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[zooterscooter]

thank you for asking @expensive-muscle i will be doing that for sure

i had this sitting in my drafts for a while so here we go hehe. it'll be quite a bit so i do apologize in advance

original post with the tags

the guy with the mask will be first :) his name is mars (legally his name is micah, but he doesn't go by it anymore, not a deadname or anything he just doesn't like it. not terribly important but yknow) he's part of a group of four... outlaws... i guess ? the group consists of him, his sister, the other girl in the drawing (who's also the one in the fifth drawing) and one other guy (when you look a bit closer on the 8th drawing, he's the one in the speech bubble they're talking about. their names are cecil, finch and karman, in order of being mentioned

he was unfortunately caught in a warehouse fire a few years back (story wise) and was pretty badly scarred bc of it. he wears the mask so he doesn't have to walk around with his scarred face and blind eye showing. he really only wears it out in public and around strangers because it is quite uncomfortable

i'm still working on a group name for the four of them, and nothings really sticking. but since we're on the topic of them i'll talk about finch a bit :)

she's a hitman, late 20s. she's been employed by a bunch of higher power people in the city where she lives, so she's kinda sorta untouchable by law. she's been taken in a few times but is always bailed out by someone somehow. money can buy anything i suppose

the other two mentioned, karman and cecil, are kind of a team... as someone who has no clue how sports betting works (yet) i don't really know how to explain, but cecil is like... this worlds equivalent of a nascar driver kinda ? kinda not really. anyways. betting is legal in this city, but for karman and cecil it's like an inside job, if that makes any sense at all. i haven't thought about this group as a whole much if i'm being honest, but it'll come in time i hope

moving on !!

onto the "mf in the beanie" :3 her name is lilith and she's a screenwriter. her dad kinda sorta skipped town when she was younger, but she is super close with her mom, and they're so awesome. her mom gets a bit sick at one point, spending a lot of time at various hospitals, but she ultimately turns out fine

lilith wanted to peruse comedy as a career at one point, but she didn't really get as into it as she thought she would, so she just sticks to the behind the scenes by writing :)

the "homosexual friendship" is about her now girlfriend, who was an alchemist at one point a few years ago but i've changed her career a bit and don't know the exact word to describe it 😭 her name is ophelia, very smart, very pretty, younger sister.

i'm going to be honest with you, dear readers. lilith was a danganronpa self insert at one point. she comes from a simpler time. her and her girlfriend, tho said gf wasn't a self insert, just a dangan oc. not anymore tho....

the more i rack my brain for info the more i realize i just. don't have the descriptors for anything that they do. questions welcome and encouraged

now onto the rest of the people in the drawings, i'll attempt keep them short and simple hehe

1st drawing- ophelia/her sisters moms, vada medea (left) and sage (right) both are biological. i took inspo from how the "making babies from bone marrow" stuff that's kinda sorta happening in the science scene. the timeline for all this takes place about a hundred years from now, so i think they'd be figuring out how to do it with little complication. i am not a scientist myself, so i have plenty research to do to get the specifics down

2nd drawing- ophelia's sister, rue, and some 180 year old freak scientist. the freak is the one in the sewer. he had a grand time fucking up a bunch of people and giving them what appear to be lizard scales, and then was told to get the hell out of the city lest he causes more chaos. unfortunately the scales get passed down, but they really have no impact on the lives of the people who have them. rue is nurse who lowkey gets corrupted by the freak (his name is emrys) after her girlfriend passes from a long battle with various medical complications. she takes her grief to the wrong person and starts to lose her mind.

3rd drawing- their names are kaleo (left) and Non (right) not quite sure what their deal is exactly if i'm being honest. kaleo is a boxer, and Non just... exists really. he's alive to be pals with kaleo so far 😭 he's one of the people who had the scales passed down to him, which is silly and fun. kaleo is related to the person in the 6th drawing, which i will get to

4th drawing- zephyr (left) and kairos (right). detective and cop due respectively. sometimes they're tasked with keeping up with finch and her little gang of criminals but they can't really do much.

5th drawing- that's finch. love her

6th drawing- her name is desdemona and she's a spirit freak. she's been alive for hundreds of years or maybe she was just willed into being alive yesterday. she's got a bunch of weird spiritual abilities, like time travel (sounds cheesy) and communicating with the dead. she also eats people sometimes but that's a minor thing don't worry about it. she's the "wrong person" rue went to after her girlfriend died... oopsie. kaleos relative somehow also. the body on the floor is her ""human disguise"" because she can't really walk around town with a skull on her head. said skull isn't hers btw

7th drawing- holt (welding the sandwich) and caspien (watching him weld) they're just a little duo of gays tbh. it would take a while for me to explain it all so lmk if anyone wants to hear about it. holt is a mechanic, early 20s, and caspien is legally dead but he's fine. has wicked nightmares a lot but other than that he's fine. caspien and zephyr are brothers.

8th drawing- finch and mars :)

9th drawing- lilith (explained above) and her pal alaric. alaric is the guy that knows everyone and everything about the city they're in. somehow related to emrys (sewer freak) but neither of them are exactly sure how. emrys shouldn't even be alive but here he is, corrupting the youth

10th drawing- eve and varden :) (varden is @yaffles-world 's oc, shoutout to you) eve is sage's sister, making him ophelia and rues uncle. one of the only guys in the family which is lowkey funny bc he's a trans guy. someone had to attempt to balance the scales i guess. varden is his secret partner he hid from everyone for like 15 years because he was scared of being made fun of for some reason. i dunno. he's my main projection oc and even i don't get it. his full legal first name is evening btw. he's named this because i was like "hey wouldn't this be funny ?" and then it stuck. eve is an astrophysicist (which is why his name is funny to me) and varden is a mechanic :) lots of mechanics in the city

and with that im gonna cut it off or else i'd just keep yapping on in a single post about everything. thanks for taking the time to read this all if you did, please PLEASE ask questions i obviously love talking. asks are encouraged

[animezinglife]

If you’re referring to American football, then no. In a high school setting, it really doesn’t exist as an official school sport. There are occasionally club sport options for females or co-ed flag football opportunities.

Hypothetically, if you were going to have a female on the [American] football team (which would be all boys or men), it’d be best to have her be the kicker since it’s a less-contact role and she’d be less likely to take hard hits from much bigger, stronger, male players. Plus, she could potentially make a decent one if she were a pretty good soccer player or something.

Football is one of the few sports that really doesn’t have a female equivalent in schools. Both boys’ and girls’ teams exist for soccer, baseball and softball coexist, boys’ and girls’ tennis, track, etc. Girls’ wrestling teams have started to become more of a norm, but they wisely wrestle other female opponents instead of males.

The problem with football is that it’s a heavy-contact sport. It’d be one thing for young kids to play together on a co-ed team, but that’s starting to be an extremely unwise decision once biology really starts kicking in. 

I was a female martial artist and lifted a lot of weights back at that time, and I would’ve never wanted to truly compete against my male peers. Training with them was fine--it genuinely makes girls and women stronger and tougher. I think it’s absolutely necessary for girls and women to train with boys and men in that kind of sport so they can actually understand how to defend themselves, and you'll see a MASSIVE difference in the women who do train with men and those who don't. But sports are gender-segregated for a reason, and a very good one at that. Female athletes are able to shine through their own physical prowess on an even playing field. Physically, we’re generally at massive disadvantages compared to male athletes.

It could happen that a girl ends up on a boys’ team in high school, and people who don’t know or understand the physicality of sports will celebrate it. Everyone else will be biting their nails. Even having her as a kicker would be a little controversial not because female athletes aren’t recognized for their hard work and prowess, but because nobody wants to watch a teenage girl get bulldozed by a 210 lb. lineman (even if he’s being somewhat of a gentleman and massively dialing back his power).

I worked with a lot of athletes at the collegiate level, and sometimes, I would talk with incoming freshmen (prospective first-years who were in their senior years of high school). Not only did a lot of those teenage boys--still technically kids or so barely legally adults that they might as well still be considered kids--tower over me while being about two of me wide, but looked closer to twenty-five.

It would be disturbing to most to watch a girl their same age on the field with them. Especially in regions like the South and Midwest where [American] football is a huge part of American high school and college culture, you won’t find many parents or administrators who would be onboard with a female playing on a male team. There are, however, plenty of other wonderful roles she could take on if she wanted to specifically be involved in football.

If you’re referring to soccer and not American football, then that’s easy: girls’ teams are everywhere in American high schools and they do great! 

An all-female American football team wouldn't really have any competition at the high school level yet. They might be able to find it in a club sport option.

If you have any more questions, I'm happy to help however I can.

For anyone who grew up in the USA, I was posed a question by one of my fellow, non-American irl writing friends that had me thinking. For high school sports, is football truly the most common option and furthermore, is there never any girl's teams as well? Would it be realistic to write a teenage girl who was a football player and that was not controversial or would an all female football team turn heads? For context, where we grew up the main sport was rugby and there was always women's and men's teams, especially in high school.