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[straycalamities]

For Andrew > 🍕🩷🧠🥊

🍕 - What is their favorite food?

ill be honest. i forgot. i dont keep track of that very well for any ocs besides spook (bc its was based on one of my bestest fwiend's fav foods so i'll never forget it)

something savory, though. i know he really likes savory, hot meals over other things because it reminds him of his dad who he has a decent relationship with. and eventually his bestie ji-hoon likes to make him good meals to help him with his depression. so he has very good associations with a nice, full plate of food.

❤️ - What is one of your OC’s best memories?

in a bittersweet way, it's whenever his mom would rarely actually fully praise him for something because 99% of the time she's cold, strict, and stoic. he ends up holding the same for julian and the times julian was super nice to him, but they eventually get soured when he realizes that it was probably all just a honeytrap. all part of the manipulation tactics.

straight up good memories usually come from joyriding in a nice car or on a motorcycle. or when he met ji-hoon and they clicked rly well. or had a lavish date with a guy who didnt last, but it was a nice time regardless. when he first got a telescope. or when he first got one of his pets. a silly moment with alana. stuff like that.

🧠 - What do you like most about the OC?

i like...everything about him AAAA what do i even pick out...

i guess my favorite thing about him is how real he feels to me. like out of all my ocs i feel like he's the most that's like...that could be a real person. i've based a lot of him off my experiences or other people i've known so i think that's why. and so he's kinda like..a culmination of things i love and also the experiences and people that have been in my life. like a love-letter to my ?? living?? idk that sounds cheesy

i also think out of all my ocs he'd be the one i'd most like to be friends with if he were real. i could be friends with a bunch of them, but i think him and i would actually be close.

🥊 -What do they love to do? What do they hate to do?

like i said in the memories answer, he LOVES joyriding especially at night. nighttime joyriding is his default coping mechanism for like..anything and everything. he loves tinkering with things to figure out how it goes together and/or works. he loves listening to music. he loves watching golden hollywood era films or 80s cheesy flicks or cult classics. he loves just. watching his pet snake or tarantulas do their thing. he loves going out into the nightlife of the city. nighttime is his time and he loves being around people even if he's also a socially anxious and awkward mess. he loves meeting people and bonding with them over music or other things. he's a former partyboy so..he likes getting wild but in his later 20s he's a LOT more careful about it lol. and any of the previous stuff is 10x better if someone else is doing it with him or just parallel-playing with him if nothing else. he just REALLY likes being around and connecting with other humans.

he hates monotony though. he needs to switch it up and pretty often. he hates being around anyone that is just like straight up using him or toying with him. he can get down w like..yall are both just enjoying each others company for the moment and nothing else, but like..as a victim of major manipulation and abuse, he's got no time for any red flags like that anymore. he also hates doing things that are clearly a waste of time. like busywork or stuff like that he can't stand it. he also hates arguing lmao. he's pretty stubborn and hard-headed himself and he KNOWS it so he tries to just avoid arguments when he can because no ones gonna come out of it a winner. also he's not an emotional vault like ace is, he's pretty open with them for the most part, but he hates talking about the stuff that Truly bothers him like the mom issues or the julian stuff.

[dickie-gayson]

Who’s the greatest Robin?

i cant believe u put me on the spot like this

-sweats nervously-

OKAY SO..imho there’s no ‘greatest Robin’. They each have traits and skills that make them fantastic and invaluable. so instead of who I think the greatest is, HERE’S A LIST OF SOME OF THE TRAITS THAT MAKE THEM GREAT (not just as Robin bcus SOME had rather short tenures as Robin)

Robin in general - loving (even if they try to hide it), smart, loyal, and Wild AF. poor Bruce has more gray hairs bcus of these lil shits than anything else probably, would do literally anything to save others even if it killed them (which i wish DC would stop doing we get it already)

Dick - greatest acrobat in the DCU, fast af and hard to hit, bendy fuckin wacky-waving-inflatable-arm-flailing-tubeman level flexibility. reflexive thinker that can react on the fly and adapt in a snap. loves with all he has, sat and talked to Tim when Tim was feeling suicidal and thats smth i just..really feel strongly about in a good way, great sense of humor that he uses to deflect actual emotions bcus emotional competence is for squares, wanted to adopt Damian and i still cry over that missed opportunity, a walking Hot Mess

Jason - so much fire and passion in everything he does. takes after Alfy with the dramatics and it’s perfect. he’s so smart and caring but that’s always overshadowed by his ‘attitude’. the fact that he tried to keep Shiela safe even after the betrayal and torture says so much about how big his heart is, despite all the pain and suffering, all the negatives, he pushed on and turned everything around for himself, he’s just such a good dude all-around

Tim - him heart too big for him gotdam body, like he was in awe of batman and robin (and Flying Grayson Dick i still cry over that tbh), just wanted to make sure bruce and gotham were safe, despite his depression and self-image issues (not thinking he could compare to Jason or Dick) he still fought on and if that aint inspiring idk what is, he’s so fuckin smart that even Ra’s admires him, kid doesnt give up like...ever. DC bring him back already u cowards. im Salty over his treatment

Stephanie - so underrated, never in Robin stuff and it makes me Sad. she’s so funny, but more than that she’s tough. by that i mean her father was a super criminal but she wanted to do better and became Spoiler to fight against him, gave up her own child at 16 bcus she knew that it’d have a better life somewhere else and that gets her so much respect, that was a tough and strong decision, always swings back to the fam even after Bruce pushes her away (rude B she’s Great), she doesnt give up or stay down (a patented Robin trait)

Damian - i love this smol birb. he was so vicious and determined to prove himself when he first appeared. he was angry, downright cruel at times (lookin at that time u tried to blow Tim up, Dami), but he grew up, he matured into smth so much brighter, that boy loves even if he tries to hide it bcus he’s embarrassed, super loyal like dont hurt, hell dont even touch those he loves bcus Jealousy and Wrath abound

BONUS ROUND:

Carrie Kelley - so creative. so determined to be Robin. she was the first female Robin (even if that comic was a Hot Mess and she was the only redeemable part imo), used a slingshot as a weapon and thats Fantastic, used her lunch money to buy a Robin costume and i love her

Duke Thomas - honestly prolly the most well-adjusted Robin and i adore him, he cried bcus Dami beat the hell out of him and it hurt. he hurt, he doubted he should do this, and yet he got up and kept goin. cant believe wtf the batfam’s lives even are and i dont blame him

OKAY SO THIS TURNED LONGER AND LESS INTO A LIST OF TRAITS AS I WENT ON, SORRY  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

TLDR: EVERY ROBIN IS THE GREATEST ROBIN AND ID DIE FOR EACH OF THEM

[wengoku]

do talon squad headcanons !!!

okay warning its a lil long

spending time with widow and sombra has made gabriel hate overwatch more and more with each passing day. widow is a sharp, bright reminder of overwatchs incompetency-- what happened to her should have never happened. she should have been under better protection, they should have kept her longer, she just. shouldn’t have happened. same with sombra; she might not directly tell him her past, but he can track her hackings and the messages she leaves to pick up the clues of her upbringing. to him, in every sense of the phrase, overwatch was nothing but a failure and he regrets ever having been a part of it vehemently. he means it when he calls overwatch a “sad story”

widowmaker is less of a “shell” of a woman and more like someone took out all of the stuffing in a doll and replaced it with rocks. she feels malice, anger, annoyance, confusion, hatred, self destruction. she’s capable of other emotions, but they’re buried far underneath, and they usually bring on the confusion. being a weapon is easy; being alive is not.

out of the three of them, sombra is the only one with 100% autonomy and the only one who’s where she is because she chose to be there; unlike reaper or widow, she CHOSE her augmentations. she chose to become sombra and not seek a normal life, she chose to have her abilities. she’s aware of the difference between her and her teammates and it solidifies her choices, for her. 

sombra is terrified of not being free. of existing like widowmaker or with the physical or emotional load that gabriel carries. losing her autonomy, being weak, vulnerable, its what scares her the most, because she threw all of that away when she became sombra. sombra is a god; sombra is a god code in a human being, sombra is a shadow and a legend and a ghost. she’s untouchable and she’ll do anything to stay that way. always one step ahead. 

widowsombra hc: sombras limbs are actually made of code and can take on a human appearance and match her skin tone, but they arent like... actual flesh and bone. widowmaker has decreased temperature sensitivity and can hardly feel sombras hands when she touches her. 

fun fact this is also a metaphor for the intimacy and vulnerability that sombra threw away for her augmentations-- shes trading her humanity for her enhancements. 

sombra has been to widowmakers grave as well as gabriels grave. neither of them know this. the people who cared about her back home still know shes alive, so she’s never needed one, but she kind of wants one anyways. 

gabriel and sombra cant stop widow from doing whatever she wants to do. like, if its mission related thats kinda different, but otherwise, neither of them really have the resolution to take widowmakers choices from her if she actually mutters up the autonomy to do it.

this has, in sombras case, included enabling widowmaker to kill someone she recognized from her past. they were out on a mission; widow aimed for someone who wasnt the target. sombra didnt say anything and she certainly didnt ask.

widowmaker gnaws on ice sometimes, just to feel it. like she says that she can’t feel the cold but she can feel that and its like... a little shock. its like eating pop rocks lmao

widow struggles if she doesn’t have a purpose. if she ever went awol, she’d need to have something to do; she can’t just exist idly. she becomes restless and frustrated. talon knows this as well, and they send her out on missions ofc for their own gain but also because she begins to break down if she goes too long without believing she has a purpose. 

widow is of the express belief that you need a purpose to exist. she’s eerily insistent about it. 

sombra has a very small room at a talon hq that she sometimes hangs out in, has some tech in there, for when she has to be at a base for longer than a day. she always locks the door and she can get REALLY into her hacking and more than once gabe has smoked under the door because she wasn’t responding and he was worried.

either she’s just caught up in her work or she has ridiculously loud headphones on or she’s sleeping. she only sleeps like 3 hrs a day average so when she does sleep shes fucking dead to the world.

another thing. gabe is a worrier. a worrier and a planner. he has a plan a-z at any given moment for absolutely anything they do. he stresses himself out with that sorta stuff but literally whos gonna stop him?

sombra. sombra calls him out regularly. he hates her being spontaneous because, you guessed it, it worries him but its also really useful that she’s such a quick thinker. 

sombra reminds him too much of jesse. sombra knows this.

gabe literally cant sleep ?? like he’s physically incapable of it so for rest sometimes he just kinda. sits down and exists in pain. he’s always in pain. widowmaker suggests him teas that will help him clear his head and he tries everything she tells him. 

widow and gabe are the most civil towards each other and generally if widow has a question or feels like she needs “””advice””” she asks him. unofficially, she feels as if he would be her best friend, if she could theoretically have one.

sombra goes to get her nails done professionally, widow and gabe do theirs on their own and every once in awhile with each other. widow is very dedicated to her femininity

 she recognizes him, somewhat. anyone she meets from her past, she tears into, but gabe is always the exception. she doesn’t tell him that she remembers him.

sombra and widow are both SUPER arrogant and they like wildly enable each other. widow likes to pretend that she doesnt but she definitely eggs sombra on at times and sombra LIVES for it. sombra also likes to try and goad emotions out of widow-- she likes to poke and prod and see whats underneath. 

gabe thinks that if sombra and widow both went awol and had a goal that they could both agree on, even he would be hard pressed to stop them. it’s because they’re both so malicious and determined, its almost scary.

when gabe gets upset, smoke starts to come out of his mouth and nose and its like... literally his body starting to unwind. he cant get a grip on his corporal self and he starts to lose shape. this has never happened around widow, but has happened around sombra once. 

sombra would never abandon her goal for widow or gabe but she’s thought about it before and if they asked her, she would do everything she could to get them out of talon that doesn’t compromise her own mission. she’d take them with her when she leaves if she could.

list of most to least willing to murder: widow, sombra, gabe. widow is the one whos most willing to actually do it but 9/10 its gonna be sombras idea first and foremost. it goes the opposite way if its personal, gabe is most likely to pull out a shotgun on someone he used to know lmao

as for how they work as a squad, they actually do.. really well. widow will just follow orders with the occasional -_- face thrown in, but they rlly do have a good synergy and its why they 3 get sent on so many missions together

widow and sombra are the best momentum wise-- once they get rolling its hard to make them stop and gabe has once or twice had an issue with keeping up with them. theyre both super fast paced and gabe is too but gotdam if he isnt getting older 

widowmaker doesn’t ever really feel happy, just like... smug. she gets extremely smug. so its usually at  the cost of someone else’s misery.

sombra has never met jack but just from hearing gabe make passing comments about him a few times she’s pretty much decided that she wants to either blackmail or murder him 

gabe sometimes has the unfortunate habit of underestimating sombra, which is mostly out of concern, but its the quickest way to piss her off and pretty much the only way she gets put off with him. she cant stand being pitied or looked down upon.

widow saw gabriels face because he, at a time, decided to willingly show her. sombra saw gabriels face because she offered seeing it as the trade for some information he needed.

sombra sees the truth as a weapon and will trade personal information for something you want. sometimes its harmless, sometimes it bites you in the ass again later. hard. 

gabe doesnt know how to be happy. sombra doesnt know how to be satisfied. widow is really just doin how she do. 

thats really enough for now just ask if u want sum more