#ieytd hc

[mabzgonmad]

Agent Phoenix head canons (real not fake but cringe)

Hi tumblr. This is my first text post don’t make fun of my poor outlining 💔

ok so i feel i should section this i have a lot to say

hopefully this is entertaining..btw a lot of this is based on my own personal actions when playing as the Phoenix also I’m not completely set on a lot of these

Sections:

- kinesium and communication

-communication generally

-sexuality / gender

-appearance

-relationships (still not 100% on these)

Kinesium and Communication

We should note that Phoenix (gonna call him AP from now on for simplicity sake) is completely mute minus a few noises such as coughing or gasping.

Also note that Roxana Prism doesn’t even know the full power that kinesium can have when harnessed by a person such as AP. (We know this from her remark of shock at the very end of IEYTD 3)

The agency being full of people with kinesium in there head giving them the ability to use telekinesis means all of them are connected in a way. AP is able to use the connection of all the kinesium to communicate telepathically with anyone in the agency. The first time they did this is was to The Handler on one of their early missions. They had no idea they could do it and actually they were calling handler a bad name. Once the handler just heard a voice in his head replying to what he said to AP he thought he was going crazy. AP didnt know how they did it and they eventually sat down with handler and they figured it out. AP eventually was able to regularly reply to the handler during missions and communicate with more ease to fellow agency members.

Outside of people with kinesium in their brains, AP uses sign language. Though they will only do this if they absolutely need to talk to someone outside of the agency. When it comes to Zor members they will refuse to reply to them at all. They will make rude hand gestures or faces in response, no coherent replies to anyone.

This is with exception to Dr.Prism. They regularly tried to reason with or converse with her specifically in Mission KBOOM. Dr.Prism doesn’t have kinesium in her head (i think?) so they used sign language to talk to her. She would know ASL because i think id be agency policy for the sake of deaf agents and AP.

Example of AP using sign to communicate. (I think here, they didnt want handler to know their reply but wanted to reply… by thinking of responding to handler he accidentally let him know what they said.. lol)

Sexuality and Gender

I don’t think AP would care enough to consider labeling their own gender or sexual orientation.

But they know they don’t identify with any gender and are gender less but do not mind being called “he”

So in simple terms they use They/He pronouns

As for sexuality, they like someone romantically once in a blue moon, and even then they arent very expressive about it. They knows from his like maybe 3 crushes in their life, they like whatever and whoever as long as they fit his type (No clue what his type is!! Probably;y more masculine people low key. Men kisser.)

Appearance

They look like this to me 😍

Gorgeous ain’t he?

Relationships

Bullet points for here bc im getting lazy

-Handler

they’re bestie baes! Honestly best buds! They’d kill for each other !

-John Juniper

homosexual.

-Fabricator

any conversation between them would be full of “KYS” “NO YOU KYS!!”

-Dr.Prism

enemies to besties basically

-Dr Zor

violent and evil dynamic happening here. Nothing but hatred between these two.

I care not for thinking about anymore or any other characters!

OK TY FOR READING THIS IF YOU READ IT ALL SORRY THE IEYTD BRAINROT IS REAL LOVE YOU

[gr3yyyyy]

okay. so. uh.

@ieytdconfessions and anon this is your fault /silly/lh

cursed reggie under the cut

cursed reggie

yes i am aware of how violently cursed this is.

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

personal headcanon that the early iterations of prism's robots found it very difficult to pronounce certain vowels in certain contexts. one of the first reasons why she built that vocal test machine was to fiddle with their pronunciation software.

during this time period, pronouncing the 'i' in 'prism' was next to impossible. they'd just end up defaulting to 'puh-rye-sum', which would make their creator noticeably dejected, which in turn made them feel pretty upset.

so, instead, they begun defaulting to calling her 'dr. p', as they were perfectly capable of pronouncing it that way. inevitably prism sorted out the vowel issue, but by then the robots had adopted it as a habit, and any newly created robot picked it up pretty quickly from the others. they'll swap back to 'prism' when stressed, or in situations of grave importance, but calling her 'dr. p' is akin to a term of endearment to them

[enhanced-operatives-division]

Roxana Prism and the Horrific Realisation She has a Crush on her Coworker

[bluisp]

something something telekinetic implant

[mothbeasts]

unpopular ieytd headcanons? /nm

seeing as I've dedicated myself to being the world's biggest fabricator enjoyer (joke). i think it will be obvious who i'll take the opportunity to talk about :] with some other headcanons thrown in also.

I think a lot of my Fabricator headcanons count as "unpopular" if only because not many people talk about her in general. The first thing that came to mind for me is that I personally headcanon her as trans for no reason other than I'm trans and my favorite characters get hit with my beam attacks. I also think she's not really mean once you get to know her - She's much more relaxed around friends, it's just that she has. One friend total, maybe two if we're being generous with the definition of friend. And I just generally see her as a different kind of "mean" than other people seem to, if that makes sense? She has fun with it, yeah, but she has reasons and such. even if those reasons can be petty. I don't know if she enjoys drama for drama's sake, she's got a reputation to uphold and all. She uses more subtle verbal attacks, sarcasm and such.

Another unpopular headcanon, but for Agent Phoenix this time: My Phoenix is a lesbian. Got them with my beam attack also. I also tend to see them as less... Chaotic? They're cautious, taking their time to figure out the situation. They do still put things in their mouth though. That's important to me.

[moppiiiee]

I've been seeing some discourse in this fandom lately about characters not being as popular as others and I just felt like I needed to say it, if you want characters to be more popular, then go make them more popular, spread your hcs, spread drawings of them, make appreciation posts, give us *reason* to like them.

Bashing other characters to prove that your character is better will probably do the opposite and make people dislike them MORE because you're creating a mindset that both can't be good.

If you want something to change, especially in a small fandom like IEYTD, YOU have to be the change you want to see and since it's a small fandom you can do a lot.

For example, I used to not really like prism because her argument in game was frustrating, but the fandom and people actively liking her and making hcs and fanart made me like and appreciate her more and I like prism now, so if you have a problem with the popularity of characters *THEN GO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!*

[stellar-collective]

love ur artt!! could u pls draw any of the ieytd characters (dealer’s choice!) with any pets u hc them having?

this was a tricky one bc most of these characters are too busy to have pets but i do feel like Fabby in particular would enjoy a cat to stroke evilly as she watched a hapless enemy fall into one of her traps

[two-tonexiptr]

Hivemind HC's (IEYTD)

Because he doesn't get enough love 💛

- He is somewhat southern: canonically has a very slight southern accent in the developer commentary and we know he was born in new Mexico (wiki)

(I like to imagine he also lived in Bee Cave TX for a bit, for the pun AND because im a huge TF2 nerd) --- - I feel like he has a HUGE sweet tooth, and he brags about the fact he gets to use his bee's honey and comb He will leave small treats out in Zoraxis HQ and lobbies, just tempting people to take one so he can praise his bees publicly, makes a HUGE scene about it: Zor worker 1: "Those honey biscuits in the lobby were so good, where are they from-" Zor worker 2: "SHHH dont he will hear you-" Zor worker 1: "Relax man who are you even talking about? its not like im praising the EOD i just really like these biscuits!" Hivemind: "THE BISCUITS YA SAY?? why THANK you! me and mah sweet bees made them to PERFECTION!! you will find no better honey anywhere else, y'see bee keeping is an ART- (10 hour spiel) Zor worker 1: ... Zor worker 2: "look what you've done". (they were really good biscuits though, Hivemind is a surprisingly good baker. Terrible cook though, only baking) --- - Rough exterior, sweet interior He is 6'0 (wiki) and southern, writes formally talks a little crazed and while he is a beekeeper he feels like he would have a decent bit of bulk too. not to mention he's relatively smart, he has to be to sit in a position near Zor. Other workers are scared of him, partially because of his bees and partially because he is ... eccentric (crazy) But on the inside? sweet as honey. He shares pastries with everyone, values even the smallest of bugs, and is actually more appreciative of the average Zoraxis worker than most other higher ups (That doesnt mean hes nice to them though, he still sends his fair share of nasty emails, especially when his bees are at risk) He uses his bees because, similarly to Dr. Prism, he finds them more reliable and would rather not cause the death of someone on his side. Before and after Dr Prism left he was the supporter/caretaker in Zoraxis. Agents of Zor could go to him for anything and he would help, and even with his intimidation after a while it became an unspoken rule. Zoraxis is like another hive, and if there are even minor issues it can disrupt the colony. He knows this well, thats why he personally spends a small amount of his budget to buy lunch for those that forget it; Work clothes for those that cant afford it; and so on. --- - He has more than one hive: his real bees and the Zornets: He is very protective of both, it takes a lot to outwardly move this man but if his bees die or a Zornet gets damaged he will be inconsolable for a small while after the mission --- - He was totally friends with Dr. Prism, in fact she probably helped make the Zornets with him. They are both exentric geniuses who get undermined constantly, how could they not get along? even after she returned to the EOD they still keep in touch, occasionally sending bug facts or robot things to eachother in solidarity - John juniper? not so much I think that they did NOT get along, John is way too full of himself and aristocracy for Hive- i grew up on da sout in my pa'hs farm- Mind. The first time they interacted Juniper insults his bees and gets TACKLED by a 6'0 beekeeper Both got a very harsh chewing out for this incident --- Let me know if you would like more!! i love hivemind but sadly we havent seen much of him (IEYTD4 PLEASSEEE)

[silverdragon889]

I am sick a lot, so I got to thinking how my version of IEYTD characters and OCs would react to being sick or taking care of sick people! So here's my very long list under the cut for those who wanna read.

Phoenix 🔥: The WORST patient unless your name is Ollie. For Ollie he actually behaves! For Reginald and Prism he'll quip and fidget most of the time with restless energy while whining about not be able to eat most foods. Other people he'll be a little short with, but only because he feels like crap and has no tone awareness. Last time Juniper tried to help, he and Phoenix got into an argument because Phoenix, again, has no tone awareness when he's sick and accidentally pushed a few too many buttons 😅. Taking care of other people, though? Johnny on the spot; he's the one being super fast about getting the person whatever it is they need, whenever they need it. And he might throw in a joke or two to keep their mood up.

Reginald 🎧: Reggie I imagine is grumbly and cranky when sick, and WILL demand you make his tea a certain way, but once he's comfy he settles down and is kinda quiet; mostly focused on rest. He doesn't mind Phoenix or Prism helping him out, but he refuses to let anyone else see him sick. Helping a sick person, though, he'd be the type to read them a story and spend time keeping them company from a reasonable distance away. Real fatherly, tuck-you-into-bed vibes.

Prism 🔬: She may not be a medical professional, but even SHE knows the benefits of rest and recuperation. Arguably the 2nd best patient to deal with. She'd mostly sleep, eat, drink water, and take her meds. Doesn't wanna be disturbed. Taking care of sick person? Refuses unless it's Phoenix or Reggie. Medical's not her doctorate; go find someone else.

Juniper 🎬: The BIGGEST brat ever. And comsidering how he normally is, that's saying something. Absolutely insufferable. I imagine if he ever needs a caretaker, they all draw straws lmao. But taking care of someone else? He'd be tsundere about it at first, even a little clumsy, but as time went on it'd become obvious he cares, even if it's just a little bit. Taking care of a sick Juniper has caused Reggie another grey hair or two though 😂 (stellar made me ship them send HELP /j)

Ollie ✨: Since I HC him in Medical, he is by far the best patient on this list. Very polite and grateful to whoever is taking care of him, while being very good at taking recovery seriously. Much the same way, taking care of a sick person is second nature to him! Wonderful bedside manner, and not afraid to deal with the messy parts of being sick to help someone feel better. 10/10 is the Goodest Little Bean.

Tanuki 🍁: He's one of those people who don't get sick very often, but when it does? Hits him like a TRUCK. Will more often then not only wake up to hydrate, eat, or take meds. Very Eepy Boy. He avoids taking care of other sick people, though. Only reason being is that he has absolutely ZERO bedside manner and doesn't want to treat a sick person like a machine to fix.

Palette 🎨: Pretty sure being sick is the ONLY time you can get this woman to shut up. 🤣 She'll want the fluffiest, floofiest, softest things to snuggle into and hybernate in, but otherwise your only problem is coaxing her out of the nest. She jumps at the chance to help anyone who's ill, but there's a running bet with 90% odds that she only does it to yap at a captive audience. She's been known to give people headaches by asking too many questions and openly judging their room's decor.

Oriae ⚙️: You have to force her to take a break or she WILL end up making herself more sick just to finish a project. She WILL complain about being idle in bed and WILL try to sneak a project or two under the covers. Incorrigible, really 😂 But if she ends up taking care of a sick person, expect to see a "kind yet firm" style of care where she'll fuss and mother hen very gently, but absolutely put her foot down if they try anything stupid. (Looking at YOU Kai XD)

I have a few others, canon or otherwise, so tag/ask me with their names and I'll elaborate!

[fourphoenixfeathers]

AYYY HC AGENT PHOENIX DESIGN! Agent tocaya real

I got a bit silly with it. And by that I mean I'm whacking them with a bat and giggling like a lunatic. Look look hear me out. When you get close to death enough times to earn the moniker Phoenix, you're gonna get scars. Sidenote, my search history looked really funky this morning. Anyway.

Home Sweet Home is really small but I CAN and WILL milk any small bit of content for ideas. I came from the submas fandom, this isn't new lmao. I figure it fits best before ieytd 2, bc in between 2 and 3 just seems impossible.

I Do Not Know What I'm Doing With The Art Style, please have patience with me.

[tillywunderwing]

I would like to know the biological family trees of any IEYTD characters that you might be willing to reveal.

-Definitely Not Dr. Zor

Oh gee I wonder who sent me this incredibly innocuous ask. I hope it’s not the disgraced head of a global superpower hell bent on killing me because I took down their entire multibillion dollar facade. Anyhar

I wouldn’t know about entire families but I’ll take this as an opportunity to do sibling HCs (｀ω´)

Phoenix is an only child. Probably also an orphan lol

Reginald I can definitely imagine having an older sister. I think they’re on good enough terms, just don’t get many chances to see each other because of his work.

Roxana… I can see with a younger brother. Growing up, she never seemed to like him much—she’s never understood small children, even when she was one—but he LOVED her. When she was a teen she was a great big sister, tho. They don’t see each other much these days.

Fabricator is sandwiched between two other sisters, the three of them were always fighting as kids, and still always fight now

John Juniper is the onliest child to ever have only childed

Caliente has(/had) brothers, probably a lot of them

Solaris is an only child

Hivemind is an only child but has a LOT of cousins

Anna Ulanova has two younger siblings, a sister and a brother. They’re closer to each other in age than they are to her, so she always felt a little disconnected from her, but she was a loving older sister all the same

Ollie is an only child, but ALWAYS wanted a brother

Daniel Sans has a twin out there somewhere. No one knows where. Most are hoping to never find out

Dr. Zor had a twin that they ate in the womb

[purplebehittindifferent]

IEYTD doesnt nearly get as much love as it should imo

Im so happy one of my favorite artists makes a bunch of silly doodles with that series :3

Also I never thought about it much before, but Phoenix using sign language? New HC acquired >:3

Aaa I’m so glad I can provide!!! (Also I’m one of your fav artists??? 🥹??)

YISSS THE HEADCANON SPREADSSSS

[agent-toast]

my phoenix and juniper hc designs :D

juniper looks like a fricking supervillain, but i guess that is what he wants, so...

fyi, my phoenix uses she/him/they pronouns and are aroace, since they're me but ieytd.

sending love to all the phoenixes, regardless of gender etc <3

[enhanced-operatives-division]

AAAA

ok so im writing this in school so thats y u aren't gonna see this until like noon or smth when i have internet to get on tumblr with lmao

BUT STARSTRUCK AHHHH

SO- FIRST OFF YOU NEED TO GO TO THE IEYTD CONFESSIONS BLOG AND IM THE PERSON WHO TALKED ABT REGGIE FALLING ASLEEP FIRST- READ THAT

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I LOVE THEM SO MUCH THEYRE JUST A PERFECT COUPLE

im curious how do you hc they got together after 2 happened :0000

bc i hc that after john survived the fall he got like- taken in my the agency, b ut they had to watch him and make sure he didn't go back and try to take over the world, also hes declared dead- but the agency placed him with reggie bc they can trust him yk

and i imagine their relationship kinda started out rocky and reggie was rlly kinda nervous but still angry yk? juni was just pissed the fuck off lmao

oh oh oh and, it wasn't immediately the one bed trope, juni was originally on reggies couch, but then the couch either broke or phoenix burned it/threw it out a window :333333

imagine this entire rant was given to you by the adhd creature and youll know exactly what i looked like writing this

OMG HEYYYY OKAY OKAY gonna put this ramble under a cut so it doesn't get long but I have thoughts and FEELINGS on how these shrink dinks meet face to face. This may be a little all over the show because I love them and I'm doing this on my laptop to keep up typing with my stream of thought lmao

Don't offence to this as I mean it just as a funny thing that I observed but I think every starstruck shipper starts off with John getting shipped off to the agency and that's so funny to me. I started off with that because of a buddy's AU/Askblog from like 2 years ago, and honestly I think it's a really solid and reasonable foundation for their relationship to be built off! It's the whole forced proximity thing which breeds fondness between them because they are stuck as coworkers basically.

Overall I agree with the way you see it, having written a fic with a similar premise to it almost two years ago now (crazy) but I'll give my more "these thoughts aren't hidden through inference of prose" for your reading pleasure.

Starting with Reggie, I think he is very civil to JJ, especially when they speak, but honestly I think there would be a genuine level of betrayal, as parasocial as it stems from, for Reggie when it comes to Juniper. In the end, Reggie was a fan of Juniper and his work, so that whole thing of "finding out someone you idolise is a terrible person" would crush him because Reggie is a really sweet guy and would likely only like Juniper as much as he did because he thought Juniper was also a good person. This then meaning that he has to share space with that guy, who is probably bitter and feeling another 1000 things (elaboration coming soon), would be really bloody weird! He's got to deal with the whisperings of his old celebrity crush which he had to snuff out basically instantly because oh God he's going to set of nukes is a pretty damning reason to not want a crush on a guy. He's also having to deal with the fact that Juniper has tried to kill his top Agent (and probably friend) several times within the span of a week, and to top it all off he now has to basically play chaperone to him while at the agency? It wouldn't be a great way to kick off a new relationship, platonic or otherwise.

Juniper is a really bonkers kettle of fish in his own right because there's a lot about him to consider. In the eyes of the public, and very potentially the law, he is dead, and potentially has lost basically all his estate to that fact, so the unimaginable wealth and privilege he would be used to is just gone within probable days. It's implied that JJ was a "self-made man"/achieved the "hollywood dream" in game two, so while yes he'd be pissed at losing all of his niceties, he's also just lost everything he's worked for across his acting career. As much as I don't think he'd admit that it's a huge blow to him, it would be, and I think that's shit for him lowk. Also, he's absolutely still healing from various injuries from that fall of his, so that's adding to his angst.

Alas, Juniper is quick to trigger, and I think to Reggie's civil nature, he'd be much more passive aggressive, at least at first. Unlike Reggie, Juniper has no reason AT ALL to like him, so I think the whole idea of Juniper trying to prove himself to Reggie is even more special because it's a genuine act of trying to be a better person. I'm jumping the gun a bit, but you get what I mean. My main deviation from your interpretation, ALTHOUGH I did basically write that into my fic from 2023 (same one as previous, which is the first junicrane fic on ao3 haha), is the whole them living together. I think I prefer them as coworkers so much more, partially because it amuses me, but mainly because it gives them some time away from one another as to be their own character and how they would think about the other in isolation.

ALAS! Onto my other main interpretation of them which splits into two sub-interpretations (and then there's another minor interpretation after that (and a tiny one after that) so stay tuned!). This main interpretation is generalised and unified by Juniper basically surviving the fall, then making his own way back to a mainland and then basically moving to some kind of safehouse and living in secret.

The deviation comes from how Reggie and JJ would then meet. My main interpretation, and one I've considered writing into a multichapter fic before (though I am terrible at commitment so it is staying as a brain-child for now), is Reggie being suspicious of Juniper just disappearing. This came from how on the ARG website offshoot of his desk, there's two different things relating to JJ and I like to think that's from him investigating his death. To me, there's a significant gap between IEYTD 2 and 3, and to try and distract himself on his worry over Phoenix, Reggie basically goes on a non-agency approved man-hunt for Juniper because his "tracking skills are still up to snuff". And yeah! Reggie finds him! And Juniper as absolutely wracked with paranoia from living in secret and it takes everything in Reggie to convince John that this isn't an agency thing and he's not going to get taken away. John is still a bitch, but he's a terrified one, and despite Reggie's better judgement, he feels bad for him, and somewhat takes it upon himself to keep checking up on JJ. I can go on about this interpretation, buttttt I may save my other plot beats incase I want to one day actually write it

My other version of the whole Juniper making it out is, while yes he's still very paranoid, it's somewhat liberating to no longer be in the public eye. The whole "if juniper went to a juniper look-alike contest, he'd come second", yk? I've prettymuch always hc'ed Juniper as gay, and pretty repressed about it being a famous actor in the public image in the 60s, so being able to finally express that to some degree would be pretty fulfilling for him! I actually wrote this one into a oneshot, being the second starstruck fic ever on ao3 so that saves me from yapping so much about it here. The TLDR is that Juniper basically meets Reggie by chance and has to deal with. ALLLL of the feelings that comes with that.

Onto a HEAVILY more AU version of what I think happens post-IEYTD 2,,,, but Juniper staying allied with Zoraxis and being a double agent for them and working in the Agency. My friend Imp has a more positive version of this where JJ ends up defecting to the Agency's side, and I love that, BUT.. I also really love the idea of just keeping Juniper as an evil character. 2 Dimensional villain or whatever, sometimes they can be just as fun as fully fleshed out characters and I appreciate that. I have a very short Spotify playlist which basically is the moodboard for this AU, but basically play Government Hooker by Lady Gaga and you'll understand. Actually here it is. Go my Scarab. I like the idea of Juniper still playing into his charismatic actor thing to get Reggie to fall for him again, only to break his heart and trust again. I don't often entertain this MAINLY because I like them as this insufferable mushy couple but I do absolutely get a kick out of the complete OPPOSITE of this. Putting them under the microscope etc etc

And then my teeny tiny one is my whole post IEYTD 3 theory that Juniper is the Phantom andddddd that he and Reggie end up working together in IEYTD 4 pleasepleasepleaseplease Schell Games make it happen I would KILL for these guys to speak to one another PLEASE it would be great/silly. Alas I really like the idea of it going in a direction with inspiration from Phantom of the Opera because. I like musical theatre and Juniper is an actor and goddamnit it's the Phantom. It would be whimsical

Alas. I have been into this ship for years, meaning that I have had so much time to play around with it in my head and, while this isn't all of them, these are the main heavy hitters that I go back to. Barring one, but that's got NOTHING to do with the canon of IEYTD, and to be fairrrr me and my buddy may make it into a fic project one day so I will hold off on questions about that one for a while >:3

Other than that! I hope this made any sense at all, I really like these guys and I think you can tell, so I hope this was enjoyable to read :]]]

[bluisp]

mfw I have no idea what I’ll ever look like