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vampiricsheep · 4 years ago

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mwah hello gamers it’s time to share my trans characters too

for the sake of brevity im only doing 2 but rest assured. most of them are because I seem to have the monopoly on it/its

anywaysssss *drumroll*

Banni

You know them, you love them, an alarming number of you pity them; Banni is my soulbeast from before soulbeast was released. Their pod was rattled from the boughs of the Pale Tree and fell far to split open early during the catastrophe of Mordremoth’s assault on the World Summit hosted in the grove all those years ago.

Their abrupt emergence had them released before they were really finished maturing; the consequences of which were a runty stature (4′0″ and scrawny) and a very intense connection to the dream. Confused, hurt, and intensely plugged in to the chaos and fear in the grove, they fled without thought as far from that panic hotspot as they could. Even after they got out of range of the worst of it, they kept traveling the beaten paths before them, unknowingly heading towards Divinity’s Reach.

They came across an abandoned warg pup when crossing out of Caledon and into Kessex, and while they couldn’t feel the tug of the Dream when interacting with it, they could still sense that it was in need; the pup, on his part, warmed up quite quickly to the strange creature that didn’t smell of meat. As Moss grew, so did their bond, and the two became inseparable.

I’ll spare you all the part of Banni’s story that took place in Divinity’s Reach, because it’s not pleasant. And afterwards - leading, and then defecting from, the pact - has been told enough times that I’ll skip that too. So, here’s some rapid fire fun facts about them:

1. They’re a vegetarian! They don’t eat meat or eggs either, and they don’t wear leather, just cloth or thickly grown leaves.

2. Their name was the result of mishearing someone say they looked like a bunny, and it just kinda stuck

3. They’re incredibly nearsighted, but don’t have and don’t want glasses. It’s remarkable that they’re a dead shot with a shortbow - but then, they have big ears to pick up on sounds and feel shifts in the wind, and big feet that can feel the vibrations of larger figures within a certain range.

4. You wouldn’t believe from their size and silhouette that they’re strong, but they are! You build a lot of muscle handling large animals and firing simple bows.

5. Before Jormag’s corruption touched them, they could connect with and soothe any animal; however, the ice sets most on edge now, and only Moss, who was there from the start, stays.

6. Chuka and Champawat was a gift from Rrenne, and one they hold onto dearly as a memory of past lives. They looked after one of the tiger cubs too, but the cub - now all grown up - left when they got too familiar with Jormag. Maybe he’ll come back someday.

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Fillan

Fillan’s had a rough way of it, but they’re doing all right, all things considered. Their original warwand was supposed to be a combat patrol group, but due to Fillan’s unwillingness to deliver killing blows in a skirmish they were reassigned to lumbering duty (thus the Tree- prefix). Hoping for a shot to redeem themselves, they joined the Pact during the preparations for the assault on Maguuma.

Unfortunately, things didn’t go as planned. When their airship was knocked out of the sky, the passengers tumbled down near a Saurian den, and it was a struggle to evacuate the survivors to higher ground before they were sniffed out. Fillan stayed behind to hold the animals off before rejoining the group, but in the process got their tail so heavily mangled by a vinetooth that wandered into the scuffle that it later had to be amputated only 5 vertebrae from the base.

It took a lot of time to adjust to this injury; the phantom pains and the lack of a counterbalance for their top-heavy build had them decommissioned from combat for a long time. For them, this felt like just another strike against them, another item on the growing of things that made them a failure.

Eventually, though, they tentatively rejoined the pact with the hope of slowly returning to their former status. That came to a bizarre and unexpected halt when the pact commander was AWOL (again?) and there was a desperate need for a fill-in come the assault on Kralkatorrik. They stepped up without thinking, and regretted the decision immediately, as it seemed things were only going wrong and never right.

However, yet another bizarre strike of luck would change their course when Sheep stumbled in from a tear in the mists (thanks, kralk) and stepped up without hesitation as co-commander, never really registering how different this was from the Mist War.

Now the two are taking on Ryland and Jormag with very different levels of confidence, but I have faith in them both.

Fun facts about Fillan:

1. their time as a lumberer led to them becoming really good at carving wood sculptures. They only use their claws for this!

2. They used to be pretty scrawny for a charr, but they’ve filled out nicely since their time in Maguuma! They also paid a pretty penny to have their originally lackluster horns done up into impressive spirals that they’re very careful to keep clean, healthy, and buffed.

3. Do not, under any circumstances, make the mistake of sharing sleeping space with them. They will fall asleep on top of you and crush you slowly.

#guild wars 2 #gw2 #my art #my characters #banni #fillan #this post has been delayed for four hours because my beastly housemate decided it was fine to just. fuck over the router for that long while #*while playing with circuits

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