#ocelore #❄️🪴
Aurelien doesn't like showing most of his skin, partly bc it's freezing in Coerthas and also bc he's just generally self conscious about his appearance. he specifically doesn't like showing his hands, not bc they're scarred or anything but bc (1/2)

#ocelore #🦎🍇
it's a very Qestir superstition and it's gotten better over the years, but Urus has always been wary about showing the lower half of his face (which happens when you wear a mask constantly), he really doesn't like people seeing his mouth when he speaks (with some exceptions) (1/2)

#ocelore #☀️🐟
up until STB Ony was veeery self conscious about showing most of his body bc of his growth spurts/growing pains, and then the moment he had any sort of confidence about it, SHB happened and he was hiding his aetherburn scar on his chest too bc it made him feel weak. (1/3)

#ocelore #❄️🪴
Aurelien is a middle child and has the personality to show for it - growing up he was a wallflower and was very content to go unnoticed by his parents in favor of his storied older brother and sickly baby brother. when both of them passed and his parents' attention turned to him, (1/2)

#ocelore #🦎🍇
Urus is an eldest sibling and it SHOWS. his biggest life decision was made in an effort to protect his sister. he's constantly trying to be the adult in a situation and had to grow up and learn to control his emotions at a young age in a very short amount of time. (1/2)

#ocelore #☀️🐟
Ony is an only child who is also sort of a baby brother? he was raised in close proximity to his cousin (his adoptive father's sister's kid) to the point that he really considers her his big sister. he has the independence of an only child but really has little brother energy. (1/2)

#ocelore #❄️🪴
a lot. ohhh it's a lot - Aurelien knows he's detrimentally skittish and squeamish, he knows he overreacts to the point of being annoying, he knows he has no backbone. he's weak and soft and easily hurt in every way. (1/2)

Namingway, a loporrit dressed in red and blue and wearing a backpack with a bedroll on its back, standing in The Watcher's Palace on Mare Lamentorum. they have one hand on their hip, the other with their index finger pointed up in the air as they explain something to the Watcher, who is mostly off-screen. a dialogue box at the bottom reads: (Namingway) -bearing the scars of whatever previously befell the star, but ever enduring, I chose the name...Oizys!

a cut to the Watcher from Namingway's pov, they are sitting in a chair with one hand resting on their lap. a dialogue box below reads: (The Watcher) ...I see.....Oizys...

the surface of Oizys, the new planet that the loporrits have found during cosmic exploration. the surface is craggy but with fields of red grass and yellow flowers. a large blue orb floats in the air, with a shell of broken floating rocks suspended in the air around it. a green haired ancient stands in the center of the image, staring up at the orb.

a different angle of the green-haired ancient, Koios, from the front - the original whose memories are now part of the Watcher. he wears a mostly standard ancient robe, altered to have white belt strips hanging from the waist. he also wears half-rimmed gold glasses pinched onto his nose. there are two scenes in this, meant to be read in order like an animation transition (or something like that), in the first his eyes are closed and in the second he opens them to look up at the orb in the previous image, opening his mouth to speak as well. he does not speak of the planet itself per se, but of his wife who shares the same name, Oizys. a dialogue box below reads: (Koios) You are...just as beautiful as the day I lost you.

— (1/2) your name rings in my heart, again, again

#oceposes #❄️🪴 #ocelore #candlepresets

#ocelore #☀️🐟
Turali elezen! the majority of them live in a small settlement off the map in Kozama'uka, where they originated and lived alongside the Hanuhanu, but since the unification of Tural they've scattered a bit throughout the continent - Ony's maternal line is from there!

#ocelore #☀️🐟
Ony's maternal grandfather, Amidio, became an integral part of MSQ during DT for him as his VPR mentor, and a home to return to in Tural - through him he got to learn directly about his mother's family and heritage, things that he'd previously resigned to never knowing.

#ocelore #☀️🐟 #❄️🪴 #🦎🍇
Ony is from [gestures vaguely to pirate controlled areas of the Ruby Sea] but he always says he's from Onokoro!

Urus is from Reunion on the Steppe, and Aurelien is from the Pillars in Ishgard!

#ocelore #🦎🍇
it's hard to track down more info bc Urus's bio parents passed when he was young, but he knows for sure that both of them were Qestir and also that one of his grandparents was Dotharl, which is who he and his sister got full sets of sharp teeth from!

#ocelore #☀️🐟
because the absorbed light was leaking from Ony's body after burning through his chest, he didn't have as many visible light poisoning symptoms aside from a glowing aetherburn and the tips of his hair and eyes starting to glow by the last lightwarden. otherwise the light stagnated (1/4)

#ocelore #☀️🐟
Ony has had chronic pain for most of his life (mostly growing pains, starting from when he was a young teen) but adventuring DID end up adding considerably to it - to start, he has two spots of significant nerve damage, one from HVW and one from SHB. in HVW he pushed his physical (1/4)

#ocelore #❄️🪴
Aurelien's is Koios, the titan of the inquisitive mind, chosen specifically bc I didn't just want a god but a titan so that he appeared older/more imposing despite being the exact opposite. in truth he's probably the most "normal" and harmless of my wolocs' ancients

#ocelore #🦎🍇
Urus's ancient technically has two names - Asterios, his childhood name (the Cretian minotaur), and Amyntas, his adulthood name (a "common" name which just means "warrior")

done both to differentiate and hide that his memories and ancient transformation are stored in Pandaemonium

#ocelore #☀️🐟
Ony's is Helios, which I actually chose bc I wanted a sun motif before I realized Azem had a sun motif (and he also isn't Azem)

he also has a non-Amaurotine personal name, Shennong, who is the chinese god of the harvest & medicinal herbs (which matches his area of study more)

a gpose of Ony's ancient, Helios, and all of his currently known shards. the background is a dark void and a spiky halo surrounds around Helios's head. characters from left to right: (Ancient) Helios, a man with short, neatly styled blue hair and glowing gold eyes, wearing a mostly standard Sophist's Robe with a turtleneck underneath. he stands with both arms outstretched, holding his axe propped straight up with its head on the ground in front of him. glyphs and solar flare-like energy extend from the axe head. he stares forward with a serious expression. (Source) Ony, an elezen with blue and white-tipped hair tied into a braid, and glowing gold eyes. he is mid-leap, one viper sword held against his chest and the other held by the arm trailing behind him in a loose grip. his mouth is open in a yell and his expression is confident. (9th) Corundum, a gray-skinned elezen with short, messy teal colored hair and light green eyes. he is wearing black and orange techwear and mid leap back, holding a handgun with both hands. his teeth are gritted and his expression is resolute. (1st) Branden, a green-skinned roegadyn with light brown and white tipped wavy hair, half-tied back, and gray eyes. he wears a full suit of gold, white, and blue armor and is wielding a sword and shield. the sword is pointed outwards, the tip extended past Helios's shoulder, and the shield is braced against the very back of the group. he has a gentle, but firm smile on his face. (13th) Desiderio, a viera with white and red-tipped shoulder-length hair held back from his forehead by a half helm and a bandana, and gold eyes. he has dark marks smeared across his cheekbones and is wearing dark rogue-like clothes with a cape. he holds two crystal-like daggers in each hand and is mid-jump. his mouth is open in a yell and his expression is slightly alarmed.

— SUPERNOVAE ⟡

#ocelore #oceposes #☀️🐟 #candlepresets

#ocelore #❄️🪴
for Aurelien it's yes and no - he doesn't have the fortitude to push his abilities past a certain point but also bc he's such a good vessel for channelling aether, it's really easy to accidentally get to a point where it goes out of control. this is also why he can't use red magic (1/2)

#ocelore #🦎🍇
Urus's best skill is probably holding back; he's capable of maintaining control over his strength to the point that his WAR is markedly different - there is no berserk rage, his inner beast is silent and seething, like when you can feel tension in the air.

#ocelore #☀️🐟
part of this was from being inexperienced and only knowing how to go from 0 to 100, and the other part was just. bearing with it if it got the job done, but Ony used to be very bloodied knuckles, sprained fingers, and serious bruises where armor sat. his Echo's "overshield" kept (1/2)

#ocelore #☀️🐟
Ony is Aloaloan on his father's side and Gridanian/Turali on his mother's side, but was raised by his adoptive father in Onokoro - it wasn't until post-ENW/DT that he was really able to get to know either homeland. there is like...an irrational guilt he feels (1/3)

#ocelore #❄️🪴
Aurelien has two brothers, Gervaise (older) and Veillantif (younger), but neither of them lived to see even the start of ARR. he was close to and looked up to Gervaise, but Veillantif was always closer to Gervaise. they died within a year of each other post-Calamity (1/2)

#ocelore #🦎🍇
Urus has one younger sister, Udetsa, who he raised for a bit at a young age when their parents died, before they met their adoptive parents. Urus is a B-team Scion so he doesn't get into QUITE as much as a WoL but Udetsa knows he's gotten into his fair share of disasters. (1/2)

#ocelore #☀️🐟
Ony has no bio siblings but he did grow up with a cousin, Asel (his adoptive father's sister's kid), who he basically considers his big sister. they grew up together the way cousins who visit all the time do, if that makes sense? they're co-WoLs but (1/3)

#ocelore #☀️🐟
that his ancient had sisters, and that's why he can summon Eos and Selene despite his lack of aether control. he thinks they're just ancestral familiars (like Kalika), but each SCH faerie is actually a portion of Helios's sisters' sundered souls, and they remember their little brother.

#ocelore #❄️🪴
Aurelien calls his parents Maman and Papa out of reflex rather than true affection. it was to keep up family appearances so they wouldn't look so cold that they were just Mère and Père to their sons. when he says it, he doesn't really mean it, the words don't match his eyes.

#ocelore #🦎🍇
Urus "calls" his adoptive parents by personal signs for their names in Qestir sign. both of them include the sign for "mother"/"father" in it. it ultimately reflects the respect he has for them, that he honors being their child to the point that he "says" it every time he names them.

#ocelore #☀️🐟
Ony calls Leuco by his first name usually - and then in moments of distress he calls him "Dad," which also makes Leuco distressed-

its a combo of how he was raised/how they view each other. bc he was raised in the Confederacy their relationship is incredibly informal, but also (1/?)

#ocelore #☀️🐟
Helios created the mandrake (goobbue)! his first prototype was the one that was getting presented during Elpis, but the ancients doing the presenting were his apprentices bc he was off harvesting rare plants instead. his second prototypes were just seedlings during the Final Days, (1/2)