#fanwalker talk

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Fanwalker refresher: Kuro

Color identity: GWB

Race: Soratami

Homeplane: Kamigawa

Kuro was born to futurist parents who attributed her necromantic magic with being a kami curse. Fearing how society would react to their daughter's strange gift, that allowed her to raise any corpse with a simple touch, they kept her locked away within their Otowara estate since childhood. Kuro's every desire was almost always granted, but she never got to know the outside world, and saw more of the staff who worked within the estate than her own parents. Thus, Kuro grew up into her teens in a claustrophobic, lonely world where her own parents couldn't accept her.

Kuro's spark ignited after finally breaking out and escaping her family home, the rush of freedom being so euphoric that it sent her traveling through the multiverse. Finding herself of Zendikar, she fell into the care of a tribe of kor, specifically one of the members named Lara, who quickly became Kuro's mother-figure. Having no desire to return home, or to visit anywhere else in the known multiverse, she chose Zendikar as her new home. She also chose the name "Kuro" for herself during this time, casting aside the name her neglectful parents gave her and choosing the name of a legendary oni from her homeplane, feeling it suited her.

Kuro lived on Zendikar with her surrogate kor family for many years, living in fear that they would one day cast her aside because of her magic. She only, finally planeswalked again when the call to travel to Ravnica during the War of the Spark became too much to ignore. It's here she made lasting friendships, and bonds outside Zendikar.

Her adventures have led her to settling down on Kylem, where she lives with her beloved partner, a vampire from Innistrad named Wren, and their daughter Megumi. Kuro and Wren form a combatant duo and are regulars in Valor's Reach.

Abilities: Kuro is a necromancer, and can raise the dead by touching them. She can also take control of any other necromancer's undead using the same method, but this isn't permanent and lasts depending on the strength of the fellow necromancer. When she raises the dead, she sees their final moments before they perished. This makes her empathetic to those she raises, and she takes great care in maintaining the condition of their corpse.

Additional quirks: due to the trauma of her upbringing, Kuro refers to herself in the third person, hardly ever dropping out of speaking this way. Kuro also can eat virtually anything without getting sick, and is fond of trying bizarre and otherwise unappetizing foods.

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Kuro accidentally performing necromancy on Wren's sperm and conceiving Megumi is, like, my own, personal "Kor mothers making cheese out of their breastmilk".

This isn't even a complaint, I'm glad people remember this one incredibly strange-ass fact about Kuro and Wren's otherwise incredibly wholesome romance. I hope whenever I draw Megumi being a cute little bean, you all remember she was conceived because Kuro accidentally necromancied Wren's sperm. I hope that never fucking dies.

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Fanwalker refresher: Wren

Color identity: RB

Race: vampire

Homeplane: Innistrad

Before they sparked, Wren lived for many, many years among the Stromkirk line of vampires. Having had an incredibly strong glamor since being turned, and charisma to match, Wren lived a rather comfortable life, albeit a boring one, where things (and people) came easy to them. This often led Wren into making risky or controversial decisions, or overindulging in sex, violence or often times a bloody combination of the two.

As the years passed, Wren found it more and more difficult to see eye to eye with the Stromkirk vampires, and set off to form their own line, turning several willing humans and forming an incredibly deep bond with them. As a group, they came to view one another as family. Unfortunately, though, fate had something cruel in store for Wren, and for Innistrad.

In the wake of the eldrazi siege, one by one, the members of Wren's new family all gave in to Emrakul's influence. They went mad, turning on one another and destroying everything Wren had achieved from the inside out. Not wanting to see them suffer, and also out of a sense of self-preservation, they killed their once beloved family. Half mad and grief-striken, Wren's spark ignited, and they escaped before the worst could happen to them as well.

They arrived on Kylem, specifically within the pub owned by the azra, Rix. Through her, Wren was able to recover and get a foothold on this new plane. They and Rix even became romantically involved, albeit their relationship ended horribly. By then, though, they had established themselves as a formidable duelist within Valor's Reach, with an adoring fanbase through which they could satisfy their hunger, and also their impressive libido.

After the War of the Spark, Wren came into contact with the soratami necromancer, Kuro. An agreement to fight within Valor's Reach as a duo slowly blossomed into romance. Through her, they were able to build the family they had always wanted, and two currently live together on Kylem with their daughter, Megumi.

Abilities: as a Stromkirk vampire, Wren was trained in fencing and has a good couple of centuries worth of experience with the blade under his belt. His vampirism provides him with an enhanced level of stamina (which is useful in the arena as well as the bedroom), as well as the ability to turn into mist if a quick exit is necessary. Above all other things, though, is Wren's glamor magic, which is extremely useful in growing his adoring fanbase, and attracting people he fancies into attending his extravagant orgies.

Additional quirks: Wren is genderfluid, and presents herself as masculine or feminine depending on her mood. She prefers her method of feeding to be nonlethal, and uses the orgies she hosts as a way to get her fill, only needing a small portion of blood from large parties of people. In a pinch, she drinks Kuro's blood, but not very often, as using her wife as a food-source makes her uncomfortable.

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Nuriiel, Returned Angel

Despite the best efforts of Alexandria, Grii, Ziifa, Malmatiir and Rhiin, Mé and her followers successfully complete their ritual, reviving the angel Nuriiel (formerly known as Niirra, Cirn's old ruler) by possessing Urelii with her essence. Now left only with one, unfortunate option, the group attempt to kill Urelii, only to be stopped by Rhiin, who can't put away his personal feelings for the greater good. After ruining the plans of his new friends, Rhiin escapes into the Blind Eternities with Nuriiel, eluding them and exposing the multiverse to the newly revived angel's tyranny.

Refusing to back down from protecting Urelii, despite being possessed, Rhiin now serves Nuriiel, who uses his feelings for the girl's body she inhabits to her full advantage.

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@crystowl so I am, infamously, very bad at actually putting all my fanwalker lore in one place (something to think about on my end). I tag my fanwalker stuff appropriately, with their names, but Tumblr is how Tumblr does and some stuff just vanishes into the aether.

At the very least, I have a list of them all, with small blurbs on their current status (which is, like, over a decade ahead of current MtG canon). From there, each one has their own individual tag on my blog.

Specifically, Kimber is a unicorn that got transformed into a human on accident. Being from Eldrain, the fairytale plane, I decided to base them, and their mage companion, Ezin, off the story of The Last Unicorn (Kimber being based off the titular unicorn/Amalthea and Ezin being based off Shmendrick)

Fanwalkers

Alexandria Race: Human Color identity: BU Home plane: Grixis First Planeswalk: Innistrad Spark ignition: narrowly escaping getting decapit

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Now that March of the Machine story has been fully released I can ask, how did your ocs weather the Phyrexia invasion of the multiverse?

Okay, so this one I can answer! For the most part, those with home bases remained on those specific planes to defend their homes (Alexandria, Lalia, Rasmin and Pinni on Ravnica, Reah and Damali on Kaladesh, Wren and Kuro on Kylem, Ezin on Eldraine and Ziifa on Theros). Ezin, who got mixed up in the War of the Spark, and promised himself to never planeswalk anywhere else again, probably didn't have the best of times when the latest calamity arrived on his once safe home turf.

Malmatiir was on Cirn, which remained unbothered during the invasion, given that Cirn can only be located in the multiverse if you have been there once before.

Mé, who would have been on Cirn, was tasked by the angels of the plane to inspect what was happening. Only respecting one, true divinity, Mé had a grand, bloody time handling the Phyrexians they came across who answered to a false divine power.

Grii, Sophi, Rhiin and Urelii were all nomadic at the time, so they wound up having to fight for their lives on whatever plane they were on. Everyone in this set had a miserable-ass time except for Urelii, who had a blast.

Kimber was still an unsparked unicorn on Eldraine, under a sleeping spell, and managed to come away from it all unharmed and undisturbed.

Astrid (who was a teenager at the time), Nikolai, Morgan and Ezra (who was a child at the time) were all still un-sparked and remained on their homeplanes, either defending, or being defended.

Gerron was still dead at the time.

Kuro was pregnant with Megumi during the invasion

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Fanwalker update: Astrid and Nikolai

Upon the successful revival of Nuriiel, Astrid- who had once agreed to help Mé and Nikolai under the condition that the later set her up with his many connections on Ravnica- disregards Nikolai's offer outright and devotes herself to serving the newly risen angel instead. She offers her magic, as well as her homeplane of Kylem as a place to begin establishing Nuriiel's new rule, to which her new angelic master approves. Astrid sees this opportunity as a way to seize power for herself, as well as get revenge on the people who humiliated her and ruined her life on Kylem.

Nikolai, on the other hand, cannot shake the guilt as easily as he thought. What was once a task he took on simply to repay debts turned out to become a multiplanar threat- and being from a plane that was nearly torn asunder by something similar, this unsettles him. Wanting no part in their schemes, Nikolai attempts to escape, only to be hunted down by Rhiin, who was tasked with killing him. Instead, though, Rhiin pleads with Nikolai to forget all about this, and to simply lie low and not interfere- or else he'll be forced to finish what he started.

In another time, Nikolai would have gladly taken the opportunity to unshackle himself of a burden in order to return to his normal life. Unfortunately, the events leading up to his current predicament have left him unable to ignore his place in it all, and thus he escapes back to Alexandria and the others, warning them of Nuriiel's plans and offering his services. For now, at least, he joins the knights of Cirn.

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Cleaning up and trying to lock in my latest fanwalker, Gerron's, design. His lore and backstory are the same, I was just really unhappy with his initial design, and originally was too set on carrying over design elements from a different fancharacter of mine I based them off of.

For the uninitiated, Gerron is a zombie planeswalker, who was brought to life by a necromancer who wanted his magic for themselves- psying dearly with their life and eventually their spark, which Gerron now holds.

He is imbued with incredible magic from his mortal life that can grant anyone any desire they might have. However, using the gifts they are given by Gerron's magic comes at the cost of their life-force, and this allows Gerron to keep from wasting away. He's very upfront about the parasitic nature of his magic, but also seems to only offer their gifts to people who are really, truly desperate and are in no position to turn them down.

Gerron is incredibly vain and takes great pride in preening their perpetually deteriorating body to look as beautiful as possible. They use he/they pronouns.