#but so is basically every other main character!

[elmushterri]

The Failed Star Jupiter Planets and their star, Sol. If you don’t know, FSJ is a lil concept musical about Jupiter trying to overthrow the Sun with the help of/manipulation of the devious Pluto. It’s planetary politics! (Way more fun and fantastical than real ones…) Other star systems and stars get involved, asteroids, moons— Some support the Sun, some support Jupiter. Most Stars are biased, and don’t believe planets can run Star Systems. Jupiter’s always been disgraced— they were meant to be a star but never quite got powerful enough. This disgrace and shame followed them all their life, impacting their self-image— and that’s how you make a planet that is bitter enough to plan to overthrow their oldest friend and beloved star.

Also if you’re wondering “why are the planets the wrong colours?” I take different images from different famous, techy telescopes (Ultraviolet, Infrared, etc).

Then there are their Dance of the Planets outfits! That’s a grand gala, like it says, that is hosted by a different Star every millennium. Coincidentally, this turn is Sol’s! How willll the Solar System navigate this amidst the huuuuge political scandal going on? Also yes, you CAN draw your moonsona at the Dance of the Planets, ofcccccccc! Jupiter and Sol definitely have to dance at some point.

Finally, rarely seen and used, the casual outfits! They bareeeely wear these. Also Neptune is in a silly little sailing outfit. They love the water so much.

If you’re wondering, LOOSELY! Mars is based off of Japanese culture, Uranus is based off of Indian culture, Venus = Philippines, Earth/Terra = Ghana, Saturn = Kuwaiti.

Their personalities I’ll get into later but in short, they are as their planets represent in Astrology like I’ve shown.

Pluto: Devious, manipulative but very very smooth, power hungry, chic. She’s the main villain. Jupiter will realise they’ve been manipulated into overthrowing the Sun FOR Pluto’s revenge plot.

Mercury: He’s logical, communicative and intelligent. He’s always there to listen. And always running around.

Jupiter: The main character. They basically had gifted kid syndrome and didn’t live up to it (aka, failed to become a star to rule alongside Sol). They’re all about luck but feel so unlucky. But they still represent expansion and that is what they intend to do to their power.

Mars: Aggressive, loves fights, easily swayed by emotional arguments unlike Mercury. They’re very excited for this competition (figurative) between Sol and Jupiter.

Venus: A total sweetheart, can get a biiit jealous, very artistic. She remembers when Jupiter and Sol, a young planet and protostar, loved each other more— or at all.

Terra/Earth: She’s the Apple of the Milky Way Galaxy’s eye. She has life on her! She supports the Sun because OF COURSE SHE DOES! She knows well that her people need Sol and prefers stability.

Neptune: Our sea child (by child I mean like billions of years old adult who’s a bit eccentric.) She’s very very dreamy, a bit unaware, but powerful. She’s neutral on the rebellion.

Uranus: Problem stirrer. He LOVES rebellion, any rebellion! Just make something interesting happen! He supports Jupiter entirely to be a problem and everyone expected it.

Saturn: He keeps the order in the entire Galaxy, he’s a powerhouse cause of his ring. Jupiter’s kind of jealous— Saturn’s physical power is second biggest and yet they’re more admired for their ring! Anyway Saturn’s always drained, exhausted, done with everyone (bit of an exaggeration— he’s a working dad type). He’s done bad things to keep the system safe and Jupiter now knows. Blackmailing Saturn is the only reason Jupiter even CAN overthrow the Sun. Stars can’t be easily beaten. You need soooo much power, yours and your friends’!

Sol: The star behind, well, the SOLar System! They used to be intimately involved with their system. When they and Jupiter, who I’m gonna refer to as their real life nickname Jove, we’re young, they assumed “We’ll be a Binary Star System (2 stars like usual), but Jove failed and Sol bears the load. Since, they’re rarely seen and Jupiter only grows more bitter because THEYRE practical doing the Sun’s work! Why is Sol such a hermit! They never intended to hurt Jupiter.

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So do I want to make this musical? Yes! Am I making it right now,, yeah! Slowllly. I’m working on a main song: Overthrow The Sun. Ofc, that one’s all Jupiter! I doubt I’ll get voice actors and I don’t mind doing it all myself ofc. But if you’d like to help, talking about and tagging Failed Star Jupiter ofcccc would help! No obligations, though. Thank you for 60K subscribers 🧡✨

[milestonekestrel]

The Vessels AU

Okay so. Thoughts dump basically.. hiii. Copying the thing I already typed out to explain the basic premise.

Vessels AU

From its page in the masterlist:

“An AU in which several crew members, including Billy’s own loved ones, get taken over and forced to be vessels to strange entities. Billy strikes a deal in order to gain their freedom– he will face several trials, created by each entity, and he will rescue the vessels from these trials. If he can do that within a given time limit, and be successful every time, then the entities will let him go.

If he fails, he will be killed.”

In this AU, all of the characters are possessed by an entity that wants to use them as a vessel. However, when Billy (and Cait and Maidie, who he’s had to take care of since Caz and Suze disappeared due to being taken by the Tide and the Hunter, respectively) finds them, he gets the King, the eldest of the entities and somewhat the leader (also possessing Rennick), to agree to a challenge. A game, of sorts. 

Each of the vessels, members of the crew, have their own trial based on and structured around something they fear deeply. There is a lot to elaborate on, for this AU, and it would easily turn into too much rambling here I fear. Maybe later!

So, of the things to elaborate on, there are two main chunks I break it off into. The character specifics, and the storyline and events. I'm mostly only specifying the character specifics here, since it's still kind of a lot. All of this will be under the cut!

Soooo!!! There's no rig in this AU, but the crew just. All live around each other, same city. Siren's Rest characters are here too. I know it doesn't make a lot of sense, but hey this is a self indulgent Putting Everyone Through The Horrors thing so <3 All of the crew get possessed by strange entities, who have plagued the Earth for a long time it seems. They inhabit a sort of pocket dimension connected to the regular world through the back room of a church, and the world they live in is called the Backwards world. The entrance to it, what *would* be a church in a city in the regular world, is actually a dilapidated, broken down building in the middle of a flat, wide stretch of land. Like a field. There are trees and cliffs around, but all of it feels.. off. The Entities' temples are scattered about the seemingly endless Backwards world, and the first can be found by following a path leading from the dilapidated building.

Time doesn't pass here, the sun is always in the sky. Unless, of course, the entities are in one of their 100 year-long hibernation cycles, then the sky is dark and dotted with stars, and the entities are all visible sleeping in a nest in the sky, and the nest is seemingly *made* of the sky. This world is theirs and they can influence it, as all their temples have different appearances and everything.

These entities are all siblings, technically. All spawned from the same Source, with the King being the eldest and kind of the very contested leader of all of them. They are pretty petty and all act kind of like a stereotypical rich, privileged child would, because they have always been allowed to do whatever the fuck they wanted. Visible in their very common tradition of, when they wake up from hibernation every hundred/thousand years or so, going into the real world and snatching a person to possess and use as a vessel for themselves. They all have an aspect of life they want to experience-- some of them, like the Storm, want to be worshiped or have power. Some of them, for example, the Mob, just want to get drunk and experience human pleasures. The Backwards world is inhabited by nothing but the entities, after all. They take these people as their vessels and possess them until those people die, and by then the entities must return to the Backwards world to hibernate again.

So, this is what they're doing for this AU to start. They've just woken up from hibernation and are picking their vessels out. Unfortunately, Billy's loved ones are all taken, which is the catalyst (alongside his luck, I suppose) for him to discover them and get them to agree to the little game this AU follows.

I have many lists for this AU, about the characters and things. Here is an adapted version of all the current characters who have vessels and trials decided (because some of them are still wips, yeah)!

Billy Chamberlain

Billy F. Chamberlain - the Orpheus 

Looking after Cait, Maidie, and Rory.

Facing the trials to free his loved ones. 

Fears many things, but the one that gets played on most here is powerlessness, being ignored and/or unloved, and the need to be a service. 

The main guy!! He is not possessed, but rather, he is the guy traversing the Backwards world and the temples to save everyone from their trials and entities. The entities gave him the nickname of "The Orpheus" both because those titles are more natural for them to say, and to mock him. Basically to say that no matter how far along he gets, he is going to stumble and fail. They also gave him the costume, which was the Croon's idea.

Though maybe they do underestimate this guy. The King, as well as its siblings, know his mind. They could look inside and see everything as soon as they met him, but! He's not stupid, and he comes to know them too. He even manages to frighten the King at one point, very briefly!

He also gets made into a vessel, briefly, at the climax of the story, but he has no notes because his possession is very very different and unusual.

Cameron "Caz" McLeary

Cameron F. McLeary - the Tide

Trial starts on the top of high cliffs stretching out over the churning sea. The weather is bad, and it looks like worse is brewing. There is a long, winding cave inside the cliffs that eventually spits you out on the coast below. Caz sits at the edge of a rickety old boat dock, trying to keep it from falling apart. 

Fears the water and the loss of control– he cannot fight the waves and he is terrified by that.

So, Caz! The first trial Billy must face, and it's his best friend Caz. The trials are all based on the characters' fears, and so Caz, afraid of losing control / not having control of something, has his trial reflect that!

All of the vessels, while they're possessed, have their appearances warped by the entity possessing them. They also get a weapon, fitting with their whole theme in a way. Also also! The entities possess a person by having the person breathe them in, so they all have a certain taste, which gets noted here too.

Notes:

Caz's weapon is a mallet, like a bigger version of the fish bonker that fishermen can use.

The Tide is associated with the color blue, which appears in Caz's design as streaks in his hair.

The Tide tastes like the sea. Like if you were to drink seawater.

Caz was, so far, the 27th person to disappear and be reported missing.

Susan McLeary

Susan B. McLeary - the Hunter

Mr beast hunting people for sport video 

“The trial begins in a dark forest littered with various hunting traps and game cams.”

Fears her own capability, she is afraid to know just what she would do to survive, and afraid of what others would think of her should they know. 

Suze's vessel appearance has not been drawn, but she is heavily cloaked and its almost impossible to see her face until she takes her hood down.

Notes:

Suze's weapon is a hunting rifle. She is one of the two vessels who fight with guns. Rip Billy

The Hunter is associated with a dark green color.

The Hunter is noted to taste like "mud and well-worn boots" when possessing someone.

Suze went missing about the same time as Caz, and is the 28th person reported missing.

Kelly

Angus M. Kelly - the Coma

Whats that hoarder show

“The trial begins with Billy waking up sitting at the table in the kitchen of a strange house. It is quiet and still, and there are various items scattered around on the floor. Trash, trinkets, clothes, toys, tools, all sorts of objects. He looks around and sees several of the other chairs at this table are situated on the ceiling, as are the countertops. There is a microwave hanging by its cord from the ceiling, but it doesn’t seem to be at risk of falling or anything.”

Afraid of being stuck, of being trapped in any one place. He is suffocated by stress, and he wants to escape.

Kelly's name here is a headcanon! I have a lot of headcanon character names here.

Notes:

Kelly's weapon is a sedative, and in seemingly endless supply.

The Coma is associated with the color indigo.

The Coma is described to have an oddly comforting taste, but with a very quick aftertaste of medicine.

Kelly was the 16th person to go missing.

Alan McLurg

Alan S. McLurg - the Hero

Everything is awesome (brick hits and kills me)

“The trial begins with Billy standing beneath some scaffolding in a crumbling construction site.”

Afraid of not being able to protect people, of failing people and having tense relationships.

Fergus' cousin, but both McLurg and Fergus had no idea the other was possessed. They have a bit of a strained relationship, but are still glad to find the other okay at the end of everything.

Notes:

McLurg's weapon is an axe.

The Hero is associated with the color orange.

The Hero is noted to make the possession victim's mouth feel like its "coated with dust and sweat."

McLurg was the 15th person to go missing.

Roy MacNair

Roy T. MacNair - the Rot

Mold forestttt 

“The trial begins with Billy inside a trashed greenhouse, overrun with mold and various strange plants, and rotted meat beneath the dirt.”

Fears the concept of death and decay, of being left to rot. He is afraid to find no heaven or hell after death, he is afraid for it to turn out to be, simply, nothing.

Roy c: His design is not drawn yet, but he looks like a moldy priest. Which I'm sure he'd be happy to hear about.

Notes:

Roy's weapon is a shovel.

The Rot is associated with the color maroon.

The Rot is noted to taste, "warm and humid," and like mold.

Roy was the 11th person to go missing, which stressed Caz, Suze, Billy, Kieran, and Fergus out a lot. One of their friend group was missing!

Alex Cranstoun

Alexander R. C. Cranstoun - the Swarm

Anthill trial

“The trial begins with Billy tumbling down a long, dark burrow and landing at the bottom of a large cavern, looking like the inside of a hollowed out hill. There are many passageways, with most of them being dark as the only source of illumination in the cavern (the hole Billy had fallen down) does not reach them.”

Fears the bonds of family– both losing them and being smothered and trapped by them. Alex is also deeply, deeply afraid of acting outside of what would be considered normal. 

I don't believe I've drawn his vessel design yet, but he is a bug guy. Has mandibles and things.

Notes:

Alex's weapon is swarms of bugs that he controls.

The Swarm is associated with the color green.

The Swarm tastes (and feels) like inhaling pollen.

Alex was the 19th person to go missing.

Eileen Finlay

Eileen S. Finlay - the Disease

Hopital :( 

“The trial begins with Billy in the bathroom of a dingy, run-down hospital. It feels like you could catch a disease just breathing the air in this place. He walks outside and there are almost no actual staff that he can see, the hallways are endless and filled with rooms of sick, bedridden people.” 

Fears loss. Loss of life, autonomy, or ability. Loss from things she can’t truly fight, not in any way she knows how.

Finlay's trial is one of those that hits a little close to home for Billy. Being manhandled by doctors is a Thing for both of them, for different reasons, but the effect is the same.

Notes:

Finlay's weapon is a scalpel.

The Disease is associated with the color yellow-green.

The Disease tastes like the taste that lingers in your mouth after you vomit.

Finlay was the 30th person to go missing.

Addair Taylor

Addair J. Taylor - the Flare

Chicago????

“The trial begins with Billy on the outskirts of a burning city. He follows the road and the smoke, finding the entire place on fire.”

Fears destruction and his own anger. At the same time, he knows nothing but living by that anger, so he knows nothing but utter destruction. Self or otherwise.

Everyone's favorite Addair c: and finally someone else I've actually drawn! Being possessed gave him his hair back.

Notes:

Addair's weapon is a fire poker.

The Flare is associated with the color scarlet.

The Flare tastes like biting coal.

Addair was the 23rd person to disappear.

Archie Hawthorne

Archie Hawthorne - the Prophet 

Snow

“The trial begins with Billy waking up underneath a small rocky overhang, surrounded by snow everywhere. It’s still falling from the sky, too, and shows no signs of stopping anytime soon.”

Afraid of.. Many things. Mostly accidents or misfortune, plausible or otherwise.

His entity name is a nod to my friend's AU, while also still fitting with Archie's theme and trial (as in, he's trying to predict everything that could go wrong).

Notes:

Archie's weapon is an ice pick.

The Prophet is associated with the color cyan.

The Prophet tastes like dirty snow.

Archie was the 17th person to go missing.

Davey Henderson

Davis G. Henderson - the Mob

My littlepony reference

“The trial begins with Billy standing at the back of some large crowd. The people are packed pretty tightly together in the street, a few of them shuffling forwards, but seeming rather aimless.”

Afraid of mob mentality. He fears being singled out and having no ability to defend himself, let alone say anything.

So! Davey <3 this guy is like a gecko, and he can climb on walls now. Which is why he doesn't wear socks or shoes, because then he wouldn't be able to use his feet to climb properly.

Notes:

Davey's weapon is a pitchfork.

The Mob is associated with a yellow-green color.

The Mob tastes like asphalt.

Davey was the 24th person to go missing.

Ewan Muir

Ewan P. Muir - the Caterwaul

In roaring he. Is he rising? Is he rising yet guys i cant s

“The trial begins with Billy waking up on a cliff. Climbing ropes are tied around his waist, and he sits up and looks around, but finds that everything is mildly foggy and he is alone.”

Fears abandonment. He is afraid to be left alone, whether by his fault or someone else’s. He is afraid of not being wanted around, and being abandoned for it. Either they don’t want to see him or they cannot.

His and Innes' entity names are connected c:

Notes:

Muir's weapon is climbing ropes, which he controls and act kind of like tendrils.

The Caterwaul is associated with the color gray.

The Caterwaul tastes like tears.

Muir was the 33rd person to go missing.

Owen "Raffs" Rafferty

Owen J. Rafferty - the Self

Mirror land

“The trial begins with Billy waking up in the middle of a mirror maze.”

Afraid of not knowing himself, of his reflection not matching him.

Notes:

Raffs' weapon is a kaleidoscope.

The Self is associated with a willow gray color.

The Self tastes "cloying."

Raffs was the 22nd person to go missing.

Terry Innes

Terry Z. Innes - the Croon

Ptsd bunker

“The trial begins with Billy underground in a dark military bunker. There are sirens, and gunshots, and people yelling, instantly disorienting and stressing him.”

Fears losing his sense of self, losing who he is in a cacophony. Losing track and never being able to find it again.

Innes' trial is particularly influenced by him having served in the military.

Notes:

Innes' weapon is a fencepost with nails stuck in it.

The Croon is associated with the color purple.

The Croon tastes like gunpowder.

Innes was the 25th person to go missing.

Bruce

Bruce Carson - the Harpy

Hmmidk yet

Afraid of being falsely accused. Of someone seeing the wrong thing from him and taking it to mean something it doesn’t.

Unfortunately, Bruce is one of the underdeveloped ones. I have yet to come up with the best trial, but fire and burning to death will be involved.

Notes:

Bruce's weapon is a torch.

The Harpy is associated with the color red.

The Harpy tastes like overcooked remains.

Bruce was the 35th and very last person to go missing, so far.

Stuart "Gibbo" Gibson

Stuart “Gibbo” Gibson - the Liar

The Pit

“The trial begins with Billy waking up in a narrow passage in some sort of cave. He tries to make his way through it, only to hear someone approaching him. He fails to escape them and gets a hood pulled down over his head. Whoever it is ties his arms behind his back and drags him into a pit, where several other people, including representations of Addair and Trots, are. Everyone is constantly mumbling “I love you, Gibbo,” and getting hurt if they are too quiet or say anything else.”

Afraid of being a secretly terrible person, secretly enjoying any suffering he causes others, and people not liking him.

Notes:

Gibbo's weapon is a blindfold. He uses it to cover up Billy's eyes, and then just beats him up normal style.

The Liar is associated with the color turquoise.

The Liar tastes like blood.

Gibbo was the 32nd person to go missing.

Martin O'Hagan

Martin O’Hagan - the Judge 

The justice scales thingy

“The trial begins with Billy suspended in the air by some mysterious force. Everything around him is oddly dark, and hard to see, except for what's below him. Down there, he can see the scales, as well as a platform in front of them which Martin is seemingly trapped on. Beneath both the platform and the scales is an odd, pulsating mass of something resembling flesh.”

Afraid of having to make a tough decision completely on his own, having to choose between what he thinks is right and what others think is right.

Martin!! I think I legitimately have given this guy the Billy treatment, in that I made a bunch of stuff up for him and very much like him now. Even though he's also a very nothing character.

Notes:

Martin's weapon is basically just a sledgehammer, but modeled after a gavel.

The Judge is associated with the color orange.

The Judge tastes like oil.

Martin was the 31st person to go missing, and it was after he'd befriended Billy during the panic about the missing persons cases. Martin had been the officer Billy talked to and quickly became the only person he could call for comfort, and then he went missing too. This is a big reason a lot of suspicion falls on Billy, alongside the fact that all the missing people are connected to him somehow.

Kieran Write

Kieran W. Write - the Infinity

Laika arc 

“The trial begins with Billy standing on an asteroid in the vacuum of space, able to breathe through magical means.”

Fears vast things, and isolation that comes with large empty space. Additionally, he is afraid of things that are, ultimately, unknowable. Things that challenge his perception of the universe. 

Kieran, another of Billy's good friends. Oh, this one did hurt Billy. Kieran, in his trial, becomes very apathetic to everything, overwhelmed by the size of the universe.

Notes:

Kieran's weapon is actually telekinesis, he can lift things up magically. He uses this to throw Billy into many walls.

The Infinity is associated with the color lavender.

The Infinity tastes very, very cold, and a little sweet.

Kieran disappeared about the same time as Caz, Suze, and Fergus. he was the 26th person to go missing.

Iain "Trots" Campbell

Iain “Trots” Campbell - the Pests

Tented house

“The trial begins with Billy laying on the bed in the bedroom of Trots’ house. The air feels weird to breathe, and he wakes up with bugs scurrying across the room all around him. Several of them have fallen to the floor and died, others have not, and some are eating the dead ones. It's not any type of bug he can really name, it is a big species that resembles many different types of bugs. A few of them crawl on his legs and contact with them burns his skin, so he swats them off.”

Afraid of thinking bad things. He fears his mind being infested with bad thoughts, which prove to everyone that he’s a bad person.

Notes:

Trots' weapon is an electric baton.

The Pests is associated with the color green.

The Pests tastes like "how rat poison would probably taste. Rat poison and the rat who ingested it. And from the way it felt, the rat's heart was still beating as it went down with everything else."

Trots was the 20th person to go missing.

Douglas Dunbar

Douglas Dunbar - the Spotlights

Old farm and corn maze. People’s eyes are lights which burn a whole lot when they look at you. 

“The trial begins with Billy in a dingy, cluttered carport. He walks out from beneath it to find himself on some sort of large property.”

Afraid of people being able to read him, or see the things he tries to hide, or otherwise being able to know all his secrets.

Douglas! I hc him and Dunbar are brothers.

Notes:

Douglas' weapon is a flashlight, probably far too bright to be safe.

The Spotlights are associated with the color yellow.

The Spotlights taste like something charred.

Douglas and Dunbar both went missing at the same time, both being reported as the 4th missing person's cases.

John Roper

John Roper - the Shark

Standing atop the roof of a tall building, everything else below is flooded. 

Afraid of things being out of place, about sudden, unpredictable disasters happening that he cannot stop or plan for or control.

I put this as his fear because I like the idea that he was freaked out majorly with the drill malfunctioning, and it makes the Shape even worse for him.

Notes:

Roper's weapon is a harpoon.

The Shark is associated with the color blue.

The Shark tastes like still water.

Roper was the 21st person to go missing.

James "Scooby" Scobie

James Scobie - the Cuckoo

A houseparty. There is a monster bird thing that only Scooby can see. 

Afraid of seeing or noticing something other people don’t. And these people don't believe or give credit to him no matter how hard he tries, and he is either thought to be crazy or blames himself for whatever issue he has to watch unfold because he couldn't convince anyone it was going to happen.

Notes:

Scooby's weapon is a baseball bat.

The Cuckoo is associated with the color dark purple.

The Cuckoo tastes like flat, room-temperature soda.

Scooby was the 3rd person to go missing.

Keith Schaw

Keith Schaw 

Hm

Afraid of responsibility, and having to take it on in any way. Nobody else believes he can do it, and it's comfortable not having any responsibility, so why would he want it?

I have yet to come up with a lot of specific information for him, too. Unfortunately. I'm rotating. I do really like him and his brother, Shuggie.

Notes:

Keith was the 8th person to go missing.

George "Gregor" Edmond

George “Gregor” Edmond - the Recluse

A crowded bar, the details of the decor change every time you look at them. 

“The trial begins with Billy entering the bar, immediately disoriented because of how.. Wrong it all feels. The sounds feel too hazy, he swears the colors and pictures keep changing, and it's crowded. He looks around for Gregor, mumbles “excuse me”s and makes his way through the various groups of people.”

Afraid of not being able to trust anything– his brain, his surroundings, his peers. Afraid of people being secretly out to get him.

His trial is like a particular "fuck you" to Billy, because in order to get all the vessels free they need to trust him. The entities think they're sooo funny.

Notes:

Gregor's weapon is a broken bottle.

The Recluse is associated with the color brown.

The Recluse tastes like a spiked drink.

Gregor was the very first person to go missing.

Aidan Dalgleish

Aidan Dalgleish - the Trap 

Sewer

Afraid of being uncomfortable. Of having to be somewhere he doesn’t want to be, or otherwise doesn’t enjoy.

Notes:

Dalgleish's weapon is either a broken pipe or a manhole cover.

The Trap is associated with the color purple.

The Trap tastes very slimy.

Dalgleish was the 9th person to go missing.

Fergus McLurg

Fergus W. McLurg - the Storm

Lightning strike go!!!

“Trial begins with Billy standing on a dirt road at the edge of a large property. The sky is dark and it is very windy, and he can see a tornado in the distance. Nevertheless, he has no choice but to venture into the field.”

Fears recompense. Payback for the (surely many) things he’s done, payback that will uproot his life. Additionally, haunted by never ending guilt that is always there, whistling through cracks in the walls.

Fergus!! Billy's husband, in this AU, and the man who's disappearance hurts him the most. Fergus is deliberately kept away from Billy for a while, so he doesn't give up the game because he got all his loved ones free already. He is the only one of the vessels who can fly, and the Storm's temple is very high up in the air for that reason.

Notes:

Fergus' weapon is a trident.

The Storm is associated with the color gold.

The Storm tastes like when you bite metal.

Fergus disappeared at the same time as Caz, Suze, and Kieran. he was the 29th missing person reported.

Devon Cranstoun

Devon “Penny” Cranstoun - the Prisoner 

Rainy city block, which is his hometown. Wires and snares everywhere. 

“The trial begins with Billy walking along the sidewalk in an unfamiliar neighborhood, rain beating down on him.”

Afraid of being controlled, or trapped, or otherwise being unable to have his autonomy.

Technically an OC now, but I included him before the QnA revealed Alex's last name was Cranstoun, and I'm still including him because I really really love him. He shares no relation to Alex.

Notes:

Devon's weapon is barbed wire, which he controls similar to how Muir controls his climbing ropes.

The Prisoner is associated with the color dark blue.

The Prisoner tastes very dull, almost disarmingly plain.

Devon was the 13th person to go missing.

Shuggie Schaw

Shuggie Schaw - the Scarecrow

Power plant maybe. 

Afraid of being reduced to one trait, one aspect of himself. Of having everyone label him as one thing forever.

Notes:

Shuggie's weapon is a sickle.

The Scarecrow is associated with the color yellow.

The Scarecrow tastes like burnt hay.

Shuggie was the 34th person to go missing.

Donald O'Connor

Donald O’Connor - the Clock

The canyon that makes you old /silly

Afraid of the passage of time. Being forgotten, growing old, and how inevitable it all is. 

Notes:

O'Connor's weapon is two spears, which look like the hands of a clock.

The Clock is associated with the color orange.

The Clock tastes like sand.

O'Connor was the 18th person to go missing.

Dobbie

Clyde “Dobbie” Burns - the Crash 

The highway 

Afraid of being in the way. Of interrupting things or otherwise being a disturbance.

Notes:

Dobbie's weapon is a tire iron.

The Crash is associated with the color yellow.

The Crash tastes like swallowing glass.

Dobbie was the 6th person to go missing.

Toby Boyd

Toby A. Boyd 

I’ll figure it out

Afraid of how much he’ll put up with, how easily he could rationalize something. Creeping normality, frog in boiling water, etc etc. 

Notes:

Boyd's weapon is a heated metal rod.

Duncan Dunbar

Duncan Dunbar - the Gambler

Buckshot roulette ripoff 

“The trial begins with Billy in a dark room, sitting at a small table with his wrists strapped to the arms of the chair he’s sitting in. There are four other chairs at the table, and Billy watches two odd, almost hazy people (one of which he thinks might be a representation of Douglas, and the other he’ll later realize was Davros) sit down in the chairs beside him. One of them gently shakes Dunbar, who Billy didn’t see before, and who wakes up disoriented and unsettled in the chair directly across from Billy.”

Afraid of losing, getting put down in order for someone else to raise themselves up, or falling short in some way.

Notes:

Dunbar's weapon is a shotgun.

The Gambler is associated with the color green.

The Gambler tastes like old coins.

Dunbar was the 4th person to go missing, right alongside his brother, Douglas.

Bryce Davros

Bryce Davros - the Passage

Stuck in a small system of caves. (pickles’ idea)

Afraid of small spaces, not having free space to move or breathe.

His trial is a spelunking nightmare.. he was reduced... to a shape /ref

Notes:

Davros' weapon is a safety reel.

The Passage is associated with the color gray.

The Passage tastes like stale air.

Davros was the 5th person to go missing.

Holiday Banky

Holiday Banky - the Daze 

An underground parking garage.

Afraid of forgetting something. Of going through his day missing some sort of knowledge and not realizing it is even gone.

Banky's trial is specifically hell because every time either Banky or Billy cross to a different level in the parking garage, their memories get completely wiped.

Notes:

Banky's weapon is a scissor car jack.

The Daze is associated with the color gray.

The Daze tastes like cobwebs.

Banky was the 7th person to go missing.

Bannon

Harris G. Bannon

Enclosed space.. Perhaps a train or a plane. 

Afraid of having limited options, and having to make do with less. Afraid of not being able to go anywhere.

Bannon's also very unfortunately not super thought out yet.

Anderson

Anderson Blair - the Fool

“The trial begins with Billy almost being knocked off of his feet, suddenly in a room with the floor and walls spinning. It's all painted in bright colors with spiral patterns, too, and that, combined with getting hit on the head so hard before he fell into the trial, all make Billy extremely disoriented and dizzy.”

Afraid of being unable to act right. Of not knowing how he’s supposed to behave, or of not performing to the degree someone wants him to, and thus suffering the consequences.

Anderson's is another trial that hits real close to home for Billy.

Notes:

Anderson's weapon is those bowling pins that you juggle with.

The Fool is associated with the color pink.

The Fool tastes like overwhelmingly sweet candy, makes your teeth hurt.

Anderson was the 12th person to go missing.

Buck

Kieran “Buck” Gallagher - the Double

A house full of identical copies of him– each of them very adamantly insist that they’re the real Buck. 

Afraid of being compared to other people, and of being brushed off or ignored after.

The second Kieran! and this guy would absolutely kill me for referring to him as that. I like him, he's cool.

Notes:

Buck's weapon is a kitchen knife.

The Double is associated with the color blue.

The Double tastes like it would feel to swallow string.

Buck is the 10th person to go missing.

Sunil

Camden Sunil - the Stray

An endless, basically treadmill-esque road. 

Afraid of never being able to stop moving, never finding anywhere to stop or sit down, never finding home of any sort.

Notes:

Sunil's weapon is a trekking pole.

The Stray is associated with the color blue.

The Stray tastes like dirt and gravel, and really dries your mouth out.

Sunil was the 14th person to go missing.

Davey Rennick

Davey Rennick - the King

Is that the beira d??????//

“The trial begins with Billy in the pontoons on the Beira D, which are actively flooding as the rig falls apart and sinks.”

Afraid of inferiority. He fears being used until he's useless, and abandoned after that.

The final trial! And the one Billy fails on, because Rennick is quite an asshole and afraid to trust anyone.

Notes:

Rennick's weapon is a staff.

The King is associated with the color yellow.

The King tastes "sharp, almost pungent enough to burn." Like how "gasoline and soda" might taste.

And that's the vessels!! For now, of course, I still want to come up with things for these guys if I can.

But beyond that, this is everyone so far c: ALSO!!! If you maybe want me to come up with a trial for your OC then I will.. because I love making these up and have made a few up for my own SWTD OCs. I just need to know what they fear deeply.

[storyshift-sk]

PART 1/2 - Storytime!

Once Upon A Time… Things were great! Until they weren’t. dun, dun, dun

Every great fictional world starts with a history lesson!

[miniagula]

movie sonadow would be so l umity-coded…and i say this bc their dynamic is similar to the games but with a different and tender perspective: they both empathize deeply with each other now, and this shadow is not as reticent or closed off bc of that. that being said: movie!sonic would ABSOLUTELY 'YOU'RE the sweet potato!' the hell out of shadow

[sonknuxadow]

im assuming that the full character roster is being shown on this wall here and part of me is really excited to see some of these characters and another part of me is like who tf invited the deadly six

[froschli96]

Literally Malik in AC Rebellion:

[gelarshiesprofruitboarder]

no way

[ghastbutlikegay]

im having one of those periods of rapid art improvement where ive been gathering lots and lots of stuff for my :sparkles: visual library :sparkles: and watching lots of videos about techniques and art processes and looking at lots of art like charging up energy and now it's being released in the form of finally decided to draw real people

[which-hospital]

no it’s fine I just remembered that Sandra had a blue Millar badge while I’m pretty sure every other main character paramedic of the blueniform era had a green one, which means it’s pretty likely that Sandra was the only one of them who never got around to doing her extended training……. so NOTHING is alright

[intomybubble]

I reread Vol 13 and 14 of A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School bc I wanted to find the chapter where they reveal the Principal’s face and name again and

First off, would.

Second, I have such a soft spot for him after this. I am so excited for Vol 14 to officially release in English so I can have the cover on display on my shelf.

Lastly, I was looking up the character voice actors that were used for the drama cd (thankfully listed on the wikipedia page) and HE’S KENJIRO TSUDA.

Probably unpopular opinion but even though I definitely envision him with that voice with the mask, its difficult for me to do so now with the recent chapters and the approximate age if when he became a youkai (~20s). I think its… too gruff and deep.

I being able to listen to the drama cd would probably help, but atm if they do end up changing it… I like Atsushi Tamaru’s Azul or Yuichi Jose’s Sakyo (18:13)…

[toestalucia]

(guy whos easy to please) i have forgiven cygames for everything

[geddy-leesbian]

actually I'll be excited about solid Leon in RE9 confirmation because the subreddit will probably cry about it a lot and it'll be really funny watching nerds melt down over stupid shit

[cosmic-carpals]

not ashamed to be a jc hater. I Don't Like That Guy.

[zooblesbutchpuppygirl]

u 🤝 me 🤝 selfshipping w/ characters who are basically only used as fanon ship fodder :( anyways zooble loves you soooo much it's true they told me they are constantly thinking about kissing you like all the time

SO TRUE like it sucks when I go into the tags and 90% is all filtered out because it's all ship art </3

Also thank you so much <:]

[darcyolsson]

ethel muggs is a better person than me bc if i were her and then gained control of the events of an alternate universe version of my town and the people in it i would probably just cause unimaginable pain for them on a daily basis. the way they treat my girl in the early seasons is so casually horrible and for what....... get away from that typewriter gayboy i'm torturing your polycule

[arolesbianism]

Finallly got around to properly designing Demonstrator! She’s silly