Oh, I definitely still monitor this thread – I absolutely love chatting back and forth about our characters’ with you! I actually haven’t been able to play for the past week or so now
Our credit card number somehow got stolen, and our subscription ran out the day after. I’m in a holding pattern until the bank gets everything sorted out, sadly. It’s maddening! WoW is my stress relief at the end of a hard day, and I definitely miss it. Just when I was having so much fun with Constantyne and family, too
I do need to add Costin to my sig! When I am able to play again, I want to level him up to ten just so he will show in the armory
Congrats on getting Aylee to 34 so quickly! I hate that dreaded pet slump. I think that is the biggest downside of stable themes, is that there seems to be so many gaps between the pets you want so badly that it makes the rest of the game just drags. I LOVE that green beetle though, I love that shade of green with the purple markings. I bet he/she and Aylee look great together
What have you been naming her pets so far?
I love that growing up in a wintery environment is what sparked Rendir’s love of white pets – that is so fitting, and gives so much more meaning to what could have just been a random theme
I’m trying to think outside of the box for her. Maybe she had something to do with animal preservation and worked closely with the creatures, like the frostsaber cats, in Winterspring? On the flipside, maybe she was a demon hunter trying to exterminate the demons who have taken up the southern parts of the region.
I still really love Salaina’s story, and the fact that she is raised by the night elves. It seems so fitting, especially with her being the marksman hunter. How old was she when her parents were killed?
And, at the risk of overusing the word ‘love,’ I really love the fact that your family represents the three branches of hunters, and the fact that you are working those unique abilities in. In game, Constantyne is dual-specced between beast mastery and marksmanship. When writing him, I feel I have never really put either of the trees into play as much as I might should. I do know that he is downright awful with traps, and trying to sneak around, and feigning death – he just likes barging into the action with Whitney at his side. It’s not the safest method for sure, but it’s the way he prefers things
During my forcible hiatus, I have been trying to think some on Whitnee’s backstory since she is still my only character who doesn’t really have one. Born a human, she grew up on a farm in Gilneas. Her family (herself, her parents, and a baby brother) was never well off financially, but they were always close-knit and loved each other dearly. She was always a very kind, down-to-earth country girl who made for a very beautiful human. One night, she woke up to hear her brother screaming and rushed to the family barn to find him pinned in a corner by a rabid worgen. She grabbed a pitchfork and fended the beast off, but not without getting bitten herself. The change devastated her. She thought she looked like a monster, and she couldn’t even go into town without the people she used to call friends and neighbors being terrified of her appearance. When the Forsaken invaded Gilneas, the curse she hated so much wound up saving her. In the middle of the night, a band of undead ransacked her home and killed her parents and brother. They took Whitnee captive in hopes of either experimenting on her or turning her into a slave. She was put into a cage like an animal and hauled off to Silverpine Forest, where Constantyne eventually found and rescued her. I still haven’t thought up their story past that point, but I feel good at least having Whitnee’s more solidified.
To a lesser extent, I have also very loosely thought about their third and (probably) final child, the one who will tame wolves in honor of his/her mother. I’m not sure whether it will be a boy or a girl, or exactly what race it will be. Since Costin and Bastienne are both blood elves, I was thinking either a human or a worgen. I think a human might make more since – the worgen curse seems to kind of be like a disease, so I’m not sure if it would genetically pass or not.
