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About 2 weeks ago I had one of my more aggressive anxiety attacks after a power outage, and after coming back down and finally being able to sleep, I dreamed of my JoJo’s ‘Stand’ if I were to have one.
Name: Bright&Beautiful
Namesake: All Things Bright and Beautiful (Owl City album)
Type: Sentient non-humanoid
Destructive Power: E
Range: B (50 meters)
Speed: D
Durability: A
Precision: C
Development: C

Physical Traits: Bright&Beautiful is a ‘Stand’ the same size and shape as a king-sized comforter with the feel of extremely soft fleece. On one side pastel red with 5 pastel blue hearts, and the other pastel yellow with pastel pink hearts in the same correlation. On each of the for corners is a soft 3-fingered muppet-like hand colored the same pastel blue. On the blanket side opposite of the direction the hearts are pointing is a hood with 2 purple button eyes on either side of a yellow dial nose, forming the ‘Stand’s head.
Bright&Beautiful is based off of a security blanket, and as such is extremely soft and cuddly to the touch. If covering a person’s face, Bright&Beautiful can be freely breathed through, functioning like a gas mask. And like a normal blanket, Bright&Beautiful can regulate the body temperature of whomever it swaddles based upon their needs.

Personality: Bright&Beautiful has a personality set of thoughts all of its own. It hates to see people in emotional turmoil, and does all it can within its power to calm them down. However, its prime objective is to keep its master safe, usually wrapped around them to do just that. Bright&Beautiful is a complete pacifist, and refuses to do harm to anyone or anything.

Durability: Bright&Beautiful is immune to most types of physical damage; absorbing the energy of such things as blasts, bludgeons, punctures, and slashes and dispercing it.

Aftercare: Bright&Beautiful is all about mental health and fortifying it. It will wrap around a person and swaddle them, and then cover their head with its hood. This forms a mental link between the ‘Stand’ and the swaddled, allowing Bright&Beautiful to look deeply into the swaddled’s mind. It sees their memories, their traumas, their victories, everything is revealed to Bright&Beautiful. Bright&Beautiful remembers everything it has ever learned about a person, but will never reveal that information to anyone, not even its master. It then uses what it’s learned to perform any number of therapies based upon what the person its helping needs to feel safe.
Aftercare plays around with the perceptions of the person its used on, such as what they smell, see, and hear. Bright&Beautiful changes the person’s perceptions to whatever they find the most comforting.
Bright&Beautiful is a ‘Stand’ of completion, and refuses to cease Aftercare until the swaddled’s emotional state is fully healed, even if the master is endangered.

Unlike Crazy Diamond, Bright&Beautiful is fully incapable of healing physical wounds and diseases. Its healing is completely focused on the mind. If someone is dying of such a mortal affliction, Bright&Beautiful will swaddle the person and activate “Aftercare” to make sure that they die with peace of mind.

I’ve been wanting to do something like this for a looking time ❤
This is the older Riolu Ungart holding his beloved daughter Paupricosh when she was a toddler.
I’m not suuuper happy with how I drew her in this one, but I think Riolu turned out beautifully.

D&D Sweeties

For some reason, no matter my initial intention, every D&D character I make turns into a big sweetie.

We’ll start with Riolu, my first real character.

When I first made Riolu, he was initially a self-loathing Transmutation Wizard whom was very self-depreciating because of his half-elven half-dwarven heritage. However, as I started playing him more, that portrayal just didn’t feel right. About a year ago, I redesigned him as a much kinder, much gentler Druid of the Moon. This portrayal of him was much more caring and felt sooo much better and more organic to play. Now that the campaign he was in ended, I kept developing him now having a daughter in Paupricosh, which helps me segwey into her.

Paupricosh was initially made to be the complete opposite of Riolu. However, I couldn’t go through with it because I loved her so much. when I started making her, I felt this pang of love for her, and a desire to protect her. Most of the time she is a complete and total sweetheart like her father. However, she is bipolar and can switch into a vindictive state where she becomes completely cruel and uncaring, but those moments are few, far between, and don’t last more than a few minutes.

Last up is the character I just started playing, Roku.

I initially made Roku while rewatching Avatar: The Last Airbender, hence his name. He was originally going to be this big, badass, brutish character who takes no shit, which is why his expression is so gruff in his original artwork (pictured above).

However, 2 sessions in and the trope continued. My portrayal of him softened. He is a very honorable warrior, but takes no shit and will fight to the death for his new allies. The first time he went to a restaurant, he walked right up to the bar and sat down on 2 stools (due to his massive size), and politely ordered 10 orders of chicken and dumplins. He even tipped the barmaid and the chef an additional gold each as a thank you for feeding him. He is always respectful and grateful of those that give him food. Most of his lines go like “Hi. Me Roku. What your name?” Reason for this is because he’s not used to speaking common, and so he talks like a young child. He’s trying to be a good person.

Albeit, he doesn’t always make the kindest choices (ex. He held his Greataxe under the chin of a wererat and threatened to kill him for harming his companions).

Even though he has an aversion to orcs (backstory), he’s still civil to the half-orc blood hunter and the meth orc (I’m not kidding. There is a person who playing a meth orc in his party. It switches from hilarious to a little too much at the drop of a hat). Originally he was planning on eating them, but he took one sniff and realized they both smelled toxic (blood hunter tonic and meth), and decided to let them live. However, in the case of the blood hunter at least, Roku’s developing a respect for him. Roku respects his battle prowess and conviction to his goals, and is actually helping him achieve his first one now.

I’m not sure what it is, but regardless of my initial intention of a character, they all turn into sweeties. Do I find this to be a problem? No. I feel the opposite. The fact that my characters always try to be good people, even without me trying to make them that way, adds a layer of humanity to the party, and I love that.

25 Questions For Your D&D Characters and OCs

ethantherenegade:

  1. What is this character’s alignment?
  2. What is a notable quote from this character? Alternatively, what is their favorite quote?
  3. Summarize your character’s backstory with no more than three sentences.
  4. Describe your character using a song title.
  5. Are there any story arcs you would like this character to explore?
  6. What would your character like (or have liked) to do with their life?
  7. Who is your character’s best friend?
  8. Who is your character’s worst enemy?
  9. Who has, for better or worse, had the most impact on your character’s life?
  10. What is the most badass thing this character has done?
  11. What crime is this character most likely to be convicted of?
  12. What meme would you use to describe the character?
  13. Does this character swear frequently?
  14. What is this character’s relationship with religion or the church?
  15. Would this character ever make a deal with a devil or dark spirit?
  16. Emotion or Logic?
  17. Soup or Salad?
  18. What is the character’s favorite Pokémon? 
  19. What Pokémon Go team would they be on?
  20. Is your character currently in love? Is there anyone in love with your character?
  21. Do you ship your character with any other characters? (This includes characters from other universes and canons)
  22. How would this character seduce a lover?
  23. If your character could play any part in a drama, stage production, or musical, what part would they play?
  24. What is your character’s favorite album?
  25. What does this character mean to you?

This is for Roku Softpaw.

1. Chaotic Neutral

2. What do you taste like?

3. Comes from the Mountains. Kills for money and food. Wants to eat every meat.

4. Road to Destruction

5. The hunt for the Orc/Gnolls

6. Eat every meat possible

7. His Great Axe/Cask of Whiskey

8. The Orc/Gnolls that attacked his village

9. The Orc/Gnolls

10. Bit off a warrior’s head because he was hungry.

11. Murder/Cannibalism

12. Angry wolf

13. yes

14. Doesn’t know, doesn’t care

15. For food ya

16. Emotion

17. Soup

18. Pangoro

19. Valor

20. No and no

21. not as of yet

22. Display of martial prowess

23. The executioner in just about anything

24. News of the World (Queen)

25. I’m still figuring that out

21 Asks for D&D Characters (and OCs)

thesolitarymagician:

ethantherenegade:

1. What influenced or inspired the creation of this character?
2. What is your character’s relationship with their family? Family is a word which here refers to biological relatives, close companions, and/or the individual(s) who raised them.
3. Who is the closest person to them?
4. What were the conditions surrounding their formative years?
5. What creature would they like to have as a pet?
6. Do they have any bad habits?
7. Is there anyone they’d die for? Kill for?
8. Who was their first love?
9. How would this character react to someone confessing their love for them?
10. How old is this character?
11. Are they normally peaceful or aggressive?
12. How does this character handle stress?
13. Does your character consider themselves lucky?
14. What is their favorite holiday?
15. What is the best gift they could receive?
16. If they could instantly kill one person in the world without consequence, who would it be?
17. If they were in possession of a trio of wishes, what would their three wishes be?
18. What is their favorite spell or method of attack?
19. What are their guilty pleasures?
20. What is something this character is or could be addicted to?
21. Have you actually played this character yet?

I’ll do Paupricosh for this, as she’s my favorite.

1. I loved tieflings, bards, and I wanted to see Riolu be a doting dad.

2. Close ties to all of them, especially her daddy and uncles Rhos and Sunshadow.

3. Probably her daddy. She’s a total daddy’s girl.

4. Mostly time spent in Harvest Wood and learning about her music, spent a bit of time at Sunshadow’s church though to see him.

5. Peacock. She loves the pretty feathers.

6. Yes. She tends to let her emotions decide the majority of her decisions.

7. Any of her family really. Though there are a couple of her party mates that she’d certainly like to keep around.

8. Do pastries count? If not, then a half-orc girl from her early teens.

9. Great. Big. Hug.

10. 22

11. She’s very bipolar and goes from sweet-as-candy to vindictive in a heartbeat.

12. Not very well

13. She doesn’t believe in luck. Random chance more.

14. Winter’s Crest. She is the best Secret Sarenrae 🙂

15. Breakfast in bed and a warm hug on a Sunday morning.

16. Nobody at the moment.

17. A set of butterfly wings, an infinite supply of fruit pastries, and her own dress shop/bakery with her girlfriend Gruvia.

18. Her Flourishes are some of her favorite tactics, but in a pinch she’ll Overdrive. Favorite spells include Burning Hands and Green Flame Blade.

19. She’s a dominant person in bed, and finds it adorable how submissive her Goliath-Orc girlfriend is, even though Paupricosh is a good 2 feet shorter.

20. She could be a sex addict or be overly fond of pastries.

21. Yes. Playing her feels very right.

21 Asks for D&D Characters (and OCs)

ethantherenegade:

1. What influenced or inspired the creation of this character?
2. What is your character’s relationship with their family? Family is a word which here refers to biological relatives, close companions, and/or the individual(s) who raised them.
3. Who is the closest person to them?
4. What were the conditions surrounding their formative years?
5. What creature would they like to have as a pet?
6. Do they have any bad habits?
7. Is there anyone they’d die for? Kill for?
8. Who was their first love?
9. How would this character react to someone confessing their love for them?
10. How old is this character?
11. Are they normally peaceful or aggressive?
12. How does this character handle stress?
13. Does your character consider themselves lucky?
14. What is their favorite holiday?
15. What is the best gift they could receive?
16. If they could instantly kill one person in the world without consequence, who would it be?
17. If they were in possession of a trio of wishes, what would their three wishes be?
18. What is their favorite spell or method of attack?
19. What are their guilty pleasures?
20. What is something this character is or could be addicted to?
21. Have you actually played this character yet?

I’ll do Paupricosh for this, as she’s my favorite.

1. I loved tieflings, bards, and I wanted to see Riolu be a doting dad.

2. Close ties to all of them, especially her daddy and uncles Rhos and Sunshadow.

3. Probably her daddy. She’s a total daddy’s girl.

4. Mostly time spent in Harvest Wood and learning about her music, spent a bit of time at Sunshadow’s church though to see him.

5. Peacock. She loves the pretty feathers.

6. Yes. She tends to let her emotions decide the majority of her decisions.

7. Any of her family really. Though there are a couple of her party mates that she’d certainly like to keep around.

8. Do pastries count? If not, then a half-orc girl from her early teens.

9. Great. Big. Hug.

10. 22

11. She’s very bipolar and goes from sweet-as-candy to vindictive in a heartbeat.

12. Not very well

13. She doesn’t believe in luck. Random chance more.

14. Winter’s Crest. She is the best Secret Sarenrae 🙂

15. Breakfast in bed and a warm hug on a Sunday morning.

16. Nobody at the moment.

17. A set of butterfly wings, an infinite supply of fruit pastries, and her own dress shop/bakery with her girlfriend Gruvia.

18. Her Flourishes are some of her favorite tactics, but in a pinch she’ll Overdrive. Favorite spells include Burning Hands and Green Flame Blade.

19. She’s a dominant person in bed, and finds it adorable how submissive her Goliath-Orc girlfriend is, even though Paupricosh is a good 2 feet shorter.

20. She could be a sex addict or be overly fond of pastries.

21. Yes. Playing her feels very right.

thesolitarymagician:

For anyone curious, I have 3 main characters I’ve used for D&D over the years (4 if we count my original, but I usually don’t talk about him).

This is Riolu Ungart, my second character I played. He is a half drow (mom’s side), half hill dwarf (dad’s side) genderfluid Circle of the Moon Druid from a place in the Fey Wild dubbed Harvest Wood (it’s always harvest season there and it’s gorgeous).

Later in life he gained a level of Monk when he started becoming more comfortable in combat, and his last level was Life Domain Cleric in honor of his best friend, Tabaxi Warforged Paladin Michael Sunshadow.

He’s a vegetarian, and through much study he attained the Owlbear wildshape and it quickly became his favorite.

His favorite foods are Herbal Tea, Apple Ale, Apple Crumble and Stinky Tofu, and his least favorite foods are Miso anything and really dark whiskeys.

He’s Pansexual and Polyamorous, and believes that love is something to be shared with everyone willing to participate in it, and thus has never married but instead has a harem of people from just about every race and identity.

This is my 3rd character, Paupricosh Padparadscha-Ungart (her companions call her Poppy), Riolu’s daughter he had with Rosemary Padparadscha toward the end of his adventures. She is a tiefling (due to Rosemary’s genes) and is a College of Swords Bard and Sun Soul Monk (aka, she has Hamon. My new dm helped me homebrew the Overdrive for her:pictured left hand).

She is a lesbian, and tends to be the dominant one in relationships. She has a thing for Half-Orc and Goliath women predominantly, and finds it adorable when she’s able to find a submissive partner.

She is in a relationship with the Half-Goliath Half-Orc (Goliath instead of Human) Blood Hunter/Barbarian foodie Gruvia Goremond, and one day hopes to open a dress shop/bakery with her.

She is transgendered and genderfae, and her daddy Riolu was nothing but supportive of her when she was transitioning, even commissioning one of his friends to help her transition through the use of True Polymorph (although she isn’t yet comfortable with transforming her genitalia, but they were perfectly fine with that, and let her know that if the day ever comes when she is, they would help her).

She grew up in a fairly well-rounded environment with Riolu and all of his friends and partners who taught her a number of skills and philosophies (although she had no idea what a human was until she was 22).

She is very bipolar and has no such thing as a small emotion. Due to her upraising in the Feywild, any happiness emotes as utter elation, anger as unbridled rage, etc.

She goes between Chaotic Good and Chaotic Neutral at the drop of a hat, and can be quite vindictive when she’s in one of her moods (which is usually roleplayed with her Cruel feat). her spirit animal is the Bull-Headed Shrike.

Like her daddy, she makes all of her own clothes (but doesn’t have the advantage of being able to become a spider and made silk like her dad). She is pictured in her Buttercup Dress with her Poppy Poncho she tailored from a cultist robe she “commandeered”.

Her favorite foods are any fruit-based pastries and Rose Wine, and her least favorite foods are pickles and anything pickled.

She is allergic to Petunias (still loves them) and Tobacco (hates it).

I adore Paupricosh, and am incredibly emotionally attached to her.

This is my 4th and most recent character, Roku Softpaw. He is a Goliath Panda Ranger (level 1 right now) Bounty Hunter traveling around the world hunting the band of Orc-Gnolls that attacked his home village.

He goes around hunting for gold and for food (one of his side goals is to eat every type of meat the world has to offer).

His favorite foods are pork dumplings and any dark whiskey, and his least favorite foods are bamboo (to break that stereotype), and common human (he finds them tough and stringy and only suitable for making jerky).

His only trait he looks for in a partner is they have to be able to beat him in a fight (bonus points if they can beat him within an inch of his life)

He’s still fairly recent, and I’m still learning about him. I greatly look forward to seeing what kinds of adventures he gets into when the campaign he’s in starts up in March.