#literally my oc who is closest to being Just A Human Guy

[puppercupboard]

this is my gay little cryokinetic oc misha ♥ he was gearing up towards being a professional figure skater when his powers manifest and nearly a decade later is still pissy about the fact he had to stop skating competitively

[solar-tl-27]

OH HEY WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT I’M BACK

Yall never get regular posts from me omg you guys I’M SO SORRYYYY

but but but but but ya’ll wont believe it

I have been… DOING ART?! youuuuu heard that right folks i me MYSELF AM d-doing art.

Ok soooo i got a few updates

Life is still incredibly hectic i swear i feel like one of those fanfic writers tha5 post like

Hey sorry it took 8 years i was in a coma! But thankfully that’s not… entirely the case?

I’m on the list for an appointment to see if i have adhd because hearing my friends who are diagnosed and medicated talk about literally MY EXACT ISSUES AND IT HELPING i was like… damm maybe it is the good ol case of audhd … so hopefully hopefully i can get something to help with that!

Uhhh in other news I’m saving for a laptop so i can get into video editing and idk make some animation memes and animatics!

But ofcourse

Ofcourse

I promised art let’s not dwindle any more!

First of all we have some art i did for my story quest for the moon (i did blur out a bit just cuz well idk my audience that well so i’ll be bluring it even though it takes away a bit of context)

Then another piece for that series and then… omg.. no way is that?! Is it?!

Hehe surprise let’s get into the first art!

3 GOT ANOTHER REDESIGN AND MIGUELS’S FIRST FULL ART

Welcome welcome to my sweet sweet sweet baby angel boy Three that’s right he’s been on my mind again so i drew him… kinda like a splash art? If he was in a gacha game very cute very demure (if that meme’s old already… no it’s not)

And then we have THE VILLAIN of quest for the moon

Miguel also our main character ash in the corner hiiii ash

Miguel is basically like the mentor that’s secretly just try to steal your powers type he’s very much an opportunist and i love to draw him and loooove to hate him! This piece is basically foreshadowing extravaganza that will… eventually be clear i swear I promise I PROMISE but for now enjoy the piece it took sooo long

Next art!

This is still a work in progress it’s not done yet but I’m incredibly proud of it soooooo I’m showing it anyway and then we’ll get into the surprise

MEET MY SON ALEXANDER

ohhh my goodness after being in art block for so long it feels so nice to just get a solid redes out i’m soooo happy with how he’s turning out AA that’s my son MY BOY one of my oldest oc’s from so so so so long ago and fun fact i drew both pieces with the exact same brush heheheh the headshot next to him is his brother phoenix

Ok NOW FOR THE SURPRISE

Guess what! That’s right i have actually ACTUALLY started finding my way into the new project reignited

That’s right we got a MAIN CAST now

Now obviously some are.. easy to find the original inspiration for but they won’t be that similar to the redesigns they used to be no no no

Welcome the new crew of project reignited!

Muse, Plume, Thea, Orianne & caelusss

Muse is the main character a human boy who is just trying his best who gets swooped up into helping a dragon girl save her kingdom and the magical dimension while also fighting to preserve his home town!

Plume a dragon girl (plume, bloom you get the gist) who somehow ended up on earth is now tasked to find help to save her people and mother while also discovering the beauty of earth

Thea the daughter of an urban development company ceo and the love interest of muse (did i get myself this invested into a ship that i made it canon here… yes.) she’s a frail girl but is forced to step in as her fathers ideas turn from helpful to greedy and destructive

Orianne Thea and Muse’s friend and the more motherly of the group but faced with difficult circumstances and changes in her life can cause her to lash out as her life is completely steered of its course by magic and her dad remarrying.

Caelus! Muse’s closest friend a pretty chill guy that works at an icecream parlour during the week and helps his family with their market food stand in the weekend, he really wants to be a culinary chef but doesn’t know if he can truly achieve his goals in his hometown.

That’s the gang this will from now on be an original concept and no longer a winx rewrite yes winx will be an inspiration for this work but i do not intend to go the fairy route nor make the world building as big as i had made it in my rewrite… what you will see is me taking my rewritten work as a basis for this story considering i have basically rewritten my version of domino, zenith and solaria from scratch sooooo SWEET BABY BOY CRYOS MY BABY will be making a return later on in this story he’s mine he’s my son my boy i can do with his character whatever i pleaseeee ok ty

That’s the update that’s the post thank you all for enjoying my content and my terrible upload schedule life had beeeeeen hectic ty ty hope ya’ll stay for more and if this was your first post of mine you saw…. Check out my other work pls and thank u

Oki

BYEEEEE

[whumpsday]

i'm gonna talk about my very first ocs because i feel like they deserve it :) when i was a kid i didn't quite have the imagination yet to create whole worlds, so my ocs were often inserts into existing things i was into.

this is a very long post with a lot of useless personal information, and is more a diary entry than anything.

i had many more ocs than what's listed here, but i can't remember most of them, so here are just the ones i remember.

childhood:

at 7, the very first oc i can ever remember making was Maya, a pokemon oc. she was the fourth member of team rocket in the anime canon, and could shapeshift between being a human and a celebi. i remember her being "older" but that could mean anything from a middle schooler to an adult.

also pokemon-related but not quite an oc, i had a lot of fakemon around that time. the only one i remember was a raccoon-like one named Tyco.

at 9, soon after was Tanya, a fairly oddparents oc. she was a little girl who was friends with the main character.

at 10, i really got into oc-making, and the next bunch are all from when i was about 10.

i started getting into "somewhat whumpier" things and made my first "edgy" oc, Deepheart, for warrior cats. she was a black cat with purple eyes and a tragic backstory i can't remember, who eventually got with stormfur.

i was very into danny phantom and continued my tragic backstory experiments with Chelsea. she was a ghost and the younger sister of ember (she was basically an ember recolor) who died in the same fire. she also had fire+music powers, but a polar opposite personality to ember (she was nice).

i can't remember the specifics or names of the ocs i made for a bunch of these, but i also made oc-inserts for the following around this time:

total drama island - multiple ocs, i think i had a whole fancast, which was the closest i got around this time to making an original story.

monster buster club - character existed to be friends with chris, who was my favorite. she was a monster in disguise or something of that nature.

percy jackson - i definitely had one and i was REALLY into it, but can't even remember what god she was a daughter of.

in middle school as i entered early teenhood, i started reading YA books. sadly, my taste was not that great.

preteen:

at 12, i made Chelsea (reused the name from the danny phantom oc because i just rly liked the name), a twilight oc. she was the first vampire oc i ever made, so i guess she was the start of All This. she was the youngest cullen at 14 years old (i do not remember if this was a chronological age or just a physical age and i think i was too oblivious to realize just how significant that difference was), and had a Forbidden Romance with seth, the werewolf kid.

at 13, i realized i could have ocs that were boys! a fantastic revelation! technically i already had ones from the total drama fanseason i had in my head but they were all side characters. made my first main guy, Oliver, a scott pilgrim oc and ramona's 8th ex-boyfriend.

i made a LOT of other ocs for YA books in middle school, but i don't remember much about the others.

teenhood - homestuck:

at 15, i got into homestuck, and that was when things got out of control.

i started with a literal self-insert with my birthname, who eventually got split into 2 alt-timeline versions of herself (i was a girl at the time), one who went with dave and rose during the timeskip and one who went with john and jade during the timeskip. when they met back up, they fell in love and got together, which i think might be the truest expression of self-love i've ever had.

but it didn't end there. i got really into making fantrolls, and made TONS of them. i don't remember their names very well (esp bc they were all made up alien names) but i remember my favorites: a bronzeblood with an eyepatch whose name started with a P, and a violetblood whose name started with an I.

the violetblood was probably my first true whumpee. while violetbloods are normally amphibious, he was born with lungs that don't work, and was forced to remain underwater at all times since he could only use his gills. when sgrub caused the apocalypse, he had a little tank he would stay in on the ship. and when gamzee started killing everyone, he couldn't get away.

this was also where i branched out into creating original characters not tied to an existing IP!!! FINALLY!!! it all started with fantrolls. i made two more significant sets of fantrolls: one centering around an abnormally overpowered purpleblood who had his memory erased and used to be a cruel whumper-type (and a set of supporting characters to go with him), and one centering around a purpleblood who'd been tortured and the lowblood who acted as his caretaker. you can tell i was very much getting into whump at this point, despite not yet knowing the term.

i eventually decided that homestuck's lore was not equipped to carry the stories i wanted to tell for those two, and split them each off into original universes. i am not into homestuck anymore and it's really a relic of its time, but it impacted me quite a lot creatively.

teenhood - original stories:

the amnesia guy came to be named Nova, my first wholly-original character. he existed in a magic/fantasy type universe, and was the most powerful magic-user in his world. he'd previously been extremely evil and caused untold carnage, countless people tortured to death. the heroes, after realizing they could not stop him, decided to try to wipe his memory instead. this did, in fact, work. Nova became a character saddled by EXTREME ANGST about his past wrongs. to make it worse, his pre-memory-wipe evil self eventually started to slowly come back as a separate entity in his mind, essentially haunting him. i daydreamed about Nova for a long, long time, and occasionally still do.

the whumpee-caretaker duo became Dwar and Clobu, members of an original alien species i came up with. unlike Nova's story, which became so divorced from his fantroll beginnings that his origin was basically unrecognizable, this one remained heavily homestuck-inspired. the aliens here were grouped/inspired by the layers of the atmosphere, rather than the signs of the zodiac. Dwar (the whumpee) had skin that looked like the night sky, dark blue with stars all over, while Clobu (the caretaker) looked like a cloudy day. they were pretty :) these guys are a very very early inspiration for the Kane & Jim dynamic.

i also started making non-IP-related ocs without "converting" them around this time. in particular, i became very interested in demons.

first i made Charlie, a teenage demon raised by humans who just wanted to be A Normal Kid. he played the guitar and used tumblr and was all in all very nonthreatening and normal. he was a bit boring.

at about 16, i later made Nicky, a "redo" of the Charlie concept but with more pizzazz. his mother had brought him on a hunt (for humans to kill and eat) while he was an infant, and she was killed by a demon hunter. the hunter couldn't bring herself to kill the baby, so she took him in and raised him instead. Nicky's story is very very long, because he is the only oc from my childhood i still regularly daydream about to this day, and i have been building him up for a decade. some highlights:

accidentally burns his adoptive mom when he's a little boy who's just gotten his fire powers, and it's what makes him realize he never wants to hurt people. she forever has a scar shaped like his tiny little 5-year-old hand.

demons generally need to eat human flesh to be healthy. this is obviously not something Nicky wants to do or even feasibly can do when he's younger. he eats a lot of other meat (mainly pork), and is basically constantly hungry. he carries jerky around with him all the time to snack on.

as a young adult, he and his (human) best friend (mutual pining crush) are stuck in a cave (entrance blocked by rocks) with a bunch of demons waiting to kill them when they leave. Nicky knows he's not strong enough to defeat them, but he could be if he wasn't malnourished. in a moment of desperation, his friend ends up giving him a few fingers to eat so they can make it out alive, and he feels guilty forever that it's the best thing he's ever tasted.

his mom is killed by demons in a fight in his early 20s, and he goes on a ballistic rampage murdering everyone in sight. after this, he runs away and ends up moving to hell.

when he's in his 40s, he sees a little human girl who's been captured and brought to hell, and quickly rescues her. he can't find a way to smuggle her back to earth, so he ends up raising her in his apartment.

when he does eventually get her back to earth years later, he moves in with her dad and they co-parent. becomes a love triangle thing with the dad and his childhood friend who he eventually reconnects with- not for the usual "you have to choose one!" reasons that i hate, but because his relationships with each are honestly very tumultuous.

my other early demon oc was Crimson, a magicless demon who'd been captured by hunters and tortured until a kind hunter rescued him and became his caretaker. this character would later become Kane, but originally there was no "former whumper" backstory, he was just a pathetic little guy.

at 16, my other main obsession as a teenager was dangan ronpa, and of course i made several dangan ronpa ocs whose names i can't remember. one of them was a girl who had a fierce rivalry with togami. i started getting into g/t around this time, and liked to play around with that with my dangan ronpa oc for some reason. i don't know why, it's not like DR had any kind of g/t in it. but i would always imagine a story where togami became tiny and he and my oc came to a begrudging alliance as they tried to fix it.

i also ended up converting this into an original story, taking place in a low-fantasy universe, where a bully character Damien got shrunk by magic, kept in a jar, and was tortured by some of his former victims. his one victim who thinks this is fucked up (can't remember his name) rescued him, and they put aside their differences to fix it. i just love reluctant caretakers and whumper-turned-whumpees.

and that's all the notable ocs i can think of from my childhood! figure they deserve at least a small space on my blog :) and i still might write Nova, Nicky, or Damien's stories someday.

[morrigan-sims]

🦉Positivity owl reporting for duty! This was sent by a friend who wants you to smile as much as your posts make them smile. Please list five things that make you unique, four things you are super passionate about and why, OR three of your favorite memories. Feel free to send the owl to those who you feel deserve to smile🦉

Augh, thank you anon! This is super sweet to log onto after a night of no sleep and in the middle of working on one of two huge assignments due this week.

I'm going to do 4 things I'm passionate about, I think.

[Putting this under the cut because it got really really long.]

D&D I love the collaborative storytelling of it all. That my little guy and your little guy and a few other people's little guys are all working together to write a story, and it's just happening. I am eternally grateful that I started playing d&d my freshman year of college, and even though it's only been in my life for just over 2 years, I literally cannot imagine where I would be now without it. This game is not just my special interest but also my lifeline, and it means the world to me. I could yammer on about any of my campaigns for hours on end, and I have a near-encyclopedic knowledge of rules and spells. (The latter of which is very funny given that I've never played a full caster.) I also love homebrewing things, and I've undergone some pretty intense homebrew projects for the DM of my Sunday game (including stat blocks and maps for three sailing ships, plus rules for ship combat). I also have vague ideas for campaigns of my own that I would love to DM someday.

My OCs Be they for d&d or for any of my other writing projects (RTQ/ATQH I miss you...), I could talk for hours about my original characters. I have so much to say about all of them, and I know more than I would ever need to know, and more than anyone would ever care to ask. Character creation is one of my favorite things to do, and it comes to me more easily than writing a complete story, so I have countless characters who exist in a vacuum with no world or story to support them. But I still love them anyways. I will gladly ramble about my characters anytime, so feel free to send me an ask if you're ever curious about anyone I post.

Reading Reading has been my number one source of comfort and escapism for as long as I can remember. I taught myself to read when I was 3, without my parents even being aware of it until I started reading roadsigns at random. I have over 270 books in my bedroom, and that number is ever-growing, since books are one of my most frequent impulse purchases. (In fact I have another 6-10 books waiting for me when I get back to my dad's house this weekend...) I'm always looking for more recommendations or people to yell about books with, so if you're an avid reader, don't be afraid to send me a message!!

My Friends I spent a lot of time lonely as a kid, and I didn't really start making friends until I came to tumblr and discord. All of my closest friends I've met through one or both of those platforms. I absolutely adore all of them, and I'm so lucky to have found these amazing people. I will do my best to always shower them with the love they deserve. I'm generally a very chatty and outgoing person (sometimes to an extreme degree that ends up scaring off potential friends), and when I say that I'm okay with people messaging me out of the blue, I 100% mean it.

Animals I mean, I'm a zoology student, so I don't think this one is surprising in the slightest. I have essentially zero empathy for humans, but I've always felt more for animals. Not only are all 4 of my cats (2 at my dad's, 2 at my mom's) the loves of my life who I would kill and die for, I also want to work with animals for the rest of my life. Particularly my interest is in animal behavior, and I want to do enrichment work in a zoo setting. I am a nearly endless repository of animal facts, and my biology of mammals class that I'm taking this semester is only adding to that.

(BONUS) Video Games I've been a big fan of video games since middle school, but it wasn't until about my freshman year of college that I started really cementing my taste in games. I had been playing a lot of life sims, but none of them managed to hold my interest for very long. The first turn-based/RPG game I really played with Wildermyth. Eventually I starting playing Divinity: Original Sin 2, after having owned it for almost a year, and I was in love. From there I moved on to Slay the Spire, Baldur's Gate 3, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, to name a few. (Other games I've enjoyed in the recent past include Roots of Yggdrasil, Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew, and Rogue Waters.) I have a very deep love of turn-based combat, story-based RPGs, and rogue-likes or rogue-lites, so anything that has some or all of those elements is going to be an immediate love from me. (Turn-based combat is almost a must for me, though. Despite greatly enjoying the story of Dragon Age: Origins, the god-awful combat has prevented me from making any progress beyond Morrigan's recruitment.)

[centriollo]

Honestly, I've been feeling a bit alone in this oc x canon stuff. I know that nobody cares about my ships besides me, but I just wish I could talk about it with somebody who is an actual human.

So, because I'm sad, I decided to answer these questions made by @/zibizcusloon, this post be specific, and develop a bit more Cass and Wallace’s relationship. So let's go!! >:3

🤝: How did they meet in the first place? What was there first impression of each other?

My main idea is that they met because of Scott (the easiest thing lol). This guy accidentally clicked on sites he shouldn’t have, and now Wallace’s computer is full with weird viruses. Since Cass is smart and a nerd (kind of), she managed to fix it temporally. Cass had to pay them a visit, and the first impression she had of Wallace was that he needed some dignity, and why the hell was that guy almost naked.

🫶: Who ended up falling first? Which of them actually realized that they’d fallen in love first?

Cass fell first, duh. After a certain event, she saw sparks. After that, she accepted her feelings, and then she fell even harder for Wallace.

🦀: How did they handle realizing they were in love? Embarrassed? Nervous? Mad?

Cass literally went nuts for him. Her friends commentary, and her own experiences made her realize she was, in fact, in love. At first, she felt relieved, but then very sad and stupid because, obviously, he would never feel the same for her… or maybe he will

🫣: Who stumbled the most with their feelings around the other? How much did the other person notice?

This is something hard because Cass definitely went nuts for him. Wallace did notice, but here is the thing: he didn't want to admit/was in denial of his relationship with Cass. Yes, they kiss, but only when they're drunk. Yes, they hold hands. Yes, they tend to see each other in their underwear, but this is normal in friendships that involve a gay dude and a girl, right? For me, I think both of them will struggle badly, but mostly Wallace because he was in a huge denial and feeling repression. Cass did notice this about this, but she tried to convince herself it was normal because they were friends. She didn't want to assume things that could hurt her.

🦅: How good are their friends at being wingmen? Do they even help at all or just sit back watching the pining with a bag of popcorn?

Well, for Wallace, I think he won't talk about this situation with Scott. Pilgrim is too clueless and emotionally absent for Wallace. And Cass, she will vent on her closest friends. Those friends of hers support Cass a lot, and will do anything for her (and for the sake of the drama).

💕: Who confessed first and how? Did it go as planned or did shenanigans ensue?

Cass confessed first. I’m still not sure how, help.

🦋: How long did it take them to get out of the awkward early relationship stage? Have they gotten more confident around each other?

Honestly? I think they would get out of this awkward stage pretty quickly. Both of them are bold, cocky, flirtatious, sassy… and since they had repressed feelings for each other (mostly Wallace), it will come very natural for them. Plus, they were besties before the mess they caused, so they already feel confident around each other.

❤️‍🔥: Who tends to take the lead with showing affection?

Wallace starts, and Cass keep it up from there.

💔: Do they have any previous relationship experience from past partners? How does it reflect on how they handle their current one?

Oh my God, this one is hard. I mean, Wallace has, like, millions of hookups, while Cass was a gold digger when she was younger, and had two boyfriends. At first, Cass didn’t really mind, because Wallace was a good friend after all, and she listens, but doesn’t judge. Once she fell in love with him, she felt bad because he had so many hook ups, all of them men, she definitely didn’t stand a chance. And once they became a couple, Cass was worried about all that contact Wallace had, so both of them took tests to make sure they didn’t have something weird. Cass had an era where she was a gold digger. She would look for older, rich men, and that stopped once one of her sugar daddies died. Wallace doesn't mind too much, since it happened time ago and she left the business years back. Now Cass has two exes: one from her high school era, and another one she dated after her cunt/gold digger era, called Markus. Wallace fucked Markus. Yes, he knew he was Cass’ ex. Yeah. Next question

😑: How easily do they get jealous and how do they handle it?

Honestly, they love each other so much to have the minimum interest on someone else. They both know that, so they are not really worried about the whole cheating thing, so they don't really get jealous. Plus, they suffered so much for each other. Make the pain worth!!

🐱: Do they have pet names for each other, if so what are they? How does their partner feel about their pet name?

Sure they have, like “babe”, “baby”; some corny shit like that. They are very used to pet names, so when one of them doesn’t use them, the other one will be like “Why are you talking to me like that?” “Are you mad at me or sum?”. Obviously, this is just playful banter. They don’t really take it personally

🌙: Who has to force the other into having healthy sleeping habits? How well does that go for em?

I think Wallace, because Cass can get obsessed with work from time to time and sleep very late, working at the computer. So he would scold her, or even keep her company, or keeping her company while scolding her.

🗣️: Who’s the one that will ramble on about their highly specific interest while the other just sits back and nods along?

My god, they're professional gossipers. Since they were just friends, they would spend HOURS on the phone/meeting gossiping. They're both divas, so it would be difficult to pick the one who talks the most. Maybe they would interrupt each other a lot lol.

🐕: Do they have any pets together? If one of them had a pet from before their relationship how well does the pet get along with their partner? Do they have the pets approval or does said pet sit in between them and their partner any time they try to make a move?

They do not have pets (when they lived apart, they were too broke to take care of one) but once they start living together (and are financially stable) they adopt a little parrot. This parrot would learn all types of bad words, don't doubt it. The parrot will interrupt them both a lot with its screams.

✏️: How canon compliant are you with them? Do you stick pretty close or just have fun cause it’s your ship so no one can tell you what to do otherwise?

I try to keep Wallace’s personality as close to the canon as possible. Obviously, I'm not respecting the canon since I'm pairing him with a girl, but I'm confident about his personality

💀: If the canon character is canonically dead, how did your OC handle their death? (Or did you completely omit their death cause fuck canon?)

Wallace is not dead, thank god. I think he would die of kidney failure. Or maybe that disease where the person throws up blood and dies.

💧: How well do they comfort each other when they’re upset?

Talking a lot of shit about everyone. Getting drunk. Making out. Having sex. Cuddling. Hugging. Going shopping…

🧸: Would they want to have kids together? If so what are their kid(s) like? How are they as parents?

I don't really think they will have kids in the future. Too busy with partying in their youth; too lazy and tired to take care of kids as older people. But let's assume they had kids at some point: two little twin girls. Ginger like their mom, but they keep their father’s face. Cass would be the scary and energetic mother, while Wallace would be the chill dad who would embarrass you for fun and make dad jokes on purpose.

👁️: What exactly do they want with their future with each other? Is that something they think of often or do they just stay in the moment?

They don't really think too much about their future. They live in the present, and that is why they didn't really think about having children. But sometimes they do think about moving to another place, or traveling, or maybe buying new furniture. All those short-term objectives are what they are really worried about.

🕊️: Give just a general domestic tidbit for em (things they like about each other, routines, habits, and just overall sweet stuff)

Cass and Wallace are very touchy with each other. They don't mind showing their love in public. Cass would stick her hand into Wallace's back pocket. Or Wells would cling to Cass’s arm, etc. I need more ideas lol.

[fionajames]

ocs pt. 2

apologies but i love making characters

GUYS IM SO SORRY FOR BEING ABSENT TODAY, I HAD TO WORK ON AN ASSIGNMENT AND THEN DRIVE AN HOUR TO MY COUSINS' PLACE FOR A BIRTHDAY AND THEN DRIVE AN HOUR BACK PLUS IVE BEEN TAKING CARE OF MY LITTLE BRO AND SIS

@lovejoysoots u asked to be tagged so here :) also, hope its okay i included xane in taki's info!

GUYS REQUEST.

ALSO, I REALISE KNOW IVE ONLY JUST MENTIONED THIS, BUT IF Y'ALL WANT I CAN WRITE AN 'X READER' WITH MY OC IF U LIKE THEM THAT MUCH BUT YOU. HAVE. TO. TELL. ME.

ANYWAYS, ENJOY, AND SORRY AGAIN

Taki Caileth

Taki is a Nautolan Bounty Hunter with dark violet skin and magenta, lilac and pastel purple. His eyes are purely black (as Nautolan eyes usually are).

He's eighteen in 22 BBY and became a Bounty Hunter when he was merely a kid - because he grew up on Glee Anslem until he was eight and then was hurriedly taken away, growing up on Tatooine and Corellia, as well as all over the galaxy.

He fights best with a sword or a blaster rifle. Taki is decently well-known as a Bounty Hunter under the name of Maverick (not related to Top Gun, it literally means an independent person). Whilst many know Maverick, not many know Taki.

Taki works - as the word maverick means - independently. It's not because he hates people or anything but because of trust issues after his family's death.

During the Clone War, Taki sides with whoever pays - and usually the GAR, because he feels bad for the clones. Not the senate, not the republic, not the Jedi, the clones.

He's smart and calculating yet sarcastic and loyal. His loyalty can be his downfall as he tends to trust easily and so his solution is to not get too close to anyone.

On several occasions, Taki has teamed up with fellow Bounty Hunter Xane. They are a scarily and shockingly good team and share several views over things, although Taki sides with the GAR more, Xane has a disliking towards a certain Jedi named Anakin Skywalker.

Although Taki is moving alot, he has a place on the lower levels of Coruscant which he uses as a base. 

During the war, as everyone is desperate for money, Bounty Hunters become very valuable. One Bounty Hunter was doing a job for the Separatists and kidnapped a Jedi Youngling - an eight year old Rodian boy. Desperately, the GAR hired Taki, who went and retrieved the boy. In the process, he lost his left leg from the knee down. In thanks, the Jedi gave him a black-metal prosthetic and paid him about 70% of what he was originally supposed to earn, even though the prosthetic cost about the same price as the original payment. Taki begins to side even more with the GAR because the Separatists captured an innocent child - which he sees as very wrong, as something similar happened to him when he was younger.

Taki doesn’t really have a best friend but he’s closest with Xane and the Rodian Youngling he rescued.

Satsuki Noriko

Satsuki is a Human girl with light freckled skin, short, fluffy (dyed) red hair and black eyes. She’s seventeen in 22 BBY. Her grandmother was a Mandalorian who left Mandalore for reasons she refuses to explain.

Satsuki has a shop on the middle layers of Coruscant where she paints armour and helmets, as well as ships and speeders occasionally. When the clone wars came around, Satsuki decided to increase her work hours - in hopes of getting more customers and more money - so she could allow Clones to come in. Because the Clones aren’t paid, Satsuki doesn’t charge them for any money.

She’s kind and generous, but also sarcastic and stubborn. Her best friend is a Clone trooper named Trinket. Trinket once saved an old, rich woman off-planet who insisted on giving him her expensive jewellery as thanks. Trinket gave all of it to Satsuki as payment for the paints, materials and her time on behalf of all the Clones.  

Satsuki is part of a rather large family with one fourteen year old sister, one eight year old half-sister and one six year old half-brother. The family do family dinners weekly and Satsuki gets along best with her sisters and brother and grandmother. Her grandmother is your resident badass grandmother who is incredibly scary and awesome. 

Satsuki has and will beat up anyone who talks shit about the Clones and is their number 1 protector. She hangs out with Trinket, Fox, Rex, Cody and Vyper (the unnamed Commander of the 13th Battalion who I’ve named) the most.

Satsuki sees the Clones as her brothers and best friends, and has to be daily convinced not to sneak on board to join the fight. 

One time, Satsuki introduced Rex to her grandmother and her grandmother instantly called him bu’ad and he almost cried. 

The Clones and her have frequent conversations in pure Mando’a and it’s rather entertaining. 

Rin Keiko

Rin is a human girl with long black hair, dark brown eyes and tan skin. She’s 16 in 22 BBY making her one of the youngest Jedi Knights, although not the youngest ever. Rin fought during the Battle of Geonosis alongside her Mirialan Master Aoi Tsumugi. During the fight, Aoi was struck down and Rin was forced to continue fighting for her life, feeling alone even though surrounded by hundreds of other Jedi.

After the battle, Rin managed to convince the Council into Knighting her using her points that one; Aoi was going to Knight her in a few months anyway, two; they’re scarce for Knights and need all they can get, and three; she is ready. 

Rin was then Knighted and given a battalion of her own to lead as General. Alongside her Clone Commander Warden, of course.

Rin is what many describe as insane. She is protective to her troops and friends and would rather lay down her life than any of theirs. She’s reckless and smart but overconfident and cocky in a scary way. Her laugh is maniacal and intertwined with trauma, plus her troops are convinced she's either seeing ghosts or hearing voices. That doesn’t mean they don’t love her though! Their General is their sister and they are extremely horrified when they find out months after meeting her that she's still just a kid.

They are terrified for her when they accidentally somehow witness one of her PTSD-induced dreams (something a lot of Jedi get and are extremely dangerous) as she floated midair and objects swirled around her like a hurricane. She - frankly - looked possessed.

Rin starts losing it with the council a lot, laughing inappropriately and insanely and muttering loudly with huge grins. It’s terrifying for a sixteen year old to do that. If Rin wasn’t such a good fighter and General, the GAR would have probably forced her into some sort of insane asylum - or at least gotten her daily therapy.

Rin’s best friend is Warden and their like brother and sister, and all her friends are the Clones and some of the Jedi. 

Iniko Edge

Iniko is a fourteen-year-old Pantoran Youngling boy. He has violet blue skin (colour hex code; #4157A2), golden yellow eyes, soft yellow markings on his arms, legs and hands, and curly raven black hair that is actually very dark, deep purple but only really obvious in certain lights.

Iniko has a double-bladed dark purple lightsaber that can be split into two separate lightsabers (like Cal’s). He got both crystals during the Gathering, and panicked because of it. 

Iniko was apprenticed to Shaak Ti at the start of the Clone Wars and lives on Kamino. He trains there and has befriended many clones. 

Iniko is a kind and quiet boy, but not shy. He loves befriending the Clones but is a bit quiet at first. All the Clones see him like a younger brother. After a few months of training with his Master on Kamino, Iniko is sent to assist other Jedi with missions and use Kamino as his base instead of Coruscant. He is sent as a Commander alongside Captain Rook and a small battalion of Clones. They aren’t really like battalions such as the 212th and 501st because they're a lot smaller and they have never gone on missions just with themselves. They don’t even go on missions as much as others, because thats how they work.

Iniko secretly cries for every Clones’ death and is a sweet Clones’ rights supporter. He befriends lots of other battalions’ clones - such as Cody, Rex, Jesse and others. He is best friends with Captain Rook, Ahsoka - who he teams up with during missions and was actually créchemates with - and several members of his squad - in particular Tripp, Kaz and Tempest. 

Iniko also met Rin and sees her as an older sister, although Rook lectures him regularly about not taking after her reckless nature. Rook is extremely protective over him, and it shows through a lot. In fact, the entire squad - and others - are protective over him. But not in an obsessed way. They know that he can handle himself and that's what scares them. 

Iniko is a wholesome boy and very similar to Dhole in a few ways because of it, but also different. 

Iniko hides his breakdowns and illnesses and injuries and all that from everyone, because he believes he doesn’t matter as much. That’s one of the Temple’s faults. They brought up all the Younglings, Padawans, Knights and Masters to believe that peace was the most important thing, and to get it at all costs. Accidentally, they taught Iniko that he wasn’t worth as much as the battle, and so he remembers that. The Clones are slowly helping him but he’s still fragile.

DONE

HOPE U LIKED

IMMA GO HAVE A MENTAL BREAKDOWN

[clericofshadows]

17, 30 & 50 for OC questions (Regis of course!)

thanks for the ask :D

17. How easily would they be convinced to do something that goes against their morals?

Not easily, Regis would be figuratively (and likely literally as well) kicking and screaming to get out of the situation. His general attitude during ME2 was a good example of this; he finds working with Cerberus one of the worst things due to all he discovered in ME1, and every day he's on that ship feels like he is betraying himself and the life he got back. It helps that he has Zaeed and knows his motives for joining, but Regis definitely went off on Joker and Chakwas when he found out they deserted the Alliance to join Cerberus for him.

30. If they had the chance to be famous would they take it? If they are famous would they rather they weren't?

Regis is quite conflicted with his fame. On one hand, he has long since embraced the Butcher of Torfan title and what it represents. He knows what he is and what he can do, and honestly, he's okay with that. On the other hand, he never really wanted the Spectre position due to how utterly powerful it can make him in the grand scheme of things. So, I would say Regis is fine with his fame to an extent, but the events of ME3 causes him to wear quite thin, and he's not above chewing other leaders out for more of less placing most of the front lines and essential negotiations on him because he's Shepard and he must be able to do everything, right? But he's also willing to leverage his fame and his title when necessary, so... Regis likes when things benefit him, but for him the Spectre title was a little too far. He stays with the Spectres after the war despite this because of how important he is as the first human Spectre, but he's still not happy with it.

50. What is your favorite thing about them?

aw geez I love and hate this question because I can talk so much about it. I say this as someone who sculpted and edited textures and made mods for the damn guy, but damn am I proud of his in game appearance. I am so proud of myself for being able to just fireup the game, and take screenshots and make scenarios involving Regis and his lovers and his friends, and it's fucking great!

Modding aside, my other favorite thing about him is that he's become a way of presenting an alternative shepard path that may not be the popular one, but I don't care because I love it. He doesn't like Garrus, Liara is damn near his enemy number one after ME2 AND he does her mission last in ME1, he saves both Kaidan and Ash on Virmire and considers them his closest companions, he has casualties during the suicide mission and while he does eventually become civil with Miranda and Jacob, he never really lets his walls down around them, he's not afraid to talk back and he chews out the Asari for thessia and all the 'blame' that's put on him, and so on. He's an angry, judgmental, stubborn, and passionate boy that's full of love for the few people he trusts and lets in and I just adore him. And recently, I've added Zaeed to his endgame relationship and I'm enjoying the hell out of that ;)

[micia-posts-stuff]

The things I want to do with my OC Roise is to explore a Shadow Adult's complex Life, since we barely have any deep look into the Adults of Shadows House, so I tried to fill in the blanks with her as my Muse, she's an extra to the main canon narrative while being her own Protag of her story, I think that everyone is the protagonist of their stories and it's a good way to explore them

Roise has her plot planned out to portray her Life since she started as a child all the way to being a 3rd Floor Adult

And ofc her messy relationship with Anthony and it's really horrid, cuz Roise is literally just existing and Anthony basically saw her as his Muse or whatever idealized image he has of her, all because Roise has some outstanding differences compared to other Shadows on her level, well one of which is that Roise sees Anthony for Anthony, she always has difficulty blending him with Christopher and treat them as totally two different beings, which is why Anthony is obsessed with her, believing it's Love, because Roise sees him, there aren't many characters that fully understand Anthony when I think about it: They seem to understand parts of him, not entirely, but Roise understands him to his core, I would also give Anthony some gentle treatment just to further understand his character since well, Anthony feels worse in my Fanon, it's like giving this guy someone he can love with all his heart and basically it turn into a nightmare

Plus understanding Anthony by looking past his dark part is really something, you can say I and Roise herself finds him rather pitiful, pathetic even

It may be cliched but I always follow Anthony's canon characterization closely while making my Fanon version of him so yeah, this Anthony isn't too far off from the OG Anthony, only that he got something that should never be near him: A love interest

I suppose giving Anthony someone who fully understands him is out of my pity towards him because it seems that in Canon, there will probably be no one who truly understands him at all, neither Jeremy, Kate and Alfred really understand him, characters supposed to be the closest to this guy seem to understand him well, it's not a bad thing really cuz Anthony is a freaking menace and I can't blame Kate cuz she's a child and still has a lot to learn

It may be a huge bias of mine but I suppose monsters should get their chances to be understood, even if it's proven meaningless in the end, that's why I gave Roise to Anthony, a Beauty who understands him, but even so, it doesn't mean she'll ever agree with him

Anthony is such a great case of a Villain, I hate him but is he a fascinating subject to write, he's like my psychological horror study case

It's so nice to share my OC stuff with someone new

Interesting!

Also just to add something. Yeah, I agree that the adult wing is quite fascinating, I wished they had done something more with it. Maybe Thomas will give us glimpses into the adults life eventually.

I actually just wrote a post about the First Floor Shadows because I find the link between being an adult and unification quite interesting. The fact that all of them were basically forced to kill a human without realizing it is quite disturbing and I would have liked a more in-depth look into that. Right now the manga seems to portray everyone in the adult wing as evil, coming from a manga that gave us Patrick and Douglas is quite strange, because all of them were brainwashed and forced into unification, so I would have liked a bit more nuisance, but who knows, the story is not over yet.

Anthony is quite the subject, although I have to admit he was a bit more interesting when he was more morally grey. Since we already have an antagonist, having Anthony in the middle and not totally evil could have added something more, but we'll see. And since Shadows House has always been very detailed with its portrayal of cults, I guess having a character that was raised with such a superiority complex because he's supposed to be the successor, is an interesting addition to that topic. I just wished they had shown it a bit better, because from his flashback it really seems he developed his superiority complex all by himself, while everyone else was telling him to stop, not really encouraging him, because they mostly show us the parts of the story where every member of the Mirror House has given up on the cause. It's said that ever since he was a child he was told he was special, but not really shown that much, so I think it falls a bit flat. But the story is not over so we'll see what they do with that.

[mohluskiepedard]

Rating ATLA Characters literally only from what I’ve seen in fandom

or: posts that probably shouldn’t be on my writeblr except I don’t have a sideblog

the context here is it’s half midnight and I have never seen ATLA except I have opinions now apparently so here we go whoop de do- 

I’m also not actually rating them like numerically that’s too much work i’m just stating opinions I know I’m a fraud

AANG

- A child?  - A son?  - he is Baby. but also. he has had It Rough  - would make the updog joke - has unspeakable power or smth and everyone says he’s better than the Korra girl who comes after him but honestly tastes like sexism to me - doesn’t kill people because he’s like twelve, right? he’s like twelve so he refuses to kill people - I stan honestly - less twelve year olds should kill people - Some people say his name WRONG and they are BAD but i don’t actually know what the right way or the wrong way is so. have fun w that yall - lived in peace unTIL THE FIRE NATION ATTACKED 

KATARA

- She is also like twelve???  - Is everyone here twelve - Cortana?? Katana?? Catbug??  - She has good hair, - Her mother is dead??? her mother is dead n she has a brother but she cares about her mother being dead WAY more than him (or apparently the entire fandom??) - Badass - She seems soft. good. sweet - she’s a water breather or whatever??? her brother is NOT but he is a meme - I love her 

SOKKA

- NGL looks like a fuckboy  - The meme brother! does not do the water things, but he has an aXe???  - dates BAMF lady - ngl until I talked to my ATLA watching friend I thought he canonically dated Zuko  - kinda mad he doesn’t - I haven’t actually seen anything about him except like. in zuko ship posts and also Suki appreciation posts - joined the white lotus not-a-cult by accident???  - dark ATLA tumblr show me more Sokka posts - is his name prounounced the same way as Soccer or isn’t it I need to know - HIS FIRST GIRLFRIEND TURNED INTO THE MOON - (AND THAT’S ROUGH, BUDDY) - He and Suki are a good ship, but also, Sokka Has Two Hands

SUKI

- the BAMF herself - she says STOP in that photo but also to sexism - Rlly all I see of her in fanon is abt her teaching Sokka to drink his respect women juice and I appreciate her doing that but also it’s sad she never gets talked about outside of what she did for a man - I hope she has other badass moments w/o him it would suck if she didn’t - she is NOT the girlfriend who turned into the moon, she is the one who didn’t - I don’t know much else about her ATLA Fandom y’all should appreciate her more

ZUKO

- Look at him... my son... - He has a good redemption arc - he and his sister are evil lesbian and redeemed gay guy??? - has a straight canon ship but should’ve been with Sokka this boy is gay - I Want To Protect Him - That’s literally it - he has a cool uncle and his dad sucks  - people ship him with Katara and I Do Not Get It that’s his sister in law except not really - “We don’t trust Zuko’s change of heart” [the next day] “so Zuko is my closest friend now,”  - His dad was like “fuck up the avatar to prove your worth to me” and Aang was like “counter argument you already have worth and we should fuck up your dad” and I think that’s beautiful - he becomes the fire man and he’s very good at it - Zuko for President 2020 - in the words of myself, half an hour ago: “ I was like "that kid with the burn on his face seems like a sad but then happy mlm who needs found family" and I was RIGHT” - took too long to find a happy picture of him :( Zuko rights NOW please - His mother’s story got compared to an OC of mine and all I can say is oh no and they deserve better based on that alone - I have had Zuko for five minutes but if anything else happens to him I will kill everyone in this throne room and then myself

TOPH

- She is badass but like also will murder you while laughing maniacally? - for some reason reminds me of Nott from Critical Role, another show I Have Not Seen - Is blind but gets more out of making jokes abt being blind than she would from being able to see - “Sight is just a cheap tactic to make weak benders stronger!!!” - Literally the opposite of Aang and has killed many people?? - She Can Tell When You’re Lying. But I do not know how and Am simply mildly threatened by this - Therapist: Toph’s ability to know if you’re lying isn’t real and can’t hurt you. Toph’s ability to know if I’m lying:  - She and Zuko.... buddies???  - if not they should be - tiny sad boy needs friends like toph

AZULA

- Evil Lesbian Culture - [BDG Voice] You committed a war crime! Oopsie! - took be gay do crime too literally - her and Zuko have accurate sibling writin except instead of “you ever want to murder your sibling for breathing in the same space as you,” being a Joke Azula took it seriously - okay but with a name like azula she should be the blue bender this ANNOYS me she should NOT be red bender - AZULa  - AZUL - IT MEANS BLUE - She was half of y’alls gay awakenings and it SHOWS - Should have maybe been redeemed too??? Jury is out no one knows - Was she gay for Ty Lee or wasn’t she I can’t tell how much of that Audio is a joke - IS SHE ALSO TWELVE??? IS EVERYONE HERE TWELVE?? IS THIS TWELVE YEAR OLD COMITTING ATROCITIES? 

UNCLE IROH

- A Good Man - Finally, Some Good Fucking [Adult Figures]  - he has the tea. literally and figuratively - Ozai is like “and I will permanently disfigure my son and throw him out” and Iroh is like “What The Fuck, Ozai,” thus voicing the entire audience’s thoughts - Literally the only adult in this that I trust - I? I love him. this is all I have to say. my love for him is unending. Some1 protect this man from all harm   - he’s Zuko’s uncle (and also Azula ig) but he does not seem related to Ozai. is it just a theme in this family that one sibling is chill and one sibling commits horrendous atrocities against your fellow human beings or  - something happened to his son???? :((((( I Don’t Want Him To Have Suffered Like This

OZAI

- A BAD MAN - Uh Oh (stinky)  - THE WORST OF THE MEN  - I do not like him - Bastard man. nasty. committed war crimes and then went “but what if - get this - i also abused my son,”  - I would like him to Not Be Like This - by Like This I mean present and alive  - :/ 

TY LEE

- She’s NOT the There Is No War In Ba Sing Se lady and I don’t know why i thought she WAS but until I looked up her photo I thought that was her  - She looks like a sweetheart tho - I hope nothing bad happens to her????  - talks about auras??? or smth??? let her vibe - She would talk animatedly to me about warrior cats if she was in my year seven class and I was sat alone and I would understand none of it but appreciate her anyway - if azula bullies her I’ll be :( at Azula and Azula will not care because she has Mommy Issues and therefore is slightly unhinged - She seems like that one kid with no trauma vibing at the edge of [every other kid having trauma] and not really getting it but trying her best - Is she also twelve?????? She maybe looks twelve

CABBAGE MAN 

- HIS CABBAGES - fulfills my favourite trope: ordinary person repeatedly has life disrupted by the inconveniences of relying on actual children to save the world - probably has a campaign post canon for letting trained adults fix the worlds’ problems in the future - or sets up the Very First Cabbage Insurance Company - look at him. he loves his cabbages so much. you go you funky lil cabbage man

ALSO THE MOST IMPORTANT ONES MOMO

- LOOK AT HIM HE’S SO GOOD - small. fluffy. big ears - Lord Momo of the Momo Dynasty: his Momoness - a Good Boy...

APPA

- he looks so soft... - he can fly but he just does it by??? vibing through the air?? motionless??? iconic - I saw that one post about mishearing it as Abba and thinking he was Aang’s dad and he looks like he would be a good stand in dad ngl - he’s so LORGE - a chonky boy - love him

that is everyone I have heard of it and if I left someone out it’s a sign that y’all should talk about em more bc I have no clue they exist put more ATLA On my Dash ig I’ll do Legend of Korra ig maybe apparently that one has canon wlw and i love me some canon wlw

[bumblewarden]

YES YES HI HELLO my marvellous bumbly friend I'm here and my pockets are full of questions for Novhen my holiday-deserving beloved!! I'll ask these 4 but just answer whatever you feel like ok?? Have a lush day! :D :D :D 4, 15, 16, 18

<3 !

Hello hello yourself, my wild and er... domesticated friend? That doesn't quite work in the other direction, does it? Hrm

But i've got these four nice and tidy for you! Hope they're a good read

4. If your OC likes art, talk about which piece they would love best.

Realistically, if you asked him, he would go on about someone's family history quilt and go into way too much detail about exactly the history it told and the meaning behind each piece of fabric in each panel, but i can't well show you a picture of a made up work of fibercraft

Now with that failed, let's find a piece from the real world. Not to be lazy, but something tells me this shadow would love chiaroscuro. Among painters known for chiaroscuro, you literally cannot go wrong with Gentileschi. Her most famous painting is Judith Slaying Holofernes for very good reason, but i think he would actually prefer the immediate aftermath of it as found in Judith and Her Maidservant (Detroit). It's invigorating to sneak through the defenses of the leader of an invading army and assassinate him, but it's even better to get away with it. Also, the lighting!!!!

15. What is a common misconception about your OC? (Alternatively, what do people assume about them which is either incorrect or misconstrued?)

Especially post-Origins, people commonly misconceive that he's some no-nonsense hardass who thinks of nothing but work, but he's not :(

He's a little distant at first, but he's still getting used to the position and balancing his expectations with what he's actually willing to put forth. Especially being an elven noble and commander, it's a difficult tightrope act. He gets better about it eventually. Even if he doesn't allow himself to get into much mischief anymore, he'll probably let it slide as long as no one else catches you

He just has a bad case of resting bitch face and a generally flat affect. He can put on a mask if he needs to, but it's not a 24/7 act. He's not that serious, he's just autistic

Also, he thinks about a lot of things besides work! Like his family and history and uh... other stuff probably. Oh! Embroidery! That's a third thing!

16. What trait do they find most attractive/appealing about others?

Ok this one gave me a bit of trouble, so it's maybe not the most attractive/appealing thing, but it's up there! Disclaimer out of the way...

A healthy sense of rebellion. He disapproves of people who are content with injustice, but a rebel without a cause isn't the healthy he means. Please rebel, but know why. Keep your purpose and goals close to heart, and have a plan. A precise blade will deal more damage than wild flailing and is far less likely to strike at your own friends

18. What is one thing that they only let those closest to them see?

His faith. Like his mother, he's a Fen'Harel cultist, but he was conscripted before he could've become an Agent of Fen'Harel. Since then, he was never offered agenthood because the big guy doesn't like the Wardens (cooties)

It's secret primarily for practical reasons. Thedas is a majority Andrastian society, and elves were first "allowed" to live in alienages in human territory on the condition that they convert. Ferelden is one of the safer countries to exist as a non-Andrastian, but that's relative. It's no Rivain. Come Trespasser, it would be actively endangering himself to be openly affiliated with Fen'Harel. You think the average schmuck will care that he's not actually an agent or pro-destroying-Thedas-as-we-know-it? Not likely

After being raised since childhood to tell nobody outside of a very small group about his faith, it just becomes reflex. Alistair, Zevran, and Morrigan eventually get enough hints about it. I don't think he'd ever say it outright (no need to put yourself in such a vulnerable position), but he's pretty good at implying. That Coercion IV didn't train itself. He'd probably also hint to it at Radka, but i doubt she'd have the proper information base to put it together all the way

[jwillowwolf]

Magic and Miracles - Chapter 11

Sanders Sides Big Bang fic, Chapter 11!

< Previous Chapter | Next Chapter >| Masterlist

Summary: He sighed in relief only to tense up when he noticed the expression on Logan’s face.

“What happened?”

“We need a miracle.”

Warning/s: food mention, minor violence.

Characters: Logan, Virgil, OCs, Roman, Remy, Remus, Patton, Janus.

Tag List: @theimprobabledreamersworld @remy-please-come-back

Read on AO3

11 | Danger Unknown

Once Virgil and Logan returned to the room, Virgil made a request not to be disturbed and they put up a magical barrier to keep anyone from using enchanted items or spells to spy on them. The group was sitting in the living area, with the tv turned off, and trying to come up with a plan of action, or at least a logical theory as to what is happening. So basically, they were stuck with no idea as to what was going on or what their next move should be.

Logan frowned. “Could these events be connected? Virgil’s parents and grandmother both being essentially missing.”

Remy shrugged. “Possibly. Right now though we’re just guessing.”

“I think that our next move is more obvious than we think,” Remus declared. “We need to find Virgil’s grandmother.”

Roman nodded. “But where to start?”

Remus shrugged. “Her room?”

“Whether she’s there or not though, they’ll have guards stationed there to keep up the ‘she’s sick and quarantined’ charade.” Janus pointed out.

“Oh! What if we use the teleportation spell?” Patton proposed.

“Would that even work in this realm?” Willow wondered. “And what if they have some kind of magic barrier like we have here?”

“Virgil, is there anyone who you would trust to tell you the truth about what’s happening? The best thing we can do is find a reliable source to inform us what’s going on.” Remy said.

Virgil sighed. “The Earl was my grandmother’s closest advisor, and I don’t think we can trust him at all.”

“What about the reporters? You said they give news to the people of this realm, so surely they would have some information,” Logan reasoned.

Virgil perked up. “I don’t know how reliable they’d be, but I guess that’s a start. We’d need to comb through the news channels on TV.”

“Ooh, I can do that. I figured out how to use the remote properly,” Patton proudly stated.

“I could do some reconnaissance. Like covertly listening in on what people say to each other,” Willow suggested.

“I can help keep you hidden while you’re doing that,” Janus added.

“Roman and I could also do some covert reconnaissance. Our hearing isn’t as good as Willow’s but it’s still pretty sharp,” Remus stated.

Virgil nodded. “Alright, Pat can look into what’s on the news while Remus, Roman, Janus and Willow act as our spy teams. Logan and I have left the room before, so we can go out again and try to see my grandmother or at least fake that we’re doing that to see how well her room is being guarded.”

Remy frowned. “Hang on kids. If there is something going on, I would like to get us out of here as soon as possible. You shouldn’t be getting too deep into stuff like this.”

“It’s dangerous, but we knew this was going to be risky when we agreed to it. And, really, this might be our safest option considering how the Earl was trying to convince Virgil to go back home.” Logan noted.

Remy sighed. “If you really need to check in on the queen, then I may know a spell that can help. But it’s difficult for normal mages to cast.”

The group exchanged curious glances. “What is it?”

“Mind linking,” Remy stated. “It’s a high-level spell that can allow a person to link their consciousness to someone else. You can’t do a full connection unless two people are doing the spell with each other, but there’s a way to use the spell to specifically disconnect one’s consciousness for a time in order to find other minds in the space around you. Aka this building. The spell goes through all kinds of loopholes and can work even inside or through magical barriers, but the caster needs a proficiency in mind magic…”

“So, theoretically, I could cast the spell?” Virgil asked.

“Yes, but another rule is you can’t cast the spell onto yourself.”

“You could cast it onto me though,” Logan said.

“I was actually thinking I could take the spell,” Remy declared.

“I think Logan should do this. If Pat’s watching the news, the twins, Janus, and Willow are out spying, and I’m maintaining this spell, then it would probably be a good idea to have someone checking news sites online, and we don’t have time to teach Logan about the internet,” Virgil pointed out.

“Inter-net? Is it some kind of magical net you catch information with?” Roman asked.

“Like I said, we don’t have time to introduce you guys to it. Maybe later though.”

Remy sighed. “Alright. But we’re going to need to go into full detail with this plan…”

The team did plan things out as best they could. Virgil explained to the spy team how to navigate the building. After that, Roman, Remus, Janus and Willow went to the elevator, casting invisibility spells on themselves that would make it so only they could see/detect each other, then went their separate ways.

Meanwhile, Remy showed Patton which channels were for the news and gave Logan the instructions for the Mind spell. Pat made notes on everything that was being said on TV in a small black notebook and once Remy finished instructing Logan he found a tablet to use the internet on.

“Remember, I’m only able to keep this up for five minutes, then you’ll be pulled back into your body,” Virgil said. “You know where to go?”

Logan nodded. “I’ll be fine, Virge. We can both pull this off.”

Virgil nodded. “Okay. You might want to lie down then.”

Logan laid down and closed his eyes as the spell was cast. He could feel as the magic flowed through his body like a gentle wave washing over the shore. For a moment he thought that the spell had failed since nothing else changed, but then he sat up and opened his eyes only to realise that he was outside of his own body. More specifically, he was floating just above his body like a ghost.

He felt suddenly excited at this discovery. It was like he was now a ghost completely disconnected from his physical form. A glance over to Virgil however reminded him of the current urgency of his mission. He was watching Logan’s body with a particular concern. Right now he had no idea what was happening to Logan and it was worrying him a great deal.

Logan wanted to reassure him in some way, but this form wouldn’t really be able to do that, so instead, he focused on finishing his task so that when Virgil pulled him back he would have some useful information. He floated up to the ceiling and then phased through it like it was nothing more than a cloud of fog. He navigated his way literally through the building quickly until he came to the hall outside of the queen’s bedroom.

There were indeed a pair of guards outside the door, but no one else seemed to be on this floor. Logan phased through the door and looked around if anyone was there. The room was lavishly decorated in silver and lavender tones, with a pair of ornate wardrobes on either side of a large vanity table, a wall to wall bookshelf, and a large king-sized bed. In the bed, someone was laying down.

On closer inspection, Logan found that the someone was a fae woman with long tresses of silver hair that was spread out all over her pillows. She looked weak and sickly, with cold sweat on her forehead. Logan reached out to touch her so he could hopefully see into her mind when a voice from behind him said.

“Hello.”

Logan whipped around to find the spirit of the woman in the bed standing behind him. “Gah!”

“Oh, sorry darling, I didn’t mean to scare you there. You came looking for me, right?”

“Queen Valeria?”

“The one and only!” The woman said with a smile before her face turned serious. “You’re my grandson’s friend. Correct?”

“Yes ma’am.”

“Then I need you to get him out of here. Immediately. Tell my son what’s going on here so that he can save the rest of this world before it’s too late for the others. I won’t last long enough to see him again...”

“I- no, your majesty I don’t really know what is happening but I’m sure that Virgil will not leave if you’re going to-- to die.”

“Child, there is no way to save me. All of you need to go to Nico and explain to him that Earl Ynclementia has overthrown me. Then he’ll know what to do next once my powers transfer to him.”

“Ma’am… Prince Nico and King Thomas have both disappeared. They were attacked by an unknown spellcaster during a meeting and no one knows what’s happened to them or where they vanished to.”

Valeria paled. “No… then Ynclementia’s plan was successful. That’s just all the more reason for you to get Virgil out of here. If he receives my powers then… it all will fall to him…”

Logan felt a lump in his stomach at the realisation of what she meant. With his parents gone and his grandmother dying, Virgil would be forced to take rulership over both humans and fae. Except the fae realm has been stolen by the earl, and if Virgil reveals his heritage without his parents support, then lord knows what might happen.

The people could rise against him in fear. Dethrone or even kill him. Even if he were completely accepted as half-fae, they could still try to take away his throne on the excuse he was underaged and possibly didn’t have the necessary training to rule in his fathers’ steads.

“Your majesty, there must be something we can do. If you’re here outside of your body then surely there’s still time to heal you.”

“Dear, I don’t have much time left. The spell I’m using to keep myself alive will be gone soon enough. Nothing but a miracle could save me now. Please, my only wish is that Virgil is safe. Take him home and… tell him to destroy the porthole. Right now, I’m using a spell to keep Ynclementia here, but once I’m gone he will try to take over your realm as well. That cannot happen.”

“No, there has to be something. There has to be a way to save you.”

“As I said, nothing but a miracle could do that.”

Logan looked down at his feet sorrowfully, then an idea struck him. “A-a miracle. Like the mythical creature, Miracle?”

Valeria gave a short laugh. “I doubt there are any of those just walking around in your realm, much less this one.”

“But if we found one, it could save you?”

“Well, they’re supposed to have boundless knowledge of the universe, so possibly. But it’s impossible to find one. Please just… just get Virgil away. Right now he’s going to need good friends more than ever.”

Valeria stared sorrowfully at the painting above her door. Only now Logan noticed it. A large portrait of Valeria, Thomas, Nico, Tanya, Dune and Virgil, all together smiling happily. If the queen died now then Virgil really would need friends. His fathers were completely missing and neither Tanya nor Dune could leave the forest. In the castle, facing the duties of ruling a kingdom, Virgil would be completely alone.

Logan couldn’t let that happen.

He tried to say more to Valeria but he felt that his soul was being pulled back. As his vision faded he heard Valeria say one more time, “Take him home.”

Barely a blink and a breath later, his consciousness returned and Logan found himself back in his body, with Virgil staring at him in concern. He sighed in relief only to tense up when he noticed the expression on Logan’s face.

“What happened?”

“We need a miracle.”

Virgil tugged on his hood. “Is it that bad?”

“No, well, what I mean- ugh, do you remember Remus’s dream?”

“That one about the giant bagel?”

“No, the recurring one. That one that started on our vacation.”

“Oh, the nightmare.”

“Yes, that. To save the person, we needed to find the miracle that time left behind, right?”

“I’m with you so far.”

“I think that that dream was very literal…”

An hour later, the group was reunited and once again stuck thinking of what to do next. Logan explained everything that happened with Valeria, leaving Virgil terribly distressed, and then the spy team returned with the news that Ynclementia planned to use them as hostages since the plans to get rid of Virgil’s parents and assassinate Virgil ‘failed’.

“Assassinate me?”

Willow nodded. “That’s what a rockslide was. The agent Ynclementia sent must have believed they killed you then went off to get your parents.”

“And now Ynclementia thinks both plans failed so he needs you as a hostage to use against your fathers.” Janus sighed.

“The news isn’t giving me any hope either,” Remy stated. “It seems that they’ve… erased the queen. Like she or any of your family never existed. They’ve made it look like Earl Imbecile has always been in power and no one is speaking up about it.”

Patton nodded. “From what I’ve seen on TV they’re scared to even talk about him. Whenever they refer to anything he’s done or is doing, they have this terrible fear in their eyes.”

“Then it isn’t like they’ve been brainwashed or anything. They’ve been traumatized.” Roman theorised.

Remus chewed on her fingernails. “We need to get out of here.”

“Well, it’s not like we can just walk out of the place.” Janus declared. “They would lock us up for real if they caught us.”

“A porthole,” Willow said. “We can use a porthole to get ourselves back to the realm porthole and go home.”

“You pointed out earlier that kind of magic might not work in this realm.” Roman reminded them.

“Well, yeah, but how many successful spells have we used now?”

“Okay true.”

The group used a porthole to get themselves back to the realm porthole, then went through the second porthole and found Tanya, Dune, and a few other pixies waiting for them. Tanya looked at Virgil with a worried expression. She could already tell that something had gone wrong.

“Virgil?”

“...We need to close the porthole.”

---

A/N: thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed this. I'll be posting two chapters a day until the full fic is up, so if you want to be tagged, you can just ask.

I'd love to hear what you thought about the chapter if you wouldn't mind commenting. Thanks again for reading! Here's hoping you have a magical day 💜

[aishabellasbigblogofeverything]

I just post a drawing of three of my OCs and someone already made a horny comment... and it is worse since one of that OCs is a little black girl :/ I hate people. I just can't understand what motivates men to make s*xual comments on a picture with kids, even if it is a drawing...

Oh my Gosh...I'm so sorry. I wanna say men are disgusting, and, well, they are...but I feel like that would be invalidation/enabling in this case.

The other thing is that I also drew my own OC for the Disney film Encanto, who is a Black teenage girl. And, well...it's only a matter of time before some m*n has something shitty and gross to say about it.

Men see all women, of any and all demographics, as nothing more than porn categories. To them, we aren't humans, we're nothing more than buy-and-sell commodities for them to fuck. They rate us according to our fuckability and desirability. They only value us as potential romantic partners, objects to look at, holes to penetrate, and are incapable of seeing us as anything else. So being a girl and existing? To guys, you're just another option that they could date, fuck, ogle, sexualize, rape, etc.

And then they throw their hands in the air and say that women are just more beautiful than men...according to your male gaze, that is? You don't think women attracted to men see men as beautiful? You don't think women see men as potential sexual partners? You don't think women consider your fuckability and desirability to them? But the thing is, due to how the genders are socialized and how patriarchy works, women still manage to see men as HUMAN despite that. Women could literally rate every single man they walk past or see on the earth on a scale of 1-10 according to how attractive or sexy they are~and we'd still see y'all as human. Men don't know how to do that in turn. Because to them, we're simply pretty objects to be consumed, looked at, and to do with as they wish.

And of course, the further you stray from privilege and a perceived right to childhood, innocence, white femininity, and respect, the less men(especially wh*te m*n) see you as a human. Because if white women are sexual objects to be used, Black women are even LESS worthy of being treated with humanity and respect, so where a white woman would be at least treated faux-sympathetically, Black women get to be a platform for all of white men's most violent and animalistic rape fantasies. This stems all the way back to slavery, which I'm sure you already know how this horror story is gonna go, but of course, it's where the Jezebel stereotype comes from: that Black women are sex-crazed, violent, rough, animalistic succubi. Do whatever you want to their as violently as you want! Rape them! Mistreat them! They don't have souls and they don't need the care or intimacy that a white woman would be afforded, if anything, they like it! And if they don't see Black women as humans, then of course they won't see Black girls as humans either, or as children.

That's where the adultification bias steps in. Black girls get all of the same violent and rapey stereotypes placed on to them as their adult counterparts do. They get this, of course, because white slave masters raped underage Black slave girls too. They didn't just stop at adult women. Even if you weren't fertile, even if you didn't yet start puberty or menstruate--if he had some sick urges that he couldn't inflict upon his delicate white lady partner, he'd just go down on the closest Black slave girl there was. And yet somehow she was the horny brute. Which is exactly why these men feel comfortable sexualizing even fictional little Black girls, such as your OC. Don't hate people. Hate men. They are truly gutter-minded and fantastically dehumanizing and apathetic to the humanity of anyone who is not male like them. Remember that.

To end this post on a positive note, though, I would be really interested in seeing your OCs, if you don't mind! And even if you do, I'm sure your OCs are gorgeous and have great characters, and the right people will appreciate them! Never stop drawing and writing! I believe in you!

[grapecaseschoices]

Meet My OCs: Pierre Lin from @seraphinitegames (The Wayhaven Chronicles)

(Thank you to @lizzybeth1986 for the questionnaire form! <3)

Name: Pierre Lin

Age: 31 (as of the end of book 1)

Pronouns: He/Him.

Height: 6 feet and 2 inches.

Hair Color: Black

Eye Color: Dark Brown

Family Background: Rebecca Dy was brought to America as a baby from the Philippines -- her family is of Philippine-Chinese heritage. Her parents died when she was, well, a baby and she was taken in by her aunt and uncle. They didn’t want kids. So, one can imagine that led to a nurturing and close dynamic. She was raised in New York. 

Benoît “Rook” Lin was also adopted and also Filipino-Chinese. An older French-Vietnamese family took him in when he was a toddler. They ended up passing when Rook was just shy of sixteen. First his mother and then his father, who tried to hold on, of heartache. He was raised in Wayhaven but ended up finding himself in NYC. He and Rebecca actually met early on through a self-defense class. But it was very casually. They didn’t click later on, through a mutual friend. 

Pierre was born in Staten Island to a struggling Private Investigator and an Intern at the Agency. They lived in a small apartment but things were good. The family ended up moving to Wayhaven when Pierre was ten because of affordability as well as Rook being offered a job with Wayhaven PD. 

Education: He joined the ROTC program and it helped pay for his double BA in Library Science and Sociology. 

Best Childhood Memory: Making pancakes with his mom.

Favorite Color: Hunter Green and Blue (usually the darker sort, like a Royal Blue) Why did I choose to do his aesthetic in cool blues and pinks? Bc it fits him too.

Favorite Season: Pierre isn’t one to announce favorite seasons (unless Felix pressed) -- but he has a preference for autumn, and probably winter.

Cat or Dog: Cats! He doesn’t own one, but he loves the cats in his building. And they really love him.

Chocolate or Vanilla: This is another if pressed into a choice decisions: Chocolate. (But he likes the taste of vanilla bean / vanilla extract syrup a touch more.) Plus he also likes how chocolate can be bitter. He’s too much of a black coffee drinker not to.

Sweet or Spicy: Spicy. 

Coffee or Tea: Coffee. Pierre is professional to a T but if he were to be one c*p/detect*ve stereotype (from the shows at least), it would be having a coffee cup in hand where he probably shouldn’t. 

Best Friend: Can Felix count? Felix is probably the person he would feel most comfortable being vulnerable with (and he’s still slow acting in sharing certain points). He doesn’t consider himself as having one (and doesn’t think anyone would consider him one). However, the closest bet would be Nat and Verda. He and Verda had a slow start; but Pierre’s actually come to really trust him as well as emotionally rely on him. Especially in the past year. 

Love Interest: Felix.

What Initially Attracted Them to Their Partner?: Felix’s boldness and effervescence and curiosity and heart and energy and humor and -- 

Felix literally kissed his hand. His hand. He was intrigued from the word go (lol, he was stammering from the word go) and hasn’t stopped feeling that tentative smile or that warmth in his chest since. Being around Felix is like fireworks on a warm night and after Bobby (and barely dating since then), it was a salve to the soul. 

How Do They Express Affection (are they a hugger? More private?): It depends on who it is. Over all, his love language is acts of service. However, he is supportive verbally. He’s also a good listener. He has a very warm yet firm energy, that can often crawl into teasing if he’s comfortable enough (or with kids). He’s the guy that would take the time to rearrange your furniture --- or, gasp, learn how to fix minor stuff so he can help you out to keep you from spending too much on like, say, plumbing. 

Do they Have/Want Children? How Many?: He doesn’t think he does. He likes kids (he volunteers at the local hospital!) but he has to work through some problems first. He’s also currently too focused on work at the moment. (However, if Felix brought it up, down the road, he’d consider it.)

Any Pets?: No. But Mr. Sylvester has another human beyond the one he shares an apartment with. That human is one Pierre Lin.

Do They Have a Temper?: Generally, no. But when he does ...... 

Hobbies?: He enjoys reading. He also likes repairing older books. Nothing big or fancy. But it’s something he does for friends. Mostly textbooks but also paperbacks and hardcovers for novels. It’s mostly rebinding but he’s learning about embossing and recovering and etc. Because he’s a nerd. 

He also enjoys the museum. Learning languages could count as well, though he tends to do it for work (he wants people to feel comfortable --- and he’s a bit of the Boy ScoutTM)

Do They Hold Grudges?: He didn’t think he did too much until he found out his mother lied to him for years. 

They’re on the mend though! Just slowly. Also, Bobby’s entire existence is a sore point that he definitely holds against Bobby.

Do They Exercise?: Somewhat. It is routine that he is used to but not as much as he used to. However, he keeps up enough to stay fit and in shape. 

One Random Headcanon: Pierre is still really good at handstands. As a kid it used to be a silly thing he used to do to get Rebecca’s attention/feeling “rebellious” (it was headstands at first, and she’d click at him about breaking his neck), and it evolved into a sort of inside joke of theirs.

He doesn’t really do them these days. But he will pull them out as heavy artillery to cheer Felix up, if need be. And. Well. If his shirt slides up (down??) while doing it. These things happen ;-D (Pierre may be the shyer one in their romance but he isn’t without his moves~~)

[viviane-lefay]

Yeah, no fucks to give here!

Really not into this ship - at least not in a romantic & sexual context.

—

At this point, I think it is best, if I put a little clarification here, before I continue:

This is just about my personal opinion, theories & headcanon - and by no means lays a claim to general validity (nor does your POV, btw).

I have more of a pick & choose approach to fandom subjects, anyway, so I can customize the experience exactly according to my needs and wishes. This is fiction, after all - the realm of endless possibilities - where anything goes, and where there is a place for the preferences of all of us.

That said, I really want to point out that I have nothing against people shipping the Dr. with Agent Stone - but since I, personally, prefer m/f ships, I’d rather choose the female OC approach, as it’s also my beloved villain x heroine constellation (not the subject of this post, though).

My take on the dynamic between the Dr. and his assistant is, therefore, quite a bit different from the fandom popular one. Well, to each his own.

What this post definitely is not, is an invitation for a debate regarding character interpretation, shipping choices, etc. - and all the potential drama that this might entail. If that is what you’re after, then I’d politely ask you to leave now, because all you are doing is wasting both of our time.

Let’s just agree to disagree and move on, k!?

I do my thing and you do you, guys!

I suppose, I made myself abundantly clear now.

—

Anyway, to return to the topic …

Where have all the male friendships & professional partnerships in fandom gone!?

Because, personally, I think agent Stone rather relates to his boss on that level…

Robotnik being a role model of some sort, that is - not unlike a kohai & senpai, or a younger & older brother constellation, actually - where the former looks up to the latter due to certain traits that he admires (and Stone certainly does). Regarding the age difference of the two, this could also make sense.

I’d estimate that Stone can’t be much older than his mid-twenties at most, since he’s in the position of a junior agent and assistant - still at the very beginning of his career path. And he’s very capable, disciplined and professional, at that, which is probably why he made it as Robotnik’s assistant at all (unsurprisingly, given the man isn’t the most patient).

Speaking of whom - I think, regardless of Jim Carrey being in his late fifties at that point - he, himself, can’t be that old, actually. My personal take (& preference) here would be late thirties, which would still make a lot of sense regarding his academic and occupational career. Being this overachieving genius, I guess that he finished school in time-lapse mode, skipping one, or even more grades - same goes for uni. Therefore, it wouldn’t surprise me if he was done by the age of 25 - his five PhDs included (bet he did two at once), which would still give him plenty of time to make his way as an agent and scientific government official up to the time of the events of the movie.

Aside from that, I can’t help but see parallels to the dynamic of Piett and Vader here, as well - a mixture of professional esteem and a bit of intimidation. But certainly no outright fear, as Stone is hardly under the threat of being strangled to death by his superior, like poor Piett is.

That is not to say that Robotnik’s still frequent misconduct towards him is ok (it definitely is not), but it certainly is more mild than he behaves towards, say, pretty much anyone else. Btw, that includes the “pin yourself to the wall”, grabbing him by the bottom lip and dragging him towards himself, while glaring at and chiding him (For what exactly!? Not being perfect, or as smart as him!? Chill, man, the boy is doing his best, and he’s doing a good job!).

Fandom, of course, does what it always loves to do - construe this as “evidence” for the alleged attraction between the two, which is pretty far-fetched, imho (…although you’re surely free to interpret it this way, if you so please. As I said, this is just my pov & to each his own. *shrugs*).

Anyway, you can clearly see Robotnik displaying this type of behaviour, along with the invasion of personal space, towards other male characters as well - be it “Major Nobody Cares”, “Officer Brainfart”, the big bar dude he threw out of the window, or Tom Wachowski. So, following this line of argument, does that mean he’s into these guys, as well!? Honestly, that’s pretty ridiculous!

If anything, it is a blatant display of asserting dominance, bringing the message home that he is the alpha male, while putting his opponent / subordinate in his place - and that’s it! What this behaviour definitely is not, however, is something remotely shipping related.

Besides, there are many examples of other male characters doing this for similar reasons, too - amongst others Darth Vader (remember that scene between him and Orson Krennic!?), and Severus Snape (after Harry invaded his memories during the occlumency lessons). And Robotnik does that quite aggressively in the cases above. In fact, it seems to be a fairly consistent behavioural pattern with him (not that he actually needed that though, but that’s an entirely different matter).

As for Robotnik’s personal attitude towards his assistant, I think Stone’s one of the very few people he actually respects, and even likes, because the young man’s esteem for him is so genuine, while everyone else regards him pretty much like nothing more than an asset, or a threat.

It’s not like he doesn’t somewhat encourage being kept in that position himself, behaving like he does - aside from actively reducing himself to his intellect & academic prowess. This isn’t all that surprising, as it is something he apparently gets his entire sense of self-worth from, and likely the only thing he got any appreciation for from others, which is, perhaps, also why he constantly needs to spotlight said trait (no behaviour someone truly at one with himself & his abilities would display, btw). Then, there is his little tolerance for failure - especially when it comes to himself. He truly expects to perform flawlessly, like a machine, and when he doesn’t, that really seems to unsettle him (that face when Tom points his unsuccessful attempts to catch Sonic out to him … he was so offended, he almost looked like he wanted to cry ^^;;).

So, of course it is likely that he becomes quite attached to the sort of attitude and behaviour that Stone displays towards him, even though he wouldn’t think of it this way - because, you know, emotional bonds with other human beings obviously are beneath him (Yeah, sure, we did see the veracity of that claim afterwards, didn’t we!?).

But, then again, growing up as an emotionally starved child and adolescent, used to being brushed aside, and, later, deliberately distancing himself from other people, he actually might have no clue whatsoever how to appropriately deal with things like these, and thus brushes them aside as “weakness”, which really does make sense, especially in the context that he was bullied as well.

Same goes for him eventually adopting the habit of pushing other people away via plain disagreeable behaviour. I think this phenomenon is called “hedgehog’s dilemma”, and it is quite ironic that he is more afflicted by it than his blue nemesis.

It is so painfully obvious that this guy has some massive issues, stemming from past emotional neglect and negative experiences - so much, that he even rejects all things human altogether, along with his own humanity.

His excessive idealization of and identification with technology, therefore, comes quite in handy as a defense mechanism in order to cope with said experiences.

Machines don’t ask much of you, they do what they are told, they are predictable, and they - above all - can’t suddenly abandon, betray, humiliate, and hurt you (which, I think, is the crux of the matter here).

Even though he might claim that his robots are everything to him, and that he doesn’t need anything and anyone else - his actions, however, prove otherwise … let alone his constant spiteful remarks on the matter, which just sound so damn bitter.

We can recognize that quite clearly when he is forced into involuntary seclusion on that mushroom planet at the end. This is where we see that what he truly is missing are not his machines (I bet he could have easily built a robot to accompany him out of the wreckage of his vessel), but one of the few people (maybe even the only one at that point), that he had apparently grown to value as worthwile company - namely agent Stone.

And, yes, it is very evident that he misses him (platonically, for me - but this isn’t even the point here) - he even tries to make a rock resemble Stone’s likeness in order to have someone to “talk to”, and mimic the social interactions he had with him.

Essentially, all those objects and machines are but a substitutive gratification that he tries to use, but that never come remotely close to the real deal, let alone are ever able to replace it.

In the end, he’s still a human being, along with all the human needs that go along with it - human contact and care included.

If the psycho-social and emotional makeup of his closest known relatives is any indicator to how his own might be structured - and it usually is (I’m speaking about the nature aspect, not nurture) - then he can’t be such a bad guy, after all - at least not inherently.

Taking his grandfather Gerald Robotnik, for example, who loved his granddaughter Maria (a total sweetheart) so much, that he was willing to do anything for her, in order to heal her from the fatal illness that was afflicting her - and who literally went insane with grief after losing her - then it shows someone with a strong emotional life, who feels what he feels very keenly and deeply. Furthermore, he is also someone that happens to bond very selectively, but if that is the case, it has this virtually absolute quality about it, with a love just as intense and profund to match (which is quite beautiful, actually).

On the other hand, though, that can also mean someone that has a high degree of emotional vulnerability, and who, therefore, is susceptible to sustain lasting damage from interpersonal traumatic experiences (which happens to be the case here, imho).

More often than not, it is this type of person that is likely to cork up their feelings and harden their hearts as a result - and who use every opportunity to deride the very traits, needs, and wishes they worked so hard to push away, if they see them in others. That is, amongst others, what gives them away. It’s pure projection - which is why I think that his caustic remarks should definitely not be taken at face value.

There are many, many examples of villains (or anti-heroes) that fit this type. Robotnik would hardly be an exception.

Besides, it is nice to see that Jim Carrey seems to have a fairly similar take on that matter (not that I actually care, but still):

“… and all it really comes down to is, he wants to be special to somebody, only it’s gone megalomania for him.”  [x]

Ouch! Poor guy, actually.

He seems a lot like Ozai in that regard. No wonder I dig this dude (aside from him being hot, that is, haha) - he’s totally the type of villain I fancy.

And also, like it’s the case with Ozai, I can’t help but wonder about his past, given there is known so little about it (aside from a few hints), so the following will be about some of my personal theories and headcanons about him, his family, and his past.

These are such important characters (main antagonists, no less), yet the creators can’t bring themselves to be more specific about the most basic facts concerning their families. Ugh, huge pet peeve here! Nobody expects a huge ancestral chart down to the tiniest details, but they could at least offer more info about their closest relatives - especially the parents, who happen to have the most formative influence on a person.

How old was he, when his parents died, anyway!? That they died seems pretty much a given, as that is what being an orphan is about, per definitionem (and he referred to himself as such). But how did they die? Did he witness their death, or was he absent?

Personally, I have this theory that their demise might very well be linked with what happened to his grandfather Gerald Robotnik, and his cousin Maria. Perhaps they were on that space research colony during the military assault, and were also amongst the “collateral damage” there.

From what I read, the recruited scientists lived there, so I reckon that they did bring their families with them, which is likely, since it is said that Maria was born there, so at least her parents must have lived there for an extended amount of time, as well. Since Ivo isn’t Maria’s brother, but her cousin, Gerald must have had at least two children, who lived alongside him (… and his wife!? No info about her, either.) on that station.

While I think both of Ivo’s parents were from prominent scientist families (after all, that is what the population of this space station was comprised of), it is still unclear whether or not they remained on that station. I am inclined to believe they might have split their time between there and Earth, as Maria and Ivo don’t appear to have been particularly close, such as, for instance, her and Shadow (who was pretty much her only friend there), but I think that might also have been the case due to a difference in age.

Maria was 12 years old when she died during the military attack on the station. Since Ivo apparently seems to have no significant memory of his parents, and seems to have spent his childhood as an orphan, he can’t have been older than 3-4 during this incident.

With Gerald arrested, and pretty much the rest of the inconvenient Robotnik family gone, aside from that small child, I think the military decided to take him along, simply because of the vast potential of this child, coming from a bloodline of geniuses, that was now theirs to mold and to exploit.

They likely left the boy in an orphanage afterwards, mostly to his own devices, and without any support, or caregiver whose bonds transcended the mere duty of keeping their fosterling alive - a lonely life, largely deprived of emotional warmth and attachment.

However, they did keep him under close monitoring, so they could intervene anytime they saw fit, to stir him in the direction they wanted - like a psychological experiment of sorts. I remember that in the movie the presiding pentagon guy referred to him as “a lab rat with teeth” - which is rather telling regarding how they perceived him, and pretty nasty, considering the implication.

The Robotnik name, though, they obviously did not refuse him - a decision they would come to regret later. While this allowed him the only tie to his ancestry, their legacy, however, didn’t do him much good.

Gerald Robotnik was a disgraced man, known to the world as the genius madman, imprisoned and sentenced to death as a criminal - which was, by far not the whole truth. And yet, he was turned into this idealised picture of a hero by his grandson, who so admired his achievents and strove to become a scientist because of it, despite knowing only the official version of the story.

The tainted reputation of his grandfather would haunt Ivo for a long time to come. It would also become the lens through which he was perceived and judged by the world at large, and this turned out to be the main reason he was rejected, and, furthermore, relentlessly bullied by his peers - irrespective of his own accomplishments, which earned him at least the praise of his authority figures.

That he eventually snapped and retaliated, did not exactly improve the situation for him. While the bullying did stop for the greater part, the peoples’ suspicion had turned into fear, as their concerns had come to pass after all, and, as a result, he was shunned even more.

In the following years, he was further on groomed to become this perfect military asset - a morally unchecked scientist and ruthless agent, that the government could deploy like the weapon they undoubtedly saw him as.

Unfortunately for them, however, their experiment didn’t quite have the outcome they had anticipated, as he not only exceeded their expectations on an intellectual and scientific level, but, at the same time, became increasingly unstable, unpredictable (”psychological tire-fire”) and, hence, potentially dangerous - to such a degree that they became very hesitant to deploy him at all (despite the “perfect operations record”), and even downright terrified of him.

Frankly, I think they’d also have ample reason to be afraid of him, other than just his obviously ambitious nature. The most prominent being a possible event, where he finds out about what truly happened to his family and himself, as well as their role in this. Needless to say, that he wouldn’t take this lightly, considering all the shit he had to endure because of it, and likely seek revenge. I’d really be curious about such a scenario.

[sasster]

HELLO MY NAME IS CHASE TODAY I REALIZED I NEVER MENTIONED ANY OF MY ALIEN OCS FOR THE SPECIES I WON’T SHUT UP ABOUT SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO.

Tbh now that I’m doing this I noticed that I don’t really have any Geruginga, Reenait, or Plulea ocs that I’m ready to share publicly.

So this will be about my Isopod and Cardali ocs.

(im working on a google docs version please don’t roast me)

Isopods: an insectoid race, they are known for their engineering capabilities.

Soaren > An architect that kind of has a hard time connecting with other people. Especially people outside of their own race. They spend much of their time either building something, or watching videos on how to build something. They don’t typically engage with people outside of their family unless forced, you know how it is.

Kale > Soarens baby brother! He's just a ball of sunshine, he's recently gone through one of many isopod rite of passages -- When you find and hone your skill, you gift your first project to someone who either means a whole lot to you or helped you hone that skill. He just got into pottery!!! :-) He's gonna be an expert sculptor one day.

Celeste > I have not a lot on her but she does origami and paper crafts like that. Which she kind of hates because it's not "real work" in her own eyes, but she is supported by her friends and family, so it's kind of a self doubt thing el oh el.

Cardali are a peaceful and knowledge seeking race, they are essentially shapeshifting space goo and the closest things to Gods as we might know them.

Diollea, Valias, Inoirae, and Axenas are all gods, they already have their own theology posts so I won’t dwell on them for too long.

Inohredíe >They're a baby! They're one of many Cardali who were born like off world and don't really know whats what about being a Cardali. By Cardali standards they're a baby, but they're like 40-50 human years old (Cardali live a LOOOOng time. longer than you're thinking) They're still learning how to be! They just learned how to shapeshift I love them a lot.

Deas'Illy/Bellator > She is the Divine Right Hand to the Goddess Inoirae. That's just fancy speak for she works for God, and she's specifically in charge of Cardaliths "Invasion Specialists". Basically her job is to train up her branch of the military and help thwart invasions. Like literally just protecting other planets from Empire Like alien species that like to invade and shit. She also finds it difficult to connect with people, but she does her best too. She's kind of envious of her brothers ability to just fucking DO IT without thinking about it ||

Liam > He's Bella brother! He works with the information gathering part of the "military" it's not even consider military ANYWAY. He travels across the universe and just learns about the locals and life there. The "crew" he's part of is basically like.. The first step of "Cardali Intervention" wherei t's like if they run across something fucked up (a planet of people enslaved to another species, planets ravaged by war, etc) they can like reported it back and be like hey uhm... Some fucking SHIT is going on here. And that starts the ball rolling and stuff. He's pretty sweet and kind of always in the mood to make a new friend. You know that type of guy? Who is just always friendly and has some kind input to give? Yeah he's that guy. 

Noelaeti > Or better known as “Bigger Star” is a Cardalith Roboticist, pretty straight forward. They build robots and other AI adjacent things. Unlike most (homeworld born) roboticists, Noelaeti has taken to traveling the the unvierse with one of their “younger brothers”. They don’t really engage with people outside of their family, either, and tend to keep mostly to their work while their brother trapezes around the universe making friends.

Ralzeame > the Divine Right Hand to the god Valias, unlike Bella, Amy’s job is right at home. They are responsible for making sure any refugee or other alien denizens of Cardalith get acclimated and accommodated for, they spend much of their time getting to know and working with people from war torn planets or who have outright gotten their homes destroyed. With a crew, of course, because no one can actually do that work alone lmao. They are considered an ambassador in many rights. They don’t do al ot of things outside of work, which is why Valias has ordered they take an extended vacation effective immediately! (Ugh, they just wanna go home)

Thiosellia > Have you ever met a baby that was also a God? Well now you have. They aren’t really like RP-able because they are literally an infant. I just want you guys to know that there is a God Baby and their name is Thiosellia. Thank you so much for coming to my TED talk

~HONORABLE MENTION~

Star > Now I know what you’re thinking. Chase, dude. Star is a human. Correct! But he, along with his two older brothers, were raised on Cardalith. He is a roboticist by hobby, but by trade he does much the same as Liam, and if you guessed that he was Noelaeti’s “younger brother”, you were right! He’s very charming and charismatic. We love star! Also he knows about six alien languages. What. The. Fuck!

[nootnewtnute]

Tom Cullen/Nick Andros x OC - Travel

Word count: 2537

You woke up the next morning ready for your first full day of travel with Tom and Nick. You had slept well, as you didn’t have to worry about protecting yourself as much now that you were with two others. So, when you got up that morning, you were feeling pretty good. Tom and Nick were just getting up, as well, so the three of you started getting ready for the day’s journey.

“Another day of biking!” Tom said as the three of you set off. “I’m so excited, we’re getting closer to Mother Abigail every day!”

“We sure are,” You replied. You were feeling pretty excited, too. So, the three of you started biking away. Throughout the day you passed through towns, seeing what was left behind in each place. Each place felt like a picture; things were frozen in the last state of when humanity was still intact. It bummed you out a bit, but you didn’t want to think about that.

When you stopped for lunch, all of you were ready for a break. You had made it almost 30 miles that morning, so all of you were hungry and ready to rest.

Can you both feel it, too? Nick asked. Feel that we’re getting closer to Mother Abigail. You translated the message to Tom.

“Yeah, I’m feeling it,” You replied.

“Me too! Laws, yes. M-O-O-N, that spells closer,” Tom added. “I sure hope we get there soon, because I’m just so excited to meet her.” He went off to see if he could find some toy cars from the store nearby, so it was just you and Nick.

So, Nick, you said you’re from… Arkansas? You asked as the two of you sat there.

Well, that’s where I was before all this. I sort of moved from place to place… Nick replied. You didn’t want to ask, but you had a feeling that was code for homeless. My mom was an immigrant from Mexico, if you’re wondering.

That makes sense. I had a feeling it was something like that but didn’t want to ask. You sighed.

I guess that made all of this easier. Captain Trips, I mean. Life didn’t change so much for me. I mean, I literally have been moving around since before I was born. My mom was pregnant when she came to the US. Anyway, I just kept doing what I’ve been doing all my life. I just come across fewer people now. So, what about you? What’s your story?

I’m from Missouri. I had just graduated college and was moving out of my brother’s apartment and into my own apartment, one that was closer to the job I was going to start. That’s when Captain Trips hit, and… well, you know everything that happened after that.

Nick hesitated for a moment, then signed Who did you lose?

Just my brother. I didn’t really know my parents and lived with my brother since I was 11. I guess I got lucky; I lost only him, compared to those who could have lost so many more. Of course, you missed your brother a lot, but you truly felt lucky that you only had to grieve over only one person. Those who had big families and so many friends… you could only imagine.

We both got lucky in that way, I suppose. Nick said, and you nodded. Tom made his way back with a bunch of toy cars, so he played with those for a while, and then the three of you went off biking again for the second half of the day. You found a nice motel to stay in that night, and lucky for all of you, one of the rooms didn’t have any bodies in it. There were two beds, so Tom took one, and you and Nick took the other. You felt a bit awkward, laying there next to someone you had just met the previous day, but Nick’s presence was comforting, and you fell asleep fairly quickly.

When you woke up the next morning, you were holding the hand of a still sleeping Nick. Tom was sitting on his bed, once again playing with the toy cars he had found.

“Good morning,” Tom said.

“Good morning,” You say as you rub the sleep out of your eyes. You started to pull your hand out of Nick’s, but he held onto it tightly in his sleep. So, you just stayed there. You didn’t want to admit it, but holding his hand felt kind of… nice.

“Did you sleep well? I know I did. I dreamed of Mother Abigail again. She says we’re almost there, which is exciting, because I’m super excited to meet her!”

“Yeah, I slept well. I dreamed of her as well. We’re definitely almost there. I can feel it.” You really could; not just because you had a rough idea of the mileage, but because there was just this… feeling, one you couldn’t quite describe. It was a sort of calmness, or a sort of completeness. You just couldn’t put your finger on it, but there was one thing you did know. It was a good feeling.

Nick woke up a few minutes later. He noticed he was holding your hand, and he let go as his cheeks turned a bit red. You had a feeling he felt the same way you did, though. It had felt nice. After packing up your stuff, the three of you got back on your bikes and went on your way. As you were passing through a farming town, the sky turned dark, and you realized a tornado was going to happen. The greenish clouds were an obvious sign.

“Um, guys?” You said as you stopped your bike. The others stopped and turned back to you. “Anyone else get the feeling that a tornado is about to happen?” Nick nodded.

“You think so?” Tom asked. “We should find some place to hide, right? We don’t want some tornado getting us, laws no.”

We’ll need to find a farmhouse with a storm cellar. Nick said, and you translated for Tom.

“Well, let’s go find one.” The closest farmhouse you could see was half a mile away, so the three of you quickly biked over there to look for a storm cellar. By now, the wind was starting to pick up. It wasn’t too much, but you had experienced before just how quickly a tornado could form, and you didn’t want to get caught up in it when it did.

“Over here! There’s an entrance over here!” Tom exclaimed. You went over to him to start to get in, but then realized Nick hadn’t heard Tom call out, or seen you run over. “Tom, get the bikes down there, I’ve gotta go get Nick.” You had seen him go to the other side of the house, so you quickly took off to find him. He was, in fact on the other side, so you grabbed his arm and started pulling him along. By now, the wind was quite strong, and you could see the tornado forming. You had heard and seen a tornado before, when you were younger, but the sight and the sound was always haunting.

You quickly ran over to the storm cellar, pulled up the door, and the two of you run in. Tom was already down there with the bikes. The only light in the cellar was the light coming through the door, and when you closed it, the small, damp room went completely dark.

“Did you find him? Are you ok?” Tom asked, his voice filled with concern.

“Yeah, we’re good.” You couldn’t see anything, but you could tell the room was small, as the three of you had to stand pretty close. You felt bad for Nick; even if you didn’t have your sight, you and Tom at least had your hearing. Nick didn’t have either, so he really had no idea what was going on.

“(Y/N), I’m scared. Tornadoes scare me,” Tom said, his voice wavering.

“I’m scared, too.” You replied. “We’ll be ok, though, because we’re down here.” You reached over and took his hand. With your other hand, you reached out for Nick’s, and he quickly grabbed onto yours. His grip was almost too tight, but you understood why. All three of you were scared.

Suddenly, as you waited there in the dark, you felt another presence enter the storm cellar. You knew no one physically walked in, as the door to the cellar obviously didn’t open. But someone entered, nonetheless. The only person you knew it could be was the Dark Man. The OTHER one you had been seeing in your dreams.

“He’s here…” Tom said softly. “(Y/N), he’s here, oh God, what do we do, he’s here…”

“Shhh, Tom. Don’t let him know you’re scared. He can’t hurt us,” You reply. Nick suddenly gripped onto your arm with his other hand. He sensed the Dark Man, too, you could tell. You felt fear beyond any you had ever felt before. Nothing had ever compared to this. The tornado was still raging on outside, and you could tell it was almost on top of the barn and the storm cellar. This was the Dark Man’s storm, and he had made it a truly powerful one. The whole ground was shaking, and the Dark Man was still down there with you. Although you had told Tom that the Dark Man couldn’t hurt you, you weren’t so sure. You had a feeling that if the tornado didn’t do the job, he would do it himself. You felt your eyes tear up, and you leaned into Nick to find some comfort.

After what felt like an eternity, the presence of the Dark Man slowly went away. The fear you were feeling slowly went away. Even the tornado was starting to go away; the rumble was slowly getting quieter. The three of you waited for a while, just to see what would happen. The, Tom was the first to talk.

“Can we go up?” Tom asked. You listened for a second to see if the tornado was really gone, and you were sure it was.

“Yeah, I think we’re good.” You slowly walked up to the door and opened it. The sunlight nearly blinded you, but it was a good sign; sunlight meant no tornado. “Come on, you two, I think we’re all set.” The two of them brought up the bikes, then all of you looked around. As you had guessed, the tornado had passed right over you. The barn was gone, with all that was left being some pieces of wood and a torn-up path of dirt. That had been a close one.

“We made it!” Tom cheered. “The Dark Man can’t hurt us! Laws, no!” You turned to Nick.

Are you ok? You asked.

I think so. His hands were shaking slightly, so you pulled him into a hug. He seemed to need it, as he leaned into you and held tight. Tom walked over and hugged you both, as well. That seemed to calm the three of you down significantly.

“We did it,” Tom said. “We made it through the tornado, laws yes, and I think the Dark Man was scared of US! He knew we weren’t gonna give up to him.”

“I think you’re right,” You replied. After a moment more, you all pulled away and slowly went to your bikes. You felt like you needed to get out of the town, as it was going to be a scary memory for all of you. Plus, you had Mother Abigail to get to.

The three of you slowed down until you were stopped in front of the house. You finally had made it to Mother Abigail, after a few long days of travel. That good feeling you had begun to feel days before was the strongest it had ever been. You felt calm, you felt happy, and you felt AT HOME.

“We made it,” Tom said in awe. “We’re finally here! Laws, yes!” Suddenly, the front door opened, and Mother Abigail walked out. It was strange, seeing her in real life for the first time. But it was wonderful.

“It’s lovely to finally have you all here,” She said. “I’ve been waiting for you to show up. God told me you would be here soon. How was your journey?”

“Tiring,” You said.

“Long,” Tom added.

“Well, you no longer have to worry about that long and tiring journey. Well, for tonight, you won’t have to. Tonight, you three rest. I expect a few people will show up tomorrow morning, and then we’ll make our way to Boulder.”

“Um… Boulder?” You ask. “Why Boulder?”

“That is where God has told me to bring you all. It will be the congregating place for all who will join us.” You heard Boulder was a nice place, although you had never been there. “Come inside, you three need to rest.” You put your bike stands up so your bikes wouldn’t fall over, and then went inside. Mother Abigail had a nice home. “I’m cooking up dinner, so you three will have something to eat soon.” She was facing away, so Nick turned to you in confusion, and you translated. “Things are going to change, folks. For good or for bad, I’m not so sure, as God has not told me. But you better be prepared, as it’s going to change in ways we could never expect.”

You pulled up the covers of the bed and got in. After lots of talking with Mother Abigail about what she knew about… what was going on, you all had gotten tired. Once again, you and Nick were sharing a bed, and Tom was sleeping on the couch.

Well… today was quite the day, Nick said.

It sure was. You sighed. I’m glad we’re finally here. Nick nodded in agreement. You sat there in silence for a moment. You could feel Nick looking at you, so you turned to him, and he suddenly leaned forward and kissed you. You were a bit taken aback, but the kiss was… comforting. It felt natural, even though you had never kissed before. So, you kissed him back.

When you pulled away, you couldn’t help but laugh a bit. What’s so funny? Nick asked.

Nothing, it’s just… who would have thought that would happen so quickly? I’m glad it did, but I feel like under normal circumstances we wouldn’t have kissed so quickly.

Well, these aren’t normal circumstances, I guess. Nick squeezed your hand. Your strength and bravery have been so admirable the past few days, and that’s made me fall for you so easily. Not to mention you’re gorgeous. You felt your cheeks turn red.

You’re just a modern day, Romeo, aren’t you? You asked, and Nick laughed.

I try my best. He suddenly yawned. Time for bed, I suppose. You agreed, so you blew out the candle Mother Abigail had given you, then got under the covers. You moved over and leaned into Nick, and he put his arm around you. You could feel yourself relaxing in his arms, and you knew you would have no trouble falling asleep.