#Axl Caester

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can the public (me) know some fun facts about axl..

OF COURSE. we love axl. I'm going to mix fun facts with some lore exposition bc. thats what we do here or whatevs.

Axl Caester is something I'm calling a Stabilized Amalgam Ectype. The gist of it is that hes small parts of a bunch of different parts of data from different people that corrupted each other, that was later reconstructed and reshaped. He's not SUPER stable, hence the lil metal cuff like contraptions on his design.. they help his form stay together...

The re-stabilization process was done by Edgar Reynaud (Avi's dad), but Axl has no real emotional ties to Edgar. The cuffs were made by Verus Technologies Corp's CEO.

He gets his surname from Lenore Caester! The general branch manager of the Verus Technologies Corp. who basically "adopts" him while he's around age 14-ish.

His hairpins match with Lenore's! They're likely gifts from her.

He likes sugary sweets, mostly due to Andromeda's influence. It's also a parallel to Avi, who prefers bitter, less-sweet stuff. Avi's preference is actually directly caused by Axl! When the sector-0 kids were out of school and Axl met Avi, he shared some of his candy with him (albeit the flavors he didn't like as much LMAO). Avi just appreciates spending quality friend time and just started associating the more bitter candy with it.

He was really close with Aoide during their time at school together! They grew apart after Aoide ran away.

IM TRYING TO think of stuff that's .fun facts. He is very Teal.. His aspect type is PM (green) and hes heavily associated with Verus Tech which is BC (blue) so. that makes sense.

In older versions of the story, he used to be the person living outside the establishments of sector-4! Now it's Aoide who resides there, and he stays at sector-5. (also called sector-6 sometimes because I keep accidentally counting sector-0)

OH THIS IS more or less something I was brainstorming about a while back. It's possible that each time his form majorly falls apart, he looks a bit different when he is brought back together.

That'll be all for now... Thank you red....

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bunch of critters

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finally drew some oc stuff tonight!!! yay!!!

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a buncha stupid stuff

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i have a ton of background characters designed but. these r the main reoccurring (AND ALIVE) characters that r actually plot relevant in some way. i think🤧 not all the IMPORTANT characters but yeaagghh

avi is the protag🫶 sol is the deuteragonist! the story follows avi trying to learn about his dead father’s life and research

“whos the antagonist” well. runs away

i added the wb stuff just to excuse having more art down here bc i doubt im finishing that first artwork n if i dont show it now i never will

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talk about lenore THIS INSTANT (please)

LENORE!!!! everyone say thank you red … again…

Lenore Caester is the general branch manager of the Verus Technologies Corp, the company behind the Safe Haven Project🙏 She commonly speaks in the royal we. She appears and disappears at the blink of an eye if you’re not actively looking at her. She’s got the kind of voice and diction you’d find in advertisements. (If u wanna get super specific her current voice claim is the fax machine in dhmis s2 ep1.)

In classic VTCO fashion she denies time (the concept).

In one of my first artworks of Lenore ever (the old ones….) she’s holding a pen with a butterfly charm! In my last reference sheet of Lenore it only has one wing. The full butterfly is usually used to symbolize the actual CEO, while the single wing is for SUGAR (the CEO).

Lenore “adopts” Axl after the finale of genesis part 2. Axl runs into Lenore in the elevator and shes like “Hey You wanna go to school?” n hes like. omg yay. school⁉️⁉️⁉️

Lenore is like an android of sorts! She’s either a dead woman put back together or simply based on a woman previously alive. She either doesn’t remember or simply no longer feels attached to anything regarding her “past life” or “identity”. To stay true to her detachment from her past I likely won’t write her origins/mention it.

She’s shown to possess a lot of admiration for the actual CEO and speaks very highly of her.

Lenore isn’t super fond of most of the characters around her relevance level in the story. Main one being Edgar Reynaud! Obv. She doesn’t like him much. She also has a negative relationship with Azimuth! Azimuth has more of an upper hand there as their source of tension is Az’s unwillingness to cooperate. This leads to her getting dragged to mundane activities and hangouts with Az that she has to sit through in the hopes that he comes around eventually. Neither Lenore or Az are open about it when they dislike someone! So while they r both aware that the other person doesn’t like them either, from a 3rd person view they have a fun dynamic i think ^_^ Lenore is generally passive aggressive in a very artificially warm corporate way, while Az likes to fashion his distaste as something more flattering… so hes VERY nice. Hes very nice about it ^_^

Lenore’s dynamic with Morgaine is also interesting to me! It’s quite common for Morgaine to be the person getting the short end of the stick. I feel like she’s always the character who simply doesn’t know background information characters around her know. I feel like it’s a very cruel way to put it but she does end up being the laughingstock very frequently… n it’s not really her fault that this happens. This kind of continues with Lenore. Lenore is her boss. But also not really, because she never actually signs a contract to work with the company. There’s stuff Morgaine confines in Lenore, simply because she has to talk to SOMEBODY and theres not a lot of options. Ok apologies for the morgaine rant i love morgaine can u tell shes one of my favorite characters lmao . She’s still an outsider in the new world that’s been established. For many reasons. It’s kind of when you learn how a magic trick works and it just ruins the magic for you. She was there when a good chunk of the new world was being built, and she knows enough of it is false to be able to ignore it and live a “normal” life. Her normalcy isn’t whatever this is. Therefore she has to confine in people who are also outside this “normalcy”. Lenore is a good candidate for this very reason. For Morgaine, Lenore is the closest thing she can get to talking with a real person who’s also not going to invalidate every second thing she says. Lenore is semi-aware of this. She’s also aware of how horrified Morgaine was to learn the guy she thought she murdered was actually a robot. N there’s a little humor in it for Lenore. Because she’s also a robot.

On a less lore related note, I initially designed Lenore based on a random oc generator prompt thing i got from a website bc I was bored 🤧

Lenore also briefly shows up in a prequel story titled UO! She accompanies Una Hearthelow (creator of The quantum computer / edgar) to a vcto owned skyscraper.

If you remember The Umbrella ™ cycle, Lenore holds an umbrella over Morgaine at the finale of World’s End.

More character design details wise… She’s blue! Obviously because she’s a textbook #BC (aspect type). But she also has some pinks. Who are the pinks associated with? The CEO!!!!! Yippeee!!!! She also has very organic shapes throughout her design, with her dress somewhat resembling waves or water. These are also stuff associated with the actual CEO. She does have my statement square/rectangle shaped irises I give most of my robot-ai-any sorta techy characters! (It’s mostly a stylistic choice, her eyes likely just look. “normal” to everyone else) Her pupils are the 2 triangle hourglass-like shape that’s the vtco logo! Her eyes are a more purple color, i think mainly bc i just like it that way. But u could read into it with knowledge of what purple is associated with in my character designs/worldbuilding.

I’ll call it a day for now…. Feel free to ask me more specific details like dynamics with other characters yada yada.. either here or on discord 🫡