#dote's ocs

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@glitterbark I was thinking of what Mender's bells might look like, so I whipped up a quick reference for the RP. Was too lazy to make it a full fledged ((or anatomically correct)) drawing, but here ya go.

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I saw that @grapes-the-red-panda’s Thaumatale OC likes messing with clockwork and general tinkering, and my immediate thought was Mender going, “Oooh, whatcha doing?” and sticking her big freckly nose into Patzer’s business.

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And after that lovely story I just posted, have a quick doodle of a summertime Mender doing some sewing in the sun.

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@glitterbark Want to know why Mender never talks about her home town? For all intents and purposes, she doesn’t have one. Her grandmother, Ametrine, was her teacher. Ametrine and the Primus of her town had a late-in-life romance. The Primus had never married, and Ametrine’s husband had died several years back. Ametrine was advising her on the subject of natural disasters (she worked with earth magic), and the pair fell in love. It was very cute. Their students approved. The added side effect of this was that the Counselor of Second Chances (as this was her only title back then) became a bit of a sister to the Primus’ apprentice and the Inquisitors in training. Those guys are interesting, I might post on all of them later if I have time. Things did not stay rosy. The Primus, in a set of circumstances nobody could later identify, fell to the Beast. Ametrine was lethally wounded stopping her. The Inquisitor at the time (the Ageless Blade), had a talent for predicting how certain decisions would play out. They informed the Counselor that if knowledge of the Primus’ frenzy got out, not only would the town fall into a political crapshoot, but the Primus’ student and two of the Inquisitors-in-training (basically, her grandchildren) would also turn to the Beast out of grief. The power vacuum this would create would… well, it would cause trouble. There’s always a price. To make sure that the Primus’ failing did not impact their students, the Counselor took the only option she could find and made a terrible switch. Instead of the Primus, everyone now believed that Ametrine was the one who fell to the beast, and the Primus the one who stopped her. The price of making sure her siblings lived was cutting all their ties with the new scapegoat Ametrine–and thus, with the Counselor herself. This rippled out into the rest of the city. As it turns out, quite a few people were affected by Ametrine and the Counselor’s relationship. The Counselor only discovered the true ramifications of her actions when simply speaking to an old friend on the street gave her a splitting headache from the paradox she was causing. After all, this person didn’t care about her that much, so how could she be talking to them like a friend? She left the town, changed her title, and tried to forget. The Counselor believes that she had no choice. She may say that she shifted her town's perceptions to save it, but honestly, she did it to save her siblings. And now she can never see them again, because she’s afraid that the price for reviving their memories of her will be their lives.