#definitely wanna write a skyrim verse

[rhaigal]

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[reachfolk]

(omg i accidentally unfollowed you trying to send this i am sorry king </333)

idk if you've ever done a proper rundown of them, i'll have to do a deep dive of your blog later HSDJSH but i'd love to hear any tidbits you have about alexandria's story! how'd her and lucien meet? does she do regular skyrim stuff or does she have a completely different storyline? you are galaxy brain i'd love to hear what ur kids are getting up to <3333

lol it's no worry bb ❤ you're too sweeettt and omg tysm for giving me an excuse to rave abt my beloved lexi, i haven't had much time to write for her lately and i miss her !!

she met lucien at helgen. he had just gotten in from cyrodiil and was kinda on the hunt for some mercenary to hire to keep him safe on his expedition. alexi was actually sent by her coven head (who's an oracle of vaermina) to helgen, because she'd seen dreams of the attack at helgen and knew alexandria was a key figure in the upcoming events. when alduin attacked, alexi was helping people evacuate and healing them as best as she could. lucien was one of those people, but by the time they were out, she'd used up so much magicka that she was too lightheaded to stay on her feet. this time it was lucien who helped her, as he found some cover to keep them safe as she regained her strength. from there on, they went to whiterun and the rest is history!

as for what she does, she is the ldb in my main verse for her, so she runs through the main quest. i am trying to rework it, since i have some... criticisms about the canon storyline 😬 she definitely is this really sweet, lovable gal that loves helping people, so she would def help people around whatever town she's in while she's out adventuring.

most of what she does outside of dragonborn stuff is related to her coven though, so there's lots of original plotlines i got with her! she's kinda their resident errand gal: she gathers supplies for everyone's independent work, which usually involves delving into dwarven ruins for esmeralda or gathering bodies for hypatia (usually she goes to the nearest bandit hideout since they're fresh lol). she also has a plotline of helping different tribes to build some sense of allyship between them. so far i've got ideas for the doomfang clan, bear-heart clan, and boneshaper clan. i kind of want to build her and ophelia up as very key figures in the reach to better organize the independent tribes into a more united front that fights to retake the reach from the empire once again.

also, seeing as her primary deities are namira and hircine, i wanna add in some more plots for her working with them, beyond just the canon things!

[pyratetm-a]

‘AU!’

My Skyrim au sure is a thing I’d like to get more use out of.  I actually have a small write up on it right here, so there’s not really too terribly much I can say about it beyond that as much as he does not give a shit about the Civil War, because that’s between the elves and the nords, as far as he’s concerned, I’d love to get him dragged into that mess.  He’s definitely the only Silencer in Skyrim, because after the blow out of the sanctuaries in Cyrodiil by the Thalmor, and he might even be the last in Tamriel - though it’s probably that he’s among the very, very few.  And he’s got no designated Speaker, so he can do right what he pleases (which he would do anyway, let’s been real here), considering he thinks the Falkreath sanctuary is a flaming dumpster fire that needs to get slammed by the Wrath of Sithis.  

He is not dovahkiin, obviously, but he’s...I guess you’d call him an available companion that’s going to wander off and do his own thing pretty often, because that’s just how he is.  In that way, though, a dovahkiin doesn’t have to be with the Dark Brotherhood to recruit him, because he has business with the Thieves Guild, as well, and does his best to ingratiate himself with those that can be useful to him in Skyrim (like Idgrod Ravencrone, though it should also be mentioned he’s hot for her so that’s a bit of a special situation).  This verse actually ties into @roipirate‘s necromancer au for Elizabeth a bit, so there’s definitely mentions of a witch in a tower from him, though by all rights they are most certainly not a thing in this verse.  I think they’d actually attempt to really kill each other, if we’re being honest, and he isn’t going to be the one to blink first in that business partnership (he supplies her with corpses for a fee).

Unless a character is Dark Brotherhood, what they get of him is that he’s got ties to the Thieves Guild, though he’s not a member, because he’s not going to be volunteering his primary occupation as a divinely charged assassin to just anyone.  Or they might know he’s something of a treasure hunter with a taste for Dwemer and Nordic ruins - the kind of places that are known death traps.  Or they’ve seen him at the Drunken Huntsman in Whiterun, or Moorside Inn in Morthal, or the Ragged Flagon (or the Bee and Barb) in Riften.  Because he’s not running around in black and red leathers constantly, and if he is, he’s certainly not someone you want to bump into at that moment in time.  Or he’s seen with @ventureseek‘s Tali here and there, or especially with Cicero.

It’s a fun verse and I wanna do more with it, tbh.

au rambling : closed : @therapardalis

[reachfolk]

1-5 for the character development questions for Alexandria!

💛 from @korvanjund

this took forever to write cause of course i had waY too much to say omfl, but it was super fun!! tysm for the ask darlin <3

what (or who) would your character die for? live for?

family, family, family!! literally everything for alexi goes back to family. she may be on bad terms with her father's side (understatement of the century, but that's for question 3 lmao), but she would do literally anything for her siblings. protecting them is the main reason she's willing to overcome every fear in her fight against alduin. of course, she's also just as close with her aunt ursula. and she may have... a complicated relationship with her mother and father, she loves them and would do anything to keep them safe.

as for what she'd die for, she's just as dedicated to the cause of freeing the reach from nord control as most reachfolk. it's largely because she sees the reachfolk as an extension of her family. the reach is her home and she's so unabashedly proud of that. granted, she isn't as extreme in her views as the forsworn, but we're not gonna get into the highkey racism in the way bethesda wrote that whole faction lmao.

who (or what) does your character love most in the world? why?

this is such a hard question to answer cause like *slaps roof of alexi* this sweet girl can fit so much love in her. if she like, absolutely HAD to pick a handful of people, it would be her siblings (no, she couldn't pick between them even with a gun to her head, and tbh neither could they). i could literally go on for HOURS about her siblings and why they're all so close, but the tldr is that they're really the only people in the world that Get her. their social standing has always been in a really precarious place given how drastically different their mother and father's backgrounds are, and so they never particularly fit in with most kids from their social class. but they also didn't get very much of a chance to connect with their reachfolk heritage. i won't go so far as to call them outcasts, but they were definitely seen as... different, and there weren't many opportunities for them to feel like normal kids except for when they were with each other. but the other people alexandria is closest to are her aunt ursula, bothela (vanilla npc, the lady who runs the hag's cure), and ophelia from her coven.

that covers it for people, but the thing she loves most in the world is easily alchemy! it literally shows in every part of her mannerisms and shapes the whole way she looks at the world. a huge part of why she's so connected to namira is because she's so drawn to even the most grotesque things in the world, because there's opportunity in all of them to create something new and helpful. it's why she got so close to bothela, bc she's the one that trained alexi in alchemy since she was a kid.

who (or what) does your character hate most in the world? why?

this is ironic considering the first question but literally it's her uncles, thonar and thongvor silver-blood lol. i'm sure anyone who's been in markarth knows that they aren't exactly stand up dudes, but after the whole issue with the forsworn conspiracy came out, she probably had to be physically restrained by her companions to keep her from killing them then and there. she spent a huge part of her childhood knowing there was a target on her back and the backs of her parents and siblings, because there's nothing thonar and thongvor want more than to get rid of them entirely. despite the fact that she had such a fancy upbringing, her uncles were the reason none of them were ever given a real chance to rest. and then there's sooo much to say about how that exacerbated isobel's anxiety issues, which all of her kids including alexi later inherited. alexi literally carries that pain in her genes and she's never been able to get away from it no matter how hard she's tried.

again, this is one of those things i could talk about for ages, so if u wanna hear about one of the many times her uncles actively made an attempt on the lives of her parents and siblings, feel free to send me an ask abt it i'll happily tell u everything. there's like a 30k fic idea there but i have the gist of it all written in my drafts lol.

on top of all of that, she definitely has a LOT of issues with everything they do in the reach. like, ulfric stormcloak gets an honorary mention for this question, and the fact that they support him sure as fuck doesn't help. and considering the fact that she's been sent to cidhna mine and often helped out in the warrens, she's seen the worst of what the silver-bloods did to her people.

what is your character's main goal? does this goal change, or does it remain consistent throughout the story?

tbh this one is also hard to answer bc the game devs of bethesda are COWARDS and they didn't give us this option in the game even though all the pieces were there, but i feel like alexi would almost inevitably join the rebellion to liberate the reach. when she left home, she was still trying to make sense of things, and she just needed to put some distance between herself and all the things tearing her in different directions. she'd spent so much of her life trying to placate everyone that she couldn't figure out what her goal is until she was in a place where she didn't have to think about everyone else.

but no matter what, i think all roads lead to home for her. she may have had a strained relationship with the forsworn (esp when madanach was in prison and working for her uncles in secret), but she'd join when madanach is given free reign to control the rebellion as he sees fit rather than have to bend backwards to satisfy thonar. i personally hc that after that, the forsworn's actions are more controlled and they start to operate less like a disjointed faction of bandits and more like, yknow, people fighting for an actual cause. once she rebuilds her faith in the rebellion, she'd definitely join up.

does your character achieve their main goal? if so, does achieving this goal satisfy them?

again, hard to say since there's no in-game way for this to happen bc the devs were weak, BUT in my heart of hearts i like to pretend that there was a proper questline where u join up with madanach and retake the reach. after everything they've been through, i really hope it'll be canon that they finally are able to liberate themselves. i do think alexandria and her siblings would all do their part to help the rebellion, and their auntie was probably a proponent of the forsworn's rule during the great war, so they're in the clear. i'd imagine the situation is more complicated with their parents.

regardless of whether or not the forsworn are ever able to retake the reach, alexi definitely spends most of her life running around skyrim with the hope of fighting against people's prejudices against the reachfolk. (in the verse where she's the ldb) she kind of understands her role as an essential figurehead to the movement and how she's key to earning the nord's respect. i mean, it'd be hard to argue that they're evil savages when one of their own literally saved every single mortal soul on nirn. so, yeah, i think she feels pretty satisfied with that lol