#WIPSnips 13. "Distract(ed)"

Not an easy enemy to beat, this one...

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#QueerCharChat 12. "Cats are the rudest, naturally. They are devils camouflaged as the living; a spawn of the Abyss that, for some mischief of nature, accumulated more Jinsei in their little, wicked bodies, and thus were banished to the Living Planes.

"The kindest, you ask? Lionesses 🧵

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So many, but one that immediately jumps to mind is the sequence of Ashrah getting her second skin, including her watching the Indonesian women, trying to very clumsily copy their movements, and then properly weaving the skin.

It's a beautiful scene on page (I hope), but I feel (1/2)

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#QueerCharChat 11. "Once, I believed success was measured by how many souls I had banished to the Abyss, and while my notoriety on the battlefield speaks highly of my martial skills and is prized, it is only a piece of who I am and, I have come to learn, not the most significant. 🧵

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Ashrah would be a lion! She might do pretty well, actually, since she has an astral lionness companion, and she already has both the fierceness and the pride x)

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#WIPSnips 11. "Exhaust(ed)"

Someone's calling Ashrah...

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#SFFChat Q4. I might've shared this one here before, too, but come on, I have to share this snippet from Ashrah, the funniest character in the story:

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#QueerCharChat 10. "I protect them. With my sword, my magic, my hands—with anything and everything I have. I have learnt that, sometimes, all they need is to be embraced, or to feel my presence, and that I give them as well.

"I cook for them. I learnt what they like the most 🧵

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#AwesomeCharacters Ashrah goes into combat mode until she realises it's an innocent. Then, she simply glares at them and continues on her path.

Sareena... no one is bumping into her unless she's really distracted. In this case, the other 🧵

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#QueerCharChat 9. Ashrah starts following the instructions, then gets distracted and starts doing her own thing until she gets mad. Nitara then reminds her of the instructions, which they follow once more until Ashrah gets frustrated, punches something, and 🧵

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#QueerCharChat 8. Sareena taps a claw against her chin. "Stubborn—"
"I am not stubborn!" Ashrah retorts. "I have strong convictions worth defending."
"Prideful."
"Pride is not always bad, and I have tamed the worst aspects of mine, as you well know. What else?" 🧵

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#AwesomeCharacters Assuming this is Balanced Ashrah, because EF Ashrah would turn to no one but herself... Sareena. Her sister and partner in crime! And that indeed happens in the Freedom Trilogy...

Likewise, Sareena would call Ashrah. 🧵

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#WIPSnips 8. "Mental"

Ashrah wields Datusha's psychic magic for the first time 🧠

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#AwesomeCharacters No school in Arak'shiir, generally speaking. Ashrah learnt from life, though 16k years later, she does learn from Masters Nightwolf and Shujinko—mostly about Mystic Arts and Baguazhang, but the philosophy involved does make it go beyond that. 🧵

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"The Demon of Blissful Retreat" is posted, if anyone's curious. Only 1886 words, no need to have played the game to follow it:

archiveofourown.org/works/92178801

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I'm writing one right now: Ashrah in Where Winds Meet!

That was when the names started, too. Whispers, for the most part, but sometimes someone would shout. Those she never saw around the village again.

'Aberration,' they called her.

'Freak.'

'Devil.'

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Ashrah: -10
Nitara: 5 (before she got married, at least)
Sareena: 9 (after she got into a better headspace... as Sonya will tell you in an upcoming short story 🤫)
Aphásiés: 2 (though, to be honest, that's less about charisma and more about 🧵

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#QueerCharChat 6. "Meditation. Much did I struggle with the deceptively simple concept of sitting down, closing my eyes, and emptying my mind, yet mastering this skill, with the inestimable help of Master Shujinko, helped me achieve my inner balance.

If that fails, I stab my problems."

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#AwesomeCharacters Ashrah reads a few books while training with Shujinko—her first books from the Living Planes—until she settles into her preference for non-fiction books (particularly history, philosophy, and spirituality) and folktales.

This unrequested 🧵

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#Septversary 6. Ashrah is a warrior—sometimes a general, but most times a wanderer. She loves it. For most of her life, she couldn't even imagine a life beyond the battlefield.

Nitara is an airfarer, the proud captain of an aerial ship. She loves it; the Vermilion Star 🧵

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