It occurred to me how since Mheop's village is kept a secret, she cannot tell anyone that she's from there, which could lead to some hilarious situations with her trying to lie her way through a conversation like "I'm totally from Tyria, what do you mean? It's just uh, I'm from a small village, you probably wouldn't know of it haha... C-college? I uh, sure I went to college! The the... Dynamo... College...?"
Mheop would totally love magical girl stories, and I got the urge to draw her as a magical girl! She would be the unconfident shy blue one, who turns out to be the backbone of the team even though she doesn't see it.
The colours are "in that direction", it is 3am I will not colour properly, it is an artistic choice now
This got long, so I'll put it under a read more. Includes childhood moments from Gadir, Mheop, Volus, and Modd!
Gadir
- Gadir, as any child, imitated the people he saw around him. This included trying to run like a charr, on all fours, which earned him badly scratched up palms and a big bruise on his head from his body that is not made for movement like that falling forward and hitting the ground. He hasn't tried that since.
- He used to gnaw on everything he could find, wires being his favourite. His dam Augusta had to hide the wires under carpets or tape them to the walls, high enough for the cub to not be able to reach.
- When Gadir was still a cub, you could sometimes see a whole warband walking around Black Citadel, all packed around this tiny cub and fretting over every move and sound. He was well-loved, and everyone who spoke with the Fang warband longer than five minutes knew it.
- A great past time of his used to be jumping over one of his family members' tail like one would a jumprope that stays near the ground. He had to stop once he grew bigger and managed to nearly break someone's tail.
Mheop
- Mheop has two older brothers, Merp and Moup, who both enjoy scary stories and re-telling them as even scarier. Mheop on the other hand enjoys being able to sleep at night, not thinking about shadow creatures and the Inquest, but alas.
- Her brothers are more outgoing, especially Merp, and are usually the ones to take the lead in conversations. Mheop doesn't mind, it lets her not have to talk and make the choices of where a conversation is going. However, in the future where she has to give speeches and be a figure known across Elona, she comes to regret not having spoken more back then.
- Merp is the oldest brother, and is always jumping into everything head first. He follows his heart, and wears it on his sleeve. Easy to read, and even easier to get swept away by his vigor.
- Moup is quieter, though he joins in on Merp's shenanigans in a heartbeat. They're often buried in research on the flora of the desert, and will talk about their progress to anyone willing to listen. Merp even got him a mug that says "Tyria's most superlative botanist ". They used it to grow an experimental, glowing moss.
- Mheop's family farms mushrooms, and are constantly looking for ways to do that more effectively. They have golems made for the mushroom farm, and they're updated on a weekly basis. Some updates are more useful than others, such as the one that sung to the mushrooms, because Mheop's brother had heard that singing to flowers can make them grow faster. Problem was that the singing was his recorded singing, and his singing voice reminds the listener of a screaming choya. This is said affectionately, but regardless the voice box of the golem had to be removed, immediately.
- Her parents are constantly inventing new ways of preparing mushrooms. You'd be surprised how good mushroom-bat meatballs taste. Mheop's favourite is the burger that uses mushroom caps as buns instead of bread.
Volus
- She and Clawspur used to race skimmers all the time. Volus would attempt to cheat by magically manipulating the water, and Clawspur trying to knock her off-balance to distract her from that. The two would often come home soaked but laughing.
- Volus' first sand effigy was actually a handful of wet sand in a crude shape of a turtle. She was so proud of it she rushed to show it off to her dam, and it crumbled on the way because she lost focus on it. Volus was devastated, but recovered quickly and spent the rest of the day trying to create another one.
- Clawspur loves hide-and-seek, whereas Volus hates playing it with him, because it can take hours for her to find him. Clawspur keeps a mental score on the longest times it has taken for Volus to find him, and aims to beat his personal best score.
Modd
- Modd loves to spend time with his brother Snikk'tik. Unfortunately most asura in Soren Draa see the skritt as test subjects or menaces, so Modd has gotten fiercely protective over his brother. Snikk'tik has a thick enough skin to not mind the occasional comment, but Modd takes them as a personal insult, and is ready to start rapid firing insults back. This protective streak has carried on to adulthood, and his list of people to protect includes Peredur (especially during HoT)
- Has always been enamored with the human stories of dashing knights in shining armour and the swashbuckling rogues with sharp rapiers, stories his human dad used to tell him, and his sylvari dad would build up on, making up more story outside the original storybook. His asura dad would grumble about how the story had gotten out of hand and become just unbelievable, but would listen in anyways with eyes of fondness.
- Once got a temporary tattoo of a rose on his shoulder, and felt like the king of the world. Roses are abundant in stories he likes to read, symbolising everything pleasant, and, as the most important thing, looking cool. He would love to get a real rose tattoo one day.
- His family would absolutely adopt you, specifically, if you asked them to. Welcome to the family, kiddo!
I love picrews, and this picrew (link) is particularly great! I haven’t been able to play in a while because my computer has space for only one (1) game at a time, but I haven’t forgotten my children!
