'eyup, just makin' a new one bc the old had inaccuracies and while I could just keep updating it. I may also be procrastinating on things.
Anyway. Hi. Hello. I'm Ace (by name and nature), 30s, Scottish, they/them mostly. Sometimes it, occasionally he(hehe). Technically I work as a librarian, but realistically I largely write at the desk. and play dnd*.
ask & tag game friendly, but I can & will take an age to answer things.
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CHARACTERS
What you're going to find here is character creation like it's going out of style! It's fully [turns around, another falls out of my pockets] at any given moment. That being said, the ones I'm. most? likely to talk about are Syn and Maverick, and also the Llinos/Kaua&Jasper trifecta
SYN; a restless shapeshifter who volunteers to become a spy because actually, they're the best person for the job. Pretending to be someone else is what they do for a living. what. Also goes by Lance/Vale/Armoniel
MAVERICK; a frost dragonborn with guard dog tendencies that wanted to travel the world. And they get to do that! They just have to uhhh bite some throats out along the way
LLINOS/KAUA&JASPER; also known as the Mercenary Mages, these three are caravan guards and a tight knit family and the Kaua/Llinos angle is possibly one of the sappiest things you will ever see me write
Except I can and will bring up so many other names at any given time like sometimes I wish I was joking.
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some wip intros and the world building spiel below the cut
WIPS
Three main ones right now;
SHAPESHIFTER WIP; when things start getting tense between neighbouring countries, Syn volunteers to slip across the border and pass information back in an attempt to avert the looming war. They may have underestimated how hard it was going to be to go back when no one recognises them and their own best friend hates them (ft. pining, layers of secret identities, some not smart decision making, hand wavy world building, questionable morality, questionable spying techniques, A Certain Level of Dumbassery, some Fucked Up Shapeshifting). I'm putting it here now; THIS DOES NOT END WELL FOR ANYONE. be WARNED, but Syn DIES (allegedly) (it's complicated)
DUMB OF ASS, SNAKE OF TITS; in which Maverick leaves their monastery to see the world, ends up with a Morally Dubious Courtesan for a travelling companion, gets cursed (twice), has a slight corruption arc, but somehow still comes out better than they started and with a boyfriend to boot (ft. travelling, fights, the unwillingness to wear a shirt in camp and making that everyone else’s problem, revenge, What Sharp Teeth You Have, unquestioning kindness until it isn’t kind, overthinking but eventually manage to communicate about it, slight pining, one vaguely horny dragon) (DnD) [AO3]
MERCENARY MAGES; less a novel and more a series of vaguely connected moments in the lives of Kaua/Llinos & Jasper, going from when Llinos and Jasper met right through to. hm. Kaua and Llinos getting married...? (ft. siblings, magic, travel, sword fights, animal companions, just generally a good time, obligatory family trauma)
but also about. hm. I'm not going to count how many others occasionally get a skotch of focus but we've had; vampires, fair folk, time travel, superheroes, pirates, werecreatures, storytellers, a whole lot of wings, and technically there's even more linked in with Dumb of Ass up there.
All of the WIPS can be found on this page in chronological order
(and also I do have EtF for sale. I published it for the bit! We have kofi for ebooks and lulu for paperbacks and we don't acknowledge amazon at all)
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WORLD BUILDING
apart from the Shapeshifter WIP and the DnD stuff, all of them are in a big ol' portal fantasy collection called the Mist Worlds
There is an Overview post, a Magic post, a bit on the Mist Itself, and also the Worlds (and a page where this is collated)
some bits are incredibly handwavy and made up on the fly, other bits I have been thinking Too Much about for Too Long
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SECRET FIC THING
I've been going. uhhh Very Focused on this for the past. Year? and a bit? now and I will mention it in passing and literally nothing else but;
Dragon Age revamping of Inquisition & Veilguard to suit my accidentally-a-family-business bunch of elves, with my flatmate's. hm. enabling in the background. It's available on AO3 and is technically finished but also. There's always going to be more, isn't there?
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*technically it's wrangle a bunch of kids into playing DnD but I'll take what I can get
Being a writer is hearing a new song, going "oh no", and surfacing a week and a half later with 50,000 words added to your WIP while you have lost track of time, space, food, and social obligations
and just to like really rub it in, I walked up from the road and as I got into the village, the bus I normally get - the one I wouldn't have had to leave my flat until a whole 50 minutes later for - drove past
guy working on an artwork they knew would push them technically: what the hell why do i keep doing this wrong. am i haunted by malevolent spirits and such
my problem is i think every character concept can be improved by making them a little nonbinary. this has created a comically unrealistic concentration of People With A Weird Gender Thing Going On in my stories and i will not be stopping any time soon. im genders georg.
🗣️ Voice
1. Are they talkative?
2. Is their voice quiet or loud?
3. Do they have unusual speech patterns?
4. Do they have an accent or dialect?
5. Do they like to sing? Are they good at it?
🖐️ Hands
6. Left handed, right handed, ambidextrous?
7. Neat or messy hand writing?
8. Do they draw/paint a lot?
9. Are they good or bad at making handicrafts?
10. Do they need their hands occupied a lot? If so, what do they do?
🍛 Food
11. What's their favorite food/least favorite food?
12. Are they a picky eater?
13. Any food they avoid for reasons other than taste?
14. How are their table manners?
15. Do they rather eat too much or too little?
16. Do they prefer to eat alone or with company?
17. Are they good at cooking?
🛏️Sleep
18. Morning person or night owl?
19. Easy to fall asleep or insomniac?
20. Light or heavy sleeper?
21. Do they move around a lot while sleeping?
22. Are they used to sleeping around others or alone?
23. Do they snore?
24. Other sleeping habits?
(writes something) god this sucks so bad. this is awful. i'm the worst writer ever. this is nothing. (rereads it a while after writing it) oh dude this is fire. i'm the god of writing. (writes something again) god this sucks so bad. th
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