Favourite OC - I’ll do Trick, then!

I think their look came about pretty quickly, as well as the base idea of their character. I wanted to play a tiefling, and a pirate. I was considering making them a rogue and a swashbuckler too, but I really wanted to play a flirty bard, SOOO…. here we go.

Nope, not at all!

Ok, so, their name is a straight ripoff from Critical Role. ‘Trick’ fit their clever and cunning personality I was originally going for, and tiefling names just Are Like That, and I love them… and then I thought of Pike Trickfoot from CR and just stole the other half of her last name as well lol

That there were pirates…. Oh, and a coup that happened in the world a few years before our game, that pushed a big event in Trick’s life that’s pretty much set in motion all their growth right now

(but that wasn’t as much me developing their backstory, as my DM going “ok how will you deal with this” and me still trying to figure that out lmao)

Consistency, I think! Writing-wise, mostly, keeping their character consistent and logical, especially when RPing. Art-wise, I think showing how varied they are in terms or presentation and gender! I need to draw them playing around w gender more bc that’s what they DO.

oh boy! I guess… That they’re afraid of being alone, and a bleeding heart, but trying to cover both of those things up. (I guess that’s three things, lol) 

I discover a lot of new shit about Trick constantly, but maybe the most recent one is…. They have something in their past that has left some very deep marks on them, and they do not realize that - or are just now starting to realize that. Another one is that they have got to do a thing that makes me as a player a little uncomfortable, but it’s something that’s good for them, and for me, so they’ll do it. But that’s spoiler territory! x)

That they’re growing ❤

SO MUCH… Trick is actually just made up of parts I find attractive and parts I’ve projected onto them without noticing. Being young and feeling that very hard at times, the sort of emotional immaturity that comes from lack of experience, feeling inadequate, feeling lonely even when they’ve got an amazing family and good friends, craving for things they don’t know if they deserve… I mean, A LOT.

They’re truly a dumb fuck and not as suave as they pretend to be, and their party brings out the dork in them, so whenever it’s not all doom and gloom and serious character drama, some pretty fun interactions happen and I laugh a lot.

That a lot of their flaws and insecurities are my flaws, and when those come up in game or in conversations about Trick, it makes me cry a little every time, and especially when they have people treat them with kindness despite those flaws.

thank you!! i sadly don’t have anything right now, simply because i’m bad at remembering to record my progress, but i could definitely take prompts on stuff to draw and record for donors, in case you have any! 

i don’t have ko-fi gold so it’s is a bit unwieldy taking prompts directly from donors, but if people want to reply to this with some, feel free! i’ll try to have something new recorded for donors eventually! ✨

hi, and thank you!! 

the brush i use is Sketch Pencil Rough 2, from kyle’s drawing box, but this is specifically the one from the photoshop CC exclusive brushes (because i had an older, pre-CC exclusive version of the drawing box as well, and there is a brush named this on it too, but it’s slightly different), with pressure opacity turned on and 20-30% flow! it needs to be used on a big enough canvas though (i prefer 1500-2000px wide) to get that nice, thin, pencil sketch-y feel