#Val out here with no rizz

[0ccuria]

new bio-cards! used @tav-dex's template as a base to build off of.

[pinkyjulien]

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[reckless-rider]

Somehow this man got the guy idk how but he did

Context: Val saved him from some captors and an awful pickup line was basically the first thing out of Vals mouth

[thedeepstate69]

Rating Val ships simply because i can

I stared at my laptop for like 10 mins figuring out how i was gonna order this

Glalaxsea (Astra x Harbor)

A solid 9/10 overall

10/10 ship name

Very simple and very sweet

Nothing too interesting

forget the moon and the sun its moon and sea no i will not be told otherwise

(the moon and the sea fell in love but were separated and now the sea tries to reach for the moon and thats why we have waves is the story behind it btw)

Reyge (Reyna x Sage)

An easy 10/10

7/10 ship name

its good but theres better ya know

The fluff and angst potential is so good

Bitemark (Viper x Chamber)

7/10 ship

oh my god 10/10 ship name

the amount of angst that drips from this ship is delicious

viper falling hard only to find out abt everett lind nd what chambers done

fuck buddies but viper falls in love only to get her heart broken

i like them sad

Fadeshock (Fade x Neon)

10/10 ship imo

ship name is mid im so sorry 2/10

gf's who are afraid of their radiance learning control and acceptance from each other

yes pls

i think they take naps together

Yorunix (Yoru x Pheonix)

a healthy 9/10 ship

yorunix is 1/10 riftfire is 6/10 firewalker (which is what i call them) 10/10

Yoru is so in love with Phoenix and he is very mad about it

Phoenix is oblivious

I just think they love each other

Cyberowl (Sova/Cypher)

7/10 imo but its also one of my favs

8/10 ship name since i think it's pretty dope

*quietly chants in your ear* rivals to lovers rivals to lover rivals to-

Cypher had a wife but still has negative rizz and Sova is a useless homosexual

you know im right

Yokye (Yoru x Skye)

pls don't hurt me for this but 2/10

pretty good ship name tho 8/10

yeahhhhhhhhhhhh i just don't really like it at all as a ship

i can see why it's just....

MOVING SWIFTLY ON

Nanobomb (Raze x Killjoy)

10/10 and i will not be taking critism

10/10 ship name

adhd x autism

both of them aggressively pined for ages

useless lesbians fr

nothin more to say rlly

Viper x Reyna (I have no idea what their ship name is i'm sorry)

8/10 overall

i dont know what they're ship name is but i'm assuming it's good

THE ANGST MMMMMMMMMMM

get outa here with your enemies to lovers they're enemies and lovers

A lot of hatefucking im not gonna lie to you

[vroomian]

Thanks for the speedy response! I know you got your rl stuff going on and I appreciate it 83

I’m dying laughing at yrx trying his best to be boring and unnoticeable but he’s trying too hard and getting noticed anyway. That makes sense, I kinda assumed that Charlie met yrx through Lucifer when she was young.

Also, did yrx end up changing his normal identity again after the Valentino drama? Like, idk fake his death during an extermination or something? Like how mdzs yrx I think contemplates leaving GusuLan after his almost death?

Probably not. But now I’m invested in how many identities that yrx maybe has.

Makes sense he would be friendly with Angel with his past life, assuming it stayed the same and he was still a librarian with sex work on the side.

Sorry this is a bit long but last question I swear. How did yrx’s first meeting with Lucifer go?

I’m not really set in Yrz and Lucifer’s relationship yet tbh. Idk how they met or their dynamic just yet. It might just be a one sided crush on Lucifer’s part because making him have a gay crisis is still funny. There’s no end game relationship in this au yet. I have no idea how they met! I think it was probably not in heaven though because Lucifer already fell before Yrz got there.

I don’t think Yrz faked his death again. It was more like he hit hell and decided to let loose for a decade or two after dealing with heavens bullshit for so long. Compared to regular Yrz he’s much less cautious because he’s already dead and in hell! Consequences received and not that bad.

He went on sort of sin binge, and fell into a sex worker job pretty quickly. It’s fun most of the time and he makes money and connections hella fast so it’s win win for him. He stays independent from val though which drives Val nuts. I think he and Val fall into a situationship because Yrz really is good in bed and charming when he needs to be. He’s got the rizz! After Yrz made enough to get his library off the ground he quit the industry to Val’s shock and anger. There’s a period of time where Yrz stayed out of Val’s way and focused on his library while waiting for the tantrum to end. Val is like a bitter ex boyfriend lol.

I think yrzs stage name would be foxy codone to match with angel dust lol. Yrz only has three solid identities here: stage precense foxy, worksona the library demon, and regular Yrz. He will occasionally lie to strangers for fun though.

[lixenn]

friendship & lost for chief ♡ equal attention! hehe

Slowly but surely I'm wading through my inbox...

Thank you so much for sending some in for Chief, Jojo! Lovely having you here 💜✨🥹

Putting the answers under a cut because it kind of got super long OTL

Friendship

What's your OC like as a friend?

Dan as a friend is pure contradiction. He will worry about you and nag and patch you up if you get hurt (Dan is majorly mumfriend coded) but he will also roast you to hell and back. Lots of banter and sarcasm involved in a friendship with Chief. Dan is also loyal and quite possessive of his friends, he doesn't really have that many because he's introverted but the friends he does have, he treasures greatly. So if someone hurts them, he is ready to wreck some shit in response. Besides that Dan is more of a listener than a talker, so he will let his friends ramble about stuff they like and just... sit with them and enjoy hearing their voice. Dan as a friend is reliable too. He's the kinda guy that will be at your doorstep at 3 am just because you called him and said you needed help, he will be grumpy if you woke him up thought but he will still be there.

How are they at making new friends?

Making new friends? No thanks, he's fine with those he has. Dan has a lot of rizz but it's best enjoyed from afar because getting close to him can be tricky. Blunt. Rude. Bossy. Scary. Grumpy. All words that fit Dan to a certain degree and it makes approaching him difficult to say the least. Naturally he doesn't seek out new people by himself unless there's an outside motivation pushing him into it, so making new friends isn't really on the table unless someone else takes the first step. And you need a certain type of stubborness or lack of fucks to give to dig deep through Dan's prickly shell and find the gooey marshmallow center. Not everyone is up for that kind of effort which means that Dan's friend count stays low (not that he minds that lmao).

What are the most important friendships in your OC's life?

Dave The day when Dan realised that the gremlin is probably his best friend was the day he locked himself in his room for a day and got black out drunk. What has the world come to? Didn't he use to have standards? Whatever happened to those? *insert even more nonsensical ramblings here* Tbh Chief and Dave's relationship is more complicated than mere friendship, it's this mixture of friends/colleagues/weird family it's not someting that can really be defined. But fact is both of them really care about each other even if the two of them would never admit it in front of anyone unless circumstances are really dire.

Valerie Dear Val kept Dan sane in his early Varia days. He appreciates her logical mind and her humour. He also still approaches her when he needs advice, be it professional or personal, Val is a well of wisdom. Her feud with Dave also gets a couple laughs out of him, it's very entertaining to watch.

Vlasta As mentioned in his profile, Dan and Vlasta are tired deadpan nature buddies. Dan loves all things plant and Vlasta's job is literally plants so this friendship was built on that. While some of Vlasta's escapades really wear on his patience, Dan still consider them a close friend (but can they please stop asking after his sex life? would be appreciated, thanks).

Squalo Not touching the romance, Squalo was first and foremost Dan's friend. It started off as a work relationship but he quickly got fond of the shark even though his eardrums suffer from the lack of volume control. Their friendship was forged in the fires of Varia's insanity and they often rely on each other to keep themselves afloat.

Loss:

Is there anyone important to your OC who has passed away? How did they handle the loss?

Dan has been spared from major loss (or has he?) but in a way he's still familiar with the feeling even though it's on a different... let's say scale. Nobody he was close with has died but he experiences loss on a regular basis simply because of the nature of his job. It's the Varia. People die. Even when they are never supposed to fight. And he understands this but deep down each death, each report that lands on his desk... chips away at his walls, puts a scratch on his heart. Because Chief cares. He might not be close to them, he might just only know their names (because he learns all their names) but even so they were still under his care and in a way he failed them. And that hurts. He doesn't really cope with that as much as he puts it away into a box and throws said box back into the depth of his mind. Compartimentalization for the win!

oc ask: relationship edition

[itsblorbotime]

i really do not like the narration at the start of every zone. like, it's not nearly as good or evocative as edmont's, but there's a /reason/ for that -- he's writing a book and is an eloquent man, whilst lyse is just… recounting things (to whom?) -- and also a kind of important established character trait of hers is that she's /not/ good with words. like, it's way too repetitive. "i remember this. i remember that." okay we get it. also, the voice acting in stormblood is generally excellent, and lyse's performance in particular is fantastic… EXCEPT IN THESE SEGMENTS. who the fuck was directing these?

iirc, shb does this too? and endwalker? i don't remember if both or just one do it but either way i do not like it there either!!

anyway. the azim steppe rules, what a great part of the expac. for one thing the xaela have SUCH interesting, rich, varied lore that gets explored in great depth (unlike the poor raen...), for another the basic storyline of the area is pretty neatly contained. the pacing feels tight, the characters are memorable...

the problem as i see it is it is yet another part of this expac where the focus shifts away from lyse. she got pushed out during the time between the seconds, she gets pushed to the side a lot here in favour of developing hien... it's like they wanted to tell a story about lyse but kept getting sidetracked, not really knowing what to do with her, a problem which is compacted by her NOT being the main character -- that's us. honestly all the stuff WE are doing here, SHE should have been doing.

anyway.

thanks for the exposition, guys!

this is the first time we see real horses in this game, not like, chocobos or giant hawks or whatever. (ignore the horn, i have a crime to turn the arr ponies into unicorns LIKE THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN.) it's weird!!!!

now kith....

it's cirina! hooray!! we love cirina! man it's been a minute since i've heard her speak.

hi.

hien is basically everything lyse is trying to be, which does come up in a scene a little later, but i found his introduction very striking. he's pretty immediately likeable, imo. he's got a lot of rizz, he's confident and eloquent, but we also very quickly see him being silly and playful, too. you pretty instantly know what this guy is about.

he has a plan and the game doesn't fuck around with a bunch of busywork to start enacting it. you show up, you find him right away, he immediately knows what he wants to do and how to do it, so you set about doing that thing right away. that's what makes the azim steppe part of the expac feels so good, i think. there's no pussyfooting around like "oh we need to pad the runtime and add a bunch of things to justify making this map so fucking big..."

lol

val is sooooooooooooooooooooo small. who let him be that small.

damn these lines go fucking hard post-shadowbringers... damn. DAMN. like it's a bit of a coincidence, a bit of them probably remembering this dialogue and finding ways to tie their later writing back to it.

i think cirina gets flanderized a lot. she's got a bit of that aerith personality imo. she's a bit less Silly and Goofy but she's also not the blushing delicate maiden i keep seeing people portray her as.

ok the azim steppe DOES make you go out and collect literal shit but it's fine, it's all for lyse's character development and so she has something to do. also,

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH OH GOD OH GOD OH NO OH GOD OH NO

i don't... love this scene lol, i think they could have done a better job with having lyse explain why it's important for her and hien and everyone else to go home. like, all she needed to do was to explain that the nation of doma is hien's tribe, the nation of ala mhigo is lyse's tribe. instead she kind of waffles on about how it's a special thing that lives in your heart that no one can ever take from you like um, lyse? THEY DID TAKE IT FROM YOU. THEY ANNEXED ALA MHIGO AND DOMA.

this scene also feels weird because so far in doma lyse has done like. fuck-all? the wol has been doing all of it - which, again, is a consequence of you being the player character but like, MOST of what WE'VE been doing should have been attributed to lyse. she spends a lot of time just passively standing around because the writers don't seem to know what to have her actually be DOING. it's really frustrating because you can see that she has an interesting character they don't really know how to work with.

hien is so fucking cute and hot, jesus. this is what i mean - the azim steppe focuses SO HARD on him. lyse should have been in this scene. she and hien should have bonded over their silly childhood stuff, how hien used to cry when gosetsu beat him in combat, how lyse used to throw tantrums when yda tried to reach her to fight, something, anything. give the girl lines!!!!

anyway, off to bardam's mettle...

stormblood replay part 3