#natphi

[mars-ipan]

really messy natphi bc i missed drawing her <3

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

WIBTA if i incorporate an old friend’s oc into my oc’s backstory?

hi!! this is a more lighthearted AITA- i’m basically just gauging proper oc etiquette bc i have no clue if this would be rude.

i (18X) am a d&d player. have been for a long time! i started at 13, with a huge group of my friends. we didn’t get to play much bc there were so many of us, but it was a blast and i ended up loving my character, natphi (a classic tiefling bard) so much that she eventually became a standalone oc for me.

in-game, natphi entered the party alongside her friend, luca (a half-elf ranger), who was played by another one of my friends (18 or 19 X now, 13 at the time). we were baby gays, and natphi and luca had a really fun sort of will-they-or-won’t-they wlw best-friendship. it was a great dynamic, and we both loved drawing them together and discussing them and even rping how they first met over discord. it was a blast, and eventually natphi’s friendship with and pining over luca became an important part of her story and character to me.

however, by this point luca’s player and i were going to different schools and had dropped several friends in that group due to standard teen drama, so it was hard to keep in touch. we stopped talking a couple of years ago with no hard feelings- just a classic drifting apart over time.

natphi is still one of my most beloved ocs (we’ve been through a lot together) and i still daydream about her friendship and such with luca. it gets difficult when i want to draw her in any meaningful way, though. luca isn’t my character, and if i drew her and posted it i would absolutely link back to her creator’s instagram, but it feels really odd to make and post art of the oc of someone you don’t talk to anymore. i can’t go and ask them if they mind, because once again, we haven’t spoken in years.

i’ve been chewing on this dilemma for a bit, but an idea came to me as i started preparing to make natphi a character sheet for a oneshot i’m doing soon: i could make natphi’s relationship with luca a part of her backstory and come up with some tragic separation of them. it would work great with natphi’s current backstory and deepen her character motivations, so there’s no problems there. however, i still feel really iffy using a now-stranger’s character with mine, even if i were to only refer to luca as more of a vague ghost than a full character. part of me feels like i’m “copying” her and just changing bits and pieces so she doesn’t look exactly the same. technically, nobody would actually be able to tell unless i told them, but i’d still feel like an ass for doing it if it’s “cheating,” for lack of a better word. however, i also know i’m a chronic overthinker, so i’m asking all of you instead: would i be TA for this??? i genuinely have no idea. thanks in advance for the input! ^^

What are these acronyms?

[mars-ipan]

i am so fucking happy you tagged me in this

[the-artist-melancholy]

Natphi Vanan, what crimes will she commit?

[ask-natphi]

Here’s Natphi in the outfit you gave me! I might color it later, but it’s been sitting in my sketchbook for days and I want to show it off. ----------------- AAAAAAAAA I LOVE HER!!!!!! OH MY GOD I’M SO HAPPY !!!!

[mars-ipan]

i wanna do some art fighting should i make a ref or attack someone

[mars-ipan]

hehe them!!!

Angel Dust & Cherri Bomb:

Me:

[mars-ipan]

first of 3 artfight refs! honestly it's probably good that i do these anyways

[mars-ipan]

thinking abt natphi

[mars-ipan]

THIS HURTS BUT IT’S ALSO SUCH A GOOD EDIT FBWFHHH

HELP I JUST REALIZED THAT IF SHE’S DRAWN IN THE RIGHT WAY NATPHI LOOKS LIKE A HOMESTUCK. I’VE NEVER READ IT I SWEAR THERE’S NO INSPIRATION THERE I—

I am so sorry

I am not sorry

[mars-ipan]

ok bedtime :)

[mars-ipan]

artfight is now linked in pinned 👍

[mars-ipan]

i’ve only just realized how much i like giving ocs tails

[mars-ipan]

....hi

[mars-ipan]

y’know what new piece of natphi lore just dropped. natphi has some tabaxi in her family (most likely an uncle or grandparent or smth) which is why she has the cat-like tail and exhibits some Cat Behavior (i hc tieflings as being catlike but natphi is Very Catlike). she doesn’t know this of course because. orphan runaway. but it’s part of her lore now

[mars-ipan]

an excuse to talk about natphi? absolutely

this ho is incredible imma spill her backstory

so her family was always poor n shit (tieflings are usually subject to racism) and eventually things were starting to look up. until her parents were killed in front of her (more racism yay!! most of her backstory revolves around prejudice actually). so she lived in alleys, traveling town to town, trying to survive while breaking the smallest amount of laws possible until she saw a bard performing their music on the streets and getting tips. she was always good at singing and it comforted her on the lonely nights, and this bard inspired her very heavily so she started saving up her begging money to get her first instrument- a ukulele. she got good and through many years of struggle and nearly getting murdered a few times she managed to book her first gig and was soon making money and shit

anyways she’s like a typical bard but,, a bit less horny?? just really flirty tbh, a disaster bi, and sassy as fuck (hide your insecurity with fake confidence and snappy comebacks! :D). she’s got (no this isn’t a joke this is just how tieflings work) entirely gold eyes, hair that is a p highly-saturated indigo, dark red ram’s horns that curl tightly around her short, pointed ears, and a cat-like tail the same color as her hair- i always draw her looking like she’s wearing far too much eyeliner (she would have huge wings is the thing) and she’s just,, a lil shit. we love a shortie with an attitude.

anyways that’s my little gremlin thanks

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