Fennec Quinn
Pic 1 : ✨Cunning and Stunning✨ | @jadenite Pic 2 : Shady | AlenaGAdams I commissioned this artist through Etsy and there shop has been removed. I have been trying to find their socials/ways to contact them so if you recognize them please DM me! The only thing I can find up is their fiverr so I tagged that on the photo Pic 3 : Ice Princess | @basedmoniart Pic 4 : Cozy | MAGUREIISAN
Fennec has been an ever evolving character since her conception over 10 years ago. In many ways, this character has grown up with me - her character arc evolving into things much more mature as I grew, her motivations shifting as my own ideals were challenged, and her flaws being handled with much more care and respect as I came to find comfort in her imperfection.
Originally she was an OC that would occasionally feature in embarrassing middle school fanfictions - a complete Mary Sue who was every bit as obnoxious as I was. Then she became the center of an elaborate fantasy tale that I continue to write for nobody's consumption but my own. And eventually, through a fateful invitation to play Dungeons & Dragons with two coworkers and a friend of a friend she became my first D&D character.
✨Cunning and Stunning✨
This portrait is how I picture her in my fantasy novel. She wears flowers in her hair that match her twins crown as a show of solidarity. Technically the crown belongs to her - a symbol to indicate her birth right into the Monarchy and her ability to manipulate more than a single element - but she's always hated authority and had no desire to sit on a throne. She gave her crown to her twin, who is only First Rank, as a protest to power based labelling, knowing full well Zedran belongs in politics much more than she does.
The sweater she's wearing belongs to their Head of Calvary, Aries Astro. She's consistently stealing his clothes, much to his and her father's protest.
Shady
This was the first commission I ever got of Fen and was for the start of our D&D campaign. A large part of her story pre-RPG includes an unexpected companion who finds himself as her shadow. I had to rethink of her in D&D terms, and my DM was gracious enough to incorporate a lot of my ideas.
This was the birth of her as a shadow sorceress raised in a thieves guild, a vastly different beginning than her former royal upbringing in the land of the fae.
Her personality transferred between the mediums, though she was much more solitary here than I had intended, and some of that self-isolation eventually trickled it's way back to the source. I find my current version of Fennec to be sometimes painfully independent, in large part to the events in this campaign.
Ice Princess
This commission was from a portion of our campaign that the setting just really resonated with me. I loved the imagery of sailing on the frozen sea, plus she had recently gotten her furry companion, Omen, based on my own cat Buri. Her shadowy companion remains just a silly little guy, every watchful, and thankfully, not fighting for control in this moment.
Cozy
There was a while I had tinkered with coercion being a prominent ability among the fae. Specifically, the fae being able to control their human companions through verbal command. I had toyed with the idea of Fen having an amplified version of the ability, being able to coerce even her fellow fae folk, and what punishments for such a thing might include. The most obvious solution was a muzzle, and for a while there were iterations of Fen that had been entirely mute - muzzled since the first time she had exuded power over a fellow royal. Ultimately, I abandoned the idea, figuring the elemental abilities to already be a lot.
This commission was supposed to be a muzzled version of Fen once she had made it into the human realm.
I do still like this train of thought, I'm just not sure where, when, and how I may fit it into my stories.
