#oc: Teelan

[mothdogsart]

Teelan & Scouts cuddling on a chilly autumn afternoon 🥰

[mothdogs]

Spent most of the day playing Skyrim which involved: frantically gathering materials to build a house, then frantically going on quests to earn money to buy more materials to build a house. I want my character to be able to provide a nice place to live for his future husband, and I’ve been like... writing their story in my head as I play. It’s the only thing I care about at the moment so I’m gonna dump it here

My Dohvakiin Teelan, an Argonian, met another Argonian at the Windhelm docks. He was subsequently outraged at Ulfric being a fucking racist and the dockworkers being paid a pittance so he cajoled the harbormaster into paying the dockworkers more money. So I’m kinda headcanoning (or is it just canon if this is my OC?) that this exchange with the original dockworker, named Scouts-Many-Marshes, led to Teelan being re-incorporated back into Argonian culture. He left his tribe over two year ago to travel north to Skyrim, and he misses his people—the food, the music, even the ways of speaking. And despite the fact that the dozen or so Windhelm Argonians are a bunch of downtrodden dockworkers thrown together by circumstance and not an actual family, as Teelan spends more time with Scouts and the others at the alienage he feels more comfortable and happy than he has in years. They snicker at the Nords behind their backs, eat snowfish cooked with a spice mixture Scouts learned from his mother, and Teelan demonstrates his Thu’um to the awe and approval of the little group.

Scouts made some in-game comment about how he hates the cold, so I got this cute image in my head of the two of them sitting beside a fire after dinner in the alienage, kind of tucked up under some furs with their tails entwined while Teelan tells Scouts about the Black Marsh and Scouts talks about his life growing up on the cold windy shores of Windhelm. And as they’re getting to know each other better, Teelan grows to understand his own primal need for warmth and just how badly he misses it, which is why he jumps at the chance to build a house at Lakeview outside of Falkreath. It’s pretty far south as far as Skyrim is concerned—certainly better than the icelocked shores of Windhelm. So all the while he’s clearing out bandit hoardes and selling scrap armor plates to buy iron ingots, smithing nails and sawing boards and building furniture to get the house ready, he’s thinking about this dream he has of Scouts, and of warmth, and of belonging. And when the day finally comes for Teelan to present Scouts with an amethyst wedding-band, he’ll bring Scouts south for the first time, watching the delight sparkle in his husband’s eyes as the climate grows incrementally warmer and greener with each passing mile. Teelan will write ahead to have Rayya prepare a breakfast feast for the morning of their arrival, and they’ll spend the first day at their new manor having a picnic on the porch that looks over the lake, feeling the sun warm their scales.

So anyway that’s what I’ve been up to today. Will probably draw some cute lizardly fanart this week to continue to take my mind off of Real World Events. Getting really into idealized video game character romances is a lot more fun than I remembered lol

[mirensiart]

i created a pre-origin/aionios aka xc1 version of him lol

he still sucks at his job, since as a bard he keeps getting kicked off places (despite his good singing) cause of his terrible lyrics

assortment of drawings of my xenoblade 3 OC that I’ve done recently

his name is alistair, he’s colony 11’s off seer and he sucks at his job

[childrenofmeyneth]

hello did you mention yet another Machina-centric AU?

Hi! I did indeed! While this AU is not nearly as Machina as a Society based, it is an AU that centers specifically on the trio of Egil-Vanea-Linada pretty heavily.

The basic idea is this AU diverges heavily during the fight between the Bionis and the Mechonis. Namely, the giants/remaining High Entia and the Machina sign a treaty that lets them go on living so long as they ignore the existence of the others.

Egil is also pushed to get therapy by his family (supplied by Linada), so his wants to destroy Bionis are more regulated to just that -- thoughts he has to push down. Linada gets characterized more with a fun, teasing sort of persona and Vanea gets to have a character outside of "Brother! Lady Meyneth!" -- at least I like to think so.

It's called the Divergence of Fate on Ao3! Under the cut I'll go over each individual fic in it!

Call My Name (From the Heart): Oneshot. Pre-basically everything. Egil and Alvis, before Alvis went by that. A little backstory on the lead-up and the actual treaty of this AU!

Unfinished Canvas: Threeshot. Pre-Playing it in Reverse. Basically backstory for Fiora, Reyn, and Shulk as they get so little in the main story due to the nature of the new party.

Playing it in Reverse: The main bulk of the AU, 63 chapters. A different path taken to defeat Zanza -- featuring antagonist!Shulk, Meyneth vessel!Egil, and more! Party consists of: Egil, Vanea, Linada, Alvis, Oka, Kallian, and Tyrea. Features Alvis/Egil and past Egil/Arglas.

Honing One's Skills: Companion piece to PiiR, 14 chapters. Basically covers the equivalent of the "unlocking the 4th and 5th skill branches" quests from canon! Features Kallian/OC, Egil/Alvis, and past Egil/Arglas

aura: Another companion piece to PiiR, twoshot. Delves more into Shulk's mindset during the events of the story as he struggles with Zanza's possession. Contains minor Egil/Alvis and onesided Shulk/Alvis

Machina Children and How (not) to Care For Them: Oneshot, self-indulgent fic that takes place at some point during the main fic. The crew has to take care of Menyx, my OC. It goes about as well as it sounds.

A Note: Drabble/Oneshot that goes over how Kallian and my bf's OC got together in this AU! Just some fluff and self-indulgence yet again. Features Kallian/OC

Give me the News: Oneshot, takes place between PiiR and Reversible Campaign. Tyrea in Alcamoth, working with Teelan and Linada, and catching feelings for the Machina. Features Tyrea/Linada

Reversible Campaign: 17 chapters, the Future Connected of this AU. Doesn't diverge nearly as much as canon, but still has it's differences. Sharp eyes may notice something about the ending. Features Egil/Alvis, Tyrea/Linada, past Egil/Arglas, and minor Kallian/OC

I have a few more "between PiiR and RC" oneshots planned! Currently rethinking plans for the fic planned to come directly after RC... We'll see how it goes, though!

[mothdogsart]

Teelan likes to use the Clear Skies shout before leaving Lakeview to make the weather nice and enjoyable for his lil family while he travels ☺️

[mothdogs]

@ ps4 skyrim modders please make a mod that lets me adopt non-human children. my argonian and his argonian husband need an argonian child