#ivrel

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one thing to understand about ivrel is that she definitely has killed people and will do it again. but she would never just stab someone in the back. because she respect the art of the duel.

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🪩 Disco Ball- What was an achievement that your OC felt worthy of celebrating? Was it a personal victory or a big impact on everyone around them?

When Ivrel and Vita first got the money to move in together, they had a "housewarming party," consisting of just the two of them and a bunch of shitty decorations and snacks and drinks and weed, probably. Ivrel had seldom slept in a real bed before, much less lived in a real house. She laid down on the queen size bed in her pajamas Vita put silly plastic decorations in her hair, and she felt more like a little girl then than she ever had when she actually was one.

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3 How did you choose their name?  & 12 What have you found to be most difficult about creating art for your OC (any form of art: writing, drawing, edits, etc.)? 

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3. How did you choose their name?

Originally, like... 9 years ago (geez), when I first defined this group of characters, I just gave them all regular human names. Her name was Ivy until I gave everyone fantasy names a couple years later. After that her name was Ivre. Looked it up and learned it means drunk in French (though presumably pronounced differently idk). But I was like... that's fitting tho lmao?!? So I kept it for a pretty long time before I finally put the L on the end dhgkjfdlhg

12. What have you found to be most difficult about creating art for your OC (any form of art: writing, drawing, edits, etc.)?

Ivrel's personality isn't particularly difficult to write, but I have to go back over her lines to make sure her accent/dialect is obvious and consistent without being a pain to read. She's not the only character I imagine with some sort of accent, but it feels more important to her portrayal than most of the others.

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19 for ivrel!!

19. What is your favorite fact about your OC?

This is actually kinda hard, since I have to choose a specific one!! I'll choose something recent that I can't get out of my head.

Ivrel has a tramp stamp of a spider shooting out webbing that says "don't get it tangled!" in cursive. She got it in the bathroom at a saloon. It is poorly drawn, off-center, and completely impossible to remove now due to her regeneration powers.

She also tried to get an eyebrow stud before, but her brows are so thick it wasn't even visible. I guess that's two facts. Oh well.

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82 for Ivrel?

82. Can You Hear Me?

TW: mention of drugs/addiction, very minor self-harm?

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Ivrel claps her hands together in a prayer formation, shoulders square and brows furrowed in concentration.

Hey. Are you real? She tries to think as loudly as possible.

As expected, nothing happens.

She rips her hands apart and stares down at her palms with contempt. What a stupid idea. Praying to god had never done her any good. Why would that woman be any better? In the end, both of them must despise her.

After all, the woman said she was- Thought she was- No, it couldn’t be! Ivrel wouldn’t accept it, she wouldn’t be able to take it, if that was the cause of her suffering after all. It was just nonsense from someone who must be even more spiteful and miserable than her.

And then that bitch still had the audacity to ask her for a favor!

...A favor she’d fulfill at the same, but not for her, never for her. It would be for her friends, because they’ve accepted her, they might even like her, even if she doesn’t really understand why. The trajectory was set well before she saw that godforsaken vision. Shame it muddled everything up.

But the important part is that she chose it herself. Good or bad, her own decisions led her here. She’d reap, and then she'd sow. That was easy. That she could accept.

“I ain’t who you think I am,” Ivrel growls under her breath, shoving her hand into her pocket and fishing out a dented tin case and a rest stop lighter. The blunt is crumpled and half-used already. She jams it in-between her teeth and pulls in a deep breath, hissing on the exhale.

Why is she so fucking mad, anyways?

It wasn’t real, after all, just some contrived scenario conjured up by her drug-addled mind. As what, like, a reflection of her self-loathing? A grand new insight into her crisis of faith? She knows damn well how miserable she is already, no need for convoluted symbology. She puts her fingers to her temples and screws her eyes shut, nose wrinkling.

Fuck off.

She doesn’t want the woman to be real, but, at the same time, she hopes someone hears it.

Ivrel crosses her arms over her chest. Her claws are digging deep into her arms, but she doesn’t feel it at all anymore. It’s nothing, not after she’s been ripped to shreds over and over again. Who cares.

It’s all bullshit. She can’t stop thinking about it. It’s driving her crazy.

It nags at her, the lingering thought that she has to try it again, has to see it again, that she’ll get all the answers if she just has one more go at it.

That’s not feasible, though, and it’s a damn good thing that it’s not. Getting hooked on the holy hash, the spiritual spice, whatever you want to call it… That’s the last thing she needs. The shit is worth its weight in gold, and it's not even fun! For a split second, right as consciousness washed back over her, it’d felt like she’d been crushed by the weight of the whole world.

Besides, just once was humiliating enough already. The way they’d all looked at her. What was she supposed to say?

Well, s’pose I just couldn’t help myself!

What a goddamn shame.

“I was really askin’ for it, huh?” Ivrel says aloud, staring at the wall. A laugh bubbles up from her throat, and her mouth curves into a smile. “Think my next life’ll be any better?”

Of course, her inquiry is met only with silence.

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Ivrel and Vita's relationship was fucking wild. Both exhibiting cartoon character behavior. I don't even know how else to describe it. <3

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miscellaneous skills and hobbies

Meridian - likes fashion and styling outfits. learned a couple traditional dances for ritual purposes. can handle a small rowboat - all of the roads in kalirangka were waterways - and likes to venture out on their own. has gotten good at quad skating, which they use to train their movements with their weapon.

Ivrel - uhhh. smoking weed and hanging out!! ivrel doesn't really have a dedicated hobby aside from dueling, but she'd probably benefit from one. knows how to trick rope and tie a lot of different knots and catch lizards of various shapes and sizes.

Tjong - previously spent almost all of his effort fighting and making his weapons. initially just sits in the lobby doing nothing when he doesn't have a task, but gains extensive knowledge on stocks by osmosis from the tv in there. gets really into investing. can play gong ageng in a gamelan ensemble.

Vita - clearly knowledgeable about gardening and foraging. reads a lot of mystery novels and tries to guess how they'll end. does like 10000 piece puzzles but tends to lose some of the pieces. decent enough photographer... the main skill she's honed is taking pics without people noticing 🤫

Audrist - glass artist obvs (mainly stained glass) but also does resin work. can sketch things from life pretty accurately. combs the beach for sea glass. knows some street magic type sleight of hand tricks. tries to do yoga to keep himself limber.

Zee - gamer(tm). plays the theremin and has enough musical knowledge to make her own simple songs. the only one of them who can sing in any capacity. good at doing makeup and hair. terminally online. is absolutely the group's brand manager.

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Hold on I'm thinking about Ivrel. Her body always regenerates to what "full health" would have been on the day she got hit by the meteorite. But that's not like... Perfect Health by any stretch. She still has all the scars and other afflictions she got before that day.

idk exactly what said afflictions would be, I'm just saying it's possible. Her lifestyle was not healthy at all.