#oc: ylva

[gg-is-a-loser]

introducing my ocs (finally)

i’ve posted them without context a lot so here is the overview 🔥🔥🔥

important background info: they all live in an underground city (literally) called safehaven. it’s a refuge for criminals and outcasts. there’s no real government, several groups have their own turf that they control

there’s not really any rules for like. species or powers or anything. i kind of just do whatever i want i fear

this is stryder, boss of a group called the serpents. youngest of three adopted kids, he inherited the job when their mother died. in a relationship with kestrel. don’t have any good recent art of it but he can transform, growing horns and extra eyes and claws. it can be on command or when he’s angry.

kestrel, stryder’s partner and part of the serpents’ medical team. she came from money on the surface, fleeing to safehaven after killing her husband. the serpents took her in and she fell in love with stryder. he calls her “songbird”. she can create wind, which goes out of control when she’s in distress. (part of how she got her scar- after the whole killing her husband thing, she panicked and the wind started up, which knocked over a candle and burned the whole house down. sad!)

hester, lead enforcer for the serpents and the middle child of the previous boss. she can see the future and has no control over when she gets visions. they don’t always come true, and sometimes she has a hard time telling the future from the present. hard to see in the headshot, but she doesn’t have arms. her bottom half is the tail/body of a reticulated python. best character to draw when anatomy is a nightmare

eden, a singer who works for the serpents. she tried to start a performing career on the surface but was cut short when she developed a… power? illness? no one is sure that caused flowers to grow out of her body. execs thought it would make her unmarketable and most people found it gross or scary. she came underground thinking the people there wouldn’t be put off by it, and was right. she performs in the bar stryder owns. technically she can control the thorny vines that grow out of her body, but it really hurts to do it.

melora, eden’s best friend and accompanying pianist. she used to be an assassin, but she really just wants to be able to focus on music now. she can manipulate gold (sorta like metalbending except just with gold) and would use her jewelry as weapons. technically she still can, she just tries to avoid it.

this is misha, a young thief. he and a few other street urchins tried to steal something from the serpents. only he and one other kid got caught. instead of punishing them, stryder saw their potential and now they’re both paid to do stealth work. misha has fairy ish wings. also he’s transgender. yay

rascal is the other kid who got caught with misha. except, they could’ve gotten away if they wanted to. they just didn’t want to leave misha behind. the two think of each other as siblings. despite being one of the youngest around, they’re the best when it comes to stealth and thievery. got the ears and tail of a raccoon. got a lot of scars from various scuffles, falls, other minor stuff.

anatole’s been in the group his whole life. his mom was a member and got killed in some fight. he really looks up to stryder. he’s probably the funniest guy around. he’s got a secret relationship with blair, a member of a rival group. he can also play bass (prefers upright but can do electric too) and plays with melora and eden sometimes. he’s basically a satyr but i don’t actually wanna use the word satyr yk

jasper is a mechanic. not technically a member of the serpents, but he works on their turf and does jobs for them. he’s got a few burns from various machines blowing up on him. it doesn’t happen as much anymore now that he’s a lot better at his work. he works on weapons sometimes. he’s got moth wings and antennae. he really likes olive but hasn’t done anything about it. tourmaline never lets him hear the end of it

tourmaline is jasper’s half sister. she’s a botanist and a gardener. she has a greenhouse which provides a lot of the food for the serpents and others in the area. she’s also got a few experiments going on in there. she’s good friends with olive and is completely not helpful to jasper about it

olive works in the serpents’ medical team. shes a bit odd. she says a lot of things that don’t make sense, usually just whatever thoughts float through her brain. think like. a calmer version of maddie hatter from ever after high. she doesn’t not like jasper back, she’s just never actually thought about it. romance just isn’t in her mind very often. she has feathery wings

esmeralda is the head of the serpents’ medical operations. she’s very serious, approaches everything with logic. she was really close with the previous boss. she taught kestrel everything she knows. she never really tells anyone how she got her scars, even hester and stryder have no idea. no one really pushes it. if i had an actual linear story she would probably die… very sad

julian is the bartender at stryder’s bar. he’s actually really powerful- he can shoot lightning out of the horn on his head. it’s hard to control though, it gave him his scar and killed someone close to him, so he tries not to use it. that’s why he’s a bartender and not an enforcer. he’s very pleasant, easy to talk to.

irene is the previous boss of the serpents. she adopted and raised avidor, hester, and stryder. she died peacefully of some illness and left the position to stryder. his snake tattoo is in honor of her, referencing her own face tattoo. she also had a pet ball python

ylva is a member of the blooddrops, a rival group to the serpents. she’s a bodyguard to the leader. she was the first person kestrel met when she came underground, and they’ve maintained a friendship where ylva provides insider intel. unfortunately for her, she’s in love with kestrel, who is not only taken, but uninterested in women anyways. she just has to keep herself useful. at least then she has an excuse to be around her.

bernadette is the leader of the blooddrops. she came from the surface after her wealthy husband left her and took their daughter with him. she’s the oldest of these characters and had the position even before irene rose up. in the same way stryder runs a bar on his turf, she has a brothel. it’s made her rich

raine is one of the girls at bernadette’s brothel. she isn’t very expressive and has a mean streak. she’s good friends with the others though. she keeps their secrets: she knows about ylva’s meetings with kestrel and blair’s relationship with anatole. she’s also a capable fighter and can create clouds which can rain and even produce lightning if she tries hard enough

blair is the most popular of bernadette’s girls. she has elegant wings that are too weak to actually fly. she’s generally very quiet and gloomy. she found anatole snooping around the place and really hit it off with him. they secretly meet whenever they can. i also want her to have a french accent even though france isn’t really a thing here

avidor is the eldest of irene’s adopted children. he’s ambitious and wants to create a real government for the city. that’s exactly why he wasn’t chosen as irene’s successor. she didn’t want him to abuse the position to gain too much power. he fought bitterly with stryder, which gave him his scars and left his right eye blind. now, he’s still trying to achieve his goal, having gained a small following.

carmine has lived in safehaven her whole life and never declared loyalty to any group. several years ago, she met stryder at the lowest point in his life, right after his mother’s death and his fight with avidor. they had an absolute dumpster fire of a relationship. she disappeared when she found out she was pregnant. she didn’t tell him. she knew trying to raise a kid in that situation would make for a horrible childhood. after leaving, she coincidentally ran into avidor, who offered help. her daughter grew up with him as a sort of father figure

beatrix is carmine and stryder’s aforementioned daughter. she sneaks off to fight in underground tournaments and is a reigning champion. her fighter persona is “beast”. stryder had no clue she existed until anatole admitted to attending a fight to make some cash off of the bets and noticed the resemblance. outside of the ring she’s super awkward and dresses like a school bully from a cartoon. like t shirt with a skull on it etc

bovie is a popular fighter and one of the only ones who’s come close to beating beatrix. when they aren’t actively beating each other up they’re actually good friends. she’s actually very sweet outside of the ring and balances out beatrix’s nervous energy. she is also transgender yahoo

pauline is a gun for hire. they work all over the city, traveling by motorcycle doing odd jobs wherever, whenever. they have pyrokinesis. also a really great cook and sometimes thinks about trying to open a restaurant instead

peaches is a freelance “doctor”. while he’s capable of genuinely helping a patient, he’s more likely to be hired by someone wanting him to torture someone. he’s got a weird kind of romance with pauline where he’ll patch them up after a bad job but he’s weird about it. also i named him five years ago . trust him with your vital organs !

[layalu]

4, 12, 13, 20, and 42* for the OC asks? :3c

(*Doesn't have to be Greek Gods, just any mythology in general.)

[ask game]

Thank you!! <3

4. A character you rarely talk about?

answered here (Jamie), but another Active TM one i talk about way too little is Noya.. i care her so much,,,,,,, guy who loves her community so so much and who has so much strength and resilience inside of her but really wishes she didn't have to. who has trouble regulating her anger after being told to repress it for ages but is really also just. full of love and passion. and she even likes drawing..

12. Name an OC that isn’t yours but who you like a lot

gahhh so many,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, i think i gotta give this one to @midmorninggrey's Celeste because she's been On The Brain. in general i always love the tragedy of a kidquisitor and Cece is soooo. !!!! <- full of Emotions about her

13. Do you have any troublemaker OCs?

I guess Stormyrain from my brain? She was definitely a troublemaker kid and even as she grows up having a disregard for rules is kind of A Thing for her (it's one of the reasons why she ends up leaving the clans to travel on her own)

June also definitely qualifies as troublemaker; branded as such as a child and then On Purpose as a teen/young adult ('tis a defence mechanism)

I think Ulhar also counts lol she does like causing problems on purpose sometimes, when it's funny.

20. Do any of your OCs sing? If they sing, care to share more details (headcanon voice, what kind of songs they like etc)?

Yess a bunch of them!! Though only Noé does it semi-professionally (they have a bunch of performance odd jobs that they switch between, which includes theatre and musicals!). He has a very pretty lyric tenor and does really well with melodic and heartfelt songs!

June also loves singing and is pretty good at it! She's prolly a mezzo but has a low range and more gritty voice and loooves belting out tavern songs and the like. Would love metal and rock in a modern setting. Only does it for fun with friends though. Slays at karaoke but her technique isn't the best so she does blow out her voice sometimes lol

^ that's the mfer (Noé) :)

42. Which one of your OCs would be the most interested in Greek gods?

Ylva, i think! Local history and mythology nerd <3

[koifee]

Oc art dump + mermay

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

may i offer you itty bitty Ylva with wisps in these trying times

[azucarera-art]

dunmer oc

[leopardmuffinxo]

i can make you shut up, but you might moan a little

[showrunnerihardlyknowher]

hey dweebs

[pocket-vvardvark]

Sorry for mass posting today it will happen again 🥺I've been working, but I'm BORED waiting to get picked up. Also, I have thoughts about Alethia's dad. Here he is again after making some progress with drawing men :') still looks bleh, but I'm getting there.

Giving him curls and the nose™️. He was raised to be the perfect son and is actually (well, was, lol) a minor noble. Since they live in Lillandril, it's either his family had dealings with the sapiarchs, or some type of sailing thing going on bc it's a coastal area. Giving him multiple piercings and tattoos to make his parents rip their hair out lmao. Anyways, he's got the aptitude for magic + translating skills and gets scouted by the mages guild early on. I bet Vanus regrets that once he starts making passes at him 😌 no one is safe. Good thing Ylva comes along.

[thefrogwild]

silly thing of me and my friends multitude of FFXIV ocs :)

[the-anime-void]

My RWBY OC done by the amazing @yellownicky

Ylva Fenris a wolf Faunus standing at a staggering 6'2".

She lost her arm in her youth when she was living at an orphanage, warning this story will get a little graphic.

She was out playing when she got separated from her friend, and when she found her, she was being attacked by a Beowolf. It was alone, separated from its pack when Huntsmen tracked it down. But they had lost its trail, leaving the two girls alone.

In this moment, Ylva's Semblance awoke, and she went into a blind fury. It's called Berserk, and it causes her body to internalize her aura, allowing energy to surge through her body, allowing her to perform feats of incredible strength and not feel a bit of pain. The trade off being that it robs her of defense, and the rush of energy messes with her mind, making it nearly impossible for her to think straight.

And so, in this state, Ylva was able to overpower a Beowolf at the age of 12, with heavy cost. Her face and body were gouged and scarred, and the uncontrolled strength she unleashed as she pummeled the Grimm with her left fist caused the muscles to tear and bones to splinter. That, combined with the Beowolf's defensive bites and tears, left her left arm unsalvagable and it had to be amputated.

Soon after her recovery, she was adopted by a local retired Hunter who thought it best to train her to control her Semblance, least she get herself killed with it.

[shuruzy]

Unicorn Over...come the Labyrinth

[gg-is-a-loser]

puts my ocs in a situation

[pavus]

Wherever you're from, clearly they don't teach manners!

Astarion approves.

[gloomy1120]

Double-Dragonborn and torture Ulfric again!

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

i need kid Ingellvar to get something akin to a "where babies come from" talk but it's "where skeletons come from"

[azucarera-art]

unfinished sketch: ylva sathil of solstheim (my nerevarine)