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March 2023 Trial Event Plotting
Trial 11 Plotting Post
Welcome to our plotting post for this month's event! This plotting page doubles as our monthly CR meme. If you have questions about the trial, ask them below.
Mid-March, everyone is already expecting a trial to begin soon. The Spirits around Folkmore keep their yard sales going, but Willow is surprisingly quiet; there are no yard sales there, and the Spirits seem to be preparing for something else by filling their houses with provisions. If asked why they say "It's starting!" as if that will make everything clear... they are going to be vague since they know the trials are important to Thirteen and to the Star Children.
Birds start flocking around Folkmore, even in places where most would not see them such as Cruel Summer or Wintermute. Exile is the only place that doesn't welcome the new avian friends. The Catbus, who would probably enjoy the idea of chasing after birds, is nowhere to be seen now. Hm, wonder what that is about. Star Children and Spirirts can still travel around Folkmore with their own transportation, bikes, or by train.
Meanwhile in Willow, especially by the lakes, shadowed creatures have been trashing through camps, picnics, putting out fires, or spoiling any food you might leave outside. They were there before, but never with this intensity. It's not possible to capture one of these creatures, and if someone wants to follow after one, you will see them jumping into the Lakes and disappearing there. The howling shrieks some might hear in Willow from time to time, have become a lot more intense too... and so very loud. These howls seem to come from the Lakes, but if one tries to explore them, all they will find is mud.
Amrita whispers to anyone who approaches her: "It's time to heal the land."
Reminders:
🦊 March is a high intensity month.
Content Warnings: bird violence
when I'm above the trees
The sound enters your dreams first: chirping, trilling songs made up of a thousand different voices.
When you wake up, you will find massive flocks of starlings everywhere. When startled these lift off and start flying together, physically coordinating themselves into huge flocks that blot out parts of the sky. As the flock swoops and soars you will find that it changes shape; it most often forms an unearthly fox in the sky, but it can be anything.
The starlings may be destructive: they lack respect towards others’ property and feelings. They are drawn to people’s crops and gardens, and they will eat anything they can. They tend to poop everywhere, too. If they manage to get inside a house they will attack Star Children and try to evict them from their own homes! Star Children who try to fight, hurt or kill the birds, will be viciously attacked in return and can be grievously injured or even killed. (The birds, they weren't raised right.)
In spite of this, Star Children will find themselves drawn to the starlings and will eventually want to join them in their murmurations.
Familiars can use one of their existing Familiar forms, or gain a new one that allows them to fly. Myths and Legends, if they do not already have wings, will develop them. Star Children all become able to fly (temporarily or not at the player’s discretion) and will join in the murmurations of the starling as if possessed by something.
Star Children that joined murmurations will also be drawn to each other, as if they were old friends even if they have never met. It feels as if the person flying next to you is a long lost sibling or parent, or perhaps even a lover from long ago. You will both feel a sense of nostalgia - both happy and melancholy - as you fly even closer together.
While swooping in formation with the starlings and your newfound partner, you will experience one of two things:
Star Children may have a vague, mystical vision of the future. (Players can choose if it's canon, or if it's a future in game plan, etc).
Or, you and your partner may share a meaningful past memory with each other: a memory of how they overcame their hurt and actually saw happiness past it.
Once one of these options has been explored, you finally leave the flock and return to the ground. You may return to the murmuration at another time, or be satisfied with just the once.
when I'm above the trees
The sound enters your dreams first: chirping, trilling songs made up of a thousand different voices.
When you wake up, you will find massive flocks of starlings everywhere. When startled these lift off and start flying together, physically coordinating themselves into huge flocks that blot out parts of the sky. As the flock swoops and soars you will find that it changes shape; it most often forms an unearthly fox in the sky, but it can be anything.
The starlings may be destructive: they lack respect towards others’ property and feelings. They are drawn to people’s crops and gardens, and they will eat anything they can. They tend to poop everywhere, too. If they manage to get inside a house they will attack Star Children and try to evict them from their own homes! Star Children who try to fight, hurt or kill the birds, will be viciously attacked in return and can be grievously injured or even killed. (The birds, they weren't raised right.)
In spite of this, Star Children will find themselves drawn to the starlings and will eventually want to join them in their murmurations.
Familiars can use one of their existing Familiar forms, or gain a new one that allows them to fly. Myths and Legends, if they do not already have wings, will develop them. Star Children all become able to fly (temporarily or not at the player’s discretion) and will join in the murmurations of the starling as if possessed by something.
Star Children that joined murmurations will also be drawn to each other, as if they were old friends even if they have never met. It feels as if the person flying next to you is a long lost sibling or parent, or perhaps even a lover from long ago. You will both feel a sense of nostalgia - both happy and melancholy - as you fly even closer together.
While swooping in formation with the starlings and your newfound partner, you will experience one of two things:
Star Children may have a vague, mystical vision of the future. (Players can choose if it's canon, or if it's a future in game plan, etc).
Or, you and your partner may share a meaningful past memory with each other: a memory of how they overcame their hurt and actually saw happiness past it.
Once one of these options has been explored, you finally leave the flock and return to the ground. You may return to the murmuration at another time, or be satisfied with just the once.
Content Warnings: Potential (optional) death, insects, physical mutation, body horror, environmental crisis.
past the curses and cries
Perhaps you live in Willow, or perhaps you’re there to visit the farmer’s market or have a drink at the Prancing Pony. Maybe you actually weren’t anywhere near Willow... but suddenly you see a fox and the next thing you know you’re there.
Turns out, this is not where you want to be right now.
Made out of mud, pollution and toxins, something gargantuan rises from the Lakes with a howling shriek. This Giant Warrior is an accumulation of all the pollution and toxins created by those who live in Folkmore, and of course, lore.
Its mud starts spreading through Willow and it will mutate everything it comes in contact with, changing the environment. trees will grow tall and barely let light in, fields will become overrun with slimy mosses and massive fungi, and the waters overtake some areas. In the darkest areas of Willow, strange bioluminescent plants may be the only source of light. Over everything hangs a strange, oppressive miasma.
Animals too will be mutated. Insects grow massive and strange, possessed of deadly mandibles and stingers. Other animals are stranger still: some marine animals can be seen floating through the heavy air, and there are some creatures that look like a mix of several animals or even a mix of animal and plants.
All of these animals can attack and kill, so be careful!
The only animals immune to mutation are the Fox Squirrels. These adorable critters want only to lead Star Children away from danger. They can be a bit skittish and bite, but they will apologize afterwards. Characters are welcome to keep these fox squirrels as pets.
The Giant Warrior itself cannot be fought and bested. Attempts to get close to it will result in death - you will choke to death on the air that surrounds it, or be blasted by poisonous light.
The toxic mud from the Giant Warrior seeps all over Willow. If any of it touches Star Children, they will find that they have changed roles.
Myths can become legends, legends can become familiars, familiars can become myths, and so on. You may suffer mutations to reflect your new role. New familiars, for example, can be a mix of several different animals at once. Any powers you have may go haywire during this period, whether that be your canon abilities or those gifted by your Folkmore role.
To stop the effects of the toxins and to revert the land back to normal, you must help each other to survive! Doing this creates Lore that will spread around Star Children - this combats the miasma and sludge of the Great Warrior, reverting mutations within the sphere of its influence. This includes the Star Children themselves, and they will return to their usual roles.
It’s clear what must be done from there: Star Children must help each other and explore Willow in order to change everything back to normal with the Lore they've created.
past the curses and cries
Perhaps you live in Willow, or perhaps you’re there to visit the farmer’s market or have a drink at the Prancing Pony. Maybe you actually weren’t anywhere near Willow... but suddenly you see a fox and the next thing you know you’re there.
Turns out, this is not where you want to be right now.
Made out of mud, pollution and toxins, something gargantuan rises from the Lakes with a howling shriek. This Giant Warrior is an accumulation of all the pollution and toxins created by those who live in Folkmore, and of course, lore.
Its mud starts spreading through Willow and it will mutate everything it comes in contact with, changing the environment. trees will grow tall and barely let light in, fields will become overrun with slimy mosses and massive fungi, and the waters overtake some areas. In the darkest areas of Willow, strange bioluminescent plants may be the only source of light. Over everything hangs a strange, oppressive miasma.
Animals too will be mutated. Insects grow massive and strange, possessed of deadly mandibles and stingers. Other animals are stranger still: some marine animals can be seen floating through the heavy air, and there are some creatures that look like a mix of several animals or even a mix of animal and plants.
All of these animals can attack and kill, so be careful!
The only animals immune to mutation are the Fox Squirrels. These adorable critters want only to lead Star Children away from danger. They can be a bit skittish and bite, but they will apologize afterwards. Characters are welcome to keep these fox squirrels as pets.
The Giant Warrior itself cannot be fought and bested. Attempts to get close to it will result in death - you will choke to death on the air that surrounds it, or be blasted by poisonous light.
The toxic mud from the Giant Warrior seeps all over Willow. If any of it touches Star Children, they will find that they have changed roles.
Myths can become legends, legends can become familiars, familiars can become myths, and so on. You may suffer mutations to reflect your new role. New familiars, for example, can be a mix of several different animals at once. Any powers you have may go haywire during this period, whether that be your canon abilities or those gifted by your Folkmore role.
To stop the effects of the toxins and to revert the land back to normal, you must help each other to survive! Doing this creates Lore that will spread around Star Children - this combats the miasma and sludge of the Great Warrior, reverting mutations within the sphere of its influence. This includes the Star Children themselves, and they will return to their usual roles.
It’s clear what must be done from there: Star Children must help each other and explore Willow in order to change everything back to normal with the Lore they've created.
Content Warnings: Insects, forced physical conflict.
your mind that stirs to the moonlight
At night, the Giant Warrior becomes the Night Walker. The mud and pollution from the Giant Warrior is filtered and cleared by the Night Walker, causing it to fade away. The Night Walker exists to heal the land from all the toxins created by those who live in it. Sadly, it will not revert back all the mutations caused by its daily counterpart: that's something for Star Children to do through the use of Lore.
As self-defense against the Star Children (the "culprits" for all the pollution), the Night Walker spreads vines as it walks through the forest. These vines will take over the Star Children bodies as if they were puppets on strings and start controlling them. The objective is to push the Star Children out of Willow, so if you are being controlled by the Night Walker you will begin fighting other Star Children! In order to escape, the vines must be cut, thus releasing the victims.
There will be other dangers, too: plants that have mutated through the day come to life at night and they are ready to attack Star Children as well. There are all manner of plant monsters just spoiling for a fight, and you will have to find your own way to defeat them!
Large insects called Ohms will be around to help characters move around as they are immune to the mutations. Despite the way they look, they are extremely friendly and curious and can be ridden like horses. Their yellow tentacles can heal any effects of mutation and toxicity in Star Children, so keep them close. Characters are welcome to keep these Ohms as pets (and as transportation) but their healing powers will no longer work after this event.
The Night Walker eventually will purify the land. Star Children, through Lore, will eventually revert all of the mutations.
Lore will spread around Folkmore and flowers will begin sprouting. Spring is finally here!
All of those who helped to revert the mutations and heal the land will receive gifts: bonsai-sized topiaries in the shape of something representative of themselves! They have, of course, their own magical powers: they are bioluminescent and they glow stronger the healthier the character they are connected to is; on the other hand, if the character isn't healthy (emotionally, mentally, physically), the glowing seems to fade.
These topiaries can be gifted to friends and family, allowing others to know how the character's health is. Characters can have as many as the players would like.
your mind that stirs to the moonlight
At night, the Giant Warrior becomes the Night Walker. The mud and pollution from the Giant Warrior is filtered and cleared by the Night Walker, causing it to fade away. The Night Walker exists to heal the land from all the toxins created by those who live in it. Sadly, it will not revert back all the mutations caused by its daily counterpart: that's something for Star Children to do through the use of Lore.
As self-defense against the Star Children (the "culprits" for all the pollution), the Night Walker spreads vines as it walks through the forest. These vines will take over the Star Children bodies as if they were puppets on strings and start controlling them. The objective is to push the Star Children out of Willow, so if you are being controlled by the Night Walker you will begin fighting other Star Children! In order to escape, the vines must be cut, thus releasing the victims.
There will be other dangers, too: plants that have mutated through the day come to life at night and they are ready to attack Star Children as well. There are all manner of plant monsters just spoiling for a fight, and you will have to find your own way to defeat them!
Large insects called Ohms will be around to help characters move around as they are immune to the mutations. Despite the way they look, they are extremely friendly and curious and can be ridden like horses. Their yellow tentacles can heal any effects of mutation and toxicity in Star Children, so keep them close. Characters are welcome to keep these Ohms as pets (and as transportation) but their healing powers will no longer work after this event.
The Night Walker eventually will purify the land. Star Children, through Lore, will eventually revert all of the mutations.
Lore will spread around Folkmore and flowers will begin sprouting. Spring is finally here!
All of those who helped to revert the mutations and heal the land will receive gifts: bonsai-sized topiaries in the shape of something representative of themselves! They have, of course, their own magical powers: they are bioluminescent and they glow stronger the healthier the character they are connected to is; on the other hand, if the character isn't healthy (emotionally, mentally, physically), the glowing seems to fade.
These topiaries can be gifted to friends and family, allowing others to know how the character's health is. Characters can have as many as the players would like.
Fiona | Dainsleif, Tighnari, Heizou, Hythlodaeus, Raphael
Player Name: Fiona
Player Pronouns: She/They
Player Contact:
Preferred Tag Style: Action, but I can do prose too.
Monthly Pacing: Usually tagging back in 2-3 days, slower mid-week because I have to go into the office and the early starts wipe me out.
OOC Limitations/Disinterests: I prefer that confrontational/negative CR is given a heads up before being initiated as I am an anxious baby, but otherwise come at me.
Dainsleif ◈ Genshin Impact
Character Name: Dainsleif
Age: Around 525
Permissions: 🦊 Permissions
Character Role: Legend
🦊 Exploring ➟ I would be interested in giving him an opportunity to start getting a little more comfortable with these changes, since the reason he isn’t trying to explore them at all is down to very bad prior experience with having his body altered by ‘gods’ without his consent.
Public Knowledge:
🦊 Appearance ➟ Dainsleif wears a mask that covers most of one half of his face, though if you’re looking carefully you might notice that whatever it’s hiding is showing between the bottom of the mask and the collar of his clothes. It’s a thick, blue-black tendril of something on his skin. As of January 2023 his right eye is a vibrant red with a slitted pupil rather than a star-shaped one, matching the eye colour of the Crystal Exarch.
🦊 Misc. ➟ Dainsleif is not visibly showing any alignment (he is a Legend, but keeps everything about it hidden as much as possible).
General CR Information
He often spends some time during the week with Kaeya Alberich, teaching him about long lost Khaenri'ahn history/customs and correcting his use of their language. Taking up some kind of teaching in swordplay would suit his mindset, so he will look to that next. I am looking for some friendships that he can deepen with other people, particularly ones that will - while not outright challenging his perspectives - lead him to see things in different ways. He's been doing the same thing for a long time and is very single-minded about it. I do want him to learn to cook at some point! He can cook... but that really depends if you would say that making something mostly edible counts as cooking.
Wanted CR: Friends, people who would benefit from a stern older brother figure, anyone who would put up with his crap. I'll take enemies/frenemies too but let's talk about it.
Unwanted CR: He's good on romance right now!
Goals For Your Character:
🦊 Short-term Goals ➟ I would like Dainsleif to get more comfortable with spending time socially around more people, and to make some more friends outside of his current small circle. I’m also interested in nudging him towards offering up some swordplay tutoring.
🦊 Long-term Goals ➟ In the long-term, I am looking for Dainsleif to get more open about the effects that his curse is having on him (particularly the pain and memory loss) and to start looking for ways to potentially ease it.
Specific CR for the trials: I’m definitely looking for Dainsleif to be put under some pressure during this trial, since he’s been ignoring his Legend status rather well the entire time he’s been in Folkmore and has become far too comfortable with that. I’m open to that being something that happens in any of the trials, depending on who would like to plot something around that.
Trial information
Trial Reactions & Goals:
🦊 MURMURATIONS ➟ No major plans for this one but I am down for plotting some vision or memory share if anyone is interested! Could also be a good basis for some new CR.
🦊 GIANT WARRIOR ➟ Dainsleif has been far too comfortable hiding that he’s a Legend or having anything to do with it at all, so he’s going to end up shifting to Familiar and out-of-control transforming into something similar to a Bathysmal Vishap from Genshin canon. While this is happening his own powers are also potentially going to go haywire, and he’s going to need someone to both calm him down and help him revert back.
🦊 NIGHT WALKER ➟ Fighting plant monsters. Yes? Yes. He will be trying to help people survive this part of the trial and cutting people loose where he can.
Timeline of Trials: Freeplaying it as always.
Re: Dainsleif ◈ Genshin Impact
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Re: Dainsleif ◈ Genshin Impact
I'm very interested in starting CR building for Dainsleif's longterm goals in terms of pain management. <3
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Happy to DM you and go off about the nature of/my headcanons around the curse and what it's doing to him bc I have many thoughts.
Tighnari ◈ Genshin Impact
Character Name: Tighnari
Age: 25
Permissions: 🦊 Permissions
Character Role: Familiar
🦊 Exploring ➟Going to start exploring other forms.
Public Knowledge:
🦊 Appearance ➟ Tighnari is short-ish (around 5’5”) and has large, fennec fox-like ears which are very mobile, and three dark green fluffy tails. He wears gloves often but if he takes them off there are coloured stains on his fingers due to alchemy experiments and plant gathering. His clothing tends to be fairly colourful and elaborate and he wears a Dendro Vision.
🦊 Misc. ➟ His hearing is extraordinary. Tighnari can hear things coming from miles away if the conditions are right, and he makes no secret of this fact.
🦊 Misc. ➟ He spends a lot of time walking around investigating the local plant life. Can often be found in more isolated areas, crouched making notes or little sketches of plants/fungi that he finds or collecting samples.
General CR Information
With all the new and interesting plant and animal life to explore Tighnari spends a lot of time out and about, cataloguing things and making notes. He's turned part of his treehouse into a research space and small lab with what equipment he's able to get hold of easily, and can pretty much always be found outside during the day even when it's raining. Eventually I'd like him to take up teaching. It's something he avoided in Sumeru due to disagreements with the people in charge of the Akademiya and his own responsibilities to the Forest Watchers in the Avidya Forest, but he could be persuaded to take up something of a more formal position in Folkmore.
Wanted CR: Friends! Nerdy friends! People he can geek out with. Anyone else who knows about botany and such would be amazing, but even his other interests (medicine, robotics) would be great.
Unwanted CR: No romance required!
Goals For Your Character:
🦊 Short-term Goals ➟ Spring is on the way, so he’s going to be out scouting potential foraging spots. He will also be looking into ways that he can improve Karkata’s programming, possibly trying to recruit technology-savvy Star Children to this cause. I would also like Tighnari to potentially take on some students who would like to learn some survival skills or listen to him go on about mushrooms for two hours.
🦊 Long-term Goals ➟ In the long term I am looking for Tighnari to open a store selling herbal-based remedies, as well as offering basic medical assistance.
Specific CR for the trials: I would love for Tighnari to need rescuing at some point over the trials! He’s always calm and collected and rarely gets himself into a situation he can’t get out of, so something to rattle him up (maybe with a bit of h/c afterwards) would be very fun for me.
Trial information
Trial Reactions & Goals:
🦊 MURMURATIONS ➟ Tighnari is a big Nature Boy, so he’s going to be super curious about why the birds are acting like this… and then he’s going to get caught up in it! He’ll be turning into a large dusk bird and joining the flock until he’s connected well enough with someone to get back down again.
🦊 GIANT WARRIOR ➟ He’ll be avoiding the toxic mud and so staying as a Familiar, but he’ll be around rescuing people from the mutated animals and helping anyone he comes across who has already been affected by the mud and needs to be reverted back to normal.
🦊 NIGHT WALKER ➟ The Ohms are going to completely fascinate him and he will be keeping one as a pet afterwards. Tighnari will be making use of his Familiar abilities to fight back the plant monsters! Help him or help him out of a sticky situation if he gets in over his head? He can be very fierce but he is only one person.
Timeline of Trials: Freeplaying it as always.
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Re: Tighnari ◈ Genshin Impact
I'd love for more foraging/mushroom buddies. Also up for Murmurations!
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And yes some collaboration would be great xD
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Shikanoin Heizou ◈ Genshin Impact
Character Name: Shikanoin Heizou
Age: 23
Permissions: 🦊 Permissions
Character Role: Legend
🦊 Exploring ➟ After speaking with Kaeya he’s curious about the limitations of the non-Familiar roles, and is very interested in exploring just how much a Legend can develop.
Public Knowledge:
🦊 Appearance ➟ He’s only about 5’4” tall, but his shoe(crime)s add another inch. He wears an Anemo Vision attached to his clothes.
🦊 Misc. ➟ Sharp-minded and highly observant, he can pick up things about people that they might be trying to hide simply by looking at them. If he might have had a chat with your character and picked up something interesting about them this way, please let me know!
General CR Information
Detective Shikanoin Heizou is pretty much Sherlock Holmes, if Sherlock Holmes was a tiny, flirty, fantasy-Japanese man. He dedicated himself to ridding the world of evil at a very young age, believing that one must be evil's natural enemy in order to root it out at its source. This attitude comes from a traumatic event that he experienced as a teenager, which is definitely not something that comes through in his jovial and chipper personality. Most notably, Heizou is a very eccentric person. He is friendly and very gregarious but is used to his reputation preceding him, and thus does not have many actual friends. I really want Heizou to eventually have to emotionally confront the events which caused him to take up the mantle of standing against evil. It's pretty clear he never actually did this, instead using his goals to keep his focus away from it. Also just generally having friends would be good for him - his reputation at home is very weighty and people tend to think he's there for bad reasons when he shows up.
Wanted CR: Friends pls! He needs them very much. Found family would be amazing for him too. Enemies/frenemies are great but let's talk about it first.
Unwanted CR: He’s good on romance!
Goals For Your Character:
🦊 Short-term Goals ➟ Heizou is always thinking about things, and in the short term he is looking to find more information about other Legends, as well as Myths and Familiars and how all three roles work in reality when compared to theory. He needs a good mystery to dig his teeth into and trying to figure out Folkmore/Thirteen is a good one.
🦊 Long-term Goals ➟ For the long term, I would like Heizou to be pushed to confront the buried trauma he has around what happened in his past, and why he chose to leave home/become a detective in the first place. I would also like him to really, really lose his shit over seeing someone he cares about get hurt right in front of him (I need him to go feral).
Specific CR for the trials: Looking for a reason for Heizou to need to kick ass. Not every problem can be solved with his brain and sometimes he just has to beat something up. If this is for the purpose of protecting someone then great! But it could also just be fisticuffs.
Trial information
Trial Reactions & Goals:
🦊 MURMURATIONS ➟ Sharing a meaningful past memory with someone could actually be a great way to get Heizou to start opening up about his past at all, so he’ll be spreading his wings and getting up there with the birds. This is definitely going to be his own fault as he will have been trying to figure out what the heck was going on and ended up being swept up in it.
🦊 GIANT WARRIOR ➟ Please keep him from getting too close to the Giant Warrior because he doesn’t know what danger is and will think he can handle it.
🦊 NIGHT WALKER ➟ I am down for some plant-monster fighting, and also for Heizou to end up caught up in the vines if someone wants to deal with that and deal with cutting him down. Heizou is a very agile and powerful combatant despite his size, and he would absolutely hate having his abilities turned against someone without his consent like that, so there’s potential for a bit of h/c afterwards too.
Timeline of Trials: Freeplaying it as always.
Hythlodaeus ◈ FFXIV
Character Name: Hythlodaeus
Age: Unknown, but adult
Permissions: 🦊 Permissions
Character Role: Familiar
🦊 Exploring ➟ Working on getting more comfortable with the idea of changing shape… it's still kind of weird for him.
Public Knowledge:
🦊 Misc. ➟ Anyone who is good at reading people may be able to surmise that his jovial, joking temperament is often a front.
General CR Information
Hythlodaeus is the kind of person who always puts the needs of his friends before himself and ties himself up in their dreams (he wants nothing more than to see them all fulfil their goals, and will see his own as fulfilled when they have), and being in Folkmore without said friends has left him feeling very lost as to what exactly the potential he is supposed to meet is. People who can bring him out of the shell he doesn't even know he's in and encourage him in future explorations into self-expression and individuality would be very welcome, as he's going to be curious but will not be sure of where to begin. He can also read aether/life force and see the colour of people's souls (or anything that has a soul), as well as locate them over relatively long distances... so if your character doesn't have a soul, he'll notice that too.
Wanted CR: He needs all the CR! People who he can get closer to would be great - he's missing his friends from home a lot.
Unwanted CR: n/a
Goals For Your Character:
🦊 Short-term Goals ➟ Hythlodaeus has a massive mental block around being able to transform as a Familiar which is linked to how tragically pedestrian his aether manipulation skills are and how he isn’t able to do anything like that where he comes from. I would like him to have some guidance/support in getting over this so he can have some fun turning into animals.
🦊 Long-term Goals ➟ Given that his purpose in life has always been to support his friends, and his friends are not in Folkmore, Hythlodaeus has been feeling very lost with regards to what Thirteen even expects of him so he can leave - he needs to find a purpose that isn’t related to what he can do for other people.
Specific CR for the trials: Hythlodaeus often downplays his own ability but when it comes to actual combat, he’s capable of some ridiculously powerful magic. Being put into a situation where he actually needs to use it (and isn’t too frozen by fear to think clearly, thanks Thirteen) would be awesome. Open to this being for the purpose of saving someone, or for defending himself while being rescued by someone else! Honestly he’s ridiculous he can cast fire/ice spells and also something that is basically a giant laser.
Trial information
Trial Reactions & Goals:
🦊 MURMURATIONS ➟ Since I don’t really want to have Hythlodaeus get over his shapeshifting block because he didn’t have any choice in the matter, he’s not going to be transforming to go fly with the birds. He will be utterly fascinated by them however, and might need to be dragged indoors before he gets attacked or something.
🦊 GIANT WARRIOR ➟ He will be acquiring a fox squirrel as a pet. I’m down for Hythlodaeus to come across people in need of saving from vicious mutated animals and actually put up a fight. He’s quite impressive when he gets going. He can also step in to try and calm down anyone who has been mutated by the toxic mud.
🦊 NIGHT WALKER ➟ Hythlodaeus is definitely no stranger to vicious, toxic plant life (thanks Creation Magic) and is not going to be shocked or cowed by anything he might see here. Actually getting into a scrap or two will be good for him, really. As above I’d love for him to save somebody, or fight side by side with them!
Timeline of Trials: Freeplaying it as always.
Raphael ◈ Original Character
Character Name: Raphael
Age: Older than time itself
Permissions: 🦊 Permissions
Character Role: Myth
🦊 Manifested Traits ➟ Being a Myth is currently displaying in his wings having turned black from their usual off-white. He also sheds feathers.
🦊 Exploring ➟ Being an angel, having come into Folkmore as a Myth is obviously very upsetting as he doesn’t really understand that someone’s role can be as much based on their own perception of themselves as it is on the perception of others. As he learns this he will relax more into the role he has been given.
Public Knowledge:
🦊 Name ➟ Raphael does not give his real name. He will introduce himself as Azarias with minimal exceptions, and will continue to do this until he feels more comfortable.
🦊 Aura ➟ He gives off an aura of pleasant calm at all times to those who can be affected by it (player discretion). This can have the opposite effect on demons/undead/vampires, making them feel terrible or become violently ill (also player discretion!)
🦊 Appearance ➟ Raphael is never dressed for the weather as he does not ordinarily feel the cold. He might even sometimes be barefoot, but never seems to be dirty.
🦊 Appearance ➟ He is currently bearing some injuries from things that happened prior to being pulled to Folkmore - the most obvious of these are the bruising/cuts around his wrists which could be recognised as marks of having been shackled.
General CR information
There are some heavy topics in Raphael’s backstory including torture and psychological abuse, but none of this is going to come up in threads where he doesn’t know the other person and if it’s going to go that way I’ll make sure to give a warning for anything explicit! He’s very wary about giving away too much about himself, and anyone who is good at seeing when people are lying would notice him popping up red flags like it’s a parade. If he’s called out on this he will have no idea how to react so please go ahead.
Wanted CR: Basically everything - Raphael is new and a lone canon warrior OC, and although he really likes people he’s not always the best at being social. He’s a very gentle soul and not difficult to talk to.
Unwanted CR: I’d prefer to steer away from actively negative CR for now!
Goals For Your Character:
🦊 Short-term Goals ➟ He’s new, so the short term goal is just trying to get him settled/not jumping at shadows and getting more comfortable with telling people what he is and what his real name is. Also down with someone trying to help him with his current injuries, if anyone would be interested in shooting a little healing magic his way.
🦊 Long-term Goals ➟ Long term goals for Raphael will focus around his backstory and coming to terms with the terrible way he has been treated, as well as understanding that he did not deserve any of it. This is going to require people getting close enough to him to be told about it, so I’ll be concentrating on CR first of all!
Specific CR for the trials: Since Raphael is quite new I will be steering him clear of the worst of the trials for the most part, however he is capable of powerful healing and I’m down to have him help someone out if anyone would like to plot that! It would give him a little boost of confidence.
Trial information
Trial Reactions & Goals:
🦊 MURMURATIONS ➟ n/a unless anyone would like to plot something specific.
🦊 GIANT WARRIOR ➟ If need be, Raphael can defend himself… so if anyone would like to witness a scared angel turning a mutated creature into a salt statue? I’m down for someone to see that and ask him what the fuck. He can also snatch people out of danger, if anyone would be interested! Otherwise he’s going to be trying to keep out of the way of everything that is going on because he just escaped a war zone and has no interest in fighting.
🦊 NIGHT WALKER ➟ As above I’m not going to hit him too hard with this event, but he can do rescues and also healing if it’s needed.
Timeline of Trials: Freeplaying it as always.
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