i don't think i've talked about my WoLs here. so i will just a little. the cliffnotes.
feilea dealan'de: early to mid 40s rava viera. spent her childhood in the jungle, but has lived most of her life in ul'dah as a dancer and sex worker. she's street smart, charismatic, confident, and flirty; definitely gives the impression that she has it all together, but keeps a lot of her emotions close to her chest. she has a teenage daughter named papillon and a newborn daughter named fjaril who she would do ANYTHING for.
other important OCs include: rildi, an elezen man who left his former life as an ishgardian noble to be a dancer, her former partner and lover (papillon's father); ka'saia, a miqote woman she has known since she started living in ul'dah, another former partner and lover. there's also various dancers and the showrunner of the troupe, but they don't have names and only get mentioned in passing.
feilea is My Main Girl and she's my beautiful glistening wife. i've created a lot of extra stories for her before she becomes a warrior of light, but i experience the story initially through her, so i don't make a ton of modifications to big events. besides the usual transformative stuff.
icarus rhapsody: late 20s midlander hyur. grew up in a traveling theater troupe after losing himself in the bazaars of radz-at-han as a child, and became a dramaturge himself. he's firey, dramatic, self-serving, and also flirty. he's a bit of a mess, but his situation has some serious canon divergence. you see, his childhood friend minerva was the hero, and left to pursue hydelean's call, until she thoughtlessly died at the hands of a garlean prince. and through some soul magic mumbo jumbo, now HE has to do her job of saving the world. as a guy who lives life without many strings attached, this bothers him quite a bit. he's the steward of light and has to hold onto two souls for a while.
other important OCs include: serafino, a taciturn elezen dragoon that he falls in love with while touring through ishgard; amasar/angelus, an au ra childhood friend that he meets again later in life and is also kind of in love with (he's a pacifist gleaner type who eventually is employed in sharlayan). there's minerva too, a kind elezen woman who was co-lead in so many productions her and icarus did together.
icarus is a mashup of a couple different existing characters to make his own (for instance, he looks like genesis rhapsodos but a lot of his character beats are zelos wilder inspired). he's such a little bitch and i love putting him through the emotional wringer. i think he gets more loved by the supporting cast over time despite being so prickly. steward of light!!!
candie appleton: early 20s sea wolf roegydan. a simple girl who grew up on summerford farms outside of limsa lominsa, adopted by hyur parents after a hilarious mix up at birth at sea (her birth mom is a pirate). candie has the simple dream of being Eorzea's Greatest Chef and somehow gets all mixed up into being Eorzea's Champion. she is a sweet angel of a girl, always trying to help with a hot meal, and always wearing her heart on her sleeve. she's a HUGE crybaby. with a GUN. stephanvien ropes her into machinist shenanigans as soon as she walks by the guild in ishgard.
candie doesn't have a TON of important OCs to go with her, but she does have: her parents, warm and salt of the earth lominsans; her pirate birth mom (affectionately called "auntie") who hangs out at the missing member and gives sage sea advice, and her two twin brothers. they're 5-6 years younger than her and FIERCELY protective of her. they become adventurers because of her! hardly any of these people have names though unfortunately, and i really should work on naming them. i have no idea about hyur naming conventions.
candie is kind of a co-opt of another oc (peaches), but with more of that usagi tsukino influence. she's a magical girl to me. she doesn't have the personality of someone who is 6 feet tall but that is a charm point. she's an angel and i love her.
nabi'morpho prisma: mid-20s veena viera. a quiet man with a troubled past. he grew up in the mountains kinda near doma, but when he came of age and was taken to a small hunting group with his father, garleans killed his father and conscripted him into their army. at like. 13. his personality splits and he becomes a ruthless low-ranking officer named "metelek". shortly after the calamity, his original personality surfaces again and he slowly loses his renown, allowing him to slip out of castrum oriens and escape into the gridanian forest. he then joins a bandit group until he has his hear/feel/think moment and narrowly escapes being mauled by a boar in the shroud, and decides to turn his life around and become an adventurer.
i'm still workshopping nabi a little bit--he's fairly quiet and reserved, but polite and even a little daring. but his other half is biting, cruel, and self-serving. i've basically co-opted fray for his headmate metelek. there's nabi and metelek, and together they are nabi'morpho. important to note is that he always wears a mask. he rarely takes it off, only for emphasis, and is anxious about showing his face to others. he has facial markings from both his original tribe and from the bandit group he was a part of. he's also a stunning pretty boy.
nabi is another one that doesn't have a ton of important OCs attached to him: unless you count his headmate, who is EXTREMELY important. there's his bandit group made up of duskwight elezen and rag-tag moon keeper miqote; i want to believe he has a lover within that group but i keep changing my mind about if it's an elezen or miqo woman. they support him even when he becomes an adventurer, but he doesn't really see them again after ARR. nabi is kind of a loner.
it's very exciting to explore plurality again with him--he mirrors a tales of the abyss fanfic that i wanted to write where luke and asch were headmates. it's also another fun way to take the DRK storyline. none of my other WoLs really have a dark streak to their past either (nabi, metelek in particular, is a bit of a sadist) so that is also fun to explore. he also has a direct connection to the garlean empire that the others don't have.
anyway those are my beautiful OCs, i have a carrd for them, but it's fairly outdated. and a hub on my neocities site but that's ALSO getting remodeled so i won't even link that. i love them all. so bmuch.
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