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quest reward: tsakesh gets microaggressed

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WELL SINCE YOU ASKED! :D what's the best way to get to know your d&d OCs?? do you have a collection of info about some of your favorites somewhere? a series of memes? writing pieces? I'd love to have a good starting point to get to know them!

AHH HI HEY HELLO FIRST OF ALL I LOVE YOU FOR ASKING!! I wish I had a good, like-- something succinct to answer with, lmao. I have an OC About Page on my art blog, but it needs updating and isn't accessible on mobile :') I've been meaning to do pinned posts and/or make a carrd or something to intro all my OCs, I just need to get around to it... and like, since all I ever draw or talk about is my OCs I've been meaning to make it a point to prioritize it haha, so, I think that'll be my immediate post holidays project 🤔

as it currently stands, I tag everything related to my OCs both on main and on blujaydoodles with that OC's name, including answered asks and memes and stuff. I also keep up running '[oc name] insp' tags for everyone on main but idk if those would be of interest to anyone but me lmao, they're mostly like, vibes and shitposts and/or aesthetics that remind me of that OC in some way

for now, aside from that about page, I can at least link to their tags (on here, cause I reblog everything from the art blog anyway) :3

Elyss is my water genasi ranger! she's spent half of her life feeling isolated from and unwanted by other people and the other half of her life living alone in the woods, and has spent the entire campaign being surveilled and influenced and betrayed by forces outside her control absolutely constantly, so she has a lot of Issues around love and trust and belonging and control, and a lot of trauma that her campaign's circumstances just keep compounding :') also she's a kill machine, and also she's my longest-running dnd character and still my favorite, my beloved girl

Idri is my forest gnome rogue! she's an arcane trickster whose dad wanted her to go to Wizard College but who opted to join the circus instead because studying tomes all day sounded boring, and when her mentor at the circus died she quit to join an adventuring guild looking for fame and excitement (and to just kinda opt out of processing her grief entirely oops lol no thanks bye) Her campaign is dead in the water so I don't talk about her as much anymore but she's still my lil sunbeam and I lov her ;n;

Juniper is my human druid! She comes from a long line of druids; specifically her family are traditionally the village Wise Woman, but she ran away from home to apprentice with cartographers instead because she's a big nerd (and struggles with suffering and mortality and doesn't think she'd make a very good full time village healer at all tbh) In her campaign she's the only one without, like, Severe Backstory Trauma and she's a mom friend with a martyr complex trying to solve everyone's problems while being wildly out of her depth to relate to anybody else, so she's anxious all the time :'). Also she's FINALLY dating the monk after like two real life years of obliviously mutual pining <3

Aubree is my halfling fighter! She's a lil bit of a roughneck, but fiercely good-hearted; blunt, loud, picks fights she knows she can't win if it's worth making a stand on principle for what's right. She also has a boar called Truffles, whom she found and adopted as an abandoned runt and now rides (and dotes on, that's her best friend). She also died three sessions into her campaign, but she got better, so the story around all of that is, you know, The Whole Thing this campaign is about and oh man it's been A Lot

Melliwyk is my gnome wizard/ artificer! At the beginning of her campaign, the art of creating magic items was eons-lost in her world, so, her whole thing was trying to rediscover or reinvent that process. Now her campaign is mostly about unraveling ancient mysteries (good! her whole jam!!) and uncovering deeply evil and complex conspiracies (wuh oh, not so good!). Her whole thing is she wants to learn EVERYTHING and try EVERYTHING and her originally intended vibe is 'low wis chaotic mad scientist who is blithely unconcerned with risks or consequences', which, she's had a lot of character growth and gained a lot of depth but that's still the heart of her as a concept. Also she has Magical Narcolepsy as the result of a failed experiment, so she spends a lot of time collapsing into an ungainly heap or being carried around in someone else's backpack

Nyssa is my satyr warlock! She's one of my older dnd OCs but there's not as much to say about her because I've never been able to play her regularly :') She's a sweet, gentle creature from a small and closeknit hedonist utopian satyr flock in the woods, so when I have played her it's been a lot of playing with the dissonance in 'gentle pacifist whose warlock magic is mostly aggressive' and 'a satyr trying to navigate Society, with like, clothes and money and (as far as she can tell) no sex for some reason??'

Felix is my NEW BOY that I fixated on instantly despite only getting to play him like. three times. and his campaign probably being dead before it started :') he's a forest gnome inquisitive rogue who loves Finding Stuff Out; he spends most of his time people watching and eavesdropping and taking it upon himself to investigate mysteries just out of curiosity. he also loves small animals and is friends with, in particular, most rats, cats, and small birds

Quick n dirty rundown of other OCs I talk about significantly less, for various reasons: Kethri, my utter sweetheart halfling bard who has found herself thrust backwards in time and, to her dismay, into a position of significant social power for reasons that are still unclear; Tsakesh, my khajiit archer who just wanted to explore some dwemer ruins and examine some weird devices but ended up wrapped up in some daedric end of the world bullshittery; Ambrose, my half-elf bard who is a poet, linguist, and ancient historian studying the ruins of a lost people who all mysteriously vanished at once; and honorable mention to Indigo, my gnome circle of stars druid pirate who's only a one shot character but whom I keep drawing and thinkin about anyway because they're cool 😌

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my fiance and I got to play our Skyrim characters in an in-person oneshot this weekend, so I made paper minis!

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what are some of the inspirations for your dnd ocs?

OH interesting question!! Although I think my answers are mostly not very interesting, ahaha ^^;; Elyss was my first 5e character-- I'd always wanted to play a ranger! It's hard to draw a straight line to any specific inspiration there tbh; being interested in animals and the outdoors, wilderness survival, and archery all just happen to be things that have been a part of what I'm like as a person for nearly as long as I can remember, so playing a very classic flavored ranger was a natural extension of all of that. A somewhat more superficial but much more specific detail is that I was inspired to make her a water genasi by the way light creates patterns through ripples underwater: when I found out what a genasi was, I thought it'd be really cool if a water genasi had skin that looked like that.

IDRI was inspired by me wondering about sleight of hand magic in a world with real literal magic-- what role would that play, how would the setting shape the staging and patter for the performance, what would the response be from laypeople and from legitimate practitioners? Then I realized that would be a great backstory for a rogue, and that 'performer in a circus' would give you access to nearly every single rogue feature without having to have a criminal background, and I got really excited by the concept and built it out immediately

Earlier in October I posted about Juniper being partly inspired by Milo Thatch from Atlantis: The Lost Empire :D Otherwise she came from me thinking about motivations for adventuring that aren't either trauma or treasure driven; I wanted her to be adventuring because she wants to, so I made a mapmaker who would be equally excited to travel anywhere the story or the other PCs' personal quests take us

Aubree was built entirely around 'what if... Small sized fighter riding a boar', hahah. Nyssa is mostly just inspired by-- and an outlet for-- my long-running love of satyrs, and my own culture/ worldbuilding for them; her voice and cadence are inspired by Evanna Lynch's performance of Luna Lovegood. Admittedly my halfling bard Kethri was mostly me going 'okay what's this party likely to need 🤔' because her campaign has a lot of first time players ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ambrose and Melliwyk were both initially inspired more than anything by their campaign settings! In both cases I was sort of in a '... I really cannot be in another campaign,' and then the DM was like 'here's the overview for my rich and intriguing setting and where the plot might take you' and I was like WELP!! guess I have to design a character around how badly I wanna sink my teeth into all of that!!! On a slightly similar note, Tsakesh is my Skyrim boi and he was mostly inspired by the way that I like to play Skyrim ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Most of the inspiration for Felix is literally just 'what are all the things I like or that would make me happy to play' tbh lmao. Rogues are my favorite class, so he's a rogue! I love animals and love that dnd lets you talk to animals, so he's actually going to do that! I love lore and solving mysteries, so that's gonna be his whole thing! etc etc.

A tl;dr answer, which feels like a really boring one, is that a lot of the inspiration behind almost all of my OCs is just... my own thoughts on worldbuilding, or race/ culture, or some other thing specific to the character 😅 I'm very much more inspired by Aesthetics and Concepts and Ideas than anything specific I could say 'oh, yeah, This Character' or 'This Story' or whatever. Like, Mel is mad scientist flavored, but not in a way that's direct enough or intentional enough that I could say 'I was inspired By This Or That', you know?

Anyway, thank you for asking!!

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Stealth archers with sweet tooths bond over beloved cultural hot beverages, featuring turkish coffee (khajiiti coffee?) and masala chai

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what are the subclasses of your DnD ocs?

Elyss is an unearthed arcana Hunter ranger-- her favored enemies are monstrosities and aberrations, which were the two things most responsible for everything terrible in our first arc. She's also got one(1) level of rogue and is unlikely to take that any further in this campaign, but if she did she'd go Assassin

Idri is an Arcane Trickster rogue! Part of her backstory is that her dad wanted her to pursue magic, so she had some access to wizard resources in the form of 'here will you at least take these notes and think about it', lol.

Juniper is a Circle of Dreams druid-- very recently re-subclassed from Circle of Land (Forest). Her family history is entwined with the fey, and I probably would have started her out as Circle of Dreams if it had existed at the time, but actually I really like how this shift has worked out as a part of her story :)

Aubree is a Cavalier fighter! Xanathar's came out pretty shortly after she hit level three (originally Champion fighter) so I got to swap her out almost right away. THIS is the newer subclass I was the MOST excited about because no other class/subclass fits one of my character's personality and intended playstyle SO perfectly! You'd think WotC built it just for her, haha

Melliwyk is a Transmutation wizard :D Her pursuit was in crafting magic items, and a lot of transmutation spells deal with (temporarily) imbuing mundane objects with magic. She's also got two levels in Artificer now that we have rediscovered the lost art of artificing, but all the subclass features involve A Thing You've Built and she hasn't had a chance to do any of those yet, lmao

Nyssa is a Pact of the Chain fey warlock-- her familiar is a sprite named Calyx

Ambrose is a College of Eloquence bard, and my halfling bard whom I still haven't drawn yet, Kethri, is College of Lore

Kiele is a Wild Magic sorcerer specializing in fire magic

Tsakesh is an Eldritch Knight fighter, BUT I'm thinking of rebuilding him completely with a couple rogue levels for extra skills, and I might look at resubclassing him to Arcane Archer or something instead 🤔

Felix is an Inquisitive rogue specifically because they're cool and I like them and have always wanted to play one :D

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Tsakesh!

Full Name: Tsakesh Gender and Sexuality: male, bi Pronouns: he/ him Ethnicity/Species: suthay khajiit Birthplace and Birthdate: somewhere in Anequina, Elsweyr; his birthday is the 12th of Sun’s Dawn (February-- one nice thing about tes astrology is that he’s a good fit for both the in world sign of The Lovers AND the irl equivalent, Aquarius) Guilty Pleasures: talking circles around someone dumber than he is, catching them in double entendres or tricking them into agreeing with something ridiculous Phobias: ghosts and deep water (totally unafraid of any other kind of undead, just very spooked by ghosts in particular) What They Would Be Famous For: with any luck, the discovery of a new Dwemer ruin, or some kind of research breakthrough on Dwemer technology What They Would Get Arrested For: being a khajiit in Skyrim, being in the vicinity of Chaotic Asshole party members who don’t understand how much effort he specifically puts into not getting arrested as a khajiit in Skyrim 😒 he’s not actually lawful good, but he personally never breaks laws and goes out of his way to be as visibly friendly and polite and as disarming as possible as a defense mechanism, so he’s not getting arrested for any actual fair reason OC You Ship Them With: You know, I feel like I could see him and Ambrose as a thing 🤔 that’s just a gut check tho, Ambrose is new enough I don’t have a clear idea of what that’d actually be like, haha. he and Melliwyk would actually get along EXTREMELY well I think but I can’t imagine it as a ship, I think there’d be a mutual lack of attraction there for one thing ^^;; OC Most Likely To Murder Them: hmm. Probably Kiele, I feel like he’d hate her and it’d probably be mutual, but she’s 100% the more aggro of the two Favorite Movie/Book Genre: Mythology/ folklore, mystery-- although I feel like mysteries written by non-khajiit he’d find annoyingly unsubtle Least Favorite Movie/Book Cliche: Chekov’s Gun. if your story is gonna just telegraph its foreshadowing then what fun is that?? Talents and/or Powers: Finding, dismantling, disarming, and rebuilding mechanisms/ traps/ locks/ etc. He got into adventuring specifically after encountering a really elaborate dungeon trap that nearly killed him and he was like *O* and started studying traps and dungeons in fascination Why Someone Might Love Them: he’s just! a good good boi!! he very intentionally curates his behavior to be the most appealing and least threatening to whomever he’s dealing with to stay on everyone’s good side, but he’s also genuinely really kind, friendly, and curious about other people. he’s also clever and witty, so he’s fun to chat with. Why Someone Might Hate Them: he’s very careful about saying what he means, especially if he feels it might put him at any kind of threat, so he can come across as disingenuous. He thinks he’s smarter than most of the people around him. He’s inclined to weasel his way around issues with cunning, so a more straightforward person might view him as a coward, either morally (kissing ass to an evil person’s face, with the intention of dealing with them in subtler ways later) or literally (talking or sneaking his way out of a fight) How They Change: this campaign didn’t really go long enough for him to experience major change? he’s got Opinions about daedra now (They Are Bad) Why You Love Them: HE’S! SO GOOD!! he’s a LOT of fun to roleplay, because he’s smarter and sharper than I am but somehow, magically, I am still able to roleplay that? he’s sort of snarky but also just genuinely good and kind, and trying to do right by people without drawing too much attention to himself and getting murdered in a spooky basement in every godsforsaken town we go to

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