New character, who comes with a very important announcement concerning another, very important character!
This is Chronicler Aocca, warrior and Priory historian. Sweet and soft-spoken, with an “I woke up like this” coolness and fabulousness factor, few would expect Aocca to be a knowledgeable nerd, or a highly trained and capable warrior, yet she is all of those.
A literal history buff, she has spent several years at the Priory and travelling all around Tyria, researching contemporary cultures as well as cultural relics and history, while also training to be an exceptionally good melee fighter. Scholar and muscle in one person, Aocca has lead expeditions to highly dangerous locations and come out unscathed, thanks to her wit and her fighting style which combines greatly disciplined combat moves with the exploitation of her small size and speed. Her secret is actually a solid background of Eternal Alchemy studies, which has given her a knowledge of physics and combat magic few melee opponents can match.
For someone with so many things to boast of, Aocca is quite modest. She had not actually excelled much at the sciences back in Rata Sum, and her curiosity for other cultures had not been valued there, so she still kind of sees herself as just a nerd with an obsession, who also likes to lift. This has lead her to be a lot more shy than she appears at first glance. Her moral neutrality, also a relic from Rata Sum, has been evolving, though, which will lead her to participate in significant current events as described below.
And now for the announcement: reflecting my own evolving preferences in characters, I’m making Nouru biromantic, bisexual and polyamorous, and her second love interest will be - you guessed it - Aocca! I’ve been planning on a secondary group of heroes consisting of some of my more offbeat heroic/hero-ish characters - Zaarin, Ecnilios and Laria so far, and now Aocca will be joining them too. This group will be allied with the Pact, but not officially associated with them, working independently and helping fight the latest threats arising all around Tyria.
Now, during the time of the PS, Nouru had already ran into Aocca sometimes at the Priory, but back then the Gay had not been awakened in her yet. Fast forward to LS S3 when, with group 2 (I really need a name for them) out in the field, the two are bound to meet again, likely even work together - which gives Nouru ample opportunity to fall for cotton candy hunk Aocca. Stay tuned for further developments.
(I realise I accidentally dyed her armour in sort of trans flag colours, which is funny bc I am trans nb and have a bunch of trans/nb characters but Aocca actually happens to be cis lol)
(Also I had to delete Hroskell to free up a slot for her as I didn’t have enough money for a slot next to other stuff I needed from the gemstore. Hroskell still exists as a character outside of the game of course, but I realised he wasn’t really gonna get anywhere ingame - he’s been low level for more than a year and I didn’t have a build or even outfit planned for him. Rip)
@opaledrobin I meant like, in her civilian getup. Aocca is not typically asuran in the way she presents; when not wearing armour, she usually looks and acts a lot more femme and dresses much more cosmopolitan than typical for Rata Sum or even Priory asura. I mean yeah, the #1 asura stereotype is the nerd, but I’m imagining it would also have a mirror stereotype to it by this point - asura who don’t look like nerds are assumed to be distant from core asuran culture and values. So with her looks, most people wouldn’t assume Aocca to be also a nerd and a trained melee fighter at first glance.
(thanks tumblr for screwing up replying to replies, again)
