#jarolend

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100 Follower DTIYS Choice 2

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Jarolend is an OC from Making the Future, an original story I'm writing. They use they/them and ey/em pronouns

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Jarolend Pyrelyn

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⅓ dragon, ⅔ human

Dad is part dragon, mom is human

Black scales on their hands + arms

Tiny dragon wings, can’t fly with them

Best friends with Fig

they/them, ey/em nonbinary

19

A couple months younger than Fig

Wants to be an author and/or a singer/songwriter

Has shoplifted small items before when ey were living in the outskirts

Hasn’t shoplifted since they moved as security is tighter, and they can’t risk a run in with a robot or sentry

Very good at bartering for prices and talking their way out of problems

Fig gave em a messaging device before they moved away and that’s how they communicate

Job at the local coffee shop(minimum wage, but it works)

Light tan skin

Sandy brown hair

Brownish-green eyes

5’4

Moved closer to the center of the kingdom(now a 4 hour drive to the outskirts, not a big city, but still a city)

Has joined a divide(resistance), hasn’t told Fig to keep both of them safe

Still a rookie in it (has to fully learn the code + be on a mission to advance)

Learned how to fight

Has a crush on Callie

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Character information:

Fig Ligen (They are the main character, everyone else listed is part of the main cast/plot line)

Jarolend Pyrelyn

Callie Drun

Glorgol Oxcsham

Betula Finsterre

Shendrex Grainlit

Character art:

Fig Ligen

Jarolend Pyrelyn

Callie Drun

Glorgol Oxcsham

Betula Finsterre

Shendrex Grainlit

Setting information:

Divide Codes

Background of the story

Ourskirts

Scrapyards

Actual story:

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

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*materializes into existence*

Hey there :D

I was curious about Jerolend? Maybe if you had any non-spoiler tidbits of their and Fig's friendship? That the main character's name, if I can recall (tired, may not be remembering right).

Trying to think of things to ask... Too many thoughts bouncing around (lol).

Loving your story so far, btw (/gen) :D

Making the Future is my original story that you can find the link to here!

Jarolend!!!! And yes! So they've been friends for years, before Jarolend moved to the inner part of the city. It probably won't be mentioned too much in the story, but Jarolend used to pickpocket small items from the (very few) corporate stores in the outskirts. And Also ey helped Fig with starting their scrapyard thefts! Both of them also helped out around the town in the outskirts, and they tell each other everything (or almost everything, as Jarolend does not tell Fig about that ey are part of a divide. Which is something I'm interested in exploring)

Thank you so much for the ask! And I'm so glad you love the story! I'm really excited to write it, especially because I'm making Fig a hotter, cooler version of me (/kinda joking kinda not)

Chapter 2 of Making the Future will be out June 15th 2024, if you'd like an early chapter, consider donating to my kofi! Every $30 towards a goal is 1 early chapter! As of writing this $10 more and Chapter 2 will be out sometime later this week!

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Jarolend

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OC for my original story, Making the Future: Link to story here

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You mentioned Jarolend might want to be an author. Since ey are also part of the resistance, have they done any writing for that group? Either to spread the word, or do some kind of reporting, anything like that?

And then for Fig (my beloved), what's something cool they've invented???? Also does their cat have a name

Jarolend, being a newer recruit, isn't well enough established in the group to write for them yet. However, ey are interested in the groups that do write and provide information for the divide. Eventually, and it really kind of depends on how much I end up showing this, and how the story goes, but I'm planning on em being someone who writes reports for the divide leaders, to be investigating new members and old members to determine that these people aren't snitches/betraying the divide. Especially when incidents of Sentries and robots finding hiding places! Again, I don't know if that will show/if we'll get that far(I'm hoping we do), but it's something I'm looking forward to!

Okay, so they're best invention to date is the device they gave Jarolend to keep in touch! Considering Fig is self-taught, their inventions are always a little glitchy, but they managed to create something that, through some magic as well, would let Jarolend and Fig talk to each other through great distances(it does have a max, and the further away from Fig the device is, the less time it can be used for before it needs to recharge). Fig also made a recharging device for it that has enough magical energy for 5 years, it's something they had been working on for a while as well. This charging device works through sucking out natural magic from a recipient. (Which was Fig for a while, but for the most part they only ever let it take a little magic a day from them. Until they learned that their friend was moving, and they absolutely drained their magic and had to wait a few days to be able to practice again). Jarolend has magic too(even more magic than Fig considering ey're part dragon, and dragons contain more magic than most creatures) so ey can recharge the device, and Fig had shown em how to as well!

The cat's name is Shirley and he's a real treat, I love him so much! (We're ignoring the fact that he hasn't shown up yet)

If you're curious what ey are asking about, the question is for my original story Making the Future! Feel free to check it out and ask questions!

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And Which OC should I draw for the DTIYS, only listing Making the Future OC's

Which Sander Sides Character should I do for the DTIYS

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If you'd like to be tagged in the DTIYS I'm doing tell me now, so you don't miss out. I'm doing 2 versions, Janus from Sanders Sides and Jarolend, my OC.

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Making the Future

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CWs: Theft, Fantasy Racism, Accidental Misgendering, War Mentions

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Chapter 1

Fig was constantly checking their watch, knowing their mother would expect them home soon for dinner. Still, they weren’t quite ready to leave the scrapyard, as there were still so many marvelous finds to be had. Plus there weren’t that many risks, as the sentry that usually guarded this yard had switched over to the other one he was in charge of for the day. Still it was best to be cautious, because if they were caught it would be at least five years in jail. It was stupid, but that was the case with most laws.

Pulling something out of the rubble, Fig realized that they had discovered a whole robot. Their eyes started to widen a bit, they quickly stuffed it in their bag o’ junk as they called it, and started making their way to their hideout.

Fig had been walking for five minutes before the pin like pain in their legs became sharper. Pulling out their bag, they rummaged through it a bit, before pulling something that looked like a weird 3D cube out. Pressing a button a wonky, uneven, walker appeared, made out of mostly metal and each side was a bit uneven. However, the seat was made out of sanded down wood, as they didn't have leather to make it more comfortable yet. While it was still a work in progress, they used it when they could because it did make their life easier. Regretfully though, they couldn't use it often, as not even their family knew it existed, and Fig knew it would be an awkward conversation to have. So they had gotten used to using it on the tough forest terrain, still working on making it better to go over roots and other various obstacles.

Naking it to their hideout, Fig quickly looked over the robot; using the little magic they knew to look at any spots they couldn’t easily get to. They were looking for any alarms or trackers even though the sentries would’t notice nor think to track a discarded robot, because if Fig set off the alarm they would have to move their hideout again. Which was not ideal, especially with all the stuff this place held, and how long it had taken them to build it here.

Getting rid of the devices was easy enough, they would just go back to the junkyard and destroy them on their way home. The sentries would think that the rest of the scraps had destroyed the thing.

Sighing, Fig glazed longingly at their hideout, before they pressed a button and their walker became a cube again. They started heading back the way they came, putting on their gas mask, just in case the sentries spotted them on the way back. While they were part changeling and could therefore change some of their facial features, because they weren't a full changeling, they couldn't do much with it.

After disposing of the trackers, Fig went a bit away, taking off their gas mask and hid behind a tree to take a five minute walking break.

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Fig ate silently as they listened to the chaos, that was their family, surround them. Getting back home had been a journey and a half without their walker, but it was important that they put it away for things, in order to stay safe. After all if the sentries found out about it, they would most certainly be screwed. Looking outside through a window, they realized it was sunset, and they couldn’t help but be amazed at how pretty it was, even though it came by every night. It was stunning, always changing, and yet its beauty never seemed to fade, and Fig was certain that they had the best sunsets in the kingdom. Jarolend, their friend that they talked to when they could, agreed.

Still, Fig wanted to explore, they wanted to see the world. But it wasn’t safe to, not since they’re a changeling. Changelings have been viewed as one of the worse races, since before the infamous war, however that war had just made things worse.

The official narrative was that, changelings, orcs, drow, goblins, and dragons rose up in opposition to the other races. That their greed and lust for money and power drove them to their demise, that they committed unspeakable crimes, that they were evil. And everyone was just supposed to accept that, even the races that this rhetoric effected.

However, Fig had been doing research of their own, looking through their ancestors’ journals to see what it was really like back then. They were grateful that their mother kept the journals, although they were slightly less grateful that these journals were on the top shelf of her bedroom. That made it harder for Fig to look through them, and they knew their mom didn't want them looking through the journals. But Fig had always been rather curious, and they just couldn't accept the narrative that they were bad. That they were here to take someone else's place and steal their livelihood, that they were evil like the textbooks said. It helped that the town was inhabited by other unprivliged races, it helped that the elders assured them when they were kids that it was the world that was wrong. But it sucked, the culture that was stripped from all of them, in fear that they would rise up, that they would revolt against unfair laws. So almost no one in town was allowed to practice magic. That didn’t stop Fig, though they practiced in secret. Still, they wished they were able to do more, and be more free. But they couldn’t, so in public they conformed to the rules set out for them. Have a set look, and don’t change it; hair stays the same, eyes stay the same, nails stay the same. Nothing changes. And they couldn’t help but feel that’s how society was anyways, stagnant, hopeless and resistant to change. And they hated it. But that’s what their tinkering was for, it was fun to do and a fuck you to the government. It wasn’t something that did something technically, but it felt good, especially when Fig felt helpless to do anything to change the world.

“-ig! Fig!” Their head snapped up to greet their mother’s voice.

“Yeah?”

“Are you okay honey? You’ve just been poking at your food all night.”

“Yeah mom, I'm alright, just wish I could visit Jarolend more often."

Fig hated lying, it always meant that it was just one more thing they couldn't share with their family. But if anyone knew that they were stealing from the scraps, well it wouldn't be pleasant if someone found out.

"I know. Maybe when you have your own money..."

"I've been trying to find someplace to work! But you know how hard it is!"

"I know, I know. Still, if you do manage to get the funds to visit your friend tell her I said hi!"

"I'll tell em."

Their mother might still be getting used to their friend’s new pronouns, as ey had come out close to when ey had left, but it still sucked that Fig had to be the one to correct her. That it felt like for all their mom’s trying, she never really got it. Despite being a changeling, and the concept of gender being fluid, that she thought the only options were girl and boy. Sometimes, it felt like while you could be either, you couldn’t be both at the same time or neither. Which isolated Fig even more as they were trying to figure themselves out. But they knew their mother didn’t mean to, and that she’s trying, so they tried not to hold it against her.

Still, they’d rather not have to correct their mother altogether, but it was how things went. So they started to eat a little bit, ignoring the looks from the rest of their family, and then went upstairs to their room, trying not to feel desperately hopeless at the state of everything. At least they’d have time to tinker and experiment with the robot tomorrow.

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I've already drawn Fig

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Fig Ligen Character Info

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They are the main character in this story!

¼ changeling ¾ human

Based off my mexican-american heritage

Mom is ½ changeling, dad is human

Knows barely any of the official changeling language because their mom wasn’t taught it

Three younger siblings who have more human traits than them

Asexual (figuring out where on the aro spec they are)

Bipolar and ADHD

Genderfluid(they/them works)

Can change eye color and haircolor + length

Fumbling their way through becoming a tinkerer

Knows some basic magic, but not a lot

Trying to learn more

Technically illegal because they’re a changeling

Can be considered a bit of a thief

Usually steals scraps of metal and electronics from the scrapyard

Goes to the small library on the outskirts twice a month(5 min walk from their house)

Jobless

19 years old

Best friend is Jarolend

Jarolend moved away a year ago, but they still keep in touch with each other through an invention that Fig made

5’2

Honey skin tone

Usually brown eyes w/ flecks of green (blank white w/out visible pupils in original form)

Usually shoulder length brown hair (blank white and belly length hair in original form)

Tends to wear their purple patched hoodie, black shirts, blue jeans, black boots, brown gloves, gas mask when scavenging the scrapyards

Legs hurt all the time

Builds themselves mobility devices, attempting to make flying ones

Pet cat that they love to feed. (not actually their pet, just follows them around).

Lives in the woodsy outskirts of the kingdom

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Betula Finsterre

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½ wood elf ½ human

Just moved from the city 4 hours away(Alinenbergh) to the outskirts

5’6

Long bouncy hair(look up hairstyles)

Light almond(shell) skin

it/its pronouns

Knows some archery, is better with swords.

Makes its own enchanted weapons

Lesbian

Is in the same divide(resistance) as Jarolend and Callie

Is a Foundational, which is a higher rank than them.

Moved to the outskirts to start a divide faction there on the orders of Shendrex

33 years old

Friendly with the leader of the divide it’s in.

Before it was a Foundational, it was a messenger. Bringing news to the other factions and the divide’s allies.

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What's Fig's workshop like?? The little glimpse we got in Chapter 1 made me interested to see more. Is it in some existing structure, or did they literally make it themselves? Room to work with or a claustrophobic mess? Any fun decorations?

Making the Future is my own original story that you can find the link to here!

Okay, so it's something they kind of built themselves? Sort of? More like (amateur) repair work on a wooden building that they found in the middle of the woods. It's a little drafty, and they always have to rush to put some sort of water protection over it when it's rainy. But it's cozy. If you don't mind tripping over random metal and wood and wires anyways. There are two hand crafted work benches, but those are usually cluttered (I love Fig so much, but if I'm being honest, they're messier than me!)

Cool decorations wise, there's different lamps that they've made messing around with things. Also they have strung up fairy lights that they purchased, although they don't work too well (Fig messed with the wiring). There are a few unfinished devices that are being kept on the back burner for a little while.

Also there's like, no outlets in this wooden shack, as most places don't have outlets, so most of the electric stuff is powered with magic. Kind of like the communication Device that they and Jarolend have. Of course different electronic devices need different amounts of magic to power them, but all the ones that Fig is actively working on only take a little bit of magic to power them for a while.

It's also good to note that there are scorch marks everywhere. From small explosions to the time they tried (and failed) to make a functioning fire weapon.

I'm afraid that's all that I can say about their workshop for now, as anything more would be spoilers for chapter 2

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Callie Drun

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Human

Transfem (she/her)

5’7

Black hair that’s been dyed blue

18 years old (19 2 weeks after story start)

Rookie to the resistance

Still learning how to fight

Brown eyes w/golden flecks

Pale tan skin

Knows some magic, casually learning more

Archer

Omnisexual

Kicked out of her house for her identity

How she found the resistance

Found them a few months after Jarolend

Day job is a cashier at a gas station (minimum wage)

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Shendrex Grainlit

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Drow

357 years old

Pitch black skin

Hair has been shaved off in rememberance of lost lives, but it had been a rich purple in color.

Lavender eyes

Scars in various places, most notable is one stretching from his neck to his cheek

Leader and founder of the divide(resistance) that Betula is a part of

Takes her job seriously, but knows how important it is to rest and have fun so he’s set up training games and competitions that all members are encouraged to compete in when possible and tries to keep things light when talking to members outside of divide meetings

he/her, she/him

Longest living drow (even though 357 isn’t a long time for elves)

Lived through The Great Suffering (~95 years ago)

The privledged races call it The Great Victory

Took years for her to put together the different roles in the divides

Leader

Informants(spies)

Foundationals

Recruiters

Lookouts

Messengers

Fighters

Defenders

Healers

Trainers

Rookies

Everything between Leader and Rookie is not ranked as all of those rolls are equally important

Would like a technician rand as it would be helpful, but it’s too risky for whoever is getting the parts they need, and most trained engineers and robot specialists work or have worked for the kingdom.

Keeping a close eye on Jarolend because of eir technology

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