I was tagged by @someone-elsa to show off one of my sims for each letter of the alphabet. (Fancy graphic optional, but I love playing in photoshop too much not to make a little graphic.)
I could have made this a lot easier by including other characters that I've made sims of (Yasha and Nocticula, for example) but I decided to be strict about it and stick to my own OCs/sims. Surprising to absolutely no one, it ended up being very heavy on the D&D characters, though a decent number of RTQ/ATQH characters (the ones that I created) made it onto the list.
[a (very long) guide to who's who under the cut!]
(and I do mean long. You have been warned.)
A - Avra Shadowbreath [D&D]
(she/her) My shadar-kai/reborn phantom rogue from my ongoing Curse of Strahd campaign. Devout worshipper of the Raven Queen, and a massive hypocrite. Kind of a bitch sometimes. Legally and biologically dead. Also a werewolf now.
B - Byron Lockwood [D&D NPC]
(he/him) Rook's least interesting half-brother. The "forgotten" middle child of Lord Alistair and Lady Evangeline Lockwood. Extremely boring. Only Lockwood brother with a job (and shockingly he's not terrible at it). The worst combo of all your shitty bosses.
C - Carrion Vice [D&D]
(he/him) My second-favorite OC at the moment. Biologically a tiefling but mechanically a beasthide shifter. Path of the Fractured barbarian. Transforms into a fucked-up monster when he rages. In an ongoing Dungeons of Drakkenheim campaign.
D - Daldinia Veneta [D&D, misc]
(she/her) A sim I made for my random D&D CAS challenge and now want to play for real someday. Reborn circle of spores druid. Named after one or two species of fungi.
E - Elira "Ellie" Duskstep [D&D]
(she/her) High elf abjuration wizard who I might never play, but I love none the less. Very autistic. Has a grey cat familiar.
F - Fallon Oakes [RTQ/ATQH]
(she/her) My queen, the first love of my life, the woman who changed my life. Queen of Anvia and the protagonist of my story. Stubborn as hell. Thinks she has to do everything alone.
G - Gwendolyn [misc]
(she/her) The hypothetical child of Amelie (I can't find the pics I know I posted of her??) and Adrian. I don't know much else about her. She was really just a CAS experiment.
H - Havoc [D&D, Video Games]
(they/them) A tiefling swords bard who stared out as a random sim, became a dnd character idea, and then ended up being my first Tav for BG3.
I - Irina [misc]
(she/her) One of two sims I have named Irina, who hilariously were both made for other simblrs. Made for @/wildfairies ages ago. A classy vampire lady.
J - Jay [D&D NPC]
(she/her) Elf. A former member of the crew of the Tide Breaker, and Rook's only friend before meeting the Vanguard (our dnd party). Made a very brief appearance in-campaign to save Rook's life before being tragically eaten by a giant rainbow snake.
K - Kholl [D&D NPC]
(he/him) Elf. Former surgeon of the Tide Breaker. Jay's mentor. Dragged Rook back from the edge of death more times than he should have had to.
L - Laverna Rosefist [D&D]
(she/they) Tiefling thief rogue. The first dnd character I ever made. Originally made for a simblr thing. Has gone through several iterations before reaching her current (and final) form. A (seemingly inevitable) product of my obsession with both tieflings and rogues.
M - Morana Novak [D&D]
(she/her) Fetchling curse patron witch for a Pathfinder game I'll eventually be playing in. Necromancer. Very practical about death. Has a sketchbook full of detailed drawings and observations about corpses she encounters. Nicknamed "mortician" by one of her party members. Her familiar is a raven named Miro. Autistic as hell and has no empathy whatsoever.
N - ?
O - Odynia Adrasteia Erinyes [D&D]
(she/her) Aasimar vengeance paladin (with a dip into hexblade warlock) sworn to Nemesis. Currently playing in a Greek mythology themed campaign. Made a literal "eye-for-an-eye" exchange. Charged with keeping a man alive who kind of doesn't want to be alive.
P - ?
Q - ?
R - Rook [D&D]
(he/him) My favorite OC of all time, my beloved idiot bastard man, the love of my life. Half (wood) elf swashbuckler rogue. Bastard son of a nobleman who ran away and became a pirate. Compulsive liar and Very Good At It. Chaotic motherfucker. Accidentally made the BBEG get very attached to him (and he to the BBEG). My little punching bag. Had daddy issues. All his parental figures end up shitty or dead.
S - Sera [Video Games]
(she/her) My PC for my first playthrough of Pathfinder: Kingmaker. An aasimar traditional monk. Has an AC of 50 and can make up to 8 attacks in one turn. Never takes her halo off.
T - Tessa Smallwood [RTQ/ATQH]
(she/her) The palace healer at the royal palace of Anvia, near Carisfell. The sweetest person you'll ever meet, but will ask you to please take care of yourself. (A hard ask if you're Fallon, apparently.)
U - ?
V - Val (Kyron Valris) [D&D]
(they/them) Tiefling hexblade warlock. Captain of the smuggling ship the Devil's Scorn. Hired by the Vanguard to chase down Captain Wolf in order to rescue Rook after he was kidnapped. (Aka, my temporary character when he was gone.) Former gang member. Criminal with strict morals. Has more common sense than the entire Vanguard put together. Still isn't entirely sure whether or not they regret taking this job.
W - Wymond of Oryn [RTQ/ATQH]
(he/him) Fallon's biological father. Member of a low-level noble house from the neighboring kingdom of Oryn. A lying, traitorous piece of shit who is directly responsible for the death of Fallon's mother. The only thing he and Fallon have in common is their eyes.
X - Xavier Blackthorne [RTQ/ATQH]
(he/him) Fallon's emotional father, even though she would deny this. Her mother's personal guard before her death, now the captain of Fallon's guard. The nicest man you'll ever meet. Has a habit of collecting strays. No biological kids, but the strongest dad energy in all of Anvia.
Y - ?
Z - Zenara "Zen" Raventhorn [D&D]
(they/them) Tiefling fiend warlock. The first dnd character I ever played. An accidental result of my Mighty Nein obsession. Occasionally gets possessed by their patron and wakes up in the middle of a mess with surprise new powers as an "apology".
I got tagged by @loony-moonsims to design what my blog would look like as a person using THIS picrew. I'm really bad at stuff like that, though, so I just made a whacky version of myself and then some of my OCs.
Me (the Murder Manager), Rook, Fallon, and Odynia.
Idk who to tag, so just feel free to say I tagged you if you want! I'd love to see what people make!
I was tagged by @goldenwaves! Thank you, Izzy! So the prompt technically says this:
rules: write up a blurb or make a visual collage of the people or characters (from books, TV shows, movies, etc.) that inspired your story and/or OC, either visually, personality wise, or just a general vibe
but I am incapable of pointing out characters or media that influence my stories or OCs because I'm not aware enough of that influence. All the influence that happens is subconscious. So, uh, here's some stuff instead.
I'm going to tag @simgerale @rebouks @softpine @barbieaiden @simlit @panicsimss @wavvi and any of me other storytelling mutuals!
All the Queen's Horses:
All the King's Horses - Karmina | Discord message by me | list of fave tropes by me | thoughts about fantasy by me | thoughts about romance by me | not actually inspiration, but on the mark for vibes: post by chaotic-bi-bibliophile | Regal by @simgerale
Fallon Oakes:
Image of a rose from Unsplash | ramble about my favorite character traits by me | quote from pinterest, sourch unknown | image from pinterest, source unknown | Ya'abunree - Halsey | image from pinterest, source unknown | this one line of dialogue which is apparently from the show House, which I have never seen | a misquoted Shakespeare quote | Paper Crown - Alec Benjamin | If You Could See Me Now - The Script
So the goal of this is to dress your sim up like someone else's sim. And of course there was no other option for the style swap than to mix my Queen Fallon with @simgerale's Empress Magdalena.
[NORA]: I'm glad you joined me today, Your Majesty.
[FALLON]: To be perfectly honest, it's a welcome break from my duties. I did nothing but write letters all morning.
[NORA]: I'm happy to distract you, then. [She winks.]
[FALLON]: I knew that these ruins were here, but I never visited them. Never really had a reason to, I suppose. Or I was simply too busy.
[She looks around at the crumbling stone walls.]
[FALLON]: I wonder what they used to be.
[NORA]: I'm sure it was something fascinating. Like a hidden lair for a secret sect. Or a den of notorious thieves. Or a temple to a long-forgotten god.
[FALLON]: Such an imagination, Captain! Any one of those ideas would make for a fascinating story.
[Nora grabs Fallon's hand.]
[FALLON]: Captain, what-?
[NORA]: Look around. We have no way of knowing what was here based simply on what we see. But if we imagine...
That could have been a chapel, a temple along the road. People could have stopped here, seeking shelter and a place to sleep on their way to Carisfell. Or it could have been an ancient keep, the ancestral home of a proud noble family, having watched over these lands for centuries.
Maybe an illness devastated the devout people living in the temple. They barred their doors, and no one walked in or out. Perhaps the noble family fell into the hands of one last person, who died without an heir.
Either way, this place was forgotten. Over time, without people to care for it, the buildings crumbled.
[FALLON]: That seems awfully sad. [She frowns.] That this place was special to someone once, and now it's been abandoned, forgotten.
[NORA]: But now we're here. We might not remember its original purpose, or its history, but we see it. We think of the people who might have lived here. We keep the memory alive.
Places are constantly being forgotten or abandoned. But at the same time, new places are being built. New chapels to welcome travelers. New homes that will shelter a family for generations.
Nothing is permanent. But that doesn't have to be a bad thing.
[FALLON]: I've never thought of it like that. I suppose I'm used to the Palace, with all its history written down, carefully kept track of over the years. But not every place, or person, has such a luxury.
[NORA]: Come along, Your Majesty. Let us find what else this newfound perspective can see.
