#poffi

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Actual birthday is on September 7th, but cheers to 3 years since I caved in huh? :') In the AU you're happy, at least T^T

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i'm always curious about race-specific foods, so do any of your ocs have a meal they really like?

Admittedly I still have to go deeper with my "food lore" for many of my OCs (my "on the table" list is... long), but I can rapidfire on a few things that are more or less tangential to your ask :'3

- Daunte's dam, Belva, spent her life in Flame as one of the females responsible for cooking for their camp. After being smuggled out of Flame along with Daunte and her unborn cub, she struggled to fit into the Blood Legion due to her trauma and complete lack of combat skills (any fight she had when younger was beaten out of her). She ended up working as a farmhand and cook in various outposts around Ascalon, and she was usually well liked in the later role due to the traditional Flame recipes she had adapted to the Legions' tastes. Eventually a norn hunter enamoured with her cooking befriended her and convinced her to work at her family's hunting lodge, the two soon became sisters-in-law. She still lives there (ignoring the trauma rollercoaster during s1) with her mate and adopted child, and she still makes spicy food that can melt the icy heart and butt of any hunter.

- Poffi grew up with her uncle Chegg and his golem-maintenance krewe/polyamorous pod, and she learned quite early how to cook with their help (note: Vonn was not allowed to be in the kitchen after the exploded pot accident). Mori in particular taught her a lot of traditional recipes and how to improvise with what was available, which proved useful after she started hunting almost by accident (she had to shoot down some animals that were tearing through a lab's supplies). She carried a little bag of spices and dried herbs almost everywhere after joining the Order of Whispers, and if nothing else was available, she was still good at improving regular rations for her team.

- Ipsil, Nuvly's younger brother, is more focused on working towards culinary application of elemental magic and golemancy than finishing his studies in Statics. Poffi's younger cousins, Trizz and Xammi, met and befriended him in College, and he's currently an intern in Mori's krewe (after years together, the pod had to split for work-related reasons, but still considered themselves as family and some are still dating/married). Mori absolutely adores the little guy and is teaching him some of her family's recipes. Might as well get started early with her future son-in-law, no matter what Xammi says about it while red to the tip of her ears.

- Asuran society is a busy one and they rely regularly on fast-to-consume, highly-nutritional lab-made food, and the Inquest does so even more, at least when it comes providing food for operations of such a scale that lead to too little time and available manpower for traditional cuisine. Growing up in the Inquest with busy parents who made no time for her, Iotta ate almost exclusively food provided by the lab they lived in, but since most of it was "good for progeny's development" meals with little variation, she only saw food as sustenance and nothing more. Luckily she was never a picky eater and once she became Xud's apprentice she had access to properly prepared food, but it still led to her having no culinary skills beyond making something edible, nor the interest to learn or explore possibilities. That said, she did eventually develop a bit of a sweet tooth after she started her mission in the Order of Whispers, but that was "forced on her" (her mentor got her something "fancier" than the basic bread she asked for) and still only something for occasional treats.

- Huki was kind of obsessed with a small hole-in-the-wall bakery in Soren Draa, one that had just opened around the time they had started working in Taimi's krewe and learned about from krewemates. They took Tocchix there to get lunch during their first date, and their list of comfort foods was at one point half full of items from there, with variants of the grubooze pizza being at least 3 of them at any given time. Tocchix always made sure to grab something from there whenever Huki had a bad day due to treatment or their condition.

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Her actual birthday is on September 7th, but it's been two years since I caved in and made my tall shy cinnamon roll in game.

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7, 11, 18, 22, 26 any character you want to talk about

50 Questions For Your Characters

Randomized it and Poffi came up!

7. Is your character good with kids?

Yup! Technically an orphan (her mother died in a lab accident when she was 2, and her biological father was just a friend who helped her when she wanted progeny), Poffi grew up as de facto progeny in her uncle's polycule after he had taken her in. They had two more kids, Trizz and Xammi, and being a decade older than them she often ended up taking care of them, usually willingly. She would have really liked to have progeny one day.

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11. What events in their past helped shape and influence them into who they are today?

Other than her particular upbringing, the biggest shift in her happened after losing Nadine at Fort Trinity. After a few days of utter grief over losing the mentor that had managed to encourage her out of her shell, Poffi started shoving her insecurities back down a lot, trying to do all she could to keep people safe by doing her job. It wasn't her fault Nadine had died, it had been her own choice to stay outside of the gate instead of retreating to get her wounds treated, but Poffi couldn't get out of her head the thought that maybe she could have prevented it somehow if she had been less scared when it happened. During the rest of the campaign she still hesitated at times and it all took a massive toll on her mentally, but Poffi did gain some confidence after doing some objectively important things, and surprisingly she wasn't berated nearly everyday by Iotta (who had become the leader of their team), so she must have been doing something right. Poffi volunteered as a sentinel during the ground operations of the assault on Arah, and while she died there, her actions helped save a lot of people, including Iotta.

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18. Who/what comforts your character?

Poffi particularly enjoyed cooking, especially for others. She found it quite relaxing, almost meditative, and there's nothing like the feeling of making something nice for others and the warmth of sharing it with them, especially when they like it. Alchemy, even Iotta seemed to like her cooking, given she usually became marginally but noticeably less ornery towards her for a few good hours afterwards.

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22. What regrets do they have, if any? (From any part of the story, not just exposition.)

As a ghost, Poffi had a ton of time to mull over the many regrets of a life cut short. Biggest one? Not letting Tocchix finish what he was saying after they were interrupted that one day in Orr. He was probably about to confess his feelings, or maybe she would have done so because she had wanted nothing more, but she chickened out, asking him to talk after the dragon was defeated. Elli had just lost Zott, and at that moment not only it felt unfair towards her mourning friend, but she feared ending up like them. Rightfully so, apparently. Still, she wonders if anything would have changed, or if things would have ended up the same way and only brought him more grief.

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26. What are the top three most distinguishable personality traits of your character?

Extremely insecure and shy, way too soft-spoken for an asura, and surprisingly stubborn in the right circumstances.

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5, 13, 18, 21 for Poffi

GW2 OC Questions: Combat Edition ⚔️✨ (full asks in link, using shortened ones in this post)

5. Are they good at fighting alongside allies or are they better fighting solo?

Unless we're talking about sneakily sniping someone from afar and getting the heck away before anyone can reach the spot she shot from, Poffi needs allies to be remotely effective in a fight, as her insecurity tampers with her potential skills in hand-to-hand combat.

That said, she's great at taking orders and rarely objects if not to raise valid concerns and observations, so she was a great addition to any team. She always felt most comfortable with her mentor (Nadine) and the rest of her team (Iotta and Tocchix).

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13. Can they use magic?

Yes, although limited to herself.

Nadine taught her just enough shadow magic to become very good at stealthing herself and improve her mobility, plus a few cantrips to aid her aim, but while she showed some inclination for it and picked up on it fast, she was never really talented for magic nor cared much for it.

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18. Can they handle themselves in a fight without using weapons?

Nope! Poffi would just book it out of there as soon as possible, with or without weapons. Without magic, her legs are quite capable to skidaddle faster than most.

Nadine was too old to teach her more than basic self-defense, which is why she asked her then-latest apprentice Iotta to co-mentor her and Tocchix, so that the younger asura could take care of sparring and while she focused on sniper training. Too bad Poffi was too afraid of sparring with Iotta whenever Nadine pushed her to, so she learned very little from her.

It's ironic that losing her nerve and actually deciding not to run from a fight was what got her killed in the end.

In the AU where Poffi survives in Orr (by making wiser decisions that don't make her lose her nerve), Iotta takes it upon herself to train her properly in hand-to-hand combat, at least enough to bring her up to speed with Tocchix and not to have her be a potential dead weight on their team if something were to happen. Due to the shift in their dynamic, even though the training is rigorous Iotta is noticeably nicer to Poffi, and that breaks her out of her insecurities enough to become fairly effective in a fight (not as much as the other two, but not useless).

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21. What are their usual builds/roles?

Since she's a purely "roleplay" character (quotation marks because I don't roleplay with others, just by myself lol), she uses a custom "roleplay" build and occasionally that one memey pistol/pistol deadeye build.

She can't use daredevil and staff because that's too physical for her, while specter and scepter imply more magic than what she can use.

If I ever were to bring her into content where builds and roles are relevant, she would stick to deadeye builds that include a rifle, so right now just dps deadeye.

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I got a random BLC key drop while I was doing the new meta for the first time.

I can say I got platinum in GW2 now 😎

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So, when I make new characters in game, I like to challenge myself to go as far as possible in the story/map completion without a single death. Then, when it happens, I take note and try to work it into their backstory as an injury or close call of sorts.

Well, today it happened to be Poffi's turn. I did in fact go nearly 50% of map completion without a single death, but then it finally happened in the silliest way: an accidental dodge as I was gathering cultivated herbs in the asuran home instance sent her down the cliff.

You can bet your ears that I worked that into her backstory as an accidental fall down a ditch next to her family's lab, back when she was still a progeny. She had learned how to cook quite early and wanted to make a nice meal for her uncle (who took her in after her mother died) since it was his birthday, and she finally got an idea when she spotted some rare herbs that were growing in a hard-to-reach place next to the lab. Well, she did manage to harvest them, but her foot slipped and she tumbled down the ditch. She was scratched and sore all over, but she had a mission and the herbs were successfully in her hand, so she climbed out of it, quickly medicated and cleaned herself after sneaking back into the lab, and then went to the kitchen like nothing had happened [because right after the fall I went and unlocked the last ascended recipes with her, since she's my second cook]. Poor Chegg got so scared when he saw his niece all bruised up that he didn't even get to taste the meal, but in the end she was fine and even got a personal herb garden in a corner of the lab out if it.

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Yeah! Album Out now!!!!