#oc: callisto noa

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Something I love so much about rpgs, especially narrative RPGs where alot of systems focus on roleplaying and character relationships, is that whenever I try to excitedly talk about what happened in a recent Beam Saber session I sound nearly incomprehensible.

Like oh yeah Callisto got swallowed whole by the essence of her mech and was forced to confront vulnerability with it and thus entering into a fearful intimacy with the machine shes been inexplicably bonded to (shout outs to The Mecha of the Great Corporations are Bound by Filohazard for that amazing microgame.)

Like there's something about infodumping about ttrpg characters in specific that is so interesting yet funny to me. I rotate her in my mind so much but I feel like I go feral whenever I try to describe things that have happened

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World's least stressed mech pilot

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UNITYxEclipse Liveblog

okay okay okay so like callisto and the squad are at the ball right now... calliso looks amazing and like... she got a dance with a girl!!!! (within the fiction she is an agent of a CIA esque organization but Callisto doesn't know that). They both got to dance unrestrained from the expectations and roles forced upon them, simply enjoying each other as each other..... Anyways, her name is Io which is ALSO a name of a Jovian moon LIKE CALLISTO UGH

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World's eepiest mech pilot

Had alot of fun with this, like... Callisto is trans so it's reall cool drawing her as a trans girl like… just existing and being herself, hairy legs, partial tiny stubble and all, made me reall happy drawing her :>>

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also, while I'm mechposting, some more art of the Wraith of Deimos that I'm really proud of!!!! I feel like I really emphasized some of the metal-that-is-muscle parts of it!!

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Callisto and Io infodump

Okay okay okay okay, I feel like I need to talk about Io and Callisto from last Beam Saber session or else I'm gonna fucking combust jesus fucking christ AAA

Callisto: My player character. She's an Ascencian pilot who has trapped under the facade of a dead and legendary pilot. The previous pilot, Argyre died and Callisto, a city rat and a conscript, someone who, according to Ascencian fascist rhetoric, should by no means be able to pilot a mech somehow inexplicably bonded with it. She's been forced to become the pilot known as Wraith (Argyre's callsign) and to pilot its fearsome mech, The Wraith of Deimos (We'll refer to it as Deimos). Only recently has Callisto escaped the hold of the Ascencians and now, with Deimos, find herself as a part of a roving mercenary band. Now, while she was imprisoned under the Ascencians, she was forced to play the role of Argyre, under Ascencian rhetoric, Argyre was not dead. And internally, Callisto was only a placeholder till they could find a "proper" Pilot to officially assume the role of the Wraith. No one knew about Callisto, Argyre's death, or the fact Callisto was the Wraith now. And those that did got killed (Illia's old crew). Even free from the Ascencians, Callisto tries to keep a low profile, not knowing how to tell everyone that she didn't somehow steal Deimos, she was (and is) its pilot.

Callisto's wants in this game were simple. Callisto more than anything wants to run. She wants to escape the war and leave, an impossible goal that she has reached for her entire life.

Callisto and Deimos' relationship has been an interesting one. They do not know why they are bonded only that they are. They are the two-become-one known as Wraith. Each is afraid of the other but that fear has transformed into a fearful intimacy. Callisto saw the Deimos as just another part of The Wraith's constricting identity but has since realized that Deimos is just as restrained as her.

Their bond, like all bonds with what's known as "Awakened Frames" (Culturally called Leviathans where Callisto comes from) (awakened frames are essentially like the Gundam/EVAs of this setting. They are terrifying.) allows them to do something impossible. In their case, it is capable of opening a "door" into a mysterious pocket dimension known as The Red. It is something old, something Callisto both sees danger and safety in, something she is trying to understand. (also this is why red is like... a massive motif for callisto). Argyre was also capable of the very same power. While Callisto uses The Red to run, Argyre used The Red as a weapon.

Cool now you're caught up to speed on my beloved wet dog of a girl and her it/its trans girl of a mech.

Now, last session, which you can get a vibe of from my liveblog of it, the party went to a ball for the "season 1 finale" of the Beam Saber campaign. Callisto was asked to dance by a girl named Io (JOVIAN MOON MOTIF). It was lovely. They both got to dance unrestrained from the expectations and roles of war forced upon them, simply enjoying each other as each other and getting to cherish that. Stepping out of the ballroom and onto a balcony, they get closer, physically and emotionally. talking bit about their life. They both feel like dogs in an unending war, tired of losing people in the war, and wanting to escape it all. They feel a tenderness and closeness with each other. It's lovely. They're glad, that even in the midst of this terrible war, they have met each other, and through that feel a bit of solace. It feels like Io is going to move in to kiss Callisto, but before that, Io gives her an offer. "Come escape with me Callisto. We can leave the ring. Leave the war. We can be at peace.

I just need to finish this one job.

I just need to kill the Wraith

I checked the frame registry. It's here. I don't know where the pilot, is, I haven't seen him, but if I can just destroy that terrible machine I'll be at peace. We can escape together.

Callisto is in shock, she's stumbling over words, a jumble of "W-what do you mean?"s and "H-huh?"s.

"I can't be at peace while the Wraith is still living... It killed my mentor. Took one of the few people I cared about. I just need to destroy it... Then... Then I can escape with you... We could leave this war for good"

Callisto wants to take that offer. She so desperately wants to leave this war. Abandon it all and everyone. But she can't. Not at that cost. A younger Callisto would have taken that chance in a heartbeat, a Callisto utterly terrified of Deimos. But Callisto, though still terrified of her Leviathan, is too connected to Deimos for her to abandon it anymore. She didn't realize this till this moment, but she cares too much about Deimos to allow it to be harmed.

She steps back as Io tries to lean in closer. "I-im sorry I-i think I really have to go..."

Callisto beings to stumble her way from the balcony, reaching her hand out to the ballroom door "I'm sorry... I-Im just not the girl you're looking for". The doorway opens. But it's not the ballroom door that opens.

The last thing Callisto sees is Io's dawning face of horror as she watches Callisto fall into The Red.

The Wraith's red.

The thing is, Callisto was wrong, she was the right girl... Just for all the wrong reasons....

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Been playing around with a callisto icon for playlist reasons

And then I realized what I could do

Diversity win!! The pilot that killed your squad is transgender!!!

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Callisto/UNITYxEclipse campaign doodle dump!!

Mare Typhon, ruthless girlboss of the spectres of Phobo, an infamous mech squad who's recently fallen reputation she is trying to repair. One of the worst influences on Callisto's life since bonding with her mech. She was the one who held a tight leash on Callisto figuratively (and perhaps literally) during her "imprisonment".

Ganymede, scruffy driver of a man. Excellent at getting people out, through, and across borders as war rages across the Unity Ring. Friends with Callisto (I've posted him before but posting him again :>>)

Then we have Illia Cassat!! A player character played by the lovely @sleepy-eepy-head . Mech technician haunted by visions of the future from his mech. Started the game off scared of Callisto (for very good reason. He believed Callisto was the reason his squad was killed) and the two are slowly patching things together

Lastly some silly little Callisto doodles!! My beloved anxiety ridden mech pilot of fear and violence.

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Callisto is going to a ball Callisto is going to a ball

Extremely excited for this. We're near the enc of the first arc for this game and it's gonna end with a ball. Now the only question I'm left with is what Callisto is gonna wear

Any thoughts and suggestions I would love to hear I might do some sketch ups of things she'd wear too. (I'll be reblogging this post with more thoughts and ideas). I DO know she'll probably be wearing red

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The thing about last session (there's the link if you haven't read it ahahaha....) was that Callisto could have just ran. After saving Illia, she could have ran. She got the person she cared about out of danger and could very well just leave. The situation was getting worse by the second after all But there was another person she cared about at that ball Io. Io, crying tears of anger at the phantom of Argyre and the Wraith. Io, believing she had just lost Callisto to Argyre's plots. Io, encased in a mech of ruble, debris, and the palace, controlled through the sheer power of her telekinesis. Io, who plans to kill the Wraith tonight, not knowing Callisto pilots the very mech Io hates.

Callisto could run. But she feels too connected to Io. But she wants to get through to Io, she wants her to stop this, to realize its her, Callisto, not Argyre, to maybe even still run away together...

It's this causes her to stay. It's this that makes her open her cockpit. It's this that causes her ribs to be broken and a piece of Deimos ran through her heart. It's this that put Callisto in a coma, with a heart made out of Deimos' Red, Io's Telekinesis, and shrapnel. It's this that makes Callisto soft. A scar which has cracked open that hard emotional shell that can never be put back on.

When Callisto wakes from that coma, she will be soft. And that might hurt more than anything else...

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I'm not a pilot, I'm just a dog who should've died in this war a long time ago

My Beam Saber pilot Callisto Noa!! She's a knife of war, a facade of a dead pilot, and ultimately a terrified girl who couldn't escape from the war

I love her so so much, my poor wet dog of a girl +closeup + doorway variant

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Some more notes about Io

She has dark blue hair (an interesting visual contrast to Callisto's red motif), wore a yellow dress at the ball, has a prosthetic arm, and lots of scars (LIKE CALLISTO UGH,,, theyre both dogs of war.....). She's the kinda girl to listen to mitski (ESPECIALLY be the cowboy" while having normal feelings about callisto

Some additional notes quoted directly from my gm:

First: she is a cringefail losergirl (the thought of insincerity has simply never occurred to her)

Second: she is a Gaylor truther

Third: in a kinder world she would be a very sweet and earnest dork who people are nice to

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Callisto could have transfeminine sex with her mech. Both engaged in a fearful intimacy, each capable of extreme harm to the other, each afraid of the other destroying them, yet nevertheless inextricably bonded to each other in a way they do not understand and cannot escape. Both are forced to serve a terrible purpose they so despise they are the knife but it is a struggle they are both victims of

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Callisto doodle dump!!!

I gave her a bit of a haircut and have been playing around with her and shorter hair. On the bob to mullet spectrum I'm kinda trying to make it fit in like... the overgrown mullet section

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It's interesting how when me and my DM where first sketching out ideas for a potential Callisto rival, we arrived that the idea that they would be the Amuro Ray to Callisto's Char Aznable

And I'm very very excited to see how/if that will manifest in Io......

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she's just not the girl Io's looking for……………………………………… Or is she?

A lil callisto doodle based off last session (read all about it here!!!)

+Some variants!