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Happy Nameday @trysta-rider

Mimble is blowing you all the kisses - seriously they're going all over the place. Hopefully they all find their way to you in the end!

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Happy (Belated) Nameday @scrollsfromarebornrealm!

I went for a Fairytale AU - having been suitably inspired by the fantastic sketch by @sayonaramidnight here.

It was quite tricky to sort out an outfit for Humble's scene at the Palace Ball - initially I went for an Ishgardian vibe, complete with thighboots, which looked very nice, but then I realised that he'd need to lose a slipper when running out at mightnight and it's really quite hard to accidentally lose a thighboot. So he ended up with a more Corvosian look, which will hopefully be enough to catch the eye of a certain Miqo'te Prince...

They also aren't glass slippers, partly because that's quite hard to achieve in vanilla gpose and partly because, at over 700lbs, Humble would be risking a nasty injury tottering about on glass shoes!

So happy belated nameday @scrollsfromarebornrealm and thank you for the inspiration to @sayonaramidnight.

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What is your general favourite thing about the character? What is your least favourite? (for both mimble and humble if no one's asked yet)

For Mimble I think that I hit on quite a distinctive look for him that is still very obviously White Mage, but less druidic priest and more gentleman healer.

For Humble I think it's that he is quite fun to write about, since he's a juxaposition (not used that word since 6th Form!) of strength and power with diffidence and shyness.

For least favourite things... they both can be tricky to write without really concentrating on getting the balance right.

Mimble has to be whimsical and irreverent, but without being so silly that he stops making sense in the setting - having seen this excellent post (reblogged by the equally excellent @zylphiacrowley), it was a good reminder about how important it is to resist the urge to be ironic and self-referential out of a fear of sincerity.

For Humble it's having a distinctive accent and voice that needs to be kept consistent - if an "h" is dropped on a word in one sentence, then it needs to be dropped in all of them, unless there's a good reason it wouldn't be. This turns out to be harder than I'd envisaged.

And, although it's nothing to do with their characterisations, it's not much fun to have OCs from races that are frequently disliked, denigrated or dismissed as less worthy by a lot of other players. But I'm buggered if I'm going to let that stop me.

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Get Well Soon @diggingforkuponuts

People say that an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Those people are wrong - it's actually comically oversized baked treats.

Mimble has brought you some, but he might need some helping carrying all of them...

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Happy Nameday @eidingate!

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What is the origin of their personality? And let's be honest - how much of it is projecting?

I think both my OCs developed their own distinct personalities over time, but they do also both reflect various aspects of my personality and appearance - for better or for worse. Hopefully not too much, as they are supposed to be very much their own characters, but if I had to examine them more closely...

Mimble probably reflects my silliness, my whimsicality and my love of words and badinage - but also my occasional(?) tendency towards being arch, facetious and something of a smartarse.

He definitely gets my more chaotic and irresponsible traits, but also my areas of strength, like my confidence in performing and speaking in public and my quick thinking in a crisis.

He is also imbued with a lot of my more easygoing personality traits and my ability to get along with most people - but he also has my tendency towards self-indulgence and my habitual idleness and disinclination towards exertion and labour.

He is much more of a gentleman than I am - and infinitely better dressed. Plus I am considerably larger than Mimble (who is just under 3 feet tall) and not nearly as cute. But I do know what it is to feel very small and to have others frequently underestimate me, so maybe he functions as something of a reaction against that.

He's also definitely a power fantasy as far as bringing people together, breaking down barriers and spreading joy is concerned. I do my best, but sadly real life offers far fewer victories in that regard.

Humble certainly looks a bit like me - although I don't have a black stripe on my nose and I'm not quite as large - which wasn't a conscious intention when creating him, but has been pointed out since.

He probably represents some of my struggles with understanding things and feeling less smart than other people - although my challenges tend to be more around processes and practical issues, rather than general knowledge or reading. We are both viewed as being a bit slow on the uptake by a lot of people I think.

He also has the westcountry accent that I would have had, if I hadn't had received pronounciation knocked into me from an early age (Mimble very much gets the RP version of my voice).

His shyness and lack of self-confidence is very me - Mimble gets my exhibitionist love of peforming for an audience, Humble gets my anxiety and struggles over things that other people find easy, and my sensitivity to rejection and crippling fear of letting others down.

Whilst I am a bit more experienced than Humble, I suspect his virginity and anxiety around sex and relationships is a pretty clear projection of my own issues in that area (and over which we shall draw a modest veil). Plus feeling like you look very different to the accepted beauty standard is something to which we can both relate.

I have been described as a gentle sort of person, although it hasn't always been meant as a compliment, so perhaps there's something of that in Humble. Conversely, I don't have an Inner Beast to unleash, but on the rare occasions I get angry, I do get very very angry and I have certainly had a few fights in my time (although sadly I do not have a giant axe).

So perhaps Humble is my power fantasy of being confused, shy and uncertain a lot of the time, but still being respected and changing the world anyway (this is, again, trickier to achieve in real life...)

Thank you for the ask @feistierermine :)

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1. Heatwave.

It's too hot...

In truth, the Rak'tika Greatwood only ever seemed to vary between warm and hot, and was always stiflingly humid.

Consequntly, Mimble was starting to somewhat regret offering to assist the joint archaeological expedition between The Stewards of Note and the scholars of The Cabinet of Curiousity.

He'd already dodged a giant boulder, fought off a swarm of venomous insects and gingerly negotiated his way around a pit of quicksand. And - thus far - there was no sign that the ancients had applied their arcane wisdom to the matter of keeping drinks cold, which Mimble felt was rather remiss of them under the circumstances...