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current list of my tavs, who are all connected in some way despite sometimes (but not always) being from different universes:
1) Esker (eh-skerr) #esker tag
- half wood elf
- agender, he/him, lesbian
- circle of the moon druid, outlander
- motivated by: kinship, peace
- relations:
he and Yarran share the same father though Esker stayed with his runaway mother in the city who died early on (likely due to the lines of work she had no choice but to participate in), leading him to venture to the woods to meet his mentor
he and Karlach have a doomed romance; i.e., can't be together; hurt by being unable to be with her and tormented by his regrets, Esker spends a night with Mizora, creating a rift between himself and Wyll and Karlach, and garnering pity from other party members. this in part dooms his sought after kinship
Esker is rather impulsive because of his unsocialized background, which sometimes undoes his efforts toward peace
he and Gale are best friends, and he can understand all of Esker's regrets
- fun facts:
he has limited understanding of gender roles and expectations given his outlander background; he is very confused why people call him "she" all the time. he simply took on the pronouns of his mentor, and they work fine for him.
he is baffled by the pursuit of wealth, material things, and private ownership. this gets him in trouble sometimes.
he does not have a tattoo, but rather it is naturally made paint he applies every morning, in the shape of his mentor's own tattoo; through this process he honors him; this is very opposite to Yarran's tattoo
he has not and will not ingest a single tadpole, viewing it to be against nature; however, he has no ill will toward his Illithid protector
on this note, he is very moral and selfless though not idiotically so; he will do what he needs to do, but often feels self doubt and regret as though he's in a too fast-paced world; the death of Halsin and permanence of the Shadow Curse haunt him every day
2) Yarran (yah-rin) #yarran tag
- zariel tiefling [half wood elf] (+ part illithid)
- male, he/him, gay
- wildheart barbarian, soldier/mercenary
- motivated by: fear, then love
relations:
he and Esker share the same father, who Yarran unfortunately stayed with most of his youth (left around 14), suffering horrid abuse and the murder of his mother before he swore to get strong, and became a mercenary
he and Gale have a committed if somewhat negatively enabling relationship, but they get better
he and Astarion are very good friends, which is funny because Esker severely dislikes him
- fun facts
he has a soft spot for children, being that he was severely abused as a child. he will do stupid things to help children, but will also tell it to them straight since it's a hard world; Mol gets a kick out of this guy
he was actually relieved to find out Astarion is a vampire; he would not tell anyone this, but he is incredibly uneasy around elves because of his father
Yarran suffered extreme anti-tiefling sentiments as a child; his father, a wood elf, forcibly had vines tattooed up his neck and face, stating that he hoped "nature drags you back into the dirt;" he lives with this marking as well the guilt of, in his view, getting his mother killed for the crime of his being born - the effects of the illithid parasite on this tattoo are poet and tragic
though he is not as connected to nature as Esker, he feels a sort of call to it to return after being in cities for most of his adult life; he sees nature as a hand to cradle him which he wants desperately to nuzzle against, but fears it will crush him like his father tried to
his ambition is rooted in his fear, and his fear and ambition grow even larger once he falls in love with Gale and finds friends in the party to protect; both he and Gale stand on a precipice - but ultimately, their ambition shifts to focus on one another as they fall deeper in love, and they pull one another back from the ruin of the Crown of Karsus and illithid transformation
3) Aisling (ash-ling) #aisling tag
- drow
- male, he/him, bisexual
- college of swords bard, urchin
- motivated by: profit/power & pleasure
- relations:
he is of lolth-sworn background, but after framing his father (leading to his death) for his abusive mother's murder, he went topside. here he learned to be a bard, combining cutthroat drow upbringing with it to serve as a valuable cover for the gang of"druidic," nomadic criminals Esker and Yarran's father leads - before he too ran from them...robbing them all the while
he and Astarion have...a relationship. they screw, they have a mutually pleasurable feeding situation. they think it's a lot more casual than it is; spoiler: it's not casual, and Astarion's fate has never been more in Aisling's hands
basically only Astarion and, to a degree, Shadowheart like Aisling due to his amorality; however, his cult-like personality ensures most of the party backs him
fun facts
not everything about drows is true - except maybe a little, because Aisling does enjoy killing; it is not exactly an urge and he won't foolishly rush into battle, but he has no qualms about getting his hands dirty, and is rather opportunistic about others' suffering at the best of times, and sadomasochistic at the worst of times
despite all the roughness, Aisling does have his softness. he is snarky and rude but also a touch hilarious. he performs well, tells stories well and likes to tell them, and genuinely loves music - and often silly songs and styles at that (he perhaps coined the heavy metal voice paired with cutesy lyrics); he simply doesnt have as much patience for others doing so, liking the spotlight
he does not often step in to stop conflict. often, he is an enabler of conflict. for this reason, the grove ends up a massacre and he urges Wyll to kill an angered Karlach (and helps). he keeps Wyll in his rather lawless party by manipulating the man's sense of self worth after the murder of Karlach, lowering it as he gets Wyll to see himself as a hypocrite sworn to a devil and therefore a devil (and later monstrous half Illithid) himself. he too allows Shadowheart to murder Lae'zel, as well as kill the Nightsong in order to become a Dark Justiciar.
he is not particularly religious because his mother was so devout to Lolth. he does not forsake Lolth but in no way worships; he wears the markings of spiders (and respects female authority much more than male) as the large spiders native to the Underdark were the scarce few friends he could find, for his magic practicing mother had potions of animal speaking always on hand
his mother would put him through spells of psychic torture and use him for experimentation, going as far as to claim never to have done anything to him. his father was complicit in this, and Aisling was half mad when he ended them. because of the psychic torture, he has frequent nightmares he must keep quiet about, but also has an advantage over the tadpole; he and Astarion bond over their unseen scars from cruel masters
4) Odesa (oh-deh-suh) #odesa tag
5) Bryndis (brihn-diss) #bryndis tag
