#baxter ward my beloved

[cinna-rose]

Here's more to this idea I had earlier-

Imagine that Baxter goes back to Golden Grove - and decides to bring a romanced!MC with him. They meet with Qiu and decide to catch up and talk about their lives, introductions, etc.

"It's nice to see one of Baxter's old friends here," MC smiled, "Even though I knew him for a shorter time, it's good to know there are more people that know about his monochrome hair…"

As soon as the words left MC's mouth, Baxter stiffened and slowly turned to them. Meanwhile, Qiu had a confused expression. "What monochrome hair?" Qiu asked, confused and curious to know what MC was talking about.

After a second to process Qiu's confusion - MC realizes that Baxter's old friends didn't see him with his monochrome hair.

So, the MC has two choices: they can keep quiet about it or try to tease Baxter through his old appearance in front of one of his old friends.

If they go the teasing route, I can imagine the MC having a photo of Baxter with the monochrome hair and trying to show Qiu. And Baxter trying to stop MC by hiding the photo from Qiu's eyes out of embarrassment.

[sunbloomdew]

baxter dlc in four pictures

i loved it btw

[bamb-procrastinates]

Baxter my beloved eating a burger doodle

Didn't finish it lol

[iwrite-sinsandtragedies]

Day 4 — AU ₊˚✧ ﾟ

Submission for @minthe-drawings #BaxterMCWeek!

MC: Ai/Sky

[sunshine-in-your-smile]

I'm such a sucker for angst and characters playing characters themselves and having a bit I'm legitimately crying over a loser of a man named Baxter on a Wednesday afternoon. You know this is truly hitting me right in the meow meow because never will I ever get emotional irl for a man especially one named Baxter???? Pack it up Buster Bunny

[orion4ever]

I have the urge to squeeze Baxter so freaking hard omg

Every time he comes on screen in OLNF I just have like SERIOUS cuteness aggression

I just wanna give him a hug and give him monochrome trinkets and to dance with him ☹️

Also too add to this , I keep thinking of scenarios where my olba mc can meet baby baxter in between step 1 and two.

Ive gone mad

[meowzilla93]

with BaxterxMC week coming soon, i realised i never actually made do on my promise to info dump about my MC August!

so please be prepared for shorts, info, and arts of my darling August

she is my darling cheeky fox of a person and i love her dearly

[cheeto-mareto]

Our Life Beginnings & Always, My beloved edition!

Part 6 - Baxter Ward Step 2 (B&A), and Baxter Ward Step 2 & 1 (N&F)

[dreamtydraw]

The baxter ward brainrot came back and my soul is tangled between calling him a little bitch or my beloved dumb dumb

[flower-seeks-the-moon]

More Tarot Musings on Baxter Ward

Hi, it's been a while since I updated my fics or posted anything about Baxter Ward my beloved, but I come here today to give you this. If you've read my previous practice card reading for Baxter before and enjoyed it, I hope you'll also like this one!

Today, we're here to take a look at his tarot birth cards and the Fives of the Minor Arcana. Because 5 is a significant number to his character and his DLC - born on the fifth month, and the significant periods he met the MC having 5 years in between each of them.

I'll be using my The Philosopher's Tarot deck, but I'll also add the original RWS imagery to make it clearer what I'm referring to in some areas.

Part 1: The Birth Cards

This is an interesting topic on its own with a little numerology used to determine a person's birth cards, but essentially: your birth cards determine your life paths, who you may become as a person, and the lessons you will need to learn.

Baxter's birth cards (for 5/19/1997) are XIV: Temperance and V: The Hierophant.

Somehow, he truly can't escape having angelic imagery connecting to him one way or another.

So what do these cards mean for Baxter?

As a person, he is someone who is well-suited to leading others and taking charge of a situation in a socially graceful manner. Baxter can present himself as a reliable and welcoming man who has a good understanding of people. He's adaptable - when it comes to handling people and social situations, he's very willing to accommodate others and expand his horizons. If it means trying to understand someone on a deeper level, he is willing to do it so he doesn't hurt others and keeps them happy.

Strengths

+ mediation + flexibility + accommodation

Unfortunately, as indicated by both cards, with The Hierophant emphasizing adherence to the overall community's well-being and Temperance possibly indicating an inclination to people-please everyone and settle on a middle ground? Baxter runs the risk of spreading himself too thin and overextending himself. The two cards together paint a picture of someone who feels that their own needs and wants take a backseat to others'.

Another weakness is fearing the unknown, which aligns with one interpretation of The Hierophant as someone bound to dogma or tradition.

Weaknesses

- rigidity - self-sacrifice - fear of the unknown

Here's the interesting part: Temperance and The Hierophant contradict each other, as I have laid out so far. Did you notice that there's something odd about the strengths and weaknesses? How can flexibility and rigidity be a part of the same person? Open-mindedness with the fear of the unknown?

Temperance advocates compromise. It encourages meeting someone in the middle and experimentation, which brings forth new and unfamiliar things. Pair this with The Hierophant, which advocates sticking to old traditions and what's old and familiar to you, with an emphasis on order and structure, and you get a walking, talking contradiction.

Doesn't that suit Baxter Ward and his duality? A love for all things black and white, formality paired with a cocksure and cavalier way of going against tradition - being improper but polite.

Someone who's trying to freely express himself, who rebels against a hateful and dogmatic upbringing, but still finds himself bound by the chains of his upbringing. The way his parents have raised him continue to sabotage his life, and particularly his relationships, despite his desire to get to know and understand others.

The Baxter Ward we know and love.

Part 2: The Fifth Cards of the Minor Arcana

Five, ah, five. Five years after the first meeting at a Soiree. Five years after that summer in 2016, which changed him. Born on the fifth month of the year. And even one of his birth cards is the fifth card of the Major Arcana.

Let's get into it:

5 of Wands

The card of conflict and disruption, misunderstandings and confusion. It could mean either an internal struggle (vs oneself) or an external struggle (vs others).

internal conflict - He is his own greatest enemy, always in conflict about what his heart wants and what he thinks he deserves. He believes that MC's life is better off without him and simply can't comprehend the idea of someone wanting to stay with him and be a part of his life for who he is, and not what he provides. external conflict - Misunderstanding his own place in other people's lives, his friendship/relationship with the MC as the biggest example. It could also point to how he never quite gets along with people and his lack of friends despite his attempts to be congenial and flexible with everyone.

5 of Cups

The card of loss and grief, it's a simple read: someone who mourns what's lost and loses sight of what remains with him. Note how the figure never notices the two remaining cups behind them. For Baxter, he has always trained himself to mourn the loss of someone or something that hasn't yet left him. He thinks in terms of what he can lose instead of in terms of what he can keep and hold on to.

5 of Swords

The card of shortsightedness and intentional miscommunication. It calls out the selfishness of one who makes a decision for someone else without consulting them, taking their agency out of their own hands, or employs cruel tactics to communicate. What he did at the end of Step 3 was both cruel and shortsighted, taking away the MC's ability to decide for themselves by assuming their relationship will have a forgone conclusion he drew on his own.

5 of Pentacles

The card of uncertainty, insecurity, and struggling. This is also an interesting card since the Pentacles suit governs things material and financial. But it can also be connected to the home, career, and family. Narratively, it fits Baxter's character arc - he threw away the safety net of his parents' wealth plus all those connections they can give him. He wanted to be free and become a better person and gave up what he was born and accustomed to. This is how he finds his true companions, completing that part of his story.

Other Notes

So that's a wrap! I had this lying around in the drafts for a while after sharing a more disorganized ramble on Discord to my fellow Baxter-loving friends. @im-pure, this took a while but here it is LMAO. Thanks to everyone on the server for providing such an encouraging place to discuss this character <3

Disclaimer: This is just for fun and not to enforce or dictate a specific interpretation of this character on you, the reader's, personal headcanons, and conclusions. I'm not some sanctimonious prat who believes other fans' interpretations to be inferior to mine. That said, I hope this was interesting!

[dofidid]

Our Life doodle dump

Let's give Baxter more love, thank you

[ravenousgoblin]

Baxter Ward my beloved

But also Derek Suarez my beloved

[shojoujuice]

F/O list + Tags

Queerplatonic ~~~~Fire Emblem~~~~ Ferdinand Von Aegir - >Ferdinand my beloved< Lorenz - >Rose Husband< Seteth - >Green Husband< Linhardt - >Soft green mage< Henry - >Chaotic bf< Inigo - >Inigo my beloved< Owain - >Chaos mage< Yuri - >Mr Yuri fire emblem< Hubert - >Beloved ratboy Claude - >Claude my beloved< ~~~~Monster Prom/Monster Camp~~~~ Damien LaVey - >Spicy Red Boyfriend< Oz - >Void Bf< Sawyer - >Demon creature crush< Milo - >Beloved Reaper< ~~~~Bungou Stray Dogs~~ Ranpo Edogawa - >Cutest bf< Edgar Allan Poe - >Poe my beloved< Chuuya Nakahara - >Tsundere bf< Dazai - >Weird bf< Akutagawa - >Aku my beloved< ~~~~Other~~~~ (Touhou) Rinnosuke Morichika - >Beloved Half-Yokai< (Royal Alchemist) Aurelius - >Blue Rose< (Royal Alchemist) Mc - >White Rose< (Lobotomy Corporation) Hokma - >Robot husband< (Fo4) Maccready - > (OC) Kirkland Genesis - >Absurd Inventor< (OC) Alstroemeria Hyacinth - >Crystal Raven< (OC) Hisao Hibiki - >One Man Echo< (OC) Kohaku Izumi - >Beloved Kitsune< (OC) Kale Oges - >Absurdist Conman< (OC) Slug - >Beyond Space< (OC) Clau - >Beyond The Wasteland< (Rhythm Doctor) Ian - >Just Some Guy< (Fallout) Arcade Gannon - >Followers guy< (Our life) Baxter Ward - >beast leaf< (Mob psycho 100) Reigen Arataka >babygirl<

Platonic: (Lobotomy Corporation) Melting Love - >Slime friend< (Touhou) Yuyuko - >Yuyuko my platonic beloved< (Touhou) Reimu - >Lovely Shrine Maiden< (Touhou) Marisa - >Rainy Magician< (Monster camp) Aaravi - >Feral Friend< (Monster prom) Zoe - >Eldritch Bestie< (FE) Edelgard - >Edie my friend< (FE) Lysithea - >Mage bestie< (FE) Hilda - >Heck yeah hilda< (FE) Maribelle - >Heck yeah Maribelle< (FE) Constance - >Constantly Friends< (FE) Hapi - >Heck yeah Hapi< (FE) Caspar - >Caspar my boy< (Bungou Stray Dogs) Atsushi Nakajima - >Tiger Friend< (Bungou Stray Dogs) Akiko Yosano - >Doctor Friend< (Clannad/Clannad After Story) Kyou Fujibayashi - >Platonic Wife< Familial: (Bungou Stray Dogs) Koyo - >Koyo my aunt< (Touhou) Chen - >Little Nekomata< (Touhou) Ran - >Kitsune family< (Touhou) Sakuya - >Time stopping family< (Touhou) Remilia - >Vampire sister< (Touhou) Flandre - >Powerful vampire sister< (Touhou) Byakuren - >Peaceful Fam< (Touhou) Miko - >Prince Mum< (FE) Dorothea - >Rose sister< (FE) Cordelia - >Pegasus mum< (FE) Gregor - >Best dad< (FE) Gregor!Severa - >Tsundere sis<

[dreamtydraw]

doodle request of baxter ward or quest if you can ! <3

Just drew baxter so lemme offer you my beloved quest <3