#Trains and tragedy

[these-detestable-hands]

Uh, I have zero idea about your OCs, their backgrounds, the plot that's waiting for them, stuff like that... But I do love hearing a friend telling me stories, so!

Tell me about your most beloved OC at the moment!

What do they do?

What's their background?

What's their philosophical stance regarding their own life, or the society they live in?

What are their traits, and what trait would you think is the most trademark of them?

What was their biggest regret?

What is their ambition? What sort of person did they wanna be, and are they on their way to it, or is something getting in the way?

What is their role in, uh, whatever story/plot you have in store for them?

If someone (another character) were to be antagonistic toward them, what would be the impetus that caused that antagonism?

What got them excited lately?

What inspired you into creating them? Is it a character from another story/fiction? A person from real life? Your own life experience?

This should make an interesting read!

I love you thank you for asking questions omg. I don't fully understand all of them so I'll answer as best as I can.

1. What do they do?

Ione trapped her son in a fantasy winter hellscape. As for job then idk. Her daughter Delilah is a kindergarten teacher and she destroys the portals that Ione made. Augustus is Ione's son and he's the king of a country called Sletan. He hardly interacts with his bio family in canon but he does kill a bunch of evil artificially created monsters :3

2. What's their background?

Ione is an African American/English woman born and raised in England in 1963. Idk much about the English school system but she's fairly average. She married a man named Gary at 22 then they left and moved to Spain when she 23 and they had a son called Augustus a few months later. Two years later they had Delilah.

Augustus and Delilah both had fairly normal childhoods until 1996. Augustus (age 10) was put in that fantasy world and was from then on tutored. Delilah was obviously horribly messed up by this and took time off from school a lot and fell behind with her education but she caught up again by about age 14.

Gary never recovered and ended up retiring early and still in the present (2021) is extremely depressed and has nightmares about Augustus' "dissappearance". Gary has always been a very normal guy and he never knew about the portal stuff Ione had going on. He loved his kids a lot so it's obvious that losing one would kill him. He still has a good relationship with Delilah though, this isn't some bs like with Rodrigue and Felix.

3. What's their philosophical stance regarding their own life, or the society they live in?

This question confuses me a lot but I'll try my best to answer!

Ione honestly sorta has a god complex. Idk how she feels about the Spanish government.

Delilah is fairly normal as well but still feels guilty about Augustus' dissappearance because the lie Ione told her could have been prevented if Delilah had gone with him. Gary is similar.

Augustus does like his life how it is now cause his adopted parents agree that Ione was absolutely horrible and they treat him well and he resents Ione. He often has feelings of doubt about if his adopted parents truly love him cause his own birth mother didn't, so who's to say some random people do? These feelings of doubt slowly go away during the story though cause not only does he have a daughter of his own but he also ends up loving a crap ton of people. He's a very loving guy and he just realizes his mom was just evil and it is not difficult to love people with your entire heart. As for the society? Ough he's the king lol.

4. What are their traits, and what do you think is the most trademark of them?

Ione is a smiley type of villain. She's very calm and smiles while killing you kinda person. Her defining trait is that she has a very keen perception of time and objects. She can accurately guess the amount of peas on a pile or how long has passed since she ate lunch down to the minute without looking at a clock or even the placement of the sun.

Delilah is very sweet. She's an artist and is extremely good at teaching things to others but can easily get a bit caught up in leadership roles and forgets to listen to the group she's supposed to be helping. Her trademark trait would probably be her patience cause she's so incredibly patient with everyone. For a large chunk of the story, she's forced to work with this obnoxious guy Salvador and she is very good at keeping her cool, even when he says something horribly mean or refuses to help. Don't worry she does get to lose her temper and yell at someone and set a building on fire at the end of the story.

Augustus is a sorta calm and calculating type, think a bit like Seteth or Selena. He loves people a lot but isn't too great at showing it cause he's not huge on being affectionate lol, he often just says things like "I love you with my entire heart and I would be devastated if anything bad ever happened to you" in a completely monotone voice. His defining feature is that he's very very quiet. He does not talk a lot at all and when he does then he doesn't speak very loudly. He's changed a lot since I first made him but one feature that's been a constant is the fact that he's quiet.

5. What's their biggest regret?

Ione is probably getting rid of Augustus cause she doesn't care much for him but she doesn't like not being able to return to that world. She's really shallow and doesn't care much for her family at all.

Gary and Delilah are both that they didn't do something the day Augustus went missing because they think that they could have saved him.

Augustus' is probably that he didn't spend more time with his daughter, Julie, cause she now hates him and he thinks it's cause he wasn't a good dad (it's actually cause Ione ruined everything)

6. What is their ambition?

Ione and Gary don't have much of anything going on. Ione doesn't keep the portals to reach a goal, she mostly just has them for fun and out of curiosity.

Gary, again, is just really depressed and doesn't do much ever. He keeps a kitchen garden.

Delilah is happy with her life. She is trying to learn to play the harp though.

Augustus gave up on ever trying to go home so his main ambition is to kill the artificial monsters that terrorize Sletan.

7. What is their role in the story?

There's two separate stories, one featuring Delilah and the other takes place in Sletan.

In the Sletan story, the protagonist is this girl Melinoe but Augustus is a deuteragonist. Ione and Delilah never show up.

In Delilah's story then she's the protag alone with that obnoxious jerk I mentioned before Salvador. Ione starts out as a normal motherly character and ends as the antagonist. Gary is a side character who doesn't do much at all.

8. If someone (another character) were to be antagonistic towards them, what would be the impetus that caused that antagonism?

Ione gave away Augustus, when Delilah finds out then they become antagonists for each other basically.

Augustus is a king so probably just someone who wanted to kill him or start a revolution.

9. What got them excited lately?

Idk about Ione shed weird.

Delilah probably got excited about progress with learning the harp.

Augustus infodumped to his wife about some book he read.

I do not really know what you mean with this question.

10. What inspired you to create them? Is it a character from another story/fiction? A person from real life? Your own experience?

OOOOOOOOOO Augustus was inspired by King Rhoam from botw. At first he was supposed to be this super sweet and lovely old guy but then I did a 180 and made him evil like Lyon and Valter instead. After a while of making him worse and worse, I decided to make him nice again and he's now mostly inspired by characters like Seteth, the handler and Maximilian Morrel.

Delilah was originally heavily inspired by Edelgard but then she morphed into a normal person over time.

Ione?? Idk wtf happened. Originally I saw pics of a causal suit + crop top combo on pinterest then drew a character like that then decided she was actually evil and 60 and hates her kids.

Gary just sorta popped into my noggin one day cause I decided Ione needed a husband.

And while we're here, inspiration for Juno (Augustus' wife) was from Monica fe8. Julie was inspired by Neimi and Flayn. Salvador was unpaired by gaucho clothing, Zuko and Dimitri

[nancywheeeler]

hopeless time loop. the way out isn’t to save everyone. the way out isn’t to save even one person. the way out isn’t to change anything. the way out is accepting how it happened the first time is how it always will be. that’s how you acted, that’s how they acted, that’s how you would have acted every time if you weren’t given the curse of hindsight. the way out is accepting you can’t fix the past; you can only forgive yourself for it.

[themeraldee]

How could I be mad about the flight 37 incident when we got the cutest and fluffiest looking Homie out of it

[arachnerd-8-legs]

really disappointing that bunjywunjy had to be pestered twice just to quietly remove their reblog after using their huge platform to encourage garbage like raving about the lesbian estonian soviet flag and how 'new pride flag just dropped' so people could go 'ooh pretty' about a flag that was forced onto us by ppl who wanted our culture gone and oppressed us for about a century in total if not more.

to say nothing or not show anything of the truth about that flag and quietly remove the reblog felt more like it was done out of obligation (and you didn't agree) rather than care for the subject matter that is still a fresh wound in our country's memory. it's only been 33 years since it ended.

I'd rather you make the mistake about something you didn't know (eastern european history is easy for westeners to overlook, because we're not a big country like them, we're not england or france or spain or germany) and admit/apologize for said mistake or even just outright state that you don't actually care rather than say nothing and quietly remove something so that people would stop talking about it

[sofigrace]

this may be the post-election low and the sleep deprivation talking, but i want all of you to know i'm being 100% serious when i say this

i changed my mind

fuck tragedy

fuck realism

fuck "the meaning of sacrifice"

i want vax to be saved and brought back and him being the same and marrying keyleth and them having 50 babies and die at the same time when they're both old and gray

[guardian-of-soho]

It’s odd to me when people hear Aziraphale say “Well, obviously you said no to Hell — you’re the bad guys,” and think he’s calling Crowley bad. He said “obviously” Crowley would never willingly work for them. He’s calling Crowley good, as firmly as he did in front of Job’s children.

[buqbite]

it's kinda fascinating to me how welt has been "at the end of his life" for like. several decades by now. he goes on and on about how old and weary he is and how "his job is done" and his story is over but- oh wait i just realized i can phrase this in a very funny way- he's kind of sorta immortal now because he got the herrscher core back, so he's really just stuck in the epilogue for all eternity

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

"The alliterate one was yelling at a producer after the interview." 🤔

Well of course she did 🤪

By the way, it is past time for Jane Pauley to retire. Jane couldn't see the difference between Sparry's hand & his thigh : "...and I see you touch your HUSBAND'S HAND in just the way I knew you would be looking after one another."

Someone is Off Script 🤪😂

HAPPY Meg: to speak about her fake unaliving & the tell tell: "I wasn't expecting that..." She had a SCRIPT on the ready, along w/yet another veiled threat to the BRF

ANGRY Meg: Pauley said, "the 2 of you, a modest beginning it's NOT an army (yet). What are your ambitions?" This was the 1 time Pauley went off script.

Like vinegar in Meg's mouth: "you have to start somewhere..." BUSTED!

This "network" is a smokescreen, an illusion. The Meghans are tragedy vultures who grift off the pain of parents whose children are deceased. They intend to exploit these parents to pass legislation like KOSA, to criminalize online criticism and monitor social credit scores

Tragedy Vultures

Oh look, she's latched onto another mother of a deceased child. 🤔 ⚰

Q-Where did these TRAGEDY VULTURES meet the bereaved parents?⚰

A-They met these bereaved parents in October 2023 in NYC for the 2nd annual World Mental Health Day. archeFRAUD Partnered with Project Healthy Minds (Carson Daily) to target the potential activism of this niche group of bereaved parents who experienced the unthinkable----a child gone too soon.

archeFRAUD plans to use their website and resources as an online hub of "connection" for the parent bereavement stories. The financial backers are: the radical left NAACP, Boston's radical left Fairplay, ParentsSOS, Center for Humane Technology, George Soros Open Societies Foundations, Omisyar Network, Craig Newmark Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Ford Foundation, Pritzker Family Foundation, Pritzker Innovation Fund, Parent's For Safe Online Spaces, David's Legacy Foundation, etc.

They intend to use untouchable stories of sorrow & death to bully Congress into criminalizing online criticism. This has been a longtime mission for elites like noprah, tyler perry, hollyweird stars, celebrity & political island visitors made up of wealthy elites who do illegal deeds in the shadows. These groups have been on a 20 year mission to go back to the comfort & secrecy of the pre-internet era. They are desperate for their wicked deeds to remain in the dark, but they need forward facing idiots like Meghan & Sparry to serve as their mouthpieces.

ME-gain & Sparry are tragedy vultures, grifting off the grief of bereaved families. Their mission to "raise awareness by sharing these parent stories" is to criminalize online online users for "hate speech" aka any criticism of ME-gain via the digital online town square. The NAACP is money laundering to meet the elites digital justice goals. Please contact Congress to Stop KOSA.

The October 2023 Comments under this Access Hollyweird video are GOLD!!

[carefulzombie]

“i love yugioh!” i proclaim, knowing full well i could not give less of a shit about anything card game related towards it (aka 90% of the actual canon content)

[dangans-ur-ronpas]

i did end up wearing a costume for the night :)

cost calculation:

choppy ass haircut: $0

mom's turtleneck: $0

crochet kim dokja squid plush (commissioned from friend): $70

empty jelly snack jar: $0

white lab coat from when i had to take a science elective: $9 (+ $0 for sash that i recycled from the hem)

thrifted uniqlo slacks: $25

boots haggled from outdoor market: $60 (i'm not good at haggling)

total: 164 USD over the course of 2 years

number of people who understood the reference: 3 (1 of them thought i was femme kim dokja)

number of people who thought i was an unethical marine biologist: more than 3

[these-detestable-hands]

hi hi i dont know any of your ocs bt i like asking things soo please do uhhid alphabetical order if you have multiple ocs. like first number is one oc, second is the next, etc, to anwwer the following: 1, 2, 4, 8, 15, 20

or also just answer however you want this is your choice :D

OOOOOO THANK YOU!!! I LOVE TALKING ABIUT MY OCS. I ended up just picking thd character that'd have the most interesting answer for each question.

1. Describe your OC physically

Helena is extremely tall, she's 190. She also lives in Brazil which does not help with her feeling out of place for being so tall. She has a sharp jawline, big nose and she's very physically strong so people often make rude assumptions about her cause she looks "traditionally masculine". As for notable features, I'd say her dimples and her hair. It's very curly, long and dark but in some aus it's bright red. My favorite feature is her hooked nose.

2. What role would your OC fill in a friend group?

Ricardo is a mom friend. He has a lot of health issues so by default then he always has a bag of essentials with him. Over time, he ended up putting things in it that he knew his friends might need just in case. His friends all adore him for it.

4. How do they act when they're sick?

Juno gets sick a lot so she always tries to hide it and stay out of people's ways cause she doesn't like being a burden. As a kid, her parents would take time off from work to take care of her and as an adult then her husband also goes out of his way to make sure she rests and recovers. Her family loves her a lot and refuses to not help simply because she doesn't want to inconvenience them.

8. What's something your OC owns that means the world to them? What's something they own that they don't like, but can't bring themselves to part with?

Nazik has tons of letters that she's saved over hundreds of years from dead friends. She often rereads them. One of them was from an ex and it said he wanted to call off their engagement because he was going out to war and didn't want to die and leave her behind. He survived but years passed and he ended up marrying another woman but Nazik keeps the letter cause she still loves him.

Also it's worth mentioning that Nazik is a several hundred year old vampire and her ex was a human.

15. How does your OC take up space? What do they do with their hands when they talk, or how do they sit in chairs?

Salvador fidgets a lot. He wears gloves so he tugs at them and adjusts them while talking. He used to be a prince so he knows how to sit properly but prefers sitting sideways in armchairs. Also loves sitting with his legs crossed.

20. What kind of clothing do they feel most comfortable in? What kind of clothing do they wear most often?

Molly feels most confident in long dresses, pants, sweaters and long sleeved shirts. She mostly dresses modestly but sometimes goes full goth with crop tops, short leather skirts and fish nets. She feels nice wearing it cause she lives in a very friendly and sweet community. Later in the story, she stops wearing more revealing clothes all together and just does extremely modest stuff because of a specific unfun event that made her hate her own body. She still dresses goth sometimes, just also modestly.

[deimosatellite]

whenever i see people talking abt hannibal and other tragic batshit gay people media im like

[clownjacket]

Okay my ‘why Kipperlily hates Riz’ theory: She handed out business cards first day, he handed out business cards first day, she’s tiny, he’s tiny, they’re both obviously overeager teacher’s pet type A rogues, they’re like male and female versions of each other and it’s obvious to everyone. What would most high schoolers do, in that situation, seeing another kid so similar to your friend on the first day that they somehow BOTH made business cards to hand out at school? AND they’re going to be taking classes together? You say “Omg, he’s literally the boy version of you, you’re SOULMATES, you’d be perfect together!” And what do you do when your type A tight-ass friend acts embarrassed by that? You tease her about it more obviously. You think it’s just good natured ribbing, and she KNOWS it’s just good natured ribbing, but for some reason she gets unreasonably angry any time she sees Riz after that. Maybe even uncomfortable? But she KNOWS she doesn’t have a crush on him, so why does it bother her so much?

[horizon-penblade]

I see so many posts about how weird it must have been for the pevensies to grow up twice and while that is true I do feel obligated to point out that susan was the only one to make it past 22 the second time around

[cadillacjohnf1]

[sidereon-spaceace]

torn between wanting to make all my ocs Specialest Little Guys and overpowered VS. the fact I just finished watching all three extended editions of Lord of the Rings and am deeply moved by the struggles and worth of the common man