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WAARGH!!! It's lore time!!! Nothing as elaborate as my Lazarus references (.....Yet) and it's just a copy-paste of my twitter thread but Enjoy!

Thomas and Virgil are from Andromadis, the game of The Sprawl I GM for my friends! Though they haven't appeared yet,,, (To my players: forget Everything you read here.)

They're both (for lack of a better word) mercenaries who work for Idris, the golden robot who runs the oldest and biggest smuggling organization in the wider United Cosmos, as part of his personal discipline and information gathering task force; The Golden Hand.

Virgil Arthur Whinchester is something of a Dirtbag Evil Genius. He's a beyond brilliant toxicologist, and generally clever enough at getting herself both into and Out of situations unscathed and unnoticed to earn herself equal parts espionage and wet work.

He's loud, brash, and Obnoxiously charming with an ego the size of a city block. Carrying himself with this sort of effortless confidence and laissez-faire non-chalance. The very essence of a Frustratingly Smug Bastard.

But while the Posture is relaxed and cocky the eyes are Always sharp and calculating. She doesn't strike an intimidating figure as Thomas might but she's just as scary to sit next to in a room.

Of course he's a MESS under there. All boiling rage and deep unhealed sadness and conflict about where his life has taken him and the choices she's made. oh just and absolute pile of Tragedy and Problems.

And I can't leave out that he's an absolute Bigender Bisexual Disaster. An absolute King. You go girl 💗💕💖

Thomas is a cleaned, polished and spit shined legal shark. A thin layer of synthetic skin over a hard metal frame in both physicality and mind. He "works" for the governing body of Andromadis, and uses his position to gather and manipulate information.

He is the lynch pin in keeping Idris's organization well disguised and out of the sight of the law.

While far from emotionless his entire persona is Very professional, he is controlled, calculated, every move and word is selected careful and preciously for maximum effectiveness. He is an impassible fortress of a man, again both physically and emotionally.

oh course he is Also a Me s s under there. Plagued with insecurity and feelings like he is Missing.. just Missing. things. many things. Internal and external.

Where Lazarus and Karl are beautiful harmonious parallels Virgil and Thomas are Mirrored opposites. They both blend well and bounce off each other in turn. If either had healthier perspectives they would see that a long term committed relationship isn't right for Them.

Maybe causal friends with benefits (because there is One area they get along Swimmingly) maybe just drinking buddies, maybe just co-workers with an odd tension that never resolves... but neither have any particularly Healthy perspectives.. and both are Way too stubborn for that

so they keep winding up together. Cycling around and around.... Very big Divorced Couple Energy despite the fact they've never been married. We love some Toxic motherfuckers. vwv

okay so I 100% failed my original mission it's like an hour later and this is Still /Woefully/ lacking in details that I think are Super important and reflect the proper complicated nature of these characters but what e v e r It's done and it's pretty good for an introduction!

I am working on a playlist for them as well.. they have like a lead song but honestly I'm a bit embarrassed about it so dfgjkhsd we'll see if I share that tidbit of info or not

Anyway! enjoy my Boys and aaaalways feel free to ask questions :3ccccc

For reference this is Idris: Also OC of mine and very old, though Virgil still has him beat by a good mmmm 3-4 years?

When the 💕💖Blorbos💖💕 only exist in your head because they are your OC's and in order to get any content of them you have to make it Yourself....

Anyway here's my Big Divorce Energy pair of Highly Deadly Space Mercenaries:

Thomas (He/Him) and Virgil (He/She) (/0w0)/

[monster-noises]

(I liked those OC questions post a while ago and forgot to send some bc I was mobile rip) For your fave OC: 🔫 PISTOL - do they trust people easily? how easily will they turn their back to someone? have they been backstabbed before? will they betray someone if given an ultimatum? Least talked ab OC: 🚆 TRAIN - what is their answer to the trolley problem? and the OC you love to hate: 🌪️ TORNADO - what is the biggest change you’ve ever made to them? how have they changed from their original verse

Oh gosh!! sorry this took me a few days to get to.. I needed time to draw the Images.. it got long again so off under the cut it goes!!

Pistol:

[img description: A speech bubble coming from Lazarus, a gaunt older white man with slicked back hair twirling a golden knife in his hands, reads: "Trust is not to be doled out without discrepancy. It is a thin and tenuous bond between individuals broken by the mildest of human urges with the same effort it takes to snap a small twig between your fingers. Trust can be faked, altered, and fabricated, it's existence is flimsy and unreliable. Equivalent to wrapping yourself in paper to try and protect your body as you tumble down the mountain side. So no. I do not trust easily." A separate speech bubble coming from a cartoon rendition of the artist reads: "Ignore him, he's absolutely full of shit. He's hardened himself over time, sure, but he wants to trust people. That old heart is as soft as the contents of a freshly peeled pudding cup." /end] Of course Lazarus is my favourite! I love my little meat boy so much... You can take his word (and mine) here on how easily he trusts others. lol, but as for the other questions.. When he does establish a trusting/reliable relationship with someone he is not likely to betray them or turn his back on them, he gets very committed to things, including people, and turning on someone he holds close is untenable. Even given a ultimatum he wouldn't dare turn his back on those he's committed to trusting. Everyone else however? fair fucking game. He's definitely been back stabbed before. I don't think Miranda's manipulative capturing of him cooounts so much (I think he thinks of it as a form of betrayal though, given what she promised him and what was delivered), but the fine arts world he came from in a previous life is cold and ruthless and he was definitely pushed around a lot. He hasn't really experienced any betrayal since coming to the village, this can more so be chalked up to his lack of deep authentic relationships than anything else.

Train:

[Img Description: A word bubble from Virgil, a middle aged white man in a cowboy hat with sandy brown hair and a scruffy beard reads: "That ol' chestnut ain't nothin but a heap' a philosophical fuckin' nonsense. I got more practical, and frankly more important science to be doin' than any o' yer damned ~Morals and Ethics~ mumbo-jumbo." A separate speech bubble coming from a cartoon rendition of the artist reads: "Short answer: He doesn't have one!" /end]

Well.. pretty much ALL my OC's are my least-talked about OC's because I don't talk about any of them. So I'll take the chance to re-introduce an older and very much beloved OC of mine; The original Middle Aged Bottle Blonde Disaster Bisexual, The Prodigy Chemist Who Decided To Use His Brain For Personal Gain And Ultimately Evil, Sometimes known as The Coyote sometimes as Braided Snake sometimes as simply 'That Giant Asshole' It's!!!!!!!! VIRGIL ARTHUR WHINCHESTER!!! (yes with an H and I named him that before supernatural entered my life so huSH)

Virgil's a pretty practical guy, likes to keep things physical, tangible, doesn't like to think to much about Implications or Moral Dilemma's. Doesn't mean he won't debate you if you push him (he will. For hours. You will regret your choices. He will be smug about it the Whole time.) but y'know.. when you're in his line of work it pays not to think about these kinds of things too much.

(also he was originally for a furry comic I was making with a friend in high school where he was Actually a coyote, here's a fun bonus sketch of his Original design)

[Img description: A separate portrait of Virgil but this time depicted as an anthropomorphic Coyote with light blonde fur and bright blue eyes. He is still wearing the cowboy hat. /end]

Tornado:

[Img description: Two drawings of Idris, A horned robot made of gold who wears a leather jacket. The drawing to the left is labelled "Old" and shows him with a simpler design. The drawing to the right is labelled "New" and shows him with an upgraded more detailed design, this drawing has a speech bubble that reads: "Brava darling!~ A -subtle- but marked improvement on the already Immaculate! ~<3" A small cartoon rendition of the artist in the bottom right corner is blushing and has a speech bubble that reads: "I just... Kinda made him hotter. Somehow." /end]

and last but not least! the glow up of the (23rd) century! This is Idris, The Golden Boy, criminal ring leader and founder of Smugglers Honour, a cosmos-wide smuggling operation run so tightly and bureaucratically if you didn't know any better you'd think it was a corporation!

.... it's... part of the setting for the sci-fi/cyberpunk ttrpg game I'm GMing right now...

which is exactly why Idris needed the glow up! While his change hasn't been Drastic he was originally conceived in about 2010-2011 for the comic setting that would eventually develop Into Andromadis as a catch-all leader for the criminal underground which was a bit vague even then but was Especially not going to do in the context of a TTRPG where players were going to have to interact with him and his long reaching actions in specific and unpredictable ways, so he kinda needed a new job, or rather a more defined one. So Smugglers Honour was born! A discrete organization he could be in charge of, something a lot less nebulous than his previous title of "Big No.1 Crime Boy" lmao. But with this new title I felt he needed a bit of... polishing up.

I wanted him to Feel the same, keep all the basic ideas, but just.. tighten the screws a bit so he felt a bit cooler and sexier and more mature. And also fix his dumb stupid badly designed head oh my g o d. I uhh, I think I landed it.