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[taireierre]

LESBIAN BEAM GO!!!!!

[wingsthephoenix]

oc-tober day 11 - symbolism: sun and moon

hi!! i keep being busy but! this day i have. a really important example to talk about!! my first ever d&d character, lydia archana!!

when i first made lydia back in 2017, it was using stats from the most notoriously homebrew d&d wiki there was: https://www.dandwiki.com/ . she was still surprisingly tame for what i could've done; she's effectively a paladin to the left, being an angel (race) solar knight (class).

she worshipped pelor, god of the sun, for 2,000+ years.

and that was all she knew.

until within the campaign she learned that she also had a connection to the moon goddess, selune; her mother was, in fact, an angel of pelor, while her father was an angel of selune. sealed within a locket she thought was a pendant was a moonstone ring, a note from her father, and a picture of lydia as a baby with her parents.

and then she put the ring on.

and promptly had an existential crisis. (/silly)

from then on, as a bonus action, she could put on the ring and switch to being a lunar knight, using the same resource pool her class gave her for her abilities to cast from a small array of spells she had at her disposal. she was enforcing this new connection she had w the moon goddess, along w meeting her herself on at least one or two occasions in the name of saving the world.

and then she became an eclipse knight under the light of the eclipse and got really sick buffs that i didn't use. for myself .at all oops HSKDLJHSDLKGHSDGKJLSDH BUT LIKE. ECLIPSE LYDIA!!!!! THE SUN AND THE MOON. IT WAS SO SICK I WAS SO HAPPY I'D BEEN WANTING IT FOR MONTHS SHE GOT TWO PAIRS OF WINGS LOOK

(art by @/towserdrake on twitter, commissioned for me by my partner @madbox <3)

and then, three years later at the start of the next arc, she contacted her gods in the name of attempting to grant her best friend and party member, tobias, extra protection before entering his hometown of vard.

and pelor effectively denied her, saying tobias already was to ascend to angelhood after his death and that he couldn't protect the man any further.

and then lydia questioned him on this,

resulting in (what he assured was temporary) a revoking of her sun powers.

(above art by @psikind , below picrew can be found here )

to speedrun the rest, she's spent the entirety of this arc in a religious crisis, questioning her god of over two milennia and gaining a new perspective on her goddess of . like. five years. and also realizing that even after being told selune was bound to his will, selune sent an angel to vard with a sending stone as backup. she was still doing what she could.

the moon will sing a song for her. im so normal do you understand this. her arc has literally gone from divinity vs. humanity (speedrun: she's a combat medic and has an image of perfection she tries to maintain but instead she's human and learning to loosen up with the party and there's so much to this i'd have to write an entire separate post. which i might do at some point it deserves a goddamn essay)

(art by @sparklelight3 )

hi im really normal did you know that