ROOKFERN PLAYS GW2

sideblog for GW2 shenanigans follows and likes will be from rookfern rookfern.9806 is my tag

[storm-called]

about me

they/them | 26

call me Rook

- @rookfern​ is my main blog (and my handle for most things)

I’ve been playing Guild Wars 2 since February of 2019, and I’ve been a part of the GW2 community here for just about as long as well. I write silly little stories about my characters sometimes and even draw them on occasion. I also take commissions (commissions are currently closed).

my characters

main crew:

Glaw Stormcaller (they/she/he; commander; catalyst) [tag]

Rookfern (she/her; pact marshal; Aurene’s champion; soulbeast) [tag] [tag]

Wren Polack (he/him; pact captain; holosmith) [tag]

Brynhildr Hroarkin (she/her; bladesworn) [tag] [tag]

Stagthorne (he/him; general nuisance; deadeye) [tag]

Sari Ruinweld (she/they; medic; guardian) [tag]

Helter Skelter (she/her; astral ward associate; demon hunter) [tag]

Marcius Day AKA Mayday (he/him; scrapper; honorary charr) [tag] [tag]

queensdale academy crew:

(same universe as main crew, just unaffiliated)

Agent Nexus (she/her; thief) [tag]

Beren Sahl (he/they; engineer) [tag]

Ilkiodora Baelforge (she/her; elementalist) [tag]

Mjoll Stormdottir (she/they; ranger) [tag]

alt crew:

Fíondorach (he/him; commander; Aurene’s champion; harbinger) [tag]

Basar Stormdancer (he/him; mirage) [tag]

Tomel Moonshadow (she/her; thief) [tag]

Miwa Tsang (she/they; jade-tech engineer) [tag]

Ophelia Targen (she/her; noble; necromancer) [tag]

Pyrisous (he/him; fernhound lycanthrope; warrior) [tag]

Sablewick (she/her; former mordrem; revenant) [tag]

miscellaneous:

(all in main crew universe unless stated otherwise)

Lady Lofn (she/her; forgemaster) [tag]

Floki Hroarsson (he/him; hunter; deceased) [tag]

Bitter Hewnfell (she/her; ash legion centurion) [tag]

Brulas Drakenettle (he/him; blood legion soldier) [tag]

Fika Breakwater (he/him; gladium) [tag]

Marad Larskald (she/her; firebrand) [tag]

Picah (xe/xem; journalist) [tag]

Coyote (he/him; dolyak rancher) [tag]

Frogbit (she/they/it; thief; mischief maker) [tag]

Caspian Primrose (he/him; holo-drama actor) [tag]

Operative Shrike (they them; bounty hunter) [tag]

Camphyr (it/its; strange beast) [tag]

jokesy characters:

(characters who are there just for the fun; no real place in my canon)

Starry Bright (she/her; tempest; blinding object) [tag]

Bless Your Heart (any pronouns; firebrand healer) [tag]

other links

Broken Oaths (the massive fanfic centered around Glaw before they became the commander, set during the Icebrood Saga (heavy spoilers); completed)

my other fandom tumblrs:

@krembles​ (Dragon Age)

@rook-rising​ (Flight Rising)

@thisisthegay​ (Star Wars)

If you ever see me running around in game, feel free to say hi!

[storm-called]

After some discussion in the guild chat, I wanted to put together a little community-driven creative project.

This is an open invitation to any and everyone in the creative GW2 community! Add your commander (or any of your GW2 characters) to the group. Both art and edited in-game screens are welcome! Let's play with our characters like paper dolls.

Below the cut is a hi-res transparent .png, free for adding as much or as little as you please.

Glaw is ready for a handshake, an arm wrestle, an opening to a dance; whatever. Get creative! Add on until the room is full of shenanigans!

(This is a given, but please be respectful of other people and their characters!)

*for reference, Glaw is 9'3 (282 cm)

Feel free to tag me if you make a new post rather than reblog

[wikimb]

Hello! I decided to open my commissions with a few open slots for now!

I offer flat color or colored & shaded art of your character(s). Bust, half body or full body.

I also offer chibi arts too!

More details on VGen.

[thiefseeker]

12 years of commander kam : ))) his birthday was at the start of april i think hes like 32 ICly now

[storm-called]

a little peek at what I've been working on

[jollycryptid]

LETS GIVE IT UP FOR HAPPY LESBIANS WITH BIG TEETHY SMILES!

Commission of Riagain (he/him) for @mystery-salad

Commission of Zafira & Aaminah (both She/her) for @moth-loves-largos

[principalbiomancersebb]

Question of the Day - What species would your gw2 sona be?

Can be playable options or non-playable options. Of the playable I'd probably want to pick charr but realistically I fit Asura more. None playable I'm predictable and kinda cheating by saying dragon <3.

[ascalonianpicnic]

lowland kodan is definitely the closest to who I would be and would want to be personality wise and culturally.

but a part of my heart still says skritt

[storm-called]

ideally? norn (for the height and shapeshifting) or tengu (because birb)

realistically? skritt (short, likes trash and shiny things)

[aid-worker-sya]

real talk if you still hate braham you're just really mean-spirited

[storm-called]

oh shit I'm actually going to be off work for the next art party

[macomico]

thought abt my norn commander and her eeveelutions all day at work today & had to get her out of the system

[storm-called]

After some discussion in the guild chat, I wanted to put together a little community-driven creative project.

This is an open invitation to any and everyone in the creative GW2 community! Add your commander (or any of your GW2 characters) to the group. Both art and edited in-game screens are welcome! Let's play with our characters like paper dolls.

Below the cut is a hi-res transparent .png, free for adding as much or as little as you please.

Glaw is ready for a handshake, an arm wrestle, an opening to a dance; whatever. Get creative! Add on until the room is full of shenanigans!

(This is a given, but please be respectful of other people and their characters!)

*for reference, Glaw is 9'3 (282 cm)

Feel free to tag me if you make a new post rather than reblog

[froggychairmimic]

Cheers to that! -Esquoia, Wildfire Sniper

this should be everyone in the thread so far! thanks for the fun idea op <3 hi res cutout of my commander under the cut, plus a very rough and optional tavern bg for placement and posing inspo. let’s keep the party going! ✌︎('ω'✌︎ )

[hungryhungrygremlins]

[shu-can-art]

I'm joining in!

(btw, yes, Gnom is that big. I even checked all races size chart. He is almost max asura height, so a little shorter than max norn's leg and around small human's chest.)

I also finished the background using previous sketch. It was a good base to build on. PNGs and background layers are under the cut:

[storm-called]

Hi, little late I know, but can I have 4, 6 and 9 for Brynhildr?

It's never too late! Always happy to give Byrn some attention!

4. Do they have allergies, intolerances, weird reactions or dislikes so strong they might as well be any of the above? Are they also yours?

Bryn is a really hardy individual, so no allergies or intolerances that I could pull out of a hat. Dislikes, sure. Seafood -- not fish! or shellfish! -- food pulled from the salt water, be it fish or seaweed or whatever. She can't stand the slightly briny taste (real or perceived).

It's sort of mine, too? I don't really have many notable allergies or intolerances or super concrete dislikes. I do, however, love seafood.

6. What is THE thing(s) that inspired you to make the character? Would they like it?

Bryn actually just spontaneously existed, being my second GW2 character to be made. She started more as a shell that slowly developed into a fully fleshed OC, so there's not much in the way of outward inspiration. Her actual depth of character began when I decided that Glaw needed a sibling. She was sitting there in my character roster, without much of a backstory outside being a Priory nerd. They looked similar, so she got tacked onto Glaw's story. That started the ball rolling, and she developed into the sarcastic, goofy, hardy big sister she is now -- and still is a big Priory nerd.

I think she'd find the source of her inspiration being Glaw's family very endearing. Unlike Glaw, she's never been one too focused on personal glory, so she'd be okay with being a side note in another's tale

9. Have you ever discarded a piece of lore/characterization for them? Have you reused it elsewhere or are you still keeping it in the backburner?

Not to my knowledge! I don't cut pieces of character lore often, preferring to work them into their personal story somehow (unless it's really out of character to their current canon)

[storm-called]

woe, Glaw fashion be upon ye

and the full body shots mostly for my own personal reference

[mystery-salad]

Just need one spark to start a wildfire

[storm-called]

After some discussion in the guild chat, I wanted to put together a little community-driven creative project.

This is an open invitation to any and everyone in the creative GW2 community! Add your commander (or any of your GW2 characters) to the group. Both art and edited in-game screens are welcome! Let's play with our characters like paper dolls.

Below the cut is a hi-res transparent .png, free for adding as much or as little as you please.

Glaw is ready for a handshake, an arm wrestle, an opening to a dance; whatever. Get creative! Add on until the room is full of shenanigans!

(This is a given, but please be respectful of other people and their characters!)

*for reference, Glaw is 9'3 (282 cm)

Feel free to tag me if you make a new post rather than reblog

[froggychairmimic]

Cheers to that! -Esquoia, Wildfire Sniper

this should be everyone in the thread so far! thanks for the fun idea op <3 hi res cutout of my commander under the cut, plus a very rough and optional tavern bg for placement and posing inspo. let’s keep the party going! ✌︎('ω'✌︎ )

[hungryhungrygremlins]

[mystery-salad]

may or may not be playing favorites with Joel, but 1 and 13 for it from the quasi-ooc asks 👀

- @/storm-called

@storm-called I'm ALWAYS happy for Joel hours uwu

1. What's their voice like? (Voice claim and/or describe it)

Very tomboyish, little rough and lower than you'd initially expect looking at it!

Since the whole HoT mess though, its vocal chords like everything in its stasis-but-dead body hasn't been really able to regenerate as things wear down as easily. Big steps have been made both in Taimis scientific research to keep its body going, and in Kas' mesmer skills to simulate a more natural lifelike state, so within that Joels voice has also been so carefully maintained.

In the later years of current plot this has lead to a bit of an off-tone though, it'd be really noticeable if you put its original voice next to the current one but it's not noticeable without a direct comparison.

13. How would they feel about you (their creator)?

Oh Joel would find me so boring, maybe engaging for a conversation or two but man is it far more outgoing and exciting than I am. I'm very soft and inactive compared to Joel lmao.

[storm-called]

3, 7, and 10 for both Glaw and Rookfern! 💖

@mystery-salad

Glaw

3. What's the silliest nickname they were given? Is it in-story or just how you call them?

I'm not going to lie, Glaw has exactly 0 nicknames, silly or otherwise. I don't think they've ever been called by anything other than their name or title

7. Have they changed much since their first concept? Could they be considered the same person? If not, would they get along with each other?

Oh, immensely. But they are still the same person, because their first concept was just their history. They started out as an antagonist, and an antagonist they were; they just had enough help and willpower to become a someone regarded as a hero

10. How would you sum them up in one phrase? How would they react to reading it?

An amnesiac cloaked in the set-dressings of greatness.

They'd find the phrase humiliating, indignifying beyond definition, because they believe it to be true. Not even deep down. They wear their title of commander like a costume, a second skin, but if you scratch even just a little beneath the surface, you'd find someone who's terrified everyone will figure out it's (mostly) a charade. Even if, in reality, it's not true. A heaping dose of imposter's syndrome, if you will

Rook

3. What's the silliest nickname they were given? Is it in-story or just how you call them?

She's actually another that doesn't really have any nicknames sdfhksd. A lot of my characters have nicknames, but apparently not these two. I guess she's been called Rookie before, but not really canonically

7. Have they changed much since their first concept? Could they be considered the same person? If not, would they get along with each other?

Rook was my first GW2 character (and thus why she has the name she does, at the time of creation circa 2019 was more of a self-insert), so she was less of a concept and more of a progression. Since, she has evolved into a separate OC, but character-wise, she really has not changed.

She has always been a hard-headed, direct figure who carries the weight of the world out of duty more than anything else, even with a growing grudge against it. She is too proud to change, too afraid of it

10. How would you sum them up in one phrase? How would they react to reading it?

Five feet and six inches of whoop-ass.

She would have a laugh at the description, play it off saying she's not that aggressive over things