#gw2 oc prompt

[mesmerblossoms]

What are your GW2 OCs doing for Wintersday?

Do they celebrate, or is there a different holiday they acknowledge? Do they do anything special this time of year? Travel to visit friends or relatives? Any traditions they follow?

[neverloseguy]

[shadowrunner8236]

@everyone

Tell me your commanders lore in the tags i wanna read

As there are no restrictions for this im gonna warn minors to consider all possible content warnings before reading the tags!

PLEASSEE go crazy pick one to three of your commanders and info dump to me about it all i want to see you guys writing and ik most of you are waiting for some one to ask so heres some propmts to help you out if you need!

Prompts

What drives them?

Whats their personal goal?

How does their culture (wherever they are from in your lore) affect them? [Ie do they go to festivals, miss home, have a grudge with a clan, person, or collage? Etc]

Do they have anyone they love?

Did any of their loves perish, who and why?

Do they have a major regret or loss?

U can make this a therapy sesh for them its ok

A dream they clung to, a hope or goal (if any) that kept them going through it all, or alternatively drove them to their end~

Go crazy go off the cuff! I wanna read so this may get reblogged a few times on my main!

[cait-sith]

October 2023, Day 11: Growth

Sutyari's probably my most fleshed out GW2 OC. He was a Pale Reaver who participated in the first assault on Mordremoth and was stranded in the jungle when his ship crashed. There, he was caught and put into a blighting pod and implanted with a Mawdrey seed. While he was eventually saved, the seed had already integrated, and he continued to hear Mordremoths voice even after the dragon's defeat.

[i-mybrunettelady]

also, stealing this community prompt for sure, bc it's so neat but.

gw2 community prompt: what is your commander's defining feature? their stature, their fashion sense, their physical appearance, their scars, freckles? what is their signature sign, in terms of physical appearance?

[wyldblunt]

okay really niche OC chat prompt today but. you know that common trope where a character is transported into an illusory world that shallowly fulfills all their wishes/removes all current conflicts ("oh my god, i'm back home in my warm bed, none of the horrible Plot Events actually happened, my dead loved one is alive and says 'what are you talking about, silly? are you feeling okay? i made breakfast! ^^'", etc), usually as a way to delay them from finding + defeating whoever is making the illusion or whatever

say your commander (or anyone) gets trapped in one of those. how long does it take them to figure out something's wrong (alternately if u have multiple ocs u wanna answer for, rank them from "immediately sniffs it out" to "would blissfully waste away there forever"). extra credit: what's everybody's insidious wish-fulfillment illusion world

[just-norn-things]

Thinking about them again.

Thinking about what idiots they are.

Thinking about how everyone can see it.

Thinking about how even when they realise, they can't fathom that the other person might feel the same, so they just bury their heads in the sand as if every waking moment isn't filled with yearning.

Yeah, just thinking about them.

[lyhil]

OC-tober Palette Week - 02

Quietly, Lyhil moved his fingers closer until they were sliding in between Harukehn's, gently interlocking in the damp sand. For a moment, he didn't say anything, content to just watch the water ripple under the gentle breeze.

"You're the first Sylvari," he finally spoke, "and the first person not drowned in drunkenness, who has looked at me - what I have done to myself - and not returned with some form of discomfort or disgust." He fell quiet. The sunset light was starting to fade to the dark purple hues of dusk, faint glimmering stars eagerly pushing through the remaining light. "So I'd like to do my best, no matter how hard it might be," he murmured. Harukehn - @harukehn

Prompt

[hawkepockets]

pepa lore ‼️

even though it’s theoretically valuable, pepa carries his favorite find from rata x with him—a pre-primordus asuran mancala game recovered with a few of its game pieces, small polished glass “stones” that had been treated with a glow-in-the-dark polish, and a couple tiny used-up household appliance power crystals that had apparently been subbed in for lost stone pieces, also with a faint residual glow. pepa has supplemented his own pieces to make a complete playable set.

& he’s FASCINATED by the old pieces bc asura have great dark vision, and presumably it would’ve been even better before the migration to the surface, so why make the pieces glow ? just bc it’s pretty ? was there an artificial day/night cycle in the ratas where night was so dark even asura couldn’t see small objects ? was it for the benefit of some other race with worse dark vision that the asura used to be friendly with, enough to play games together ? skritt maybe ? which would imply their interspecies relations used to be completely different ? or is it one-of-a-kind, designed for an individual asura with limited sight? who crafted this game? who did they play with? who did they love?

there’s no way to research any of these questions without going back underground so it’s a total mind boggler. and calming to play, and grounding to touch the ancient pieces from a version of his own culture that is completely extinct now thanks to destroyers, and remember why he has to stay in the dragon war.

[commanderhorncleaver]

Gaius's thoughts on Smodur? (@ratasum)

Gaius, for an extended period, rather idolized Smodur? This tapered off long before Icebrood Saga, but the most notable point for it during the run of the game is the early part of LW1, when the player is allowed to investigate/meet with the refugees in the Citadel, as well as dick around and see what the defense Quorum is up to before meeting with Rytlock. Apparently, the guards aren't supposed to let people through, but the commander's got special privileges, and you can talk to Smodur there--though I imagine the interaction is brief, as it is in-game, Gaius comes away from it all but preening.

Smodur, for all intents and purposes, was the epitome of what it meant to be Iron Legion, so Gaius had an inextricable desire to impress him. And then Gaius' viewpoint continues to grow and develop, on account of being the commander and most notably, while dead, he meets the ghost of a charr who died in a skirmish with Flame, and he suddenly recognizes how it all sucks.

IBS comes along and he's... not in a much happier spot. Smodur totes him around, and where just years ago he'd have reveled in it, he recognizes just how shitty it is. Then of course, killing Cinder.

Overall, his feelings towards Smodur are complicated--as someone who was also very much part of the War Machine of legion life, someone who lived and aspired to be part of the propaganda, he understands where Smodur is at, especially because not only is he a part of it, he is in charge--Smodur has very real responsibility, and in the face of that, it's hard to face change.

Gaius doesn't agree with most of the things of his relevance during IBS, or even political things we aren't necessarily privy too, but he also knows that Smodur was pretty progressive in a lot of ways, too, and appreciates that.

[fregion-bond-breaker]

It is being brought to my attention that i did not have the link in my last post. How emberessing....but here it is!

[a-grey-area]

I want people to tell me about their ocs.

I love seeing everyones passion, intricate details of their characters' trauma and lifestory

Tell me everything!

[neverloseguy]

[champion-of-aurene]

Twilight wouldn't post often but when she does it would be the most insane thing you'd see, only for there to be weeks of no posts before and after. Like no posts for months then suddenly posts a selfie with Balthazar in the distance captioned "boutta go fight god brb".

Nyx would run a leftist anarchist blog on Tumblr, full of propaganda (affectionate), leftist memes, and tips/info about protesting and fighting the system/rich that barely avoids bans. She would also have an anonymous Reddit account where she mostly comments and shares memes on leftist subreddits.

Tavii would run a pastel/positivity aesthetic blog and maybe Instagram account, with trans positive/affirmation posts scattered throughout.

Akko would have a fairly basic Instagram account posting her with her friends and her adventures and inventions.

Juniper would post on a few platforms solely images of her pets along with the occasional nature picture. She has tons of followers because her pets are adorable c:

Alessia would have a Facebook or something where she only occasionally posts, sharing news about happenings in the Crystal Desert and the Sunspears.

Celestia would post the typical stuff you'd think Norn would post about, such as boasting about her hunts and treasures she finds, along with pictures of her at moots and the like.

And I feel like Vesta wouldn't really use social media much at all. Mostly just lurking on occasion to see the things her friends share.

Bonus (the characters I've yet to formally introduce on here):

Bunhild would post the cute bunnies and other critters she befriends, along with happenings in the Shiverpeaks, and anti-poaching and animal rights posts.

Elenia would have Tumblr, Instagram, and/or Facebook accounts where she occasionally posts scenic pictures of Sandswept Isles and the Olmakhan village, along with the occasional cool and notable fish she catches (think the stereotypical fishing social media post but instead it's a cute short Olmakhan charr looking very happy/excited).

Alya would have a Facebook and Instagram account where she posts generic and kinda cheesy (but generally positive) Dwayna-focused religious stuff, and also posts about opportunities to help the less fortunate.

If your gw2 OCs had access to social media, what kind of account would they run and(/or) on what platform?

Maelgwyn would absolutely have a thirst trap insta/tiktok account he’d enjoy the attention and think the reaction he got was funny as hell.

Louis & Pyrs would run one of those sickeningly genuinely sweet couples’ accounts on youtube/insta.

Sugyn would lurk on twitch or smthin.

Belial has one of those obscure youtube accounts that posts absolute nonsense and every once in awhile you get recommended a cursed video from them. they absolutely also have a cursed tiktok (and they keep terrorizing trahearne with their accounts)

[alexdreamart]

I'm so curious! Let me know :D

[i-mybrunettelady]

Gw2 community question:

How did your commander/oc learn their elite? Who trained them? Are they self-taught? Do they mix and match with other elites of their class or another class altogether? Are they good at every elite or just one or two? Tell me all your your commander and their elite spec!