There's alot of medieval fantasy roleplay around here, and I want to dip my toes into that genre more. So I've opted to make a medieval fantasy AU version of my main OC, Apollo.
The problem I'm having is that I want to make him cursed in some way. Apollo is originally an alien who has to eat humans to survive, and he's constantly torn up over that, so I want a curse that's the same flavor of moral turmoil. I thought about vampirism or lycanthropy.. But it just doesn't feel quite right. I know I want the overall story to be he was part of some nice magic/mage academy, but perhaps he was kicked out or shunned after getting this curse.
So, dear roleplayer, do you know of any curses that could work well for my OC? It doesn't have to be something that already exists in any medieval fantasy media, feel free to help me cook up something entirely new.
The problem I'm having is that I want to make him cursed in some way. Apollo is originally an alien who has to eat humans to survive, and he's constantly torn up over that, so I want a curse that's the same flavor of moral turmoil. I thought about vampirism or lycanthropy.. But it just doesn't feel quite right. I know I want the overall story to be he was part of some nice magic/mage academy, but perhaps he was kicked out or shunned after getting this curse.
So, dear roleplayer, do you know of any curses that could work well for my OC? It doesn't have to be something that already exists in any medieval fantasy media, feel free to help me cook up something entirely new.
Hey, knowing Apollo already a tiny bit, it would be no problem if he were that same ‘alien’ that fell on earth, but that earth being still medieval. It’s like in that one TV show, where idolized gods (ancient Egyptian or Greek or even Asian) turned out to be aliens travelling through interstellar portals and misused human kind.
Still an interesting curse could be some witchcraft that forces Apollo to consume human flesh to prevent getting older, but in this case more a cursed picture, like in “The picture of Dorian Gray”. If he doesn’t eat, the picture gets older, if the portrait gets too old, Apollo dies.
Still an interesting curse could be some witchcraft that forces Apollo to consume human flesh to prevent getting older, but in this case more a cursed picture, like in “The picture of Dorian Gray”. If he doesn’t eat, the picture gets older, if the portrait gets too old, Apollo dies.
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