#moonlighters

[raymuratadraws]

[reve-r0]

Watch out, here come the MoonLighters! I'm kind of in love with these pseudo-siblings.

[ofcatsandstars]

oc-tober: old oc

quinn is the first oc i have in my camera roll! circa 2016 vintage quinns + rambles under the cut

quinn has changed a lot in these past nine years... he was originally a long-lost child of a magic portal fantasy kingdom who could shapeshift into a wolf. lowkey he was the very classic emo brooding hoodie-wearing oc of a 12 year old

when i made him, he was very much like an older kid who i thought was sooooo cool. and now he's like a kid i mentor who i see my younger self in. crazy how the passage of time goes, huh?

now quinn's an aspiring superhero with a vaguely masculinity-shaped chip on his shoulder. he's retained some of that guarded standoffishness but has gained a lot more insecurity and goofiness. he's one of my favorites ever tbh

still wearing the grey hoodie of insecurity tho. some things never change

also he was white when i first conceptualized him. aint that crazy?

[raymurata]

It's dangerous to go alone. Here, take this.

[skullhaver]

DnD guys

Athren: 7 and 9

Lyd: 12

Gal: 7

9. Are their cultural or lore-specific aspects to their identity? If applicable, does their species affect it?

Pandering to my predilections!

There are cultural aspects to ALL our identities, right? 😉 Baked into Athren Dahana's DNA is an excuse for me to think about just how radical it would be to grow up in a cis-sexist world that marginalizes men and centres women. Canon Forgotten Realms has never gone REMOTELY far enough with this shit.

In the spirit of FR's ur- wordbuilding pervert, Ed Greenwood: imagine if in Undercommon, the active verb "fucking" doesn't describe penetration, but engulfing. A vagina fucks a penis. On a fundamental level, drow metaphorical touchstones should focus on yonic imagery: caves, dripping water, devouring mouths, the enveloping shelter of darkness. Begging R.A. Salvatore to read Ursula LeGuin's The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction.

ANYWAY. Athren is a Menzoberranyr man—a natural follower, passive, pursued-not-pursuer, object-not-subject. Physically, he is a member of the smaller, weaker, more delicate sex. Men who excel as warriors or wizards are exceptional; in Athren's City of Spiders, the heads of Melee-Magthere and Sorcere are women, as are the majority of the instructors and pupils. Men's natural domain is the home.

Athren's quite comfortable with all this!

Before his abrupt departure for the surface, Athren fully expected to marry a woman and devote the prime years of his life to caring for their children, as his father did for Athren and his brother Adinar. (Although Athren likes kids, he *is* aromantic and uninterested in monogamy, so this bit didn't quite gel for him.)

7. Is there something that would cause your OC to question their identity? What?

I wouldn't say "question his identity" but recontextualize his identity, sure. Since coming to the surface, Athren's gotten to see many different ways of being a woman or man, plus learned that trans and nonbinary people exist! His world is bigger than ever :)

[Mixolydan]

12. Does/did your OC ever wish they could change the way they are? Why? If it's in the past, how did they get over the feeling?

Lydian was more interested in getting a change of scenery (moving away from home) than changing anything about himself.

Lydian wasn't the kind of kid who asserted "I'm actually a boy!" from a young age. He's naturally people-pleasing and likes to conform to a group, so it's hopefully not a surprise that he was a feminine little girl and young teenager. He didn't even act on any of his crushes on girls while living at home (although it took starting on fantasy-HRT to be attracted to anybody besides women.) Only when he entered his late teenage years did some things about his gender presentation (and gendered expectations his family had for him) start to feel bad.

Although Lydian primarily went to Elturel to pursue his dream of becoming a Hellrider, a strong secondary motivation was to start presenting as a different gender in a way he really never could have explored while living with his rural hobbit farm family.

[Galsariad]

7. Is there something that would cause your OC to question their identity? What?

This is a funny question for Galsariad, because I believe in his own head, he doesn't really have an "identity" as much as he has experiences. For his sexual orientation, he has the embodied physical/mental experiences of falling in love (and in lust) with women, men, and nonbinary people. In his view, what could ever cause him to question things he experienced firsthand? He has his own senses for empirical evidence!

For his gender... yeah idk what could make him care more about having a gender, either 😂 I call him "gender agnostic" for a reason. He's quite comfortable operating as a drow male in Rosohna, with all the cultural assumptions that entails. At the same time, I think if he spent extended time somewhere else that had radically different gender concepts, he'd feel fine about being labelled something else.

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Have you read moonlighters (One Piece)?

Yes, I am/was in the fandom

Yes, but I’m not in the fandom

No, but I’m in the fandom

No, I’m not in the fandom

Voting ended onDec 9, 2024

Summary: Zoro, Sanji, and how they learn to be greater than the sum of their parts. Or: in which Sanji steps in front of Zoro again in Sabaody. They both get sent to Kuraigana Island.

Author: @bageltopia

[snarky-bee]

High Priestess, Wheel of Fortune, and Strength reversed for Moxie!

The High Priestess: When has trusting their instincts paid off for your character?

Ehhhh usually it's a case of well that mostly worked out but it also kind of didn't. Did me best. Her goddamn fucking problem is that her instincts will be like hm this seems sketchy as fuck and her reaction will be okay i will simply outlast outwit outplay or whatever the survivor tagline is.

her chaos instinct has helped One (1) time that I can think of and that is her desire to follow along with the betrayers rise things like giving something of value and waltzing through a room to open a door.

The Wheel of Fortune: What are your character’s proudest successes?

BEE BUSINESS. god she is still the most proud of that. her little labels, sleepy bee, the people that she made happy with her little cart and donkey visits from small town to small town to bring around her goods. It was so fulfilling in so many ways. she never thought she would have something like that.

And much more recently. Making it out of the betrayer's rise successful, everyone alive, rift closed, and for the first time a hero? She was so scared to even go in there, the relief when it finally hit her was a hell of a drug (well also the alcohol was a hell of a drug). never would have thought she could DO something like that.

And find Strength reversed here ;)