#druid!jack frost

[sweeetcheeese]

𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭, 𝘊𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘴. 𝘉𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘫𝘢𝘸, 𝘍𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘭, 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘸.

~Sleep Token Some more of my Druid!Jack being a silly lil guy during the full moon <3

[argentavis-paws]

I am not immune to Hijack (read Soul Of A Druid by Silverlysilence its amazing)

Its not direct fanart for it but its definitely inspired

[northernbluetongue]

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Good spotting! Jack’s tribe has been inspired by druids and their closeness to the natural world. I’m surprised you managed to link them together with how few drawings I’ve made of the au. Their clothing does have a lot to do about the fact that Jack’s tribe is very solitary and isolated, so they don’t get a lot of trading ships passing by. If not hand made, then most of their clothings are hand me downs and altered to fit. They’ll patch up tunics again and again until it looks like bits of fabric sown together to form something tunic shaped. They get very good at embroidering very quickly. The odd errand boy will go to the trading markets every other month for supplies, but other than that, they’ve got everything they need in their island.

[maybesomebeesorthings]

TWST D&D Characters

Partially inspired by Book 6, but largely because I love Dungeons and Dragons; me and my partner came up with this list, if anyone wants me to elaborate I will, I just didn't want a thesis length post

This is all for fun, we borrowed some of the subclasses from unofficial content because we thought it would fit, some people are multi-classed, some aren't

Heartslabyul

Riddle Rosehearts: High Elf School of Abjuration Wizard

Trey Clover: Human Oath of the Watcher Paladin

Cater Diamond: Tiefling College of the Maestro Bard

Ace Trappola: Fire Genasi Arcane Trickster Rogue

Deuce Spade: Water Genasi Cavalier Fighter

Savanaclaw

Leona Kingscholar: Leonin Eldritch Knight Fighter

Ruggie Bucchi: Tabaxi College of Eloquence Bard

Jack Howl: Frost Wolf Way of the Open Hand Monk

Octavinelle

Azul Ashengrotto: Sea Elf Pact of The Fathomless Warlock

Jade Leech: Air Genasi Circle of Spores Druid

Floyd Leech: Tiefling Storm Sorcerer

Scarabia

Kalim Al-Asim: Stout Halfling College of Glamour Bard

Jamil Viper: Aasimar Order of the Profane Soul Blood Hunter, Pact of The Great Old One

Pomefiore

Vil Schoenheit: High Elf Ambition Domain Cleric

Rook Hunt: Wood Elf Gloom Stalker Ranger/College of Swords Bard

Epel Felmier: Half-Elf Path of the Ancestral Guardian Barbarian

Ignihyde

Idia Shroud: Hill Dwarf Battle Smith Artificer

Ortho Shroud: Warforged Artillerist Artificer/College of Lore Bard

Diasomnia

Malleus Draconia: Gold Dragonborn Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer

Lilia Vanrouge: Eladrin (flips between Winter and Spring most often) Oath of Vengeance Paladin/College of Whispers Bard

Silver: Aasimar Fey Wanderer Ranger

Sebek Zigvolt: Half-Elf Oath of Devotion Paladin

Ramshackle

The Prefect: Human Beastmaster Ranger

Grim: Tabaxi School of Evocation Wizard

I miss D&D

[uniasus]

Doing all the author interview questions courtesy of @rockinlibrarian so....here goes nothing.

How many works do you have on AO3? 205

What's your total AO3 word count? 1,242,624 (I've been around for awhile, okay?)

What are your top 5 fics by kudos? Herald of Winter - ROTG crack fic about Mother Nature not allowing Jack (the fall seasonal) to join the guardians. The Perfect Excuse - Mulan AU where when Shang tells her to go home, she does. There are...consequences. The Moon's Gift - ROTG angst fic where Jack view's his guardianship as a boon because now he can die. Defender - BBC Merlin fic where Merlin steps in to protect other servants and Arthur sees Merlin treating the resulting injuries. The Big Three In The Life Of Jack Frost - ROTG Jack Frost interacting with Mother Nature, Old Man Winter, and Peter Pan, setting up a series about how Jack is a seasonal experiment between Gaia and MiM to replace Old Man Winter.

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? I try to! Comments make me happy, why not continue the joy chain? I want readers to know I appreciate them.

What fic has the angstiest ending? Uhhhh. My most common additional tag is Angst. But let's go with Vigil which has Merlin staying in his cell, waiting for Arthur to free him. Arthur keeps waiting for Merlin to bust out with magic. And then it ends with the Druids sacking Camelot and this really raw line:

Arthur burned with the ashes of his father and best friend scattered at his feet.

What fic has the happiest ending? Uhh. Maybe Perfect Excuse? Things are...corrected there. Grocery List Goals has an expected happy ending - Vanya's gotta get kidnapped first though. Did You Waste It? ends with the establishment of a found family for the Honor Without Thieves crowd!

Do you write crossovers? Previously answered.

Have you received hate on AO3? Eh. I've 100% had people drop into my comments that they don't agree with what I've written (they disagree with a ship, don't think something is logical) that I would call rude but not outright hate.

Do you write smut? Occasionally. Most recent was a post-S4 reunion between Yami and Yugi. It's over a year old, I don't do it often. I am working on a smutting sequel.

Have you had a fic get stolen? If I have, I don't know.

Have you had a fic get translated? If I have, I don't know.

Have you co-written a fic? No.

What's your fave ship? Cannot answer. There's so many....

What's a WIP you want to finish but never will? I'm so, so scared Veritas is the answer. I know a lot of people want that updated. I probably will also not finish ...And Then Came The Reaper. Sorry Jack, you will forever host the embodiment of death.

What are your writing strengths? Previously answered

What are your writing weaknesses? I'm often too subtle - I think I'm leaving clues for people, but I'm not. How many of you noticed the seeds I planted in Puzzlebox that Yami's soul room....isn't. Or in Hell's Secret that Crowley used to be Lucifer until I spelled it out? Sometimes I want to surprise people and reveal things at the right time, but I know I've had conversations with friends over my original stuff where they completely missed something that would have explained a part of the story.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages on AO3? Do it if it's natural for the character.

What's the first fandom you wrote for? Technically I think Into the Land of the Unicorns. But that you can find on A03 - D. Gray Man.

What fandom/ship have you not written but want to? Previously answered

What's your fave fic you've written? I cannot choose. I have 200+ titles and they're all special.

[thaliawashere]

If Mother Nature can wear white after Labor Day, then New Englanders can make their own fashion rules.

[northernbluetongue]

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New batch of dnd-inspired art! They already look like an rpg party so working on these was fun. Thanks to everyone who suggested classes (and archetypes! I’ve neglected those in the past), here’s what I chose:

Pitch is a sorcerer (Shadow Magic), Sandy is a druid (Circle of Dreams, he’s got some hybernation-thing going on), North is a barbarian (Path of the Ancestral Guardian), Tooth is a ranger (Swarmkeeper) and Bunny is a monk (Way of the Kensei)

(Plus Jack as an Arcane Trickster rogue but I drew him two years ago)

[deepcutdave]

Rambling ideas: The Defenders

thinking about the Avengers roster I posted a while ago. So, who would I have on the Defenders?

Now, the Defenders to me always worked when they were a non team. No set roster, no HQ. Pretty much the anti-avengers.

Ok, so who's on the team then?

Only three, but from there that would determine who would handle the problem.

Dr. Strange (science based fellow drawn into magic). Main leader, plus top magic guy

Dr. Voodoo (AKA. Brother Vodoo) Magic based guy, drawn to science then back to magic.

Dr. Banner. Pure science.

Rest of the team later.

For the rest of the roster, like I said, rotating but the ones on constant standby:

The Valkryie-(one of the Defenders mainstays and can lead in a pinch. Muscle and godly power in one package)

Nighthawk (Marvel's Batman. Gadgets and a human approach)

Nightcrawler (mutant teleporting plus you might need someone who can bless any body of water when you fight Dracula)

Tagak the Leopard Lord (blind martial artist who can see via large cats, travel through mirrors and might be a catman.)

Mechmage (mage, scientist and massage expert. Could be a field agent for Strange or Voodoo)

Jack Frost (ice being, might be a Frost Giant)

For the last series, the core members were under a curse that compelled them all to appear during a crisis. What this curse were to start again but with random members of the team? There's been a LOT of members (I think MIghtygodking may have made this same plot at one point). Basically what if Deadpool, Cadaver, and Dr. Druid are told they have to save the world?

[scoobybuddie]

October 2023 Book Ratings

Ghostman by Roger Hobbs (Paperback Version) - 4 out of 5 star rating

The Stray Dogs by Orlando A. Sanchez (Kindle Unlimited Version) - 5 out of 5 star rating

The Little CEO by Nora Phoenix (Kindle Version) - 3 out of 5 star rating

Pretty Policeman: The Case Of The Suspicious Stripper by Fifer Rose (Kindle Unlimited Version) - 4 out of 5 star rating

The Tower by Gregg Hurwitz (Paperback Version) - 3 out of 5 star rating

Thief's Honor by Ernest Dempsey (Kindle Unlimited Version) - 3 out of 5 star rating

Faker by Kiki Clark (Kindle Unlimited Version) - 3 out of 5 star rating

Sleuth & Psychic by Layla Lawlor (Kindle Unlimited Version) - 5 out of 5 star rating

A Warlock Called Jacob by Michelle Frost (Kindle Unlimited Version) - 3 out of 5 star rating

A Vampire Called Leander by Michelle Frost (Kindle Unlimited Version) - 4 out of 5 star rating

Logan by Macy Blake (Kindle Version) - 3 out of 5 star rating

Siren's Debt by Richard Amos (Kindle Version) - 3 out of 5 star rating

Getaway by Casey Cox (Kindle Version) - 3 out of 5 star rating

Kill Shot by Vince Flynn (Hardback Version) - 3 out of 5 star rating

Hellspawn by Richard Amos (Kindle Version) - 3 out of 5 star rating

Reborn by Richard Amos (Kindle Version) - 3 out of 5 star rating

The Terminal List by Jack Carr (Hardback Version) - 3 out of 5 star rating

Working Out The Kinks by Misha Horne (Kindle Version) - 3 out of 5 star rating

Tunnel Of Bones by Victoria Schwab (Kindle Version) - 5 out of 5 star rating

Subway Slayings by C.S. Poe (Kindle Version) - 4 out of 5 star rating

Hell and High Water by Charlie Cochet (Kindle Version) - 3 out of 5 star rating

Vampire Kisses by Ellen Schreiber (Paperback Version) - 3 out of 5 star rating

The House On Druid Lake by Isabelle Adler (Kindle Version) - 3 out of 5 star rating

Kissing Coffins by Ellen Schreiber (Paperback Version) - 3 out of 5 star rating

Vampireville by Ellen Schreiber (Paperback Version) - 3 out of 5 star rating

Dance With A Vampire by Ellen Schreiber (Hardback Version) - 3 out of 5 star rating

[sweeetcheeese]

𝔍𝔬𝔨𝔲𝔩 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔰𝔱𝔦

[on his way to see his Viking Chief husband]

[bignostalgias]

Collected thoughts on the Neverafter AU 💀 Neverafter spoilers ahead! If fantasy horror and shenanigans are your thing, I highly recommend sitting down with some bubblegum whisky and having the time of your life watching this show.

Any and all dnd stat stuff is wibbly-wobbly I’m just here to vibe

Merida, after following will-o-wisps off the forest path and to a witch’s hut (Baba Yaga mayhaps) is determined to find freedom from her family. Fooled by the witch, she curses her family to become bears - including herself. However, she is no ordinary animal, and is equipped with the power to make things right. Barbarian/Druid, with a splash of long range proficiency. Ylfa Snorgelsson’s relationship with Death and Growing Up matches well with Merida I think. Perhaps the antidote to her curse is a tapestry. Her twice and thrice upon a times make her monstrous bear form more prominent.

Rapunzel was never rescued from her tower. She taught herself magic behind Gothel’s back and eventually escaped. Her hair is changed by the Corruption and is somewhat of its own entity - it will heal people, but only if something of equal value is sacrificed to it (cue ~fullmetal alchemist, fullmetal alchemist in a slightly different voice~). I keep waffling on a class for her - for a while I was thinking ancient paladin (for frying pan weapon proficiency lmao) but ranger also works as well, as her closest counterpart in Neverafter *thematically* would be Rosamund du Prix. I think in Neverafter Rapunzel is a monk so y’know. Options.

Hiccup is the exiled prince of Berk, after his friendship with the sworn enemy of the kingdom - dragons - is exposed. He acquires three wishes and the Book from the Gander as he watches his mother make her last wish and crumble into bones, the night before he was banished. As he doodles and writes his observations in the Book, some words stick, and some do not. The Book as a safe haven for fairy tale characters is a nice spin on the dragon sanctuary too I think. He is an artificer but is granted new spells and insights whenever a new character is “put in the Book”. Vicious Mockery is just a him thing idk what to say. He also can grant bardic inspiration, same as Timothy Goose. Which is also a very Hiccup thing. Toothless is a dragon, he’s just a little guy. In another version of this Toothless IS the gander/golden goose, or close to it (the final image of Timothy on the goose is so *chefs kiss*) but at least in this drawing he is Hiccup’s friend and protector.

Jack Frost is a spirit, similar to PIB, the Hare, and the Fox. Stat-wise he might be closest to an celestial warlock and arcane trickster rogue (maybe an eladrin or reborn?), and his patron is of course, the Moon. His role in the Story is as an archetype, meant to support and encourage the heroes, where his wily mind and jokes can topple giants and change seasons. But without guidance from the Moon, his Corruption is that of loneliness and abandonment. He begins to learn how to be joyful again and find friendship as his journey with the others progresses.

as soon as Rapunzel was introduced in the grimmdark fairytale comedy dnd show my rotbtd-poisoned brain immediately wanted to draw the rest of the gang

[that1notetaker]

Jack, who? Never heard of him.

[sugarxrabies]

[lunarifie]

Steven universe

Max (camp camp)

Jay (ninjago)

Kai (the hollow)

Beetlejuice (the musical)

Honorary mentions: Aang (Avatar), Jack frost (rise of the guardians), Miles Morales (into the spider verse), Percy Jackson.

Hehe, @reeve-in-a-suit @squib-2006 @fires-of-ninjago @salem-the-druid

five comfort characters, five tags

(had to start a new thread, got too long) thanks for tagging me @loulooser ooh i like this okay - nick nelson (osemanverse) - aled last (osemanverse) - peeta mellark (hunger games) - linh song (keeper of the lost cities) - xavier hawthorne (the inheritance games)

tagging @lyssified @mister3127 @raeny-nights-and-faery-lights @weirdo09 @charliethinks

[trucks-having-sex]

dnd character is how many pop culture references/crack characters can exist.

some of my favorite examples include:

a sentient rat with a passion for cooking... who's also a necromancer. remy from ratatouille

a character found and raised by [insert different race] who was referred to as their race so much they thought it was their name. (ex. an elf raised by half-orcs was called elf so much they thought their name was Elf)

snow elf raised by high elves and taught to shun their snow/ice/cold magic. you're elsa

uldra warlock who uses a shepherd's crook to cast spells. jack frost from rise of the guardians

a sentient crow who steals shiny things and pretends to be a normal crow when caught. also very good at impressions because they're a crow (can also go this route with a druid if you so please)

sentient white german shepard with a lightning bolt tattoo, bard/barbarian class. bolt the motherfucking dog

the list goes on and on. the only limit is yourself

[hiccanna-tidbits]

The RotBTD+ Gang Plays DnD! (Feat. my ships, sorry not sorry XD)

So highkey I’ve actually been wanting to do a “The Gang Plays DnD” type post for AGES now, but then I saw @hobie-brown and @ohlooksheswriting-wips do DnD AU posts for RotBTD, and then I was like “Ah shit, I really should finish mine, eh?” So thank you to both of you for inspiring me to get off my ass and actually write the post!!!

Hiccup DMs. He comes up with this super complex plot revolving around dragons (because of course) where the party has to dismantle this society ruled by evil knights who want to genocide all of the dragons. Imagine his chagrin when the party wants to do nothing but fuck around in towns and aggravate NPCs 90% of the time.

They usually end up playing at Jack’s apartment, mainly because Hiccup’s dad doesn’t really want a bunch of loud nerds yelling about 20-sided dice in his household while he’s trying to work, if he can at all help it. Jack’s sister regularly barges into their living room and roasts the fuck out of Jack and his friends for being such damn nerds and eats all of their DnD snacks they’ve set out. If they’re in the middle of a combat session, she always gleefully proclaims that they’re all going to die. While Jack is annoyed by this, the rest of the party finds it deeply hilarious.

Jack Overland plays the absolute mayhem warlock Jack Frost, who got his powers through making a deal with the archfey Prince of Frost and has absolutely no qualms about being an evil god’s mortal Sower of Chaos. He spends the vast majority of the campaign doing such useful things as creating ice slicks under annoying NPCs and freezing people’s drinks. He also plays a Tiefling because absolutely no one can talk this boy out of playing the creepy demon race.

Rapunzel plays a woodland nymph druid who is also the party healer (because of course she is). Her name is probably Sunlily or something else suitably hippie-esque. Whenever there’s downtime (or whenever the rest of the party is also dicking around, and she can get away with it), Rapunzel likes to go into the nearest forest and pick the best berries and nuts for the rest of the party. She also loves baking fruit pies and cooking the best nymph food for her companions when given the chance. Definitely the party Cinnamon Roll (every party has one!). She often will turn into cute animals to distract the guards while the party infiltrates a building.

Merida’s character is the party archer and general ranged weapon master, as well as a raging lesbian. Hiccup learns very quickly that any male NPC who tries to flirt with her will very quickly get impaled with an arrow. She can’t ever decide if she wants to be a ranger or a rogue, so she multiclasses in both for flare. She also plays a Tiefling, and continually insists that her character is both scarier and sexier than Jack’s. In combat, she either Leeroy Jenkins her way in with a sword and just starts slashing every which way, or just shoots 90% of the enemies with arrows before the fight even starts. There’s really no in between. She can get away with this because she’s highkey one of the party tanks, and consistently deals a shitton of damage.

Anna plays a human bard, basically having read over the class options and going “Wait, in this one I get to make stylish medieval music??? And wear dramatic and garish outfits and a dumb hat??? And cast wacky illusion spells??? And do silly little magic tricks??? And INSPIRE EVERYONE??? Hell yeah, I’m in!!!” She mostly uses magic attacks in combat (definitely favors Tasha’s Hideous Laughter), but occasionally when she’s out of spell slots she’ll just take to slamming enemies in the face with her lute. She also has WAY too much fun with Vicious Mockery, let’s be real.

Elsa, upon hearing Jack’s character concept, rolls her eyes so far up in her head she can see her damn brain, and vows to play his concept, but serious–solely out of spite. She rolls up a super OP elf Chaos Sorcerer, filled with lots of brooding angst about how uncontrollable her winter powers can get if she isn’t careful. She combines it a bit with Storm Sorcerer so she can create literal blizzards, and Hiccup ends up allowing it just because he thinks it’s cool. Although Elsa’s character is undoubtedly aggravated by the rest of the party’s antics, she starts becoming grudgingly protective of these idiots and can deal some pretty crazy damage when her companions are threatened. She also contains one of the party’s only brain cells.

Eugene of course plays dashing rogue master thief Flynn Rider. Although his high deception and lockpicking skills certainly come in handy, he’s the most chaotic neutral fucker you’ve ever met and will take any excuse to rob NPCs blind or cheat them out of every cent they have in a tavern card game. It’s nigh impossible to get him to cooperate with the rest of the party much of the time, and often Elsa’s character has to either bribe him with some of her family’s gold or threaten to freeze him to stop him backstabbing one or more party members. Eugene’s character forces Hiccup to add in many more heist plotlines than he originally intended. This delights Eugene immensely, and sometimes he goes a bit crazy planning elaborate heists.

Moana plays a sorcerer water genasi. She can control any body of water, but she has a special affinity for controlling saltwater (i.e. the ocean lol). She also requests an animal handling bonus, but only with marine animals, solely because she thought it would be funny. She’s also an ex-pirate who robbed a lot of wealthy merchant ships and freed their slaves back in the day, which Merida thinks is incredibly badass. Moana tends to get bored and unengaged when there are no bodies of water to play around with, so Hiccup ends up having to add a lot more lakes, rivers, and oceans to the campaign than he originally planned on. Moana also takes a sailing skill, and thus the party often ends up traveling by boat. Typically Eugene and Rapunzel will infiltrate and hijack it, and Moana will sail it. Moana probably contains the party’s only other brain cell.

Astrid plays a gigantic berserker orc barbarian who is never without his trusty axe. Astrid is hands down the party’s top tank, and unquestionably deals the most damage every combat session. Much like Merida’s character, Astrid’s character is absolutely a shameless power fantasy. Hiccup pretty easily picks up on this, but is too polite to say anything about it. Jack also picks up on this, but is hardly as courteous as their DM, and teases Astrid mercilessly. Astrid is not amused.

Rapunzel requests that her weapon of choice be a frying pan, her justification being that her character found a discarded one at the edge of a human village outside her woods and mistaked it for a highly-dangerous human weapon. Hiccup is like “…you know what? Fuck it” and rolls up stats for a goddamn frying pan. Jack has nigh-endless admiration for Rapunzel for choosing such a goddamn memey, absurd, yet oddly effective weapon and it definitely makes the poor boy even more smitten with her than he already is.

Eugene and Merida have a bet going on who can sleep with more sexy barmaids. Merida is currently winning, much to Eugene’s chagrin. She’s not even inherently better at seducing NPCs, she and Eugene have the same charisma stat–she just consistently rolls better than Eugene. Eugene is incredibly salty about this.

Anna and Elsa want to be sisters in-game as well, but neither want to change their race–so Anna decides her character was adopted. Hiccup and the rest of the party go along with it, mainly because there’s something deeply hilarious about a regular human bard being adopted and raised by a family of high-powered elf ice mages.

Astrid is absolutely the sort of player who tends to get bored and restless outside of fights, and tends to fidget and twiddle her thumbs waiting for the next combat session. Jack picks up on this, and purposely does more roleplay for longer just to piss her off. He’s also just a very dramatic fucker and highkey loves roleplay.

When she’s not causing mayhem around the town or sleeping with hot women, Merida tries to entertain Astrid between combat sessions by offering to spar with her. Unfortunately, this does not usually end well for poor Merida, as even the most hardcore and badass of tieflings is prone to getting dumpstered by an 8-foot-tall barbarian orc with an axe. Astrid is, nonetheless, grateful to have someone to fight.

Rapunzel, Elsa, and Moana will humor Hiccup and attempt to actually play the main plot. Meanwhile, Jack, Merida, and Eugene are a DM’s worst nightmare. They constantly derail the damn campaign to fuck around, cause mayhem, and do inane shenanigans in every. Damn. Town. They go to. Anna is kind of a wildcard–she’ll typically go with whatever group looks like they’re going to be doing something more interesting. Astrid will go along with whichever group is more likely to get into a fight–which, often as not, is Jack and his posse of terrible Chaotic Neutrals (who have definitely pissed off a number of NPCs into attacking them).

As the campaign goes on, Elsa and Eugene become the beleaguered Party Mom and Dad. Both are quite aggravated by this–especially poor Eugene, who just wanted to play a morally-gray charming rogue who stole everything and got away with it and then accidentally ended up caring about these idiots he got stuck with.

Anna initially joins the campaign because she has a planet-size crush on Hiccup, and inevitably is the one who dragged Elsa into it too. Being the hopeless romantic that she is, Anna writes a love interest into her backstory. Hiccup eventually has the party run into said love interest, and Anna is overjoyed. He starts flirting with her as the love interest, and it’s easily the best 30 minutes of Anna’s life.

Moana and Elsa also give Hiccup pretty detailed backstories, and he works in little subplots for them. Moana gets to bring water back to a dying part of the jungle in the middle of a draught, while Elsa gets to go on a whole sidequest to explore her family history and how they came to be sorcerers.

Jack, Merida, and Eugene also give Hiccup fairly elaborate backstories, but Jack’s and Merida’s are like 99% memes and Dumb Shit. Hiccup tries to give all of them backstory-related plot hooks, but inevitably any hooks he provides are either stabbed, robbed, or frozen. Honestly any plot hook offered to these 3 will be all but spat in the face of and tossed off a cliff.

The one relevant part of Eugene’s backstory is that he and Rapunzel decide they used to be partners in crime before the campaign started. Rapunzel would infiltrate and scout out places he wanted to rob as small, unobtrusive animals (her preferred Wild Shape is a chameleon) and later distract the guards as a bunny or kitten while he went in and took every gold coin in sight. In return, Flynn Rider would bribe builders to not develop into Sunlily’s forest. Rapunzel and Eugene partly came up with this For Funsies, but also it was Rapunzel’s sneaky way of tricking Eugene into having prior connections in the party so he’d be less likely to betray them. It works pretty well–although the entire party is protective of Cinnamon Roll Sunlily, Flynn is certainly especially protective of her.

Astrid does the absolute bare minimum as far as backstories go. She is literally just here to smash stuff, slice people, and beat some fuckers up.

Rapunzel has a backstory, but she’s typically so invested in the main plot and the other party members that Hiccup rarely needs to bring it in to keep her engaged. She’s highkey the party emotional rock, and probably the only one keeping them all together.

On that note, Rapunzel’s character is the ONLY one who can get Jack’s character to take the plot even REMOTELY seriously. Like he’ll be dicking around in the nearest tavern challenging the nearest orc to a drinking game, and Rapunzel will come in and ask him to help them on a Main Plot Quest. And he’ll be like “come onnnnn I’m having funnn” and she’ll be like “Jack pleeeeeease?” and you just. Can’t resist Sunlily’s puppy dog eyes. At all. Also, whenever Sunlily is genuinely threatened, any silliness immediately goes out the window and Jack Frost is OUT FOR BLOOD.

For better or for worse, Rapunzel is not immune to being looped into Jack’s shenanigans. Occasionally if either Merida or Eugene have a particularly hare-brained scheme she’ll go along with it, but by and large Jack is the most successful in convincing her to temporarily abandon the plot and cause mild mischief with him. They once wasted half a session creating an elaborate “ice theme park” for some squirrels in the forest.

Hiccup tries to get Merida to play the main plot by eventually having there be no more sexy female NPCs to seduce in the towns they go to. Unfortunately, this backfires–Merida just hooks up with Moana’s character instead. When asked to roll for how good the lay is, Merida gets a nat 20–and thus her character and Moana’s character end up hooking up regularly throughout the rest of the campaign.

Hiccup introduces a few Wise Old Mentor-type NPCs to guide the party throughout the campaign. While Rapunzel, Elsa, Moana, and Anna actually try to listen to them and take their advice, Merida, Jack, and Eugene absolutely refuse to take them seriously and mercilessly play pranks on them.

At one point, Hiccup gives the party the option to attempt to tame a group of wild dragons and use them as mounts. They all have to make animal handling checks. Anna, Rapunzel, Elsa, and Moana pass. The rest of the party fails, with Jack and Eugene crit-failing. Hilarity ensues.

Hiccup ends up bringing back Anna’s backstory love interest as an NPC regular. Anna thinks he’s just being a good friend and a good DM and trying to incorporate her backstory as much as he can, but really, he just wants an excuse to regularly flirt with her. He hardly has the balls to out-of-game.

Merida comes out as gay toward the end of the campaign. Everyone in the group is extremely supportive, of course, but everyone is also like “Merida…with the amount of barmaids you’ve banged…and the amount of times you and Moana’s character hooked up…this isn’t exactly surprising.”

Hiccup actually finds a way to use Jack and Elsa’s same-concept-opposite-execution characters to the plot’s advantage. He decides one of the main villains will have a prophecy saying he’ll be taken down by a powerful ice mage. The party manages to fool this guy into thinking this ice mage is Jack, and sends Jack to fight him. As soon as the villain sees Jack, he’s like “WHAT??? THIS clown???” (word has absolutely spread throughout the land of Jack not using his ice powers for anything besides mildly annoying trolling). Naturally, the bad guy lets his guard down after thinking he’s going to fight this literal joke, and then Elsa crashes in from the side and absolutely dumpsters him.

Jack tries to defeat the final boss by just annoying him so much that he leaves. Unfortunately, he just annoys him so much that he attacks Rapunzel’s character. Jack’s just like “oh HELL no” and attacks with absolutely nothing held back. Turns out he’s pretty terrifying when he’s not using his magic for Dumb Antics.

During the final boss of the campaign, the Big Bad tries to one-shot Moana’s character, and Merida’s character super theatrically jumps in front of her to take the blow instead. Rapunzel just barely manages to heal Merida’s character, but it’s a really close call. During all this, Merida is like “ah shit...maybe I’m NOT just in this to get fantasy-laid.” After the fight’s over, her and Moana’s characters have a big dramatic love confession and share a Big Damn Kiss in front of everyone. It’s pretty epic.

After the final session of the campaign, Merida drags Moana outside Jack’s apartment and sputters and trips over her words for a solid minute before she finally gets out that through all this nonsense...well...maybe it’s not just in the game that she thinks Moana is hot. Moana just gets this HUGE grin on her face and says “c’mere, Leeroy Jenkins” and just pulls Merida in and kisses her. Cue the rest of the party barging in on them. Merida and Moana freeze, and there’s a moment of terrified silence...and then the entire party starts cheering them on like “took you long enough!”

The entire rest of the party could detect the sexual tension. Literally all of them.

But Eugene is like “HA, THIS MEANS IF WE DO A SEQUEL CAMPAIGN I’M WINNING THAT BET! BECAUSE YOU’RE GONNA BE DATING MO’S CHAR AND THUS NOT ABLE TO SLEEP WITH ANY MORE BARMAIDS!”

By the epilogue session, Jack and Rapunzel are dating. Merida and Moana are also dating. Hiccup and Anna STILL haven’t figured out why they’re so prone to spending half the session flirting when Anna’s love interest shows up, and Hiccup STILL hasn’t figured out why he likes to have Anna’s love interest show up so often. Bless their souls. Maybe they’ll figure it out next campaign...?

Damn I actually really like this...maybe if people like it I’ll do some incorrect quotes or a drabble or something??? Or maybe some HCs from next campaign???