My forest imp characters, Trina and Static! Trina's an alchemist, and Static is a forest keeper. My alien forest imps use a special enchantment chowder to celebrate their affinity with the forest and take on extra biological traits. Static chose deer, Trina.... well, there was an accident. Involving flowers.
Why forest imps? When I was a kid, they used to be another kind of small hero race popularized by the great Tolkien. I was super into The Hobbit when I was a kid, before I discovered Discworld, and I've always been short lol. Eventually, I learned certain kinds of names can't be used by others, and started calling them halflings, etc, but.... then, Final Fantasy IX came out, with all of its creature-centered worldbuilding, and it inspired me to do something entirely new with my characters. Static used to be a literal imp, like a copy of Impmon almost lol Twenty five years plus later, and I'm glad I made the change.
