So last night I finally got the courage to paint my doll leaves Teresa and Lan that I've been putting off for a year.....but being....you know...me.
I decided to paint both of the at the same time
So Teresa's face up was OK...face decorations were a struggle cuse I'm heavy handed
And then there's Lan....
Instead of following my original design I decided "... NAH! we can do a more complicated eye look" HOLY CHRIST!!! It took an hour for my eyes to recover, my eyes were crosseded from focusing on the face decals 🥵😫
Our party went to a market place and a merchant now lives rent free in my head. He fed my little boy's bird a pistachio. He gave an eleven year old a business card so he can get some discount from other merchant guild peeps(?), he fucking sat down on the ground to talk to Tim cause he's about twice as tall and clearly knows how to talk to short people.
That was what this mirror, simple and unaduming in its carved wooden frame, was labeled as.
Amaya had found the thing whilst helping to clean years worth of dark magic stained dust out of her wives freshly reclaimed family home/Palace.
It took her a moment, and a glance downwards, to find out why.
Looking back up at her with big, started eyes, was herself.
Well, a version of her self from many, many years ago.
Her reflection, and she was sure that little amaya was a reflection and not some other magical bullshit, looked so small in her patched, worn tunic, so... afraid.
Amaya could clearly remember this time of her life, when she and her sister had nothing to rely on but there wits and each other-they had run away from home that spring and winter had been fast approaching.
Stars above, how had she ever been that thin?
How she wanted to be able to take that skinny, frightened little fawn in her arms, to hold her close and tell her that by the time midwinter came about she'd have a warm bed and a loving adoptive mother, that she'd be big and strong one day.
And to cherish every moment with sarai.
A flash of movement behind her caught her attention, and amaya watched as young sunelf dressed in a traditional yellow school tunic and sandles hopped down the stairs to stand next to little amaya.
Janai, as it turned out, was just as surprised to see the mirror as Amaya was.
"I can't believe I was ever that short." She mused, apparently fixated on the shortish natural hair her younger self was rocking. "Or that I thought my biggest problem was khessa borrowing my combs and not giving them back."
-sisters huh?- amaya grinned, something mirrored by her gap toothed younger self.
"Oh yes." Little janai turned out to have a truly adorable smile, which quickly faded when she fully took in the sight of young Amaya’s sad state . "... why do you look like an abused puppy?"
-its... a bit of a long story, sunbeam, want to take a break and grab some tea?-
Janai gave Amaya a bit of a sideways look, but agreed.
Goodness I am STRUGGLING because I am a very free reign dm, but someone I barely know wanting to play means I can't really tell what she's looking for in a campaign. Especially
This is Sariel, and they're the first non-binary and intersex character I'll hopefully be playing in a longer campaign setting. They're a sunelf paladin who plans to take the oath of the ancients and fights to protect ancient magicks and the beauty of life itself in the world. They worship a homebrew god of life and vitality but aren't completely opposed to killing if it means preservation of other (in their eyes superior) or more life. I want to lean into moral greyness, making them more of a chaotic alignment rather than the lawful stupidity that is so stereotypical to paladins.
I had an enby character for a one-shot before, and the DM at the time just was very adamant that they needed to know what was in their pants, so I just answered with "yes, all of the above". This is a different DM, but I just wanted to make 1000% clear that they are neither man nor woman and should be treated as such.
Although I lean closer to femininity on the spectrum, even within my fluidity, and I have no trouble playing a woman, I rarely get to roleplay something closer to who I am at heart.
I am very excited as this will also be a very, very queer campaign from the looks of it. DnD when I first started in 3.5 edition, used to be a nerdy boy hobby, but that is changing and that's also how I finally started to feel safe exploring my gender through this character as well. Previously to this and the one shot, I had mostly female characters, and all were a binary gender. Hope to share cool stories as Sariel grows and flourishes!
Artstyle was heavily inspired by Dio from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure 💕
@pmseymourva I need to thank you because you’ve given me inspiration to draw...
HER
She’s a Sun elf (doesn’t have a name yet I’m still working on that)
She’s warm....like really warm,so warm in fact that she doesn’t need to wear winter clothes(buuut she might bc she finds them cute),she has fire powers annnnddd that’s all I got.
For now.
I do have a story for her but it’s......well....very rough.
So..thank you.There wouldn't be Her if it wasn’t for you and Cy.