#sunbat-commander

[mystery-salad]

@sunbat-commander we NEED to discuss your impulse around competing with Joel before you keel over, it's gonna see you as an easy mark bro!!! Don't do it! It's a trap!!!

[kerra-and-company]

🖊 for whoever you've been thinking about a lot lately!

Oh, who have I been thinking about lately...several people, honestly, but you get some Maya facts today because I specifically went and took screenshots of her recently! :D

🖊 - Maya and her little brother Kieran lose their parents pretty young and violently (thanks to Joko), and Maya picked up a lot of odd jobs to support the two of them after that. A lot of said jobs relied on her working with her raptor Blue to carry messages or make deliveries, but she also participated in races on the regular (and still does sometimes, though she no longer has to do so). They were also able to get some outside support in Amnoon.

Also worth noting--Maya spent a lot of this time absolutely hounding the heels of any Shadows agents she could even kind of find because she knew her parents worked with them. She was both trying to figure out the details of why her family had been targeted specifically and to give the Order a piece of her mind for letting it happen. And she succeeded--several times over, actually. She'd established a kind of tense agreement with them that she could do her own thing as long as it didn't directly get in their way, and she knew Kito pretty well as her point of contact. That agreement turned into (temporary) full allyship when Balthazar began wreaking havoc, and Maya was able to use her specific skillset to help deal with the rogue god. She's one of the first people Kerra & co meet upon getting to Elona, actually.

[mistswalker]

Heya! 11, 15, 16, 23 for the fandom ask !

Hello! Thank you for the ask!!

11: if you're a writer or artist, what fic or piece of art are you proud of making? I'm so proud to be a part of writing and designing for Hope's Legacy with @tricksterpale ;w; It's such a massive scale long-term project fic that we're only recently reaching a point where we're cleaning it up for sharing in order, but I'm so proud of my contributions toward it over the years! I can't wait to share it with you all <3

15: the character that always makes you smile There's so many!! And all in different ways for different reasons lol. The most recent ones are R'tchikk and Gladium, Myrun, and Yao tho tbh

16: a tiny detail in canon that you want more people to appreciate

OH GOD, what a pandora's box of a question LOL

Here, I'll curse you all with this intriguing (but kinda morbid) detail -- I love that guardian magic is based around light, and the combo fields it creates are "Light Fields", and that the other classes' skills we see that create "Light Fields" are usually healing/protection based. BUT. That when you kill an enemy with a "Light" based skill? Their death animation is the same as electric shock/lightning. It just makes me wonder about the implications of how "light magic" works to heal. and how it works to kill. And how linked those two concepts are intrinsically.

23: the fandom you're curious about because of a mutual I'm pretty easily pulled into fandoms I'm curious about so my mutuals have dragged me into a few over the years lol. However, the one that's stayed a curiosity the longest (mostly bc i just havent had the wherewithal to get into a new game series in a while) is the Persona series.

[dollhearted-daemon]

Hi!!! May I request 🥵 🔥 😍 🔥 💞 Maelgwyn?

MAELGWYN (he/any)

🥵 : Is your OC perceived as physically attractive to others? Is it at first glance or is it something that takes more time to reach fruition?

oh he's so hot to most people. literally everything about him at first glance is something "taboo" to want. the scandalous kind of sexy.

🔥 : What’s a surefire way to make your OC get flustered?

Genuine compliments get him so much. Calling him cute will either get you murdered right then or REALLY GET him. It depends on who says it. and what mood hes in.

😍 : What does your OC find irresistible in others?

Maelgwyn LOVES people who can match his energy in combat. He has a bit of a thing for people in places of authority or power. Enjoys when people are taller than him as well but thats not a requirement, he's so used to being the tallest person in the room.

if someone is all three????? he'll pass out maybe. not really but HOOUH,,,, hes got a crush.

💞 : Do they treat sex casually or do they view it as something with a lot of emotional weight?

Extremely Casually, except he's lying to himself about that. He treats sex like a very very casual thing, but deep down he is so down bad, so fucking lonely, he hardcore yearns for someone sex with him can mean something to.

[ASK GAME]

[kerra-and-company]

Hii! Im a little late but I'd like to request a 💦👀 🧸 💌 for Cyp :3

Hi hi!! You may have been slightly late but I'm way later alsdjf, apologies!!

💦 : Is your OC’s attractiveness based on looks or a more intangible aura?

Main canon: looks as well as the fact that he has a very Mysterious Vibe. If you're into the guy just chilling in the back not talking to anyone because he's hot and you're curious, Cyp may be the person for you!

Commander AU: looks and confidence. The guy gives the impression that he knows what he's doing.

👀 : Does your OC believe they are attractive? Do they use that to their advantage?

Main canon: he is basically ??? on this point. Attractive? Him? What? And he wouldn't have any desire to leverage that even if he did believe that it'd get him somewhere.

Commander AU: he's self-aware enough to recognize that people do find him attractive on a decently regular basis, and he will use that if he needs to, though he doesn't enjoy doing so.

🧸 : Into public displays of affection or are they more reserved?

Main canon: he's mainly just awkward about it but doesn't dislike them. He probably won't initiate them most of the time but has zero problem with them happening.

Commander AU: he's more reserved about it specifically because he's concerned about people using his personal relationships against him. Without that concern, he'd be much more open to PDA.

💌 : How would they plan a romantic evening for a significant other?

Main canon: would probably cook/make something basic himself and set up something understated but intimate. Best at planning dates that are either at home or are along the lines of a picnic.

Commander AU: tries to make something himself but overthinks the situation so much that his cooking skills abandon him and he sets the kitchen on fire somehow. After that, he tries to plan romantic evenings that involve grabbing food to go from somewhere else. He's a fan of stargazing.

[kerra-and-company]

What does Ialyn want to do when she gets older? Anything that she would absolutely hate to be doing? Aside from making things blow up, what are some of her other hobbies? What would've happened if she'd stayed in the NMC?

Hi hi, thanks a bunch for asking about my small fire plant!! :D Let's go through all of these!

Ia doesn't really know what she wants to do, and that starts to bother her as she gets older. There's never been any pressure to choose a specific path, but her twin brother never really had a problem with that, and it bugs her that she does. She knows she enjoys using her magic and is proud of her skill there. She knows she has some talent in engineering but isn't sure to what end she wants to use that. She doesn't want to touch diplomacy or politics with a ten-foot pole, which narrows down the field a bit but not much. I think the idea of learning about the flow of magic in Tyria would be fascinating to her, but the idea of actually studying to learn it would be harder.

Pff, she does like to explode things, for sure--more so when she's super little, funnily enough, but some of it does stick with her as she grows. And she does know how to construct explosives, too. But as for other hobbies, she can play a few instruments at least passably well (like a couple basic tunes), but she's best at saxophone. She likes to collect rocks of various shapes and sizes. When she gets older, she starts participating in fighting tournaments and makes quite a name for herself there. And she enjoys playing with her fernhound Andy :)

If she'd stayed in the NMC...it would have gone Badly, to say the least. The sylvari who'd engineered her kidnapping in the first place intended to use her more as something to hurt her parents (as well as Cyprian) with, but in the world where said people somehow weren't able to get her out of there, that would have evolved in turning her into a weapon against her family. And she would have been a very deadly weapon.

[kerra-and-company]

📂📂📂 for anyone!

For sure for sure!! :D

📂 - Rel is the type of person who'll walk into Tyrian Starbucks and just...get the weirdest coffee orders possible. He's either ordering one with way way too much sugar or one with like. 15 shots of espresso. Or both. He's always very nice about it and never rude to the staff, but it concerns people a bit.

📂 - We never got a full explanation for what the NMC were doing in Maguuma during HoT/how exactly they ended up there, since anet cut pretty much all of that out. I think a lot of it had to do with a legitimate and general desire to remove something that they'd enjoy following even less than the Dream (Mordremoth was very much their enemy as well), but I also think Faolain may have used Mordremoth as a common enemy and rallying point in a last-ditch attempt to not lose total control over the Court.

📂 - You can canonically craft dragonsblood weapons that aren't specifically spears. Since those would mainly (if not only?) have been particularly useful in the fight against Kralkatorrik, I imagine several Pact weapons specialists putting their heads together with the Exalted forgemasters in the lead-up to the battle in Thunderhead Keep. They're quite happy to help but also mildly perturbed that spears alone weren't satisfactory.

[mystery-salad]

📂📂📂 for anyone you dont get to talk about much!

📂 Joel can't get drunk and absolutely uses this to grift people at Belcher's Bluff. It makes a lot of money like that.

📂 Call has a tendency to actually beat someone's ass if they make her mad enough, and the line between annoyed and pissed is VERY thin for her. Braham has learned to spot the signs and when he sees her tip over the line while he's around he picks her up so she can't run at whatever possed her off. Not an easy feat even for him, since she's made of very fucking dense wood and is a bit above max height for sylvari, but he manages!

📂 Ruan's eyes glow in the dark. This makes midnight snacks very alarming for their girlfriend sometimes :3c