#malice gw2

[guildwarszeke]

i cannot be losing my mind over crecia rox and malice. i can't i have projects to work on and things to do

[thatdogmagic]

Rytlock who?

[astralarias]

One of the little bits of writing in Janthir I really enjoyed was in the second Alliance meeting, after the somewhat heated discussion about using the scepter.

Dagonet, if you talk to him, expresses how embarrassed he is at how the Alliance is acting in front of Stoic Alder, a member of a rather ancient race.

I thought it was really neat to have a sylvari express that concern of appearing childish, considering they’re such a new race for whom that worry could very well be a real problem - especially with their tumultuous past with Mordremoth. Of course they’d care about appearing mature and being taken seriously as a whole!

There’s a few other things like this that I just really appreciated in this expac. The character motivations felt very real and deep.

[where-is-caithe]

wouldn't it be really funny if the wizards revealed themselves and everyone was like "oh yeah the wizards we've known about you guys" because of the people in the entire world the 3 people Most Likely to already know that shit were the 3 in the trailer for janthir wilds. like you think Malice doesn't have someone up there already. be serious.

[wyldblunt]

some quickies to practice malice... i wanna draw a little comic of her and my commander brooding and gossiping

[skaald-of-the-hearth-fires]

Y'all I've always thought it was hilarious what Anet did to warbands.

So. you have Rytlock, who in Edge of Destiny said he had "about a dozen" brothers and sisters each. so including himself, that's 25 in a warband. The wiki says a warband is 6-25 members, so Rytlock was on the high end, and average would probably be 12-18 members.

and then every warband in the game proceeds to have BARELY 6.

you have 5 options to choose from for a sparring partner. Rox's old warband had 6 members (or maybe 7). We've still never met more than one of Rytlock's 'bandmates. Almorra gets one 'bandmate mentioned by name.

most charr in the entire game, including top-ranking tribunes and imperators, are not with their warbands, do not talk about their warbands, do not go places with their warbands. Tribune Bhuer Goreblade shows up with a small handful of 'bandmates in the charr level 10 story.

You do not see groups of 12-18 charr warbands roaming around Ascalon with fascinating life stories and 'bandmate dynamics and mourning the latest one(s) who died, with mementos, with stories about how 'my sparring partner saved my life' and 'this member of the warband whom I know least of all my bandmates would die for me and they proved it last week' and 'Im unhappy with bandmate X but I would kill for them' or 'bandmates Y and Z obviously love each other. wanna join the betting pool?' and the legionnaire who confides in you about their tough decisions of who they're picking to be their second/replacement. All within the same warband.

Not even one warband like this. Much less the multiple that charr culture deserves.

Even in IBS, the, at least half-way, charr-centric story, our main focus warband is Ryland's Steel warband. Who has, predictably, 6 members. And like 10 fresh-faced, unnamed recruits who have 0 history or dynamic with the Main Cast. even the 6 named members, who have vibes and character and a bit of a dynamic, are stupid shallow. (and tbf they didn't have time to explore it much, but really?)

We do not see Bangar's 'bandmates. We do not see Rytlock's 'bandmates. We do not hear anything about Almorra's old 'bandmates. We do not see Ember Doomforge's 'bandmates. We do not see Smodur's 'bandmates. We do not see Malice's 'bandmates. We do not see Efram's 'bandmates.

We see a lot of 'cubs this' (with Rytlock and with Efram), I heard a lot of speculation about 'cubs that' in fandom spaces, we see a lot of 'ohoho relationship/mating drama' (from Rytlock/Crecia and also Almorra/Bangar). We do NOT see ANYTHING about warbands, supposedly the building-blocks of charr society.

Even the charr player's old warband is mostly disbanded/defected to Dominion.

I have yet to see any real warband dynamics in canon.

Even in the books! Rytlock's 24 'bandmates are fair game because they're offscreen. And Anet has consistently refused to show any of them. Even Rytlock's dynamic with Crecia is pretty much just "we're old exes" and never "we grew up together. we fought together. our bonds are deeper than those of biology, than the fact we have a cub. I stabbed you once and you knew I didn't mean it because we are 'bandmates." Sure, Crecia mentions once "ohoho we used to see the ice elementals here as cubs."

But in the books! Sea of Sorrows for instance! iirc the majority of Sykax's warband is unnamed! Ember Doomforge, again, no mentions of warband! Rytlock nor Malice nor Almorra talk about inter-warband relations!

we never see any warbands larger than 6 members.

And this is all because, OBVIOUSLY, who wants to come up with 12-18 whole characters when it's just the one who's relevant to the story? Coming up with 6 is hard enough it only happens in special occasions. which doesn't include the legit actual player character.

(the player character, whose warband is decimated to TWO flaming members (including yourself!!) in the tutorial, and! yay! fun lorebuilding! you get to rebuild the warband. this adds a flaming total of TWO members. now you're at flaming four. FLAMING FANTASTIC. the player-flaming-character gets FOUR 'bandmates. this is atrocious!! and tbf if you compile all the options across all the branches you might end up in the (low end, probably) of 12-18. which is fair!)

but like. I do sympathize. I really do. characters are hard. names especially! which would be the bare minimum yknow. have an 18-member warband with zero dialogue but! they do have names! that wander around Ascalon. not even an event chain just average-sized warband representation PLEASE.

like. I did it myself. I invented a warband and I BARELY got them to 6 members. I had name, gender, profession for each of them. they were minor characters so they didn't even get the development that Ryland's Steel got. names, professions and the vibes from that. I felt so bad for only giving them 6 bc I was reinforcing the stereotype!!

but, so, uhhhh

I have been handed an OC. from a friend. who has given me full creative license to write abt them in my story.

I gave him 23 'bandmates. They all have names and genders. They're split up into who is whose sparring partner and who bunks with whom. That is all.

I also get VibesTM from each member's name. I'm slowly building relationship maps. (mostly just. from character A's PoV, ranking who they are closest with. Then doing it from Character B's PoV. it's WILDLY fascinating.) I have three charr 'bandmates who have their own little niche, they three are besties, they're each other's sparring partners and bunkmates and everybody (main relevant characters at least) knows them as 'those three'. and I know their names. none of the characters I'm writing about know them very well (relative to the rest of the warband ofc. ofc each one would DIE for them and probably knows their struggles and combat strengths and weak points and so on. but I haven't invented any of those yet) and that's all. I don't have a single bit of info about them except that and the vibes of each name. but hey!!!! WARBAND DYNAMICS MY BELOVED!?!!

[gristlegrinder]

i heard that the shining blade’s back, baby

[i-mybrunettelady]

cozy little room for the shady lady

[littlefoxgw2]

[dualumina]

Anet is taunting us so BADLY by putting Frode (Zommoros' voice actor) in the same room as a djinn and meanwhile Caithe and Malice (BOTH ARE MIYANI'S VOICE ACTOR) are just tagging along for the fun of it...

[charrior-of-ash]

"We were speeding together Down the dark avenues But besides of the stardom All we got was blues

But through all of that sorrow We were riding high And the truth of the matter is I never let you go, let you go

We were scanning the cities Rocking to pay the dues But besides of the glamour All we got was bruised

But through all of that sorrow We were riding high And the truth of the matter is I never let you go, let you go" ~Ghost, Mary on a cross Alei Shadowscream Sorrowscream & Malice Swordshadow The colored version of this piece has been sitting in my sketchbook for three months now, waiting for better light or, perfectly, a scanner. I still don't have either of these, so I hope this crappy foto is enough... for now. Once I have a proper scanner, I promise to upload it once again. ^^

[legendary-alliance-stance]

on one hand, YESSSS WHITE MANTLE AND SHINING BLADE STUFF PROBABLY

in the other hand, anise

[glitchgw2]

this game's silly, the notes don't even match up

(metal >>> bell choir music)

[girlbob-boypants]

Okay but why did anet think it was okay to make two of their most morally evil human(ish) villains bi men as jokes? Like.

[where-is-caithe]

-- B A S I C S

name: Eon Shearfang

nicknames: 'Fang (Maverick only), Shearfang (Malice) they have saber teeth I promise :(

birthday: Middle of the year

race: Charr, Ash Legion

gender: ???? Butch. she/they

orientation: Lesbian

profession: Thief to Mesmer pipeline. Commander.

-- P H Y S I C A L A S P E C T S

hair: Purple

eyes: Purple (the same)

skin: black panther fur, with faint black jaguar rosettes. soft and fluffy.

tattoos/scars: space rift scars

-- F A M I L Y

parents: smoke shaman mother, ash legion father. placed in an ash fahrar.

siblings: none.

grandparents: ???

in laws and others: no.

pets: astral raptor.

-- S K I L L S

abilities: mesmer abilities. cannot create clones, but creates stars like knives like a virtuoso. utilizes wells and pulls. black hole well. die. VERY good at invisibility and teleportation. can do portals but kasmeer is better.

hobbies: map making. has a book full of hand-drawn fractal maps with important landmarks. the habit continues when they become the commander and they make maps during downtime.

-- T R A I T S

most positive trait: laughs with you. jokes around and is relatively friendly.

most negative trait: shuts down and ignores you. if anyone theyre close to is in a life-threatening situation they immediately distance from them. definition of being hot with a shit personality. you will regret getting to know them.

-- L I K E S

colors: ~purple~

smells: leather. metal. something otherwordly. burnt ozone.

textures: leather.

drinks: whiskey neat. coffee. dark stout beer.

-- O T H E R D E T A I L S

smokes: often.

drinks: yes.

drugs: not really.

been arrested: yes.

ty to @mystery-salad for tagging me you get the space cat for this one 🥰

tagging my gf @lackluster-plays

[edmunderson]

hey guys a little help? please?