#she doesnt get out often unless absolutely necessary bc of a taint-caused injury on her right leg

[ward-leon]

can we have more info on p1 and cedric :3 ?

*firetext* Anon Hold On A Second Please My Internet Is Lagging ^_^'

p1 (any prns+neos) is meant to be a player insert (heck, xyr full name is literally 'player 1'. or 'person 1'). i didnt want to make an actual oc design and drawing destiny (a lobcorp oc of mine) for every tc-related thing i did didnt seem ideal to me ("do i draw her ego gifts? would she do that? would she reeeeeally do that?; etc"). so. yoinking a tumblr anon's skin tone and making a simple design (circle head; no hair; also yoinking the thaumaturge's robes from the game) was enough. she doesnt exactly have a story tied to him bc of the self-insert thing. shrugkaomoji

cedric (he/him) originally appeared as a one-off character in popcorn time when i realized that i didnt wanna black out the crimson clerics' faces every time i drew them. then i wanted to draw him again (but with an actual name this time), and so, cedric the crimson cult cleric was born!! (also, after seeing this little post on the tc forum thread,

i wanted to write a bit abt how the crimcult Actually Gets Its Members (or, at least, one possible way to do so))

his backstory was that he lived in *checks notes* a small-ish nameless village not too close to a city. at some point they got hit with a famine (taint cut off the trade roads? harvest year wasnt good?), but, luckily enough, the crimson cultists were passing by and just so decided to help out! how kind of them.

cedric met ebardo (a cleric back then; will get promoted to praetor status later), befriended him, slowly but surely got indocrinated

(the cultists:

provided him new company that seemed to actually listen to what he has to say;

took up most of his time;

let him read the crimson rites after a while (+ he was curious abt the. uh. contents of the rites that i still havent decided on (either something centered around blood being sacred or around their leader figure(s)));

gave him something to blame for the famine (other more influential villages with thaumaturges (had enough essentia to dupe the food. didn't)/botanimancers (too busy fiddling with plants and maximizing mana gain)/bloodmancers (wouldn't more corpses (therefore, more blood) be just great for them? i havent played w blood magic sorry ^_^)) while also highlighting the "kindness" of the cult;

theres more but it was kinda downhill from there),

moved to the cult's settlement at some point, and thats abt it for now since ive been kind of putting off how to actually get him to want to get out of the Situation .

ik how he'll escape (overworld > crimportal > outer lands > overworld But A Different Place) i just havent given him a strong enough motive for why he'd do it