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11-15 for Jack

Character questions

12. Is there some particular talent, skill, or attribute that they simply could not give up?

Running cons just for the artistry of it.

13. What are your character’s sleeping habits? Heavy or light sleeper? Blanket stealer? One that always rolls onto the floor? Pushes their lover onto the floor? Sleep talker or walker?

Light sleeper because when you regularly sleep alone in the middle of deathclaw-infested desert, you have to be pretty alert. unless he fell down from the exhaustion and is pretty non-responsive at this point. Sometimes tosses and turns, but mostly doesn’t move from a position he fell asleep in, because what if he’s occupying the only square inches of space that is not covered in radioactive sludge

14. Do they live alone or with family? How do they feel about their family/roommates?

He doesn’t even “live” anywhere, he’s just tumble-weeding through the places he thinks are interesting. when he decided to get involved in the politics, he went “If I’m going to change the fate of the Mojave, I’ll need help” and still he was only taking one person with him and a dog. Lucky 38 never registered like a home or even long-term living situation for Jack, it was kind pf a convenient hub, but he didn’t stay there longer than for a couple days at a time. He’s pretty fond of the everyone in his party, but he always knew they all going to go their separate ways pretty soon.

15. Is there a certain person in this world that they cannot stand? The very mention of this person’s name makes them tremble with anger or fear. 11. What is something that would make your character fly into a rage?

I’m bundling these together, because they relate to the same thing, and this thing is Nipton. Jack never got involved in politics his whole life, putting his search for lost knowledge above what he saw as different groups of mostly same people fighting over resources. Leaders in charge are always some degree of an assholes, but others under their rule are all pretty much the same, regular people.

 He was actually kind of proud of that, seeing himself as a neutral un-prejudiced, capable of making rational and un-biased decisions. Of course he knew the Legion is bad news, but he always avoided them on purpose. But then he saw the butchery in Nipton and met Vulpes Inculta, who was smart enough and even had some system of knowledge and philosophy - and Jack always believed that even incomplete knowledge is a kick-starter to enlightenment, or at least, decency. But all intelligence made Inculta was this zealous monster, casual in his cruelty and self-superiority, actually believing that he has a moral right to judge and depose of others because Legion is “bringing order to the chaos”… It was closest Jack ever had to a rage fit, as he almost shot Inculta in the face right there and then, though it was closer to reflexive disgust when a cockroach suddenly crawls up to your face. Jack realized that he just physically cannot co-exist in the same space where *this* exists, cannot even take a chance that this group that is absorbing and erasing other cultures and brainwashing people en masse into monsters, could continue to grow and take control of the Mojave. 

In short, Jack really can’t fucking stand the Legion.

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au meme - what powers would your OCs get in Dishonored universe?

Ari. Puppeteer - while active, makes up to 3 (upgrades to 5) chosen enemies fight on Ari’s side.

Shadowborn - while this ability is active, Ari’s spirit is transported to her shadow, and she’s immune to sleep darts, howling bolts, etc. If Ari gets killed while this ability is active, her body is destroyed with an explosion and a new one immediately formed with full health.   

Mirror - while ability is active, enemies do not notice Ari, instead seeing in her place what they expect to see there normally.

Backstage - Ari can immediately teleport to any place in her sight if it has enough shadow to cover her.

Visage - creates an otherworldly ethereal mirage of Ari looking like a faerie queen. When summoned directly over Ari herself, gives bonuses to deflection, hypnotizes one of the enemies. When summoned away from Ari, draws attention to itself, hypnotizes up 3 enemies for as long as they can’t see Ari herself.

Patchwork - after certain ritualistic preparations, Ari can steal void powers from other Marked people. The target should be placed in the special-drawn circle and whatever power they use, while still in that circle, Ari gets it.

Soulbound - Ari gets this after falling in love with Gann, passive ability that links their souls and allows them to share emotions and thoughts. Grants immunity to all mind-affecting effects and magic. They do not have access to each other’s magical powers, but share same mana pool, doubled in size.

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Erica Hawke. Riot - people around get an uncontrollable surge of emotions: civilians flee, enemies go berserk and attack anyone on sight, allies are invigorated and get bonuses to health, defense and strength.

Fireblood - AoE ability, in chosen area blood of enemies becomes volatile and flammable like whale oil, blowing up at harsh impact and setting on fire from even a small spark

Steep dive - marks a target, allowing Erica to track their location even when they are out of sight and immediately teleport to it when she chooses to.

Gravitation - AoE, Erica chooses an area and all all enemies are pulled to it’s center.

Pack - summons 3 (upgrades to 5) hounds who fight on Erica’s side.

Stasis - chosen ally is encapsulated in a protective statis shell and cannot be harmed for the duration, but is also paralyzed. Erica gets health regeneration while the ability is active.

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Ravyl Amell. Arcane Bond - pretty standard.

Hero - while active, all surrounding enemies are prioritizing attacking Ravyl before anyone else. Ravyl is surrounded by glowing white aura that gives him bonuses to armor, health and deflection.

Law Unbroken - negates any supernatural abilities of other Marked ones or magical effects in clove vicinity. Effect instantaneous, but not lasting. Passive magical abilities start working the same after a second. Active abilities like Darkvision or Mesmerize would have to be re-activated. If teleport is interrupted before it finished relocating, the target reappears at the initial place.

Diplomacy - while active, enemies will treat Ravyl and all people linked with his Arcane Bond as allies, until attacked.

Lifethread - Ravyl heals all allies connected with the Arcane Bond to their full health. His own health is restored by the collective amount that he healed for his allies.

Calling - Ravyl can teleport to anyone who bears his Arcane Bond.

Mentor - Ravyl can help to advance the skills and abilities of people linked with the Arcane Bond, even if Ravyl doesn’t posses these skills himself.

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Siara. Abstraction - when active, makes the world look like an abstract painting with clear-cut figures (think Picasso paintings). Allows her to see in the dark, shows hidden objects, mechanisms. Gives insight into minds of people.

Entropy - the process of entropy for the chosen object is greatly sped up. In practice, it means the object will be disintegrated in few seconds.

Question - chosen enemies (3, upgrades to 5) are overwhelming with the most haunting questions about their lives and stop whatever they are doing. They stand still and unresponding, contemplating their lives, for a duration of an ability, unless attacked.

Mold - Siara can change shapes of chosen objects, but material gets more aged with every change.

Deconstruction - Chosen object breaks down into a simpler forms - a locked door turns into a wooden brick and a piece of iron. (she never tried it on a living being, but a dead rat turns into a pile of bones, a slab of meat, piece of fur and a pool of blood)

Grimoire - Siara has a grimoire where she or other Marked people can inscribe their powers in a special ritual, so that then they can be learned by others. The power might be given only voluntarily, after someone learns an inscribed power, it disappears from the grimoire.

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1, 35, 46 for Arivalien

You can call her Ari :D

Character questions

01. What does your character’s name mean? Did you pick it for the symbolism, or did you just like the way it sounded?

Absolutely random combination of letters that I thought sounded vaguely elf-ish. I would have changed it for something more meaningful, but I was already stuck thinking of her as “Ari”.

35. Is your character afraid of death? If they got to choose how to die, how would they want to go?

Mmm, difficult question. Ari never was afraid of her own death, and especially not now, when her husband can cast Resurrection like 5 times a day. She is afraid for Gann, though not in a sense of him dying any moment, but for the eventual outcome of him refusing to worship any god. There is a reason she let the Founder go unharmed, despite being incredibly vengeful and preparing to kill her when she went into Academy. She saw Bishop in the Wall and imagined Gann being in his place and immediately knew with absolute cold certainty that she would do everything the Founder did to her and more to save him. She didn’t forgive the Founder per se, but this understanding cut to close to the bone, and lft her scared both for Gann and for what she herself could become.

46. What is some random affectionate thing that your character always does to their lover?

Ari is very handsy and she goes for a lot of random affectionate touching quite often. Though if we’re talking about something specific that she repeats all the time, it’s probably playing with Gann’s hair and making tiny braids.

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I feel like I never properly explained why I call Ari “such a diva”

It’s not just that she wears flowing silks into the fights in some god-forgotten woods

It’s that this fight will look like a cross between an anime and high-budget music video, with petite ethereal-looking grey-skinned girl in flowing lilacs and silver, surrounded with gentle shimmering glow.

If she has to cast a Magic Missile, then there are going to be glowing silver patterns blossoming under her hand gestures, gaining light and color into blue through lilacs, until finally releasing in a form of a small shooting star.

If she’s casting Isaac's Greater Missile Storm, then these silver patterns are going to draw a goddamn Art Nouveau painting, framing Ari in the center, with the constellations of stars glowing up around her head before shooting into missiles.

Her Mordenkainen's Sword is a silver, with intricate engravings and curved blade. Her fireball’s flames are color-coordinated with her outfits: deep royal blue fading into lavender and silver.

Ari is *ridiculously* On Brand at any given moment.

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I don't assume I would wanna date Ari...? Although I'm slighy attracted to her? So do her, I wanna know! Also your Erica Hawke if you like...

Ari, my precious monster of thousand masks.

It’s easy to be infatuated with Ari, especially if she doesn’t let you close - she’s a mirror maze in a lilac garden, she’ll reflect  your own expectations, dreams and desires back at you, mixing them with just enough other-wordliness and provocation to create her own unique kind of charm. If you manage to keep the infatuation short and fleeting - then she’ll be an unforgettable memory, a wisp of lavender mist, like a visit of a faery mage.

but if you do get close… well, first of all, it’s not that easy. She won’t let you close if you’re not sharp. You have to be able to see through bullshit, her own bullshit most of the time, because she won’t open and she’ll try to trick you - because this is what she did her whole life. She is hand-made out of bullshit - she invented herself with everything the world hurled at her - people’s expectations of her, fears, prejudices, fantasies, half-forgotten fairytales. She is a little void of hundreds stolen shadows.

But again, she’s outrageously hot, not even in perfection of features, but in a raw, searing presence. She’s got Charisma over 35 and she knows what to do with it, if you know what I mean. She’s also very smart, eloquent and imaginative conversation partner with great sense of humor and tact, and she’s an incredibly good listener.

That is to say, if you are close, a lot of times you’re going to be listening to very eloquently and sarcastically put rants, because while Ari is, no shit, a diplomatic genius with people she *doesn’t* like, she needs to let her grumpy side out too. She’s actually quite melancholic underneath all scandals and charms.

Then again, if she considers you close, you can ask her… well, anything. She’ll go over danger and odds and fate and people’s lives. She’ll bring you Helen of Troy in a day, or sack the city in three, without bloodshed. Well, if you specifically want bloodshed, she’ll get you 10 years war, but she prefers to be effective. She can be ruthlessly amoral when it comes to helping people she respects.

Erica Hawke, on the other hand, doesn’t have a subtle bone in her whole body. Oh, she can be smooth, she’s downright graceful most of time, she even moves in half-dancing motions, like the world is her scene of props. But subtle or deceptive? Nah. If you enjoy charismatic, but almost obnoxiously loud presence that fills the whole room, you’ll like her.

You will not have a dull moment, but also she’s a bad partner if you like quiet and peace. Erica never stops moving, she lives in battle-dances from one target to another. It’s not a flight of a bird, even predatory one, like hawks, though. It’s more of a charge of a rhino, if rhino could ignore laws of physics and do it gracefully. If you’re not ready to keep up with a race and spend all the nerves it requires (it’s gonna require a lot of them, Erica doesn’t have a sense of preservation, but very acute sense of unfairness which she battles without a single thought), then rethink it. If you’re not by her side, then you’re behind her back. It’s a quiet, very safe place, and on the horizon you can see the distant fire of your charging rhino. She’s gonna be there sometimes to rest or heal. Meanwhile you can spend time with Carver talking about being ignored and overshadowed.

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Tell me about how problematic Erica Hawke is.

Talks shit, has no idea what she’s doing and no plans for longer than 3 days

Makes stupid jokes during romantic or sexy moments

Has a special command for her mabari to bite people’s asses

Made fun of her brother’s intimate correspondence

Is a cause of 69% of combustions in Kirkwall

Fought like twenty Templars to go into the deep hole to get money to pay Templars

Has a squad of literary criminal friends and makes  her only cop friend to cover for them

Would fight both Maker and Old Gods

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OC meme: 11 for Erica and 20 for Siara.

11:their family life

well, it’s not like DA2 canon leaves me a lot of room for wiggling. Unrealistic Expectations For The Love At First Sight mom and dad Hawkes, Erica being the firstborn dear treasure child, for whom they both risked everything. I headcanon - strongly based on DLC codex entries of Malcolm’s letters - that Leandra decided to go from Whimsical Romantic Adventure to Run Away From The Privileged Life To Live With An Apostate because she got pregnant. Also that’s why Malcolm agreed to work with the Wardens.

Erica is absolutely a daddy’s girl, spoiled and center of the universe, even if the universe sometimes rapidly shakes and changes in a blur, when they have to change homes again. At first, she sees twins as some sort of luxury pets who are too dumb to communicate with, but you have to be patient and take care of them, because they don’t know any better and they are your responsibility.

20:their reaction to a mystery love letter

oh my god, she’d be so excited, like, not even about the letter itself (but about it too, ofc), but about figuring out who sent it. She’d sherlock the SHIT out of this. She’d learn everyone’s alibis and think out what time window Mysterious Admirer had to place it. She’d try to acquire examples of handwritings and compare speech patterns. She’d casually drops hints in conversations, but not quotes from the letter, but ALLUSIONS for quotes from the letter and watch for reactions. Honestly, it’s a fluff comedy gold mine

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Siara

Full Name: Siaratmili Xanlit

Gender and Sexuality: Genderfluid, usually more feminine-aligned, pan.

Pronouns: She\her

Ethnicity/Species: DeathGodlike from Ixamitl Plains

Guilty Pleasures: going Socrates and questioning random people’s beliefs until they have existential crisis

Phobias: claustrophobia

Favorite Movie/Book Genre: abstract conceptual philosophy and existential poetry

Least Favorite Movie/Book Cliche: destiny\fate

Talents and/or Powers: she’s very magically gifted and mostly uses magic as a tool to explore the universe, to pry it open and see the hidden meanings, inner workings and souls. She has a vast mind and deep memory, a talent of making connections and especially parallels. She can also sew very well and paint in watercolors.

Why Someone Might Love Them: eh, hard question. She’s brilliant, talented and friendly, but that’s not why people would fall for her. Ah.

There’s no word in Common for plants of Ixamitl Plains. The closest translation is “the grass of winds”, but it’s not correct - these herbs are not the short green carpet like in Aedyr. Their high, thick stalks go up to the waist of a grown man, and in winter they don’t wither, just get drier and then bloom again in the spring. They also cover the Plains in bright, mixed colors in spring and summer - purple next to the yellow, red, lavender, blue and orange, - no combination is too gaudy or tacky here. They sway with the constant wind, like sea waves, and these vivid, windy expanses and the open horizon is the first impression you get of Ixamitl Plains, the burst of freedom and easy, lavish mix of striking colors. It seems simple and open, no secrets, cheerful and straightforward. But then the night comes and there are no stars like over the savannas of Ixamitl, the darkest black and myriads of stars, thrown generously, like everything here, some of these patterns are have no names in other languages. But even this is not why the Ixamitl nights are special - only here you can really feel that the sky is not a carpet or a drape, that it’s endless, that the shining of the stars we see hides more and more layers of stars we can’t imagine. The multitudes over multitudes that you can only guess, not grasp or name. And it’s only a beginning of the mysteries hidden in plain sight - the life of the Plains, that like to go about it’s business unnoticed, the seasons, the periods of rain that change everything so drastically, the endless songs of the instruments made of the highest herbs. The discoveries might never end, but they are not secrets - they don’t try to hide, they will share and open if you care to ask, but there’s always something more, the horizon is never closer and the bright herbs still hide complexity in the simplicity of wind and joy.

Why Someone Might Hate Them: she will remember everything you tell her and with friendly curiosity ask to explain the contradictions in your lies. She’ll never do anything just because “it’s supposed to be done” or “it’s the law” or “ugh, just shut up and do it”, she’ll ask you what’s the purpose and meaning behind the things you want her to do and you’re doing in front of her, behind the things you say even if you “didn’t really mean it” and “didn’t think about it”. She doesn’t judge and won’t try to stop you unless you’re hurting others, but people don’t like being forced to confront their motivations. She will not let people get away with vague phrasings until she gets to the actual meaning. She resents mindless action and thoughtless following in any form and is unapologetic about refusing to comply herself to anything of it.

How They Change: She doesn’t, really, not much? Like, she changes in some things, in handling the authority, in managing and controlling the big project, in learning to quickly evaluate situations when needed instead of researching every little thing about it. But?? I waited for this game to give me a conflict and an arc and waited and waited and it just never happened? This plotline with the Leaden Key guy just absolutely didn’t mattered for either of us? And Siara questioned the gods from the start and treated them not reverently, but as representatives of opinions and points of view that people valued, so she actually felt validated by the end of it? It didn’t feel as the end of her journey at all, it felt as a beginning, when she gathered enough power and experience to start understanding the universe on her own terms.

Why You Love Them: she’s one one the few OC I have that share my psychological type and it’s fun to make different variations on it:) Also, she’s just fun and bright and the decay as a tool of deconstruction of the world to the most basic forms and patterns is an interesting POV to explore.