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[innercactus]

Hello Drift Fleet, I am Samm, and I am bringing in a Guild Wars 2 OC named Asteffiel.

Anyway, Asteffiel is a sylvari, and straight from the wiki so I don't fumble a lot- "The sylvari are a young, inquisitive race of botanical humanoids. The first Sylvari sprouted from the Pale Tree in Arbor Bay, emerging in 1302 AE. The tree was planted by Ronan and raised by Ventari, who were attempting to escape the violence that engulfed Tyria." For reference, the current in-game year is 1328 AE, making them the "plant children" much more literally. Sylvari all wake from pods fully grown, and they have a low-level empathy connection to each other, due to their Dream of Dreams.

For the most part, I'll run with Asteffiel being a minor receiving-empath, meaning any sudden feelings might get picked up by the plantman. General and more detailed power/ ability permissions there. and non spoiler-y collection of all the wiki sylvari information (that I've found), some of the sylvari mechanics mentioned in the Ghosts of Ascalon novel, and headcanon mechanics built off them both.

On Asteffiel himself! He woke up late 1327 AE, ended up picking necromancer as his profession, dabbles in tailoring, was going to either help grow things around the Grove or be a mender (sylvari doctor), then made really bad friends. Fortunately his good friend made other good friends and they're no longer around all the crazy and cruel people, which means Asteffiel isn't soaking up all those thoughts all the time. Doesn't mean he's sane again, but at least he's less interested in knifing people and more interested in growing things. like cactus spines out of his face.

He ended up with the Lab Support Augment, which matches a little with his starter sylvari medicine knowledge, and his i'm a necromancer look how dead bodies work knowledge of flesh races. ... Wait did he say that second one?

... sob I TL:DR'd anyway. I'm on plurk at radiantwingedone.

Comments

[onlyanapple]

Samm! I've missed you.

[innercactus]

Ittts a teeef /o/

I missed being able to do more than just stalk you too /o/

[onlyanapple]

WE'RE GONNA HAVE A BLAST

[innercactus]

what's this about blasts he can make his minions explode is that a blast-

[onlyanapple]

That is totes a blast.

[innercactus]

Perfect. and then there's minion gore everywhere and welp

[serpentis]

SLAMS INTO THIS POST

YES!!!! MORE NECROMANCERS!!!!!

Hello I am Dee I play Dorian here and Aziraphale from Good Omens hello hi welcome

[innercactus]

NECROMANCER PARTY!! this one even likes to use staff, even if dagger/dagger is much faster

Best combination. Angel and necromancer -

[noctiphile]

SYLVARIIIIIIII your salad man sounds and looks precious

hello my name is greer c: i play this oc guy, mattias, and roronoa zoro from one piece

[innercactus]

baaaby salad. although to be honest his friends are mostly asteffiel no asteffiel stop-

Hiii /o/ I remember zoro I gave up on keeping up with OP a while ago but I saw that post about underwear and laughed

[proteusmoon]

I'm late to the party, but JKAHJFD A SYLVARI!! /)OwO(\ Welcome, welcome!

[innercactus]

THEY'RE GREAT tgrbjnvcm its hard to get attached to the other races now because its like BUT I HAVE AN ADORABLE PLANT THAT I WANNA KEEP EXPLORING ON....

ty ty /o/

[mortalcoil]

Aaaahhh he sounds so delightful!!

I'm Red and I play three loser OCs, one of which is a gross little necromancer boy! We really need to start up a necromancy club or something so they can all swap secrets and gossip about the rest of the fleet.

Welcome!

[innercactus]

eogdjnalsm,c - yaaay XD XD First time i've tried playing an OC anywhere, and a new one at that XD;;;;

Yes necromancy buddies XD someone needs to ask why the plant is raising flesh creatures, it will be fun i promise-

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Hello, Samm! Psychic plant people are the best people. C:

I play three loserly OCs myself--Robin, the god of angst that mostly just wants to hit on people, Krista, the gothy fairy teenager, and Zhas, who just walks around with a skull painted on his face and hates vampires. At least one of them is going to get thrown Asteffiel's way, for sure. C:

[innercactus]

ohgdvck god of angst XD XD Lovely description -

They're ridiculous and cute, although being psychic has caused plenty of problems now XD;;;

[birdsbirdsbirds]

He's actually a demigod of human pain and agony, so... Yeah, it's a pretty apt description. :'D He means well, though!

And he is! I'm excited to see how he reacts to all of the weird minds around the Fleet...

[innercactus]

XD XD human pain and agony, that sounds like fun when encountering other races-


It'll be fun! 8D Fortunately he's not the mind reader, so it's more SO MANY EMOTIONS... which is still going to be a lovely mess.