#let! aasimar! be! weird!

[maroonian]

Baby Battles

(this is part of a thing im working on)

@skrunglebeasts

[katyakurae]

Come! Stay with us at the Hazbin Tavern! A DnD AU

Random facts under cut

Race: High Elf

Class: Warlock

Alignement: Chaotic Neutral (but more chaotic than neutral)

Goal: To have some fun, mess with Lucifer and... get rid of his patron

Smiles as in canon, but not all the times. When he is alone or (some blessed times) with Lucifer, he lets his guard down and his expression becomes more subtle, neutral even.

Born with magic. Decided it wasn't enough power and made a deal with some eldricht deity. Turns out it was a bad idea.

Those tendrils belongs to his patron. It taints his magic and feels awful. Dirty. Alastor hates it, but uses his magic all the time anyway.

The mark on his face also belongs to his patron, a constant reminder that he's been touched by something no one can understand.

Raised in a Selûnite clan, his family wanted him to be a cleric, maybe even the next Choosen of Selûne, but he went sideways.

(So yeah, Lucifer and him in this AU are kinda a sun/moon ship)

Made some friends in a Bhaalist cult and get an aquired taste for human flesh.

Has all kind of weird suitors. Once one of them offered him his own felsh, back in his Bhaalist cult days. Alastor ate him.

He also met Rosie back there.

After travelling, learning more magic and start hating his patron and their soul-binding contract, he went to the Underdark, where he had hear that an amazing Aasimar sorceress lived. That was Charlie. Amazingly powerful, yes, but with not enough control to help him.

So Alastor made his mind and decided to stay in the Hazbin Tavern, teach the girl to control her powers and guide her to his benefict.

Soon after that, Lucifer entered the picture. His was hate at first sight, but somehow they ended getting reaaaally along between arguments. Now, they teach Charlie together, but Alastor is still plotting behind their backs.

(Yes, his ring with a red detail belongs to Lucifer. No, no one dares to talk about it)

Does not hesitate to kill or pick a fight. Has also murder many travellers who enter in the Hazbin Tavern with dark or hidden agendas.

His favourite spell is Eldricht Blast.

Quite creative with magic. Specially in combat.

One time, Lucifer created a weird device that can send sound through the air, called it "radio" and gifted it to Alastor. The elf is fascinated by this new toy of his.

Previous character: Lucifer~

Next character: Husk

[roxyscave]

I really like how by the end of the year there will be at least two non-flavored official ways to play an actual wolf infused with magic and granted sentience by the end of the year in pathfinder

or any animal really... but yall pathfinder has so many ancestry options that lets you be a furry. Catfolk ancestry, ratfolk ancestry, kobold, lizard folk, tengu, spider people, little psychic rhino people that also has minor bug features, kisune, two flavors of snake people, two flavors of bird people, little pug dog people, weird spider horse people, 3 different types of playable plants( and sometimes the plants are shaped like little anthro animals), the fact that tiefling/aasimar/nephellim can have all sorts of animal features if you wanna be a holy or demonic fury, fleshwarps if you wanna be a weird monster animal creature. The way its written beatkin can let you be an owlbear furry or bulette furry if you want even.. THIS isn't even getting into class options and things like that can let you be a furry. THERE IS A RUNE YOU CAN PUT ON YOUR SWORD.... AND ITS MAIN PURPOSE IS THAT IT BASICALLY TURNS YOU INTO A DOG THAT CAN WIELD A SWORD IN ITS OWN MOUTH

[bluebrush09arts-archive]

Percival is just such a wholesome bean. Weird looking as heck but that's what helps make him special. His parent's certainly think so at least.

Odd mix of a tiefling and an aasimar and people aren't shy about letting them know, but Damian fell head over heels for the tiefling he found hurt in the woods and it didn't take long for Lydia to feel the same.

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[smallnico]

6, 8, 13, 30 for the oc ask list please!😄

yippee yay yay wahoo! thank you for asking!!

6) If your OC is in a fantasy setting, what profession would they be in the modern day?

answered here!

8) What hobbies does your OC have? What do they do to unwind?

esper has a specific meditation ritual that they do to relax! they hum and pluck random strings on their lyre to feel the vibrations and let their magic just channel through them. stimming.

as for hobbies, aside from playing music for fun, esper collects and polishes swords. on top of being a scary assassin, they are a big sword nerd who likes to learn about different types of weapons, techniques for using them, and how to care for them. post-game i've decided that they take up gardening and herbalism (jaheira teaches them) and teamaking.

13) Does your OC have a rival? How did it start?

not sure! the only person i can think of who would qualify is gortash, and that's mostly because neither of them knows how affection works or how to have a normal friendship. short answer to how that started is that esper framed him for a high-profile murder as leverage to get him to do them a favour, and everything that came after was gortash trying to get them to work for him because they would be unbelievably useful to him. alas the only language either of them speaks is mindgames and one-upmanship.

then the joke answer is this. have an old drawing. they never knew each other as kids but if they did, this is how it would go. because this is basically how it actually went when they were both adults.

ft. baby esper. :)

30) My OC and your OC are friends. This isn't a question. I'm not asking. (How do they respond?)

esper and sunflower should garden together!!!!!!!!! i don't know that they'd get along right away but they can bond over being aasimar/divine-blooded beings who are pretty lonely. i think she would probably intimidate esper a lot, just because she seems like a really genuinely kind person and they have trouble understanding that -- they mirror the people around them but feel stifled by being shaped into someone bright and sunny and good by the emotions of the people they're with -- but i think they would balance each other out well once they got to know each other. i think esper would probably bring her out of her sheltered mindset and encourage her to try new things that seem unpleasant or weird.

as for valora, i think the bhaalblob would fill them with existential dread. they got bodysnatched by bhaal a lot back in the day so they have a bad reaction to the idea of it happening again, or it happening to anyone else around them. esper wouldn't be uncivil toward bb, but they would be uncomfortable, lol :,)

[motheatenscarf]

Man, I'm really disappointed by how LoVM handled Vex in this third season. I mean, I was a little disappointed by the first 2 seasons too, but in a subtler way. They made her a lot harsher, a lot more prickly than she'd ever been in the campaign. Which, y'know, I didn't love, but I figured if they flanderize her early on, it'll make her growth into a more compassionate, selfless person more dramatic later on, and it was setting the groundwork for Scanlan's legitimate complaints later on with how they disrepect him, so fine.

But, uh, 1, apparently Scanlan isn't leaving in anger now, lol? And 2, her only arc in this the season where she was supposed to soften up is some weird "I'm poison to love" dilemma being made text with her relationship with Percy. And like. Idk. Vex was my favorite character in Campaign 1 because of her subtle need for control manifesting as her obvious trauma. I didn't need it spelled so overtly, and in the way it was resolved, Percy was a large part of that character growth, but he didn't feel like the ONLY reason Vex softened up.

Was hugely disappointed that she didn't wind up going to hell with the others because her buying the freedom of those two aasimar kids was such a big moment of growth for her. Like, she'd been selfish and miserly and controlling and judgmental, and had slowly been learning to rely on others and to be more emotionally available, and her saving those kids because no one else was going to, her saving them by giving up the security her money brought her, her expecting no reward and just NEEDING to help them when everyone else was telling her they didn't have the time, that was so significant.

But, no, she had to stay with Percy so they could angst about their relationship, which is exactly what Keyleth and Vax are doing, which is already exhausting. People liked Percahlia because they were SO into each other and unashamed about it. Vex waited until it was almost too late to let Percy know how she felt and then let him in and loved him with her whole heart because that's how she does things. And now Percy angst is the ONLY thing she has to do or say or think about with her limited screentime this season.

It's so sad to me that there are people who are only gonna know her from the show and don't get to see how deep and complex she is when the story is given an ounce of breathing room.

Between Vex and Jester, Laura has a real talent for making strong, subtle characters who feel incredibly nuanced and multifaceted. She is living proof that you don't need to come up with a detailed backstory or some overwrought personal quest to create a good character. The voice, logic, and motivations of her characters are always internally consistent. The goal of her characters is usually internal, and man, she might not always have a lot for them to seek externally, but their presence is always appreciated by what they contribute to a scene and how she help facilitate the progression of the story or any given scene. And because of that lack of a personal quest for them so often, she gets her strongest moments when she leans into a moment that's happening in the narrative and how it would affect her character. She is the best "Yes, And"-er at the table and they have struggled so hard to adapt those strengths into an abridged narrative form like this where every second of screentime is precious and must be LOADED to the brim with progressing the plot. There's just no room for the quiet character moments where Vex thrives in reacting to the world around her, or those clutch combat decisions, or her getting to be the obvious leader and tactician of the team, or really anything other than for her to be traumatized by the plot.

Like, I know there just are not enough episodes, plot and characterization are gonna be too rushed to give this many characters the time and attention they need. And there ARE changes I like, Keyleth's characterization feels a lot more consistent! Pike getting to have an actual character arc is neat (Pike getting to be a character at all and not their infrequent heal-bot is very neat). I'm so glad they killed Kash! Not only because I hate Kash, but because stakes! Weight! Yay! They understand that death has to feel like a real threat, hence the changes with Percy, yay! But, also, like, idk, I'm bitter. Vex was my FAVORITE character from Campaign 1. It sucks to see her get done dirty like this.

Makes me nervous for Jester in the M9 animated series we're getting :T

[faerunfaggot]

What happened with stitches? How’d he go from a scarecrow to A Man

Also how did everyone feel about it? (Including stitches) Especially Farimor, how did he feel about it?

ALRIGHT sorry about the delay in answering this. this is the big one. one of my favorite arcs. so i had to take the time to answer it properly LOL. for the sake of brevity i won't be going into CRAZY detail so feel free to ask followup questions on anything if you'd like! (my evil plan)

SO. somewhat of a tldr of the events leading up to this. aylith, the deity inside stitches, starts kind of slowly corrupting/influencing the members of his adventuring party. he has no control over this obviously, and is worried about his friends since her influence seems to be pretty negative.

worried that aylith will hurt his friends further, particularly farimor (though he's concerned about everyone, he's a good noodle) stitches tries to trick her by pretending to cede to her will. he then overloads himself with magic power, and knowingly destroys himself, hoping it will kill her as well. this is in the middle of battle, and in the confusion no one realizes what he's doing fast enough to try to stop him (though it may not have worked anyway). 

obviously, this is very traumatic for farimor. for most of his life he's made a point to keep his distance from others, for fear of getting close with someone and losing them or being betrayed. he finally let his guard down with stitches, perhaps a little unintentionally, but it was going well enough before this, so he's almost blindsided by the exact thing he feared this entire time finally happening the MOMENT it has the opportunity to. i won't get into it too much, but he's severely impacted by this and spirals. doubles down on his (already pretty bad) alcoholism, pushes away any other connections… just completely reclusive and depressed. he still takes work, kind of falling back in his old habit of surviving just for the sake of surviving with no real goals.

MEANWHILE stitches is kind of in a weird limbo death state. he can see what's happening still, and he's somewhat like a ghost, but because of the nature of his soul he can't really go anywhere. he stays like this for a while, unsure of how to solve this issue for himself. sadder still, he CAN see what fari's up to, so unfortunately he has to watch his decline.

after a while, aylith returns in her true form, to try to kill the remaining members of stitches' party. stitches obviously realizes that his sacrifice didn't work, and is reasonably freaking out. despite his distrust for deities, he ends up taking a deal with another different god in order to save his friends, WITH the exception that he owes the god nothing. all that is asked of him is that he kills aylith for good.

he's given a new form when he is returned to life to save his party, since the scarecrow form he took before was destroyed. he's an aasimar thanks to the the intervention of the god he's dealt with. his appearance is made in the image of his "ideal" self– an almost entirely stereotypical "hero" type. a handsome, golden god looking paladin with shining armor, that type of thing. this is how he always visualized himself in his mind LOL

obviously this is a huge change for stitches. he can't remember a lot of his past as a scarecow (though he retains memory in the form of his feelings- just his memory of specific events is hazy). it's scary at first, since he can actually feel pain now, and he's also capable of feeling a full human range of emotions, which is very overwhelming. like if your brain emotionally developed all at once LOL. he DOES get used to it eventually, though he IS still pretty naive and trusting and QUITE socially inept (and maybe kinda pretty dumb. but in his defense he just grew a brain 2 days ago).

farimor is initially just completely overwhelmed by the idea that stitches is back, since he thought he had lost him forever. he's already emotionally stunted as hell to begin with, so it's A LOT for him as you can imagine. his first reaction is to be angry with stitches for everything, but he quickly comes to his senses and realizes that it really wasn't his fault. they make up easily, stitches isn't the type to get angry, especially with farimor, and forgives him a lot faster than fari thinks he deserves. 

their relationship gets back to normal pretty quickly after this. obviously fari is glad to have him back more than anything, and kind of gets a better grasp on identifying and managing his own emotions in the process of trying to help stitches understand HIS newly formed nuanced emotions. they also get back to their usual lifestyle/adventuring work, stitches is eager to get back to hero-ing as you can imagine LOL. they travel a lot to work, but they're based in willowdale when they aren't. an actual house, rather than staying at the inn.

i fear i am yapping for too long about this so i will end off on this. trust it gets gay. LOL

stitches' newly unlocked emotions got him realizing he's in love with fari romantically, and of course fari has been feeling the same and burying/denying it much longer (in typical fashion for him). anyway i could elaborate on much of this but this writeup is already nearly two whole google doc pages long so i have to restrain myself, for this post at least. HOPE U ENJOY !!

[likeadog]

YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS

welcome to sistervirtue dot tumblr dot com. those of you who have read my url...seen my icon...may be wondering: who is this woman? who is Sister Virtue?

as the @original-character-championship bracket begins, I would like to take the time to introduce you to her. go on. take a seat.

[art credit: @/omusubigender, @/citrus-sours, @/kkbardd, @/pcktknife, @/celebiis, @/citrus-sours]

Sister Virtue is a not-quite woman not-quite of the cloth with a bit of a scowl and an unholy attitude problem. Formerly a cherub known as Theophania serving in the appellate choirs of heaven, she judged human souls and debated the dogma of heaven day in and day out.

Although a perfect machine of heaven, Theophania was not heartless. Through her friendship with the Archangel Gabriel, whom represents human souls and their interests in the courts of heaven, she learned about those she judged.

And I am going to let you in on a secret. Angels and demons are both creatures of passion, just their passion turns in different ways. Demons experience passion for the self. Angels turn their passion towards God. And for Theophania, her passion turned in a different way-- towards those silly little animals whom she watched day in and day out. (Even you!)

So when Gabriel came lamenting of the Seraphim's decision to bring forth the end of humanity, she may have done something a bit drastic. Drastic like stealing the Eye of God, an important artifact containing the summation of all knowledge, and then slamming it into her own skull in order to hold it hostage and kick up enough of a fuss that the angels acquiesced and agreed to come to some sort of truce. The ultimate blasphemy.

She would be felled. If she cared so much about those silly, stupid animals, she could spend the rest of eternity proving they were worth it. Shoved into a body made of flesh and her powers largely sealed behind seven penances, Sister Virtue is tasked with protecting humanity from all threats divine or diabolic. She cannot die; [officially banned to prevent any loopholes or complicated litigation later] but she can give up... but doing so would mean damning all of humanity in the entire process.

After crash-landing into a convent and taking the administrative lead of the attached school (now known as Eschaton Academy) Sister Virtue is establishing a network of those both blessed and possessed to aid her in the arduous process of keeping people safe, all while trying to figure out what it means to be human herself.

So Why should you vote for her?

Let's face it, we're not in high school any more.

Coming of age stories for teens are fun, but sometimes... you don't really start coming of age until your 20's, 30's, 40's... Virtue, 37 human years old, is here to show the journey of growing into your skin even if that comes after high school.

2. She's hot as hell.

A nun in her work uniform, Sister Virtue at heart is a truckin', smokin', wrestlin' uncle of a woman, and her casual attitude and casual attire reflect this. And let's face it. A woman who hates wearing shirts and has a happy trail is a god-sent gift for all of us.

[art credit @ koiiluvz]

3. She's just a bit weird.

She named her car (a self-"upgraded" hearse) the Popemobile. She smokes cigarettes because she likes the taste. She doesn't mind nudity, but gets shy eating in public because digestion is just a little too intimate for an angel. She loves paperwork. Sometimes she regurgitates the angel equivalent of a hairball.

4. Don't know about all this original universe lore? She's got a D&D Iteration.

You can find her character sheet here-- She;s a tanky fallen aasimar paladin with 3 different ways to intimidate. Because you don't even need a gun with an attitude like hers.

5. She'd vote for you

At the end of the day, Sister Virtue is someone who runs on love. Love for all of humanity. Including you. Even if you don't believe in Virtue, virtue believes in you, and you should believe in you too.

Questions? Concerns? Comments? Check out my eschaton academy tag. Or pop into my inbox or dms.

(she even has emotes. art credit @/pcktknife, @/citrus-sours, and @/GR4FF1T1 [on toyhouse] )

[sadruru]

Suddenly inspired by one artwork where one artist's commander is depicted on different mythic path. It made me want to draw some of them too! Each choice will affect Melissa differently, both externally and internally.

Maybe some of you have thought of something like that too. I think it's really cool!

WARNING!!! That's a lot of letters ~ Because I can and I will I LOVE making long posts with lots of text. A-HA-HA!!!

Trickster: "No matter what I do, my life is a f*cking comedy for humans, gods, demons… And you know what? I don't give a sh*t about you motherf*ckers! / You watch Melissa go into hysterics. The insane laughter makes your blood run cold. She even seems to be dancing to music she can only hear in her head. / No one else will have power over me, not even the gods! From now on, I will write my own happy ending! Now let us play by my rules. I am the queen in this godd*mn theater, and you will be my jesters!!"

The True path. The alignment remains the same, Chaotic-Neutral. More madness and fun. Melissa certainly wouldn't give up the ability to interfere even with the universe if it were possible. The only outward difference is the occasional appearance of a strange mask on her face. At times like that, you never know what to expect from this tiefling. I had a hell of a hard time drawing that mask, but it turned out great. Just the way I wanted it to turn out.

Angel: "/ Melissa's eyes look down in confusion. You can hear the shaky notes of confusion in her voice. She is unusually silent. The weight of responsibility now rests on her shoulders. / I thought this was going to be an amusing joke. Tiefling's more like an angel, and she's got stupid wings! Sounds mad, doesn't it? My skin and hair… Do I really look like a human now? It's wild…. It's so weird to feel so many hopeful looks on me. I don't even know what to say…"

The alignment changed to Neutral. And from this point on, some of her views on life would have to be reevaluated, which was extremely discouraging. Melissa will become much more serious and calm, less 24/7 style jokes. More adequacy. Her skin will lighten and her hair will take on its usual human brown hue as will her eyes. The appearance of wings, of course, and a semblance of a warm glow from behind, like the aasimar's. She didn't choose this path because there was no point in bringing righteousness and law to a world that was already rotten. Easier to destroy everything… Isn't it?

Azata: "Okay, wait… What the?! Butterfly wings?! Plants on my head?! I look like a pink princess, only without the dress!" / Melissa looks extremely annoyed. No matter how hard she tried to pluck the flowers, they grew on her head again and again, covering her horns with fragrant roses. Slowly she begins to relax, realizing that it's no use. / Damn it!.. Okay, okay. I think I liked that. A little bit... Maybe bringing 'kindness' and 'freedom' isn't as stupid as I thought… Don't dare laugh!"

Chaotic-Good By the end of the game, Melissa becomes softer and kinder. But she's not thrilled with the sudden external changes anyway. You know, flowers and butterflies. The reason for her rejection of this path is simple. She doesn't believe in all that nonsense about friendship, loyalty, kindness and so on. Didn't grow up in that kind of environment. ...Azata - it's not necessarily blue colors. I just want red 🗿 No Desna. Just Cayden Cailean and Calistria!

Demon: "/ Her burning eyes reflected real rage and bloodlust. It was as if primordial chaos in all its horrifying splendor came into view. The thirst for destruction that had haunted her all her life had taken on new colors, and she was ready to carry it with renewed vigor. The girl's voice was no longer human, but rather frighteningly demonic. / I want to break someone's spine, fracture their skull, gut their insides... How ironic. All my life I've been called many things: monster, beast, demon. And now... Now I'm exactly what you thought I was. I hope you're all happy."

REALL Chaotic- Evil The saddest path for Melissa, in my opinion. Especially for a tiefling, considering they often do bad things under societal pressure. Absolute hatred for anything and everything. The appearance would be demonic.

The closest thing to her was the Demon path. Sure, it was very tempting to gain destructive power and take revenge on everyone who had hurt her, but that would be too easy. Deep down, Melissa really didn't want anything like that. If you got to know her better, you'd realize that she's not as bad as she seems at first glance.

P.S.: Yes, she has a big scar on her neck. There will definitely be pages later on about how she got it. It has to do with her death and sudden resurrection.

[running-tweezers]

I’m starting ANOTHER D&D game tonight!!! That’s 2 games I’m in now!!

I’m playing a weird biblical angel-coded aasimar freak girl :)

She escaped a cult where she was seen as a holy sign from god and her existence and purpose was hotly debated her entire life :)

She has a constant glowing halo and 3 sets of eyes :)

She’s constantly fighting the intense divine energy threatening to explode out of her at all times :)

When she finally has to let it out she gains 3 sets of flaming wings and searing radiant light pours out of her eyes and mouth :)

I love her :)

[protagonists-catastrophe]

Headcanon generator time! (Warren edition)

"Warren desperately needs a hug but doesn't know it and refuses to ask for one."

"Warren talks to themself"

"Warren has a really good immune system"

"Warren always wanted to play Stardew Valley with someone and wants to be carried"

"Warren believes in ghosts and insists on trying to summon one at every sleepover."

"Warren is near your house"

"Warren pauses for a long time when speaking"

"Warren is obsessed with Gojo *everyone liked that*"

"Warren often pulls down their jacket or skirt"

"Warren speaks only in meme references."

"Warren walks without purpose"

"Warren can play the piano."

"Warren eats lemons raw"

"Warren can't swim for the life of them"

"Warren loves the disney movie wish"

"Warren will remind others in the midst of chaos how good they're being."

"Warren is a physician posting on other creators subreddits"

"Sometimes Warren cooks pancakes in the air fryer" HUH

"Warren breaks into song for no reason"

"Warren likes to stretch a lot"

"Warren goes on twitch at least 3 hrs before someone's stream and sits in chat with bots"

"Warren is superstitious (won't walk under a ladder, etc.)"

"Warren sings opera in the shower"

"Warren in previous life was a chicken nugget in someone's Panda Express order" hELP WTF-

"Warren spent 5 hours building a lego set only to realize they were missing a piece." rip

"Warren is likes sushi"

"Warren only plays a Aasimar Fighter in D&D"

"Warren is obsessed with Gojo *loud buzzer sound*" huh

"Warren eats boxes"

"Warren is a fast runner"

"Warren is a sleepwalker."

hmmm

// Hello, Warren mod here :D *Puts on reading glasses*

// Let's see what things this generator got right...

1- True, he doesn't ask for one he just pulls Rexer into a hug

2- True

3- False

4- False, he doesn't know about video games. but he sure as hell would manage to get dirty rich in that game.

5- Also false

6- True! :D

7- False, he doesn't shut the fuck up.

8- U n s u r e

9- Gonna assume you mean his weird glowy suit, if so; true.

10- False, (but if he knew any he probably would.

11- True

12- True!

13- False, that's Vincent not Warren.

14- True

15- False, thinks it was mid

16- TRUE.

17- False

18- True, he does it to get a reaction.

19- True!

20-True, stretchy Warren...

21- False, he has better things to do with his time

23- False, he doesn't believe in those

24- True, refuses to admit it.

25- W h a t ? Oh, and False 😭

26- True

27- True! Not his favorite dish though

28- False, he does not like D&D

29- You think this man knows what a Gojo is? False

30- False, i don't have to explain why.

31- False, lazyass teleports

32- False

14-18(?)

[pilot-boi]

Thank you for notifying me about this crime, I shall rectify it:

How did Jaune encounter his patron? Did she trick him? Did he misunderstand?

Also, why do I get the feeling Jaune is accidentally good at illegal shit?

*cracks knuckles* Let me find my notes…

Strap in this is gonna be a long one

Like a really long one. I haven’t gotten to talk about this AU in MONTHS so prepare for what is basically a whole overview of Jaune’s whole arc throughout the campaign

Jaune’s wasn’t even aware that he was an aasimar until he was like 15. His whole family was born with golden hair, and sapphire eyes, and the mark of the Sun on their forehead, so to him it was just how things were

Besides, there’s people from his village who can make trees bloom with a wave of their hands, so being especially blonde wasn’t that weird

Not sure how it happens, kidnapping, trafficking, village is attacked, but somehow the boy and most of not all of his siblings are captured and thrown into a fighting ring scenario

Cue awakening of aasimar heritage in all the Arc kiddos, which helps them survive in the ring. Trauma time woohoo, they’re trapped there for literal months

Eventually, in a dream, Jaune accidentally makes a deal with a dark entity, telling it “I don’t care what you want, just please get me out of here”

The entity obliges, to the letter, JUST getting Jaune out of there, and leaving the ring burning in their wake

His siblings aren’t dead, they escape during the chaos and eventually make their way back home, but Jaune thinks that he’s responsible for all of their deaths

And as the days go on, he realizes he can… do things that he never could before

“Magic, my little bird. A gift for performing so well for me,” a dark voice whispers in his dreams

He doesn’t know it, but his patron ends up being the BBEG, AKA Salem. And for once, I didn’t decide this, you can blame @harmonylight for that one

Plot goes on, Jaune questioning every choice he makes because is it really his choice? Or is it this dark force giving power to protect people and himself? How free actually is he, or is he still trapped just like he was in the ring?

Late campaign is rough, when the party starts speaking out against Salem. It’s obvious she’s the BBEG by this point. There’s a whole cult, Nora’s mom was a member of it. Nora stops trusting him for a bit until Jaune deep in his feels does something SUPER reckless to protect her.

They more they speak out against Salem, the more she manipulates Jaune into thinking his friends hate him. Worse, they unknowingly make it easier for her by distancing themselves to protect him

The party keeps waking up for watch with him watching them, or standing over them. Anything Salem can puppet him to do to be less trustworthy. Trying to put a schism between him and them

Jaune of course remembers none of this. “See? They don’t trust you, little bird. They don’t CARE about you”

Jaune doesn’t remember doing it, but he also fully believes it’s happening. And while he believes Salem that his friends must hate him/be afraid of him he also takes it as the threat it truly is

“Look how easily I could kill them, and you can’t stop me? Look how helpless you are”

Penny is a big part of helping him realise that Salem isn't fully in control of him that he can resit and he can beat her. There’s nothing shippy, they’re bros

There’s an arc just before the end that goes REALLY bad for Jaune, he’s becoming more and more convinced that he’s a bad person, that he’s dangerous, that he’s going to get all of his friends killed just like his family

And THATS when he finds out that his family is actually alive. And that gives him something to resist for, because now he has a home to return to. Because one thing that is true about all Jaunes, he is dogshit at fighting for himself and great at fighting for others

Luckily, because she’s just his patron, they can kick her ass without worrying about hurting Jaune. The campaign ends in the nine hells, fighting Salem herself

Cinder is also a warlock of Salem. They meet her a few times throughout the campaign, each time a little more corrupted. She’s actually the first minion they fight when they reach the hells, and by that point she’s FULLY puppet, not a scrap of Cinder actually left

Sort of a “This is what could’ve happened/could STILL happen to Jaune if this doesn’t end soon” It went faster for Cinder because she’s been bonded for longer and also because she fully indulged in what Salem wanted of her

But by the end of the campaign the first bits of corruption are starting to show on Jaune. They mostly go away after Salem is sealed away, but the physical affects are still there

After all of that, obviously Jaune doesn’t have magic. No patron means no warlock. He borrows some books from Tai and Emerald (both wizards) and studies to learn what he can.

But mostly he finally relaxes, surrounded by the family he thought he lost, and the family he gained because of that loss

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Day 4 Wings | Forge | language.

*Thrones on a angle are the rings with the eyes on them.*

As vax was helping Percy groom his wings he noticed something more interesting “hey dear?”

“mm?” Percy said as he was grooming the wings on his head “what are those things on top of your head that are floating and circling?” Percy looked at him like he was speaking madness before he noticed that vax was pointing out at the top of his head.

Percy looked a bit concerned before he looked up and he saw the rings that had the millions of different colored eyes. one ring was moving in the opposite direction of another “those are what Aasimars called Thrones.”

“really?” said Vax “yeah it's pretty normal.” Says percy as the eyes turn to face vax. “you sure?”

“yes I'm sure it's a normal thing vax.” Percy tells the vampire and he smirks at percy “so do you have eyes anywhere else?”

“how about you find out?” challenged Percy with a bit of a smirk. vax immediately had to hide his blush starting to form

“shut up.” as Percy then closed his wings before saying “you wanted to know?”

“yeah are they more around your arms or not?” asked vax as he went to pull off his shirt “well they conjugate more on my arms my neck and my face. no, I wasn't purposefully hiding it from you I just never showed any of you guys that.”

“why?” asked vax as he places his head on the shoulder of his husband and nuzzling into his neck.“well it be unsettling to see a normal human with all of this.” said Percy gesturing to himself as vax saw the many different eyes slowly starting to blink open and most of them were in fact on Percy’s arms and neck. “or would you like to see me only with these two wings.” he then opened his two biggest wings “well if I'm being honest yes?”

“exactly.” percy said teasing “and no I will not let you see the others.” “but do you have eyes on your cock?”

Percy erupted into laughter his entire body shaking his eyes crinkling and that means all of the eyes that suddenly opened with a flash. there were eyes that were completely blacked out some with having sclera a weird color. pupils with unnatural colors. irises that were completely blacked out. the pupils now having color same with the sclera. some were just solid colors some were not. some looked like Percy’s eyes before he had residuum shoved into his back. the whole point was that he was laughing his eyes crinkling and his crow's feet becoming more apparent he had a beard bit of a beard going but the feathers looked more like a beard than not.

@percildanweek

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Got hit by inspiration and decided to pop off all of the camp clothes and what her undergarments and cracks fully look like. Okay so this looks like I popped out a lot but a good chunk of this was duplicated layers because a lot of it's reused clothing. Let me explain.

One is first camp night and it's the same dress as fresh off the nautiloid but the bottom had to be cut off. I did not show it with the art but the figurine from before has the blood all around the bottom and there's no way you're getting that out of cotton so she had to cut it all off and it was quickly hemmed at the bottom to make a shorter nightgown. Second her camp outfit after she gets some armor. She decides to keep on her pants from the yellow robes to offer some extra coverage at night and they're super baggy because they didn't belong to her at first since she had haggle to get them. Number three she started to notice cracks of light appearing on herself which she thinks is a little weird but doesn't opt to tell the group because it doesn't seem to be a bad thing. She decides to just cover it up instead, she probably should have asked somebody about them and it wouldn't have been a big deal. But they had enough things on their plate in her mind. So she tightens up the neckline and adds gloves to cover her hands. And after the wings pop out number four would be the look for the rest of the game as far as default camp clothes. This dress has gone through the ringer and after growing wings the sleeves were basically gone. So now it's more of a sundress look! And then finally some basic underwear look for her along with the visuals of all the cracks and glowing effects when she fully grows wings. Within the game basically what would happen with her character model is every time she levels up her skin starts to crack and a little bit of glowing shows up underneath it. Very light at first but it starts to get harder to cover up as they get closer the end of act 2. It wouldn't be until about level 5 or 6 that the sternum and tips of her fingers and toes start to glow as well. Then it became really tricky to cover up but it would be very shortly after that she would grow wings so after that it didn't matter. Oh and somebody complimented the glowing and I need to point out that I am not the one to come up with that. Credit where credit is due. That's from the mod I was using to make her an aasimar in the game, Whispers of the Divine by Trips, from Nexus. I adored how it made her look in the game file and it just became my default of how she looked in my mind. I tried to check around to see if the glowing sternum and tips of the limbs was a thing with aasimar anywhere else and I think it's a unique addition??? If anyone has any more knowledge on that I'd love to hear it. I was discussing some things anyway today and I think I might need to start to write down all of my ideas about how aasimar's work. Just so I have a good reference and can put in some information when I finally turned this into a fanfic, but that's troubles for another day.

Pretty excited to do her next reference, I'm going to try and figure out what she wears for the majority of the first part of act 3 and then I'm doing like the final battle outfit for her which actually is an armor set in the game. Feel free to try and guess although one person cannot say anything cuz they already know. They get all the secrets about Sunflower. Then it's on to post game content/the five different endings I have thought up for her outfits (⁠✿⁠^⁠‿⁠^⁠)

[prankprincess123]

There are alot of things about my sister's husband that really annoy me, and I will admit that he has gotten significantly less yikes since they got married (though the fact that they were 17 & 25 when they first got together will always leave me distrustful) but the way he approached the family D&D campaign we just started really highlights alot of the little reasons he drives me nuts.

So it's my baby sister's first real campaign. She's 11yo and very much still a child rather than a wanna be teenager, but wants to play D&D with us, so we're trying to keep it pretty PG and tame. Mama also hasn't played much since 3.5 and thus isn't used to all the weird new races. So we decided that we are going to do an overall Chaotic Good party, with races limited to ones the players handbook and fae. All three middle kids were a little annoyed by this, but settled in such a way that we had an aasimar, a satyr, my gnome and a bunch of elves all either CG or CN.

We also weren't planning for it to be an evening thing as baby sister still goes to bed at 8:30 and has school in the morning. But BIL works till 5, and has to be part of any and every D&D game, and he was genuinely expressing an interest in being part of family time for once. So we agreed to start in the afternoon, take a break for dinner & to pick him up, then resume & let baby stay up a little later than usual to play with everyone.

And as we're creating characters I'm trying to talk to everyone about what our 3rd level party's backstory is and how we met & know eachother, and asking for input on what my ranger's favored enemy should be. But he won't talk to me, and my sister says his character is a surprise, and she won't give any input on my favored enemy either. So I roll my eyes in exasperation, decide that my favored enemy is kobolds because Ada loves using them as low level enemies, and figure that BIL's character will be introduced as part of the story when he shows up mid session.

And BIL gets there finally, and we start playing, and he doesn't add a mini to the board or introduce his character or anything. So we're all starting to get annoyed, but continue on and resume the quest. Then 5min into the battle against kobolds and goblins, a NE kobold barbarian jumps into the fray, so my CG gnome ranger whose favorite enemy is kobolds instinctively shoots it. And at this point, Mama is about ready to strangle BIL, baby is starting to get over tired and just wants to loot the bodies and go to bed irl, and Ada let's me shoot him cause it's funny and tracks that in a battle against my favorite enemy I'd shoot another one of that race who I don't know. And BIL whirls on me with remarks about how if he attacked me that way my character would be downed instantly - which yes, but if you followed the rules for the campaign it wouldn't be an issue - and very pointedly helps everyone but me - and I'm only even struggling slightly with the wargs so whatever. But he draws the battle out long enough that it's now an hour past baby's bedtime, and in game only my sister (his wife)'s character (whose backpack he was apparently hiding in) knows who this random enemy character is and he's still not answering questions, and baby is overtired and we don't have time for his nonsense, so we wrap up the sessoin as fast as possible and leave it for next time. And after game as Ada is putting baby to bed I ask him what the heck that was and he just grins and says 'Z said you'd react this way and say it's what your character would do. When she told me your favorite enemy is kobolds I just laughed.'

Like what the actual heck dude. We're trying to have a low stakes, low drama, introduction campaign for a kid who already cries herself to sleep because family relationships have been strained since BIL entered the picture. And hes intentionally breaking the rules because he knows it will annoy both Mama and me, picking fights in game, and drawing the game longer after the 11yo's bedtime.

I just want to scream and wish my character were tough enough to take his out easily.

[stick-or-treat]

So here's the thing about languages in the 2024 PHB rules.

There are now two language tables, one of languages that are commonly spoken throughout the multiverse and one of languages that are "rare" and therefor not as easy to pick up. They added Common Sign Language in the "common" table and I think that's awesome. Shit like Primordial is in the "rare" table, which... good.

In theory, I like the divide. I think it's helpful, especially to new players, to be like "here are the ones you might run into and here are the ones you will probably never run into unless the plot goes there".

HOWEVER, none of the core species have a language baked in to their description anymore. Tieflings don't automatically speak Infernal, aasimar don't automatically understand Celestial, etc.

This in itself isn't inherently an issue but it gets kind of sucky when you get to the "pick your languages" section and learn that you can only pick two languages off the common table and that is it.

Infernal and Celestial are both on the rare table. Which means that unless your tiefling or aasimar specifically took a background/feat that lets them learn a rare language, they CANNOT speak those languages off the bat. WHICH IS REALLY WEIRD FOR TIEFLING, ESPECIALLY, because the species description specifically starts with "Tieflings are either born in the lower planes or..." and yet they can't have picked up Infernal or Abyssal at some point?? The main languages spoken in the lower planes??

I would not be quite as annoyed by this if all the species had their sort lineage-themed-language blocked by the rare table but dragonborn can pick up Draconic because it's on the common table, SO BOO

YES, I can easily homebrew a change here but I find it very weird that they've completely blocked off the rare languages unless you've taken a specific feat that lets you learn one. I feel like it would have been very easy to let people pick either 2 common languages or 1 common and 1 rare language. In blitzing through the PHB I'm actually not even sure if there is a background or feat that lets you learn a rare language at lvl 1. It's a bizarre choice.