chase me if you must, but i’ll be the one to capture you

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ppl keep asking what fandom this is from. it is from a fandom of one (1) and that one is me. it is from my brain. my heart. my very gay and horny soul.

i wanted to ask you….

/gets down on one knee

can our ocs hang out

kicking my legs and giggling at the sleepover. can my OC who I've never drawn or talked about play with your OC who you've never drawn or talked about

Name: Saga | Race: Goliath | Class: Sorcerer & Paladin | Background: Deserter (Spy) | Deity: Fierna (archdevil, punisher of betrayal)

Left on the doorstep of a monastery as a baby, sold from Amn to Mulhorand as a young child and broken out by rebels at fourteen, very little of Saga's life has been within her control. So when she was finally free she chose the name Saga to signify that for the rest of her life, she will be the one writing the story - and it will be one worth telling. Now, Saga is on a mission to explore her personhood and this big, magical world that she's been kept at a distance from for so long.

As an exercise in control and as part of a journey to discover herself, she has begun taking up a handful of new hobbies, such as carpentry and embroidery. Her carpentry needs work, but she has developed an arcane technique to transmute raw materials into useable construction products. Next on her list: knot-tying (to help with her sister's next boat), alchemy (to impress her smart new friends), and garment sewing (because she loves soft and flowy fabrics but clothes never fit her the way she wants them to).

Since the beginning of the campaign: At the footnote of a quest, Saga picked up what she now knows to be a cursed staff and has since been having dreams of drowning. Slowly, the pieces have been coming together: the staff seems to be tied to the unhinged archdevil Fierna, who rules over the underwater layer of Hell devoted to torturing those who committed betrayals during their time alive. Saga is mildly terrified and wholly unsure of what Fierna wants with her, but does not seem to be having ill-effects yet other than the dreams.

My contribution to this meme

Because I’m standing firm with this I decided to update it to be a little more specific since some people aren’t getting the hint.

I love you OCs I love you making OCs with friends I love you oc lore I love you sharing oc lore with friends I love you making oc backstories with friends I love you going wild over OCS with friends I love you friends I love you

i hope all my friends know that their ocs and them talking about their ocs and all their oc content bring me so much joy

Love Shot Chapters 1-3 updated!

A guarded Nilfgaardian officer falls in love with a cheerful Scoia'tael scout. How will they balance their opposing allegiances with their newfound forbidden love? With lots of shenanigans!

A love story with my favourite tropes: women who could kick my ass and pretty men who cry. Fenn and Neelke’s story is finally written! AHH

Updates on Wednesdays.

Beta’d by the wonderful @wafflesrock16, who did so much more than editing. She brainstormed, gave advice, loved on my oc’s, supported and cheered me on. Her own words are sprinkled throughout this story and I am so grateful for all her hard work and most importantly, her friendship. <3

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My Characters (Mass Effect)

Four Songs: Delphine

ahhh this is so late. I was tagged by the lovely @bardofheartdive​ (sorry, I just found the tag in my notes…) for four songs on my OC Delphine

Dandelion by Kacey Musgraves

I Am cover by Natalie Weiss and Lauren Allred

Happy & Sad by Kacey Musgraves

Stand In the Rain by Superchick

Tagging (no pressure): @maleficarum-regrets @rpgwrites @lyrishadow and anyone else who would like to participate!

OC Playlist Meme

Oh yeah, we’re doing another music meme.

Your character normally summed up in song

“Head Held High” - Kodaline

I adore how on the surface, this song sounds so cheerful and happy. Just like how on the surface, Dairon chooses to be positive and energetic no matter what’s going on. But pay attention to the lyrics, you’ll see this song is actually quite depressing. Such as it is with Dairon. The cataclysm deeply traumatized her and left a black scar on her soul that will never heal. Her training as a monk gave her the tools to fight this darkness, but she’ll never vanquish it. 

Your character’s story arc summed up in song

“This is Me” - The Greatest Showman soundtrack, cover by Elsie Lovelock

The cataclysm almost made Dairon end her own life, draining the normally happy and cheerful girl from Stormwind of her joy until she was just a walking shell of a person. And in order to heal from this, she had to turn her back on generations of family tradition and even her entire native culture. Dairon had to rebuild herself from nothing in a completely alien environment, and then she returned home entirely transformed. Of course this has earned her some animosity from her family, as well as people in Stormwind who find her strange, but she makes no apologies for what she did. One day, Dairon is going to make a big positive difference in the world, and it was entirely possible because of this change.

Your character’s relationship with the protag(s)

“Be Wherever You Are” - Zach Callison, Steven Universe

I’m taking this song to be her relationship with the members of the Violet Bastion as a whole, since she very recently signed up with them. Dairon had previously worked with SI:7 during the Blood War and the things she did and saw were not enjoyable. She’s very glad its over. Freed of those heavy obligations, she can be herself again, and make a fresh start with people just as interested in making the world a better place as she is.

“Isn’t it nice to find yourself somewhere different, Whoa, why don’t you let yourself just be wherever you are.”

Your character’s relationship with the antagonists / your character’s angry song

“Ready To Die” - Andrew WK

This was REALLY tough to pick, because it takes a great deal to get Dairon visibly upset, much less angry. While she’s a human being with weaknesses and tender spots (such as being afraid of dragons because of the cataclysm, and not trusting horde members like she trusts alliance), she tries very hard to not let them dominate her thoughts.

But like the first song in this list, the lyrics are a fun opposition to the tone of the instrumental. The surface level of this song is very exuberant and high energy, even as the lyrics talk about murder and death. The song isn’t directed at anyone in Azeroth specifically, it’s just a good “fight song” when Dairon has to deal with a bad guy or someone who wants to harm the world.

Another good choice for Dairon’s fighting music would be “Ballroom Blitz” by Sweet. I have many ideas about her fighting style being more like a Jackie Chan action-comedy than a purely violent fistfight.

Your character in love

“Moderation” - Florence and the Machine

Dairon was raised to put her full effort into everything she does, never giving up or giving in. This includes her pursuits of the heart. She knows her constant enthusiasm and high energy can sometimes be overwhelming to a romantic partner, but that’s just who she is.

Your character’s backstory summed up in song

“Elastic Heart” - Sia, cover by Written By Wolves

I’m aware the original context of this song is entirely about romance and a broken heart, but I think it also fits Dairon’s long quest to bounce back from the trauma she endured during the Cataclysm. Deathwing did everything he could to break the world, but he didn’t break Dairon.

Your character’s acoustic theme

“Way of the Monk” - World of Warcraft Mists of Pandaria sountrack

I still like to imagine the progression of this music from start to finish as the musical accompaniment to a stereotypical kung fu training montage. Starting from the unsure and hesitant Dairon clumsily approaching the monastery, to her slowly growing more confident and skilled with her new abilities, until she’s doing all of the impossible acrobatic feats you see monks doing in the game with a big smile on her face. In my head, like many of the other songs in this list, it’s a song about her rebirth.

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Spookifying My OCs

I saw this concept on pillowfort and it looked like fun. Since I can’t draw my OCs in fun Halloween variations, I’ll just write about various AUs/story concepts about them getting a spooky makeover.

Jane Shepard - Still barely survives the Reaper war and has her right arm amputated due to a lack of options in a post-apocalyptic London hospital. However, the actions of the malicious doctor who treated her are successful, and she dies mere weeks after the war’s end. The entire galaxy mourns. Over the passing decades, whispers and rumors begin to swirl around the old hospital. A one-armed ghost is frequently seen stalking the halls, moving in a tortured, agonized way, as if searching for something. The same rumors say she is looking for her lost arm, or perhaps she’s searching for the one responsible for taking it away from her. If you get caught alone in that old building at night, she just might try to take your right arm for herself.

Kallian Tabris - Years after the fifth blight, people begin to speak about the “plague” that wracked Denerim’s alienage, and of the Tevinter slavers seen escaping the city alongside all of the refugees. Many people put the pieces together, and demand King Alistair organize an official investigation into one of Arl Howe and Loghain’s deepest treacheries. Unfortunately, every time a human agent goes into the empty old ruins that once held Denerim’s elf population, they don’t come out. All people know is that horrid, raging shrieks fill the night air every time a human dares set foot in the empty maze of decayed buildings and rotten corpses. Some say it’s a spirit. Others say it’s a ghoul driven mad, something left behind by the darkspawn. A creature that perhaps was once an elf, but now mutated by the blight into a creature that knows only rage and pain, and viciously kills any human that dares enter the place she used to call home.

Keeran Trevelyan - In a world where the conclave didn’t happen, or Solas waited another century before awakening, Keeran Trevelyan would have no reason to join the Inquisition. Instead, he would have continued on his journey of spending his stolen family fortune, exploring the deepest excesses of pleasure and vice, and indulging in his most depraved of appetites as money and power went to his head. Instead of becoming a ghost or a goblin, this Keeran would simply become the worst possible version of himself. The word “no” would become meaningless to him. Boundaries irrelevant. Anything he wants, he takes, because he can throw money at the authorities to get them off his back. Woe be to anyone who hears the approach of his caravan of partygoers and thrillseekers. Because any whim he wants to indulge, he will get. (It’s exactly as bad as you imagine)

Dairon Garrick - Never recovers from the Cataclysm. The suffering and death wrought by Deathwing utterly snaps her mind, and she cannot cope with such a broken world. In the place of the sweet, kind, energetic woman from Stormwind, there is now someone who only sees the darkness in the world. Anyone she comes across, she just thinks about their life coming to a horrible end, because so many others were far less lucky and died because of the dragon. This Dairon is always smiling even as she plunges her knife into her victims, but only because she knows that when she kills people, she’s just preventing her victims any further suffering. Her warm, kind features are a mask to hide the fact that she will stop at nothing to kill each and every person she comes across, no matter their status, gender, age, or species. After all, if everyone is dead, then there will be no one left for Deathwing to hurt.

Perhaps in the years after this completely unhinged Dairon is caught, sentenced, imprisoned, and eventually dies, people begin to spread spooky stories of the Smiling Slasher. Maybe she gets remembered as one of the darker Hallow’s End tales, reserved for older children and those with a strong stomach.

Zoe Bhatia - Is already spooky. I’ve had a headcanon for years that when she has to deal with raider gangs, she sneaks into their hideouts in the dead of night and quietly kills their leader. The resulting infighting either kills the majority of the gang, or they move somewhere else. This eventually results in the Commonwealth’s raider population spreading rumors that a ghost has come to haunt them, taking revenge for the lives that most gangs ruin because of their violence. But the truth is even harder to believe, since Zoe is a pre-war assassin using skills and training the raiders could never possibly understand.

Friendly reminder that if you ask about my OCs, you are actually doing me a huge favor.

You are:

So thank you, and don’t ever feel like you are wasting my time by asking me anything about anything.

This has been a PSA.

Mary Sue, what are you? or why the concept of Sue is sexist

Looks like this essay was needed, so I went ahead and did it. Not sure I said everything I wanted to say, but I tried.

So, there’s this girl. She’s tragically orphaned and richer than anyone on the planet. Every guy she meets falls in love with her, but in between torrid romances she rejects them all because she dedicated to what is Pure and Good. She has genius level intellect, Olympic-athelete level athletic ability and incredible good looks. She is consumed by terrible angst, but this only makes guys want her more. She has no superhuman abilities, yet she is more competent than her superhuman friends and defeats superhumans with ease. She has unshakably loyal friends and allies, despite the fact she treats them pretty badly.  They fear and respect her, and defer to her orders. Everyone is obsessed with her, even her enemies are attracted to her. She can plan ahead for anything and she’s generally right with any conclusion she makes. People who defy her are inevitably wrong.

 God, what a Mary Sue.

I just described Batman.

  Wish fulfillment characters have been around since the beginning of time. The good guys tend to win, get the girl and have everything fall into place for them. It’s only when women started doing it that it became a problem.

TV Tropes on the origin of Mary Sue:

The prototypical Mary Sue is an original female character in a fanfic who obviously serves as an idealized version of the author mainly for the purpose of Wish Fulfillment.

Notice the strange emphasis on female here. TV Tropes goes on to say that is took a long time for the male counterpart “Marty Stu” to be used. “Most fanfic writers are girls” is given as the reason. So when women dominate a genre, that means people are on close watch, ready to scorn any wish fulfillment they may engage in. This term could only originate if the default was female.

 In fact, one of the CONTROVERSIES listed on the TV Tropes page is if a male sue is even possible. That’s right, it’s impossible to have an idealized male character. Men are already the ideal.

 In our culture, male tends to be the default. Women take on the distaff parts. “Him” and “mankind” are what humanity are, “her” and “womankind” are secondary. Yet this isn’t true for Mary Sue as a term. That name was created first. It was a Star Trek fic that coined it and the female designation was likely a big reason it caught on. Thus, a female name is the default to use when describing idealized characters. Marty Stu and Gary Stu are only to be used if you’re discussing men specifically.  Heck, there isn’t even an agreed upon term for them. So the only time female can be default is when discussing a badly written character, someone who is more powerful or important or liked than they should be allowed to be, someone the plot focuses on more than you would like, someone you don’t want to read about. Hmmm.

 What’s really wrong with a thirteen year old girl having a power fantasy, even if it’s badly written?  Who is it hurting? Men have baldly admitted to writing power fantasies and self inserts since the beginning of time. How many nerdy, schlubby guys suddenly become badasses and have hot girls chasing after them in fiction? See: Spiderman- blatant everyman who happens to  stumble across amazing powers and catch the eye of a supermodel.  Mary Sue is considered the worst insult to throw at a character as it renders them worthless. But since when are idealized characters automatically worthless? Aren’t all heroes idealized in some way? Don’t all heroes represent the author in some way? Aren’t these characters supposed to be people we look up to, people who represent human potential, the goodness that we strive for? Fantasy by nature is idealized, even the tragic ones.

 If you look at the TV Tropes page for Mary Sue, it’s ridiculous. You can be a sue for having too many flaws, or not enough, for fixing things or messing things up, for being a hero or a villain. And of course, this is specifically pointed out as a trope related to the Princess and Magical Girl genres- genres aimed towards women are naturally full of Mary Sues.  Magical girls are powerful and heroic and actually flaunt femininity as a good thing. They are a power fantasy designed for girls. So of course, a girl using traditionally feminine traits to dominate and triumph means she’s a sickeningly pure Mary Sue who makes everything go their way. Feminine traits are disdained and look down on, so when the positive feminine traits are prominent, the reader has an aversive reaction. How can a character be so feminine and triumph? She must be unrealistic, she must be badly written, because everyone knows it is impossible to be feminine and powerful.

 Let’s look at what kinds of Mary Sues people will point to. People will claim a female character is a Mary Sue if she is a love interest. Put a female character within a foot of a male character, and people will scream “Mary Sue!” Why does someone falling in love with her make her a Mary Sue? Well, she hasn’t “earned” this awesome dude character’s love. What has she done to show she’s worthy of him? Fans miss the irony that this line of logic makes the male character seem more like the Sue in Question, as he’s apparently so perfect one has work for his coveted love and praise.

  The idea that woman has to “earn” any power, praise, love, or plot prominence is central to Mary Sue.  Men do not have to do this, they are naturally assumed to be powerful, central and loveable. That’s why it’s the first thing thrown at a female character- what has she done to be given the same consideration as a male character? Why is she suddenly usurping a male role? “Mary Sue” is the easiest way to dismiss a character. It sounds bad to say “I don’t like this female character. I don’t like that this woman is powerful. I don’t like it when the plot focuses on her. I don’t like that a character I like has affections for her.”  But “Mary Sue” is a way to say these things without really saying them. It gives you legitimacy.

 If a character is badly written, there’s generally something much more problematic than idealization going on. The plot will be dull and the character will perpetuate harmful stereotypes while other characters act oddly.  For instance, Bella Swan is one of the only characters I’d even begin to classify as a Mary Sue, yet it’s not really her supposed Mary Sue traits that bother me. I don’t mind that she gets what she wants and everyone loves her, that she’s Meyer’s power fantasy. What I actually mind is that Stephenie Meyer has her perpetuate harmful anti-woman stereotypes- women need to be protected, women are shallow, women’s worth rests in desirability. That’s what’s actually harmful about her and worth discussing. I would criticize that rather than even get to the fact Bella got to be “too perfect and powerful”- that’s just a tiny, insignificant thing not worth mentioning in a huge pile of problems.

 And that’s why I don’t call characters Mary Sue anymore. There’s really nothing bad about a power fantasy or wish fulfillment. It’s what’s fiction’s about.  If one of my characters is called a Sue, I’ll proudly say “yep”, because that must mean that she broke out of that box a female character is supposed to be in.  So I’ll go and say it: I love me some Mary Sues.

The idea that woman has to “earn” any power, praise, love, or plot prominence is central to Mary Sue. Men do not have to do this, they are naturally assumed to be powerful, central and lovable. That’s why it’s the first thing thrown at a female character- what has she done to be given the same consideration as a male character? Why is she suddenly usurping a male role? “Mary Sue” is the easiest way to dismiss a character. It sounds bad to say “I don’t like this female character. I don’t like that this woman is powerful. I don’t like it when the plot focuses on her. I don’t like that a character I like has affections for her.”  But “Mary Sue” is a way to say these things without really saying them. It gives you legitimacy.

And that’s why I don’t call characters Mary Sue anymore. There’s really nothing bad about a power fantasy or wish fulfillment. It’s what’s fiction’s about.  If one of my characters is called a Sue, I’ll proudly say “yep”, because that must mean that she broke out of that box a female character is supposed to be in.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you want people to love your OCs you first have to love them enough to keep shoving them down people's throats. If you are excited about them, others will be more likely to be excited about them.

Stop apologizing for making original content.

Every character you ever loved was someone's OC.

HEY YOU

Your OC is awesome, keep having fun!