#lodask

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reference sheet commission for @shadowtriads of their Destiny character~

[tigerspite]

Hellerrr ::3 OC Ask:

#2, 4, 5, 6, 15 & 16 for the OC(s) of your choice.

I'll split this between Lodask and Wethraks - thank you!

2. Can they take care of a plant? What about a pet? What about a child?

Yes, yes, and yes. Lodask actually is a very nurturing person and is good at taking care of people or things. He was given a kitten after many years of living in London, and looks after the hatchlings in the nursery, post resurrection.

He just can't look after himself. He doesn't even think to, not even after being rezzed. Everyone else can have his time and energy, but when it comes to actually doing things and taking care of himself and his affairs, it all falls apart.

4. Do they look good in red?

Yes. He was a Devil, so I sure hope so anyway.

5. Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Will they give one, and what about?

Lodask is not a man of many words, but will talk at length and give a speech if pushed. It's just that he keeps himself out of leadership positions that would require him to give a speech. He doesn't want the responsibility and knows the Eliksni can handle themselves, he doesn't need to interfere. They also won't necessarily listen to him, because he's a human. So he keeps himself to himself and won't be giving any impassioned speeches unless he really needs to convince a peer of something.

6. Who will they take advice from, no matter what it is? Who won’t they take advice from, no matter what it is?

Wethraks listens to Eramis. They argue about semantics and will test each other's boundaries, but he does respect what she does and knows. The advice just might not be applied in a way she expects, or WHEN she expects it to be done. It gets stored away in his head for later and he'll marinate on it, then apply her teachings somehow.

He absolutely will not take advice from the vast majority of other Eliksni, or from most Guardians. Normal humans are fine, but RIsen are tricky and have tried to get one over on him before now. He's quite content with what he knows through observation and experience and doesn't believe they have much advice worth listening to.

15. What would they consider a waste of time– other than school or work?

Trying to tell a Devil anything, and yet he does it anyway.

16. If money wasn’t a limit, what would they wear?

Here's the thing. Money isn't a limit for Wethraks. The work he does is quite nicely paid. He spent a lot of his life generally being taken care of by a Kell, due to his position or relationship with them. He wanted for nothing with Ursaviks and Solkis, and works as Misraaks's advisor in the City. The only time he would've wanted for anything was when Drifis and Riksis were Kell, and even then, he was being compensated more than enough for his spying and infiltration so could support himself and his Claw quite happily.

So the answer is he'd wear exactly what he has now. He had access to all his armour solely because he had the money to throw around.

[tigerspite]

For OC Asks (choose-your-own-OC adventure):

betrayal, break, failure, ghost, hide, mask, and monster!

Okay I'm going to cook here and do Wethraks AND Lodask so under a read more. Thank you!

betrayal: Has your OC ever been betrayed by someone they thought they could trust? Has your OC ever betrayed someone who trusted them?

Wethraks, yeah Ursaviks totally betrayed him by lying to him. He then made a lifestyle of sort of betraying others given his position in the House. There's plenty of people who trusted him that he likely screwed over.

Lodask was just screwed from the start in his first life. He doesn't make a habit of betraying people because trust is everything to him, and he's not the type to screw someone over to get ahead. So no, he's a pure boy.

break: What would cause your OC to break down completely? What do they look like when that happens? Has anyone ever seen them at their lowest?

Wethraks ended up going on a murderous rampage in the wake of losing his entire family and seeing his House wiped out at Twilight Gap. That took him down some very dark roads (which I hesitate to expand on because I might actually get to writing it out one day!), but it was mainly an expression of grief, rage, and wanting to get rid of anyone who could hurt himself or those he cares about.

Lodask this did happen but in his 'home universe'. He thought he was safe living out in the woods well away from everyone and trying to rebuild his life after getting out of a cult that had him and his brothers under complete control, and then people associated with said cult found him. The loss of safety and feeling so betrayed by his brother (who was staying with him at the time) made him go on a downwards spiral into depression and suicidal behaviour.

In fact generally that time in his life was not good for him on so many fronts lol. He basically went on a collision course that didn't stop until he had all the answers he wanted, at the cost of burning a lot of bridges. After that, he found some sort of peace. Luckily this fundamentally can't happen in the ELU so he's home free and doesn't have to go through that!

failure: What's your OC's greatest failure? Have they been able to move past it? Does anyone else know about it?

I think Wethraks does feel responsible for not being able to save some people. I don't think there's any one big failure, just a lot of small ones that added up over time. Objectively, a lot of people have died because of him or because of his actions (or lack of them). Like Lodask died to protect him. Solkis was killed because he didn't quite manage to stop Saint (but thought he did). Technically, Siriks died because of him (although that's a real can of worms). I don't think he's spoken about some of these with anyone.

Lodask, for the purposes of the ELU, is free of feeling he made a great failure. Outside the ELU, he whole-heartedly blamed himself for not being able to find or locate his brother in time before he almost got killed when he went missing. Honestly I feel that contributed to why he distanced himself from his family full stop. He did not cope well with that.

ghost: Who or what haunts your OC? What happened? How do they live with their ghosts?

See above answer for Wethraks. The people he loved and lost bothers him immensely. He has all sorts of stuff from them that he's hoarded for fear of losing that too.

Lodask...he had like the most traumatic fucked up upbringing ever. That haunts him on every front. He has like TURBO CPTSD. It eats him alive. He deals with it by just not bothering with other people and keeping to himself, as well as a healthy dose of trust issues and fear of others. House Devils was the best place he could've ended up since they actually gave a shit about him for being himself. But if you knew his full story, I don't think you'd blame him lmao

hide: What does your OC hide? Why do they hide it?

Wethraks hides whatever he's doing at every opportunity. Partially because of confidentiality, partially because he doesn't believe anyone needs to know what he's doing full stop. Which stems from the trust issues laid out above. He has a head full of secrets.

Lodask hides himself. Anyone who wants to know him - actually know him - has to dig through a Tootsie roll of hardened layers to get to the real him. He had to do that to protect himself and it's his default state of being. There is a very kind, intelligent, sympathetic soul inside that who really doesn't want to hurt anyone or anything. Just it got buried and beaten out of him. Literally.

mask: Does your OC wear a mask, literally or figuratively? What goes on beneath it? Is there anyone in their life who gets to see who they are under the mask?

See above answers. Wethraks, I think Eramis is the only one who gets to see beneath the mask at this point. He's done a very good of keeping calm and professional or friendly and approachable as needed - he's a chameleon, and a very selfish one at that. But Eramis knows who he is at the core, and what he's been through, so she can punch straight through it and get to what's really bugging him. Or just use it to wind him up further lmao. Beneath Wethraks's mask is mainly thinking how he's going to still come out on top or not get involved in something.

Again, as above for Lodask, his existence is a mask. Under it is a puppy having a perpetual panic attack, who screams when you look at it. Only Wethraks and Solkis truly got to see through it, although he did ease off and learn to unmask / calm down with time and rehabilitation with the Devils. The unshakeable soldier thing did not last very long there.

monster: Is your OC monstrous in any way? Is there something that makes them monstrous? Are they aware of their own monstrosity? Do they accept it or reject it?

Wethraks isn't. He's a product of his environment. House Devils internal and external politics were a fucking minefield, and he got straight into the middle of it just by virtue of who decided they liked him. He doesn't believe he's a monster either, but has made choices he regrets. Unfortunately, Eliksni being Eliksni and humanity being humanity demands that horrible choices be made sometimes. He regrets it, but it's not keeping him up at night level regret.

Lodask. Wow. Okay. Yeah there's a lot to unpack here so let's throw out the suitcase. He has done horrific things to other people. We see him struggling with what he knows he's capable of doing in the The Devil's Claw. He was rewarded greatly for aggression and violence as he grew up, it was pretty much what he was raised to do to others and he happened to be the best at it. So he got turned into a monster and hates himself for it, and quite honestly I do think this sense of guilt did dimly carry over to his post resurrection life and moral code. To survive and get to the Last City, he sometimes had to do things he regretted. He still feels guilty for that but is learning to forgive himself for what he did and the people / Eliksni he hurt or killed.

Pre resurrection, I don't think he ever got over what he did as a teen / young adult. Even though he would've learned and come to terms with how it wasn't his fault at the roots, there's still a massive part of himself that will never get over it. Probably thinks it's best he doesn't so he never forgets and never does it to anyone else.

[devils-without-kings]

I think with all the hype he's gotten, people are swooning over yami, but lets be real here.

If anyone said to yami 'lodask' martin the words "I would die for you", he would respond with "You will."

[niightingvale]

Finished commission for @shadowtriads of their Nightstalker Baron Lodask/Yami Martin! I adore this boy, and if you guys want to see more of him, you should check out @lodask for the RP blog just starting up for him! ^^