#ophelia buckthorne

[draculaurennn]

22, 30, 15, , 2 - worm

17, 23, 1, 8- candelle

24,18,19,31- ophie

— 𝕤𝕝𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕝𝕪 𝕠𝕓𝕤𝕔𝕦𝕣𝕖 𝕕𝕟𝕕 𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕢𝕦𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤 — (i’m a million years late answering this bc of school and also bc of anxiety abt my characters again :’) sorry 

— 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕞𝕨𝕠𝕠𝕕 . aka loud leopard-dragonkin lesbian 

2.) do they consider themselves an optimist? Pessimist? Realist? What are they like in actuality? Wormwood likes to consider herself an optimist, at least out loud. She often finds herself torn amongst her party members and, despite her chaotic disposition, in effort to maintain peace when things go awry. (It’s rare, but it does happen.) That means that whatever strife they’re facing, she wants to be the one to grin as widely as she can and tell them it’s nothing they can’t handle - and so far, it hasn’t been!  Inside, Wormwood is much more reflective. She had to leave her partner behind for months, and as much as she liked to tell herself it couldn’t possibly damage their bond, the realistic part of Wormwood knows that most people don’t handle being separated for months at a time very well. She’s willing to admit that of her own relationship, but if someone like Beloved worried about the same thing, Wormwood would perish that thought as quickly as she could.  (I ACTUALLY ALREADY ANSWERED 3 OF THESE FOR WORM HERE so i’m just gonna link back to em dfjhsdfsdh) —  𝕔𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕖 . aka sad sad tears of a clown 1.) What does your character typically keep in their pockets? Candelle doesn’t keep anything extraordinary in her pockets. (She also doesn’t have much pocket space to begin with.) She tries to keep things like spare change and a pair of scissors, needle, and thread on her (for emergent sewing reasons) at all times, but she does usually wind up with the occasional wrapped candies. The only unnecessary things she keeps with her are pink rouge and a deck of oracle cards. 8.) What is something they cannot resist? Donuts. Candelle’s favourite food growing up was donuts - she favoured jelly-filled with sprinkles, and her mother would always let her have one when she was playing particularly well in their practice sessions. They remind Candelle of happy times with her mother, when she was little and her biggest worries in life were making friends with any new performers and whether or not a sprained ankle would heal in time for their next show.  Since joining the Zhentarim, Candelle finds them very rarely. They were made by a woman who lived with the circus when she was a child, and in Waterdeep she hasn’t found any that are particularly the same as the ones she had.  17.) Does your character swear? What's their favorite phrase/word? No, Candelle doesn’t really swear - and if she does, it’s done so subconsciously that she wouldn’t remember she said it. It’s not really on principal, either, she just tries hard to be very gentle-handed with her words, and to her, swearing would not help get her point across.  23.) Would your character want to be famous? Why or why not? Probably not. Candelle doesn’t really think much about herself as a performer anymore. When she was little, she wanted to be a famous performer and have people come from all over to see her. She wanted to be so spectacular that she transformed into a fairy and people would be in awe of her dance and performance that they would go home feeling magical. Since then, the veil of innocence has been lifted substantially from her eyes. She won’t readily admit this to anyone, but Candelle doesn’t really know if there’s such a thing as providing pure joy. There are fleeting feelings, but they’re just illusions. That isn’t what she wants to put into the world. She never wants her actions to be a temporary bandage, and so fame and all of it’s sparkling lights has lost a lot of its gilding for her.  Candelle actually isn’t sure what she would do once she’s completed her goals. She prefers not to try and think about it, because she doesn’t want to distract herself from her resolution.  — 𝕠𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕒 . aka series of unfortunate events in a 30 yr old woman who is legally only 3 18.) How does your character act when they want to seem inviting? Ophelia is pretty unassuming as a person overall. She’s very tiny, and her face is rather sad; there’s nothing innately intimidating about her. She doesn’t have to do a lot to convince people to lower their guard around her, but she seems to be quite awkward when she thinks she’s being comforting. (In fact, the record number of children she has made cry on accident in this campaign is kind of insane.)  If she was going out of her way to try and be welcoming, she might not know where to begin because she doesn’t think she’s “unwelcoming” to begin with. Forcing a smile is probably awkward. Putting her hair back makes her self-conscious. If it was a desperate thing, then perhaps she could sink into another false facade like Bethany, the cheerful and stab-happy gang recruit, but she does hate to quit being Ophelia. Maybe put her knives away? Offer tea? She just doesn’t know.  19.) How does your character act when they want to seem threatening? A threatening Ophelia is somewhat easier. Her eldritch inclination, missing arm, and collection of suspicious vials of liquid is usually enough to rattle nerves for strangers. (Despite her charisma, Ophelia is never the party member who should do the talking.) If she wanted to strike fear in the hearts of others, then peeling off her face to reveal a new one, summoning tentacles from the dark void, or smiling seems to do the trick for her. 

24.) What's a controversial food opinion they would have? Ophelia hates bacon. It’s the absolute worst thing you can give her. She’s eaten it on very few, rare occasions, because it was all they had or Hakem was kind enough to make breakfast, but she would rather scrape her teeth on a blackboard or stab herself in the eyes with needles than eat bacon. It’s greasy, it smells rotten, and it’s worse than her hatred for salt-cured or jerkied meats.  31.) Can your character visualize actual concepts in their head? Or are they just vague thoughts? Ophelia can visualize concepts, but she cannot convert them into understandable descriptions or images. For instance, the theory of music having a shape association is something Ophelia actually can envision, where a triangle appears at a crescendo or a squiggle accentuates a held note. However, she could not begin to draw this, nor could she even explain why she can envision such a thing. It may be a side-effect of the synthetic brain.

[draculaurennn]

GO FOR OPHELIA

. — OPHELIA ::  21 Asks for D&D Characters (and OCs) 1. What influenced or inspired the creation of this character?

yikes, a lot of things. she was my first dnd character, so i pulled from a lot of my theme interests: lovecraft, especially call of cthulhu and the dunwich horror. botany, poison gardening, and dangerous insects. victorian horror, like frankenstein, and circus sideshows. she’s also a little inspired by tomie and d.gray-man, so she definitely pulls a lot of influence from a lot of things. ALL PACKED INTO ONE MUNDANE CHARACTER. 

2. What is your character’s relationship with their family? Family is a word which here refers to biological relatives, close companions, and/or the individual(s) who raised them.

uhhh TERRIBLE. if she could, she’d kill her father, but she’s a little meek, so the deep desire to do so is easily overcome by her need to stay out of trouble… and also not go to trial like someone she knows. 

3. Who is the closest person to them?

right now, her closest friend is – AMAZINGLY – the party’s paladin, himeleth. himeleth is a love ancient elf, the last survivor of a golden age of elves, and she’s pretty sympathetic to ophelia. likewise, because ophelia’s personal relationship skills involve an unhealthy attachment to the people who show her any sort of affection, she’s pretty glued to himeleth. so much so that she lost an arm to revive her from the dead LOL

4. What were the conditions surrounding their formative years?

her mother died when she was really little, and ophelia was born into poverty with a father who was never good at managing their finances to begin with. not to mention he was terrible, and just didn’t want her, so he sold her to a circus. she did well enough at the circus; she was like, five or six when she was sold there, and wasn’t ADOPTED by, but she was sort of mentored by a pair of conjoined sisters. this was when ophelia learned to utilize knives, and she was an excellent knife target, knife thrower, and self-mutilator. then, when she was fifteen or so, a young man – probably in his 20s – named alvaire crescenti buckthorne convinced his very rich parents to buy ophelia from the circus, because he was quite smitten with her. ophelia, who was so blown away that anyone could like her so much to buy her out of labour, wound up falling disgustingly in love with him, and married him. and they lived together until he died when she was thirty. 

5. What creature would they like to have as a pet?

a bat ! they’re cute, and eat fruit, and would be excellent for the ecosystem of her greenhouse. 

6. Do they have any bad habits?

lets see… she peels the skin off her fingers when she’s stressed, she has no reservations about stabbing herself to get answers from her patron’s go-between, she keeps secrets (sort of; there’s a confused line between reality and hallucination that she won’t admit exists), she chews her hair in conversations that probably would require she didn’t. i’m sure i could sit here all day.

7. Is there anyone they’d die for? Kill for?

YES. ophelia became a warlock when she sold her soul to an eldritch goddess in order to raise her husband, alvaire, from the dead. she believed that would lead her down the path of a necromancer. so far, it’s led her down the path of deceit and misery. she has, at this point, sacrificed an arm to resurrect himeleth, the paladin from the dead, and… might go to some weird lengths to revive hakem and ka’rex. (it’s up for debate because they tend to get mad at her, so she’s quite afraid of them.)

8. Who was their first love?

her dead husband. 

9. How would this character react to someone confessing their love for them?

apparently by marrying them. ophelia’s pretty sheepish, so i think she’d be quite reserved and jumbled in her excitement, honestly. 

10. How old is this character?

thirty-one.

11. Are they normally peaceful or aggressive?

she was pretty peaceful in the past. she does like to try to solve problems without brute force, but sometimes, things require more than just talking and finesse. lately, as she’s becoming more confused, more scared, and more lost in her choices, she’s becoming a might bit more aggressive. 

12. How does this character handle stress?

by shutting down. or stabbing it. or setting it on fire. this is on a scale of 1 to 10, ten being destroy. she rarely passes 5. 

13. Does your character consider themselves lucky?

absolutely not. 

14. What is their favorite holiday?

she’d probably like christmas. it’s so cheery, and it smells good. she never gets to be that cheery anymore. or smell that good. 

15. What is the best gift they could receive?

at this very moment in the campaign, the best gift she could receive would be to wake up, realize she’s been having a very long and detailed nightmare for the last few months, and go downstairs to tell her husband about it. 

16. If they could instantly kill one person in the world without consequence, who would it be?

Barraxis. there is a general, a miserable, horrible man who has been in charge of everything terrible that has ever happened to her. he corrupted her husband with these stupid human experiments that he hid from her, he was responsible for the death of her closest friend, grey, and this is all not to mention that he is leading a global militant organization called the Order of the Prime to end the world. if the last good thing she could do would be to rid the world of him, she would. 

17. If they were in possession of a trio of wishes, what would their three wishes be?

 the end of umbra and barraxis, the restoration of her arm, and the restoration of himeleth’s people. 

18. What is their favorite spell or method of attack?

she has two preferences, either close quarters striking with her pact weapon, starless athame, or ranged attacks with eldritch blast. with both she can generate extra damage through hex, hexblade’s curse, or maddening hex, so they’re her general choices to end a conflict quickly. 

19. What are their guilty pleasures?

she doesn’t have any anymore. 

20. What is something this character is or could be addicted to?

honey custard. maybe alcohol at this point LOL

21. Have you actually played this character yet?

yes and i love her.