aaaaaaaaaaa i've been picking at the minecraft crew (Tyratone, Firemite, Aquafinity, Razormane) and their helsmets for so long and i've finally written down all my thoughts on them!!!
some of this stuff does change from what i'd previously written bUT i like this much better SO STARTING WITH:
Tyratone
Tyratone is just a regular person. She’s an elf, sure, but like. She can see slightly better than Full Humans could, and it’s easier to stay on top of powdered snow, but that’s really all she’s got over “regular” folk. And honestly, that was pretty fine for her up until recently. She had a little treehouse in a jungle, and it wasn’t anything particularly great, but she liked it!
An event ended up changing things a bit for her, in a good way (…mostly. Somewhat, maybe). It was a beach-themed party hosted by some of the big names on the server (one of the rare times on the anarchy server that pvp was essentially disallowed, so she was comfortable hanging around), and she was sitting off to the side on a beach chair by herself, watching folks having fun. Night had fallen, and the beach was lit up well enough that it was safe and folks were having a blast setting off fireworks and dancing and playing games and all kinds of things, and she was quietly taking it all in. And then one person materialized from the crowd, came over to her, and offered a drink. After that, they sat and talked a while, and ended up joining other folks running around and playing games, enjoying the fireworks and festivities til the event ended.
They both had so much fun that they ended up sticking together afterwards, and a new friend was made: Aquafinity!
They wandered kinda a bit nomadically for a little while, trying to find a good spot for a new base, and eventually Aqua ended up meeting another couple of folks that were looking for a spot to stay, and who were willing to join up with a group. Safety in numbers and all that. Aqua introduced Firemite and Razormane to Tyr, and thus the quartet was made.
And it’s great! They were able to make a neat little underground base together, and now she’s not alone, and everyone is nice, and it’s great. It’s great.
It’s just that… she’s never felt so useless before.
Firemite is amazing at mining- he brings in the most materials from a caving trip out of any of them, and he’s always eerily good at sensing nearby threats. Razormane is the best out of all of them with a sword and is fantastic at pvp and keeping them all safe. Aquafinity is able to establish good communications with those around them, even scoring a few good trades here and there between groups, and he’s the best mapper they’ve got because he’s always able to find his way back home without a fuss.
Tyratone… can’t really do any of that. Sure, she technically could, but her sight doesn’t hold a candle to Fire’s hearing, which might as well be better sight honestly, and her pvp skills are godawful, and she’s too socially awkward to trust herself to try negotiating and she got lost one too many times trying to map places out before. What can she even do? She has a small indoor farm that she collects by hand (she doesn’t know redstone- tried learning once and it went disastrously), and she has a family of cats she takes care of, and while it’s nice it’s not really helpful. She can try tagging along with one of the guys when they go to do something, and the company’s always good, but she never really feels like she’s contributing, and it really weighs on her. She likes her friends, and she would do anything in the world to be able to feel like she’s not dragging them down.
She would do anything in the world to not feel like they may decide at any time that she’s more deadweight than she’s worth.
Story idea:
I'm thinking for her! She tries to do something really really not smart to try to prove herself. Maybe she tries going to the deep dark, since she knows it's something that Firemite stays away from! And if Fire can't do it, maybe she can be useful and that can be the thing she does! She can go in the deep dark! This would of course go terribly wrong, possibly resulting in her getting infected with sculk because i reblogged a poll about characters getting infected a while ago and i want to do something with that idea. Because this can also!!! Go into Fire's story as well!!!! But her takeaway from the whole thing would, i think, be that she doesn't really have to prove herself. The group's gonna stay with her regardless, so the only person she was having to convince the whole time was herself, and she's gotta accept that she is enough as she is, and she doesn't have to try to be someone else or be better than someone else.
But i defo wanna play around with that idea because i am, at my core, someone that loves throwing angst onto my ocs, and sculk infection is a perfect way for there to be lots of angst for all four ocs in this crew :V
Debating on whether i'd want her to come out of it perfectly ok, or if she permanently has sculk in her system (possibly leaning on one of the sculk-related origins out there? possibly making up my own stuff for it) :3c i think it'd be very fun to explore either way
Her helsmet
Eventually, all of her self-esteem stuff gets to her enough that she spawns a hels counterpart- one that is super useful, and one that will do whatever she needs to in order to stay useful. Will it put her in danger? Hey, if she goes down, at least she goes down doing something. She doesn’t stay still, and she can’t hardly rest- unless in resting she’s helping someone for a job, of course. But she’s gotta be doing, constantly, all the time, or else she’s useless. Slow down and enjoy life? Nah, she’s got places to be, and too much to do.
She knows the lava lakes of hels like the back of her hand and can traverse them easily. After all, she’s a Strider. Makes it real easy for her to get around, and ironically enough, traversing lava lakes is safer than walking on land to get anywhere. She’s had to outrun ghasts a few times, but they’re really the only threat out here! So she has a job running around resource gathering for folks- and over time slowly ends up taking on more things, too: helping someone set up shop for the day, running errands for another, heck, sometimes she plays messenger. As long as she gets paid and knows that she’s putting in her effort to be worth the time she’s taking up by simply existing.
(ft. @doyouknowthemossinman's eight!)
She’s not against making friends doing so- as a matter of fact, making friends helps! The more people that she’s friendly with are the more people that have a higher opinion of her and are more likely to recommend her to anyone else that may need her help. Friendship establishes trustworthiness, too, which makes it even more likely that whoever she’s recommended to would actually choose her for the job.
She keeps the name Tyratone, as she views herself as the better Tyratone of the two, since she’s at least pulling her weight.
