The Oniborne Barbarian
...taking damage for someone else
Yuki Wakaru is a character that I (co-)created for a
D&D campaign I am playing.
Race: (Homebrew) Red Oniborne
Class: Barbarian
Hobbies: painting (especially on walls or monuments she's not supposed to touch)
Main RP Trait: Being loud, mischievous, chaotic, angry...trying to protect herself from re-living old pain.
Main faulty mindset: "'Sorry' doesn't fix anything!"
yuki's signature:
THE DESIGN
This character's original design IS NOT MINE.
Yuki's art and parts of her backstory were passed on me through other players (and some multiverse shenanigans), yet this is the character whose journey is deeply special to me and so I decided to make here expression sheet in my own style.
The original art comes from Rover Studio:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/g2EXEe
Yuki's a character who got me into DnD like no other
and that's why after months of playing her,
I finally drew her myself.
the process
This was the first time that I drew expressions ! :DDDDD
And I really wanted to establish her personality with the expressions I chose, not just some random ones.
This whole experience was incredibly fun and I have learnt so much, more than I probably ever have by drawing (I think you can see it if you compare the face and hands that I drew on my previous designs ^^)
what I have learnt
Yuki's paint, Yuki's katana, Yuki's amulet
YUKI'S STORY
In short, it's about family
=
the unbreakable bonds that survive even after the reason
had failed to argue in their favour.
Yuki can't find a reason to forgive her brother for what he has done,
not just to her, but to her older sister. She doesn't care about the world and what consequences
their brother's betrayal will bring, heck she doesn't care about her neighbours,
her tribe, her island, who gives a shit about the world,
all that matters is her sister, Mu. The only person who stuck with her.
But Yuki's story is full of self-lies and contradictions.
Does she really not care about anyone else in the world?
Why does she still carry the katana made for her, by her brother?
And how will the world change, when the same person
re-enters her life, but this one's from a different timeline?
"But I can't let you see
All that I have to lose
All I've lost in the fight to protect it."
All that I have to lose
All I've lost in the fight to protect it."
- (Eight, Sleeping At Last)
