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Pride Month Showcase - Ouiima

A one time intern at Ulta Metamagicals in Brisban, Ouiima's life was forever changed when she was kidnapped by Nightmare Courtiers and held prisoner for the next four years. Enduring brutal torture and horrible conditions, she eventually escaped and spent a brief stint recovering with the Inquest, who found her, before leaving there as well and joining up with a new krewe (@commanderthalys), where she's slowly started recovering more of her old self. A talented asura gate technician, she enjoys tinkering and building small toys. Ouiima is demisexual!

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(repost bc I accidentally deleted it lol)

@ratasum 's Ouiima

@catmanderratmander 's Con Artist Ratt

@jollycryptid 's Kittra Curbstomp

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Cool People I Saw at the NA [VS] Art Party

Part 2/2 - Everyone else

Right -> Left: Ouiima, Starsinger Kattya, Cryomancer Visi Edmund Gunnar, Marrow Gravesong The Dullahan

There were tons of other cool people I saw last night, these are just all the screenshots I got before I got distracted.

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I know Valentine's Day has passed but there were some options I clearly left off people were sad about. So I've included them here int his poll.

Images under the cut, as before.

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A bunch of Valentines I've made so far featuring my characters.

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Ouiima, an Inquest Berserker, had once been an intern researcher working on asura gate technology at Ulta Metamagicals in the Brisban Wildlands.

Shortly before the start of the personal story, however, she had stepped away from the lab to collect some crystal shards, only to be set upon and kidnapped by a small group of Nightmare Courtiers scouting in the area.

For the next four years, Ouiima remained their captive. Forced to fight other captives for the amusement of her captors, with the ultimatum to die in the fight or live another day, and tormented and tortured through her "stay" with them, she struggled to survive and grow stronger, until during the events of HoT she managed to escape the warring factions as chaos overtook them.

Found later, injured and exhausted by an Inquest scout, it took nothing to convince her to join. Left mute from injuries received at the hands of her captors, she learned sign from her rescuer, and began to train her rough skills into something far more lethal.

Ouiima has since worked for the Inquest as a Liquidator. She's hurt and angry, extremely distrustful of most people outside other asura, and especially of sylvari.

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New girl is at level 80! Spent all my wizard fun bucks on tomes since I had everything I wanted, and I still have a ton of tomes left over lmao.

Anyway her name is Ouiima, and she'll be in the same verse as Rhenn and @wall-legion's Iuno. She's an Inquest bruiser (to be Spellbreaker) who had been working at Rata Primus and snuck out during that whole fiasco.

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Fun text posts with some of my gremlins.

Qirri, Lil Creachur, Kandii, and Ouiima.

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New girl alert! Her name is Ouiima. Inquest warrior. I have pretty much no other details yet but there you go.

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Ouiima, Inquest Berserker

Four years of being held captive and being forced to fight other prisoners for the amusement of the Nightmare Court left Ouiima, who had been an intern gate technician with Ulta Metamagicals at the time of her capture, angry and hurt.

Rescued by an Inquest scout that found her after she managed to escape Joy's End during the events of Heart of Thorns, she immediately took to the organization that helped her and nursed her back to health, nurturing the hurt and pain and rage she felt at the pointless years of torture.

And, perhaps not surprisingly, she is perfectly willing to kill anyone who crosses her path. Perhaps with some help, she could finally grapple with her trauma...

..it's just a matter of getting close enough to her to even start.

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Redoing Ouiima's story since I gave Rhenn an older sister that'll fill the role she was going to (details later). Anyway, had been an intern with Ulta Metamagicals right before the personal story, got kidnapped by some courtiers, escaped the factions sometime in HoT, joined the Inquest. I'll flesh this out in detail later, but some minor points:

Had previously been an intern researcher with Ulta Metamagicals in the Brisban Wildlands.

Generally just did her thing, enjoying her time there, etc. Mostly spent her time working on recalibrating the asura gates.

Got disappeared by the NMC not long before the personal story began. The krewe tried to find her. No dice.

At this time, she was about 19.

Eventually managed to escape the remaining factions around the time of HoT.

Immediately joined the Inquest when they found her alone and injured.

Ouiima is fully mute due to an injury sustained during her "stay" with the NMC, and generally just angry and hurt. Highly distrustful of most people, especially those of the plant variety.

She bites.

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Got to thinking that most of Ouiima's time being held captive by the Nightmare Court was in Joy's End. SO close to people that could have helped her, and yet she stayed there for four years, only moved occasionally as necessary.

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4 for all of the ones you mentioned (for those that already left: if what happened didn't happen, what ELSE would have made them leave?)

Inquest (or former Inquest) ask game 🐀

4. What would the final straw that would convince them to (attempt to) leave?

Vezz

For Vezz, if he somehow hadn't learned about all the child murder, it would've been learning that Zaige was using him for his research to facilitate the child murder. He actually had been with the Inquest for six years at that point anyway, and while he didn't agree with their morals and methods, he was able to work peacefully and be seen as worthwhile to be around.

But learning that all Zaige, his lover, ever wanted from him was that research? Would've shattered him. Seems inconsequential but he'd been so beaten down by people who didn't care for him his whole life already.

Rhiia

Tragically I don't know that she would've lived much past when she actually escaped. Rhiia started to see the writing on the wall, realizing how much contempt her parents Prikk and Milli had for her with how rebellious she was and how many questions she constantly asked about their real motives.

My guess is it would have been seeing them start to experiment on her baby brother when he was barely out of the incubation tube, if she stayed that long.

Praxxi

She likely would've left after her first sibling got killed by her parents. Vroqq and Miyya killed... several of their kids (or they got killed by someone else), and Praxxi left before the first deaths. Had she stayed long enough for that to start, she might have tried to kill her own parents herself.

Not that she doesn't want to kill them now, but she has a lot of more important things on her plate.

Ouiima

There really isn't any other way Ouiima COULD have left. She ran after only about a year in the Inquest because she realized that her pain and trauma were being manipulated, and she may not have been in a cage with the Nightmare Court anymore, but it was still a form of cage.

I guess the biggest difference is that she would've likely left much like she did when she finally got free of Joy's End: by killing everyone in her way.

Ersii

Girl is 100% loyal to the Inquest so it'd be super hard to get her to leave. Her whole goal in life? To resurrect Kudu as a clone of some kind. She hasn't done it yet but give her time. That being said, I think it'd be being told no that would get her to leave.

She'd just go and continue her highly unethical experiments elsewhere, though.

Rhenn

I actually have an alternate version of his departure already for verses where he's not commander and doesn't leave by killing his father in Fahranur!

It would take a few more years, but he'd realize by sneaking out that he was nothing more than another experiment his father was running. The end result would be him learning a little earlier what was really going on, and he'd destroy his father's genetic testing facility before killing him and getting the hell out. The thing that pushes him over is the same, but it's the timing and how he finds out that changes.

Iialli

I think in her case, it would've been returning to the Inquest after her time working with Zio, before the point they actually decided to leave their old lives. She's been so long away that it feels like a different organization, and I don't think she'd have been able to figure out how to fit back in. In the end, she would've gone back to Zio's bandit camp and stayed with him indefinitely.

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Some outtake Ouiima shots that didn't make the cut.

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That moment when I realize I have a surprising amount of ocs who are disabled in some way.

Qirri - chronically ill, weak lungs and poor immune system (uses a wheelchair part of the time)

Vezz - lost his leg just above the knee in a lab accident (uses a prosthesis)

Makko - lost both legs below the knee in a gang territory conflict (uses prostheses)

Pyxsi - born without her left arm (uses a mesmer magic prosthesis)

Ympp - deaf in one ear

Xeonna - lost her arm during the chak uprising in Rata Novus (uses a prosthesis)

Ouiima - mute due to throat injury (uses sign)

Ktokka - lost an eye in Thaumanova

Effi - scoliosis (uses a back brace)

Liath - significant limp due to old injuries (uses a cane)

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SPEEDRUN POLL, ONE HOUR TIMER, LET'S GO. I'll be deleting this after Art Party starts.