#reen rambles

[abloodredfeather]

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even a nerd will cheat on you so in conclusion men are trash

[legendaryskyscale]

@ratasum

Bio-engineering buddies! Ardjin would have definitely swapped some notes with those in similar fields. He'd be interested in Prikk's work.

Ardjin was bio-engineering spliced creatures using Sylvari (and later dragon minions) as the base and finding the means to control these spliced creatures via neural crystals embedded into them. He initially had one of his own progeny (Raennyn) experimented on with neural-linking crystals and had some success in controlling the spliced monstrosities, before the strain got too much and incapacitated the poor kid. That experiment was then deemed a failure, but Ardjin had Rae repurposed to be an enhanced assassin and a personal guard/attack dog so to speak.

Being nearby the Thaumanova Reactor allowed him access to the research conducted there. A shame it would all blow up in his face

Come to think of it, I've also been brainstorming that Ardjin was approached by Kudu to aid with the construction of the Infinite Coil Reactor+Crucible of Eternity after Thaumanova blew up :o)

[legendaryskyscale]

Man, thinking about it, my first Commander being a Sylvari, Roaj was like 5-6yrs old when they died. Life well lived, tho.

[legendaryskyscale]

I do kinda feel for Ardjin, cus the dude started off with well intentions and wanted to help his sister study the Mists. He was an upstanding citizen of Rata Sum and he was on his way, competing against his old friend Flax, for the High Chancellor seat in the Arcane Council during his youth.

But then the incident with the Fractal Observatory happened and things just slowly went downhill for him. At some point, Ardjin had done some amoral things to try and find a way to get his sister back, but to no avail. Eventually he'd give up and shift his focus to splicing dragon minions and creating spliced monstrosities. However, his ambitions would draw him back to the Fractals once again.

What really made him a bitter and angry old rat was the loss of his only daughter. Like Ardjin had a lot of Progeny with a lot of different Asura partners, but with majority of them, he's unaware of nor does he care. He's aware of three or four of his Progeny, and only his daughter was his pride and joy.

I'm rambling here cus I'm trying to write some lore dump on Ardjin and just been thinking about how he's gone through a lot. He happens to be one of the oldest OCs (who isn't a Mad Realm monster or vampire) out of my roster. Dude's prolly pushing 60-70yrs, more or less (needa work on my story's timeline to get an approximate age for him, he could be younger or older than that age range) but could still kick some ass if he really has to.

Random tidbit: whenever I try to dye Ardjin's boots, his Antitoxin Gloves get dyed too for some reason, and his boots get a portion of the Antitoxin Gloves texture. It makes me sad I can't put those gloves on him, they fit him so well but the texture bug bothers me too much lol

[abloodredfeather]

I woke up at 5 am with the same pain in my chest that I get when I realize my deepest fears are true and now I’m wondering what does my subconscious know that it needed to WAKE ME UP AND NOT HAVE ME CONSCIOUSLY KNOW IT

[abloodredfeather]

I spent all weekend trying to learn a coding language and ended up watching videos (of us) and the great sadness™️ is back

[abloodredfeather]

Help me I start my first day tmw and I have the worst cramps

[abloodredfeather]

sO

i was in the fuckin SHOWER ready to actually cry

so im lowkey starting and then i realize i want to wear a different shirt so i jsut walk in topless into my own room WHERE SAMAR IS WAITING ON MY BED WHO LET HER IN AKLSJDHASKJDFAKLJKJHASDFJKHSADKJHLASDFKHJJKHLASDHJKLASDFHKJLASDJKHLASDHJKL