#octavia Meringue

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Okay I see no reason not to post this rn other than inactivity (and I can always tag people so eh)

Oh also relevant disclaimer this might be weird but the feathers on a bird's head are referred to as "hair" in fgcc. Don't ask me why idk either.

Fern's Crush: a Foggy Glasses and Corroded Copper Scene

"Via... we need to talk." Fern said, startling Via with her sudden appearance.

"What's up, Fern? Everything alright?" Octavia said, looking directly at Fern as she took note of his appearance.

Fern looked... messy. His hair was ruffled, her face feathers intensely ruffled, forehead glittering with sweat and chest quickly moving with his rapid breaths.

Fern took a step forward, entering Octavia's dorm room, and she directed him to the bed next to her. As she sat down, Octavia turned off her computer screen, took off her earphones, and directed her gaze to Fern again, waiting to see what she would say.

It took him a few moments, as he sat there silently, still seeming extremely nervous, but eventually he started talking:

"I... I think I have a crush on Spark. I don't know how long it's been, I just know the other day they hugged me and I started blushing and I can't stop thinking about them, and oh gosh what do I do, Via? Please help me, I don't know what having a crush is like, what if they reject me?"

"Oh," Octavia said, startled, "is that it? Like, just that?" She twirled a part of her hair with her finger, pondering on what she'd say to help.

"What do you mean "just that"? I'm freaking out over here!"

"Yeah, sorry about that", Octavia chuckled, "it's just that... can't you just confess to them? I get that it's new to you, but that just sounds like the best option".

"I don't know, it's complicated!" Fern started running his hands through his hair, exasperated "Like, what if they reject me? What if they don't want to talk to me ever again?"

"Okay, let's calm down a bit." Octavia said as she grabbed Fern's hands and pulled them down, placing them on Fern's lap. "Let's just try to imagine what could happen." She said, holding up a hand so she could count. "One: Spark doesn't reject you, everything turns out fine, and you two start dating. Two: Spark does reject you, you move on, you two remain as friends. Three: Spark does reject you and doesn't want to be friends, you move on, I give them a piece of my mind and you go back to being friends."

"It's not that simple," Fern scoffed. "you cant just force us to be friends like that!"

"Yeah, but Spark would have been a terrible person if they stopped being friends with you over this." Fern started to intervene, but Octavia held a finger out, asking him to wait until she was done talking. "Besides, it's better to actually ask them out than to pretend like you don't like them, that just sounds like a disaster waiting to happen"

"That's easy for you to say, Mrs. "I'm clearly in love with Dew but won't do anything about it"!" Fern almost shouted, getting up slightly from the bed.

Octavia felt her face getting warmer. She started to get nervous, so she reached out to her hair to start fidgeting with it, forgetting that it was untied. She took a few locks of hair in her hands and started messing with them, thinking of what to say. Meanwhile, Fern was still exasperated, but seemingly shrunk back into the bed.

"I'm sorry, that was uncalled for" he said, looking away from his friend.

"Was it that obvious?" Octavia furrowed her eyebrows and bit her cheek, not hard enough to hurt, but hard enough to calm her down.

Fern chuckled. "Via, you're the least expressive person I know, and your face still turns bright red whenever they talk to you"

Octavia's face started to get even warmer, at which point she buried it in her hands and averted Fern's gaze, looking at the black screen of her computer. She took note of her own reflection in it: her face had a bit of sweat in it, her hair was messier than usual, and even through the tinted screen her snout was visibly reddened. She slowly took a breath, turned back towards Fern, and replied:

"I don't know... that's different... it would be really awkward, I don't want to sacrifice the friendship we have."

"That's what I'm saying with regards to Spark! They're my crush, yeah, but they're also my first friend... I can't afford to mess it up with them." Fern said, her voice clearly strained.

"I... I don't know Fern, I think I understand what you mean a little bit more now. Gosh, I'm a real hypocrite, huh? I'm really sorry for that"

"No need to apologize, I'm just too pathetic to actually take your advice to heart," Fern chuckled and extended their arms, "can I..."

Octavia hugged Fern, running her large hands through his soft hair. She felt his hands grab her back, touching the thin fabric of the simple dress she was wearing. The two stayed in there for a few seconds, with Octavia feeling Fern's heartbeat slow down and his movements get subtler. At one point, she heard a chuckle.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing", Fern said, "it's just that now that I think of it, aren't we both just kinda... pathetic? It's stupid, we don't even have the guts to do something as simple as confessing a crush"

"Hey! Don't say that!" Octavia broke free from the hug, looking directly at Fern. She quickly let her gaze wander, though, contemplating his words. "Yeah... I guess we are..."

"Thanks for this, Via" Fern said, pulling her back into the hug and letting his head rest on her shoulder.

"No problem, Fern" Octavia said, lost in thought as she let her hand run through Fern's hair.

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FOGGY GLASSES AND CORRODED COPPER PROFILES

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You had me at earl grey meringue. (at Octavia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BviXT7EnbLo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jfqgrw8w20qc

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A STAR IS-

I WAS SO EXCITED TO MAKE AND POST THIS AHDJDHJFJFKF I won't say what the stars mean, but I will say that the colors are very important here

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Eh posting it rn no better time to do it

FOGGY GLASSES AND CORRODED COPPER: EYES

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Took a page out of the KNY besties' books and decided to draw the FGCC gang shirtless (which ofc took several days)

Used this as a way to mess with their body types lol

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And for the last main character we haaaave

FOGGY GLASSES AND CORRODED COPPER REDRAWS PART 6: OCTAVIA MERINGUE

Here we have Spark and Fern's friend, who gets them out of trouble in the many, many cases where they need her to

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As I said I had the next drawing locked and loaded, so here it is!

The Foggy Glasses and Corroded Copper Main Cast as humans!

One of the bigger changes here is that Mist's hair didn't turn blue, it turned blonde after an accident in the KIT'S lab sprayed bleach on his hair (though he was wearing a mask and protective goggles so his face wasn't harmed)

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And here we have our first major ship! Meet Dewtavia, also known as SnowSong or ❄️🎼

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Hiya friend, kinda bored rn so uhhhhh

Any Via facts you wanna share with the class?

Sure!

I haven't actually written anything about that, but Via has pretty severe chronic back pains

Because of that, after moving to Mount Kimoru, Via has started to frequent a specific pharmacy that's close to the KIT

Ever So Coincidentally, the people who run that pharmacy are Rose and Elm Verbenaceae!

She only ends up learning about that in the upcoming mini-arc of Rowan's Birthday, as the pharmacists' announcement that their kid just turned 18 and her crush's announcement that their friend just turned 18 coincided exactly

Though I often forget to draw them, Via wears glasses, as she is farsighted (unlike Mist, who is astigmatic)

Idk if it's present in-universe or just something I like to draw but Via's eyes aren't fully purple, there are little bits of other colors in them as well

Oh yeah also her moms own a bakery (though they aren't in Mount Kimoru)

I think that's it! Sorry lol ended up rambling a bit too much-

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FOGGY GLASSES AND CORRODED COPPER COLOR PALETTES

These aren't the full color palettes, just the two main colors of each character

Mist - blue and yellow;

Spark - orange and turquoise;

Rowan - green and grey;

Fern - pink and black

Dew - orange and light blue

Octavia - red and purple

Agate - pink and white

Basil - red and black

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Octavia Meringue - Masterpost

This is a list of every post of mine with Octavia in it, no matter how minor her appearance is

Character Sheet: (link)

Fern-Via crush talk: (link)

Pre-arc Relationship Chart: (link)

A Star is Comfort: (link)

Eyes: (link)

Coffee: (link)

Shirtless: (link)

SnowSong: (link)

SnowSong rambles: (link)

SnowSong rambles 2: (link)

Kids: (link)

Amorous Ask Game: (link)

Ask Game Questions: (link)

Zombie Apocalypse: (link)

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With Dewtavia done, I have completed all major main cast relationships, so I can show y'all the!!!!!

FOGGY GLASSES AND CORRODED COPPER RELATIONSHIP CHART

There's some interesting stuff here so if anyone wants to share their interpretations and/or theories feel free to do so :]

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Fern being the best compilation

Yes the second one is the You're Not A Gamer copypasta

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I wanna know more about dewtavia! I don’t know much about them. How’d they meet, what do they struggle with most, how did they dodge the toxicness that’s in the other ships /lh

also if your story was a big show and it had a big fandom how do you think that’d play out. Who’d be the favorite ship, favorite character, what discourse would there be, what DUMB discourse would there be. I wanna know

OK SO first off for Dewtavia, they have kind of a different vibe compared to ☁️⚡️ and ☀️🌑 because we see them already in love with each other from day 1, but there is a lot of ground to their relationship (a lot of which I will admit I haven't developed)

They met and became friends when Via was a first year. Dew was in his last year of his first course, and they were just finishing some stuff up before they could graduate. In that, they spent a lot of time tutoring Calc 1 students for extra credit, and that's how they met! Via put a lot of effort into the Calc 1 supplementary classes, so she and Dew met pretty regularly, which led the two to develop a friendship, and with Via admiring how relatively effortless Dew is and Dew admiring how hardworking Via is, they fell in love!

(As always all of this is subject to change lmao)

As a couple, they have a lot of communication issues because Via struggles to voice her concerns and Dew struggles to pick up on them if they aren't stated outright, so she has to learn to express herself more and they have to learn to understand stuff more easily

And they dodge the toxicity by either venting to other friends (Via) or being unaware that they're there in the first place (Dew)

OH FGCC AS A BIG FANDOM IS SO FUN TO THINK ABT AHDJAHDJFJDHFK

Out of the main characters, Spark is the fan favorite, Rowan is universally hated, ☀️🌑 is probably the fan-favorite ship (unless they decide to go non-canon and run off with 🌑⚡️) and the discourse. Oh my god the discourse. Fern and Rowan fans would go through hell, there would be people calling Dewtavia toxic without even knowing that ☁️⚡️ is going to be a thing, people would ignore/disrespect characters' identities a lot (I can't even be sure if Fern would be hated because girl and thus whiny or because boy and thus abusive), we'd be getting daily "we poppin bottles when Makorra happens tomorrow" level posts regarding some truly insane ships, it would be delicious

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3, 9, 14, C, P, W for the cast of FGCC please?

3. First opinion of school as a kid

Tbh most FGCC characters had a lot of difficulties at school whether it was about learning or socializing, but I feel like at first Mist, Spark and Rowan thought it was fun to learn, Fern liked playing with his classmates, Via was mostly pretty shy and not THAT good at school so she didn't like it that much and Dew really disliked it when he was younger since they weren't able to focus well and found it kinda boring

9. First time living far away from home

I think Mist, Spark, Rowan and Dew still live close to their homes during the story, so if they actually move ti another city or smth it'd be after the story is done (and tbh I can't see Mist and Spark doing that), meanwhile both Fern and Via moved out before the story's events, Octavia one year before the story (when she got into the KIT) and Fern a few months before it (to look for a programming job)

14. First time facing their fears

Mist and Spark: on High School, they both had it ROUGH with trying to keep up with schoolwork.

Rowan: I feel like Rowan was really afraid of people abandoning him, which to be honest he only really addresses during the story lol.

Fern: Middle School, Fern probably had to have a bug moment where she stopped hiding his weird interests when he was younger.

Dew: I feel like Dew either wasn't fearful when they were younger or already faced most of their fears as a kid; either way, he faced his fear of disappointing their friends before the story during their first run through the KIT.

Octavia: in High School, I feel like her fears are a mix of Fern and Rowan and she started to address them at about the same time she started to transition in my mind

C. First physical contact.

For the ships that have appeared so far, Argentunimbus' first contact was either them bumping into each other and not realizing it or some form of physical violence. For Dewtavia, it was probably Via handing Dew something they dropped and the two accidentally touching (which was after Via fell for Dew but before Dew fell for Via).

For the ships that haven't shown up, for ☀️🌑 it was definitely a punch and for 🪴🎍 it might've been a handshake?

P. First time seeing the other all dressed-up

I have ot written that yet but there will be a school ball arc I repeat there will be a school ball arc

(The only one that differs is that Via and Dew saw each other dress up before that since they've known each other for a bit longer lol)

W. First time they realized their relationship was endgame... or isn't.

Fern didn't realize Fern x Spark wasn't happening until it was way too late. RIP Fern x Spark you never stood a chance

I think Argentunimbus cemented itself as endgame when Mist and Spark decided to take it easy for a semester and to not overwork themselves, while mutually agreeing that not putting immense amounts of effort into everything they did was the healthy thing to do

Dewtavia cemented itself as endgame during an upcoming arc, where Via finally started to talk about what she felt more and Dew started to put more effort into understanding her feelings and picking up on what she needed them to do

☀️🌑 only really became endgame when they had a big fight and 🌑 finally cracked down on ☀️'s savior complex lol

🪴🎍 might not be endgame I haven't built it up enough to be sure (and it isn't even a conventional ship so eh lol)