#shadow company oc matchstick

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Happy Matchstick headcanon after the angst I posted today

Matchstick actually currently has a fiancée who’s name is Moth “Wolf” Ripley who is a shadow company medic

That of belongs to @ur-local-snowman

And Matchstick is HEAD OVER HEELS for Moth. She loves her with all her heart and she considers meeting her to be the luckiest day of her life, especially since well… her life hadn’t been so great.

But meeting Moth really seemed to turn everything around for her 🩷

[tiredbi-peach]

My shadow company oc Matchstick has gone through a shit ton of bad stuff in her life.

Here’s the sequence of events plus a bit of explanation behind what happened to her when she got tortured after being kidnapped

Trigger warning: mentions of torture, kidnapping, character death, injuries, just bad shit happening to Matchstick and her having no control over anything in her life

- getting stung by a jellyfish and being left alone in a hospital, which created her dislike for medical settings

- her parents leaving her when she was like 15 and she almost became homeless

- her first boyfriend disappearing (possibly a drug related issue )

- her first girlfriend dumping her and then vanishing as well

- getting kidnapped with one of her close friends by some psychos in slasher masks, being tortured and forced to run through a hell maze where she was chased. She escaped and she thought her friend died and she left him behind (don’t worry he lived and he got out too)

- the gang she was in disbanding due to the fact the gang leader died, her best friend telling her to run and that he would be right behind her. SPOILER ALERT! He wasn’t, and he let himself get arrested so she’d get away

- her second girlfriend who she loved with her whole heart and gave a promise ring DYING and Matchstick finding her corpse

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And now for the torture bit!

Injuries/torture Matchstick got when she was kidnapped:

- Her mouth was slashed a method to get her to shut up

- She had a knife stabbed through her hand

- Her nails were ripped off

- 4 of her fingers were broken

- She was repeatedly cut

- Had her nose broken

- Her hair was cut off

- She was beaten badly

- Her ankle was broken

- In between these torture sessions she was chased around by people dressed as slashers and then she’d be taken out of this so called hell maze and tortured again.

- This went on for a little over a week before she escaped

All of it was filmed too

After everything that’s happened in her life, Matchstick truly had nothing to live for. She had no one, nothing. She was alone

That’s why she joined the military. To give herself a purpose

[tiredbi-peach]

Info about my shadow company oc Aolani Ierome, Aka Matchstick or shadow 9-01

Full legal name: Aolani Yurisa Ierome

Age: 24-25

Height: 5’7

Half Filipino and half Hawaiian

She was born on the island of Maui

She knows English, Tagalog, Hawaiian, and Japanese.

She has a jellyfish sting scar on her left arm (I have a picture of it, will send in a separate post if this does decently or people are curious lol)

She has a scar cheek/over her lip from falling on her face

She was taught fire tricks by her mother and she continued to learn more stuff to improve her skills.

She knows how to do dances, how to use fire poi’s (which are one of her favorite items to use), fire staffs, batons, fans and rings

She also knows how to do fire breathing tricks and those are her go to tricks to do when people ask for a party trick

She would do little street performances when she was a teenager to earn money.

Also for anyone curious what fire poi’s are, here’s some examples

Aolani is on what I like to call, Waffle House time. Meaning she is ready and willing to fight anyone, anywhere, at anytime and she’ll probably win cus she’s a crafty little bastard.

She was a delinquent in the past, like apart of a motorcycle gang. She was the right hand to one of the 4 people who were directly below the leader of the gang. The person she was the right hand of happened to be her best friend/roommate.

Despite this she doesn’t have an official criminal record, and this is because she’s run from the police, hides her license plate and made sure to cover her face.

Aolani may or may have had a scare tactic she used involving matches/lighters and threatening to burn people. She really only does it people who she believes truly deserve it but she will 100% go through with it has burnt people before

Aolani likes to humiliate the people she beats. So after she’s taken their asses to the ground and beaten them to a bloody pulp, she takes out her phone and takes a selfie with her and the person she beat the shit out of. She has them all saved to an album on her phone. As far as she knows, no one else knows about this… or so she thinks

She joined the military like right after the incident that led to the gang she was apart of being broken up. Um, long story short her best friend/roommate got sent to prison, the leader died and several other of her friends got sent to prison.

So of course she had nowhere to go and she had no one since her parents kinda… up and left when she was 16

So what does a 17 year old who has nothing going for her except fighting experience and a need to find something to give her purpose?

Join the military of course.

And she did. She joined the army.

She’s always been quick on her feet, crafty, had a pension for all things fire and explosives so

She’s became a demolitions expert. So of course she knows the workings of just about any explosive and how to take them apart or put something together (she knows how to make a pipe bomb but she knew that before joining the military??? No one knows why)

She kinda caught attention with her skills since she took to demolitions work like a duck to water. And with some of the stuff she did on her deployments but that’s for another time.

Her skills with fire is what earned her the callsign Matchstick

Ummm… kinda feral?

Like’s she’s a dirty fighter. She bites, she scratches, she pulls hair, she will do anything to win

Close quarters combat tends to be not so fun with her sometimes, or all the time when it comes to her enemies

She has a pair of knuckle dusters that she cherishes because they were given to her by her bestie. He was also known for using knuckle dusters

She has another pair or two that she uses more when she needs to

Adding onto this she’s sadistic as fuck in a fight. To this day she’ll take selfies with some of the people she’s taken down. Again, as far as she knows no one knows that she does this. But who knows, maybe a few shadows do 👀

The type to jokingly insult her friends, but obviously she doesn’t mean it. She was like that a lot with her friends/gangmates since they were all really close together (she still wishes she could’ve changed what happened)

Also chill with rough housing occasionally

She sat on one of her friends/gangmates after they bit her roommate cus he was feeling feral

If any shadow approaches her to rough house she’ll go right for it

Graves has had to break up a few of these rough housing matches though because they got a little too rough

Sometimes these matches can lead to some scratches, bruises or black eyes. But it’s all in good fun

She owns a motorcycle. It’s a Yamaha. She loves this thing and if anything happened to it she’d be livid.

Here’s a few examples of her and her gear

She’s got freckles on her face, mostly her cheeks and nose. She got a few on her chest and shoulders though. You can really see it in the first image.

She’s got a few tattoos, though she has more piercings.

She has 3 lobe piercings on each ear, 2 helix piercings on her right, 1 on her left (the other one got ripped out and there’s a spot on her ear where you can see where it got ripped out), a nose piercing, a tongue piercing and a bellybutton piercing

For her tattoos she has a pink tarantula tattoo on her left bicep, and a rose tattoo spanning across her right collarbone

The tarantula was in remember of her tarantula Cleo she had when she lived in Hawaii

The rose tattoo is based off of a rose bush she was growing with her dad.

She’s spigot muscular, but more so in like a fighter way than like a power lifter or a body builder.

Suits over dresses. Not to say she doesn’t like dresses or skirts, but she prefers suits.

In order she prefers suits, then skirts, and then dresses.

She can pull it all off though

She’s had a variety of different hairstyles, dyeing her hair sometimes every few months to so.

However she’s also grown out her hair, but in a particular style. Members of the jury, this woman has had/currently has a mullet. But she can pull it off through the power of being queer.

You want proof? Here it is. (Also you can see her rose tattoo)

She also can pull off short hair. Ever seen those pictures of gals in suits with their hair slicked back? Yeah she can do that.

Sucks with keeping stuff organized. More than once another shadow or even Graves has walked in on her in her room or in the common room sitting cross cross on the floor with pliers, wires, and a variety of other things that she’s just messing around with.

She loves cats. There’s secretly (not so secretly) 3 cats who live in her room/on base. Their names are Momo, Bobo, and Rabies. Pictures of said cats will be posted in the future.

She sometimes can be unserious outside of missions when it’s leisure time. She tends to do her own thing, stick with the shadows that she likes or knows well enough, goes out on motorcycle joy rides, or some other things when she’s not doing any work needed to be done on base.

Fought a Karen behind a Denny’s once. She may have been a delinquent but she respects service industry workers.

She doesn’t like hospitals or medbays. It takes a fuck ton of coaxing, bribing, and/or force to get her to be agreeable enough to get injuries checked out.

Really good at dancing. Able to pick up on choreography pretty quickly and is an absolute fiend at just dance. She gets really into it.

Anyways that’s enough of the silly goose for now. If you can’t tell, I love my shadow company demolitions gal a lot ❤️‍🔥

All credit goes to the wonderful artists who drew my gal, I only came up with her design via picrew. Without these people I would not have been able to give this character as much as I have.

Interactions with this post would be awesome and there’s a chance I’ll post more about her in the future.

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More info about my shadow company oc Matchstick

Hates the cold. Not good in it. Despises it with every ounce of her being. Has said she’d rather set herself on fire than be cold.

Takes FOREVER to replace a phone. This thing could have a big ass crack on the screen and she’s like “hey as long as I can type and it’s not falling apart in my hand it’s good” 💀

Cat person. Absolutely adores them and if there’s any strays around the shadow company base she’s feeding them. She doesn’t care that it might attract more cats, that’s a win in her book.

Speaking of cats, she had 4 cats as a teenager who she named

- Momo

- Bobo

- Rabies

- Pants (short for pantaloons)

She keeps up the horrible naming scheme for all her animals except one animal she had when younger, a tarantula named Cleo.

She has a tattoo on her bicep in remembrance of the tarantula.

Has used a knife to do her eyeliner. More than once. But she’s slaying so it’s okay.

Mentioned it before but FIEND AT JUST DANCE!!!! Like she absolutely will tear it up, she’s quick to pick up dance moves 💅

Has a sadistic streak

Pyro. Arsonist. What else do I need to say???

Only police force she fears is Georgia state police. /hj

“Okay but why Georgia state police???”

“Dude… be for real. They have a REPUTATION-“

Her favorite color is red (if y’all can’t tell from previous art of her)

She’s really good at dyeing hair, so if anyone comes to her asking for her to dye their hair she’s so happy to help