tell me everything about jocasta 🥰 i’m all ears
I actually DO PLAN on turning this into an entire written out fic one day, and I will be making Jocasta's diary IRL and hopefully be posting that soon.
First I just wanna start off by saying I truly didn't want her to be my most traumatized girl. I specifically tried to give her a decent and UN-EDGY backstory but well... dnd had other plans.
Collective list of things Jocasta has been put through:
Picked up a cursed dagger at a young age and was basically possessed and forced to commit crimes.
Woke up in a field with amnesia, in a frozen icy wasteland.
Got forced into making a pact with an evil snow Goddess and told to go kill a king
Spends 3 days in a huge city, making friends, interacting with people, and even hooking up 2 times...
...Just to defeat the king they set out to defeat and have the entire illusion city fall apart around her.
Every person, every building, every place she was at and convensation she had? Fake. Only her 4 friends were real.
Not to mention that in the fight itself, she was shot by a bolt of lightning and nearly died
And as she was dying, the monk also nearly died and the wizard did die
They almost weren't able to save the wizard.
After the battle, the Goddess basically fucked them over and refused to take them home.
They were stuck fending for themselves in the blizzard. The built an igloo and Jocasta made a fire
Then the next day, they found a roaming band of mercenaries...
Who tortured and sacrificed each and every one of them.
They had to fight powerful mages and barely escaped by fleeing the area
...well then they fought an ice dragon
And the mercenaries caught up with them, sending each of the party members into different places and times, leaving her, the weakest member, alone to fend for herself.
She fought an Invisible wolf, and at that point, gave herself her famous backwards tattoo as a mid life crisis
The group DOES reunite and they find solace in an underground city full of survivors of the war. They have a vampire problem
Well guess who helps out with the vampire problem??? They do.
Their new ally gets crushed to death trying to get them out when they destroy the nest.
And then the Wizard sacrifices himself to get the others out, bringing down the entire underground city with him.
The group barely escapes and has no time to mourn the loss of their two friends before THE FUCKING MERCENARIES COME BACK.
This time the Sorcerer pulls down FOUR METEORS from the sky and they have to fight in the debris and rubble
As the smoke clears, they see their home in the distance.
They sneak back in the gate only to have ALL THEIR MEMORIES return.
It is revealed that THEY were the ones who summoned the evil queen and were RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL OF THE DESTRUCTION AND DEATH THAT THEY WITNESSED. THEY WERE ALL MURDEROUS MERCENARIES. THEY. KILLED. EVERYONE.
(Jocasta had the cursed dagger, that's why she did it. It broke when she lost her memory)
They escape their prison and find a rebel who is going to take them to a hideout
They escape by crawling through a sewer full of blood and guts from sacrifices.
They meet the other rebels and then learn that THE FUCKING WINTER GODDESS WAS TRACKING THEM THE ENTIRE TIME
They escape JUST BARELY and get their brands removed.
They have a night of drinking before the big confrontation
The day of the war comes and their allies are being picked off left and right. Jo and the monk are holding back an entire army by keeping them away with fire and attacks. The Fighter is taking out the big guards. The Sorcerer is protecting the only healer. The healer goes down. There are drakes flying everywhere.
Jocasta has a plan. One plan. The plan to end all plans. The plan to either end it all or end herself.
She's going to mind control the fucking drake.
She steps away from the monk. Her protector. Her close friend. She says her goodbyes. Internally. She's lost to the blizzard. They can't even see her.
She holds out her hand. She's ready to die.
The spell. Fucking. Works. (Natural. Fucking. 20.)
Jocasta RIDES THE DRAGON.
Jocasta picks up ALL OF HER FRIENDS ON THE DRAGON.
They fly at the Frost Prince, they all disembark and attack, now with a DRAKE ON THEIR SIDE.
They defeat the prince and the Queen appears, but they KICK THE EVER-LOVING SHIT OUT OF HER SORRY ASS
Jocasta shoots her directly between the eyes with her crossbow. Another Nat 20. The bitch is dead.
Not only that, but then Osiris gets sucked into a portal to another dimension before they can even begin to celebrate.
(Theres a lot of details from Eleni's story that come after this)
They reunite after 10 years of Osiris being missing.
(More of Eleni's story comes to pass, I'll get to that another time.)
And then, being an elf, Jocasta proceeds to outlive all of her friends including her wife. By over 600 years.
And thus is the story of Jocasta. The Bonfire Girl who survived with the power of Going Left and learning how to be brave, even if it meant risking it all.
