#oc: khismat

[gristlegrinder]

lies down on the floor. the new kesha song works really well on my commander’s playlist

[gristlegrinder]

YEAH!!! YEAH!!!!!!!!!

khismat has a very specific playlist vibe because she's an alternate-timeline commander where things go wrong, but. i really like it.

GW2BLR: GIVE ME YOUR COMMANDER PLAYLISTS

NOW!!!

mine in return.

[gristlegrinder]

sometimes i like to think about what my monstergame ocs would be in gw2 (ex. marina is a specter married into a minister family with white mantle ties) or what they’d play if they played the game (yusuf usually runs a healbrand for most instanced content but his oldest oc/story main is a harbinger) but i rarely go the other way around. so like. yeah

siya’s an uratha, i think. ex-night watch hunter who developed lunacy after a harrowing werewolf attack and then got picked up by a pack. irraka, iron master. (braham is a cahalith, naturally). their original pack got wiped out hunting a frost-themed idigam of some kind, so now it’s just the two of them. admittedly unsure how their soundless stuff translates because i think pale tree / luna is a reasonable analogue but like… hm. it could be fun for them to have gone through the pure rites that sever the werewolf from their auspice (for… reasons) just to get the hell out of fire-touched territory once they find an opening. and then the braham stuff happens. something like that

edo’s a sandharrowed or draconic kith changeling. ogre. possibly a loyalist? admittedly my ideas for his durance remind me a lot of this one sample changeling NPC in Splintered City: Seattle, where the changeling is a veteran and their keeper is the war machine endlessly chewing up the squad he left behind in arcadia and is trying to bargain for, but… yeah that’s the vibe exactly. it’s kind of just that. and i am perpetually horny for loyalist changelings who can’t separate themselves from their keepers and let themselves be rewritten by the narrative in the process yeah yeah okay moving on (if i didn’t do all that, he’s definitely winter court. he’s got depression)

zooey’s a pretty obvious sin-eater candidate. this is really not helped by how much she’s based off of an old sin-eater character of mine. she’s hungry for sure, but i’m not sure if she has a solid krewe archetype, because dragon’s watch feels like a mixed group of different supernaturals and the astral ward are, well, they’re obviously mages. but like, hear me out, with deimos as a geist you’ve got this whole thing where i can establish eparch as a kerberos in the underworld, isgarren as this particularly obsessive moros… anyways, i think their innate keys are going to be beasts for deimos and chance for zoofahshoo.

an ugallu begotten vibe is up there as an option for khismat just because i like the weather-based atavisms for her air attunement focus and a devouring definitely has corrupted dragon champion vibes. the primordial dream hates to see her coming. and, unrelated, i like the idea of a trahearne that has been fully transformed by arcadia against his will and made into a huntsman. maybe even make khismat fae-touched with him for extra vibes. do some weird oneiromancy stuff with them on the edges of the dreamscape.

audax is probably a demon (destroyer/saboteur) who is going, like, deep cover with an angeljacking operation, and ibuki is probably(?) a vampire of some kind, but i just don’t have more thoughts on that rn

[gristlegrinder]

canon divergences are going to be the death of me. i need to write down an official timeline for khismat’s bad end canon, but i keep getting stuck on what happens post-joko in LWS4

like, okay. tl;dr is that this is a trahearne lives AU too, but he lives because mordremoth takes him as a champion before dying and he fucks off even deeper into the jungle before he can be forced to bring harm to the pact. khismat spends half of season 3 trying to find him and understand what happened to him, so she’s not able to help the seraph and shining blade with the krytan civil war, so that becomes a lengthy and drawn-out conflict lasting into path of fire and season 4, if not longer.

during the departing, one of the strongest memories she follows through the domain of the lost is a very tired trahearne telling her he’s become something terrible, that mordremoth called him his champion, and it gives her an idea. she completely ignores joko, has zero interest in listening to his whining, and when she revives, she finds kralkatorrik. lays down her weapons, says she’s trying to fix the damage she caused, offers herself to him as champion. the two slaughter balthazar.

and like! the locals are shit terrified! the pact isn’t happy (RIP almorra i am so sorry ma’am) and while khismat claims she has everything under control, they make it very clear they will dismiss her (violently if need be) if her or her dragon escalate any conflict or local destruction. bangar is almost definitely back in the blood citadel speedrunning the early parts of the icebrood saga, with more support (especially if the white mantle pose any serious longterm threat, the longer kryta fights with itself, and especially since the pact seems to be siding with kralkatorrik, the enemy of the charr).

joko is slighted by khismat, although not as personally as in standard canon, and still declares war on central tyria, likely attacking lion’s arch while humans and charr are preoccupied. despite the pact’s reluctance and distrust, this is her fault and therefore her fight, and khismat retaliates. shit’s messy. made worse by champion void corruption and the fact that she now has kralkatorrik’s warring magics and conflicted emotions also pounding through her own head.

but then i’m just. what happens during and after long live the lich. where does the escalation go. why did i do this to myself—

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been thinking about what my commander looks like before and after being corrupted by kralkatorrik. she’s cute and it’s kind of a shame that LWS2-POF did a number on her emotionally

also becoming a dragon champion gave her horns and a tail because i said so