All righty then let’s do this.
1) What was the first element of your OC that you remember considering (name, appearance, backstory, etc.)?
The first thing I cam up with for her was her name: Verwynn Tyrarnith.
2) Did you design them with any other characters/OCs from their universe in mind?
I actually started designing her before I had a world to put her in, so no. I got bored in class one day and decided to make a new dnd character. It was a few months later that I fleshed her out more when we started our campaign.
3) How did you choose their name?
I looked up a site for building elven names with meaning and kinda built one. Verwynn means “Music of peace” and her last name means “Mistresses of fire” She was originally supposed to be a wizard but as a cleric with sun domain its still fitting.
4) In developing their backstory, what elements of the world they live in played the most influential parts?
We all built the world she exists in after I created her so there wasn’t much influence from her world.
5) Is there any significance behind their hair color?
The dnd 3.5 handbook said that most elves had black hair so I went with that… We later elected to ignore that rule.
6) Is there any significance behind their eye color?
Again the handbook said all elves had green eyes. Also later redacted but I do like green eyes so she probably would have had green eyes anyway.
7) Is there any significance behind their height?
Dude I just rolled some dice to get her height. She’s 5′4″ so pretty damn tall for an elf so I’m happy with that. As a very short person I like having tall characters.
8) What (if anything) do you relate to within their character/story?
Hm. I can relate to her wanting to help others but not always being the best at it and her tendency to be hard on herself when she makes mistakes.
9) Are they based off of you, in some way?
I’d like to say she’s based off me in some way but I don’t see much of a similarity.
10) If they have an LI, how much of their character is tailored to be compatible to that person?
She has two love interests, though one is a former lover. I wanted her to have a less than ideal romantic past but I also didn’t want to make it shitty since her former lover was a woman, who’s name is Faylen. I actually tailored Faylen’s personality to be incompatible with Ver’s and that was the reason they are no longer together. With Her current love interest, Arundel, I made sure his personality was more compatible with Ver’s.
11) Did you know what the OC’s sexuality would be at the time of their creation?
I didn’t have an idea of her sexuality at the time of her initial creation but as I created her backstory, specifically her past with Fay, I made her sexuality be what made sense to me.
12) What have you found to be most difficult about creating art for your OC (any form of art: writing, drawing, edits, etc.)?
Not really her fault but mine, I have trouble consistently drawing a character so she looks a bit different every time I’ve tried to draw her.
13) How far past the canon events that take place in their world have you extended their story, if at all?
Well since I have no idea how this campaign will end I haven’t really given it much thought. For all I know, she could die during the campaign, though I really hope not.
14) If you had to narrow it down to 2 things that you MUST keep in mind while working with your OC, what would those things be?
Two things to keep in mind for Ver are, that if she can see the option for a peaceful resolution, she will try to take it (unless its like surrendering to an evil entity) because her mother died in a war that could have been resolved peacefully but the elven and orcish leaders refused to negotiate due to prejudice. And while she is a generally patient person she can only be so forgiving before she puts her foot down.
15) What is something about your OC can make you laugh?
She thought it would be a good idea to try to negotiate with bugbears. That whole exchange was pretty funny in retrospect.
16) What is something about your OC can make you cry?
Her backstory isn’t really tragic at all, but I think it’s sad that she’s been beating herself up on the inside ever since Fergus has been trapped in that box because she had been so careful for checking for traps up until that point and that one mistake cost her her friend. She wasn’t the only one who could have checked that box but she firmly placed all the blame on herself. Also how she lost her mother as a teenager since I’m very close to my own mother.
17) Is there some element you regret adding to your OC or their story?
I kind of regret making her new love interest be a dude. Like she’s panromantic and I definitely did not frame her prior relationship with Fay as an experimentation kind of thing but I feel like others might perceive it that way. I’ve tried really hard to avoid framing her romantic history as a “She thought she was gay but turns out she was straight all along” because that’s really fucking shitty. I hope I’ve avoided that but I worry.
18) What is the most recent thing you’ve discovered about your OC?
Recent discovery about Ver is that she can be a scathing bitch when someone hurts her friends. Like she chewed out Danya and Andrew for being awful to Geth. Up until that point she was a generally friendly person and those were the first documented occurrences of her losing her cool.
19) What is your favorite fact about your OC?
My favorite fact about Ver would be that she has a necklace that belonged to her mother that she wears all the time, her father crafted the bow she uses, and Arundel made the armor she wears. So its like she carries pieces of those who are important to her with her and they help protect her.
Damn that was long. Hope you all enjoyed getting to know Verwynn!
