#oc: merel van dijk

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the van Dijk family, around the time of half life 2

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OC introduction: Lucian van Dijk

At age twenty, while she was in City 17, she started to get fed up with citizen life, and started exploring the nooks and crannies of the city, getting into places she was not meant to be. Eventually, she found a houndeye, who was stuck between buildings, and Lucian came to him most days to feed him pieces of ration bar and bugs she had caught. She named him Ster (meaning star in dutch).

Story:

Born three months before the seven hour war, Lucian was a part of a family with one mother (Miranda), one sister (Merel), and one brother (Johan). They lived in the Netherlands, but were moved across europe once the combine started occupying the earth. They managed to stay together for years, until first Johan was moved away, then Miranda was pressured into becoming a CP, and finally Merel and Lucian got seperated. She did get along with other citizens, but less so than when she was younger and with her family.

However, one time when exploring the abandoned part of the cuty, she came across a headcrab zombie, who attacked her, slashing her face and giving her those memorable scars. Citizens she lived with told her to stop exploring after they saw her injuries. Instead of doing so, she instead decided to escape the city with Ster, to look for her family in the wilderness. The most she had seen of scenery like that was during train rides, zooming past through the windows.

Underweight and malnourished from having to survive with little to no survival skills left her spending a lot of her days in the infirmary. Recovering was not too hard, but she did struggle with insomnia, the nights she had spent in the forest awake and scared of being attacked wrecking her sleeping schedule. The trauma from nearly dying from both the hunter and her lack of survival skills bothered her a lot too, but safe in the base, surrounded by people, she could slowly get better.

She ended up in the forest, and not too long after, just a few days, she and Ster were attacked by a loose hunter, which gravely injured her. Barely alive, she dragged herself over to a house, where she spent a number of days recovering, while Ster hunted for the both of them. Lucian took the clothing she found in the house, and once she was well enough she went out into the forest again, still searching.

Three months of surviving later, some days after the uprising, they found the White Forest base, and they were taken in. Arne Magnusson was not pleased with having a houndeye being brought into the base, but Lucian stood her ground and argued until Magnusson agreed to let Ster stay.

Personality:

Incredibly stubborn and determined. Her willpower can keep her going past her limits. Curious. Likes being around people, but not necessarily interacting, is content quietly sitting near others.

Green brown eyes. A big nose and a big chin. Brown hair at shoulder length with white streaks. Fair skin. Two scars on the left side of her face.

Appearance (as of her stay in White Forest):

Random facts:

- When she was a little, old enough to move around on her own, she tried to eat whatever bugs she came across. Miranda tried to stop her, but didn't always succeed.

- She often spent time stargazing and looking at the animals in any given city.

- She loves hearing music, but hearing people sing even more so. She'll drop what she's doing and sit and listen for the whole time someone's singing.

- During her escape from the city, she came across a dead CP, and stole their boots.

- Had many hallucinations during her stay in the forest, mostly due to a lack of sleep, but also from eating toxic plants.

- She likes carving little wooden figurines, and carves people she likes, later gifting them the figurine she had made.

[femur-bandit]

Open for digital art commissions! (I don't have a ref sheet atm) DM if interested, we can work out prices together (5-50 euro range) I'm open to recieving storyteller saturday asks! STS related OC list under the cut, I have a lot of guys haha

Non half life OCs/versions first, as the half life OC list is very long - Altar, it/its/doesn't care (torture demon story) - Lieze, she/her (horror story) - yet to be named man, he/him (horror story) - Kid, they/them (monster world) - Noctiel (still need to rename him), he/him (monster world) - Sky, they/them (borrower world) - Sophian Schildt, she/her (superpower world) - Liselott, she/they (superpower world) - Thies, they/them (superpower world) - Lily and Delta, she/her and they/them (science experiment story) - Jul-Fek, they/them (the canon elder scrolls world) - James, he/they (AU of the guardians of ga'hoole world) - Savannah, they/them (AU of the guardians of ga'hoole world) The half life gang (from the half life game series), sorted into groups (these groups are not static and do change over time as the story progresses). Important note: I have had some of these half life OCs for over five years, and there are posts about them on this blog going as far back to around the end of 2019. I remember privating some posts in the past, but a lot will still be visible. Anything posted before January 2025 is highly likely to be OOC or no longer canon in some way. Keep this in mind when scrolling through my blog. The van Dijk siblings: - Lucian van Dijk, she/her/doesn't care - Johannes "Johan" van Dijk, he/him - Merel van Dijk, she/her White Forest rebels: - Rick Brown, he/him - Michelle Laurent, he/him - Keith Fumer, they/them - Diniz Amaro, they/them - Sasha Lytvynenko, she/her - Odalis Lytvynenko, she/her Storage outpost rebels: - Sandra Fumer, she/her - Michael, he/him City 17 ex CPs: - Miranda van Dijk, she/her - Avery Brooks, she/her - Philip, he/him - Vick, he/him Aperture experiment: - Lily and Delta, she/her and they/them ??? not sure yet: - Sophian Schildt, she/her - Liselott, she/they - Sky, they/them Almost everyone here has a normal society version (world that is practically the same to ours with nothing special or supernatural).