#redacted listeners

[skunkox]

My Redacted Listeners Things Cause I Should Be Asleep.

Lovely

Aged out of the foster system. They tried reaching out to family once before their 18th but either got ignored or told to stay away. They feel bad about being upset after their turning because "It's not like there was anyone being left behind."

Treasure

Their house decore and clothing are primarily yellow. It's a happy color. Nobody likes a Debby Downer. Gotta surround yourself with happy things, ya know? "Gotta keep smiling, or people will go away and leave you behind again. "

Angel

Used to being yelled at and physically reprimanded when they've been "too much" in the past. They now have blinders to quiet irritation/ rage. (It's gotten better since moving in with David but took adjusting.) "Can't really be mad if you're not raising your voice."

Freelancer

Would wait till the dead of night to cry silently into their pillow. It bothered people when they cried in public. Especially their parents. Often enough was told to "Fix your face before I give you something to cry for."

[ohlistenermine]

Hello?

What?

…What are you talking about? How did you know about-

…

I don’t… I don’t understand, who are you? What are you?

What do you want?

Sharing is Caring - [FIRST] - [NEXT]

[grilledcheezy92]

I think it's kind of ingenious that Erik started off with unempowered listeners and slowly introduced us to the urban fantasy world he created. (Lovely, Angel)

Freelancer is our first look at an empowered listener. And with their first appearance is our first look at D(a)emons with Caelum.

Lovely's powers manifest and we learn that unempowered people have a slim chance of actually being empowered. (It's not lost on me that not long after that Aftermath we get a check in from Marcus where they'll have to be separated for weeks*)

Then we get Sweetheart who is a Stealth and gives us a deeper look at non-elemental magical races. And specifically insight into working adult empowered life.

We're also introduced to new Demon types (and learn what happens if an Empathy Daemon loses themself) but it's through already established magic types and unempowered humans.

Our next new empowered listener is Darlin, a shifter. A werewolf, a wayward member of the Shaw Pack. (I'm not counting Bestie yet because we still don't know what kind of Empowered they are)

Our next step is being introduced to a Demon listener with Warden.

We're introduced to a new type of Elemental during the E&E qualifiers through Freelancer

And finally we have a Telepath and Seer listener with Cutie and Obscura, magical types we've heard about, even seen a little of through James in PM

[redactedglasses]

S H A R I N G / I S / C A R I N G , E C H O .

W H y D I d Y O u N O t S H A R e .

N O t T E L l U s ?

T H A T s O K A y .

W e H A V e T H E m N O W .

[moronkyne]

Bestie X Seer Obscura if you must

Angel X Darlin if you must

Baaabe X Sweetheart if you must

Honey X Baby if you must

Doc X Smartass if you must

[literallyangelshaw]

Assign me a listener based on shit I've said

[meowtus]

Every listener is a freaky deak. Or at least most of them….because I SWEAR they go through crazy lengths for these guys.

Realistically I would be running in the opposite direction—but the listeners can chase that bag 💔 knew what they wanted from the start and kept going for it LMAOO

[ryoko-san]

sometimes you gotta chill with the homies

(In order: Freelancer > Darlin > Lovely > Bright eyes > Dear)

No color version

(bc i like how i drew the lineart,,,)

[crysoon]

the wolf boys red strings board gets more enthralling every time i think about it because its actually crazy how asher and babe met in the classic elevator scenario and had a little cute reassurance moment while david threatened to shoot angel in the leg if they didnt answer why they ran into each other at a chipotle’s

[empydoc]

it’d never happen but the concept of a listener breaking the fourth wall and knowing they’re a listener, trying to convince their speaker partner that they aren’t real, will forever play in my head like vinyl

[skunkox]

Friendly reminder ☺️

Your favorite redacted listeners were clubbing in business casual.

[ohlistenermine]

There’s… two of you?

Sharing is Caring - [FIRST] - [PREVIOUS] - [NEXT]

[grilledcheezy92]

Sweetheart might be able to win a physical fight if they went stealth and let everyone else duke it out and just defeat whoever the (probably exhausted) last person standing was

(Re)

Using powers is disingenuous to the idea of a physical brawl. Especially one that includes unempowered individuals. Lovely can't exactly help their vamp strength and they probably wouldn't get as far if we plucked them from their empowered stage of story.

Sweetheart would definitely get pretty far in a no-holds-barred Hunger Games/Battle Royale situation where they could use their powers.

[redactedglasses]

THEY WANTED TO DO SELF PORTRAITS .

- 👁️‍🗨️❌

[moronkyne]

Trying to develop my Freelancer Listener and then remembering that I didn’t pay attention to ANYTHING

This is all I’ve got

[literallyangelshaw]

Redacted Audio listener OCs are so hot