claire-devereux
Scandalous Heiress and Magic School Dropout
I play Claire Devereux: disgraced socialite and Studium dropout who is trying to build a new life after being disowned and disinherited by her rich family . OOC: 29, Any Pronouns, Queer AF, NYC, Duke ’14
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“I don’t think that every villain in the world actually thinks they’re being a good guy, but I do think that everybody creates a value system that justifies the actions they’re taking, and and I think there’s a difference between those two things. Not everybody believes that they’re on the side of righteousness, but everybody has a way of justifying the actions they’re taking. Not every villain has to be a misunderstood hero, and in fact I think there are a lot of instances throughout history of people who were obviously doing the wrong thing and probably had an understanding of that on some level, but had some rationale or justification for it. A lot of villains in literature and media have these weird, Thanos-esque philosophies of what it is that they’re trying to do, and I think human motivation tends to come from more primal places than that. So a lot of the villains I write can be brilliant or clever (and, in fact, probably should be), but their motivation tends to be primal. They wanna be rich, they wanna have power, they wanna live forever. There’s something deep down that is, when you break it down, not too complex. Right? If you look at the real world, the people that are doing bad stuff don’t need complex motivations. They wanna rule the world! They wanna be rich! They wanna be unafraid that other people can ever screw them over, so they screw other people over. Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundanes of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard.”
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Brennan Lee Mulligan, when asked how to create villains for ttrpgs
(I found this quote to be really meaningful in like…life in general which is why I posted it here. When he said “evil is boring”, it felt like something clicked in me that I had known deep down but hadn’t had the words for.)
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this is my wol Niko i found him in a dumpster
#this has to be one of my favorite OC posts of all time.#does such a good job of communicating this character's essence
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Dear Roleplayers,
If you find a character especially fuckin hot and just wanna rp with them to bang their brains out or have a soft romance, then hey why not say so when you ask that rper to rp.
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a little compilation of my disabled art
winter is especially hard for me because my pain has been too severe to function lately, so consider supporting a disabled and trans artist so that I can still pay my rent.
[ID: 4 different art pieces about disability. the first is an orange and black cluster of speech bubbles with ableist comments and a white disability symbol over it. the 2nd is a white hand with a teal wrist brace flipping off the viewer. the 3rd is the same hand but in rainbow india ink. the 4th is a black and white painting of a trans guys torso holding a forearm crutch with gold top surgery scars. end ID]
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hey if ur a ffxiv rp blog (or have a muse from it) and ur okay with me bothering u REBLOG THIS!!!! I keep seeing new ppl but im not sure who to follow!!!
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Attempt at Employment # 4: Housekeeper
Growing up with a lot of servants, I never really took much interest in what their jobs actually entailed. Most of the time when I saw my servants, they were just standing and looking presentable.
So, when I applied for this housekeeping job, I expected not much more to be asked of me than simply that: looking pretty in a servant outfit.
Imagine my surprise, my utter shock to find that they wanted me to clean and do laundry and many other sordid tasks that I cannot recall at the moment as I’ve largely repressed the whole harrowing ordeal.
Housekeeping, I’ve come to believe, is decidedly not in the Twelve’s plans for me. Better to leave such work to the folksy hoi polloi who undoubtedly find as much joy and passion in cleaning undergarments as they do wrestling in mud at their bonding ceremonies.
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Simone Ashley for The Hollywood Reporter
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Commissions of my OC Claire Devereux
There’s a lot more Claire pieces but I don't want to clog the feed LOL
Art by MadRatBird / Toby Brown
#Claire Devereux#FFXIV RP#FFXIV OC#Female Hyur#hyur midlander#Balmung#ffxiv roleplay#Claire Art#One day SE will let us have both long hair and chic bangs
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Looking for RP Connections (New Main OC):
Name: Claire Devereux
Gender: Woman (She/Her)
Age: 24
Race: Midlander Hyur
Ethnicity: Half Hannish (Mother: Marina Yardeen) - Half Sharlayan (Father: Oberyon Devereux)
Occupation: Studium dropout (Allowed to dropout as a courtesy, but in truth, girl was expelled)
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual
Data Center: Crystal (Balmung)
Personality:
Claire is opinionated, stylish, and generous. She’s a kind person who has more empathy than she lets on, but she unfortunately has a host of less great traits that make it difficult for her to act on her most compassionate instincts.
She can be very insincere and cold when she is in a situation that makes her feel vulnerable. Despite now being broke and desperate, she’s still surprisingly snobby and elitist in ways that come off as bizarrely self-unaware. She still thinks like an heiress with a very much in-tact sense of entitlement. In coping with her lost status and wealth, she is a bit insecure and almost needs to believe she’s still somehow better than others.
She can be surprisingly brave and maternal and encourages people to be their best self (though usually it’s by her definition). She also hates bullies because she is slowly realizing she used to be one.
She understands her new commoner bitch reality, but she clings to the delusional of status she used to have as her last remaining safety blanket. With enough time spent around some more down-to-earth / down-to-Hydaelyn characters, she should eventually evolve past some of this.
Potential RP Hooks for your character to meet Claire and additional info below
(Feel free to message me on here or in game if you want to set up RP. All character types welcome.)
Your character might recognize her face or name as the disgraced party girl mess whose family disowned her: be it as a fellow Thavnairian or someone from Sharlayan who was familiar with her embarrassing exit from the Studium.
She is desperately looking for a job, even though she isn’t good at anything. She could try coming to you. (Even if just to be rejected because roleplaying her responding to misfortune is lots of fun
She carries herself like a noble, but is forced to be out and about on the same streets as everyone else. She’s a superficially appealing mark if your criminal character wants to try to rob her or kidnap her--only to find she hilariously is broke AF
You meet her outside a city in a hilarious but dangerous damsel in distress situation where she tried to do an adventurer leve she wasn’t qualified for and needs rescuing
She is trying to sell off one of her old dresses or accessories to continue her idle and unemployed existence in Eorzea as her funds rapidly deplete.
She slips into old habits and over indulges on fine dining and liquor, only to realize she can’t afford the bill
You see her getting very clearly ripped off as someone who isn’t used to doing her own shopping.
You are an adventurer in the mood to mentor a hilariously inept and spoiled novice who clearly wasted her magical talents in her youth and is dreadfully behind in every facet of spellcasting. She clearly has a gift for magic, but it’s yet another thing she had handed to her and never did anything to develop or earn.
RP Preferences:
Adventure:
I love GMing adventure RP. Claire is clueless when it comes to adventure stuff, so I would be improvising some scenario where she desperately needs your character’s help completing a leve OR rescuing her. I am well versed in the lore and used to run an RP guild.
Slice of Life:
Claire is deeply into the finer things in life and can talk your ear off about all things related to food, drink, and fashion. But she’s also broke now so she will be hoping to hear about your life and vicariously live through you if you have any modicum of success.
Mystery:
I write a mean mystery storyline for RP, so if you’re interested in being part of that, I am happy to run it. Claire would be a supporting character, but the non-Claire characters would largely be the ones interacting with the story. Think DnD or other TTRPG systems.
Romance:
Claire is pretty open to romance, but she’s still figuring herself out and is still a bit of a snobby brat so that growth would have to be a part any romantic interactions.
ERP:
Claire is currently avoiding sex as part of her disgraced reputation includes being slut-shamed. Maybe down the road with the right person, but for now, she’s trying really hard to be good as her relationship with sexuality has been damaged by toxic social pressures.
Free Company:
I am open to joining RP Free Companies if necessary, but I’m sentimentally attached to my current free company and would rather RP without joining your company. Happy to join Linkshells though!
Rambles about making Claire:
After a long hiatus from FFXIV RP, I’m dipping my toes back into it with a new OC.
During my hiatus I built on the old Arden character and tried to connect more with the kind of arc I have in mind for her.
I realized I love stories about heroines who are deeply flawed and who are trying to rise from their mistakes, but I also decided that I wanted to write a character who didn’t completely belong in FFXIV adventurer culture. I wanted both a defrosting ice queen redemption situation, but also a fish out of water storyline.
Inspiration
I took inspiration from Jane Austen’s Emma in the way she earnestly thought she knew best for everyone and in the way she has never truly challenged herself.
Mostly I was inspired by Alexis Rose from Schitt’s Creek and Tahani Al Jamil from The Good Place to warp Arden from a roguish anti-hero to a self-absorbed, ultra-privileged party girl who is desperately trying to reclaim the status, fortune, and reputation she has lost. Both these characters lose their riches and fame, but that background hilariously colors everything they do while also giving them room to grow dramatically.
Every character has a bit of myself in it for psychological realism and catharsis. For her party girl background and Studium fall from grace, I took inspiration from my own ridiculous and ill-advised night life addiction during my undergraduate studies at Duke in terms of her party girl mistakes and mishaps. I look back on so many times where I felt unfairly judged for the partier reputation I had gotten but at the same time, knew all those mistakes were very much of my own making. That dissonance is definitely being brought to this character:
She knows she messed up, but deep down she both knows she had her reasons and knows those reasons weren’t good enough to excuse her behavior. She was using substances, alcohol, and partying to heal something that was broken in herself, but it was a selfish pursuit that damaged both her relationships, her own reputation, and the reputation of her family. She was so consumed with self-medicating her own pain that she had no thought of the ripple effects.
Fast forward to the present. She’s starting over in Eorzea where most people don’t know her as the disgraced Thavnairian FORMER heiress who disgraced herself while studying abroad in Sharlayan and got herself disinherited and disowned.
She has some magical abilities, but she spent so much of her time in school cultivating this sexy, rich, ice queen, fashionista persona that most of that talent has gone to waste. However prodigious she was a child, she has nothing to show for it as an adult other than simple magic tricks that would barely impress first and second year students back in Sharlayan.
The moment her life comes crashing down and she’s disconnected from her wealth, all of her so-called friends no longer choose to or need to tolerate her antics, ego, and indiscretions. She had built an entire social life on who her parents were and what she could afford. And now she has nothing.
Which is the most fertile and delicious place for a character to be. I’ve come to realize I love a character who is a failure. It’s comedic as she stumbles through learning how to be a commoner, it’s dramatic as she struggles to figure out who she really is without status or money or power, and it’s exciting to see how hard she will try to reclaim her old life---and even more exciting to see, after making friends and building a version of herself of her own design, whether that old life is something she even wants anymore.
#ffxiv roleplay#ffxiv rp#crystal data center#balmung#Claire Devereux#FFXIV#hyur midlander#female hyur
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We have a lot to say about Harry Potter and the myriad of horrible, problematic, racist, classist, sexist, etc. things embedded into the foundation of the story that will be explored throughout Misfits and Magic.
And because it always needs to be said - trans rights, fuck TERFs.
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A simple reminder you are free to unfollow me/block me if you feel like my presence on your dashboard is bothering you.
I promise I won't call you out for that, I won't make vague posts about it or pop in your DMs to ask you why.
You are free to curate your experience and if my presence muddles your experience, please unfollow/block me without fear. I promise I won't come after you.
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20+ Mechanics and Ideas To Spice Up Your D&D Combat!
Synchronised Button Pushes. Three obelisks stand far apart from each other, and need to be activated occasionally at the same time to prevent disaster (a sleeping monster waking, a magical explosion, etc). Each obelisk is guarded, either by a trap or a creature.
Hostage Situation. The enemies have hostages.
Floating Isles. A series of small floating islands all over, with the gravity changing direction each round.
Wild Magic Zone. There’s a Wild Magic Storm raging all around, causing every casting of a Spell to create a Wild Magic Surge!
Guerrilla Tactics. A boss that, instead of standing in a big room exchanging attacks with the party, fights dirty. Casting spells under Greater Invisibility, escaping to take the fight into a new, more favourable room, forcing the Party to chase them and guiding them into traps, etc.
The Floor is Lava. The combat arena is overflowing slowly with some dangerous substance, hindering party’s movement more and more with each turn.
Flaming Buildings! Enemies keep lighting everything on fire! The Party needs to keep putting out the fires or keep them contained while fighting the enemies.
Dockside Battle. The Party is fighting on a dock or boat, with underwater enemies trying to pull them beneath the waves!
Collapsing Dungeon! The entire area is collapsing, causing parts of the ground to fall away and debris to fall from above each round.
Avalanche! The battle takes place right in the middle of an avalanche!
Abyssal Portal. While the boss fight is going on, a powerful artifact needs to be destroyed or else a portal will open to the Abyss and Demons will pour out.
Dark Ritual. The Party must fight through the baddies, but also stop the ritual from completing.
Tall Grass. There’s very tall grass all around, giving everyone cover and giving enemies a new way to hide.
Sea Monster. Successfully steer a ship to safety that is being attacked by a sea monster.
Kill the Messenger. The enemy has sent a messenger to go get backup, and if it’s not taken care of quickly, a larger force will arrive and overwhelm the Party. If the messenger is killed quickly enough, then the bad guys could retreat, surrender, or release another messenger, depending on what you’re going for.
Silent Combat. The Party and the Big Bad are fighting in a situation where any sound would be equally detrimental to both sides. Maybe there’s a sleeping dragon nearby, or any concussive forces would set off an avalanche or a room collapse. Whatever it is, the fight must be conducted in relative silence or disastrous things could happen.
Tsunami of Death. A strange liquid (acid, lava, etc.) flows through the arena and expands each round, with new flows snaking across the battlefield as the battle goes on.
Dead Magic Zone. The battle takes place in area completely devoid of any magic, making casting spells both arcane and divine (including healing spells) impossible.
Magical and Mechanical Minefield. The Big Bad Boss is Invisible in an area filled with traps and magical glyphs. The Bad Guy won’t willingly step onto the traps or trigger the magical glyphs, but a Party of oblivious Adventurers however…
Possession. The Boss is a Ghost that possesses different friendly NPCs, turning them hostile until they’re knocked unconscious or killed outright.
Shipwreck! A fight underwater after a shipwreck, with other crew and passengers that need to be rescued before they drown.
Cliffside Combat. The Party are at the top of a cliff or fighting on an out-cropping on the face of a cliff. The enemies are attempting to scale it and the Party needs to continually kick them back down while not letting themselves be pulled off or falling to a grizzly death.
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my personal curse is the knowledge that I function best with rigid structure and strict routine but am almost totally incapable of independently establishing or maintaining that structure and routine
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Honestly as a blind person I’m so tired of seeing fictional blind characters who don’t use white canes or other guides. “They have special powers so they know what’s around them” or “they’re confident enough to not need a guide” are common tropes, and I’m tired.
Are people scared that using a white cane will make their blind character seem weak? They can’t use a cane because they’re so special that they already know what’s around them, and other blind people who use guides are inferior because they’re not special?
I’m tired. Give your blind characters white canes and other guides. Let them hold onto their friends, let them have guide dogs. Don’t make white cane users feel ostracized for not being “strong enough” to go without.
Another thing that pisses me off is when a sighted character comes up with the fantasy equivalent of braille and teaches it to the blind character. Braille was invented by Louis Braille, a blind man, in 1824. The blind character should be the one coming up with it.
Tldr I’m blind and tired of sighted people lol
🔪 Sighted People MUST Reblog This 🔪
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