#skyfarer ocs

[twinrot-arts]

Rythulian Oddities

1-24 - Fan Art. Rythulian attire adorned with queer deer and stone serpents, yesss… An idea behind one of the sets of attire we donned in-game and quite enjoyed, using some new art supplies including silver and gold metallic paint pens…~ A scan doesn't show it so well, but it shimmers in-person…~ And yes, finally finished something, oof… Only we and those we gifted to may use, do not steal.

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[iamthepulta]

Hey which media/story/franchise is your liztlie AU based on? I've been trying to figure it out based on context clues and I'm getting no where. Please insert long ass info dump rant below.

OH HELL YEAH. <3

The Liztlie AU is based on the Fallen London universe by Failbetter Game studio! Fallen London is a decade-old browser game that’s updated regularly. It’s excellent. There’s also a PC game called Sunless Seas, which was my introduction to the fandom and still some of my favorite content. After the success of Sunless Seas, they made another PC game called Sunless Skies, which I love lore-wise, but for some reason can’t get into playing. (And now they have Mask of the Rose! Which just came out on the 8th! Also set in Fallen London, but a prequel to all of the games.)

For some background, Fallen London and Sunless Seas are set in the same location and same timeline. London as a city, has been pulled down into the cave called the Neath. (Mask of the Rose is set just after the Fall happens.) There are several different London factions, but most importantly, on one end of the Neath, there is a Gate. Sunless Skies is, strictly speaking, a possible AU timeline, set after London discovers and opens that Gate to a realm called the Reach.  

Sunless Skies is its own beast; all the lore in Sunless Seas and Fallen London is dialed up to 11. The focus is on either allying or destroying the 'Great Chain of Being', which includes everything from the industrialist time-manipulating nightmare London has become, to talking rats, to the “Gods”, the Suns of each realm which feed off of the souls of their inhabitants. The game developers did a great job at expanding the world of Fallen London in Sunless Skies, and there are several maps you can play through, a few dozen storylines, and a lot of cool content. (10/10, recommend. Although as fellow rock-eater, you might prefer Sunless Seas. It’s always a tossup.)

So because PC gameplay isn’t enough, people enthusiastically made an RPG out of Sunless Skies! Enter Grant Howitt and Chris Taylor. The Skyfarer RPG system is one page long. I’m biased because I hate long, complicated, number-based RPG systems, but I think this RPG is awesome. It was meant for short campaigns, it’s a d10 system, and your character is designed around being one of the officers on a Skies locomotive. Easy, inventive, and flexible.

Enter two ADHD geologists and a pandemic:

@paleomancer hit up our friend group one day and asked if we wanted to play a oneshot RPG in Skyfarer. We were socially distancing and mentally traumatized nerds, so of course the answer was Yes. And the oneshot was great! We made our characters, played the game for a few hours, finished the oneshot plot, and successfully carried our passenger to Elutheria along with her illicit books. We liked it so much we agreed to keep playing every few weeks just to keep in touch during the pandemic.

This was all well and good until I lost my mind playing Westlie. My dipshit friends (affectionate) thought it was a great idea for me, the First Mate, to be promoted when our captain kicked the bucket. I hadn’t written fiction since college, but I started writing again as I fleshed out her backstory and the DM and I crafted her sister, Morgan. Then I just kind of kept… creating stories and toying with different ways for Westlie to develop until @justanormalseagull and I were playing around with the Found Family/Adoption trope. She'd played Lizzie’s character, and in a burst of inspiration, I realized the plot of our first few Skyfarer seasons would still work well if Westlie adopted Lizzie and never left London. So I casually wrote five chapters as a gift, fell down the rabbit hole again, and now the Liztlie AU is a 200k monster. xD

So to really answer your question, the Liztlie AU is an AU of our Skyfarer Game, which is a translation of Sunless Skies, which is an AU of Sunless Seas, which is an offshoot of the ancient, niche, Fallen London browser game. xD The context clues are piecemeal at best, haha.

But the nice thing! At this point, the Liztlie AU is its own standalone story; it starts at the 'beginning' of the Skyfarer campaign, so you don't need to know anything about the Pyrrhus. And it's set in Sunless Skies, but I explain 90% of the world as Westlie learns about it anyway. Both aspects are basically Easter eggs for readers to enjoy if they happen to know. Which makes the absurdity of what I'm writing even greater because the AU is kind of my own novel now? But also, most definitely not.

The best links if you want to browse are: My Archive -> “the crew of the Pyrrhus” (for memes of the main campaign), "fl", “dnd”, "liztlie au", “wm”, “mw”, or just “westlie”

THANKS FOR ASKING! THIS MADE MY EVENING. :D NOW YOU KNOW! :D

Brief character summaries (links lead to more):

Westlie Faire is/was my Skyfarer PC. She has a horrible father, Arthur Faire, and ran away from the title of Heir to Fairweather Shipping Co. to be the First Mate on the Pyrrhus.

Morgan Faire is her younger sister. Extremely lucky due to [redacted] reasons.

Lizzie Twaddle is/was @justanormalseagull ‘s PC. She was an orphan who snuck aboard the Pyrrhus and got adopted as mascot by the crew. In the AU, she’s adopted by Westlie while she’s trying to sneak onboard a train and Westlie takes her back to London. Just wants a family. T__T

[shiningstages]

Okay I lied to myself yesterday; got rid of Haruhi, Mokou, and Lilia as muses ( for now ). But that's all of the muse cleanup I have in me rn ghjfhgdhfgxhcf I'm gonna try and queue up stuff before I go to work.

[goldenteaset]

(I know the images are crooked but it's my first time making one of these. ^^; Think of it as more the starting points for Cammy rather than what she is now, since she's still evolving!)

From top left down: Mikuru Asahina from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Shiori from The World God Only Knows, Mathis from Virche Evermore, Aoi from Magic-kyun Renaissance, Evelyn from The Mummy, and Cecile from Valmont (1988).

More specific details under the cut!

Mikuru: The reason why a lot of my OCs are so busty and moeblob-y, really. XD I don't dare if my taste is basic, I want more characters like her! Her older self's confidence is also in Cammy's DNA, it just hasn't come to fruition yet.

Shiori: The first librarian! Her initial shyness and her famous hoarse "b-b-bakaaaaa" were what inspired me to have Cammy insult Belial when they first met, though Cammy both used "Wagtail" instead and actually managed to apologize the first time, unlike Shiori. ^^; Her overall demeanor influenced Cammy's initial appeal to Belial, for lack of a better way to put it. Her and many eroge and josei heroines who needed a specific representative on this chart

Mathis: It's hard to describe him without getting into spoilers for his route in Virche, but in short Cammy got his intense devotion and desire to be true to what one wants and who they are despite what others might force upon them. (Same as Shiori, Cecile and the only other guy on this list, really.)

Aoi: The aforementioned second guy with lots of emphasis on "to thine's own self be true". Also he's a struggling writer who finds inspiration in his beloved like Cammy, and can and will infodump about his methods. He's so charming and eccentric I decided Cammy needed to be eccentric too!

Evelyn: SHE...IS A LIBRARIAN. :D That reference aside, Cammy inherited her prim and proper demeanor as well as her determination (which if Cammy ever becomes a Skyfarer will be more obvious). Also her fashion sense, very important.

(That being said, Cammy's loose and low bun is entirely my invention, namely I just thought it fit her better than placing it higher up on her head. Anyway!)

Cecile: My favorite "corrupted innocent", who had her fun being seduced by an older, charming rogue, but whose fate was too realistically bittersweet for my tastes. So while Cammy didn't get her noble status or initial equally-innocent lover, she gets a happier existence on the whole even with similarly-stern parents.

How Valmont (1988) portrayed Cecile being seduced and how she felt afterward really stuck with me, as well. She's horrified not because she hated it, but because she loved having sex, even though she was taught she shouldn't because God Said So. And the narrative never treats her as being damned for feeling pleasure! That's how I want Cammy's corruption to come across, only even happier, because why not.

[thornsent]

accidentally gave my freak undead oc a fetish for squid people. skyfarer's going good and normal

[thepulta]

Eddy tortured us with chibis so I drew everyone as a chibi.

... take that Elijah. Ur the fucking cutest.

[skullinacowboyhat]

Rane [they/them], a vampire PC for an upcoming campaign. 

[aspenheart]

(hands this to you)

[ambereddragonfire]

more memes

[dogboyklug]

tfw when you and your bestie have parallels

[hearseire]

oneshot characters. one was for a Mothership game (scifi futuristic monster on a space colony ship) and the right one is for a Skyfarer tabletop/Sunless Skies game.

Eclipse has a sword in her parasol. She has committed one(1) murder with it so far and might be planning more.

[iamthepulta]

Hello! I'm a geologist-miner-writer-grad student! By day, I consider copper minerals and by night, I move my little OCs around. I love systems and how things function, which often leads to late-night rambles. I love chatting with people! If you have any questions, comments, or just want to say Hi, feel free to send a message!

Writing and Art Blog || Geo/Mining Academic Sideblog (reposts)

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Topics I'm completely normal about:

Mining History

Writing / Fanfiction

Historical Fashion

Fallen London/Sunless Seas

Geology/Mineralogy/Industrial Processing

TTRPGs (ex. Skyfarer RPG, Gods of New Braemar)

-=- Stories I May Mention In My Tags -=-

Liztlie AU: Right now I'm writing the Liztlie AU, short for "I Have a Daughter Now, I Guess". It's about two sisters with terrible parents adopting a child by accident in Sunless Skies, London. One sister is normal, the other is... not. In a good way. Maybe. - AO3 Link

Westlie Faire

Morgan Faire

Lizzie Faire/Lizzie Twaddle

Ellenville: Unwritten original steampunk fantasy work involving mining, mineral processing, epidemiology, textile processing, and toxicology. - Ellenville Worldbuilding Post

Mira Greystone

Petyr Rivend

[missiefishart]

Some Theatre outfits!! The first one Seal is wearing @ambereddragonfire‘s oc Charles’ clothes

[anomaly-beans]

I really want to draw fully colored, very detailed drawing of Merry and how they would look in sunless skies. Since the game takes place farther in the future from when sunless sea and fallen london take place, but I still wanted to play as Merry, I kinda just consider this to be an alternate universe version of them. Which means their story is pretty different. They’d have completely different scars than fallen london Merry has.

I’ve kinda already developed a story for them in that universe, so luckily I wouldn’t need to completely plan that out.

[klugbugcollector]

I want to know everything about all of your OCs,

,I do not exactly know what questions to ask I simply wish for knowledge,;;;

i will give u some oc relationships and also lore and a lil bit abt them bc ily

isolata:

since he lives in the desert and (in the story at least) generally doesn't leave unless he has to go find cloth or paint materials, he has to eat like humans/spirits do. obviously, he can still eat light, but as it's harder for him to get he generally just eats crab meat

his accent is much thicker than nerium's, due to the 'crab accent' being more from the desert than what it was before (the golden city)

if you give him food, cloth, paint etc. during or before he fixes a broken mask for you, he'll make it at least slightly more pretty than it was initially (i.e he'll add gold speckles, add lines that match your clothing, etc.)

although his relationship with nerium is still a bit strained, he's good friends with her and she's mostly forgotten how much he reminds her of her old friend... that is, until [SPOILERS]

also when he's not working or foraging he usually goes to inns & places with a lot of people, runs into a corner and verrrry loudly plays legend of zelda music on his lute

he fell about 5 years after the war began

nerium:

whenever she's not on a trade route or bartering, she's helping lost moths (and vets) through the wastelands. she does it all for free, although if she knows the lost person she might make a few jokes about how much they'll owe her (although they might notice that the prices at her shop mysteriously become a lot less when they're around it..)

she has a hard time showing affection toward anyone, especially people who are used to very obvious forms of it. (this means alet.)

she finds alet overwhelming a lot tbh. he is a very loud child

anyway. in the au where the sky world and earth r the same place her favorite band is sir chloe

she was born about 15 years before the war began

aleta:

he is. SO loud now that he's over his anxiety. he reaches the loudness level of planes sometimes. nerium is happy for him but her ears aren't </3

he is a lot thinner than most skids, which helps him with his speed a lot. it's not an unhealthy thing as generally skids are different than humans and most don't actually need fat. key words generally and most tho

although he's good friends with iso, he doesn't see it a lot as they tend to stick in totally different places. yes the forest & valley are v close to the desert No they don't want to go in the other places because oh god too cold/warm/light/dark

he would like videogame osts more than most other music. if he met my other oc berro he'd think that they're verrrry strange and unusual

he was born 30 years after the war!

[skullinacowboyhat]

a low effort Rane. click for better quality.