#orianna duskhill

[amoremagnificentbastard]

A prompt filled for @thekindredcollective's Fall in Faerûn event, as well as a humble gift for @kittenintheden.

[kittenintheden]

✨Let's talk about OCs!✨How would you describe your OC's personality/aesthetic? What's your favourite thing about them? Tell us a fun fact(s) about your OC or their creation!

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aw yay thank you, love talking about my girl.

so this is Ori.

Full name: Orianna Duskhill Race: Half-elf shadow fey (dark elves from the Shadowfell) Age: 34 Class: Bard/Sorcerer

Ori began existence as my character in the DnD campaign I play with some friends. She was initially a woman without a memory of her life before waking up in campaign, so she didn't have a lot of backstory informing her personality. I created her as a charismatic, outgoing, supportive, bubbly, klutzy, slutty Aberrant Mind sorcerer who was full of dark shadow magic that clashed with her core personality and pastel goth rockabilly aesthetic. She also plays drums in a metal band.

When BG3 came out, I recreated her in-game without expecting much. That ship has sailed. She officially became a character of the world to me at that point.

I decided to start NYS on a lark because I was feeling the writing bug and that's when I decided to flesh out her character more fully. She got an actual backstory that tied her into the world and the campaign, she gained a sibling, and I switched her class to bard specifically because I wanted to tie her into the College of Whispers for plot reasons.

From there, she just sort of... became who she is. I wrote her as initially mistrustful and single-minded, with a darker past and a heavier lean on her courtly training to charm people so they don't ask too many questions. As Ori herself has said of her night-blooming jasmine tattoos, "pretty on the surface, poison underneath."

But at her core, even in her very first iteration, Ori has always been a person who wants to love people. She just needed to meet a delightful band of chucklefucks and trauma bond with them in order to bring it out and allow herself to care the way she's always wanted to.

It's been a ride to create a character who used their class abilities for subterfuge and espionage, but discovers that those same abilities can be used to protect and bond.

My favorite thing about Ori is that I made her intentionally complex. She's messy, mortal, loyal, loving, silly, kind, vicious, cunning, and passionate, all rolled into a pretty pastel-haired bluegrass-playing ball. She's also a squishy klutz because dexterity is her dump stat.

Additional fun fact: her surname is supposed to sound like "does kill."

I've also had a fucking TON of fun writing a Tav who's been around the block and has the history to clock a charlatan a mile away because she plays the game herself.