Navaan - as I have mentioned several times in various places, Navaan is just a wild gremlin character that I could do whatever I wanted with. I have no idea what I was thinking when I apped her the first time, probably something very similar to "I need a character that is a rest for my brain," but this time, I ended up rereading some of her classes and laughing my way through them and immediately decided I needed to do that again.
Senshi - I just love Delicious in Dungeon/Dungeon Meshi. And Senshi is just the very best character is it. He's warm and lovable, everything is a teachable moment, he has surprising tragic depth...
So far, there are two problems I am running into: 1) I apped him precanon and that's actually very rough, because there are a bunch of experiences he only has after canon starts that I can't draw on, and 2) ....So remember above when I mentioned I needed narrative arcs? Well...guess who doesn't have one. And yeah, I'm struggling.
Adrian - So, I knew Navaan was on her way out, and I've found 3-4 is a good number for me, so I'd started idly looking for replacements. Not like a proper hunt, but just keeping an eye out. (Y'all nearly got a magical teahouse instead, but I couldn't find good icons.) I started reading Hell For Hire because I enjoy Rachel Aaron and had apped Julius (I'm sorry, bby, I did you dirty) and Opal (who was around as an NPC for a BDE) from her books, and I figured, what the hell? I'm gonna read it anyway, might as well keep an eye out for an appable character. At first, I was fixated on Bex, a Demon Queen fighting to free her people, and feels useless and small compared to all the stories of her past selves (when she dies, she is reincarnated as an infant with no memories of her past). Also, she has a baller Winnebago. Prime Nu-bait. But, other than the potential for her as a high school student, there's no convenient place to app her from and no way she would leave her loyal band of demons behind.
And for a hot second, I was like, "guess not," until I realized that...while Bex was prime Nu-bait, the character I was actually enjoying the most was Adrian, not Bex. Blindingly smart, a super nerd about magic, loves the land and growing things, is passionate about JUSTICE! He's the moral inverse of Liliana. And he's somewhere between my two extremes. On the one had, he's a very powerful witch and he takes big risks because he's certain he can pull them off...and on the other hand, this is literally his first time out of the forest and around people who aren't his family since he was 13 and 1/2. He's a really fun mix of a grown man who knows exactly who he is and what he wants, but he's still learning about the world and how he fits in with other people, and learning about himself through that angle.
Just an absolutely great melding of (two of) my favorite tropes and I like him so much, I'm looking for pale guys with curly hair because I wanna do right by him.
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Senshi - I just love Delicious in Dungeon/Dungeon Meshi. And Senshi is just the very best character is it. He's warm and lovable, everything is a teachable moment, he has surprising tragic depth...
So far, there are two problems I am running into: 1) I apped him precanon and that's actually very rough, because there are a bunch of experiences he only has after canon starts that I can't draw on, and 2) ....So remember above when I mentioned I needed narrative arcs? Well...guess who doesn't have one. And yeah, I'm struggling.
Adrian - So, I knew Navaan was on her way out, and I've found 3-4 is a good number for me, so I'd started idly looking for replacements. Not like a proper hunt, but just keeping an eye out. (Y'all nearly got a magical teahouse instead, but I couldn't find good icons.) I started reading Hell For Hire because I enjoy Rachel Aaron and had apped Julius (I'm sorry, bby, I did you dirty) and Opal (who was around as an NPC for a BDE) from her books, and I figured, what the hell? I'm gonna read it anyway, might as well keep an eye out for an appable character. At first, I was fixated on Bex, a Demon Queen fighting to free her people, and feels useless and small compared to all the stories of her past selves (when she dies, she is reincarnated as an infant with no memories of her past). Also, she has a baller Winnebago. Prime Nu-bait. But, other than the potential for her as a high school student, there's no convenient place to app her from and no way she would leave her loyal band of demons behind.
And for a hot second, I was like, "guess not," until I realized that...while Bex was prime Nu-bait, the character I was actually enjoying the most was Adrian, not Bex. Blindingly smart, a super nerd about magic, loves the land and growing things, is passionate about JUSTICE! He's the moral inverse of Liliana. And he's somewhere between my two extremes. On the one had, he's a very powerful witch and he takes big risks because he's certain he can pull them off...and on the other hand, this is literally his first time out of the forest and around people who aren't his family since he was 13 and 1/2. He's a really fun mix of a grown man who knows exactly who he is and what he wants, but he's still learning about the world and how he fits in with other people, and learning about himself through that angle.
Just an absolutely great melding of (two of) my favorite tropes and I like him so much, I'm looking for pale guys with curly hair because I wanna do right by him.