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#renbrand cast nonsense sketch page#featuring three rens two brands a lore a liese and the acolyte#saddest tiredest most exhausted looking lore I’ve ever drawn#ren is SO scrungly I love her#renbrand#loreliese#the acolyte#<— oc tags#envy draws#I’ll do intros for the rest of them someday I swear
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hi hope this is ok but i've seen sooo many of ur posts tagged as renbrand and i am ... perhaps .... a little curious .... would u like to tell me abt them !!!! 👀👀 (its ok if not ofc)
Ofc!! I sure have been tagging them a lot huh
The short version is that they’re my unhinged lesbian ocs stuck in a murder timeloop
Longer version is this:
(I am not going to be able to explain this in any way approaching coherent) (but I will try!!) (sorry in advance for the Wall of Text)
So RenBrand stands for these two:
Ren Hayashi (23, she/they) university student studying criminal psychology, abandonment issues out the wazoo, Going Through It
Brand Reitveld (26, she/her) local gang leader, Control Issues TM, definitely the cat in whatever cat-and-mouse thing they have going on
They’re in love — it’s not even remotely healthy.
Basically, through no fault of their own, they got stuck in a long-form time loop (days/months rather than strict 24h) that resets whenever one of them dies, which wouldn’t be too much of an issue? Except a) they’ve never met and don’t know they’re stuck together, and b) Ren keeps getting fucking murdered
Bc!! Ren’s psychology prof is running a secret cult (trying to turn his crim psy students into serial killers, it’s a whole thing, very cringe of him) so she gets killed for accidentally getting in the way a couple times (she doesn’t know about the cult), and then ofc starts investigating, which only makes it worse (I feel so bad for her but it’s also really funny, saddest most pathetic sopping wet oc I’ve ever created)
(Some of Ren’s deaths are also caused by Brand who’s like listen I don’t have a grudge against you or anything but you do keep getting my people killed so I have to eliminate the threat, no hard feelings! And Ren is like I am in abject misery)
(strangers to enemies to lovers except the strangers to enemies is a speedrun and the enemies to lovers is a slow burn)
The story they’re from is sort of a dark mystery-slash-romance (think nbc hannibal meets groundhog day, which is certainly a sentence), and it’s mainly centred around Ren and her corruption arc as she goes from “tired student just trying to finish her dissertation if it kills her” to “codependent mob-wife who kills first and asks questions later”
I’m obsessed with time as a narrative device, and especially time loops, because it can be used in such interesting ways!! And the interesting part about time loops to me is that they’re like,,,,, rube goldberg machines for character development? You only stick a character in a time loop when you need them to undergo a pretty drastic change without a proper catalyst, and it forces them to wear themselves down to their bones, to find the very essence of what they are, and then build themselves back up again into their ideal and purest form of self. (Of course, some people just use them as a tool for romance, but that’s boring!! Boo)
Usually time loops exist to make a character better, because they’re given some kind of epiphany that makes them the best and kindest version of themselves. (Alternatively, they can be used as the cosmic equivalent of a washing machine spin cycle if you’re writing horror) But what interests Me is the idea of using a time loop to make a character worse, which is what I’m doing to Ren (and to a lesser extent, Brand)
And it’s not just corruption for corruption’s sake, either! Ren, as she is, is miserable — she’s completely isolated, unable to achieve any of her goals, and ultimately ends up getting killed in an impersonal way for impersonal reasons — but once the loop begins and she gets her second chance, she starts to wear away at all her self-imposed barriers and boundaries until she can start making her own decisions and being an active agent in her own life. Of course, she’s not choosing to do good, but the best version of herself is not necessarily Good or Kind, it’s just Authentic.
Brand, on the other hand — because she has more support and isn’t as repressed — is experiencing the time loop less as a vehicle for character development, and more as a perpetual time travel fix-it (which is SO fun, having two characters get wildly different outcomes from the same experience). Her problems are more interpersonal rather than internal, so where Ren is using the extra time to understand herself, Brand uses it to understand the world around her (and is thus doing a much better job at actually solving the plot, we love a girlboss).
Brand’s conflicts are with her brother (who I can’t even Begin to explain without adding another thousand words to this post), and (as the leader of the local gang) with the police & the murder cult, which means that a lot of her loops are spent information-gathering (and murdering, dw abt it)
Personality-wise Ren is pretty quiet, she doesn’t like to ask for things which means she gets into miscommunications a lot (people not helping when she wishes they would, people helping when she doesn’t need it bc they think she just doesn’t want to ask), she’s a very “the only one you can rely on is yourself” kind of person, which isn’t exactly ideal for someone you’re stuck in a time loop with but at least it means she never gives up? She also doesn’t really care what people think of her — or rather, she does care, but she doesn’t let it stop her
Brand is suffering from a lethal combination of being the youngest sibling and simultaneously the eldest daughter, so she’s great at asking for help and using her resources but it means that she a) is a little entitled about it, and b) needs to feel like she has perfect control over everything or she’ll die. She’s very possessive and protective over things that she considers hers (hence murdering Ren for getting her people killed, it’s fine they get over it)
Renbrand also come equipped with two sets of narrative foils (Brand’s disabled ex-ballet dancer brother and his bodyguard/love interest, and the cult leader professor and his prized pupil who both hates and loves him for what he’s become) but the word count on this is already obscenely, embarrassingly long so I’ll talk abt them another day maybe
#ok!!! that should be enough for now#renbrand#scattered-winter#asks#half of this is just meta about time loops I’m so sorry#feel free to ask more questions!! clearly I can’t shut up abt them#I’ve drawn brand I think twice? both should be under my art tag on my side acct#but yeah that’s the basics#calling them renbrand like rembrandt bc im so clever (joking)#I would do a rembrandt style painting of them if shading and I weren't mortal enemies#[clenches fist] god I love time as a narrative device#love making a character experience all their worst moments again while also giving them the opportunity to change#god. wait. loreliese as the degas ballerinas I'm SO clever#okay okay shutting up now#hope this answers your question!!!#edited bc when I was transferring this over it SKIPPED A PARAGRAPH fucking christ#so yeah if the mention of the murder cult out of the blue confused anyone… that’s why#attys yapping ✨🌷💞
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Her name is Loreliese "Lore" Turner!
She's a Thaumaturgist who doesn't actually live in the society, just picks up tips and tricks from Sinnett and Luckett. Instead, she works full time as an entertainer in the travelling circus!
Her thaumaturgy means that she uses powders and oxides to create coloured fire and explosions. In her career, this is used to spin flaming yo-yo's around in all of the colours of the rainbow!
(There is much more lore on her, I didn't know how much you'd actually want to read-)
Fanart of your oc? It's likely than you think
(could literally find no drawing references for yoyo tricks so this is probably not at all how they actually work. I had a yoyo once but couldn't figure out how ro do literally anything with it for the life of me ^^")
+little bonus chibi doodle I did as a warm up :)
I like her :)
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Martin Munkácsi (1896 - 1963), Loreliese Bauer reading book on bed , 1930s
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over and over and the ending never changes
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I have this fear that my The Nutcracker parallels for loreliese only hold up with the Barbie version. I’m avoiding doing any research on the ballet bc like. what am I supposed to do if it doesn’t work out
(This is a trick question I will simply do it anyway and be mad about it)
#bc like!!!!!! what if marie from the ballet ISN’T a girlboss like miss Clara from the Barbie movie???#I suppose it could work either way & just have a different meaning#maybe I’ll just watch both of them again and draw my own conclusions <— terrible idea#tho maybe this is an opportunity#maybe I can make this about being trans instead. things to think about#loreliese#everyone reading this without context don’t worry about it. I’ll explain eventually#it IS funny that I’ve landed myself in this situation though#envy speaks
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☆ stobin enthusiast ♡
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🌷 Tags: envy writes • envy draws • envy speaks • asks • fanart • progress report (word count updates)
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dear cassandra (stranger things, prophetic dreams fic. ao3)
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stobin mandalorian au (stranger things, posted directly to tumblr)
🍀 OC Tags:
renbrand (introductory post can be found here)
loreliese
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