#oc: mathew mckoy

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rip mathew mckoy you wouldve loved listening to alec benjamin

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yep!!!! and the best part is its very character focused if that makes sense???

shes literally my favorite character it makes me so sad that i had to kill her off...

okay okay now for the other characters!!!! obvi u know about aria

alex ruinde (he/they) 17 years old, simply queer/genderqueer

the schools local freak, oldest (kinda its complicated) child of the godforsaken ruinde family, feral black cat of a human being, yellow-coded in the way hazard signs are yellow, sun-coded in the sense that the sun burns, trying so desperately to run away from their past but the plot will NOT let him, astronomy nerd, undiagnosed autistic

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mathew mckoy (he/him), 15 years old, cis bi dude

classic catholic private school student.....catholic's dont even exist in this world but he has The Vibes okay. internalized homophobia galore, only child, little puppy of a guy, mamas boy (this is sad because his mom is dead), has a whole arc about letting himself be angry at those who hurt him, diagnosed adhd and dyslexia, undiagnosed ocd

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now for the dead girl herself salveria ramel.....

she/her, 16 years old, cis girl with an unlabeled sexuality

silly lil autistic girl with blue hair and pronouns, youngest child of a poor family, almost drowned when she was a kid leaving her with a fear of the water but she still loves fishing because its the only activity she ever really got to do with her dad, always saw the best in the world even when all it did was hurt her and her friends, literally met the magical creatures that had always been thought of as something that only existed in legends when she was a kid and simply decided not to tell anyone

i love all of these guys and GOOD LORD their relationships with eachother are complicated dhosjsksksj

okay okay the main characters of power doesn't guarantee glory are aria allen (ofc), alex ruinde, mathew mckoy, and salveria ramel

basic plot is as follows: a school field trip goes wrong and salveria ends up dead, our three remaining main characters are forced to set aside their complicated history together so they can work together and get to the bottom of salverias death, they end up realizing they bit off alot more than they could chew as they discover various secrets of their world and its history (they also discover the fact that the three of them are fated to become the closest thing their world has to gods)

ill talk about the other characters and their connections to eachother in another ask or a reblog on your answer to this :3

OOOOH that's such a cool idea!!!!!!

so it's kind of like a murder mystery but like with a really awesome fantasy/mythology twist! I love it!

also oh noooo not salveria T^T

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cat x dog in the way that ones a wolf and the others a lion

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rip mathew mckoy you wouldve loved having your bi awakening to good luck babe

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you guys should. ask me questions about aria, alex, mathew, and salveria :3

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found heaven, alley rose, and astronomy aka the most mathew and alex songs ever

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sweater weather is the most mathew song to ever exist

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OKAY OKAY YAY

basic plot a trio of sad gay teens with a complicated history together are forced to set aside their past and work together to get to the bottom of the death of their childhood friend and soon realize they bit off more than they could chew as they start discovering secrets of their worlds past and future, including the fact that the three of them are fated to become the closest thing their world has to gods

NOW. FOR THE CHARACTERS.

aria allen (any pronouns), a nonbinary lesbian who seems to know everyone and everything around town. they have adhd and ocd and are the only daughter of a rich family (only daughter, not only child, he has two older brothers and one younger sibling) theyre a history nerd, astrology girlie, and local corvid enthusiast. when asked how they can be nonbinary and a lesbian her response is always "girls are hot and gender is made up". she tends to put on this outward appearance of being perfect; intelligent, kind, well-mannered, etc etc.

alex ruinde (he/they), absolutely hates using any labels for himself besides queer, genderqueer, faggot, and tranny. the schools local freak, feral black cat of a human being, yellow-coded in the way hazard signs are yellow, sun-coded in the sense that the sun burns, trying so desperately to run away from their past but the plot will NOT let him, astronomy nerd, undiagnosed autistic, drummer for a band called the dwarf planets

mathew mckoy (he/him), cis bi boy. catholic private school student, internalized homophobia galore, if a dog was a guy, mamas boy (his mom is dead), has adhd dyslexia and ocd, perfectionist, daddy issues, arias best friend, has such a complicated relationship with alex i could rant about those two for hours actually

and now for the dead girl herself salveria ramel.....she/her, cis girl with an unlabeled sexuality. silly lil autistic girl with blue hair and pronouns, youngest child of a poor family, always saw the best in the world even when all it did was hurt her and her friends, literally met the magical creatures that had always been thought of as something that only existed in legends when she was a kid and simply decided not to tell anyone, she died before the story begins yet shes the most important character, her death is a literal representation of the death of mathew and alexs childhood, i could go on and on and on i love her.

do not get me started on the side characters for this wip or character relationships i will literally never shut up 😭

psssst do you like books about silly little neurodivergent queer teens involved in plots much bigger than themselves....do you like themes of grief and forgiveness and growing up......and if so can i infodump abt my wip that im planning on turning into a book one day power doesnt guarentee glory?

side eyes my story with similar themes, also yeah

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percy you know i'm obsessed with your silly lil guys so

41, 23 and 33 for mathew and alex

43, 11, and 15 for alex and myers

akljsdlkssjd i'm so obsessed with them you have no idea (also myers needs SO many hugs... why did you hurt him like that...)

ohoho this will be fun :) uhm small little tw for like. a mention of suicide and addiction in my answer to one of these

41. What would they do if they lost the other? im not gonna lie alex would either kill himself or spiral into an alcohol addiction if he lost mathew, if mathew lost alex he'd probably spend just. months. shut off in his room. barely sleeping, barely drinking, barely eating, barely doing anything besides mourning.

23. What are the defining characteristics of their relationship? atleast near the beginning of pdgg.....id say anger and codependency. mathews angry at alex for leaving him and salveria back in middleschool, alex is angry at mathew for the fact that mathew cares about him, the fact that mathew wont just let alex run away from the past. theres so much anger between them but theres this weird codependency there that comes from the fact that with salveria gone they're the only things eachother has left of their childhood. they're holding onto eachother as hard as they can but they're doing it with their claws out. or something. (canonically they like. pick fights with eachother alot and overtime it goes from them genuinely being angry at eachother to just. an excuse to be close.)

33. How do they flirt? Who’s the worse flirt? these boys can not do anything normally so their idea of flirting is mathew backing alex up against a wall while theyre arguing and alex smirking while staring at mathews lips. mathew is DEFINITELY the worse flirt. alex has a weird amount of experience flirting with rich boys with internalized homophobia while mathew has like zero experience flirting with boys in general.

now for everyones favorite bandmates with benefits to have a turn.....

43. If they picked out outfits for each other, what would they look like? alex would definitely put myers in a fancy suit (with a tie he can pull on I SAID WHAT), and i have two different vibes for what myers would put alex in

either something like this (what alex normally wears and is comfortable in and myers finds hot as fuck)

orrrrr something like this (what alex wants to wear but is kinda scared to and myers thinks is cute as fuck)

11. How do they feel about nicknames/pet names? If they like them, what pet names do they use? If they hate them, why do they feel that way? its....complicated. i feel like for the most part theyd both use them jokingly (babe, baby, darling, and love mostly except myers will also occasionally call alex the most cringe shit like shnookums to make him cringe) and they're both fine with that. but then it gets to a point where its. not as joking. and when alex realizes this it starts scaring him and suddenly he has a negative reaction to myers calling him. any petname really but especially love/my love

15. What songs remind you of their relationship? SO MANY.

romance is boring by los campesinos!, stupid for you by waterparks, yours by conan gray, footnote by conan gray, do i wanna know? by arctic monkeys, daddy issues by the neighborhood, complicated by avril lavigne, self-sabotage by waterparks, i like the way by lovelytheband, talk too much by coin, casual by chappell roan, r u mine? by arctic monkeys, 8 letters by why dont we, teeth by 5 seconds of summer, etc etc i should reallyyyyy make a playlist

THANK YOU FOR THIS ASK MY DEAR CRISTIE I AM GLAD YOU LOVE THESE GUYS AS MUCH AS I DO (and im sorry for hurting myers like that but i fear it is in my nature to torture my ocs 😔)

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mathew mckoy and alex ruinde are both best friends and boyfriends. but theyre also neither of those things.

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the urge to write a fic where aria and mathew start fake dating to get their parents off their backs while aria searches for a girlfriend and mathew searches for a boyfriend or girlfriend

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HDJDJDJDSJSKS THANK YOU IM GOING INSANE ALL OF THESE ARE SO CORRECT

if i were to make playlists for the pdgg characters what would be some songs you think should go on them? /nf

okay i'm gonna give five songs for each, as well an artist too !!

the songs are mostly based on lyrics so there aren't many cause it takes time for me to find them. if you want some based on sound lmk. the artists are based on sound

lmk if my character analysis if off for any of them. you know i don't have the best memory about stuff so im sorry

matthew:

he is so alec benjamin coded to me

let me down slowly by alec benjamin, i feel like this is him about alex at some point in time

call your mom by noah kahan, about how he would ruin his friendship with all his friends just so they could stay alive if he had to, he'd call their mom

good things fall apart by illenium, him and alex once again

it's called: freefall by rainbow kitten suprise, i feel like this is matthew and his troubles with religion idk i could be wrong

let them know they're on your mind by cavetown, once again him and alex

atlantis by seafret, he gets an extra one just because it fits, this is him about the group of him alex and aria when they're falling apart after they find out they're supposed to be gods

alex:

he's arctic monkeys and the neighbourhood coded to me

this house is a circus by arctic monkeys, this is so about him imo

sweater weather by the neighbourhood, just vibes, but also somehow lyrics idk, kinda him and matthew

fantastic (demo) by waterparks, gives his energy

i kissed a girl by katy perry, i know this is unhinged by just listen, alex would love singing this at karaoke

driver's seat by madds buckley, i had to use a madds song ofc because it's you and this fits alex so well, cause alex clearly has daddy issues

aria:

she's girl in red coded ofc

allies and enemies by the crane wives, this is her interacting with matthew and alex when they first agree to her help

constellations by the oh hellos, just her vibes match this song, she's so star coded and yeah this fits

serotonin by girl in red, this is her imo

july by noah cyrus, about her family life and how she will eventually leave them

footnote by conan gray, how she feels everyone's leaving her behind and stuff

salveria:

salveria is cavetown coded for me

teenage dream by stephen dawes, this is what i feel she'd be like as a teenager

lemon boy by cavetown, her and her imaginary friends

mess it up by gracie abrams, just her vibes, how she feels like she's never doing stuff correctly

remember that night by sara kays, how i perceive a break up for salveria

strawberry blond by mitski, such her energy

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rip mathew mckoy you wouldve loved trying to stop the world just to stop the feeling

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suneater by leanna firestone is so middleschool mathew and alex coded

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12 year old Mathew, coming to 13 year old Aria with his sexuality crisis: It just doesn't make sense! How can I like a boy AND a girl?

Aria: Look dude, I'm gonna be honest I thought you were gay, so you liking a girl is just as much of a shock to me as it is to you-

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YOU GET IT YOU GET IT!!!! THOSE ARE LITERALLY THE EXACT QUOTES THAT ARE THE MOST THEM-CODED TO ME

mathew "water fountain" mckoy and alex "outrunning karma" ruinde

YES YES YES

both "and he'll race for miles through the night // he runs because he knows he cannot hide" and "outrunning karma, that boy, // can't run no farther, it's the, // last days of sparta, follow // him down to meet apollo" feel so alex

and matthew is so aslsjdfshljhfsk water fountain coded but ill pick a quote too

"now he's grabbing her hips, and pulling her in // kissing her lips, and whispering in her ear // and she knows that she shouldn't listen // and that she should be with me by the water fountain"