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…Now I’m picturing some cranky farmer chasing bby J’hasi away from his crops with a rake, the poor bab 😂
[Definitely happened. A lot. I mean, he was p well acquainted with guards and jail cells and being in Big Trouble before he got his ass carted to Morrowind. Doesn’t help that he couldn’t speak a lick of Cyrodilic, though he learned to cuss in it lmao]
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{{ I love Cyrodiil BECAUSE it’s so whitebread? Like. Y’all are a bunch of problematic stereotypical Western High Fantasy trashbags, it’s ridiculous, and for some reason it amuses the hell out of me. All of my Imperial characters are petty little shitlords, though. I could see watermelon itself growing really well in southeastern Cyrodiil, where it’s generally pretty humid and rainy and probably doesn’t even get particularly cold in the winter. Kind of like the American south, climate-wise?
[I mean I know Cyrodiil was originally supposed to be tropical in climate, but then the game came out and something about Talos or a Dragon Break or some sort of magic/divine fuckery that’s p common in TES made it possibly temperate??
I always thought of it being temperate to right on the border of tropical just so I didn’t get an aneurysm trying to figure out what the fuck was going on (obvs the northern part being much closer to temperate but iirc the game starts end of summer/fall?? WHY IS THERE SO MUCH SNOW)
And according to the map it’s grown all over sans Bruma area so… Though watermelon only takes about 100 days to grow properly (climate?? Not sure if prime climate or just in general) so maybe you just get smaller ones more north than in the south. Maybe the devs just wanted to drive TES nerds up a wall.
There’s a map showing where the farms are so I’d think that around Leyawiin (which I think would be much closer to tropical, ofc since it’s so close to Elsweyr/Black Marsh and just seems like a wetter climate in general) you’d get these nice big melons, while just north of the Imperial City you’d have smaller ones if you tried to grow them outside of summer. I have no idea of the actual scale of Cyrodiil, or how quickly climates shift from area to area, and I haven’t played in so long I don’t remember the landscape all that well, I’d have to look;;;]
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{{ I’m super allergic to watermelon usually… but I wonder if I could get away with eating the Moon-and-star variety because it looks delicious 😗 Also I am all for Cyrodiil having all sorts of produce you just can’t get in Skyrim. If it doesn’t grow indigenously, you’d bet your ass they’d find a way to import the yummy stuff and start growing it within the province, if possible }}
[I’d check with a doc or have an epipen at the ready coz I’m not sure how different it is/if it still has the bits you’re allergic to but but yeye I getcha I kinda wanna get one too O3O
And lmao yeah Cyrodiil’s just like ‘oh I like this. And this. And this too. This is mine now. Long live the Empire.’ I’m likely to give the farms a complete rundown at this rate to find out what’s imported and what’s not because…I honestly never gave Cyrodiil much of a rundown because it seemed so whitebread to me. But I should give it a better look, I gotta, J’hasi’s been there for a decent part of his life, possibly survived off of nicking stuff here and there from the farms… I gotta know how much trouble he’d get for nicking watermelon and the like lmao]
1: Origins! How did you come up with the concept for your OC?
Oddly enough, J’hasi was originally a side character for my Argonian character, Moro (who eventually ended up becoming Stalks-In-Shadows). I didn’t have much of a story for them initially, as Moro was my first TES character, I had no idea of the lore, etc, etc…
Oblivion was when J’hasi finally started getting development, though part of him was developed from the parts I scrapped from Moro (like his birthsign/spear use/general temperament). I went back and forth between Morrowind and Oblivion to further develop him and his story and eventually J’hasi became the ‘main’ character while Shadows became the second. I don’t think J’hasi really had a concept to begin with other than ‘Shadows’ bond-brother’.
TL;DR J’hasi’s the result of character development, scrapping my first TES chara, and a wip of lore larnin’
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4: How do you get into your OC’s mindset to write for them? How do you find the muse for them?
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