#elfest

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#ElFEst ya faltan pocos días apresúrate adquiriendo tus entradas

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I am so sorry for keeping you waiting! I’ve just been so busy! ^_^’

No worries at all friend!!

Alright so here we have ELFEST DREDHO elfest was inspired by mount everest as in relation to cold and snow which is what also inspired his personality! But we’ll get into that later

I read this as “Elfist Druido” (like an elf druid is what i thought of.) But that has nothing to do with the character and more to do with my dyslexic reading omg. I just thought it was a bit funny!

Name: elfest dredho Sweeps: 7 Sex: male Blood: jade (yes I know jade is a rare cast and it’s even more rare for a male to be hatched I realize this but….I couldn’t help myself I just like exotic trolls you know?)

Hmmmm well. I don’t have too much of a problem with people making jadeblooded characters (or even male jadeblooded characters) if they’re done well, but. I have to say that a certain thing seeming “”exotic”” is one of the worst reasons to choose something for a character.

This is because it comes off as elevating or liking a certain thing/feature just because it seems rare and exotic in the current situation, instead of having any actual relevance to what you wanted out of the character or taking into account more than that certain aspect.

This is much more heinous when talking about real-life races, but needless to say that people describing liking something as because it’s “exotic” does not sit well with me.

This does not mean that you can’t make a male jadeblooded character- but you should really try to take into account what that entails, and why that is relevant to this character in particular. We know that jadebloods take on a matriarchal role, in general- how does he feel about this? You mention later on that he treats others like his family, almost like children- is this because he feels that he’s “supposed” to take care of people?

Or if he has any disdain for his place as a jadeblood, is he upset with himself when he finds himself acting in a parental way toward his friends?

We haven’t gotten much confirmation for what being a male jadeblood implies, either. That would be an interesting opportunity to elaborate on it- is the role for a male jadeblood supposed to be different, if even slightly? Is he always immediately assumed to be a girl because of his text color? Does this annoy him? Does he angrily correct people, or do it politely? Or does he not correct people at all?

Does he know about other male jadebloods? Does he have any feeling that he’s weird for not being female? Is he insecure in his masculinity? Do others assume he’s feminine because of his blood color?

These are all interesting questions you could pose based on his blood color, instead of giving it to him just because it’s “exotic” and then not doing anything with it past that.

Quirk: a=ą o=ó u=ű there’s no particular reason for the quirk unfortunately

Perhaps you could make it based off an accent, like Eridan’s is said to be a “wavy accent”; Accents on letters usually indicate they’re meant to be pronounced a certain way. Maybe he pronounces all of his Us a certain way, or all of his Os a certain way, presumably based off of a human language and what that particular accent on the letter would sound like.

In this case you’d probably want to write out a few sentences and either say them out loud or find some text-to-speech website (which will use the accents to make the appropriate sounds) and see if it sounds plausible, even if you don’t specifically point attention to it in writing/storytelling/ect.

Lusus: his Lusus is based on the legend known as the wendigo a malevolent evil spirit that dwells in the mountains and forests, it’s power is at its fullest during the winter the spirit is unleashed should any man or woman commit an act of cannibalism; his name is wally, wally the wendigo :3

Looks pretty cool! Does his lusus have any other particular significance to the actual troll, apart from the fact that they are most powerful in the winter?

And, furthermore, how does this lusus differ from the wendigos of legend? You mention that Wally is “based off of” the wendigo, which implies some difference somewhere.

Personality: elfest is a more distant type of person even to those close to him, he’s a more of a STOIC character he can hide his emotions and feelings very well, behind one of his usual cold and blank expressions. But despite this he obviously expresses his feelings when he wants to and when he means something he’s firm and honest about it, he can get frustrated with his friends when they make mistakes but only because he cares he sees them as siblings his CHILDREN if you prefer that term he only wants the best for them.

You mention that he is distant to even those he’s close to, but that he “obviously expresses his feelings when he wants to.” This kind of clashes with each other just a bit, and would require some clarification for me to understand exactly what this means!

So what exactly dictates when he “wants” to? And if he is easily able to express his feelings when he does want to, why is he distant? A lot of people are distant because they don’t know how to express their feelings or just don’t like people in general, which does not seem to be the case with him. Others seem distant because they’ve been hurt in the past and have trouble opening up/connecting to people as a result, which also doesn’t seem to be the case with the apparent ease he has with expressing things when he “wants” to.

Other people are distant because they think it makes them stronger, or that sharing feelings is weak by definition. (Men in human society often do it as well because it’s not “masculine” to talk about or express your feelings, which you could possibly translate to him if that fits his character.)

So my interest would be in why he is distant if he has an easy time expressing himself; Or the other way around. Why he finds it so easy to express himself when he is usually extremely distant from others in general.

Land of: frost and spirits

Keep in mind that titles (and by extent, lands) to not always play directly into people’s strengths! You do not have to change this, of course, as there are plenty of characters who have lands that fit them pretty well. It’s just a good thing to keep in mind.

Derse/prospit?: prospit

Interests: he’s very intrigued and fascinated by cryptids mythological beings spiritual entities phenomena charms voodoos dark arts unexplained occurrences demons angels and so on he in fact pursues his dream by collecting ancient artifacts weird nicknacks charms potions etc when he isn’t doing much he enjoys writing in journals that contains information on his studies and findings or reading I mean who doesn’t love a good book? Or if he’s not reading/writing he well kill time by sculpting figurines and faces

Dislikes: idiots who don’t use common sense or good Grammer and punctuation being judged and criticized for his beliefs and studies

A more interesting way to explain/thing to think of might be what he does when confronted with these things.

Is he rude to those who do not use proper grammar/punctuation? Does he treat them as lesser? Or does he just generally avoid conversations with people of that sort? Or is his dislike simply in the way of correcting his friends when they say something “incorrectly?”

How about people who criticize his beliefs/studies. Does he have passionate, open debates? The way you put it makes it seem more like he’s the sort to get upset just based on the fact that they’re criticizing him, while not taking into account the validity of the points the other person’s making.

That’s not a bad thing if you have that be the case, of course! It’s quite a good character flaw, and it can mean many other things- Does he shun those people? Or stubbornly refuse to believe anything they say could be valid? (That one applies to those who don’t use grammar/punctuation correctly as well. Many people will assume those who have trouble with or don’t care about grammar/spelling/punctuation are “stupid” and will assume everything these people say is going to be wrong by definition.)

Strife: a sword/knife type sorta resembles a machete they are made out of bone, he spent lots of time and effort on carving them they are very useful for carving and slicing meat

Now, this is something you have to ask yourself with this kind of weapon: Is there a practical reason for choosing this or did you choose it just because it sounded cool?

Because, let’s face it- there are few creatures (or at least few creatures that would be easy to kill) whose bones would be big enough to carve into a knife or sword like the one you drew above; And if one were to make an implement like that it may very plausibly weaken the structure of the bone.

Not to mention, while bones ARE incredibly strong, it’s usually in one direction- whichever one is most pressing for the bone. Leg bones, for example, would be strong at holding things on the top and bottom. They’re built for holding your body in exactly that way, and taking a lot of stress and weight from those angles. But hit them from the side, and it’s much more likely that they’ll be cracking and falling apart.

Here’s a good video that talks about it. It even gives a demonstration with a cow’s femur!

So, even if the structure of the bone isn’t already hurt by the carving of it, the way you hit is going to be pretty important. Stabbing straight forward might work fine, but as far as slashing and bashing down on someone with brute force, that thing’s probably going to snap right in half.

Of course, there are plenty of swords that are made for stabbing instead of chopping- But comparing it to a machete doesn’t really give the idea that stabs were what you were going for.

Then there’s the question of why he would WANT to have swords/knives made out of bones. I could certainly see carving them as a sort of hobby or collector’s thing (or a show of strength by being like “look at all these bones from stuff I’ve killed,” I guess?) But is there any particular relevance for why the bone should be the material it’s made out of? Also, on that whole note, where does he get the bones from? What animal, or is it a variety of different ones? Which bones does he use to carve these swords?

When did he start doing this? Does he have any other weapons? What is he fighting/what is he using them for, primarily? And how well would this sort of weapon work with those creatures/obstacles realistically speaking?

Quadrants ♡: he has a VERY big flush crush on tyrain vexson (already submitted)

Commenting on his relationship with Tyrain, you mentioned that she also always stands up for what she believes in.

Do they believe in the same things, or do they butt heads? If they are both very outspoken about their beliefs it may do well to think of how their beliefs interact with each other.

◇: ♤: ♧: Alright that’s it! Let me know what you think, 2 more trolls to go :)

I think overall he’s alright! For him I’d focus on doing research into the sorts of subjects he’s got, as well as better fleshing out the “why”s to things (if that makes sense!)