#oc: Lavada

[spiderpinata]

a witch!

[averydistinctiveteam]

Chapter 1

Word Count: 1470

Triggers: None?

It was all Sophie’s idea. At least, that’s what Nate would say if asked. He was serious when he said he wanted to get out of the game. But he also missed his team. Nothing could ever replace Sam, but Eliot, Hardison, and Parker did a pretty damn good job. Of course he’d never admit that he missed them, or the chase, or taking down corrupt CEOs. But he did. He missed it far more than he ever thought he would.

Sophie would gladly admit that she missed her children. She video chatted with Hardison and Parker when they first moved on, and she called Eliot occationally to complain about Nate, but after a while, they drifted apart. The three musketeers had started something bigger, but they didn’t really talk about it with her, and she had lost touch before the plan had come to fruition. She wondered how they were doing, and she begged Nate to just visit them. It had been 10 years since their last visit. In that time, they had traveled the world and then some in that time. It was time to go home and see what the kids had done in their absence.

“Wow, the Brew Pub is looking really good! I love the new counter tops!” Sophie marveled as she ran her hand down one of them. Hardison gave Eliot a knowing look. Eliot rolled his eyes in response. They had been fighting about what kind of countertop they should get for months. Eliot finally just bought the countertop he wanted without telling Hardison, who found out and quietly changed the order.

“Oh, boys it’s so good to see you! It’s been so long!” She said finally, engulfing both of them in a tight hug. They wouldn’t say it out loud, but both of them missed getting hugs from Sophie. “Where’s Parker?”

“She’s in the back, there was an issue with one of the satillites, so she’s trying to fix it via webcam,” Hardison answered nonchalantly.

“The Brew Pub has satilite restaurants?” Sophie asked, surprised at how well it was doing. The boys blinked and were silent for a second.

“Oh, no, we expanded Leverage Inc. to be nation-wide. We might start an international branch in the fall, but it doesn’t look promising. We might have to push back the date a while,” Hardison answered her. Sophie’s eyes grew wide.

“Wha-what does that…entail?” She was awe-struck.

“Hey, when did the Brew Pub need a whole extra level of parking?” Nate asked as he entered the Brew Pub.

“Nate!” Sophie beckoned him over and he slowly meandered towards the small group. “The boys have some exciting news!” “News? I mean, it’s not exactly a ‘new’ thing, Sophie. We started recruiting about two years after you left, and then it all spiraled out from there. This is our what,”

“6th full year,” Eliot finished for him. Both Nate and Sophie stared at them for a full minute, not saying anything. The only reason they stopped, was because Parker stuck her head out of the back door.

“Guys, we have a bit of a situations. Sophie! Nate! You guys came back!” She squealed the last part. When Hardison and Eliot moved toward Parker, Nate and Sophie followed suit.

“Which one is it?” Eliot asked, pulling up a map of the United States. A string of red dots fell down upon the map, signifying where the satilite buildings were.

“Our New York office,” Hardison answered, typing on his laptop. “If we leave now, we could totally make in like two hours.”

“Wait, how are you going to get to New York? We’re in Portland!” Sophie exclaimed.

“We bought a small plane when we started branching out farther.” Hardison said this as if it was common knowledge. Sophie and Nate looked at each other in complete confusion, but they followed their kids out of the Brew Pub and into the busy streets of Portland. Eliot flagged down a taxi, which took them to a private airport.

“It’s not a particularly big airplane so we stay under the radar,” Hardison explained as he helped Eliot open the door. “And it helps that Eliot has his pilot license.” And with that, they were off. Nate and Sophie held back the thousands of questions they had for each of them. Only Sophie actually asked any questions.

“Did you two get married?”

“Nah, it seemed stupid.” Parker answered, typing away at her phone.

“We’re still working out the kinks…” Hardison clarified, looking disappointedly at Parker. She didn’t notice.

“Ok, so from what I can get from the lead there, they were hacked. Not like a normal, Hardison-can-just-type-on-his-computer-and-fix-it type hack like a really, really bad one. And honestly, they’ve got some of the most talented hackers we have at the New York office.” “Yeah I was thinking of maybe movin’ some of ‘em? Just to spread the wealth to the other ones.” Parker thought about it, but she shook her head. “They’re family, just like us.” And that was the end of it. When they landed, they were greeted by the head mastermind of the New York Branch.

“Arlana Foely, we spoke on the phone.” She extended her hand to shake Parker, Hardison, and Eliot’s hands. “Our car is this way—“ She cut herself off an did a double take. “Are you…Are you Nathan Ford and Sophie Devereaux?” She asked, awestruck. Nate smiled, weakly and shook her hand. Sophie, on the other hand, was beaming. “You guys are legendary. Honestly, I wish we had more time, because I have a million questions to ask you, but time is of the essence and we we’re about 20 minutes away, on a good day.” She quickly refocused herself and led the quintet to the car. The drive was fairly quiet, only Arlana spoke, debriefing the team on what had happened since their last contact.

Finally, they made it to “home base,” as Arlana called it. What it was on the outside, however, was a “Fitness Complex.” She led them past a sea of treadmills, stair-steppers, elliptical, and a range of weights to a door marked “EMPLOYEES ONLY.” She pushed through the door and the rest followed in her wake. Behind the door was a mess of computers, flashing lights, and freaking out.

“Arlana, I got our cameras back, but I can’t seem to figure out how they – shit now they have it back again, goddamnit, help me make sense of this Julia,” a young girl growled out as the team entered. Hardison didn’t skip a beat, sitting down next to the girl.

“Alec Hardison and you are?” The girls looked up, frozen in shock.

“I’m Irene. Ellis.” They both extended their hands and Alec shook them, one at a time.

“Now, I couldn’t get in by myself, and neither could you, so let’s see what happens when we do it in tandem,” he said, starting to frantically type. Irene didn’t waste any time and began typing away at her own computer.

“Wouldn’t it have been smarter just to send Hardison, if all it was was a computer thing?” Nate asked. Parker shrugged.

“This has been happening on and off for 12 weeks, so we figured it was time to visit and see who’s wreaking havoc on us.” She replied. Eliot glanced around and then leaned over and whispered something in Parker’s ear. She nodded and he left.

“Levada, you’re getting good,” Eliot said as he approached the punching bag. A young, short, woman appeared from behind it. She wiped the sweat off of her forehead and raised a single eyebrow.

“I was already good, I’m just gettin’ better,” She countered. He smirked and tossed her a water bottle, which she easily caught. “Thanks, what’re you doin’ in town? I thought you guys weren’t due for a visit for another couple’a months?”

“Some computer thing that Hardison has to help with.” Lavada nodded.

“Irene’s been goin’ crazy over that code. I woulda sworn up and down she was gonna smash her laptop.” She said with a soft chuckle.

“Yeah, Hardison gets like that sometimes. You been keepin’ busy?” she shrugged and began unwrapping her hands.

“This job keeps me busy. I like it. Helpin’ people never feels bad.” Suddenly Lavada something behind Eliot caught Levada’s eye. “No rest for the weary,” she grumbled as she headed towards the “EMPLOYEE ONLY” door. Eliot followed. Just as they both entered, Hardison and Irene were able to take back control of the hub for good. They high-fived, then Hardison noticed something on his screen.

“What’s this job?” He asked, pointing at a file.

“Oh, that’s the one we’re working on. It’s small potatoes compared to most of the ones you guys do.” Hardison looked up at his team.

“Sometimes it’s good to go back to the basics.”

[cloudy-with-a-chance-of-ocs]

I saw this comic and couldn’t resist doing a really quick doodle of Baxter and my hazbin oc Kiara. This one might be a tumblr exclusive b/c I don’t know if I’ll have time to revisit this

[i-maybe-exist]

15, 21, 28 for someone in the gremlin gang?

im gonna do azura! cuz why not :D

15. What is the first thing people notice about them?

probably her white hair. it’s natural, but she says that she dyes it in order to not raise suspicions 

21. What would be one item that they would hate to lose most?

she seems like the type to have a lucky charm of some sort, so probably that. ooh maybe its something that helps her get out of her fae form, and its like a gift from her mom or juliette or something...

28.  If your character was in today's world, what social media platforms would they avoid? Or be prominent on?

i mean. she is in todays world afojewjfwejoewfjofoei

i feel like shed use instagram, but not in a “i just wanna look at hot people” way, but more in a “i wanna see all the cool art/aesthetically pleasing pictures people take and what my friends are up to” kinda way. she doesn’t really post, so the only people following her are her coworkers and other gremlin gang members that also have insta

she avoids snapchat like the plague. she just doesn’t understand the point, and would rather text one of her friends instead and sees that as more reliable than something that disappears

[clouddander]

quick doodle of Angel and Lavada reacting to Baxter’s failed experiment. Bonus points if you get the ref

[ellhd-imagination]

I participated in a Summer Fun OC Zine hosted by @Sanctum-Archives and here are my submissions!

[kda-user-blog]

WIP of two bomb OC's I've had in mind ever since last year. Idk how to draw male bodies ;-;

[violetandstarlightgirl]

A sketch of my twin ocs Mahzun and Lavada, who show up way later in RTS but are some of my favorite antagonistic/complex characters! They are half-elementals (fire and water respectively)!

[alexia-crystal-art]

Art of an OC from Mario Amino (Lavada Boo)

[oliveofthenight]

OC #4 Aaida

Name: Aaida Luminosa

Fandom: none, she’s for a story I’ve got brewin! :D

Looks:

Age: 34

Pronouns: she/her

Birthday: March 4th

Sexuality: Lesbian

Occupation: Queen

Personality:

-the most optimistic person you will probably ever meet

- bubbly, good natured, excited, there’s not a mean bone in this woman’s body

- very mother like to everyone she meets

- pacifist, she really doesn’t believe in harming people and refrains from it until there is literally no other option, and if fighting is the only way to save her people.

- incredibly selfless, would give everything she owns for her people and others

- however, such selflessness causes her to spread herself thin, and she tends to make promises she can’t always keep because of that

- also naive as well, her belief that everyone is good can make her fall in with bad people

- honestly, just think as disney princess like as you can get, and you’re ultimately barking up the right tree

Background:

- her kingdom, the Epiphoral kingdom, had been made already for many generations. It was passe down to her by blood and she took over the castle

- growing up she was, well, like a disney princess.

- she was an only child, with a mother and father who loved her dearly.

- her parents were always taking her out to see the kingdom and it’s citizens to remind Aaida of the beauty of it and them.

- her kingdom is one of agriculture, so she studied long and hard to understand it and how it worked to best help her people.

- she was taught goodness ans graciousness up until her parents had both died of old age and she took the crown.

- however, never believing to hold herself above others, left the castle to live in a cottage with her people, the castle now being used for those homeless or to hold meetings

- she’s made it her mission to be on good terms with all of the surrounding kingdoms to ensure her own would fluorish and she succeeded.

- Lavada, queen of the Lunia kingdom, absolutely adores her

- Veta, queen of the Dorian kingdom, tolerates her at least enough to trade

- and Queen Desdemona, ruler of the Inchantis kingdom, has hesitantly put her trust in her.

Fun facts:

- for however Disney Princess-esque she is, she’s actually a horrible singer. She’s very out of tune, but she’ll sing like she’s not anyhow

- she’s the oldest of all the current queens, though she acts the most childish

- really will become a mother figure to Desdemona, as she’s the youngest and an entire kingdom is very stressful for such a young person

- always out and about with her citizens, she makes it a point to know as much about all of them as she can.

- is at every coming of age ceremony in the kingdom, she likes to give the children flower crowns that look like her own

- her kingdom has the biggest agricultural influence in all of the surrounding kingdoms, and are often traded with for food, herbs, medicine and more.

- however ditzy and childish she may seem, she has a good head on her shoulders and she knows what she’s doing.

[spiderpinata]

Fun fact about the RPG I'm gonna make, like 95% of the cast will be cute girls.

[averydistinctiveteam]

Chapter 2

Word Count: 1362

Triggers: None

“It’s really just a simple smash and grab it’s not like a super crazy involved con or anything…” Irene said. It was much easier to run a con when the best in the business wasn’t watching your every move.

“What does it involve?” Nate asked. Arlana gestured to Irene who swiveled around and projected they job on the wall.

“Not much. We’re just stealing a painting. It’s a Van Delen. A lot of his painting were stolen by Nazis in World War II and “Never recovered.” By never recovered, of course I mean absolutely recovered, but then sold on the black market to make people with shady moral standing a lot of money. One of those people is James Anderson, he’s got “Nature Morte” hanging up in his VP’s office. Steal that, give it back to the Schloss’ and the con’s over.”

“Sounds good. We’ll let you run the con, we’ll just be here as backup, just in case.” Hardison said. Arlana nodded.

“Levada, go get Jesse and Julia, you three will do the con.” Levada nodded and pulled out her phone and looked up. Two seconds later, there was a loud buzzing heard from the ceiling and then muffled whispers. Levada pointed up.

“Found ‘em.” Arlana sighed.

“Girls, c’mon, we have guests, get outa there.” The girls reluctantly found their way to the grate before gracefully dropping down to the floor.

“So we’re stealing a painting?” Julia asked.

“We could do that in our sleep, blind folded, and backwards.” Jesse retorted.

“Well then I guess it’s a very good thing that you will be awake, able to see, and face forward, so that this job will be short.” “C’mon girls, the van’s out back.” Levada led the two thieves to the back enterence. Irene slowly got up.

“They might need me to get past the security systems, so I’m going with.” She said as she hurried out.

“Pick up Moriah on your way!” Arlana shouted after her.

“Lev, keep an eye out for the guards, they seem unusually active today,” Irene said, typing away at her computer. “Moriah can only distract so many of them.” There was a tinkling of laughter over the coms.

“And do you know vhat I said?” Moriah said in a Russian accent, “I said “No, I can’t do zat today, but come back tomorrow…” Irene rolled her eyes. How could people fall for such a stupid ruse? But whatever works to get the job done works for me, Irene thought.

“J squared, you got a guard coming up, Lev, can you—“ there was a sound of flesh colliding with flesh and Irene watched as the guard fell back.

“I told ya, I got it.” Levada replied, turning back to Jesse and Julia. “How much longer?”

“Done!” Jesse said as she opened the door to the office. Inside there was a beautiful painting hanging directly over a leather rolling chair Julia sighed happily. They both carefully took down the painting and covered it up with cloth. Before they left, Jesse left a note for the VP in place of the painting. Then they got the hell out of there.

“Vhat is going on? Vhat is all of this red lights?” Moriah asked, partially to the guards, but mostly to her team.

“Goddamnit, Levada, you tripped on of the trip wires again.” Irene said, furiously tapping away trying to get the alarm to turn off. “Well maybe if ya gave me a list of the trip wires I wouldn’t fall for ‘em, Irene!” Levada said through clenched teeth, pushing Jesse and Julia through the open door to the elevator just as some guards rounded the corner.

“Burn,” Jesse suggests. Julia and Lavada nod in unison and they both begin to apply face prosthetics and a couple of braces to her. They finished just in time for the elevator to ding open and they escorted her out. Moriah had already left, pretending to be scared off by the sirens and flashing lights. Irene pulled up in the van and Julia slid the door open for the other two women.

“How did they not notice you were carrying a painting?” Moriah asked with a laugh.

“Chaos,” Julia replied, “Chaos makes it easy to slip things past people. They’re not paying full attention to you, just the threat.” Jesse was pulling the prosthetics off her face, but she paused to high five her thieving friend.

“I’m going to call her.” Arlana said, “This job was too easy, and we don’t want to give the Schloss’ a fake.” Julia and Jesse rolled their eyes but the let their mastermind go with her gut.

“I happen to know an art dealer, if you’d like me to call her.” Nate offered, knowing there was always a chance that Maggie was in town.

“That’s very kind of you, but we have one of our own on tap,” she replied, putting the phone to her ear and walking off slightly.

“They’re doing good work here,” Hardison said to Nate. “They’re helping people. On a much larger scale than we ever could with just one team.” Nate smiled and nodded.

“I’m proud of you.”

“OK, Becca’s gonna be over in soon to evaluate the painting,” Arlana announced to the group. They all nodded and then went back to what they had been doing previously. Hardison was talking with Irene about coding, Eliot was talking with Lavada about technique, Parker with Julia and Jesse about the different things they’d stolen both together and separately, and Sophie was talking with Moriah about the different character’s she’d created. That left Nate and Arlana.

“They’re good kids, really,” she said, surveying her team. “They really care a lot about not only the job but the people, too. I mean, sure everyone could improve, but we’re doing good here.”

“Doing well,” Nate corrected her.

“No, we’re doing good.” Nate smiled at her sentiment. “Lavada used to be a part of a private security group, but she quit after she got in too deep with some of the clients; Irene was a computer science student at CalTech when she was framed for committing computer fraud, but when she exposed who it really was, they still kicked her out; Julie’s been living on and off the streets for years, grifting her way into a person’s life, only to steal their wallet or something else valuable. She’s never been caught. Moriah’s getting to Sophie levels of grifting, and our expert, Becca, she’s the only truly honest and straight forward friend I have.” Nate nodded. He knew the feeling. The only family he had left, was the family he left to go be with Sophie. And sure, they were doing just fine without him, but that was what hurt the most. Almost as if she had read his mind, she spoke. “The only reason they’re as good as they are is because they learned how to work as a team from you. That’s how they taught us. They could only do that with experience.” Nate sighed and opened his mouth to speak when there was a loud noise like a gunshot multiplied by 100 that came from outside.

“Sorry! My car backfired! I just had it fixed last week, I’m so sorry for the noise!” A young woman apologized profusely as her car steamed.

“I don’t think that’s just a backfire ma’am, would you mind if I…?” One of the gym patrons had come out to see what the fuss was about. He gestured toward the smoking hood. “I’m a mechanic.”

“Oh would you? Thank you so much!” She went from apologizing to thanking in a matter of seconds. The teams went back inside.

“Hey did you move the painting?” Jesse asked Julia. “Cause I set it on the table and now it’s on the floor.”

“Maybe you dropped it,” Julia suggested.

“Or maybe the gym’s haunted,” suggested Moriah, wiggling her fingers. Julia rolled her eyes but Jesse scrunched her forehead up

“The gym’s not haunted, is it Arlana?” She called to the front.”

“It’s not haunted.” Was the reply. Moriah giggled to herself. Almost on cue, Becca walked in the door.

[cloudy-with-a-chance-of-ocs]

The angels destroyed Baxter’s lab during the execution. Lavada stops by to comfort him and convinces him to move into the hotel. It goes well.

[i-maybe-exist]

🧡🌠🔮🌺 with your favorite oc kjfds... im sorry i dont know any of them ;-;

that’s ok! and I couldn’t choose between penelope and azura so I just did both of them asfgwshrdcg

🧡-who is your oc’s favorite person? why is this person the top of their list and have they actually met them (an idol or role model of celeb can be someone’s favorite)

azura: this is really sappy, but juliette. she just feels so much better being with her, and she’s always a really good person to talk to about all her weird fae powers (since she knows a fair bit about fantasy creatures). and she just thinks that she’s really cool and neat and loves her a lot. azura met juliette during sophomore year, and they started dating in senior year (couple of months after juliette broke up with jay, actually).

penelope: elton john. being gay was much more of a big deal when she was alive, and he was one of the few famous people that came out. she felt better about being with her girlfriend (who i still haven’t named rip) at the time cuz of that, plus she really likes his music. she hasn’t technically met him in-person, but she’s been to a couple of his concerts (once when she was alive and pretty much whenever she was really upset when she dead).

🌠-who was your oc’s first friend? do they remember them or are they still friends now? talk about some of the people oc has lost contact with over the year. do they have any regrets about losing these people and would they revisit them if they could?

azura: she doesn’t really remember, but she’s always had at least one or two close friends. she’s lost contact with a lot of people, both fantasy and human for differing reasons. one of the more common ones for humans losing contact with her is when they see her powers (they usually get freaked out). because of that, she doesn’t really have any work friends (she’s accidentally transformed at work at least twice and everyone there is really gossip-y) and she’s lost old friends from high school (they usually find out at some point, either because she decides to tell them or she accidentally transforms).

penelope: her first friend was her girlfriend, actually. they became friends in third grade after penelope was trying to make friends for like three years, and they always had a lot of fun together no matter how old they were. when she was alive, she kept in touch with pretty much everyone she wanted to (she lived in a small town), except for a few not super close friends who moved away. when she died, she lost touch with pretty much everyone that she knew-her friends, her family, and her girlfriend. she’s tried to contact them, but it’s never worked properly (either the messages didn’t work and the person doesn't see her or the person is convinced they’re imagining things).

🔮- star gazing or cloud watching? hand-holding or snuggles? early mornings or late nights?

azura: cloud watching, either one depending on her mood, late nights

penelope: cloud watching, hand-holding, early mornings

🌺- does your oc have any tattoos or other body art? does it have any specific meaning behind it? do they have any scars? how did they get those scars? any birthmarks?

azura: she does have some tattoos! i’ll draw them at some point, but now i’ll just describe them. she has “you’re so cool!” in cursive surrounded by a heart on her right ankle. it doesn’t mean anything specifically, she just thinks it looks neat. she also has tattoos on her left inner forearm for everyone in the gremlin gang! it’s organized, top to bottom is the order she met all of them (top is farthest away, bottom is most recent). she has a cartoony purple fish for juliette, sunglasses for jay, a spatter of blood for nox, small wings for dae, horns and a tail for reyah, and a little cartoon ghost for penelope. she probably has some more, but idk what. she has some scars on her knees from falling over a lot when she was younger (she loved to run around). and this is kind of a birthmark, but there are marks that almost look like scars on her back and her head from her wings.

penelope: no. she always kinda wanted to get a tattoo, but a) she didn’t know what to get and b) she doesn’t like needles that much (she’s not scared of needles specifically, she just doesn’t like being in pain). she has some stab wounds on the right side of her chest/abdomen from her death (they technically didn’t heal before she died, so they still show up). she doesn’t have any birthmarks.

[clouddander]

Wanted to draw my oc in a rain coat. Would it even rain in hell and would it acid or holly water?

[ellhd-imagination]

🏳️‍🌈 Happy pride month! 🏳️‍🌈

While I don't have anything new, I do have this Pride drawing from a year ago!