#neverafter npc

[joanna-fake-name]

I'm in my Cricket Era (I'm so dehydrated right now)

[andi-o-geyser]

[pineboots]

the thing that i can’t get over is gerard *told* elody he didn’t want to leave her, that she had a place in his adventuring party when shit hit the fan, and that if he went to find rosamund the princesses might stop him from coming back to get elody, but she told him to leave so he left,

and he DID the hard brave thing and ventured deeper back into the castle to find elody when everyone else ran, but immediately got almost killed in one turn and was FORCED to run away this time, there was no fighting back, staying would have meant leaving elody with his dead body for a SECOND time, but the princesses are so wrapped in their own misery they’ll never tell her that

[lilssketchbook]

Been watching the Unsleeping City lately! Obsessed with this little guy!!!

[lovevalley45]

they named this week's adventuring party "the orange fairy in the top hat" bc they couldn't get away with "murph sends the cast to horny jail"

[greatpistachiopie]

It's Snow White from Neverafter 🍎

Day 11 Prompts for Dimension Twentober & Colorber!!

[nico-is-a-corn-plant]

Just finished neverafter which means I'm gonna talk about mother goose's poem

Specifically I'm gonna talk about Jack

In the adventuring party they talked about "a plain looking lad; He was not very good, nor yet very bad" and they talked about it sort of negatively which I have a hard time understanding, cause to me it's actually a really beautiful passage.

Jack was not very good nor very bad, he was just a kid. I actually think that Jack is the perfect example of what Pinocchio was striving for the entire campaign, being allowed to be a kid that wasn't perfect, wasn't very good, but not very bad either.

And at the end of the poem, though Jack is not very good and not very bad, Mother Goose calls him a good boy and said it was well. He doesn't need to be very good to be a good boy, especially not to be her good boy.

You don't need to be extraordinary to be loved and cared for.

Idk maybe it's the former gifted kid in me that's rambling

[pawthorn]

I’m so glad that Tomas is going to be part of Neverafter next week, so glad we may get more Pib moments, more of his story and what makes him tick.

Because Pib is another in a long line of Zac’s characters that stand slightly apart from the rest of the party, out of focus and out of the spotlight.

Let’s break it down.

Note: I don’t know Gorgug as well as a character and haven’t finished sophomore year, so I’m not going to go into depth with him, but as an Orc raised by Gnomes, I feel like he fits this too. Also leaving out Coffin Run because that, while great, is its whole own Thing. Anyway, here’s the rest.

Ricky Matsui. When the story starts, he’s neither an established part of the Unsleeping City like Kugrash, Kingston, and Misty, nor brand new like Sophia and Pete. He holds more allegiance to regular old New York than any of the others. This position of being caught in the middle is amplified in TUC 2, where he is no longer a firefighter, no longer a fighter at all, but in between and separate. And he recognizes this same feeling of separation in JJ, and that connection helps save the day.

Lapin Cadbury. The sole full caster among warriors. Not royalty or family. Keeping secrets from the Church and the other PCs. Unwillingly indebted to the Sugarplum Fairy. Left behind and gone too quickly.

Cumulous. Quite literally an outsider. The only PC with a connection to the Hungry One. He strikes off on his own multiple times to give the party the best chance possible. In the end, when everyone is discussing allegiances, Cumulous never chooses sides. There was an assumption that his ties to magic put him on Saccharina’s side, Saccharina and Theobald approach him, but he is the only one who never commits one way or the other.

Norman. Grumpy asshole captain, betrayed by his former commanders. His entire crew is fine with him being brain-slugged. No one is on his side.

Skip. Slug prince who chooses the crew over his kingdom. Who couldn’t fully communicate who or what he was to the rest of the characters for a good chunk of the show. Who had more compassion for his host than anyone else ever had. So much compassion that he and Norman become something new together.

And now, Pib. Who is not a character in the same way the others are. Who is not just Puss in Boots, but the Cat. Who explores Drosselmeyer’s carriage and the Lines Between, alone. Who spies on the Fairy’s servants, alone. Who talks to Alphonse, alone. But who also will not allow Tomas to be eaten by Fox, or Alphonse to be killed. Not fully character or archetype, but something of both, in between and separate.

I love Zac’s characters so much. There are plenty of outsider characters in D20 history, but Zac’s hit different. They’re never clamoring to be heard or understood, or wrestling violently with the concept of self. They have this quiet, almost expected loneliness coupled with a deep well of compassion. It’s incredibly beautiful and never quite the same, and so enthralling to me.

Anyway, I’m in no rush to jump into Pib’s story, because I know we’ll get there eventually. Even if fandom tends to dismiss Zac’s characters, Brennan never does, so I know big things are coming for Pib, one way or another.

Because Brennan's stories are almost always about choosing compassion against all odds, and that is the core on nearly every Zac Oyama character.

[say-hi-intrepid-heroes]

mira: local new yorker of the Neverafter

[cakemoney]

bambi laroux and plug of plug's butt ugly stuff hut vs. baba yaga and aesop

[hypahfixations]

(and if you have another character you wanna put in a jar and shake violently, list em in the tags and maybe I'll have enough targets for a part two 😌)

[joanna-fake-name]

Candle Wick is my platonic here me out. Like I can fix him platonically. He is my best friend. He's so skrunkly I love him

[charizmaticgukgak]

She's always been like this and I love it for her

[silverspadesss]

the scene with pib and the baba yaga was surprisingly touching. this little cat who has lived infinite lives across infinite stories is really out here befriending any intensely powerful eldritch god beings he can find huh

[sadrainbowdinosaur]

the orange top hat fairy is the single greatest dimension 20 npc of all time

[thevalleyisjolly]

[Image description: An NPC character card for Key and Legend from Dimension 20′s Neverafter.  Key has dark skin and a tall blue afro, and they use a pair of forearm crutches; their expression is wondering as they look to the side.  Legend has light skin and dark hair tied in a bun; she is smiling widely as he looks at the viewer.  Both wear a uniform of a white collared shirt and a black vest; Legend also a bright blue bow around her neck and Key has a large ring of keys attached to their belt.  The card reads “Key & Legend, The Librarians (they/them & she/he/him/her) Explanatory, Of the Self and Otherwise.” End ID]

Help your honour, I love them.