@runningracingdancingchasing​ mentioned wanting to hear more (and also a vigilante verse?? color me intrigued). I’ll try to keep things as concise as I can, but I also get easily excited about my dnd character so... lolÂ
So my character’s name is Kyssarda: half-elf monk who follows the moon diety, Sehanine. Her parents died in a fire when she was four, and her brother took her to the monastery that same night (rescuing her), but left her at the front door and vanished in the night. She spent the better part of 2 decades waiting for him to come back for her, but he never did.Â
Personality wise towards the beginning of the campaign, she was very bubbly and deeply empathetic. She wanted to be everyone’s friend, and had deep-seeded, borderline crippling abandonment issues. It made her cling hard to people, and she became ride-or-die for the party pretty quickly because of it.Â
A hop, skip, and a boatride later... she starts getting these weird memories when she meditates and focuses on her brother. The first time, he was bloody and burned standing with her at the front door of the monastery before leaving her. The second time, she’s in her childhood bedroom with the smell of blueberry pie, when she suddenly hears a piercing scream, and her door cracks open. The third time it happens, she learns that it was her father. He’s bleeding from the stomach, and calling her “Kee” and telling her that she has to go with her brother (who is standing in the doorway, injured and afraid). The most recent time was last night’s session, where she learned that her father put her brother and her in Otiluke’s Resilient Sphere, told her to close her eyes, and for her and her brother to run. She didn’t close her eyes (my choice. the angst potential of the guilt she’ll feel about not listening to her father’s final wish for her will haunt her for a while), and turns out it was a Death Knight. It almost killed the two of them as they ran out of the house, but her father cast a spell to keep the Death Knight in place to give his kids a chance to get out. Very... Lily and James Potter (without the transphobic writer).Â
 Now as for her anger issues, Kyssarda started experiencing issues with it after losing her first ever real friend (a former PC, wherein the player had to leave). We had an arc trying to get him back, and it was in that arc that she really started to struggle with deep anger. Anger initially, mostly, as a result of feeling helpless to do anything as we kept running into dead ends and having to run from fights. But the anger also was somewhat rooted in these flashbacks, and the general feeling that the world had been beating her and being on her over and over and over, and she could never really do anything. By then she was 9 or 10 levels in monk, so I flavored it as there being a block to her ki. The first time she raged was when she found that first ever friend--now undead. She’s raged a few times since then (her eyes glow green when she does), and always when she is confronted with loss and/or the thing responsible for that loss.Â
I’m excited for where the character arc goes with her barbarian classes, because I’m going to take her three levels with path of the ancestral guardian (who is going to manifest as a spectral form of her mother, because her mother was a fighter and that’s really where that deeply, ferociously protective instinct in her comes from).Â
If anybody read this far, thank you so much for reading and engaging with my ramblings about Kyssarda! Anybody is always free to ask me about dnd stuff at any point: Kyssarda or more broadly!Â
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