Sa'id, a yuan-ti bard of spirits who's a bit of a troublemaker. They're one of Steadfast's strange bedfellows and is the one who set up the arrangements.

batch of refs for some of my 70s ocs

oc asks! ghost, heartbreak, and skin?

ghost: Who or what haunts your OC? What happened? How do they live with their ghosts?

Helios-33 Helios was very close friends with Cayde before his death, and Cayde dying and the whole Forsaken campaign was incredibly painful and hard for Helios. He held so much anger and grief that he didn’t know where to put it, and revenge fixed nothing, it was an empty salve on a broken open ribcage. Helios carried that grief with him, in the form of mostly anger, and it led him to places he’d rather forget he ever went. 

Helios is mainly an arc titan, but through many talks and meditation sessions and seeking help in his friends and environment, he learns how to harness Solar Light, to honor his lost friend. 

It’s a while after that before Helios is haunted by the ghost of Cayde-6 again. It happens for a bit during that season with the red phantoms on the moon. 

And honestly in a way, he’s learning how to live with his ghosts bc of the whole Crow thing. Helios feels bad about what happened, what he did to Uldren, but mainly bc in the end it wasn’t a proper fight. Should he not have gotten revenge like that? Maybe. But he can’t change the past, he prefers to keep his eyes forward nowadays, with a friend like Crow by his side.

heartbreak: Have they ever had a relationship that ended badly? Experienced some other kind of heartbreak? What happened?

Sa’id Sa’id is my awoken Hunter. He’s had some not great ending romantic relationships in the past, but his biggest heartbreak was the loss of his fireteam. Back in the day, he and two other void hunters were a tight fireteam, the closest bond he’d ever had. In my headcanon, Sa’id’s fireteam was one of the fireteams that went down beneath the Arcology on Titan (yknow the strike back in the day, where Guardians were turned into Hive Crystals. that one.) And Sa’id is the sole survivor of his fireteam, watching the two people he’s closest to get stripped of everything that makes them them, and nearly getting his own Light fully taken away then n there as well. It’s incredibly tragic, and Sa’id’s entire personality changes after the heartbreak and the loss of his friends, his fireteam. Where he used to be a jovial little shit, ye olde stereotypical cocky Hunter, he mellows out a lot. There’s a lingering dread to him, a void (hah ironic) that can never be filled again. Sa’id never touches Void Light again after that encounter, and becomes a purely Solar user. 

skin: How comfortable is your OC in their skin? Do they grapple with anything that lives inside them—a beast, a curse, a failure, a monster? How do they face the smallest, weakest, most horrible version of themself? Are they able to acknowledge it at all?

Cedahn Cedahn is originally a dragon age oc that I’ve just kind of taken out of his original context and plopped into various other universes bc i like him :> His main Thing as a character is that he has deep rooted anger issues that he can not control, there’s a certain bloodlust that overcomes him in a fight, a frenzy that makes him go berserk. He’s incredibly ashamed of this part of himself, however useful it can be in a fight, he hates that he is like this. He strives to always be kind, lead with grace and kindness, he tries so very hard to be good, and yet he can not deny the nature of who he becomes when push comes to shove. 

He tries his best to hide this part of himself, ‘ignore it long enough and it wont be an issue anymore, surely’ type of thinking. This, of course, never works out but yknow. A man can hope. 

Drawtober 22 Last session DnD shenanigans. Levi was too short. Sa'id never swam in the ocean. So a tower was made and Levi wanted to befriend the shark that came over to see them.

So this is from two sessions ago. Sa'id and the crew got to a burned out village. And they talked to a very scary flaming ghost lady

*Seruan Syaikh Hasan al-Banna* Dalam dalam sebuah tulisan yang bertajuk “Bayna al-Ams wa al-Yawm” Syaikh al-Banna menyeru Ikhwanul Muslimin sebagai berikut: Wahai Ikhwan, Anda sekalian bukanlah yayasan sosial dan bukan pula partai politik. Anda pun bukan organisasi temporer yang berorientasi untuk meraih tujuan-tujuan pragmatis tertentu. Akan tetapi, Anda sekalian merupakan ruh yang baru, yang berjalan di hati umat ini, kemudian menghidupkan umat dengan al-Quran. Anda sekalian adalah cahaya baru yang terbit hingga lenyaplah kegelapan materi dan berganti dengan ma’rifatu-Llâh. Anda sekalian merupakan suara dawai yang membubung tinggikan dakwah Rasul saw. Dan termasuk kebenaran yang tidak berlebihan, Anda sekalian merasa sedang mengemban tugas ini, setelah manusia meninggalkannya. Jika dikatakan kepada Anda, “Pada apa kalian menyeru?” maka katakanlah, “Kami menyeru pada Islam yang dibawa oleh Muhammad saw., pemerintahan adalah bagian darinya, dan kebebasan merupakan salah satu kewajiban di antara kewajiban-kewajibannya”. Jika dikatakan kepada Anda, “Ini seruan politik,” maka katakan, “Inilah Islam dan kami tidak mengetahui pembagian seperti itu.” Jika dikatakan kepada Anda, “Kalian para penyeru revolusi,” maka katakanlah, “Kami hanyalah para penyeru kebenaran dan perdamaian; kami meyakininya dan kami menjadi mulia dengannya. Jika kalian mencerai-beraikan kami dan berdiri menghadang dakwah kami, maka sungguh Allah telah mengizinkan kami untuk mempertahankan diri, sementara kalian adalah orang-orang yang pemarah dan zalim.” Jika dikatakan kepada Anda, “Sebenarnya kalian meminta pertolongan dengan individu-individu dan lembaga,” maka katakan, "Kami beriman hanya kepada Allah saja dan kami kafir kepada sembahan-sembahan yang telah kalian persekutukan dengan Allah.” Jika mereka terus dalam permusuhan mereka maka katakan, “Kesejahteraan atas diri kalian. Kami tidak ingin bergaul dengan orang-orang jahil.” (QS al-Qashash [28]: 55). "Seputar Gerakan Islam" (Muhammad Sa'id Abu Za'rur) ------------------ ------------------ #gerakan #harakah #partai #Islam (at Bogor, Indonesia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdfLg2rp-oC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Some Pollys in vaguely different styles

1, 4, and 8 for the writing ask!

1: Answered

4 (What are some of your favorite tropes?): Oh that’s a good one, lets go with The Baleful Polymorph, Flirt Fighting (physical, not verbal), and the DRAMATIC ENTRANCE!

8 (Which OC is your favorite?): Probably Sa’id Ifran from my SciFi WIP. He’s really fun to write and also is one of my most complex characters in terms of what motivates him. He’s also got some fun one liners. 

“Surrender, or I’ll tell my men to shoot with the intent to kill.” 

Sa'id ducked back behind the rock as a bullet broke off a chunk near his head. “What’ve they been doing, shooting with the intent to miss?”

Drawtober 21 Sa'id's back. With a gift from a lovely lady who called him a nice young man. He gets all flustered with praise. Good luck bud

Drawtober 13 Sa'id and his feelings. These happen alot when. You are an aasimar

Drawtober 12 a curious artificer. This might have been directly related to a episode in the campaign where the barbarian and Eldritch knight and the rogue and death cleric were trying to find a way to stop a trap from going off....while Sa'id crept down the hall to find a magical circle and the lady they were looking for

Drawtober 6. You get two since I messed up yesterday and was too tired. Behold the sleepy artificer and his jewelry. The lovely pendant was given to him for being "such a nice young gentleman"

Drawtober 4. I'm kinda too tired from truck day (i should really be used to that by now) But have one of the first wild adventures for Sa'id. He with the help of the death cleric Ann created a water purifier out of some crystals. It will help stop the weird toxic miasma in the sewer systems that are a safe haven for the Myconids and the people avoiding the rough life above ground.

Final goof. Sa'id and his trusty crossbow. Eventually he will get something better to fight with. Or make something

Am dumb and posted this too on my other page: Two sessions ago the DND party got to a burned town and spoke to a very angry fiery spirit.