#theres a lot of back story stuff i haven't figured out for them yet but this is like

[ladadee195]

Character Backstories.

I want to bring up a subject I've noticed now after watching 5 out all 7 main campaigns that Legends of Avantris offers, within the actual world of Avantris (so that doesn't include Uprooted, WFRP, and Stardust. Though I could also talk about Uprooted but I wont, unless someone wants me too lol)

(spoilers for BDW, COS, EOM, OUAW, and Icebound beyond this line)

The subject of family and parents is something seen a little more and little less through out the 5 campaigns.

I'm a little bit half way through ep10 of BDW so I'm quit a few years back in they're live play style. Not yet having gotten the hang of live streaming or even character creation though their role play imo seems to always have been amazing? I definitely think this is a product of amateur character creation and how close they stuck to 5Erules. But ALL 6 characters have some ties to parents or family.

Felix is looking for his brother, Hyrja has a good relationship with her mom and is looking for her dad. Iris, yes a pharaoh's daughter, but talks about her father constantly, even if its just the "my father will hear about this!." Lufiti doesn't know her parents but from spoilers I think she meets her mum? Caprice has a family with a reputation and seems upset over his mom. Toa, hasn't mentioned his parents much only his tribe but I assume they are part of it. Either way, bad or good, family and parents are a big important subject for BDW.

In COS its there but less. They all have a soft spot for Arabelle. Theres all that stuff with Victoria's father. Theres Shepard's back story of loosing his parents to religious fanatics. Clayton never mentioning his wife and daughter. Kana had a family but they shunned her and of course Sarnax probably has no idea who his parents are and doesn't care to know. Even the backstory with Strahdanya has a whole shit load of stuff with her parents and brother. Again, its this big subject but its lesser, treated as a footnote rather then a plot point.

IceBound and OUAW is somewhere between BDW and COS in this subject. Taishen obviously is his nieces only parental figure and hasn't, to my knowledge mentioned what happened to her parents. Barnabos backstory has a lot of family/parent plot points. Like looking for her father and such. Queenie willingly left her whole family for her feywild friends. Skrimm's mentioned his many siblings, with some concerning distain . An of course I'm sure whatever family Jornir had, they're gone. The subject matter is there, and its treated with sadness, with longing. with regret rather then wanting to forget about it.

OUAW is much the same but on the flip side. There are levels with them, from Kremy and Gricko being close with their mothers but ultimately leaving them probably forever. But Gricko chooses to try and be the best father he can for Hootsie anyway. Like thats huge. An then theres Gideon maybe having a good relationship with his father but again probably never going to see him again, though no fault of his own. Frost hardly remembers his parents and probably never will. Torbek least of all probably never remembers and will never find out. Its 50/50 sadness and tension, of having it but not wanting it, of wanting it but never having that again.

An then there's Edge of Midnight. I doubt, with every fiber of my being that any of them remember ever having parents in the first place. Certainly not Jericho, who's only parental figures in that new form were his best gals. Briggsy talked about his dad but idk if that was just Richie being silly. Yorgrim might have had parents but obviously they're dead. Its not even a footnote, its entirely not a subject. Despite a lot of instances of child abuse and death, but maybe thats why?

ALL in ALL I think its interesting that while the subject through all the campaigns (even ones I haven't seen) has its ups and downs it still leads them to the corner stone of D&D parties and thats found family. An they do it very well no matter if its a plot point or not.

[aakipple]

*slides into your askbox* haha hey haha um your ocs haha love them hey haha *slicks back hair* COULD YOU UH HAHA TELL US MORE ABOUT THEM?

hi 😳 thank you for ur interest...... i'm assuming you're here bc of my latest post so i'll try to focus on those :) (under read more bc i got carried away)

i have to preface this by saying it took me a while to decide on what to include here HELP... there's just So Much

basic rundown of the general plot: boy (named Masa) gets isekaid and mysteries around him start to unravel

ana (girl in red coat) - special agent who volunteers to be hugo's bodyguard. silly but deadpan and will not hesitate to jump into danger for others

hugo (scar on right eye) - scientist from a parallel reality who arrives to investigate the portal left by masa. he's actually masa's father but is trying not to let that affect him too much because he isn't supposed to be here. my #1 target for putting in Situations

euclase (man with long blue hair) - a king that masa meets in the other world. was close friends with hugo when they were in high school. when they reunite after 20 years euclase realizes he hasn't gotten over his crush

noriko - masa's mother and hugo's ex. she has her own stuff going on that i haven't fully figured out yet. for now she's also somehow a Reality Hopper that messes with hugo every time they cross paths

kari (in the doodles at the very end) - a girl in the same school as masa who follows him around bc she's curious about what happened to him

uhhh ummm theres a lot of universe/reality hopping if that wasn't obvious. this whole story is just a sandbox i built for myself back in 2017 that i'm still playing around in heheh... feel free to ask me about any specifics.....

[sapwine-and-starcharts]

2, 10, 12, 17, 19, and 28 for the ask game ^_^

So 2 and 10 were answered HERE but they weren’t actually like Outer Wilds fandom specific so I’ll re answer them <3

2 - Which of your fics is your pride and joy?

Out of all of my outer wilds fics i think that either Berry-Jam kisses (Time Buddies) or Sapwine and Starcharts (Startners before they were Startners :’}) have to be up there in terms of my favourite fics I’ve written.

I talked about BJK in the other post but SaS is a whole other story.

It wasn’t my FIRST outer wilds fic, that was Time to Go but it was the first time i thought about Chert and Mylo meaning something to eachother. It was the beginning of Startners, my blorbos, and hell!! I named my OW blog after it!!!!!! I don’t think its my best written fic by a long shot, i was still figuring out 2POV perspective and how to characterize both Chert and Mylo but I’ll be damned if it doesn’t live in my heart forever and ever.

10 - Is there a character or ship you'd love to write for, but haven't yet?

I mean probably Gosslate? I keep meaning to write for them but never getting around to it lmaoooo.

If not Gosslate then Cherro. Mostly because i already write for ChertMylo and now that I’ve officially included Gabbro in the startnership i really should write for the two of them huh??

(I actually have some drafts of something i was working on for them but its uh… lets just say its not suitable for this blog…)

12 - What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Written? Gravity Falls.

An INCREDIBLY old piece from back in HIGH SCHOOL about what if Stanley died in the portal explosion that brought back his brother. It’s VERY bad and i never ever posted it anywhere and i never will!

POSTED though? Stanley Parable.

Tethered-Together was the first ever fic i actually posted something for and got that sweet sweet taste of authorship. It’s definitely not my best work, the formatting is all over the place and i couldn’t figure out how to get from the last chapter i posted to the idea in my head for where i wanted to take the ending but people liked it! People really REALLY liked it!

Plus it inspired me to make You Can’t See Me Behind the Screen, a 432 centered fic that is, while again incredibly rough, one of my favourite works i did for TSP. Shout out to that one commentor who commented on nearly every chapter and the commentor who, when i came back to post a chapter after nearly a year of hiatus commented ‘HOLY SHIT YOUR BACK?????!!!!!’ Which skyrocketed my confidence to the moon. They’re probably one of the reasons i continued to write honestly.

17 - What is something you recently felt proud of in your writing?

I have a hard time picking out stuff I’m proud of. I’m incredibly critical of my work and i always think i can improve or find something wrong with it. But if i had to pick SOMETHING I’d have to go with the way i write romance. Usually i stuff a bunch of angst in there and call it a day but recently I’ve been writing some softer stuff. Like my Eskerfels fics and Berry Jam Kisses, people have praised me for the warmth and comfort they exude and i gotta agree with them on that one!!!

Outside of my writing tho, the idea that so many people can enjoy my writing and even say that I inspire them to create (You know who you are <3) is just??? Thats another thing i feel so baffled yet proud of. If i can inspire even one person to get outside their comfort zone and try to create their own art, i think I’ve done my job as an artist :}

19 - How do you get over writer's block?

I don’t LMAO. Literally, i don’t actively try to shake it. The writers block consumes me until i jolt up in the middle of the night with a single cool line i want to write down and then the writing juice starts to flow again. Hyperfixations do help a lot tho. If a character can worm their way into my brain enough they usually free me of what ever blocks I’m going through.

28 - What's the angstiest idea you've ever come up with?

SO theres a few?

One is from YCSMBtS (the Stanley Parable fic i mentioned above) where lines of code literally tear 432 apart and unravel them like yarn until they merge into the game itself and becomes the Time Keeper.

The Horrors That Lie Beneath ft. Mylo discovering what’s under the surface of the Interloper, the very thing that was their main driving force. It’s not shown afterwards but they really struggle to come to terms with the fact that the thing they looked up to wiped out an entire race… Like they have an identity crisis about it and everything

Grieving for a World Lost to Time is a Final Campfire fic based around the 5 stages of grief. Each of the travellers gets their own stage of grief they help Mylo through or make Mylo feel, and then Hornfels was gonna be the secret 6th stage ‘Finding Meaning’. I never got around to actually WRITING more than the prologue but oughh i want to…

I could actually keep going, my favourite genre is angst and like SO many of my personal OCs i put through the wringer over and over. Literally if you put in ‘angst’ into the search bar for my works I’m pretty sure most of my fics will show up lmao.

Anyways!! TYSM for asking!!!! <3

[liuisi]

2, 3, 4, 13, 21, 23, and 24! I WANNA KNOW ABOUT YOUR OLIVIAVERSE YES YES

2. Summarize this au in 5 sentences.

im always so bad at this kinda stuff but i will try my best

olivia saves herself and tries to slowly relearn how to live. eli's been saving himself every day for years. mariam tries to keep them (and herself) together. they love each other so much :(. it'll work out, eventually.

3. Did anything inspire this au?

lichrally any story ive read that has slice of life/bittersweetness TBH!! but for the latest thing id say the line tender by kate allen / après céleste by maude nepveu villeneuve (french book saurry)

4. What is a major change you made?

this story used to have magical realism with birds as a thouroughline but i ended cutting that part out i felt like it was Too Much for this story yk... but i do wanna end up writing magical realism sometime soon

(that's why there's a bird in the parking lot in that snippet i posted a while back!!)

13. Write a lil snippet set in this verse.

thought id give a little uni arc olivia + lauren (for the first time? i think?)

Lauren pulls the headphones away from her ear. "Anybody you want to talk to?" Olivia, who's sitting on the small couch bolted to the side of the ship, gives a dismissive wave. "No," she says, still typing away furiously at her laptop. Lauren frowns and lowers the headphones to her neck. "Are you sure? It's been two weeks. No one that needs to know that you're not dead?" Olivia's fingers still, and she shoots Lauren a quick smile, all teeth. It's somewhat tight at the edges. "Nope," she says, shutting her laptop screen and gingerly setting it aside. "It's fine. I'm going to go get some fresh air. All that screentime is starting to make my eyes hurt." She leaves before Lauren can get a word in edgewise.

21. What makes you most excited about this fic?

i just LOVE writing these guys. you dont understand they live in my head so much that putting them down into words is a relief. like i just think that a dynamic like theirs is so fun to write... its about the deep love its about the loyalty its about the care its about the you-might-mess-up-sometimes-but-i-will-love-you-anyways DO YOU UNDERSTANDDDDDD

23. Do you have other ideas for how to continue this au/other fics that could be written in the same universe?

honestly the way im writing this now its kind of just disconnected scenes for fun yk so i could write Literally Anything... BUT for the sake of answering this question i do want to write more scenes for what i call the uni arc (olivia moves away for uni and everything she's tried to ignore blows up in her face)

24. Ramble about something you haven't gotten to talk about yet.

okay. honestly. been trying to figure it out but i lowkey want to make this story christian in some way?? idk like theres christian poetry there's christian fiction (mostly fantasy) but i havent ever read a christian story with These Vibes you know. i want to write a good story that is also christian!! is that too much to ask!!! i have no idea how .... honestly everything i think of sounds cringe and corny but maybe thats the like. social conditioning talking. fantasy stories have it easy because they can have magic and stuff so its easy to integrate but for this story thats like. the POINT is that its realistic and down to earth and they're all just People trying to get by. i cant really make it an allegory or a metaphor yk? it has to be real .... but then if i say "olivia starts to believe in her uni arc and becomes a christian" that just sounds silly to me!! (or maybe. again. its just that the worlds pov is that christianity is corny and silly and it could actually be good but IDK!!!)

[hellsitedotcom]

Ok, so, i would ask about the hsr oc kit ask game, however i only now just discovered your blog and id rather ask if theres a post or smth about the lore of your hsr oc(s), and, if not, could you tell us about them? Ill then send like 5 questions or smth, or more and or less depending on your preference

I don't have much lore on them yet (mostly because...insecure about sharing them, since I'm not an artist and only a lousy writer), but here & here you can find the two I have officially ''introduced'' already! And here's aesthetic boards!

Additional Info: Both OCs (and potentially future ones) come from/live on a planet I am still working on, because - due to having my original story - I have enough OCs and ''lore'' to be able to work on an original planet for the ''Star Rail AU'' (as I call it), so yeah, it's all still a big WIP!

For the first one, that's Evelyn (they/them), the ''main protagonist'' (or one of them) from my original story; I always use them when I insert an OC into specific fandoms instead of like, coming up with a new character, which is also why I try to keep their lore somewhat close to their original lore, but it's all still in the works until I have all details figured out. They use Ice as their Combat Type (as stated), and I've been thinking that they might fit rlly well to be an Emanator of Finality, but I'm not 100% set on that idea yet, lol. They'll probably ''end up in a relationship'' (let's be honest, we'll never get there) with Aventurine, though I gotta admit I've also been eyeing Sunday a lot more recently, whoops.

The second one, that's Mayday (she/her), and she's one of ''few'' survivors of Evelyn's old team/family back on the original planet! She's Halovian, uses Imaginary as her combat type, and she's on the path of Preservation (which I chose because in the original story, she's somewhat of a survivor and it just...fits her) I haven't worked much more on her yet, and I'm not sure if I'll work on her further until I've figured out more stuff about the original planet. But, if she does end up playing a bigger role, I was considering having her and March 7th maybe start dating.

And, don't worry, I'll be happy even with just one question, so, ask as many as you want! :)

[personification-of-darkness]

jon: still sucks and is mean to everyone he works with and is an asshole. and has something going on with tim. how does this interact with the jon only liking old men theory

sasha: :( (when did you realize nasha had replaced her) (i'm curious)

nasha: you wanr her to chase you down etc i believe

tim: has something(?) going on with jon. and is bad at archiving statements but he's supportive

elias: ?

martin: sussy little baka and also stinky. pantsless still maybe

daisy: ?

michael: Silly (i think) (haven't seen yoy talk about him much) (except for the martin michael mixup)

georgie: the girl who makes clickbait ghost youtube videos

plumber: yor favorite

trevor (vampire guy): nice and you like him. is he still going to be jons bf or is that theory a no now

^updated opinions ive gathered

shit shit okay okay okay antithesis has been presented and i present my sythenesis. jon likes older men most of the time and is like uhhh i cant think of an example, doesnt like people his own age cause "oh their so imature" etc etc and with an older man would end up with a actual like normal relationship that is nice and kind and healthy and since hes mad at himself for liking tim hes taking it out on tim in a "how dare you be attractive to me how dare i find you getting so comfortable at the archives so quickly adorable"

he still sucks but now that hes on his own hes realizing how much other people have helped him invisibly and through this awareness he is accepting he cant do things on his own and is going to be more caring and appreciative once they get back together.

i dont think hes going to get to a point where he actually relaxes all the way ever i think hes always going to be composing himself and always doing the serious buisness guy thing but he wont be mean anymore itll just be thats how he is and like maybe at parties and stuff he can go "oh fine if you want me to do this THAT badly then fine" and everyone knows this is him justifying to himself actually relaxing for once and having fun.

i like. sasha so much . like. oh my god. i have. had thoughts about her and stuff shes so cool and awesome and good at so many things and so so good at finding things and figuring things out <3<3<3 i have a lot of feelings on here not many thoughts wheras with jon its a lot of thoughts not many feelings.

i didnt like. realize she was replaced... like i knew but somehow just approached the story as it was told and the static on the tape when she said "so stop this paranoia" that was a red flag for me i could tell she wasnt being truthful about caring for jon there. if she did she would have said "so stop all this" or something to that effect. but to specify the paranoia when their all instead talking about how his BEHAVIOUR is effecting them and then she specifies the PARANOIA at the end there that doesnt match up with what she was displaying because paranoia is internal and behaviour is external you can be paranoid all you want but if you dont show it like it doesnt effect others. so that was a huge hey shes doing something she shouldnt be here moment and if we had more of her i mightve ended up having guesses at what exactly jons paranoia was interferring with. the cop lady saying sasha was different was a big deal but i somehow just didnt think anything had happened yet ? somehow. i just thought like oh theres a ton of plausible reasons maybe her memory of people isnt that good or something you know NORMAL THINGS. OCCAMS RAZOR LIKE TIM SAYS. THE MOST NORMAL ANSWER TO THE THING IS PROBABLY IT. NOT EVERYTHING IS PARANORMAL. but when the episode about the ... before the cousin replacer there was one on the people switching and at that point it got set off a bit but i only really went "oh this isnt her anymore" when she stopped pretending.

NASHA NASHA NASHA YESSSSS THE HIDE AND SEEK GAME SHE DID WITH JON EXACTLY. THE CUTE "FOUND YOU" SHE DID <3<3<3<3 JI LOVE WHEN WOMEN DO THAT. i wanna hide from her and have her try to find me and tell me how itll hurt oh so so much to have her take over me and how ill be helpless to do anything about it <- said with the biggest stupidest smile on my face <3

i love tthe. like wheb they treat it as a fun game like she did and then they find out where you are and go "found you!" and the saying stuff thatll scare you while youre hiding and also the thr the uh um the like demonstrating their power and then the "oh now theres fear" or like . icang remember the exact wording but nightmare does that after dragging the finger along your neck that permanetly changed me and aldo the fire lady did that with john and i oh my god just the casual show of hkw little powrr you have in that situation and the casual enjoyment of what that realization is doing to you it drives me MAD. okay im good.

tim is. they act like bitter exes who simply grew apart or life circumstances took them apart against their will and their last meeting went bad and they both got really mad at eachother and now they both want to just pretend it never happened because its easier but they both still care and want to at least reconcile but know that if they bring it up at all itll be a huge mess and they just want to avoid it. tim wanting to quit is him wanting to be done with all this jon included and he against his will couldnt and its like their being forced to at the very least silently come to terms with it all eventually.

he got put in as the head archivist due to sudden circumstance changes and was nervous this is a big deal this is something people are going to be using as the primary record of this things and he got really nervous from it all. he adjusts to places well and to changing social roles poorly but he does adjust. hes not as professional as jon and i like that he shows more personality with his slight pause to look over to the notes and his not out loud not believing that the aspyhxiation(?) isnt entirely true hes the kind of person that just clicks with people once he gets past his own initial nervousness i think hed be a good friend....,,...,,,

ELIAS. THAT BITCH. HES SO FUCKING RUDE TO THE GHOST LADY. HES LIKE "OH YOUR TECHNIQUES THOUGH RUDIMENTARY ARE QUITE WELL.... ON OCCASSION" LIKE THATS SO FUCKING MEAN. YOU KNOW THAT THING ON "SANDWHICHING" ADVICE LIKE OH HEY COMPLIMENT ON THING THEY DID RIGHR. HEY YOU DID THIS WRONG. COMPLIMENT O THING THEY DID RIGHT. SO THEY DONT FEEL LIKE SHIT RIGHT. HE DID THE EXACT OPPOSITE. INSULTS HER. MAKES HER FEEL BETTER. INSULTS HER. HE DID THE EVIL VERSION OF THE ADVICE SANDWHICH. AND THEN HE ASKS FOR HER HELP. I HATE HIS BITCHASS. OKAY I DONT TRUST YOUTUBERS EITHER BUT MAN YOU DONT HAVE TO FUCKING PREPARE A ENTIRE THING TO MAKE HER FEEL BAD. BITCH.

idk about martin.... i dont really have anything on him atm he is literally just some guy (positive gender neutral) 👍

okay micheal is. hes interesting. what with the deluge of information from fucking yurgen lightner avatar of the bitch and finding out hes just some guy who likes buying shit and isnt like evil incarnate its like oh no wonder micheal is like that and also since they both said the same ish stuff in different ways i have used that to put against eachother and come out with a more objective understanding of this stuff and its fascinating how its less you gain power and more the power gains you. its like there is all this existing stuff like trees lets say like you get connected to the concept of trees and can influence all trees forever and are connected to them all forever they are all part of you now and now you have to grow or die and like oh! you are essentially like a thing that is being taken on by these things and then your you gets spread across them and stretched over them and you get dilluted into them and in turn they now have some level of self understanding through connecting a human to them its fascinating!

its like how my parasitic jellyfish work they connect with someone and through doing so end up becoming a person somewhat because of that and also who rhe person used to be is lost and now these two beings have become one its so so so fascinating.

like just. oh my god they take a human mind with sapience which they dont ? have or at least cant do they cant focus on these tiny details like we can because to us their huge details its like if i connected my mind to an ant in order to understand an ant colony and send it in in order to learn about them all.

georgie is cool! i like her quite a lot shes very caring and compassionate letting jon stay with her despite their history and her saying "i know you have nowhere else to go otherwise you wouldnt have come here" AUGH making me feel things its like looking at a withering flower there once was something strong and capable and alive and now all thats left is evidence of that....

trevor <3 i still like him

okay so iknow circumstances so many ever shifting things effecting you such and such but the only variables i have for the meat guy -worked at cow factory

and

-was almost eaten by cannibal

its so funny like oh boy! i nearly got eaten by a cannibal phew im okay! time to ? fucking go to a meat processing factory specifically killing the animals before they got chopped ? like what fucking thoughts were had there lmao.

i think the astronauht guy would be fun to follow on tumblr like he just talks about how freaky it is to exist and how we live in a tiny slice of the universes history and our lives are a tinier slice id love to follow him for his posts on his thoughts id love that so much <3

[onyxgriffins]

quick and dirty cheat sheet for my guardian ocs

SCOUT

Race: Human

Gender: Trans male

Class and subclass: Hunter Nightstalker

Height: 5 ft 3

Partners: Reno and Orion

RENO 

Race: Human

Gender: Cis male

Class and subclass: Titan, D1 Defender/Striker, D2 Sunbreaker/Striker

Height: about 6 ft 6

Partners: Scout and Orion

ORION

Race: Earthborn Awoken

Gender: Cis male

Class and subclass:Warlock, D1 Stormcaller/voidwalker, D2 Stormcaller/Dawnblade

Height: about 7 ft 6

Partners: Scout and Reno