#johann nimchuk

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Hey! I created the writing asks so I'll send you a couple, any OC you feel like:

pen, marker, crayon, copics, charcoal, tortillon, and eraser please!

Hi, thank you so much for asking and for making such a cool ask list!! I took a long time to answer haha. I wound up shuffling the names of my main adult OCs and answering these for whoever's name came up first!

Pen: what's one minor moment your character regrets? A small mistake, but something they "can't erase"?

Johann: I guess there’s no particular moment but a lot of small moments for this… but Johann regrets not picking up on his brother Laarni’s suicidal/depressive tendencies sooner. Johann had previously never suspected a thing--for good reason, since Laarni hides it from his brothers very well. After one close call when things get too tough for Laarni and Johann witnesses it, Johann becomes extremely vigilant, checking up on Laarni whenever he can--although subtly, since Laarni hates to think that his younger brothers are worrying about him.

Marker: what's one thing your character would never tattoo on their body, even if they were paid a million dollars for it?

Johann: Honestly if it was to get money for his family to help take care of them, Johann would do absolutely anything, no matter what it was. Even if he hated the tattoo, he’d do it for them.

Crayon: what was your OC like when they were four years old? Were they loud?  Shy? Were they the resident "weird kid" or did they get along with others their age?

CJ: CJ was extremely spoiled and bratty as a little child, and wouldn’t hesitate to scream and cry if things didn’t go her way. Outside of her temper tantrums though, she was extremely quiet. Even her dad was surprised if he heard her voice aside from screaming, and strangers would definitely never hear her speak.

Copics: what is this character's most expensive habit or hobby? Do they ever feel guilty about the money they spend on it?

Gareth: Gareth has no hobbies (usually). He devotes his entire life and work to trying to outdo his love-hate idol Clive’s past feats. Instead of using mechanical means the way Clive did, Gareth uses computers. Since my Gareth story happens in the 1980s, a computer hobby would be extremely expensive, especially for the powerful virtual reality-type machines Gareth is trying to build.  Gareth eventually does try out more hobbies thanks to his mom-crush Flora’s urging, particularly gardening. Rather than feeling guilty about the money aspect of it though, he more feels guilty or frustrated about spending any time on anything other than his plans to outdo Clive. He would never do it if it weren’t for Flora convincing him.

Charcoal: share any unique physical features about this character that are not scars or tattoos.

Pearl: I guess the main thing for Pearl is that she’s very tall (six feet) and looks enough like her brother that they can be mistaken for each other from a distance, although they aren’t twins and are several years apart from each other. She and her brother sometimes called themselves “the Caine brothers” in their early years establishing their robotics company, and the name was rarely questioned.

Tortillon: does your OC "blend in" with the people around them? Physically? Metaphorically?

Glynrie: Glynrie doesn’t physically blend in at all. He’s the only elf and acts quite archaically in a modern city filled with humans. Because of this, as well as because of being a butler, Glynrie tries to stay in the background as much as he can, devoting himself to serving the Khora company and watching out for another servant of the family, Walidah, who is also a homebody. If Glynrie ever left the Khora mansion, he’d definitely stand out, but he blends in well with the Khora family.

Eraser: what's one way this character has changed over time? Either over the course of their story, or over the course of designing them as an author.

Glynrie: Glynrie is an expy of an elf butler named Galion from The Hobbit. Galion doesn’t get to do much in the book, but I really loved him and wrote a ton of fanfics about him, developing him so much that he felt like my own character. I really wanted to keep using Galion even outside of the Tolkien world, so I created Glynrie, who is still an elf butler, but has a much different backstory and different relationships with people around him. Glynrie still has the borderline(?) OCD that I gave to Galion, but now also has a very big protective streak that the old character didn’t really have, as he takes care of his friend and fellow servant Walidah and also works to help his boss Ms Shinzou with anything she needs. I also canonized Glynrie being aroace now; Galion had been “coded” that way even if I didn’t know what that was when I was a kid writing him, but it’s official now.

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Would you do 2, 12, 22 for the OC asks? Pick characters as you see fit :)

Thank you so much!! I haven't talked about my boy Johann enough on here so I picked him :)

2: What would break your OC beyond repair? Has it happened?

Johann is older than his brother Kerlie in most worlds, but in the very tragic 1920s world, he’s quite a bit younger than Kerlie. The two of them grew up in an orphanage together, and Johann really looked up to Kerlie, seeing him as an older brother. When Kerlie turned 18, he ran away from the orphanage. Johann couldn’t stand living without him and followed him, but wasn’t able to find him and was taken in by another family. He tries to get in contact with Kerlie for years, but isn’t able to, and when he finally meets him again, Kerlie doesn’t recognize him. Johann is deeply hurt by this, but hopes that someday Kerlie will remember him. But one day, he hears awful news. Kerlie’s body was discovered outside of the city. Kerlie will never remember him again. They will never have the same relationship again. They will never see each other again.

Johann breaks. He runs away from the family that took care of him all these years and becomes a literal tragic clown in the circus DJKHFDD he abandons everything about his whole life because he just can’t handle it anymore. Everything he ever worked for is gone. He’s a broken shell of himself for years, putting on a performance and a fake smile, but never feeling it genuinely. Maybe someday, he’ll find some peace about it all, but he’ll never be the same person he was before.

12: To what extent would your OC go to survive?

Johann doesn’t care a whole lot about his own survival on its own: he takes after his older brother Laarni a little too much in that way. At the same time, Johann knows that his survival is important for the sake of his brothers’ safety. If it was for his brothers’ good, he would do everything he could for them. Johann seems very easygoing and snarky on the surface, and it takes a lot to upset him, but to protect them (and by extension, himself) he would probably even kill.

22: What is your OC the most guilty about?

Johann feels really guilty about all of the sacrifices that his older brother Laarni went through when raising him and Kerlie. The three of them are adopted brothers who were previously childhood friends: in our main universe for them, their parents all died in a horrible accident, and Laarni, the oldest of the three, stepped up to take care of them all, with no adults around to help them. Johann, as the middle brother, helped out where he could, but he was blind to a lot of the things that Laarni suffered through, since Laarni went so far to conceal them. Laarni would skip out on food so that his brothers could eat, and would barely sleep so that somebody was watching over them to keep them safe.

As an adult, Johann understands a lot more about what Laarni went through. Of course, he was just a kid himself, and their situation growing up wasn’t good for any of them. It’s not his fault that Laarni suffered; it’s the fault of the horrible situation they all went through. But still, he feels awful about what Laarni sacrificed for them, and tries really hard to avoid putting any more burdens on him than he has to.