#vorpp

[fireskarr]

GW2 Unused dialogue: Flirty lines?

So here's a fun one ;)

During my deep dive into the Living World S1 related dialogue lines in the game, I stumbled across a flirty line from Jory that I hadn't heard before. I didn't think much of it at the time, since several of her regular lines are rather flirty. But then I found one for Braham. And then Rox. And then I started to pay attention.

For most characters, there are blocks of what I like to call 'generic' lines. These blocks tend to be separate from the story-specific lines and ambient conversations, and include things like event-related chatter (let's go, follow me, go on ahead, etc), greetings, yes/no, calls for help, battle cries, etc. And I noticed some of the "thank you"/gratitude lines were almost always preceded by some kind of flirty line (and a few aren't, it's kinda messy haha). So I ran through all the other characters and pulled what I could find.

Not all named characters seem to have these though, and I might have missed one or two that weren't obviously flirty. There's also a chance that some of these are part of ambient conversations I'm not aware of, but most ambient conversations tend to be separate, so I dunno. Like I said; kinda messy.

I've separated them into two groups: Named NPCs and un-named NPCs

Marjory Delaqua: "Mmm, mm, mmm. You can walk into my bar any old time." Braham: "You'd look great in a bear skin." Rox: "I like you almost as much as meat!" Magnus the Bloody Handed: "You look like a kindred spirit. You like winter sports?" Evon Gnashblade: "You like gold? Jewels? I bet you do." Vorpp: "Hello beautiful. Are there anymore at home like you?" Scarlet Briar: "Hello, you're pretty cute. For a drone." Captain Mai Trin: "Do you have what it takes to be my First Mate?" Magister Tassi: "What do you say? You, me, a little romantic stroll through the library, hmm?" Mad King Thorn: "Heey! How would you like to be queen for a day?" Bloody Prince Thorn: "Mmm, you're as luscious as blood in the moonlight."

Lionguard 1: "Hey, good lookin'." Lionguard 2: "My shift's about to end, how about a drink?" Aetherblade 1: "Hey baby, wanna ride on an airship?" Aetherblade 2: "I'm all business. But I'm all pleasure too." Aetherblade 3: "Hey there, hot stuff." Zephyrite 1: "I feel a spark between us." Zephyrite 2: "You outshine the sun." Zephyrite 3: "Did I see a glint in your eye?" Zephyrite 4: "I feel balanced, now that you're here."

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #gw2 unused dialogue #marjory delaqua #braham eirsson #rox #scarlet briar #mai trin #mad king thorn #bloody prince thorn #magister tassi #vorpp #aetherblades #zephyrites

[where-is-caithe]

thinking about Rhowan collecting all of Scarlet's recordings and holding onto them and listening to them over and over.

#rhowan #the bottle of whiskey she opened at the beginning of the night def empty by the next morning #rhowan just thinking about the tragedy of scarlet. the horrors she went through. until her death. #i think it would hit her hard. #and then finding out so much more about her in the beginning of s2 when you find her hideout in dry top #god. #rhowans not having a good time rn #the way shed have to hold herself back every time she spoke to vorpp #the way shed have to hold herself back from tearing omadds machine apart in s2 #immediately getting subjected to the same thing scarlet went through and feeling terrified that shed end up the same way #idk. theres a lot to unpack here

[dasozelotvonnebenan]

Hey! No pressure at all, but just in case you still need some distraction how about 💥 COLLISON and 🕷️ SPIDER for Vorpp Jr.?

I have to kill three hours outside in the rain so yeah, questions are very much appreciated...

💥 COLLISON - what emotions do they have trouble dealing with?

None really, for all his communicative difficulties Vorpp has no problem with emotions. He's very open and blunt about it. He will absolutely go up to people and tell them he thinks they're pretty just in the middle of the street but he is also someone who says "Hello! The sight of you makes me want to put you in a high capacity specimen homogenizer. Please make yourself less hateable or remove yourself from my vicinity"

🕷️ SPIDER - what is their biggest fear? do they have any irrational / mundane fears?

That the inquest finds out where he is and tries to get him back to rata primus or worse simply kills him. Not because he ran away or anything, because he totally didn't do that he only "relocated his base of operations for security reasons" is totally still a member of the inquest and never broke a single rule, but the colleage he ran away with did break his ankle bracelet and that's inquest property and he knows they're too lazy to properly check who did it and just say it's him.

#Vorpp Jr

[hawkepockets]

#gw2 #guild wars 2

[kornyo]

Oh well now you have me CURIOUS so, here outside of tags, tell me about those PoF death experiences 👀

@mystery-salad

i’ll never say no to unleashing my oc lore gates 🫶 be warned. this will be long. like 800 words type of long . for context i will be explaining important backstory first that will be related to the pof story descriptions . and obviously spoiler warning !

starting with my first commander, zoya. zoya already has a complicated relationship with life and death from the get go, which only gets worse during path of fire.

zoya is a secondborn, podsister to canach actually. and just like him, she was abducted to vorpp’s research lab and experimented on. vorpp was draining her of her life force to power his golems, and she actually succumbed to these experiments and died in the lab days before caithe and faolain arrived. her body was discarded into the sea, and to canach and everyone else, she was dead.

and she was dead, her body had been drifting in the ocean for weeks, if not months, before she washed up on the cursed shore in orr. when she did, she caught the attention of the eye of zhaitan, who until now had not seen any of mordremoth’s minions.

now, due to the fact she is mordremoth’s minion (despite the pale tree cutting them off), sylvari can’t be corrupted by the other dragons, but i feel like at the time of the secondborn it was not widely known/confirmed for certain yet.

so, like he does, zhaitan tried to corrupt her and convert her into one of his undead minions - after all, if this would work, he could yoink his brother’s minions for his purposes and his army would grow even further. while the „corruption“ did not succeed - her tie to

mordremoth saved her from becoming his minion - he did somewhat revive her in the process, but not fully. zoya, now technically dead and alive at the same time but not having access to zhaitans power to keep her alive, is forced to absorb life force from other creatures to stay alive. hence, her being a necromancer. she stays in orr for a while, no idea of who she is and who she was previously, until she eventually encounters trahearne during his travels in orr and he takes her back with him to the grove. together they both study orr and try to solve his dream of cleansing it.

so when zoya dies during the fight with balthazar (to the sword rammed into her chest), her afterlife is different than the one in game. she wakes up floating in the ocean, like when she was dead for the first time, alone, no memory of who she is and who she is supposed to be yet again. but she’ll swim to the cursed shore this time, and meet the judge who will guide her through the domain of the lost, regaining her memory (even before her first death) to now.

however, it is not necessarily the judge that brings her back to ‚life‘, it is she herself who uses the power from defeating zhaitan in her memories to bring herself back into the realm of the living. she still retains her ‚undead‘ status, and similar to joko, she’s essentially a lich.

and different to the in-game, she was dead for an hour approximately, and she had troubles controlling her body for the rest of that day and needs to rest before she can continue with the fight.

my other commander, rhys, on the other hand has a complicated relationship with balthazar, which makes their encounter in path of fire difficult on a very different level.

rhys was a priest of balthazar prior to becoming known as the commander, and she was VERY devoted to him. still prayed to him frequently, despite his departure during the exodus of the gods. to me, rhys and balthazar have a relationship similar to zeus and achilles in the iliad; a god and his beloved champion, sometimes i think their relationship was as close as zeus and hercules even.

balthazar, despite being chained in the mists, heard and responded to every one of her prayers. he had very big plans for rhys; she, as a descendant of king doric and king adelbern whom were both personally blessed by balthazar and gifted with his swords sohotin and magdaer, was supposed to be his champion by his side while he would slay the dragons and absorb their powers. rhys was also supposed to be the one to free him from the mists initially, but rytlock finding and freeing him first was not a problem at all. another important detail: being a priest of balthazar made rhys immune to any fire damage whatsoever, making them a very powerful berserker.

during the course of season 3 and POF, their relationship with balthazar is strained and tested numerous times — rhys was always tempted to join his side every time he called out to them, but their hesitation was close to a betrayal in balthazars eyes, and so, they were no longer his ally anymore but his most powerful enemy that had to be destroyed. he removes his blessing, and as a result, rhys is incredibly vulnerable to fire damage.

during their battle, rhys doesn’t die by his sword like zoya, a death some could see as a merciful death. instead, he burned rhys to death, FULLY. this was a lesson to his former disciple, one that should follow them into their afterlife.

rhys’ afterlife was a burnt and barren wasteland, full of ash and the occasional leftover fire/ember. they, too, forgot who they are and what their purpose in life. even when they slowly regain their memories, they don’t consider going back to the living but staying dead. in the domain of the lost they have been „dead“ for a few days, but in the domain of the living they have been dead for a whole day.

when rhys decides to come back after all, out of vengeance and out of loyalty to aurene, they willfully step into a raging fire inside a hollow tree trunk which acted as a portal. their body was about to be cremated when they decided to come back, emerging from the fire. their whole body was burnt, but they found new strength in killing balthazar once and for all.

#so sorry for going off but once the gates have been opened i cannot contain myself #rhys #zoya #pof spoilers #and w that i shall go sleep ahjkhdkjdf #askbox #mystery-salad

[ratasum]

I'm very sleepy and rolling around in my head the fact that while we know the founding, history, and general structure of most of the cultural "bad guy" groups, we really have painfully little on the Inquest.

I've been digging in the wiki for any information on who founded them or when, and there's really just... nothing.

There's some indication that they were at least inspired by Zinn. The Inquest's page on the wiki indicates Kudu was behind the experimentation on Malomedies, but the page requests verification and any links I've seen people post aren't archived and weren't saved on the wayback machine.

It's increasingly frustrating. Rata Primus is massive in scale and 30-40 years doesn't feel quite long enough to have built it from the ground up. Having them founded around the time of Zinn's exile would make sense, but then how did they get reinvolved with asuran politics? And it's clear the average asuran citizen hates them. There's a ton of ambient dialogue in Rata Sum and Metrica Province from regular npcs about how awful they are, and a good chunk of events and renown hearts in Metrica rotate around ruining the Inquest's day in one way or another.

I've been rolling around the idea that they came together as a faction around the time of the experimentation of the Firstborn, and that those asura were who would form the megakrewe and start recruiting likeminded individuals. There's strong indication most asuran citizens really have no idea (you as an asura commander certainly don't) until it comes out that this even happened.

But the council plays into the Inquest's hands quite often, we know they're canonically corrupt, and so their approval of Vorpp even if the rank and file wouldn't approve doesn't shock me.

My only hangup is time. Rata Primus looks like it's been there a while. Is it an old abandoned Rata that was formed around the time of Rata Sum and then taken over by the Inquest after it was abandoned for some reason, or the residents died out and the survivors left?

Did they manage to build a base that complete in 30 years? How did no one notice?

I'm wracking my brain about it. So how's your morning lmao.

#bunny rambles

[legendaryskyscale]

Alright, time to share the handful of Asura OCs I have

First we have Bioengineer Ardjin and Magister Luura

These two hooked up for like a year before Ardjin dipped out, leaving Luura to raise their son Zyffre on her own. Fortunately, Luura had a fantastic Priory expedition team who looked after her progeny with her. Plus, Steward Gixx also helped watch Zyffre when Luura went on dangerous expeditions (in my story, Luura is Gixx's daughter)

Ardjin was part of the krewe that had experimented on the Secondborn Sylvari. He got into a disagreement with Vorpp and left the krewe. He was interested in splicing Sylvari, successfully creating a few spliced Sylvari-animal beings. He was also hired by a Miss B to create a spliced Sylvari/Krait. This ended in several failures, but he finally created a successful one that needed to be incubated. This creature he made was taken into the Nightmare Tower, and would later be slain by the Marjory, Kasmeer, and the Commander

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Next is Zyffre and his daughter, Ruixa

Zyffre was born in the Durmand Priory and used to go on safe expeditions with his mother, Luura. Luura took on an expedition to Orr, and this was about the same time Zyffre was old enough to attend one of the Colleges at Rata Sum. He graduated and was supposed to join a krewe at the Thaumanova Reactor; however, his path crossed Kuda and he fell head-over-heels for her. This meeting would land Zyffre an apprenticeship with Kudu at the Crucible of Eternity. Things eventually didn't work out for Zyffre, so he returned to the Priory (went into hiding) and continued his research on Elder Dragon magic.

Ruixa was Zyffre and Kuda's daughter. She had no interest in Elder Dragons and didn't care for her parents' research. Her passion was in birds and she became an ornithologist. She's got a decent relationship with Zyffre since he had absolutely adored her when she was a progeny. Sadly, her mother took her away and Ruixa wouldn't see her father again for several years. She only happen to find Zyffre by chance and the two are building a new bond as father and daughter.

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And here is Raennyn and Aezzil

Raennyn (aka Rae) is Zyffre's half-brother. His father is Ardjin and his mother was an Inquest (haven't made his mom and dunno if i will). Rae grew up with the Inquest, becoming an experiment that enhanced his reflexes and abilities. He became a proficient bounty hunter and assassin. His main job was to hunt down other Inquest members who owe a heavy dept or needed to be taken out. His last contract ended horribly, having lost both his legs in the failure. These days, he doesn't do as much bounty hunting nor assassinations. Instead, he makes his own prosthetics and plays with chemicals (as in getting high af). He and Zyffre get along pretty well.

Aezzil was born and raised in Lion's Arch. He lost his parents during Scarlet Briar's attack on Lion's Arch. He was an orphan who was taken in by survivors. When he was older, he became a broker for the Black Lion Trading Company. On the side, though, he's a smuggler. Aezzil used to smuggle "subjects" to the Inquest, but after an incident where he almost lost his life, he stopped dealing with the Inquest. He has connections to some shady characters and does business with powerful people around Tyria.

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So that's nearly all my Asura OCs. The only one I haven't shown is my "dragon corrupted" Kudu clone. But you know, he's an NPC clone and not my OC so he doesn't count lol

I hope you enjoyed reading this! Also, I'm open to OC questions about these rattos~

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #Ro's content #Ro's characters #Ardjin #Luura #Zyffre #Ruixa #Raennyn #Aezzil #c: ardjin #c: luura #c: zyffre #c: ruixa #c: raennyn #c: aezzil #reen's screenshots

[adrisventari]

OH BOY MORE RATS!

DAY TWO - AUGUST 21st Do you have an Inquest OC? How did they end up in the Inquest? (If you don't, what college did your OC attend?)

@asura-appreciation-corner

Met Cella, who doesn't actually exist in game and is also a little dead soo......

Cella is Gehix's bastard of a mother. Renowned biologist, accomplice of Vorpp during his experiments on the Sylvari. Joined the Inquest officially shortly after said experiments were "ruined". She was the one responsible for cutting off Enansi's leg. There are rumors she may be Kuda's mother, but that's never been confirmed. She's a horrid little creature, and Gehix's career in medicine was partially to spite her and her lack of ethics.

#asuraappreciationweek #gw2 #gehix #enansi

[dotmander]

character introduction: diarmaid (she/her)

an engineer, one of the secondborn that were subject to vorpp's experiments, and an accidental nightmare convert. she didn't realize the nightmare had taken root in her for years; as soon as it was discovered, she left the grove in disgrace.

despite this, she snubs the courtiers; although she believes sylvari society should be restructured, she isn't a sadist, and thinks the caste system they've borrowed from humanity is ridiculous. instead she builds fun freaky stained glass abominations and charges exorbitant prices for them. if you let her, she would sit in her tower and make nightmare-fueled creations until she dies, chasing away almost everyone that comes to visit; unfortunately for her, people keep trying to remind her she has morals. eugh.

song

#original #my ocs #diarmaid #my screenshots #diarmaid is my ''what if nightmare is like chronic illness'' projection oc because this is my house and i do what i want #im sooo normal about her. ma'am are you free on thursday when i am also free (she shoots me before i can finish asking) #she actually doesn't exist in game anymore because i wanted a keyfarm #.....sorry my love #next time i get a character slot i'll bring you back #character introduction #i made her before i knew about diarMID the hot character #i refuse to change her name though sorry. JDNSJGNSJGS

[archesa]

ask game hours—have 🍎🌶️🥭🍑 for galaed, if you’d like! :) @kerra-and-company

Thanks a lot!! Always very happy to delve into Galaëd and De Draconis Mobile! 💛 possible spoilers to come for both the canon and the AU 😁

🍎 [RED APPLE] Who does your OC value above all else?

This one's hard! Because it's a tie between three people, really! Canach, Rorschach and Trahearne ! Without the three of them, the world loses its colour.

Of course he does lose Trahearne. And Rorschach. But when you see the effect their deaths had on him, I'll let you imagine what he would become should any harm befall Canach.

🌶️ [HOT PEPPER] Who would your OC declare their sworn enemy if they could meet them?

Vorpp. He didn't like the asura when they first met at the Queen's Jubilee, but he couldn't quite place what was amiss... something about his demeanour, the sound of his voice, his disdain of Scarlet that seemed to encompass all sylvari. Everything about the Arcane Council envoy gratted on his nerves.

Now, knowing what Vorpp has done? That he and his krewe were responsible for the vivsection of Malomedies and the death and torture of more than 20 secondborns (including Canach)... let's just say that Vorpp would be wise to steer from poorly lit alleys if he ever meets Galaëd or the twins.

🥭 [MANGO] What colours best represent them and why? Does this differ from their favourites?

His colour scheme was well thought, actually 😁 I wanted him to take after a birch tree (because the eponymous character in my novel comes from a birch and aspen forest) hence the white bark and black markings. Incidentally black and white are the colours of the Vigil, which made sense for him (in the novel, his character is a swordmaster, mentor and most loyal friend to Lucius, so him joining the Vigil seemed only natural).

The orange comes from both his affiliation to autumn and dusk, and suit his bright, warm and hopeful nature.

And violet – his favourite colour – comes from his illusions and his unconditional attachement to Rorschach.

🍑 [PEACH] How do they show their kindness? How kind are they truly?

Galaëd thrives much more in the logistics than the actual fighting. He loves, and he's good at organising the army's supply lines, ensure the wounded are properly evacuated and treated, the troops fed and equipped. He cares for his companions and for the civilians they protect. Some must fight so all may be free.

#archesa answers #galaëd of the cycle of dusk #rorschach riresang #rorschach grimlaugh #starlight and fireflies #dairban #meryw

[commanderfloppy]

Shipping game stuff ; Vlixxa annnddd... Faolaine?

(@dumb-dumb-mander)

Oh now this is a strange one, it took a bit of brain storming to figure out if there was even a way for this to happen since most of their possible interactions Flops would be going through it and Faolain would be uhh...evil. One scenario did manage to pop into my mind though.

It's 1304 AE, a bunch of secondborn had just been captured and Caithe and Faolain are on the way to rescue them. When trying to find a way to enter the facility, they see a tired college intern who was sent to deliver a supplies shipment (someone just shoved the responsibility on her) and get her at knife-point.

She doesn't need to be at knife-point for long though because as soon as she finds out a bunch of sentient plant people are being experimented on in there she's ready to help.

With the combined efforts of assassin skills, lab clearance, and hiding in a cart of supplies, the three manage to get in there and actually save a bit more of the secondborn. (Vorpp still escapes though)

Honestly I have no idea how this relationship would progress other than Vlixxa becoming the one maybe okay asura who possibly gets invited to join the plant lesbian polycule?? Maybe??

It would all go to shit so fast though so uhh..

2/10: Gee Floppy how come you (possibly) get TWO plant girlfriends?

#ask game answers #vlixxa floppy #Commander Floppy #yeah flops is wayy to nice to ever really be with Evil in much of a way #and honestly i have no idea if Faolain would be cool with an asura even if she was 'a good one' #but the secret mission highjinks are a good thing to imagine

[autistic-girl-academic]

okay but every time i see vorpp i wanna say THIS GUY IS A WAR CRIMINAL WHY ISN’T HE DEAD LET ME ATTACK HIM

#gw2 #i mean i know it's like depressingly realistic worldbuilding or w/e #the asura straight up have a phrenology krewe and the arcane council sweeps so much shit under the rug #BUT STILL

[where-is-caithe]

remembering Rhowan is one of the secondborn tortured by the inquest and that Vorpp is the one who did it AND that you literally are forced to work with him for the entire 3rd episode of season 1

#HELP i thought of this 4 years ago before playing season 1 and now i dont know how to deal with it #rhowan having panic attacks the whole time and also having to deal with scarlet #whomst she also knows/knew #help help help help help

[dasozelotvonnebenan]

1, 11, 18, 27 and 42 for Vorpp Jr. (@likemesomesalads)

1. What’s the maximum amount of time your character can sit still with nothing to do?

Seven seconds, though usually when he is bored he just talks to himself in his mind so from the outside he usually looks a lot calmer than he is.

11. How do they cope with confusion (seek clarification, pretend they understand, etc)?

Vorpp asks A LOT of questions. Answering them always makes him ask more. The only way to stop him is to tell him you don't know an answer, after which he will seek another person to ask the questions to.

18. What embarrasses them?

I don't think Vorpp can be embarrassed, he is the most unashamedly excited person in Tyria.

27. What causes them to feel dread?

The consequences of disobeying orders.

42. How badly do they want to reach their end goal?

He doesn't really have an end goal, he's just vibing.

#Vorpp Jr

[skritt-shinies]

hmm...how about you pick three of the secrets to share for cori, if you want? :D @kerra-and-company

HIII this is so so late, my apologies. Im so bad with answering these JGBHFJSSJDFHGKJDSK Anyways!!

Her first and maybe biggest secret is that she murdered Vorpp. Everyone knows he's dead, his body was left in the open, but nobody knows who did it [except Roxysis and Destiny's Edge. they could read context clues.]

Her second is that Cadeyrn asked her to tell Roxysis that he still loved him before he died. She denied and killed him. She keeps it from Roxysis to protect him; they both would know it was a lie. One last jab from Cadeyrn.

Her third secret isn't REALLY a secret anymore, but it kinda counts. She's technically an Elder Dragon. Tyria knows, but Cantha didn't until after the finale of EOD.

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #commander coriandus #ask games

[i-mybrunettelady]

So I finally caught up with the new story release. It took me and some friends about 3hrs to do it (thank goodness one of them knew what to do and guided us for achis) but thing I wanna focus on is how ridiculously funny it is to me that Nyra gets to play forensics.

She's plenty smart, but she's a tactician, a war leader/hero, and at the ripe old age of 21, when she's being asked to do this, she's in her babymander, 'i know best bc I'm in charge' type of mindset so letting her do this is such a ridiculous notion to me

She doesn't know SHIT about this. She has her guesses, more or less flawed, and you think she'd stand there and let Vorpp call her stupid? She'll punch a hole through space just so she can slap him for it 😂

But also I wanna write about that evacuation from LA sometime...

#gw2 #nero's random thoughts #alysannyra #long time no nyra rambles lmao #all it takes for me to go NYRA GRABBY HANDS is the hours of gameplay #less than that #i just love nyra okay i think she's neat