#skyrim oc lusine

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15,16,17 for Elyse and Thorne and Lusine!

Thank you Kuri-!!! <3

15. Tropes, tropes, tropes! Do any come into mind for this character? Or do they subvert any?

I've answered this question already for Elyse here!

For Thorne, she's got a few little tropes which I associate with her. Most obvious is the 'criminal trying to seek redemption', as she goes from leader of the Thieves Guild to a member of the Companions. Another is she's part of the ol' reliable enemies to lovers trope with Vilkas! And the whole being a criminal in Riften thing really didn't help her out there on getting on his good books.

For Lusine... Hmm... This is quite a bit harder for me to answer. Perhaps the closest thing to a trope is that she has very firm ideas on morals/what is good and bad, and is very hard to budge on it (thanks to Grelod). And can be stubborn. I don't know if this is more describing her personality as opposed to tropes though...

16. Languages! How many do they speak? Are they literate?

Admittedly... I'm not too knowledgable on languages in the elder scrolls to properly answer the languages spoken, though I know that if there is a common language all three of my girls would know it. Elyse is most likely to know multiple languages, being the child of a Nord and a Breton who grew up across High Rock and Cyrodiil before moving to Skyrim.

Elyse is also the most literate of the three of them, which is helped by the fact that Ingja was in a fortunate enough position in her youth to have a tutor, and Edwyn being a scholar and eventually a tutor himself - they passed on what they could in terms of knowledge and literacy to Elyse.

Thorne would also be quite literate, as though she lived in isolation for much of her life, knowledge was quite important to her family (specifically her mother, because of Thorne's grandfather being... let's say knowledgable with a curious mind) and it rubbed off on her.

Lusine is the least literate, because she spent much of her time simply trying to survive as opposed to things such as reading or writing, first at Honorhall then in the forests around Ivarstead. Wilhelm realises that she has trouble with reading and writing and tries to help her out alongside a few other people in Ivarstead (Klimmek had her join him on one of his journeys to High Hrothgar to see if she could read the tablets up the 7,000 steps, for example.) She does start learning properly about reading and writing with Vilkas' help when she joins the Companions though.

17. If they can, what’s their fighting style? If they’re a mage, how do they handle being silenced or running out of magicka?

So... Elyse is a combination of styles, and it changes over time. She starts out purely as a mage, using destruction spells from a distance. However, as her proficiencies more lie within the conjuration school, she starts relying upon that instead, conjuring familiars and atronachs. That soon transitions towards conjuring weapons... and her being a dual-wielding bound-blade user. She essentially is a battlemage/spellblade of a sort. When she runs out of magicka, she usually has potions on hand that she has crafted herself to restore it, and if in a situation where she is out of potions or silenced, she has one of either her trusty dagger which was given to her by Ralof in Helgen Keep that landed the killing blow on Alduin, or her mother's bow which she cherishes and has kept her family surviving for many years in her childhood.

Thorne is good with a sword. It is what she was trained in, and it's what she knows she can rely upon. Just good old one-handed sword, preferrably the Nightingale Blade when it ends up in her possession but Things Happen at some point which means that she has to rely upon a Skyforge Steel sword instead. She can use magic, but refuses to do so (another thing tied to her grandfather). If she can, she will try to use stealth to her advantage, but as time passes, she finds she prefers to be a bit more reckless because she can be - she's not hiding any more, so why should she continue to act as such in a fight?

Lusine admittedly quite enjoys a physical altercation. Fists? She's down for that. Blades? She'll give it a go. Hammers? Why not! Magic just does not come naturally to her, but she has a knack for anything which involves getting up close and personal. Bows and crossbows make her pull a face. Plus she's a werewolf, and she has no qualms about using a transformation to her advantage if need be (though restrains that to an extent when she joins the Companions, not wanting to ruin their long-held secret).

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I also drew another of my OCs today - Lusine Embersong (though she later goes by Lusine Whitemane because Kodlak is her father :3)

She joins the Companions after a chance encounter with Vilkas and Farkas in the wilderness when they are investigating a 'feral beast stalking a farm' which turned out to be her, as a werewolf, trying to protect said farm from a pack of feral wolves (she was born with werewolf blood as both of her parents were members of the Circle, though her mother left the Companions before she was born). She ends up dating Farkas.

The Companions eventually get asked to help with the dragon at the watchtower outside Whiterun. When the dragon gets defeated, well... she absorbs that dragon soul.