#lots of useless info in here about The Boy

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if you haven't already.... you should post that oc info for arvid 👀

Yay, an excuse, thank you! :D (Long ramblings under the cut!) (excuse the darkness of the screenshot, my laptop is currently angry with photoshop)

Arvid Trygg

Full Name: As above! Fun fact- "trygg" comes from the Old Norse "tryggr", and essentially means "faithful". It's my headcanon for the name children raised in the church get in that area if they don't have a last name of their own- a bit like the "John Snow" of Faerun. (His mom only told the monks to name him Arvid, but left no other information about herself or her desires for him, and was gone by the next morning. So for all intents and purposes, his full name is essentially "Bother Arvid", which as a warrior priest is what he was casually referred to as the most.)

Gender and Sexuality: Short answer, bisexual man. Long answer, if only he knew enough to figure it out. As of right now, he's... mostly confused? Because while he's fairly sure he's a man, having literally lived the past 35 years as a holy man, he didn't much think of sexuality in any context. He may have had some mild crushes here and there, but didn't really think further about any of them. Nowadays he's slowly realizing that actually, not only does his dick work (surprise of all surprises), he also doesn't much care about gender as much as personality, and is very attracted to earnestness and gentleness in people, even more if they don't try to hide it. (It's a lot of "baby's first attempts at flirting" with him.)

Pronouns: Most comfortable with he/him, but sees no reason to be bothered by they/them either. The beard mostly deters people from attempting she/her, so I don't think he has any feelings about that.

Ethnicity/Species: He was raised as- and thinks of himself as a gold dwarf, but technically, his dad was a duergar. His mother lived in a very conservative area and was very young when she had him, so she broke off any relationship with the father when she learned she was pregnant, and hid the pregnancy from everyone. She went to the nearest monastery to give birth, and when she saw the (then much more pronounced) blue hue of her son, she decided that the best thing she can do for him is to leave him there to be raised by the monks. That way he gets a roof that her father would deny them, a life away from people in the village pointing fingers at him, and she gets her life back. (Arvid doesn't blame her for any of this. He thinks it was unfortunate because he would have liked to know his parents, but it was nevertheless the right decision to make. His skin's greyish-blue has since faded into this slightly bluish, pale color.) (He blushes purple, you guys. Purple. So cute.)

Birthplace and Birthdate: About 1460 DR, in a Tempuran monastery near a small dwarven village in the Western Heartlands (quite a ways South from Baldur's Gate), making him roughly 35 at the events of the game.

Guilty Pleasures: I think even though he's not experienced with it, he just loves reading about romance. You know there's that unauthorized copy of that bawdy play ("A Pleasurable Deal") we can find in a certain area of the game? Yeah, he saved that book, AND the leaflet that's an interview with the author. That was the first piece of explicitly smutty literature he's ever had access to, and... yeah. While he doesn't announce that he likes romance, he definitely keeps the enjoyment of smut buried deep in the bottom of his pack.

Phobias: So far, I don't think he has any notable ones. I mean, he's definitely got a healthy aversion from a bunch of things and isn't the biggest fan of gross monsters, but few are. I've yet to find out his biggest fear, but so far I'm toying with something like... that dawning horror that you did something irreversible and irredeemably horrible out of misinformation? Though I don't know how to phrase that in a concise manner.

What They Would Be Famous For: This one remains to be seen, I'll update it once I'm actually done with the game lol.

What They Would Get Arrested For: Definitely trespassing. Maybe breaking and entering. Probably heard someone in distress and immediately went to them, the dingus.

OC You Ship Them With:

OC Most Likely To Murder Them: (these don't really apply I think)

Favorite Movie/Book Genre: After a lifetime of little besides holy texts, he's kind of a fan of anything that's... not that. But definitely a romantic at heart, and if they ever "accidentally" pick up a romance novel, it mysteriously evades the trash-pile for a few days at least.

Least Favorite Movie/Book Cliche: I'm gonna say it's the "it was all a dream, and not in the vision- or astral projection-way". He always prefers honesty and straightforwardness, it's always a bummer when he realizes someone wasn't entirely truthful about something. (He doesn't realize that often.)

Talents and/or Powers: Well, he's a rather talented soldier and cleric, but I'd say a talent specifically is how he can leverage that aura if necessary. Mechanically, he has proficiency in intimidation, but hardly ever uses it- I headcanon that he doesn't really like using threats to get his way and prefers to be nice and persuasive instead, but has this... way, of shifting his weight and voice that makes him seem like someone not to be trifled with. (Only uses it when the Vibes on he encounter are already Fetid.) He's also got a lot of domestic skills, from helping out around he monastery from a very young age. Remarkably good at peeling potatoes and chopping onions. Crochets cute scarves in the evenings. (He's... not SUPER great at that one, a long rectangle is about what he can make, but it's a really sweet gesture, they're warm, and they do look pretty darn cute.)

Why Someone Might Love Them: He's a very gentle soul that's very non-judgemental, and curious about everything- especially other people's faiths. To him, as long as you believe in something wholeheartedly and are willing to fight for it, it's an honorable belief, and an honorable fight. That's why he doesn't judge Shadowheart for her Shar-worship, why he understands Lae'zel's devotion to Vlaakith, why he was willing to try the ritual for Loviatar, and, yeah, why he feels for Gale so deeply on the whole Mystra-issue. (And, because he's definitely very much into Gale, just in general.)

Why Someone Might Hate Them: I feel like that honor is a double-edged sword in this way, in that because of it, he has a way of setting expectations very high for others, and feeling undue disappointment when they fall short of the expectations he imposed on them. As in, he's, on a deep level, very annoyed with Gale for just accepting that he's gonna have to blow up, because Arvid thinks of that as Gale having rolled over and just given up. One of the worst things one can do in Arvid's eyes is giving up without a fight. (Things were kind of tense between them for a few days after meeting Elminster. After the fussy attention Arvid showers everyone in as their healer, I think Gale definitely felt the slight chill in the air there.)

How They Change: It's still a bit in progress, but I think he'll grow to accept that there's a bit more to the world than fully right and fully wrong, even within the same action, and the same paradigm. The way he handled the githyanki egg is definitely a sign of that change- he balked at the request first, it seemed unthinkable that it could in any way be better for a young gith to be raised outside of their community, but... yeah, wiping out a crèche (leaving nobody left to take care of it) and finding a note that the egg was going to be destroyed changed his perspective on things. At small hours when he can't sleep, he still thinks about what's gonna happen to that githyanki (and when he handed it over, he did look at the others and say "I hope we're all in agreement that we're not going to tell Lae'zel about this.", which is... not a lie that leaves a good taste in his mouth.)

Why You Love Them: I mean, he's a good li'l upstanding lawful good cleric boy who thinks letting a vampire bite him is the same as providing healthcare, and makes his companions cute accessories to keep them nice and cozy. He's the dwarf dad(dy?) we all need, with a fantasy fanny pack full of fruit snacks. (Really, he does carry almost all their rations on the road. So technically, he does pass out the snacks. I imagine a short rest is pretty much a snack break.)

His mustache curving up like that also gives him a permanent little smile, which I think is adorable.

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Thriving vs Survivng, am I right, lads?

Bloom and Stella eventually get married, Daphne and the woman with her, Nadia, an oc I made and have mentioned a few times, get married with Daphne to be next in line as Queen of Domino, and Aisha and Musa get married one day, but are currently in this pic going through some Shit that’s putting a huge damper on that.

More info on everyone and political drama stuff below the cut!

Bloom and Stella are thriving.

Polyamory is super duper normalized in a decent amount of places, and is considered a norm on Solaria. Stella is eventually married both to Brandon and Bloom. Both of Bloom’s sets of parents love Stella and are incredibly happy for her. After much talk and deliberation between Daphne, Bloom, Marion, and Oritel to see how Bloom and Daphne are feeling after Daphne is healed up and in a good place and has processed shit, it’s decided Daphne will continue as heir and shall be next in line for rulership. Bloom meanwhile shall continue her role as guardian fairy, Holder of The Flame, and eventually upon her marriage to Stella will be Queen Consort of Solaria. She has a lot more flexibility this way too to go where she feels most comfortable, between Earth and other areas in The Magical Realm. Oritel and Marion don’t want Bloom or Daphne to feel trapped or be stifled with immense pressure if they can help it, and Bloom is still most comfortable on Earth, so having the option to go back and forth is important and something Marion and Oritel want her to not feel cut off from it, a mistake they made early on when they first got brought back from their stasis.

Formal picture of Nadia finally! An oc from Earth I made who’s Daphne’s gf and eventual wife. I thought it would be nice for Daphne to not worry about contextualizing her grief and trauma with someone who already had preconceived notions of her from myths and legends over the last 1000+ years.

Nadia: so you’re Bloom’s sister! That’s so cool! Do you have magic too?

Daphne, who at this point while not the holder of the flame anymore is still an incredibly powerful fire elemental who retains her nymphix and could hand bloom’s ass to her and call upon The Dragon at will whenever she wants: uh, yeah, some I guess.

Bloom: glad to see being a useless lesbian is a universal trait instead of just earth specific

Daphne: exCUSE ME-

Royal balls be like “The Incarnation of God Itself, heir to The Great Pillar of all of Magic Domino, The Dragon Reborn, Supreme Nymph of Magix, Princess Daphne, and Nadia, Barista on Tuesday, Thursday, and Weekends, of the planet Earth”

Like, oh boy, THEE DAPHNE, and Nadia from Starbucks.

Also don’t worry it’s not actually a Starbucks. It’s a small local cafe and bakery spot that Bloom really likes. Daphne went with her once, saw Nadia, and went 👀. Daphne doesn’t even like coffee also she just goes there for Nadia and was too anxious to ask about any other drinks so she just gets what Bloom got, would makes Bloom, who is not at all rich on Earth, pay for it, and then didn’t actually drink it.

Also, Nadia is definitely wearing heels here.

She’s only around 5’9 or ~175cm, while as I’ve mentioned before, Daphne is 6’7 or ~200cm.

She like to wear different heels and go “ok NOW how close am I to being taller than you” or sometimes go “ok, I think I beat you this time” when she tries on a new pair

She’s never close obviously and they both know that because hehe funny joke, but Daphne will still go “oh, you just might’ve this time.”

Musa and Aisha meanwhile are Struggling. Not only is Musa someone who is already insanely anti-monarch in her governmental views, even one that operates more as a democracy, the government she’s working with can’t stand her.

I’ve mentioned in these posts how marriage works on Andros, and Musa is Not It. She’s not even a Land Androsian, which would’ve been considered a bit of a scandal because of how their government structure is set up. No it’s much worse, for oh no, she’s not an Androsian at all! Truly horrific (I say this sarcastically, but that’s genuinely what the nobles and a chunk of the population feel).

Musa is doing what she can to appease Androsian court.

Gold is a big fucking no no on Andros, but she doesn’t want to give that up since it’s a really important part of her culture.

Aisha is standing with her on that, but it doesn’t make it easier to deal with the assholes in court.

She’s even muted her reds to lean more towards purples and blues.

Muting the reds was a huge olive branch of sorts and she’s pissed about it and doesn’t like doing it (but she did it, and it wasn’t even appreciated, but WHATEVER), but she refuses to get rid of the golds (good for her).

Aisha has gold nail polish here also. She’s doing what she can, and eventually is just gonna say fuck it and start wearing straight up gold with her silvers and tell Musa to get back in the bright red or so help me-

Stella let’s Aisha borrow her stash specifically when she first start and immediately commissions some custom ones done for Aisha’s measurements.

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Yeah so, so far I’m trying to write:

- pre-stanford sam is forced on dean by some organized crime types, and john is forced to watch, and later decides yknow what, if his sons are fucking on their own time after that at least it’s not rape anymore. bobby tries to talk to him like ‘promise you won’t hurt them, but somethin’ ain’t right with your boys, john’ and john has to just sit there, thinking ‘🤨 the audacity to assume i wouldn’t know 🙄’

- stanford era dean is turned into a chick for like 2 days (and his body isn’t taking the transformation well, so it’s whumpy, heheh), giving john and himself just enough time to realize how weirdly people view them as a het couple, and that they view them even worse as a presumably gay couple. this is super self-indulgent and includes some ‘john is an actual conman’ (think slippin’ jimmy) and dean and john hunt together and also pull cons together during their weird honeymoon phase. personal favorite btw

- standord era dean gets turned into a vampire irreversibly. the vampire may or may not have sexually assaulted him, i haven’t decided yet. john tries to kill him but can’t bring himself to even raise the knife, let along use it. He creates a strict set of rules for dean; there’s a lot of drugs and alcohol while dean gets used to being a vamp; the relationship morphs into a harry+dexter morgan dynamic where john ends up hunting both monster and human predators (some inspo in the tags here) in a symbiotic human&vampire duo with his attack dog!son. new vamp dean never meets his kind again, and starts confusing family dynamics with instinctual nest dynamics that john has no clue about. ngl i squealed when i came up with the ending, reminded me of that samdean vamp fic by scorpiod (read it!) but i made it worse 🙂‍↕️

- omega dean (non-traditional a/b/o cos im not really into a lot of the common tropes) in a world where male omegas are pretty useless when it comes to having/making kids along with being seen as inferior, but John is not a traditional/conservative man and hones dean’s hunter skills despite all that. once sam presents as (you’ve already guessed what), the already messed up family dynamics get even worse. has some j&s butting heads, dean imprinting on john by accident, a lot of wrong assumptions by the outsiders, some really, really sweet ‘victor henriksen uses all the info he’s gathered on the winchester family against dean, and the info he did gather makes it seem REAL SUS even when it was actually normal’ action.

Honorable mention of what I’m obsessed with but the ideas aren’t fleshed out yet:

- john is turned into a vampire but can’t take himself out just yet, has to go save his boys first. He obviously never ends up taking himself out at all. The world has a bit of monster!winchester brothers, but we are in a dire need of monster!john and i shall provide. eventually…

- azazel!john with established j/d, azazel possesses john and dirty talks about how it’s a shame he picked dean’s brother for his mission — should’ve skipped a generation and put a kid into dean. now that one would be his perfect warrior. + dean getting full on weirded out, but not to the point of realizing what’s going on before it’s too late. idk what the late would be though. maybe ‘doomed from the start’ mpreg movie ‘alien’ situation where it’s a race again the clock to cut whatever it is out

- EDIT I FORGOT. Dean gets roofied and is saved by John, of course.

…and a bazillion of other one-liners i got saved up.

Idk I’m just writing this all down to keep some sort of track, but jesus, the situation here is getting out of hand, man.

[headless-star]

this post is divided into two parts:

here’s a useless thing i found

even more useless things i found

Part 1.

For no reason at all, i felt very compelled to look into Lumo NPCs and realised the funniest thing.

For years, Gabriel’s ever-suffering helper Yeanu was the realest guy in all of Lumopolis for me. I thought he could even become playable one day because Gabriel talks about him so much and he sounded so funny.

Gabriel’s Story 2 (EN): My direct subordinate, Yeanu, who joined the Guardians later, is like a plant that has withered at a young age, a wastepaper basket with a hole in the bottom, or a little donkey that has never stopped working since it was born—he didn't have a single trace of vitality.

I’m in tears from that description, why’d she do him like that. But what kind of name is Yeanu, how do you spell that?

CN: 那个后来加入卫队的少年，需要帮助我处理工作的我的直系下属，每日就像一株年纪轻轻就枯萎的植物，就像一个在底部开洞的废纸篓，就像一只从出生开始就不停劳作的小毛驴，没有一丝丝生气。

(Google: The young man who later joined the Guard, my direct subordinate who was needed to help me with my work, was like a plant that withered at a young age, like a wastebasket with a hole at the bottom, like a little donkey that had been working non-stop since birth, without a trace of life.)

JP: 後から衛隊に入ったあの少年、つまり私の業務助手をしていた直属の部下は、毎日若くして枯れてしまった植物か、底に穴の開いたゴミ箱、又もしくは生まれた時から絶えず働き続けるロバのように、まったく生気がなかった。

(Google: That boy, who joined the Guard later, that is to say, my direct subordinate who served as my administrative assistant, looked utterly lifeless every day, like a plant that withered at a young age, or a garbage can with a hole in the bottom, or perhaps a donkey that has been working nonstop since it was born.)

Did… did the English version straight-up invent a name for him, unprompted??

Part 2.

I don’t speak Chinese and i don’t have the Chinese version of the game. Please imagine how hard it was for me to find Gabriel’s files.

The site i ended up finding it on is called wiki.biligame, which is some sort of wiki project run by bilibili, i assume? The site is evidently made with the CN server in mind, as it’s not up to date with Global characters and features censored artworks (did you know Schwartz’ outfits are censored?). I’m not sure how reliable it is because it seems legit but… it lists all the characters ages?

As far as i know, no other versions listed the ages directly in character files, you had to either pray the character gets a special feature like Jane’s Notes or calculate it yourself. We (i?) don’t know how old most of our characters are but this site somehow got them all. Except for Istvan. Is it the official info that only the CN server got for some reason? Or did someone just have a lot of free time on their hands?

For example, we got the Angels’ ages in promotional/concept art, yet Uriel’s age was explicitly listed as ??? in both the promos and Jane’s Notes. This wiki has it as 14 y/o physically and 26 factually, which sounds plausible but where could that possibly come from?

Mia’s age is almost impossibly on point. She was 13 at the time of the Kartima rebellion 12 years ago, so she is indeed 25 now but we only learn that from a single line in Ode to Lumopolis, which the CN server hadn’t gotten to yet when the page was created.

Gronru’s age is listed as 15 physically and 111+ factually, which would explain a lot but like…. how could i miss her being over a century old? Is she?

Meanwhile some of the characters who we know have abnormal ages don’t have their factual ages listed. Especially glaring when Eve’s age is split but not Dawn’s (only physical is shown) or Mia’s (only factual), even though it adds up.

The factual ages for Charon (101) and Victoria (143) would’ve been proven incorrect in Through Rifts We Wander, which the CN server never got, but it’s worth noting Charon wasn’t confirmed to be a vampire until that event. Like how do you spoil something wrong.

Azure being 28 sounds like a mistake because my impression was she’s older than Sinsa (31) but then again, we didn’t have her age stated directly anywhere.

Similarly, i’m not entirely convinced that Schwartz is 55 either. It really feels like it should be 45-50 (don’t make me show you the math…) but you know i’m biased (i did the math…).

Paloma’s age being listed as 23 when she’s 24 in Jane’s Notes is like the only undeniable mistake as far as i noticed.

No. 33’s age is listed as 0, and Istvan’s age isn’t given at all, those are just odd, like alright then keep you secrets.

So i’m taking those with a grain of salt, but why would anyone even bother to make all this up? What is the LORE here

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[THE ISLAND OF WARRIORS: PROMINENT ASHVERT]

Also known as the island of Ashvert.

[Alright get ready for A LOT OF READING]

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[Basic history]

Legend goes that this island was branched off a large capital settling down in the middle of a stormy ocean slowly forming through the decades until the first people arrived to this island.

Ashvert has gone through many wars for independence from the large capital it originally came from making mass hate and suspicions of the other party until the end of the 40th war, both presidents and leaders at the time made a trade for peace at last.

After a few years later the hate dwindled down but not the suspicions amongst the mix of people, Ashvert now prioritizes string warriors that know their way around combat, those who are different are deem as useless, just thrown to the side to favor the muscles better.

The island is a nightmare for young children.

The boys have to shave their head until they are 5 and train by that age extreme hours until they marry or die in those fights, The girls on the other hand they have to wear a veil over their face until the age of 15 but after the girs grow up the veil is taken off to symbolize that they can be married off or chose a husband.

This island is a wedding paradise for newly weds that don't know the struggles of living here blindly following the tours, the hotels, the luxury while for the people is a extreme nightmare especially with the new leader of modern times.

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The top island places to visit if it's your first time: 1) the meeting point, 2) fishers paradise, 3) the capital & lastly 4) crystal beach.

These places are the popular spots to hang out.

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[Basic island info]

Avoid Snake Island at all times and Hydra Forest.

Why Snake Island? - The place is riddled with poisonous snakes & cobras. You can go to the Island but you need a guide, besides the snakes you also have to worry about the stormy oceans if you cross from a shore to the destination...the storms are mostly at random that some turist call it "the teeth of the island" you wont go fully to the island if you have a guide you will be close to the island have time for pictures and then go back to shore after the tour. Going to this island alone is a death sentance and if you miraculously survive you will be fined and imprisoned for a year for breaking the law since most of the snakes are in dangered (even if you didn't hurt the snakes).

Why Hydra Forest? - Hydra Forest is a goldmine for farmers but despite that, there's a specific cannibalistic plant that mimics its surroundings. It's extremely dangerous for humans and other creatures alike, if caught in one of these plants you will need to cut the person free from its grasp before the numbing starts. Besides the plants there's also a specific creature that is large as a tree called a "Minotaur" despite what mythical belief says...they are huge and not some overgrown man with a bull head, these creatures also eat meat and will see anything as a hunt...but despite their appearance they are also inteligent enough to trick people, pretending to cry or lure the person closer for the creature to strike with their makeshift weapons. If you survive for some reason you will be fined but not have jail time. Only people that are considered "champions" can go to the forest to deal with the beasts...like a group of knights or warriors that keep those monsters at bay and keep the population in check.

National animal - a giant Pegasus with 6 legs on the back and 4 wings, a mythical creature that they teach to small kids as a main story to motivate them to fight. (Like a regular children's book with a corny ending or a deeper meaning)

Finding this creature is extremely difficult, only the fossils exist and rumors say its extinct as a species.

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The end :3

[Any criticism is good, also questions are allowed]

[whumpbug]

new ocs!!!

hi gang!!!!!!!!!!!! i've been hinting at more characters for a bit and HERE THEY ARE!!! i might try to use the whumperless event to intro them a bit more, but if anyone has any drabble requests until then feel free to send em in! and if you have any clarifying questions, PLEASE ask them!!!

as you can tell, i love westerns. i love cowboys. i NEEDED a cowboy/wild west setting to whump in so i made these guys (yes i am aware their color palletes are just simon and archie in a different font. i am a one trick pony.)

sidenote: rdr2 fans, you're gonna love this (these two are practically rdr2 ocs) (′ꈍᴗꈍ‵)

onto the boys (men?? we'll go with men.) this post is embarassingly long. strap in guys.

picrew here (though i couldn't find one that captured their looks the way i envisioned.... sigh i need to start drawing again. anyways, i included some outfits to go along with them!

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eugene (gene) delaney

age: 28

height: 6'2

occupation: deputy sherriff (his town is called Whiteridge)

description: gene is. well, for lack of better words, he has a stick up his ass. that is to say that he is very particular about things, namely the safety of his town and the activities that go down in it. he cares very much about keeping the streets safe from gangs and criminals because his mother was killed by a gang when he was just a child and he knows the dangers of having bad people run around unrestrained. also, the sherriff he works under is crooked and useless, so gene is left with a lot of responsibility in terms of managing Whiteridge. he's strong-willed and intelligent, but very morally conflicted about many things. he wants whats best for his people, but is controlling everything with an iron grip really the best way to go about it?

here is his outfit that you'll usually see him in!

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cassidy "silver" mccoy

age: 27

height: 6'0

occupation: outlaw/one of "montana's boys"

description: cassidy gets his nickname "silver" from his silver tongue. he's been known to talk his way out of death more times than he can count. he runs with a gang lead by a man named welles montana, and he is one of montana's most respected men. he was taken in by montana when he was very young, and believes he owes him his life. he trusts him blindly and is convinced evetything he does is for a good cause, even if sometimes it's questionable. he greatly enjoys his job and loves seeing the fruits of his labor in the form of hungry kids getting to eat for the first time in weeks, or single mothers able to afford a new dress. he did not grow up wealthy, so what he does is very personal. despite wanting to appear smooth and charismatic, he is a deeply feeling person that sort of lets his emotions rule him.

here is his typical outfit!

a bit about montana's gang: they lead robin hood-esque type heists where they exclusively take from the wealthy to give to the poor, but their methods are often violent and destructive. also, montana himself is not a very good man but cassidy doesn't necessarily know that. montana is sort of leading a double life where he spends part of his time with his gang and the other part with the wealthy assholes they're trying to take down. none of his gang know he is getting the best of both worlds and betraying them all. he's very manipulative and acts as a whumper in this story. cassidy is at his beck and call, and follows orders often without question.

also, there is a rival gang lead by a man named o'malley. they are your typical old western gang with no strict morals, sort of just trying to get the most money they can. members of o'malley's gang act mostly as whumpers as they are much more harmful and destructive than montana's boys, and have it out for cassidy specifically.

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their relationship/more background info:

cassidy and gene have a bit of a cat and mouse thing going on. cassidy often pulls heists with his boys in plain sight and since gene is the deputy, he's the one sent to bring him into custody. the two spend quite a bit of time together because of it. (cassidy is an escape artist. he is never locked up for more than a few days. gene hates this.) to gene, cassidy is infuriating. he believes you can't fight fire with fire and that cassidy is just causing more problems with his violent approach to "helping others"

cassidy on the other hand, loves to tease and provoke gene. when they first meet, it's while cassidy is locked up in a jail cell. he clocks how "stuck up" gene is, and sees it as a challege to try and piss of gene as much as he can and get away with it. he knows and he and gene actually have very similar goals: protect the people that can't protect themselves, but gene's approach feels too slow and ineffective to cassidy. still, he respects his dedication and never actively wants to cause him harm. regardless, cassidy's loyalty to montana is stronger than any respect he has for gene (AT FIRST), so the two have an enemies-to-friends-to-lovers type thing going on

as for a silly detail, even though the two men are less than fond of eachother, their horses are infatuated with eachother. they seriously have the biggest crushes on eachother, and make it known that they are upset when they have to be seperated.

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BONUS here are their respective horses:

this is calliope, gene's mare. she is sweet as sweet can be, very gentle and extremely, totally spoiled by gene.

this is scotch, cassidy's gelding. he is opinionated and stubborn and only answers to cassidy (and even then, it's only about half the time)

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thank you so much for listening to be ramble! i plan to have at least one fic of these guys during the event, maybe more, but i'm honestly so excited for them. i've been wanting to make ocs like them for a LONG time and here they finally are!! i hope you all enjoy!

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[mayisgoingnuts]

ALRIGHT SO since I edited those earlier I decided to talk a little more about him already!!

Ignacio in JJD's cult!

Taglist: @merwynsartblog @clownazon @jonesy-squish

Click here to read the AU thing hehe 👇

Already clarifying: Yes, he WAS in Skiddad's cult just like in canon, or else events like John's house being burned down wouldn't happen.

Since Ignacio is JJD's favorite, she'd obviously want him to make part of her silly little cult. It was just the beginning so they weren't a threat, Skiddad wasn't aware of what Joy or JJD wanted to do and neither did she began to be an absolute shit to him, and saw this like a kid wanting to play with his dolls or something. But despite all that, he wouldn't just make a favor to a traitor. It'd have to benefit him somehow or be entertaining atleast, and of course a psychopath understands another just perfectly—

Skiddad allowed her to try and convince Ignacio to join them SPONTANEOUSLY, no kidnapping, no lies, just what they have, because he wanted to see her being pathetic while trying to get a member. Well, it DID happened, he laughed a lot, but consequently Ignacio did got convinced and wanted to join her. Skiddad definitely wouldn't miss him, only demanding the info he got from John before leaving, but aside from that, he felt like Ignacio was slowly being more and more useless and stupid to him.

JJD managed to convince him with manipulation, of course, but also temporary help. Ignacio didn't even wanted to be in that damn cult to begin with, and once he was there, he couldn't leave and had to risk his life for a guy who pretends to care but would totally drop him like nothing (which just happened), not to mention how much of a damn joke he is. And his house. And everything else that is going down. Too many things NOT collaborating.

She promised him respect from her members, although NOT from herself considering that he'd still be "his top 1 on the list", and happiness. He found this last part absolutely stupid until she gave him their amulet once, and OH boy, HE DIDN'T FELT THIS JOYFUL AND CALM IN SO LONG. He knew it wasn't for real but still felt so good to smile like that, Ignacio couldn't help but like it. So, he may not be there for the cult itself or their own plan for "world domination", MUCH LESS for JJD, but to feel just a little less miserable. Still, sometimes he takes a break from the amulet since he's feeling like that thing is definitely changing him more than it should, starting with the fact that now even without the amulet he's not able to be so harsh with kids like before. The idea of turning into an ACTUAL happy-go-lucky person is not pleasing at all to him.

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Can you someday do a post about a very important question that always deeply fascinated me: How technologically advanced is Oz?

Wicked as a stage show puzzles me because it implies Oz has electricity, a broadcast radio system, and trains.

How much tech is present in Oz in the books?

Oh boy that's one COMPLICATED question... Now, before I start saying anything, I will point out that I am not an Oz expert by any means. I have not read all of the Oz books. However I do know an Oz expert that tackled the subject! He is here on Tumblr somewhere, but I know his Oz analysis and lore-exploration by his blogs. He started doing them more than a dozen year ago on vovat.livejournal.com ; and then he continued his Oz posts to vovatia.wordpress.com ; I know they have very, VERY helpful when it comes to my own knowledge of Oz, and he tackled several times the topic of technology in Oz and Baum's work, with quite fascinating analyses! So go check out these blogs, you might find some interesting info!

That being said, what can I tell you?

Since I haven't read all the Oz books I will stick to Baum's novels only - but before doing that I want to point out something... It is something I said in my previous Oz post (So you want to know about Oz 5), but the Wicked stage musical is part of a pretty big wave of 2000s-onward Oz adaptations that decided Oz was a steampunk world. I know you entertained yourself a pretty similar project of a Gilded Age Oz, if I recall correctly? And when you look at Oz adaptations, you have this wave of SyFy's Tin Man, and the Amazon series "Lost in Oz", and the graphic novel/animated movie "The Steam Engines of Oz", and more recently the show "Emerald City". Even "Dorothy and the Witches of Oz" had a steampunk-vibe to their Oz. It is kind of the modern direction to go.

Now back to traditional Baum's Oz... Does it have electricity? I don't think so. The Oz created by Baum is... it is something between a fantasy version of the late 19th century American countryside, and your archetypal fantasy land. The Land of Oz is mostly a huge countryside to be honest. Its lots of forests with woodsmen and wild animals ; it is lot of fields and orchards because most of Oz's economy relies apparently on farming ; the only other big industry seems to be metal-working (Winkies, the guy who made the Tin Man) and stone/gem-working (due to the huge presence of precious stones, though no mine or miner is ever descrbed in the Oz books) ; it is a lot of small villages scattered around the one big city that is Emerald City (or around big castles like the Tin Man/Wicked Witch castle) ; this all gives it a very medieval/feudal feel in structure... Though Baum really tried to give Oz originally a "fairytale feel" and thus you have the same historical madness typical fairytales have. For example, just like your typical Renaissance fairytales (a la Charles Perrault), you have mirrors and candies and porcelaine in Oz ; and yet, just like your also typical 19th century fairytales (a la brothers Grimm) you also have guns in Oz! Mind you the guns are rare and rarely used, they seem mostly to belong to the military cast (they are always wielded by soldiers or royalty bodyguards), and they are usually useless against the monsters and magical threats... But they do exist! But Oz seems to lack things like electricity of petrol or even steam machinery. At least in the beginning!

(In fact I had a chat with @artmakerproductions recently about fireworks in Oz. He wondered if the Oz The Great and Powerful idea of using fireworks as something non-existent in Oz could work with Baum's canon, and indeed, while the presence of guns implies gunpowder is a thing in Oz, there are to my memory no mention of fireworks anywhere in Oz... Maybe they appear at one of Ozma's birthday parties, but I couldn't find which one. Fireworks are evoked in his non-Oz/Oz-crossovered work "The Magical Monarch of Mo" but only as a comparison to how lightning appears in this country...)

Is there radio in Oz? Actually there is! In the opening of book 7, to get out of how he had written his way out of Oz in book 6, Baum explained his return to the series by "Oh yeah, Ozians got hold of the radio and now they send me radio messages about what is going on in Oz". So Oz DOES have some sort of radio equivalent. How, since there's no electricity or batteries in Oz? That's beyond me, but here's why it is difficult to say for certain what Oz's technology level is: Baum, as I said, started not giving a fuck anymore about continuity. As I explained the first two-three books are kind of solid in terms of continuity because they were designed as their own closed novels, but book 4 onward Baum just gave up any concrete effort at "solid" worldbuilding and went the "Fuck it, I'll add whatever I want" road. As such, don't expect any serious effort at making a cohesive technological system - Baum isn't Tolkien. He's the anti-Tolkien. That being said, another very interesting point when it comes to Baum's work is that, as you go through his fourteen Oz books, you realize how modern technology slowly creeps onto Oz. Baum was writing Oz book between 1900 and 1920 - and the technological evolution of these two decades quite influenced Baum. The addition of the radio element was one case of Oz "evolving"; in later Oz books there are also magical equivalents of television popping up. But if you want to see a concrete comparison, you can compare the first Oz book, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", with the last Oz book Baum wrote, "Glinda of Oz". The first shows an Oz so technology-lacking people are easily fooled by stage tricks ; while the last book is heavy on technology, with for example evocations of submarines, but it is a technology presented as a form of magic. Which leads me to my last point...

Does Oz have trains? Not by the time Baum wrote them ; though modern day adaptations and authors did add a handful of them to the Oz world (and you can also find things such as ray guns or time-travelling machines in modern Oz books so you know, it evolves with its time). But Baum did wrote about a carriage that did the entire tour of Oz for touristic purpose: that's one of the subplots of "The Emerald City of Oz", and how Dorothy shows her aunt and uncle all about the fantasy land. It is not a train, but you have already here the idea/potential for a train-like system here (even though it is rather a carriage/wagon drawn by a wooden horse that can never tire and doesn't eat). And here's my point: the reason technology is so weird in Oz, and why it is also lacking in many way, is due to Oz being filled with magic.

Most Ozian equivalent to our world's technology is, in Baum, powered by magic. There is no camera or surveillance system, but there are the Magic Picture or Glinda's big magical "spy on everyone" book. There are no lie detectors, but there is Glinda's pearl. The magic eye of the Wicked Witch of the West was explicitely compared to a telescope. Etc etc. Magic replaces most advanced technology around the Land. Advanced technology and mechanism do exist, and Baum was very fond of the idea of the... "magical mechanic" if I can say so. What he does is basically take an actual real-world technology, but take it to fantasy extremes - which notably is why the Oz books are considered early sci-fi. There's how the Tin Man came to be: Baum took the workings of actual real-life prosthetics for missing limbs, but pushed it to the extremes by making a "vintage android". There is how the Woggle-Bug came to be: a great scholar used a machine to project an enlarged image of a small bug on the wall. Quite ordinary right? But turns out the machine literaly enlarged the bug to a greater size - which is a very common sci-fi tropes (all those rays that shrink or enlarge things or objects). And while it is not an Oz example per say, Baum gave us the most blatant example of "magical technology" with the realm of Ev, where lived Smith and Tinker, the inventors of many fantastical automatons, first of which being Tik-Tok, a sentient automat that is considered one of the first robots of modern literature!

So... On one side, Baum tried to show a land that would not advance technologically because magic was there and much more powerful. It is the line by the Good Witch of the North, about how Oz still has magic because it is not "civilized", and one of the traits of "civilization" is advanced technology. Take how guns are treated in Oz: they exist but they are not made a big deal out of, and in fact prove quite useless among the many magical items and beings. And yet, on the other side, Baum's Oz is the literal proof of the law "Any advanced technology is magic" ; or rather a whacky incarnation of this principle, because indeed, the most advanced form of technology in Ozian lands work by fantasy and extravagant sci-fi rules (Tin Man, Tik-Tok), while most of the great spells and magic items of Oz are fantasy equivalents to our real-world technology (the Magic Picture, or even the Gump which works as a fantasy equivalent of flying machines).

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wiatt nicholson head canons plz

ok. Wiatt is very similar to Damien to me. In the sense of oh boy, I hate writing this character so much. It's a quartet of Damien, Norman, lewis and Wiatt. Hate all of them/j they each have their ups and downs. Mainly downs but like- Lewis is by far the easiest of the group but still so far behind the others in terms of effort to write. Especially when paired with Wiatt. TGE ONLY TIME IVE EVER WRITTEN WIGHLIGHT AND WAS SATISFIED WITH IT WAS THAT ONE LIKE 10 LINE SCENE IN FEBRUARY 4TH WHERE THEY APOLOGIZE TO EACH OTHER. IT IS MY GREATEST FLAW. I CANT WRITE WILIGHT AND IT HAUNTS ME-

but this isn't about them! Just Wiatt! So let's get started on it!

To learn from the tragedies: he's do stressed. Let's this guy be. He just wants to help his boyfriend but also doesn't have a clue what's going on. He thinks he knows everything. He doesnt. At all. He's sort of the main focus of book one but is a lot more background in book 2, which focuses more on Sara. Both of them are technically going through the same thing but because Sara was the villain is treated a lot differently. I sometimes think about what would have happened if lewis hadn't explained things to Waitt. And instead he and Sara teamed up to get answers and everything would have been fine. But no, lewis is far too dramatic for that.

Shattered dreams: he dies. womp womp. Does become Guide! (Gaslight. Useless. Idiot. Dead. Employee) But I think I'll talk about him more in the Oc au because I think despite it being nearly the same situation he's more interesting there.

One shots/you'll live until I die: I thinkkkkk her appears like once in yluid and it's like- the least relevant scene in the fic i was just trying to even out the perspectives. But in that and other one shots he's sort of just a mechanic. Almost never more apparent than that. Try to keep it close to cannon, he likes helping people but tends to mess it up a lot but never enough to be fully blamed for it.

I will make them create my world: don't. Don't talk me. I- I'll figure it out! (Has over 10k of scrapped shit THAT US JUST HIM. The reason there hasn't been a new chapter since February is Because of that man and how hard he is to write and plan)

Buried masks: I think I've made a few post on him but he stays outside the basement because Sara doesn't like him. He helps Damien with his investigation and is highly suspicious of Sara. Eventually he does get more involved for a big event! But that is major spoilers :3

Swap au/skating in silence: he plays Norman here! Which I find very interesting. Not interesting enough to have concrete ideas for it but enough that if given the chance i could see myself exploring. Wiatts like main thing is he feels worth through helping others. And by directly helping Lewis he'd really enjoy the job. If lewis was different from Sara and still have him praise and carted about him it would honestly create a more toxic relationship than canon because Wiatt would be left clinging for Lewis's validation and willing to go very, very far for it.

Superhero au: he's chill. Doesn't have any powers. Is a reporter and a hero stan. Untilllll things start happening and lewis is sobbing in his apartment because he's having to deal with some very traumatized kids, and half their trauma may have accidentally been his fault and he knows the heros are all a massive lie and starts giving wiatt info about some of the more horrible things the organization has done and wiatt starts a character arc of now speaking against the hero system and trying to in mask it for what it is! Mostly he just appears in the background, he's sort of the symbol of the general public, being powerless and living a mostly normal life.

Steven universe au: he lives in his car as a photographer. He enjoys life and specifically lifes mysteries and the unnatural. He fines this fenced of beach that has been rumered to be haunted after a man died mysteriously several years ago. Wiatt never followed the rules and climbs over because the view from that clean of a beach must be stunning!

And bam! Rock Aliens. They all scare each other but wiatt has a camera and the aliens don't know what that is and they think it's a weapon. They explain they didn't mean to bother and humans and Wiatts like oh wait their really sweet. And he's friends with them now!!! He gives everyone their more human names and let's them experience life. So far he's the only human that doesn't get experimented on so that's good for him. He is a little overwhelmed by dating a space dictator that fake killed himself but it's ok, he'll figure it out.

Maze au: he's human. Don't know how he got in the maze. I can imagine him playing a role similar to Kyle in the sense of like, he's here to help and try his best not to get into anything but is not going to sit around. He's probably a runner. Not a very good one. Maybe he stays in the back and makes maps. He and Oliver team up to make most of the clearings.... Everything. They make weapons and tools and supplies and help build housing and food they are the progressives. They make sure the clearing is constantly improving.

Oc au: he dies! Not to litho though cause we accidentally took him out. Instead he dies to jot! In a....messy scene. Both because there was a lot of blood and two it was written late at night and neither of us really knew where we wanted it to go only that wiatt needed to be dead by the end of it. So mans got straight up beat. Joy crushed this dude with her bare hands. The virus actually took out two....well killed two people by technicality it knock loli out for a good while but she's fine now! Yeah, we made it slightly more deadly just for fun. And now Wiatt is a tour guide with amnesia! He loves the company and works mostly in the lobby with Dot. Star also had his memories erased in this au.

Instead the whole what about love speech, was joy about carly. Which Winnie being already connected to Carly made it a lot easier and so roller gays are doing fantastic and wighlight is struggling.

We have yet for star and guide to interact but I'm looking for to when they do!

that should be ittttttt. He plays a background character in most of the aus. So not a ton to say.

Thank you for the ask!!

[clown-femme]

this is so random but weve been mutuals forever and i know you have ocs but i dont know anything about them and then randomly the other day i was like “i should just send an ask and ask about them” and so here i am! if you have any fun oc info id like to hear it :>

HI FROYO!!!!!! Thank you for sending me this ask this means a lot to ME!! Oh boy, hm, where to start.

I thought about doing little doodles of everyone to use in this ask, but I know if I try to make myself do that I'll never actually answer you. I also have a lot of them, so I'm going to narrow my list down!

Mordecai Benoit Henri Baptiste Ambroisie! Any pronouns, 264 years old TODAY IT'S HIS BIRTHDAY 02/14!! vampire. The space between Mordecai's ears and under their blonde head is a bunch of cartoon hearts and roses. Gleeful, romantic, silly, owns a ballet company, is excellent at forging documents and does so for a living. my favoritest most special princess of my ocs. rococo and art nouveau aesthetics. everyone's auntie.

Jachobin Garbot! he/him, bi and dtf if you are sweetheart, vampire, 137 years old but died at 42 so he has permanent greys. Former detective, current paranormal investigator/private investigator (which one he is depends on which side of his business card you're looking at). Sleazy, charismatic, deeply depressed. Calls everyone pet names. Smokes like a chimney and drinks like a fish. Wears sunglasses indoors and slicks his hair back. Film noire aesthetics. He's the character in my blog header image! Sunmi "Sun" Pond! he/him, gay, 29, his mother is a half vampire which I guess makes him, like, a quarter vampire. Very pretty and knows it, 'look queen' style of drag queen and all around entertainer (singer, dancer, musician, actor but not in comedy roles. running joke is that Sunmi Isn't Funny.) His drag name is Calliope Whatsername. Loves bread. Vain but deeply melancholic. Heavy mermaid themes. In many AUs, his mother is @creempyeyes's Charlie. Hogarth Hanamura!

he/him, 30, gay, werewolf (in most aus but not all). Crabby persnickity nitpicking furry artist. Alarmingly popular with people I show him to. The saddest angriest loneliest wettest loserboy around. NEEDS to be right. A hopeless, hopeless romantic. VERY in love with @kingfucko's Simon (at least in AUs where they both exist). forest aesthetics.

Radio Kahale!

she/her, 27, lesbian, butch as fuck, a regular human who has had supernatural bullshit dumped in her lap. she's an amateur boxer and convenience store clerk who accidentally made a deal with a chaos entity that gave her semi-useless pyrokenisis in exchange for her taking care of his kid for him. Upbeat, talks WAAAAY too much, ADHD queen, has a tattoo sleeve, likes star trek and food.

Mnemosyne!

she/her, 28, bi, a witch who wound up more powerful than she ever meant to be. short term memory issues (magically induced). lives with her maternal grandfather, and once erased a guy from existence. might be letting her magic consume her a little bit. elegant but not necessarily delicate, can be occasionally blunt. sunlight/angel/ethereal aesthetics.

There are lots more but I don't want to talk your ear off about ALL of them. I also have my oc blog @spaceypeachbun . almost all of these ocs have playlists and pinterest boards and all of that crap!!

if you have ocs please tell me about them too!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[broken-exfaust-pipe]

i’m only here bc my colleagues wouldn’t shut up abt this hellhole 🫶🏽

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‼️‼️GECS HIJACKS THE INTRO POST‼️‼️

I’ve never made an askblog before, omg! My only complaint, so far, is that my Tumblr doesn’t have an option to make text yellow : )

It’s okay— I’ll settle for weird orange.

Before I got started, I wanted to do a little ‘character summary’ type thing, since Fausta is an OC.

I’m just gonna write some basic lil bits of info, in this section, right here!

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F/N: Fausta Maria Stark

Alias: Cobalt Blue

Age: 17yrs

Height: 6’0”

Nationality: American (born in Malibu California, raised in NYC NY)

Ethnicity: Dominican

Defining features: Wine-stain birthmark (right collarbone), prosthetic left forearm (custom-built)

Languages: Spanish, English

Trivia: Undiagnosed autistic

・Artificial webbing

・Stark industries didn’t ‘exist’ in her universe. Instead, she had Stark International and they sold home appliances (like smart fridges!)

・The AI built into her suit is named Alexa. Alexa has been around since Tony designed Fausta’s first prosthetic arm, and Faust chose the name when she was 10 years old

・Since she took over designing her own tech, her arm has had a plethora of useless functions built into it— kind of like a multitool! A few of these include: a bottle opener, a box cutter, and a flashlight

It’s probably important to mention—

‼️Both Gecs and Fausta are minors‼️

So, hey, maybe don’t send in anything weird.

Oh, and, I cannot honestly tell you if this is more or less important than the previous thing but— I’m autistic. I have a lot of trouble interacting with people I’m unfamiliar with (this is a later edit because it is, in fact, causing issues). If I short-term-memory the hell out of one of your blog’s rules or if I do generally anything that makes you uncomfortable, PLEASE be gentle with me. Don’t automatically assume I’m trying to be antagonizing or whatever. Also, preferably send me a DM and I’ll apologise, reflect, delete whatever dumb thing I said, etc. I get hella anxious, I’ve discovered, when people make posts for me to find— even if they don’t mention me, by blog name.

Oh boy, that’s a long paragraph. : )

I’ll be using these tags to indicate certain content (or whatever—)

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#G— indicates that Gecs is speaking in the tags

#⚙️— indicates Fausta is speaking in the tags

#mod post - this one is pretty self-explanatory

#cobaltposting - posting or reblogging things as Fausta would

Fausta is a character that I made way back when I first watched the Iron Man movies— I was around 11 or 12, back then, and it still shows in some of her writing (mostly her cringefail backstory)… So, y’know, go easy on me.

Edit: I might be up for proper role-playing in the distant future but, for now, this just a casual sort of interaction/ask blog. I’m hoping that doesn’t always deter people, lol!

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so hey i’m going 2 spare u ppl the whole gorey backstory mostly bc i don’t want 2 talk abt it

in summary:

I was adopted by Tony Stark when I was 8 years old. My bio parents lived in a condo not far from his mansion in Malibu. I made a run for it after they beat the shit out of me (for reasons—you know how it is) and ended up in Pá’s front yard. He took me in, during my recovery… and couldn’t get rid of me.

Good for me, I guess—not every day you get adopted by a billionaire who also fuels your engineering special interest.

When I was 14, I was bitten by a radioactive spider on a school excursion to Oscorp Labs. Since then, I’ve developed an insane allergy to most spiders… and wall-climbing, web-slinging superpowers.

I became the vigilante Cobalt Blue (named after the tarantula, not the metal!) and the rest is history.

Oh, and my universe was kind of, sort of destroyed by an anomaly… but we don’t talk about that.

I live and work full-time at Spider-Society HQ on Earth 928-B.

so y’know… ask me shit ig

[14th-century-verona-queer]

Sokka HC’s (trauma edition)

just some stuff that I think is true abt Sokka idk

I haven’t watched ATLA in literal years so please correct me if some of my info is wrong

Some of these are probably obvious but I just wanted to give my take on them lol

Ever since the night of the fire nation raid, he’s terrified of fire and even more scared of the smell of bodies burning and the sight of ash. Because although fire is what took his mother and a lot of the tribe members away, the smell of bodies burning and the sight of ash reminds him of the sight he saw that night, and how he was useless to do anything about it, that now burns forever in his memory. Because while Katara is traumatized at seeing the death of Kya, Sokka is traumatized of seeing his tribe members killed and burned in front of him. He’s the kind of guy to break down after the fact of whatever just happened, so he can still fight fire nation soldiers and everything. But the minute he gets off of the battlefield and the adrenaline wears off and hes alone? He makes some excuse about “needing to plan where they’re going next in the peace and quiet because fucking toph and aang make it hard to focus with their earthbending lessons” he breaks down, sobs racking his body and an inevitable panic attack coming as he relives the worst night of his life over and over again for hours, acrid smoke and burning flesh all he’s able to smell, screams of pain and heartbreak all he’s able to hear. (when Zuko comes along it gets a little bit better because he can remind himself the Zuko is a fire bender and hes safe and warm and would never do anything to hurt me. So he just kind of melts into his best friend’s boyfriends arms and it becomes a routine for them. More on that on the zukka post i will get to writing..eventually)

He has abandonment issues because of how unexpectedly Kya died and left him to take care of Katara while she was grieving, and then Hakoda left him to take care of the entire tribe by himself. This is probably why in that one episode (i dont remember which one and im too lazy to find it) Sokka was so adamant about refusing to let Katara go and try to save Haru and his dad, because he was scared that she wouldn’t leave until she got everyone off of the ship, eventually get captured, and spend the rest of her days there, leaving him behind.

(This ones cannon I think but here’s my take on it) He has self-worth issues because of his constant expectations that have been set on him, by himself and by other people. A lot of people reading this are gonna be like well yea he had to take care of the entire tribe by himself! Which, true! Not exactly the best move Hakoda, but what’re you gonna do i guess. But i think his self-worth issues stem more from his need to be the perfect “chief”. What i mean by that is that if he’s doesn’t catch enough fish for the tribe (even if they probably have enough to survive because always working too hard) he hates himself because he isn’t doing enough and they look so skinny and its all my fault because i just can’t catch enough fish. And if the people are cold, or if they’re sick, they expect him to take care of them, but they dont see that he’s a 16 (or younger, he was acting as chief for a couple years before Aang came along i think) year old boy trying to do everything himself with no help. Every day he hears the same thing: “Sokka, we don’t have enough ______! Can you please get more?” So he never ever thinks he’s good enough no matter what he does because there’s just never enough. even if he catches 100 fish for the whole village to eat, he’ll still beat himself up about it because sure they were able to eat today, but they’re not eating enough and he still needs to get more furs for everyone because the winter is only getting colder and they’re getting sicker and they’re all going to die because he’s so useless and can’t do anything right

because of him having to do everything himself, he absolutely hates being offered help. He refuses it practically every single time, because he’s so used to people younger than him counting on him to do something, and if they’re counting on him that means that he cannot fail, and asking for help (to him) is one way of failing. If he asks for help that means he couldn’t do the one thing Hakoda asked him too. It’s super simple Sokka, just take care of the village of like 15 people. And he can’t even do that.

He’s an absolute control freak and micromanages everything, and Katara (the hypocrite, smh) hates it. He needs to be in control of everything because that means that nothing can go wrong unless he makes a mistake. (Which he knows he will make a mistake but at least its his fault and he can find a way to fix it) If he relies on other people that means they’ll make mistakes which means something that needed to get done won’t and he’ll fuck up again and he’ll be worthless, because planning and fixing and engineering and fighting is all he has, all he thinks hes good for. He would rather be solely blamed for not being good enough and screwing up than letting someone like Zuko or Katara or Aang be told that. He was never in control of the war or his mother’s death of Hakoda leaving or anything, so he find some kind of solace or coping mechanism in being able to at least control the village and having some semblance of control (idk how else to explain this! Im so sorry!)

Also because he doesn’t trust anyone else to do it right lol. He’s been taking care of the whole village for such a long time that there’s a very specific way you supposed to do this Katara! It took him such a long time to finally get a rhythm going, get used to how to take care of 15+ people at a time, so any little change to his routine pisses him off and makes him panic because he’s lost the control of the situation and now he’s in an unknown territory where he doesn’t know how to do anything which makes him a liability.

(I’ll probably continue to update this post because im probably not done, and/or make a pt 2 if y’all wanna see that. Won’t be restricted to just trauma next time!)

[nebulacollege]

hello!! I love yalls twst stuff and I'm rlly excited to see/learn more about these ocs!! would you be able to give maybe a rundown on which characters are in which house and why? or maybe a general explanation on how the houses work in this college :0

Thank you very much for liking our twst stuff and for your interest in these boys! <3 And thank you very much for reading the info post about them! Fighting with tumblr to make it work was exhausting, and it’s still not going to work in the app after all orz I’ll add some of these facts to the info page later, but for this reply I can write much more than what I’m going to say there.

Now to your question. Each of the characters are were made to “represent” their corresponding house, to somewhat be the embodiment of the animal, so they go like this:

Niall is in the Unicorn house;

Ned is in the Dragon house;

Edmund is in the Raven house,

Liam is in the Snake house.

The houses group boys based on their personal qualities, but, ofc, there are no strict rules as which factors will definitely put you in one of the houses.

The Unicorn house is known for its dazzling, charismatic students with a strong tendency for leadership. They are determined, strong-willed, and often arrogant to an extent. They’re good at dealing with social issues, people in general, and can manipulate both people and the information they have as well. Still, despite being natural leaders, they have to have a sense of community and know how to form alliances.

They have good manners, good style, and overall have a high-society aura around them. Members of the royal families usually end up in this house. Because of that, it is considered the most prestigious (and rich lol) of the houses.

The Dragon house is the next in line in terms of being prestigious. Students there are loud, impulsive, have a very big “presence” whenever they’re around, while still being surprisingly responsible and well-behaved. They’re good and strategy and tactics, and have the best results in sports out of the bunch because of their good organizing abilities and discipline. They have their own order inside the house and dormitory, so they tend to work on the “survival of the fittest” principle. Just like Unicorn students, they are very proud, so they’re not ready to listen to just everyone, so they sometimes have conflicts inside their house in spite of their strong sense of unity. You have to deserve their respect to be... well, respected. On the negative side, they are quite greedy, loud, as I’ve said, and slow.

The Raven house is both the opposite of the Unicorn house, yet at the same time they’re the ones they cooperate with the most. Students of the Raven house are quiet and just don’t seem all that remarkable. They’re the first to react to different events, but the most “useless” in terms of solving things. The least ambitious of the bunch, they are rather perceptive, know a lot of rumors and information, good at making suggestions and predicting future outcomes, but at the same time secretive and not very talkative with other houses. Nobody really knows what they think, so they’re the creepy ones and the “freaks”, although not in such a harsh manner as one might think. They’re here to just do their job silently, or to complain a lot and still do their job lol If the Unicorn house can be considered the facade of the society, these students are the underground part of it. Metaphorically, that is.

The Snake students are also quiet, but their presence is much more prominent than that of the Raven students. They’re perfect on the surface level, but are ready to take any means necessary to achieve their goals without being caught. They seem perfect from the outside, but students from this house have the strongest sense of individuality. They’re cautious and ready to give way to others just to be safe and sure, they’re not the ones to rush anywhere without thinking. They’re careful, and a little bit slow in order to process events around them accordingly and to take the best possible route.

Phew, I think so far that’s enough lol

[mareenavee]

Sea of Storms

I challenged @paraparadigm and @archangelsunited to a duel wherein we write about Pirates within the context of TES.

Our judge for this duel is @elfinismsarts -- oh boy. What have you signed up for? LOL <3

See the info card for The Rules. :>

Shoutout to @changelingsandothernonsense, @polypolymorph and of course @thana-topsy for general awesomeness and enthusiasm for the shenanigans. <3

~*~

Sea of Storms

Waves crashed against the hull of the Azura’s Revenge, rain battering the crew as they scrambled to account for the tempest that had blown in. Jury was still out if it was real at all, or something conjured. They’d said the Pirate King, if that’s what he really was, could cause madness with the mere presence of his ship. Well, it was madness to be here in the Sea of Ghosts. It was a bit far from the Abecean, where his lot belonged. 

Athis clasped his hands behind his back, water flooding over his tricorne hat and running under the salt-soaked collar of his heavy captain’s jacket. Miserable. But they wouldn’t lose. He’d sailed these waters for twenty years now, evaded every iceberg, sank every East Empire Galleon he chose to target. Dremora or not, Velehk Sain wouldn’t stand a chance. Perhaps especially not now that he was allied to the damnable Blood Horkers out of Japhet’s Folly.

The ship tossed over the next high wave and shouting erupted from the crew as they lost their footing, sliding across the deck in the deluge. Athis gripped the railing, rings glinting in the flash of lighting. He was deafened momentarily by the thunder. He turned to his helmsman, whose claw-mark warpaint ran down her face as she struggled to steer the ship toward the nightmare ahead of them. Sodden red hair hung in her eyes and she grit her teeth, struggling with all her strength to prevent the wheel from spinning out of her grasp. She managed, barely. And better still, the Blood on the Water loomed close, its black sails still open, as if unaffected by the winds.

Maybe it was a conjuration after all. And here they were, supposed to be intimated. Athis grinned. A strong enough mind could end this torment, break the illusion. Where was Farengar? Foolish wizard was likely still hiding below decks, attempting to wait out the conflict. Coward. Fine, for now they’d fight in the storm. It wouldn’t be the first time, and wouldn’t be the last.

He took the stairs down from the quarterdeck two at a time, steady despite the choppy water beneath. Thunder crashed again, lightning blinding, but still he pressed on. The Maormer twins had already begun to harness the storm, channeling its power through themselves and redirecting it with double the force. It was the best they could do – the rain had made slowmatches useless. Likely that had been the intent all along.

The helmsman had, as directed, aimed right for Velehk Sain’s ship, twisted as it was, looking like something constructed of scraps scrounged from the Deadlands. They were close enough to Windhelm that repairs could be done in no time at all. They’d long since abandoned caution in this fight, especially once the grapeshot ran out and the downpour began. 

Athis was bellowing now, voice lost to the scream of the wind and the loud crack of thunder across the sky above them. But the crew knew the plan – they had all along. They braced for impact. Athis flattened against the mast as the Azura’s Revenge crashed into the Blood on the Water’s broadside. -> Read the rest on AO3

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[ meet the prisoners! (t2 edition) ] prisoner 001: miyagawa akio

it's time for everyone's t2 profiles!

i just wanna mention that since these profiles are made for their t2 versions, they won't have things like age, occupation, height, etc, for obvious reasons. they also won't have mv descriptions this time and their mvs will be described in their voice dramas.

but you can read about their t2 relationship dynamics here! not all of them will be described, but only the important ones, but you can also ask me about other dynamics.

okay, time to talk about how the first prisoner is doing! (not well. he's doing terrible actually.)

(Warnings for description of Akio's injuries, mentions of his suicide attempt and him still wanting to die, implications of self-harm and mentions of choking)

General info.

T1 Verdict: Akio was voted guilty and was punished by Eiji as a result. His punishment was mostly physical, but he was left with a psychological kind of trauma after that as well. He was the first guilty prisoner to be punished and Eiji says that he got a little bit excited because of that and that's why Akio's injuries ended up being worse than Eiji has planned. He got a head injury after his punishment and he also has a lot of cuts and bruises on his arms and there's some of them on his legs as well. Eiji and Miki don't know how serious his injury actually is and Miki is afraid that Akio's life will either become much harder because of it or he might actually end up dying because of it if he doesn't get any professional help. It's definitely harder for him to do a lot of things now, like walking, reading, talking, etc, and he often needs help with those things, but according to Eiji, he can talk just fine when he has to talk to the guards. However, Akio still ends up getting tired after talking for some time and if someone forces him to keep talking, his words stop making any sense because of how tired he is and he starts saying completely random things that don't have anything to do with what's going on around him.

T2 Personality: Akio is more quiet now and for understandable reasons. His eyes look more empty, his hair is more messy and he has noticeable dark circles since it's too hard for him to fall asleep now because of all the pain.. and also something else. After Riku basically told him to go and kill himself, Akio has completely stopped talking to him, not because he doesn't want to talk to Riku anymore, but because Aimi is too worried about him and doesn't want Riku to hurt him again. Aimi is the only prisoner Akio can be seen with now and other prisoners don't really try to help him, though Naomi offers to take care of him if Aimi can't do that for some reason. He often feels like his head is spinning because of his injury and he mentioned his vision becoming more and more blurry because of that, so now he has to ask Aimi to read his books out loud for him. Because of the incident that was mentioned earlier, Akio sometimes thinks that it's better for him to just die already than continue to live like this, though he refuses to talk about it. Well, maybe Miki is right and his injury actually is serious and he will die soon anyway, haha.. People also never hear him say anything "smart" anymore because even thinking can be too painful for him sometimes. But now they can often hear him quietly repeating something to himself to calm himself down when he's too anxious and Aimi swears she heard Akio say someone's name when he had one of those moments. He's also not so self-confident anymore and he actually thinks he's useless now, though Aimi is the only person who knows about how much he hates himself now. Looks like this boy has always thought that his intelligence was his only good quality and now that even talking or reading requires way too much energy.. he doesn't want to keep living like this. 

T2 Relationship dynamics:

As you can tell, Akio and Aimi are much closer now and people see them together all the time. Aimi claims she's genuinely worried about Akio and wants to help him and Akio doesn't push her away anymore. When it's too hard for him to talk, Aimi still understands him perfectly and never forces him to say anything if he doesn't want to or just can't do that at the moment. Whenever she hears Akio say something bad about himself, she quickly makes him take his words back and says that he's still smart and talented, it's just that he needs some time to recover and everything will be okay again. At least she hopes so. Akio is also surprisingly protective of Aimi now and whenever he hears Eiji say something like "We should have voted her guilty", he gets really mad at him and reminds Eiji that Akio is still alive only because of Aimi. Losing a prisoner so early probably wouldn't be good for Eiji's job, would it?

Naomi is still nice to the younger prisoners (not counting Asahi), so if Aimi needs help with taking care of Akio, she agrees to spend time with him. Akio doesn't like her as much as he likes Aimi, but he's secretly glad that there's at least one more person who cares about him or at least good at making him feel like she cares about him. When Aimi asked her what she thinks about Akio's injury as the oldest prisoner here, she said that she doesn't know how serious it actually is, but she thinks Akio is strong enough to survive at least until the end of the third trial.. unless he gets punished again.

Asahi's relationship with Akio is even worse now, during his T1 interrogation Akio has said that he finds Asahi one of the most annoying prisoners here and he still thinks so. When nobody else is around, Asahi likes to make fun of Akio's condition and says it's funny to watch his self-esteem go down when it was so high in the past. Akio claims that he doesn't care what Asahi thinks since he's just a kid, but deep down.. of course he cares. Of course Asahi is making his situation even worse.

Yeah, Riku and Akio's relationship is not good now. Both of them try their best to avoid each other and when they have no choice but to spend time together or talk to each other, their conversations always end up being really awkward. Like, how are you supposed to talk to the guy who has almost killed himself because of you/the guy who told you to go and die after you asked him for help? Every time Akio hears Riku say that it wasn't his fault, he starts feeling both extremely angry and extremely sad at the same time. Of course he wants him to shut up and admit that it was his fault, but.. he also can't deny that Riku is nothing but a replacement of his accomplice to him. Of course Riku wouldn't be happy to hear that. His reaction was understandable.

Akio hates both guards with passion and whenever they talk to him, he always calls them out for what they both did to him. Yes, he thinks it's Miki's fault too. Sure, maybe he's not dead because she stopped Eiji before he could kill him, but did she try to change his mind? Akio still ended up being punished and Miki didn't even try to stop Eiji from doing that (at least that's what Akio thinks). And if Akio had a chance, he would've killed Eiji a long time ago. 

Music info.

Milgram cover: Listen. I might be wrong. Maybe it actually won't fit him at all. But don't you think it would be cool to hear him cover The Purge March. Yes, it's not even out yet. I don't care, I still want him to cover it. Like, even from the song preview I can feel those Akio vibes, LIKE THE LYRICS DESCRIBE HIS CRIME SO WELL TOO.. 

DECO*27 cover: (Not) A Devil. I feel like I don't even have to explain anything. Like come on, the religious theme, denying that "you're the Devil", LIKE COME ON. Also I can imagine him singing the Devil parts with his T1 voice, like, sounding more confident and proud and singing the Angel parts with his T2 voice, sounding more tired, but soft at the same time.

Different Vocaloid producer cover: I had to fight the urge to give him three religion-themed covers because it's actually a different prisoner who will get a MV with some religious imagery this time so I decided to go with Egoist by Paseri Onuma. Listen, listen, it makes sense to me. First of all, lots of orange there which is Akio's second image color and also Riku's main image color. Second of all, the lyrics and the song in general have really strong T2 Akio vibes, like yes, GO CRAZY SHOW HOW ANGRY (and sad) YOU ARE YOU GOT HURT BY BOTH EIJI AND RIKU!! And also there's something about Akio, who was the "smartest student of his class" and now can't do anything "cool" and "smart" because of his condition, saying things like "Let me go home early" and "Let me withdraw from school" is. It breaks my heart, yeah.

His T2 Trailer Voicelines:

".. I-it's you two.. D-don't even look at me. Leave me alone. Both of you.. Both of you are insane. One of you did all of this to me and the other one just ignored it and pretended not to see it!.. H-how can you two be the guards of this place??.. W-would I be a better guard than you two?.. I-I'm not so sure anymore."

".. W-why? Why did it go wrong? You told me that everything will be fine, everything will be under your control, but- I DIDN'T WANT THIS, YOU IDIOT!"

His T2 Song Trailer Voiceline:

"I just wanted to be loved by my classmates, is that too much to ask for?"

Trivia:

Of course, he still wants to be voted innocent, and not only because he still believes his crime wasn't his fault and his victim deserved it, but because he doesn't want to die.

The reason why he has bandages on his neck as well is because he says that he keeps seeing.. someone in his cell every night and that someone tries to choke him and doesn't let him fall asleep. And the thing is that the marks and scratches on his neck actually make it seem like someone has really tried to choke him. Eiji thinks Akio is actually doing all of this to himself, but thinks it's someone else's fault either because of his condition, him losing his sanity or.. maybe this place knows a different way to punish its prisoners. 

Yes, his second image color being almost the same as Riku's main color was done on purpose.

[left4denver]

hey y'all! this is peyton [sh/th, 21+, cst—also the mun of dylan, selena, mouse & hyeon] and this time i'm bringing you guys hakgojae gallery's foh manager, oh dabin :~) you can view his stats here, his pinterest here & read all about him under the cut! i prefer discord so pleasssee hit me up at #seamonkeydefender

born and raised in seoul, dabin is a city boy to his core. his parents aren't "rich", but they're pretty damn comfortable—as a result, dabin is... a little... spoiled...

picky, difficult kid. not necessarily mean, but does have an attitude that seems to suggest he thinks he's above other people; his parents have him spend a lot of time with his maternal grandparents in jeju-do to kind of combat this problem as they're very hard workers and very humble people. worth noting that his grandmother is a haenyo/female diver, very much the breadwinner of their household and after dabin gets past all the judgment and whiny ass "you smell like seaweed! i hate you!" tantrums, she instills a very strong admiration/respect for women in him

anyway, as if that doesn't put him in his place, his parents having another kid when dabin is already 10 does LMFAOOOO... no longer the baby of the family, has to step up and help his parents out (as much as a 10yr old can) with the baby. it's a bummer. he fuckin' hates that kid for the first two months of her life, and then all of a sudden he loves her more than he's probably ever loved anything

sparknotes: by the time he's reaching his teenager years, dabin is mostly humble but extremely wild / daredevil, likes to do shit just for thrills / gets in a lot of trouble, is arrested a few times in his late teens & early adulthood and ends up being assigned community service hours as part of his sentence / becomes very compassionate in this timeframe as he learns about world issues and what he can do to make a change / ends up enlisting and then going to college a bit late (paid for in full by his parents who just want to see him improve his life), undecided major at first but eventually settles on art history (useless ass degree if you ask his dad LOLLL) / gets his bachelor's degree in 2018 and then his master's in 2021, by the time he finishes his master's he has drastically mellowed out / gets a job at hakgojae gallery as an art handler, eventually works his way up to being the foh manager oh yeahhh...

so here he is now. a 30 year old man who's Been There, Done That and just wants peace now. he's extremely smart, but also is well aware that he doesn't know everything and is always happy to learn something new. passionate about things such as animal rights, climate change, women's rights, etc etc, still volunteers often even though he fulfilled his requirements a while ago. reads a lot of books about self-improvement and various informative topics.

still kinda pretentious ngl... but i'm sure that vibe carries through enough in this intro that i don't even have to say it, LMFAO. that said, he is a very well-meaning dude; his intentions are pure, and he's trying every day to be better than he was yesterday.

other info: type to drink wine at 2pm on a wednesday / passionate about south korea and especially about seoul, has a side hustle/hobby of giving newcomes or vacationers personalized tours / his favorite season is autumn if u even care / really warm guy, strives to be a pillar for others to lean against and a friend for them to confide in / has a russian blue cat named willow, humoring the idea of getting a second cat so willow isn't alone when he leaves for work / king of making lists, very organized man!

plot ideas

y'all already know, but if you don't: i love extensive plotting and building storylines together from scratch, so if you're into this too, hit me up! let's talk about every little detail <3 but i'm also 100% down to jump into a base idea and just see where it goes. that said, here are some ideas:

friends of dabin's younger sister. she's about 20/21, so these friends would probably be in that age range but rly it could be anyone who knows her from uni as well—regardless, dabin will be a surrogate big bro to them :~)

also just random young adults he's taken under his wing... he acts like he's 50yrs old the way he's always like "i was young once. i get it. but because i was young once, i can also tell you you're being dumb as hell and you're gonna be embarrassed when you look back on these years" like dude... chill

aspiring artists who want to get their work showcased at hakgojae gallery and figure the best way (re: shortcut) to do that is to make nice with the manager

someone kind of new to seoul who dabin had a mutual (npc) connection with and as a result, welcomed them very warmly into the city/gave them a tour and helped them get settled in and all that

similar aged friends... people he met in uni, people he went absolutely wild with in his early 20's and now they're (probably?) both kind of settled down - but man, ain't it fun to reminisce?

pretentious art buddies, film buffs, whateverrrr

a budding artist who dabin is actually a big ass fan of

someone who volunteers at the same animal shelter as him

some girl who thinks he's stupid and fake as fuck 'cause he's soooooo loud and proud about "being a feminist" JDJFHBSDJ

etc etc... down for anything!