#✗ ┋ ᴛʜᴇsᴇ ᴄɪʀᴄᴜᴍsᴛᴀɴᴄᴇs ᴄᴀɴ ʙᴇ ꜰʀɪɢʜᴛᴇɴɪɴɢ. ❜ ( headcanons. )
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in fact fuck it headcanon post about crow’s future career as a model / entertainer because i need it:
he still works for the noughts. if anything, being in the public eye adds another layer of fun to his work. he enjoys the thrill of living a double life, one existence hidden in plain view while the other masquerades as a regular person.
he never stays with one company / business / contractor. his first job is something he sticks with a little longer, but because he’s using it-- as soon as they get him out there enough, to the point where other people / companies / names want to make use of him, he’s out of there. it may seem selfish, and maybe it is, but don’t forget that crow is very anti- corporate and so doesn’t want his career to spiral into something that those people control.
eventually, he gets to a status of fame that results in a couple of problems. crazy fangirls that stalk him ( though lbr, he’s already had this problem like twice now, so it’s probably not that concerning to him ), and news outlets looking for any means necessary to take him down a peg or two ( though this is made incredibly difficult because of the criminal immunity the noughts offer him-- see how these occupations work hand in hand, now? ). despite these things, crow never seems deterred and continues to provide content for people.
eventually, his career extends beyond modelling. not only is he gorgeous, but he’s naturally a very funny, charismatic and charming person, so he probably stems into comedy; stand-up routines, video content uploaded to instagram / twitter / even youtube meant to entertain people, and his wit remains a constant throughout everything. he’s not particularly nice to people, but he is hilarious, so that softens the blow a lot. i deliberately made it this way because, though i’m not celebrating np.d, nor using narcissism as a means of ‘’oh, my muse is so good!!’’, it does lend him aid when it comes to dealing with the masses. much like psychopaths make good businessmen/women, narcissists make good entertainers because their self- righteousness and confidence, as well as their natural attraction to the spotlight, makes them perfect candidates for success within the public sphere. why do you think you see so many jackasses in the public domain? asshole-ry sells, and oftentimes people don’t believe that the ego is genuine, rather that it’s an extension of a tv character / a persona they use for the purpose of making jokes / punchlines / routines.
anyways, it makes me emotional that some time in the future crow will simply be able to post a photo of a bar / restaurant / pub / club / fucking street corner, or tweet his current location with no other context, and people will flock to even catch a glimpse of him.
it’s high time this man did something good.
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also i keep thinking about ‘’crow’s’’ bedroom in kurt’s apartment. like, he doesn’t ‘live’ there any more, but he doesn’t really live anywhere. ‘’home’’ is with nomi, of course, but he’s quite like a house-cat in that he comes and goes as he pleases. sometimes he doesn’t stay at either of those places; he’ll crash with workmates or other members of the noughts that he’s on good terms with--
-- anyways. it’s not a big room or anything, quite boxy really, but he has a lot of stuff in it, and a lot of adorably characteristic stuff at that. obviously along the far wall are the tanks that kurt ( after bribing his landlord with a large sum of cash lmao ) had installed, and they have a variety of fish in them. he has a tank of just clownfish as well, and he takes care of them the best. he cares about all of his aquarium of course, but they’re special to him. they also have lighting installed, but coloured, so he often just has the tanks’ lights on so his room is always swathed in cool colours like blues and reds and purples ( and i also have the adorable headcanon that he’ll sometimes change them depending on the game he’s playing, like fe will have purple and hollow knight will have blue and rayman will have gold / orange and so on ). one tanks has his pet turtle frankie in, and another still hosts a majority of the goldfish he saved with echo at the fair. at either side of these tanks, he has two cylindrical lamp things, quite like lava lamps, but instead of the blobs they have little jellyfish in them ( obviously not real ones but still ). they’re quite tall too so they don’t look ridiculous next to his big wall of fish.
then, unpredictably, he has a bookcase. the bottom shelf is used for storing physical copies of videogames and his switch / 2ds xl when he’s not using them. chargers and the switch’s dock and stuff can also be found there. the second to last and second shelves are full of books. most, he has read. crow isn’t an avid reader but he does it sometimes and it’s my fucking kink to just envision him sitting there with a book. the top shelf hosts some of his ‘less important’ plushies. ones he got because they were cute or he saw it and wanted it in the moment. at the very end of this long line of stuffies is a little tin. nobody except him knows what’s in there, and it has a tiny little padlock on it to keep it from being opened. the key is not there with it, and he doesn’t carry it, so it’s to be assumed that it’s that way because crow doesn’t want it to be opened. on top of the bookcase,�� there’s a modest little cooler and a little tv, which he can move when he wants to play videogames on it.
his bed is always fucking pristine unless he’s been sitting on it tbh. always has nice sheets, and it always smells goddamn divine, like him. he probably changes his sheets every week because of his weird thing with both perfectionism and not being able to sleep on ‘’’’’’dirty’’’’’’’ sheets because of his time in the pen. if he doesn’t change it, he does actually have worse nightmares than usual. on the bed near his pillow are his super important plushies. these can alternate. his rowlet, fatty, and his dusty plush are the current constants up there as well as clarence the clownfish. he also always has a really soft blanket at the bottom of his bed just in case. most of his plushies have a home in his closet, honestly, but organised, so he knows where everything is, but he has a few more ‘’important’’ ones on his windowsill, behind the curtain. these are the detective pikachu plushies avery got him, jelly-belly the jellyfish, which avery also got him, and a little reversible octopus plushie ( he always keeps it on the ‘’angry’’ face, though sometimes if you’re lucky you’ll catch him playing with it and giggling-- ). nobody but crow knows who he received that from.
and the little bedside table gets me man. there’s nothing remarkable about it but just thinking about this tired boy keeping his medication on there, as well as a clock and his phone, and his tags when he showers, it’s just so adorable to me for some reason, idk--
oop, just as a little additional: he has a hook on the back of his door, where he hangs that stupid-ass king-robe-looking-dressing-gown he got as a gag gift ( normally he throws out gag gifts in people’s faces but this one does make him feel fucking regal so he uses it unironically lmaooo ) and a rucksack. the rucksack he uses whenever he’s moving between places. he packs a change of clothes, his games, and a plushie or two. as of now, the plushie that always goes with him between houses is dusty.
it sounds like a lot of stuff honestly, but most of his belongings are stuffed animals, ahahaha, and it’s all perfectly arranged to fill this little room with character and adorableness. though he is quite nomadic in terms of living arrangements, he always keeps the room locked when he isn’t there, suggesting some level of possessiveness over it, and perhaps even a hint of distrust as he feels the need to seal the room that reveals him the most, as a person, away when he isn’t there to govern it. all in all, it’s a really nice space, and you’re lucky if you’re let in because he’s selfish, so he prefers to keep his things for himself. it’s also a vast contrast from the apartment he used to have, which was barren and empty, so that makes me want to cry as well phah--
#✗ ┋ ᴛʜᴇsᴇ ᴄɪʀᴄᴜᴍsᴛᴀɴᴄᴇs ᴄᴀɴ ʙᴇ ꜰʀɪɢʜᴛᴇɴɪɴɢ. ❜ ( headcanons. )#i mean this is useless but............. i love envisioning crow's room#him playing videogames and having the ''right'' lgihts for the atmosphere and#his pl us h ie s#im s o w e a k
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7: What does your OC look for in a friend? Do they value friendship a lot?
send me character development questions!!
this is difficult to answer in that crow doesn’t really seek out genuine friendships, rather people he can use as ‘’supplies’’ on account of his sociopathic narcissism. that being said, he does have a couple of really close, really genuine friends ( case and point: kurt, and avery is getting there ), so it isn’t impossible to become proper friends with him. traits he looks for are:
COMPASSION. perhaps the most surprising, crow seeks out kind people. however, it isn’t for a kind reason lmao. this is a direct contrast to his own behaviour, of course, and he doesn’t get much nicer even if he is friends with you. the more agreeable the person, the easier it is to drain energy from them.
REASON. he doesn’t like people who aren’t in control of themselves. highly emotional people are out of the picture as ‘hysteria’ is something he’ll never respect.
INDEPENDENCE. as someone who has been forced to do everything in life alone on account of everybody abandoning him and leaving him for dead, some quite literally, he only connects with independent people. to him, people who require hand-holding are a bother, and not people he wants to invest time in. needy people annoy him.
RULE-BREAKING. they don’t have to break the law like he does, but they need some semblance of rebellion in them. he doesn’t like goody-two-shoes types, thinks they’re a bore.
ADMIRATION. crow only invests time in people who see some kind of intrinsic value in him. indeed, friendships are a very selfish thing for him. if a person idolises him in some manner, or thinks one of his traits is valuable, he is much more likely to give them the time of day.
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HARBINGER HEADCANONS // FIRST LOVE.
after careful consideration, i decided that the woman crow lost was actually a human he broke a lot of rules to be with. for starters, he isn’t supposed to be in a relationship ( ofc, there’s nobody telling him he can’t for he doesn’t have any kind of tangible superior, like god to angels or the devil to demons, etc, but it’s one of those unspoken rules that he knows out of instinct ), and he prevented her death multiple times despite that being strictly forbidden. the time he was unable to keep her alive any longer in good conscience was because she was in terrible pain. unwittingly, he caused her the most painful demise imaginable. by preventing her death over and over, her ‘’destiny’’ became so tangled and misaligned that it slowly devoured her from the inside. she quite literally deteriorated. though he won’t tell a soul about it, he still blames himself to this day - and it’s been centuries.
for a long time before entering a relationship with her, he tried to maintain his distance. knowing that at some point he’d have to let go of her and ‘’kill her off’’ stopped him from being with her for ages. however, eventually the passion he held for her burned him up enough to say fuck it. since her demise, he has never been in a relationship again. every time he’s felt a shred of genuine affection / love / friendship for someone, he’s pulled back and never engaged with them again. as of now, he only engages in empty ‘’friendships’’ in which he actually feels nothing, and sexual relationships, and you can bet that if you’re someone with the ability to die-- as most things have-- then there’s no chance forging a meaningful relationship with the harbinger.
also, to mirror the main verse, crow’s ‘’month of death’’ is still september. he lost her on september 11th after being forced to end her life to have her escape the awful pain. that has been the one and only time he’s ever cried. he was so distraught by her death that he attempted to cause his own several times. however, unable to die, he was stuck in a loop of great agony every time he would try and crushing depression every time he would ‘’come back’’. though he’s not tried to end his existence since-- at one point, he simply stopped trying, and time prompted him to ‘’move on’’ from her-- he very much knows what it’s like to feel depressed enough to do that. he simply refuses to sympathise with people. he becomes incredibly withdrawn during this month and will often kill more people to deal with his sad resentment.
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i know i already posted a headcanon about harbinger!crow wearing gloves but to expand on that a little bit: he does it to stop things from decaying immediately when he touches them. being so closely tied to death, it’s no surprise that things wither and recede whenever in crow’s vicinity. he cannot kill people / the supernatural equivalent, as they are things with their own pre-planned destines, but anything else is fair game. flowers wilt. food rots. animals, often in tune with their sixth sense, retreat before he can get too close, because his touch is lethal.
and just because he can’t kill people doesn’t mean they don’t feel its effects too. they become uneasy and anxious, more vigilant.
#✗ ┋ ᴛʜᴇsᴇ ᴄɪʀᴄᴜᴍsᴛᴀɴᴄᴇs ᴄᴀɴ ʙᴇ ꜰʀɪɢʜᴛᴇɴɪɴɢ. ❜ ( headcanons. )#welp this verse is consumin me rn lmao
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little september headcanons aw:
crow is a LOT quieter during this month. even when out of the ‘’danger zone’’ ( the 1st to the 11th ), he talks a lot less. if things are going really badly, he sometimes won’t speak at all, resorting to muteness due to an intense lack of energy. in fact, he resembles what he very well could have become upon escaping the pen: very quiet and detached, and a lot more tangibly creepy.
he rocks a lot. it’s not unusual to find him simply rocking in place a lot of the time. sometimes he’ll stare blankly ahead, to which you can be sure he’s fighting with himself to not do something risky or stupid, and sometimes he’ll block everything out, curled into a tight, tiny ball as he does it. oftentimes, he is too afraid to even look anywhere as he hates laying eyes on ‘’september’’.
it’s VERY difficult to get through to him. case and point: last year, nomi tried to get him to eat something, offering him chocolate buttons-- treats he loves, even if he doesn’t eat a lot-- and he responded by nibbling at one of the buttons of his shirt. he picks up on things, of course, he’s not suddenly disabled or anything, but his version of reality is incredibly skewed at this time of year. it results in eerie miscommunications.
don’t try to FORCE him to look at you / listen to you. he’s not thinking straight, nor does he have his usual defences up, so if it doesn’t result in an outright attack he’ll probably START CRYING.
#✗ ┋ ᴛʜᴇsᴇ ᴄɪʀᴄᴜᴍsᴛᴀɴᴄᴇs ᴄᴀɴ ʙᴇ ꜰʀɪɢʜᴛᴇɴɪɴɢ. ❜ ( headcanons. )#guys please...................... pity this bitch with me phah.................#edited one in phah#fuCK I LOVE HIM I JUST WANT TO HOLD HIM
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but literally, crow has the best, most adorable nicknames for people. like he calls harley ‘’ghoulie’’ ( because her second name is ‘goole’ ) and claire ‘’choco’’ ( because eclairs ) and his best friend ‘’funny-man’’ ( because he punched him in the face when they first met because crow was being mouthy and crow found that endlessly amusing ). crow’s a gem. he’s actually a fucking gem. i’m going to shoot him--
#✗ ┋ ᴛʜᴇsᴇ ᴄɪʀᴄᴜᴍsᴛᴀɴᴄᴇs ᴄᴀɴ ʙᴇ ꜰʀɪɢʜᴛᴇɴɪɴɢ. ❜ ( headcanons. )#me; professing my undying love for crow again in the form of a headcanon post? ya.#cheers crow for bein adorable
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i am convinced that crow would be a master at ddr. the reason being that, in his training in the noughts ( which he still does to this day to stay sharp and fit, and also for fun because he’s a masochist but a talented one in this department lmao ) is play a game in a special room where the floor is composed of tiles, and they light up and require stepping on. naturally, they light up in a certain sequence in order to prompt free-runners to practice their skills. it can be done with music too if you want to, for fun ( in which tiles will light up to the rhythm of fast-paced songs ), so naturally he picks the most brutal tracks jace ( a music nerd that listens to fucking everything ) will give him and perfects them. so, put together the fact that he’s very coordinated with his feet, can move exceptionally fast ( like seriously, it’s boredline inhuman ) and can dance irl, and you’ve got an incredibly talented ddr player. like seriously, i feel he’d always be number one if he ever played it.
#✗ ┋ ᴛʜᴇsᴇ ᴄɪʀᴄᴜᴍsᴛᴀɴᴄᴇs ᴄᴀɴ ʙᴇ ꜰʀɪɢʜᴛᴇɴɪɴɢ. ❜ ( headcanons. )#i love this headcanon bc not only is crow playin ddr funny to me but#i finally got to touch on some of the noguhts' training#this is specifically for parkour of course but#the noughts have access to a LOT of tech....... and have hired a lot of inventors / engineers / technicians#case and point: myles - my other npc who was briefly a muse#and they make some of the most amazing shit to aid the training of their members#bc not only is it efficient but it's fun#they have like state-of-the-art paintballing sessions for shooters / snipers and shit#its fuckin dope#CROW COULD BEAT BLACK HANDS!!!!!!!#also the WALLS get involved when there's a REALLY hard routine / a REALLY fast song#crow loves those the most bc he gets to show off even more phahahah
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y’know, sometimes even i forget just how much crow’s been through. even before he chose to lead a criminal lifestyle, he was involved in so many criminal scenarios. his family neglected him to the point that they behaved as if he didn’t exist. in the pen, he was physically abused, experimented on, used for drug-testing, dehumanised, held captive against his will and even underwent ‘’trivial’’ sexual abuse ( because it was actually at the hands of female nurses / orderlies, and everybody knows women can’t sexually assault / rape men, duh ). in his adult life, he’s gotten into many streetfights, continuing with the theme of physical abuse, and has been sexually assaulted by strangers-- both male and female-- on the basis of his good looks. he’s also been kidnapped and tortured by a rival criminal group within the last two years. and he’s discussed fucking none of this, excluding the very tip of the iceberg with his parents. he’s buried everything so deeply.
jesus fucking christ, no wonder this dude’s so fucked up guys.
#✗ ┋ ɪ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ɴᴏ ꜰʀɪᴇɴᴅs ᴀɴᴅ ꜰᴇᴇʟ ɪ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ᴅɪᴇ. ❜ ( ooc. )#✗ ┋ ᴛʜᴇsᴇ ᴄɪʀᴄᴜᴍsᴛᴀɴᴄᴇs ᴄᴀɴ ʙᴇ ꜰʀɪɢʜᴛᴇɴɪɴɢ. ❜ ( headcanons. )#by that criminal group-- he had a near-miss rape with them too#eventually they changed their mind when they saw his feathers#and burned those down to the skin instead#but dudes................. almost...............#also HEAVY sarcasm about the female on male abuse
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also yes, harbinger!crow still loves knives. despite it being wholly unnecessary, he does still carry a weapon. it’s a special knife however; not one from earth, more resembling a dagger, and the handle is embellished with the outline of a feather. i say it’s more like a dagger but isn’t, because the blade does flick out like a pocket knife as opposed to being constantly out like a dagger blade. it’s an item that is so eerie to look at, because it’s obviously not of earth.
#✗ ┋ ᴛʜᴇsᴇ ᴄɪʀᴄᴜᴍsᴛᴀɴᴄᴇs ᴄᴀɴ ʙᴇ ꜰʀɪɢʜᴛᴇɴɪɴɢ. ❜ ( headcanons. )#no matter the verse crow will always carry a knife x#and he always gets 'OOOOH' around knives tbh#especially in this verse as they can't kill him phah#anyways yah he keeps it more bc he thinks it's cool#though if he REALLY hates you............ he might#its a supernatural item so can harm a lot of supernatural creatures#so don't go talkin big just bc you're a demon or some shit bc he'll still carve his name in yer ass#IT ALSO FEELS INCREDIBLY FRIGHTENING TO TOUCH IF YOU'RE A HUMAN!!!!#SO DON'T!!!
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okay but for the lucifer!inspired plot i mentioned earlier,,,,,,, here’s some cute headcanons for crow n his detective partner’s relationship????
crow is always ‘’fashionably’’ late so as to not seem desperate. however, he visibly perks up when around his partner. because they excite him.
crow memorises what snacks they like. he sees you eatin a sugar strand doughnut while in a rush to get to work?? Ten, every morning.
crow, never one to use people’s first names, always refers to his partner simply as ‘’detective’’. it’s very playful most times, despite it being a businesslike term, so it sounds inherently friendly? but then,,,, the times where there’s a genuine scare. his partner gets into genuine danger? catch him calling their name? and the very raw hint of concern / even fear in his voice? hoh.
calling it right now, crow has saved his partner multiple times from death. since they deal with violent criminals in a lot of scenarios, he’ll lowkey give his partner ways to escape their own demise. he feels they’re gonna get shot at and it’s gonna get ugly? he’ll stop them from going, suggesting another course of action. he suspects that a villain is going to overpower his partner and it’s going to head south? catch him suggesting a different means of attack. crow will save his partner’s life several times. naturally, this is very against the rules of his job but catch him doing it anyways, he’s a law-breaker.
it lowkey irks him that his partner won’t accept that he’s something more than human, and he does go out of his way to ‘’prove’’ otherwise. however, it never seems to stick ( and then ofc, with development,,,,, there’s the fated encounter where they finally realise he’s not just an eccentric dude, he really is something else-- )
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even more headcanons for harbinger!crow:
his english is a little less broken. he’s still lazy with pronunciation, but he’s had centuries to learn words, phrases and meanings without coming across quite as broken as he does in the main.
he can’t impregnate anybody. so don’t worry when he busts a nut or whatever. it’s just something he’s not able to do; he’s incompatible, so to speak, with the general uhhhhh living populous.
he can only teleport himself and other supernatural creatures. he cannot use teleportation in tow with a human.
not all murders and suicides are unplanned disruptions. in fact, the only murders that haven’t been set in motion by the harbinger are crimes of passion-- aka, crimes that happen in the heat of the moment-- and some manslaughters. and similarly for suicides, the only ones that he doesn’t foresee are the very sudden, very violent ones. in a lot of cases, crow knows when a person’s life is going to end by their own hand and doesn’t resent them for it, for he acknowledged that fate and set them on that path. the only suicides he finds detestable are those that he didn’t determine-- not necessarily because he ended up being wrong, but because he was supposed to have more time to deal with them.
#✗ ┋ ᴛʜᴇsᴇ ᴄɪʀᴄᴜᴍsᴛᴀɴᴄᴇs ᴄᴀɴ ʙᴇ ꜰʀɪɢʜᴛᴇɴɪɴɢ. ❜ ( headcanons. )#listen......... i really love the harbinger verse................
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uhhh so yeah, harbinger!crow, much like in the main verse, is an intense lover-- but even more so because he has more strength, and a lot more pent-up frustration lmao. also, true to the main verse variant, his ears and jaw are super sensitive phah, and when turned on the feathers at his neck fluff up somewhat. :)))))
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a compilation of harbinger!crow’s powers, mayhaps?
TELEPORTATION. this one makes sense because of his profession, he’s not exactly gonna walk to everyone. however, he can use this power for anything he wishes. if he doesn’t fancy walking, poof.
SHIFTING. very limited shifting though; he can only assume the form of a crow. he cannot assume the identity of any other animal / person / object.
MAGIC. again, quite a limited power. he doesn’t know a lot of spells / incantations, and most of the ones he does know are for surprisingly pure reasons ( summoning pudding cups isn’t exactly nefarious ).
SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH / SPEED. this makes sense for the simple fact that he isn’t human. really, he’s only overly strong ( physically, anyways ) to humans. other supernatural entities won’t have the same impression of strength, as their own power far surpasses a human’s as well. crow’s speed on the other hand, is cause for alarm regardless of who you are lmao. he’s like a bolt of lightning if motivated to move that fast in the first place. when moving full speed, he resembles a shadow streaking across a wall before vanishing.
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also, because it's been on my mind since last night: in his youth, crow was a fucked up kid with a fucked up attachment style. this meant he could be manipulated and taken advantage of very easily, because he was in the constantly vulnerable position of wanting to please the adults around him, since he doesn't get that attention at home. as are a lot of children with disinhibited attachment styles, he was also too touchy with adults. not only did he cling to strangers, but there have been occasions where he tried to give adult men / women full-on kisses. it was a very uncomfortable thing to experience, especially as he never realised he'd crossed a boundary, because he was desperate to be coddled. it's a wonder he wasn't abused by other fucked up people in his lifetime considering how easy it would have been to coerce him into things.
#✗ ┋ ᴛʜᴇsᴇ ᴄɪʀᴄᴜᴍsᴛᴀɴᴄᴇs ᴄᴀɴ ʙᴇ ꜰʀɪɢʜᴛᴇɴɪɴɢ. ❜ ( headcanons. )#anyways. nobody cares but eeeeeeeeee#s a fucked up thing fer a fucked up kid innit#s even worse bc he'd take that stunned rejection-- bc lbr if a KID gives you an open-mouthed kiss yer gonna be#grossed out--#as a sign that something was wrong with him ; and it'd further cement the idea that he DESERVED to be neglected#soooooooooooooo. ya
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Fire: Would your muse rather be very cold, or very hot?
@electrograin // fear-themed asks.
VERY COLD, DEFINITELY. heat is a BIG issue for crow on account of his feathers– to the point where even temperatures that are simply uncomfortable to regular people are cause for concern with him. he’s very likely to suffer nausea, decreased appetite ( even more so than normal ), heatstroke and even pass-outs during heat spikes. it’s so easy for him to remain warm– hell, when it snows, he can stand outside with his feathers and a jacket alone– but it’s all but impossible for him to get cool when too hot.
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