First and foremost; a liar. Lies constantly and soso much.
Manipulative, whereas Suru tells the truth, even if in riddles, to gain a favorable outcome, Storia uses a few well placed words, implications, something are left unsaid entirely, to get what she wants.
During Crownus reign and his fall, she aided her sister's efforts from the outside, a serpent whispering in the ears of knights and nobels, never showing herself, she knows her reputation, but whispers in taverns turn to echoes in the castle halls. And when that beautiful day comes, the guards will pretend to not hear the old king's cries for help. He would have just killed them, too, after all. What good is it to serve a king who won't lift a sword for you. What good is a king who leers at your wife, what good is a king who sends your husband to die. What good is a king who refuses to serve his people, what good is a king at all?
The ones closest to her during that time were the very knights who took her sister away, foolish enough to think that this was a chance at redemption when in reality, they were always going to lose some piece of themselves. In her eyes, their redemption would only be done once they had suffered just as her sister had. Now they wait in that dark dungeon, their arms and face left without their shells, till the day the storyteller might decide their character arcs have reached their conclusion.
Not only can she see the past, but she can show it as well. Anger her enough and you'll see the worst moments of your life, not just for you to see but everyone else as well.
Id like to thank @neptuii for this opportunity, I'd like to thank Big man for being my BEST man and supporting me in this journey. THANK You lady for being my maid of honour (Purely to spite you)
Everyone else I shall gladly invite, the wedding will be at A MANSION yeah mansion whatever. Love, may be hard, but I am harder
The kingdom's Storyteller, Storia, with the ability to see the past and all that it hides. All she sees is factual, there is no fault in her visions, however she herself seldom tells the truth, rather keen on making up tall tales, making her into a highly unreliable source of information, just as she prefers it. Some sprinkles of truth exist, on the rare occasions she does tell the truth people rarely believe her. In the beginning, while she was still young, she spoke of what she saw honestly, but you can see the truth be taken and twisted so many times before you've had enough, and never speak of it again.
Though, if she likes you, at least you'll always know she's lying. As her affection grows, her tales get more and more ridiculous, she doesn't want people to think that so long as she likes them, she'll tell them the truth, so she settles on making elaborate stories instead, some vain hope of trying to make the person see that she's not tricking them while also avoiding being seen as a reliable source.
Largely she does this to avoid being seen as too valuable, she doesn't want to gain anyone's attention, preferring to live her own life without someone constantly tugging at her sleeve. (However it does come with the benefit that Crownus sees it as pointless to try to get any information out of the well-known liar, which I feel he absolutely would have done later in his reign if she had proven herself to be a reliable source of information.)
Althoughhhhh should a very very dear friend come to her with a very serious and deeply sensitive question... she might drop some hints of the truth. But this only applies to things like... "Who killed my mom?" levels of serious
Augh I'll draw her outfit a proper ref tomorrow but now. Sleep. 1:00 at night send help
Id like to thank @neptuii for this opportunity, I'd like to thank Big man for being my BEST man and supporting me in this journey. THANK You lady for being my maid of honour (Purely to spite you)
Everyone else I shall gladly invite, the wedding will be at A MANSION yeah mansion whatever. Love, may be hard, but I am harder
Id like to thank @neptuii for this opportunity, I'd like to thank Big man for being my BEST man and supporting me in this journey. THANK You lady for being my maid of honour (Purely to spite you)
Everyone else I shall gladly invite, the wedding will be at A MANSION yeah mansion whatever. Love, may be hard, but I am harder
Id like to thank @neptuii for this opportunity, I'd like to thank Big man for being my BEST man and supporting me in this journey. THANK You lady for being my maid of honour (Purely to spite you)
Everyone else I shall gladly invite, the wedding will be at A MANSION yeah mansion whatever. Love, may be hard, but I am harder
Oh my god he's so GORGEOUS and I'm scared I don't know if I can keep him but the concept intrigues me his role intrigues me his beauty calls for me
hear me out, hear me out!! When making puppets I try to look at the bigger picture at times and slot them into specific groups or factions so that they can find common ground with in the setting. Duchess with the nobility, Luci and Clara with the townspuppets, Medic being part of the working medical ward.
And the concept I'm working with for this lovely man here, is making him a torturer. Now dial it back to my principle of making my puppets have core groups, so what if there was a family line of puppets that specialized in torture and worked under the crown?
Great! Now give him contrast! I think what could make this guy extra interesting is surprisingly, he's quite well-mannered and friendly! Cutest guy around! Think, nicest co-worker with the most fucked up job ever. GRUH i should give him a name, but a temporary one I'll settle with is calling him The Inquisitor. The 'Torturer' was too on the nose for me
I like to imagine the Inquisitor is very good in his work just like Medic, knows what to get puppets talking, understands with arteries to poke and what fingers to go first. Utilizes different tools and means of torture. But outside of his job? Most welcoming and demure guy around.
I also imagine despite the nature of his job, the Inquisitor's morality is quite scuffed and scattered. He doesn't mind his work, and goes the length to perfect his way of doing so. I like to think it's because the Inquisitor's family line are sort of brainwashed to thinking like this? To them, it's normal. So Inquisitor doesn't mind exposing someone's arm in the sun and having their flesh burn, and then the next day, wave them hello.
That's what I think would be very fun and sort of off putting about him. Because the nature of his work isn't to kill but cause harm and pain until you tell him what he wants. So the chances of his victims being freed and wander the theatre and bumping into him again as if they were just strangers or acquaintences is possible and fucked up.
And I think what would be funny is he wouldn't really somewhat grasp it. I mean, I think he'd have the basics down. But again, to him it's normal. For his family its normal. This is how it's been done for years and generations, each and every era requires it as they were taught. I like to think his family as well is pretty fucked in the way they're also pretty nice people too. if you remove their work, all of them are.
I like to think despite his family specializing in it, not all of them work as inquisitors or torturers anymore TT I like to think Inquisitors the only active one. Maybe only one or two from the family line can be the ones to do the role itself, but that aside, the past and older puppets of the family are technically retired.
I also think Inquisitors family line is a bit unique. I'm debating if he'd have parents or not, but I like to think the family itself aren't all related. Maybe just by name. And the work their bound to. But family nonetheless!
I think what'd be funny is that the general puppet population probably avoids him and his family like the plague because. Well. They're torturers. While this would sadden him, life goes on. He still visits the town square, asks for a loaf from the bakery, requests the smith for his order.
But I imagine despite his kind and gentle demeanor, he is still a terrifying puppet when he is your tormentor. What I added when i drew him is him having like, wide round eyes. Not sharp at all mind you. I like to think they're pretty even! a grand sky blue that glows in the dark. How's it scary? When they stare at you, unreadable as you scream and beg at him to stop. The way his are so blue you'd mistake his gaze as insane.
Another thing I liked is he probably has few or barely any scars or cracks with his body. I like to think Inquisitor was so good at his job that he doesnt have much trouble. Very careful man. Cruel and horrible his work can be, but he has experience. The troublesome part of his job is not just giving the most pain, but making sure they're awake and alive until the end. The end goal isn't to kill. Which I think is a fun difference between his family and the bounty hunters.
UH UH UH More!!! mmm,,, Ill have to think of a last name for the family. But I assume it'd be something related to death or blood. I was considering Cypress? Because of its association with death but it didnt stick. But it'd be the sort of name thats recognizable amongst the kingdom and theatre. I imagine the family line is very old.
Hm.. i like to think he has a very soft voice. One that'd catch you off guard despite the horrors he's doing onto you. The kind that shushes you when you scream, that it will be all alright, just tell him where the traitor is amongst the nobility and he may spare your life. That the king may spare your life. I like to think he's very good at sweet talking at his victims. He isn't hate filled per se. But there is a vigor when he well, tortures you.
I'd have to think about it though because the chances of him working as a torturer NOW in the present isn't possible haha. If the Jestyn ordered the bounty hunters to cease their work lest they be thrown to the prison, then he likely forbidded the inquisitor and finally stopped his family's one proud profession. (A lot of it anyway, the bounty hunter and the ah Inquisitors family was probably gathered and created by Crownus. So no wonder Jestyn shutted it down.) Though it wouldn't change his reputation.
I like to think if he really did stumble upon a puppet he tortured in the past, he'd apologize. Say he didn't mean to. And wouldnt recognize how horrible and fucked up that apology is. Because again, he wouldnt understand what he's apologizing for, to him, its all work and normal. But he knows what he did was bad. Sorta. Its hard to explain. I can imagine his audacity when he tries to offer the puppet like, the loaf of bread he just bought haha
He is well meaning!! but because of his upbringing, he isn't,, normal. Nothing about it is normal. Is it his fault for how he was brought up?? Debatable.
GUHH I REALLY DONT WANNA GET ATTACHED BUT I FEAR I AM. Im still. VERY muh thinking if I should give him away, do another raffle and be on with my life but god loo kat him. Look at him. The Medic x Inquisitor ship would be crazy LHLHLHL NSRS NSRNSRNSRNSRN it wouldnt work
I like to think he's a He/they kind of puppet. Very bright eyes. Staring at your soul. You know those jokes of that one ship with "most gorgeous brown eyes you'll ever see" and "staring into your soul"? yeah. BUT PLS GENUINELY HES NICE </3 well, tries to be. But again, when you're raised doing what you do with a family thats just as brainwashed by the king then there's gonna be some difficulty.
GUHHH IM SCRATCHING AT MY FACe, PULLING MY HAIR KEEP OR RAFFLE KEEP OR RAFFLE I DONT KNOW!!! I genuinely would LOVE to keep him but I dont ever want him to collect dust like how the dragon is rn TT GAH we'll see!!
a character who truly, legitimately goes “but why does that matter?” about their feelings when someone who cares about them asks. and the sudden falling of everyone around them’s faces as they realize that this person doesn’t recognize themself as someone who needs or should be taken care of. i want Everyone to hurt. surprise at the idea, worry for them, horror at not having noticed. do you see this person who doesn’t think of themselves as a person?
NOTHING BURGER QUESTION FOLLOW UP answer it right and you get free tickets to my MOVIE!!!! this is related or a sort of follow up from the secret admirer love letter ask, Now -
Lets switch it up a bit, what if in the days end your OC finds their room unlocked and a letter left somewhere inside. Maybe atop a desk, a bed, somewhere noticeable. The contents? Hate mail. How do they react to being sent death threats? Horrible mean comments telling them to watch their back, that they should die, and perhaps other horrible things.
I'll let you decide the contents of the mail itself, it can be someone being creepy and stalking them - someone threatening to kill them, someone saying false things or even blackmailing them. But the general idea is it's something BAD. And that they should watch out.
What's their game plan? their reaction? What do they do? Do they try to find the sender? What if it reaches the point that the day after that things are left at the doorstep of their room. Maybe a gutted fish or a dead rat, their door painted with horrible phrases.
THIS IS ANONCPT and we have found you have multiple OC's!!! Dont worry!! you may pick who you'd like to answer for as there's no pressure to do all of them!!
Suru
First and foremost concerned about the fact someone broke into her home, before anything else she checks if something is broken, missing, or if there's anything new there.
The contents are distressing however nothing entirely new, some people blame the seer, say she didn't do enough, no doubt this wasn't the first she received but it's upsetting none the less.
So long as the contents only speak of her she wouldn't do much at the start, these things haven't escalated before but when they do, when they vandalize her home or leave behind a dead animal, only then does she do something about it.
Storia and Jestyn would be the first, and likely only, to know of the letter, neither of course happy about it at all. Unfortunately for whoever was stupid enough to send it, it doesn't take long for Storia to see who it was, and Suru would leave the two to, uh, deal with them. The person would likely survive the ordeal because ultimately Jestyn and Storia know Suru wouldn't want them dead but that person is in the dungeon for a WHILE.
Storia
She thinks it's funny, don't they know she will know who did this? She can see the past, all that it hides, with perfect clarity. She will find out, and she will go after whoever sent it.
Now, depending on the contents, the person is either just threatened or those threats become a promise.
So long as they don't involve Suru in the letter, Storia would just pay that person a visit, remind them that she knows everything there is to know about them, it wouldn't be too difficult to ruin them.
If they were stupid enough to threaten her sister, she wouldn't confront them, that'd be too easy, instead she slowly starts to pull on threats that cause their life to fall apart, rumors spread, their social life would be in ruins, whoever it was can't recover the life they lost. They'd never know this was her doing, someone with nothing left to lose is dangerous after all, she's not stupid enough to ever let them know she ruined their life.
The kingdom's Storyteller, Storia, with the ability to see the past and all that it hides. All she sees is factual, there is no fault in her visions, however she herself seldom tells the truth, rather keen on making up tall tales, making her into a highly unreliable source of information, just as she prefers it. Some sprinkles of truth exist, on the rare occasions she does tell the truth people rarely believe her. In the beginning, while she was still young, she spoke of what she saw honestly, but you can see the truth be taken and twisted so many times before you've had enough, and never speak of it again.
Though, if she likes you, at least you'll always know she's lying. As her affection grows, her tales get more and more ridiculous, she doesn't want people to think that so long as she likes them, she'll tell them the truth, so she settles on making elaborate stories instead, some vain hope of trying to make the person see that she's not tricking them while also avoiding being seen as a reliable source.
Largely she does this to avoid being seen as too valuable, she doesn't want to gain anyone's attention, preferring to live her own life without someone constantly tugging at her sleeve. (However it does come with the benefit that Crownus sees it as pointless to try to get any information out of the well-known liar, which I feel he absolutely would have done later in his reign if she had proven herself to be a reliable source of information.)
Althoughhhhh should a very very dear friend come to her with a very serious and deeply sensitive question... she might drop some hints of the truth. But this only applies to things like... "Who killed my mom?" levels of serious
Augh I'll draw her outfit a proper ref tomorrow but now. Sleep. 1:00 at night send help
"Tis unusually high for someone of thine stature."
"We hath to remedy this."
When the local goody-two-shoes thinks you have a problem he can solve, and because of bullshit you pulled earlier, are unable to ditch him.
The long suffering Ilian belongs to @neptuii !
More thoughts down below :P
So! Musketio in Tomodachi Life developing a crush on Ilian made me think long and hard about their interactions. All just suggestions, I don't expect you to include any of this and just happy to share 💖💖
While I definitely think Ilian could fluster him and make him blush with a well placed line or two, Musketio would sense that anger and resentment under the surface sooner than later, and the interest would die pretty quickly after that.
Then I started thinking... what if the shift was him now thinking that he needed to help Ilian become a law abiding citizen.
Of course Ilian is going to have issues with that. He can't get anything done if this idiot is trailing after him, prattling about virtues and whatever. Perhaps eventually it really starts getting to him, so he starts setting up traps intended to stop Musketio. He can't keep tailing him if he's on bed rest with a broken leg or two~
Only... The Musketeer seems to have stupid luck at avoiding everything...
The idiot just keeps ducking down or sidestepping right before the trap sets off, and seems none the wiser! (Maybe even ending up putting Ilian in the line of fire of his own scheme :P)
It's Wiley Coyote and Roadrunner, but Roadrunner has no clue and is just happy to be here :3
"What ho, and helloooooooooo, Ilian! I hath returned for another kingdom adventure!"
The kingdom's Storyteller, Storia, with the ability to see the past and all that it hides. All she sees is factual, there is no fault in her visions, however she herself seldom tells the truth, rather keen on making up tall tales, making her into a highly unreliable source of information, just as she prefers it. Some sprinkles of truth exist, on the rare occasions she does tell the truth people rarely believe her. In the beginning, while she was still young, she spoke of what she saw honestly, but you can see the truth be taken and twisted so many times before you've had enough, and never speak of it again.
Though, if she likes you, at least you'll always know she's lying. As her affection grows, her tales get more and more ridiculous, she doesn't want people to think that so long as she likes them, she'll tell them the truth, so she settles on making elaborate stories instead, some vain hope of trying to make the person see that she's not tricking them while also avoiding being seen as a reliable source.
Largely she does this to avoid being seen as too valuable, she doesn't want to gain anyone's attention, preferring to live her own life without someone constantly tugging at her sleeve. (However it does come with the benefit that Crownus sees it as pointless to try to get any information out of the well-known liar, which I feel he absolutely would have done later in his reign if she had proven herself to be a reliable source of information.)
Althoughhhhh should a very very dear friend come to her with a very serious and deeply sensitive question... she might drop some hints of the truth. But this only applies to things like... "Who killed my mom?" levels of serious
Augh I'll draw her outfit a proper ref tomorrow but now. Sleep. 1:00 at night send help
