Sexual Tension Is Out, Platonic Tension Is In. I Need Enemies Who Have Fought Each Other So Many Times

why do wizards and mages and shit in stuff always have to use a fucking stick or staff to do magic. what’s so special about a gotdamn tree bone

It’s not on sale? Oh, that’s strange, my very ferocious bear could have sworn it was

(Companion piece to this)

in this house we believe:

this place is not a place of honor

no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here

nothing valued is here

what is here is dangerous and repulsive to us

the danger is in a particular location

the danger is still present in your time as it was in ours

Truth 

(as per my Chain OCs post a while back)

I’ve had this sitting around for ages without posting it. Here is my chain OC along with his notes

Sgt. Chapel

Tiefling Fighter

Background

Chapel is a lifer in the Chain. He has been in the Chain since before he had to shave. His mother found refuge from their extensive personal debts in Alloy by marriage to a retiring soldier. Though not a kind man Chapel’s new father taught him everything he knew about fighting. Every dirty trick , every easy scam and every story about the only people you could count on. Childhood was tough as he and his mother were the only tieflings in the village he grew up in. Having realized that there was precious little good will for a half devil child Chapel turned to petty theft and vandalism early on.

When he was a teenager his mother became gravely ill. He read the writing on the wall and in the eyes of his neighbours. He stripped the new thatch roof off the local church and then sold it to a travelling merchant. Chapel used the proceeds to make his own way eventually finding the Chain. 

Chapel has found a peace of sorts and now he lives his life for his comrades. He used to have side businesses going while the Chain was in any given place. A habit he learned from his adopted father. But he has long since given up on a life outside the Chain.

While in Alloy Chapel settled a few old scores with some Chain buddies.

Appearance

A big powerfully built tiefling with a mischievous crooked grin. His jaw has been broken and reset slightly off. His left eye socket is covered with an eye patch. His horns are covered in recent sword and claw marks from the escape from Blackbottom. He’s missing parts of several fingers.

Personality Traits

Loyal

Indulgent

Tribal

Ideals

Be direct but be prepared to win before the fight

Win if you can, lose if you must but always cheat

Bonds

I would die for the Chain

The Chain are the only family I have

I always have time for my family

Flaws

I can’t make a life for myself anywhere else

I don’t want to be an officer

movie tropes that will never get old to me:

a thing happens + two people exchanging money in the back

fourth wall breaking

“give up all your weapons” and that one guy that spends the entire evening taking his weights worth out his pockets

*a terribly loud crash* meowing/ car sirens heard offscreen

alternatively: a terribly loud crash and one of the characters going “oops” in the most casual voice

“fuck you” “well if you insist”

Okay, hot take? Bisexual and pansexual are functionally synonyms, and the decision to ID as one or the other comes down to personal preference and interpretation, and any attempt to further separate the two is driving a wedge between two communities that should have nothing but love and solidarity for one another. 

We have more in common than not, and the words for our respective identities should not be pitted against each other. 

Hades v1.0 Launch Trailer (animation by @studiograckle)

Since y’all enjoyed the warlock post I thought I’d give the same treatment to my second favorite class: the druid! The flavor of it is absolutely great and wild shaping? Amazing!

Want to be a travelling Johnny Appleseed type character that spreads the seeds of a near extinct plant?

Want to be a lycanthrope who tried communing with nature to better control their beastly nature?

Want to have been trapped within an plane of elemental chaos forcing you to familiarize yourself with the elemental forces to survive?

Want to be a traveler from a far off land with the ability to transform into strange and exotic creatures?

Want to have the spirit of some great wolf that you regretfully killed inhabit your body, pushing you to protect the wilderness it once roamed?

Want to be a gardener whose touch soothes and guides plants?

Want to be the verdant guardian of a sprawling city’s only patch of green?

Want to feel the background noise of the earth in the very depths of your bones, and channel that living sound into playing an instrument you grew and shaped from a tree?

Want to be the only surviving member of a druid circle whose forest was destroyed in some cataclysm that you seek to warn other druid circles of?

Druid! Druid! Druid!

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