#riv’s ocs

[rivenantiqnerd]

I love being a writer. It’s amazing. I literally just named a god Soapbar. Like the thing you use to wash yourself. I mean, it’s an acronym for Saint of All Planes Beyond Available Regions, but I’m tearing up from laughing so hard.

[rivstyx]

seedling propaganda!! look at my boys and the babies. look at them

also here are two short stories to make you love them: “family pictures” and “baby’s first ouch”

“family pictures”

“Maria.”

“No.”

“You have to get dressed, sis.”

“No!”

Luke sighed. “Is that your favorite word?”

Maria stuck her tongue out at him.

“Come on, sis, your water’s getting cold.” He hauled her out of the bath and narrowly avoided getting splashed by her kicking feet. “Hey!” he said, laughing. He was bare-chested anyway, but he really didn’t need to take the extra time to dry himself off.

Maria grinned.

“You’re such a troublemaker,” he told her, wrapping her in a towel. “An itty bitty storm just waitin’ to happen. Hey, should we see if Daddy’s done with your brother yet? We still have to do your hair.”

“No!”

“I know, you want it cut,” he said placatingly. “But your daddy won’t do it and Janey told me I’m not allowed near the scissors, so you gotta wait till Annie’s free. And we gotta do pictures first!” He rubbed her tiny feet dry and dropped the washcloth. “Always a production with you, ain’t it, sis?”

Maria slowly stood and he smiled. Her wobbly posture always made his heart go soft, same as any time he watched her or Max walk, or laugh, or do anything for herself. It was amazing; they were learning to be people.

Then, bare as the day she was born (but much cleaner), she took off like a shot. He could only watch for a moment as two tan little legs disappeared down the hall.

Micah’s voice echoed down the hallway, shouting in perfect synchronization with his own. “MARIA!”

He scrambled to his feet and ran after her. The stairs weren’t blocked off or anything, and she was much too little to be going down those – not to mention the crowd in the bar downstairs.

She stood not two feet from the top of the stairs and laughed when she saw Luke barreling after her. He dived, skin skidding across the floorboards, and caught her before she could take another step.

He breathed heavily for a few seconds. Lord, that had hurt.

“Your daughter is a menace,” Micah said, emerging from the borrowed bedroom. When Luke turned back, he saw he had Max, held comfortably against his hip and mostly dressed.

“Technically, sweetheart, she’s your daughter.” He held her up. “Trade you?”

“Sure.”

He rolled over and glared. “I can hear you laughing at me, you know.”

“I do know,” Micah said. He set Max on his chest and grabbed Maria in one smooth motion.

Luke sat up, holding Max and dodging his grabbing hands, and feigned betrayal. He always was a good actor. “Please, sweetheart, what about the kids? Think of the example you’re settin’ for their little impressionable minds.”

Micah tossed a pair of socks at him, hitting him unceremoniously in the face. “I’m not teaching them anything worse than what you’re doing, padre. Come on, let’s get dressed. I think Janey might disembowel both of us if we’re late.”

“She’d never,” Luke muttered, grabbing the socks and starting toward the bedroom. “She don’t wanna babysit.”

“baby’s first ouch”

“Max.”

He doesn’t meet Luke’s worried gaze. He just sniffs with tear tracks running down his bare cheek.

“Maximiliano. Look at me, mijito. What happened, huh?”

The boy turns his face to the side, exposing the long scratches crossing his pale skin, and sniffles again.

“Yeah, I see it. You gotta use your words, kiddo.”

He pouts. “I fell.”

“Uh-huh?”

“He jumped off the swing,” Maria interjects.

Luke lets a tired sigh escape his lungs and prays for the patience of his ma. “I know, Ria, but I need Max to tell me himself. Okay?”

“Come on, sis.” Micah leans down and grabs her tiny hand. “Let’s go upstairs and see if your tias have some supplies in the bathroom.”

Not for the first time, and definitely not for the last, Luke wishes they had a real homestead of their own. Raising kids in a saloon wouldn’t have been his first choice, but they hadn’t had many options. It was either this or the bank across the street, and he’s not exactly friends with the tellers over there. So, he thinks, plopping Max on top of the counter, he’ll just have to make do with cleaning his son’s scraped-up face with a bar rag and a bottle of rotgut.

“I don’t like the wood chips,” Max says. “They’re scratchy and mean and they hurt.”

“They don’t taste very good, either, do they?” Luke smiles as he wets the rag.

“No! They’re gross!”

“I bet. Hey, mijito, I’m gonna clean up your face, so you keep telling me about it. Was Ria right?”

“Yeah,” he mumbles.

He dabs gently at the bottommost part of the scratches. “This is why you’re not supposed to do that. It’s too easy for you to get hurt. Me and Dad have told you, right?”

“Ow,” Max whines.

“Hey, you’re a strong little man. Can you let it hurt for one more minute?”

“I don’t wanna.”

“I know, mijito, but sometimes you gotta.”

Max flinches away from the washcloth again, but sits still otherwise.

“See? All done.” Luke says. He drops the rag into the laundry bucket and swoops back in to kiss Max on the forehead.

“Padre!” he squeals, squirming away. “Eww! Gross!”

Luke grins. “I had to! It’s magic. See, you’re feeling better already.”

“Am not.” He crosses his little arms.

“Oh yeah?”

“Yeah.”

“You’re sure?”

“Yeah.”

Luke ruffles his hair - careful to avoid the scratches - and scoops him into one arm. “Well. How about we find you a popsicle? Do you think a popsicle would help?”

Max’s voice is soft and muffled from where he’s pressing his face into Luke’s upper arm. “Yeah,” he says softly.

“C’mon, mijito. Let’s go raid your auntie’s icebox.”

ITS TIME FOR ANOTHER POLLLLLLL!!

MEET OUR CONTESTANTS (in order)

Reti: Our last poll winner of the baby race!✨❤️ Can she get a streak going? Owned by @bmoshh

Donte: He’s little! He’s cute! He definitely got Betsy’s good looks! And probably Lawrence’s ADHD! Owned by me

Hadrian: Everyone’s favorite protagonist from “My heart will stop in joy” written by @night-at-the-musian! But do his robotic smarts and loveable personality qualify him as our littlest guy?

Cyrus: …. He got sat at the kiddy table for thanksgiving (owned by me)

Seedlings: Luke and Micah’s Ickle ones owned by @rivstyx ! Look at what cutie patooties they are! They get to be voted for together because I mean just LOOK at them

Amorette: Markus Faust’s daughter and artist baby! Will all those cute pink little outfits her dad got her quality her as our littlest guy? Owned by @thevintageducky

Silvanus: He’s 15 but will always be so young at heart! But is he our littlest guy? Maybe in the Roman legion he is! Owned by @historical-kitten

Philadephus: The tiniest son of Cleopatra and Antonius in Kingdoms! He is roly and poly and cute but does all that baby fat qualify him as littlest guy? Owned by @historical-kitten

(AS ALWAYS TO KEEP POLLS AS FAIR AS POSSIBLE ALL ARTWORK IS DONE BY @thevintageducky TO AVOID VOTES ON ARTWORK STYLE RATHER THAN CHARACTERS)

And as always if you haven’t yet go check out the fanfics by these creators and their amazing OC casts!

[14dayswithyou]

Hi, Howdy! Hey! I really love your novel!! I got a little confused by the 4 day, may maybe you help me please? who is it? why we got the bad end staying the night in Ren’s apartment and he disappear of the home screen? I can’t understand “unset memory” game, sorry if I wrote smth wrong or smth sounds rude, I swear that I didn’t mean it if happened, I’m really a fan of the novel, I’ve been playing the game since day 1 or 2 I guess, probably day 1, english isn’t my first language, but I tried lol

⌞♥⌝ I hope you don't mind me answering these as bullet points!! ^^

"It" will be revealed later in the game! So I won't reveal too much right now.

You can only get the Dead End in Day 4 by staying at Ren's apartment — the rest of your choices before that don't matter. I'd also pay closer attention to the black smoke and Ren's reaction towards it!

Ren disappears from the home screen because he promised to help the player out (and stop them from getting the Dead End again). Try replaying the game again from the beginning for a surprise!

"Unsent Memories" was another visual novel (initially being written by @10chimes / @unsentmemory, though the project has since been dropped and handed back to me /pos) and is set in the same universe as 14 Days With You. Its storyline and characters are completely separate from 14DWY, so you don't have to worry about them while playing 14DWY.

[sycamorality]

three slugpups! glacier, fathom and pearl! they were adopted and are taken care of by the elite scavenger, icicle, i posted last night!

[risetherivermoon]

hey! ive opened a redbubble shop!! ive got a bunch of things available atm, including some chibi mouthwashing stickers, a scary marlowe print/sticker, and some original art prints/stickers!!

there will be some more mouthwashing stickers to come! including Anya and Swansea!

ill probably put up some other prints and stuff in the upcoming days...stay tuned!

[riversidecryptid]

New oc dropped her name is Penny and she accidentally gets roped into a cult (she later disbands the cult)

She likes to bake sweets, things like brownies and cake and the like! She specializes in powdered sugar (more often than not she’s ground up her own sugar) and I love her a lot

She’s my mortar and pestle

[mothmandibles]

Limbs as a God: Harbinger of Happiness! Bringer of Joy!

[lavendertoastmoth]

bathbomb kit that I made for a challenge

the long and short of it is that they’re a kit of arti and Riv, they gained riv’s aquatic breathing, arti’s ability to make explosive spears, and the ability to body slam. They exist during saints portion of the timeline and they just kinda yoinked the cloak off a dead iterator

anyways if you wanna watch me make this beast, here

[draagu]

sorry rain world followers im splatoon posting tonight

[rivenantiqnerd]

OC Most likely to tag!

I was tagged by @paeliae-occasionally @tildeathiwillwrite and @willtheweaver (thanks) and it looked fun, so I’m doing it. I’ll shall answer with the cast of the Grove of Kings and Killers.

Rules: answer with which of your OCs would be the most likely to do the statement, then give new statements for the next person.

Most likely to arrive ridiculously early

Francis? He cares about stuff like that. Other than that, Courlin, only if it’s for a Guild thing, because she absolutely does not care about anything outside of the Guild.

2. Most likely to be in a relationship for less than a week

Rosanna.

3. Most likely to secretly be really good at music, but just not tell anyone

I’m not sure, but Francis or Victor might. Some of Courlin’s siblings play musical instruments, but that’s not a secret. For how much I enjoy music, especially playing it, I don’t really have any characters that play music.

4. Most likely to embarrass their friends in public

Isla (Francis’ little sister). She loves to tell embarrassing stories about her friends to other friends and/or strangers.

5. Most likely to get drunk/hungover

Rosanna, especially after the thing with Edgar, even though getting drunk is what got her into that problem in the first place. She canonically does this quite often.

6. Most likely to get kicked out of summer camp

Either Courlin, for being generally unpleasant to the other kids/bringing a weapon(s), or Francis (shocking, I know), whose parents would be politically asked to take him home and have him tested, because he kept trying to organize the counselors’ stuff and didn’t want to do the potentially messy activities.

7. Most likely to Spontaneously adopt a child

Francis does this. Technically him and courlin since they end up living together, but he would be the one to bring the child home. Conversation would go like this:

Francis: Courlin, I’m home! And I have a surprise for you!

Courlin: Francis that is a literal child what is it doing in our house.

Francis: “She,” not “it”, actually. And she said she was an orphan and didn’t have parents or a home! And I thought, well, we have a home, and we could be her parents.

Courlin, in absolute disbelief: Francis, you can’t just bring a random child into our house! She could be lying and you’d be arrested for kidnapping. And we are not - not - becoming parents. I’m kicking her out. Take her back.

*kid ends up staying*

8. Most likely to have the loudest sneeze

Vincent. He’s like if you took a jock, made him nice to be around, and put him in fantasy, so it only makes sense he would sneeze loudly.

9. Most likely to be taken the least seriously

Probably Collete (Vincent’s sister), because she’s the youngest.

10. Most likely to faint

I think Rosanna because Courlin would never do something so weak and the boys just wouldn’t. Actually Francis probably would.

11. Most likely to enjoy art

Rosanna because of her upper class raising, but I could see some of the younger trio (Victor, Isla, and Collette), really getting into art.

12. Most likely to hate sports

Well, Courlin likes physical activity but dislikes sports, Rosanna likes sports but dislikes physical activity, and Francis dislikes them both.

Tagging: @theverumproject @litany-writes @lordfenric-writes @the-golden-comet and @elsie-writes have fun

Which of your characters is most likely to:

Get arrested on false charges

Get caught robbing a candy store

Sing in the shower

[rivilu]

Yeah girl I'm sorry I'm not buying that shit

[luvwich]

[annamatics]

This is my object oc guy I signed up for RIV i hope he dies or doesn’t make it in at all

[nightseeye]

Ive been struck w a ton of Captain 3 thoughts lately so! Here he is!!! My legally dead nonbinary prettyboy who doesn't! Have a name yet!!!

[just-a-lil-otter]

"Where are you?"

"Where were you?"

Made some angsty matching drawings of WTFuture Tord and Riv cause yes :3

[risetherivermoon]

heyyy yall im on artfight now! :))