#let him be a pretty elf

[weareinastormoffuck]

Ever since i noticed that Jayden Revri has pointy ears I've been thinking about him playing an elf or something similar in the future, would love to see it personally.

[heybiji]

[frodo-with-glasses]

So uh. I might’ve found a pattern here.

From The Fellowship of the Ring, “Three Is Company”:

From The Two Towers, “The Uruk-Hai”:

From The Return of the King, “The Houses of Healing”:

Now I know Tolkien hated allegory. And I know LotR is not a copy-and-paste parable about WWII (which he didn’t fight in) or even WWI (which he did). But the man did see war, and so did people he loved, and he had a non-zero amount of trauma, and some of that is gonna make its way into his writing somehow.

And I think his soul might’ve had something to say about soldiers being forced to walk until they dropped from exhaustion.

[quirkwall]

Sometimes Davrin looks at my Rook with such love and compassion in his eyes (the two of them got stupid close stupid quickly), that I forget he wasn't the dating sim romance route this time around.

[riacte]

so hey guys i finished dungeon meshi yesterday and i'm still thinking about it

[electoons]

giving my ldb a daughter. embarrassing for all involved. mostly me

[dark-elf-writes]

I have a desperate need for Genesis to be Cloud’s first crush/gay awakening/gender revelation like way before he even got to Shinra and then after a night out under the plate he wakes up in Gen’s bed and hightails it out vowing to never take off his helmet around any Shinra employee ever again.

This becomes a lot harder when he becomes friends with Zach who is constantly complaining about his other friend who fell in love with someone during a one night stand and won’t shut up about finding them again.

[rogloptimist]

continuously thinking about this clip of a eurosports segment on primoz’s ski jumping career

the section from his former coach is particularly interesting, i’ve seen so many articles where people assume his career ended with his fall at planica but he actually continued jumping for 4 more years and the way those years are discussed here needs to be dissected imo

[birb--birb]

Help I'm obsessed with him

[tamagotchikgs]

i remember the inquisition character creator being such a nightmare so i told myself ill just play as whichever i can make look decent but unfortunately i hav fallen for both of them

[powdermelonkeg]

Going to do Skyrim tonight playing as Lambert from the Witcher. I’ve got my mods all in order.

Planned companions:

Caryalind Thallery

Kaidan (just 2, not Extended)

Lucien Flavius

Caesia

Inigo the Brave

Rufus

[mocha-gladiator]

smh

[wtfforged]

my campaign hiatus has gone on for too long so to cope ive combined my interests at their maximum potency and had some dnd-strawhats thoughts

thoughts in depth under read more... :)!

this is SO self indulgent. their designs literally did not change. but i am a firm believer that dnd doesnt have to be european high fantasy. and also one piece literally IS fantasy. no changes are necessary to fit into dnd. ive already imagined plenty of campaign/oneshot ideas inspired by one piece. so this was basically just an exercise of trying to replicate their canon abilities in dnd 5e as much as possible without totally homebrewing everything. well. aside from luffy. you just cant take away or change his stretching.

LUFFY: (human monk. drunken master subclass. outlander)

the only plain human of the crew to balance out with the fact that he still has rubber powers. obviously a monk. but drunken master subclass specifically because i think the flavor(not the fact that its about being a drunkard) and abilities both fit him really well. this line in the subclass' flavortext especially fits him: "A drunken master often enjoys playing the fool to bring gladness to the despondent or to demonstrate humility to the arrogant, but when battle is joined, the drunken master can be a maddening, masterful foe."

ZORO: (tiefling fighter. samurai subclass. bounty hunter)

a fighter with the samurai subclass is so very incredibly obvious... but i actually had a lot of fun geeking out while comparing the abilities to what he can do in canon; Fighting Spirit, Rapid Strike, and Strength Before Death especially! tiefling is also pretty on the nose for his demon pirate hunter shtick and asura form, but i thought he'd be really human-passing for a tiefling and theorized about his tail getting cut off at some point or another before joining the strawhats. initially wasnt gonna give him a feat, but i gave sanji a feat so i thought itd be unfair to not give him one as well, so sentinel fits the bill pretty well i think!

NAMI: (tabaxi rogue. arcane trickster subclass. criminal)

cat burglar -> full grown literal humanoid cat. this one is INCREDIBLY self indulgent... i love... cats... theres nothing deeper to this and no other reasoning. i took cat burglar and ran with it. can you tell that i love izutsumi dungeon meshi? rogue for the aforementioned burglar-ing as well, and the arcane trickster subclass for when she picks up climatact! the mage hand will be very useful for her pickpocketing. in the future as she levels up with timeskip, i can totally see her multiclassing into wizard as well! weather wizard!

USOPP: (lightfoot halfling artificer. artillerist subclass. urchin)

I HAD SO MUCH FUN THINKING ABOUT HIS CHARACTER SHEET. halfling's Naturally Stealthy ability lets him hide behind his crewmates since theyre (almost) all bigger than him, so its perfect for hiding behind zoro or sanji all the time. Lucky is also perfect for him, and I think Brave fits pretty well too when he puts on the sogeking mask. artillerist artificer is also very fun! tinkering and making magic items for his crew, and i think Eldritch Canon or Arcane Firearm could both be easily reflavored as kabuto or any of his inventions. for emphasizing his sniper-ness, the spell sniper feat was also necessary. i think hes my favorite of all the concepts. big ears and long nose combo is so cute to me.

SANJI: (half-elf monk. drunken master subclass. guild artisan (cook!))

race was mostly based on vibes i wont lie. squints. and that vinsmoke balogna or whatever too ig. but mostly vibes. along with the idea that i think a dwarf zeff raising him would be really funny and cute. monk is also obvious, and same subclass as luffy for mostly the same reasons. though the flavor fits him much less, i think the abilities still fit him perfectly, and this blurb specifically; "Your martial arts technique mixes combat training with the precision of a dancer." i really wanted to give him a different subclass from luffy, but i dislike all the other monk subclasses a lot and i found none of them fit him as well anyways, so to try and give them SOME differences, i gave him the crusher feat.

CHOPPER: (awakened deer(shifter statblock) cleric. life subclass. hermit)

this ones definitely a mouthful im sorry. awakened deer for obvious reasons, but due to magic instead of devil fruit stuff. when i was struggling with his race, i looked a lot at shifter because of his forms, but it occurred to me that itd be super cool if he could shift between all of the different shifter options instead of being stuck with just one to replicate his rumble balls. something like heavy point/guard point=beasthide, horn point/arm point(?maybe?)=longtooth, walk point/jumping point=swiftstride, and brain point=wildhunt. hed definitely need some kind of nerf though to balance out that homebrew... and cleric for class. duh.

ROBIN: (high elf wizard. order of scribes subclass. criminal)

robin is definitely the one i struggled the most with just because of her class. elf came pretty easily- shes very elegant and i think shed look cute with super long ears- and i landed on high elf instead of wood elf for the int-based abilities. i was really on the fence between sorcerer and wizard for her because i knew shed be a full spellcaster, but i didnt feel that any of the subclasses really fit her. i ended up going with wizard for order of the scribes since it focuses on texts and knowing everything. but also because robin with a flying talking sentient book would be crazy cool. it could also be similar to how she spawns mouths and eyes places to talk to or watch people. my "fuck it, why not. this would be rad. its my house" mindset kicked in with her i will admit. also the One with the Word ability made me cackle out loud when i read it. thats the funniest ability ever. anyways, i cant really think of a way to replicate her powers, but maybe we could just reflavor a bunch of spells to be her limbs or clutch; hold person, maximillian's earthen grasp, or evard's black tentacles. thatd probably work okay, and theres a handful of spells to replicate her ability to spawn eyes or mouths. unrelated, but i imagine nico olvia to be a drow. why? her hair is white. i am a simple man!

[apheliavampire]

Just a short little snippet of my Tav and Astarion, and his nightly eating habits.

"You can feed on me tonight" Grimodim said, staring almost coldly at the vampire. "Well then, I'll see your sweet self tonight~" Astarion replied with a purr. As he watched the half orc turn away however, he found his hands reaching out, stopping him from leaving for a moment. "Ah but, Grimodim? I do… Have a question."

Grimodim turned around, giving Astarion his full attention. "Then ask away."

"While it's not that I don't appreciate your ah, nightly donations… I have to wonder why you do it. Ah ha, look at me, caring about another. Is lust the reason you offer?" The pale elf's crimson eyes looked the half-orc up and down, almost as if he was mentally undressing him.

"It's duty."

"It's what?"

"I allow this to happen for a multitude of reasons, but one of them is duty. You fight better when you've had blood, it's easier than having to worry about you biting someone during combat, and it means you're not doing this to anyone else in camp."

"You make it sound like it's a bad thing, darling~"

Grimodim sighed. "I… Just, drop it, Astarion. You might not enjoy the truth."

"No, please~ It is lust isn't it? I always did peg you for a pervert, wanting to monopolize m--"

"It is extremely painful, to the point where it jolts me awake every night, and the only thing keeping me from ripping you off my neck is years of abuse under the guise of training."

Astarion stood there, eyes wide, seeing the man in front of him look disgusted, although not at him, Astarion understood with a start, but himself.

"I didn't want to inform you, in case it gave you pause from doing it. And, quite frankly, I had thought you would have felt my heart-rate increase when I was woken up, and were just ignoring it."

The elf thought back to every night he had drank from the half-orc, and realised that he had felt his breathing shift beneath him with his bite, that he had felt his pulse quicken as he drank. But he had been so lost in his blood that he had brushed it off as nothing more than a sleeping reaction. "I… I didn't know" he stammered, suddenly feeling very small, like he was back in Cazador's mansion, awaiting the torture to come. He let go of the hem of the half-orcs sleeve, playing with his own in a nervous fashion.

Grimodim sighed once again, rubbing his hand over his face. "It's fine, Astarion. Like I said, I'm in a unique position where I'm probably one of the few people here capable of withstanding it. Maybe Shadowheart with her training from Shar…." He trailed off for a moment, considering it. "And anyway, if I was that concerned over my own wellbeing, I wouldn't offer."

"This whole 'being concerned for others' is horrible you know. How can I drink from you knowing that?"

"The same way you tried to manipulate me in the beginning to like you. It wouldn't even be something you'd have to pretend to do, elf. Just think of me as another target, and enjoy yourself. Enjoy your safety. I'm not someone you have to concern yourself with." Grimodim took a step back. "We move out in 10 minutes. Get ready." And with that, he turned away, out of reach of Astarion.

The elf so desperately wanted to grab onto him again and tell him he was wrong but… Was he? His stomach churned. There was a question hanging in the air, unable to be uttered into existence. Why did he care? Why did he suddenly find himself dreading the thought of hurting Grimodim.

A feeling best squashed down and considered later.

[dark-elf-writes]

Kyoko has painted most of the guys’ nails and i refuse to believe otherwise.

[elvesofnoldor]

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