#mox needs a projects

[mox-by-night]

Or the full body possession of the desire to have an idea. I feel like half my battle is always just figuring out a starting point of what the hell I want to write. 

writing isn’t hard it’s just emotionally devastating and time-consuming and requires full body possession by an idea

[duskerot]

world's normalest guy spends $100 on nendoroid parts

[aspoonofsugar]

Some Millie and IMP Thoughts

I love Helluva Boss's new episode for all the reasons everyone else does! In particular, my favorite part is Millie getting fleshed out more.

I have always liked Millie and I disagree with people saying she is badly written. That said, the focus she got this episode adds a ton of depth to both her, her role in the series and the dynamics within IMP.

BLITZ AND IMP

Blitz is the titular character and protagonist of the series. He is the boss in Helluva Boss. As a result, everyone else is in the story for his sake. In particular, IMP is Blitz's found family:

Blitzo: Look, the point is, Loona is a valued member of our family, and we don't get rid of family. Moxxie: We aren't a family, sir! You are the boss! We are the employees!

Through them (and Stolas) Blitz gets to explore his ghosts and to heal. How is that so?

Loona and Moxxie seem to me two sides of the same coin:

-Loona is like Blitz, as she is told by the world she has no real value:

Adoption Center Lady: Oh, her? That's just Loona. What a nightmare. Serious attitude problems. She'll be out of our hair next month when she ages out. Good riddance, if you ask me. She'll never amount to anything much.

So, Blitz latches on her and adopts her. He showers her with the love he never got from his father.

-Moxxie is like Blitz, as he is abused by his father and loses his mother. As a result, he grows up unsure of himself and in need of love and approval:

Blitzo: Well, I'm glad everything ended up okay. Good to know we both have daddy issues, Mox.

However, Blitz often treats him poorly, downplays his abilities and mocks him.

So, Loona and Moxxie are Blitz's mirrors, as he projects on them in opposite ways. He treats Loona like he wishes his father treated him. He treats Moxxie similarly to how his father treated him. Obviously, Blitz isn't an abuser like Buckzo. He loves Moxxie and more importantly he is not his father. However, he and Moxxie do have a mentor-mentee dynamic and it is clear as day Moxxie wants Blitz's approval:

Blitzo: Gonna be honest, Moxxie- Not too bad for your first solo mission. Moxxie: Reeeeeally, siiiir? Blitzo: Nooo, no, not really. You're a fucking disgrace.

Still, Blitz is often unable to give it to him, despite the fact he clearly cares. This is also why Loona and Moxxie get often on each other's nerves:

Loona: How am I supposed to smell anything in this city? Moxxie: Can't you even do one thing right? Loona: Can't you finally do something about how fat you are?

Moxxie is the most critical of Blitz's favoritism towards Loona and is the one insisting Blitz calls her out on her poor attitude towards clients. This is not by chance. They are just like bickering siblings :''')

In a sense, this episode even subtly confirms this foiling:

Blitz: Loonie's perfect, and Moxxie's… probably got some good traits too and I'm sure we'll figure them out eventually.

Loona is perfect and Moxxie has no good traits. What about seeing the world in black and white?

So, where does Millie fit in all of this?

Blitzo: So I'm your best friend, huh? Millie: What do you think? Blitzo: I think…I- I've never had a real friend that I didn't wanna fuck.

She is the only one Blitz does not project over, so they grow into genuine friends. They are equals, value each other and love each other. So, Millie freely states what Loona and Moxxie also think, but can't properly convey:

Millie: He (Blitz) gave me so much…A career, a husband, a future. And now…He's my best friend. Blitzo: You… you don't hate me? Millie: Naw, never.

Blitz gave her, Moxxie and Loona a better future. He is their precious boss and a treasured family member.

MILLIE'S THEME

Helluva Boss has two main themes:

Relationships

Classism

Moxxie is linked to Blitz's unhealthy way to build relationships. Their bond is a complicated mix of friendship, family love, professional interest and a little bit of possessiveness on Blitz's part. That's why it is so complicated and contradictive. Millie ties into this as Moxxie's wife, since M&M's relationship is Blitz's ideal one.

Still, this episode makes clear Millie's true thematic relevance is for the topic of classism:

Millie: We… heh. We don't deserve this. We're just Wrathians, Blitzo. Muscle. It's all we're good for, all I'm good for. It's why you hired me. Any demon good at making a buck is welcome in Lust or Greed, but here? Demons like us ain't cut out for this.

Classism permeates Hell, which is built on a strong hierarchy. All characters have suffered the consequences of this, while being influenced by it at the same time. For example:

Blitz is an imp, who has been looked down and victimized by society. However, he also embraces classist prejudices and uses them as an excuse to push Stolas away.

Stolas is a Goetia, who has been a prisoner of his family's expectations and of his role in society. However, he is also unconsciously discriminating towards imps. He has no ill will towards them, but he calls them silly names and belittles them

Millie is the same. She is a wrathian imp of humble origins. In a sense, she is a stereotypical imp. She is incredibly strong, was born and lived the majority of her life in Wrath, aka imps' original ring. She fits the expectations of both her family and society. However, she deep down wishes for more, which is why she leaves the family ranch to become an assassin. This choice is already seen as subversive by her family, who expected her to stay home, so she could help with the family business. However, Millie herself has no high expectations for her future:

Millie: Bullshit! Who sent you? Millie: Who are you working for?! Blitzo: What? You don't believe me? Millie: Imps don't work for themselves, asshole.

She still sees herself stuck in Wrath. She will be one of many underpaid goons, who work for higher ranking demons. A life a little bit more adventurous than the one at the farm. Still, nothing extraordinary. Then, she meets Blitz:

Millie: Who's that? Your boss? Hah! Blitzo: HA he fucking wishes. No, I work for myself, lady.

Blitz is the first one, who recognizes her potential and who believes she can become more than what she is. He gives her the chance to explore the world outside the Wrath Ring and brings her up to Pride. When Millie doubts herself and her role in society, he is the one to reassure her:

Blitzo: Millie, I have spent too much of my time, energy, and holes into setting this up for us to entertain your bullshit. I brought you into this company for a reason, okay? You're tougher, smarter, and frankly more capable than anyone I've ever met in any ring.

Blitz gives Millie a new life, where she is free to be herself and to choose a husband she would have never chosen, if she had stayed home with her family.

Thanks to Blitz and her work at IMP she is by this point a different person than the one she was. She does not completely fit in Wrath anymore:

Sallie May: Heh, yeah, I mean, with so many exciting things here, it's no wonder you never make your way back home. SHIT! That slipped out. Millie: ..What? Sallie May: You know… the Wrath Ring, all that dirt and rust and boring nothingness. Not much of a thriving club scene down there, why visit that, right?

Which is why she is now slowly overcoming her prejudices:

Millie: Oh yeah! Y'all haven't met my boss Blitzo! And his hellhound! Loona: I'm not just his hellhound.

It is not by chance Millie is the one calling Loona Blitz's Hellbound, as if she were a pet. Moreover, it is not by chance she does so, while talking with her family. It is probably normal for wrathian imps to see hellbounds as property. So, when she visits home, she goes back to a familiar language and mindset, without even realizing how offensive it is. That is why it is relevant this episode has Millie share a bonding moment with Loona, where she calls her by name:

Millie: Thanks. Loona.

She is not only overcoming her self-insecurities, but she is also starting to see other demons differently. She is growing not only more happy, but also more open minded. All thanks to Blitz's impact on her life:

Millie: Most of my life I bought into the idea that all I could ever be was a simple farm girl. Or best an underpaid goon. Until I met some knucklehead who never gave a fuck about what anyone else said he could or couldn't be. He made me believe he could be anything. And that made me feel like I could be anything, too.

CHARLIE AND BLITZ

Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss are twin series. They are complementary stories, with different focuses and a shared heart. This is shown in Charlie and Blitz, their respective protagonists. They are opposites.

Charlie is a royal demon, a young rich girl, who is optimistic and idealistic. She is obsessed with seeing the good in others. Blitz is instead a humble imp, an adult man, who is cynical and genre-savy. He sees only the worst in people to protect himself. However, both disrupt the status quo:

Charlie decides to completely change the hierarchy between hell and heaven. She is breaking the system the world is built on and re-writing the laws of the universe.

Blitz changes things in little ways. He is not trying to reform society, but he still acts in ways society does not expect, so he subverts hierarchies and transforms people around him.

That's something that comes up several times:

Striker: Boss, huh…? Ohhh, so YOU'RE the bold imp to start his own killing biz? Blitzo: Yeah, well if you're good at somethin', you should probably capitalize. Striker: Not many Imps start businesses on their own. That's pretty impressive, sir.

Crimson: Oh, I'm sure. You got to be Blitz, with the silent "o", right? I've heard a lot of good things about you and your work. Blitzo: Really? What kind of shit has Moxxie been spreading about me? I'll fucking kill you Moxxie, don't you fucking test me! Crimson: No, no! From all over. Looks like you're building a bit of a name for yourself here, kid.

Both Striker and Crimson comment on Blitz's business, in two moments that are to be seen as parallels:

-Striker says so, as the group visits Millie's family. Millie's family is a relatively happy one, as they all clearly love each other. However, it is an economically struggling one:

Joe: We lost our old farm hand to one of them terrors last week.

Millie's parents are loving, but traditionalists and stuck in the old ways.

-Crimson says so, as the group meets him and discovers he is Moxxie's father. Crimson is an imp, who built an empire. Moreover, he is not scared to go against the hierarchy and to challenge even the deadly sins:

Crimson: You probably just asked if I know who I'm dealing with. And, oh yes, I know. The weakest and most non-threatening of the Sins. The king who will do whatever it takes to save the worst-kept secret in all of Hell. We both know you won't risk anything happening to the clown. So be a good little bitch boy, and do the thing. My lawyers will be over shortly with the contract of demands. You have until the witching hour to sign it. Hueheheheheheheh!

Still, he sacrifices everything else to greed. In order to climb up, he destroys everyone around him. He killed his wife and abused Moxxie, so his son leaves him the first chance he gets.

In other words, Blitz offers Millie the opportunity to social climb and he offers Moxxie true friendship and comraderie. He gives them what they miss and want.

STRIKER

Finally, this episode indirectly adds a new layer to Striker's character and his role in the series. So, Striker is clearly everyone's dark foil.

Specifically, he is Blitz's jungian shadow aka what Blitz represses:

Striker: Blitzo, come on. You know, the two of us are superior than most of our kind. And you were so above suckin' on a disgusting, rich, pompous Goetia, only to sneak topside for scraps and work for bitter sinners, who could care less who you are, when you could be slaying Overlords.

He embodies Blitz's darkest side and tempts him to give in to it. For example, he backs Blitz up in his fight with Fizz over Royal Demons:

Striker: As far as I'm concerned, you two are BOTH embarrassments to our kind for meddlin' with blue-bloods to begin with. But at least loud-mouth here has the sense to only fuck his rich bitch, instead of bein' a little purse dog. Blitzo: Oh, great. The fuckin' supremacist is on my side, wonderful. Fizzarolli: Neither of you filth bags know what you're even talkin' about. If you think you're superior to ANYONE, then you're no better than any royal— Striker: DON'T. You. Dare… Finish that sentence, clown…

And let's say it is not by chance Striker is burnt and probably gets some scars the same episode it is revealed Blitz accidentally set his family circus on fire:

He is clearly meant to embody the anti-theme, both when it comes to relationships and classism. He is who Blitz might become, if he gave in to his worst instincts. That is why he is the character physically threatening Stolas's life and calling him out on his privilege at the same time:

Striker: YOU. Don't get to talk over me! I don't have to listen to your bullshit! All you royals ever do is try to talk over us!

He challenges Stolas to see the darkness in Blitz he keeps ignoring. Moreover, Striker's attempt on Stolas only works because Blitz himself does not warn Stolas, believing that with his powers the goetia can easily survive an imp's attack:

Blitzo: Stolas got what? How?… He can get hurt?

In short, Striker is a key character for both Blitz and Stolas. That said, he does foil also Moxxie and Millie. (Which is why they get to fight him twice, just like Blitz - they lose the first time and win the second).

In his debut episode, he is openly juxtaposed to Moxxie. He is the ideal imp, the one Millie's parents would have liked their daughter to marry. He is a great farmer and an even better fighter. He is strong and charming and easily defeats Moxxie at everything, even music. That said, it turns out Moxxie is a far better person and husband and gets to call out Millie's parents on it, gaining their respect in the process:

Moxxie: Y'know, she protected me. And maybe I'm not a strong beefy dickhead, but Millie has the strength enough for both of us! You two are getting on her case about being hurt by a psychopath you hired?! Shaaaaame on you!

Ghostf***ckers instead makes Striker and Millie's foiling obvious. Both are wrathian assassins, who work as goons for others:

Millie: Not exactly a shortage of imp assassins in Wrath. Reputation is everything.

Here lies Striker's contradiction. He keeps saying he hates the hierarchy, but in the end he acts exactly as society expects him to:

Stolas: Well, you seem to be forgetting; you are working for a royal right now!

He hates royals, but takes orders from them. Even when he decides to leave Wrath, he goes to Greed, so exactly where "imps able to make a buck are welcome", according to Millie:

Crimson: HEY! Hick-for-hire! I said watch 'em, not fuck 'em. Keep ya hands off the merchandise!

See? Striker acts like some big shot, but in the end he operates within the system, rather than subverting it. Both Fizz and Blitz are far more successful at overcoming the hierarchy than he is. Fizz does not take orders from royals, but becomes a romantic and business partner to one. Blitz does not resort depending on royals or imps for his job. Rather, he takes orders only from himself and invents a new business.

Striker says not everyone gets the chance to live in Pride:

Striker: Look. Not every ring is some fancy-ass city, with some fancy-ass mansion, that only fancy-ass royals get to live in. Some of us have hard lives to live.

And yet, he is offered it by Blitz, just like Millie:

Blitzo: Isn't this guy great? It's gonna be nice workin' with him. Yeaaaah! I asked him if he wants to join I.M.P.

If he had joined IMP, he could have found a family, a strong business partner and could have embraced a new life. He did not and became IMP's enemy instead. On the contrary, Millie did and is now a happier and better person.

WHAT ABOUT LOONA?

Personally, I think Loona is gonna be key in Blitz's development, as both her past, arc and relationship with her dad are very well set up. If Moxxie focuses on relationships, whereas Millie on classism, Loona will probably offer a synthesis of both themes:

Loona is Blitz's adoptive daughter and the first member of his new found family.

Loona is a hellbound, so a demon even lower than imps.

I am very curious to see how her story develops and I am looking forward to discover more about her past and to see if her foiling with Bee gets explored more. After this episode I am more curious than ever!

[thekovenofkrakens]

Headmates that would get us fake claimed (Aka all of us)

As a general warning this post talks about fake claiming a lot and generally makes fun of it. If reading stuff about fake claiming is triggering for you, do not read.

Vesper:

Genuinely has a bunch of identities pre-discovered systems do and has since before we discovered our plurality but still uses them (lots of kins, genderfluid, + etc)

Non traumagenic (protogenic)

in a in-sys relationship

”fronts to much”

Has dated their in-sys partner in past lives (Also was an in-sys relationship)

Wilbur:

In an in-sys relationship

Non-traumagenic (Protogenic)

Has the name of a common introject(/has the name of a common introject but is completely brainmade and heavily uncomfortable with the person)

Has dated their in-sys partner in past lives (Also was an in-sys relationship)

Rex:

Named after a song lyric & dinosaours but is completely brainmade and not realted to either of the things beyond liking them.

The most praesiogenic heamate to ever exist

Extremely plural punk

Extremely punk in general 

Has some kind of ambigous (as in we don’t know if it’s /p or /r or both) in-sys relationship (Also the only one who understand more than just the jist of what Hollow Velvet is communicating (Explained later))

Mox:

Traumagenic but not because of abuse (also only split from one traumatic event rather then a repeated one)

Was created because we needed an older person to protect us but then never aged and is now a syskid/little

Has a kin identity

Is a syskid/little 

Nikki:

Willogenic

DSMP introject

Has really weird kins

Source is not exactly like canon

Exomemories 

WILLOGENIC & proud of it

Does not consider herself source seperated despite not being exactly how she was back then

Hollow Velvet:

Mute

Can only communicate via projecting his emotions (Which only Rex can construct into more than a vague idea of what they’re saying.)

Has a very specific whay he likes her pronouns to be used.

Has typing quirk

He’s very nonhuman 

Carries people around in the giant hole in their chest

Luka:

Is a fictive 

Traumagenic but not because of abuse (Once again, the cause of their forming was more of a one off traumatic event(though it was a multi week/day event))

Has Exomemories

Source isn’t exactly like canon

Has snake like attributes.

Minuet:

Literally an introjected off a yugioh sub-archetype

Also canon divergent despite having a weird source

Hates our parents more than anybody else in system 

Not traumagenic (Stressgenic)

Different ethnicity + technically non-human

The BFs (3 in one because they wanted to be anonymous):

Fictives

All introjected from the same source 

In an in-sys (polyamorous) relationship

Were dating in source

All apeared at the same time 

Not Traumagenic (Spingenic)

Almost never front alone and usually with eachother in headspace

One of them is a functional tic holder for a very discreet disorder most likely as a direct side effect of being an enxiety holder

One of them is the epitome of an Altive

One of them is a (Slightly?) different race than the body’s

The Duality Subsys:

Fictives

System in Source

Hate co-fronting (Even with eachother)

Traumagenic by proxy (aka in source)

Refuse to communicate and try to remember things from when they weren’t fronting

Subsys

Haru:

Multifictive

Truly ridiculous amount of sources

Each charcter thon’re sourced from is either ftom JTTW, LMK, or Yu-Gi-Oh

Qu uses “neo”pronouns

Has exomemories

Instead off trying to give them seperate exomemories for each source, our brain gave him all the memories shoved into one timeline.

Hates being perceived (Only lets Vesper (And Bai He, occasionally) see mango.)

Non human

Bai He:

Fictive

Comes from a new-ish show

BAHgenic and Willogenic 

Very proud of her origins 

Uses neopronouns (Including cat/cats)

Has exomemories

Has a lot of xenogenders

Different Race then the body (No, we didn’t intentionally do that but it’d be none of your buisness either way)

[exvero]

[ TRANSCRIPT. 07/02/2076, 02:34AM. ] << 'Night City eats everyone alive', I got told. I mean, it does, but ... it's not surprising. Paris and Marseilles were also hungry, so I've just traded one merdier for another. It's fine. There's people here that need me, too. >>

Gustave Carré, born in rural France in 2045. Architecture in smaller cities and towns is a blend of the contemporary and preserved 18th century styles, giving a rise to a healthy mix of automation / technological development and a more natural lifestyle. Gustave lives among both worlds, as it were, coming to appreciate their overlapping complexity. He unfortunately moves to Paris for university, pursuing a career in cyberware development; more specifically, bioware engineering.

at 24, halfway through his research project, Gustave catches the attention of and is recruited by Biotechnica, and spends the next five years working in soil revitalization and crop management / optimization, aimed towards the development of smaller communities. It is during his tenure with the company that he meets Sophie Vaillancourt (with whom he brings the Aquafarm 3 project into full fruition) and Maelle (a young orphaned girl from one of Paris' outer neighborhoods).

he also dates Sophie, because how could that not happen. It is a relatively long commitment, lasting just over four years, but they eventually break up in 2073 due to their differences in lifepaths. It's amicable but bittersweet.

at 29 and in late 2073, just a few months after breaking up with Sophie, he's granted an opportunity to head stateside; specifically (because all roads lead to fucking Rome), Night City. Biotechnica hopes to use his skills in bioware development and add him to the roster of teams dedicated to soil revitalization and climate change remediation work, especially as it relates to nomad clans like the Aldecaldos, a position he accepts with some reservation but with no small amount of hope. Maelle, now his legal charge, heads out with him.

in January of 2074, Gustave is officially transferred to Biotechnica's NC division. It's nothing short of culture shock, and there's no quick or proper way to acclimate to the sheer chaos of the city. He is horrendously at odds with everything in it, with his only comfort being the relative peace of his (very much loaned, as long as he's employed) apartment at Corporate Plaza.

What really turns his life around is being in the crossfire of a drive - by shooting. Long story made quite short, he's far more affected by Trauma Team only looking after him and evacuating him and not the two other civilians involved in the shootout (it's very Edgerunners reminiscent, with David and Gloria). Being aware of the reasons why, though, doesn't make the aftermath any easier to deal with.

he toughs out his next year in Biotechnica with every intention of quitting the company, and as such he starts setting money aside and planning for Maelle's life to be as undisrupted as possible. Gustave resigns in August of 2075, and it doesn't take him long to embark on the next chapter of his life even if it's almost quite literally from zero.

by 2077, Gustave has claimed his own corner of Night City; more specifically, as a ripperdoc based in the Glen. He's fashioned something of a reputation for himself for being efficient and as reasonable as NC allows, and is one of the few docs to treat his clinic as neutral ground ... with exceptions. He has little to no sympathy for anyone claiming affiliation with the Scavengers, Maelstrom or the Tyger Claws; coincidentally, these are the three most present gangs in Kabuki, and they have designated him as persona non grata. Conversely, as a (formerly regular, now occasional) patron of Lizzie's, Gustave has established his own affiliation with The Mox. It's well - known that he is quite literally their ripperdoc on call despite living in the south side, especially for urgent cases. Most Mox will have their preferred specialist, sure, but Frances will never turn any of them down.

[ EXTRA FACTS &. BITS. ]

it started out as one of the girls calling him Francés (Spanish for French, the demonym), but one thing led to the other and now the accent is bastardized so Frances it is. Gustave has accepted the callsign/nickname hybrid, because at least none of them have called him Gus.

he's recognizable as one of the least chromed - up ripperdocs. The only major standout other than basics such as Kiroshi optics is his left arm, which he lost in the drive - by shooting. He's made modifications to it to fit precision tools in the fingers, which he deploys when he works.

other than the monowire implant he was convinced to get, Gustave often carries a Unity handgun as his chosen self - defense kit, which he's coupled with a punknife in a reverse hold. If that wasn't enough, he keeps a baseball bat in his clinic, courtesy of the Mox. This was actually a "gift" from Rita.

(*my first preliminary post had adaptation possibilities re: the Expeditioners but I'll develop those at a later time!)

[bleucaesura]

STOLITZØ - TWO

“F*ck! Moxxie! Get off my a** already. Unless you want me over there on yours *wink* *wink*” Blitzø sassed into the phone as he sat in his van outside of Stolas’s.

“Ew! No! Satan’s sake, Sir! All I’m saying…” Moxxie started.

“I know what the f*ck you’re saying!” Blitzø cut Moxxie off. “See you tomorrow at work.”

Blitzø hung up the phone. He stared down at the screen.

What f*cking business is it of yours anyway, Mox? Just cuz you and Millie have the perfect f*cking marriage, don't project that sh*t like you know anything about me and my life.

Blitzø sighed, feeling a little guilty about his sh*tty thoughts towards Moxxie. Mox was a good guy. He really needed to cut the guy some f*cking slack.

Blitzø rubbed a hand down his face trying to wipe away his exhaustion. He wasn't ready for this sh*t. He looked at his phone and thought of canceling. Just dropping the grimoire on the front steps and leaving.

Just then a text came in from Loona

“Octavia’s mom is being a c*nt so she's coming over to hang. So don’t f*cking come home. Not that you do on the 🌚🍆💦. I don't want you f*cking embarrassing me”

Blitzø smiled to himself. What a sassy little b*tch his Loony was. She made him so proud.

“Huv fun! ❤️😘❤️😘” he responded. To which he got many middle fingers and eye rolls. Yup. That was his Loony. He beamed inside. Satan, he loved that pup.

He sighed and smooshed his cheek onto his steering wheel. Sulking, he looked across the van, out the passenger window to the looming doors of Stolas’s mansion.

Guess there's no backing out now.

Blitzø grabbed the grimoire, opened his door and practically fell out of his van - junk from inside tumbling after him. He walked around the van, then stood leaning against the passenger door, staring up at the mansion. His heart slamming against his chest.

Stop it you stupid f*ck. He said it was no big deal.

Blitzø felt like he couldn't breathe…

And you brushed it off like you always do. Pretended like it didn't hurt that he rejected you in front of everyone at that club.

It did hurt. But it doesn't matter. He's never cared for me as anything more than a f*ck-doll.

Then why did he come to Earth to save you? Why call you, comment on your photos, ask you how your day was, or laugh at your stupid f*cking jokes when it's not part of your contract? Maybe he does care? Even lo-

It doesn't matter! Everyone I’ve cared for or loved gets f*cked over, hurt, or dies!

Grow a pair you f*cking coward! Just TALK to the guy! Look what happened when you actually f*cking talked with Fizz. He doesn't hate or blame you anymore. You were f*cking honest and you got your best friend back after fifteen years!

That… That's different.

And Moxxie. You opened up to the little f*ck and you finally know he cares and won't leave just cuz you're a chuckle-f*cking idiot.

Mox is a tender little sh*t. He’ll forgive anyone. Except his dad I guess… But that dude is f*cked up. Anyway, Fizz and Mox have nothing to do with Stolas!

If you DON’T say anything to Stolas you could lose him and your ticket to the human world.

F*ck off. It’s not about the book. I’m not that f*cking petty.

Oh? You actually care? And yet he almost died and you weren't there.

Shut the f*ck up.

You almost lost him and you were still too selfish and scared to go see him in the hospital.

“I said, shut the f*ck up!”

Blitzø startled himself out of his panicked spiral when he realized he'd yelled aloud. He'd slid to the ground, knees to his chest, clutching the grimoire, tears streaming down his face. He was gasping for breath.

He quickly stood and brushed himself off. He looked up at Stolas’s mansion.

“F*ck it”

He wiped the tears from his face and eyes then stomped up the steps to the looming gilded doors. He hesitated a moment, remembering he was actually pretty early, then he lifted his fist to knock.

The door cracked open, Stolas’s tiny imp butler stepped back, and gestured for Blitzø to enter. When the butler gestured to Stolas’s study, Blitzø nodded politely and headed in that direction.

Blitzø liked to act like he was better than everyone, but in this place, he certainly didn't like being rude to any of the imps on Stolas’s staff. It felt demeaning. To both him and them. He felt ashamed to be served by them in any way.

Blitzø reached the study doors. Normally he would have just burst in. But today he couldn't breathe. He was nervous. His palms were sweaty. His heart was beating out of his chest.

Swallowing the lump in his throat., Blitzø decided to knock. He waited. He knocked again. Nothing.

He pushed one of the massive doors open a crack.

“Helloooo?” Blitzø called quietly into the study.

He dipped his head inside and called again. No one answered. He pushed the door open further and slipped inside.

Stolas’s desk was straight ahead in the center of the room. It looked like it filled the entire room with the golden rising staircase that led to a platform behind it. The waxing and waning of the moon was a repeated motif gilded across the desk and up the staircase.

What's with this bird and the moon?

Usually, Stolas was seated in the high-backed throne of a chair behind his desk. So it looked strange sitting there so tall, stark and empty.

I wonder where he is?

Blitzø had been in Stolas’s study before, though only briefly, so seeing it now, without Stolas’s room-filling presence felt overwhelming and awe-inspiring.

Busts and intricately framed portraits of the Goetia family lined the walls and door passage that lead into the study proper. Blitzø discovered the room itself was larger than his apartment and office put together.

F*cking rich-a** royals…

Books filled shelves floor-to-ceiling on either side. It was more books than Blitzø had seen in his entire life. Beautifully bound. Well cared for.

Stolas loves his books.

Blitzø thought back to the first time they'd met. The adorable little f*ck had been so excited about all his books. Showing them off like Blitzø actually gave a sh*t about anything he had to say then. Blitzø blushed thinking about how cute Stolas had been as a kid. And how much fun he'd ended up having that day, in spite of himself.

Blitzø smiled to himself as he reminisced and looked blankly up at the books. When he saw a shimmer of light on the spines of the books he turned to the far wall to find its source and he realized it wasn't a wall. It was a floor-to-ceiling stained glass window. It began at the top of the small, balcony? Platform? Blitzø wasn't sure what to call it. Another level of the room that sat behind Stolas’s desk that had two sets of stairs leading up to it that looked as if they were arms protecting Stolas’s desk. It seemed to serve as a platform to reach the crazy a** chandelier that hung in the middle of the room.

As Blitzø’s eyes trained up on the chandelier he almost stumbled and fell backward when he saw the chandelier led up to what he - at first - thought was the night sky. It took a moment for him to realize it was just a painted ceiling. Constellations and the deep blue of space. Blitzø crossed to Stolas’s desk in awe, transfixed, never looking away from the ceiling. He felt like he was falling into the beautiful void of space.

Is this what Stolas does? He said he studies the skies and their prophecies. He never said it was this beautiful.

Blitzø stood in wonder. He began to feel small.

He's so important. To be in charge of something this beautiful… So f*cking powerful.

Blitzø hugged the grimoire tightly to himself like a shield. Remembering Stolas’s rescue and his full demonic manifestation. Blitzø had thought he was the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen. But he'd been terrified at the same time. Not of the fact that Stolas could hurt - even kill - him easily with his power. No. It wasn't Stolas’s power he was afraid of. Blitzø was petrified of how Stolas had made him feel. Safe. Wanted. Worth saving.

How the f*ck could he care for scum like me? When he has all of this?

And then Stolas had rejected Blitzø in front of everyone.

He's ashamed of me. His dirty little f*ck doll…

Tears welled in his eyes. He fought them back as he tore his gaze from the ceiling and the infinite beauty and sorrow he'd found there.

Blitzø’s eyes slammed shut in pain as he remembered Stolas’s tail feathers passing by overhead. The gurney. The hospital. The crowd. The shouting.

“Stolas got hurt bad.” Millie’s words rang in his ears like an echo in a haunted well, beckoning him into its depths.

“He can get hurt?” Blitzø had heard himself say. He’d felt like the earth beneath his feet was sand slowly trying to pull him under. Nothing made sense anymore. Stolas is Goetia. Goetia don’t get hurt. Goetia are basically gods. Weren’t they?

What did I do? Stolas is really hurt. I should have been there. He called me. ME. And I blew him off. I could have rescheduled Loona’s appointment. The f*ck was I thinking?! Oh f*ck. F*ck f*ck f*ck!

Blitzø’s heart hammered in his chest. Remembering that day and every day Stolas had been in the hospital ripped at his heart.

Stop it. Satan f*cking dammit. Get your sh*t together you stupid f*ck. You decided to talk to him so you'll f*cking talk to him you f*cking p*ssy!

Blitzø pried his eyes open and took deep measured breaths trying to calm himself. Once he’d gained his composure, he released the death grip he hadn’t realized he’d had on the grimoire and took another quick look around the room to see if there was anywhere Stolas could be hiding. Or maybe reading and too involved to notice his surroundings.

Blitzø chuckled to himself remembering the times he’d scared Stolas because he’d been too beak deep in one of his books to notice Blitzø sneaking up on him.

But no. Stolas really wasn’t there.

Blitzø stood by Stolas’s desk wondering what to do. Stay there? Go look for him?

Then something caught his eye. A box.

The f*ck is that?

Blitzø looked about the room shiftily. He checked the door to make sure no one was coming. Once he was satisfied, he tiptoed around the desk to get a better look.

It felt strange being on this side of Stolas’s desk. In a strange way it made him feel both smaller in station and yet closer to Stolas.

Blitzø tossed the grimoire on the chair and heaved himself up onto it. For a moment he just sat there. Feeling smug.

So this is what it feels like.

Blitzø ran his palms along the edge of the desk, feeling the richness of it. He felt unworthy.

Sighing, he turned his attention to the box.

There, in the middle of the desk, sat a beautiful blue box. Blitzø reached for it but pulled back abruptly like he’d been stung.

Is that?

Blitzø’s heart began to race as he reached out a shaking hand and picked up the box. He traced the glowing sigil that adorned the lid.

Asmodeus…

Blitzø’s ears began to ring and the whole world dropped away as his vision tunneled on the box in his hands.

He could hear Verosika whispering in his ear, “I told you what this is.”

Blitzø gulped, hands shaking, cold sweat dripping down the back of his neck.

“You know what it does” Verosika purred with venom.

Blitzø slowly opened the box’s lid.

Please don’t let it be… Please, no…

Blitzø’s eyes stung with tears as he looked down at the Asmodeon crystal nestled inside the silken lined box. One of the Lust Demon Lord Asmodeus’s all-access passes to the human world. Usually reserved for his succu-b*tches to do their lust-sucking work on the humans. Stolas wouldn’t need something like this to traverse realms - Blitzø had seen that himself. That meant…

Verosika cackled “Oh you pathetic f*ck! You know what it means! He’s done with you! Throwing you away like the trash that you are!”

Blitzø shut the box, slamming it onto the desk.

No. No no no no no… This can’t be right. We have a deal…

Blitzø started shaking. He gathered himself onto the chair, trying to make himself as small as possible. He wrapped his tail tightly around himself and looked up at the ceiling as tears stung his eyes.

He doesn’t want me anymore. I can’t believe I ever thought… and now he’s just f*cking throwing me away.?

“No…” Blitzø whispered as he stared wide-eyed and unblinking at the ceiling; letting himself be swallowed by the void.

*****

[the-osborn-way]

Just finished the Bad Batch finale and HOLY SHIT IT WAS SO FUCKING GOOD

SPOILERS BELOW THE CUT

THEY ALL LIVED!!! HOLY SHIT THEY ALL LIVED I CAN'T BELIEVE IT--

So um.... yeah Tech's still not dead to me, CX-2 is alive, everything is fine, we'll see him soon, it's fine-

Crosshair GOT HIS HAND CUT OFFFF- Not the biggest Crosshair fan but I still feel so bad.... BYT AT LEAST HE MADE THE SHOT AND SAVED OMEGA AND HE GETS A HAPPY ENDING NOW

Speaking of happy endings, THEY ALL GET TO GROW OLD!!!! I'M SO FUCKING HAPPY FOR THAT, I'M SO GRATEFUL THEY GET TO LIVE THAT PEACEFUL LIFE THEY WANTED, EVEN IF WE DIDN’T GET TO SEE IT

GONKY'S ALIVE AND WELL, THANK THE FORCE

Emerie helped the kids escape I'm so glad they all made it too AND THE KIDS LOOKED SO CUTE ON PABU WITH MOX, DEKE, AND STAK

ECHO'S STILL ALIVE AND HELPING THE CLONES FIGHT, HELL YEAH

They rescued the clones!!!! I'm SO FUCKING HAPPY they did

HEMLOCK AND RAMPART ARE FUCKING DEAD, LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO

Rampart was a double-crossing son of a bitch and he got what he deserved. Rest in peace, Nala Se. You may not have always been on the right side, but you died doing the right thing.

Did I mention that I don't think Tech is dead?

The CXs were SO COOL I wish we got to see more of them!!!

DID I MENTION THAT I DON'T THINK TECH IS DEAD?!? (I'm not losing hope guys, I'm not-)

The Zillo beast absolutely RIPPING UP TANTISS was fucking FANTASTIC and I love it and it was VERY VERY MUCH DESERVED

Baryn is me, I need loud destructive noises to fall asleep LOL (this is why I can only fall asleep to FNAF songs in my ears-)

Seeing grown up Omega made me cry, and I love that older Hunter looks like pretty much every older Hunter fanart ever drawn-

Wish we could have seen older Wrecker and Crosshair, and GIVE ME SCENES OF BOTH OF THEM HEALING, PLEASE- (Crosshair did not eat on screen the ENTIRE SEASON I don't like that at ALL.)

Overall, I thought the finale was a solid 9 1/2 out of 10, the only thing that could have made it better was a CX-2 is Tech reveal, but... I mean I got everything else, so I'm not entirely disappointed.

I'm still staying VERY MUCH a part of this fandom, sorry not sorry to my followers who came for the Ninja Turtles and got Star Wars copy-paste men instead-

As I mentioned, I do have a Bad Batch project coming out soon, and I guess I could call it a fix-it now... but yeah, I'm not done with Star Wars and at this point in my life, I really don't think I'm leaving this fandom any time soon. Yes, it has some issues, as all fandoms do, but it's where I fit best at the moment. I'll still be posting other stuff, but Star Wars and the Scream franchise are my main fandoms for now.

Thank you to the cast and crew of this WONDERFUL show, you did it again, Star Wars. (*puts TBB in my top 3 TV shows of all time*)

And thanks to all my friends here on Tumblr who helped me get into this show and traded theories and so much more! (Also special thanks to @atyourdinosaurs for all of your love, theories, and ideas [and for inspiring my new project], and to @casp1an-sea and @thecoffeelorian for being two amazing friends I made from this fandom!)

We had a great run, guys. It's a honor to love this show and to be here for its final moments. Here's to more Star Wars and to more Bad Batch content in the future.

-Oz

[nextstopwonderland]

Based on what I’ve heard out of that promo I’m even more convinced in what I’ve been thinking about what mox is doing and what I’ve been saying since the start of his cryptic words. That this is all about him finding Bryan selfish for taking the title for himself and I’m even more convinced now that mox isn’t keeping this shot: he’s going to give it to Yuta (or if not to Yuta? Danny, but that would also be fucked up)

(And I still think the ‘selfish’ reasoning is hypocritical as fuck: as if mox didn’t hold the title himself during the time they were training Yuta, as if mox didn’t go after the title in a company he wasn’t even signed to this year ALONE and win it with Bryan’s help training him no less)

BUT it also makes perfect sense that THIS is how Bryan wanted to tell this story. In real life, he had to be dragged kicking and screaming to win the title. He never wanted it, he himself does find it selfish, that it does take away from the younger guys who deserve it more even though not one of his peers would actually begrudge him.

Real Life Mox is one of those peers, has been the first person to repeatedly call him the “greatest to ever do it”, the “best pure wrestler there is”.

So of course Bryan wants his own self-deprecation over him holding the title to be projected through Mox.

Its exactly like how he mentioned recently that when he was the Planet’s Champion, all of the things he was projecting onto the fans was actually his own self-loathing; that he felt that he still wasn’t doing all he could be doing for the environment, that he could do so much more. Or to a lesser degree like the C2 storyline, where his self-righteousness toward Eddie then led to introspection about respect and growth.

I do respect that Bryan Danielson wants to tell these stories as a way to process his own feelings and emotions; sometimes they just also make you need to suspend your disbelief a bit given the prior things that have happened lol

[celestial-specter]

So I finally got around to watching the first three episodes of the final season, and I’ve got to say, I’m very intrigued by the addition of the three clone cadets! Most of my interest comes from their names- and since I haven’t seen anyone else discuss them yet, I thought I’d throw my own thoughts out there.

As we have seen in many star wars projects over the years, character names seem to be overwhelming literal, either revealing elements of their background, or foreshadowing their future (think how in Rebels, Kanan means ‘little wolf’, while his true name, Caleb, means ‘dog’, foreshadowing his link to the Loth wolves.)

Of course, we know that the clones either name themselves or have the name bestowed on them by their brothers (think of Echo getting his name). The trio of clones that we meet in Paths Unknown are named Deke, Stak, and Mox. There hasn’t been much information released regarding at what age clones typically receive their names, however in the Clone Wars episode Clone Cadets, we see Cutup take his name from a trainer who criticizes him for his attitude. As that episode focuses on Domino squad’s final training simulation before graduation, and that they all appear to be fully grown adult clones, it can be assumed that they are all around ten years old, the same age of most clones sent to war. Given that we see Cutup choose his name during this episode, and that Echo is struggling with his nickname and remembering Fives’ name, it suggests that Domino squad had only recently begun thinking about what name they would choose for themselves.

While we haven’t been given a definitive age for Deke, Stak and Mox they are all still clearly children. I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t even have names by the time they were taken off Kamino, and had to create names for each other while trying to survive on the planet they were stranded on.

To begin with Mox, his is the name I could find the least amount of reference for. There seems to be three possible interpretations:

Mox is a type of fuel designed for use in nuclear reactors.

Mox is a shortened version of moxie, meaning ‘energy, courage, and determination.’

Mox is the Latin word for ‘soon.’

I’m not overly drawn to the first idea, but I can understand the second - as Mox is clearly the eldest and protective over his younger brothers, I can see him taking a name which shows that side of his personality. I also see Mox as a direct parallel of Hunter; both are the eldest brothers of their respective groups, and are both incredibly wary of outsiders due to their need to keep their brothers safe.

However, I much prefer the third choice. The idea that Mox’s name means ‘soon’ can have both good and bad implications. For starters, Mox is clearly the most emotionally conflicted throughout the episode, unsure of his place on the mission, and of his place once they leave the planet. Hunter assures him that he has time to consider being something other than a soldier, and Mox offers his hand to Hunter. This action could be foreshadowing that soon, Hunter himself will be able to retire from this lifestyle, by finding Omega and Crosshair. Alternatively, Mox’s name meaning soon could be a very bad omen for the batch, as it could foreshadow the clone cadets being used as leverage against them (I’m thinking this could come into play when the empire attacks Pabu if the cadets are there).

Moving on, the word Deke was originally coined by Hemingway as a shortened form of the word decoy. We do not see him act as a decoy in any way during this episode, so I believe it is solely to foreshadow future events. Considering the many parallels drawn between Deke and Tech during this episode (e.g. Stak dubbing Deke ‘the smart one’ and Deke almost falling to his death in the base) his name meaning decoy only makes me more convinced that Tech is still around in some capacity (even if that capacity is just his body being used for cloning experiments).

Finally, Stak is most commonly considered to be an old version of the word stick, which makes sense when you consider the basic stick-based weapons that the cadets carry, and Wrecker’s first words to Stak and Deke when he meets them: ‘Blaster beats stick, kid!’ Knowing that the Star Wars writers love foreshadowing, this comment has me thinking things might not end so well for Stak. Interestingly, another link I found while researching this is that Stak is a common phrase in the Rogue Trooper series, in which a war is fought between facist Norts and democratic Southers (you can already see the obvious parallels to Star Wars here). In the series, in an attempt to win the war, the Southers create genetically engineered soldiers, but only one, known as Rogue, survives. Even more links involve one of the main stories of this series being titled ‘The Marauders’, and each one of the genetically engineered soldiers having a bio-chip in their body. While not a direct link, these coincidences do make me think there is a direct link between the two medias, it is possible that there is a fan of the Rogue Trooper series within the team behind The Bad Batch.

Either way, I’m very happy to finally be getting some explanation into what happened to the young clones who never saw the battlefield during the clone wars - though I am a little concerned that their worth being tied to their unexplored identity as soldiers could lead to them taking risks in further episodes in the hopes of proving themselves.

[sithwitch13]

AEW Collision 5/17/25

Starting with Megan Bayne vs Anna Jay!

Penelope isn't ACCOMPANYING Megan, she's HERALDING her.

I love Anna and Harley being friends.

I hope my friends also talk about my big fat ass coming to save them, or at least help them with small projects

YEAH NIGEL GONNA TEAM WITH DANIEL, LOVE IS REAL

Nigel singing songs with the lyrics changed to be about the AEW roster like they're his little pets >>>>

We need Takeshita singing "I Don't Know How To Love Him"

Goddamn, these two are so talented

My conspiracy theory is they're not calling themselves Roppongi Vice is as a heel move to all of us who are currently asking why they're not.

I'm irrationally annoyed that the dog in Ishii's logo looks more like a traditional bulldog than a pit bull.

I love that both teams had a big guy, a bigger guy, and an average sized guy

Outrunners vs RPG vice, maybe?

Paragon vs GYV!

Lol Kyle

Blake Christian vs Speedball should be a lot of fun. Blake's such an entertaining little shit.

YES GIVE ME SPEEDBALL VS OKADA. SHOOT THAT INTO MY EYEBALLS.

I just love Mox. I can't not.

Street fight time!

BRICKS

Omg Nigel scolding Schiavone for not moving

Kaun's laughing is so good

Yay Bryan Keith and Big Bill!

Was that music Bolero in Mina's promo?

Ew

UMM? THE FEED???

Turned on Triller. Continuing.

I have a weird soft spot for Sammy.

Kris and Willow!

Omg, Willow's so angry at Marina and the rest of the Death Riders, and it's giving her blinders. But we only have Kris' word that she didn't mean it, so I get it.

Yuta vs Hobbs time!

I just misheard Hobbs as being from "Beef Palo Alto"

Oh lord, Nigel claiming Yuta invented the "yes" arm pumps

Yuta is always gonna be sleeping in that dog cage.

WILLOW TO THE RESCUE YES

Oooh, Kris just standing there. Coming out to help but too late? (Maybe thinking when Willow bad mouthed her in the ring that she's never gonna be forgiven and going back to some old friends instead?)

[blackpoolcombatwriter]

ooo for lyric prompts, moxbry 10?

I have no idea how it ended up being like this. Still trying to come up with a non-paranormal twist for a secret. My brain couldn't figure anything out that wasn't cheating so it came up with this instead.

Bryan has a secret need and Mox helps with it. We’ve got secrets between us that nobody else would believe if we told them(Alien Like You - The Pigott Brothers)

[tsaomengde]

Rating: E

Characters: "Sir," "Puppy" (OCs)

Fandoms: Cyberpunk, Cyberpunk 2077

Tags: Self-Indulgent, Smut, Prostitution, Power Exchange, Total Power Exchange, Canon-Typical Violence, Biting, Violent Sex, Aftercare

Summary: Night City's full of joytoys. Whether they run with the Moxes, rent their bodies out as dolls, or do plain old-fashioned streetwalking, it wouldn't be uncharitable to say they're a dime a dozen.

"Puppy" is one such enterprising individual. They run with no gang, work in no brothel. For most, this arrangement would be risky.

But "Puppy" has their "Sir." And He takes care of them.

Violently, if need be.

Notes: Sometimes I write self-indulgent cyberpunk porn with a presumed audience of two. Maybe it will find a third set of eyes that enjoy it! Take care of yourselves out there, chooms.

[erotomox]

You 🤝 me

Writing mox has autistic (I also wrote him as having adhd) I've never thought of schizophrenia mox, I like that I'm not the only one who gives wrestlers more..stigmatised (I dontnthink that's the right word here it's 5am sorry) illnesses/disorders and stuff. Like to me kenny is a DID system, I need better representation for my trauma disorder that isn't just the guy and the evil alter, it makes me sad and angry

Anyway. Its 5am and I can hear like. Sounds that insure isn't happening. Trying to sleep but wanted to thank you for sharing with me and it is okie to ramble fully I lobe it

I hope you can get some good sleep and the sound doesn't bother you too much! I've found that wearing headphones and playing something a little loudly (not enough to damage your hearing but loud enough to try and done it out) helps when I'm not sure if I'm hearing things or not! I also have Ideas about plural mox (schizogenic like I am ofc lmao) bc its so fun to take your own experiences (especially w demonized/stigmatized disorders) and project them onto your faves and comfort characters!

[caldella]

Eeeeeee he looks so good! 🙌 I love that pose!

Who wears short-shorts? Stolas wears short-shorts!

I don't have any art or craft WIP to show today, but I can share an excerpt from the fanfic I finally convinced myself to write. I've had the idea in my head for a bit and even talked about it in a post or two here, so it's been good to get it out of my brain! I'm about 4500 words in RN. No clue how long the final will be. I plan to do it all in one big piece, since it's one scenario. It doesn't make sense in chapters, and I know if I make it that way, it'll unintentionally convince my brain to discard the project. 😅

Okay, trying to pick a part was kinda hard. This thing has a mix of IMP comedy, angst/catharsis, and progressively more cunty Stolas. Maybe we'll keep with the theme of the WIP art and serve a sample with a tiny taste of the last one. 😘 (He's only at like 50% cunty power with this but bear with me the full cunty mode is in progress.)

Without bothering to crouch and make up the height difference, Stolas held the pen and paper out towards Cash. “Any payment requests made on company property must be provided on paper, for record purposes.” Cash looked miffed, but the secretary didn't flinch, and the two stared at each other. Blitzø's dad caved first; he snatched both items so fast that they might as well have been actual money. He scowled at Blitzø, then he leaned over the desk, writing down an oversized, over-bloated number and shoving it back toward the owl's hand. By now, the entire team had curiously leaned in, just a little, to try and read. “What?!” Millie interjected first, followed by other expressions of shock around the room. Blitzø even heard an, “Oh shit,” from Loona. He barely managed a glance at the amount scrawled across the page himself before his stomach dropped. Fuck, Dad. Really? Moxxie leaned nervously over the paper. “This can't be serious.” He looked up at Blitzø. “Sir, the company can't afford this! It's already taken months for our finances to recover from--” “Shut up, Mox.” He winced. “You can freak out about it some other time, 'kay?” “Blitzø.” Even Millie looked uncomfortable. “Look, I know we don't know the full story here, but that seems a liiittle…” she met Blitzø's gaze, and her face dropped as she realized he had no plan to argue it. “I mean, are you sure?” “It's fine. We'll be fine. I'll deal with it.” Blitzø didn't know how he would 'deal with it,' but this was his problem, not theirs. He'd just… have to handle it. Cash had been holding the paper out this entire time, but Stolas had made no move to take it, nor had he reacted to the number. Of course he wouldn't, Blitzø thought; he didn't know if lattes were five dollars or fifty. That amount was almost everything I.M.P. was worth, but it meant fuck all to him. Stolas lightly crossed his arms. “It will have to be itemized.” “Eye-ta-what?” Cash questioned. “Finances here are properly sorted and carefully categorized.” Stolas freed one of his arms to gesture with his talons. “If money is coming in or going out, it can't be in one nondescript sum. The accounts will need a detailed breakdown of where the cost came from, and why.” His head tilted in a uniquely owl-ish way. “Think of it as an invoice.”

Woo-hoo another WIP Wednesday!! I have a few Mastermind pieces sitting on the back-burner and the majority of them have some amount of emotional/thematic weight, as most of my more polished pieces do. Not this one tho! 😂 I have 2 goals with this piece:

Do a mild study of how they gave Stolas that unhinged sexy energy during Mastermind

See how short I can make that romper (I know I can go shorter, I've worn rompers shorter than this 😤)

The sketch and the start of the value work I typically do for color tests! This one's a funny one to me because I usually keep my more self-indulgent silly stuff to doodles and sketches and something like this would definitely qualify but for some reason I don't want to leave it here, I want to color it and render it just....because. Even now, there's a part of my brain yelling "He's just standing there! On a blank background! This means nothing, why bother finishing it?" Because it's fun and I wanna draw my blorbo 😌 That's enough 😌

This week I'm tagging @lislass @caldella and @theradiodaemon if there's anything they'd like to show off (or just consider it a friendly wave hello 😌) and of course anyone else who'd like to participate!

[dreams-and-honor]

[kicks in your door] Edgerunners Adri lore. Now.

A Day in the Life, I Can See Clearly Now, Queen of the Highway, Sweet Dreams and Disasterpiece, please :>

SKJLGDHLKJSGM OKAY OKAY

They say looks are everything in Night City, so what does your S/I look like? Hair, tattoos, eyes, all of that. Who are they and what made them like that? Give us the most basic overview of your character. Do their looks contrast with their personality at all?

He looks like this lmao

He's an extremely overworked ripperdoc that has no one to help him (unless it's me and Owen's shared Kiwi polyship, but otherwise he's on his own) so he can spend DAYS at a time just hunkering down in his clinic taking patients and then sleeping like 45 minutes (and taking 15-minute cry breaks) on his couch between appointments when he can. He's very reliant on energy drinks and stimulants, so he's just perpetually exhausted and miserable.

He LOOOOVES Kiwi though, he's that guy who definitely thinks his girlfriend is out of his league. He often takes the crew as patients when they need a ripperdoc, but Kiwi bullies them out of it if she thinks he's too overworked.

Adding onto the last question, let's talk cybernetics. Does your S/I have any chrome? Why or why not? If so, what kinds do they have and what purpose does it serve? Additionally, how did they get that chrome? Do they have a ripperdoc that they trust, or was it some shady hack-job?

When he was a teenager, his parents had him enroll in this shady Arasaka trial for a nervous system implant to help with a nerve disorder he had. It ended up fucking him up supremely because it was defective (the whole project ended up getting scrapped) and now he's like, in various amounts of pain ALL the time. He's never touched implants since, other than the optics Kiwi got him as a present, and even THAT took him about a year to warm up to.

What does your S/I dream of? What is their motivation to get out of bed every morning? What do they want from life? Are they fine with flying under the radar and living a relatively normal life, or do they want to make a statement?

He just wants to not work himself to death, man. Financial security would be GREAT, so that's why 'What's one more patient, the extra income would be helpful' is his mantra. He's not FLAT broke, but he can't afford to hire help, all of his income goes into the cost of living and maintaining the clinic. He's VERY meticulous about the supplies he uses, and he won't EVER install anything he thinks is subpar. All he wants is to provide quality service so people don't have to go through what he did. Even if it means "Don't like it, then leave" over requests that probably could have netted him some extra money but he couldn't bring himself to lower his standards over.

Wild card! Tell us whatever the hell you want about your character! A random piece of lore, their go-to hobby, their favorite pizza order... Surprise us!

He partakes in various softcore illicit substances and overuses stimulants, but draws the line at smoking and drinking. Smoking because it's "a useless expensive habit that's bad for your health" and drinking only because he's the ultimate lightweight and he doesn't want to embarrass himself so he always mumbles some bullshit excuse when he gets invited out.

I'm also working on making an oc of the doctor he apprenticed under when he used to do ripperdoc work for the Mox.

[vivanightcity]

conversationally: Lyric

Professionally: 7arr1kin

Legally: Nunya Bussiness (and he has the obviously completely legit records to prove it.)

He/they pronouns

Mox affiliated netrunner.

Born in Taipei, first six years in Sydney, ten in Frankfurt, and NC since then. Speaks english, german, and mandarin.

Doesn't work in Lizzie's, officially anyways, but because he and Judy often work together on side projects and ideas, they're found hanging out there enough. Together, they made the modified holo-mask that Cai wears - and many other bd stars and joytoys who are outside of Mox protection do as well. Designed to scramble most attempts at scanning or identifying an individual, giving them some much-needed anonymity and security.

still v much a wip, but i like him so far.