#1-3 for Call (beloved) for the commander relationship asks? - @/storm-called
Call beloved!!!
1. Who is your commander's best friend? Why? How long have they been friends, and what led to their friendship developing?
Braham! Easily Braham by a landslide, Call slid so easily into a sibling dynamic with him. The two of them met after Call unofficially joined the team after helping her predecessor with a world danger. She was grumpy and ornery then, something Braham could relate to from his own young adult years. He helped her work through a lot of shit. He's also the only one on the team strong enough to restrain her if her fuse blows lmao
2. Who among the canon "allies" does your commander most relate to?
Braham, for the above reasons! The two of them have a lot in common, even down to trying to live up to a legend that eclipsed and left you behind... they've had some wonderful long discussions that they've both dearly needed.
3. Who among the canon "allies" does your commander dislike the most?
Now there's a good question, she's only met so many as she joined the team just before EoD! I don't think she straight up dislikes any of the canon team she's met, but in terms of more distant allies she does not like Joon at all. Too cagey and stubborn in her own way.
dunno which questions you've been asked yet, but I'd love to hear your takes on 30, 31, and 33 for the headcannon asks
- @storm-called
Oooh I like these!
This is getting a readmore because ohboy this got long lmao, apologies I hope you were ready for a lot of reading
30. Which Dragon’s corrupted area (like the brand, orr, etc) is the least pleasant to be in?
Alright, let's actually go through this a bit! Sure they're all unpleasant in the fact that they can easily kill you if you're not constantly on guard, but some kill or corrupt you more...pleasantly than others. Let's run from what I think is Least Unpleasent to "worst".
Jormag is the very essence of frost, and on top of that can soothe you with the gentlest of intrusive thoughts. While watching soldiers walk out into the cold with a smile on their face to die is haunting at best, it doesn't seem...bad to experience. You go out there comforted and happy, happier than you were fighting for your life. And I'm not sure how many people know this, but death through hypothermia is only cold for so long. Then you're numb, and then you're warm. And you fall asleep. Haunting, but by standards here? Probably the easiest way to go honestly.
Bubbles lives so deep in the water for now that we don't even know what their corruption truly looks like, but I have a feeling it could be eerily beautiful. Have you watched cameras of deep sea creatures? It's not nearly as horrifying as it is aluringly otherworldly. And I'd imagine being caught in it is just like being caught by an enticing lure.
Mordremoth has the most Normal corrupted zone, if you can simply avoid the mordrem. A jungle, lush and beautiful, and relatively safe if you're skilled at combat and not a sylvari. If you are a sylvari, well, probably this tops your list, but we're looking a little more overall than that. And even if you get corrupted, at least you lose yourself in the beauty of greenery around you, lights dancing through the air along leylines and fantastical creatures.
Zhaitan starts really leaning into discomfort overall, the miasma of death hanging around you in a waterlogged state that looks like it will drown your lungs with the thick air. And the beings that roam the corruption are a grim reminder of your own fate should you succumb to death here yourself. It's haunting, keeps you from every truly gaining a sense of comfort in how it will follow you no matter where you go here.
Primordus is warm. And unlike cold, that doesn't settle into comfort as it reaches an extreme. It becomes stifling. You gasp, pull at clothes, rub at your forehead and you can see your body losing what water you had left as you gasp and struggle for air that isn't warmer than you already are. It's discomfort at best, horrible burning at worst. The one saving grace, at least it's usually faster than some of the other options here.
Jralkatorrik takes the cake for me though, with that electrifying crystal. It immediately ravages the land and inhabitants in an instant, and simply setting foot within the brand can hurt you physically. It's shocking and painful, and just one look at branded creatures shows what seems to be a painful transformation. There's no pre-death, no loss of self truly, no coercion. If the Brand wants to claim you it will, regardless of your kicking and screaming the whole way. It will claim you and infect you physically and you can tell just by looking at it. The Brand is a place to avoid, you do not set up a resistance within it, you set up a resistance to avoid it.
31. How unified of a people are the Norn? How many would do something Knut Whitebear told them to even though they don’t like it?
Mixed answer here, I think the Norn used to be incredibly unified and many still are, BUT the catastrophe of Jormag driving the norn from their homelands and scattering them has changed their unity and family systems in a way that affects every aspect of their culture now.
The lodge and hoelbrak are a clear sign of unity, they even tolerate the sons of svanir remaining nearby. Norn are at their heart a united people, and many do still rally behind their current leader and recognize him as such. However!
We also see proof of fragmentation, lost spirits and dying shrines, broken lands and scattered tiny villages. It's not that some wouldn't follow the leadership now, it's that some can't at this time. Either through not having an easy contact with the main cities of their people, or having priorities they need to put higher such as familial safety and stability.
I like to think that once they reclaim their homelands post-icebrood, this starts healing. And that you can see it in careful mending of shrines and revitalization in new shamans for the lost spirits. Safety and stability as the scattered norns can finally reclaim their lands and their lost pieces of culture. Then, and only then, can they all truly afford to heed the call of their united people again.
33. Are Choya edible? Ibogas? Sylvari?
Yes just whack one and step back and you've got easy pieces to eat!
Yes, if you aren't a coward and can cut around the poison glands and watch the thorns.
Yes, if you aren't a coward. I do think it depends on the kind of sylvari, edible does not mean eat it once and die it means actually fit to be eaten lmao, avoid poisonous sylvari for this one. And have fun grappling with the edibility of a sentient species like you
may or may not be playing favorites with Joel, but 1 and 13 for it from the quasi-ooc asks 👀
- @/storm-called
@storm-called I'm ALWAYS happy for Joel hours uwu
1. What's their voice like? (Voice claim and/or describe it)
Very tomboyish, little rough and lower than you'd initially expect looking at it!
Since the whole HoT mess though, its vocal chords like everything in its stasis-but-dead body hasn't been really able to regenerate as things wear down as easily. Big steps have been made both in Taimis scientific research to keep its body going, and in Kas' mesmer skills to simulate a more natural lifelike state, so within that Joels voice has also been so carefully maintained.
In the later years of current plot this has lead to a bit of an off-tone though, it'd be really noticeable if you put its original voice next to the current one but it's not noticeable without a direct comparison.
13. How would they feel about you (their creator)?
Oh Joel would find me so boring, maybe engaging for a conversation or two but man is it far more outgoing and exciting than I am. I'm very soft and inactive compared to Joel lmao.
