#only healer in the party. the mom friend.

[not-your-lifeline]

My 15 base strength dragonborn life domain CLERIC feat. Astarion

[terresdebrume]

Concept: The DBDA Characters in a modern AU meet as a D&D group. Niko is the experienced DM with a lot of ideas, and Edwin is her long time friend and player.

Edwin plays a Moon Circle druid because it's the only class he hasn't really tried out before, and he wants to give tanking a go. He also accidentally ends up in charge of onboarding Charles, the nice beginner who's mostly here to support his bestie. Edwin color codes the various sections of Charles' character sheet & helps him remember which type of dice is witch.

Crystal plays a bard and comes up with zingers for her vicious mockery that makes the whole table collapse in laughter. For the BBEG, she even comes ready with dozens of haikus insulting him, his fashion choices, his mom, and the quality of his magic.

Charles starts out as a barbarian but realizes he's not comfortable with the rage mechanic and sunsets his first character pretty quickly. Everyone expects him to leave because he's seemed uncomfortable most of the time, but when he comes back as a paladin he surprises the whole table by getting really into the roleplay, coming up with a new voice and a specific accent and everything.

Monty plays a Circle of Stars Druid because it's also his first campaign and he likes the astrology theme. He ends up as the party's main healer a bit by accident, but he gets really competent at it and the party relies on him a lot, so his character's betrayal and departure from the group (when he has to leave to study abroad for a while) shocks everyone and they're all quite incensed about it.

When Monty comes back a year later, he brings along his boyfriend Thomas, whose Tabaxi character is a Grave Cleric and first introduced as the guy who brings an almost dead [Monty's character] to the Party's doorstep for protection. The return kicks off the final arc of the campaign and introduces the first in game romance, which ends up making everybody cry.

On the second campaign, Charles decides he can't let himself be outdone by the annoying american (no offense, Crystal) and announces that he's going to romance someone too. This can go one of two ways:

Crystal also finds Thomas annoying and plays along, and she and Charles end up roleplaying a romance for the ages that weirdly ends their on/off relationship when they realize their characters are more in love than they are, and/or

Crystal Does Not Want to be involved in the rooster fight and makes her character a lesbian on purpose, leaving Charles to romance the only character available: Edwin's.

Shenanigans ensure either way.

[amethysts-tavern]

I’ll kiss it better.

As promised: A short one in response to my in-game Tav telling Karlach “I’ll kiss it later” when she healed her in battle.

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Karlach, being the big bad barbarian that she is, always runs directly into the fray, greataxe swinging. You’ve learned this about her over the months you’ve been adventuring together. You wish she’d exhibit a little more caution, however. Raging only reduces damage taken, it doesn’t make you immune. Having to heal her up in the middle of each battle had become a given.

Normally she takes being hit in stride, shrugging it off and continuing on. It’s sometimes hard to remember that she is a being that can feel pain. She is strong and unwavering in battle, but she bruises and bleeds like everyone else. And sometimes she needs a little more care than just slapping a healing word on her so you can still sling an arrow at an enemy.

One evening after a particularly bloody fight, everyone is way worse for wear. Even staying in the back, away from the action, Gale had suffered some major injuries. Karlach was barely standing by the time you landed back at camp. After a quick clean up to check yourself for wounds, you pop by each party member’s tent to check in on them. Astarion and Gale look pummeled, but are going about their usual activities of dinner prep and catching up on their reading, but Karlach isn’t dancing outside of her tent.

As you approach her tent, you hear her sobbing to her teddy bear Clive about how difficult this particular battle was and how much she hurt.

“Karlach, can I come in?” you ask gently.

“Um, yeah, just give me a moment,” she says hastily, dropping Clive and running an arm over her eyes to wipe away any wetness.

“I just wanted to tell you how great you are: both in battle and as a friend. And I wanted to tell you how much I care about you. It pains me to see you hurting so badly.”

“Thank you, soldier,” Karlach sniffles. “It’s hard to always be the strong one sometimes. I’m squishy on the inside, too.”

“I don’t think we tell you often enough how appreciative we are for you. We’re all safer with you around,” you say, crossing the room to her. You brought a healer’s kit with you for any remaining cuts and bruises. “Can I bandage you up?”

“I’d like that,” Karlach says. “You’re kind of like the mom of our group, huh? Always coming around to make sure we’re OK, patching us up...”

“Everyone should have someone to kiss their boo-boos,” you chuckle, wrapping up a large gash on her forearm before gently pressing your lips to it. “Better?”

“Better. Thanks, soldier. For everything,” she sighs and smiles.

[us3rnam3-r3dact3d]

Fooliverse headcanons!!

All of these are likely to be disproven is Erik ever does more Fooliverse (please god please I need it) but idc. Lmk if y’all want my hc’s for any of your Fooliverse faves. ❤️❤️

Angel and Guy were adopted by Damien’s mom, Sophia when Angel was around thirteen. Being raised by Sophia tempered some of Angel’s attitude and goofiness. Damien, in turn, is a more timid and less outspoken. Having Sophia’s attention and pressure spread between the three of them let Damien develop with a less of a short fuse. Guy is also toned down, but he’s the rebel of them three. He insisted that the only thing he would study would be creative writing. Sophia demanded that, if she was going to pay for him to earn a degree in that, he would be the best of the best. He’s finishing his last year in college now, but has two novels published already. Angel went into politics and works with Sophia. Their focus is on human borns and informed unempowered people. Damien is in his final year at DAMN. He was a TA for a few elemental classes and is being considered for a position as a professor. Sophia made a powerhouse of a family who are each making waves in their field. Their personal happiness… well, that was never her concern.

Sophia actually introduced Angel to Asher hoping to arrange a relationship between them. Asher has a lot of respect and clout, and Angel, being an unempowered person in an empowered world, does not. Deeply embarrassed by Sophia’s meddling, Angel made it clear that they weren’t looking for a relationship with Ash. The two of them did become fast friends because of this incident. Angel did a few municipal favors for Ash and the Talbot pack, and he in turn kept their name on his lips when talking to higher ups. Eventually, Angel was invited to a solstice party and met Davey. They fell in love instantly. Sophia doesn’t approve, but Angel made it clear she could fuck off in regards to Davey. She got to control everything else on their life, after all.

Damien’s siblings know he’s queer, but he hasn’t worked up the nerve to tell Sophia. He’s been dating Huxley for a year, but every time he tries to talk to her about him, he clams up. Angel is running the “Sophia can kick rocks” club, which Huxley is the vice president of, but the anxiety that Sophia gives Damien is so intense he just shuts down. Huxley is trying to be patient.

Guy, on the other hand, proudly announced his first boyfriend in fifth grade and refused to hear anything about it. Sophia tried a lot to “course correct” with Guy, but he’s nothing if not stubborn. He’s always been the problem child, but Angel’s intense protectiveness of him stopped all of Sophia’s more extreme ideas.

Huxley is intensely competitive. His moms encouraged him to do everything with passion and purpose and he took that to its furthest extent. He takes his classes seriously, he takes his practices and games seriously, he even takes his friendships and relationships seriously. He knows what he wants and he works to earn it. This means he’s also pretty hard on himself when things don’t go his way. This isn’t because of anything his moms taught him, it’s just this intense, internal drive to be the best, and if he’s not, he is under the impression that it’s his fault. Damien’s working on unraveling that particular line of thinking.

Davey is a healer. Gabe was still in that car accident, and he was seriously injured, just not killed. His right leg was absolutely fucked and he lost a good portion of his stomach due to being impaled by a portion of the driving column. He faced a lot of issues with chronic pain while healing, and he uses a cane. Davey was intensely focused on his recovery, which is why he didn’t take the pack’s offer of being alpha when Gabe stepped down. Ash was the obvious next choice. Davey spent a lot of time with the healers, nurses, and doctors who worked with his dad, and they taught him a good deal of healing magic. Although he’s a shifter and doesn’t have access to a lot of what freelancers are capable of, he is incredibly talented at what he can do. He isn’t powerful enough to be a full time healer, but he is a certified paramedic and works part time with an empowered unit.

Pretty certain it was hinted at in vamp!Milo’s BA (“no loose ends” or something like that), but Marie is dead. She died when Milo was senior in high school. His dad was already gone and her loss devastated him. He was turned 18 a few weeks before and refused Gabe’s offer to stay with he and Davey. He sold her house, got rid of everything that reminded him of her, and gave every picture of her to Gabe before breaking from the pack. Those he couldn’t bear to destroy.

Smartass was actually Aaron’s boss. They came in after their predecessor, Ivan, was fired for inappropriate conduct against a new hire. Ivan had been spiraling and ineffective for months and had run their department to the ground. Aaron had been promised the position, but the higher ups decided their department needed a new start. He was pissed. Incredibly so. He hates them for months and months. And they seriously valued his experience and work. Through months and months of intense arguments and near bloody fights, the two of them beat their department back into shape. After they’d reached a state of stability, Smartass reached out to their old company and negotiated a much higher, much better position for Aaron. He was built for more than being a desk jockey. He took the job and took them out to dinner that night as a thank you. The rest is history.

[maybe-i-will-fandom]

eah gift exchange 2024!

My @eah-exchange gift for @champion-of-love! Happy Holidays, Stephanie!! I hope you like it!

(Sidenote - someone please let me know if there is a collection for this on Ao3 that I should post this to. I tried but it said it couldn't find any called "eah gift exchange 2024")

Summary: The Pink Squad are throwing another spellebration for a long-lost party Headmaster Grimm doesn't approve of: Destiny Swap Day.

Stephanie, I took inspiration from some of your tumblr posts. I meant for this to be 3-4 chapters but finals hit me harder than expected so I ran out of time. I'm going to try to finish it later!

It's behind a login wall, so if you don't have Ao3 I put the chapter below the Read More here :)

The alarm clock shouted at her. Briar bolted up in bed awake. What day was it? How long had she been out? She checked her mirror phone and sighed in relief. It was just the next day; she’d only been asleep for 6 hours. 

Mornings were hard for Briar. Just another (not) hexciting part of being the next Sleeping Beauty. Every time she woke up, she was struck by fear that she’d just taken her destined sleep. That no one and nothing had been able to wake her, and she’d been gone for so long that her friends had all moved on. Either to the next life or just, moved on from her. 

That was always her biggest fear: losing her friends. She never wanted to bum anyone out though, so she didn’t mention it much. She’d brought it up one night, after a particularly epic page ripper of a party, when she, Cupid, and Hopper were all hanging out on her bed together after and the 3am of it all had her spilling her guts to them. ‘The Wakies Scaries’, Hopper had dubbed it. Cupid had booed and Briar had thrown a pillow at him, but she appreciated it. She would never admit this while sober, but giving it such a dumb name had helped her be less frightened by it every time she woke up. She still got them, but she was learning to deal with it. It was way more hard to be scared of something with such a silly name. 

She took a moment to revel in being alive and awake, just like her mom’s healer had suggested she do to feel more grounded. Then she checked her mirror phone, eager to catch up on everything she’d missed in her 6 hours out. 

[Notifications Center]

Apple White to Me: I’m fairy hexcited for your party! I just wanted to check - you three are not going to break any school rules right? I know Headmaster Grimm usually d...

👑🐸 better as a frog 🐸👑to Pink Squad ♥️💗❣️💟🥰: ‘679 messages since last night?’ You’re killing me! Time to start my daily scroll ig. The things I do for this group smhmh 

👑🐸 better as a frog 🐸👑to Pink Squad ♥️💗❣️💟🥰: {message reply} LMFCOOOO HE TOTALLY WOULD 

Head Fairy In Charge to Me: I better be getting an invite to ur stupid little party tonight, Briar. Duchess told me u tricked her out of ur last secret party. Ykw I’ll do to u if... 

👑🐸 better as a frog 🐸👑 to Pink Squad ♥️💗❣️💟🥰: {message reply} bruh ok just @ my frog breath next time geez😭

✨Farrah✨ to Me, Cupid💗, ✨Farrah✨, Ginger B., Hopper: Hi party people! I have lunch plans but I can come over any time after 2pm to help make things that will last to midnight! 

Ginger B. to Me, Cupid💗, ✨Farrah✨, Ginger B., Hopper: and let me know what time to bring the snacks! I have everything prepped, just need to know when to start the oven hehe

👑🐸 better as a frog 🐸👑 to Pink Squad ♥️💗❣️💟🥰: {message reply} ok and????? I rocked those heels better than she ever could 💅💅😤💪

👑🐸 better as a frog 🐸👑 to Pink Squad ♥️💗❣️💟🥰: {is typing...}

She really loved her friends. 

Hopper blearily scrubbed a hand over his face and shook his head awake. He took his mirrorphone and bathroom kit and headed for the hall bath, already scrolling through the 500+ messages from the Pink Squad groupchat in the time that he was asleep. He likes to start his morning by scrolling through everything he missed between Briar and Cupid last night and replying with his thoughts. 

Frogs usually sleep 12-16 hours a day. So since he’s part frog, he needs more sleep than most people. So he misses out on a lot of the texting people do at night. He used to like to start his days every morning by going through and replying on every groupchat he was in. It made him feel like, even though he wasn’t there when the conversation was happening live, he could still be a part of it. But then one day Sparrow had made fun of him for doing it in the Bookball Team chat. And even though Daring, Dex, and Hunter had all told Sparrow to knock it off and let Hopper do what he wants, ever since then he’d still been too embarrassed to do his mass-replies anymore. But he kept doing it in the pink squad, because he knew how much it meant to Briar. She’d said as much when the three of them were just starting to hang out together more. 

“I love the way you just jump right in as soon as you wake up,” she’d said. “Maybe you missed the main event while you were asleep, but that doesn’t matter because... you join as soon as you’re awake and it’s still like you were there with us. It makes me think maybe I’ll be able to do that. You are asleep for most of the good parts, but we don’t leave you out of it because we still love you. Hopefully, my friends will always still love me. Hopefully, when I’m asleep for the good parts, I’ll always be able to jump right back in too.” He had immediately teared up and pulled her into a hug before even thinking about it. 

Then, as soon as he’d realized he was hugging Briar , he’d turned into a frog and fallen out of her arms onto the ground with a wet squelch. Way to ruin the mood, Hopper.  

But that’s another testament to how far their friendship has come. Briar used to just be Briar - an intimidating, popular, enchantingly beautiful, unapproachable princess who could make him turn with just a simple look. Now, she was Briar - a good friend who he and Cupid can bare their souls and most secret thoughts to and she’ll find some way to make them sound lovely. Of course she was also still that popular, enchantingly beautiful princess, and she liked to make him turn with playful flirting and teasing every now and then. But their friendship now was stronger than his still-ever-present crush, and he was grateful for that.  

Briar and Cupid were true friends. He could be his whole self with them. They didn’t make a big deal of it when he turned, and when they laughed about it he truly felt like they were laughing with him, not at him. Cupid had come from a place where people could turn into lots of things, and that was normal. She’d helped him accept his frog-self quirks, and Briar had helped him accept his human-self ones. As far as he was concerned, they were the wisest princesses ever after. 

He scrolled in the groupchat to a picture Briar had taken of Cupid falling from the sky because she saw Dexter smile and forgot she could fly. 

Cupid felt the warmth of sunlight on her face and opened her eyes for a brand new day at Ever After High! She stood up and stretched her wings then looked around the room. Her, Briar, and Hopper were getting ready to throw another one of their signature spelltacular parties this weekend, so Cupid was already gathering some of the supplies in her and Blondie’s room. 

The party was for another long-forgotten holiday that Dexter had read about in a library book. He’d told her about it at lunch one day because “I know how much you like hosting parties, and this one used to happen every year! True Hearts Day and now Destiny Swap Day - I wonder what other Ever After Spellebrations have been lost to time! I should start looking for those when I’m in the library doing research. In fact, I think I’ll start right now!” then he’d pushed the book into her hands and run off all excited. Cupid had been distracted by his dreamy eyes the whole time and didn’t process where he’d run off to until a full three seconds after he’d left, but she’d read the book he left her that night. 

Destiny Swap Day was such a cool holiday! It centered around each student swapping destinies for a day - dressing up and going through the day as each other to better appreciate the important role each story plays. It reminded Cupid of the adventure she’d gone on with her friends on Thronecoming Day!

The party planning was coming together great, and Destiny Swap Day seemed like a fun way for all the students to get to know each other and their true selves better. Cupid should be happy! But for some reason, she’d been feeling a bit down these last few days. Destiny Swap Day would be fun. But it also reminded her of another holiday. One that made her miss her last school. 

The dressing up and late night spellebrating reminded her of Halloween. And even though her new friends at Ever After High were the fairy best friends a demigoddess could ask for, and she was hexcited to spread love and understanding to this new world, she did still miss her ghouls back at Monster High. She was usually able to push past her homesickness - for Mount Olympus and Monster High - but the Destiny Swap Day preparations were making it harder to do so lately. 

She usually tried to hide it when she was homesick. She didn’t want to make her Ever After friends sad, and she didn’t want them to feel like they were less important to her than her family back on Mount Olympus or her other friends back at Monster High. Plus, she was supposed to bring love and light and truth and all things happy! But, her friends had helped her see that missing people and places is just another part of loving them. And that missing, like loving, was an emotion she shouldn’t feel the need to hide that she felt deeply. 

She knew she needed some help cheering up. Luckily, Humphrey had given her the tools to get that help. She headed out to the courtyard and pressed the button on the Pink Squad groupchat for telling her friends her homesickness was hitting a bit too hard, and waited for her friends to come rescue her. 

[displacedarchon]

I'm a bit rambly and salty today and need to get this off my chest, so there's no obligation to read this post and such. Unless you're morbidly curious, I'm not yer mom, I won't stop you. :B But there was this question of the day on twitter recently that asked something like.... "What made you finally take the plunge and stick with 14?" But worded in like a... super positive, happy way. And it's a good question! And people had all these fun stories about trying to just appease a friend and then OOPS accidentally fully committed 10/10. But it got me thinking about my tumultuous relationship with 14, and I didn't want to bring the vibe down on twitter (that's a dangerous place to spill your guts half the time anyways) so. Yeehaw. To not get too spiraly, I'd been a FF fan in general for quite some time, but due to repeated trauma associated with it, by the first time 14 rolled in, I already had one foot out the door with engaging in FF stuff. I ended up not being able to run the game anyways, so that was that. But the time of ARR rolled out, I was 100% not in the mood for anything FF related. I'd either sold/donated/boxed up all of my FF merch and had no interest. (I tried to free trial it anyways, secretly, but it just didn't click.) When Stormblood was announced, I'd gotten a crumb of excitement because Red Mage was being put in the game. I fucking love Red Mage. So I went... "WELL. Maybe this time, cause fuck yeah Red Mage!?"

I was surrounded by 14 players, friends at the time (who had all been insisting I play 14), at a gaming store/hangout. Immediately, I was mocked and chewed out for liking Red Mage. They thought I was stupid for taking interest in the game now, because of the addition of that class, and that Red Mage was one of, if not THE dumbest and worst classes in the FF franchise. Like I was *mocked*. To my *FACE*. Needless to say, I didn't touch the game until 2018. Made another SE account (because the 1.0 and that ARR free trial account had both been nuked by SE when they were purging in active accounts or something?) And it was...? Sure was a thing. I wasn't thrilled about it, but I wanted people to stop pestering me to ditch other games and play 14 instead. I can't remember if SHB was out yet or not, not that that mattered, but I toddled around with the MSQ, until I hit that first dungeon. This was before Duty Support, so my options were to queue up and that was it. I wasn't impressed that dungeons were forced (this was around the time I was starting to get burnt out on doing dungeons in other games). And you know what's funny? queue times were atrocious, cause I was DPS. Did my friends, who gave me shit for not playing jump at the chance to party with me? No. Instead I got a mocking lecture for... "Well that's what you get for picking DPS." And they proceeded to twist my arm into rolling a healer or a take. And after awhile it became increasingly obvious they wanted me to roll healer because they wanted to turn me into their pocket healer. FUCK. THAT. So I gave up. (And subsequently either forgot the log in info for that account, or SE nuked it as well? I have no idea. I just remember it being 2018 because the game I have currently... has... the appearance data saved?? I don't understand it.) Fast forward to the end of 2021, and trauma and burnout have weakened me enough apparently to give it another go and people not shutting up about EW made me curious just enough. Made a new account (because I can't log into the one from 2018???), slowly slogged through it... and the only reason I was able to get past that original hump, was because of Duty Support being added in 6.1. Didn't need to sit in a queue, didn't have to listen to friends shit on me for being DPS. In fact, my friends didn't give two shits I was playing again and repeatedly forgot that I was. And then I hit another wall; Queue up for Good King Moogle Mog and not only was the wait, once again, atrocious, every time it'd pop most of the rest of the party would go "Oh HELL NO." Leave, and I'd be back in the queue. I tried to get help, I was met with "You're lying, 14 players don't do stuff like that." So, I stopped playing again for a bit. Eventually logged back in, saw where I was stuck, and suddenly one of my friends was now SUPER EXCITED I was playing, and not only did she blast me through King Moogle Mog and a bunch of MSQ after that, flew me to all the ARR aetherytes. Wanting to see more of Thancred, Y'shtola and Minfilia is what kept me going forward, and then when Aymeric showed up I was sold completely. Having the game put me in Novice Network helped with the loneliness a bit. But like. MAN. End of 2022 was when I finally resigned to "YEAH lol I guess I'm a regular player now." Though less so currently, since my processor is an Intel i5 and the minimum requirement is an i7, so I can't log in without COOKING my pc. Whomp whomp. --- Tumblr has word capped me or something hang on.

[vodkacheesefries]

I officially have three saves going and I realized my Tavs accidentally fit the "McDonald's coffee" meme a little too perfectly

Info dump under the cut! Spoilers ahoy, read at ur own risk

Io the Cleric (she/they)

Very practical sort, camp mom even though their girlfriend Shadowheart is the dedicated healer. Carries snacks for everyone.

She gets very upset at first when people default to her choices and sorta view her as the leader and then get mad when she makes a choice they don't like. Doesn't do great with the pressure.

Secretly also only recently learned how to swim but gotta be brave for the girlfriend

Also romancing Halsin because I couldn't in Gritty's playthrough (because they romanced Wyll) but I'm also a sucker for the tall/small trope

But goddamn do both Shadowheart and Halsin make me/Io blush sometimes

Technically broke her oath for her paladin mutliclass because she wouldn't kill the vampire spawn and released them but we had 1000 gold handy so everything's fine, totally didn't send them into their own mini faith crisis

Very much has a Ninth Doctor "Just this once, everybody lives!" moment when she somehow managed to successfully keep all of the Harper's alive at Moonrise. However they do feel deeply guilty for not being able to talk Ketheric down.

Has two moms who love her very much and will be thrilled when she brings home a boyfriend AND a girlfriend

"Gritty" the Druid (they/them)

What's their real name? Who knows! Gritty doesn't care, and likely, doesn't remember.

Being a druid they are frequently actually gritty but if they were able to they'd stay in a hot bath for hours

Favorite wild shape is the spider. Actually quite fond of spiders overall. They think they're misunderstood, sorta like tieflings.

Hooked up with Lae'zel at the tiefling party, but broke it off because Gritty has a chill kinda stoner vibe and Lae'zel's intensity was just a biiit too much for them, though they grow to be best friends. Gritty is super depressed when she leaves to go back to take care of Vlaakith, even tho they are completely supportive.

But boy did they fall head over heels unexpectedly for Wyll

Secretly really relieved he didn't want to take over as duke. They weren't keen on staying in the city.

Like your typical newlywed couple, their honeymoon is going to the Hells to kill a demon 💕

Knox the Rogue (they/he)

I literally just started the Dark Urge origin so I know as much as they do about their past so there's not a whole lot for me to work with outside of how I'm building their personality

Trying their damnedest to resist the urge and squash it down

Sorta sardonic, but it's mostly just to cover up how fuckin scared they are

They're jealous of folks like Karlach who can let their guard down enough to feel jovial, even despite the stress they're all under

Right now feels safest with Astarion, and that will hopefully continue because I neeeeed to do his romance route

Feels really bad about Alfira. They want to want to help people, not to want to hurt them.

[theenpcbracket]

The TTRPG NPC Tournament Round 2: Greggor Handson vs. Halcyon

Images are in the order of the poll! Image ID included, click to see the full image please!

(Only an image of Halcyon was submitted for this poll)

More about each NPC below the cut!

Character 1

Name: Greggor Handson Party: The Bomb Squad Relationship to party: "Healer"

What makes them the best NPC: Every party needs a healer. If you don’t have one, you better get one one. And if you are on a budget, Greggor Handson can be yours! Greggor was exiled from polite society and lives in an abandoned castle, but his rates are low low low and his survival rates are high high high! Better yet, he wont ask you any questions! Are your burn marks related to the explosion at the Duke’s palace? Does your description match a group wanted by the law? Greggor doesn’t care! Greggor just wants the opportunity to work on your body and maaaybe make an improvement here or there. Don’t worry! All new eyes have dark vision and the risk of infection is minimal.

Greggor prides himself not only in the quality of his work, but also his service. His appearance IS off putting, there is absolutely NO getting around it. But be assured all alterations to his body were made by Greggor himself. That he is somehow still alive is a testament to his abilities. Could a “sane” but only moderately talented healer make such radical modifications and survive? No! As Greggor himself would say, when given the choice between sanity and ability, “thanity is grothely overethtimated, theheheh”. His contagious enthusiasm for his work and frank bedside manner is what sets him apart. As Greggor would say, “I gif mythelf four thumbth up! Any more ith medically unnethethary – and I thould know! I’m a doctor.”

Quote: "You were more than my paithenth, you were my friendth," Greggor's last words.

To learn more about Greggor Handson, check out the extra propaganda in his tag here!

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Character 2

Name: Halcyon Party: Ambiscade Gang Relationship to party: Weird friend and homie who was supposed to be a minor antagonist

What makes them the best NPC: Halcyon looks and acts like she belongs in a 2006-America shopping mall. She is an incredible thief and has tall energy despite being a short king. She has a valley girl-ish accent but also sounds like she smokes three packs a day. Halcyon has the most insane weed strains in the world and also a weird-former-highschool-girlfriends thing with a friend of the party. She joined her current thieves' guild to spite her mom who runs another thieves' guild. She wants cars to exist so she can be a drunk driver. She's my everything.

Quote: "AYOO"

To learn more about Halcyon, check out the extra propaganda in her tag here!

[hawkepockets]

BG3 CHARACTER PAGE

Jove they/any 🌩️ blue dragonborn 🌩️ paladin 🌩️ guild artisan

🌩️ multiclass: bard

Jove’s Oath of Ancients is a sacred commitment to affirm life, foster joy, be excellent to each other, and PARTY ON, DUDES!! A literally sworn optimist, they can come across as risk-happy, blasé, even callous in their dismissal of danger and negativity, but it’s also easy to get swept up in their huge dragonborn muscles and +9 rizz modifier and believe them when they say it’ll all be okay.

They used to be a gifted artisan, but don’t talk about their career or how it ended. Now they’re a paladin errant, wielding their giant glaive and ferocious positivity against the agents of despair. After losing an eye, breaking their wrist and their oath, Jove’s optimism has grown back harder and more gnarled than before, and they tend to defer to their companions for major decisions, not trusting their own judgment anymore.

Romancing Shadowheart Lae’zel. Best friends with Gale. Healer tank.

My first solo playthrough PC, abandoned at Moonrise Towers (for now).

TAG: #oc: jove

Estis she/her 🌞 gold dwarf 🌞 dream guardian

Ritika Estis was the master metallurgist who taught Jove to work with molten materials, despite their misgivings about being a blue dragonborn without fire breath or resistance. She passed away some years ago in Baldur’s Gate, but Jove’s dream guardian takes her form—whether as a cheap ploy to gain Jove’s trust, or as a genuine echo of their old mentor, they can’t be sure.

Auntie she/her ◾️ githyanki ▪️wild magic barbarian◾️ The Dark Urge

▪️ multiclass: storm sorcerer

This gith knows nothing about her life before the nautiloid, but since Lae’zel addressed her (and mocked her) like an elder relative she answers to “Auntie.” Lonely, curious, reactive. Center of a Venn diagram between “cigarette mom” and “Frankenstein’s monster.” Looks and fights like a gith, but lacks any cultural context or instincts that would make her feel like one.

Romancing Gale & Minthara.

Second playthrough, the only one I’ve completed.

TAGS: #oc: auntie, #ellie’s fucked up playthrough

Deadeye & Singer she/her 🏹 human 🏹 rogue/ranger she/her 🪕 halfling 🪕 bard

Auntie’s 2 hirelings. Deadeye was a young hunter, blinded in an accident and then given her sight back by a True Soul… just so she could watch her entire village burn, then have—her killers thought—her eyes put out and closed forever. Singer was a halfling traveling apothecary, killed for refusing to tend to Absolutists and sing for them after the massacre.

Though both women’s presences are cold and diminished and they can only speak with Withers’s vocabulary, traces of their personality remain. Deadeye was playful once, and still has the light step, deft hand, and trace of a wicked smile to prove it. Astarion swears he’s heard her coo and giggle faintly while playing with Scratch at night, long after the party’s living members are asleep. Singer was stern, matronly, and humorless with others, her face only relaxing when she was absorbed in her herbcraft or music making. Auntie gifted her Lihala’s lute, though it hurts to see a bard outlined against the campfire again, quietly picking out the notes of “The Power,” just feet away from the shadow of Alfira’s bloodstain.

Auntie doesn’t know she is a Bhaalspawn, but she feels instinctively that it’s her duty to care for murdered bodies and souls. She knows the names these revanants bore in life (Maddala and Brenna), but doesn’t use them, out of respect for these women’s vengeful echoes being different from the women themselves, and she’s as protective of them as she is of her “real” companions.

Terpsichore 🐏 she/her 🐏 satyr 🐏 rogue

She sings! She dances! She rams you with her horns!

Like Shadowheart, Terpsichore is on a holy mission for her patron goddess, armed only with her wits, blades, and the memories that her enclave—her Selûnite enclave—considered necessary for her to complete the task she’s been set: a pilgrimage to Moonrise Towers to assassinate an agent of Shar.

One second, she was crossing the Tower’s threshold (or windowsill, in the adept rogue’s case)—the next that she knew, she was being sealed in a pod aboard the nautiloid for processing. Failed. Abandoned. Godless. For now. If she doesn’t salvage this.

Terpsichore was told she’d know her target on sight, but she can’t be sure it isn’t Shadowheart—after all, while wrestling for the chance to kill each other they saw flashes of their own memories in each other’s minds, and Terpsichore feels… a lot… when she lays eyes on this particular enemy. ;-)

Romance: 3 guesses

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Also 10, 16, 31 and 52 for Sandra!!

YOU GOT IT!!! MISS SANDRA COMIN THROUGH!

10. If your character had time to pick up any artisan’s tools, game set, instrument, etc., what would it be?

Fun fact, Sandra already plays the saxophone literally because her Entertainer background gave her an instrument and I went "Yeah, that's funny, I assign you former band kid". BUT! If it were something new, I think she'd get a real kick out of the Jeweler's tools. She loves fashion, especially the glitzy kind, so I can see her making some really cool custom jewelry!

16. If your character wasn’t whatever class they are, what would they be instead?

Probably Bard! Sandra is currently a Cleric of Lastai, but she has a pretty high Charisma, and like I mentioned before, she already has an Entertainer background as well. I can see her being apart of the College of Glamour or College of Eloquence. She's very sociable, and well-spoken so I think those skills would translate. Most of her Lastai duties are preaching love, acceptance, hedonism, and just well... Being Very Loving we'll say hahaha, so Sandra aligns with a lot of the flirty bard stereotypes too.

31. What stereotypical group role does your character play in the party? (The Mom, the Mess, the Comic Relief, etc. Optionally: What role would your character play in the “Five Man Band” structure?)

I think Sandra is the Emotional Support character, if that's a trope? She's very quick to be there for her party and listen to her friends' problems because she wants to help. Plus her whole deal is embracing emotions and what not, so she's always down to give advice. Additionally, less of a trope and more of meme, Sandra is definitely the "I'm a healer, BUT..." meme because she's main healer in our party, and she also get's VERY easily gets pissed off at the villains in our campaign. She loves foregoing her Life Domain for a Hellish Rebuke hahaha

52. If your character was granted a single use of Wish, what would they use it for?

WHOA... So much power.... I don't think this is in the exact wording of the spell, but it does say you can barter with the DM, SO! At the beginning of our campaign, 4 heroes were murdered by the evil sorcerer causing mayhem in the town. Sandra and our party of misfits accidentally took their place in helping the town because the Real heroes were defeated. So she would use the Wish spell to bring them back. It's only been a week or two in in-game time so I might be able to swing it??? We've been talking with their ghosts a bit, and they're really nice and cool!! (And like half way through the campaign, we found out they were YOUNG adventurers, like in their early 20s, and my heart broke for them omg). So yeah, Sandra would save them if she could!!

[rumiknight]

My dnd character died last night. My second character to die since I started playing years ago (the first died in session two, so that doesn’t count much). She was the optimistic mom friend (& only healer) that healed by giving hugs. Here's what I imagined she looked like with her final words "It's not your fault.”

The specific nature of her death will haunt one of the PCs (& an NPC). She was one of the last to escape a powerful hag that was tearing through the party. I made her last words the same as the ones a cursed doppelganger/doll said before said PC had to kill in order to proceed with a puzzle. It was a whole ordeal, and it all happened on the same day. 

[springvaletales]

((We've finally gotten to session 67-though-technically-it-might-be-session-70!!!))

The plans offered by the captains are:

Xif & Cuirass: No detection stealth run Ulfdwaa: Stealth in, start blasting Pepperbox: Start blasting.

“I put out a vote for stripper pirates out of loot boxes.”

Captain Pepperbox has been described as a “six armed Warforged with Pixar Mom Hips”.

She also keeps flirting with Captain Cuirass, the Awakened Animated Armor. He is either incredibly flustered or incredibly uncomfortable.

Bagelby’s Player: “If they put Bagel in the loot, he MAY not be able to control himself.”

The compromise offered up includes a combination of the three ideas, with some of the party disguising themselves as pirates and some hiding in the crates to be smuggled into the fortress.

Disguised as Pirates:

Sir Carl Asahi Haaruma

Disguised as Lootboxes:

Bagelby Chess Thiori Ena

Staying behind to keep the ships ready:

Bashur (too big & recognizable for either disguise) Naoka (I can’t give them a healer to date I’ve barely even managed to hurt them) Michael (for his own safety) Vashael (to make sure Michael actually stays back)

Chess is three feet tall, and thus, would be a perfect fit into a number of the pirates’ stolen boxes of lute.

Chess does not want to be put into a box, and thus have his duke, his brother, Sir Carl, out of his line of sight.

Me: “Sir Carl and Chess are still having the box argument.”

Only three of the party rolled high enough on the perception check to notice that they don’t feel tired or hungry, even though they’re pretty sure it’s been HOURS since they all met up on this hidden island.

When told (above the board) that Vashael wasn’t going with the party bc I couldn’t arm them with a whole DRAGON and not because his combat rolls are, historically, terrible, Ena began to taunt him In Character for his historically terrible combat rolls.

He argued back that his terrible performance was because he’d been trying to prevent property damage, and they began fighting.

Asahi paused the plan discussion to point out the ‘weird magic feeling’ she had out of concern for a threat, and Captain Xif started to explain the intricacies of the time loop ‘dome’ only to be interrupted by Captain Pepperbox describing the boundary space between ‘normal’ time and ‘looping’ time as “fucky”.

This small island is the only one that sits squarely in the middle of the boundary space, and thus, time neither loops nor moves forward.

Me: “Ena and Vashael are still having the property damage argument.”

Michael is trying to separate his fiance and his sister by getting in between them. He is shorter than both and it is Not Working.

“We’ve got two Fey creatures here - I think we’ll be okay.”

Thiori stated his desire to “solid snake” this shit, and chose a box to hide in that was, objectively, far too small. 

He stabbed two eye holes into the wood to be able to see and basically just put this box on his head. I had him roll for intimidation instead of stealth, and the pirates are all too afraid to tell this 8ft tall, 4 armed half-crab man that he isn’t completely invisible.

Ena found herself a jeweled coffin and climbed inside. The coffin was not quite empty, and she found a skull rattling around at the bottom. His name is now ‘Yorrik’ and he is her friend.

Sir Carl had to sit on the box Chess was hidden in to keep it shut until it was offloaded from the ship.

Chess banged on the lid and argued his case for NOT being inside the box all the way back to the dock on the main island.

The party managed to successfully wear their pirate disguises and get smuggled into the abandoned mine that serves as a delivery dock for the Pirate King’s fortress - the only slip up was when the Yuan Ti guard tried to hit on Haaruma, who is a happily married lesbian and would absoLUTELY torch the mission

Captain Pepperbox misunderstood what the “signal” to attack was, and killed the Yuan Ti guard with a bullet to the back of the skull when all Asahi did was sneeze.

Captain Pepperbox, confused: “Oh, was that not the signal? Bolts…”

Captain Pepperbox, looking down at the dead guard: “Ah, no great loss. He was an asshole, anyway.”

Bagelby and Ena chose to stay safely hidden away until the ACTUAL signal was given. Chess clawed his way out of the chest as soon as he heard the gunshot.

Xif and Cuirass stayed below with their pirate crews to help turn away any forces that came to investigate the sudden gunshot, and Pepperbox and her crew rode up the cargo lift with the party.

Well, the party and crew rode up. Pepperbox decided she didn’t want to be left behind, unfolded her Pixar Mom Thighs into a series of stabby cables, spider climbed her way up the wall and jumped onto the lift herself.

Due to a series of poor rolls on the pirate side, the two minor bosses and their minions waiting for the party when the cargo lift reached the next floor saw Pepperbox and immediately assumed that the gunshot had been ‘another’ misfire. Apparently that’s a common problem with her.

The bosses - a black and green Dragonborn couple - also assumed that Thiori (who had dealt himself 4 points of damage to activate his lightning on the way up) had been startled by the sudden misfire, and berated Pepperbox for ‘not warning the newbies’.

Also the Yuan Ti guard was somehow the black Dragonborn’s great nephew, and at MOST he’s annoyed that he now has to explain to his aunt that the guy is dead.

The room the party is now in is a sorting room, where the pirates empty out their crate contents and sort through everything to find the most valuable items for ransom, resale, scalping, etc.

I can’t let the party stealth their way through this whole fortress when I feel bad for not giving them combat for months, so Pepperbox gave Asahi a five second warning and directions to the stairs before opening fire with all six gun arms.

She was aiming mostly for the walls/ceiling/floor/table contents to cause chaos, but two unfortunate pirates still got shot.

Bagelby tried to burst dramatically out of his box, but didn’t quite make it, and only managed to throw off the lid and slam his legs through the bottom of the box.

Ena opened her coffin to ‘peek out’ with ‘Yorrik’, but refused to climb out so Asahi and Haaruma had to pick up the coffin and carry it as the party made a break for a set of stairs to the next floor up on the other side of the room.

At the entrance of the stairway, however, Lex stopped and turned around; she told the party to go on without her, and that she’d catch up later, and then she drew her Rod of Guffaw, shifted it into a warhammer form, and ran back to support Captain Pepperbox to the tune of her divine weapon’s goatly scream.

Her narrative successes will, unfortunately, have to happen offscreen for the sake of keeping the IRL action moving forward at a good pace, but only because I feel like we’re all about done with the Pirate Island arc and we’re SO close to the finish line we just need to get there.

It’ll all be written out though - THAT I can promise!

Bagelby is still wearing his box like a pair of wooden pants, Thiori’s box with eye holes is still over his head, and Ena may or may not be getting dragged around by Haaruma and Asahi in her jeweled coffin hideout.

Bagelby, holding up his box pants: “I smell something weird over here!”

He did not find the source of the weird magic smell. But he did find a headless corpse that had seemingly fallen through three floors!

Actually, Thiori found the corpse. Bagelby rolled too low on perception and almost walked right over it.

Bagelby’s Player: “What would I roll if I was trying to steal the death from the corpse?”

Me: “I would say ‘arcana’, since you are trying to steal another concept.”

Bagelby successfully stole the death from the corpse. It was silver, cold, kind of wiggly, and made his hand shake uncontrollably.

He stuffed it into one of Asahi’s many, many available glass vessels, and detailed a plan to reverse-pickpocket the jar into the Pirate King’s ‘soul pocket’ to kill him without having to actually fight.

I don’t know what a ‘soul pocket’ is and at this point I’m too afraid to ask.

Ena immediately complained that he should have just waited and stolen the ‘life’ from the Pirate King instead if he was going to steal a concept.

She then added that he could have used that ‘life’ on her new friend, ‘Yorrik’, the skull that was left in the jeweled coffin she chose to be smuggled into the fortress inside.

If she keeps this up, I’ll make ‘Yorrik’ important to the plot and that’s a Threat.

At Bagelby and Asahi’s insistence, Thiori threw Bagelby up through the holes in the floor…aaaand he threw too hard and fastball special-ed Bagelby straight up through the intact floor three levels above.

Bagelby sacrificed his box pants to only take 10 points of damage instead of 30. This boy only has 40 hp.

He then realized that Thiori couldn’t throw himself up three floors, so he needed some rope that everyone could use to climb….but after all but emptying out his slime pocket, he found that he had a geode from Skaadi’s dream realm, six kazoos, a toothbrush, a crochet hook, an unused meet-and-greet pass for Salancian hero, Sebastian Widnerwisp…and no rope.

Asahi took the rope out of her own bag and had Thiori throw it up to Bagelby, but now the problem is he can’t remember how to tie a knot.

Luckily, Maritza can! Or…she knows how to get it done?

Bagelby’s pet baby Mimic, Maritza, crawled out of the slime pocket to grab the rope and drag the end back inside. The bag wiggled around for a few seconds, and then Maritza reappeared, having seemingly anchored the rope to something very solid within the slime pocket.

Ena’s Player: “Wait WAIT! Is the library rat still in there?!”

The party: “THE PIRATE RAT!”

Me: “OH yeah, it’s still in there.”

Bagelby’s Player: “It’s been two and a half YEARS-”

The party chose not to question the slime pocket, and climbed the rope to join Bagelby on the fortresses’ seemingly abandoned third floor.

Once the party was back together again on the third floor, Maritza hopped back into the slime pocket, and something else in the slime pocket started pulling in the rope.

Sir Carl to Chess: “If he offers you anything out of that pocket, do NOT take it.”

Chess, horrified, as the slime pocket slurps rope like spaghetti: “Yes, my duke.”

We left off there so everyone could sleep and be ready for work tomorrow, and we’ll be back next week to (hopefully) finish off Pirate Island!

[restless-soulz]

original story ideas I’ll probably never write pt 6??

Three sisters and their mother live on a farm at the base of the mountains. the oldest tells most of the story, about their mother and the other sisters. the mother teaches the oldest how to collect, measure and cut the thread to sell or make into stuff. the mother gets weaker but still has a baby girl, who the oldest teaches to collect and measure, but cutting is her job, and another baby girl who they teach to collect. weaving is for all three, and their mother dies shortly after having the last baby. they are named the kindlies, for their friendly personalities, and they run through the greek myths. tbc.. they become the trios of ancient greece, the gorgons the fates the seasons. Astera - Stheno then Aglaia, Basiane - Euryale then Thalia,  Periboea - medusa then Euphrosyne, 

NEW STORY:

story about an entire family being isekaid, and separated when they're in the new world. the medieval setting feels old, possibly it to start with typical tropes but move past them, like the medieval thing is only in the wilderness but there are actually cities with machines and fast moving carriages, and instead of party or guild, it's a volunteer organizations with pat from the government or whoever is paying for the services and it's called teaming up or working.

i also don't like using cheats unless they make sense why for myself, for the rest of my family sure. there also won't be status screens i think, just skills and proficiency meters, and maybe a health and mana bar. mom and dad will be 40, i will be 17, k is 15, s is 14, d is 12, p is 11, z is 10. release everyone's perspective except mom and dads as separate books. mad will be one book with flipping perspectives.  

    ◦    dad will be a necromancer/healer, mom will be a witch who specializes in potions/cooking/spells and music magic, but can also throw a mean punch, they both fight well, dad with a sword and mom with a staff. They also get typical anime bodies and get to go through some body dysphoria and age dysphoria. 

    ◦    I'm the one that probably goes through the most trauma, and i also go through some dysphoria because possibly not human at first (small fish, but makes a deal with a sea witch ariel style to get a chance to get a walking body, cursed me anyway after i got the special treasure, but the spell hadn't fused my legs together so i took a small knife and cut the skin that few until only my legs stxayed with a few scales and stuff) but i actually get a skill that lets my body become what it actually is and use it, but the witches curse is still on me, making it hard to walk like i would probably be okay i think i'm gonna add in wings. but i'm a little too trusting but also have a lot of paranoia, have weird friends and average about almost everything. my thing would be that "i'm not strong or fast or really smart but i am creative and i can listen and be kind" very autistic coded, possible love interests? and a cheat, but also a bleeding heart. so reluctant op hero but beloved by the people, doesn't know if we should stay or go but wants to live normally and feels comfortable here.                               

 my curse would be because i'm naturally self isolating, my memories would fade with the loss of social and physical contact, within hours or days, and starts with faces and short term to not recognizing a fundamental part of my personality like losing anxiety and becoming more confident but also losing a part of myself. called Curse of the River Lethe

    ◦    K would be a typical hero protagonist that seems very op. she'd be super fast and pretty strong, i think she'd be good with both a sword and spear, probably take a position as a knight to the prince, to impress him? she'd go up the ranks by proving herself on missions and earning new skills a lot. i think the prince would be in love with me actually, but she doesn't know who i am yet (duh anime body change). and she's eventually promoted to captain of the guard but still wants to rise to hero because she. relieves she's one and keeps telling people that. make her pride bite her in the butt when something attacks and she can't make herself move. she also brings in the most of the tech from another world trope. wants to prove herself but also wants to go back home. her curse would be how her physical abilities dependent on how other people thought of her as a person, negative traits would sap her and positive traits would replenish, so she would have to be less argumentative and prideful and actually be nice to us also not annoying TikTok stuff. Called Downfall of Icarus

    ◦    S would be the awkward, cautious hero that sticks out no matter what. she does seemingly simple solutions to overly complicated problems that impress everybody, always hides her face out of embarrassment but it intimidates everybody. just wants to go home. the curse would be the more she tries to lie, the worse her appearance gets, even if she's wearing the latest fashion or proud of her outfit. can never tell a lie consciously. called  sometijng cool here

    ◦    D would be shōnen protagonist with never ending power ups because of "training". will be op and have cheat ability, just make him as a typical protagonist as i can and see how many that reels in before making him more realistic. wants to stay. curse is 

    ◦    P would be a magical girl in the city, a poor orphan found on the side of a road with a wand in her hand. she's foreign and attracts all sorts of people because she's cute, air headed and energetic, easily distracted but very complimentary. "guardian of (fun? sweets? princess?) everyone has a crush on her. wants to find mom and dad and stay here with all her new friends.

    ◦    Z would be more of a slice of life than typical fighting protagonist. like school babysitters or studio ghibli. some adventures but not life threatening. 

each will have the same name published under and i will try my absolute best to try and make everything seem separated, and if people start piecing it together i'll drop the reveal crossover for each one and they'll start merging into one series until it ends in one book.

nature names like mom-hazel, S-olive, kami-willow, Z-clover, P-rose, ME-juniper, D-ceder, dad-alder last name moore.

NEW STORY:

a demon boy falls out of a closet and falls onto a girl with insomnias bed. no matter how hard he tries, he can't seem to scare her, none of the blood and gore tricks work, until he sneaks up on her, but that's not for a while. she reassured him he's still doing pretty good, but then she tells him that she watches all these crime stuff and she's a writer, so these types of things barely faze her. so it's slow burn idiots to lovers, they watch scary movies together and he's appalled she sometimes gets scared but usually not, just jump scares. anyway, he goes to school with her and she comes to the monster realm, and they fall in love.

NEW STORY:

there's this four story mall that goes underground and it's on a college campus off of a multibillionaire property's. I'm the daughter of the multibillionair, the house is huge and has different themes across the house and there are multiple ways to get inside. I get a dog but i can't have it inside except for my section of the house and outside.

it's an apocalypse and there's a factory underneath the mall making these creature dark things that my parents run or backed up the owners. they made like shadow dragons and other shadow animals. there's a giant amusement park on the property that has a basement for the factory and the servants kids have used it before there was a worldwide black out of electricity when the shadow monsters attacked. there's this roller coaster things that goes to the basement but the kids blocked the way so they only go not even half way down but still have fun. there's giant line for the cafeteria food but.

when i find a way inside there's nothing there at all. my dog is a tracker and sense the shadow monsters and gives us plenty of warning when something's there. there's an attack or something and the servants kids need shelter and there's this cove right next to the water by the horses who seem excited to greet me that goes directly into my house without even a door like cave floor to tile.

they're multi billionaires they can handle a little dirt. they cannot. all the adults are hiding in the mansion while i'm trying to figure how to get everything back to normal. i think i'm adopted. it's called mind benders. the tech that the billionaires own is like vr tech but bill ciphery dream demon way. like it make youre dreams into code and put you back into the dream to better experience the innermost thoughts and desires of your heart. 

 the shadow monsters are either peoples nightmares no that's different in exchange for the power to bring dreams to life using the tech as a base the shadow monsters are made and destroy the world along the way because people don't stop using it. in the empty cafeteria room, there's one thing in it. the drawing box where they pulled my adopted name out. i walk forward to open it and every single piece of paper is my name. how should i be able to stop the monsters?

the library idea where book keepers have reality magic with their books and words. i have natural ability for it and sometimes don't need a conduit of a book to bring something to life. my dog is actually a product of my powers. that's why they adopted me because things were already out of control and they wanted to see if my ability was genetic or somehow corral the monsters and stop. they have a live feed room about the the monsters are destroying places around the world.

NEW STORY:

Ms.Lanchems school for Young Ladies of Humility. Basically a school for learning how to be a maid/lady in waiting. they all learn the same thing but the Ladies focus more on one person to help and maids focus on multiple people at once. It teaches them how to teach their charges, do their jobs to look like they aren't messing up, pulling strings behind the scenes, learning codes.

Evelyn, Evie, is the firstborn of her father helping to raise her younger brother Stephen, Fen. Mixed race siblings, she looks like her mother brown hair, blue eyes, looks white, while Fen looks like their dad dark in every way. Their mom feared for their safety when they began to rebel against what she teaching in schools and started to threaten her. She was executed publically by radical rebels, and the king came down hard on them for killing her when he came back from military expansions. She hid the kids well.

There was a statue put up for her sacrifice because as soon as her death hit, all of her teachings had come to fruition and the economy boomed, literacy flourished and people realized their mistake. They didn't find Evie or Fen until a group of soldiers came across two children living on the outskirts of a school village, Evie in her final year of Ms.Lanchems and Fen in his 1st year of Magic Scholar training. They survived by hunting and trading furs, food, favors, and other goods. In the meantime, their father the king remarried and but had no heirs so the nobles were having the king foster their children in hopes of catching his eye to name them the heir, and he did name a family, Rostonair Siblings to be the best contenders for the crown with their many accomplishments. 

They bring Evie and Fen back to the palace, and it creates a divide. The female  ruler is in charge of in kingdom affairs and the male ruler is in charge of out kingdom affairs. Who would be named heir? The blood relatives or the children who've worked for years to be worthy of getting the position. The queen sets up a challenge, to divide the kingdom into half, have one pair of siblings each rule a half together to see how they do it. But give them a few years because they're so young. At the time of finding them, they were like, 15 and 11 The controversy starts at when Evie and Ares Rostonair are 21 and Fen and Hestia are 18. 

The story starts when their mother gives them to the Lanchem Orphanage. "Take care of each other and always raise your head and smile even when it's hard." It's hard at first, the other children berate them for being abandoned by their own mother. It's gets better when Evie can leave to go to school and Fen learns to go to the library by himself. Evie has a bad first day, ending with getting lost in the woods in the rain chasing Fen.

She finds a small cat (that turns into a dragon) that's hurt and finds a boy in the woods. He's the heir of Mountain King. He offers to lead her out of the woods if she tells him stuff about her. She tells him she can't because she's looking for her brother too. The cat backs her up and they go looking for Fen together. They have a bit of fun racing in the rain until Evie turns so sharply when Fen yells for her. Valley leads them out of the forest and tells Evie to come again he had fun playing with her, and it would be easy to find her again because she was always leaking magic all over the place.

Over the next few visits, she gets lessons on how to contain her excess magic and draw it from her surrounding instead, making her oceans of magic absurdly deep and controlled. Valleys people have a spiritual connection to the The Guardians, animal gods that protect the wild by giving the leaders special abilities to be Divine Beasts and change form. Valley chooses to be a leopard most of the time but can change size to be small. Lanchems teaches her about poisons, waltzes, ettiquite, strategies. She's done at 15 which is when Valley warns her that people have been following her. The people are guards who take her after her graduating class ceremony to the heart of the kingdom, about a week. They present her and Fen to the king who they recognize and he sees them and is like. Those. Those my kids. The queen is nice enough. Lots of tears.

But before they can be recognized, he gives them a lower palace to live in, which some think is shameful. He tries to give them maids and butlers but Evie refuses because she's been running the orphanage while in Lanchems and wants to get a head start on what she thinks will be a career as a lady in waiting. He gives her a a friend tho, Mara who was her friend at Lanchems. and Fen has a boy, Ryder, who he just met.  At her 16th birthday, they are presented to the kingdom as the royal prince and princess but not heirs.

They meet the other foster kids and the Rodonairs. Hestia initially has a crush on Fen. They subtly backhand them with noble language which Evie knows because Lanchems and Fen knows because Evie knows. And then Valley crashes the party as a leopard. He says the Mountain King sent him to be fostered at the castle. The family agrees and Evie jumps to hug him, he returns it.

Valley suggests playing a game, Evie and Fen immediately start pulling off their extra layers while the others watch in horror. "Haven't you ever played? You can't win with all those layers and he can start the game at any moment." Ready Go! They take off like rockets into the woods of the guardians and disappear while the other nobles struggle to keep up. Valley catches everyone until it's just Evie left and he pounces on her "Caught you~" Forward to moments of growing up and people realizing they’re really ducking cool 

Anyway, they're 21 and the queen suggests the separate ruling kingdoms without interference from them. Evie is in a courting relationship with a boy who berates her but she's convincing herself she likes him.

The challenge is just what Valley needs to separate them and get her to see how strong she is for herself. At first, it's a bit of a disaster for both sides. Fen and Ares are different people and so are Hestia and Evie. Evie and Fen discuss and decide that it's better if they switch roles every once in a while because they are very similar thinking and can fill in each other's weaknesses. Ares and Hestia tho, they argue a bit and decide and even more separated in and outer. Valley only really supports Even kingdom (Evie and Fen) There's a voting and Valley puts his vote first on Evie and Fen, and most everyone follows suit

[stirdrawsandreblaws]

Ten Characters, Ten Fandoms

i got tagged by @apathetic-theme-song

Shion - King of Fighters

Sabrina/Natsume - Pokemon

Duo Maxwell - Gundam Wing

Makoto/Lita Kino - Sailor Moon

Cho Hakkai - Saiyuki

Yuuko Ichihara - xxxHolic

Count D - Pet Shop of Horrors

Vincent Valentine - Final Fantasy VII

Kimimaro - Naruto

Alphys - Undertale

i can never think of anyone to tag but if you wanna do this because you saw me do it, feel free to @ me and make me look at your list :3

also this isn't required but bc i love them i put images and brief descriptions of all of these characters under the cut

Shion, my beloved; the androgynous sub-boss of King of Fighters XI, he uses multiple weapons including a rope-dart, chinese spear, meteor hammer, and can punch air so hard it turns into a projectile. he often quotes Sun Tzu's Art of War, knows tons about cooking, and loves eating delicacies. currently wandering some kind of weird extradimensional space after his boss tried to kill him (he got revenge tho >:3 he can have little a murder, as a treat.)

Sabrina/Natsume (left) in the Pokemon anime had psychic powers so strong she splintered her personality into a grown-up half and a child half, both of which were able to exercise their own wills independently (the latter via a doll). she was scary, but eventually became more lighthearted and rejoined her split halves thanks to a goofy Haunter.

Duo Maxwell (center) is many things: orphan, gifted mechanic, and self-proclaimed God of Death--which is why he's the pilot of the Deathscythe, a grim-reaper-esque mecha. he witnessed a lot of death early in life, to the point that even his first and last names connect him to people close to him who died

Makoto/Lita Kino (right) is Sailor Jupiter; she's strong, tall, tomboyish, and self-sufficient after the loss of her parents. Her lightning attacks are powerful, but her sense of justice is even more so. She has a cute side, too, and gets flustered when someone calls her feminine. >:3

Cho Hakkai (left), problematic fave #1. the mom friend, and a stepford smiler who took a correspondence course in lockpicking, he's atoning for incest and mass-murder by....doing more mass-murder, but the gods told him it was cool this time. to be fair, he's mostly a healer now, as well as the party's designated driver (his dragon, named Jeep, turns into a Jeep).

Yuuko Ichihara (right) is a space-time witch who grants wishes. i want to say more but instead i'll just plead with you to read the xxxHolic manga (and read/watch Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- for the full experience, since they have some story linkage).

Count D gets two images for a little gallery because look at this freak. gorgeous. the way they move in the OVA is fantastic. genderless sugar-addicted ecoterrorist; what's not to love??

Vincent Valentine (left) is a gunslinger who can transform into a fanged monster and chooses to sleep off his depression in a coffin, but he's not a vampire. that's just how it is sometimes. he even joins the hero party without doing anything to fix his bed hair.

Kimimaro (center) has a bloodline ability that lets him utilize his bones as weapons. As a child, he was kept in a cage and only released for combat, despite his gentle nature. Orochimaru (the series' first main antagonist) found him after his clan was wiped out, and took him in; being valued by Orochimaru gave him purpose, and he fights like a zealot as a result... (;A;)

Alphys (right) is a cringefail otaku lesbian lizard who, nevertheless, is a brilliant scientist. she created Mettaton's mechanical body, after all. we don't need to talk about her other works. :) really. :) :) :)

[unrepentantcheeseaddict]

Character Intros For The Changeling Trilogy

So, I have news . . .

I started the first draft of Book 1 of the Changeling Trilogy! I’m only about a chapter and a half in, but I’m delighted with how it’s turning out so far. Due to interruptions from family, focusing on it has been a bit of a debacle though. But enough of that, let’s meet the characters. All the changelings are canonly autistic, since A, I am and B, that's probably the original basis for changeling lore anyhow.

River Collins

The main protagonist, a Failed changeling made to take the place of a specific person.

She’s got magic that eventually manifests during Book 1, but it’s mostly good for big flashy combat stuff, and it is NOT easy to control, it’s basically turned on by her fight-or-flight response because she has no training.

Her other thing is keeping a clear head during chaos. She can stay outwardly calm and functional during almost any situation, even if she pays the price with a crying meltdown later once things are settled. River’s always had the autistic feeling of not belonging in her human life, but she discovers that when she's with other changelings, she's in her element and kind of a natural leader, because they get her more than most humans do.

She’s also a huge zoology nerd, I plan to have several scenes of her geeking out over all the weird magical creatures in the Fae Kingdoms.

Luke and Brian Collins

River’s Dads!! They’re alive, they’re happily together, and they’re supportive of anything their little girl does, even if that’s leading a rebellion in a magical underworld. Think Sally Jackson but they’re a nerdy gay couple.

Snaketongue

Our love interest. Sharp features, fair skin, messy dark hair. Like all changelings that weren’t made to impersonate a specific human, he’s got some nonhuman features and abilities. In his case, a forked tongue like a snake and slit-pupiled yellow eyes. He’s got an amazing sense of smell, he can pick out and identify almost any scent in any situation.

Snaketongue was the closest thing the group had to a leader before River took charge, and he still sometimes resents her and chafes against her decisions. He can be cocky, headstrong, hotheaded, and impulsive, but he’s got a good heart and is unswervingly loyal if you can actually manage to earn his trust and respect. River eventually manages to, and from that point on they’re best friends (and also mutual pining idiots).

Cami

She’s the group’s resident chaos gremlin, bringing her own brand of cheerful, earnest mayhem to everything she does. Loud and friendly and silly, the life of the party and the one who tries to cheer everybody up when morale is low.

Cami has a mohawk-like ridge of scales on her head instead of hair, and smaller patches of scales across her body. She can change the color of both her skin and scales at will, to either stand out or blend in.

Whisper & Spider

Aka just The Twins, they’re cynical, brutally honest, and willing to do just about anything for the people they care about. Also kinda codependent tbh. They’re tiny for their age, more like the size of a human ten-year-old. They have thin, iridescent black feathers instead of head and body hair, sharp talon-like clawed nails, and they can move unnervingly quietly.

Star

The group’s magical healer, bioluminescent night light, and Mom Friend™. She’s tall, slim, and albino with long hair and a long, thin, whiplike prehensile tail.

Alenza

The girl River was crafted to replace, who’s alive and well as the wife of a prince in one of the Fae Kingdoms. She’s always been told she was saved from an unsafe human family, so when she finds out the truth, it causes an identity crisis that sends her spiralling into a full-blown villain arc.

[chubby-aphrodite]

so the girl squad (as ive always casually called it) was sort of created out of my desire to make a story about a 4-person rpg party a la 2d final fantasy games or dragon quest and i originally made them all in dress up games on rinmaru. also i was like 12 at the time.

so each character is themed after a general rpg class as well as an element.

eloise is a warrior/fighter type character with a sword and shield and heavy armor and she's also plant/earth themed. i also recently changed her eye color from mint green to a normal brown because it's still earthy toned and it fits in with her whole "being normal" as a theme. she's just some girl. but she's also the main POV character. she's (literally) down to earth and levelheaded more often than not. she's also (sort of) the only one of the group who can't do magic. she can do little things if she concentrates, like making plants sprout, but not much else. no matter how hard she tries. she is also trans and aroace and is the tallest :)

arella is a sort of archer/healer/ranger type and is both wind and light themed. she's half elf/half cloud nymph and the genetic lottery on that one gave her angel wings and elf ears. she bleaches her hair white because she wants to match her cloud nymph parent for funzies. her mom is an elf, and nymphs in this world work so that whatever piece of nature they're bound too is generally what they consider their gender. arella calles them her mom and cloud. i've always conceived as arella being the youngest and most naive/optimistic/excitable/bright-eyed and bushy-tailed of the bunch. she's the type to use magic for silly things like creating confetti when she's happy. it's not very potent magic but she's got medical training because she's a part time flying letter carrier and kind of has to know how to do this shit on the fly. (lmao.)

tana and eira go together because theyre just intrinsically tied to one another. and they're red/blue gays. tana does fire magic and struggles with unknowingly being a major conduit for the primordial element of fire because she blacks out and becomes a living flame when she's under enough pressure. she's also very typical for a fire-themed person, yknow, short temper, boisterous, a little mean.

meanwhile eira is the runaway prince(ss) of an ice empire because her dad the king left her to die in the woods as a baby because she was prophesied to overthrow him. and then he lied to the public and used the incident as propaganda to fuel his conquest of the surrounding area. and when it comes about that eira is the king's "missing prince" and that she was raised by a gaggle of villagers in the area she was left in and also that she's trans it all kind of goes to shit. there's posters of her in masculine royal regalia all over the place going like "THE PRINCE HAS RETURNED" or whatever. eira eventually becomes too overwhelmed to even attempt her original goal in coming forward, which was to make a statement to the king about how the people (that she is a part of) hate being imperialized and for the love of god stop. so she runs away! and meets the other 3! and is really cagey about parts of her backstory and claims to just be along for the ride!

also there's a secret 5th lady who is an immortal old woman that's friends with eloise. her name is fara and she's mainly eloise's mentor and teacher. she guides the group along because there's actually some weird magic bullshit going on, ESPECIALLY with eloise, and they have to do a whole big quest. :)

eloise as a character is really funny i think but only in ways known to me because she barely exists outside of my head

she's lovely