Peach

Peach is an Earth Genasi Fighter/Paladin — portrayed by bluebluebutton — and is one of the main protagonists from Conundrum Company.

The Oath of the Astral Navigator — homebrewed by @TheGovnar and @MrShickadance — can be found here.

Appearance
Peach is surprisingly strong for their trim frame. Something beyond their musculature — the presence of granite beneath their skin — seems to be the source of their strength. Their features are both strange and easily forgettable: stony grey skin with mossy green freckles that easily blend into mountainous surroundings. Too bad Peach frequently finds themself at sea, surrounded by water and leagues away from their natural element. Despite this, Peach's companions have found that the Earth Genasi is capable of camouflaging not only themself, but the entire group when the need for stealth is dire.

Peach's hair is long and dark. After Demi styled their hair for a feast at the castle in Niole Dra, Peach has taken to wearing it in a braid, weaving in the silver and purple feathers gifted to them by their Paladin mentor "Teach" (Didasko). They have long abandoned the drab brown traveling clothes in which they had begun their adventures. Now, over unobtrusive grays and purples, Peach wears the shining mithral plate of Teach's former Paladin ally who succumbed at the Black Isle. Over this, they sport a sleek grey military coat gifted to them by Zahl.

Equipment
Peach wields a Frostbrand longsword named Caesura. The blade, purchased at a bakery of all places, glitters with the telltale shimmer of ice. When drawn, Caesura seems to steel Peach against any fiery attacks. Caesura is wielded one-handed, allowing Peach to utilize a kite shield painted (courtesy of Zahl) with the seven-pronged purple and silver star of their astral deity Voidwalker. Atop their head rests a blue circlet. Around their neck hangs a stone. The circlet enables Peach with a degree of Underwater Action. The Sending Stone, formerly belonging to Issen of Oddel's Tower, is now suspended on a fishing line necklace fashioned by Mortin. On their back, Peach carries the familial longsword of the fallen Silverwood Ranger Kiarra, which Peach used to land the finishing blow on the party's corrupted treant friend Wander Root. There the blade will remain until Kiarra is avenged.

Summary:
Peach is a foolhardy but well-intentioned individual. Protective to a fault, it is not unusual to find Peach voicing a hypocritical plea for the rest of their party to proceed with caution. Gifted with the ability to heal by Voidwalker, they are quick to utilize said gift on anyone not named "Peach." Similarly, Peach will regularly pester their party with questions about their respective emotional states, while simultaneously dodging any inquiry into their own.

Raised on the tales told by travelers passing through Owen Oak, Peach delights in storytelling and nurtures a deep respect for Bards like their friend (and former crush) Demi. They also carry a strong sense of debt to their mother Plum, an impoverished human woman tasked with raising a strange child on her own. In a po-dunk, hinterland, entirely human town, no less. Their chronic guilty outbursts and innate frugality might find their roots in this upbringing.

Whether they are leaping from a castle balcony after the fleeing Skerrin Wavechaser only to hit the River Dra like a rock, plunging into the sea from the deck of The Falling Star to save Odephelia from drowning, diving from the exploding Blackwing alongside Demi, or freefalling out of flight unexpectedly during a ship battle on the Azure Sea, one thing is certain: Peach has a weird relationship with water.

Peach's initial goal of becoming a Bard has been superseded by the need to keep their friends alive as they set about finding Mortin, saving two of the party's "mothers," defeating the Sea Princes, thwarting the Scarlet Brotherhood, and fixing death. All the while, hoping to fulfill their Oath of the Astral Navigator to Voidwalker. Though they have no idea what that actually entails.

Likes:
Peach likes cooking, gardening, writing poetry, stargazing, waltzing, spending time with Odephelia, listening to Demi sing, and experiencing amazement every time Salvator casts a spell they've never seen before.

Dislikes:
Peach dislikes Skerrin Wavechaser, mirrors, being vulnerable, flaming Divine Intervention teleport skulls, mind control, Duergar vaults, wraiths, Keys of Destruction, the person they're becoming, and shit that's never actually "haunted."

Trivia

 * Peach nearly got Mortin killed by weasels. Over a rose.
 * Peach has only dropped below 0 hit points half a dozen times.
 * Peach wants to harvest bomb mollusks.
 * Like, really really badly.
 * Until recently, Peach wrote all of their journals to Skerrin.
 * Peach's voice when speaking Primordial is significantly deeper than the light tone they adopt when speaking Common.
 * Peach's love language is gifting:
 * Demi: a falling star bookmark, a haiku, and lock picks
 * Zahl: ouroboros teeth caps and a utility knife
 * Mortin: a pretty stone and a haiku
 * Salvator: a salad fork, a sock puppet, and an ode
 * Plum: an anti-scrying necklace, a sending stone necklace, and a house (kinda)
 * Odephelia: a haiku, a crossbow, one of Teach's silver feathers, a spyglass inscribed with a poem, and ceiling stars
 * Oceanus: an engraved compass
 * Peach enjoys writing poetry.

Quotes

 * "I just kissed a dragon!"
 * "Do I have rock lips?"
 * "I cast Meat Shield. That's what I'm good at."
 * "If abilities were quantifiable on a scale from 1 to 20 and we were an 8, she’d be something like a 14."
 * "Our gods talked to us! Let's go kick some ass."
 * "That's not a xenophobic shark man. That's a firbolg."
 * "I'm Peach. Hello Moon! We're both objects."
 * "I think I've been looking for a light to guide me. But if looking into the dark is what I need to do, then I'll do it."