#oc: Zara

[heliosynchronisity]

man u guys rly liked Zara haha, heres another doodle I did of her trying out an outfit idea, i planned on doing more but didnt get around to it.

wow not me posting this to the wrong blog at first, rip

[hiroshotreplica]

why does parallel canon seem so familiar?

[tag-of-light]

Parting ways

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[lucin-kun]

The next generation of Elemental Masters

Disclaimer: I haven’t seen Crystalized and Dragons Rising yet

[sovhina]

Anotha one thank you for wip Wednesday just proof I’m working on the little floating heads for little character bios I promise I have ideas to go with my little heads I promise anyway eden is my version of a drow and zara is gonna be her gf one day and they don’t know it but they’re madly in love gay love wins oh yeah and Rome is there too

[dxwnfxll]

I love Fortnite

Needed to draw my ocs with Megalo Don

[neosquidbeak-askblog]

Hey Captain,do you think that scar us..Y'know,permanent?

[dorianpavus]

i was tagged by the lovely @alistairweekend to make some of my ocs in this picrew!! since i am drowning in ocs to choose from, i figured i would make dnd characters since that’s what she did <3

left to right, top to bottom:

archmage calypso fortuna, headmistress of the lotus conservatory, champion of corteria. devilsbane. all powerful magical philanthropist. worships the goddess of luck. closed off and hates being vulnerable but has a heart of gold. (divination wizard 19 / trickery cleric 1)

chloe d��amboise, insecure musical prodigy and student of the horizanos school for adventurers. born a tiefling to a human noble family under mysterious circumstances. kind of a fairy tale princess. hopeless romantic and hopelessly naive. (college of glamour bard)

ambrose, ambitious researcher and part time archaeologist. imprisoned in a strange world without stars, filled with ruins and mysterious ancient technology, he hunts down knowledge and craves answers. a drow astral elf seeking the secrets to the multiverse and kind of a twat about it. (knowledge domain cleric).

ophelia mordaunt, dhampir daughter of a drow necromancer and a vampire. if you ever wondered, “what if the briarwoods had a kid,” she might come close. monster hunter. haunted by her past. will she/won’t she kill her parents! stay tuned to find out. (oath of vengeance paladin)

tagging anyone who wants to do it. yeah, you. 🫵 feel free to tag me too, i love seeing ocs!! :’)

[six-improbable-things]

The Coin-Rolling Trick.

These are from the same vignette as the last snippets I posted. Fun fact: Rook does the same thing with the coin, and he learned it from watching Zara. (And spending a lot of time practicing. He lost a fair number of coins in the learning process, but now he can do it as effortlessly as she can. Just like her, he does it when he's stressed or nervous.)

I love taking this peek into Zara's head, because on the outside we (and Rook) never see her as anything less than perfectly composed. She's the captain, she can't panic. The whole crew looks up to her.

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Taking a coin out of her pocket, she rolled it across her knuckles, back and forth. It gave her hands something to do, and prevented the urge to bite her nails, something she hadn’t done in years. Ten minutes passed, then twenty. Zara began to pace as Rook’s breathing grew shakier and the color drained from his skin. Where the hells is Jay? she wondered. The room was so quiet that she could hear every tick of the small clock on her bedside table, and each one echoed in her head. How many ticks does he have left? She didn’t want to think about it.  She’d had crew members die before, of course. You don’t go as many years as a captain as she had and never lose a soul. But all the others who had died had died quickly, in combat. She’d mourned for all of them, even shed tears in private, but there was something different about watching the life drain out of a person right in front of your eyes.

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Pacing back and forth across her cabin floor, she rolled the coin back and forth over her knuckles again and again. The motion was easy, almost mindless, more muscle memory than real intent. The coin trick had been her favorite way to soothe her nerves for years now. She’d picked it up out of idle curiosity after watching a street performer dining in a tavern in Bon Largo, who had chatted with her for over an hour as she fretted about something mundane, never once dropping the coin from their fingers. The same performer had later tried to steal her coin purse and ended up with nothing but a new scar for their trouble, but Zara had learned two important things from the encounter: Not to trust a warm smile and a pretty face, and that keeping her hands moving kept her mind from dwelling too much on worrisome things.

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How it started:

(Then restarted:)

How it's going:

Hey... hey anyone with wolships or other FFXIV ships (since I know not everyone's characters are WoL).

Show me your "How it started // How it's going" can be gpose, art, writing. I just want to know about your ffxiv ships. Can be OCxOC, OCxNPC, Polyships, multiships, or anything else I didn't account for.

[hiroshotreplica]

do you ever just see one of your friends succumb to mind control again and all you can think about is how you could stop it this time? fun moment!

[morrigan-sims]

The World

upright: achievement, sense of belonging reversed: lack of closure, emptiness

So, Zara finally got a tarot card, just in time for her official introduction in the campaign in a few weeks. It's wild to think that she's existed as a character for almost 1.5 years now, and that Rook still hasn't met her. (I mean, for him, it's been 3 years since he last saw her, so...)

The World card is super fitting for Zara, and I'm honestly shocked it took me this long to figure out what card to use for her?? Now that I look at it, there's not really any other card that fits for her.

The upright meanings (achievement, completion, sense of belonging, fulfillment, etc.) are all very fitting for her role in Rook's life prior to his (first) kidnapping by Wolf. The Tide Breaker was the first place Rook ever felt at home, and Zara was the first person to make him feel like his existence mattered, that he wasn't the good-for-nothing bastard his father always said he was.

The reversed meanings (lack of closure, feeling incomplete, emptiness) are fitting for her absence from Rook's life. He never got a chance to even say goodbye to her before he was captured, and that lack of closure has haunted him for years.

I don't know anything about her backstory (to be revealed soon), but the DM told me, after I picked the card, that it's super fitting to her backstory, too.

Some fun little tidbits of symbolism because I'm proud of them:

She's the mayor of a port city and a former sea captain. Of course she has maps of the continents/oceans around.

I placed her in the center of the map because she was the center of Rook's world for the six years he sailed with her.

On her left are things that symbolize her past (a spyglass, and scales to represent Wolf), and on her right are things related to her present (a ledger and a bag of coins).

The contrast between the worn-down walls and rug and the fancy desk is a nod to how Xen (the city she controls) looks lovely until you get to look a little closer, and then the flaws start to become more apparent.

[tag-of-light]

The first step towards adventure...

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[memento-morri-writes]

nine lines, nine people

I was tagged by @akindofmagictoo Thank you, Zoe!!!

As per usual, it's more Rook stuff. To be specific, it's another backstory vignette from his time on the Tide Breaker. Just like last time, it's mostly Zara's POV, although I do have plans to dip into Rook POV for at little while later in the scene.

Van made a grunt of acknowledgement. “Not half bad.” He turned to Zara. “Captain?” Zara nodded slowly. Van was right, it wasn’t half bad. Better than half bad, it was a good plan. “Isra, make sure we’re as close as possible to the Lady Pearl’s course. Van, get some of the crew on deck ready to raise the sails as soon as Isra confirms our position. Darya, go down to the hold and go through the clothing from the prize we took near Xen. There should be something in there we can use to pass a handful of people off as merchants.”

(this is technically ten lines, but it worked better this way.)

I'm going to tag @space-writes @nrivanwrites @transmasc-wizard @reneesbooks @ashirisu @dragon-swords-prophecies @oh-no-another-idea @cream-and-tea and make this an open tag!!

[lucin-kun]

I want to ramble and draw about my ninjago oc's

I'm open for asks about them

[artvaris]

Raine for Zara H - thank you so much again for trusting me with him 🖤