#fun fact my cookie run oc used to be based on cookie wars

[lolo3h]

In an alternate universe, Pure Vanilla and White Lily accidentally started the apocalypse

Man I miss cookie wars, I wish they would implement it in some way because it's an interesting premise with the whole candy zombie apocalypse. Cookie run kingdom referenced it with the "Jelly-eyed mindless monster" dialogue in the hall of enlightenment, and a decoration set featured in one of the early cookie run kingdom trailers.

[hopefulstarfire]

Yknow what have some oc facts bc they take up like 75% of my brain most days.

Kat

Growing up, she had Max watch the Bratz and Barbie movies with her. Religiously. Max agreed but he also made her watch the Funny Bunny cartoons with him just as much.

Whenever she gets really aggravated, her southern accent comes out in full force. Its usually pretty well hidden in everyday conversations, but if you make her mad, it rears its head very quickly.

Wanna figure out if she's stressed? If she's in the kitchen baking enough cookies to feed three football teams and even other baked goods, something's wrong.

Cecelia was one of the most important people in her life. She admired and loved her big sister more than anything and wanted to be just like her. You'll see Kat rocking with plant based Decks because I hc Cecelia was very into her flower garden at their home and it makes her feel connected to her again. She also dreams of going and performing on Broadway just once, which I hc as another dream of Cecelias she never got to see.

Their Mom was also an actress who got her breakout roles on Broadway and then moved onto be a sensational hit on a soap opera. Mewnwhile, their Dad helped his brother run their family ranch and was a former Olympic star.

Speaking of the ranch, Kat still goes there whenever she can to visit her Uncle Wes and help with the animals. Plus she gets to see the family pet peacock and her pet cow Moobelle. It makes her feel closer to her family. And she loves getting to see her Uncle Wes.

While they were dating, Bakura gave Kat a collapsable knife that's rather sharp to help her out of different situations. Even after his death and everything that happened with it, she can't find herself able to part with it. That or the ring he gave her right before the trip to Egypt that she keeps in the very back of her jewelry box.

She has an entire gaming set up in the apartment she has for herself and she's got these cute pink headphones with the ears on it that she loves. Her streams are usually pretty fun and lighthearted, and she loves getting the others in on it.

Absolute caretaker. If anyones not feeling well, be it physically or mentally or what have you, Kat doesn't hesitate to try and help where she can.

The paparazzi are the one thing she really, really struggles dealing with. While she's not afraid to try and protect others in her life, it's harder for her to deal with them on her own. They were absolute vultures with her after her sister and parents died (Cecelia from her illness; her Dad, Mason, had passed 2 months prior from a car accident; and her Mom, Evangeline/Evie, about 3 or 4 months after Cecelia, from her struggles with depression and mental illness). Max and Wes did everything they could to protect her, but it was a struggle and the press did add to her trauma. She had to face them alone for the first time after Duelist Kingdom and moving to Domino, and she spiraled a bit there.

Her favorite movie of all time is Legally Blonde.

Iris

Has a big fear/hatred of heights and flying. Don't speak to her on airplanes because "it shakes the plane." When Battle City happened and Kaiba revealed how they were doing the semifinals, she about strangled him.

Didn't really get a chance to know Noa. Her deadbeat Dad didn't really have anything to do with trying to set her up until after Seto and Mokuba were adopted. She had a faint memory about hearing there was another son, but nothing beyond that.

Super anti war and anti war machines. Probably also did some volunteer work for organizations like that as well back in high school. Her Dad's destructive ways and his focus more on machines than, you know, not being a piece of shit to his former mistrees and daughter, has made her learn very quickly that she is heavily against them and is happy to see Kaiba Corp thrive as a gaming company more than it ever did as a weapons manufactorer.

It's also kind of ironic that she uses Cyber Angels, but she thinks of the cards as less machine like and more taking on certain aspects for the better. Plus, you sometimes gotta fight fire witj a little bit of fire yourself.

Her two current part time jobs are at a cafe and a bookstore. She also does a lot of hours at the hospital getting credits in for school. She also started college a year early and got a full ride.

She works hard to try and take care of her Mom, Meredith; she's been struggling with health problems since Iris was a kid, specifically MS. She also has her little brother, River, that she constantly helps look after and act like a second parent to him. Meredith wishes both of her kids would focus on being kids right now and is a fantastic Mom, especially in trying to make up for the absence of both of the kids fathers.

Anxiety and struggles with complex emotions usually result in Iris looking very blank faced and eerily calm while on the inside she is screaming and everything is on fire. It's how she copes.

Her tbr list is never ending and she's a regular at the library. She's also a pretty fast reader on top of it. Its what she'll do to relax where she can and drink her favorite tea and eat some little snack with it.

Gardening is what relaxes her, and she likes growing veggies and fruits. Her Mom loves flowers so there's a garden bed full of flowers for her as well and they try to work on them together when her Mom feels like she's having a good day. River is permanently band from helping bc he thought clorox was what made the plants green 😂.

She takes River and Mokuba out a lot together and she views Mokuba as her other little brother. Those two are a terror together but she loves them regardless. They even try to help her study for classes.

Maddox

Wanted to be a magician from kindergarten through 6th grade. No one outside of his family is allowed to know. He's got a reputation to uphold. Scratch that, not even his daughters are allowed to know. He wasn't the best at it lol.

Has a tattoo on his arm that he got after Cecelia passed away, because she was genuinely his best friend in the whole world.

Has gotten very good at multitasking between the security company, raising his girls and trying to be the big brother for Kat that she needs, since Max also has to take on a parental role for her. Between those and housework and cooking, he doesn't get a lot of time for himself, but he tries to make do. His days off consist of spending time with the girls and also binge watching different tv shows.

His favorite shows to binge are The Office and Brooklyn 99.

Hates how his hair looks short and grows it out as much as he can. He's also virtually unrecognizable if he does cut his hair for whatever reason.

Very close to his parents, as they were his rock when Paige left him and the twins and he can count on them for anything.

While he is the most chill and friendly, go with the flow guy you can ask for, he is the most protective and fiercely loyal one you'll meet as well. He's got a stash of weapons hidden in a hole in the wall of his closet he keeps covered up for in case someone in the family's life is danger. Nothing to extreme, but something to at least get them safe if anyone tries anything. This especially becomes the case after he experiences, well, everything that comes with knowing Yugi and the gang. He also has go bags at the ready that seem to grow in amount with how many more people become important to them as time goes on.

Not the best Duelist out there, but he tries, he really really does.

He's actually a pretty good baseball player and was on his high school team.

Always makes sure to have a day out with the twins every week. They always have to go to Burger World, as the girls are obsessed with it.

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a list of my entirely way too niche headcanons ive actually implemented for everyones imagination:

name options ive used and refuse to retire: david elizabeth strider (sometimes i dont feel like being a douche to others and saying thats not his name), harley davidson strider, and david james strider for the sake of simplicity

im not gonna tell yall the like. oc exes ive given him bc thatll take eighteen years. 

i dont rlly have an explanation on the ghost thing besides the fact he just can? ive occasionally pulled from family ghost stories and experiences bc i somehow got landed with family members who lived in a haunted house for a decade and enjoy scaring me with all the stories (including the time my cousin literally died on the kitchen floor from a bronchial spasm and one of the friends that was over asked my aunt later what was up with the old man she saw in the corner of the room that night - my cousin is fine btw shes just a huge bitch and a third grade teacher and i dont like her)

whether or not hes done drugs is based on absolutely nothing besides how im feeling in that moment. either hes the designated driver and sober friend forever or he got fired from his job after doing a line at work during graveyard with some random customers theres no inbetween (this absolutely happened @ waho. if dave works at waho hes a mess of a person and thats on the diner itself.)

ok look i hc dave w/schizophrenia besides when i was 14 i had a hyperfixation with learning about it and then at 16 was prescribed a medication and had side effects so wack my therapist genuinely thought 14 yr old me was onto something and its a weird way to cope with the idea that lady put in my head that i might “develop it in my twenties” which i turn 20 this year and i havent been able to stop obsessing and panicking over the prospect so PLEASE dont come in my inbox calling me ableist im not out here all harley quinn in suicide squad with the voices ok hes medicated, he goes to therapy, the hard fast delusion that lil cal was nearly sentient and informed bro of every single thing dave did no matter how asinine it was is no longer a debilitatingly affecting him ANYWAYS

i actually use the chicken/egg farming family pretty often just because its hilarious to me to give dave like. an actual mom and dad. hes literally an uncle to like three different kids he just never visits because they make fun of his skinny jeans and he hates one of his (incredibly bare-bones ocs all of them) brothers who threatened to bash his head in with a little league bat after dave broke his star wars lego set apart on accident (but not rlly) so their parents were like “why dont you stay with your brother in the big city for a lil while champ” and then they just never picked him back up? and thats on favoritism 

the other one is that his name is actually david reed and hes the middle child of a family of three who literally live the standard golden retriever white middle class life only they went to disney land or something equally as dumb one year when dave was like 6 and he wandered off so bro literally just went “huh free game” because frankly he was an idiot who thought maybe i should take this kid home because its real dangerous in parking lots and then it was too late to NOT have it seem like a kidnapping and thats why daves never had a summer job, seen his birth certificate, or gone to school. but vaguely remembers what kindergarten was like and having a pet dog and calling someone mom as a kid. 

im not making a bullet point about his sex life headcanons just use your imagination and acknowledge the fact bro essentially worked within the sex industry and i enjoy putting dave through trauma as a catharsis 

i stopped doing this one usually but if he did go to school hes been in percussion since fifth grade and played the drums in his high schools jazz band as well as various edgy teenager garage bands he likes to pretend dont have a youtube presence and that hes absolutely never been shirtless in front of plenty of his classmates because he wore a hoodie to a show like an idiot. idk occasionally ill put him in an actual band he doesnt hate but keeps separate from his lil turntechGodhead internet persona (which i will ALSO touch upon in a sec) until they wind up getting looped into a tour with some bigger named band that has a show in *insert beta kid here*’s city and hes gotta come clean solely so he can visit his online friend. sorry derseasterous thats the one time weve ever run into each other and i made him have a crush on one of his bandmates i was in my anti-daverose phase where i made dave a hoe and also didnt want to admit i still loved the ship all these years later 

i hate it so much but you know the whole vr loli trap voice shit that was popular a while ago? hes fucking baller at it for some reason. he did it as a joke while talking to bro and they both about shat their pants. if im feeling real ambitious, hes got a separate soundcloud solely dedicated to doing dumbass rap covers or making his own but in the voice under the pseudonym elizabeth “beth” davids that he will never admit is his. well, he will, but hes gonna be really fucking embarrassed about it. irony or not.

talking abt seperate soundclouds and stuff ive always had it where turntechGodhead was his like. essentially internet fucking persona facade shit he used because we all had that phase where we wanted memorable urls and stuff but also didnt want to totally ignore the nagging fear of people finding you in real life, until it turned into real life ppl finding you on the internet. so he also has basically an adjacent set of social media under the same name but its just a boring username i havent decided on so everyone he knows irl doesnt mix up with what hes made for himself as TG and the people he knows as TG dont know what highschool he goes to. (this occasionally comes with the territory of ppl on parp being pissed that daves “lying” or “hiding things” from his friends as if he was doing it out of spite instead of just keeping embarrassing tagged photos and videos from football games or when he ate shit at the skatepark from fucking with his “rap career”)

every once in a while i get on a kick where hes just german. like, i just replace houston texas with hamburg germany and have him apply to a university in whatever state is applicable for whoever im chatting with and it goes from there? sometimes he moved when he was little and went through the whole visa thing, sometimes he didnt go through the visa thing, sometimes hes a dual citizen because of family and shit, its all dependent on what suits the situation best. 

one that ive been fucking with for a while but hardly break out (until recently with like 5 roses in the span of one day hell yeah) is that he has a neighbor at the end of the hall who is like a thousand year old witch lady that hes basically adopted as his mother figure in lieu of not having one and shes totally cool with it, especially bc when she kicks the bucket she fully plans on giving dave all her occult stuff so her figure-skating coach and realtor daughter doesnt sell it at a garage sale and lets it all go to waste. she also once brought rose up by name in a conversation without any prompting of her existence which dave didnt realize for days, and then one time cryptically stopped and stared at an empty space in the wall, went “she has potential, you know.” then looked at him sitting on her kitchen counter with a smile “lots of it” and hes thought about that weekly ever since. (it is important to note one of the occult items he leaves her is literally her own personal book of shadows shes been filling out for decades its like a 600 page leatherbound book dave has no idea what its used for but the sheer amount of homemade spells and etc in it is like. gonna murder rose the second this chick gets her hands on it i promise you.)

theres the standard strife shit? im not rlly gonna get into those theyre all basically cookie cutter bullshit. its just standard bro and dave abuse talk. i like to inclulde the whole 24hr live cam up in the apartment that definitely watches dave in every room besides his own and the bathroom, but that quickly delves into the prospect of middle-aged men stalking him online and basically sexually harassing him in his own god damn home by talking about how they can see him just trying to take his shoes off in the living room after getting home and frankly? its not one of my best takes! but once you throw it into the headcanon bin, its there forever. 

he actually really does do something with his photography but not enough to warrant anything exciting, but he has his own branding for it and regularly takes pictures of his friends or anything else he thinks is moderately interesting enough to take pictures of, but those are just thrown into shoeboxes under his bed in favor of posting genuine shots because he wants to keep his image intact and blurry photos of jade smiling in the tree they climbed up together while bec paws at the base of it while whining isnt exactly something he wants the whole world to see.

i also pretty often but him into either paleontology OR i put him down as trying to become a mortician because he thinks handing roadkill once he graduated from museum giftshop specimens to doing his own taxidermy on the side has prepared him enough to perform an occasional autopsy and start embalming real human corpses. (sometimes i put my own desires in and make them his bc i have to project at some point and put him through the same EMT course i dropped out of bc it was one semester and he already has pretty decent first aid skills, but he definitely didnt expect it to be as fucking wild at times as it is, but whats he gonna do? get a job back at waffle house? the company hes working for just offered to pay like half his associates in paramedicine tuition and hes already got all his pre-recs done when he started for paleo. at least its a stable job and hes got the ability to be compassionate in the moment) 

im running out of things that ive done to the poor kid. OH 

hes not a virgin he had a girlfriend all four years of high school (shes also one of his optional and designated exes plz keep up) and their relationship ends in one of two ways: she dies in a car accident a week before their high school graduation, or she stops talking to him entirely a week after their high school graduation until a couple years later she gets into (guess what) a car accident with her current wife/girlfriend and dies which leaves behind their daughter. who just so happens to also be daves daughter. her name is hannah and i love her like my own but no one ever likes her and thats on the conditioning of dirk. does dave end up taking her in? yes. shes awesome and the first time he takes her to the park to like run off some fucking steam she disappears for two minutes and dave is moderately terrified until she comes back holding a dead baby squirrel and thats the moment he realizes huh maybe things really do be genetic.

ok at the bottom of the list im gonna add the couple of times hes been a camboy which usually coincides with the live apartment cam thing and the amount of people in his dms calling him hot or whatever, but typically its more of a started the day he turned 18 and basically dipped around 20 in favor of showing up randomly with no warning to complain about a video game dick in hand because it gives him an outlet that wont annoy his friends bc this is the fifteenth time hes had a lot to say this week about a certain boss battle and also the comments fuel his ego and daddy issues.

the last one wasnt the bottom but literally unless its explicitly proven otherwise every time anyone rps with me there is the underlying fact dave strider was a goalie on his high school lacrosse teams all four years and (shocker another one) definitely had the hots for one of his teammates like major hots like first gay experience hots. like it was painfully obvious that teammate also liked him back hots. like one night at a team sleepover one of the other guys was like can yall just makeout and get it over with were fucking tired and dave really had the balls to be offended and ask what the fuck they were talking about while literally sitting halfway in the mans lap bc for some reason they had to share the same chair. 

he is also guilty until proven innocent of being the worlds biggest loner outside of that sports team and even though hes literally a jock he still opts to eat his lunch alone in the hallway or something like that and has a tendency to leave girls on read, but bc hes got an in with the rest of the jocks hes basically drug around to plenty of parties and since hes conventionally attractive enough and popular in the aloof way that he is, hes got plenty of tagged insta posts and twitter directs and snapchat streaks going. 

THESE WERE ALL NO GAME AND DONT INVOLVE SHIPS BC I LIKE TO KEEP MY OPTIONS OPEN AND THEYRE LITERALLY ALL BASED OFF RPS IVE DONE I HOPE YALL JUDGE ME ACCORDINGLY