i know i dont have to apologize for anything regarding upkeep on socmed accounts but if anyone is concerned, i am shrimply playing another game atm and it's consuming me lmao.
you know a game is good when i'm not on socmed at all. oopsie daisy.
i guess i'll reveal which game. it's cyber//punk 20//77. i'm in deep shit. by deep shit, i mean the lore and the atmosphere and the everything. it's so fun and gritty and powerful (in its messages). it's my first time playing btw.
i know i dont have to apologize for anything regarding upkeep on socmed accounts but if anyone is concerned, i am shrimply playing another game atm and it's consuming me lmao.
you know a game is good when i'm not on socmed at all. oopsie daisy.
i guess i'll reveal which game. it's cyber//punk 20//77. i'm in deep shit. by deep shit, i mean the lore and the atmosphere and the everything. it's so fun and gritty and powerful (in its messages). it's my first time playing btw.
i know i dont have to apologize for anything regarding upkeep on socmed accounts but if anyone is concerned, i am shrimply playing another game atm and it's consuming me lmao.
The Queen mentioned inviting the mc to a formal event in divinity’s reach and maybe I just wanted an excuse to quickly doodle Leo in charr themed formal wear
I think it's funny that Rytlock/Eorlos is finally a thing due to Canach finding out Ryt and Eorlos had sex once during IBS and pushed Rytlock to pursue Eorlos (Please imagine Rytlock beating around the bush about it and Canach spitting out his drink when he figures it out). It's been awkward between Ryt and Eorlos ever since then, and it's even more awkward now. Awkward, bumbling soldiers. They don't know how to navigate their newfound situationship, but they've been keeping it casual.
As for Eorlos, he needs to stop gaining lovers, he's becoming far too powerful. He's got Trahearne (Trahearne was resurrected by Eorlos' brother Dregris), Canach, Laranthir, Livia and now Rytlock--not to mention his situationship with Valgus' and Olava's sons (Valgus is one of my charr, Olava is one of my norn who are/were part of the Pact. There was also Anise but that was strictly a one time thing. and of course he had Tybalt... he was his first love. goes off to cry in a corner).
happy 9th birthday, nyra! 9 years of alysannyra ainsaph!
in honor of the 9th year of me having this account and by extension, nyra as my forever main, i'm opening a little Q&A session with nyra in asks or reblogs to this post, to answer in the next few days :>
Leonard Echowatcher is a Charr who grew disillusioned with the militaritic setting he was born in after being raised within Ascalon. The countless lives lost in a struggle against immortal enemies, and the physical reminder of how those in power doom many to restless deaths inspired him to study Necromancy, so that he may ease troubled spirits and urge them into the next cycle of life.
Leo knows change only comes to those with the strength to turn it's wheel, thus does he work within the system, becoming the change he so desperately wants for his people. Doing so, however, has put him on a path following the Commander, and getting swept up in the constant whirlwind of dangers threatening Tyria...
Extra Info:
Leo's entire character can be easily parsed when you know about how exactly he views Ascalon, which is where he primarily grew up.
I couldn't not make a charr, which is a highly militaritic culture, who is so reluctant to engage in "giving however many lives for victory" without acknowledging that a physical scar of how war is extremely corrupt and punishes all, is literally a charr starting area. Like Ik it might seem as me trying to make a completely contrasting charr (which tbf am) but i Swear it makes sense and is warranted...its all very facinating to me.
Ascalon is a living reminder that those in power fighting wars with grander meaning are all lost upon the common soldier. A king denied the grace of death in his blind rage and doomed his people to eternal hatred. Never evolving never given the chance to start anew.
It's a horrifying spit on the natural cycle of life, this is how Leo views it, it was his main drive to become a necromancer believing that if he understood the connection between life, death, the mists, he could greater understand how to possibly rid the foefire curse other than the obvious. Actually this little paragraph from my ship thinkpiece words it pretty well:
"Leo, on the other hand, was a coiled snake ready to strike. He had ambitions of his own, he grew tired of constant death, reckless fighting. Spirits lamented over lost opportunity, of being playthings in wars fought by higher powers. He grew up in a land that was a physical cautionary tell of how single individuals could ruin the very souls and doom entire nations. Souls that cant rest, souls that cant return. It was Ascalon that inspired him to become a necromancer, to commune with spirits, to treat the dead with reverance, and thus respecting life before its final march. It did outcast him from his warband, save for a single individual."
This leads into his reluctance to "Fall in line" blindly following the teachings of the charr taught to him in the farhar. He does so out of necessity, not out of any love or faith in such beliefs. Whenever possible he takes the harder road, doing things his way, less casualties, respect for life itself. Death is the natural end of all life, but what he hates is needless death, war is a terrible scar left on the soul itself.
So, he bites his tongue, he observes, he trains. What do higher ranked officers like to hear, how do you cheat lines and cut corners. The intracacies of charr politics of blood, skill, and carefully placed words. He would not Kill for it, not in the way he was expected to. He required the patience of a saint to see this all through in a way that stayed true to his beliefs. The personal story of his warband unraveling after they die fighting in Ascalon, his legionnaire granting him the favor of fighting against him in an arena to prove his worth all provide just the right amount of forward momentum he needed, as well as a reminder why he wants this change so badly in the first place.
It makes sense why he tends to keep to his own, why he is so defiant and stubborn. I review him as a reluctant "hero" that cannot escape the path he was put on. He has to be change because nobody else will do it if not him, he cannot leave his duties behind, even if he wants to. He makes personal sacrifices for this all the time. Above all of this, he is kind in a gentle, quiet way. In the same way a cave providing shelter from a storm is gentle. He is grounded, stabilized by his ideals with the patience needed to continue to weather any opposition, after all its his empathy, his bleeding heart for those he should have considered mindless ghosts the reason hes even here in the first place....
Anywho this is just some quick insight into who he is. Obviously he goes through changes from personal story into end of dragons but im very slowly working through that so im not putting any of it here in case I change things...I like this guy a lot
Gw2 tumblr is so much more quite rn compared to when I first got back a little over a year ago so if youre a gw2 artist/writer plsss like or rb or comment or something! Especially other charr players : D
oleg torkkason, a teacher and an accidental revenant :)
born in lion's arch, he was raised by a family friend, asuran marine scientist torkka, after his parents went missing after voyage.
torkka was an educator herself, and not only she brought him up with love and dedication, she also inspired him to follow her steps. oleg organised a free school for poor and orphaned children of the city, and planned to continue running it, yet he also wanted to discover his roots; that led him to hoelbrak and castora, when he learned it was his parents' destination back then.
alas, he was to find their graves there, among the castaways. he grieved, then decided to help the community with children as well. he continues to be a teacher, but in his new home. his school in lion's arch is in good hands of his foster mom and friends, and he comes back to it from time to time, though.
and helps a curious entity see more of the world around...
