I think it’s time to introduce my OC companion Zek. This guy is in so much of Luscinia’s Lore, it’s only fair you all get a little Zek background.
✧ Birth Name / Chosen Name / Alias / Nickname(s):
✧ Age | Gender | Pronouns:
Zek got his sea legs before he even learned to walk. Raised from birth on his parents ship ‘The Seahawk’ it was a little pirates life for Zek. The crew where his family, aunts, uncles and rowdy older cousins, life was idyllic in his very young years.
Until a pillaging pirate ship attacked one day, slaying his parents and crew. It was only the quick thinking of his father’s brother in arms, his uncle Bernacle (Bernard) threw Zek overboard, saving him from the enemy’s blade.
Washing up on the shores of Baldurs gate, he was quickly thrown into an orphange where the matron mother was a cruel woman who had little love for the children in her care.
Using the tricks and swindles taught to him by his lost family, Zek schemed his way for the next two years until a small blue babe was dumped in a rotting cot in the room the children slept in. Seeing the baby’s cry’s being ignored Zek took it upon himself to check on the wee burn only to feel a sense of calm and content he hadn’t felt since the passing of his parents, wash over his small being. The babe was special and it was his.
From then on it was them against the world, as soon as Zek turned 11 he gathered their small stash of supplies and belongings and ran with Luz out of the hellhole they had been made to live in. Roughing it in the lower city for years doing everything they could to survive, busking, swindling, stealing, selling.
Soon they accumulated enough funds for a small abode in the city and from there built themselves up. But Zeks longing for the sea never left him and soon had made enough money for his own crew and ship. His life of travelling the world, finding treasures and bringing them back for his Birdie, he loved.
Sometimes he’d get Luz to agree to travel with him, when they themselves were taking a break from performing and their own growing fame, sailing away with his souls mate, the sea, his crew and his Lulluby.
Shanty Seahawk - Mother - Deaceased
Azreal Seahawk - Father - Deceased
Bernard “Bernacle” Waterson - Uncle/God-Father - Deaceased…?
Luscinia Nightingale- His everything. - Alive and kicking
✧ Three Words That Describe Them:
✦ Physical Trait / Anomaly / Disability:
His left horn was damaged front the attack on his parents sip when he was young. It grew crooked l, causing pain and severe onset migraines as he grew.
His right horn was snapped as a teenager in a fight in the lower city after a scheme gone wrong. He was brutally attacked loosing his right horn, gaining his facial scar and ultimately ending up permanently deafened in his right ear after receiving to many hits.
They reason they are stumped/cut-off, he returned to Luz begging them just to take them and the pain away he couldn’t cope with it anymore.
✧ Tadpole Status: [e.g., Expanded Potential / Half-Illithid / Fully Evolved]
Not gonna lie gang, he’s not jazzed about having a wormy in the ol’ brain juice. Luz says he can’t afford to lose any more braincells.
✧ Companion Affinity Key:
(Use these emojis to describe the relationship between your OC and each companion)
💜 = Close bond / Romantic interest 💚 = Rivalry / Mutual respect 🧡 = Strong friendship / Ally ❤️ = Romantic interest / Complex bond 💙 = Trustworthy companion / Mentor 🤍 = Mutual admiration / Professional respect
[Insert emojis next to each companion’s name as needed]
Astarion: 💚🤍 (he likes him, just not his type)
Gale: 💚 (he doesn’t like the cow eyes he makes at Luz)
Halsin: 💙❤️ (he wants to climb that tree man)
Jaheria: 💙🤍 (he flirts non seriously (or maybe.. 👀) with her and she just rolls hers eyes at this young pup)
Karlach: 🧡💙🤍 (absolute bro’s, he flirts but he can tell she’s a sweetheart, so it’s his life’s mission to help Karlach bump ugly’s. He is a wingman like none see before!)
Lae’zel: 🧡🤍 (he’s a few pennys short a pound so he thinks it’s a delight to wind her up and not take her threats of death seriously at all.)
Minthara: ❌ (Luz said no.)
Shadowheart: ❤️🧡💙🤍 (Another scary lady for him to tease and flirt with)
Wyll: 💚🧡❤️💙 (he wants to corrupt that good boy/greater good attitude SO BAD.)
✧ Moodboards / Aesthetic Extras:
✧ Reputation / What Others Say:
Others: A rapscallion, a suave trickster who’s also a sweet heart and looks after his own.
✦ Beliefs / Personal Code:
He doesn’t have any true beliefs, he’ll say a small phrase to Umberlee “Wavemother guide us” etc, but that’s more out of habit from hearing his parents and crew say the phrases as a child.
✧ Most Prized Possession:
A nautical calendar Luz bought for him, so he can count down until they’re together again ⏳
Anything happening to Luz. This whole worm in his head thing really shook him up but his one thought circulating his head like a mantra was “get to Luz, get to Luz, get to Luz”
✧ Alignment (Personal or D&D):
In the words of our Lord and saviour, Laszlo Cravensworth. He's my best friend, he's my pal. He's my homeboy, my rotten soldier. He's my sweet cheese, my good-time boy.
