#borderlands oc Sl33py

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so im. . .doing a thing :3c

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heard we were drawing fuckinnnnnn hormses

silly sl33py and jack as horses, for you <3

og sketch and isolated background under cut

drawing the background was SO fun someone commission me i forgot i loved art lol

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finally finished that WIP i posted lol

look at these LOSERS i hate them (i never stop thinking about them)

this took SO LONG but i am very proud of it so it's worth it :3

a gold star to whoever figures out which one is jack and which one is timothy

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hehehe borderlands oc title card :3c

everyone say hi to sl33py, he's a dick and you should hate him <3

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"Maybe it's chance. Maybe it's fate. Something like destiny or as insignificant as choice. Either way, he always ends up on that mountain. He always ends up meeting him."

ignore the fact that i finished this fic a year ago im making the covers for the chapters now lol- 1 down 24 more to go ;^;

i still think about this fic every single day <3333 my little guys my babies <33

Read the first chapter here!

The Elpis Job

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"A call comes through."

Read The Elpis Job here!

me and my hatred of shading fist fighting the entire time i was working on this but it's fine because i like how stylized it looks so shhh let me have this

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Jack stalking Sl33py is something I undersell in my AU. He stalked that man.

He watched him through Angel's eyes. Sl33py was Angel's favorite Vault hunter of course her dad needed to make sure he was a good influence! (he was not) but then he fell in love with the weirdo.

Then he watched him outside of work hours, sat up late and stargazed with him through Angel's eyes, followed him to Moxxi's through hacked cameras and tracked who he was friends with. What he did in his day to day and what he was like with the other hunters.

He talked to him pretending to be Angel, he fed him jobs that didn't exist just because he knew he was bored, he watched him scale that mountain and became distraught when their connection was cut afterward. When contacting Sl33py got harder after he got hurt, after he was rushed to the hospital and both Jack and Angel had no idea if he'd live. How much he thought about him throughout the day, how he'd ask Angel how he was doing, if he'd gotten out yet, if he was alright. And each time her answers got shorter, more unsure, sadder.

Then there was a Vault on Elpis, and Sl33py needed work, and Angel is persistent when she wants to be. So, against his better judgement, Jack hired him. And he accepted.

And they meet face to face a week later and Jack has to be so normal about it and pretend that he hasn't memorized the color of his eyes, or the way he speaks, or his favorite music and what it sounds like to make him laugh. He hides his glances and his excitement as best he can but he knows it isn't enough, because Sl33py is smart, and he loves that he is but hates it all the same. Because it will be his downfall. Because at some point, he'll realize Jack knows more than he should.

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I love thinking about Sl33py's relationships with the canon characters. Because he's there for all the games, he was one of the original Vault hunters in BL1, then got hired by Jack in TPS, then after that he's the one who we view the story through in BL2.

He's met a lot of people, and thinking of the what these people mean to him is one of my favorite things when it comes to writing my AU.

Like, sure, him being a self-insert adds to the whole 'he's friends with everyone :3' mindset, because I love these characters, but thinking of the pain they go through is also really fun.

How Moxxi's betrayal in TPS leads to tainting the family relationship they'd grown in BL1, how seeing Scooter and Ellie afterward hurts because they're family, those are his siblings as far as he's concerned, and yet. Moxxi hates him. Moxxi has tried to kill him. But he still wants to call her mom. He wishes he still could.

How his friendship with Brick is strained because of Bloodwing's death, how Mordecai will never look at him the same even after getting so close in BL1. How these three have saved each other's lives and now struggle to stay in the same room with one another.

How M4x becomes Tina's surrogate dad but she hates Sl33py, how when she sees him, all she sees is Roland's killer and all he can see is a niece he'll never get to meet.

How Hammerlock is one of his closest friends. How Sl33py and Aurelia keep in touch after TPS. How Sl33py still visits Springs, even if Athena never wants to see him again. How he's desperate to keep all these people around and yet he fails, time and time again.

Zed and Marcus bringing him in but unable to ignore the blood on his hands. Tannis wanting to trust him but knowing he's lied before, that he can again.

Angel- god, Angel- wanting to believe that he's a good person. That he could change her dad, that he could fix things, could save her. And then he can't, then he doesn't, and he finds out about her too late to do anything.

His friendship with Nisha and Wilhelm, two people who actually understand him, where he's from, what he's been through. Two people that don't look at him like the Fyrestone residents do, that call him a friend before anything else, how much the team has been through together and yet, they aren't the first. There was a team before them, and he's terrified of there being one after them.

Sl33py goes through so much in my AU, both good and bad, his open acceptance in the first game becoming his inevitable suffering in each installment afterward. My desire to be friends with all the characters very quickly becoming his curse; he can't make them all happy. Not with the way his story goes. Not with the story I have written for him.

Do not even get me started on his relationship with Jack-

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W.I.P post to prove that i am working on more borderlands art :3c

i wonder what it could beeee (its self ship art. its always self ship art)

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do people still do these lol???

uhhh sl33py and jack get to know my ship thing i guess

also drawing them in this doodle style is SO fun

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i think this is the best thing i've ever made honestly

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making a separate post cuz why not-

The first chapter of my Borderlands fic has been posted!

It is an oc x canon, my sona x Handsome Jack, story that follows the basic plot of: what if Sl33py was one of the Vault Hunters Jack hired in the Pre-sequel?

It isnt an x reader it is x oc and i know that's not everyone's thing but i poured my heart into it so fuck it im posting it.

Summary: This is the story of how the universe became theirs.

warnings for graphic violence, mild sexual content, mental health struggles, and canon-typical alien prophecy induced psychosis.

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i cannot believe The Elpis Job is done i feel crazy right now

this ^^^^ is an insane way to feel about handsome jack

context: this is a oc x canon fic i've been writing for the last few months between my borderlands sona/self insert sl33py and handsome jack which is in the form of an entire rewrite of Borderlands: The Pre-sequel, a retelling of if my sona was one of the vault hunters and how things would have gone just slightly differently.

this is before it's edited/formatted so the page length and words will fluctuate but!! as of this moment at 3 minutes to 1am it is done and i feel absolutely insane

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I have posted the last chapter of The Elpis Job! The story is, officially, finished.

jesus christ there goes a year of my life

Did I post about when I updated it each chapter? No

Did I post updates about the progress or advertise it or draw anything for it? No

Am i still going to be talking about it now and doing all of that stuff now because i suck at this? absolutely

so hey, if you wanna read some guy's random ass oc x canon fic, here it is!

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence

Relationship: Sl33py (Borderlands oc) / Handsome Jack

Tags: Semi-canon compliant, Graphic descriptions of injuries, quick-burn romance, implied and referenced stalking, canon compliant character death, canon-typical violence, angst and hurt/comfort, dealing with trauma, implied/referenced drug use, fluff, flirting, getting together, mental health issues, angst with a happy ending, mild sexual content, vaguely unhealthy relationships, descriptions of body horror, medical torture, Sl33py has PTSD, dead dove: do not eat - gore, not beta'd

Chapters: 25 - completed

Words: 126k

Summary: The story of how the universe became theirs.

Link to first chapter under cut <3

seriously if you read this you own my entire heart and i owe you my life i love you

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tagged by @the-cpu-system :3

Last song: KennyHoopla - how will i rest in peace if i'm buried by a highway?// (EVERYONE LISTEN TO IT !! IT'S SO GOOD)

Currently watching: Dungeon Meshi + Inside Job - am watching both with my best friend :3

Currently consuming: fruit punch rockstar :thumbs up:

Three ships: - the ones that have consumed my thoughts lately are all borderlands lol

My sona/oc Sl33py x Handsome Jack (hehe insane gay men)

Nisha x Wilhelm (OBSESSED with these two lately)

Angel x Gaige (loser teenagers /affectionate)

Favorite color: neon green!! like acid level hard to look at poison neon green

First ship: i THINK it was masky x hoodie?? creepypasta was my first fandom so i'm pretty sure that was it?? deep down they are still in there

Relationship status: just finished writing an 120k word fic between me and handsome jack from hit game borderlands 2 so yeah pretty much happily engaged

Last movie: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) - my best friend had never seen it and i grew up watching it so we watched it together!! everyone also go watch that movie it's amazing

Currently working on: editing The Elpis Job to be posted, also a small oneshot between Sl33py and Jack that i am actively putting off to do this lol and i have TONS of other BL stuff planned + a possible resurgence of my interest in watch dogs

Tagging: @gh0ulsh4rk - said best friend i keep mentioning <33

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reblogging this since i edited sl33py's funko with his new outfit design and new tattoos :3

so im. . .doing a thing :3c