#ollarum cald

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7, 18, 24 for the OC ask meme! (And maybe a brief introduction/refresher of your OC for reference?) 🥰

well, I'm still very much on a Wyn kick; The Woman, The MILF, The Legend hersef 😂 she's the black sheep of a noble family in Waterdeep who left home for adventure and came back with a half-orc baby, Ollarum, and I have two main verses for her, the "canon" where she's 45 and hasn't seen Ollarum in approximately a decade, and the BG3 verse where she's 23 and Ollarum is still in Waterdeep with her parents

7. What's one way your OC has changed since you first came up with them?

oh MAN, just the level of depth is massive - she started out as just a joke about how Ollarum's mum could have been one of Those bards, the sterotypical slutty monsterfucker, and she was a lot less sympathetic, her relationship with her family wasn't nearly as bad and she didn't have the visceral hatred of marriage she does now - when she showed up as an NPC in dnd, she even somewhat encouraged the betrothal between Ollarum and Tiff, which I just can't see her doing at this point

18. Is your OC more cold and detached or up close and personal?

Wyn is an extremely warm, sociable person, completely extroverted with that classic bard charisma, able to find friends (and lovers) very easily. Though at a younger age, she was somewhat more hesitant to open up - she's still too used to the cutthroat world of the nobility, where reputation is everything and true friends are few and far between, and still equates relationships with monogamy and marriage, refusing to entertain anything deeper than friends-with-benefits. Once she's older and been out on her own longer, she's a lot more confident and willing to take a chance on friendships and relationships (so long as the latter are cool with her polyamory ofc)

23. What is an alternative life path your OC might have gone down? How different would their life be if they'd made those decisions?

I mean, the difference between canon Wyn and post-BG3 Wyn is already pretty big

canon Wyn never did anything like save the world, she's more the exploring and treasure-hunting kind of adventurer, and more importantly she left Ollarum with her parents too long, never finding the right moment to try and bring him on the road with her, and ultimately losing him after he went to live with his father and then left on his own. She occasionally receives letters from him that say little more than he's not dead, but he highly resents her for leaving him for what he views as selfish reasons (not knowing about his uncle, her betrothal or the extent of his grandmother's treatment of her) and reacts BADLY when she does show up (though they do ultimately reconcile)

bg3 Wyn had the threat of losing her entire world as she knew it on her shoulders, and now actually has a way to look after her young son without worrying about him on the road in Halsin's commune, and also got VERY spooked by how Rion spoke to Jaheira, so she gets up to Waterdeep ASAP to get Ollarum and tell her family to fuck right off, and whilst she isn't an expert parent right away, she's at least there for her son and they have a MUCH stronger bond going forward

I have dabbled in other AUs before too, and one that springs to mind is one where she chose to marry her betrothed, Colborn, when he offered to raise Ollarum as his own - she's there and Colborn is a good dad, so Ollarum grows up pretty well-adjusted, if sheltered, but Wyn is almost a shell of herself and has to actively fight with herself to not resent Ollarum for her being stuck in one place married to a man she doesn't even like, never mind love

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i hereby christen this blog with shirtless screenies of my current D&D character, Ollarum