PerfectThought

The Odyssey

Shame. Been eyeing this up on and off. But y'know what they say, men want what they can't have. Do ping me if it ends up you need a sub or have room in the boot for a very sleepy Eldritch Dream God. :)

Pacific Royal Collegiate & University - [CLOSED]

@Lord Wraith Canadian :(

Life in Gloomminster

Here's my character sheet, let me know what you think :)

Character Sheet

"We're the same, you and I. I'm your mouth and your my eyes."

Names: Areya Pierre (left) & Phynnia Pierre (Right)
Species: Elvish + non-human

Age: Phynnia is 21, Areya is ageless

Gender: both are female

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Apperance

Areya -- A small doll that has red hair and blue eyes. She was made to be Phynnia's height when she was nine (9) years old as Phynnia is unable to see clearly. She is then as short as 4'9" (roughly 144.8cm) and weighs about 63.9lb(28.58kg).
Phynnia -- A young woman in her early 20s. She has dark blonde hair and unknown colour of eyes. Her parents asked her to keep her veil over her eyes until the day she dies. She has respected their wishes and keeps it on. Her height is roughly 5'3" (160cm) and she weighs about 120lbs (54.4kg)

Peronsality

Both girls are quite reserved and not known to throw tantrums or speak loudly around others. They are not shy, they would just rather enjoy being with each other than having to be with others. They will make friends, but also keep them distant enough to not reveal too much about them. They are quite smart and know how to work around problems.
Areya has more expressions than Phynnia (obviously because she can see and Phynnia cannot). She has learned a lot about the world and how expressions work.
Phynnia is cheeky and can make a mess of herself. While she is reserved, she can be blunt and quite harsh towards others. She has a medical condition that makes her lack the emotion capability to feel pain, sadness, etc. The same medical condition also affects her eye sight.

History

Phynnia used to live in a town near Gloomminister. Her life was full of riches, which is why she was able to obtain Areya as her helper and, soon, a sister. She had many toys and dolls alike, but none could ever compare.
One night, Phynnia's father comes home with a dejected look on his face. He sits down in a char, slumped. Her mother, the loveliest elf the young girl new, comes in asking the father, "What's wrong with you?" Her father slowly looks up at her. His eyes looked tired, and he had a white face. He only mutters, "We're bankrupt."
After that, nothing was the same. Phynnia still had her parents, but they didn't look like they loved each other anymore. Areya had become a punching bag for a while, getting hit in the face (which is why she's unable to talk properly anymore). Eventually, Phynnia was able to attain acceptance to Glimminister. Areya came along as an assistant to Phynnia (they can't be apart since that's the only way Phynnia can see and do things.)

@AriiBird

Ooh, slightly spooky, very original. I like the idea, but it could do with a little polishing.

First of all, it's not a major issue, but there are a couple of pretty noticeable typos scattered in it. (Personality and Appearance are both misspelled, and both being headings it's pretty noticeable. As well as Gloomminster being spelled as 'Gloomminister' as well as 'Glimminster'.) It's a bit of a nitpick and not a major issue, but it's a quick fix and would improve it. One of the reasons we do a draught is to just catch those little things, so a read-through for typos would be greatly appreciated. We all do it (especially if you're on mobile, I get it, it's a bitch) and there's no issue, but I would greatly appreciate it.

Next, her backstory is a little vague, I have a couple of questions I'd appreciate being answered: 1) Why did her parents ask her to wear a veil over her eyes? Is it for religious reasons? So she has access to magical powers (it lets her see possible futures could be one idea)? It says at one point her parents asked her to wear it until the day she dies, is that because she's deformed? It's somewhat implied she chooses to wear the veil and that's why she can't see and then later it says she can't see because of a disability.

2) Why can't she feel sadness or pain? Pain isn't an emotion for one. Are pain and sadness the only issues? Does she struggle with empathy or similar? I somewhat understand the inability to feel pain as it adds to her delicate, porcelain vibe, but what purpose does her inability to feel sadness serve to her as a character?

3) It's implied Areya sees for Phynnia, but if Areya can't speak, how does she communicate with Phynnia? Do they have a telepathic link? That's fine, but if so please state it. Also, does Areya look like a human girl, or is she noticeably a doll? Does she have chipped paint, and wooden joints? Is she visibly made of porcelain or something? And it's implied Areya is fully sentient, please just confirm that, or is she puppeted somehow by Phynnia? How does Phynnia view Areya? As a possession, a servant, or a sister?

4) What's she studying at Gloomminster? Could be anything! Get creative! Telekinesis to help 'feel' the world around her? Alchemy to help her father get out of debt?

5) About her father, does Areya or Phynnia feel resentment towards him for his mistreatment of Phynnia? Are they still in contact with him? It's optional, but it might help improve depth by saying what her father did, how they were rich, and why they suddenly lost it all.

Either way, really like the idea of the character, but it could do with a little bit of polishing, and then it's ready to go! Thanks for your interest. And please take this all in the best way possible, I really like her, but there are a few unanswered questions is all. :)

Dreaming Together With You - A Fading Memory Experiment - On Hiatus

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Ambrose is going to LOVE Aleyn....he won't but I like to think it.

@Taka

The three evils musketeers.

Life in Gloomminster

@PerfectThought Here's my character sheet so far. Lmk what you think! Happy to adjust it if needed

Minerva “Min” Yoon Character Sheet

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Minerva "Min" Yoon

"It's aliveeeeee!... Uh oh. Maybe this is why people shouldn't play god."

Picrew Source

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Summary

Name: Minerva “Min” Yoon
Species: Human
Age: 18
Sex/gender: Female
Pronouns: She/they

Personality: Min is overeager, obsessive, and ambitious. She’s a curious spirit who has a true passion and talent for creating artificial mystic life (golems, homunculi, and the like), but sometimes this obsession rules over her life. She supposedly prizes efficiency, and will often try to use magic to find better, or easier ways of doing simple tasks. She has an intrepid, entrepreneurial spirit that pushes her to try to improve things and convince others to do the same. Paradoxically, this can often lead her to spend too much time fixating on improving a single task. And when it comes to things that she isn’t so skilled at, she can become bored quickly unless someone or something manages to focus her attention.

While she tries her best to be friendly towards others, she can be somewhat bossy or pushy, unaware of her somewhat eccentric personality, especially when it comes to exploring the limits of creation magic. Growing up an only child forced her to befriend her own living creations instead of others, resulting in her somewhat awkward social habits. However, she does truly care about others even if she seems rather occupied at times, and will try to help those in need when she breaks away from her work.

History: Min grew up in Linkhaven, a city built upon the crossroads of some of the largest trade routes of the country. Her parents owned a homey, but busy, bed-and-breakfast called the Honey Lavender Inn, that catered to dozens—sometimes hundreds of patrons each day—serving enchanted baked goods and providing charming places to rest. With businesspeople, artisans, and merchants coming in and out, Min learned much about the trades and developed an ambitious (albeit obsessive) mindset around the arts, magic, and business. As an only child, she felt somewhat lonely and often took to bothering patrons.

However, while her parents were skilled magicians, talented at enchantment, potion brewery, and a variety of other magical studies that made running the inn easier, Min struggled with basic magic. She thought she would end up in a non-magical field such as accounting or law, but as she grew older, she found that she had a knack for creating and commanding artificial life. While her potions soured and her prophecies failed, she could imbue clay statues or origami figures with sparks of life—or at least, a mimicry of it. Soon, she was obsessing over her creations, experimenting with homunculi, golems, and elementals. Although she was unskilled in every other form of magic, she truly felt she excelled at the creation of magical artificial life. She began having her own simple, rudimentary golems take over duties at the Honey Lavender Inn, baking goods, doing chores, and serving customers.

With her parents beginning to grow older and more frequently ill, she’s realized she needs to strengthen her magical ability so that she can take over the family business fully. Thankfully, she has been accepted into Gloomminister and seeks to further hone her skill with magical artificial life, as well as develop her lack of practice in other mystic fields.

Skills: artificial life magic, enchantment, artistry, business
Weaknesses: obsessive nature, most other forms of magic

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Appearance

Height: 5’7
Weight: 125 lbs
Build: Slender, long limbs
Eyes: Purple
Hair: White, slightly purple hue
Skin Tone: Brownish beige
Tattoos/Scars/Piercings/Features: Round glasses and freckles
Personal Style: Min likes wearing casual academic clothing. Sweater vests, button-up shirts, blazers, and trenchcoats, all often in her signature color palette of white and different shades of purple.

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Other Stuff

Hobbies:

• Arts and Crafts, especially sculpting
• Entrpreneurship
• Tinkering

Fears:

• Becoming truly alone
• Failure
• Being proven wrong

Likes:

• Oddities, especially artificial life
• Pushing the boundaries of magic
• Attention

Dislikes:

• Busy-work, or anything that draws her away from her obsessions
• Inefficiency
• Boredom

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@scrawls

Looks great! One thing, you mentioned she's at Gloomminster Uni. What specifically is she doing? This is more so to help flesh out the world than to determine anything else, but it might crossover with other characters' classes or something similar. For example, is she doing something like Organic Alchemy combined with Arcane Automata, or something like that?

Life in Gloomminster

Bonnie Cunningham

Species: Human (Ethnically Druidic)
Age: 24
Sex/gender: Female

Appearance: Sitting at a firm 5'2 with fair skin, freckles, and a huge mane of unruly iron-coloured hair. Her features match that of classic Brigaentic descent. (Brigaentes being the now amalgamated ancient indigenous tribes of the island Prydain, the isles in which Gloomminster resides).

Personality: Bonnie spends large amounts of time dedicated to reading and the collection of knowledge, this combined with her natural intelligence means she is quite smart, however, she is very airheaded and could be oft described as somewhat dopey. With such a mind comes a ferocious curiosity and she regularly reaches down to her Druidic roots and performs Druidic rituals, imbuing herself with the magical properties of certain plants.
History: The youngest daughter of 8 Bonnie was raised by her father solely by her father after her mother's tragic death giving birth to her, a man almost as passionate about books and the collection of knowledge as her. After her father's passing, she inherited the family bookshop after all her other older siblings moved away from the family business or Gloomminster altogether. Currently, she has 2 siblings in the city, her eldest brother working on the Spronthunting boats after which the area of West Sprontside is named. He lives just down the road and they regularly meet for dinner, they are very close. The other working on the opposite side of the city, Bonnie's sister that's closest in age. She is a hotshot lawyer working for a pharmaceutical alchemist and rarely has time for her family

Spronthunting is somewhat comparable to whaling, using massive ships and Arcane Conduits that feed off of the abyssal energy of the Great Bentrane the charge up massive Thaumaturgic Coils which are employed to telekinetically lift massive sea creatures known as 'Spronts' straight from the water. Spronts are then butchered and the relevant parts are sold off. It's a brutal job and very dangerous, but the pay is very good and the sense of brotherhood among Spronthunting crews is unmatched.

Bonnie is very proud of her ancestry and treasures her family history. They originated from the small isle of Landune, on which they kept a great library of Arcane Lore, Forbidden texts, and Magical tomes. Pilgrims would travel great distances just to read from its reams of knowledge. However, the family was forced to abandon the Isle due to encroaching tides, with them they brought as many texts as they could, making the perilous crossing to the nearby Gloomminster, during the crossing many precious manuscripts were lost to the waves, however, they managed to make it over mostly unharmed. Once in Gloomminster, they set up once again, in the far less grand building that now exists as Cunningham's Bookshop. Over the years the grandeur of the place has dwindled, and their legacy has faded into obscurity. But Bonnie now manages the Bookshop and attends Gloomminster University (studying Arcane Lore and Magicka Arcana) in the hopes of restoring the Cunningham name back into the legendary keepers of knowledge they were once known as. In her free time, she enjoys exploring the urban wilderness, experimenting with rituals and substances, and expanding her inner architecture through mildly taboo Druidic rituals.

Life in Gloomminster

Well well well,

we gotta stop meeting like this lol

Count me in Thought

I call dibs on a magic artificer

@Blizz

Don't let them know how mentally ill I am. Glad to have you. :)

Life in Gloomminster

On the topic of course of studies? Would "Magical/Mythical Zoology" be an apporopriate option? XD

@LostDestiny

Yep! Definitely!

Pacific Royal Collegiate & University - [CLOSED]

"I am in no way, shape, or form a fighter."

@Mao Mao

>Is 6'1 and 200lbs.