#the waiting world

[bookwyrminspiration]

god I would be UNSTOPPABLE if I was capable of consistently initiating tasks. just you wait. you'll be waiting a while but just you wait

[boct-kimerakal]

assorted trickhawk stuff

you know, so i don’t go insane ...

second lore dump because!! some thing pretty sweet and surprising (and hopefully positive? maybe? i don’t know yet?) happened to me recently!! and i GUESS i’ve been completely overwhelmed by it!! AGH!! so i’ll be putting all the typey-typey fixation energy into dumping out the drafts in ye olde cache. i have to divert the energy somewhere! look! healthy coping mechanisms to deal with my unbearable whimsy! {i say as i am getting increasingly flustered} now i will punch a wall.

once again, largely airing laments and concepts about the duo, these bits will just be trickhawk stuff that ambiently sit in my brain and not plot-relevant lore facts. to be fair though, the plot is their whole life, that’s what Kau Bakari is about, the life of two annoying, tragic artists who collided and now won’t part. so like. hmph. i need a better word for it. the main storyline maybe? like what i focus on when i tell people about them + get art of them. i do not want to call it the juice of the plot thank you very much

first of all.

trick fell down a staircase at age 16 and has a massive scar on their waist that i continuously forget to include in references and it’s been driving me insane. this has been canon for literal YEARS, since before they were even an independent character (they started off as someone i was playing for a TTRPGish campaign thingy)

i feel like i don’t bring this up enough either but oh my god! these two constantly climb up into like rooftops and billboards and AGH! there is so much i want to say about them wishing to see their waiting world from far away, as opposed to living in it and being a part of this terribly complicated organism. they want to watch their world change and grow and [loud sobbing]

another thing i haven’t noted down anywhere yet (and really should before i forget) is that trick has a light sensitivity issue and consistently needs to wear tinted spectacles. it’s a rare genetic defect, common among (but not limited to) the ottu and dyskkin populace especially and i think about it a lot. because like? trick and hawk both love the idea of the beach and stuff, the coastline, the idea of “things beneath the water, things beyond the horizon” you know? and here trick is, struggling to see it in full sunlight, when it can be seen in full clarity, when the most people are there. but. it plays into the fact these two tend to go places where/when others can’t or won’t. their early morning trips, their late night dances in plazas. (in their young adulthood at least, before Everything Else) “seeing the world without being seen” energy - and there’s an irony it holds, given they are both artists, making art that they want seen.

god i have so much to say about legacy and heritage and permanence and stuff and how it effects + is discussed and viewed by these two, but i realise that might need a big fat essay post so i probably shouldn’t put it in the fun fact dump! so uhm! next!

so back to goofy things. hawkes has these issues with pent-up energy she’s working through and trick, well, trick is obsessed with good fun. hawkes tends to want and need to fight, there is a physical ferocity that courses through her and my god! is it hard for her to understand. describing it is fine for our little wordsmith but explaining why? that’s beyond her. she used to start fights because she craved the thrill, and how it soothed the aggression, restlessness. and trick? trick loves a challenge, and, bless that fact, because they spar constantly. it’s just so refreshing for hawkes that they can vent this energy, especially without needing to get people mad / getting into trouble to do so. this is also partly why hawk learnt to dance(? aforementioned unnamed art form), though there’s a different feeling in a fight! ...though also. me when. me when a familiarity & mutual understanding create a natural rhythm and turn a duel into a duet. still, after they distance themselves, hawkes has to put some work into finding another way to cope.

i think sooo much about how they complement or parallel each other and it rots my brain something truly wicked. i will not stop trying to cook up ideas for how their respective art forms (music / murals) changed after meeting each other, then how it evolved as they became increasingly dependent, right up until they had to pull away from each other.

more on dumb quirks, i don’t think i have it written down anywhere that trick absolutely loves the sound of bells, or that hawkes hates wearing fuzzy things (itchy!) then there’s hawk’s relationship with trick’s cat mischief (wherein the silly kitty torments hawk! by way of always sitting on her lap, instead of trick’s, rendering her incapacitated)

FYI hawkes’s earrings have little bells in them which absolutely delight trick, because trick can recognise hawk’s approach from a whiles away because of this! which. jumping around. is so special and important to trick whenever their eyes are failing them [they often forget the spectacles / choose not to wear them]

i still haven’t gotten started on the fact trick gets outfits tailored for hawk, or that trick decorated hawk’s instruments, or that hawk consistently gets weird gifts like oddly smooth rocks for trick, or that trick lets hawk co-sign their murals because her lyrics get incorporated into them or -

[ohposhers]

GIVE THESE BOYS A WEEKEND YAOI FISHING TRIP !! GAT DAMN!! i actually have so many thoughts about Big getting Shadow into fishing istg im gonna make a whole comic on it im in too deep

[hootyhoowoo]

In da clerb, we all fam

[keferon]

Snow bots au anyone? :D

They're back together a year later because it's snowing again❄️

All right! For context: I imagine them hanging out every winter in some kind of resort (a resort that Blurr owns. Because his bar business has expanded that much over time.)

[akanemnon]

Wow, not even 5 seconds in and they're already starting a fight.

FIRST - PREVIOUS - NEXT

MASTERPOST (for the full series / FAQ / reference sheets)

[junotter]

Part 2 of my modern avatar au, The Gaang (part 1)

[botanicallyinclinednerd]

Polites died believing that the world is kind, and yet his death contributes to Odysseus deciding to become a monster. Absolutely devastating

[brainfreeze27]

i'll take it to mine

image id below

[photo ID: a digital redraw of take this to your grave by fall out boy's album cover. from left to right, pete wentz, andy hurley, patrick stump, and joe trohman sitting on a fold up bed (?). the image is a monochrome teal with a lighter blue border around the boys, and grafitti on a brick wall behind them reading "TAKE THIS TO YOUR GRAVE" and "tell that mick he just made-", with normal text above it reading "FALL OUT BOY". end id]

[lucabyte]

monologue

[mafuyuakgae]

even if I came to love humanity in the end, there’s no proof I was ever here, right?

[oscarlovesthesea]

ok but he was fully flirting here. I think it's so funny that Charles was like "idk if I'm in love with you but we have all eternity to figure it out" and then literally an episode later he was like "welp time to start thinking about this!" and immediately started openly flirting with Edwin. you go bisexual king

[boct-kimerakal]

your name is literally hawkes talon

what the hell. bird.

this (and like 8 other lore dumps) has been sitting in my drafts for so long... just throw it out there with the tag so i can keep track.

i think a lot about the waiting world (original lore world! no way!) but i just never talk about it anywhere. EXCEPT when i try to spew it into my notes.. now the problem with notes, is that it just feels so tedious to type things out there? it’s much smoother on this platform, who knows why (the font and formatting soothe me..)

anyways, i’m here to talk about the background / basics anji-ola punk rockstar serving major aggro daily. need to write the scattered notes (vague ideas..) somewhere because the toyhouse profile is so horrendously long already

okay, expect a lot of REALLY bad world-building in a ‘notes for later’ style. really simple & kinda lame rn.

background first? hawkes is kondhani which is one of the? sixty-three... ethnic groups in anji-ola i intend to develop. thinking about it so hard. it’s one of ethnicities with the most diaspora communities, so you tend to get [insert location name here]-kondhan when askin’ - hawkes specifically would be denovo-kondhan.. hmmm. kondhani was up until recently a nomadic culture and in the wake of the mandated settlement no real kondhani “homeland” (like, a heartland or significantly large-enough settlement by government standards?) emerged? unlike, eg, the dysikkin majority being located surrounding dangsahana and the people being associated with the denovijihari region.

hm. both groups are similar in that they were never associated with a particular nation / organised behind any form of leadership, they emerged as socio-cultural entity after the breakdown of the kodyssi thalassocracy and the people diffused across the rest of the landmass (which i HAVE NOT named) <- i say this not knowing a THING about how these categorisation systems work, it’s just a best guess? do correct me if i’m horribly wrong with my word choices.. ehrm! that out of the way!

ALSO. punk rockstar is an approximation. there really isn’t a punk culture + musical genre in anji-ola - nor do rockstars even exist, because rock music is a culture thing. believe it or not. there is nothing in anji-ola that could act as prelude to this culture. (something, something? the ubiquity of rock music in this era due to the present western culture hegemony? dunno.. but the term’s a good way to set an Expectation for hawkes and her music) that said. pondering my orb. electrical technology is a thing and has been applied to music relatively similarly? HRRM.

time to answer the ‘why can she beat you up?’ question. (sigh.. my main issue with worldbuilding is! ugh! describing the hard-to-articulate parts. i need visual elements, sigh... but like, come on man.. i have to DRAW it? myself?) anyways, hawkes has perfected a form of kondhani dance that imitates physical fighting! but pretty. problem is i haven’t named it yet or really messed with the overall tradition behind it. and in my mind there’s a specific look to it, an aesthetic uniqueness. i’ll have to hammer out the logistics of it all..

the art form is considered more in the realm of dance than martial arts though! but i figure there isn’t as big a distinction in the context of anji-ola.. they’re codified more as physical training traditions? but ugh, i haven’t done my research so take these as notes for my future self (hopefully, a future self that actually DID THE WORK)

lastly. the reason hawkes wears red so aggressively is it’s a celebration colour in kondhani culture and usually worn to funerals & weddings in kondhani tradition (but there are no taboos on dressing casually in red!) by the close ones of the deceased / newly weds respectively. ehrrrm hm. yea.

character stuff next time. probably rant it up with trick too.

[vepppy]

going thru my screenshots to find something else but found this trisha video screenshot instead

[sibbydoo]

RESONANCE!!

So…I recently got obsessed with Soul Eater….

[egophiliac]

*shaky thumbs up* I just finished ch5...... y-you were not kidding about it being a heavy one.....

:)

(how's that going so far, Mal)