#but vash’s outfit is way more complicated

[droppingartintotheinfinite]

the worst part of getting into new fandoms is having to figure out how to translate the art style into something i can actually draw

can’t believe i got into a 90s anime when i can’t even draw characters from modern anime…. the gods are testing me

[hecatombi]

001. MISC. PHYSICAL HEADCANONS

(( here is a bunch of miscellaneous physical headcanons i have about the guys, going from the ones with the least changes to the most! Vash and Chai .. are going to have a lot more due to the nature of my insane fixation on them. ))

👇THIS IS A LONG ASS POST! YOU'VE BEEN WARNED.👇

ASH WILLIAMS

Ash has five different prosthetic hands, and several chainsaw stumps to attach to his hand.

He prefers to keep his hair as swoopy and voluminous as he had it in army of darkness ( even old ash. sorry ihate his slick combed back look )

GARY GOODSPEED

Gary naturally has heterochromia and blue + brown eyes, but after his possession by invictus, they are a striking bright pink. and it's permanent! Here's a ref i drew of him with them.

Post invictus, he grows his hair out and wears a far more complicated outfit. Like the concept art for the FS graphic novel.

JOSEPH JOESTAR

On top of having a prosthetic right arm, Joseph ALSO has a prosthetic left leg. This is because of the fact that LAVA HIT HIS KNEE CAP IN THAT FINAL BATTLE WITH KARS THERE IS NO WAY THAT DIDN'T DESTROY IT BEYOND REPAIR!!!!! So, double amputee.

When he is upset or mad, Joseph's hand clicks and wriggles around every joint independantly, and it is typically the only tell that he's angry or upset in any way if he's trying to hide the fact.

Joseph's arm was made by the SPW. not. who they're from in canon. <:) On top of that, it has several different functions, and a different appearance from canon. There are 5 star shaped buttons on it with varying uses. I.. still need to decide them, though.

He is NEVER ever seen without the remaining burnt headband of Caesar's. Ever. A common stim he has is twirling the ends of it.

CHAI

Now, i have a big ol' about page coming for Chai soon, but let's start here.

To get things out of the way; Chai has HORRIFICALLY poor vision. He refuses to get glasses though, because he is certain it makes him look like a nerd. He really, REALLY NEEDS THEM though. He's more farsighted.

Chai always had arrhythmia and other heart defects before his surgery at Vandelay. On top of that, he did not have mobility in his left arm at all, which is why he went in for the arm surgery. They told him they'd help with his heart too, but ...

.. the MP3 player + core replaced his heart entirely. And also gave him top surgery for free, even though he'd been too poor to afford it, as his breasts got in the way of the core. However, his top scars are more than just that; there are thick scars, branding him with the vandelay logo down his entire torso, becauuuuse...

His insides and organs had to be reworked to physically accept such a drastic change to his body. I'm talking moved around, and more than just his heart and arm replaced with robotics.

He straight up is an eldritch, terrifying mess of organs and wires in there. He doesn't know how much of him is robotic and how much is organic anymore. I draw this from the factt hat when electrocuted, Chai's skeleton shows up -- but his skeleton also includes the magnetic waste management tool in his arm, as well as the fact that the things he survives physically NOBODY ELSE CAN. AT ALL. like jesus christ he is somehow so resilient to things literally nobody else in game is under the same circumstances. Also, his body and brain can be hacked directly from his arm. You can't do that with organics, only tech.

So... that's why I think he's more robot than person now. Or cybernetic, if you want to get technical. W/e

His life span has been extended by an unknown amount, and he will age significantly slower if at all due to this change in his body. Oh, and the outer shell of the arm is made of a compound that is not metal. Dont know what it is, but it's still just as strong and durable.

It is possible for Chai to sync with other robotic beings in the same way he synced with 808( his cat ); you have a 50/50 chance of hearing the music that always plays in his head forever, like 808 now does, OR hearing the world moving to a musical beat for the rest of your life. Until he dies, anyways -- if / when he does.

His music core is shown to thump and beat like a heart, and if it pounds hard enough, it's enough to jerk his chest and cause him to get a little dazed-- it's definitely uncomfortable when it thumps so hard. I think he watches it cause he's nervous if his heart is fucking up or something, given that was a BIG health anxiety his entire life. Only 808 managed to snap him out of it, as you can see here.

Speaking of that, post surgery? He LITERALLY can not process anything beyond music and beat he can not hear. For the rest of his life, he will always move to a beat nobody can hear; the environment makes music around him; you can see in this example here how everything in the environment and even his own movements fall largely to the beat of the song. See the video below for an example of this.

He will never be able to hear or see the world regularly again. Not that Chai minds; he LOVES music. Adores it, even. He'd be happy to live with this the rest of his life. Which is good, cause he really has to.

He picked up cat tendencies from 808 when they synchronized, just as 808 picked up chai mannerisms ( like the way he fights & love of rock and roll ). They often mirror each other because Chai is influencing 808's expression more than you'd think! They pretty much share a single braincell now.

And, to close it all off; the surgery also gave him insane durability, as already discussed.. but it ALSO gave him nuts dashing techniques, and an ability to jump to a ridiculous degree. He's a very sturdy man now!

VASH SAVEREM

Vash only LOOKS human, but as we know, he certainly ISNT. He's a Plant; an independant variety, which is exceedingly rare. Plants are strange fusions of literal plants, angels, and mechanical blueprints that all meld together to make a more techno-organic being.

Because he only LOOKS human, I have PLENTY of hc's about his body and form and how they actually differentiate from your typical human.

First and foremost; he's trans. ALL plants are born female, no exceptions, as said by canon; which makes vash canonically trans. Pretty cool, right? but, in canon, where he doesn't have this -- he has plant private parts ( flower based ) and one of his breasts left. He has no desire to bind or for top surgery, as his chest is small anyways -- but he lost one of them a long time ago. More about the state of his body later, but this is important to still note.

Now, his teeth. He has fangs that he has filed down to look smaller, but they are still pretty sharp. His teeth are NOT defined like a humans; it's like .. kind of a solid plate of metal for bone? Teeth? With only vague outlines of where they should separate.

His eyes are an unnatural piercing blue, which we already know; however, the reason he wears those big orange glasses may surprise you! They're actually marksman glasses, which are known to be orange; however, they also serve as a neutralizer to his eyes. If you look at his glasses head on, through them, his eyes look like a neutral blue-gray. However, if you take off his glasses, they're still a BRIGHTLY inhuman blue.

And yes, they glow in the dark.

In BLUE and UV LIGHT specifically, his plant marks will show no matter what. Though, in blue light, they're much fainter / mostly in the eyes ( and they make them glow as you see in the example below ), while in UV all light patterns are exposed. When he heals plants, these also become pretty visible -- but if he has too use TOO much of his angelic power, one of two things could happen.

He goes comatose and unresponsive for a short while; blank stare, unable to react or process anything around them. Sometimes he can snap out of it, sometimes he can't. It really depends.

His hair will brown or blacken. If you know what this means, have a gold star! If you don't, this means he is ACTIVELY shortening his life span and using too much of his power at once. When a plant's hair browns or blackens, it means they no longer have limitless energy.

Side note; since we see that since birth, Vash has had BROWN EYEBROWS ( whereas all plants are born with blonde hair and blonde eyebrows, and blue eyes, NO MATTER WHAT ); i have a headcanon that because Nai is based on a toxic albino plant that was never meant to live in the reboot, he subconciously saved Nai at birth. He was always the stronger twin in terms of health, where Nai was sicker.

Also .. despite his glasses being pretty normal marksman glasses, he can do this thing where he reflects everything in the environment BUT his eyes subconciously; it's a big tell that he's trying to stay distant and not let people read his next expressions. He often does this to distance himself or when he's being vague. It happens a bunch in moments specifically where he does that in show, so im adopting that as a little weird plant quirk he can do. Call it manipulation of light and reflection, I suppose, since he IS a plant...

He's way taller than he looks. He will keep continuously growing for the rest of his life til a certain point, to which his true height would be around 9 ft to 10 ft tall at the least when in humanoid form. However, as of right now, he is 7'5 in his natural body. Here's the fun part though; he actually SHIFTS HIS BONES and condenses his weight and appearance to look more humanlike, but that still leaves him at a hefty 6'5. Even despite this effort to appear smaller and more unassuming, due to the poor nutrition on Gunsmoke, nearly every human is much, much smaller than him. Unless they've been genetically and unethically modified, of course. Then they can get fucking giant . But, nobody matches his height on an average basis there.

when he's in his full 7'5 ( and growing!! ) form, his limbs are gangly, and too long. His eyes look Bigger, and his skin a little bluer; his fingertips get elongated with a black gradient like all his plant sisters. Example here.

His angel arm is something he does not bring out due to a great deal of trauma with that and knives; he does not have access to a full plant angel form. What he DOES have access to is a gigantic angel arm, and three pairs of wings; parts of his body transform into an eldritch mechanical angel kind of being, but not all of his body can. This is because of his twin, Nai / Knives having the other half. Had Nai never existed, Vash would have full access to his plant angel form. He is one of the most powerful plants of his kind with said angel arm, but ... he'd sooner kill himself than ever use it. There'sa a whole rant i have about how he feels having been forced to have it out, but .. that's for later.

Now, for this paragraph, heads up for y'all for mentions of starvation and body dysmorphia, over all bad condition of a body. The next red text you'll see is where discussion of this stops. as is pretty heavily established, Vash has a great deal of body dysmoprhia. He is absolutely letting his body fall apart at the seams, and frequently punishes himself for "failing" to protect people by starving himself, despite needing it to survive / have energy and heavily enjoying food. That is why he's so damn scrawny! Which is unfortunate, but he has so so many complexes ( shout i make a separate infodump about this too? ) tht this is just par for the course. Now, he could heal the scars and shit on his body faster if he wanted to, but he's pretty self conscious about it. He will let any humans hurt him if he deems it justified, and unforch, he usually does. He lets them beat him senseless, cut him up, shoot him -- nothing he couldn't survive, anything goes. his body is straight up canonically barely held together by thick staples and grates of metal over exposed muscle.

This is part of why he never takes off his coat, ever. Or those long sleeved shirts of his. I mean, he might to shower or clean up wounds, but...... very rarely does he do this. He just takes whatever beating humans give him cause he feels he deserves it, and deals with it.

Warning over!

With all the heavy stuff said, here's a few final short hcs.

He photosynthesizes some, and really enjoys basking in the sun.

He's a very light sleeper and rarely ever gets decent sleep. He's pretty much always exhausted, but never lets it show.

CAN'T EVER LISTEN TO CLASSICAL MUSIC. it puts him into SERIOUS triggered mode and gets him too panicked to think straight, even after Nai / Knives died.

His hair looks like normal hair, but it absolutely DOES NOT feel like it. It feels like really soft velvety flower petals, and will always keep this consistency.

He's got inhumanly amazing marksmanship, yet somehow, being drunk ( should he ever GET drunk ) improves it more. Yes, I stole this bit from 98 vash but i think it's funny and it's my interpretation so this is what i keep. ok? :)

And lastly ...

He stims by reloading and loading guns :3

Anyways, hope you guys enjoyed! Should I make a part 2 sometime? :p

[songofthealps]

@aphrarepairweek2021​

Day Six: Traditional Outfit 

Paring: SwissNor (Nyo!Switzerland and Norway) (Lara and Lukas)

It’s a wedding~ So there are more characters mentioned: Berwald (Sweden) Egill (Iceland) Mathias (Denmark) Vash (Switzerland) Lichtenstein (Lili) Nyo!Norway (Maja)  

Word count: 1346

Picture to reference the bunad that they are wearing

“You’re sure about this, Lara?” Vash had come into the room, and was sitting on one of the lavish velvet chairs, watching Lara as she had some light makeup done. His sister wasn’t one for anything too much, and even now, with getting married, she wasn’t doing more than mascara, light shadow, so light Vash had to squint to see, minimal eye liner, and her lips.

“ ‘m sure.” It was hard to talk when you had people lightly painting your face. Vash made a small clicking noise in the back of his throat.

“Could have done this in Switzerland, Lara.” Vash finally mumbled after a few beats of silence, and Lara had stood, finished with her makeup, and outfit complete as she made her way to her twin, taking his hands.

“I could, yes. You’re not wrong. But would you really have wanted that? Lukas and I can do something small and private back in Switzerland, or some kind of a renewal.” She squeezed his hands. “But it means a lot to me, and to Lukas, that we do it here.” She leaned in, pressing her lips to his cheek. “I love you, are you ready?”

Stepping out of the room, she made her way to Lukas, who was also in a bunad. Lara’s needing to be custom made since she wasn’t Norwegian, but she and Lukas preferring they wore what was traditional for his people. While she’d been nervous when she first moved to step out of the room, it all faded when she saw Lukas standing there. She made her way to him, which was hard to see with vision blurry from tears, until she was next to him.

“You look amazing,” He whispered softly, leaning in a bit so he was sure that she was able to hear him.

“Nowhere near as amazing as you.” She exhaled a bit forcibly, trying to calm down the tears that were threatening to spill onto her cheeks. “Our bosses seem to be alright with this.”

“Were you going to let them stop us?”

She shook her head no, chuckling. “Nein, but Vash might pop a blood vessel because I insisted upon it being in Norway.”

“…Please tell me you’re not going to ask him for permission.”

That made Lukas laugh hard enough that he had to cover his mouth. “I’m not, no. Pretty sure you’d have killed me if that was the case. We can leave some traditions in the past, but I guess he might have liked the beer..”

“Yes, well, I feel like we’re back in the times with this,” She twirled in the bunad a bit, the little bangles on the crown on her head tinkling.

“Lara,” He gave her hand a squeeze, “are you ready?”

It took her a moment, but she did nod her head.

With the raise and then drop of his hand, someone sounded the lur, and he kept his hand in hers as they started to walk down the path.

Behind them were their bosses, and then their siblings. While there were a few nations who also could have followed, they let the representations of Lichtenstein, their direct siblings, and the representations of Iceland be direct followers.

Deciding on their dog carrying the rings, and another one of their dogs holding a basket of flowers in her mouth, which she promptly dropped on the floor before chasing after Lara and Lukas.

“We should have trained Astrid better,” She chuckled as the small dog trotted along next to them, until they made their way to the fjord. While the wedding would traditionally be in a church, Lukas had wanted to be outdoors, allowing for the many magical beings of Norway to be present.

Vows were always complicated for nations, but Lukas was the one who was going to go first.

“Lara, we’ve existed for many lifetimes, seen many people come and go. I know that I don’t want to go another lifetime without you by my side. Through the complicated, the intense, and feelings of being alone, you’ve been by my side. Fate might have brought us together, but what we’ve built is our own. I promise to never leave you, always fight beside and never against, (thank the Gods for Swiss neutrality), and support you. As a best friend, as a partner, as your husband.”

Lara held out her hand, trembling a bit, allowing him to slip a ring onto her finger.

“Lukas, it’s very easy to feel alone when life moves so much faster for humans. But, you’ve come into my life and chosen not to leave. We’ve protected the same ideals as nations, but also as ourselves. You make every day an adventure, you never fail to bring a smile to my face. You don’t back down from a challenge, bridge the myths with reality, and care more deeply for me than anyone else ever has. I know that I’d never abandon you, and that with you and I together nothing can come between us. As your best friend, as your partner, as your wife, I am yours, both in mind, and in body.”

And Lukas the same, she didn’t anticipate he’d have a slight tremor, but it was there even as she slipped the ring onto his finger.

She didn’t hear anything else, not the “you may kiss,” or the cheering of their friends and family, she was too focused on the feel of his arms around her waist, pulling her in as he pressed his lips to hers firmly. One of Lara’s arms wrapped around his neck, the other moving up so her hand could secure the crown as he dipped them.

“You know,” she whispered when they’d parted, her hand on his cheek, “I’ve decided I am going to take your last name.”

He almost dropped her at that. “You did? But.. Really? Are you sure?” Lukas’s expression was a happy one, but it was still one of shock. They’d been on the fence about it, but Lara seemed pretty determined.

“Oh yes, I’d rather it be that way, besides, Vash is still Zwingli, and this is more fun, more human.”

It was a blur getting back to the reception, Egill was in a corner, clinging to a glass of some kind of alcohol while he stared in horror at Mathias who was dancing circles around Berwald. Vash was dancing with Lili, which was a bit shocking, due to his general lack of desire to do such things.

“Care to dance?”

“So long as we’re not going to get wacked by any of our more lively loved ones, why not?”

Arms around her easily, Lukas leaned his forehead down to hers. “Well, it’s official, they’re going to have us jumping around on chairs in a bit, answering questions. And you know whoever is the most drunk is going to ask the worst ones.” He shook his head, glancing over to see Mathias swinging Maja who looked like she was going to be sick. “….Right. Yeah, I expect poor questions.” Egill wasn’t doing much better, onto his third glass of what Lukas could now see was wine.

“We can field questions, it’ll be fine.” Lara kissed the tip of his nose. “Truly, Vash might grill us, but oh hey! I hear that the bride gets to pass out cheese and honey, do I get to do that?” Being Swiss, there was no way she was going to let go of this cheese concept.

“Yes, that’s the bride’s cheese. It has honey and nuts, signifies the sweetness of the night only being the beginning.” Lukas should have known, Lara and her cheese loving self was going to want to make sure they did that one. And, of course, he wasn’t going to say no. He liked cheese just as much as the next person.

“Might as well mingle, the sooner we get done with that, the sooner we get to go to our room, no?” He spoke with a wink, leaning in to whisper a few things that were just for her to hear.