You've got some Gerudo who want to break the bad stereotype of the "evil, thieving Gerudo" and some who figure "hey, if everyone views us that way, might as well get something out of it". Ganondorf has been long gone for a very VERY long time at this point, though. So any Gerudo who says stuff like "guuurl, wouldn't it be great if Ganondorf came back?" would probably be looked at as weirdly as anyone from modern day Mongolia saying they wished Genghis Khan were still alive. Nobody knows that Ganondorf is coming back yet, so it's a moot point for now.
I'm bit more interested to know your own response to your third (technically fourth) question. What do YOU think the chance would be of a Gerudo raiding party taking back a baby female Hylian and raising her as one of their own? How do YOU think she would be viewed?
I think my responses have pretty much answered #4. Let's just keep it in the interest check for now.
@jumpadraw@Furia In any case, Chanda and I are winding down to the point where we're just gonna go ahead and pick someone. Probably later this afternoon. I mean, I guess you're welcome to post whatever other information about your character-concepts you want in the meantime, though.
@BaklavaAlmost done with a rough idea of my app. Will post it here soon, to try to help illustrate what i am wanting to do with my OC idea for a "Hylian raised by a Gerudo" rather than just saying things.
@BaklavaOk....Took a good bit longer than five minutes because something came up, but i am finished with a rough version of my second OC idea! Just keep in mind it is a rough idea though. XD
Just to be clear, though, i am not thinking i have the spot in the bag right now at all just because i put this rough idea up.
Also, i will not be here tomorrow afternoon/night due to my shift at work, but if i can be on prior to leaving for work i can be on. Just wanted to make note of that.
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Nabila
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Nabila is a girl who stands at the height of 5'7", sporting a skinny, leanly muscular, and overall visibly curvy and curvaceous build one would expect to see among the trained women of the Gerudo more than on a Hylian. With such in mind, she is also visibly Hylian origins otherwise in terms of her physical features, with the trademark fair/light colored skin, pointed ears, a normal-sized nose as compared to the likes of the Gerudo who have more prominent noses, and a soft, somewhat stormy looking blue-grey eye color. Her facial features take after her birth mother in that they are smooth and somewhat gentle in nature, giving her a sort of "gentle beauty" in regards to her face overall, and is a distinct feature shared by her birth mother's side of the family. Her long, light. golden blond hair has rather few bangs that frame her face somewhat on the sides, and which is overall styled in the trademark Gerudo ponytail that is secured with a golden band engraved with the Gerudo symbol and has a lovely gold-colored gem fitted into it as well. Her left shoulder has the Gerudo people's symbol tattooed on it as well.
She also commonly wears the garb of the Gerudo warriors, the people she was raised among for all of her life. This includes her wearing a sleeveless, midsection-exposing tube top that is colored purple and has red and gold colored lines, similar to those seen on Nabooru's top, that are woven onto it. She wears a pair of long, fingerless gloves that are also colored purple, and also dons a pair of gold-colored metal bracers on her forearms over these gloves. She further wears the traditional pointed-end shoes worn by Gerudo women, also colored in purple, but also wears the traditional, somewhat baggy, middle-eastern style Gerudo pants as well. The pants are colored purple and come with a low waist, and a gold-colored belt that has a gold-colored gem fitted into the front of it. Nabila also wears a purple veil with her outfit that is of the same kind of veil as some other Gerudo wear as well. Over all of her clothing she also wears a thick, hooded, basic brown traveling cloak she was given by one of her Gerudo sisters, made to handle the weather during travel as well as cover her up of course.
Student- Nabila of the sort of people who generally enjoy learning, whether it be learning new skills, learning about the world around them, and/or learning about those they meet. Albeit learning cannot be without some sense of caution and/or tact applied to the matter as a whole, as her surrogate mother taught her in the past. Still, being willing to learn has its merits in general.
Vigilant- Whether it be observing her surroundings for resources, looking for traps in a dangerous place, or subtly keeping tabs on the strangers or someone she does not trust around her in a new place, Nabila tends to keep her eyes open just in case. To her it is never a bad idea to keep an eye out when in new, dangerous, and even strange places after all.
Hard Working- Nabila is used to working hard to get what she wants, to learn what she feels she needs to, and to achieve goals, and as such she can be considered reliable when she puts her mind to something. Yet at the same time, she does not have the best outlook on those who she perceives as "lazy" or acting lazy. Why spend time sitting back for no reason if there is work that needs to be done?
Tolerant- In order to help break the Gerudo out of the bad sterotype they were put in as her surrogate Gerudo mother wishes, and to try to generally get along with others if the need arises, one must learn to be tolerant....within reason. Different customs, different upbringings, these things are what one has to face daily when going out into the world, and trying to be respectful of that if nothing else is a proper thing to do. However, people who make insults towards Nabila's family, friends, and the people she grew up among is something that can quickly draw out her ire.
Straightforward- When she feels she wants/needs to speak or act, Nabila will speak out and say something or do what she feels she needs to do. As much as trying to be generally polite can be good, not saying what seems to need to be said is something that cannot always be pushed to the side as well. Even if it possibly rubs with someone or hurts their feelings in the process.
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Nabila was born a pair of Hylian parents, her mother being the usual housewife and her father being a highly skilled carpenter. Her father would build houses for people and assist in rebuilding damage after storms and other events, but much of his work was small despite its high quality. He became well-known for his work in Castle Town, but when a better-paying carpentry job cam up that entailed maintaining and assisting in much needed repairs for the bridge going to the Gerudo Desert after a recent storm had destroyed part of it, Nabila's father and mother moved there in a heartbeat. To them, the money, once the job was done, could be used to help raise their new baby daughter.
However, things went terribly south about four days into the job. A small Gerudo raiding party attacked the camp, intending to sack the camp for money and supplies from the workers there and then leave. When Nabila's father and mother both tried to stand up to them to stop one of the more unruly members of the Gerudo raiding party from entering the large tent they had been living in on the site, he and subsequently his wife were killed in a heartbeat by one of the more ruthless members of the raiding party. This occurred despite the order from the leader of the Gerudo raiding party that those who resisted simply be tied up in order to avoid making a greater mess of things and possibly discouraging more workers from coming to the bridge project to be raided in the future. Thus in the span of a few moment the poor baby Nabila was orphaned before she could even become old enough to recognize her own parents. Upon discovering the baby girl inside of the couple's tent they had so staunchly protected out of fear for their daughter, the leader of the raiding party determined they would take the baby girl with them since she had no family in the camp to care for her.
Taking the baby back to Gerudo Fortress, the member of the raiding party who had killed her parents was punished for going against orders. At the same time one of the respected Gerudo elders, herself being a magic-wielding Gerudo Mystic, took in the baby girl as her own out of sympathy for her plight, declaring that since they had robbed the girl of her parents then she would be taken in and raised among them as a result. This noble act would come to shape Nabila, who was named such by the Gerudo elder who took her in, into something her birth parents would have ever imagined.
From a very young age Nabila would be raised by her mother, Teinare, to learn the ways of the Gerudo. From learning survival skills in the desert to training with healer among the Gerudo, to learning how to do first aid and tend to all sorts of wounds, to learning how to ride a horse, Nabila was trained to be able to survive the harsh desert the Gerudo lived in. Most notably, Teinare also taught Nabila magic (rather than her learning to use weapons) with the hopes the girl would grow to become a skilled sorceress and healer overall, one that could possibly be used to help eventually strengthen the ties between the Gerudo and other races to help break down the old notions that all of the Gerudo were only "evil thieves". Such was the Gerudo elder's plan for Nabila. Through at first the notion of a baby Hylian girl being raised as one of them came to rub with some of the Gerudo, especially in the first several years of Nabila's life, over time the baby girl grew, trained, and turned into a strong woman whose skills eventually gained her acceptance as being a "true Gerudo" among the people she was raised with. Through the blood, sweat, and tears Nabila shed over the course of her life to prove herself, she had finally earned her place among the Gerudo. Even so, Nabila wondered about her true origins throughout her life, having never been told or had the matter discussed with her.
Eventually, fate seemed to change the tide of her life and had other things in store for her. After nearly a month of strange dreams of a heavenly voice and strange, vivid dreams of a place she had never been to, the Gerudo Elder who had raised her for so many years fell ill with a disease that for someone of her wizened age would be fatal. With her last breaths, Teinare told Nabila with her lasts breaths about her Hylian origins and to seek what the dreams (Which Nabila had told her of in private) before finally and completely succumbing to the ills of disease combined with the ravages of old age on her body. Soon after this Nabila gathered up supplies for the trip she was going to take, took what money her mother had willed to give her after her death, saddled up her horse, and set off towards Hyrule. Whatever fate seemed to have in store for her, whatever she could learn about her past, she got the feeling that what she was riding off to was greater than she could imagine.
Magic (Ice) (MS)- The magic of conjuring/summoning and manipulating ice, and the kind of magic Teinare specialized in. Nabila herself is capable of conjuring/summoning ice for her to manipulate, freezing water into ice, lowering the temperature of objects and even limited areas of space to chill or even freeze things, firing magical bolts/other projectiles of ice at enemies, melting ice and manipulating existing and summoned/conjured ice as well. While very useful for combat, this magic also can be useful in other application such as in a place like the desert where there is little to no water, as being able to conjure ice means one is able to create water from it as well by simply melting it. As Teinare would have noted in life, Nabila has an innate talent for this kind of magic that she also did, that with training has grown into something definitely above-average. (9/10)
Magic (Healing) (MS)- Drilled in healing magic by Teinare as well, when medical supplies are not available this form of magic can be very handy. From closing wounds to stopping bleeding to purifying poison in the body to helping stabilize and heal major damage to a person's body, this form of magic comes in very handy when it comes down to it. (8/10)
Agile (FS/SS)- She is a fast, high stamina, acrobatic, light on her feet individual with a leanly athletic body who can both move about quickly on her feet over many kinds of terrain, parkour to help herself navigate various areas, and is able to dodge very well to make up for her lack of weapons skills. (8/10)
Desert Expertise (SS)- Taught and trained about the desert, she is adept at desert survival, desert navigation, and desert foraging as a whole, though is not a complete master of these things as compared to the more honed and experienced Gerudo she grew up around. (7/10)
Horsemanship (SS)- Being raised among the Gerudo, Nabila learned how to ride a horse rather well. Her skills in this area led to her attempting to learn to use a bow as well, albeit to...hilarious and ultimately embarrassing results that led her to not pursue learning to use a bow in combination with this. Still (7/10)
Cooking (PS)- A general survival skill she was taught by her elderly surrogate Gerudo mother, and something that became necessary to learn as said surrogate Gerudo mother drew older and older with age. A moderately good cook able to make edible, tasty, and safe food in general. (6/10)
Literacy (PS)- A generally intelligent and even moderately educated person thanks to her upbringing by a wizened and experienced Gerudo elder, she is able to read and speak the Gerudo language as well as speak the Hylian Language despite being unable to read in Hylian. (6/10)
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Nabila is determined as well as driven by both her curiosity and her the late words of her Gerudo surrogate mother Teinare to find the details of her past and just where she came from, who her Hylian parents were, and just what the Hylians (the race she originated from) are like. In a sense, it is her journey beyond the borders of her homeland in the Gerudo Desert to explore the world beyond what she has known for all of her life.
Beyond this, she also seeks to discover just what the strange dreams are leading her to, and where that path will go as well...
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She carries a backpack, itself stolen in the recent past from a Hylian of some sort by one of her Gerudo sisters, in which she puts her supplies.
-1 Leather water skin
-Wallet for Rupees
-Flint and Steel for starting fire
-Compact, lightweight preserved food rations for one person, lasting up to a week
-2 bottles of fresh water
-A map of Hyrule with an accompanying compass
-A small dagger for cutting food, herbs, or things like rope if needed for utility purposes
@Holy Grail Well, I mean-- I kind of asked that nobody fill out a character sheet yet. With the exception of jasonwolf, who I approved already. I appreciate the enthusiasm, though?
After some discussion, Chanda and I decided that Furia's character idea would best suit our needs. If anything changes in the near future, we'll be sure to let you guys know.
