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voidbeau · 3 months ago

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Yapping about more OCs

Cause fuck it, we're under my roof and we abide MY rules!

and my only rule on this blog is, Bou gets to talk about whatever he wants.

oh and also, don't be an asshat is also a general rule of thumb. That's just general life advice tho.

ANYWAY

We already know I'm super into Thorn. I made that incredibly apparent, but i also love the rest of the gaggle of fuckos this particular shit rag comes from.

That is, Onii, Ozzy and Lyca- all childhood friends.

There's two more from this group i neglected to mention and I probably won't go into those two very much either, but I have my raisins for why!

I may mention them in passing though BUT if i ever get back to writing the fics I wanted to write- which i will eventually even if it happens a year or two down the line, those giant question marks for characters will absolutely come up and be better explained there.

As I've said previously, I just feel like some things are better left to the fic.

But i still wanna yap. 🥺

I feel like micro glimpses about these guys' history and just a snippit of what they're like is safe to explore without potentially saying too much too soon.

But that also means I may be a little vague about certain things here while I unceremoniously dump everything out all at once from my oc dookie ideas bucket.

Anyway!!

Onii, Ozzy and Lyca were and are all childhood friends of Thorn's.

(Frog girl is not mine but this is the only image I have with all of them together 😭) I think I've talked the least about Lyca so far and only briefly mentioned things about Onii and Ozzy.

Out of the three I've talked about Ozzy the most in my last post.

But anyway, Lyca.

Chill guy, bassist of the band, backup vocals and does some guitar. Spends the most time with Ozzy and another friend in the group. He and Onii are often the first ones to get caught up in a fight but will also be the ones to finish it.

Starting fights is not their thing necessarily, but trying to handle a situation only to get wrapped up in it is. Thus, Lyca and Onii were among the first to get in trouble at school for shit that they barely had anything to do with to begin with.

Lyca is a fairly levelheaded person though I guess. He's often the one dishing out advice but will also often disappear when things get particularly heavy.

I imagine for him it's just fatigue. A lot of shit going on with the family, a lot of shit going on with friends and always the first person a lot of people might try to go to for advice or support.

The feeling of being pulled in all directions and not being enough makes him withdraw a lot.

He wants to help but he needs help himself, not that he ever asks for it. But there was always one friend in the group who managed to find him at his lowest and help him back on his feet. Some people who might not know Lyca very well may label him selfish and something of a fair-weather friend. Especially when on the surface he very much comes off as this foul mouthed, rowdy dude bro who's only ever around when it's convenient or fun for him.

Not many people get to see his serious side.

He often gets messed with or teased by Thorn a lot and gets into little petty arguments with Onii.

I always imagine Lyca feels very guilty when it comes to an "incident" that leads to the eventual, slow falling apart of the friend group. He doesn't believe anything could have been prevented given nobody but Thorn and possibly one other person know what the catalyst to "the incident" was, but he believes he could have at least helped mitigate some of the resulting damage done.

Damage that lost them two friends. One dead and the other M.I.A.

If only he'd been more present and attentive, but he found it hard to swallow some of the things his friends were trying to tell him up until that point.

Onii was one of those in the group who took the results of "the incident" the hardest, but unlike another friend who was given to isolation, Onii's tendency to put on a tough face and ride things out only intensified.

Her methods of help and support may come off a little brutish or cold, but she sticks to what she knows and she's good at it.

When things went south, Onii gave herself to reckless coping mechanisms and hid her feelings even tighter than she normally did behind grand promises to fix everything, and did it with such confidence she gave hope to her other close friend who wasn't taking things any better than her.

Which of course was Onii's intent, even if she wasn't sure how she was going to keep her promise. But she'd figure it out. She always figured things out, even if she had to spend the rest of her days hunting down the group's missing friend, Thorn.

She'd make sure to beat the shit out of him when she found him too for bailing on everyone.

Up until that point, Onii's only real direction in life was to see her friends and band mates succeed. Given that Onii still felt lost and stuck in life at this point, she hadn't given her future much thought outside of the band- never thought about what might happen if the plan failed.

Or couldn't, really. It was all she had, so it was hard to think her only plan for the future was crumbling right before her eyes.

An aspiring and talented drummer who was falling out of rhythm with the rest of her band mates as people started to slowly drift away.

In the face of tragedy and confusion, how could she blame anyone?

Still, she couldn't stand to watch everything and everyone fall apart.

Onii was in fact, one of the closest to Thorn and the second person to be able to snake her way into his life so intimately while the two of them both looked up to their recently deceased friend.

They kept each other sharp and Onii was always there to make sure her best friend wasn't falling apart on her. It was rare for most people to catch Thorn in his low moments, but Onii was one of the few to be able to sniff them out. She hated the stench of them and only wanted to the best for her friend. But there was some underlying jealousy on Onii's part when it came to Thorn.

She always felt left behind and overshadowed by him. He always seemed to be the favourite. Charismatic and confident against her brooding and awkward, shut off nature. Onii often sat on the sidelines, watching Thorn navigate his way through a strict and uncertain environment with apparent ease, succeeding in almost everything he did regardless of the hurdles he had to jump or the trouble he caused. All the while Onii felt consistently aimless in life when Thorn always had these big big detailed plans for the future, plans she just went along with.

But Onii was very good at covering up her weaknesses, much like Thorn.

The quiet jealousy did make Thorn and Onii's relationship tense at points and being that Onii had never ever been upfront and honest about her emotions, it often took a lot to resolve any issues.

Things would get complicated before they got better, but Thorn knew how to wear her down and get her to open up- even if it took time, effort and a little bit of literal blood sweat and tears.

And maybe possibly a couple of mediators among their friend group.

The same situation could often be said on Thorn's end for various other reasons though.

Tough love and a little discipline often went a long way and were even requirements for both Thorn and Onii.

Both Thorn and Onii were and are very ambitious but given to fits of emotion if things don't quite go as they hoped or planned, and sometimes they need a little nudge in the right direction or a full on reality check.

The two often get stuck on themselves and as a result, Onii was never aware that Thorn had his own complicated feelings about her.

To him, she was this big bright beacon of independence and individuality that he only wished he had. He worked hard to emulate her, building the framework of some kind of personality on the way he understood her, but she was always just out of reach and all he ever was a smudge in the mirror. Thorn talked big sure, often followed through with his big plans, but often times they were just ways of filling a void. To make up for things he felt he lacked.

To Thorn, Onii wasn't overly concerned and weighed down by the future or the weighty expectations of family. She lived for the now. She lived carefree.

She was one of Thorn's biggest inspirations for becoming who he is today and is still one of the most persistent voices in the back of his head when he's stuck or struggling.

He's never felt he could quite measure up, and so in efforts to not disappoint his moody friend he's always put his absolute best in everything he's done.

In his guitar playing and singing, in his fight against his mother and in the promise he made to another very important friend.

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I quite enjoy Onii and Thorn.

A lot o vo

I can see so many moments where these two are getting into fights, concerning or outright scaring so many people around them but their closest friends are there like,

"Nah, let 'em get it out. It's how they communicate. :)"

They all grew up in the same nowhere Void among the same oddball Voidfolk- or at the very least, very close to each other's Voids.

They all went to the same highschool and all dealt with generally the same struggles. Though Thorn did tend to have a set of very unique issues when it came to his family and the Void they occupied. As well as one other friend in the group.

Obviously there was a lot of drama in highschool, that's pretty par for the course but I think that with the unique situation that most of these guys didn't even realize they were in the middle of, that came with a whole new set of problems to have to worry about.

Many of them life threatening.

There is still much in terms of individual backstory I want to work on and flesh out better when it comes to these guys.

Things may still be subject to some adjustment or even full on change but for the most part, this has kind of always been on my mind for them.

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victorluvsalice · 1 year ago

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-->Anyway, with the rush over, I decided that I wanted Alice to make a pizza in her new pizza oven, so I had her check out her options, then prep some veggies and make some cheese in order to get a garden pizza going. Victor and Smiler kept working the sales floor, chatting to customers and leading to a few more sales – a guy named Umber snagged one of Victor’s Energizing scents for $744, while Brytani deigned to buy some watermelon conserve for $171 (I made sure Victor rung her up, since Smiler doesn’t like her for some reason). Cameron Fletcher also came by to grab a $2 spinach – I’m glad he’s not too annoyed that I banned him from the break room microwave. XD Alice wandered back upstairs while waiting on the stand mixer to clean one of the displays (which WERE getting a bit manky) – I promptly sent her back downstairs to collect her prepped vegetables and get the pizza in the oven while I had Victor finish the cleaning magically and conjure up some spaghetti for himself. Smiler meanwhile got another sale – someone named Anaya buying a box of veggie MREs for $241. For five seconds, everything seemed to be going well –

-->BOOM ANOTHER MASS BUYING EVENT! Complete with lag, because you gotta have lag. *heavy sigh* I had Alice stay downstairs long enough to get her pizza (as it was almost done by the time everyone decided they wanted to buy something), but after that, it was all hands on deck to take care of customers! Fortunately, they got them all – Paolo with a cube of beeswax for $18; Tetsuya with a box of canned fishcakes for $413; Dali with a box of chocolate syrup jars for $413; Jeb and Osuma both with friendly animal treats for $17 each. Oh, and a guy named Chad grabbed a strawberry out of the produce fridges for $19. Whew! I put Victor on "removing all of the out-of-stock signs" duty afterward while Smiler cleaned up some stray plates and glasses that had ended up on the produce stands (the custom “farmer’s market”-style ones I got from Brazen have slots on the little shelf underneath, it appears – perfect for Sims to hide shit from you) and Alice made a clay bunny. As you do. Alice then used the toilet and ate a container of prepped veggies over the bathroom sinks (I forgot you could just eat prepped ingredients straight-up) before running off to shower in the rain. *shakes fist* ERRATIC SIMS! While she was busy causing newcomers to the lot to gasp, Victor and Smiler handled what I decided would be the last sales of the day – Ivana with a box of canned tomato sauce for $413, and Francine with a pumpkin animal treat for $46. There was another lady wanting to buy something, but for some reason Smiler kept insisting they couldn’t get to her, so before things got any more chaotic, I decided to have them close the store. All in all, they sold 18 total items for a profit of $3,729! Not bad for a day’s work!

-->Except – when Smiler closed up shop, three people stayed behind, the previously-stuck lady and two others, all with shopping carts over their heads. Puzzled, I had Smiler and Alice (back in her clothes) ring up the two that could be reached (Victor heading back into the break room for another nap) while I let the “stuck” one time out – this did NOT result in any post-closing sales, though, just some customer goodwill. Well, for everyone except the customer who was mysteriously blocked. Sorry, lady, not sure what happened there! Try again next time!

-->Anyway – with that sorted, the trio decamped to the break room to watch a bit of TV and do a bit of flirting, as they do. :) Once the last customer had FINALLY left the store, they headed back to their place, arriving back home at about 9 PM in-game –

#sims 4 #the lazy save #victor van dort #alice liddell #smiler always #yeah real busy day at the store in the end!#I'm never sure what kind of day it's going to be when they first open #because there's generally always lots of people #but most of them are just wandering around with no real plan #today though #yeah everybody wanted to buy everything at once #which is not good when you're trying to test out your new small appliances in the basement processing room #I am trying to make pizzas here people XD #ah well it all turned out all right in the end #partially because Alice has super speed and thus can rush up and help pretty damn quickly #no idea what happened with that one lady in the blue dress though #it looked to ME like she should have been perfectly reachable #but Smiler said no not happening #Sims routing issues people #someone standing by some shelves can't be reached #someone standing IN shelves often can #*shakehead*#queued

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