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I'm just here to scream about GW2, that's about it. There will be no organization. All is chaos. I will finally reblog things maybe. Fear me (also my main blog is loonlynxshenanignans, I'm in NA as Autumnleaf.9410 if you wanna say hi, and the AO3 account is Autumnleaf2203 which has a good bit more Character Lore(tm))

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Official character list

Zori Sunblade

She/her, Charr, ranger-soulbeast, first commander (pact ommander, commander of tyria), one of Aurene's champions. Raised ash legion, then joined the priory before becoming full-time pact commander up until events in LWS3/PoF required someone else to take charge. Incredibly empathetic, wants very badly to rest but unable to shake the feeling of responsibility for Tyria's wellbeing. Very small by charr standards. Orange. Good at leatherworking and huntsman crafting

Seremnis

She/her, Sylvari, necromancer/reaver(as of certain EoD events), second pact commander (young lich of elona, commander of elona), Aurene's other champion. Night bloom, was very close with several firstborns in saplinghood, joined order of whispers, went somewhat awol to participate in lws1, lws2 and then HoT events, took over commander position for Zori (kind of sort of willingly) after certain lws3/pof events, resolved to be co-commanders a bit after zori's return, in lws4. Still figuring out her place and worth outside of her Wyld Hunt. Specific brand of necromancy allows her to return to shroud instead of dying, rending her effectively immortal, though still very, very low-damage (tends to bait enemies into attacking her, very, very high pain tolerance as a result of this). Very good chef. Very passionately not a fan of (most) dragons and gods. Small.

(Bonus post-EoD shroud form ref)

Enkkioh

She/her, Asura, warrior-spellbreaker-bladesworn, third commander (commander of cantha), wayfinder. Grew up mostly normal in rata sum, except that she decided to adopt a very-far-from-home charr cub as a sister and would not take criticism about that. Banned from Rata Sum soon after graduating from Synergetics due to an altercation with a councillor over her sister, joined the vigil immediately after. The only one to canonically experience the personal story dungeon storyline. Also the primary protagonist for most of lws1 plot. Involved in the background of remaining story (excepting some shenanigans post-HoT and mid-LWS4) up to icebrood saga, where she officially joined dragon's watch and was promoted to official commander soon after. All 3 commanders act as co-commanders in EoD, after which zori is going to try very very hard to retire from the position and rest (she will not succeed). Canonical SoTo wayfinder (and bonking-isgarren-with-a-cardboard-tube-er). Enjoys researching and developing weaponry- equally a fan of learning magic and weaponry from other cultures and races in orcdsr to also incorporate it (as respectfully as she can manage) into her design. Huge fan of trahearne and the pale reavers. Bites.

Lovi Leyspark

She/her, Charr, engineer-holosmith. The charr sister enkkioh adopted. Learned synergetics alongside Enkkioh up until leaving a couple years before graduation, intending to see if she'd be more welcome in iron legion. Soon decided she hated it there and left to (steal) make a secret volcano lab in/around fireheart rise, in which she could seclude herself to create weapons and lab-defense systems (equipped with backdoor monitering so she can ensure they're being used responsibly), and also from this base of operations antagonize the local flame legion. (escaped from flame legion as a cub. Her claws are prosthetic- and also a joint design between her and enkkioh, equipped with sensors, programmable transmitters, and small lasers fit for intricate tech work, as well as cloaking capability.) Does research primarily into leyline magic since it's discovery (attempting to coin the term 'leylime' for the type of holed rock commonly found around leyline hubs). Generally rather blunt and brash, but doing pretty okay on average given the circumstances. (...unsure exactly when she starts interacting with dragon's watch, but her and enkkioh remain siblings, besties, and a force for menacing politicians for funsies). Bites as a fear response.

Varza Snapspark

He/him, Charr, guardian-willbender. Lovi's littermate. Grew up in flame, but did not forget his sister, and honestly kind of genuinely hates it there. Officially, acts as a messenger between flame camps and warbands. Unoficially, smuggles as much info (and as many charr) out of flame as he can. Generally tries to keep his identity (and combat abilities) seperated between these two tasks. (Full of anxiety most of the time. Very fast. Cheetah flavored.) Has an emotional-support jackal that is generally compacted into normal dog-size, but is fully capable of becoming a full-sized jackal for doing jackal things.

Strea Starmane

She/her, Charr, elementalist-catalyst. Zori's dame. Olmakhan, excelled primarily in fire magic in youth, causing some tension between her and the rest of the community. This also further spurred a highly adventurous spirit, and she eventually decided to undertake the massive ocean trek to mainland tyria. Discovered a legion warband and (wettest cat alive) Vallus, decided "I will fix him", and proceeded to genuinely try to do so until the warband's leader decided to abandon her to die in the brand.

(This is not the end. Fic ain't written yet tho)

Generally kind, but incredibly stubborn. Refuses to take literally anything lying down, ever.

Amiaza the Sandborn

She/they, Charr, ranger-soulbeast-scourge?. Strea's sister, olmakhan. Soulbonded semi-permanently to a sand lioness named Sandy. Stayed on the isles long after Strea left, gradually self-isolating until she lived alone in the upper forests. Eventuallymleft to explore Elona for a while, where her magic shifted to function closer to a scourge than a rannger, before eventually meandering back to Sandswept Isles.

Still mostly capable of holding a decent conversation despite the self-imposed isolation, should she feel the need to, but very much prefers Creature Vibes.

Valoaukko

He/they, Sylvari, thief-daredevil-specter. Noon-bloom. Was recruited very early on into the astral ward after coming across one of their hunters, genuinely enjoyed being there. Realized something was going Horribly Wrong at the start of HoT, insisted he go to try and help, and proceeded to near-immediately lose himself to the whispers on arrival. Came back to after HoT, significantly altered morphologically, and with absolutely no memories except his name, as well as continuing, significant memory issues. Fought to survive for a year or so in the jungle before sneaking onto a ship of local pirates, and quickly joining the crew. (He very much enjoys the cannons.) Has recently (undecided on how recently) rediscovered the Ward, and has rejoined it, and is still, slowly, re-learning things about the sylvari he used to be...

Regularly steals things, regardless of actual value. Does this out of compulsion, because it's funny, and/or as a physical reminder of someone he's met, enjoyed the company of, and wants to remember. A bit socially stilted, but generally optimistic and exciteable. Doing his best.

Ferret shaped.

Lasca the Blaze

She/her, Charr, warrior-beserker. Grew up in flame legion, smuggled out by Varza. Determined to make a name for herself out of sheer spite,,proceeded to gather a ragtag crew of other misfits and commandeer an aetherblade ship, becoming an airship pirate captain. Regularly takes in new crew members, determined to genuinely earn their loyalty. Enjoys ransacking flame legion camps, inquest bases, consortium operations... really any large entity that's been cruel to someone in her crew. Has never once managed to stockpile funds between ship upgrade and repair, ammenities for the crew, food, entertainment for the crew, cool shiny things, fun treats for the crew... therapy for the crew... incredibly chaotic good vibes. Will fight your primus behind the tyrian-equivalent-of-an-applebees with relatively little provocation. Will bite.

Olirus Quickshot

She/they, Charr, thief-deadeye. Grew up in iron legion, grew somewhat famous for quick and accurate shooting with double-pistols. Decided to join the vigil out of a genuine want to help save Tyria from the elder dragons. Horribly, horribly traumatized by the events of HoT, to the point where they could no longer accurately weild a pistol, and left the vigil. Started using a rifle and focusing on long-range accuracy instead. Managed to find a job guarding prized racing raptors in elona. While on the job, managed to contract a necromantic curse that slowly ate away at the flesh of one arm. Decided to cut her losses there, since she didn't really like the operation much anyways, and left, taking her favorite raptor with her.

They have now decided to fully retire from fighting of any sort, and are attempting to get into the candy/sweet making buisiness in order to continue to be able to afford food, shelter, raptor feed, and any kind of treatment for her arm... currently still running off of vigil pay, and the pay she got from the raptor facility.

Taggi the Dragonfly

They/them, asura, mesmer-chronomancer. Currently being paid to help Olirus deal with the curse; capable of keeping the rot from spreading further via chronomancy while they search for a more permanent solution. However, they much prefer to use these funds for further researching the various flying insects of Tyria, especially the dragonfly. They are trying to find a link between dragonflies and the Dragons, as well as how to utilize the dragonfly's flight and vision capabalities in order to make themself the Perfect Hunter. Results have... varied. Had been using their insect powers to just outright steal funds for their research before being offered this probably-legal method instead.

(...there's a couple more, I'm just not really sure what I'm doing with their characters yet. To be added later maybe. Along with reference images and links to other things, perhaps...)

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ME AND WHO

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when he's right he's right

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Finished latest voe episode, have some thoughts

ok so like i made a post when the first episode was out where i went 'hey wouldn't it be fun if the 3 main inquest actually knew there were 3 commanders for once and like actually Did research to know about them and ended up each having a favorite and kuda's favorite is seremnis in that she wants to study her under a microscope like a bug'

so like. still that actually im still on that, esp bc enkkioh actually was the one to kill kudu and kuda would probably know that despite enkkioh not actually being the commander at the time bc aforementioned 'they actually did research for once'. heck i can lowkey imagine vloxx being the one to tell her bc thats like, such easy bait tbh???

(enkkioh absolutely wouldn't try to hide it, either. Can 100% imagine her during the negotiation going 'wait. Oh Kudu's your father??? Haha yeah i did do that. So how about you give us the info or I put you down like a dog, too.' with, uh, cannon accurate results.

(And with Seremnis to her side going 'Enkkioh. You know I respect you as a commander. You are ass at negotiations.')

...But.

But like.

Between wanting to Study seremnis for Science (bc what is With that mix of dragon magic (mordremoth), Dragon Magic (aurene), and is that? Is that a remnant of Void????? And how do you get a necromancy shroud to work like that. What do you mean 'it's just always been like that' you don't get to just be born a lich????). And the fact that she and Enkkioh and Canach and Lovi have all actively been trying to make sure that doesn't happen. Which means It would, therefore, be an easy way to actually get to Enkkioh.

like

idk

...and like the only question at that point is when and how. bc in all likelihood seremnis just isn't travelling alone anywhere atp. and i do think it would also be fun if lovi was there,,,

im just saying kuda would, perhaps, have several reasons to put seremnis in the torment nexus (ie. Deeply Unethical Experimentation(tm)),,,,,, which conveniently would also by transitive property put enkkioh in her own torment nexus of 'how tf did i let this happen again'. And could also play into the fact that seremnis is just kinda chronically mildly unhappy with how she looks, not even in any specific way just in that bc of how her magic works she doesn't have any signs of scarring or aging or any visual indication of the life she's lived and experiences she's had, and for the most part aside from, like, clothing choices and the Ears (and longer fangs but she still hasnt noticed those), she looks the same as she did when she first stepped out of her pod. (And also lowkey she's always been torn between kinda genuinely enjoying looking Cute sometimes. And the allure of becoming Creechur).

And. Like. How much would she be willing to endure to Change That. How much worse does it make it if a part of her wanted Change for the sake of it, if this is what it Costs. (What if Kuda gives her the option of 'I'm Going to break you, irreversibly, to suit my needs. But out of a begrudging respect, I'll let you choose How I do it')

(Y'know. That Lovi.)

(Y'know. Lovi Leyspark. Enkkioh's adopted charr sister who grew up in Rata Sum. Who would have effectively graduated top of her class with Enkkioh if she didn't leave the city shortly prior. Who, during her time alone in her Volcano Lab, when she wasn't busy harrassing flame legion, used the fact that she is Chronically Underestimated in her magitech skills, especially by the inquest, for being charr, in her fun little hobby where she creates a scam lab security installation company that works incredibly cheap to install security measures that she can easily backdoor through, gain access to security feeds and controls and data once it's integrares that she, through really laughably minimal maneuvering, can gain complete access to and control over. which makes it just so much easier to absolutely demolish the place from the inside out when she stops by later, if she even has to be there in person to do it.)

(also between kuda ordering that they 'dont have to keep the bodies intact this time' and 'project 5388' i am also hoping for horrific monstrous biomanced sebb. that being said i dont think seremnis left that body intact, so, uh,,,,,,,,)

.....anyway as far as. everything else goes, uh, good cool expansion ep, the voice acting was stellar im intensely intrigued by where the story is going the map is gorgeous and RIVER OTTERS we have RIVER OTTERS NOW and theyre so CUTE i LOVE THEM. also putting isgarren in one of those rock tumblers. funky old man. if enkkioh was not busy being torment nexus'd she'd be proud of his character development rn.

(as it is she is like 5 inches away from strangling vloxx at all times. still extremely funny 2 me that she's the commander this expansion too bc she's the Only one out of the three who'd react like this. Unintentionally designed to piss off Her Specifically. Stop Being So Vague. What do you Mean you dont know???? Get tf out here and make an Actual Plan Right Now or she Swears to Alchemy- (i imagine her saying most cannon lines through grit teeth tbh,,, zori probably Would actually be that distraught. but zori's not here, much to sebb's dying rage))

[somekindofweasel]

What's your Commander's least commander-y trait?

[shirokoi]

I have some strong feelings about the charr intro quest in Guild Wars 2.

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today in late-night 'ok but what would happen if this character survived actually' considerations: cinder steeltemper

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ok still thinking abt this apparently

thinking abt. timeline where seremnis manages to snatch cinder after she gets stabbed under the cover of zori Nearly Killing Smodur The Same Way She Killed Caudecus via necromancy shenanigans. manages to recruit reeva into helping her stabalize cinder (without seremnis really even explaining who she is besides someone who knows zori well enough to imitate the noises she makes. and also someone who thinks smodur might already be dead tbh she wouldn't be surprised) bc she cant administer first aid and also keep enough magic flowing to keep cinder from Just Fully Dying like she absolutely would have otherwise (which, thankfully(?) they're in an Actove Warzone. lotta excess life force to use in an actove warzone.)

them switching off places trying to make sure cinder recovers between finding zori and taking care of commander stuff without making it obvious cinder's still alive bc there's a Lot of people around who would very much not like that. them having to figure out how to keep cinder from, like, moving, at all, if she wakes up early bc this wound shouldn't have been recoverable in the first place and reopening it would be Incredibly Bad. cinder only managing to recover enough to really do much of anything Well after ryland has Made Poor Choices but not recovered enough to like, actually stop him, not sure if knowing she didn't die would actually help at this point because. gestures vaguely ryland what even Is all that what did you Do. this is the worst possible decision you could have made.

seremnis just. tactifully forgetting to ever mention it at all in the interest of letting cinder do whatever she wants atp because anyone else seremnis knows will just get More stressed about it and would probably hound cinder about it and just... ehhhh. she's been through enough.

reeva still dropping by to see how she's doing on occasion to make sure the wound hasnt like, gotten worse, and also to make sure cinder isnt going to do anything Wildly Stupid. them kind of managing to bond over losing warbands and reeva keeps starting to think 'mn. i should tell zori about this. maybe she could join the band' and then cinder (grew up aound bangar) parrots smth Incredibly Wildly Offensive that reeva (agreed to convince the band to fight flame legion instead of humans bc zori cried anout it as cubs) just. fully blue screens over as she decides 'oh burn me no zori cannot meet her right now they would Attack each other'

(....reeva finally mnaging to force zori to hang out w her and the band more a while after eod. and reeva (grew up in a definitely, relatively, progressive-ish part of ash, but still has never really ventured outside the legions to any meaningful extent as far as interacting with other races) says something Accidentally Wildly Incorrect, and zori ('i need to learn everything about every other race and culture all the time bc if i get smth wrong Tyria Will Implode' and also Priory Historian) takes in a long breath through her teeth. Which used to mean 'i think i need to tackle you now' but, as reeva will learn, Now means 'im going to need you to sit down for an hour long (minimum) power point presentation')

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more character lore: caithe edition

under cut for Long. incredibly long. so so incredibly long you're gonna wanna sit down probably

ok so like. ive already written a couple fics and probably have more fics i havent even posted yet but caithe has been rotating in my mind at mach speeds ever since i was reminded she exists again like a week ago (this happens semi regularly. hence Several Fics abt it)

So. like. caithe's relation to seremnis is. like. lowkey a Foundational Element of Seremnis' Character And Development. and therefore it is. just kind of Real Complicated in a whole lotta ways?

bc like. Caithe is kind of just. Assigned Mentor At Dream to seremnis at quite frankly One Of The Lowest Points in caithe's life if we're being real??? like. Post faolain betrayal, post destiny's edge breakup and pre-reconcilliation (also speaking of- been playing thru some earlier stuff w new peeps getting in2 the game and having played the story dungeons Recently, twice, i feel like we gotta start giving caithe Way More Credit for like. still trying at all. Like there's a good amount of loneliness and desperation and it Isn't Working but it is Not for lack of trying,,,)

but. that is. Not a great place to be in. and then Also have to try and mentor a sapling, which you did Not ask for, for the record

And for Seremnis specifically, it feels... pointed, that the new sapling shares the same hunt she does. Except the sapling can't fail, like Destiny's Edge did (like Riannoc did), because the sapling, apparently, Can't Die, the only currently known alternative to completing your wyld hunt.

But Caithe can't bring that up with Mother, because doubting Mother right now with what Faolain keeps trying to pull her into feels like too far a slide to even Consider, and she wouldn't dare voice it to the sapling because. Well that's literally a sapling, Caithe can't put that kind of weight on her shoulders. So all she can do is try to ignore it until Trahearne returns from Orr and she can confide in him (and. Yeah it's not much different from his perspective, either, because This Is Also Another Necromancer, and now she's helping regain Riannoc's Sword,,,)

And even beyond that... Caithe didn't intend to be a mentor, never took the steps to learn how to be one, barely knows how to talk to the vast majority of other sylvari- and. Again, this is Probably The Lowest She's Ever Been.

...But that's not the sapling's fault. So she does try to be a good mentor, anyways, because no one else will (the only other sylvari the sapling seems to talk to is Malomedies, who, while he's certainly much better as a mentor, won't leave the grove- and it feels cruel to ask him to, even for this). She tries to teach the sapling things that will keep her safe. (Her warnings about the nightmare court are genuine thoughts, but... also, Caithe wants this sapling to keep as wary of the court as possible. Once, she would've liked to believe Faolin was above using a sapling, just to pull her back in, but... no, she can't chance it.)

...And in these first months? as far as Seremnis is concerned, Caithe (and later Trahearne) are The role models. The Pale Tree said they were her mentors, and the Pale Tree is infallible, which means her mentors are, too, which means Everything they say is utterly and completely true, and Everything that happens was Meant to happen, for the good of Tyria.

....But even then, there were... hints, of disconnect. Something she... wanted, but didn't have. A sense of personhood beyond the mission. A sense of belonging among her own people. (She still remembers, to this day, the faces, the rampant shared fear among the other saplings, the first time she ever died and came back. She was barely a day out of the dream before the number of other sylvari she felt she could possibly, truly relate to dropped to two).

Someone to confide in without expectation, someone to just relax around, someone she could ask for a hug, someone she could so much as lean against without them flinching, with enough consistency that she learned to take holding hands as the heights of allowable physical contact, and- (it wasn't their fault, it wasn't their fault that she was made needing something they could not give, it was not their fault that they didn't know what she never told them. It wasn't fair to them to be mad about it, it wasn't fair to blame them. She doesn't. She can't. (It wasn't fair to her, either. Not that she'll ever admit to that.))

...But for that first while, up until lws1, whenever she felt that disconnect? She ignored it. Pushed it down. If all of this was Meant To Happen, and she was Made For This, and the pale tree Didn't Make Mistakes, then clearly the discomfort just. Wasn't real. Or it would fade. Or maybe it was just normal and everyone else also felt like this all the time and was dealing with it fine, so she should just push through it, and maybe she could, just, ask about it once she'd completed the task she was Made To Do, while she... uh. Figured out... what her purpose was. After she did that. Yeah.

...and between trahearne and caithe they both... kind of catch on to what all is goin' on there? but. Caithe outright does not know how to help with Any of that, and while Trahearne has a vague idea and also Tries, pretty soon he's been pushed into position of Marshall and doesn't have time for much of Anything else, and Caithe is trapped in Story Dungeon Torment Nexus: each of your only friends Hate You and Also Each Other edition, and does not think having a breakdown in front of Seremnis will help with. anything. bc quite frankly that is the only thing she feels up to right now.

(...And, for the record, she does not in fact have a breakdown in front of Seremnis; in au, Enkkioh's actually the one who goes thru the story dungeon bits, which. Out of the 3 she was probably the best equipped mentally to handle All That with any measure of calm, steady persistance, so. probably for the best;; neither seremnis nor zori would have handled that well w the state they were in at the time)

...but by the time, after zhaitan's defeat, caithe actually has a chance to do anything about any of that, seremnis has already just... sorta stopped talking to any of them really at all- and then (from almost everyone's perspective) she's also just sort of... missing, for most of lws1.

(...Demmi knew. Seremnis told Demmi everything. Demmi was the only person who wasn't already on that damned airship that ever got to know what happened there. But the moment Seremnis had recovered enough to leave, she'd already left. 'to get rid of the evidence'. Demmi didn't see her again until after the jungle, and then...)

...And by the time Seremnis gets to the jungle- well. She'd met The Group at scarlet's old abode and figured she should stick with them after, make sure they didn't find anything they shouldn't... she did consider telling them everything, in case it'd help with the search (she did want to help, after all, especially since Zori was also there), but- with the way they talked about scarlet, and the way they talked about aerin... she couldn't trust them to trust her if she did that. The mask had to stay on.

...But even then. Even though, by that point, she was starting to realize the firstborn weren't perfect, that the pale tree wasn't perfect... she still trusts Caithe implicitly. She assumes Caithe leaves a dagger behind when she takes the egg as a sign she has a plan, and had left it behind for Seremnis to take after Seremnis had lost her own dagger. (...And it was last-minute, and more of an apology/expression of concern (because how had seremnis lost her dagger??) than assurance, but Caithe did leave it behind on purpose. Seremnis still has it in present-day.) Seremnis continues to believe Caithe has a good plan, even if she doesn't know what it is, and no one else knows what it is, as they enter the jungle, when they find Caithe, after they get the egg back- really at no point is she dissuaded from the assumption tbh. Especially because she absolutely cannot bring it up, ever, with how the rest of the group is reacting to it; in the jungle especially (with how close she really was to falling to the dragon for most of the trek), she already considers herself on the thinnest ice possible; she can't let them think she's like scarlet, or aerin, or now like caithe. (Which sucks. it sucks so bad because she wanted to be like caithe for so much of her life. A large part of her still wants to. But every time she's told caithe that, caithe winces, so... she stopped telling caithe that.)

And Zori knows... some things. She knows how Seremnis feels about Caithe, if not exactly why. She knows exactly how poorly Seremnis has been handling the dragon's influence, and as the only person left that was close to Trahearne and that Zori can plausibly guarentee is actually alive, is outright unwilling to abandon her. Canach also knows how bad it got, though they never actually talked about it, and every way he supported Seremnis through it was subtle enough that Seremnis only realized it in hindsight, and Canach certainly never asked Seremnis about any of the rest of it. (...Even if she ended up telling him small pieces of it anyways.)

(...And Demmi had clocked the sheer amount of Touch Starved and Poorly Socialized contained in this plant pretty much immediately, and admittedly was mostly just using it to her advantage to bribe Seremnis into helping with some things at first, but... after claw island they did grow genuinely close- and, yeah, Demmi knew it probably wasn't great that she was the sole person Seremnis trusted with everything, but, like... they were whispers. Who else could it be?) (...And Demmi was shot by her own father.) (And Demmi died in Seremnis' arms, too fast to save even with every last bit of extra life force in the building, in Seremnis herself. Slow enough that her father died first. Slow enough to ingrain Demmi's last words into Seremnis' memory more clearly than anything else Demmi had ever said, clearly enough to play on loop years later whenever Seremnis considers trusting anyone else like that again.)

...But with Caithe, that's where things sort of... settle. Seremnis wants to be like caithe. Can't, because she'll never be good enough. Also can't want to be Caithe, because every time Caithe interacts with Dragon's Watch she has to justify her existence there, and if Seremnis becomes too much like Caithe they'll make Seremnis justify herself, too, and Seremnis can't do that. Not honestly, at least. And Caithe has known something's off, continues to know something's off, but doesn't know how to fix it- and even when she has the time and energy to try and figure things out, Seremnis doesn't, or at the very least can't find a good excuse to sneak off from the rest of the group long enough to have a conversation away from listening ears. And even if they could, what would they even say...? ...But neither of them can find it in themselves to be angry at each other about any of it. Seremnis would still argue it was never Caithe's fault, just... poor circumstances. Caithe would argue the same for Seremnis, if Seremnis ever actually managed to tell her about any of it. Seremnis is... pretty sure an actual argument between them would just... break her, in part because, despite everything, Caithe's opinion of her still matters more to her than anyone else's. And as long as they don't talk, she... doesn't know what that is. And if she doesn't know what it is, at least she doesn't know it's disappointment... (...It's not. Caithe has no idea what she's done to earn that kind of place in Seremnis' mind, but Caithe's as proud of her as she could be of anyone. Much more than that, she wants, desperately, a better life for her. She just... doesn't know what that would look like, or how to help her get there...)

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today in late-night 'ok but what would happen if this character survived actually' considerations: cinder steeltemper

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WEEKLY QUESTION:

What's your favorite song from the soundtrack?

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so like overall i love the entire HoT and EoD soundtrack, and fear not this night, and a world without you. However My favorite soundtracks that i keep getting excited whenever they appear on The Playlist (tm) are Dragonflight from lws4 and Primordus Rising from the icebrood saga,,, Dragonflight gets props bc it was like. the first ost i had on a playlist. But ohhhhhh Primordus Rising, the instrumentation, the 7/8 time signature,,, it's the most fitting theme for an elder dragon of fire and destruction it sounds like those string instruments are being tortured it's great and i love it 10/10 can i please have it on bandcamp

[megalomari]

this is so true im so sorry

[mystery-salad]

Let’s Have A Talk About Canach

Canach is a character you can’t possibly not know about in the gw2 fandom and game, he shows up everywhere and regardless of how good or bad the opinion is, everyone has some sort of thoughts on the guy. He does not fade into the background. And he is, at his core, the best handled and nuanced antagonist-turned-friend I’ve seen in a game.

And that is because he cares deeply. He cares so deeply and intensely about everything and everyone he can find room for, no matter how much he’s been hurt or ridiculed or insulted or talked down to. And through that caring he stumbles a lot, but he learns over time to handle it better, to the point that he becomes a valued and trusted friend.

Let’s start at the beginning.

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[mystery-salad]

Comes with a lovely little additional piece from @ascalonianpicnic that’s a very handy followup read to this!

[necromanticsoul]

Go ahead, make your OC the sibling/child/friend/whatever of an important canon character. Ship your OC with a canon character. Its fandom, its posts on social media/fanfic/fan art. Go for it, have fun, make up your own headcanons.

We're all just here to have fun.

[tekunoraizu]

FUCKKKKKKK what if something bad happened and I forgot to worry about it

[geyfrog]

*puts my hand on your shoulder* Don’t worry, I have your back. We’re gonna turn this crisis into a crwaswas

[axe-trio-commanders]

More character loreposting: braham edition

So. Seremnis honestly didn't really interact with Braham (nevermind the rest of Dragon's watch besides canach and zori) before Icebrood saga, and specifically this fic (and the follow up in chapter 14 of this... fic collection... me from 4 years ago why did you upload all of those like that. did we not know series existed.) But tldr is she got a nasty bout of hypothermia while the gang was hunting down Drakkar, and in the aftermath just. Decopided she was Going to be friends with Braham now to spite the whispers telling her not to trust him.

...She has started sending him letters when they're not actively travelling together, like the ones she sends Malomedies. Unfortunately for Braham, they're... like the ones she sends Malomedies. Short to the point of absurdity, absolutely no difference in urgency or implied worry between any piece of information contained within. (Poor guy's getting letters from her while they're in Cantha that go like 'Almost died to void infection. Got better. Doing okay with Marjory now actually. Zori got a new bird' and that's literally the whole letter. Like should he be? Worried? Should he try and visit or something????? What even is a 'void infection'???? Why does this letter come with one single, poorly made peanut butter cookie??????????? Spirits help him, all the team detectives are Also in cantha, what does this Mean)

Turns out, though, she just. Genuinely enjoys hanging out with him??? Learning about norn things, like old stories, new stories, the different constellations they recognize, visiting wolf pups and sylvan hounds, just kinda talking about stuff in general? He's just kinda. Genuinely good company, in a way that isn't. uh. exhaustingly complicated, like Most other people she regularly talks to;; Like. He doesn't Want anything from her, he isn't trying to dig at things she doesn't want to talk about, he wasn't there for her run as solo commander in Elona so he doesn't expect her to be any kind of leader- and in turn, Seremnis doesn't expect anything dramatic from him either; she genuinely did not expect to actually be friends at all. So they can just kinda... hang out. No strings, no prerequirements. It's... unexpectedly Just Kinda Nice.

(...Also fun bonus sidenote, Seremnis writes letters like that bc she mostly practiced writing letters in sending whispers correspondance, which benefitted from being short and to the point, with only exactly as much info as necessary, without any personal anecdotes. She kinda figured it's probably good enough to just. Do that, but not written in code, for personal letters, and never had to grow out of the habit. She also just... doesn't enjoy writing or reading, for the sake of it, all that much? She's perfectly literate (both in new krytan and ancient orrian, thanks to sheer osmosis from existing around Trahearne (and by extension Zori) this long), but like. It's just not something she enjoys doing or would pursue in her free time. She does, however, enjoy listening to stories- one of her favorite things is listening to, and absorbing imformation from, people yapping about pretty much anything they're passionate about. It also kind of feels like a special treat when they actually want to share that with her, specifically, instead of her just. Overhearing it)

Zori, meanwhile. Was kind of awkwardly trying to act as Official and Knowing What She Was Doing when she first met The Gang(tm) in lws2 (bc she wasn't around for lws1), but she did pretty quickly grow attached to all of them as time went on. (The argument with braham in lws3 hit her Hard, but like. Looking back, and even at the time, she couldn't really bring herself to be actually mad about it. Like... if someone had told her, after claw island, she wasn't allowed to fight Zhaitan, actually? She would have done worse. She was, however, now Even More Worried About Him, because if this was anything like Claw Island...)

...By the time they reunite in lws4, there is something... different, in how Zori interacts with both him and everyone else, that's kind of difficult to trace if you're not. Just actually empathetically bonded with her like Aurene and Seremnis,,, because she's still trying to take care of everyone, she's trying to bond with Braham and let him talk things out when she has the chance, all of which she's been doing since breaking down in HoT- it's just. Kinda off? ...Because she's kind of. Only doing it for everyone else now. And she honestly just... feels like she's lost the. Opportunity, the ability, the... something that lets her feel. Content. At peace. Which is a large part of why it makes her so much more worried when she starts to see Braham seeming to follow in her footsteps in icebrood saga; the grief, the pushing through it, the willingness to sacrifice. (The fire.) Because most of the time she knows already how to help pull other people out of their troubles- a listening ear and companionship go a long way, really, but. But if he goes as far as she has? If he becomes like her? She can't even save herself, how in torment is she supposed to help him out of that?

...And then, he. And then he just goes and seeks help. And when she comes back from Cantha (having angsted about 'failing him' whenever her thoughts strayed too far from the problems at hand), he's... better. Not perfect, not like nothing ever happened, but. Actual, noticeable, improvement.

And now she has to grapple with the fact that that's possible. That it wasn't just... over, for him. That it might not be too late for her, either. That she doesn't have to just... quietly burn out until there's nothing but dry ash (heh) left.

...What does she even... do with that...?

(...apparently, as of fic writing, the current answer is 'become exponentially more avoidant and Actively Worse until she reaches such a low that she's finally willing to accept help dragging herself back out. bc like she Did promise braham post-icebrood saga that she'd Talk About Things once the dragon cycle was over. When she. uh. kind of low key was not convinced was a time she'd survive to see. not bc she actively didn't want to survive but, like, she's not sure how she survived everything else, her chances have gotta catch up to her at some point, right? ...r. right????? ....so uh. Y'know, the conses will quence, as it were,,)

[skritt-shinies]

who up thinking about how the story was teribble to Caithe for being under the literal control of a FUCKING ELDER DRAGON vs them giving Rytlock a light slap on the wrist [if that, even] for freeing a genocidal god of his own free will just to relight a sword. LOL!!!!!

[skritt-shinies]

Like, caithe makes a mistake because of A FUCKING ELDER DRAGON!!!!!, is threatened with death, and when she tries to apologize the PC is angry with her a year after it happened. rytlock makes a mistake and is forgiven instantly.

vs Rytlock's "confrontation"