#mender kippa

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Sweetest girl in the universe, the Oracle of Aurene, Kippa.

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Scattered

By Mother's branches, we're surrounded by ice. Caithe couldn't keep her eyes off the suspended fragments in the air, or the vanishing cloud that was her breath escaping her as she fought back the shock that was clawing up her chest and into her throat. She somehow channeled Jormag. It's like the jungle all over again. She'll lose herself to the dragon soon-

She shook her head, hard enough to make the leaves on her head rattle against each other. "Stop this," she muttered aloud.

"Caithe?" Kippa's voice, trembling and so small as to be almost invisible, caught her attention. She turned to look down at the asura, who had only just regained consciousness from where she'd collapsed in a heap after somehow healing Rhenn.

Who had only just witnessed what feat of magic she had unleashed upon an unready world.

Caithe took a deep breath, before making herself smile. "Sorry, Kippa. Just a bit lost in my thoughts for a moment. What did you need?"

"I don't know," she blurted, looking on the verge of tears as Caithe knelt down next to her. It was as the sylvari moved to her knees that she finally got a good look at the ice hanging in the air.

Embedded in each, there appeared to be iridescent fluid: a river of crystal like that Aurene created around her with her unique magic, moving at all times. Curious, Caithe glanced towards Rhenn to check the wound in his chest. There as well was a crystalline seam with that same fluid, pulsing and glowing faintly within.

"Kippa..." Caithe finally found her voice. "What is this?"

"Aurene says that I communed with her magic to save Rhenn. It's water magic merged with her crystal magic." Kippa wrung her hands while looking down at Rhenn. "I don't know how I did it, so please-"

"Oh no, no, I don't care to know that part." Caithe reached out to rest her hand on top of Kippa's hands, settling the asura's nervous fidgeting. "You saved him from dying, Kippa. That's what I care most about right now, for Aurene's sake. You did exactly what you should have done-"

She would have continued, but at that point Kippa flung herself into Caithe's arms with a sob. Caithe froze for just a moment in surprise, before gently pulling a hand over the asura's hair and making soft noises to try and calm her down.

Answering the question of what this insane amount of magic was, and what it could mean for them all, could wait for a moment more.

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I almost forgot I'd wanted to respond to this! Anyhoo I've got a few, some of which are high profile toons of mine.

First is Laxzzi. Formerly a member of the Inquest, she voluntarily went through experimentation during her time there. This left her with her right eye altered, causing her to be able to "see" the ley magic gathered in a person. The stronger their magical affinity, the brighter the person glows. It gives her migraines, so she wears an eyepatch to cover it. She's since left the Inquest and works with the Order of Whispers with Agent Batanga, and the two got married sometime during PoF.

Experiment 74355, or Tress. A member of the Order of Whispers who had been infiltrating the Inquest, she eventually got found out. Captured and imprisoned, she was subjected to dozens of painful, invasive experiments meant to see how close they could force an asura's physiology to mimic a sylvari's. She developed plant-like tendencies, able to photosynthesize, with spores she can use to exert limited control over feral animals. She managed to kill her captors and escape, making her way back to the only thing she remembered from her life before: her girlfriend, Zrii.

And of course, Kippa! A Priory mender that drew up in Rata Thauma, the decimated city cube that had once been above the secret Thaumanova Reactor facility, her mother had a great deal of trouble having children. On the insistence of a friend, she went to a physician who promised to help, not knowing he was an Inquest researcher. The treatments infused her unborn baby with unprecedented amounts of dragon magic. Though Suzzi ended the treatments early on finding out the truth, her daughter wound up a frighteningly powerful elementalist with strong water and air attunements. Kippa only recently learned her magic was the result of an Inquest experiment.

And then... The Experiment himself. One of my alt commanders, Rhenn. His father Prikk was a talented geneticist who decided he wanted to create the "perfect" asura. Rhenn was custom designed in a test tube, made to be stronger, faster, and more resilient than other asura. He heals faster and rarely gets sick. Throughout the nineteen years of his life he spent within the Inquest, he was subjected to a dizzying number of experimental surgeries, never realizing this wasn't normal. After he was placed as commander during a PR stunt following the would-be-commander's death at Claw Island, he started slowly learning the sheer gravity of the abuse he endured growing up as nothing more than his own father's guinea pig.

Hey there, it's been a while since I've done a GW2 Community Sharecase!

Do you have OCs that are either Experiments or Creators of said Experiments? Or both? Note: these questions are not posed only for Inquest/Asura OCs! If you've got Human, Norn, Charr, and/or Sylvari who are experiments/creators, they also count!

For Experiments: How were they created? What were their role/purpose? Are they loyal to their Creator(s) or unpredictable? Do they get put down or escape and live on?

For Creators: Why did they make the Experiment? What was their intent/goals? Did they succeed or fail? Did they work alone or with a group?

If you have an OC who was self-experimented on, they also count! What did they do? Why did they do it? What did they become or what happened to them?

Any additional stuff you wanna add about your experiment/creator OCs, feel free to talk your heart out!

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"I defy the stars; I defy Heaven and Hell. The laws of the universe say That the man I love is lost to me. I say: Watch me save him."

Eye of the North during Icebrood Saga was a massive shift for all parties involved, but perhaps none moreso than Kippa. The soft spoken, shy elementalist was always known to be a powerful healer... but no one quite realized just how intense that magic was until Rhenn was slipping away beneath her hands.

She can save him... but she will never be the same again.

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Show yourself- step into your power Grow yourself into something new You are the one you've been waiting for all of your life...

While getting my hand back, I wanted to get a Kippa out. So here she is, the sweetest girl in creation.

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❝ to live, for the hope of it all. ❞

Just wanted to do some new Kippa screens because I just like looking at her face. She's such a sweet, kindhearted girl.

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While trying to make the difficult decision on whether or not to keep Amnoon a free city, Kippa decided to take Rhenn some tea and sit with him a while. Of course, emotions can run wild when there's a lot of stress, and with no one but them under the starlit Elonian sky on that rooftop late that night...

...not that they would ever discuss anything until after Joko's attacks, but it was a start.

(This accidentally wound up looking like a Snargle book cover and it's ending me.)

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and he looked at me, like there was something in me worth looking at.

Getting the homestead unlocked has made me so powerful. Some Rhenn and Kippa screens from parking these two in there.

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Explorer Kippa is me, and @catmanderratmander is Artificer Lucasta!

i finally went to an art party! 🥰 i actually forgot to ask for usernames but i DID recognize some folks here so @leafofkudzu for Yui Kaiho (thank you again for putting this together every month!) @little-leaf-man for Hosei and @commander-gloryforge for Ambrose i think i have those right

if you see yourself, please let me know! everyone's characters are so gorgeous 😭

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Worthy

Pg 1, 2

Kippa has always been prone to working herself half to death. Rhenn's finally had enough, for reasons Kippa just hasn't expected.

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and you glow of course you do

Kippa, Priory mender, the Oracle of Aurene. I am so glad to finally have gotten the Immortal Nimbus for her I've wanted it forever.

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The Day the Whole World Changed

The morning of the Thaumanova disaster, Kippa was called back to Rata Sum by her frantic uncle Professor Gorr, who'd received word of the complete and utter decimation of the city cube and needed to bring his niece to tell her what had happened.

Meaning that on her arrival in the city, a confused Kippa found herself staring in the direction of Rata Thauma, wondering why all she could see were pulsating clouds and a brilliant beam of light...

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My girl is on my mind, so a Kippa is what I offer up!

Struggling with Art right now

I wanna draw some shapes someone hand me their character(s) to doodle please

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It's summertime! And that means it's time to dress for the beach. Saw a really cute bathing suit and figured it'd be hella cute on Kippa.

So Kippa gets the cutest bathing suit for the warm weather.

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As Rhenn spent more time around Kippa, talking to her and learning about what led her to traveling with him despite her hatred of the Inquest, he learns two things:

One. She might be just about as lonely as he's starting to realize he is.

Two? Kippa is so much stronger than he's ever given her credit, and maybe he's starting to see her in a brand new light...

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Hear my plea to the fallen: leave me to be with the broken One last time before I go. Hold the last burning ember; let us never surrender. May we rise unto the call. For the glory and the fall, for the beaten and the broken For the lost and forsaken, let us never surrender. May we rise unto the call.

The Oracle of Aurene, Kippa