#Streetrats

[rainbowxocs]

About Mouse - Part 1 (a True Crime documentary)

This is a research paper dedicated to the mysterious legend of a girl simply known as “Mouse.” There is no other name given, and the person in question has been missing for about six years, believed dead. It is believed that she was, at oldest, eighteen years old when she died. Recently, stories and legends of Mouse have begun to surface online, but there has been little actual research done, and sources have rarely been checked. The legend of Mouse is slowly fading into absurdity due to the internet exaggerating the already twisted stories. I decided to see if I can track down any who might have known this girl, to see what was going on in these stories. Many of the accounts I have been able to find have taken one of two viewpoints; the first, a child or young person who was in trouble (often either homeless, lost, or being mugged in an alley) and who was rescued and brought to some form of safety by Mouse. The Second, criminals and members of organized crime factions that went toe-to-toe with this young woman and ended up in jail or worse. In this paper, I will be tracking down those who knew this person best to see if we can get an understanding of what really happened all those years ago.             The first candidate I tracked down is a public figure, Magda Thoroughgood, is a professional wrestler who has recently moved to Japan to pursue her career. The internet has linked her to Mouse several times, but she refused to acknowledge the situation, until now. In this transcription, you will get her side of our correspondence.

[viahiptop]

[techno-rat]

techno and his relationship to dehumanization is SOOO important to me .

[wanderingaldecaldo]

The Pickup

Went to see that corpo. Yeah? ¿Qué pasó? Thugs roughed me up, then she threatened me. The usual. Maelstrom won't be no different. Least they have manners.

Couple more because of the post-rain, 1.62 update beauty.

[storytellering]

redrew my old Tony art, still have many feelings about him

[kismetmoon]

perks of having a roommate who’s barely ever at home. also happy pride month even though i’m unbelievably late on it (these two sentences have nothing in relation).

[ID: a digital drawing of an original, stylised Flatland character named Ruth on a white background.

Ruth is a humanoid character with grey skin that has lighter grey patches, a short tail, an eye for a head with a blunt point on top, four bottom eyelashes and a drooping eye shape.

She is wearing an oversized white tee and wide grey shorts.

She is facing the right and standing slightly stooped over with her knees bent. She is holding a glass of juice in one hand, her other hand is hanging down by her side, and looking up to the top left corner. There is handwritten text around her. The text at the top left says “liz’s shirt” with an arrow pointed to the tee. The text to her right says “also liz’s” and has an arrow pointed to the glass of juice. The text to her bottom left says “liz’s shorts” and has an arrow pointed to the shorts.

End ID].

[storybounded]

Princess Au for Ally...someone other lad or pretty lady can be robin hood...

[this-is-not-a-slow-burn]

[senseiwu]

Suddenly really wanna watch Aladdin

[jvzebel-x]

"The impulse toward chaos was one he knew. It ran hand in hand with the desire for violence to be done to him. To destroy him because he was not worth saving."

x. "The Vanished Queen", Lisbeth Campbell

[rainbowxocs]

Name: Magda Thoroughgood

Nicknames:  Magpie, Mags

Age:  20

Pronouns: She/her

Sexuality: Demisexual

Gender: Female

Species: Human

Disorders: CPTSD, ODD

Physical Disabilities: Damage to her right eye from the scar that goes across her forehead (almost always hidden by makeup)

Religion: Atheist

Job: Professional wrestler, part time streamer

Degree: Highschool diploma

 Lives in: Nakano, Tokyo (regularly travels)

 Languages: English, Japanese, Spanish, New Orleans French, some German (the swear words), Some Korean

 Height: 5’8

Eyes: Dark brown, almost black

Hair: black, extremely curly, with a white streak on her left side, often braided in protective styles

 Race: African American

 Accent: Either polite midwestern accent, or back alley Chicago street. Her Japanese pronunciation is incredibly good but she does badly on purpose sometimes for the Show

 Vehicle: She had a shitty stickshift pickup truck until she moved to Japan, now she relies on public transportation.

Weapons:  Barbed wire baseball bat, steel chair, wrestling gloves with thumbtacks poking through the knuckles

Alignment: Neutral Good

Text Color: Black

Main Animal: Crows

Main Hobbies: Feeding/befriending crows, parkour, cooking, streaming, collecting shiny things

Favorite Food: karē (Japanese curry)

Favorite Flower:

Scent: Spices from the kitchen and whatever cologne she’s wearing this month

Awareness: none

Birthday: January 6th

Theme: My Name is by Once Monsters

Playlist: WIP

Fun Facts: She ran away from home at 7 years old after watching an episode of Full House that made her realize she was being abused. She has incredibly sticky fingers when she’s dissociating or in distress, which has resulted in her owning a very expensive watch she stole from a man on the fbi most wanted list. She has befriended many flocks of crows across the US and one in Japan.  She spends what little spare time she has with her little sister, Ruth, and what little extra money she has goes straight to vetted charities.

Special Interests: Wrestling, Video games, classic literature, fantasy, charity, Entertaining, storytelling, birds (specifically Corvids), Streetart/tagging.

Stims: card tricks, twisting her silver rings, drumming on anything nearby, singing whatever is stuck in her head

 Stimboard: WIP

Moodboard: WIP

 Fashion Board: WIP

Comfort Objects: two silver rings, an incredibly expensive gold watch that she never wears, glass baubles and shiny trinkets she’s collected, the Ocarina and flute Mouse made her years ago, her Knife from *********

Family: Ruth, Mouse, Tom, Todd, Marcus, Laney.

Friends: Fox, Firebird, Carlos, Alex.

Enemies: Her Parents, Mrs. Briggs(Highschool English teacher),

 Pets: several flocks of crows recognize her, bring her gifts.

Brief Personality: Mags is at her best entertaining people. Whether it’s on a street corner with a guitar, in front of a computer playing games with friends, or setting up story-arcs for her pro-wrestling persona, she’s confident and knows how to work a crowd to her advantage. Call her an entertainer, or a con artist, it’s all the same to her. She is completely capable of holding herself as a professional adult and can snip and snide her way through a PTA with the best of them, despite her age. Given the choice, however, she’d prefer to drop into a back-alley accent- although it always seems to be from a different area, with a frankly outrageous mix of slang terms from every city she’s ever been to- and showing her rough background with pride. CW: Magpie had a really fucked up childhood. TW for Child abuse and child trafficking.

Brief Backstory: Born into a family that valued appearances over all else, ****** had a rough start. Her parents married more because they thought it would look nice than the fact that they loved, or even liked, each other. The abuse started young and continued until a teacher in her elementary school reported mysterious injuries to CPS, who conducted an investigation and found nothing wrong, then continued until she was seven. ******, upon watching an episode of Full House that touched on abuse and connecting that to the weird social services lady that Mom said to lie too, came to a realization that what was happening might not be normal. She ran away two weeks later, on the last day of school. She simply got off the bus at the wrong stop and started walking.

                ****** miraculously survived a few weeks on the street before Tom and a few of his buddies found her beneath a park bench. Their first approach was to ‘scare her straight’ and take her home, but they quickly realized that the little girl was clearly more afraid of her parents than them, and eventually got her to admit that she had been abused and CPS Would do nothing about it. Not knowing what else to do and refusing to leave a seven year old alone on the streets, they took her in. They also eventually picked up on the fact that she flinched every time they called her name and started trying out nicknames, eventually settling on Magpie. After a few months, Tom clocked onto the fact that he wasn’t in the best crowd, as someone had given Mags a hit of something and taught her how to pick pockets. He figured that was probably bad. He jumped ship and took Mags with him to work with Mouse and Todd.                 By the time Magpie was ten, Laney had also joined the group, and the two had become best friends. Laney had the whole horror thing going on, and Mags had learned that if she gave Crows scraps they’d follow her and give her things. Everything culminated in the two of them “haunting” an abandoned house for a month straight and Magpie ‘accidentally’ teaching a murder of crows to divebomb people when she whistled. Luckily for them, the only responsible figures around at the time was a 13-year-old Mouse and 14-year-old Todd, who both thought that was hilarious. The two of them also developed a surprisingly good street magic routine, raising money for “Unhoused Youth in the Local Area” and spewing off statistics if asked- they just never elaborated that the unhoused youth in question was them the whole time.  The two learned how to escape handcuffs and zipties as part of the act, which came in handy a little while later.

Mags was 15 when she learned about her little sister, a two year old named Ruth, living in the same abusive home she had grown up in. She let herself get caught and returned to her parents custody, where she was beaten, starved, and abused. Mags kept herself between her parents and her sister, taking over the childcare as much as she could and doing everything she could to make sure her parents were never left alone with Ruth.  Her parents spread rumors about her through the PTA; they had high standing in a lot of local communities and used that to discredit their daughter as a lost cause who constantly started fights and lied habitually. They did everything they could to be the victims of the story, doing their best for a child who had “gone through so much” and “was really good, deep down” as they undermined her whole life. They put her in wrestling school as an excuse for the bruises. The school graded her lower than the other kids and she got detention nearly every day, no matter what she did.  She managed to make friends with the smarter/nerdier kids by protecting them from bullies.

 Magpie had planned to sue for custody of Ruth when she turned 18, but life threw a wrench in the works. Her parents beat her and slammed her face into the kitchen counter, nearly killing her. A neighbor called the police, thinking it was a robbery, and they were caught red handed. Mags spent 16 days in a coma before waking up and exposing her parents abuse- she’d taken some advice and documented everything that had happened in the past three years. She managed to get a small apartment with the money she got suing for mental and physical damages, and custody of her sister. She worked part time at a barber shop for a while and started doing basic jobs in the pro wrestling community.

Now, Mags’ wrestling career is picking up and she’s moved to Japan with her sister to pursue it. She keeps in touch with the other streetrats by playing online games with them and doing watch parties of all the shows they missed in their childhoods. They started streaming so they could play together and connect with other friends all around, but that started picking up and now they’re making some good income from Twitch as well.

[fangedmetadevil]

∞

Put a "∞" in my ask box and I’ll shuffle my music player and give you my favorite lyric from the song that comes up.

You put up a front, You put up a fight, And just to show we feel no spite, You can be our acolyte, But first, boy, it's time to bow (Kowtow!)

Playing With The Big Boys By Steve Martin & Martin Short [Prince Of Egypt]

[wilson-the-gay-oncologist]

It has really bad lighting...

[wanderingaldecaldo]

The Rescue

Part One | Part Two

Careful, V! They can spot you! Let 'em.

Not much to offer this week since I've been traveling for work. Might do a part two this afternoon. In the meantime, a couple more...

[bambooswordwielder]

Realising that Shen Jiu and Liu Qingge's personalities are what people would usually assume for the other person's birth status (eg. Streetrat and Noble Born)

Like Liu Qingge is implied to be born to a noble background yet is the PeakLord at a peak where fighting is the common language, and Shen Jiu (A slave from the streets) is the PeakLord of the peak of NOBLE SCHOLARLY ARTS.

Liu Qingge is blunt, doesn't think to try and hide his intentions, and has little to no interest in politics, while Shen Jiu is calculating and scheming, always ready for any conspiracy against him or others.

Imagining Shen Jiu being born into a noble family and immediately knowing he would be like a fish to water. Liu Qingge however... 🤔 Would he be able to rise above Shen Jiu's childhood?

[beckyblah]

Made an OC to romance Aeon lol - she's a former Streetrat turned traitor. In my head it's a real Romeo and Juliet situation :]