Decided to give Virtue a Jellikin! My sister named it Jelly Bean

Made another new Neon Odyssey OC! This one’s a Navili Supersprite Enforcer named Virtue, as her Code focuses on the Navili virtues of Courage, Wisdom, and Power!

Admittedly she’s still working on the Wisdom side of things—she’s rather impulsive with a stronger “fight” than “flight” reflex, plus a large case of “if not friend why friend-shaped”

She’s also the older sister to my other Navili character I made when first getting into Neon Odyssey!

If, by some miracle, I ever get a chance to be a player in a Neon Odyssey game, I’m 100% playing this character. Otherwise I’m gonna make her (and her sister) cameo in whatever game I end up DM-ing

Jet and his older brother grew up relatively poor on Val’Shai. Despite this, both of them quickly proved to be geniuses in engineering and physics, respectively, which gave them an avenue to pave a better life. They worked together for years, taking various jobs to make ends meet and establish a reputation for themselves.

Eventually they met Jayesh between jobs. They quickly became friends, and soon decided that bounty hunting would be a more productive career than occasional engineering and mechanic jobs. 

However, Jet dealt with a number of health issues throughout adolescence and young adulthood that gradually resulted in vocal cord paralysis. A botched surgery to save his voice only made things worse. He still had a bit of a voice by the time he and his brother met Jay, but he lost it entirely a few years into their collective bounty hunting careers. 

Fortunately, by that time, Jet and his brother had sufficiently taught Jay their sign language—which Jet himself had been fluent in since childhood since his brother was born Deaf—so communication wasn’t hampered between the three.

Jet, his brother, and Jay had a fair run for a good while, but eventually they suffered a series of poor bounties that put them in tight financial straits. Jet’s gambling hobby spiraled into an addiction during this time, and this only made their collective financial situation worse until Jet finally came clean about the habit. His brother and Jay helped him break the habit, but it was still some time before their finances stabilized. 

Eventually, however, things stabilized enough that Jet’s brother finally was able to start pursuing his own lifelong dream of saving up for university. Jet and Jay agreed to help him, and eventually they saved up to send him off to a prestigious university in the Solar Federation. 

Jet and Jay continued bounty hunting while Jet’s brother completed his education and became a well-reputed physicist, and nowadays he occasionally repays Jet and Jay’s help with help of his own. 

Jayesh Abhijeet was the oldest of three children born to two Polaris agents. His early childhood was one of craving the few moments his parents came home, until one day they never did. His parents were captured and arrested on a job, accused of being spies, and were never acquitted, leaving Jayesh and his two baby sisters to be fully and legally raised by their maternal grandmother.

After that, life was more stable and happy for Jayesh and his sisters. Jayesh did his best to be a good helper to his Nani, a good big brother to his sisters, and a good member of his community. But he still got into his fair share of mischief.

When he was fifteen, that mischief led him and a friend to discover an old cave in the mountains of Shensaati, just outside their local oasis. It was an ancient sanctuary, a shrine, wherein two bronze katars rested. His friend tried taking the katars, but they kept teleporting out of his hands. More messing around led to a pillar nearly falling on his friend, so almost as a reflex, Jay took the katars himself to save his friend. The katars stayed in his hands.

Upon returning home, Jay’s people saw him wielding the katars and praised him as a new incarnation of a folkloric hero. However, accounts of this hero and Jay’s supposed new fate varied, and he found himself pulled in more and more different directions as he got older. Eventually, with his Nani’s blessing, Jay bought a surplus ship and left Shensaati.

After bouncing around for a while, taking odd jobs to make ends meet, Jay met Jet and his brother, a pair of Benthos engineers. Together, the three of them decided to become bounty hunters. Might as well put his “gift” to use, Jay figured. The two Benthos taught him sign language, and the three of them became close friends over time, and remained so even after Jet’s brother left the crew and became a physicist. 

Jay remains in contact with his grandmother and his sisters, who both had gotten married some time after he left home, but he hasn’t dared return home himself. 

Saffron Crew: Aeza Sundream

Aeza Sundream was born on a Cavalon core world to a family that, although common-born, was set on gaining prestige and position in their House’s hierarchy. She was raised loyal to the Empire and its values, but the older she got, the more she realized that both the Empire and the Dynasty’s common folk were fighting for the same thing: safety. Disillusioned by her realizations and by seeing noble folk who should have been honorable act on their own selfish interests, Aeza struck out on her own in her late teens. 

She was swiftly found by Polaris, and due to her training in her House’s signature martial arts, was invited in as an agent. She joined, hoping to be able to make a true difference in the galaxy through Polaris, but never got very far. A couple years into her career, she suffered an accident on a mission that crushed her right arm and her dreams of progressing further in the ranks. She was released from duty after being fitted with a prosthetic.

She spent a few years after that mostly aimless; the only solace she found was in her faith to Alara, desperately clinging onto any hope that the Lightbringer would shine some of Her light onto any way forward. Eventually that light came in the shape of a Solari man named Sorin. 

Sorin had been a disciple of the philosopher Gallus, back in the day, but had paved his own path and formed his own philosophy after Gallus’s death. Now he was a bounty hunter, and he saw a lot of potential still in Aeza, so he took her under his wing and onto his crew, where he furthered her training in martial arts, encouraged her faith, and even taught her how to fly his personal ship. She quickly proved to have an incredible knack for flying.

Things were good for Aeza for a couple years in Sorin’s crew—aside from a heated rivalry with the crew’s Gridrunner, a Volcar named Keia. But Sorin’s health eventually took a rapid turn for the worse, and after his passing from illness, the crew went their separate ways.

Aeza and Keia had one last job, ostensibly together. However, things quickly spiraled out of control: first into a fight, then into a disaster where the facility they were in collapsed.

Aeza made it out alive, eventually finding a better life as a bounty hunter with a knack for flying, guided by the Lightbringer. 

Keia…didn’t.

So Aeza thought. 

Turned my persona into a Neon Odyssey character, a Cygnian Dreamer Oracle!