#oc: deva deleón

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tina: can you put that pussy on a coaster

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WIP whenever

tagged by @nerdferatum ty sara!!! GO LOOK AT HER MORGAN!!! keeping in the spirit of M’s bday i have this wip of mason and deva from February :> ignore deva i havent given her as much love in tha face yet

as always no pressure but get tagged!!! @nsewell @sorceresslodge @dietgabbana @devilbrakers @nat-seal-well @serenpedac @deepinifhell and anyone who wants to share something :> tag me so i can seeeee

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you either die a failed gta oc or live long enough to see urself repurposed into a wayhaven detective

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snips of some wips... trying to put faces to rook and rebecca but i keep twirling my hair bisexually

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a haley's bakery run that doesn't end in disaster

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oc in 15 (lying)

tagged by @nightwardenminthara thank you cole 🫶🫶 might be obsessed with their gideon after his oc in 15 but lets not get into that 👀 unless..

Rules: share 15 or fewer lines of dialogue from an OC, ideally lines that capture the character/personality/vibe of the OC. Bonus points for just using dialogue without other details about the scene, but you're free to include those as well!

**after realizing Deva is not an articulate woman i chose to include other details alongside dialogue to get across her general “same shit different supernatural” scrappy doo-ness and what she gets herself into. these are all bits and pieces from a longfic milk teeth

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1. “Ten minutes already? Time for a break,” she announces, rising like a phoenix from the chair Felix had similarly abandoned ten minutes prior.

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2. “Oh, fuck you,” she says, precisely – as precisely as the blood runs rivulets between her teeth.

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3. “You know there’s going to be complaints to Agency HR about us.”

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4. Dev throws a mock-salute and opens the passenger door with a deputy cluck. "All forces now protecting our collective ass.”

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5. The door thuds in its frame again as she arches, hands tugging on his hair. He hums at the pleasant ripple it sends down his spine, even as she demands: “Bed,” in a breathy whisper, with another pull.

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6. “That's my job, Bobby—debate it, pick at my words, but don't conflate your issues with ours. What you're doing," Detective Deleón scoffs, flicking her finger back-and-forth, "has nothing to do with the case. This is about a dead boy. This is about an order you were given to stay the fuck away and a concession I had to make."

It’s slight, but Nate shifts uncomfortably. Felix, however, looks like he is watching good TV.

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7. “Lose the shirt.” Her voice is even and demanding — it always is when she wants something, he’s coming to realize. Mason's also been realizing he’s kind of into it.

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8. “Well.” Deva takes a step back to survey. The trapper’s head is black, misshapen, and greatly reduced, as if shaven away. “That didn’t work.”

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9. The Mother Deleón looks a little forlorn. The Daughter Deleón wants to say something smart, nonplussed, but her throat is too thick and sour. She keeps her gaze on the volt burn in her jeans. Her palms, hidden safely by the clench of her fingers, throb. "I don’t want to talk about this anymore, mom."

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10. “You need two for a game of Good Cop/Bad Cop," she says, scowling around a busted lip and a black eye. “So if you’re going to make threats just fucking make them. Don’t waste time pretending to look out for me.”

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11. Deva pauses suddenly, drawing back a few inches so she can meet his eyes. Her lips press into palpable wickedness. "Make me."

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12. Mason snorts and lazily rolls his neck to look at the second-in-command. “Just say it looks like shit, Nate.”

“And it smells like ass,” says Deva.

“It does smell like ass,” Felix agrees.

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13. “No, it’s nothing like that,” she says, then pauses for a beat. “I mean, I don’t know – fuck, maybe it is like that – look I’ll explain later. I’m fine though, but I think – well, um, I think someone’s been here. In my apartment. While I was sleeping.”

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14. “Kinky.” Deva shoots a jackass grin at Adam. “How medieval of you.”

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15. “This is as good as you’ll get,” she whispers to the bathroom mirror. The reflection that looks back is merciless, staid — milkiness with a suggestion of something hollow, like a baby tooth.

hehe title reference nudging myself

tagging: @sorceresslodge @devilbrakers @nsewell @saintalessia @dietgabbana @nat-seal-well @serenpedac @swordbards @recents @wetusb @deepinifhell @fauville @agentnatesewell and anyone else w OCs out the wazoo‼️👯‍♀️

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WIP WEDNESDAY THURSDAY almost friday whatever day yayyy

tagged by most beloved @nsewell <33

(again im going off moots i've seen share art and writing so ignore/kill me with hammers if you hate these..)

ill tag @nat-seal-well @scalproie @devilbrakers @dietgabbana @recents @nightwardenminthara @serenpedac @agentnatesewell @kazamajun @nerdferatum and anybody who wandered in here… tag me if you post something & ill know to tag you in the future :D

thought id try do this before it turned into friday for me :D another cheesy snippet from that halloween abandoned farmhouse fic i posted last time too (takes place before that scene) -- its a bit longer bc my art wips are atrocious right now but adam jumpscare at the bottom!

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It is with not an insignificant amount of restraint – really, Nate would be singing his high praise – that Mason stops, bites down on his cigarette, and turns away, recollecting himself enough to smooth his hackles into something resembling human civility.

He flicks the butt underfoot and stomps, twice. He rolls his shoulders. He sets his jaw. He sniffs.

Precipitation forming in the clouds overhead; temperature is ten degrees from chilly; slight, invariable breeze. Less birdsong today. Huh. More pollen. An overwhelming scent of pine, and an aftertaste of salt and smog, even this far out from Wayhaven town and the neighboring city. He clicks his tongue.

And, oh, of course — of fucking course. He forgot to cut the label off this goddamn fucking shirt and the way it’s grazing against his neck is enough to drive him back on the verge of a goddamn fucking frenzy.

“Dev!” Felix whoops.

Mason whips around so fast the movement upends leaves in the brush. With precise, fluted tunnel vision, grey eyes narrow in on her.

Deva marches towards them on uneven, thickly reeded ground from the opposite side of the small clearing. The sky, bruising into evening, gasps in a narrow ark behind her, cold kissing her nose and cheeks, turning pale olive to petal pink.

She blows out a breath, picking up her pace. It’s still not quick enough for him — like she’s galloping in sap. Mason stifles the almost-tremoring need to meet her halfway.

“Hey,” she calls in greeting, mid-battle with bog tree roots.

“Get a move on,” Mason barks. Felix snickers conspiratorially beside him.

“Hurry, Dev, I think he’s gonna blow.”

Mason rounds on the shorter vampire, who grins with porcelain-white veracity, but his stewing annoyance dissipates as quickly as it elevated when warm fingers envelope his, shelling his senses in unblooming, noiseless absolution. He shudders, not quite able to quell the flood of relief.

“Where’s Nate?” Dev asks after a moment, as if giving his body time to settle. Almost like she knew.

“Decided to wait with Adam back at the facility,” Felix says, pulling absently on the periwinkle strings of his periwinkle hoodie. He throws a face that tells her exactly what he thinks of Nate’s decision.

“Leaving you two without a referee?” Deva smiles easily. Felix mirrors it — with an extra flash of fiend.

“You’re late,” Mason cuts in.

“Nice Adam impression, he usually goes a little lighter on the murderous intent.” She squeezes his hand — it’s a gentle tease – before adding, “Car trouble. So, what’s the plan?”

Mason rolls his eyes and doesn’t even bother asking after that wreck-on-wheels this time. Deva’s in one piece — that’s good enough for him.

Felix points at Mason, who removes something small from his jacket pocket with his free hand. He offers it to her, rather unceremoniously.

“Radio,” he says. “Put it on.”

“We’re splitting up too?” Dark brows raise as she stares at the tiny device deposited in her palm.

“Eh, kinda. I’m supposed to scout ahead,” says Felix, tapping at his own matching earpiece. “Last team the Agency sent said it was all clear, but you know what Adam’s like with precautions.”

“It’s just a follow up, right? Back at the old farm house?” Raking swathes of black hair out of her face, Deva hooks the dainty plastic cuff around cartilage as Felix begins to fill her in. Mason still hasn’t really gotten used to the new cut. Change always threw him.

When they’d met, right up until after all the bullshit with that no-count shitheel auctioneer, Deva’s hair had almost been down to her ass. Now it just about reaches her chin – much shorter than his, even. It tends to draw his full attention to the long sweep of her neck on more than one occasion. Right now, in fact, he finds himself casually admiring the two small, purpling hickies he’d left her with just the night before.

Yeah. Maybe he liked the new hair. Maybe he really liked it.

“Helloooo?” Felix flaps his hand wildly in Mason’s direct line of sight, ripping him from some quickly unspooling, sweaty thoughts. “Are you even listeni–?”

“No,” Mason says plainly, fixing him with a glare. Felix pulls another face, then blows out a long breath.

“Ugh, whatever. I hate being the responsible one. Just make sure nobody kidnaps Dev. Again.”

Dev frowns.

“I think I prefer Adam’s pep talks before a mission.”

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do feel free to critique if u want/have time to, im rusty af and i know it . & a sketchy adam referenced from john cena in a babydoll tee from some movie that crossed my dash yesterday

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was tagged by @saintalessia & @devilbrakers to make some kissie faces w this picrew :>

my bravest warrior soledad w lettow & julian (vtm night road)

deva & mason (wayhaven)

nara & morrigan (my mind palace../dragon age)

tagging @nsewell @dietgabbana @wetusb @agentark @nightwardenminthara

@ansburg @heavymetalvamp @alexeizzo @bansheeheart & whoever up imagining they blorbos..

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trading in wayhaven pd navy tank tops and grey jeans that used to be black for a $500 sundress for no reason 💯

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experimence

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oc of your choice for edgy oc ask meme🫶 3, 14, 25

THANK YOU JULES <333 i did deva big surprise

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14. How does your OC want to be seen by other characters?

Honestly some of the vibes Adam gives off LOL. She notices how proud Rebecca is of Adam as the commanding agent and is very much envious/in awe of that (hates that she so badly seeks her mother’s approval though, yes I’ll go crazy with fucked mother/daughter relationships in everything don’t @ me) and the control he has over his emotions. There’s a part in book two down in the sewers with Mason, where depending on your dialogue choice he’ll remark that the detective sounds just like Adam in that moment, and I can just imagine Deva getting hyped in a twisted way like omg yes perceive me as such. girl you need to chill. if you mixed A & M together that would be her ideal :

25. What’s your favourite thing about your OC?

That she’s still a bit of a wildcard in my brain. This probably says a lot about the way I write lol but i was so uninspired and in a rut with my creativity at the time and I get very anal about characters sticking to an end trajectory that u can somewhat see coming in their behaviours and past choices, which limits them and myself. Deva was neat in that in wayhaven at least she started as a fun messy joke where I wasn’t so worried about the conses of her quencies or her decisions making sense long term like other OCs, and she just kinda came alive and added context all on her own, which brought back the love I had for rping :D. It helps that the series isnt complete too. Adding more layers and meat to her and writing her consistently has obviously built on her character and why she acts certain ways or does certain things because I am an armchair psychologist but in the very beginning it was VERY loosey goosey and she broke a lot of creative blocks for me :>

AND ANOTHER adam and ellie because i think this one looks better.. <3

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And another message, haha! Number 3, 5 and 10 for Deva, please? ^^

FINALLY GETTING TO THESE!!!! thank you so much seren T_T under the cut bc i cant shut up and i threw in a doodle (cw self harm/blood/eyestrain, just in case)

3. What is your OC's fatal flaw? Are they aware of this flaw?

Insecurity, volatility/lack of self-control, hyper-independence – a comorbid concoction that perpetuates itself when one acts up

With Rebecca leaving her to be raised mostly by nannies and neighbours as we learned in Holiday Magic, Deva definitely has deep-rooted issues about not being Enough for her mother. It’s one of the main reasons she acted out a lot in childhood and her teens – that nasty little mantra of ‘if I’m not good enough, I’ll be bad enough, and then you’ll have to acknowledge/pay attention to me’. Later in her 20s, after trying to scrabble some semblance of stability together to maybe try to better herself, she takes it to another extreme and builds this stalwart defense mechanism of deluding herself into thinking she’s an island. She’s on the precipice of 30 thinking she doesn’t need to rely on anyone else or form genuine connections. She works very badly as a team and doesn’t cooperate well, refuses to compromise, won’t allow the Agency’s blood tests purely out of spite, initially clashes with Nate and his attempts to be kind and friendly towards her and especially blows up at him when he suggests anything to do with smoothing things over with Rebecca.

She’s shooting herself in the foot with all this eventually………

Also much too quick to turn to combat – of course she has zero conflict resolution skills lmao

5. How far is your OC willing to go to get what they want?

This is hard because I’m not sure even Deva knows what she wants at this point. Nothing from nobody LOL. To be completely self-sufficient and utterly emotionless. She’s a mini du Mortain in training. In terms of the books, I think I’ll have to wait and see what her end goal will be with the Agency, but she IS impulsive and acts recklessly and feels she has something big to prove to Rebecca, so she certainly wouldn’t hold back once tunnel vision kicked in.

10. What's an AU that would be interesting to explore with your OC?

AGHH I talk about her original setting (GTA) in another one of these later so I'll do something different here... bear with me ok I’m gonna be a little loopy, but lately with writing a wayhaven/vampire the masquerade crossover I’ve been really digging the idea of Murphy being a Tremere (so in VTM there are several different ‘clans’ of vampires, Tremere being a clan adept in Thaumaturgy/blood magic and obsessed with the power in blood) and during his experimentation with the Detective he maaaaaaybe Embraces her… and I was crazy about VTMB2 back when it was announced and adored the idea of playing a Thin-Blood Vampire with the Blood Alchemy skill… I would loooove to put Deva in that situation, especially with her blood already being like a battery. And then maybe thinking of the Agency as being similar to the Camarilla in the VTM universe with their rules, they likely wouldn’t look too kindly on a Thin-Blooded Vampire who coincidentally looks and smells like a nice juicy steak to every supernatural around (thinking about the Sabbat or Rogues in wayhaven, neither may not care about being discreet) and who has crazy blood witch powers with her super-charged blood :D

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2, 3, 13 and 19 for deva pleaseeee 😁

THANK YOU EZRA <333 YOU GET ANOTHER BAD DOODLE TOO

2. What's something about your OC that people wouldn't expect just from looking at them?

Just based on looks (she’s a little edgy and a lot hardass-y) and that rancid attitude she has in book one, I think the biggest surprises would be that: she’s deeply sentimental, protective, incredibly loyal… a big stuffed animal lover, she has a saccharine little heart… that care and comfort go a long way with her but she will go to the ends of the earth to pretend to everyone and herself of the exact opposite – I said in the previous ask too but initially this is why she thwarts Nate and his attempts to be genuinely kind and friendly towards her. Also she CANNOT drive for shit, that little silver tin can is all she’s able to get insurance for due to many past incidents…

Not so much you wouldn’t expect it because she is overtly athletic but fun fact: she is VERY proficient with mixed martial arts and has a black belt in judo specifically, and oddly enough, a bachelor’s degree in chemistry :D deva we need to cook. ooh also might come in handy for some blood alchemy later

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13. If you met your OC, would the two of you get along?

I was actually gonna say no to this but thinking about it, we would probably end up on a path I have planned for Deva and Nate’s friendship. I’m pretty sappy and free with affection which would scare her off, but if I stuck around and chipped away at those walls long enough, we would vibe :D We definitely share some bad aspects that would cause heads to roll though, and while I have a lot to work on I think I’d navigate them a little better than Deva LOL

19. How does your OC behave when enraged?

She is a scrappy and spiteful little weasel. She would keep things cool in the moment depending on what was going on (argument, etc) (I say ‘cool’ but I’m thinking of The Fallen Angel painting of Lucifer with daggers for eyes and barely contained tears lol) but behind closed doors she would absolutely lose it emotionally, and she will hold a grudge for a very long time. That reckless, destructive streak from her teens would probably surface too and she’d do something stupid to herself, or get a little TOO into training and taking her anger out on a dummy (thankfully she doesn’t have Adam’s strength :D)

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drawing her a little fucked up as a treat

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9, 12, 15 for miss deleon and please don’t faint in the pre-op! GOOD LUCK!💖

THANK YOU GABBIE <333 I FAINTED BUT ANYWAY LOL

9. Do you have a specific lyric or quote which you associate with your OC?

omg ok no doodle for you because I had to do a lot of searching through tags for this Q…

Lyrics & Full Songs:

“the only time I’ll open up is when I’m firing” & “take the noose off, wrap it tight around my hand” from mondays & family tree by ethel cain

“painless Chinese burns, ties me down with daisy chains, diamonds on her tongue, and pleasure cuts and teasing” m’aidez by sneaker pimps

The entirety of Volcano by Eartheater and Dusk by Chelsea Wolfe to be honest… both very Deva songs and bangers

and…

Quotes (ft tumblr post that resonates):

12. Is your OC self-destructive? In what ways?

VERY! Her hyper-independence and tendency to self-isolate and the relationships both these vices have stagnated and killed is a big one. She is quite stunted emotionally and her way of processing things is usually acting out and doing/saying something mean and stupid. That part in book two where the detective overhears the love interest talking to A? Deva despite not even wanting there to be anything deeper to her and Mason’s flirting, gets pissed and outright chooses to kiss Bobby back at her apartment… like what.  

15. Does your OC have a faceclaim? If so, who?

ARGHH I’ve talked about this to you before and still cannot decide… Initially I just had a vague idea in my head of what I wanted her to look like and didn’t care much how I drew her, other than her being biracial which is important to meeee (and me remembering her birthmark lol) but I’ve been trying to cobble together an inspiration board going forward to help keep her look consistent and I’m really liking a mixture of some features of Devon Aoki and Paula Kawanishi. Neither are exact faceclaims (she has bushier heavier brows though, a squarer jaw than Devon’s but a shorter and rounder face than Paula’s, etc.) but they’re sort of my go-to base refs for drawing her face from now on I think :D they’re both so damn striking too. def need to redraw a portrait bust at some point

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1, 4, 9 for Mr No Name and Miss Deleon please

MR NO NAME.. hiiii gibgab <33 well youre late i already did 1 in previous🫵

1. At current, does your detective want more with their relationship with M?

4. How do you think your detective will react when learning that they calm M’s hypersenses?

tbh deva already has an idea that this is the case and she’s more than happy to provide that relief ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°) both sexually and just thru casual touch. even if she’s not about to acknowledge any deeper affection, she is naturally a very loyal person (just never had the relationships to put it into action . SAD!) and at this point she is subconsciously quite protective of all in UB and mindful of their little … quirks, but particularly mason and his hypersenses once they have their talk and he explains and lets her hold his crystal. she won’t think about WHY she feels that way pffft of course.. but it amps up even more during the visit to the antique store and seeing him in such a state 💔 she is so unsocialized unhinged shelter-dog coded

9. How does your detective feel about M not remembering their past?

i went into this a little in a previous ask IM SORRY.. bitchless behaviour but yeah, by the end of book two after the couple of revelations we get fitting together and then Mason straight up admitting to wanting his memory wiped in book three, she doesnt blame him going by what she remembers seeing in the mirror. this woman doesnt even look whats going through her own mind square in the eye, she’s not about to go open the floodgates of speculation and judgement on someone else’s decisions or train of thought. thats like one of the good things abt her… didn’t pry on his info and history in the agency database. she respects him too much; his space and personal choices. in Milk Teeth once deva discovers she’s had a memory wiped, though not on masons scale, they do have a special bonding moment :)

thank you gabbie!!! <3 GOOD MORNING GOLD COAST