#matelo

[denahi]

Matelo, ghost enthusiast. Drawn for the prompt "Ghost" for my Trials of Mana Tumblr community.

[chubby-aphrodite]

yknow, the new monthly bonus set actually really suits me. i'm debating on keeping the hair or not but the rest of it i like a lot. "but are you gonna change your armor" no i really like it and i feel like its iconic to me.

[chubby-aphrodite]

since i'm now doing a modless playthrough of BG3 i decided that i would make an original dream guardian instead of having both my tav and my guardian be versions of previous DnD characters i've played.

my tav is a version of my AQWorlds player character (Matelo, they/them) instead, who i settled on being a draconic bloodline sorcerer.

meanwhile, im not sure what was going through my head when i made dream guardian, but. he wound up like this.

i wanted to make a slightly evil looking man that you might want to get to know better? someone i could see myself getting manipulated by. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

note: i would've made him malgor but the dream guardian can't be a dragonborn for some inconceivable reason. maybe emperor is still salty about ansur. and i would only ever make malgor the sickest looking red-and-black-colored dragonborn because it's what he deserves.

[chubby-aphrodite]

HAPPY HEROES HEART DAY gives you a brick

A BRICK-

what does it say on the note...?

oh!

happy hero's heart day!

[chubby-aphrodite]

Finally trying to rewrite/continue the part of the JD profile on Matelo that’s been giving me problems hehe

[chubby-aphrodite]

i have found a way to incorporate the fact that i (then a stupid 10 year old) gave my account details to people two separate times in AQW in the hopes of free ACs and all i got for it was Account stolen... into the lore of Matelo. it goes as follows:

there was an almost year long period where they were kidnapped by an illusionist who stole their identity. and then when they freed themself and killed the illusionist, they were possessed by a demon who forced them to walk the earth and become a cryptid. eventually they ate the demon to unpossess themself. all they got for it was chronic headaches and a sensitivity to demonological phenomena. nobody questioned it when they came back.

[chubby-aphrodite]

the more i write this character profile for matelo the more unhinged every aspect of their biology becomes

also the more unhinged the jus divinium becomes because they're finding out things about matelo they don't even know about themself. the framing device im using for this is that it's an in-universe file the JD keep on them so they know exactly what they're dealing with, and i just started writing funny bullshit that really hammers home the point that they're a god in a meat suit.

for instance, i decided that they injected one of the collected blood samples from matelo into... some sort of living being to see if it could be used for something, but that the injectee rapidly deteriorated in condition and then spontaneously combusted. due to the absurdly high concentration of mana in matelo's blood.

i'm genuinely writing this like an SCP article, with redactions and everything, it's great. look at my little freak go.

"oh that's not too bad"

do they not notice? do they not care? do they think something is wrong with them? is it part of their deal with death? who knows! how many fingers and toes have they lost? uncertain!

[chubby-aphrodite]

in writing down stuff for matelo, my aqw hero character, i've decided they're a genetic freak and have a blood mana saturation many times the amount considered lethal for most humanoid species

they're just like that