ok first off iām sorry i took so long to reply!! iāve been busy in the most tedious way possible so my brainās not exactly my best friend right now. second off: THANK U SO MUCH these were so fun to answer!!
iām putting all of these in the same post because i started talking and i could not Shut The Up, and i think one atrociously long post is better than four long posts when it comes to like, scrollability. scrollpastability? scroll-Something. and putting it under a readmore too for the same reasons
SO, from top to bottom:
weirdest character idea for D-N-D:
itās an idea iāve already had because i canāt come up with anything right now dksjfgbd, but
once i made a druid for a D//N/D-based CRPG who only cast spells when they gave him something edible (in theory ofc, the game didnāt let me eat my summoned bears... thankfully...), so i ended up with nothing but goodberries and several animal summoning spells. then i proceeded to cheat my way through the game, which defeated the point sdfgsd, but it was still fun concept-wise
also made me spend too much time wondering if the entangle spellās vines could be eaten. i mean you canāt eat the WHOLE thing but maybe you could like, munch on it a little, or try to slurp it up like a noodle. it wouldnāt be tasty, it wouldnāt be easy, and it most definitely would not be healthy, but itās like. the principle of the thingĀ
if ur asking yourself WHY i did thatā¦ well there arenāt THAT many D/ND-based CRPGS out there and iād already played that one āseveral times, in factā so i wanted to try something different :0
i mean itās not THAT weird tbh, but heās the only OC i can think of right now that soooooort of fits? and my brain is like, a tundra of creativity at the moment. a deep tar pool that absorbs all inspiration and drags it, kicking and screaming, to its viscous doom. well you get the idea. or i hope you do because i sure fucking donāt
ideal ending for one of my characters:
hmmmm for like, original fiction characters i more or less have all their endings planned out? most of them ARE ideal because i am fully in control of their destinies and i am also a softhearted lidle bich who prefers stories with relatively uplifting/happy endings. or tbh even the ones that arenāt technically happy are still ideal in terms of character arcs, development, etc
(i might be giving myself way too much credit there though skdjgbdksjfg)
and āthough this is super unlikely and mostly just me deceiving myself at this pointā i do want to publish what iām working on rn, so talking about endings would be a spoiler for something that does not exist and probably never will outside of my idiot fool head. so iām gonna talk about an old OC that iām not doing anything with anymore!
her name was elina and her entire deal was that she came from a family of very powerful witches who owned a, uh, i guess you could call it an archive? or a library?? idk, it was just an ABSURDLY large collection of magic-related books, and it pretty much contained all known arcane knowledge (though come think of it, āall known arcane knowledgeā canāt have been THAT much because the archive was just one room. a huge fucking monster of a room yeah but like. still just One)
so anyway, her family members were very dutiful + responsible when it came to the archivelibraryroom thing, but they were also too traditional for her tastes? like they didnāt bother practicing/using magic, or experimenting, or looking for anything outside of books; they only cared about written things, and even then they did nothing but get the Very Important Books, put them in the archivelibraryroom and forget about them completely
then elina ran into a group of other magic-users who were investigating a weird phenomenon in her hometown, and she asked her family about it, but they essentially were like āoh if it doesnāt affect the books we donāt care lol anyway itās your turn to clean the archivelibrary nowā
but yeah iām sure yāall can tell where this is going kjdfgbd elina was the typical YA protag in that she was super rebellious, so she turned her back on her family and left her house to help the group of inconveniently yet stereotypically teenage magic-users, made friends, learned about magic, blah blah blah
the issue is that i never gave that story an ending? like the closest thing to it was a vague āuhhhh elina goes back home to find the archivelibrary is burning down and pulls some kind of mysterious water magic out of her ass to save it; then her family apologizes, they begin to respect her and she stays with them to keep caring for the archivelibrary, But With A Progressive Twistā
the issue was that after writing around two chapters i realized i didnāt actually Have a plot, so i didnāt know what story that ending would be... ending... and since i couldnāt think of anything + i wasnāt THAT attached to the characters anyway i just gave up on it
but now that iām thinking of it again, just for the sake of ending the Story That Never Was, i feel like making her earn the respect of her family just because she saved the books + proved she actually cares about that too is, idk, shallow? out of character?Ā
because she believed that her familyās fixation on history + Neatly Documented stuff was holding them back and making things worse for everyone. she left her home behind because her ideals re.: magic āthat it should grow and change to fit the context + peopleās needs, and not the other way aroundā were so strong
OOF THIS IS GETTING SO FUCKING LONG KSDJGB iām just gonna stop here and say: elinaās new ideal ending is pretty much that while she ends up in friendly terms with her family ābecause, in spite of their fundamental disagreements, they never hurt herā she doesnāt go back home and chooses to travel around the world instead, helping people in whichever way possible and freely sharing her knowledge with anyone whoās willing to listen and, at the same time, learning from them
i mean, the conceptās not too original ksjdbg just something i thought of super quick, and thatās just a half-assed attempt at closure for an OC i made when i was likeā¦ 9
headcanons about my favs:
ok this oneās hard because iām not into any likeā¦ fandom things right now? i havenāt found anything that rly interests me or that i could see myself being passionate about, which sucks because i do kinda miss being into stuff with Established Content :(Ā
so iāve been focusing on my OCs + original stories and such. and iām not sure if OC headcanons count as headcanons because i control canon so technically everything i come up with IS canon. then again itās headcanon too because itās a canon from my head because thatās where ideas come from. okay wait iām not making any cents here xĀ
but uhh knowing me i might think of something right after publishing this, so if that happens iāll come back and edit this post :0
also just saying but if any of yāall know of something i could get into then lmk, iām open to suggestions! preferably free stuff though... iām beset by capitalisms
a favorite scene that i loved:
i canāt remember any in particular right now, either from my #content or somebody elseās SDFKJGBDF god my mind š well i mean iām gonna be a little bit full of meself and say that iāve written things that i really like, especially imagery-wise, but i Also want to publish those somedayā¦ like iāve also written original/OC-related stuff that i donāt plan on publishing, but iām not THAT proud of them tbh :/
i was āemphasis on wasā trying to write a short story about jasna (one of my D-N/D OCs, a cleric of oghma) that never really went anywhere, but i did post a snippet on my OC blog, and thatās what i hate the least out of all my recent attempts at writing? so iām just gonna put it here again ig sdfgs (not actually linking to the OC blog post because itās kind of a mess rn, i need to fix the theme + clean it up a bit)
if you got this far and read all of this nonsensical verbal monster: i love u with all my heart and i would legitimately die for u.
chillintelĀ replied to yourĀ post:Ā If Optimus Prime were monitoring my internet...
Are you suggesting that you have a collection of spike posts, that I should be ashamed, or that anyone gives a damn about some stodgy old primeās sensibilities?
You would say that, youāre aĀ ācon. The lot of you base your mantra out of an anti-establishmentarian nihilism fueled by anarchy and look to the idealisms of a gladiatorial tyrant who wears a bucket for a helmet as a sound basis of law. But I donāt know anything, Iām just a Councilor.
Why do black people have family codenames. Like is it just me??
I'll hear about some dude like Leonard Jackson that im related to and I'm like "oh wild never heard of him." and it's my Uncle Jerry who I've known my whole life.
Can you read Japanese? I was assuming because you did the quiz on that tortilla website. If you could read it, does Crystal continue the long tradition of Toei poor translation?
I can! And I assume you mean the official subtitles? Because yeah, theyāre pretty darn bad, but at least they do kiiiinda get the general message across.
