Character Spotlight: Ysmay "Mayfly" Slate
TTRPG: Harvest
Creator: @wyllora on tumblr, bluesky, artstation,itch , https://artfight.net/~wyllora
Character's Artfight Page: https://artfight.net/character/7778714.mayfly
Her nickname comes from the islanders saying she was "not long for this world"-- originally meaning that she was always looking over the horizon, planning her departure.
She enjoys playing sailor's card games, smoking her clay pipe, and brooding out over the ocean.
I took a lot of inspiration from Carpenter from the Silt Verses for Mayfly!
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This is the final advancement of The Slate House Broadside- the Power of the island that lays claim to Mayfly. I played towards this end the whole game as a tragedy awaiting poor Ysmay.
She is a Homecomer, a islander who many years left the idyllic island where Harvest takes place. She had intended never to return, but after the outside world hardened her, taught her to lie, and how to say no-- it broke her heart.
She came back to the island that once tried to kill her. And the Slate House, her severe and ancient family home. The Slate House, that she burned to the ground when she left, still standing despite it. Her family, who one by one fell to the Sacrificial Knife-- a man who once, she would have called family too.
Mayfly took his family in return, in a vicious fued that ended with his knife in her chest. She stood before him, meaning to protect the Island's proper sacrifice, her successor, the would-be lover she handed over to the Knife in a moment of bitter betrayal.
She woke on the cold floor of The Slate House, knowing her own sacrifice did nothing to stop the Island's own. And that the island loves her too much to ever let her go.
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