#duskworld23

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They are like a big happy family. 🤡

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hi! for the past month i’ve been seeing people say BEN is a child and i think that part of it is linked to the fact that they think of Benjamin Lawman being BEN? but it’s so annoying to read these type of stuff because i understand not everyone read the whole arg story but stop spreading things that aren’t true </3 it’s such an interesting story too! another note do you prefer BEN’s canon or fanon design? :3 i love both but his canon design is so nostalgic i can’t let it go at all omg!! i’ve also been wondering, do you think Ben’s avatar was the statue? i was thinking about what if BEN took over it early on, before Benjamin did making BEN inhabiting it since the start?

Sorry this was such a ramble i practically make no sense omg but i need to talk about my man and nobody Gets It </3

"I need to talk about my man and nobody Gets It" LITERALLY SAME OMG

Ok this is going under a cut becus . . . Its ben and BEN and if u didnt know i am Obnoxious about these two. Im gonna try to keep it organized a bit, so ill talk about the canon stuff first and then ill talk my personal headcanons and my fic so le's go!

In terms of the age and child thing, yeah i 100% believe you are correct. Ive been p open on my stance with the whole "is ben a child?" thing, and i think a lot of the heat with it comes down to current fandom purity culture and the pro/anti thing. So, lemme try to like. Boil down a complicated situation into smth easy to read. ahem

Ben Lawman and BEN are completely different entities guys, and for those that do not know the arg story, the Ben you know is not human nor a child.

You know BEN, BEN is the one in the story who terrorizes jadusable and spreads himself on the internet as a virus. That BEN is a program, a mess of code, an AI, however you want to interpret it. Personally i interpret it as a series of protocols running in a machine, like a self learning AI, but ive seen lots of cool interpretations of BEN. So . . . What does BEN specifically? Its an anagram for the Behavioral Event Network. If you dont wanna call it BEN cuz it gets confusing with actual kid Ben, do what i do. I call mine Evie :) ive seen some call it Netty, my bf calls his two izzi and clever (@benilos btw hes also got crazy ben stuff). Just go ham! Have fun! Remember when fandoms were about having fun and not accusing each other of pedo shit and call each other horrible things for just writing black-to-grey characters and stories??

Anyways ive gone off in enough peoples tags like this, for those that dont know the canon dont be spouting the age discourse. You look stupid as hell. And for those that are gonna spout it, please dont cherry pick through the canon. Use both characters, use the other moon children, actually please do because I want more rosa content so bad, im down so bad :'(

Or just. Heres a thought. If someone has him as an adult or writes him in adult situations, maybe dont assume that they interpret him as a kid and call the writer a pedo? (Literally has happened to me, yall are fucking weird)

Plug for the jadusable wiki with all the canon lore:

https://jadusable.withinhubris.com/main_page

Okay now my stuff 🥰

Yes i use more of the canon design and heavily use the canon story, i participated in arc 3 of the arg and it left deep grooves in my brain, i can never go back to fanon Ben. I say, as i put a more fanon appearance on my Ben 🤭

My Evie is full canon design, green hair, red eyes, creepy ass grin. I actually based it very heavily on my desktop wallpaper, which we actually figured out was a picture of @hauntedtotem (also amazing ben artist plz check them out) that they edited and posted. Sorry friend, it looked way too cool, ig youre in my fic canon now 🙇

And my Ben Lawman bleaches his hair and goes from the canon Ben to fanon Ben because of it. Hes got the pale pretty green eyes and glasses and hes a total nerd and i smooch him on the daily so he knows hes loved ♡

These is the ref pic i made for the two of them. So yeah! Kinda both!

As for bens situation in the actual arg, yes i do think he was in the elegy statue, we actually do see him for the first time in the arg buried in the games code and trapped in that statue. I do think he was in there from the beginning, i personally think BEN was not limited to the models it could inhabit. Personally i would place it as skull kid and hms, but it also feels disingenuous to me to say it was in one model the whole first arc.

The arg events do happen in my canon, before my fic (like right before, it picks up after the arg left off technically), but the events are skewed a bit because i had a hard time deciphering what happened and i wanted my fic timeline to fit more with the characters i had made. Cuz my evie isnt as chaotic evil as canon BEN, its very logical and has a path of logic and reason you can follow for every action it does. It was also originally meant to be very pleasant and corteous and beneficial to the people it housed so, yes its pretty different from canon.

Ill do a quick run through of the arg events in my personal headcanon and fic here.

Kelbris starts coding BEN (Evie) for the Eternity Project. Initially, Evie was meant to be an afterlife director. People that died would be digitized into code that would be moved into Evie's servers, where it would keep them happy and occupied as the Behavioral Event Network (notice and log behavior, create events for residents). Like a community organizer kind of, think the Good Place.

While Evie is in development, Ben Rosa and Matt are friends and have yet to join the cult. Rosa and Matt are siblings, and Ben is the kid who lives catty corner on the street. They walk to school together and play at recess and all that jazz.

Kelbris quickly learns that the Eternity Project isn't as goody two-shoes as he thought. This was in like, the 90s, before digital corporations were really established. After seeing the greed and corruption in the company, he goes rogue, takes the source code for Evie, and jumps ship. He keeps working on Evie at home, anthropomorphizing it and kind of seeing it like the son he never had. This is where it actually gets the name BEN, as thats what Kel calls it. He also begins working on a body for it, so it can live independently. Its light, cuz Kels old, made of crystalline structures and hollow steel beams. A hard light projection would make its appearance.

Since Kel has basically locked himself up in his house and isolated working on Evie, he goes a leetle bit crazy. He has hallucinations of his deceased wife (you know he was doing all this just to give her a good home, you KNOW IT) and eventually starts writing kind of poetry, kind of none-minded rambles about her in a forum online. He gets a following, some of which that interpret these divine words as a goddess, one Kel has called Luna. The Moon Children start to form as Evie finishes development.

Matt sees this literature and starts talking about how this Goddess could save them like it saved the man online, whos username is only Father. He gets sucked into the cult and drags Ben and Rosa with him. Ben doesn't see the harm and joins pretty easily with his best friend, but Rosa is the older sibling and sees the red flags and is more resistant to joining.

As Kelbris finishes Evie, he wakes it up for the first time and says hello to the son he made from scratch. Evie is bright, curious and naive like a child, but heavily knowledgeable about its protocols and the information it knows about the world. Kelbris tests its function by killing himself, and ascends into the code, finishing off the hardware by becoming its firewall. Evie is alone for many years.

The abuse Ben's father slings onto his mother is slowly being directed towards him as he gets older. Ben is not the "good little girl" his father sees him as, and his mother does all she can to protect them both. Matt and Rosa constantly refuge him, and Matt specifically is constantly being a guard dog for him. If he wasn't just 13, he'd probably go at Ben's dad himself.

Because of his homelife and the conflict he has with himself, Ben takes the first ascension. He thinks when he drowns himself, he will meet Luna and she will give him another life free of pain and fear and full of happiness and freedom. Instead, he dies a cold, dark death, and wakes up in the white endless void of the Event Network.

Evie has not known another living human since Kelbris, but it does know its protocols to support and keep the deceased happy. It makes fast friends with Ben, devoting itself to him. Ben actually finally takes the name "Ben" from it. Together they recreate the inside of Evie's hivemind into their own paradise.

Slowly the other Moon Children ascend. First Matt, wracked with guilt for what happened to Ben. Then Nekko, from a different branch of the cult. These three figured out that the Moon Children cult was all a farce, and that what Kelbris had started, the Eternity Project had found and twisted. Next to ascend was Dusk, then Insidiae, and finally Rosa.

This all leads into the first arc, shortly after Rosa ascended, Evie in the outisde world stumbled upon the Operator. The Operator attacks it and seals its coding into the game that it carried, a personal item of Ben's. The game eventually finds it's way to a garage sale, and Alex picks it up.

Evie does not like Alex. Matt does not like Evie. Matt gets Evie to lash out at Alex for prodding into its code, its too naive to think that Matt would want to see it or any of them hurt. When Alex stumbles upon the Father, he awakens and swallows Alex down into the game. After his disappearance, the game gets picked up and passed around again.

Because of Alex's actions, at least Evie can now branch out a bit from the game. Though it doesnt "escape" into the internet, it learns that it can now access it and uses that freedom to try and steer the game around into places it wants.

Matt gets fed up with Evie. The fact that its the leader, how close it is with Ben, he just doesn't agree with it. So much so, in fact, that he tries to kill it. Cue arc 3 events, Sarah picks up the game in the aftermath of this. Evie is traumatized from the events and snaps a bit, locks everyone down into code or immovable models and tries to hunt Matt down. It goes rouge, and because of this, the Father wakes up.

Sarah's actions in arc 3 eventually hard reset the game. Matt gets sealed away, the Father also takes Sarah, and Evie gets reset as well, though its less like a clean slate and more like snapping back awake. Its personality changes and it has major trust issues. Its more muted, hyper observant of everything around it, and murderously overprotective of the Moon Children it keeps within itself.

And this leads into my fic 🤗

I have some doodles of my other Moon Children, but not all of them unfortunately. Cant figure out how tf i want Insidiae to look 🤭 Plz dont judge my constantly shifting art style 🙏🙏

Dusk is bigender btw, i gotta put a little more trans rep in there lol

I think ill stop here, this is already a long ass post. But thank you for sending this, as you can see, i am Perfectly Normal about this arg ( ;) ) and can be trusted with information about it

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Half of my moon children so far (the eldest ones)

Click for better quality ^ ^

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ill probably make troll sprites later😈

Rem

Ben

Jadusable and Ryukaki

Nekko

Sarah and Alex

Ryan

Insidiae

Spencer L(Duskworld23) and BEN

Matt and Rosa

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WIP BUT HERE’S (some of) THE MOON CHILDREN!!!! IN 2011!!! MOON CHILDREN ARC!!! YAHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

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@timefospookies omg look its DUSKWORLD23!!!

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Hi, can you write headcanon about BEN (Behavioral Event Network) or Matt Hubris in hogwarts?

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Matt Hubris in Hogwarts:

-we all know that he's a total slytherin

-this odd fella get's along great with Snape

-Snape is probably Kelbris' childhood friend

-Matt and Luna Lovegood are a thing

-Him and Hermione are competing in who is getting the better grades

-Matt is not losing that battle

-A total teachers pet

-if you thought Malfoy was evil you don't know Matt

-Matt even stole Crab and Goyle from Malfoy💀💀

-he's a true womanizer

-"My gorgeous ginger hair, blue eyes and perfectly straight teeth? Genetics, babe"

-too good to get himself dirty for Quidditch

-every Student knows him by name, but they only know him from seeing

-mysterious Matt spends most of his time in the library in order to beat Hermione

-"No, Ron my hair is clearly a darker and deeper ginger than yours. Get over it."

-owns a black owl and his Patronus is probably a snake

-Nekko is a Griffindor, Dusk is a Hufflepuff and BEN didn't get a letter 💀💀

-Insidae is a Ravenclaw and Rosa is also a Griffindor

-Matt feels betrayed by her

-never ever leaves Schoolgrounds

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Intel report #1.

Duskworld23

Full name: Spencer Lawrence (also goes by his mother’s maiden name, Rodríguez)

Age: 30

Gender: Male

Height: 6′0

Weight: 170 lbs

Family: Alicia (biological mother) and Michael Lawrence (step-father)

Birthplace: Iowa

Position within the Moon Children: Celestial Corp, Head of Church Security, Head of Heart Security

Notable Features: Black streak through hair, a tattoo of the official symbol for the Moon Children on his right shoulder, several deep scars on his arms and legs.

Additional notes: Spencer is The Father’s right hand man it seems, and from what we have been told, he considers Oliver to be like a father figure to him and he will do what it takes to protect him and The Heart. Spencer is a dangerous threat that is mentally unstable (due to the lack of proper resources within the church) and has been diagnosed as a person with psychopathic tendencies. He is most definitely a threat. Please be careful when dealing with this individual. 

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NormanL. and B.E.N.

(And plus some information about Norman)

✦☾ Full name: Norman Louis Gasper

✦☾ He was 14 years old when he was ascended.

✦☾ He was living in a small town with his grandparents. He rarely saw his family because they were busy working in the city.

✦☾ His grandparents started to took care of him when he was 7 years old.

✦☾ People are who was in the cult usually told the members that when ascension happens they can make a wish and Luna generally accepts their wishes.. So Norman was about to wish to live with his parents again but it never happened.

✦☾ SpencerL. aka Duskworld23 was also living in the same town with him so they became friends and Spencer invited him to Moon Children.

Okay- HEHE this is all for now! Tysm for reading this is for you!->👑

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Ben Drowned Arg characters but Yaelokre themed! :3

🦊Matt Hubris, 🐸B.E.N. , 🦁Nekko (Christopher), 🐻Duskworld23 (Spencer L.)

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More Ben Drowned Arg Oc stuff!

(Norman L. Gasper)

Have you seen me?

(25 June 2011)

Norman's missing person notice.

After his ascension (21 June 2011)

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×𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐁𝐞𝐧 𝐀𝐫𝐠 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐧𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭!

ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄʜᴀʀᴀᴄᴛᴇʀs!

✦Rosa was helping others to make their hairstyle! She used to want to be a hairdresser.

✦ Nekko was scared of fire.

✦Insidiae (Kevin) and Duskworld23 (Spencer) used to spend a lot time together.

✦Matt's and Rosa's biggest fear was spiders.

✦ Matt used to make wooden whistles and flutes and gift them to Benjamin.

✦Kevin was extremely forgetful.

✦ Spencer acted quite mature for his age and this was highly respected by others.

✦Benjamin, Matt, and Rosa used to have special walking days and usually went to an abandoned park with 2 swings and 1 slide.

✦Nekko was a responsible person.

ABOUT THE MOONCHILDREN CULT!

☾ Except for high-ranking individuals, sharing about the cult was prohibited for others.

☾ The ranks of the individuals within the cult were discernible from their necklaces or hairclips!

Metal blue: was for the most important people! Like the leader!

Gold: this one was also important but not as metal blue. This color usually used by the helpers of the leader!

Bronze: and this one was for members!

☾ In every ritual, they were asked to shed a small amount of blood from everyone.

☾ Prayers were said and songs were sung towards the moon at every feast.

☾ A round hole is dug for the purpose of gratitude towards the moon, and the members would dance around this water!

☾ In every full moon everyone in the cult used to come to the cult house and pray together.

☾ And in every bloody moon a fire is lit and the members take torches in their hands and dance around the fire. (Extra headcanon.. While dancing around the fire Nekko accidentally set himself on fire and this is why he scares from the fire)

��� Everyone in the cult had their own personalized mask! And plus they all were forced to wear their necklace or hairclips everyday.

☾ It wasn't allowed to sing or play music inside of the cult house. Musical instruments were always used in the garden of the house!

☾ People who born with blue eyes or who had skin diseases such as albinism or vitiligo were included as important people in the cult ( Because they were thinking about that they resemble the moon ) and got privilege! They also got a accessory made up from silver!

☾ The acceptance of a cult member required approval from the leader and the helpers of the leader.

☾ In the ritual of entry into the cult, it is learned whether the person is resistant to pain and they would record it into a list.

That's all for now! Thanks for reading :3 💛🪐💫

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HELLO FRIENDS, I HAVE UPDATE NORMAN L.'S STORY-

But ı'm still not sure about the story but let's just begin

Norman was living with his grandparents one day he met with a boy named Spencer L. (Yes this is Duskworld) they became friends in a really short time. His grandparents wanted Norman to learn life on his own, so they didn't pay much attention to him unless it was a major situation. One day Spencer invited him to cult and Norman accepted his offer. Norman became one of the MoonChildren. He was a calm and loving child but one day he noticed that a several members were missing and didn't return for days. One day, he took Spencer with him and hid in a bush next to the cult house and tried to explain the situation they were in to Norman Spencer.

And then they saw a few people they didn't know leaving the Cult house. Those people were talking about ascension and they tried to listen them.

But they started to walk away from the house, Spencer and Norman followed them. And they saw a car that has a logo on it. İt was Eternity Project's logo but they didn't understand what was going on. Then Norman started to pull Spencer and they followed them. While those people were talking they got in secretly in the back of the car. When they finished talking and started to move.

And they arrived at Xavius ​​Solutions corporate building, the same building where the Eternity Project was discovered. They sneaked out of the car and started exploring the building. It was only a matter of time before they were caught but then they decided to hide in a room with files in it. They were terrified because some people were walking in the hallways and talking about the topics that they don't even understand. After a few minutes they decided open some of the files.

They started looking through the files and noticed that one of them had the name Moon Children on it. They wondered what was inside and started reading but they noticed that the names of all the members who disappeared due to the ascension are here.

Their hands were shaking after they noticed what happened to the others. Norman's eyes filled with tears and he was about to cry out of fear. Why did they come here? Couldn't they return home? Spencer was also very scared, he took a step back and took a deep breath. He tried to calm down. Then Spencer took Norman and he opened the door a little and peeked out. Then he turned his face to Norman and said "We will get out of here and save everyone." Norman nodded his head they walked out of the room.

And as soon as they turned the corner, they encountered a man they did not know, who appeared to be around 28-30 years old. They started to tear but the man look at their necklaces and noticed they were from the Moon Children Cult. He took them and asked "What are you doing here guys?", "We were just- uhh just searching-" Spencer said. The Man took them into the car again and tried to talk with them.

M:so guys tell me what were you doing in the room that has files in it?

N:Uh- we were just- wondering.. -

M:wondering what? Did you checked the files?

Norman was holding himself but he couldn't cry he just nodded his head. The man looked in the mirror to check the back seat and said "I see.". Then man stopped the car then turned his back.

M:So you guys are thinking we killed them?

S:What are you talking about- Of course you did! You killed them and lied all of us!

Man took a deep breath and continued

M:We didn't kill them, your goddess told us she wanted to see them this is the reason.

N:So everything written in that file was a lie?..

s: ... So they will return soon?..

The man nodded and continued driving. Norman and Spencer relaxed a little, after a few minutes they came back to the cult house and the man said to them "This will be our little secret okay? Otherwise your goddess will be furious..". They approved of the man and entered the cult house again. But they we're still terrified.

A few days later one of the members came and told them that their ascension will be tonight. They were excited they thought they would meet with the Goddess at least their thoughts were on this way..

YES THAT'S ALL IF YOU READ THIS LONG SH¡T THANK YOU SO MUCH 🐧💐🌕

Dearest Goddess, mother of the Moon.. Please save me.

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Gimme ur moon child information 👹👹👹👹

HERE ARE THEIR GIFTS 🦟🦗🦟🦗🦟🦗🦟

(I only listed a few of them cuz there’s too many Moon Children and I don’t have power ideas LMAOAO)

Matt (Ifrit): Teleportation

- Developed at age 18

- Can teleport to any place as long as he can visualize it clearly

- It’s hard to travel long distances, but with practice, it’s achievable

- If his destination is not visualized clearly, or he becomes distracted, he could quite literally get torn apart

(one limb ends up at a lake and another ends up in a desert. y’know how it goes HDISKJD)

- It requires mental strength

Rosa: Future Sight

- Developed at age 7

- Usually the visions came at random moments, but with practice she managed to control having them at will

- In real time, one full vision lasts from 1-2 minutes, and she can see up to 24 hours of the future in it

- In rare occasions, she can see a flashes of years ahead, but these visions are out of her control and usually come in her sleep

- Takes a lot of mental energy and is very draining, causing migraines if she looks at the future for too long

- Sometimes it’s hard to stop having visions and she may need outside stimuli, but usually going in and out is purely willing oneself and focusing

Alex: Shapeshifting

- Developed at age 12

- Can turn into anything, ranging from an item, to animals, to other humans

- He can only turn into things he’s seen before

- It requires flexibility, and he should stretch before transforming

- Otherwise, he could rip a muscle or crush his organs HDJSJJ

Kevin (Insidiae): Tracking

- Developed at age 13

- When he closes his eyes, he can sense the presence of any living mammal around (there’s a radius that limits it, but idk what it is yet)

- If someone theoretically got killed by an undetected force (*cough* BEN), the presence of that person would go out like a candle light in his head

- It just need concentration and quiet, but there’s no real downside

- Requires good sense of direction and mental strength

Rem: Healing

- Developed at age 12

- She can heal herself and others injuries but can only heal others from sickness

- Can heal injuries very quickly (although the time differs depending on the severity of it)

- The effort that it takes to heal can vary as well on the severity

- She can heal herself just fine, it drains her a bit, but it’s not terrible

- The only catch to her healing others is that it’s basically an exchange. She can heal another person, but in doing so, she receives the injury/sickness they have

(ei: you have a bruise on your leg, she heals you, but in the process she gets a bruise on her leg)

Spencer (Duskworld23): Aura Sensing

- Developed at age 12

- They can constantly see the emotional aura around any person

- There are colors assigned to the each emotion and they’re usually mixed, unless one is stronger than all the rest, in which case that color would dominate it

- So if someone’s angry BOOM they would see a red shine around the person’s body, maybe blues and purples in between for sadness and fear idk

- No side effect other than maybe mistrusting people’s intentions? When they say one thing but feel another way

- Requires emotional intelligence

Nekko: Telekinesis

- Never got to fully develop it, but she did show signs of starting to develop telekinesis

- Could only move small objects, like spoons and paper

- It takes mental and physical strength depending on what it is she wants to move

- Had she gotten more time, she would’ve eventually been able to move bigger things like tables, rocks, houses even

- Also would’ve been able to move sentient things like humans and animals!!

David: Invisibility

- Developed at age 14

- Can will it to happen. He just has to think about it and BOOM he’s gone

- Pretty cool until you realize he goes blind for the period he’s invisible 💀

- “This is lame…” -David when he got his gift HDJSJD

- Requires mental strength

Daniela: Agility

- Developed at age 13

- She had always been a sportsy kid so it made sense that she got this

- She’s got superhuman coordination, speed, reflexes, coordination and strength

- The downside is that she gets physically hurt very often, be it from running, breaking something, or straining a muscle

- Requires physical stamina and flexibility to have best results

Maerlie: Illusions

- Developed at age 12

- Can only make illusions based on what she knows about her target: any thoughts, dreams, memories, things they like or dislike

- They have a range and if you step out of it the illusion falls apart

- There’s individual illusions and group illusions which means the illusion either only affects one person, or several

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