#reverence Malephar

[necromatador]

Nothin like gettin wine-drunk with your boyfriend to celebrate New Year's!

(Rev, on the left, is mine and Dresk, on the right, belongs to @wolfynsong )

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Did a drawing of my tiefling paladin, Reverence Malephar, smiling one of his rare actual smiles.

[cnidocyte-at-cnight]

Dare I ask; what's the Dad Joke?

“Call your father for dinner, dear.”

A heavy sigh.

“Mom I’m 50 fucking-”

“Language, Reverence.  Call your father for dinner.”

Another heavy sigh and then a mildly muffled and very unenthusiastic:

“‘Can we eat yet? I’m hungry.’”

All the lights in the house flickered ominously before shutting off. The sigil on the plate at the head of the table crackled with dark energies from beneath a generous portion of roast lamb, mashed potatoes, and salad. Three ominous eyes opened above the head seat and searched the room for a moment before settling on the tiefling on the left of the table (who was hiding his face in his hands in exasperated embarrassment).

“HELLO HUNGRY,” a massive, ominous voice boomed.  Then the lights flickered back on, and there, politely at the head of the table, sat Solomon Malephar.

“I’m dad,” he finished simply with a sly smile.

Reverence groaned loudly in frustration.

[necromatador]

I was coerced into drawing two young punks yesterday.

They're also characters played in the Lackadaisy-inspired D&D campaign that Ori was in, are often likened to cats, so I drew them as Lackadaisy cats too! (Vedreskar belongs to @wolfynsong!)

Coming soon: them but older + sadder? at their actual in-game ages.

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(Me immediately on seeing this: OH WHERE'S THAT DRAWING OF TROUBLE GETTING HIS BUTTON)

Oh I gave a great idea! *breaks character's psyche into a million unsalvageable pieces with a baseball bat*

[necromatador]

A list of my TTRPG OCs

Here's a bunch of them for reference if you ever want to send asks!

You can also find them with way more detail over on Toy.House!

Kesk Amanita (they/them) is a nonbinary minotaur cleric of the god of Plague & Outcasts. They survived a horrible magical disease with no known survivors at a very young age, losing their parents in the process, and were raised in the extremely remote mountaintop quarantine temple by the head of the religious order there, alongside his half-orc child Jukha. They are demi-romantic, asexual, intersex, and have vitiligo.

Reverence Trouble Malephar (he/him, yes the T does stand for Trouble) is an ex-mafia private eye. He is also a "paladin" of the same deity of Plague & Outcasts as Kesk, though they're from very different settings. I often use Trouble or Trubs to denote his younger mafia self from his older self, who I refer to as Reverence or Rev. He had a bad experience when he tried to skim money off his mafia grift and ended up getting his boyfriend and their team killed in front of him. He also had a girlfriend who disappeared after that and he finds out much later that he has twin kids with her: a daughter named Adventure and a (trans) son named Confidence. Reverence is cis, bi, and polyam.

Aeron Merla (he/him) is a Kenku Revenant and a rogue/warlock. He lived in the city of Avon's Keep and was a member of the local crime family (Cosa Corax) and the oldest of 14 kids. He was murdered by assassins from a rival group (Cosa Noctua). He was found and brought back by a creature called the Nachtraven, a generally malevolent fragment of the kenku deity The Raven Queen. He ran away from home to try and find a way to fix this because it's generally anathema to the worship of The Raven Queen to refuse death, but he still wants to live. He's kept alive by a small eye-parasite that the Nachtraven implanted in his slit throat. Aeron is cis and gay.

M'rai Scourgemaw (she/her) is a gnoll wild-soul barbarian. She was raised as a fighter to help out in the Three Scars War on behalf of a kingdom-state neighboring her homeland. She helped lead a group of trained mercenaries known as Blood Battalion, specializing in fighting magic-users. She was nearly killed by an immense major backlash in a fight and was left behind to heal by the Battalion. They never came back and the war finished while she was recovering, leading to her becoming her own merc and eventually getting arrested and thrown in jail. From there she escaped during a dragon attack, helped stop a coup that would restart the war, and discovered that she has a wellspring of raw wild magic within her now. Also she reconnected with the Battalion and her old flame, Amaranthe. M'rai is cis and gay.

Sidewinder (they/he) is a Yeremy Copperhead. The Yeremy are a culture of people indigenous to the continent of Ush'dvania, the home of the ancient Witch Kings. Yeremy wear masks to hide their true selves from strangers, so Sidewinder is almost never seen without his mask when around other people. Copperheads are alchemist-assassins and masters of poison and shadows. Sidewinder grew up wandering from place to place helping their mother with spirit-work and healing. They grew fascinated with magic and poisons and eventually moved to Ironwood, a small town on the frontier of the wastes, to set up a home and attract the attention of the Copperheads to earn the right to request membership. He has since: raided the secret warehouses of the powerful Havlan Trading Company at least 3 times, destroyed the entire Strychnine Syndicate's presence in Ironwood, unleashed a still-living Witch King, made friends, started dating the town deputy, and stuck his originally-normal arm in so much magic that eventually it had to be fully rebuilt.

Otylia Byalas (she/they) is a Trau Stitcher. The Trau are the fourth indigenous group from Ush'dvania and the only one that doesn't wear masks as a cultural practice. Or at least not physical masks; they culturally respond "I am but a humble [x]" to any particularly probing questions. Otylia and her fathers used to be just as nomadic as Sidewinder and his mother, and the two groups ran into each other fairly often on their travels, becoming friends. Otylia and Sidewinder dated briefly as teens, before deciding to remain as friends only. Otylia moved to a major city to attend medical school, and while there ran into trouble after turning to a life as a resurrectionist in order to properly gain experience. She fled to Ironwood and took up an apprenticeship under Doc Huxelby, becoming the medic on Sidewinder's team and helping him out with a little magi-medical problem as well.

Ori'Xiros (he/him) is a blue dragonborn draconic sorcerer. Orphaned at a very young age, he grew up on the streets of Port Estersall, a gaslamp fantasy city with Prohibition vibes. Helped along on the streets by a low-level thief, he learned about his magical ability and became determined to practice enough to turn himself into a real dragon, with which he is mildly obsessed. Then one day, while working for the thief, he stole from the wrong jewelry store and attracted the attention of a red dragonborn named Arkasi who took an interest in Ori. Not long after that, Ori was hired and given free room, board, and meals by a mysterious organization dedicated to hunting down dangerous magical items and protecting the world from them. Eventually he learned that Arkasi got him the job and that Arkasi was secretly a red dragon.

Exul & Velata (he/him for Exul, she/her for Velata) are two of the last surviving Nightbrothers and Nightsisters after the Dathomirian Massacres. They were originally slated to be paired according to Nightsister custom, but when the Nightsisters were decimated by the Sith, teenage Velata was told to flee into the forests and swamps to hide. When the Nightbrothers were attacked later, she broke her cover and dragged an injured Exul away from the fighting. Exul was heavily injured, and Velata scrambled to keep him alive, eventually hijacking a scavenger ship that came to investigate the now-quiet Dathomir, and fleeing off-world with Exul. They got Exul a black-market cybernetic heart implant to replace the heart he lost (zabrak have two hearts) and were forced into bounty hunting in order to pay back the loan that it took. Eventually they took a bounty on a pair of suspected ex-Jedi in hiding and were forcibly adopted by the two old Twi'lek ladies they ended up finding. Later they joined the Rebellion.

Telthe Baid (she/they/it) is a Harch demolitions expert. Drafted, as many Harch were during the pre-Empire era, into the military, Telthe specialized in explosives and ordnance engineering and while she started out in an artillery factor, she was soon deployed to the front lines as an advance saboteur and demolitionist. Not long after her deployment, her team was caught in an explosive ambush, and Telthe was one of the few survivors. The experience left her in a form of traumatic shock and not long after recovering physically, she went AWOL and deserted. Fleeing to Nar Shaddaa, Telthe set up a small business making explosives for bounty hunters until she was offered a position on a team of thieves working for a Hutt named Teemo. After several successful heists for Teemo, the Hutt eventually betrayed Telthe's team, attempting to kill them. The survivors planned out a revenge heist, emptying out Teemo's vaults...

...and leaving Telthe behind as a fall guy. Now betrayed by her team as well, she escaped from Teemo's dungeon with a group of rag-tags, and currently seeks revenge on her once-allies, especially the leader and her close confidante, Naash Vit. Oh and she lost her arm and partial use of one eye to an enemy sniper on one of the new team's missions.

Hide of the Beast (he/him)

Rok Merla (he/she/they/it)

Kol Fizzleblast (he/him)

Redemption Crosslaw (he/him)

Theodosia Sylvaine (she/her)

Chesslin Ken'ana (she/her)

Salakesh Marivaldi (he/him)

MORE COMING SOON!

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Sorry I fell asleep last night before I could update the bracket...

ANYWAY ORI WON (5 votes to 4, VERY CLOSE!) Now our next chunk of competitors begins with...

Adventure Malephar (she/her) is a tiefling mechanic and one of Reverence's kids! She also goes by Addie. The original version of Adventure is from a Starfinder AU, where she's a mechanic, space explorer, and ambassador for her father's corporation (which he took over in a "hostile takeover" 🔪🔪 from his old mob boss). Also she inherits the ship of another of her fathers' (we love healthy polyam here), and has a functioning battle-mech suit that she's built! Another version of her is a troublemaker and low-level criminal who was raised in the fantasy Prohibition era, was told that her father had died, and only really met Reverence in her adulthood when she and her twin brother, Confidence, managed to get embroiled in Reverence's plot for revenge.

Berrian Arkenalyth (he/him) is an eladrin from the noble Arkenalyth family. He was born with no innate magic whatsoever, which is both EXTREMELY RARE and EXTREMELY DANGEROUS, and his family spent a long time covering up his existence and trying to seek out a cure for it. Eventually, he himself made a deal with an archfey he met while trying to run away, and gained magic powers! However this didn't exactly have the results he'd have hoped, and he remained the black sheep of the family. Unable to trust others due to both his upbringing and fear of having his secret discovered, Berrian instead he decided to tour around and become essentially a magic superstar performer both on the big stage and...on certain seedier back-alley stages as a magical burlesque performer.

Pictures below~

Adventure

Berrian (enjoy all four seasons, he's usually in Winter)

[necromatador]

Todd comes out victorious with 10 votes VS Bellamy's 4 votes! So now we move on to the next batch of competitors!

Corbin Merla (he/him) is one of my many many birdfolk characters from the Merla family. I've been putting them in games for years now. Corbin is the second oldest (or third oldest, if you believe his twin sister Branwen) of the 15 Merla kids. He's loud, tough, belligerent, and willing to kill a man for any one of his siblings even if he is also just as likely to fight said siblings. Technically he's sharing the position of 'heir' to his mother's position as underboss of the Cosa Corax mafia, but his reckless nature and preference for punching mean it'll likely go to Branwen instead.

Reverence T. Malephar (he/him) is a complicated man (warnings for mentions of suicide attempts, self-harm, and addictions). A tiefling whose father is literally a duke of Hell, Rev lived up to his middle name (yes the T does actually stand for Trouble), including getting involved with organized crime. However, in his youthful over-confidence, he tried to skim money off his earnings for the mob and got his entire crew (including his best friend + boyfriend, Vic) killed and was, himself, critically injured. After a long period of recovery that included deep depression, a long bout with alcoholism, self-harm, and homelessness, and which culminated in an attempt at jumping off a bridge, he found actual healing in the teachings of Okuni, the god of second chances and outcasts. Now he works as a private eye, taking revenge wherever he can on the organized crime of New Franklin. Oh and he has some secret kids he only just found out about.

Pictures below~

Corbin: (please enjoy the original Kenku/Tengu version, his Alley-Whelp version from Cess & Citadel, and a human version he was briefly turned into in a one-shot ages ago lmao)

Reverence: (please enjoy his standard old man look, a younger version of him, and a bonus 'the time he got pulled in his dreams to testify in the celestial trial of an acquaintance')

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Tumblr Sexyman OC Tournament: Merlin's TTRPG Characters Edition MasterPost

Second Round Match-Ups

Round 17: The Scarred One VS Kesk Amanita

Currently Voting!

Preliminary Match-Ups

Round 1: The Scarred One VS Elian Maiathyr

Winner: The Scarred One (11 votes)

Round 2: Kesk Amanita VS Kol Fizzleblast

Winner: Kesk Amanita (13 votes)

Round 3: Tiaren Brightheart VS Hide of the Beast

Winner: Hide of the Beast (10 votes)

Round 4: Theodosia "Todd" Sylvaine VS Bellamy Lussier

Winner: Theodosia "Todd" Sylvaine (10 votes)

Round 5: Corbin Merla VS Reverence T. Malephar

Winner: Reverence T. Malephar (9 votes)

Round 6: Salakesh Marivaldi VS Pike Deepfisher

Winner: Salakesh Marivaldi (6 votes)

Round 7: Deputy Shar Vigharter VS Xykk Splitwizzle

Winner: Xykk Splitwizzle (10 votes)

Round 8: Camio the Fallen VS Ori'Xiros

Winner: Ori'Xiros (5 votes)

Round 9: Adventure Malephar VS Berrian Arkenalyth

Winner: Adventure Malephar (9 votes)

Round 10: Skree VS Redemption "Red" Crosslaw

Winner: Redemption "Red" Crosslaw (8 votes)

Round 11: Sidewinder VS Shochraos

Winner: Sidewinder (5 votes)

Round 12: Rhuk VS Exul Crescis

Winner: Exul Crescis (7 votes)

Round 13: M'rai Scourgemaw VS Braith Moor

Winner: M'rai Scourgemaw (7 votes)

Round 14: Kit Marlowe VS Aeron Merla

Winner: Aeron Merla (4 votes)

Round 15: Sir Humble VS Otylia Byalas

Winner: Sir Humble (5 votes)

Round 16: Shaward Sinsinger VS Rok Merla

Winner: Shaward Sinsinger (5 votes)

[necromatador]

My Valentine’s gift for @tiefamat~

An old man and the stray he accidentally picked up <3

[necromatador]

Ugh, Rev never even got to tell Confidence that he's Confidence's dad like

We were RIGHT THERE

It was gonna happen the exact next session

SIGH

[necromatador]

I know I reblogged this last night but i just remembered my favorite plan with this. I wanna use this for intimidation with my 1930s-campaign tiefling paladin Rev. The DM ruled it would work with electric lighting, so now I want an excuse to have Rev going after someone and just he's announced by a hallway of lights flickering, brightening, and then one by one the bulbs popping.

I’m not one to tell anybody they’re playing their character wrong, but I really think a lot of folks who play tieflings in 5E could benefit immensely from keeping a copy of the spell description for the thaumaturgy cantrip on hand at all times. There is some serious potential being missed here, is what I’m saying.

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Rev. 22, 25, 30. The love ask thing.

♥ (22) How often does your OC read romantic literature?

A lot more often when he was younger (his boyfriend, Vic, loved the stuff and collected romance novels, including and especially the really ridiculous sappy ones).  Nowadays, maybe he’ll get through 5 or so novels a year, mostly during the slow season of his business where he’s just sitting, doing nothing, waiting for clients to show up.

♥ (25) Does your OC believe in soulmates?

I don’t know if soulmates would be the right term, but he definitely believes in a kind of fate or something?  Like he definitely believes there are people out there that are just meant to be together, but he has a more casual mood towards it than most ‘go out there and FIND YOUR SOULMATE’ people.  He’s more a ‘the right person will come along if you want them, and they’ll come at the right time’.

♥ (30) What is your OC’s favorite romantic movie?

Most movies that we know of today don’t…exactly…exist since he’s from a setting in the fantasy-1920s/1930s.  He did, fun fact, live through the invention of the moving picture AND has now officially made it to the era of talkies!

Anyway, he’s a sucker for romance stuff despite what he’d say.  I think he would bawl his eyes out for RENT.  He’d probably mostly be into musical romantic movies tbh.

ASK MEME IS HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO ASK QUESTIONS!

[necromatador]

I am dumb and made a thing about one of the NPCs in Terror From The Deep (Rev’s game).

Confidence is a wonderful cowboy tiefling and I (and Rev) have strong feelings regarding him.

[necromatador]

Pfff, thought: Rev and Able find out Dresk has a forked tongue and proceed to both have extremely similar mortifying flashbacks of all the shitty (and largely drunk) flirty comments Rev made to Able about Able's forked tongue back in their mob days.

Slowly they scooch just a little bit farther apart and refuse to make eye contact for the next several hours.

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Rev to Lyrana

your expensive shoes and your strong arms and your curly hair are my vices. My patched jeans and recklessness and the knife spinning between my fingers are yours.