#Nova replies

[ghostly-groundskeeper]

Freckle: Do you have any marks on your skin? How do you feel about them?

Shocking Pink: Is there a trait that you have that others don’t expect from you?

I have a few freckles here and there! Mostly on my arms and legs. I also have a few acne scars on my face from when I was younger. I used to hate them because I thought they made me ugly but now, I don't care as much! Beauty isn't all about physical appearance, ya know?

Well, I s'pose since I raise poison types, a lot of people think I'm dirty and unclean, which is the complete opposite. I hate being dirty and grimy- it's like a sensory issue I guess? Uhh anyway I always carry around hand sanitizer and wet wipes on me.

[spacespacespace]

Someone’s talks abt superboy and robin and I’m js like

Do you mean loser nerd robin and cool cloned superboy?

Or the stabby stab stab robin and ray of sunlight superboy?

[ghostly-groundskeeper]

Oh yea, we're definitely a cult <3

Hellooooo, Robin’s loyal followers~!!

Oh boy, what a way to start things off.

Whaaat~? Are they not followers of Robin to whom they are loyal~?

This isn’t a cult, Nicky.

Coffee cult~!!

No.

I’m already beginning to regret allowing you two on here.

[lurking-loaf]

Surprise! They wanted to bring you this pumpkin and when I say they bring you I mean sun makes a cute pose as moon carries all the weight

Awww! Thanks for the pumpkin! I am sending Sun and Moon back to you with something we quickly put together over here.

Hopefully Sun will be a little more helpful on the return trip.

[whimsicalcotton]

tfw u gotta rescue ur situationship's situationship from freezing to death. call that polycule bonding <3

[occasionally-adventuring]

So who is the most important person to each of you? Friend or Family? ~Anomymous Nickit

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[ghostly-groundskeeper]

Well I'm not a scientist, but I think it has to do with the shape of our spinal columns and pelvic structure?

On the other hand, humans can't walk on all four limbs, because its bad for our backs, but we can crawl on our hands and knees though. -Although I guess, it's not the same...

I keep trying to stand on two legs like a human, but it's super hard to do it.

How do humans do it?

[crimeronan]

how did you name your original characters? trying to name some guys without getting distracted making a whole conlang again :/

unfortunately it Did involve getting distracted by worldbuilding. LMAO.

naming conventions are usually the first thing i pin down when i'm culturally worldbuilding bc their construction says a lot -- are there surnames? patrilineal, matrilineal, both? are people named after relatives? do people choose their own names? how common is changing a name? etc etc etc

i think it would be hard to hang out with a million trans people and NOT have a fascination with naming conventions leak into my writing.

so. oichen culture, which is where both ruby and sol are from, doesn't use traditional surnames. people are, for the most part, named for literal concepts & then translate those names literally across languages. if you're a functional parent in this society you're generally expected to name your kid after something that brings you joy/peace. it's a way of passing down bits of a parent's personality/values, which matters more than linear surnames.

ruby sunrise was named by a pair of insufferable morning people. honey fern (another important character) was named for the way sunlight falls across leaves in summer afternoons. winter solstice was named for the most loving and celebratory holiday in the oichen calendar, because when you're in a very northern country with bitterly cold winters, you Must celebrate the days getting longer. and getting together as family and friends is much more important in the dead months than at any other time. we made it to the end of the darkness!!!

sol, of course, now lives in a place with a very small oichen diaspora, at least compared to the rest of tachni's population. both "sol" and "winnie" are easy nicknames that make her sound less Foreign. she's spent years getting rid of her accent and assimilating and building a completely fake self.

so when she tells people her parents named her winter solstice because they sensed the empty ice in her, Most of them don't know enough to dispute it.

(ruby does. obviously.)

on the Other hand, tachnin names are Much more like typical 2020s suburban american names. sometimes literally (robert, nova, maddie, etc) and sometimes just in vibes (camde, adan, etc). because tachni is the heart of global commerce and capitalism and imperialism and whatnot.

so. feels thematically appropriate.

nova's name was chosen because i wanted something sky-related and light-related to contrast winter solstice.

devin is the only one i just named off the top of my head iirc. but conveniently the name has irish origins that mean "poet" and french origins that mean "divine." so it SOUNDS like i put a lot of thought into it.

"tach" as devin's surname is just the name given to every sad kid in the city with no parents. tach, ie: a ward of the state of tachni. yayyy.

moira tach was named to match devin -- moira is the anglicization of máire, which is the irish form of mary. we love divine women who are in hell. YAAAY.

and then when i'm naming Other supporting cast members, i've been working out cultural and ethnic backgrounds on a character-by-character basis. helps me figure out what other countries are in this whole fantasy world!

[arcadekitten]

nova seems like the type of person to drunkly flirt with anyone and everyone

You say that like they need to be drunk to do so !

[piers-official]

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[ghostly-groundskeeper]

Charles is a menace and I always try to avoid him when going to Driftveil, because while I DO like battling he does this weird ass, like, TRI-battling shit and it's so confusing man...

You narrowly avoided that mess so, congratulations (/lh)

Also what didya get from Driftveil, if you don't mind me asking c: ?

Did you get to meet Charles (the heartbreaker) when you were in Driftveil?

nope

is that uh,, a good thing?

i mean i don't like approaching people or being approached so...

[ghostly-groundskeeper]

number 40 for the ask game?

40. Are there any habits your oc has picked up from people around them? Do they know where they’re from? Does your oc try to stop themselves from doing it?

So uhhh being both autistic and having ADHD, I do this... A LOT. I tend to pick up on euphemisms from other people, like speech quirks and shit. I honestly don't remember where I've picked up every habit, but it's usually from people I'm closer with.

I don't even know I'm doing them half the time, so it's hard to stop.

[deceptiveshadow]

Now that i think about it I’m curious about Nova’s and crescent’s reaction about the rat situation. Well i bet crescent would totally tries to catch it lol or maybe not.

Nova would probably do a catch and release. Nothing too crazy. Crescent would catch/kill and probably try to eat it. LMFAO (He might play with it for a little bit before hand)

[cairafea]

got caught up with the hnk countdown twitter account today and the panel where bortz tells dia that they don't care about fighting and like raising jellyfish better is still the funniest panel of the manga

[ghostly-groundskeeper]

Airport Jungle Juice should be added to y'alls menu immediately

Reminded of when Nicky and I combined every single thing we could into one drink…

When I tasted it, my body immediately rejected it and I sprinted to the bathroom throw up-

Beau was severely unimpressed.

[mischievouslittlecreature]

I'm curious. What is the one thing you don't want to happen? /I read tags

lfkjdhkljfhk I was actually just debating whether or not to make a post about this! 😂

I don't normally express my *opinions* on Lizzie and Lizzie x Tommy here because I absolutely hate the feeling of raining on other people's parades, but I don't think that this really counts as bashing, so I'm just gonna leave it here and put it under a cut so those who don't agree can just scroll on by. This is just my opinion, guys! No hard feelings or anything if you feel differently!

I really don't want Tommy and Lizzie to get back together in the movie.

Lizzie's character went through so much development in finally accepting that Tommy can't be who she wants him to be and breaking free from him, and I feel like it would be a massive disservice to both characters, but particularly her, to force them back together. That storyline was closed pretty definitively at the end of season 6, and I honestly don't think that there's time to be reopening and focusing on it when we've only got about 3 hours max to work with as far as runtime. And there are just so many other aspects of the story that I think would be far more interesting to explore.

She was so miserable the entirety of their marriage, and deserves to be free of the Shelbys and their bullshit and to either be happy on her own with Charlie or go find that nice, normal man that she so badly wanted Tommy to be post season 4, and finally have some peace and happiness.

And Tommy deserves to not be locked in a marriage with someone who only loves the fantasy of him that she's projected onto him, or to be weighted down by feeling like he's failed her by not being able to be someone he's not. I think that they could be happy co-parenting Charlie together, but outside of that, I really feel like they should go their separate ways.

I always had the interpretation that Ruby was the only thing holding them together. And that the moment she died, so did their marriage, effectively. I do think that they cared for each other, but I don't think either of them really were in love with the other (as mentioned above, I think even Lizzie only loved her fantasy of Tommy, and not who he actually was). And by the end they both just seemed to bitter and resentful of each other. So it's really hard for me to root for them to end up together.

Anyway, I've always gotten the feeling that most people in the fandom strongly feel like they are *the* couple of the show and are passionately in love and should be together, so I shall now go hide under a rock to avoid the barrage of shouting likely to commence in my comments and inbox 🙃