#sonnya danae

[whiskeyworen]

Did a little fine-tuning on the sisters to get them story-correct, since I had makeover kits to spare. (really wish we'd get a long, loose haircut style for Asura) Tenna, on the far left, is tall, and lanky. Slim, but her height (for Asura) makes her seem downright scrawny. She's also the youngest sister. Tenna also has the longest ears of the trio, with hers having a noticeable curl to their tips. Miriya in the middle, is also the middle child. She's kinda the runt, being short AND slim. She has her sister's skinny, but not the height. She's the palest out of the sisters. Sonnya on the far right side is tall, but has the mass her sisters lack. She's not overly muscle-y; she'd never win in a bodybuilder competition. But she's got more meat on her than either of her sisters. Her complexion is a bit pink compared to her kin.

[whiskeyworen]

Okay, let's do this for all three of my Asura sisters!

Just an asura ask game

1. Do they fit well into asuran society or are they more at home with other races? How do they feel about fellow asura? Is it because of their personality or something else? Is there any deal maker or breaker? -All three sisters are very comfortable with other races. They've worked around them for years, and in one case (Miriya) is actually involved with a human. -All of them are fine with other Asura too, but they do find that the ones that rarely leave the lab, let alone leave Rata Sum tend to be... well, the polite term is 'Pompous arrogant blowhards with delusions of grandeur'. Tenna specifically dislikes those kind because they're so boring and pedantic, couched in their own biases and assumptions, with an ego all out of proportion to their actual place in life.

2. Where were they born? Did they like the place? Did they grow up there or did they move away at some point? Do they wish things went differently? -All three were born in Rata Sum. -Sonnya was the first to leave, finishing her work in Statics on portable shield generator technology, and then joining the Vigil to help protect her sisters at a distance. -Miriya left after her research got stolen by Inquest, and she 'dealt' with them while in a Death Shroud fugue. This is also the day the Order of Whispers approached her. -Tenna stayed behind for several more years, working in the Dynamics college, but the distance from her sisters and the growing threat of Elder Dragon attack, as well as the pressures of unrewarding office work weighed down on her and she nearly suffered a psychological break. At least...until a particular blood sample came across her desk, addressed from Miriya....

3. What's their family like? Are they still around? Do they like them and get along? Are there any expectations coming from them? -It's... rocky. Their parents are long since too involved in their own work; the girls have been on their own since basically ever. And with the drifting apart they did, it's left some divides between the sisters, particularly with Tenna, who felt abandoned and forgotten. Recently bridges have started to be mended, but all three have issues they need to work through.

4. How is their social life? Are they generally well liked or despised? Are they involved in any drama? Do they make more enemies or friends? Do they have any meaningful friendship or bond? -Sonnya is a recognized Vigil Warmaster, though she's stepped away from the role in recent years. Among her fellow Vigil, she's admired and honored, though that does put her at a distance from most of them. -Miriya is still a Lightbringer for the Whispers, though she's on extended mission. Basically observation. If she sees anything the Whispers might find interesting or need, she reports in, but other than they tend to leave her in the field with the Pact team she was assigned to during the Zhaitan campaign. -Tenna was alone for a long time, though she was nominally a member of the Priory for a while. It's this connection to the Priory that, in her lowest time and when she was avoided in Rata Sum for her 'experiment', that brought Cyrus to her with an offer for employment, a new home, a new krewe, and understanding. -Sonnya is lonely, but has repressed it very much. While she longs to have real friends, she's convinced most of people only associate with her because of her strength and position. The only bonds she has is with another fellow Warmaster, and with Alice Spekt, the very unusual woman who is part of Cyrus Sigismund's Forsaken Aspect crew. -Miriya has her Pact team, who were never disbanded even in spite of individuals being reassigned after the campaign. She's actually been dating a human Warrior named Kaleb for several years. There's been a few rough spots, but they love each other.

5. What's their approach to romance? Do/did they have any partner? Are they more interested in relationships with a predetermined end date or are they looking for a stable long-term relationship? Is the option of having/adopting progeny on the table? -Miriya has Kaleb. She developed a crush on him during their Pact missions, and made a move on him during a lull in events. He reciprocated, and they've been together ever since, so I guess that would be a pretty stable relationship! -Sonnya again, is lonely. She never really socialized like other people, so the idea of dating is... awkward. Secretly she wants to be with someone who'll find her beautiful. (All three sisters are short-eared, with Sonnya having the shortest, and that saps her self-confidence, given Asura society deems meaty, long ears more attractive). After seeing her sisters in their various kinds of relationships, she's slowly been warming up to the idea of finding a non-Asura. Surely, if they can be happy, so can she? -Tenna doesn't have a partner, but she's always up for flirting and teasing. She has no preference for races, though she does shy away from other Asura because of her own reputation. She's always interested in the views of non-Asura because sometimes there's greatness there, potential. Not surprisingly, she's fond of Cyrus because of his unusual views and knowledge, but whether she equates or conflates that with love is something only she knows. She does like to mess with him though. Take that for what you will.

6. Do/did they have any non-sapient companions, like a pet or a golem? If not, would they want one? -Miriya has her necrotic minions that she summons. Part of her old research was learning that, when she summoned one, it wasn't a 'fresh', blank slate entity. It remembered her and had memories from the last time she summoned it. So she treats them all as pets and companions. One even has a favorite red ball. -Sonnya doesn't have any pets or golems or anything. Though she does like cats. -Tenna recently acquired a Canthan golem she's been modifying. She calls it Gunginir, after the lance, since she equipped it with the chest cannon Cyrus keeps calling a 'Mega Beam Cannon' for some obscure reason.

7. Do they prefer to work alone or with others? Do others like working with them? Are they competitive or do they prefer that others take the spotlight? How would they fare in the opposite situation? -Sonnya usually worked alone, except when the Vigil put her on teams. She doesn't like working alone, though she's used to it. -Miriya's been on a team since forever, but can work alone. Doesn't mind it. -Tenna HATES working alone. It brings up bad memories and increases her stress level. She's only comfortable when someone else is in the room with her, even if only for banter. -None of them care about the spotlight, though Tenna hates anyone that steals her designs and tries to promote them as their own.

8. Do/did they have a krewe? If yes, describe them, their roles and tasks. If not, why? -Sonnya is a solo Warmaster. While she can get assigned to units under a senior Warmaster, or as the senior one herself, she usually is alone. Since the Vigil has started undergoing revampment now that the Elder Dragons aren't a threat, she's reevaluating her place there. - Miriya never had a krewe back in Rata Sum, but after being inducted into the Whispers, she was assigned to a Pact team who got sent out doing various missions; everything from slaying Dragon minions to investigating mysterious murders, to sample acquisitions. Her role is a bit hard to describe; she's a Necromancer, so she can bring power and muscle to the table, but she is also an ad hoc healer, using Blood magic to seal wounds or keep someone's heart pumping. The scenario she hates is as a post-murder investigator; they always want her to resurrect the victim temporarily to learn more, and it's just creepy. -Tenna is part of the Forsaken Aspect ship crew, and functions something like an engineer, but also as an inventor. Between her and her crewmate Verula, they make sure the ship works, as well as develop new and interesting combat weaponry that may or may not be sold on the market to interested parties.

9. What are their hobbies and pastimes? Do they have any natural talent or particularly strong interest that's not tied to their job? If nothing in particular, what do they do with their free time? -Sonnya's hobby is tinkering with stuff. Usually her own armor, to make it stronger, better, faster, etc. At one point she started tinkering with herself to do the same, but she's reached the nominal end of that research and upgrade cycle. At least till she finds something new to integrate into her designs to make another upgrade. She also likes secretly going shopping for 'pretty things'. Which she knows is embarassing because she's a Guardian usually in heavy armor, and she's worried what people will think if they catch her adoring a frilly outfit. -Miriya just likes going on adventures. Outdoors stuff. She wants to see new things, and experience them with her friends. -Tenna is all about experimentation without limits. She won't go as far as the Inquest, who experiment on OTHER living beings... but she will (and has) absolutely Dr Jekyll herself to see what will happen. That used to be risky, but since she's been... changed... she knows that no matter what, she'll come back fine. It'll just hurt a bunch.

10. Is there anything they're terrible at and shouldn't be trusted with? Just how bad are they at it? Why? Has it resulted in any serious damage? -Miriya - Tries not to use her Death Shroud anymore. The endorphin rush and giddy feeling she gets when its power runs through her is addictive in the extreme. It's like a drug, and she actually goes through withdrawl if she's used it for way too long. Once was enough for her in that state. -Sonnya - She's terrible to herself. In spite of her accomplishments and successes, she always finds herself lacking. - Tenna works with explosives a lot. She's been blown up. Multiple times. Not that it bothered her. But Cyrus has asked her not to building city-cracking bombs on his ship. She can DESIGN them all she wants... but no manufacturing by her own hand. Just in case.

11. What was their education like? Did they go to Splorg's Metamystics Labs or somewhere else for their early education? Did anyone mentor them or take them for an apprenticeship/internship? Did they get admitted into one of the Colleges? If not, what path did they take and why? -Sonnya went to the Statics college and specialized in refining magical circuitry and micronizing designs of things. Like taking a power core that normally is bigger than an Asura, and making one that can fit in your pocket, but has the same energy capacity. -Miriya was part of Synergetics. She enjoyed the open theory concepts suggested there, and had been working on a specialized golem mining tool before it got stolen by the Inquest, along with all her research. That soured her to it, and she left and never came back. -Tenna is of Dynamics. She always wanted to design and create new, unusual things of all varieties, though her time at the college left her just floundering in paperwork with no actual in-practice inventing. That's changed since she's joined Cyrus's crew, since he gave her carte blanche to invent (well, mostly carte blanche. He has reservations about certain avenues), and she's thankful to him for that. Life is fun now.

12. If given the chance, would they take the position of professor in one of the Colleges? Or would they prefer to become someone's mentor? What would they teach? Would they be a good teacher? -All three: Not a chance.

13. What's their field of research of choice? Are they're pursuing it or is something else taking priority? If they don't have one or more, why not? -Sonnya : miniaturization of magical circuitry and shield generation technology, as well as merger of sentient being with mechanization. She's found interesting new technologies in Cantha that opened her up to new ideas. -Miriya : Study of magical minions and whether they have sentience of their own, or if it comes from their master... as well as some dabbling in the tech industry. But that was just for marks. -Tenna: Demolitions and biological engineering technologies. Bigger, better explosives or explosive-like items, and how to 'improve' individuals. The Chak interest her greatly, with their absolute control over their entire genetic structure.

14. Do they consider themselves intelligent by asuran standards? Can they call themselves a genius? Is it an opinion shared by others or do they just have a big ego? -Sonnya : doesn't care. That was never her goal. -Miriya: Wanted kudos, but realized anyone could steal them in a heartbeat and ruin your life. -Tenna: Considers herself a genius, but doesn't demean others if they aren't on her wavelength. Finds inspiration in others, and so will listen to the silliest ideas...because they might not be that silly.

15. What's their job? Are they good at it? Are they happy with it or do they wish for a different one? Did they change careers at any point? -All three have changed roles as time went on. These days, they're finding their way in a changed world, but it's a good experience.

16. What's their greatest achievement? Was it an invention, a discovery or something else? Did they get any recognition for it? Was it part of their goals or is there something else they're aiming for? - Sonnya - Using her at-the-time upgraded armor and new magical implant technology (she's made better since), managed to tank a full-force handslap from one of the last Shatterers. The armor feedback broke a bunch of bones and left her laid up for a while, but she survived, and has since gone on to improve her designs. - Miriya - during her schooling to be a Necromancer, in the final trials, she accidentally delved deeper into Death than her fellow students, and came back marked by the experience. It didn't really change her, but the facepaint-that-isn't-facepaint and her eerie catlike eyes when she gets serious are visual signs of the change. - Tenna - A tie between two things: Her personal work on the blood sample that was sent to her by Miriya, which lead to the Serum she took as a desperate experiment... which lead to her being nigh-unkillable, at the cost of her sanity. The other thing is the construction of the Forsaken Aspect, her current home and possibly one of the scariest ships in Tyria for the amount of firepower it COULD put out.

17. Have they ever earned a title or honorific? Do they like it? Are they aiming for a specific/different one? -Sonnya - Went down in the Vigil records as a hero for saving others when she tanked that Shatterer slap. - Miriya - The Rata Sum school for necromancers has her listed as one of the few to receive the blessing of Death Itself, in the form of the Demon Masque, which lets her sense and see the flow of life and death energy in the world around her. -Tenna - No title or honorific... though some still whisper about how 'She still lives', due to her experiment and the number of things that should have killed her but didn't.

18. Can they use magic? If yes, do they use it for anything practical in their job? If not, does it bother them? -Sonnya is a Guardian who specialized in the faith fire and shields. Her faith doesn't come from a belief in Gods or anything; it's her unyielding will and determination that powers her fire. -Miriya is a Necromancer. So she can use all kinds of dark magics, though she specializes in Minion mastery. She can use blood magic, but it wasn't her major in school. - Tenna wasn't originally magic. She still technically isn't. but the Serum she took infused her with a kind of strange magic. It only kicks in if she gets injured though. Regeneration, things like that. She'll likely never see Death, since her body will just yank her back when it starts to regenerate. Grenth would be very annoyed at her.

19. What do they usually wear? Is there any particular quirk to their outfit of choice? Does it show their status or is it merely practical? -Sonnya used to wear heavy armor that was filled with all kinds of tech goodies like shield generators, projectors, and basically all kinds of powered armor stuff. But she's moved past that, since her technology is now directly integrated with her, under her skin and in her bones and muscles. So she wears lighter stuff now. You can afford to do that when you can make your skin armor-hard. -Miriya likes lightweight but economical clothing. No capes or trailing stuff... just a simple, but interesting clothing design. - Tenna changes her outfit on daily basis. Sometimes it's a lab coat. Other times it's a jacket made of living plant that connects to her nervous system and hardens to a consistency more like Deldrimoor Steel than plant matter when struck. It's based off Nightmare Court plant clothing, which feeds off its user to give it strength.

20. Has any experiment (or experience) blown up in their face? Did they learn anything from it? Would they try again? -Sonnya learned that she needed to mesh her implants more intrinsically with her body, rather than just on the surface. She also learned she needed to reinforce her bones and muscles and organs to make proper use of them. - Miriya never had an experiment blow up in her face, but she got experience in field Blood Mage medicine when she had to manipulate blood and flesh to seal a would-be fatal wound. (It helped that her team's mesmer used illusion to create a framework for her to 'grow' the blood vessels into, while keeping the patient alive. As she regrew the subject's actual flesh, the mesmer reduced the illusion, until all that was left was a scar. -Tenna worked with explosives. Yes. They blew up. Most of the time in her face. Not that that ever bothered her, after her Serum. She finds it funny, in fact.

21. Have they ever been experimented on or personally taken part in an experiment? Was it willingly or not? What do they think about it? -Tenna is a WALKING EXPERIMENT. She willingly took her own experimental Serum, which, while it offered her unnatural and unreal regenerative abilities, far above and beyond what is sane... also reduces her to a flesh-craving ghoul until she has gorged herself. And she's entirely okay with it. She's also worked on a variety of weapons and explosives that, yes, blew up in her face. And then she pulled the bits out, had a bite to eat, and went back to creating MORE. She's been shunned by the Arcane Council for the biological 'horror' they view her as. The Inquest is interested though... but they never seem to report back to base when they go after her. -Sonnya experimented on herself with magitech. Her body is laced with personally designed magitech cybernetics, though you'd need a microscope to see most of them, she's refined the process so much. Her experiment is patently illegal by the Arcane Council, so... she doesn't talk about it. Definitely doesn't tell THEM. - Miriya, has, to current knowledge, not been part of any experiment. To her knowledge.

22. Have they ever done something awful/unethical, be it in their personal or professional life? Do they regret it or at least recognize it as such? Does it still affect them in any way? -Sonnya implanted herself with cybernetics. She turned herself into something between Iron Man, and a Halo Spartan, though she doesn't know those exist elsewhere in the Mists. (Cyrus knows though.) -Miriya massacred an entire Inquest base in a Death Shroud rage, in response to their sacking of her lab. Every time she uses the Shroud for too long, the addiction to using it grows. She gets reckless, extremely violent, and hard to reason with. Only when her rage passes, or something breaks through the haze does she go back to normal. And the withdrawl from the Shroud leaves her shaken. -Tenna... designs weapons. Terrible weapons. Things that someone like Bangar would have liked to have had. Things that Joko wishes he'd had. In addition, her Serum causes her to crave flesh to devour to make up for the energy used in her regeneration. She will always regenerate, but the COST grows with the severity of the injury. And her sanity starts to fail after a certain level of injury/hunger. She might be an Engineer who uses pistols and rifles, but if she goes into Hunger mode, she tends to rend things with her bare hands. And her nails are very, very sharp.

23. Given the history between their races, what do they think of skritt? Are they still a threat or is there a chance of cooperation? -Sonnya doesn't mind them. They were never any kind of issue for her. -Tenna finds them amusing as hell, and really does want to see what an entire ship's worth of Skritt will accomplish. Cyrus, however doesn't. He doesn't want something built that could rival the Forsaken Aspect. -Miriya finds them a minor nuisance, but admits they can be cute too. And she admires their sneakiness.

24. Do they have any particular opinion on the Peacemakers and the Arcane Council (and Eye)? Do they have any direct experience with them? -Sonnya moved away to get away from Rata Sum. She didn't care for the whole office politics thing. So she joined the thing that'd drive them away from her the most; the Vigil. -Miriya knows there's crooks on the council. She can't prove it, but she knows they're there. They might even be responsible for the theft of her research. -Tenna does not care any MORE. There is literally nothing they can do to her that could make her care, and it'd be in their best interests to ignore her and NEVER bother her. She's persona non grata in Rata Sum anyway.

25. Are they (or anyone they know) part of the Inquest? How do they feel about the infamous megakrewe? -Easy. To varying degree, they all want to destroy Inquest. Sonnya doesn't like them. Miriya despises them. Tenna wants to drop a Thaumareactive bomb into each base and Rata they are in. (Cyrus refuses to let her do that, though he would let her drop conventional bombs and missiles and plasma cannon shots on them. He doesn't like them either).

26. How much does the Eternal Alchemy matter to them? Is it something they want to understand or do they not care at all? -Sonnya wonders if the Alchemy is bigger than anyone suspects. She's seen things... -Miriya acknowledges the Alchemy; in her near-fatal training, she actually met the entity the humans call "the Judge". He's the one that gave her the Demon Masque mark. -Tenna is interested in it, but from a strictly scientific view. She wants to know if there's more to it, like Sonnya, but she's actively doing research on it. More than once she's sat and listened to Cyrus talk about where he's from, and the sheer differences between Tyria and there. It's definitely ended her Tyrianocentric view of the world.

27. Have they been impacted by that whole Pact thing? What do they think of the First Pact Commander, Aurene and the whole Elder Dragon mess? -Sonnya and Miriya both served the Pact in various respects. Tenna was 'on sabbatical', at least up until the Mordremoth campaign, when the Priory reluctantly called her back to service. That... didn't end well. -The only one who might have met the Pact Commanders (my storyverse, there's multiple commanders, at least two per race, plus a few picked up in Elona and the far Shiverpeaks now) would be Tenna. That's just because of the times Cyrus's business dealings have brought them within range of them. She met the Elonian Commander, Duncan, once for sure.

28. How do they feel about Cantha and their technology? Is it interesting or an affront to asuran genius? -Sonnya and Tenna are intensely interested and don't feel an inch of jealousy. If anything, it inspires them to improve their own stuff, possibly incorporating this new technological base. -Miriya just doesn't really care one way or another.

29. Do they have any interest in returning to the Depths of Tyria? Do they think asura should go back to their lost cities in the Depths to rediscover lost knowledge, or should they be fine with life on the surface? -While the draw of lost knowledge would interest at least two of them, they overall view that 'lost knowledge' as out of date and obsolete now anyway, so... no.

30. Free space for 3 pieces of trivia about your asura -Sonnya is tall, and broad for an asura, and is the oldest sister. She has some meat on her, compared to her sisters. Her ears are the shortest, which is a confidence killer for her. - Miriya is the middle sister, but is both fine-boned, and short. She struck out on the genetics in that regard, and she too has short ears, but doesn't care. She wasn't interested in other Asura anyway. -Tenna is the black sheep of the family, who got the weird combination of genetic features; She's as tall as her oldest sister, but is slim like her middle sister. Which means she's tall and scrawny when you compare them all. And though she shares the same facial markings as them, she got her coloration presumably from the other parent; where her sisters are lighter skinned with darker tone markings, Tenna has darker skin, with lighter markings. Her orange-gold eyes also stand out compared to the green and blue of her sisters.

Just an asura ask game

1. Do they fit well into asuran society or are they more at home with other races? How do they feel about fellow asura? Is it because of their personality or something else? Is there any deal maker or breaker?

2. Where were they born? Did they like the place? Did they grow up there or did they move away at some point? Do they wish things went differently?

3. What's their family like? Are they still around? Do they like them and get along? Are there any expectations coming from them?

4. How is their social life? Are they generally well liked or despised? Are they involved in any drama? Do they make more enemies or friends? Do they have any meaningful friendship or bond?

5. What's their approach to romance? Do/did they have any partner? Are they more interested in relationships with a predetermined end date or are they looking for a stable long-term relationship? Is the option of having/adopting progeny on the table?

6. Do/did they have any non-sapient companions, like a pet or a golem? If not, would they want one?

7. Do they prefer to work alone or with others? Do others like working with them? Are they competitive or do they prefer that others take the spotlight? How would they fare in the opposite situation?

8. Do/did they have a krewe? If yes, describe them, their roles and tasks. If not, why?

9. What are their hobbies and pastimes? Do they have any natural talent or particularly strong interest that's not tied to their job? If nothing in particular, what do they do with their free time?

10. Is there anything they're terrible at and shouldn't be trusted with? Just how bad are they at it? Why? Has it resulted in any serious damage?

11. What was their education like? Did they go to Splorg's Metamystics Labs or somewhere else for their early education? Did anyone mentor them or take them for an apprenticeship/internship? Did they get admitted into one of the Colleges? If not, what path did they take and why?

12. If given the chance, would they take the position of professor in one of the Colleges? Or would they prefer to become someone's mentor? What would they teach? Would they be a good teacher?

13. What's their field of research of choice? Are they're pursuing it or is something else taking priority? If they don't have one or more, why not?

14. Do they consider themselves intelligent by asuran standards? Can they call themselves a genius? Is it an opinion shared by others or do they just have a big ego?

15. What's their job? Are they good at it? Are they happy with it or do they wish for a different one? Did they change careers at any point?

16. What's their greatest achievement? Was it an invention, a discovery or something else? Did they get any recognition for it? Was it part of their goals or is there something else they're aiming for?

17. Have they ever earned a title or honorific? Do they like it? Are they aiming for a specific/different one?

18. Can they use magic? If yes, do they use it for anything practical in their job? If not, does it bother them?

19. What do they usually wear? Is there any particular quirk to their outfit of choice? Does it show their status or is it merely practical?

20. Has any experiment (or experience) blown up in their face? Did they learn anything from it? Would they try again?

21. Have they ever been experimented on or personally taken part in an experiment? Was it willingly or not? What do they think about it?

22. Have they ever done something awful/unethical, be it in their personal or professional life? Do they regret it or at least recognize it as such? Does it still affect them in any way?

23. Given the history between their races, what do they think of skritt? Are they still a threat or is there a chance of cooperation?

24. Do they have any particular opinion on the Peacemakers and the Arcane Council (and Eye)? Do they have any direct experience with them?

25. Are they (or anyone they know) part of the Inquest? How do they feel about the infamous megakrewe?

26. How much does the Eternal Alchemy matter to them? Is it something they want to understand or do they not care at all?

27. Have they been impacted by that whole Pact thing? What do they think of the First Pact Commander, Aurene and the whole Elder Dragon mess?

28. How do they feel about Cantha and their technology? Is it interesting or an affront to asuran genius?

29. Do they have any interest in returning to the Depths of Tyria? Do they think asura should go back to their lost cities in the Depths to rediscover lost knowledge, or should they be fine with life on the surface?

30. Free space for 3 pieces of trivia about your asura!

[whiskeyworen]

I never thought I'd get to see them all on the same screen, but here we are. Thanks to the Homestead, I got all three sisters in the same spot. On the left with the orange eyes is Tenna Danae, my Engineer and... well, basically mad scientist/demolitionist. Her self-experiments have rendered her into a very unique state that, unfortunately, means she needs to eat a lot. A lot. Or risk going feral. In the middle is her older sister, the middle child, Miriya Danae. Necromancer, Once-Dead, Blessed by Death. She's hesitant to use the Death Shroud, because it gives a false feeling of invincibility and a MASSIVE dopamine rush. The longer she uses it, the more she never wants to let it go. So she's gone cold turkey for a long time now. On the end on the right is Sonnya Danae; Older sister, Guardian, and damned near unkillable bulwark of holy fire. Her quest to become 'better' has led her down some immoral scientific roads, but has culminated in her body containing magitech augments of such fine construction they are indistinguishable from her own flesh. She's learned a lot over the years, and has fine-tuned her personal tech and armor to make her a real threat. Just...watch out when her eyes start glowing blue.

[whiskeyworen]

So yeah, I absolutely bought the Maid/Butler bundle. It was an absolute must. Sonnya looks fantastic in it. That alone makes me happy I bought it. I really like how Asura side-toes basically get their own itty bitty shoe attached to the main shoe. No squeezing toes into a human-shaped shoe. Surprisingly, I was really happy how you can see your characters’ physical build. Like, Sonnya is tall, but has some meat to her, while Tenna is just as tall, but is a gangly bean pole. With typical gear or outfits, it’s kinda handwaved for the most part. But here you can really see it and I like that. Also, don’t drink Tenna’s tea unless you got a strong stomach. And she yes, she absolutely would use HE frag grenades to ‘clean’ a room.

[whiskeyworen]

Oddly enough, this would work perfectly for my Danae sisters. Sonnya has shorter ears and has a self-esteem/ image problem, Miriya has ears about the same length but with a bit more of a curve to them, so presumably she'd fall into the 'kind of pretty ' category in terms of attractiveness, and Tenna has the longest ears, which are still short compared to absolute floppy eared Asura, AND her ears have a curve to them... which puts her in the 'better than average' category I suppose?

It also means Zevvras Awd is a damned hunk, cuz he's got nice long ears, though they aren't floppy and fleshy.

Huh. I never thought of that last one honestly. Might have to work that into his story somewhere.

so I learned today that asura standard of beauty are long/big ears

surely they must have Vogue magazines featuring pretty long ear sharkrats then??

[whiskeyworen]

So, I was gonna post about the new Elite Specs...but...

Then I learned there was a new Outfit. One that I had jokingly mentioned to friends so long ago that I can’t remember when. That it was only a matter of time. Especially with the Lovestruck and Devoted skins. The Magical Girl Outfit skin. The time has come. The first thing that popped into my head was “Sonnya as a Magical Girl” So here you go. My nigh-indestructible, power-armored wearing, dragon-shattering Firebrand... is now a Magical Girl. I honestly don’t know if she’d hate me for putting her in this outfit, or if she’d be glad because she doesn’t get to wear dresses or anything like that in the Vigil.

I swear to god, this outfit should come with an emote that can only be used when the outfit is in use, where the character does one of a dozen randomized Magical Girl poses, with or without weapon in hand.

They even did a cute little thing and made the asura side-toe covers look like hearts! And she’s got HEELS. I think that’s one of the first times I’ve seen an Asura in heels.

Sufficed to say, I’m gonna be running Sonnya like this for a fair bit. LoL. So be prepared to see a little Asura Firebrand magical girl absolutely wiping dragon minions from the face of Tyria. LoL. (now if I can only find someone to draw her in that outfit. LOL. Really amp up the kawaii factor to teeth-grindingly sugary-sweet levels).

[whiskeyworen]

I know it’s kind weird, but I really like how Sonnya looks in this outfit. She spends so much time in heavy armor when fighting, I really like how ArenaNet gave us Outfits that can let me make her look lovely. I especially love that back window with the necklace-type things (I don’t know what they’re called cuz I don’t know clothing design) hanging down. If I could find an artist who could do a lovely, glamor pic of Sonnya in a dress like this, or something similar, I’d be happy. I think, out of her and her sisters, Sonnya is probably the prettiest one.

[whiskeyworen]

Well well well! Look who Sonnya got PUG’d up with for the new DRM! This was the only moment I had a chance to snap a pic. LoL. @brax-was-here was that you? I couldn’t be sure cuz I didn’t get a chance to check my friends list for anyone.

[whiskeyworen]

Happy Birthday! I hope it was a good one! Here’s my sharkrats, starting with Zevvras Awd, my Revenant.

Followed by eldest of the Danae sisters, Sonnya Danae (I love that outfit)

Then middle-child Miriya Danae, just relaxing around LA

And finally, youngest sister Tenna Danae, looking all pretty for once, as she visits a fancy bar somewhere!

Sorry this is late! Life got pretty far ahead of me; meant to do this sooner.

I have a birthday wish!

Good morning friends. I have a birthday wish to make, if I may!

I am in need of some sharkrats. Please, if you have a moment, let me see some adorable, cool, handsome or crazy Asura. :)

That would make my day! Thank you :3

[whiskeyworen]

“Captain Sonnya? Are... Are you alright?” The Vigil soldier asked carefully. After all the things that lit on fire, exploded, melted, and other such changes of matter in the last half hour, he didn’t exactly want to get close to whatever the Six was happening to the Captain. Sonnya, on the other hand, was distracted. Very distracted. That same half hour had been some of the most intense combat she’d had to deal with in a while. She’d only just come back from an Icebrood incursion near Bloodtide Coast, when the call went out for any and all active Vigil members to converge on the Ascalon settlement. She hadn’t even hesitated, and powered her way all the way into the township. She thought she’d be fighting at 50% capacity. Sonnya had taken some hard hits from the Icebrood, and her armor’s systems were working overtime to patch up the damage it could. Painkillers, adrenalin, magically-enhanced concoctions that would have made an chemical engineer drool or scream in terror pumped through her. That... and the liquid Brandstone in her armor’s piping had picked up something new. Something cold. Sonnya was still processing it now, but apparently her use of liquid Brandstone as a conductive fluid might have been a mistake; the corrupted magic of Jormag was filtering into it, a dose at a time, every time she had taken a strike from a magical attack. The itching cold sank through the piping, and into her skin, her flesh and bone. Through all her augmentations. And then something interesting had happened. Something unexpected. She’d blocked a backhand from a Destroyer crab -- and the moment it made contact with her armor it was blown back a bit, basalt skin cracking, the fiery glow in its gaps suddenly winking out like a candle blown out in a high wind. As it died, the magic Primordus had imbued it with tried to move. Tried to transfer. Or perhaps her armor, given the fact its power source was tapping into the Mists now and had been for a long time, had drawn it towards it. Pulled it in. And it was warm. Warm... Hot... And so full of wrath. Her armor, all of her systems, all of it had gone berzerk. Power meters shot through the roof as the two contradictory energies tried to at first absorb and dominate her power cores...and then began to self-annihilate within them. So...much... POWER.... The sheer charge of all that power; she’d never felt anything like it!! It almost made Sonnya giddy, lightheaded, as she cleaved her way through Destroyers. Her axe split them as surely as a monofilament wire, leaving icy hoarfrost in its wake. When she breathed fire through her torch, it left her lips blue and frosted, and caused the Destroyers to explode with thermal contraction. She swept through the Destroyers like a vengeful god, laughing as she did so. Their claws shattered against her shields, now powered to unrivalled levels, even as she turned them into piles of hissing rubble. And then, somehow...it was over. So there she stood, staring blankly, breathing heavily and still giggling a bit. The rush was still there. The power was still infusing her body and her systems. But... even as she watched, the meters began to slowly drop. Without fresh infusions, she’d be back to normal levels in an hour or so. She blinked, roused from her reverie by the cautious voice of the other soldier. He was looking at her with something that seemed like fear, or concern. There was no way Sonnya could know that, with the power of both Dragons fighting within her, her entire being had taken on a darker, more menacing aspect. She didn’t look like herself... but she didn’t know that. “Captain Sonnya? You good?... you’re looking a bit... different.” Sonnya looked at her hands, focusing her magic there, letting it flow. One hand began to glow a furnace-bright yellow orange, but didn’t grow hot at all. The other frosted over, arcs of icy lightning sparking off it, but didn’t grow cold. She giggled again, closed her eyes, and took a deep, cleansing breath. She could still feel her pulse pounding in her head, and knew what kind of tremendous power was behind it. Sonnya opened her eyes, and smiled. It was supposed to be a pleasant smile. A kind smile. But the way she looked....the Vigil soldier took a step back just in case. “Me?.... I’m feeling FINE....”

[whiskeyworen]

This is puzzling. I was running Sonnya through Frostgorge Sound because...well, I noticed I hadn’t finished it, and I was in a mood so I needed to blow off some steam. Pounding Icebrood into shards and stomping Dredge Commissars is just the thing. But just as I finished the Groznev Delve area, I turn around and... this. It’s an archaic Grenth statue, with his antlers, deer/calf mask, hood, and bodies coming up from the ground below to grasp at the hem of his robes. Just one problem; this is in the very heart of a deep Dredge excavation/mining site. There was nothing here before the Dredge. The only native populations in the area are the refugee Quaggan, refugee Kodan, Dredge miners, and dispatched forces from the Pact. There are no native human populations for maps in any direction. This is like digging into the Canadian Tundra and discovering an Egyptian monument to Thoth buried in the permafrost. Are the Dredge worshipping Grenth? I thought they didn’t believe in gods and such. The Kodan don’t, not really; they follow a kind of pragmatic buddhism or something. And the Quaggan only worship Mellaggan (and they wouldn’t be underground anyway). Who made this thing, and why?

[whiskeyworen]

Okay. So... no cute story involving these looks. But I was at work when someone in one of my social circle groups tossed up the official GW2 update notes that included this new Queensdale Academy outfit... and I had to have it. I mean, sure, first I quizzed that friend on whether Asura females actually get the skirt or if they do the gent thing, like some of the other outfits, and they let me know that yes, they do. So I KNEW I had to have it. Specifically for Sonnya, but it might have made a cool casual look for Cyrus (something I’ve been looking for, for the last little bit through armor cobbling). Oh wow. It looks great. Especially on Sonnya. I love the little round glasses on her. (One of my weaknesses). So I just wanted to show what it looked like on a few of my favorite characters. Enjoy!

[whiskeyworen]

Back when I joined my gw2 discord group, I’d made an offhand remark at one point, after showing a particular screenshot, of wishing they had kind of a loose-hair style for Asura. One that kept the hairstyle I’d had on Sonnya, but like, just...longer. @mavelleofdawn was nice enough to do a really quick and awesomely done edit of that screenshot, which I went nuts over. I saved the pic, but in my hurry I lost track of where I saved it on my system, and the thread on the discord had very much accelerated so far it was almost useless to go back and hunt it down (and I couldn’t remember which channel It’d been in). But tonight I found it, so now I wanna show it off! Sonnya with long hair! I still wish fervently that this hairstyle existed in game! I wanna see her running around with her hair flowing behind her, trailing her in jumps, and flowing forward when she stops suddenly. She just looks so damned pretty with it like that. I’ll make it story-canon if I can, but damn do I wish it was GAME-canon.

[whiskeyworen]

Nothing was right here. It all felt wrong. ALL of it. No matter where she patrolled in the Marches, she always felt like she was being watched (they are watching you.). It was eerie. When she was alone at camp, she could feel it as an itch in her neck. A tingle in her gauntlets. The thorns in them even seemed to bite a bit harder in the cold. (It is the Kodan. They can’t be trusted.) It had to be the Kodan. I mean, these...people...were living in Drakkar’s backyard, possibly only a hundred miles or so from wherever Jormag itself was sleeping. Every time there’s a Dragon nearby, the locals aren’t what they seem to be. It never failed. (They’ve fallen to Jormag. Trust me.) It didn’t help they kept doing weird things. In one single patrol, Sonnya had run into some of the strangest encounters, each one setting her ears back and her skin crawling. All of them featuring those damned Kodan... She’d been crossing the lake (carefully, since Drakkar might have been able to hear her moving), when she found half a dozen Kodan just...sitting there. They were in a kind of circle, but loose, like they’d nearly formed the circle but just gave up. Each one was tiredly looking around, but from what she could see none of them had their eyes open. Actually, scratch that; they couldn’t see at all because their eyes were entirely encrusted in ice, and sealed closed. (They were blinded by their belief in Koda. So Jormag blinded them in turn) They all asked her, one after another, to read from a book. Somehow, they’d all pointed at the same spot in the snow and ice, where sure enough, a rime-crusted book lay. Sonnya picked up the book, reluctantly glancing around at the quiescent, listening Kodan, and opened it. She didn’t recall what she read at all, but when she stopped blinking her weeping, tear-crusted eyes, tears frozen to her cheeks by the wind, all the Kodan were gone. There was no sign they’d ever actually been there. No disturbance in the snow. She could see where she walked up to them, from her own prints...but none of theirs. And the book itself had vanished from her hands. When Sonnya checked her armor’s clock, she found that more than forty minutes had passed. Forty minutes she couldn’t recall. And on top of that, her suit’s heaters had been turned way down. Those damned Kodan did something to her. (of course they did) Messed with her head. Then there was that encounter with the weird carving Kodan in the ruins of that old Ice Ship. Her patrol that day had meant Sonnya had to wander the streets and tunnels of that broken, frozen ruin. That’s when she stumbled upon him in front of a long sheet of ice, in some dark alleyway of the wreck. He had his back to her and was chipping quickly, furtively, at the wall. It didn’t look like he was trying to cut a block out or anything, or repair some damage. When she tried to edge closer, to get a better look, he spun on her, screaming that it wasn’t ready yet, and to just give him some time. Ears back, skin crawling, she did. She couldn’t pass him until he was done anyway; the way he crouched, and how he’d reacted to her even at a distance meant she couldn’t get close to him to pass him. (they’re all tainted) Eventually the sound of ticking and scraping had died away, and the Kodan sighed in relief, stepping back from whatever he’d done. “Okay... It is done. You can see it now. Tell me what you think of it?” So she stepped close to the wall, keeping an eye on him as she did so. He just stood there, smiling pleasantly. He looked exhausted, but happy. Sonnya frowned, and turned her attention to the wall. To her surprise, he hadn’t carved some insignia, or graffiti, or anything. Instead, in tightly packed, extremely hard to read Tyrian, something had been scrimshawed into the ice. It was so unbelievably small and tightly-spaced that she had to lean right in before she could read it properly. I waited for Sonnya Danae to turn her back. And then I tore her throat out... The first line alone was enough to send a shock of ice right down her spine; Sonnya had definitely not told this Kodan her name. She hadn’t even spoken to him. There was absolutely no way this bear, so far from civilization, detached from even its own people, could have learned her name. The second line had her seeing red. In a heartbeat, her weapons were drawn, her implants going to the limits of safety, all defenses up. She would annihilate him if he even attempted to touch her. (Not Strong Enough) He was still behind her, uncomfortably close, as he had been before she read the note. But he still stood there, arms crossed, a blissful glaze in his eyes as he smiled. With a sigh, he admitted that he was inspired by something in the wind. Like the blowing of the wind had woken a thought in his mind, and he simply had to act on it. So he’d carved what it said to him, so he could have someone else read it. Sonnya slowly backed away from the Kodan carver, not saying a thing, even as the polar bear’s euphoria-glazed eyes tracked her until she disappeared around a corner. She immediately went back to base, and asked to be relieved of duty that day. (Not Strong Enough) Now, there was THIS encounter. Sonnya had trudged her way through a blizzard, once again alone on patrol (damn those new recruits, getting lost and dying in the snows) when she came upon... tragedy. There was no other way to describe it. It looked, to her eyes, like an entire village of Kodan had abandoned their shelters, and come out near this rock, on the edge of the lake. There they’d just...stayed, until they collapsed from the cold, or sank to their knees and died. There were a few that seemed to have even just lay down and fallen asleep in the snow. But there was one survivor left. He stood before.... before the focus of whatever had drawn his village out. Alchemy knows what he was seeing, because he talked to it as if it was an old friend, a family member. He even turned to greet her tiredly and ask her to come chat as well. It was an idol of Jormag. The ice it was made of almost glowed with corrupted power, and the basalt pillar it curled around was engraved with glowing, sky-blue runes. Sonnya stared at the idol, feeling the power wafting off it. The eyes of the dragon on it seemed to consider her. Maybe it was a trick of the blurring snow, the chill wind against her eyes making them water, but for a moment, just a moment, it looked like the thing smiled at her. Not an evil leer, or a grimace, but an almost pleasant smile that left her with a moment of warmth....before the Kodan beside her spoke again and she snapped back to reality. She didn’t say anything to him. Instead, she stepped forward, and amping up her implants to a safe, high power level, she swung a right hook into the side of the idol. The sheer force her implants and armor imparted to the strike blew an entire, fist-sized section out of the pillar, and shattered an entire coil of the dragon on it.  Its magic now disrupted, the idol folded in on itself collapsing in a small detonation of light and sound. That last Kodan blinked bleary eyes, looked around, and realized his kinsmen were frozen. Dead. He looked at the Vigil soldier who stood before him, her eyes hard as ice, her fists encased in cold fire, and recognized her displeasure. He beat a swift retreat, as she began to attend to the dead. (Not Strong Enough) She wasn’t strong enough yet. She felt weak still. (Harden your heart. Make it a fortress.) There was work to be done. Emotions couldn’t be allowed to rule her. She told herself this, even as she excavated a hole with her scepter’s power, carving a great furrow in the permafrost for bodies. (Harden it like ice. Ice protects. It fortifies. It LASTS) This place wouldn’t break her. But she didn’t have to like being here. She really didn’t like it at all. Too much was ‘wrong’ here.

[whiskeyworen]

Story Masterpost List

I finally have time for a revised masterpost! So here we are. I’ll put the Guild Wars 2 fics up top cuz they’re far more popular. But please, feel free to read my other stuff too! Guild Wars 2 fics (These are as close to chronologically aligned as I can make them. I tend to jump around the timestream a bit) Maeva - Bloodline Miriya - The Rite Miriya's Pad Fateful Encounter Miriya - Sisters Tenna - Alive Tenna - Dangerous Creatures Corvus Corvidae - The Weight of Responsibility Cyrus - Halloween Tenna - Halloween Kaleb & Miriya - The Sword Sonnya - Shatterpoint Resolutions Sonnya - Feline Friend Aspect 1 - Alternative Thinking Aspect 2 - Of Humor and Family Aspect 3 - Of Forgiveness and Justice Aspect 4 - Of Inspiration and Communication Aspect 5 - Of Confusion and Identification Aspect 6 - Inclusion Tenna and the Mystery Potion Stormy Thoughts  Alice - Historical Simulation: Zhaitan's End Alice - Historical Simulation: Fort Trinity Celebration Characters vs Whispers Sonnya and the Whisperer Non GW2 stories (Mostly prompt based) Curio Shop of Unusual Wares Insatiable Urge to Write Demon Dating

A Mediocre Superpower “They have my Daughter...” Cutepocalypse I’m an NPC The Devil came down to D&D Suburbs & SUVs Otherworldly Dating 1 (Ears) Otherworldly Dating 2 (Eyes) I was the Villain all along It came up the Stairs...and Tripped The Overly-loving Dragon Matriarch The Monster under the Bed The Silence of being Alone Conversations with a Goddess (S)Hell Station A Special Kind of Hell At 3 AM

[whiskeyworen]

Last night the Mistspread Guild finally got around to trying for a Guild Hall in Gilded Hollow. It was a great experience, and we did a pretty darn good job. Spent the rest of the nice exploring the place, and HOLY COW is it huge. I had no idea how big it was. I physically got lost in such a way that has not happened since Tangled Depths. I’ve tagged everyone I can easily identify (I’m still learning who is who is who, if you get me. Discord v Character v Tumblr profile (if they have one)). I apologize to anyone I haven’t tagged, or tagged incorrectly. This was so great for me. I’ve been playing since about six months after launch...and this was probably the first real time I’ve felt like I’m part of a guild. Like, the concerted effort thing. We planned for this, we got together, did our research, and then got it. And then spent like, 4 hours doing a high-speed turnkey upgrade to everything. LoL. @lesbiancharr, @canid-slashclaw, @phnx-rosemary, @intern-seraph, @mavelleofdawn + others I don’t know the screennames of.