#tzuuya

[sylvaridreams]

Apropos to nothing I'm still in the year 2024 trying to nail down 2/3 of my asuras backstories and what they're doing now. (Tzuuya and Buulma.) Like I guess I know Enough about their past already but I have no idea where to take them from there. 🚶‍♂️

WHAT I KNOW...:

Tzuuya (she/they) is around 14 years older than her sister Buulma (he/her)

Tzuuya excelled in her college (which one? Idk because I don't know what field she's in. 🤗) There was a huge age gap and a general social distance between them and they were never close. While Tzuuya was schooling over in Rata Sum, Buulma lived in the city over Thaumanova with their parents. (Do you see where this is going.)

The world's fabric turned inside out, Buulma survived but their parents didn't, Tzuuya had to choose between her very promising career on an incredibly brilliant krewe, and her little sister who she'd never really known that well or been close with. They didn't have other relatives outside of Thauma. There weren't other options.

So she backed out of her career and halfway out of her college to take on raising an 11 year old progeny that she barely knew and struggled to understand or even tolerate much of the time. Buulma was sickly, viciously angry, and deeply traumatized after the destruction of their home city. She regularly did things that made no sense to Tzuuya-- she'd destroy Tzuuya's belongings, especially her college work and experiments (of whatever field Tzuu is in cuz I still Don't Know.) Buu seemed to develop a deep obsession with fire especially, burning papers Tzuuya had written just before the deadline, and starting kitchen fires on occasion. IN HINDSIGHT, a trauma response to the reactor explosion and subsequent days spent buried in burning rubble. At the time it seemed nonsensical and obviously didn't help to bridge the gap between them.

Eventually Tzuuya puzzled out something that Buulma would react well to and even talk to them about. He turned out to have a strong affinity for all manner of hideous wild beasts, and could talk her ear off about murellows and siamoths. Tzuuya quickly sought out a ranger to train their sister; within a year of the reactor explosion, Buulma had her own bow and a young murellow of his own to train. And, with her younger sibling mellowing out, Tzuuya was able to amp up their own workload; though the chance to join the krewe she wanted was long past, they were able to get in with the Priory for work instead.

by later in the timeline (start of Icebrood Saga, when Buulma is 19) I believe he's working in Taimi's backup-backup lab with the mordrem reform project. No idea what comes for her after, and I don't know what Tzuuya is doing by that point or later. so that's kind of where I get hung up... is not knowing what the future holds for either of them after a point. heh.

[sylvaridreams]

Asura Appreciation Week day 1! (Late! Real not clickbait!) Aka I was in WvW all night and forgor.

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This is Thiiyf, full name Thiiyfadora (teef-uh-dore-uh) -- my personal favorite and most developed Asura oc.

Here comes her whoooole life story for day 1!

Her parents, Prim and Spixx were both Inquest agents. Raised in one of their labs in Brisban, Thiiyf was at best ignored by their krewe. At worst, and more frequently, she was involved in their experiments as an unwilling test subject. When she was four, the lab was raided by Peacemakers and Wardens, and she was taken to Rata Sum to recover. There, her closest blood relative was located-- Laz, her mother's sister.

As time passed, Thiiyf’s memories of her childhood faded. She showed a frank disinterest in any of the colleges, or in finding a krewe. Throughout her childhood and early teen years, Thiiyfa spent much of her time with Laz's krewe, watching them work as she doodled, or exploring old and off-limits areas in Rata Sum. She began making maps as a hobby, cataloging the back routes and little alcoves all over the massive city, finding the best spots to hide from Peacemakers.

At fifteen, she knew Rata Sum like it was the back of her hand. Her maps of the city and docks showed an intense level of detail, notes about every little thing. She found herself bored once the map was completed; understimulated, she took to shoplifting and pickpocketting as a neat trick. Eventually the Peacemakers caught her, searched her bag, and confiscated the map she'd spent her youth compiling.

Devastated, she tried to forget about cartography and her magnum opus. It would return to bite her again when the sylvari firstborn Trahearne showed up at Laz's apartment, seeking a skilled cartographer for an upcoming mission to the resurfaced country of Orr. This is how she made first contact with what would eventually become the Pact.

In the meantime, Thiiyf began training as a mesmer, having never taken an interest in battle before that moment. Her mentor, a slightly unsettling charr, pushed her to discover new talents within herself. Together with her charr mentor, Gunpowder, and another asura, Tzuuya, Thiiyf and co attempted to take down the Inquest lab colloquially known as The Funhouse, where Thiiyf blacked out from stress. Starting to tally things up, she made a note to ask Laz about the Inquest later.

Sometime after, Laz's krewe was slaughtered by Inquest, leaving her as the sole survivor. Thiiyf chose this point to question Laz about the Inquest, and her aunt admitted that she had, at some point, been involved with them. Further prodding revealed that her sister, Prim, had led her down that path, and she'd warned Laz not to show her face again if she wanted to keep her other eye. The revelation that her parents were Inquest shook Thiiyf, as the grainy memories and nightmares she'd been ignoring started to make more and more sense.

In the meantime, feeling she couldn't trust Laz at the moment, Thiiyf ran. She headed for the Grove, further east than she'd ever been, where she would encounter the future Pact Commander, a newly awakened sapling named Alba, and reconnect with Trahearne.

From there, she mainly supported things from the sidelines as the Pact was formed. She was sixteen by the time the newly formed alliance moved on Orr, and worked with five other cartographers to scout and catalogue the warped landscape. By the time Zhaitan fell, there were only two of them left.

Between Zhaitan's death and Lws2, she visited home and her physician, worried about hair loss and fainting spells. Things didn't look good. After years of dormancy, the results some experiment performed on her in her childhood had suddenly started to flare up. It was estimated that she might have ten years, if she was lucky. After some grieving, she decided that she wanted to get back to work. Better to go down fighting for the cause than sick in some bed somewhere.

She mostly stuck with Alba after that, accompanying him as he traveled. She was involved in mapping again, this time the heart of maguuma as the Pact struggled for its foothold there. The tragedy unfolding around her was a lot to bear, and by the time Mordremoth was dead, she had made a promise to herself to leave the Pact. She didn't want to spend her ten years in warzones, flinching from every sound, surrounded by dead and dying--ten if she was lucky.

She left while Alba was in a severely emotionally vulnerable state, having killed Trahearne, and didn't allow herself to look back. As a result, they didn't communicate for several years. These days they send the occasional friendly but emotionally distant letter, but haven't seen each other in person since.

After leaving Alba and the Pact, Thiiyf returned to Rata Sum. Full of resentment and angry at her time limit, she organized a group to help her settle her past. Knowing that Spixx was already dead, she tracked Prim to the Shiverpeaks, where she cornered her, seeking revenge. She realized, meeting for the first time in almost 15 years, readying for a killing blow, that while killing Prim would be justified, it wouldn't change anything for her condition and lifespan. She spared her birth mother's life, but captured her to hand her over to the Peacemakers later.

These days, she's retired from adventuring. She lives in Brisban, in a cottage near a sylvari village with Laz, who never joined another krewe. She's given up real map making for the fantasy variety, drawing maps for adventure novels, and occasionally gets to travel to cool places as a result of the job. (Most recently, she met with Goldclaw in Cantha to discuss his next big project.)

As SotO begins, she's on a work-vacation in Kessex Hills, taking inspiration from the wizard's tower and the village below for her next project... so we will see how that might unfold for her :)

[sylvaridreams]

Pinned post time apparently!

My name's Dama, I'm 29, he/him, and I've been playing GW2 since 2014 (roughly end of LWS1.) My main blog is @damazcuz and that's where I follow and interact from.

I've been away from the game and the community for a few years while between capable PCs, and now I'm back and able to catch up! I solo most of the time, and most of what I post here is art, screenshots, and writing.

Currently: EOD ACT 3 BABY!

My main is Alba Moonseeker, Sylvari ranger. ↓ I also have something like a dozen alts. If you ever happen to see me running around feel free to say hi. (NA Server, UN Danbo.1982)

(Alts: Avuncular Bourbon, Thiiyf, Helvetica Grotesk, Aeris Windkin, Alixandira, Inoxiam, Eldulis, Arylwenn, Auruim, Gunpowder Gelatiine, Buulma, Tzuuya.)

[sylvaridreams]

Ok some thoughts:

1. This guy is blissfully unaware of The Commander. On some level he knows there is a The Commander somewhere in the world who's done something (?) of some mild significance. Don't recall what it was or where or when. Alba's fighting for his life way over there and Letnya is like why is that guy being so loud. Let's ignore him.

2. He and Tryllwenn used to date. Ended on bad terms. Now they have mad petty beef. Neither of them can quite vocalize Why they're squabbling. At this point it's the principal of the thing. Other than this I think Letnyaga has zero connection to Alba and Co. and doesn't know who any of them are.

3. He's a thief of various specializations because I have a new staff and rifle I wanted him to use and also heck why not make him a specter while I'm at it. Not above using seemingly shady or supposedly underhanded means! :3 *picks your pocket* *picks your pocket* *picks your pocket*

4. I think he's into science, MAYBE. I'm tossing around the idea of him kicking it with Buulma and Tzuuya. Maybe he's their lab assistant. Goes and collects samples for them. Gets to pour colorful liquids back and forth between beakers as a treat. :D

4b. Used to help Tryllwenn with inventions. Strangely everything he helped with blew up. When questioned, Letnya said "uhm, ehh..... 9>w<9 BUUEEEEEH." and stuck his tongue out and bonked his head.

5. Overall comes off as kind of clueless and airheaded. Is that an act? Ummmm. *picks your pocket* anyway I think he can serious up when it's needed. Otherwise it's :3 time all the time.

He looks funny. You think he looks funny, right? But he lives his whole life. So you have to be respectful and shit. I think this plant can growing in the ground. Transgenderly.

I'll post about him at Some Point I'm sure but uh this is Letnyaga

He is green.

[sylvaridreams]

Now I realize it’s been (checks calendar year) some time since I last posted content, but may I present: Tzuuya?

very old sketch but I was in the “clean up old work” mood, and then it became... a whole thing.