Questions about Ameria and Marsaili ❤️
1. Are they from an original story or were you first inspired by a particular fandom?
2. Is this a modern universe or are there any sci fi/fantasy elements?
3. How did Ameria and Marsaili meet?
(feel free to link to posts you've previously written in case you have)
YAY I get to talk about my OCs some more!! Tagging @enbeemagical and @hoothalcyon because I know y'all like Ames and Mars as well :)
Ameria and Marsaili are my OCs in the world of The Dragon Prince! They're Moonshadow elves who live in the Silvergrove. Marsaili is a botanist, studying trees and plants in the Moonshadow Forest. Her wife, Ameria, runs a fiber arts store called The Crafty Crescentpillar, named after TDP's crescentpillars, who spin silk! Ethari keeps Ameria stocked with crochet hooks, knitting needles, and all other metal crafting equipment. Marsaili goes toe to toe with Runaan for Ameria's amusement (and masturbation material), and brings blue roses home to her wife.
Ameria's childhood dream was to travel to the Border to see lavascale lizards, but with a degenerative disability, it gets harder and harder to travel each year. Now that the Border is safe to travel to, she still longs to see the lizards in-person, but she's content hearing Runaan's stories of encountering them around the Moonstone Path and sewing little lizard plushies. Here's a line from a fic that I think perfectly sums up this feeling (the chronic illness feeling of your dreams slipping through your fingers):
Ameria doesn't know how many old dreams she'll get back, but there are so many wonderful dreams ahead of her.
And this fic is actually where Ameria was birthed! Her birthday is January sixth because that's the date I started the fic 😄 The premise of the fic is that Runaan is learning to crochet a weighted blanket for a stressed out Ethari, and Ameria is the one helping Runaan! Since writing Ameria into this fic, she's expanded into her own character outside of ruthari, and I adore her so much.
She also started as a character largely inspired by myself--has EDS, braids her hair, is very femme--but Ameria has grown into her own character outside of that. I'm finding that the more I play with my OCs, the more they come into their own!
Marsaili is partly inspired by Tiadrin, especially her hair. (She has shoulder-length 3a curls with a left parting.) She's autistic and blind with some light and shadow perception, and loves stim toys that make noise! Her horn cuffs have a chain connecting them, similar to Andromeda's horn jewelry.
I've never actually thought about how Ameria and Marsaili met--the Silvergrove is a relatively small village, after all! But Marsaili realized that she loved Ameria in ways other than platonic ones when she took Ameria out for moonberry surprise one time. They were around sixteen, and Ameria was in the early stages of her transition, and Marsaili took Ameria out for moonberry surprise after Ameria's childhood bullies teased Ames about being a girl with short hair. (Her childhood bullies teased her about the "weird" way she walked before she started using a wheelchair. They're really the only ones who are transphobic towards Ameria because they never liked her in the first place.)
When they were on that moonberry surprise date, Marsaili had her oh moment. Ameria had come out, and Marsaili realized the depths of her affection for her, and Marsaili suddenly realized why she as a lesbian was attracted to Ameria.
Both Ameria and Marsaili were very nervous when they started dating. Ameria had never dated as a girl before (and her exes were ableist assholes), and Marsaili was still learning how to let down her guard. Throughout the years, Marsaili's boisterous and tough exterior became less of a mask to keep her softer interior safe, and more of just her. The first time she stimmed with Ameria's dress, Ameria fell head-over-heels in love. Ameria loves both the hardass and soft sides of her brilliant wife.