✧ my characters | ✶ characters from media

• religious trauma ✧ sage ✧ silas
• master and their servant ✧ françois & léon ✧ ivan & rhys ✶ astarion & cazador ✶ bruce & alfred
• hedonistic dandy ✧ françois ✶ astarion ✶ lord henry
• robot or ai learns to love or feel ✧ rhys
• manipulative for survival ✧ françois ✧ léon ✶ astarion
• reanimated but came back wrong ✧ cendra ✶ viktor
• faustian bargain ✧ cendra ✧ léon ✶ wyll ravengard ✶ dorian gray
• devotion that corrupts or ruins ✧ silas ✧ sage ✧ léon
• sacrificial lamb / doomed by the narrative ✧ sage
• mentor and their student ✧ nero & brynjolf ✶ andrew & fletcher
• artist and their muse ✶ basil hallward & dorian gray
• chosen family ✧ nero ✧ cendra
• the conspiracy theorist was right
• fight the darkness inside ✧ silas ✶ will graham
• quiet giant ✧ vigil ✧ rhys
• genius playing god ✧ ivan ✶ gale ✶ viktor
• ambiguous or surprising gender ✧ vigil ✧ hayes ✶ angel devil
• masked villain (or protagonist) ✧ sage (veil) ✶ hayes (bandana)
• horror as a metaphor for trauma or mental illness⠀
• meaningful names ✧ sage ✧ vigil ✧ nero ✧ cendra
• meaningful scars ✧ cendra (cheek, burn) ✧ hayes (wrists, rope burn) ✧ léon (thigh, lacerate) ✧ silas (back, flagellate) ✶ astarion ✶ will graham
• animal motif ✧ sage (lamb) ✧ silas (stag) ✧ cendra (leopard shark) ✧ rhys (bernese mountain dog) ✧ ivan (fennec fox) ✧ nero (crow) ✧ hayes (hunting dog) ✧ vigil (shire)
• scenery motif ✧ vigil (mountain range) ✧ ivan (dark forest) ✧ hayes (prairies) ✧ cendra (ocean)