#me when I make my oc completely insufferable instead of likable

[chr0macide]

guess what fellas. I finished the oc. finally.

Magdalena Mercer

Or Lena for short. But she gets mildly annoyed when people call her that, especially if she doesn't know them.

She has a tragedy mask instead of a comedy mask. I headcanon that the people who had always worked for Mary had roses on their masks and the ones who originally worked for Larry had theirs blank, so Magdalena has roses on hers.

Pretty short, about 5 feet tall. Her bad posture makes her look even shorter.

Constant thousand-yard stare. She emotes only when the emotion is strong enough (i.e. not often, kinda dead inside), and there would be an immediate jarring change in her facial expression.

Hair covers left side of her face. Definitely not just because I don't want to draw the roses all the time 🤫 but I drew her headshots without that so you can see what her entire face looks like.

Left eye doesn't open all the way. The eye is fine, just the eyelid doesn't work properly

Sallow skin, bloodshot eyes, skinny to the point of looking unhealthy, always shivering for a reason that I am gonna explain

She would be in her 20s as of the first Break In game. She went to Purge University, but not at the same time as the Scarys of course because she would've been too young

Ok now for her backstory

Magdalena was a student at Purge University who double majored in mechanical engineering and biotechnology. She made no friends because she actively distanced herself from everyone. She was destitute, so she took out a loan from the mafia to pay tuition as no banks in the city were willing to lend her the amount she needed. She was ultimately unable to repay the money soon enough and ended up working for the mafia to pay it off. It's possible that they sabotaged her career to ensure such an outcome.

Anyhow. Mary was the one in charge of her, and Magdalena was highly skilled in the engineering field, so she eventually became one of Mary's chief assistants. As such, they worked together closely, but the relationship was extremely businesslike since Magdalena wasn't much more than an indentured servant. If you asked one of them about the other, they'd say they know each other but neither of them would have claimed they were friends. As for her fellow mafiosos, she was on neutral terms with most of them. Some of them might have liked to antagonize her or kick her around since her demeanor is utterly pathetic, but Magdalena is the highly observant type and knew when some bullshit was about to go down. She would always just leave the area when it was about to start. One person who she was on relatively good terms with was the Brute Villain (who I gave the fanon name Markus so I don't have to keep typing out Brute Villain. And I'm gonna act like he survived Break In 2 since he doesn't fall into literal pieces like the other minions when you defeat them). Markus hated being annoyed, so he preferred her company because she was quiet and unobtrusive. The number of times she talked to him without being spoken to first could probably be counted on one hand, but Magdalena liked to hang around Markus because other mobsters were much less likely to start shit when he was there. Mutually beneficial relationship. Plus, neither of them liked Mary that much. Markus worked for Larry before he was defeated and he was a little bit iffy about the new boss.

Magdalena was one of the personnel involved in Mary's experiments on Larry. For the record, Magdalena never liked working for the mafia, and she liked it even less whenever Mary assigned her to work on one of her experiments (which was all the fucking time). Not that Larry would give a shit about that if he ever got his hands on Magdalena. And she dresses like she raided Spirit Halloween's steampunk isle during the last purge, so he would definitely recognize her if he ever ran into her post-Break In 2. Anyway. When the players defeated the final boss at the end of Break In 2, Magdalena and Markus took advantage of the chaos to escape the base. Markus thought he might be able to ally with his old boss. Magdalena wanted to break away from the mafia entirely, but she didn't tell him that. However, Magdalena ran away when they were cut off by a group of Mary's loyalists, and Markus followed her into a storage room where some wind-up key prototypes were being kept, kind of like the small ones that Larry kept in his mansion (I remember they exist because of one of junkzinterlude’s posts lol). These ones hadn't been tested before--at least not on humans--but Magdalena urged Markus to use one on her anyway as she was worried about getting killed by the other mobsters that were after them, so he did. He did not want a key used on himself, and she didn't ask him if he did either.

They both confronted the other mobsters, but Markus knew Magdalena was useless in a fight and was also skeptical about how strong an effect the key was going to have on her, so he told her to flee the base without him. Joke was on him though since she was about to do that anyway lol bye Markus. She didn't see what happened to him, but I will tell you he fucked those mobsters up and escaped the base as well. He and Magdalena haven't managed to reunite, though (at least not yet).

Magdalena hid in the woods surrounding the base, and now she had a suspicious untested key in her back. Well, turns out this particular type of key functioned more like a parasite. Either that or she just didn't have the physical toughness to handle the effects. She was always frail and kind of sickly. The strength boost only lasted about a day, and after that she was even feebler than before. That's why she looks like such shit underneath her mask.

So. Magdalena is weak and alone in the woods. Next purge is in eight days. She has her crowbar, toolbox and nothing else. How does she survive? Well. She avoids confrontation whenever she can, but I told you she was highly skilled when it comes to engineering and I meant what I said. When expecting to be attacked soon, she shows up at an abandoned factory. Any machine factory would do. Where does she find them? I don't fucking know, they just spawn in near her whenever the narrative demands it I guess. She held more than a few engineering jobs before she got sucked into the mob. She probably knows where the factories are. Anyway. Magdalena has enough expertise to refit one of the assembly lines to produce small robots out of scrap metal and whatever else is lying around in the warehouse. They're not hi-tech killing machines or anything like that, but they are enough to cause problems for anyone trying to reach her. They'd come at you in groups, maybe swarms if that type of bot is small enough. They would have a fair shot at killing anyone who wasn't prepared for them, and if they were prepared then they'd still likely buy Magdalena enough time to escape from her would-be attackers.

And now we have reached the present day, backstory over 👍

Yeah I made the 1324874th Break In OC with a wind-up key, I know I'm so original lmao. Magdalena's is silver instead of gold and has a little rust on it. It's also smaller than the ones on the Scarys.

About her personality and other stuff:

Magdalena has a polite enough disposition, but in a vaguely unsettling way. Her "vibes are off" so to speak. Most people who talk to her for a bit will be able to tell her cordiality is fake. If you speak to her for long enough she will gradually drop the fake shit and become snippy, or outright verbally belligerent if you're some random colleague of hers who is refusing to leave her alone.

Primary personality trait is bitter. Bitter about being born into poverty. Bitter about having to attend Purge University because she had no better options. Bitter about not being able to hold a job. Bitter about being forced to work for Mary. Bitter about the parasite stuck to her back. You could probably taste the bitterness on your tongue if you spent enough time around her. She holds long grudges but is generally too cowardly to be vengeful, so she tends to just marinate in even more bitterness.

Post-Break In 2, she doesn't really mind the presence of other mafiosos but will avoid the bosses at all costs, Larry for obvious reasons and Mary (plus the others) because she doesn't want to be roped back into the mob.

Very cowardly. Unwilling to stand up to her superiors. Will run from a fight whenever possible. And she runs fast as fuck when her life is in danger, that's her one and only physical advantage. So evasive that she would be gone if you looked away from her for a second, as if she teleported or some shit.

Very disinclined towards violence. During the purge, Magdalena steals a bunch of shit instead of killing. This stems partially from her cowardice plus her unwillingness to hurt people without a good enough reason, but also the fact that she is hopeless in melee combat. Mary never sent her to fight for this reason. She is fairly good with a gun (one-handed, the recoil from anything two-handed would probably knock her on her ass) but she was not allowed to have one back in the base, and she still doesn't have one.

She blinks way less than usual. Like maybe a couple times each minute. That's part of the reason why her eyes are always bloodshot. Speaking of her eyes, her left eye is like that because her wind-up key's roots burrowed into her slightly incorrectly (again, janky untested key model that maybe wasn't even meant to be used on humans) and fucked up her nervous system a little bit. Nothing too important was damaged but yeah that's why her eyelid is weird.

Here is Magdalena's toolbox. She keeps her tools in it (obviously) and maybe some spare parts and scrap metal. Also one of her little mechanical weirdos. This one could fit in your palm and she had a handful of these even when she still worked in the base. They would carry stuff to her sometimes (all of them would have to help drag the object since they're small). When they weren't doing that, they'd be crawling all over her, which some of her coworkers thought was creepy, especially the ones that happened to be entomophobiacs, lol.

Here have the first pic I drew of Magdalena. Actually I think the headshots might have been finished before this. But I definitely started this one first. Idk. Who cares. Started making this post on the 11th and now it’s the 21st that's 10 DAYS bruh. Why did I put so much effort into an OC that I might never even use for anything lol this is dumb. too lazy to check this post for typos. I'm going the fuck to sleep now lmao gn.

[androsswannabe]

nobody cares except me about this nonsense

Stupid thoughts under here, mostly me being irritated about dumb shit nobody cares about except me. 

I think a reason why I get irritated in fanfiction (Why do I keep reading it when I know it’s all garbage? Cause I thrive off negativity.) where Andrew is suddenly serious business, is a ruthless politician, commander, and is killing people with his orders is because we never see him get to that point. Like while we do get a hint of it in Assault with how he rose to gather some remains of Andross’ army and a ton of mercenaries he is still very much in a borderline comical villain territory. Even in Japanese, where while he sounds obviously crazed as he eats the scenery, he still is relatively goofy in a batshit way.

This is not saying villainous characters cannot be funny, (you can be laughably evil, see Pigma who is actually pretty funny but an absolutely horrible individual you want to see go down.)  but it’s all the presentation that matters. Assault’s presentation (at least in English) did not take Andrew seriously mocking him at every turn, where in contrast Japan’s it took slightly more seriously. (Though he was still a very much comical villain.) Even in implying that Andrew was smart enough to distract the Star Fox Team from getting to Fortuna, which is why Fox seems to be confused why they were attacked.

So seeing say fiction to get Wolf and Fox closer together, Andrew of all people killing off Panther, Leon, and all the people in Sargasso really bothers me. Then swinging back to “oh we can completely handle him” while you crack jokes about him especially when you do the whole drawn out angst sequences about losing your comrades. 

I believe why this bothers me is because a good slow descent into evil/despair due having revenge as their motivations is one of my biggest narratives that I adore -- especially when it’s shown to be in the wrong. There’s no “but you did the right thing for the wrong reasons.” So for people to NOT focus on this just leaves me going “Oh. Why didn’t you make an OC for this?”  

If Andrew has shown already that he can operate an entire armada and still be pretty comical in his own right where some people are either not taking him seriously (English) or more confused/uneasy. (Japanese) You got to show me what makes him go from completely comical to be mocking because he has an order to how he wants things to go (due to BATTLE OF DESTINYYY) to the monster you’re telling me he now is. 

If there is an evil Andrew that shows up -- it must understand the fundamental principle of why he fell down that path.  Which a lot don’t consider that he could be read in a similar situation as Fox was, except with no proper support system if we go by the canon context.  Maybe it’s just me looking too deeply into what is really a comical character, but I just see the comparisons and contrasts. 

The Comparisons and Contrasts

Fox McCloud: A pleasant likable kid that everyone seems to love, and that follows in his father’s legacy. Has lost his father figure at least. (James McCloud) Is stuck in the shadow of James McCloud, until the Lylat Wars where he becomes finds himself by following the memories of his father. May or may not still be in the shadow.  Has an excellent support system from General Pepper, Bill, Falco, Slippy, and Peppy. (And eventually Krystal, much of Sauria and many other places.) Grows to be into a more confident person as a whole while keeping James close to him in his memories even if he still has his own demons. A skilled pilot and fighter who is considered the hero of Lylat and is well respected by everyone even his rivals. (Wolf) Was driven by revenge but no longer is because he got it. If he paid a price for it, that’s up for debate. 

Andrew Oikonny: An insufferable and spoiled brat that everyone in canon dislikes to some degree, who follows his uncle’s legacy. Loses his father figure at least. (Andross) Is stuck in the shadow of Andross after his death, and continues to cling to his memory instead of finding himself. Has no support system as Wolf, Pigma, and Leon kicked him out of Star Wolf. Does everything entirely by himself while throwing his status around to get people to follow him. Has relatively low self-image and self-esteem but is doing an egotistical strut to everything believing if he tries hard enough he’ll make it. Not skilled at fighting nor a skilled pilot, but is forcing himself out of sheer determination to carve and twist himself into fitting the role with very limited success. No one respects him. Is driven by revenge and still is, likely never will get it without a very costly price because Andrew does not want to go as far as his uncle did.

So I’m sitting here being bitter over an unpopular character of a franchise nobody cares about because I think he’s a big character foil to Fox even if he’s a giant joke. This is probably why I appreciate a comical dependent Andrew who can’t do anything right over an evil Andrew who now is worse than his uncle. Because there is no build up for the latter or understanding of what makes him... well, him. At least the other understands his dependency issues.