#ranthyr cuthalion

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ridingrootless replied to your post: Thing making me and Ranthyr sad and tearful today:...

Ranthyr takes ALL THE DOGS and has a HOWLING PARTY everyone goes to the woods, goes awoo, has a grand time

yes

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13 for gw2 kids and 40 for ranthyr?

13: Which OCs complement each other the best?

Ranthyr and Xekken aren’t the most glaringly obvious answer, but they worked together in the Maguuma campaign and it was a good partnership. There’s obviously the dps/healer dynamic that I’m never gonna get to appreciate cause I can’t be in a party with my own characters, but also: they both care about the people under their command, but Ranthyr’s got that Vigil mentality that lets him keep going when they lose someone, which Xekken hasn’t developed. Xekken’s better at strategy than Ranthyr is, but Ranthyr’s better at finding resources in the jungle for Xekken to use in those strategies. Ranthyr might be a cryptid and a sylvari in a jungle that’s not kind to those things, but he’s also a Vigil Warmaster where Xekken is a Whispers Lightbringer, so like. Together they almost make a respectable authority figure. Dunno if I can rank every OC pair and come up with a Most Complementary one (especially when I start adding friend OCs to the pool), but they’re an interesting one.

40: Who motivates Ranthyr?

I mean, obviously his friends in the guild and his siblings and his god and whatnot, but for someone specific who I don't think I've talked about much: His dad is the elven parent, so he's got some elven friends who check in occasionally. Some of these elven friends are jerks, but one of them is Raithor. Raithor is an arcane trickster who goes around raiding old tombs and abandoned temples (aka: doing Bad Archaeology, sorry Jo) for employers. Raithor is basically Ranthyr's favorite "uncle," and he helped Ranthyr through his self-consciousness when his eye first got injured. 

He helped by suggesting that if people were gonna stare at his cloudy/unfocused eye, he might as well give them something else to  stare at instead, which is the story behind the big sun tattoo on Ranthyr’s face. But it’s also the story behind Ranthyr just unapologetically being Ranthyr at all times, cause Raithor basically taught him that other people’s opinions are their own problems.

FOR TYRIA RANTHYR, umm. I mean. His friends and family in the grove and the guild and the pact. I don’t have a Raithor equivalent here.

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Headcanons! 8, 11, 25, 32

8. Can kill you with a pencil

Xekken was my first thought, so there you go. 

11. Will eat everything if they could

 Ranthyr, maybe? 

25. Is the comforting one

I MEAN. That depends on who needs comforting. Ranthyr tries. I’ve got a concept bhaalspawn named Kriemhild who might qualify, but also Kriemhild is a cursed name cause this is the third character I’ve tried to give it to, so who knows. Angien is a big-sister friend so in her own way, she counts? A lot of them have Their People that they will absolutely drop everything to comfort, but not necessarily for anyone outside of that group. Calypso generally does a good job of the role.

32. Likes socks

Toril!Ranthyr does because Aida gives away knitted things, so she has definitely given him socks that he enjoys. Other than that, I am... drawing a blank

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also @clericofbahamut was telling me about the Oath of the Ancients earlier, and it’s. It’s extremely Ranthyr. We’ve got

Hope

Connection to the Natural World

Speak with Animals as class spell at 3rd level

protect things of beauty/art which absolutely can translate to Sing Often

Sing cause the sun is rising

Sing cause it’s noon and you saw a cat napping in the sun

Sing cause the sun is setting

Sing cause it’s raining and that is also a beautiful thing

speak with animals

Ranthyr is so powerful now and I should look up the oath myself sometime when it is not. midnight. the night before finals when i need to be sleeping

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ranthyr.... my sunshine son

B A S I C S

full name:

Tyria: Ranthyr. Just Ranthyr

Toril: Ranthyr Cuthalion 

gender: Male

sexuality: Some kind of ace. Panromantic? idk??

pronouns: he/him

O T H E R S

family:

Tyria: All The Sylvari (except the Nightmare Court). Notably, he’s decided Livata is his cousin. Gotta do more character development to figure out how he’s “related” to you guys’s characters. Also, Forgal is his adopted norn dad, and Furrocious is arguably his brother?

Toril: Big sister Shearah, Big brother Tasar, mom Kethryllia and dad Enthrys. Kethryllia’s a human, but she was raised by an elf named Darulia (I THINK. These are all my friend’s OCs. @somewolfchick please tell me if i got names wrong D:)

Toril Ranthyr also adopts friends as family to an extent but we’re gonna be here forever if i get into that

birthplace: 

Tyria: The Grove, at dawn

Toril: A small town in Gray Vale. I don’t think we’ve come up for a name with it yet??

job: Adventurer! True in both worlds! But more specifically

Tyria: Also a Warmaster of the Vigil/Commander of the Pact. Laranthir probably got on his ass over the whole fistfight with Bryce incident.

Toril: Paladin of Amaunator. So, actually, basically still just adventurer.

phobias: Being alone makes him uncomfortable. Being underground for long periods of time makes him depressed. I’m not sure that he’s actually got a fear of the dark or enclosed spaces, but they aren’t Great for him.

guilty pleasures: EDIT: ASJKGBSD I forgot i left this blank to come back to UM. Not really sure Ranthyr’s got much he’s ashamed of? Hmmm.

M O R A L S

morality alignment?: Good. He’s a good good boy. 

Tyria: Probably neutral-leaning toward chaotic good

Toril: tries to be lawful good, probably ends up more near neutral good in actual practice

sins - lust/greed/gluttony/sloth/pride/envy/wrath

virtues - chastity/charity/diligence/humility/kindness/patience/justice

T H I S - O R - T H A T

introvert/extrovert: extrovert. But also Tyria Ranthyr is gonna become a cryptid after/during Heart of Thorns, so he might be less extroverted than Toril Ranthyr

organized/disorganized: Disorganized probably

close minded/open-minded: Open-minded

calm/anxious: Calm, or very good at faking it

disagreeable/agreeable: Agreeable

cautious/reckless: Reckless

patient/impatient: …Patient? It depends on the case?

outspoken/reserved: Outspoken

leader/follower: HMMMMM maybeee it’s

Tyria: Leader

Toril: Follower (?? Maybe? He’s good at taking direction, but also he aggressively adopts people, which is its own kind of leading.  HM.)

empathetic/unemphatic: Empathetic

optimistic/pessimistic: Optimistic

traditional/modern: Modern

hard-working/lazy: Hard-working (sloth is up there cause like… it’s what gets him in trouble, less because it’s a persistent problem.)

R E L A T I O N S H I P S

otp:

Tyria: Listen it is very easy to get a big gay crush on Trahearne, probably half the sylvari in the pact have a big crush on Trahearne. Is it ever going to be more than a crush? PROBABLY NOT. BUT IF I WAS GONNA SHIP HIM WITH SOMEONE. THERE’S A CANDIDATE RIGHT THERE.

Toril: Well, there’s whatever his relationship is with Vel, so that either goes here or brotp. And then there’s whatever kind of crush he has on Lans Thuliaga.

ot3:  

Tyria: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ We’ll see what we see. idk. I am bad at shipping most of the time

Toril: @thissparrowisreadytofly wrote a thing trying to figure out how Vel felt once, and she included Oli saying their paladin in it, so like. There’s that. As something that would not be out of character, potentially, but would require everyone involved to a. identify their emotions and b. communicate them instead of going ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about it, and Ranthyr is very good at going ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and doing whatever feels right instead of actually communicating

brotp:

Tyria: I guess Livata? I need to play as him with people more often, clearly. He and Caithe can be cryptid bros. Yes.

Toril: Again, I do not know where to classify one Velshaeln Sevielzhar, so! Also Oli. Also probably some people I’m forgetting cause my brain has been in Tyria for so long. Is Ruru still a character? Cause I remember thinking he and Ruru would be good friends

notp: As Jo has said, Ranthyr and the Anti-Ranthyr cannot meet except for fisticuffs. 

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"#i. feel like this is modern au ranthyr somehow" i feel like this is something Oli would ask Ranthyr, tbh, and he'd love it so much it would just be a running joke

There’s just something about “makes me feel like a glow stick” that pings in the deepest part of his brain. Instant running joke. I’m so glad Oli is involved too tbh

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I picked up a couple aberrant friends yesterday. Can only post the first three appearances for the Blue Fire Eye, cause it’s green-level and I haven’t decided if I’m going to spend the astral diamonds to unlock the fourth yet. (I probably will tho)

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♫ for sunshine paladin ranthyr

SO MUCH LOVE FOR RANTHYR this is v good

[Rosa Dear] by Ruth because 1. it is a good Ranthyr song anyway and 2. I was introduced to it by Vet Ranch, which is a youtube channel where a vet uses donations to help SO MANY ownerless animals

So I associate it with video clips of puppies running around joyfully after being healed of whatever bad things life has thrown at them

and that is such a Ranthyr thing tbh