How the partner and I make new NPCs:
Him: so I need a guy to do x for my character’s backstory
Me: excellent yes let’s make a guy
Him: let’s put a Tragic Backstory in the soup
Me: of course of course! And let’s make him just. Nice. Just a cheerful, friendly guy who goes just a bit… absent when it comes up, cuz it’s been so long he doesn’t quite remember
Him: nicer if he thinks it’ll piss you off. Dead family?
Me: fridged family, for sure. Maybe someone’s pulling his strings telling him only they can bring them back
Him: he works for a witch it will be great. Let’s make him extradimensional
Me: the astral sea is very sexy
Him: mmm yes and lots can go wrong. We can fit so much sad into this man
Me: ………….. what if we put a lil Fucked Up in him
Him: tell me more
Me: what if we rewrite the rules of reality for some truly twisted alternate world shit that calls back to a previous world ending adventure long in the past, meaning he partially helped cause that apocalypse, and the true key to saving his family is held by the person who fucked them up
Him: So Much Sad! And they’re all still alive but time locked so they don’t even know what’s happened
Me: what if the person who fucked them up is his spouse from another dimension fleeing her crimes and she can NEVER actually save his family without losing her anchor in this world but she “returned” his family in their stasis mode and considers that done and keeps using him anyway
Him: what if his kids looked like my character
Me: what if your character looks like two different sets of his kids because your character has been aging and they haven’t
Him: you’re sick and twisted and i love you. He’d kill my character if he was told to, even if it would make him sad
Me: listen it would make him sad but he’s sad all the time anyway and has been sad for 200 years so that’s really not a motivating factor for him anymore
Us: *sigh* we love him so much
Him: …… so what disability are we giving him can he have my absence seizures
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shnuffling about on my desk knocking my items onto the floor and then looks at me like this
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