DnD Characters In Modern Settings
Suk Buseo is a carver with many years of experience, and his artworks are often architectural masterpieces greatly sought after by others. Having travelled around gathering inspiration for his works surrounded by friends (after a failed hitchhiking attempt landed him in a war zone), he can hold his own well with a heavy stone sword if needed but keeps his dual identity as a wanderer a secret under his current status as a broker of beautiful stone creations.
Hwang Hwasal is a strike force agent for the NSA, a covert operative who faked his death after a tragedy that led to the death of not only his team (which included his wife) but also left the right side of his face and body heavily scarred. A skilled marksman with a pistol, he works in and out of various agencies gathering intelligence and resources in the hopes that he can find a way to resurrect his beloved wife in any way he can- training the new operatives however has allowed him new goals to look forward to, and he’s much happier now working to protect them.
“Veliyal” is a conman with many skills under his belt, an immigrant from Pakistan looking to earn a quick buck after his father suddenly passed away on his 18th birthday. Teaching himself the languages to survive, the enterprising and flamboyant man often finds himself in trouble in between odd jobs, and simply excels in absolutely everything he’s put to, legal or otherwise. His fame’s started catching on with some less-than-savory folk, and while Veliyal pretends this won’t catch up to him whatsoever, he’s been making his own plans to hopefully be able to return to his home country down the line: the truth in the matter was that he came in search of his estranged mother, whom he had heard that married overseas.
Yangchon and Sangsoo largely stay the same- working in the Violent Crimes Division of the police force to solve cases together. While Yangchon remains angry and hotblooded, and Sangsoo is still his usual stoic and cautious self, they work together in tandem to ensure that everyone remains safe, and that they can protect the civilians the best way they can. Yangchon’s injured leg however does impact him quite a bit, but he is insistent on visiting crime scenes whenever he can so that he can understand and impart his skill to Sangsoo, whom he knows will inherit his mantle. Sangsoo, however, has seen too much, and emotive as he is, hides that he is deeply traumatised by his master’s injury and experiences while trying to learn as much as possible.
Jungoh continues to work in the Violent Crimes Division of the police force for some time, but Yangchon’s injury spurns her to take on the offer she received to go overseas, devoting herself to diplomacy training instead in the meantime. An accident caused by a reckless rescue of the youngest son of iron moguls however permanently maims her right hand, and she is counteroffered by the thankful boy to work for her instead...down the pipeline of a mafia-infested iron mining company. Jungoh is too determined to turn back, but she knows how she’s playing with fire and is eager to ensure she can get as much information as she can.
Zhong Rihuan, Oculus was raised as a church orphan, home to many children like herself and loved by the head priest for her curious and easygoing temperament despite her muteness, instead signing and using writing to communicate with others. Initially intent on joining her father in the clergy, she instead falls in with a somewhat-tricksy operative belonging to Hwasal’s team and trains instead to become able to follow in her footsteps. However, when Kyrea dies in a mission, leaving behind her young adoptive son Brambles, Oculus now allows her life to revolve around Brambles instead, becoming a park ranger at the place she fell in the hopes of determining how Kyrea had passed.
Yikang is here lmao I’m not rewriting him in-universe
Reon and Valyx are siblings adopted after a horrific incident involving street orphans being “stolen” off the streets as drug runners, and when the badly burnt Reon was given up to the orphanage, one of the detectives investigating the incident had adopted her in the hopes of affording her treatment. Valyx came soon after, Aldreth’s hopes that Reon having a sibling in her recovery would help in her growth. Reon grows into a skilled fencer with a vested interest in marine biology, while Valyx instead devotes herself into business, the sisters becoming inseparable over their unique nature of a world that seemed to want nothing to do with either of them.
Kim Geomsung / Jin Fengcheng is a Chinese-Korean mechanical engineering student who’s somehow managed to engineer a robotic copy of himself in his basement. Having been adopted overseas from a young age, his intelligence and smooth personality is only slightly dampened by his awkward accent and photosensitivity to light, which he wears glasses for. He drives a tricked out van he painted himself with his own logos, filled with kooky and eccentric gadgets he tinkered with in his spare time and trying to carve out his own niche. In truth, Fengcheng stands in a precarious crossroads of neither being here nor there despite his supportive adoptive family, and he understands this intimately, which makes his often slippery nature even more apparent knowing that it is virtually impossible to trust anyone.
Serving Fengcheng is Ullal, a displaced Ghanan from the Akan tribe that had fallen in with Fengcheng after an unfortunate psychotic break from being forced to collect his son’s ashes (after his beloved son had died from a work accident in unsafe conditions, an incident that was barely compensated and buried in the media). He claims to owe Fengcheng a “blood debt” for saving him, and works closely with the student to manage the van full of items for their use. Ullal’s dementia however has began causing him problems, and on occasion he still thinks his son Zuccass is with him.
Myron takes on the identity of “Lee Jooyoung”, an ambitious but eccentric SFX artist and tinkerer when she arrives in the modern world. Retaining her magic and disability, she ends up easily blending into humanity with a slight glamor covering up her unusual nature and becomes well-known for her unique crafting skills rivalling that of trained engineers. She continues engaging in subterfuge however, using basic skills that otherwise would not easily be allowed within the confines of her own world to gather information and resources, targeting rare and useful ore she could repurpose for herself and making plenty of friends and enemies along the way.
Lee Gangrim is currently the secretary of a highflying CEO of a fledgling insurance company, a job he takes without complaint. A divorcee raising his daughter alone, Gangrim’s life has been a nonstop string of inconveniences after the accident that not only maimed his right leg but also saw his wife leave him as they were unable to afford his medical fees with his daughter’s education. He works very hard to put his daughter through college, a feat that she reciprocates in kind, and while his fall from grace was not the most spectacular, he’s been working to piece his life back together and trying to ensure that his daughter can live the best way she can. Despite this, though, he still carries himself as befitting a second-generation chaebol, a self-made military man who refuses to concede his own faults in decision-making processes that cost him his company in the first place.
