ROUND 1 / SIDE A / POLL 5
Chrysanta Drosdov (née Rosetti) (@lydthecoolkyd, art by @shmungles) vs. Jestiny Rook (@adelaidedrubman, art by @derelictheretic)
Description: This is my d&d character from a cowboy-samurai kind of setting. Chrysanta is a 40-year old Tiefling and a wandering Gravekeeper, part of an order of monks who deal with the dead in this setting—perform death rites, maintain graveyards, etc. Rather than stay put at a monastery serving one town, she wanders, burying those who died alone with no one to take care of their bodies. Since there was recently a 20-year-long war that left behind a massive desert in its wake, there are plenty of unburied dead to be found. She is driven primarily by guilt over the crimes of her past, as well as over being unable to be a good mother, and her lingering violent impulses.
Resisting the urge to write too much but there is a lot of context for all of this that doesn't exactly make any of this okay but she's really trying to be better I promise lol.
Murdering more people than she can count as a highway robber as a teen
Getting her younger brother killed in a robbery gone wrong
Lying to her husband about her past for a while
Leaving her husband and daughter for seven months. Nothing but a note.
She went back but left again and even though she's been back for every one of her daughter's birthdays she's still a deadbeat mom
shot a (mostly) innocent woman in the kneecap to prove a point
let a dangerous prisoner go without consulting anyone else in the hopes that it would get her close to her long-lost brother (who, surprise, is alive and trying to take over a town through violence)
shot at a politician to keep her from escaping with what would most certainly lead to weapons of mass destruction. she was trying to do a good thing here, but she was stupid about it and now she and the 15yo kid in the party are on wanted posters.
killed already-unconscious guards after we were already out of combat
Other notes from the submitter: I have written a novella of her backstory. Legit it is almost 80k words. I'm so happy to share so much more info about her and the setting in general. Perhaps I will make another account solely dedicated to this lore.
Description: jestiny is an overgrown gifted child burn out and self-described “normal human person” slash future “america’s sweetheart” who is in actuality widely locally hated in her canon material (far cry 5). a girl with no moral compass but a deep fondness for dying on every hill she’s ever come across, she initially attempts to abandon her position as a deputy (cop, strike one) after the county she’s sworn to protect is seized by a violent doomsday cult, but has a quick change of heart after seeing how much her friends and neighbors need her help — just kidding, she has no friends and only got invested for the sake of playing 5D chess with a middle management cult leader slash torturer to feed her own desire for an unearned sense of intellectual superiority. and once she IS invested, she is ramping up war crimes and endangering the civilians she swears she’s doing this to protect while subjecting them to her childish tantrums, violence, manipulation, and generally awful personality! described by the characters who know her best as “vicious, ruthless, heinous, condemnable, merciless, insufferable, deplorable, irredeemably violent nightmare of a woman” “harbinger of destruction, force of ruin” “not fucking special, fucking pathetic” and “a very difficult test to be faced with,” she has an undeniable devilish charm!
Crimes: impromptu torturing a man seeking her help to flee a cult, callously prying into the trauma of her crush’s past victims to sate her own morbid curiosity, countless murder of civilians (including for singing a song she didn’t want to hear), grave desecration, attempting to make the deceased’s surviving family member feel unreasonable for criticizing the grave desecration, theft by false pretense, ordering pointless raids resulting in foreseeable unnecessary deaths to impress her crush, deceiving and manipulating allies, revealing sensitive information resulting in a deadly siege of a stronghold, destruction of sentimental property, and throwing self-victimizing tantrums any time she is called out on any of the above.
Other notes from the submitter: she’s just a funny little guy.
WHO WINS?
Chrysanta Drosdov
Jestiny Rook
Voting ended onApr 13, 2023
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