My character Grey from an evil D&D campaign: former warlock of Eberron's Devourer of Dreams, present warlock (and husband) of Count Strahd von Zarovich.
He was pretty angsty about losing his wings (fallen aasimar here), and absolutely in denial about being kind of a vampire now (thematic for this year's art fight!)
Generated Grey using Artflow, then put the resulting image through StarryAI and the result is actually really nice???? A good general reference for younger Grey if I ever wanted to commission art of him anyway!
69 questions ask! *rolls up sleeves* Faine: 5, 10, 17. Frosty: 5, 9, 19. Grey: 15, 17, 19. Hexie: 15, 18, 20. Pick and choose, there are many questions xD
I will answer all of these! Thanks so much, this makes me so happy. <3 My Wednesday children! Some of them I don't talk about as much, but I love them all.
Faine
5. is there something they want to be known for?
In their city, a lot of people mistrust magic users or have grievances against them. Faine wants to help repair the rift between mages and non-mages: they listen to what non-mages have to say, try to help out people in the lower-class sections of the city where they have less access to magic, and one time had the entirely genius idea to leave their weapons behind when they went to an anti-mage gathering (spoiler alert: it was a terrible idea.)
In short, they want to be known as a magic user who cares about things beyond cultivating their own power.
10. what inspired this character’s creation?
Faine took me a while. When my friend talked about running this campaign, I initially planned to play a himbo rune knight. But I wasn't really 'feeling' that as we approached session zero. So I jotted down a bunch of vague concepts I was interested in playing, and 'drow bladesinger whose family split over this new anti-magic sentiment' was the one that most strongly captured my attention. The idea that they had a child they were trying to protect and that their brother almost killed them in a duel were things I only added in session zero, when we had to invent three rumours for our characters (two true, one false.)
17. they’re crying—what did it take to make them cry?
Faine doesn't cry easily. I think seeing their daughter Lydia for the first time in a couple of years would have done it, though! They care about her more than anything. Faine wears a locket (which doubles as a periapt of wound closure) that has a little portrait of her in it, painted by Lydia's artist mother.
For maybe two years Faine remained in their home city of Oakneath while Lydia and her mother lived in the capital (where the campaign takes place.) But now they have been reunited, yay!
Frostwarden
5. is there something they want to be known for?
Being a skilled defender of the less powerful! It's what the frostwardens are all about, and Frosty really wants to live up to that name.
9. when in their life were they most scared?
When they left home to travel to Strixhaven. It was a big step going out into this big college environment full of strangers, and they weren't sure how they would be received! In some ways this scared them more than the time some of their clan was disintegrated by a beholder...social anxiety woo!!!
19. what sparks genuine, unadulterated rage in them?
People being mean to animals. >:(
Grey
15. is there something that never fails to make them laugh?
T's terrible dress sense. A couple sessions back she was wearing a pink leotard and Grey, Klav and Oz were Mean Girl judging her. There was much snickering.
17. they’re crying—what did it take to make them cry?
Grey doesn't like feeling powerless. He feels that his whole life, he's been an instrument of some entity or another, never able to make his own decisions. The one time he's cried in-game, a ghostly psychic told him that he was an "attack dog [with] broken wings", and that his life would never be his own. He cried for a long while about that.
19. what sparks genuine, unadulterated rage in them?
People abandoning or mistreating their kids. He would very much like to see Linari's parents punished for casting this vulnerable young child out on her own, and poor Green-Eyes fell through the cracks and was lost in the domains because there was nobody who cared for her! His angelic guide wanting him to kill a child was also the final straw that pushed Grey into making a bargain to break away from the justice archon.
Hexaline
15. is there something that never fails to make them laugh?
Bubbles. She finds humour and joy in how they bounce about and pop!
18. what dish brings back the best memories for them?
Not really a dish but: chocolate was the first thing she tasted after she regained her sense of taste. She was so emotional about that she cried, chocolate will forever remind her of this, and also it affected her so much that now her teeth turn into chocolate when she pulls them out to turn into eerie tokens.
20. what attracts them to someone—platonically and/or romantically, anything counts.
There's a very low bar, they really just need to be nice to her. Her whole life, her interactions with humanoids haven't extended beyond taking them to see her mothers, or the small bargains she made with them herself. The people she immediately dubbed her 'best friends' were the first people she met who were kind to her without trying to get anything out of her.
Artflow generated some really pretty visuals for teenage and adult Grey! I've been having a lot of Feelz (tm) about younger Grey/Lysander (such a sad lonely lad!!!), so that was fun.
After last session, Grey now has bite marks on his neck that he doesn't remember receiving...but surely he just got carried away with Escher and didn't notice them, right?????*
*(Strahd bit him and then altered his memories, but he is trying to avoid even considering this possibility- because the idea of leaving one awful warlock pact for one even worse is Too Much!!)
My horrible warlock son will be switching patrons if he survives the current encounter. I'm very excited!
He has changed the most of my characters! Except possibly Astrophelle. Bottom right, we have his original form as a protector aasimar (his eyes were silver when not all glowy.)
Bottom left is his current design, as a fallen aasimar. He serves Eberron's Devourer of Dreams, but after finding himself in Ravenloft the entity cannot reach him as easily.
And so, he made a bargain with Strahd to try and forge a new pact to free himself from his previous one.
Top left is him, but as an undead warlock. And top right was me experimenting with ideas for a dread form. I like that in his original form his wings were pretty and glowy, in his current form the wings are dark and bound by black chains when manifested (not pictured), and in this hopeful eventual dread form he will have wings that are no longer chained, but still shadowy and messed up.
(also we should level up after the current adventure. I'm going to take a level in fighter!)
