OKAY SO THIS ONE IS NAMED ONDEGA
he is a rakshasa (from the dungeons and dragons universe) so he’s a shapeshifter but his true form resembles a tiger with reversed hands. that’s how you can tell if someone is a rakshasa pretending to be someone else- they’ll look exactly like them but their hands will be switched.
ANYWAY he’s a demon from hell and is known as The Collector because he used to go around killing people and stealing their hearts to keep in jars (like the christina perri song). he’s mellowed out since then and is now a lot less evil, but he would never admit that.
he lugs around a cool rapier, but he almost never uses it, instead relying on his powerful magic to defeat any enemies. “wait so why does he have a rapier?” i hear you ask and there are two reasons:
1. the rapier once belonged to a famed rakshasa slayer. ondega killed that dude and parades around with it to spite the guy
2. because rapiers are cool
there’s a whole backstory with how he met his wife but that’s not important. for now here’s some pictures of him:
OKAY AND THIS ONE IS NAMED GWENDOLYN
gwen is a drow elf, which means she comes from an evil subterranean elf race that worships a big ol spider goddess. but long story short, she did NOT like hanging out with the drow because they suck and so she ran away to the surface world.
she is the captain of a pirate ship called The Black Ram and her crew consists of weirdos all over the world. one of which is her first mate (and husband!!) ondega.
she has very sensitive skin, because she grew up underground, so she wears cool glasses, hats, and gloves. on especially sunny days, she wields a fancy parasol.
she’s a little lady (one of the shortest people on her ship) but she packs the most powerful punch out of all of them. she uses magic bolstered by an amulet containing blood of the spider god her culture worships (!!!) to lay seige to any that oppose her and keep her crew in line.
here are some more pictures of her:
okay it’s important to know that drow society (in my dnd universe) is ruled by matriarchial families. back in the day, gwen’s mother wanted power. so she married into a wealthy family despite being from a less-influential family herself.
how did she convince this powerful family to let her marry their son?
she had acquired an amulet containing blood of the great spider goddess (hmmmmm….) which are pretty stinkin rare and allow their owners to perform powerful magic. the family, impressed by her magic, allowed her to marry into their family.
drow weddings are more like a business transactions mixed with a magical pact. influential families want to gain favor of the spider goddess and have her bless their unions. so, when they marry, they’ll offer a sacrifice to her.
they take their marriages SERIOUSLY down there. they don’t even have a word for divorce because it simply doesn’t exist.
now. there’s something i must tell you about rakshasas in the dnd universe. they’re immortal, in that when killed, they don’t die permanently (not usually, anyway). their souls are sent back to hell where they are reborn through a slow, painful process that can take a very long time. when they’re reborn, they have to start all over but retain memories of their previous life.
you see, gwen’s mother and ondega had a lot of beef. i haven’t worked through why they hate each other yet, but they just do. when gwen’s mother got married, she captured ondega and beheaded him on her marriage alter to gain the goddess’s favor. and it worked.
fast forward many, many, many years later. gwen’s mother has gwen and is grooming her to be the perfect bride to marry to another influential family and the perfect pawn to further her greed-fulled plans. the only problem is gwen fricken hates her mom and does NOT want to any of that.
i would hesitate to desceibe gwen as “a good person repulsed by her evil society” because she’s definitely not a good person. but she has nothing but disdain for the endless cycle of killing that makes up most of drow society and she wants out.
after the many many many years it took for him to be fully reborn, his only goal is to get revenge on gwen’s mother. however, while trying to sneak into her household, he is caught by gwen.
in a strange turn of events, they strike up an unlikely alliance, fueled by their mutual hate for gwen’s mother. together, they conspire together to find the best way to get back at her until they have it:
get married and so gwen can never be married off to another family.
so they enact their plan one night, secretly getting married and forever marring gwen’s family’s name. rather than killing gwen’s mother, they decide to keep her alive so she can witness the fall of all her hard work.
and, to top it off, they steal her mother’s amulet, the source of her remaining power.
they leave her mother, powerless, scandalized, and broken and skip town to the surface world where they take up pirating, which is its own story.
so, in a sense, they ARE married on paper. but no one’s really quite sure if they truly love each other.
anyway those are my ocs thank you for listening.
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