Original Characters

A Singer from the Sea

Cordelia Alindogan is a siren: a sea-dwelling monster that, in ancient history, had a notorious habit of preying upon sailors seduced by their enchanting melodies. Much like succubi and incubi, however, sirens too have been enjoying their uneasy place in society alongside other mortals and monsters for the better part of a hundred years.

Cordelia, the first in her family to leave the sea and attend surface school, knows that unsteadiness all too well. Always an academic over-achiever with a finger in every discipline under the STEM and liberal arts umbrella, Cordelia has been sitting on a dormant love for vocal performance all her life due to social stigma toward sirens in music. Fortunately, she fell into a supportive group of friends in college, and with their encouragement, found within her the courage to audition for lead vocalist of a local garage band. Cordelia, singing alongside her girlfriend Avi (their bassist) and her fellow bandmates, now finds herself disrupting the status quo through music, and her life has never been better for it.

The Intrepid Scholar-Explorer

Aidwyn "Magpie" Gosha is the bastard half-elven, half-catfolk daughter of a crime family matriarch and the character I currently play in a Dungeons & Dragon campaign run by my partner. Maggie spent her formative years locked away in the family keep, with naught but Mara (her older sister), Saban (the family bodyguard), and her tinker tools to keep her company. The Gosha family business deals in the illicit trade of powerful arcane relics, which they excavate from the crash-site a lost floating city of magic and sell to customers on both sides of a perpetual war. Such proximity to magical technology may have been the source of a lifelong obsession with, as she thinks of it, "taking things apart and putting them back together." Her days idling in her room with nothing but these artifacts to entertain herself with led to a unique understanding of this ancient tech and a scholarly obsession with the lost civilization they came from.

As she and her sister grew up, her mother emerged from the shadows to shape Mara into the successor of her empire — much to the dismay of Magpie, who already harbored a deep resentment toward her absent mother. When DX-TR, one of the artifacts she's tinkering with, wakes up one day and she comes to learn that he is a sapient being wracked with amnesia about its past, Maggie takes the opportunity to up and leave the oppressive environment of her family keep to explore the ruins where he came from.

A Relic from a Forgotten Age

DX-TR (pronounced "Dexter") is an aeormaton: a robotic construct imbued with life through magic, manufactured by an artificer of the lost floating city of Aeor. Awake in an unfamiliar place and time with little memory of his past life, DX-TR now floats by as a program without a directive, — a terrifying and strange existence for a robot, — but luckily he woke up to a friendly face: Magpie, a brilliant (if eccentric) tinker who just so happens to be obsessed with researching the rise and fall of Aeor.

One night, DX-TR saw a flashbulb memory from his past in a dream. His decision to share the vision with Maggie psychically was the catalyst for her decision to run away from her bleak life to become an explorer of herself.

Together, DX-TR and Maggie now venture forth together to uncover the lost history of Aeor; two misfits united not only in the hope of revealing truths about the past, but also by the silent wish for their adventure to somehow repair a fractured sense of personal identity.

The Blind Diviner

Beckett Duprèe is a character I created in high school for the first Dungeons & Dragons campaign I was ever part of. She's an orphan that came from nothing, living in the slums of the mage-governed of Tranmêre. Her natural arcane talents were discovered by a scout from a prestigious magic school at a young age. Under the tutelage of her city's High Diviner, she quickly rose to the top of her class, attracting the attention of a noble family that would eventually adopt her in a bid to profit off her future political influence, but never quite fitting in enough to find friends at school due to her disability. Meanwhile, as she was propelled upward by her studies, a rift formed between her and her best friend/adopted older brother Solas, who was a disillusioned youth that would turn to a life of crime in the absence of a visible just future for himself and his peers. The strains on her ever-changing interpersonal, academic, and domestic worlds all ultimately pushed her to a boiling point when Beckett learned that her mentor was molding her to one day be a political pawn in Tranmêre's magocracy. She decided to abandon it all, changing her name and running away from everything in hopes of creating a life where she was the one in control.

Beckett is a very dear character to my heart because she was, in many ways, an extension of myself at the time I made her. She helped me cope with the feelings of derealization I felt in the wake of my dad's passing, as well the end of important friendships I was experiencing at that time. Click the links in the dropdown menu above to view a couple character studies I made for her in regard to those respective topics.