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twilit-zonaite · 7 months ago

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Finally finished the reference for Suwanu! She had some minor changes done, notably her secret stone. She originally was intended to become the Sage of Light, but since Zelda kinda has it covered already (despite being the Sage of Time officially) and there being no Sage of Forest, my friend and I decided to change it. It also fits with her backstory a lot better so it all works out in the end!

More information about the various elements below!

Secret Stone of the Sage of Forest: Suwanu wasn't originally a sage. Being a priestess of Farore, she wasn't allowed to become one despite her possessing strong flora magic. She was only allowed to use light magic at the time. She stole the secret stone to perform dragonification. Upon her return to her original form, she kept the stone that enhances her flora related abilities that she can now freely explore.

Vow of Suwanu, Sage of Forest: Her vow grants the ability to make vines and roots come from the ground around the user, providing a temporary shield while also dealing some damage.

Abilities: Being a zonai, Suwanu has access to magic abilities she can use. Some of them being specific to her former position as a priestess of Farore. Her abilities are the following:

Blessing: Also known as the Blessing of Farore, this is a unique healing spell only priestesses of the Goddess Farore possessed. It can heal almost any wounds.

Ascend: This ability is the same as the one shown in Tears of the Kingdom. It was a common zonai ability. She uses it to reach high places or go to the sky islands.

Ward: This ability also comes from her time spent as a priestess of Farore. This spell allows her to create a shield of light that protects her and those around her.

Animate: This ability is new to Suwanu and is a remnant from her time spent as a dragon. She is able to animate and manipulate plantlife to a certain extent.

Ceremonial Spear: This spear was originally used for ceremonies at the Spring of Courage. She kept it to use as a weapon since it's the only kind she knows how to wields.

Forest Temple: The temple is located on a sky island in the Gerudo Desert. The island is somewhat of a flying oasis; with water and rich vegetation. The island was only set to appear once certain prerequisites were met. There are no enemies in the temple, simply a stuard construct holding her journal and the secret to undo dragonification for Mezuna to find.

#tears of the kingdom #my art #zonai oc #oc suwanu #legend of zelda

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dailycharacteroption · 10 months ago

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Roleplaying Races 15: Naiad

(art by Celiarts on DeviantArt)

I’ve said it before, but there are a handful of playable ancestries in first edition which got a blurb in a bestiary, but was never really touched again.

This is technically true of today’s entry: the naiad, but Paizo didn’t completely forget about them, as they show up again in 2E… admittedly with monster stats and only the lore drop of them occasionally becoming adventurers, but no ancestry stats… not yet, anyway.

In any case, naiads!

In Greek mythology, Naiad are a type of nymph, minor female deities that preside over aspects of the natural world, either independently or in the service of a more powerful divinity that rules more generally over the nymphs more specific focus.

In particular, naiads were the guardians of all bodies of freshwaters with the exception of full rivers, which had their own divinities. Anything from streams to fountains to ponds and lakes. Anywhere that fresh water could be found was their domain. They were known to be healers and protectors to those that honored them, but also dangerous and sometimes jealous beings, but that’s true of many Greek divinities.

In Pathfinder, naiads are a form of lesser nymph, able to bond with any body of water, rather than just being stuck with one on their moment of birth. As such, they tend to wander much further afield than other nymphs (with perhaps the exception of their more oceanic kin.)

That wanderlust and keen interest in protecting waterways and sources of fresh water means that many naiad take up the life of adventure to grow in strength and defeat evil that seeks to pollute and corrupt.

As fey creatures, naiad have a decidedly otherworldy appearance, appearing as humanoids seemingly made of water, and often adorning their forms in clothing made of living aquatic plants. Despite their appearance, however, they are very solid beings, and can come in a variety of genders despite the stereotypes of supposedly being only female.

As both fey and wanderers, Naiads don’t typically have societies of their own, though they probably pay homage to more powerful nymphs and to local fey courts when they’re in the area. Their wanderings also place them in greater contact with mortals too, so they likely have a better understanding of the mortal mindset as they interact with and integrate with their societies. They still are fey, however so their worldview no doubt clashes sometimes. They do, however, share a love of music and performance, as evidenced by the nature of their blessing when bestowed on a mortal.

Naiads are agile and charming, though their bodies are somewhat weak.

Their fey nature also gives them good night vision as well.

What’s more, being in tune with nature lets them befriend animals easier and understand the natural world.

True to their nature as nymphs, naiads can imbue a small token of favor, typically a lock of hair, which grants a minor blessing to creativity and mental integrity to the one it is gifted too. What’s more, the link between the naiad and their token lets them keep tabs on the well-being of the recipient, and they can rescind this blessing at any time.

The other iconic ability of theirs is the ability to bond with a freshwater body of water. As long as they are within a minute’s run from this water, the naiad draws protection from it, warding them against mundane and supernatural attack.

Charisma and dexterity are fun bonuses to have, making these fey surprisingly good swashbucklers. As fitting for their nature as minor muses, they also make good bards and skalds, to say nothing of their mastery of sorcery, the talents of a rogue/slayer, and so on. What’s more, their tokens and ability to draw protection from water makes defensive magic and water magic good themes to explore as well. Their only real weakness is the low strength, but that’s easy enough to surmount.

That does it for today, but we’ll be ending off with one more ancestry orphaned by the bestiary book it was introduced in!

#pathfinder #race #naiad #bestiary 6

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anotherbluesunday · 1 year ago

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✨Intertidal Chapter Release—Ch. 18✨

Lifting my phone up high in the air, I sucked in another breath. Great. Tapping the green answer icon I didn't realize it was a video call before it was too late.

"What?" I groaned, trying not to growl because it was too early for these calls and I wasn't at my mental fittest in that moment.

"Mornin'," Kent chuckled, seemingly humored by my post-dawn anguish. "Yer lookin' bright eyed and bushy tailed."

I glared at him.

"What's got ya' out of sorts, love?" he asked in a more concerned tone. "Ya' sick or hurt?"

"No..." I hesitated. Furrowed my brow and closed my eyes as I pinched the bridge of my nose to ward off the creeping headache I felt coming. "Just...I don't know. My head's fuzzy."

"Drunk fuzzy? Hungover? Or like existential dread goin' into numb kinda fuzzy?" When I groaned at the last one I could hear him breathe a sympathetic chuckle. "Yeah, I have those mornin's too."

"Maybe if I have a mimosa..."

Kent clicked his tongue. "That, love, is what we call an unhealthy dependence bordering on alcoholic behavior."

"You sound like my therapist."

"Well kudos ta' her for havin' the stones to say that."

Only Kent could make me roll my eyes with the urge to clock him while looking as good as he did while doing it.

"What're ya' doin' today?"

"Besides withering away beneath my blankets waiting for death to come and fight me for my life?" Kent smirked, humored by my answer rather than being put off the way Enid or my parents would have been. Both him and Ty shared the same flavor of dark humor which was also my flavor as chance would have it. "Nothing. Why?"

"We should do somethin'."

Wading the glowing crystalline waters of the pool hidden within the tropical paradise that surrounded us, I watched Kent swim toward me after diving in from the opposite end. Form shifting hypnotically like an abstract painting cast in bronze, topaz blue, aquamarine, and shimmering yellow, I held my breathe as he approached. Smiled more as if I had been bewitched when he emerged looking like a damn Grecian god with his hair clinging to his broad built shoulders and eyes sparkling. It didn't help that "Moonlight Serenade" was playing to match the vintage vibe of the entire area encapsulating Trader Sam's, Tangaroa Terrace, and the "grown up's" pool.

"Yer doin' that thing again," Kent teased as he floated over to where I was lurking, my arms slung up on the lip of the pool deck. Tilting his head just a bit with a playful flicker in his eyes as he grabbed hold of the handrail of the sidesteps next to me, Kent closed the space separating us. Hung there looking like a siren pulled straight out of fiction. "You'll cook me 'live with that kind of starin'."

I couldn't respond. My brain had gone dead. Or on strike because it was tired of this bullshit. Either way, the bitch had peaced out on me and my thought process was left on buffering.

Eyes constantly drawn back to his eyes, his lips, his chest, it was irrational Wynn's turn to take control of the helm. And what do you know, she steered us all into the shallows. Ran us ashore marooning me in the destructive cycle of reconsidering my stance on relationships versus fuck buddies. And it was her fault that my brain was coming up with more pro's to locking down Kent than it was coming up with con's. This would have been an easy decision weeks ago. Wouldn't have been something I would have even considered at the start of the year. Granted, I had always wanted to take a ride or two on him. But date him? That was a sure sign I had suffered traumatic brain injury. Or at least so I thought. But now?

"Winnie...?" He said quietly, as if he were about to share a secret. From the look in his eyes, he may very well be doing that. Gaze flicking from my lips to my eyes as he got in a little closer, Kent nearly whispered, "What if..." he began--the tension mounting between us pure indescribable torture. "What if I were to tell ya' that you've been on my mind for the last year?"

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6em4k · 8 months ago

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" 'Sup."

(indie RP blog for Lego Monkie Kid's interpretation for the Six-Eared Macaque. Living Details below)

Character Overview:

The Buddha once revealed the existence of Four Celestial Primates, existing outside of the natural designation that all other creatures were divided into. Of these four, the Intelligent Stone Monkey and the Six-Eared Macaque were sworn brothers, their deep friendship going beyond even the bonds of blood they did not share, nor had need to.

This was until the death of the Macaque, at the hands of the Stone Monkey - now Sun Wukong, the Monkey King and Great Sage, Equal To Heaven.

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The past year hasn't been the worst to Macaque - or, well 'The Six-Eared Macaque' is, y'know, his full name.

His re-emergence in Megapolis - the city that the heroic Monkie Kid, MK, makes his home and ward - was one that brought change for the world as MK knew it. While his return to obtain the powers of the Monkey King for himself was successful, it unintentionally heralded the return of a long-sleeping enemy. This enemy was the Lady Bone Demon, to whom Macaque had sworn his insincere and easily-abandoned fealty in exchange for being brought back to life.

A person who would swear loyalty to different masters to get what he wants, Macaque's ultimate loyalty is to himself and his own desires, abandoning bargains and promises as easily as he makes them. It was then a true pain and labor for him to have bargained for his resurrection with her of all demons. Not only did she have a strong sway over his life, and the ability to pin him down and force him in ways no one else could, she was also an enemy to MK, for whom Macaque developed a sincere fondness for. His attempts to defy her orders to bring him in, do away with the Monkie Kid and King, were quickly realized and neutralized by her, forcing him at crystal-shard point to do her will.

Despite his deceits and aggression, despite the near-destruction of all life on earth, MK's faith in Macaque's 'deep, deep down, not a bad guy' self was rewarded with rare genuity and devotion. Macaque agreed to risk his life in order to help the student he'd deceived and save the world he'd aided in ruining.

With the end of the end of the world, Macaque had been granted a long-abandoned goal of redemption.

S5 Update: Now, resting on his laurels, Macaque finds himself in a transitory period, should he allow it to be one. His long-gone dojo home leaving him wandering and to the elements, his relationship with the Monkey King in a state of mutual uncertainty rather than vicious gnashing of teeth, and a pseudo-student to think of him, and deliver a fresh bowl of noodles on occasion, for no other reason than he could. But with his powers suddenly morphing into something unfamiliar and chaotic, these new progresses in his life could become even more unstable than they currently are.

(That's quite unstable)

[Icons are a combination of my own screengrabs and icons from poms-resources ]

Macaque Power-set:

Very good hearing, up to a thousand miles standing still.

Mastery of martial arts and kung-fu.

Incredible speed, strength, reflexes and agility.

Shadow manipulation - the ability to control the shadows movements and solidity. A great tool for combat or other stealth situations.

Shadow-transportation - the ability to slip into the darkness literally. He can either hide in those shadows, moving through them, or emerge through another side, within knowledge and range. This makes him extremely hard to get ahold of - Macaque, mostly, cannot be held down when he doesn't want to be. Notable exceptions have been Wukong, the Lady Bone Demon and her personal lackey.

Immortality, to an extent - Macaque can still die from battle or other extreme situations such as a particularly aggressive poison, but old age and sickness cannot touch him.

Underwater breathing and communication - no, really, he can do and has done this. Though this may be less an innate ability and more to do with him having...

"All Of Monkey Kings Power"- having stolen the abilities of the Monkey King's protégé MK, Macaque has obtained copies of many, but not all, of the abilities of Sun Wukong. These include Self-transformation into various animals and people, flying, superior strength (than what he'd had before), the ability to create multiple clones of himself, and more.

Shadow-puppetry - in the artistic and transfigurative sense. Macaque can puppeteer his own shadow into a tangible, physical entity, mirroring himself. This ability has expanded to creating more than one, after obtaining MK's powers.

"Smokey" - A colossal manifestation of smoke and shadow into a solid entity. It does not seem to move or operate itself outside of direct influence and action from Macaque. While it is overwhelming and powerful, the true extent of it's strength, ability, and history, are largely unknown to all but the person who controls it.

Mecha-Monkey - Macaque is able to construct a massive themed mech for himself to pilot and operate.

[More added when needed]

Mun Rules:

Anons accepted, don't be shy, he only bites Wukong [<- threat, not promise]

Mutuals preferred, but if you're following me and wanna try some RP, feel free to send anything over, interact with memes or hmu for conversation! I don't interact first unless we're mutuals just so I know I'm not crossing any boundaries and because I'm a tad shy.

Relationships discussed after development.

Related to the above - I am not exclusive, multiships encouraged.

Outside of roleplay/direct interaction, bog runs on a 'default setting' -posts/other roleplays where he mentions tormenting Wukong do not mean your Wukong unless specified.

This meaning, this blog is multiverse unless asked about a specific scenario/'verse.

Related to the above, specify a particular blog/person if you send asks about someone else's played character - aka Specify which blog I'm playing with that you're curious about, otherwise I will answer with blog-lore. Don't tag them if they don't want to be tagged (check their rules first)

Be aware - Mun is an adult (32) and prefers to RP with other adults. Minors can follow/interact with meme games, but no rp.

Personals are similar - follows are fun, so are asks/anons, but please don't try to RP with me, nor reblog my rp posts.

Headcanons abound! I try to keep as close to the character as I can, but I do play Macaque in my own way based on these as well as the canon. I try to integrate and adhere to both equally.

Mun has bipolar II and this can affect my roleplay timeliness, due to how replies/roleplay can affect my energy and excitement and how those things impact my judgment, my characterization/writing and other factors. Sometimes I'm in a good place and can reply right away, other times I need to step back for hours, or a few days, in order to reply properly and in character.

If I'm answering others before you or you before others, it's not preferential treatment and I am excited/interested to play. It's related to the above.

I won't shy away from darker themes if they come up, but I prefer fade-to-blacks for sexy stuff.

I will not do pet death. Please tag animal death. Particularly with dear pets. Hard no for dogs and especially cats.

Mun has no patience for proship/antiship BS. Follow/softblock/block at your own desire, I sssssssuper do not caaaaaaare about this discourse.

Obligatory American-Leftist disclaimer about basic human rights here, you know the drill, I will cut any shitty behavior to the quick.

[More to be added if needed]

This Macaque's Timeline/default blog canon:

-Was, in fact, killed by Wukong. No ifs, ands or buts. It's a complicated mess that resulted in Wukong killing Macaque.

-Resurrected shortly after the death of Tang Sanzang, spending some time recuperating under The Mayors care. After a short while, he absconded and ditched the key at the same time, on the run from him and her ever since.

-Immediately went to torment Wukong over it, going so far as to mock Sanzangs death and provoke Wukong into an out-and-out brawl.

-Spent a good hundred years in a state of recurring grief attacks, coping with this new life without Wukong backing him up, and a newfound, deep and true loneliness. Realizing Wukong wasn't going to come apologize to him anytime soon, he picks another fight - and likes it.

-Stirring slightly from his fugue state, spent the next, approximately 300 years in an unhealthy cycle of picking brutal fights with/bullying Wukong, a significant depression spiral, get somewhat okay, bully Wukong and lose it all again.

-Got his wits somewhat about him about his health, about 100~ years ago, enough to leave China and try to expand himself and Get Over It (Didn't Work, but he's well-traveled at least - try to ask sometime). Found a bit about himself, but it really amounted to running away from his Wukong problem more than facing it.

-Eventually came back to town and found out about MK, series begins.

-Blog is a general post-s3 canon, with S4 and onwards incorporated in play/asks. General posts will behave between s3 and s4, with timelines/relationships changing within roleplay, as deemed fit. This is because I like writing out Macaque's development from pathetic, vicious and dangerous into reliable, mean ally, even if we're doing threads post S4 or post S5

Mac Deets:

-Clones are literal shadowpuppets - they don't move without Macaque's intention nor do they talk without Macaque throwing his voice. If he's not conscious, they aren't able to be conjured.

-Can only shadow-portal to places he's been to before. If the location is gone (building destroyed, streets changed, etc), he can no longer access that spot.

-Thief-y and bum-ish. Don't be surprised if he's used your shower without you knowing - he likes your shower pressure better than the bathhouse.

-He's not open to details about "Smokey" (large, spiritual form), but speaks about it/treats it like a pet (it is not)

- He's a dick. You know he's a dick. Soft spots don't make him less of a dick. To Wukong, he will be even more of a dick, potentially downright hostile.

- He likes abundantly sugary fruits - plums and mangoes are a given, but you can coax him with pomegranates, figs, watermelons, and pineapples too. Basically search 'sugariest fruits' and you have his diet.

Tags:

Macaque tags for himself! All brackets are mun tags. Out of brackets, it's Macaque.

[The one and only] (Selfie/pictures of Macaque)

[and others] (images of people not Macaque - typically tagged in tandem w/Macaque pictures)

[sign of a good story] (planned/in-depth roleplay)

[Stoned in paradise] (Havoc in Heaven, Brotherhood and before)

[You are the weapon] (RP games/prompt posts/memes)

[the sun and the moon] (blog-lore related asks/posts/headcanons)

[Shadowtalk] (asks)

[Shadowchatter] (Macaque original posts, talking on dash, light/unplanned/unplotted roleplay. Not directly anything. Chatter can become a plotted roleplay and will switch tags when it does)

[Shadowplay] (opener/open roleplay)

[Flair for the dramatic] (Vibes/mood/Macaque-core without being Macaque-intended)

[Under Moonlight] (nsfw/raunchy stuff. anything explicit/more intimate but not fade-to-black worthy will be tagged this. Anything beyond will still be tagged nsfw)

[backstage]/[anything in brackets] (important details about the blog)/(Mun)

#lmk roleplay #lego monkie kid #lmk macaque #[backstage]

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baravaggio · 11 months ago

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just curious but why are you so into st sebastian? like ive been following you for long enough to know your interests in the classical and in eroticism vary far and wide (as a true connoisseur's should 🫡) but why return to that particular iteration over and over

Hmmm this was a harder question to answer than I thought it would be! I think I initially became interested in the various depictions because I noticed how they have been and continue to be reiterated in all types of media, not just the visual arts....artists of all sorts do this with religious motifs, but Sebastian's historical associations with homosexuality (and his role as a plague saint) make those depictions particularly fascinating to me.

It's difficult for me to write a coherent analysis on this, but some aspects of his gay icon status I find really interesting - quotes are pulled from the fantastic article "Losing his religion - Saint Sebastian as contemporary gay martyr" by Richard A. Kaye:

That he is primarily depicted as a solitary figure, something that might seem at odds with the way even classical representations of him are read as gay or sexually ambiguous

A great quote about the above: "The martyr's self-absorbed detachment of visual affect is a fundamental aspect of his intricate mythology, for an archetypal image of an ecstatically self-preoccupied nude male would seem to grant erotic permission to nobody, and, yet, paradoxically to every viewer. In rough psychoanalytic terms, then, the martyr provides the opportunity for an unobstructed, unmediated erotization [...] As with the solitary youth depicted in Michelangelo's David or Hippolyte Flandrin's Jeune homme nu assis au bord de la mer [...], Sebastian's basic narcissism provides for what might be terms a polymorphously perverse response on the part of the viewer." (p.90)

Depictions are so frequently located at the intersection of alternative modes of male eroticism (the erotic as a solo activity, an invitation to freely regard the vulnerable exposed body, the "feminized" posing typical to some St. Sebastian art) and death, lending themselves to associations with gay sexuality and sadomasochism. The facts that 1) in the Bible, Sebastian continue to survive after being shot full of arrows, and 2) is so often depicted responding to penetration with either an expression of calm acceptance or with facial & body language that straddle the line between pleasure and pain, lend themselves to associations of voluntary participation in alternative, marginalized forms of pleasure.

There is some interesting scholarship on the way St. Sebastian's association with gayness track onto the medicalization of homosexuality - early sexologists like Hirschfeld actually explicitly identified images of St. Sebastian as ones that "inverts" tend to be drawn to.

The politicization of Sebastian imagery post-Stonewall and AIDS is something not often talked about (on here at least), but is really fascinating. Some people soured on him post-Stonewall, seeing him as too passive an icon for the politically charged moment.

With AIDS, "Sebastian the historic soldier comes to represent the militant, newly politicized homosexual, beautifully exposed to his fate but non-passively [...] In the late 1980s and early 1990s, one witnesses a double transformation of Saint Sebastian: first, as a saint invoked to ward off the plague [...] and, second, as a politically charged figure signifying not so much sado-masochism as government neglect and social hostility. As such, Saint Sebastian symbolically encapsulates (and partly resolves) what the critic Douglas Crimp has identified as two vital, supposedly irreconcilable, components of gay culture in the age of AIDS: the labour of mourning and the work of political activism." (p.98)

Something I haven't seen discussed in the scholarship on Saint Sebastian and AIDs is an analysis of Sebastian being tended by Saint Irene imagery...not sure if it's unexplored or if I just haven't found it yet, but I think of this a lot in association with lesbian blood drives, as well as a group of nuns & a female pastor I know who have shared stories with me about caring for men with AIDS (and eventually arranging their funerals and burials) when their families would not show up.

Anyway...you get the idea! I love the way the eroticism of Sebastian imagery has been received and richly interpreted in so many ways across history, the explicit tie ins to issues of gay self-identity and politics definitely make him of special interest to me! 🏹

#and of course the other answer is that it’s a sexy little treat for me #sebastianposting

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