#courier roz

[ladyoriza]

every oc group has + love quiz

tagged by @adelaidedrubman for the uquiz, untagged for the oc meme and i don't even remember who i got it from. it's been A Past Two Weeks.

(L-R unapplicable, Rosalyn Ashford (Skyrim), Samantha Toren (SCP, Outer Worlds), Roz Ashford (Fallout New Vegas). Isadora-Marie Toren DeSoto (Outer Worlds), Josephine Mendoza Ashford (Saints Row, Far Cry), Fauna Lamb-Seed (Far Cry), Hannah Lamb, PhD (Far Cry), Suze Ashford (Saints Row, Far Cry), Zoe Ashford (Oblivion), Sparrow Black (Fable 3), David Grahan (Fallout New Vegas)

Quizzes under the cut

Love as a Choice You choose to love. Love does not come to you easily, but every day you wake up and choose it. It would be so easy, wouldn't it, to grow cold and callous and grim. But you rise to greet the world, making the conscious effort to find something, anything to love. When you fall for someone, you do not kid yourself of their flaws. Instead, you resolve to see them for who they are, mistakes and all and you love them all the same. Your love is work, and it does not come easy. Your love sweats and toils. It is calloused and sunburned; it bears scars and comes with stories. Your love is worn, but it is no less valuable for it. Being loved by you is like being loved by a gardener, a mother, a teacher. Your love may not always be the simplest, but it is worth the effort.

Love as a Threshold Your love does not ask for much. Your love does not take. Your love is free, and unquestioned, and here for wherever needs it. When you fall in love, it is as gentle as a breath in the night. It is quiet, and it is effortless. It is tender. If your love was a house, it would readily welcome all who come through. If your love was a hearth, it would warm the hands of whoever stopped by, whether for a day, a month, a year, or forever. When you fall for someone, it is without strings, without conditions, without need. You love for the sake of loving, for the sake of caring for those who need it. You love with a giver’s heart and a giver’s hands and are made so much stronger for it. Being loved by you is to always feel at home. Your love may not always be well-received by those unprepared to linger, but it is unforgettable all the same.

Love as a Flaw Cowering, your love hides in the dark. In shadows and under cover of night, your love runs from corner to corner, afraid to linger, afraid to be caught. Afraid, afraid, afraid of everything. When you fall in love, it is with alarm bells ringing. Your love is a mistake, a flaw in the code, a purchase you don’t remember making and desperately want to return. You didn’t ask for this. You didn’t want this. It’s a problem–– your problem ––and you would do anything to pass it off, burn it away, scoop it out of you with bare hands, or carved out with hooked knives before it can destroy you. Get it out, just get it out now. You don’t care who you hurt in the process, only that you can’t afford to be hurt first. Being loved by you is to be loved by a figment of the imagination. It is to be loved in halves, or not at all.

Love as Religion Devotion, that is the name of your love. Your love is an act of worship. Your love is like witnessing the birth of Venus, like seeing the sun come alive, or the stars fall. When you love, it is because you have found God in a lover. You have found the meaning of life itself in the heart of the one you adore. They are everything to you; they are your Maker, and you are their lamb, their flock, their first and holiest worshipper. When you fall in love, it is as a baptism. You are born anew, made a believer in the divinity of the one you love most. Being loved by you is an ascension; it is holy and golden. It is all-consuming, and all-faithful, loyal as the dog. You will never, ever bite back.

[bolest-kosti]

I wanted to make a ref sheet for Roz when they're not out in the Mojave getting their ass handed to them.

[mad-bird-writes]

Echo's OC Collection

I've played enough video games and TTRPGs to have amassed a small collection of OCs that I'm both fond of and happen to have enough lore on to warrant writing about them. Here are a few of my favourites (this list is subject to change/addition, and will be included below the cut because it got HELLA long)

(also! tagging @dominaarts and @transman-badass because it's been a hot minute since I did, if anyone else would like to be added to this tag list and be alerted to new WIPs and other interesting tidbits, let me know! <3

Name: Clara J. Manning Universe: Cthulhu Mythos, Call of Cthulhu: Masks of Nyarlathotep (actual play podcast here) (1920s, Cthulhu Mythos, occult horror etc.) Age: mid-twenties Appearance: short stature, average build, grey eyes, blonde and slightly curly hair cut into a bob, steel-rimmed spectacles Character: an antiquarian by trade, Clara has an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and adventure, and an innate curiosity that sometimes leads her to commit rash, impulsive acts. What she lacks in social grace and politesse she more than makes up for in earnestness and enthusiasm, and is fiercely loyal to her friends, colleagues and loved ones. Via a series of curious events in Innsmouth, she met Private Investigator Jack Malone (character property of Seth Skorkowsky, used with the permission given in his videos) and is pursuing a relationship with him.

(note: where this character is concerned, I will not be taking the end of the campaign I played with her as "canon" (because things got heartbreaking and complicated, poor lass...), instead simply using her in her pre-campaign state and the city of Arkham as a backdrop for potential fics)

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Name: Madeline "Mad" Roz (née Harroway)

Universe: homebrew Mythras campaign Centralia: The Rise of Lazarus (actual play podcast here) (mid-2010s, urban fantasy/horror, vampires)

Age: 35 (at death)

Appearance: short stature, very slim/borderline underweight build, long black hair with a side-cut, unnaturally green eyes, extreme pallor associated with vampirism

Character: formerly a doctor, Madeline was turned against her will and thrust into a long-running battle between good and evil, order and chaos, magick and reality. Initially very reserved, blunt, and cold thanks to a personal loss and unprocessed grief, over time she came to open up to her newly-found friends and state of being. Since her turning, she has been introduced to chaos magick, believing her newfound abilities to stem from a green-eyed serpent living inside her chest. Whether this is true or simply a hallucination taken at face value has never been confirmed, but like her vampirism, she has since made peace with this unconventional state of being. Nowadays, she lives with her partner-turned-husband, Edgar Roz, a former detective turned "knight" of the city formerly known as Centralia, Pennsylvania. She operates an obscure pirate radio station and acts as a guiding voice for anyone feeling as lost as she once did.

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Name: Six/Courier Six/The Courier

Universe: Fallout: New Vegas (post-apocalyptic, weird sci-fi/pulp, power struggle, faction war, the trials and tribulations of an anarchic society)

Age: unknown

Appearance: average height, slightly athletic build, short, unstyled auburn hair, hazel eyes, gunshot wound scar on right-hand side of forehead, surgical scars all over scalp

Karma: neutral-to-good, varying

Faction: Independent/Wild Card, honorary Follower of the Apocalypse

(anything I write about Six could take place at any point on this long, sprawling and downright convoluted timeline of events and beyond...)

Character: having essentially started her life from scratch upon waking up in Goodsprings with a healing brain injury and very few accessible memories, Six has learned to define herself based on how others react to her - common descriptors used are "unpredictable", "way, way too goddamn cheerful", or simply "fucking crazy" - this last after she marched into the Tops Casino with nothing but a knife concealed under a borrowed dress to confront the man who killed her... and walked back *out* the following morning, having left the man alive and unhurt.

Yeah, Boone was never able to wrap his head around that one.

Willing to lend a hand wherever she was needed, and kill those who needed killing, Six made many friends (and a good few enemies) on her madcap journey across the Mojave and beyond. She found the treasure at the heart of the fabled Sierra Madre, and left it to rot with the man who'd dragged her there in the first place (minus one gold bar, of course.) She survived having her organs stolen (and returned) by a maurauding group of mad scientists. She crossed the Divide.

And, after all that, she took Hoover Dam. Not for the NCR, not for Caesar, not even for Mr House (him, she'd murdered, in what rumour and gossip would call an impulsive grab for power, but she could only call a mercy stroke), but for Vegas itself.

The Queen of Hearts, they call her now.

[papenathys]

listing out the books along with the rep:

in the event of love by courtney kae (bi butch love interest, bi4bi f/f)–confirmed by author

a masc for purim by roz alexander (bi butch jewish mc, f/f)–confirmed by author and literally in the story title

your driver is waiting by priya guns (bi masc south asian mc, f/f)–canon bisexual mc written with a very masculine presentation, I saw this book on many butch rep lists before biphobes realised the mc is not a lesbian

the companion by e. e. ottoman (bi transfem masc love interest, t4t4t f/f/m)–it's been a while since I read this and it's one of the more implicit examples on this list, but the female love interest is rather tomboyish

providence girls by morgan dante (bi masc mc, f/f)–canon; historical horror romance with beautifully written masc bi mc, who is also an abuse survivor; the author's sensitive and nuanced depiction shows how the mc comes to learn to separate their masculinity and sexual agency from their past trauma

road to ruin by hana lee (bi masc asian mc, bi4bi m/f/f)–did not™ like this, but the mc is based on furiosa from mad max fury road and is a grizzly, gloomy, emo courier biker with an equally beaten up motorcycle

butter by asako yuzuki (bi masc japanese mc, m/f and HEAVILY implied f/f)–just hear me out. just read this. and hear me out.

Books with masculine bi women please (preferably them in sapphic relationship) but I am alright with others too!

ok so it's hard to say if these are genuinely intended as masc characters, & some i would be a little on the fence about labelling as such, but they're the most not-fem bi characters i can think of

abbott by saladin ahmed

the light brigade by kameron hurley

unconquerable sun by kate elliott

in the event of love by courtney kae (love interest)

blackheart knights by laure eve

the space between worlds by micaiah johnson

when she thaws by lily craig (?)

the unconquered city by ka doore

the black coast by mike brooks

fortune favors the dead by stephen spotswood

infamous by lex croucher

santa olivia by jacqueline carey

[heartbeetz]

I absolutely love hearing about other people's OCs, and I completely 110% agree with giving Cygnus a monster form!! -tenderlittleyehaw

@tenderlittleyehaw This is definitely an unfinished/messy drawing (I'll finish it eventually) but your ask convinced me. Monster Cygnus monster Cygnus monster Cygnus!!

They're a big swan dragon thing

[seasideluvr]

10-20 for any or all OCs :3c

mix n match mix n match :)

12. Have they ever had their heart broken?

ROSALIND: she took it pretty rough when sephiroth died :( if not heartbroken, very nearly

13. Have they ever nearly died?

ANTIETAM: so many times. when they got captured by the legion as texas red, anytime they were in the divide but especially when they ran into two deathclaws at once, etc etc

17. Do they have any pets? If not, what would they get?

MARIA: she considers rex her guard dog! she spoils him because he's the best boy :)

19. Do they like to stargaze?

ANTIETAM: definitely. makes boring nights when they can't fall asleep easier by finding constellations their father taught them

[microscotch]

“I arrived a bit late to this whole thing, but I honestly thought this bimbocast would be chill about it. Clearly I was wrong, literally the first thing this pile of wussies does is complain about the way I fly.”

- “YOU LUNATIC ALMOST HIT US WITH YOUR FUCKING UFO!!!!!”

- “And you’re still alive, get over it.”

“We’re waiting for this last chick to arrive, not knowing this girl was planning on committing murder by almost crashing HER LITERAL UFO into the house!”

“Like, who on earth let that psycho onto the show, she’s a threat to society!”

-”YOU HAVE TWO EYES CONNECTED TO YOUR BRAIN, RIGHT?? CAN’T YOU WATCH WHERE THE HELL YOU’RE FLYING??”

-”I see the whole “earthlings are useless wimps” stereotype is true as well.”

-”You’re insane!”

-”Bold words to direct at someone who almost killed you, now get out of my way, Leslie.”

“So we’re all situated at the table waiting for our boss and in comes this dumpster fire on two legs. I was like “Come on, that can’t be the person running this show!” 

-”Alright, I'll give it to you straight: I’m Toni and I’m your boss for the next few weeks. I want you to disgrace yourselves in front of these cameras and make me the wealthiest sim alive. You're gonna fill in my shitty bike courier job in the meantime and you BETTER do your job cause I'm gonna get in major trouble otherwise, so if I - uh - you get fired, you'll leave this rancid house. You'll also be off the show if you have a net negative relationship with all of your housemates. Got it?”

-”Roz, did you know that iguanas are cold-blooded animals, so their body temperature is reliant on the weather??”

-”Um, Toni, were you high when you cast some of these freakshows?”

-”Yes. Anyways, have fun making me rich!”

-”Oh yeah, so while we’re at that, how much are WE gonna get paid for this?”

-”April what are you talking about, nobody here is gonna get any money.”

-”WHAT??”

-”We’re gonna get paid in fame and exposure.”

“What person gets hired for a show WITHOUT getting paid? I’m just feeling so taken advantage of right now.”

-”Okay April it’s been two hours, people actually need to use this bathroom!”

-”THERE ARE THREE BATHROOMS IN THIS HOUSE, PICK A DIFFERENT ONE!!”

-”Hey Angie, I know we’re thinking the same thing, just letting you know that I didn’t get my nickname from nowhere, wink if you understand me. Angie??”

-”I DON’T DESERVE THIS KIND OF TREATMENT!!!! NOBODY WITH HAIR THAT LOOKS LIKE IT’S PERMANENTLY BLOWN BY THE WIND DOES!!!!”

“This bitch really thought she was gonna get paid to be on here, like, get a grip. Fortunately the whining stopped when the welcome wagon arrived ‘cause she became too busy going crazy over that one guy...”

-”Hey cutie, your cardigan is really hot! ❤” 

-“Oh thank you dear, do you know what’s also “hot”?? My fiancee’s ginger sister ❤.”

-”Getting my pride hurt twice today, alright, time to get drunk and blackout so hard I’ll forget this whole day ever happened!”

-”Aww, don’t be upset, April! Your ass is far too detox tea ad material for you to be this sad!”

-”SHOO ANGIE, TAKE YOUR FAKE ASS COMPLIMENTS AND FLIRT WITH NAMZIB IF YOU’RE BORED!”

-”I can’t be the only one thinking it’s completely sociopathic to cast someone nicknamed “The Slaughter” instead of arresting them, especially after nearly killing everyone upon arrival!”

-”You legit climbed into the hot tub to tell me that?”

“I got this weirdo’s signals and look, I’m not at all opposed to hatefucking, but I don’t go below sevens. I don’t care how turned on you get by near-death experiences, Roz.”

“Not to mention because that creep kept ranting to me, ABOUT me I didn’t have a minute left to change when the cab arrived to take us clubbing. Asshole.”

-”Hey Namzib, sorry we didn’t interrupt your makeout session with Roz sooner!”

-”Yeah, yeah, shut up, Tik Tok edition of Edward Cullen.”

-”EXCUSE ME, YOUNG LADY! DON’T YOU THINK YOUR ATTIRE IS -

-“NO!! THE LEGENDS FROM SECTOR 8 ARE TRUE. MRS. CRUMPLEBOTTOM AND HER MAGIC MURDER BAG ARE REAL!!”

-“...”

-”DON’T KILL ME!! UGH OF COURSE THIS HAPPENS WHEN I’M COMPLETELY UNARMED, STUPID BATHING SUIT....”

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One trip to the house and back to the club later..

-“Dude, will you get going? Other people want to use the vending machine too!”

-”Hello there, young folks, it’s a nice day today! :)”

-“Just come back later when you’ve made up your mind, for Watcher’s sake!”

“So while Roz was about to lose his mind I couldn’t help but notice how virtually everyone but him in this house really wants me.”

“The boys...”

“The girls...”

“But I was standing like right next to him and everything he cares about is throwing a fit because some old dude blocked the vending machine! It’s so messed up.”

-”COME ON! COME GET ME!”

-”I love the young people! :)”

-”I’LL KICK YOUR ASS, GOATEE!!!”

-”Roz calm the hell down!!”

“Roz is just being totally aggressive right now, he’s making everyone look terrible. I was just like, calm down. It’s not that big of a deal!”

-“Stawp it, this is literally our first day and you’re making all of us look horrible, we’re gonna get thrown out!”

-”Be real, after what I’ve seen earlier today that guy was clearly your type and now you’re pissed at me!”

-‘You’re being ridiculous!”

-“Look! Over there is another old guy you can pester, now leave me alone!”

-“Would you degenerate move it already?!”

[ladyoriza]

Roz- Two in the head, shallow grave. Met Maturin the Beam Guardian while she was out though so it was fine.

Suze- Literally too many to list. The Boat explosion is the most prominent.

Sparrow- Shot in the chest as a child and fell about 10 stories.

Rosalyn- IS killed by Hermaus Mora BUT becomes a god right after. Turned out she had to die for that to happen.

has your oc had any near-death experiences? 

[ladyoriza]

i need help

relevant Lore under the cut

ie the basis of Roz's faction, the Sisters of Oriza/the goddess she worships

In the most famous story that is told of Lady Oriza, she was a young noblewoman who inherited a Barony by the River Send after the murder of her father, Lord Grenfall, by an outlaw prince known as Gray Dick. After consolidating her power, she made it known to Dick that she had accepted the forgiving doctrine of the Man Jesus, and as a peace offering invited him to a great banquet at her castle Waydon. Naturally, Gray Dick initially found this suggestion to be laughable, and told her so. However, he was eventually swayed by her assurances that only Lady Oriza and Gray Dick would be in attendance, that Oriza's men would not be waiting to attack and that Dick's men were welcome to search the dining hall for weapons as a precaution. As a further precaution, Lady Oriza specified that during the banquet she would be naked in order to demonstrate her lack of any concealed weaponry, as also would be Gray Dick himself. This last appealed to Dick, as Lady Oriza was beautiful and athletic, and his confidence was running high after killing Lord Grenfall. He saw the chance for a strategic alliance, or even marriage, and his baser instincts simply relished the idea of watching her naked. So the event went ahead as planned. Oriza's men retired from Waydon, while Dick's men completed their sweep and found no blades, guns, spears, bows or bahs. And thus the banquet began, with the handsome outlaw prince at one end of the table and the fair noblewoman at the other. Here the accounts of the tale diverge, with some narrators describing just two courses, while others - those who are confident of their ability to hold their audience - relating as many as ten, each stage concluded by a mutual toast by Oriza and Dick to a lasting peace and/or each other's beauty. What Dick didn't know, or had been blinded to by his vanity, was that despite all of her appearances Oriza was not in the least in a forgiving mood, and in fact was only barely managing to conceal her boiling hatred for Dick, his lack of remorse and his uncouth table manners. At the completion of the final course, when she could bear it no longer, she stood up, still naked, grabbed the nearest plate - which had been secretly weighted and given a sharp edge - and hurled it thirty feet across the room with an arm honed by weeks of practice. As Grey Dick's headless corpse fell to the ground, Lady Oriza made the evening's final toast; "May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may that one be the shortest."

The above tale provides an origin story for the Oriza throwing plate, an intentional weapon designed to cause decapitation rather than an everyday object improvised for violent means. It is the primary weapon of the Sisters of Oriza, a matriarchal society whose stated purpose is to honour the memory of Lady Oriza.

[conquerorworm]

my fallout kids!

[ladyoriza]

“Men like him don't change. He may dress it up with pretty, godly words and say he's recommitted to the man Jesus, but beyond the surface he is still the man that built Caesar his Legion. And if we're being honest with each other- I think he's grooming the Dead Horses to make a legion of his own. I just hope you see that sooner rather than later.” Her gaze shifted, from glaring at Daniel to glaring behind him, “And if you’re so inclined, ask him why he’s fucking obsessed with me.” She walked off before Joshua could catch up with her, leaving Daniel to deal with him instead.

Listen it's one line of dialogue, so it counts.

WIP Last Line

Thank you @galaxymermaid214 for the tag!

Willow was dimly aware of chaos around him, of screaming, of someone talking to him, putting fingers to his neck, but he kept staring at the crossbow bolt in his chest.

Tagging @the-lastcall @ladyoriza @jackalgirl pretty sure most everyone in the usual circle's been tagged, feel free to tag yourself tho!

[presstointeract]

this old chestnut. major arcana tarot assignments, some of which are more fitting than others

fool (all of them but then this would be a short list)

the magician = ‘the inventor’; arkwright

the high priestess = ‘the mage’; io

empress

emperor

the heirophant = ‘the missionary’; stiffcollar (who has a real name but stiffcollar is sticking too well)

the lovers = ‘the lover’, kieran

the chariot = ‘the courier’; wyn

strength = asta

the hermit = ‘the pariah’; indmira

the wheel of fortune = ‘the thief of fortune’; tasmin

justice = ina

the hanged man = ‘the hanged woman’; lucy

death = delilah

temperance

devil

the tower = myrrha (this one should have a better name but whatever)

the star = zaire

the moon = nameless

the sun = saffron

judgement = ‘the detective’; roz

the world = ‘the skald’; sakine

[ladyoriza]

and to swiftie on main again but. this is (imo) the best track on tortured poets in large part bc of Florence and of course she sounds 100000000x better live i am very glad i was watching a livestream today

(also she's really hitting that Val energy huh. reinforcing my choice to put this on her playlist)

[ladyoriza]

🌹🌹🌹💞

From "soulmate au but make it horror":

"Of course the shrink is your soulmate," Jacob laughed, which in Hannah’s concussed state sounded more like a bark, "Talk about signs from god." “Yes, yes, celebrations. How is this working with the Reaping? She’ll need to be cleansed, we need to properly introduce her- of all the times to find your soulmate it had to be tonight?”

From Hannah's proper timeline:

"So. This settles Jacob's debt to us. He has lost things he will miss, just like my friends. He will never be himself again, just like everyone else he's brainwashed. And I will leave him alive, because death settles nothing. And Joseph, while I truly wish I could see your face when you get here, I have other business to finish up. So remember that this is what happens when you fuck with my people." Suze reached over and picked the camera up, there was a brief shot of the room, the bloodied tools, the cases of nails for the nail gun.

and from way later in Roz's timeline:

“Ulysses, I….” She held his face in her hands, and sighed, “I love you, okay? I come here to see you because I love you. I ask you to come back with me because I love you, and the thought that this might be the last time I see you is making me sick.” There was no point fighting the tears, he'd seen her in all states. “I meant everything I said. I know you think I was rambling, but I meant every word of it. It's not home. Not without you.” She dropped her hands to rest on his shoulders, “I don't feel crazy when I'm with you. I'm not afraid of being sick when I'm with you. I know I'll die if I stay here, but it's going to kill me to leave.”

[ladyoriza]

Oh like how the divine forces in the Mojave hand picked Roz and Ulysses to save it and make it better???

if I was the type to be schmoopy I'd say that everything about Gideon's second life leads to him and Ulysses being reunited but that sort of narrative invalidates everything else that Gideon has done in the Mojave, the other people he loves and who love him, and just the inherent value of his own existence; and also I'm just not that schmoopy

I'm sure Sparrow would like that sort of thing, though :p

[ladyoriza]

OC ship tarot motif

saw @g0dspeeed do this uquiz and immediately had to do it

tagging everyone who reads this post

Hannah Lamb and Joseph Seed

the devil + the emperor there's only one religion for the two of you, and that religion is the other. you two are very nearly unhealthily obsessed with one another, and that's just how you like it. when they touch you, they can feel the blood pumping under the surface of your skin. your hearts beat for one another. when the day comes that one stops, the other will soon after. until then, you both will live out your lives in perfect, gothy paradise.

Fauna Lamb-Seed and Carmina Rye

knight of pentacles + the magician if there's something you want, you will GET IT. nothing escapes your fingertips. after all, you're the power couple. your pairing sparks pure cosmic energy. you're fiercely driven to your goals - whether that be status, fortune, or power. you're also fiercely protective of one another. with the knight's earthy energy, you both prefer to purposefully make your way towards your ambitions, rather than playing cards too early or acting too loosely. meanwhile, the magician's half makes gives you a little fire. if they get too close, onlookers and threats to your relationship may get burned.

Roz and Ulysses

ace of cups + ten of cups your romance is the love story that seems only possible in movies. it starts from a youthful first meeting, innocent. and from what may seem like a lifetime later, you both end up happily in union, perhaps even married! your coupling is the epitome of emotional fulfillment and devotion. neither of you thought you'd end up here, but damn if you aren't glad you did.

Samantha Toren and Max DeSoto

the tower + the lovers meeting this person shook your whole world. crumbling down is everything you thought you knew about life and love. their warmth, their generosity, their naivete, their knowing...! you don't know how anything made sense before them. all you know is that nothing will make sense afterwards.