Argonnessen is that big part of Eberron’s world map that just says “here be dragons”. On the northwest coast is an island chain called Seren, home to humanoids who are tasked with protecting the mainline from intruders. One of their holiest sites is Totem Beach, on Argonnessen proper. There, giant stone dragon heads serve as a warning to anyone that would try and go deeper into the continent.
So….rock/dragon statue head, and diglett’s older, scarier cousin. Imagine 10 different colour variations to represent each of the major chromatic and metallic dragon kinds!
happy birthday iz!!! i think connor and taber should go on a DATE
[ID: another ask by @argonnessen that reads: "but to do the meme correctly lmao: you know Connor! who do YOU think would go for her". /end ID]
No no I ALSO think that these two should go on a date!
Listen, listen. They have So Much in common and could really take solace in having someone who understands their experiences, even if they didn't have exactly the same lives. I'm sure Connor could do a lot for Taber in helping her feel like anger isn't an inherently emotion to feel, and Taber would be so supportive of Connor reconnecting with her brother. I Also feel like she could maybe pull Connor back just a touch in terms of selfless self-sacrifice; she's gotten more of a sense of what her own habit of doing that does for the people she loves sndkfjg
Idk if I have anybody else who would Go For Her, but Connor would absolutely be an inspiration for at least two of my other kids: Adalwin and Naomi. Naomi has only just recently cracked hee egg, and do you have any idea how much someone like Connor would make her heart swell? As an adult trans woman with an extremely cute aesthetic and a group of people who love her and persistent hope in people being good? Gosh. Naomi would cry
Adalwin meanwhile could learn quite a but from Connor for that aforementioned hope and faith in people, despite her being aware first-hand how much people can be cruel and self-serving. Evens tries to make things better, and there's clearly a part of him that believes in good things, but he's definitely worried about not doing enough. (Also his twin sister Auda would find Connor to be a delight. There are so many trans Jewish twins here sjdjkgg)
(Describe one or your OC's to me & I'll tell you which one of mine I ship them with!)
LMAO i didn't notice the gifset thing i am half asleep. 💀 instead?
💀 a piece that was not worth all the pain and suffering
i really do not enjoy how this comic turned out, given how goddamn long it took me, but i was feeling pretty garbage at the time and didn't have the mental energy to spend any more time fixing it, so in the end i was just very displeased all around gfhjdsg. i do like the concept tho
❌ What kind of things would end any relationship for them? Is there a history behind why these things bother them? Could they ever take someone back despite this? If so or if not, why?
hedwig voted least likely pc to join a cult. she grew up in a large family with authoritarian parents, and had very rigidly enforced standards of politeness and deference that she was required to follow; anything that so much as reminds her of a demand on her behaviour now makes her disengage immediately. this isn't, like, a good thing, it's a major problem in her personal relationships because "don't ask anything of me i wasn't already willingly giving you" isn't a realistic standard, even if the fear response comes from trauma and all that jazz
ripley hangs on to relationships for a lot longer than they should, even when they're not healthy. i don't think they've ever dumped someone, only been dumped. they commit hard and once they fall for you they're Dedicated—they're willing to contravene the marked houses entirely for aurora and wouldn't consider anything else—and whether or not that's a good thing depends entirely on the person they're with
🍏 Does your OC have any triggers? What is the history behind these triggers and are they related to any disorders or mental illnesses? In what ways does your OC react to being triggered?
hedwig's main response is flight. she's the one sitting with her back to the corner so she can see the entire room and know where the exits are. her anxiety gets worse when she's alone; around the pack, she attaches to ingrid, cunning, or eli because they make her feel safe ;-;
ripley's main responses are freeze and fawn. they would have an incredibly long list of things they want you to tag on their /about and like, i've been there, but hoo buddy. they have some specific nausea and panic reactions to gore, especially internal organs; a lot of their other triggers are hard to pin down because they're all subtle little tics of body language or speech that tip them off to the allegiance of whoever they're talking to. ripley is very aware that a lot of people want them dead, and they figure that their best chance of survival is to hold still and not make problems for anyone :)
💤 What was your OC like as a baby, a child and as a teen? (if your OC is a teen or a child, what will they be like as an adult?). How have they changed since then? What lessons have they learned and what things about their youth do they miss the most? Do they have any general regrets?
hedwig was a middle child of, like, eight or nine—skinny, wild-haired, usually in hand-me-downs. she was one of those kids who Stares At You, but she was usually spacing out or running compulsions in her head to suppress unwanted thoughts. she grew into an anxious and fairly subdued teenager. there was a lot of responsibility placed on her as her older sisters grew up and married out of the family—she got saddled with childcare and household management, and her younger siblings went to her for comfort instead of their mother. the werewolf bit her at sixteen, and it ruined her family's image of her. she went from model obedient daughter to something angry and slavering and full of teeth, and this coincided with them finding out she was into women and kicking her out. by the time she hit adulthood she had undomesticated herself hunting the wolf who bit her <3
ripley was also anxious but for different reasons. they were a prodigy and started their bard training very young; they were composing on their own long before any formal training, and it made them both incredibly self-absorbed and incredibly anxious about it. ripley knows that they're good at what they do. everyone's always told them that. they had natural, inborn ability—and they manifested their mark VERY young! so that was even more evidence that they would be great :) but then nobody gives them actual feedback they can use :) so they're flying blind :) what if they fail :))
🎀 Do they wear a specific accessory with a special meaning behind it? What is their usual fashion sense like? What do they wear when they want to be comfortable and what do they wear when they’re going to a fancy party? Or do they just not care?
hedwig wears the pelt of the werewolf who bit and cursed her c: it's usually on her back or around her shoulders like a cloak and is a bitch to keep clean. the rest of her fashion sense is very practical; she wears neutrals and dark-but-not-black to help her fade into the background. most of what she came into barovia with she stole along the way, since she was kicked out with essentially nothing
ripley has MASKS. they don't feel like they have a real face of their own and their face is covered At All Times around other people, except for aurora. they work these into their stage personas—lots of insect, bird, plant motifs, lots of glitter and shine and shiftweave. they probably have a plague doctor mask somewhere but it's fully bedazzled and covered in feathers. their makeup compliments their masks—it doesn't have to be a full-face mask, but at minimum it has to go around both eyes and cover their mark
19. How does your character act when they want to seem threatening?
oh taber can be Very Threatening when she wants to be and she knows it - she doesn't Like it, but she knows she can be. seven feet tall, broad shoulders, a face that can look very intense with minimal effort. often her out-of-combat intimidation rolls involve her speaking very clearly with her shoulders squared while not breaking eye contact
28. Why do they keep secrets?
for the longest time, her existence was a secret that she was all but told she should be ashamed of, and that shame tends to be at the core of her desire to keep secrets -- if someone else tells her a secret, for example, she keeps it in part because she doesn't want to make them disappointed in her
45. What would they never forgive themselves for?
the people she killed whose names she didn't even know, in order to break free from the broker's clutches. she stole armour and weapons and cut her way to freedom. honestly she was so ashamed of and traumatized by that whole ordeal that she blacked it out of her memory, and even now she can't remember what happens, she just knows that logically that Has to be what happened
51. What makes them a hypocrite?
lmao she just had a miniarc about this! she judged belasco Hard when he first revealed to the party that he's from a mafia family, even though she of all people knows your family doesn't make you who you are, nor does acting against the law make you a bad person -- hell, her family played the laws to their advantage for generations and they were shit
she's also a bit of a hypocrite in not wanting to let her friends get hurt on her behalf but being the first to jump into danger for those same friends, but 1) she's kind of built to do exactly that mechanically, and 2) she's been getting better at the whole self-sacrifice thing lately
