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First surprise gift I've been sitting on: @magibiologist-zyvv for @mistfallengw2! One sharkrat having a TIME.
For Ritika: 5, 9 and 14!
Some OC ask love for non-playable Tyrian races
Whoa! That was fast! It has taken me a bit to reply, though. I needed to think about it. 5. Do they have a partner and/or offspring? What's their relationship with them? - No, Ritika is too young and anyway due to her origin, she has had no chance. 9. How do they feel about other races? Do they like to intermingle or do they prefer to stay away? Is their community of the same idea? - This is again linked to her origins. She was bred as a test subject and actually hasn't lived as a real skritt, so she is pretty used to have other races around. Her community are the Commander's group right now so I guess that answers the second part of the question.
She has mixed feelings about grey ears, due to past trauma, but also it was an asura who sort of freed her. That makes her feel very confused. Are they good or bad? Another question!
Plant people have always been kind to her, including the lady who is scared of Ritika eating her toes (why should she do that? That's an stupid fear!), and even the cactus guy who yells at her when she borrows his shinnies isn't as terrible as he thinks he is.
She has a soft spot for humans, specially the Boss, because she can go with her on adventures and she's a lot of fun and gives her a lot of shinnies.
She is a bit scared of big cat men and big bear men, because they're so big that she fears they will eat her. Also the scruffy one who is with the Boss loves to scare her when she's busy looking for useful stuff.
Giant humans instead, she thinks they're just like the smaller ones but bigger and softer and she likes them.
14. [Free space for 3 pieces of trivia about your character!]
She loves color green. She’s always collecting jade shinnies and coins and anything in that color makes her very very happy.
Her original name was TS 427. When the Priory rescued her from the asura lab where she had been bred and included her in the Antiquary research program, she was given a "skritt-like" name easy to pronounce for non-skritt users, so it probably has no meaning in skritt language or anything.
She calls the voices in her head (which come from the communication device she’s wearing) "busy bees"
Do infodump about your latest Inquest pretty boy 🌹
Hi! Thank you so much for the infodump incentive! <3
You know when you're conjuring up a new character and you have a vague idea and a few specific events in your head but you can't quite yet connect the dots between those events to make the overarching story work? That's kinda the point I'm at with him currently, but here's a few fun and unfun tidbits:
I wanna know more about Leo in his fahrar days!
(Leo offering flowers to an Ascalonian Ghosts. .5 seconds before disaster)
So! The important thing you gotta know about Leo's Fahrar days is that he was essentially a "Transfer student."
The Iron legion had merely Requested more numbers due to an ongoing threat of flame legion and the Ascalonian ghosts, the Blood citadel responded by sending them cubs, in a cheeky "you got what you asked for. You are Still getting soldiers.)"
So Leo had two Primus, one in the Black Citadel (where he mainly grew up) and his "Actual" Primus in the Blood Citadel (which he and the other blood cubs would return to during the summer.)
His Iron legion primus was a bit gentler with them than the one in Blood. She did have lesson plans seperate between her own legion and the blood legion cubs, but she took care of them all the same.
(This is just my excuse to have Leo grow up in Ascalon and be blood legion dont think abt it too hard.)
Leo was a super inquisitive cub, and his tendency to always question things be it during history lessons or basic training, was treated with both scorn and admiration. His interest in the ghost started with a history lesson over the eventsbin Ascalon and him wanting to know more from the source, since they were There. He snuck out of the Fahrar a lot, and nearly got himself killed approaching the ghosts thinking they wouldn't harm him even if he was Told otherwise. From then on he began watching them from a distance, and his empathy for them grew as he heard them stuck in a loop discussing things that really just made them People. Conversations that ranged from food, fears, reminicing on children long since dead, and the hatred for the charr.
It was only until he watched an Ascalonian necromancer that he was introduced to the Idea of Necromancy, since those ghosts tend to retain a lot more individuality, they also spoke a bit more free than their counterparts.
As he grew this growing interest (obsession?) Is kinda what lead to becoming distant with the other cubs.
His tendency to question things never truly changed but he eventually learned the older he got the less it was tolerated (mostly by his blood legion primus).
He did have to work Twice as hard as he learned necromancy on his own, and still kept up with what was being taught to him offically. He was never Close to the other cubs except for one, and it was because of Reeva that he graduated with the Echo warband (named because of their tendency to take inspiration from the great charr heroes in their weapon choice)
🔵 for Nixxte >:3c
They're such a little asshole but soooooo fun :3c
I too would show everyone my scar if they tried to pester me about my prosthetic jaw. And we love a morally ambiguous saboteur~
For Gallahan: 1, 28, 45 (bonus points if Golem gives her cat-commentary on his answers)
oooo these are fun questions okay here we go:
1. What's the lie your character says most often? Gallahan lies a ton in his personal life, and his favorite go-to when people try to get in contact with him is the reliable "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't see your message/call/letter." (Golem, his cat, knows this is absolute nonsense.)
28. What do they tell people they want? What do they actually want? On the rare occasion that this question is posed to him in sincerity, he'll almost always answer with some snarky variation of "I want to be left alone/I want you to stop asking me stupid questions." This isn't actually far off from the actual truth, which is he wants to be safe and he equates safety with solitude. (Solitude with cats, of course.)
45. What's something unimportant/frivolous that they hate passionately? oh Gallahan hates so many things he loves to be a hater. A few on the list of things-that-make-Gallahan-irritated are: cheap/poor-quality fabrics, bright lights before 8:30am, watered down coffee, and cold feet/hands. (Golem would also like to point out that Gallahan seems to get irked when she pushes things off of tables/counters but she's not sure why.)
For Graywall: 1, 3 and 4!
THANK U FOR ASKING ABOUT MY BOY AAAAA
fair warning i am too excited to Talk About Badger to bother editing this or waiting until I’m not stuck in a freezing cold room to write this, so this’ll be very off-the-cuff stream-of-consciousness sort of answers djjfkfjfkg
Aurene & OC ask game by mistfallengw2!
1. Gray definitely sees Aurene as a daughter first and foremost! His connection to her was stronger at the beginning than in canon due to his preexisting connection with Glint (being a Herald and also her having physically dragged him to Tyria via Gaia’s spell) so the second he laid eyes on that egg he knew it was going to become a huge part of his life. When she hatches he immediately understands her as someone he has to protect, then the trials bring him closer to her and he sort of begins to see her as like. Like if your best friend had a child and for some reason had to leave that child in your care for an extended period of time. Like that’s not Your Daughter but that’s like. Your daughter. By the way in-game those trials are a single instance, but in Gray’s canon it takes like a solid week.
3. Most of Gaia’s magic was lost when Djall consumed Her and the Earth, but a small amount was dragged to Tyria with Gray and persists like smoke in a room. Certain places on Tyria are havens of nature and healing magic all of a sudden, and the source is hard for Tyrians to pin down because the magic that’s causing it isn’t native to Tyria’s cosmic ecosystem. (This may or may not be causing Problems in certain places and certain people may or may not be associating these problems [kind of correctly kind of incorrectly] with Graywall)
In Gray’s canon, each time Aurene absorbs new magic, she absorbs some of Gaia’s lost magic as well. It doesn’t affect her appearance much, if anything she just looks a little bit more… Mordrem-y? Sort of? But her prismatic effects are a little bit color-shifted to the green side of the spectrum. Ever so slightly. She has memories of places she has never been, on a strange world with a shattered moon. Wherever her branded crystals grow, plant life flourishes. Like Zafirah seeing Balthazar in Aurene, Graywall sees a bit of Gaia, in some small way.
4. Gray has… Mixed Feelings on the Prophecy. In his canon, part of it specifically mentions the Earth being consumed for further events to even take place (him being spirited away to Tyria) so as you might expect he has negative feelings about that. But on the other hand he wouldn’t have wanted Tyria to be destroyed either. One world survives, the other crumbles. It’s an impossible choice to make, and one that he had no real say in at the end of the day. He did all he could to save his homeworld and failed, and as a result another world had the chance to thrive. He thinks about it every day, still, and still doesn’t know how to feel about it. There’s no one to blame for it, so it’s not like he could direct his emotions at a person. Even Glint isn’t responsible for the Prophecy itself, she was just a messenger and a tool by which the Prophecy was enacted. When I say Gray is dealing with a lot of difficult emotions, this is a huge part of what I mean. I cannot stress enough that on a cosmic level in his canon, his world had to die so Tyria could live.* And it fucks him up every day of his life.
As for Aurene, she struggles with anger and sadness. About those who had to sacrifice their lives, sometimes their whole worlds (physical and metaphorical), to fulfill it. Survivor’s guilt. The problem with a Prophecy woven into the fabric of reality is that there’s no one you can direct your emotions at. She’s glad that Tyria is safe, the only world she’s ever truly known, but every time she’s around Graywall she sees flashes of a different world, one that she knows had to be destroyed so that Tyria could flourish. She can explore these visions as completely as she would any other, and she sees Graywall and his friends fighting fate the same way that he did for Tyria. She sees him fail, completely and utterly. She sees herself, as Gaia, consumed by a world-ending darkness. The same kind of thing that threatened Tyria. And she knows that all of this had to transpire for her to even be alive. She’s grateful that the Prophecy is complete, but at what cost? She leaves at the end of EoD to rest, but also to process. Her whole life she’s been her mother’s pawn, for better or worse, regardless of what Glint or Gray or her or anyone else would have preferred. She’s an elder dragon, yes, but she’s also fucking 10 years old! She was forced to mature at a frankly dizzying pace and deal with things no ten year old should ever have to deal with. She needs time and space, to rest and to be her own person as much as she, as the last Elder Dragon, possibly can.
Both of them wonder how inevitable it was. If it had to be this way. If there was some way both worlds could have survived, thrived.
*Is the Prophecy really woven into the fabric of reality, or is that a story we tell ourselves to ease the pain of what we’ve been through? To make a narrative out of predicting people’s behaviour? Isn’t it easier, in a way, to say “It had to be this way”, rather than deal with the fact that it could have been different?
For Leo: 9, 14, 22 and 23 👀
9. Are they also a healer/medic? What can they do if someone is hurt and needs assistance? Can they heal themselves? Do they have a plan for when they're injured?
I'm sure Leo knows basic Medical knowledge but in terms of magic noooot so much, He can like, in dire circumstances, feed someone his own life energy to keep them stable for a while. In terms of healing himself his reaper shroud can sustain him on ambient spectral magic but its very temporary as well.
14. Is there any particular quirk to their magic? Is there something they can't do with their magic that others usually can? Is there something they can do particularly well?
Leo is particularly good at communing with spirits! It is not common that a Necromancer is able to hear the ambient chatter of the deceased as well as he can, or even feel the low spectral energy they give off in the first place. His empathy and love for them travels around so he has a very symbiotic relationship where he is able to be empowered by spirits in a consensual give and take, after spending years helping them and managing to ease troubled ones so that they may finally move on. His reaper’s shroud is also unique but we’ll talk about that soon, next question, in fact!
22. What trait lines/specializations
Necromancer Reaper!
Leo primarily uses spectral energy as a necromancer, and is powered through a symbiotic relationship with spirits. His shroud is something that he canonically has, But the lore for its acquisition is a little bit of my own making!
In the personal story Leo went to investigate the Cathedral of Silence While the Pact Commander went to investigate the Map From Romke. He did so alone.
After communing with the seventh reaper and defeating the keeper of the shrine, Leo begs for any way, any power he could either Share or gain that would help in the battle against Zhaitan. The Reaper saw Leo's dedication, care, and love for spirits, he proposed a bargain: a pact with him would grant him access to the mists itself through a fusion of the Avatar and Leo himself, if only temporarily. It can heal him by soaking the ambient spectral magic that surrounds the area, grant him a deeper connection to the dead, and greatly empower him, at the cost of Leo becoming a protector of the Cathedral whenever he dies instead of naturally moving on in the cycle. This was a very big deal for Leo as he greatly upholds the natural cycle and wishes it for himself, but took the pact anyway, as any power that would save lives by ending threats such as Zhaitan was worth it even if it cost him something he held dear.
23. What utility skills do they tend to use? Is there any they can't use for lore reasons?
Leo primarily uses Spectral utility skills! And while there aren’t any he technically can’t use, there are some he avoids out of principle but I’ll answer that more in depth in a future ask!
Before we get into it, let me use this as an excuse to share what I consider Spectral magic to be as it ties in to why he does and doesn't use other forms of magic!
Spectral energy is described as an "Otherworldly" or "Ancient" form of energy, which had me decide that it is, of course, related to the mists. In fact, it IS the mists, at least, another variant of it.
Think of the mists' energy as a state of matter. Revenants can use/channel the mists in its most pure state and through the connection to their legends. Necromancers however (once attuned to the ambient form of this energy found in places with portals or otherwise entries where the mists leak into this world) can turn that energy into something more tangible, which is "Spectral." If the mists is water, revenants are able to Use that water directly, But Necromancers must turn the water into Ice to wield it, which is how you're able to have things like Spectral claws, spectral armor, Spectral weapons.
Spectral energy does exist "everywhere." Spectral energy can be attributed to spirits, ghosts, life itself. (Another reason I went with the idea that its related to the mists as the mists are the origin of all things.) But there may be places where its less apparent (Ascalon would be drenched in it, for example.) which could dampen a necromancer's well, but depending on experience they can find ways to draw spectral energy from things around them which can be exceptionally dangerous (similarly to blood benders in avatar drawing water from the plants but also killing them in the process.) Or they could have items which have already soaked so much of that energy they don't need to take such measures.
Now that’s been said, Leo has always had a unique affinity with spirits due to growing up in Ascalon and having a lot of emotions about the ghosts being trapped in an endless groundhog day unable to move on. Studying Necromancy and having access to a spectral-rich land like Ascalon meant he was able to attune to it from the get go, it was the most ready/powerful source of energy which meant he gained a lot of experience from it rather quickly. Spectral energy also just allows him to have a closer connection to spirits which is why he prefers it.