#oc: mae

[ladyofthebookcase]

top ten useful undersea facts to hear when stranded on an ocean planet

[usachxxn]

Not one but two blorbos

[skyrimsweetpotato]

On the road, alone - pencil & ink, found when de-cluttering my work desk

[pinesented]

[space-ninja-fashion-show]

As a human, Darius worked at an architecture firm, a relatively small one that had managed to claw its way to being associated with Orokin Luxury and being able to satisfy even the most ridiculous demands of their clients. It wasn't always easy, stress-free work, but it was good living

A good environment, too. Darius himself was the boss' assistant and overall right hand man for project management, but the core team really only consisted of a handful of ppl. All of whom knew each other well, had been working together for years. Darius loved that job with his whole heart, loved the ppl he worked with just as much

His boss was a busy woman, a career-oriented single mother who'd often bring her daughter to work with her and then have no time to actually spend with her. The kid would thus usually be handed off to Darius to babysit while the boss flew from meeting to meeting, desk to desk

Darius didn't mind. He was fond of the kid. She was a sweet lil thing, barely 8 when her mother first brought her into the office. Initially she'd sit silently with Darius and accept the peace offering of printer paper and ballpoint pens to doodle with. Eventually she grew braver, more comfortable. Chatty. Darius started keeping colour pencils in his desk drawer for her, she started bringing him drawings she'd made at home. Of course she enchanted the rest of the small office just as much, but she'd always be entrusted to Darius, would always actively choose to sit with him too. Some days Darius spent more time teaching her about his job than he did actually doing said job. It was a friendship that lasted them years

Her name was Mae

Her mother had earned the favour of plenty of high ranking Orokin over the years and thus, when the time came, was offered a spot aboard the Zariman 10-0 along with her daughter. She accepted. She would leave her firm in Darius' hands but everyone on the team knew it would be short lived afterwards, losing an integral part of the team they'd been working as for a decade. The close knit core of the team all saw Mae and her mother to the gates, when it was time to board the Zariman

Everything went downhill from there. The firm dissolving, the grief of the Zariman incident, the war, Darius didn't handle any of it well. He took his savings, decided he needs to get out, needs to travel. To the edges of the system if he must, to get away from it all

It didn't last him long before he fell ill. Between his sudden yet complete aimlessness and the war getting worse every day and the whispers of "traces of infestation" amongst the doctors trying and failing to fix him, he chose to give up. He'd heard whispers already, of the newest ways to win the war. Figured he wouldn't need this body much longer anyway. Figured he could be helpful one last time

Even with eventually becoming conscious as a warframe, he didn't regain his human memories. There was nothing that could ring a bell for the life he'd lived before this one. Not even the tenno they'd connected him to

She knew. Mae recognised him once he started talking back. That familiar voice and kindness but this time inside her own mind. She could still talk about architecture to him and he would understand, confused at himself, at knowing this stuff, but nonetheless happy to bond over it. But he didn't remember her, and Mae didn't know if she should bring it up at all, feared it'd put them both in danger, and so she didn't

It's not until millenia later, finally fully freed from the influence of the Orokin, that Darius starts to remember too

[robbiefischer]

How about ✈️🌴💛🤩👨‍👩‍👧‍👦  for Lucy and Mae, and Saoirse and Zoe

Thank you soooo much for asking about my girls! It's been so nice to get a chance to work on them a bit more, these questions really helped! Sorry it got so long, cut to save your dash!

✈️ AIRPLANE — does your oc like traveling, or do they consider themselves a more homey person?

All four of them enjoy traveling, but to different extents and in different ways.

Zoe is probably the most passionate and in love with traveling out of all of my girls, She grew up in a very restrictive, very controlling religious family (think a religion that is commonly considered a cult) with a mother who ruled over everyone with an iron fist. For most of her life, her life consisted of: school, bible study, youth group, church, prayer and that was it. No friends, no parties, if she ever got to go on a trip it was a mission trip. Being able to travel represents all of the freedom she was denied and she would do it constantly if it were up to her. She's grown to love being home with her girlfriend and their friends, and she does get to travel a ton when she's on tour with fables so she's happy to compromise and not run off to backpack around the world for a year at a time but that would probably be her dream.

Saoirse likes traveling a lot, but she needs some time to unwind at home and center herself after a trip. She's definitely not ready to immediately get up and go right after they've gotten back like Zoe is (and backpacking around the world without getting to come home, see family and friends and relax for a bit sounds like hell to her). She loves getting to travel when fables tours, and loves her trips with her girlfriend but home is such a safe, comfortable, happy place for her and she treasures that as well.

Mae really enjoys traveling but she tends to prefer closer destinations, especially ones they can drive to or take the train to. She loves a good road trip, and isn't as big of a fan of planes generally. She's more willing to do longer, farther away trips when it's just her and Lucy - once they have their baby, they put a moratorium on long plane trips for a while because the idea of dragging a baby/toddler onto a plane with them sounds like hell to Mae.

Lucy loves traveling, especially to exotic locations where she can explore new cities and immerse herself in the local culture although she's really grown to love a good road trip with her wife as well. She just really loves new experiences, she never wants to go to the same place twice - that's boring. She'd be perfectly happy to travel with their baby, but she's happy to acquiesce to her wife and not put the family through that until they're past the baby and toddler stage. She does like being home as well, she couldn't travel all the time... she'd miss her little brother too much.

🌴 PALM TREE — does your oc have a green thumb? do they enjoy gardening?

Saoirse used to have a black thumb and would kill every plant she ever touched, but then Julian gave her a cutting of one of his favorite plants and she couldn't let her best friend since middle school (if not earlier) down so she had to learn how to care for it and make sure it thrived. He helps her learn how to propagate and eventually repot it (she covered the pot in googly eyes), and is always up to help her troubleshoot if her plant isn't looking its best or growing well.

Zoe is very much not a plant person. She's not great at caring for them (she's accidentally killed multiple pots of basil) and just isn't especially interested in learning how to beyond being able to keep Saoirse's plant alive if she can't for whatever reason or is out of town, because she knows how important it is to Saoirse and would never want to let her girlfriend down.

Lucy loves gardening and has such a green thumb. She dreams of retiring someplace in the countryside where she can have a big plot to grow flower and vegetables and herbs on, but until then she makes do with the space she has and mostly sticks to houseplants and herbs, with a couple of raised beds for flowers in the very small backyard of their brownstone. Her favorite thing to do on mornings where she's not scheduled to work is to wake up late, then spend a few hours tending to her plants with a cup of coffee while Mae reads on the patio.

Mae can keep plants alive (and will help Lucy out if she needs it), but she's really not interested in gardening or keeping house plants. She's happy to listen to her wife geek out about it and talk about her babies, but she doesn't want to do it herself. It's just not a hobby she enjoys very much - she doesn't like getting dirty, doesn't like weeding, doesn't like having to do manual labor outside when it's hot. It's just not her thing.

💛 YELLOW HEART — how many languages does your oc speak? what language(s) are they learning, if any?

Lucy's native language is English, but she also speaks Spanish. If we're going based on the CEFR scale, she's at the very high B2, low C1 level. She's not going to be mistaken for a native speaker, but if she had a patient at work who only spoke Spanish, she would not need a translator. She's working on improving her Spanish with a private tutor and a group of native speakers she practices immersion with, but is also working on learning some ASL so she can communicate more easily with Mae's sister when they all spend time together.

Mae's native language is English, and she's fluent in ASL. Her sister is Deaf and the whole family learned so they could communicate with her. Mae often ended up being with her sister's interpreter with people outside of the family, so she got really good at it. She's also learning some Spanish with her wife. She's likely never going to be fluent, but she's getting close to conversational in it and would like to be able to use it at a low level professionally in the future.

Zoe only speaks English, but she's really interested in languages and is trying to learn a few at the same time: German, French, Italian and Japanese. Is it the best idea to try to learn four languages at once? Probably not. Does she care? Absolutely not. She's really not shooting for fluency at this point, she's just having fun exploring a new passion.

Saoirse grew up bilingual, speaking English and Italian (one of her father's side of the family is Italian and when she was younger her grandparents who only spoke Italian lived with her family). She lost quite a bit of her Italian when they moved away and she wasn't using it on a daily basis, but decided to pick it up again as an adult. At this point she's probably in between B1 and B2, but intends to get back to full proficiency with it. She's also picked up a little bit of French because Julian's fluent in it, and is learning more bit by bit. She's not super serious about it, but would like to become fully conversational.

🤩 FACE WITH STARRY EYES — is your oc a planner, or are they more spontaneous in their actions?

Zoe is 100% spontaneous and chaotic; She does not have a planning bone in her entire body. She can force herself to sit down and make actual plans if absolutely necessary, but she's gong to hate every single second of it.

Saoirse's the planner in their relationship. She doesn't insist on everything being planned, and is pretty easily able to be spontaneous when it makes sense without being anxious about it but someone has to keep both of them alive and functioning and it's not going to be Zoe.

Mae and Lucy are both more on the planner side of things but Mae's able to be spontaneous and doesn't mind not knowing what's going to happen sometimes, and Lucy's not. She gets a bit anxious when she doesn't know what the plan is or when they're trying to play something by ear. She's so much more comfortable not leaving things up to chance.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 FAMILY WITH MOTHER, FATHER, SON AND DAUGHTER — how many people are in your oc's immediate family? how many people are in your oc's extended family? do they have aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, etc? who in their family are they closest with? are they close with their birth family, or do they have a found family?

Zoe's immediate biofamily consists of her, an older brother, an older and a younger sister, her mother and her father. She has an aunt and an uncle on her mother's side, and two aunts on her father's side, as well as about 10 cousins. Three of her grandparents have passed, but one is still alive. She's really... not in contact with any of her biofamily except for her older brother because they're all still part of the cult. She and her older brother are the only ones who've gotten out, and she's so close to him. The rest of them don't even know where she lives and haven't since she escaped after she graduated from high school. Her family is pretty much all found family - she has Saoirse's parents, Clare and Ana (Julian's aunts), the entire band and their partners, and a few of the other stylists she works with but especially Jasper and Marley.

Saoirse has a tiny biofamily but they're all incredibly close, emotionally if not geographically. It's her and her dads, her grandparents, an aunt on one side and an uncle on the other side and a single cousin who's the daughter of her aunt. They didn't live in the same place growing up, but Saoirse's always been really close to her cousin. They'd see each other at occasional family events and were always on messenger and texting each other growing up. Saoirse considers Julian's aunts, Clare and Ana, like her bonus moms. She's known them since she was a young teenager and is so close to them, especially Clare. She considers the rest of the band her found family as well, but she's especially tight with Lachlan and Avery.

Mae's immediate family consists of her, her parents, her younger sister, and an older and younger brother. She's got a big extended family, with multiple aunts and uncles on both sides, and what feels like countless cousins. They're all pretty close (except for a couple of them who are just... weird but doesn't that happen in every family) and throw big family events and reunions every year. Besides her wife and her brother-in-law, she doesn't really consider herself as having a found family. Lots of very close, wonderful friends she'd do nearly anything for? Absolutely. But not quite family. Her biofamily is her family.

Lucy's immediate family is her, her mom and dad and her little brother, Elijah. She's so close to Elijah and always has been - she was 12 when he was born and immediately decided he was her baby which was good because their parents were really hands off and uninvolved with him. Sometimes she feels more like his mom than his sister, but they do have a really close, respectful adult relationship. She's not close with her parents at all, because they've always treated her as the golden child compared to her brother and she hates it so much. They're barely involved in her life and she's always tempted to cut them out entirely. She's got two aunts and an uncle (as well as their spouses), and five cousins but she's really not close to any of them. They've haven't really stayed in touch for over a decade but they all think it's appropriate to text her to demand medical advice and she's just SO not here for it. As far as she's concerned, they're strangers and this is unethical. She is absolutely a found family and hers is: Elijah, Alexei, Mae's family (especially Mae's mom and sister), and some of her hospital colleagues (Rian and Brennan by extension, Viola and Sophie especially).

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a mae from a month or two ago --- bg3 has me by the nutsack unfortunately U_U

[carnavoyeur]

Mae is looking so CUTE in this lighting!! Finally made it to brand new territory after ~27hrs in full release. I have ~130hrs total sunk in now skdjskdjsk

[nerdepic]

maes first cantrip 🔮✨

[supersappho]

A smitten butch doing whatever the hell their femme wizard wants

[aemondwhoresworld]

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[skyrimsweetpotato]

Hm

[maybemacdc]

I recall our minds being strange and alike

[space-ninja-fashion-show]

your turn. pride. your guys. what do they do.

habits, customs, little details. i want to know All

Okay after half a fuckin month of forgetting about this, here we go

In general my approach to Queer Shit in my worldbuilding here is that the "norm" of cis/het/etc still Exists, but there is a bit less overt discrimination against queer ppl as there is in our world, things like platonic marriage and polyamory are a bit less "niche," etc, and a violent approach to queer ppl is generally considered to be fuckin stupid

Different communities celebrate pride at different times of their local year, and what exactly they're celebrating differs with it. The core ofc is Queer Identity, but the focus besides varies: community, acceptance, love, perseverence, history. The pride celebrated by Tenno and their allied factions takes place during early summer by Earth timekeeping (the timekeeping all Tenno relays use and various allied colonies at the v least keep track of besides their own local time) and has an emphasis on community and diversity, whereas for example the Ostron observe the Tenno pride as a smaller event and have their own bigger one during March.

As for other factions:

The Corpus celebrate pride at the same time as the tenno for Relevance but it's almost entirely a corporate thing. A lot of Corpus defectors are shocked to learn that outside of their birth faction, pride isn't in fact about how much your superiors pretend to care about your feelings, or putting rainbow flags on the orb mothers patrolling the Vallis.

The Grineer just…don't. At all. As a society they don't really have a concept of queer identity in general, and pride is just a foreign culture thing even to those who defect. Some end up picking it up once allied with the Tenno, others remain indifferent.

Some of the Orokin had the same rainbow capitalism approach that the Corpus have since perfected, while others looked upon the pride celebrations with disdain, but seldom did any of them participate. What did non-Orokin have to be proud of? What identity was there for them to celebrate? Please, it's ridiculous.

You know the big banners hung up on Tenno relays? Some of those get swapped for pride flags for the celebration. Marches are still a thing, space and peace permitting, but not the end all, be all: the core event differs from culture to culture and location to location. Marches yes, but also picnics, feasts, dances, faires, whatever you could think of. The throughline is the pride flags, the celebration of queerness, and community

It takes ppl a bit of getting used to, to see warframes out and about during pride celebrations. What are the war machines doing participating in pride? But as more of them wake, as they become more of a common sight, as the truth about the Tenno eventually spreads among their allies, ppl get more used to them. Not just at pride, but any festival in general

Also I'm canonising my pride syandanas. Warframes wearing decorative armour and cloth in the colours of pride flags. Body paint is also popular among them. By nature most of them refuse to settle for small accessories, at the v least outside of combat

The first pride the group experience post-Awakening comes before TNW still so it's only Kohlrabi, Alden, Keiko, Lanius, and ofc Ordis at the time. The kids are all for it, especially Kohlrabi, and Lanius is really excited to take them down to Strata Relay about it to meet up with Hako and see the festivities kick off for the month, while Alden is more subdued about it (he's too busy repressing happy memories from his old life to really get excited)

The second one is post-TNW and once everyone is already around :)

Okay this is where i devolve into more disconnected points

North…forgot, that pride is a thing, during their time in Duviri, and is eventually reminded of it. They've always viewed themself as genderless, but haven't thought about their identity beyond that since before the Zariman, having had no care for it as a kid and then no spare brainspace as a prisoner in their own world. It's only after getting out and having the peace to Think that they settle into "aroace" and it makes their first pride in their remembered life exciting for them

Alden and Kodiak celebrated pride with their rebel group back in the day, about a halfway split between queer stuff and community. Once they both start reconciling with their past properly, they have traditions and stories they can bring along into the present. Alden's second pride as a conscious warframe is a lot better than his first

The homebase of Darius and his family (technically a clan dojo but it is never referred to as such for Reasons) is decked out in flags for pride and every year there's a few they forget to take down. Darius is gay as hell and loves pride and is very very excited about it while Tekla's identity is largely "do not perceive me" but they like pride nonetheless bc of the emphasis on being comfortable with who you are, where you are. Mae is the no1 project leader for decorating

Okay this is where i ran out of steam, I hope this is sufficient for now D:

[robbiefischer]

oooooh maybe 🤒🖊️ 🥯💤🤓 for jules and niko? and maybe two other OCs of your choice if you're feeling up to it?

Ahhhh I love these, thank you! I hope it's okay, but I'm going to pick Lucy and Mae as my other OCs to answer for because I really want to talk about my girls more here, and they're new and shiny. Lucy is Elijah's older sister, and Mae is her wife. They're both doctors - Lucy is a pediatric emergency medical specialist who works in the ER and Mae is a pediatric surgeon at the same hospital. Cut to save a life (and your dash).

🤒 FACE WITH THERMOMETER — does your oc get sick easily?

I just did this question for Julian in another ask, if you don't mind I'm just going to link it here because I suspect this answer is going to get long! To paraphrase, less easily than I used to headcanon but a bit more easily than the average person. Niko fusses, because of course he does.

Niko's immune system is pretty good, maybe a bit better than average. He doesn't get every bug that goes around, but there are things that make it more likely to happen (plane travel, long, sustained periods of stress especially at work) and often if he does get sick it's because Julian has been and Niko's been busy being the sweetest husband ever to him.

Lucy definitely gets sick more often than she'd like and she's annoyed about it. Her immune system isn't horrible at all, it's probably just a bit worse than average, but she works a very high stress job in an ER with mostly children... it's constantly under siege.

Mae almost never gets sick. She's always had a really strong immune system, and that's never changed, even when she was an intern or during residency. It's not completely bulletproof though, and sometimes she's not as careful as she should be when she's busy fussing over her wife when Lucy's been sick and when it does happen? It's often a production.

🖊️ BALLPOINT PEN — does your oc have any tattoos? do they want any (more) tattoos?

Niko has a bunch of tattoos. He's got a full sleeve on his left arm, and is in the middle of having his right arm done - currently he's got a half-sleeve on the right side down to his elbow. Both of them are inspired by his and incorporate elements of his favorite pieces of art. He also has designs on the backs of both hands and fingers - Niko really loves drawing attention to his hands (he has gorgeous hands) with rings and manicures, and tattoos were an extension of that desire. Eventually he'd like to get an upper chest piece done but he's in the very preliminary stages of planning out what he wants for it with his artist and it won't happen for a couple of years.

Julian has a couple of tattoos, all very small and delicate. He has his and Niko's zodiac signs as constellations on his forearms, a small sparrow sitting on a leafless branch behind his ear, and one of his favorite lyrics in cursive right under his collarbones. He's not opposed to getting any more in the future, but he's not planning any others either.

Mae has a beautiful tattoo of an iris on the inside of her upper right arm (high enough that she couldn't potentially degrade the ink when she's scrubbing in for surgery) - her mother and sister have matching ones, they all got their tattoos in memory of Mae's grandmother after she passed. She doesn't want or plan to get any others.

Lucy doesn't have any tattoos, and doesn't plan on getting any. She has no issue with them on other people and often likes the artwork, but she doesn't want any on her body.

🥯 BAGEL — what does your oc's typical breakfast look like? do they usually eat breakfast?

Julian is not a breakfast person. He's really never in the mood to eat anything for a few hours after he's woken up, and if he has to (like if he's taking a medication that has to be taken with food in the morning) it makes him lowkey nauseous for the rest of the day. He'd rather just stick to sparkling water and coffee, wait until around 11am or so and then have an early-ish lunch.

Niko's almost the exact opposite. He needs to eat breakfast, or it throws his entire day off. He can't really handle anything sugary in the morning (not even his beloved cinnamon rolls), it just makes him feel weird and off all day, so he'll usually grab a bagel topped with hummus, or have some savory oatmeal or avocado toast instead.

Lucy isn't really a breakfast person, but she knows she needs something before she starts her work shifts so she'll either make herself a protein smoothie or shake before work. Drinking just feels a lot easier to her than eating when she's still struggling to wake up. And she needs coffee. Lots of coffee.

Mae always does breakfast. She doesn't feel functional without it, especially at work. She tends to do stuff she can grab and go though, like a bagel with, cream cheese, or avocado or hummus on it, or a breakfast sandwich.

💤 SLEEPING SIGN — is your oc a light sleeper or a heavy sleeper? how are their sleeping habits?

Julian is a very light and pretty high-maintenance sleeper. He's dealt with insomnia since he was a teenager, and at this point he has a very strict bedtime routine that he sticks to which helps a lot. He always has to have a fan running, as well as a white noise machine and a Youtube sleep music playlist on. He always does yin yoga and stretches before bed, does a meditation session, has extra-strength melatonin gummies and a cup of chamomile, lavender and valerian root tea and wears a weighted sleep mask to bed which helps. If he doesn't stick to his routine, he has a MUCH harder time sleeping and will wake up at almost any tiny disruption.

Niko's a pretty heavy sleeper, but sometimes he has trouble falling asleep especially when he's been stressed. Julian's gotten him into doing a short bedtime routine with him (yoga before bed for his back so he doesn't wake up stiff, sleepy tea and no screentime right before bed) which helps a lot, no melatonin because he wakes up super groggy from it. But once he's out, he's out.

Lucy and Mae are both pretty light sleepers - it comes naturally to Mae, but Lucy's trained herself into it since she'll occasionally be called in for an emergency when she's not on shift and is at home, sleeping. Mae will just pop right up out of bed, ready to go but Lucy needs to throw herself into a cold shower for a couple of minutes to shock her system into staying awake. They're both really good at getting back to sleep if they've been woken up, once the head hits the pillow they're both out.

🤓 SMILING FACE WITH GLASSES — is your oc chatty or quiet? are they at ease in social situations, or are they more shy?

Niko's so chatty - he can make small talk with anyone, and is usually the one keeping conversations going when otherwise there'd be an awkward silence. He's such a social butterfly, he's very at ease in social situations even with strangers. It just comes very naturally to him. He attracts a lot of attention wherever he goes, and usually ends up with everyone's eyes on him at a party at least part of the time. Boy's got big Leo energy.

Julian... honestly, it depends on who he's around. If he's with his bandmates, his aunts or any of his good friends, he's pretty chatty and very at ease in social situations. With strangers or people he's not already comfortable with, he tends to be quieter and much more reserved. He's very good at faking being comfortable though, especially with fans. He'd never want them to feel like he's uncomfortable around them, but faking it means he comes home from meet and greets and things like that so exhausted and drained.

Lucy's kind of in the middle between chatty and quiet. She's not going to talk anyone's ear off, but she's good at reading the room and making conversation with people. Making small talk isn't her favorite thing to do ever, but she's gotten really good at it (even if sometimes she makes up alternate backstories for herself if she's sure she'll never see/speak to that person ever again). When it comes to social situations, she's pretty at ease but she does prefer smaller, more intimate gatherings over an entire roomful of people for her to hold court over.

Mae's super sociable, and really chatty. She likes nothing more than meeting new people, getting to know them and being around other people's energy. She's just so extroverted and a social butterfly. She loves big gatherings and parties, and always ends up having people gravitate towards her. She's a very charismatic person and tends to attract a lot of attention, and she loves that and thrives on it.

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