#the gnome is the most dangerous among them all lol

[luinen-bluewater]

Here's my take for the other races redesign with my Durge Tino. I took the liberty to slightly alter the template bc I also wanted to show how Tino's scrawny ass looks normally lol (and you get a Gith because I can't draw a Dragonborn to save my dear life, sorry :c) template by @hellothisisangle it's been super fun and challenging, thank you!

[gymleadercheren]

As for going in depth with Orland’s family........ his family is totally enormous so it’ll be long lol

Orland is an orphan, first off, although he doesn’t know it. He highly suspects it, but doesn’t know for sure and honestly never found himself caring very much about figuring out the identities of his parents (which is odd, considering his self-obsession).

He likes to think that he was misplaced royalty of some sort despite the fact that there is no halfling royalty or nobility of any kind. He assumes his parents were very high-up, rich, and as endlessly charming and beloved and talented as he is. What he doesn’t know, or rather what he’s repressed, is that he is the illegitimate son of a particularly despicable dirty halfling theif and a penniless prostitute who died in childbirth with him. Far from the grand pedigree he’s imagined for himself. His mother, Rosalina, had beautiful golden hair he inherited from her, very rare among halflings, which made her popular. When she died shortly after having him, he somehow wound up with his father, Ryell O’Dell, who lived most of his life underground, performing shady deals in the Underdark with incredibly dangerous associates.

Orland lived the first nine years of his life never seeing sunlight, his father only dragging him along to the surface under cover of night. Orland was not popular at all in the underground, a very unwelcome drop of sunshine amidst the dark and gloom. He wasn’t cheerful, but he was endlessly talkative and curious, and he asked all sorts of questions that unfortunately either went unanswered or punished somehow. Ryell wasn’t a gentle father, or a kind one, or particularly caring at all. But he was all Orland had, so he followed him everywhere and was often used as an accessory to his crimes (often as a distraction because adorable little halfling kids are very good distractions).

When Orland was 9, Ryell double-crossed his dark elf associates for the last time and he got what was coming to him, killed by their giant pet spiders right in front of his son. Terrified, Orland ran off, somehow managing to hide from his pursuers due to his tiny size. He eventually climbed his way to the surface, where he saw the sun for the first time, and flowers and trees and blooming roses and a super cute little girl named Cornflower who demanded to know why he was so dirty and weird and crying in a fetal position in the middle of a field. Upon finding these sources of real happiness for the first time in his life, he ends up repressing and completely forgetting his past in the underground, and he begins anew (although he later feels compelled to name his lute ‘Rosalina’ for some reason. It just feels right.)

YEARS LATER when he finally marries cornflower and they settle down and have their own enormous family that he is beyond enthusiastic over because he’s never had a family before and now he made one all on his own, he has an... interesting relationship with everyone.

He and Cornflower are super duper in love of course, but where Orland is incredibly blatant about it, Cornflower is much much much subtler. Even so, everyone KNOWS she’s just as crazy about him as he is about her by the simple virtue of her having not strangled him yet. And the twelve kids, pfffffffft.

Their first son, Orland Percival O’Dell the Second (who vastly prefers going by Percy), is much more like his mother in nature. Very stoic, very solid, and keenly intelligent. He’s about 17 years old and desperately wants to be a famous mage. He is annoyed that magic seems to come so naturally to his father, while he has had to study it all his life to summon any. He works incredibly hard and always has his nose in a tome or history book of some sort. He is the most responsible child, but all his younger siblings see him as incredibly stuffy. Percy adores his mother and does all he can to help her (which she appreciates) but he is somewhat estranged from his father. He thinks Orland is irresponsible and silly and is often at odds with him (which frustrates him because Orland often doesn’t even realize when he’s arguin with him). Through our campaign, he got separated from his family and ended up being offered some very dark magic, his ambition leading him to seek it. It was very powerful, but it took its toll on him and eventually when Orland found him, the deadly magic had already crawled its way up his arm and was threatening to take over his entire body. Orland stopped his party members from chopping his son’s arm off with an axe to save him, and instead made a deal with a fairy queen to stop the magic from spreading, giving up a lot of his own magic to do so. Because of this sacrifice, Percy is on much better terms with Orland but things are still awkward between them. His arm is entirely black and he’s got a few black marks spreading up his shoulder and neck. It’s very goth. He loves rabbits, and he has 6 of them that he adores and takes care of all the time. They’re named after a bunch of famous mages.

Their oldest daughter is named Pepper, and where Percy favors his mother looks-wise, she looks very much like Orland, only female and with very long hair. She is about 16 years old and wants nothing more than to be an adventurer like her Dad, but both her parents insist on her being too young to travel, which she hates. She feels like she’s trapped in their house, where she’s unable to get any privacy or do anything for herself. She trains in secret, trying to become a rogue like her mother (who doesn’t know that Pepper knows about her abilities, haha). She sneaks off a lot at night, but she hasn’t been caught yet. She loves her parents and siblings, but she feels smothered. Nonetheless, she will beat up anybody who says a single word against any of them. Even stuffy Percy, who she makes fun of the most. She is sarcastic like her mother, has her father’s endless passion, but has not inherited her mother’s good sense or her father’s blithe nature.

Penny is their next daughter and she is sweetness and light and sunshine personified. She is about 14 years old. She is full of boundless energy and is always bouncing around in perpetual excitement. Nothing ever gets her down, and she is always cheerful. She has a huge amount of bushy brown hair that is filled with tons of flowers she inexpertly weaves in herself. She often leaves a trail of flowers in her wake as they fall out of her hair as she zooms around. She can be innocently insensitive, but she never realizes it. She sings often, but while she is louder than her father, her voice is not nearly as good. Which is a bad combination.

Potter is their next son and he wears a poncho pulled up over his mouth at all times. He is about 13 years old. He is the child that looks the most like Orland, but you can hardly tell since he hides his face. He can speak, but he almost never ever does, and when he does, it’s typically only a few words, very to-the-point, and very soft. He is an inventor, and he’s always fiddling around with things in his room, creating odd contraptions. His siblings joke that he is part-gnome somehow, which both Orland and cornflower resent, haha. It is very hard to tell what he is thinking a lot of the time because he rarely changes expression.

Pippa is their next daughter, and she is an enormous daddy’s girl. She is about 12 years old. She truly adores her father, but she is also admittedly manipulative of him. She knows that the more love she piles on him and the more she compliments him and praises him, he more gifts Orland will bring her from his travels. She is a little prissy, and always wears nice dresses and likes her hair curled and tied up a very specific way and hates getting dirty. But she is very cute and knows how to work it, haha. She is also a little bossy, and can be a little bit of a brat, but she loves her family fiercely and would do anything for them.

Peter is the next son, 10 years old. He is the only one that needs glasses (and they are enormous on him, as halflings typically don’t need glasses and they were the smallest they could find, haha). He is a big crybaby and a huge coward, and often trails along free his older siblings, often needing one of them to hold his hand. Orland has to reassure him that monsters aren’t real almost every night, but he often gets carried away with descriptions and ends up scaring Peter anyway, whoops. He is very gentle and has an appreciation for beautiful things, much like his father, but he gets teased because of his sensitivity.

Preston is the next son, 8 years old. He doesn’t look like Orland, since his long, bushy dark hair covers his eyes at all times, but of all the kids, he has almost the exact same personality as his father (Cornflower supposed with this many kids it was inevitable at some point). Preston is very charming and has a way with words. Unfortunately, he uses this gift to steal food from people or talk his way into getting other things he wants. He can’t trick Cornflower anymore, but he works his magic on the other halflings in town, certainly. He’s goofy and loud and enthusiastic, but he can be smooth when he needs to be, haha.

Pansy is the next daughter, 6 years old. She is sweet and kind, but very very spacey. She often says odd things hat nobody quite understands, and she is often found daydreaming and drifting off in the middle of a conversation. She loves nature, and often wanders off on her own, getting lost more often than not and panicking her family. She likes bugs, and tries to collect them, but Cornflower always makes her put them back outside.

Perry is the next son, 5 years old. He is the wild child, energetic and ready to fight. He’s like a little whirlwind and runs around everywhere outside, getting dirty and hitting things with sticks. He often climbs Orland and pulls at his hair, much to his father’s dismay. He always manages to find a way out into the yard, even when Cornflower tries to put him on lockdown. He wants to be a big strong fighter someday, but Cornflower has been trying to persuade him to channel his energy in a different way. It hasn’t worked yet.

Poppy is the next daughter, 3 years old. Like Potter, she rarely talks and is very quiet. She likes to observe. She has large eyes that rarely blink, and she takes everything in, staring and observing and thinking. She’s very smart, but she almost never shares her thoughts. People find her creepy sometimes, including her siblings, but they all love her and take her with them anyway because even though she’s odd, she’s very interesting. She can’t sleep unless Orland sings her a lullaby he wrote especially for her. This makes it hard for Cornflower when he’s off of one of his adventures.

Patrick and Piper are a pair of newborn twins. They are very cute, but as they are babies, they haven’t shown distinct personalities yet. If you touch them, Cornflower will bite your fingers off.