#isnt he autistic also? like is that confirmed? did he confirm that himself?

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Corey Burton is an underrated voice actor tbh.

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Looks at you with my autistic eyes. Oliver headcanons please (if you haven't done that already)

(My eyeballs pop out of my head and stretch and touch yours.) Hi. THANKS for asking!!!hes such an weird animale to me

oliver d. swift

• d stands for dickens, but if you ask him, its just dick

• it/he/& neopronouns! usually defaults to ey/em asked what neos, but esp likes if theyre emojis or onomatopoeia

• transmasc homo homo gay, obv. been on T ever since he got a job, but doesnt care to get top or bottom surgery

• also either cupioromantic or cupiosexual. it doesnt yhink about it too hard nor is it strict about labelling itself

• also also objectum. half joke

• my fleshhead version of him has a scruff moustache but Also hes just a Hairy guy

• i keep forgetting they have canon heights but ima say it again because its so real. 5'3 compactly built and has a muffin top. gained No height while on T, but he did get acne! and General grime

• afro-columbian but didnt rlly learn about his heritage until late teens (since yakno no parents to teach him) ... has been embracing his culture more and more as he ages

• autism adhd & bpd, baby - TRIPLE combo! used to take meds for his adhd but it made his mood worse and took away his, and i quote, "quirkiness". 

• still on mood stabilizers though he needs that

• dabbles in a bit of every art form, fond of things that involve beads, but filmmaking has always been its one true love <3

• makes kandi bracelets and uses them as fidget toys, often accidentally breaking them

• the ones he DOESNT break he gives to his pals as gifts!

• has beads on his fez string too. changes it up - sometimes its 🏳️‍⚧️ or 🇨🇴 or 🏁. sometimes its a lizard 🦎 

• rediscovered a film ey did back in high school. it was a 43 minute recording of hands crushing peanuts in black and white while someone sang french opera in the back.

• oliver have no memory of making this nor can ey confirm it was em

• he did the catcus tattoo on his ankle himself! stick & poke :-)also has a ferret on his bicep and a cassette player on his inner thigh 

• mild carpal tunnel and wears wrist sleeve compressors to help but he works it like its a fashion choice

• similarly has a landyard that marks him as an employee, decked out with various pins and jangly keys

• has like five red flannels that are basically the same but have ever-so-subtle differences in the stripes 

• it works at a red horror attraction and wears a red fez and red clothes . red isnt even its favorite colors its bright green or something

• mr dickens let oliver do all the sound effects for the horror attraction (he doesnt know ey ripped them all from fnaf)

• knows literally everyone in dialtown idk how. dude shares blunts with God

• took photography classes with lola, raved with craig, had the same therapist as jerry, makes lunch plans with karen, passed bigfoot on the street and did a bro nod at him, boybestfriends with randy, gives gabby gifts on mothers day, just showed up at a mob gathering one day with drinks, etc etc. Need i go on

• never has a shortage of aquantinces but finds it hard to keep close friends

• 1 million contacts without pfps in his phone 1 million email notifications 1 million tabs open

• its The oliver! what else to say!!! uhmmCan he step on a landmine.please

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@a few people in the notes asking for more info

Shes from The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson, which is a whopper doorstopper of an epic fantasy series. Shes one of the 3 main protagonists, though theres a lot of viewpoints as the books go on.

Also, the author says she has a fictional condition that isnt DID last I checked, but by book 4 its definitely plurality w amnesia. She starts off not knowing about her plurality/extremely repressing it. Shes also bi (by accident and then confirmed by author in retrospect), and shes a disaster and we love her.

Without too much spoiler info, she starts the storyq chasing down this famous heretic princess to be taken on as her ward, so that she can steal a high profile magical item that belongs to the princess, and save her family from difficult circumstances. The other main protagonists are a war general whos "going mad" ie having prophetic heretical dreams he acts out while sleeping, and his dashing disaster duelist son whos worried about this "madness". Theres a second son whos autistic and maybe selectively mute also btw.

Third character is Kaladin who has ptsd and the major depressy, including SAD, and he always wanted to go to war while his dad tried to teach him to be a surgeon instead, and he finds himself at war as a slave convicted for a crime he claims he didnt commit.

Its secondary world fantasy and the worldbuilding is pretty hardcore, this isnt medieval europe with a wash of paint. Theres all sorts of weird fauna and flora, world-shaping weather patterns, theres this sort of spirits that are appear when people are having strong emotions, and the whole thing starts with a broken ancient pact and the murder of a king!

It is kind of a lot to get into, the first book has like 7 chapters including a prologue and a prelude before theres any repeat viewpoints, but then the first book settles into 2-3 main viewpoints, with some others clearly marked between book parts for more world perspective.

Its not for everyone, I think its really fun. The first book is The Way Of Kings if you want to give it a try.

(Also general series overview, its planned as 10 books in two sets of five. Currently book 5 is being worked on, and when thats out I think hes gonna take a break before starting on the back half of the series. But the first 5 is a complete story, so we've been told, if you wait for that kind of thing. Sanderson is also extremely prolific, if everything goes well hes not gonna do like grrm or rothfuss and leave people waiting forever. No shade to them but i know its a worry among fantasy people).

Do You Know This Disabled Character?

Shallan Davar has Dissociative Identity Disorder.

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Fix-it Leo: Katie / KG

welcome to something im tenatively calling “fix-it leo”, where i take my really old OCs and try to make sense of them! i’ve previously done this with Shadowy, which you can read here. seeing as im redrawing & “bringing back” a few other old ocs i figured id make this a series of talking about things! unlike the Shadowy one this doesnt have pictures beyond the initial ref bc i dont want to murder my hand and im also not sure how to draw some of this

today’s subject: Katie! also known as KG.

KG’s from 2010-ish, so some time after Shadowy but before the Shattered Worlds rework. to be as specific as possible, he’s from a RP setting that people that have known me closely have at least heard mentioned, if not seen snippets of it outright: KL, the massive crossover including any character and setting me & my friends wanted to RP.

as a self-insert character in crossover hell, Katie is VERY weird.

it was really hard for me to find info on Katie, because i actually had a bunch of OCs using that name that were my direct self-inserts for RP & story purposes both in and outside of KL. the unifying idea was that he was kinda just Me but in a fictional universe... and, apparently according to what info i DID find, all of the various Katies were. actually the same person, just in various conflicting situations with various conflicting backstories? so me stitching it all together got kinda weird. i did find a starting point though, so, uh... here we go!

as a general overview, Katie is pretty much just me. autistic, ADHD, likes videogames and art, bad social anxiety conflicting with desperately needing validation from everyone around him. he also has a very short temper and no volume control, which was usually a comedy thing but could also lead to him lashing out and doing/saying things he regrets, mostly hurting his friends. as a result he was kinda unpopular in his hometown... except for a small handful of friends he went to school with.

one night, he decides to go camp out with his friends to watch a meteor shower cause hes pretty fascinated by comets & shit like that. one of his friends, Elson, was acting pretty weird about it but Katie’s too excited to take much note of it up until the meteor shower “starts early” and Elson runs off into the woods. confused and startled, he gives chase. then, uh, the fucking apocalypse happens.

a lot of plot happens that im skipping over bc this is gonna be long enough as it is, but it gets revealed that Elson is actually an incognito alien named Elohim and an alien invasion is happening and wiping out civilization, and Katie is just. running out of sanity. being a main character SUCKS. he has a tragic backstory now, his friend (who he kind of had a crush on?) is an alien and is partially responsible for his tragic backstory, they join a rebellion after confirming “yeah your family’s dead as hell” and go to space, and finally find out that the leader of the aliens got a case of “jewelry makes you evil”.

they save the day obvs, with the help of some other people they ran into, and Katie has a moment of “well, fuck” bc his hometown is still extremely exploded and his family is still extremely dead and he’s like .5 miliseconds away from a mental breakdown. he then has a conversation that goes roughly like this:

person that helped them bust out of alien jail: hey, i think i know someplace you can stay katie: my house exploded person: cmon trust me

and then it turns out that that guy is actually Ninten and he’d just helped save the world with a fictional character, and before he has any opportunity to go “wait, what” he gets pulled through a portal by him and ends up somewhere totally different. more specifically, he’s now in the Earthbound universe, and his brain is going “[dial up noises]” a whole lot bc its not like his life was weird ENOUGH now he’s just... ditched his home reality??? with Ninten’s help??? and Ninten’s taking all of it in stride and ends up explaining the multiverse to him and that he’s one of the guys who ended up with the ability to worldhop and had stopped by Katie’s universe because he knew the possessed alien guy. he’s also apparently used to having to help people acclimate to massive paradigm shifts caused by multiversal fuckery.

so Katie’s just kinda trying to wrap his head around this, but takes Ninten up on his offer to go get to meet people and he goes to the Nowhere Islands! which was like, basically the hub location of KL. and then things get EXTRA surreal for Katie, because like... he used to write fanfic, and come up with story ideas that he daydreamed about a lot before everything exploded, and he bumps into Kurousu who is his OC. and there’s a lot of “UHHHH”-ing but he plays it off and befriends her, and its finally starting to sink in that yeah, he’s hanging out in this super weird crossover reality now, and he tries to make the most of it!

then some... weird things start happening. Tank, Joseph, and Vince make a jump to the Persona universe to do some plot stuff and run into Katie there, where he’s apparently joined SEES? except the last time they’d seen him, he’d been acting as a lackey to one of the arc villains because of a FMian from the Megaman universe screwing with him and taking advantage of his trauma to create a “new” Gemini Spark. and they start to write it off as “well i guess he’s like Tails where there’s some AUs of him running around” except... he recognizes them each time? but looks different and has different backstories and nothing really adds up. the next time a protagonist sees him, it’s Artemis post-getting turned into a Nobody finding Katie’s Nobody, Teixak, who apparently was very excited about getting to meet Roxas... despite, according to himself, having been living in Twilight Town for as long as he could remember. while also being very aware and very confused that that contradicts everything else about him.

teixak: eeee you mean i get to meet roxas?! he’s my favourite kingdom hearts character!! >w< rasemtix: ...you do realize you just told me youre from this universe, right? you were just explaining to me about how you lived here with leixand until the shadows attacked you two and stole your hearts. teixak: eh..? hm. ............Hm. but.... hm.

meanwhile on Katie’s end of things, he gets his heart stuffed back in his body and he reconciles with his externalized FMian-induced evil side and various other things from various other worlds, but everything feels weird and disjointed. he remembers attending school at Gekkougan, but also remembers living in Echo Ridge, but also remembers Twilight Town, but also remembers living in a boring world that got invaded by aliens where also all of this was just videogames and books and animes and OCs. and then things start getting weirder for him. he makes a joke to Artemis about “hey, remember when we got in a big fight cause i hit you with a sign?” and he doesn’t remember it. he teases Ninten about something personal and Ninten freezes up and asks him how he knows that, and Katie gets confused because he told him. he has an even more personal talk with T1, and then has  the same talk later but with slightly different words. and it’s starting to look like it’s not just “various Katies”, it’s Katie also dealing with various... varieties of everyone else, and he’s pretty much spinning a wheel on “what version of events am i in today?”

he finally gets an answer after a while-- something went really weird and really wrong when Ninten first brought him into the KL multiverse. the Katie that told Gomess about the Andromeda Key is the same Katie that joined SEES is the same Katie that got his heart stolen is the same Katie that got rescued from an apocalypse, but he’s sort of... existing simultaneously in different realities with slight “adjustments” to his personal history depending on what universe he’s encountered in. he also exists “outside of canon”, so some of the weirder memories he has are from rewrites or scrapped plotlines or noncanon moments that sometimes clip into canon when theyre not supposed to. apocalypse!Katie is the “primary”/original Katie, and that’s where all his weird meta knowledge comes from.

it’s... really confusing, and nobody really “gets” it, least of all Katie himself. he just knows that he’s ended up with a bunch of cool powers, although he’s not  really sure what he’s doing and has been a villain at least two universes. he also has a severe case of main character-itis (hence getting a Persona, getting his heart stolen, etc), and still isnt sure how to tell if he’s interacting with the “canon” versions of everybody or not. he’s at least unable to cause weird bizarre paradoxes by interacting with himself; trying to visit one of the universes he has an “echo” in just causes a perspective switch to the resident Katie. Katie also has access to all of his abilities as long as he’s not in a universe with a resident Katie; apocalypse!Katie has no abilities at all, starforce!Katie only has his FMian transformation, kh!Katie can only use his Keyblade, etc. this only starts being a thing after he “clicks” with his new existence.

he also has various outfits and aesthetics depending on universe, with the one i drew being his “outside canon“/default one. he gets cat ears! and Outsider eyes. Katie also has a bad habit of stealing things from universes he visits, and as a result has a collection of random things that he really shouldnt.

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DUDE YOUR FURSONA SOUNDS AMAZING I WANNA SEE IT!!!!!!

I dunno why but I always tend to have a soft spot for scary lookin monsters or aliens or whatever that have a kind and gentle personality

I think probably if I explained him that way, people would understand. "I like this character because he is a nice funny grandpa who talks in comforting old fashioned cuteness and sees the best in everybody. Also his hyperfocus on magic science is super relateable to me as an autistic person!" And like... He continues to be that, even as the scary giant monster final boss.

Seriously I just love this man so much because throughout the entire game it was kinda obvious he was gonna be the villain, it was like "aww damn he's too nice they're probably gonna do a twist". And then THE REAL TWIST is that he actually GENUINELY IS cute and nice, even though he also is the villain! He was a well-intentioned extremist kind of dude whose motivations were genuine love for his monster friends, and genuinely thinking everyone will be happier if we all become monsters too. And he still talks all cutesy wutesy while he's tearing the dimensional gate open and skipping through literal hell and turning himself into the goddamn Thing! It's an amazing masterpiece of narrative dissonance that somehow rockets him up my list of goddamn cutest existances ever created in all of fiction HE SOMEHOW BECAME EVEN CUTER AS THE GIANT FLAYED HAND OF GOD WITH A FACE

It takes some POWERFUL CUTE to stay cute while also terrifying the audience right out of their socks and into someone else's shoes I SYMPATHISED WITH HIM SO MUCH SERIOUSLY WHY DOES THE GAME LITERALLY SAY "THAT THING ISNT HUMAN ANYMORE, SO IT DOESNT DESERVE OUR SYMPATHY" like friggin RIGHT AFTER HE LITERALLY SAYS HIS MOTIVES ARE TO MAKE A HAPPY FAIRYTALE WORLD FOR ALL

Literal goddamn quote from the game

Literal

Literal quote from the game

Gigantic melting death monster: yay I wanna make everyone happy

Heroes: wow what an evil evilman surely he has no kindness anywhere in his black black heart

WERE YOU NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO YOUR OWN SCRIPT, DUDES

Dr Snapped did nothing wrong and deserves the world and deserves my hugs and I would adopt him as my grandpa if I could

Also I have confirmed this line is absolutely 100% accurate to the Japanese and its actually a pretty neat translation moment! In Japanese he uses a turn of phrase here that's associated with kindergarten teachers talking cutesy to the kids. Like "Everybody gather round!" or "let's all do our best!" or "it's group activity time!" But like.. that but BECOME MONSTERS lol. So it's kinda hard to translate cos it'd just literally be "let's become monsters", but the association of this particular word choice for "let's do that" is like.. togetherness happy activity time for the little children, hold teacher's hand so we don't get lost now. So I think rephrasing it entirely into a fairytale metaphor is a good way to keep the same sense of "cute teacher" when a literal translation would have lost that entirely.

I HAVE TOO MANY WORDS AND FEELINGS FOR THE SCARY DOCTOR AND HIS CUTIE SCARY CUTEYNESS

His true evil power is the power to make you cry for him

So YEAAAAAHHH iM FIRED UP IM GONNA MAKE MERCHANDISE WHERE MERCHANDISE DOES NOT EXIST Every child across the nation should hug a snappey doc!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also look at this hi def even spookier version of him from a game we didn't ever get in English THATS SO CRUEL

Apparantly it's just a short cameo appearance but he's VERY CUTE IN IT and is like "good children should eat darkness to grow up big and strong!"

Also in Japanese he has a distinctive laugh "nya ha ha~" and I'm sad that the dub changes it to just regular generic bad guy laugh. RESTORE HIS CUTEY GIGGLES

I'm sorry there are so many Words here, I just love this dumbass

I want to make Dr Snapped plushie but somehow that would be even more embarassing than all my other plushies.

I feel like.. at least normal people can vaguely understand collecting videogame merch when it's some recent videogame and some sort of character that looks similar enough to regular teddy bears I guess

But it'd take like a whole half hour conversation to explain why I have a cutesy plush version of a giant tumours demon who was once a mad scientist man

But then again apparantly there's cute merch of the dark souls bosses so at least one person on this earth understands this feel (I'm bad at those sorts of games tho so I've never played dark souls, but I WANNA HUG THE MONSTERS)

...I'm gonna go make soft doom doctor

I have super soft memory foam stuffing he will be AS SQUISHY AS HE IS IN THE GAME but like IN A CUTE WAY