u/sixfootunderthesea

i am planning a character who at birth was given/blessed by her parents to have a protector - unknowing by her - before she was orphaned due to war. growing up, this guardian has visited her in her dreams and to her oblivion, protected her from harm throughout her life. he solely communicated through her dreams as she was a young child and as she’s gotten older, telepathically throughout her days. now at an adult age and facing true conflict in life, whether she is summoning him or he is physically starting to appear, he is showing up outside of her dreams. i have researched races for days and take heavy inspiration from DnD and cannot figure out what race to place the guardian as. for whatever reason i have imagined him as dark, almost a shadowy figure or maybe beastly. any ideas would be greatly appreciated and i will answer any questions anyone has if that’d be helpful. thanks in advance!

i don’t know if this is the right place to post this, but if it isn’t maybe someone could point me in the right direction. i am planning a character who at birth was given/blessed by her parents to have a protector - unknowing by her. growing up, this guardian has visited her in her dreams and to her oblivion, protected her from harm throughout her life. he solely communicated through her dreams as she was a young child and as she’s gotten older, telepathically throughout her days. now at an adult age and facing true conflict in life, whether she is summoning him or he is physically starting to appear, he is showing up outside of her dreams. i have scrolled through races for days and cannot figure out what race to place the guardian as. for whatever reason i have imagined him as dark, almost a shadowy figure or maybe beastly. any ideas would be greatly appreciated and i will answer any questions anyone has if that’d be helpful. thanks in advance!

i would like to add in after a couple of concerned questions, he isn’t a million years older than her. nothing against anyone who writes that trope, but we’ve read it a million times and is only not creepy when you don’t think about it. he was born/created alongside or around the same time as her. so they grew up together. as a young girl she thought he was just a figment of her dreams because neither knew they could communicate outside of her slumber. as he aged and learned his own powers, he realized he could speak her awake and later learns he can step out into her physical realm alongside her. so no, not a creepy old beast who fell in love with a child. but a beast who grew up with her, and at first hated that he was bound to her because neither of them understood the pact placed upon them at birth, but fell in love with her for all the reasons we humans fall in love. the way someone’s eyes light up at the sunset, the way they stir their coffee three times, the way they laugh at dumb jokes.

i don’t know if this is the right place to post this, but if it isn’t maybe someone could point me in the right direction. i am planning a character who at birth was given/blessed by her parents to have a protector - unknowing by her. growing up, this guardian has visited her in her dreams and to her oblivion, protected her from harm throughout her life. he solely communicated through her dreams as she was a young child and as she’s gotten older, telepathically throughout her days. now at an adult age and facing true conflict in life, whether she is summoning him or he is physically starting to appear, he is showing up outside of her dreams. i have scrolled through races for days and cannot figure out what race to place the guardian as. for whatever reason i have imagined him as dark, almost a shadowy figure or maybe beastly. any ideas would be greatly appreciated and i will answer any questions anyone has if that’d be helpful. thanks in advance!