact is that she's in love with the journey and no longer wants to imagine the end.