#this is SO LONG bc its a starter with a lot of bg info

[voros-kiralyno]

Closed starter for @unsettledspirits [ April ]

Being the Alpha is a lot of work, a lot of constant work and most of the time its small shit that Nova didn't actually want anything to do with. Unfortunately, Celeste wouldn't do ALL of the small stuff for her, so there were times Nova had to suck it up and go handle things herself. One of those things were surprise raids on establishments her undercover teams found shady dealings going on. Especially revolving around D U S T.

Lots of places like to skate under the radar selling charged items just slightly above legal limits in hopes that the small overflow will go un-noticed. However those same people illegally sell in bulk. You can only have ONE charged item in your possession at a time, and even with a certified vendors license you can only sell them one at a time within a certain time frame. Logs are to be kept, records of levels, purchases. They're dangerous items in the wrong hands, and its Nova's job to keep her people SAFE. So that meant sometimes she went to bully people instead of sit at home in her very comfy chair with a book.

"The longer you try to deny it the more of my time you're wasting. Which isn't good for anyone involved. There was an investigation. There is documentation. You were CAUGHT, it's not an accusation, this is a seizure. Now we can do this the easy way or the hard way. I sincerely suggest you choose the easy way and surrender all of your charged items. Quick, easy, and-"

A loud crash drew Nova's attention from the Demon trying to smooth talk his way out of being in trouble. The noise's origin happened to be a human girl looking very distraught at the fact that she had dropped a box of what looked like E X P E N S I V E merchandise.

The girl was clearly a slave. It wasn't uncommon in the underworld, especially for Demons. People often traded their kids or other various family members to settle a debt. It wasn't something Nova condoned, but it didn't surprise her that humans did that. She'd put in a law that gave them a high bar for care. Nova didn't particularly LIKE humans, but she refused to let them be starved, or strung up for show, cruel and slow deaths- none of it was allowed. And they all were required the chance to work towards freedom with a reasonable goal. Of course they had to stay in the underworld because exposure risk to the humans- even if most of the time they threw those people in loony bins and called them crazy. Better safe than sorry.

Something about the way this one was very skinny, and seemed to flinch at her OWN quick movements, told Nova she was not under the protection of those laws like she should be.

Nova crossed the room and knocked the box back out of the raven haired girls hands. Rude, but its Nova so. She watched her try to pick it up again and quickly spoke.

"Leave it. Stand up." She put her hands on her hips, really oozing that Alpha energy as she looked the girl up and down. The nearby demon oozing some very nervous energy in contrast.

"What's your name?"

[lumilasi]

"Lone wolf's a Dead Wolf. Healthy Wolf protects the Pack."

Earlier this week, I reblogged a fanart piece for the Mouthwashing game, wondering why it was so popular, as while I had seen the game months earlier, seeing Tumblr get so into it was surprising as at the time, it didn't stand out to me too much when I first watched it. After being nosy and snooping around the tags, I now fully get why it has become such a phenomenon here.

Anyway, the whole thing kind of inspired me to want to make my own lil space crew. I'll be keeping their designs simple though, as I don't wanna stress myself out with this too much; its just a small side thing for funsies. I don't have full design ideas for others yet, but I figured I can at least post this guy for starters. I admittedly don't fully like the poster one, buuuut IDK how to fix it rn so I'll leave it as is.

More info about him below: (under the cut bc ONCE AGAIN my descriptions get far too long....)

The poster's Lone wolf quote is basically Stefan's mantra; it both shows how despite what he may seem like at first glance, he very much cares about the people around him, and how the whole "lone wolf" thing isn't even realistic (and in a way, harmful way of thinking), and Stefan knows that.

When I say "dad" I mean he is the responsible friend who tries to keep most shenanigans at bay - mainly from The Inventor and his old friend.

The person yelling for him is his crew's youngest member, a gal who's kind of an inventor type that he sort of big brothers.

He's bi, tends to be oblivious to people's crushes on him because of a lot of self-loathing caused by what happened

He met pretty freaky people in prison, but NOBODY was as scary as his current captain, according to him.

The crew is very small, because many people tend to not be able to handle the dynamics they have; there's the Captain, Co-pilot, medic, the rescue systems officer (and self-proclaimed inventor), and now Stefan as the general ship mechanic. (at least those are the ones I have ideas for. I could add one or two more later)

Or, as Stefan would call it: the Queen Devil (affectionate), Airheaded Dumbass (sometimes affectionate, sometimes not), the Angel, and of course, the iconic KID NO DON'T TOUCH THAT!

The one calling for him in the image is indeed this "kid no"

His childhood friend has a crush on him, and so does the medic lady. He has NO idea about either, because while he keeps calling his friend dense, he sure as HELL isn't any better lmao (the Captain and the systems officer find it VERY fun to watch)

Those two aren't competitive or anything about their shared crush, they're both the kind of people that just want their loved ones to be happy and would be happy for either if they got lucky - provided the dumbass would notice either.....

His wolf motif is because of his surname meaning "wolf"

BG STORY STUFF: Stefan wears a gas mask, because of his sensitivity to a common gas type utilized in most spaceships' systems in this story; a special type of non-flammable gas, that unfortunately can cause hallucinations, and in his case, causes bouts of severe aggression/Lack of sense of pain.

-----> The reason why he has an odd reaction is because of some evil scientist shenanigans he had to go through as a kid, unknowingly to him and his mum, who thought the doctors were trying to cure a terrible illness he supposedly had. (They were just testing out brainwashing stuff, you know, usual evil government bullshit)

------> he ended up in prison because while working in another ship, he had a severe fit and killed a lot of his coworkers (whom he already had negative emotions towards due to their shitty behavior towards the woman staff - he was raised better by his mama)

-----> There was a massive riot in the prison he was in, hence he managed to escape.

His friend insisted on helping and got him in the ship; Stefan initially avoided everyone else like plague afraid he'd have a fit, but did grow fond of the oddball group pretty quickly.

Then, during a space-pirate raid, he learned that he can actually recognize this group even in that state, so they aren't in danger from him - plus their captain is a very prepared woman, and had already figured out his history. (She has stuff to knock him out to sleep it off)