#💎 hsr au 💎

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@voyagaer asked:

“   Hungry? Eat the government. ” // boothill and steven at HSR au aka boothill being a nuisance

ABSOLUTELY UNHINGED COMEDIC RELIEF

"That sounds like a one-way ticket to a massive indigestion, or food poisoning."

Steven chuckles, forever amused by the Ranger's comments. His eye patch is off for once, his cybernatic eye focused on his prosthetic arm as he slowly stirs the contents of a pot with said arm. The appendage has gotten a little damaged after a skirmish not long ago, not enough to warrant emergency repairs, he can wait until Samuel's next visit to the Express, but Steven is always on the lookout for potential malfunctions.

"How have things been on your side of the galaxy? Caught any interesting bounty lately?" The cook asks, genuine curiosity evident in his one good eye "I don't suppose you've come across some old bounty featuring ol' me?" Granted, he was only a cook even during his time among the space pirates, but the fact alone that he was affiliated with them had put him on a watchlist back in the day.

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Samuel's eyes remain narrowed as he listens to the cyborg's answer to his inquiry, though his expression seems to soften ever-so-slightly the more the other talks. After a long moment, he huffs but uncrosses his arms, putting his hands on his hips instead.

"...alright. Consider yourself on trial from this moment onward." His frown isn't as deep as he says so, indicating that, while not entirely convinced, he's willing to give his pops' new partner a chance.

"Kinda hard to say no, Pops' been all over the moon since you two became an item, haven't seen the old man this happy in a while. Hell, he's almost burned the food once because he was so distracted, which has never happened before." The redhead chuckles softly, a fond expression on his face. The little robots have taken to circling around Boothill, as if assessing him, silent save for a few beeps.

At the Ranger's mention about being another parent, Samuel's expression becomes pensive "I'll... think about it. Still getting used to having a dad at all. I presume Pops told you we're not blood-related? He took me in two years ago, after Mum died and my sperm donor couldn't be bothered to be around." The way he hisses the words 'sperm donor' makes it clear he doesn't have the best opinions on his biological father.

@niightravcns asked: "What exactly are your intentions with my pops?" Samuel crosses his arms in front of his chest, giving Boothill a suspicious look. Three small robots are hovering around his shoulders and head, each with an angry face etched on their facial displays. At least he's left his laser rifle back home.

Steven had mentioned having a teenage son during one of their many talks. It was only a matter of time before they met, and Boothill had a sneaking suspicion that the boy might not take too kindly to his attempts to get closer to his father.

He can understand where Samuel is coming from, to a degree. He's protective of Steven; that's something Boothill can empathize with. He, too, was protective of his own family, back when he still had one. And maybe, just maybe, the boy is worried he might try to steal Steven's attention away from him. It isn't concrete, so he could be wrong about that thought, but he'll keep it in mind until he's sure.

Right now, he has an answer to give.

"My only intentions are t'love 'im as much as he loves me, and t'ensure he stays happy 'n well cared for. That goes for you, too, iffin' y'want it. Yer old enough I reckon y'don't need another parent...but if y'do, I'm here. If not, we can jus' be friends!

"—once I've proven myself, that is. I know y'ain't gonna believe me right off the bat, an' I don't expect y'to! Lemme show you that I mean well fer y'dad 'n you. I ain't so bad. Gimme a chance, yeah?"

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↕️ "Hm? Looks like we have some misplaced relics again. Better put it back before we lose track of it…" 💎 "Have you seen this woman? I'm looking for her. She… owes me something." - monty / amani [here] - huang / nia

↕️ MONTY DARLING

A young archivist who works at Herta Space Station. Monty spends most his time organizing documents and items alike with the help of a gravity-manipulation Curio. Soft-hearted and supportive, he dreams of traveling the cosmos and befriending those who cross his path. Monty's mentor referred him to the space station for his current position on account of his stellar academic track record. Lately, despite his best attempts, said beloved mentor has been rather difficult to contact...

💎 AMANI CHEY

A wandering shapeshifter relentlessly pursuing a figure from her past. Cold-hearted and wary, Amani has a habit of quieting rooms full of people through sheer presence alone. She is a capable fighter, conjuring various weapons of ice to meet her needs. Her alternate form is that of a red-eyed chinchilla. Nimble and discreet, Amani likes gathering information about her target in this shape. Despite others' recommendations, she doesn't like using her chinchilla charm to disarm others with displays of cuteness.

hello to everyone !! i have some sketches of my ocs for their honkai star rail au, in a mostly splash-art-pose-with-label kind of presentation. i started this on a whim, but suddenly it snowballed into two ocs already (that's half of my main little group)! we have monty and amani here with their aforementioned little blurbs. both of these characters are ocs i translated from their previous setting into the world of hsr, and i'm really happy with their core concepts! i also pair them together a lot because they have a lot of contrasts between each other that i enjoy seeing side by side. i struggled with monty's design a lot in the past because he had a very classical-fantasy outfit from his original setting that i couldn't really translate over. it took a few attempts for me to give him a vague coat-ish outer layer with long-trailing tassels (to generally match asta). i think his cute little hat helped pull everything together!! amani's outfit came a lot more easily (though you can only see the back view here). i've always enjoyed giving her the high-waisted shorts (NOT vacuum-sealed to her body), thigh-high boots, and a cropped jacket. her boot designs also ended up being really fun, with the slight cutout behind her legs for more shape-y-ness. i have 2 more characters i hope to draw alongside monty and amani, so will see if i can get to them and have them all together as a little group !!

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Dorian Ashengrotto: HSR AU

Rarity: 4☆

Path: The Nihility

Damage Type: Ice

An Aquatan (a race of beings with mostly human appearances and acquatic traits such as gills on their neck, scales, fin-like ears, webbed fingers and toes, sharp teeth and claws and a long mermaid-like tail) ailing from the planet Lushaka, he's recently moved to Penacony to learn the art of bartending, hoping to start his own business in the future.

Nowadays he works as a bartender-in-training at the Dreamjolt Hostelry under Siobhan's tutelage.

He's loosely connected to the Iris Family through his (estranged) biological mother, a popular sea shanty lounge singer known as The Siren. His own vocal talent has attracted the attention of several Iris Family members, but Dorian wants to avoid the stage like the plague, only partly out of resentment towards his estranged mother (who abandoned him and his father when Dorian was only a child).

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Samuel is often accompanied by three little flying robots, affectionately dubbed as Benny, Buddy and Billy.

All three robots were part of the same Home-Object Finder unit that Samuel came across and salvaged on Jarilo-VI. Unlike its 'sibling' Findie, this unit was severely damaged, causing its connection to the IPC's main hub to be permanently interrupted (probably as the result of a botched recalibration) and Samuel to be able to repair only three of the seven segments of the unit.

Each segment, while technically part of the same system and recognizing themselves as such, thinks of itself as its own individual, thus they remain as separated modules most of the time.

Each little robot is equipped with a laser gun, restractable claws/grips and a small screen acting as their 'face' (similar to the little robots scattered around Herta Space Station).

One way to differentiate the three is the number of times they say 'beep' before speaking: Benny says it once, Billy says it twice and Buddy says it thrice.

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Raoul Hagen: HSR AU

Rarity: 5☆

Path: Erudition

Damage Type: Ice

A member of the Armed Archeologists faction of the Intelligentsia Guild, Raoul is a rather eccentric individual, but his near enciclopedic knowledge regarding artifacts of all kinds make him a rather respected and sought-after scholar.

A former "retrieval specialist" (a.k.a. mercenary, though he prefers the term "treasure hunter"), Raoul was forcibly recruited by the IPC and made to join the Intelligentsia Guild after he was cursed by one of the artifacts he was hired to retrieve, in exchange for continued access to the necessary technology to stave off his curse (which would turn him into an ice statue otherwise), which the IPC has exclusive rights to.

While he admittedly loves his job as an Armed Archeologists, he hates having his 'debt' with the IPC constantly dangled over his head.

Over the years, Raoul has learned to control his curse enough to be able to use it in combat, turning his arms into a nigh-indestructible crystal to deliver powerful slashes to single enemies with his Basic Attack, Cold Snap, or hit all enemies at once by shooting crystalline shards with his Skill, Snow Flurry. With his Ultimate, Ice Age, Raoul covers himself in crystals and punches the ground to summon crystalline stalactites to hit and instantly freeze all enemies, a state he remains into for two more turns, during which he can only use his Enhanced Basic Attack, Frost Bite, a single powerful slash that hits all enemies and applies Dissociation to at least one target. His Talent, Hail Warning, drops stalagmite-like constructs on all enemies at the end of his turn, and his Technique, Flash Freeze, instantly freezes and causes damage to enemies with Ice Weakness and applies Ice Weakness to all enemies without it at the start of combat.

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HSR!Samuel Combat

Rarity: 4☆ Path: Erudition Damage Type: Quantum

Basic Attack (Single Target): Neutron Protostar - deals Quantum DMG to a single target enemy.

Skill (Blast): Black Hole Pulsar - deals Quantum DMG to a single target enemy and any adjacent enemies.

Ultimate (AoE): Supergiant Supernova - deals Quantum DMG to all target enemies.

Talent (Follow-Up Attack): Star Cluster Variable - at the end of Samuel's turn, one of three possible follow-up attacks is triggered at random: Benny's Variable (deals Quantum DMG to enemy with highest HP), Billy's Variable (deals Quantum DMG to up to 3 enemies, targeting the one with the highest HP and any adjacent enemies), Buddy's Variable (deals Quantum DMG to all target enemies).

Technique: Main Sequence Binary - immediately attacks the enemy, upon entering combat deals Quantum DMG to all enemies, applies Quantum Weakness to all enemies without it and immediately causes Entanglement on all enemies with Quantum Weakness.

Traces

Asteroid Belt - Follow-Up Attack will always hit all enemies inflicted with Entanglement.

Meteor Shower - increases the DMG dealt by Follow-Up Attack.

Comet Theory - Samuel's Ultimate is consider an end-of-turn interaction, thus triggering his Follow-Up Attack.

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@voyagaer asked:

" Got ya somethin'. " Boothill slides the briefcase to Samuel's table, the signature trademark of the IPC in its cover as the obvious answer to its previous owner, but it's nothing than a greater reason to snatch it away. It contains a prototype model for a new prosthetic limb alongside the blueprints stored in a chip. The IPC has proven itself capable in developing technology for improving an individual's quality of life, but after overhearing how much they'll sell it for a price far beyond the reach of an average folk, it's better off with the right hands. " I think y'all make better use of it than those lowlifes. " That much Boothill is confident in. He pats Samuel's shoulder in assurance. " You're a smart kid, you'll figure it out how the thingamajig will come alive. "

"One sec."

A single hand, covered in a thick working glove, raises up, signaling that its owner can't quite divert his attention from what he's currently focusing on.

A few twists of a screwdriver later, Samuel exhales and turns towards the Galaxy Ranger as he lifts the protective goggles from his eyes "Heya, Uncle Boothill. Haven't heard a single report about any of your stunts lately, I was starting to get worried." The young man grins, wiping sweat and grease alike from his face "What did you bring this time?"

It's not uncommon for Boothill to bring bits and pieces back from his adventures, knowing that Samuel likes to collect spare pieces to keep in his workshop. An entire suitcase though, that's new. Samuel lifts an eyebrow, curiosity piqued as he opens the case, amber eyes widening when he sees what's inside.

"Is this...?" A hand. A single robotic hand resting in the protective casing, with a chip and various documents strapped to the internal part of the lid. A hand meant to be melded to a human body to give back what was lost.

He scoffs internally. Of course the IPC would start developing prosthetics, those greedy bastards would do just about anything to line their own pockets, especially if it meant exploiting the desperate, those who are ready to sell their souls for a pervance of normalcy. He has no doubt that building and developing that single hand had costed lots of money and taken years to develop. He lets out a soft laugh - he'd managed to build not just a hand, but an arm, a leg, an eye and an ear when he was a teenager by using scrap metal, all of which are still fully functional to this day, with a little bit of maintenance here and there.

There's a reason the IPC had been so eager to welcome such a brilliant inventor and engineer in their folds, and are still looking for him even after he'd given them the middle finger instead.

"I'll give this a look once I'm done with a few commissions." Studying and dissecting the newly-acquired specimen might improve Samuel's knowledge and maybe help him come up with new types of prosthetics. He looks up when Boothill pats his shoulder, smiling "That I am, Uncle Boothill. Speaking of which, since you're here, do you need any maintenance before heading out again?"

Sharp amber eyes scan the cyborg's body, finding no new scratches beside the ones that were already there last he saw him "Is your Beacon still working properly, or did you really mean to say 'thingamajig'? With all the times it happens, you'd think there's someone paid specifically to come up with new methods to censor you."

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@voyagaer asked:

"There's always a story. You just have to find it." // March 7th to Samuel (HSR verse, if its ok!)

CASTLE SENTENCES

Samuel doesn't visit the Express often, not because he doesn't like it (quite the contrary, the pros tend to greatly outweight the cons most of the time), but the chances of crossing paths with a certain IPC debt collector make it so Samuel has to be more careful about dropping by. He doesn't care much about being caught, he can always make a run for it, but he dislikes the idea of causing trouble for the followers of Akivili, especially his adoptive father.

As it happens, the old man happens to be out securing supplies when Samuel drops by the Express, and the young man isn't the biggest fan of the Herta Space Station staff, so he's decided to wait for Steven on board, with Benny flittering around excitedly.

It's probably the little robot that has attracted March 7th's attention, or perhaps she's the type to approach others regardless of how stormy their expression might be. Samuel isn't the most social person around, but he likes the Astral Express members, so he makes an effort to be nice, and he finds that he doesn't mind March's inquiries about Benny.

"Believe me, I tried. This little one" he pats the little robot gently, which earns him a few happy beeping sounds and a happy face screen, eliciting a soft smile from the young inventor "was in pretty rough shape when I found him, it's honestly a miracle I managed to restart him. When I checked his memory disk it was completely empty, he pretty much imprinted on me like a newly-hatched baby duck."

It makes sense that March would wonder about Benny's origins, considering what she herself went through. Samuel has to admire her for it.

"Do you mind posing for a few pictures while I wait for Pops? I recently equipped Benny with a new camera function, and Pops says you're the one who knows more about photography and such."