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OC Story: Accustomed

(Happy Birthday Kai! Have some angst, it’s my special treat)

Kai knew that someday part of himself would change.

Ever since he was young, his parents taught him that dolphins that lived within the Amazon river were different from their oceanic counterparts.

Dolphins from the Amazon river would begin to change colour as they matured. It begins with patches of a pink that could range from varying hues, before spreading to the rest of the body over the course of time.

And that is something they’ll have to live and be accustomed to for the rest of their lives.

Kai is a hybrid; born with a human body that had physical components and attributes of the Amazon dolphin, so he was well aware that not only his tail & fins, but also his hair would end up changing to some hue of pink.

But despite everything his fathers did to help prepare him for this very change,

It wasn’t enough.

———

“I mean, that sounds cool, but what if I don’t like how my pink appearance is gonna look?”

“Well, I personally didn’t like it either when I first got my pink patches with how feminine of a color pink is seen as, but I’ve come to terms with it really quick. Your father on the other hand always loved it. Nonetheless, I’m sure you’ll love it Kai.”

“…I hope so Dad.”

———

The patches started appearing soon after what happened within the labyrinths.

Kai managed to hide them from his friends, and Dylan by subsequence, since part of him felt worried about what they would think of them.

Those very thoughts began to overwhelm and encircle his mind even after locking himself in his dorm room’s personal lavatory.

What are they gonna think of them? Will they love it? Will they hate it? Are they gonna think less of me? The patches look awful, are they going to reciprocate that opinion? Why was I even born with this genetic trait when it’s so-

*KNOCK!*

“Kai? Are you in there? Why’s the washroom locked? I left my binder in there & I kinda need it.”

He wants to respond to him, to tell him to leave him alone for the time being, but he just can’t. Kai just silently fell to the floor as his back leaned on the door whilst began to fall from his face.

“Can you at least respond? I-I’m getting a bit worried, and the fact that you locked the door isn’t doing much.”

The thoughts in Kai’s head changed from how his friends were gonna think about his new appearance to what he was going to think about them.

Dylan was the only one he knew the longest, and only by a couple of months. But he still loved Kai, and Kai loved him back. Kai knows Dylan is… uncomfortable in a way with feminine things, and since pink is considered a feminine colour, there’s a good chance he’d hate it.

Kai put his hands over his mouth to block out anything he might say as tears continued to fall from his face and his negative thoughts proceeded to worsen with every second. Dylan’s insistence to enter the room wither every knock even lead to Kai lowering his head in shame.

Until finally he shouted,

“I DON’T WANT YOU TO LOOK AT ME RIGHT NOW!”

Dylan was left stunned by his outburst, but to Kai’s surprised, he responded after a few seconds.

“…I thought we already went through the stuff with your eventual patches. I think they’d look-.”

“THEY DON’T LOOK FINE!” Kai shouted back in tears, “THEY LOOK AWFUL! THE PATCHES FEEL LIKE THEY RUINED MY LOOK!

A-and I don’t want you or the others to think less of me because of them…”

Kai was a sobbing mess at the point, something abundantly clear to Dylan much to his dismay,

“Kai… the whole team loves you for who you are, myself especially. Why would a bunch of pink patches on your skin prove it otherwise when your outgoing personality & magically skills basically overshadow your appearance in a way?”

Kai sniffled as he wiped the tears from his face, “Are you sure you aren’t saying that just to make me feel better.”

Dylan sighed with a smile on his face, “I’m not, mo grhá.”

Kai took a deep breath and stood up, slowly opening the door to great Dylan whilst shyly hiding behind the door with a worried look on his face for Dylan’s opening.

To his surprise, Dylan smiled and brought him into a soft embrace as he kissed his forehead.

“You’re still the cute boy that returned my coat to me no matter how you look, y’know that Kai?”

Kai finally smiled whilst blushing in embarrassment as he nuzzled his face in Dylan’s left shoulder,

“Thanks Dylan. Eu te amo.”

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Jadeyn nearly cried when they first saw Mario Kart World’s Rainbow Road

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Ok, on second thought Bendy & the Ink Machine would totally be Marcus’ favourite game alongside Undertale

Cuphead, FNAF, & Omori are close seconds methinks :v

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Been thinking about what my 3 OC groups do whenever someone in the group’s celebrating their birthday;

Team Spunk would 100% head to a place that screams “childhood”; an arcade, a theme park, a bowling alley, an indoor playground, a trampoline park, a water park, just any kind of place that gives off the vibe of nostalgia

Team Postmythic tends to be more laid back; maybe head to a semi-fancy restaurant, relax atop of a rooftop, visit a botanical garden, watch a movie at home or at a theatre, & maybe even head to a dance club

Team Chaosmos have a fast-food feast, head to a fun place that sparks the interest of whoever’s celebrating their birthday, & then get up to dumb teenager shenanigans which have a 50% of leading to them getting in trouble

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OC Story: Connection

(New soulmates dropped. Also heres Brooks & Mateo’s backstory)

Brooks & Mateo aren’t like other people, not just because of the fact that neither of them are human.

Even with all the fantastical wonders that Gaea has to offer through elemental magic, there are some things that even it can’t heal. Nonetheless, said things can be adjusted & assisted through the combined efforts of magic and technology.

Brooks is an Elemental that was born with cataracts, a form of blindness that gave him blurry vision. But despite that, he’s learned to creatively use his magic to help see the world in his own unique way. The vibrations of the ground, the ripples within water, the soul within a person, all of it managed to aid Brooks with his vision in a fantastical manor.

Mateo is a Fairy that was born with phocomelia, a genetic disorder that led to the absent of his right leg. And even if they can easily create a prosthetic leg from thin air with the help of his magic, he prefers to simply fly to get from place to place.

Either way, the two boys felt a connection when they first met. And even despite being in a large group of friends, they felt the most closest towards each other.

But over the years, friends became too casual of a word to describe the bond they both had, but on the other hand, lovers felt too intense.

A simple thought that would chew away at their bond, making them slowly distance themselves away as it became more & more present within their minds, as they went from close friends to awkward acquaintances.

———

September 16, 20XX,

Brooks’ second year at Arcana Academy’s been okay so far; the surprise that leaders of certain teams were given the chance to pick out new members from the pool of first years was a unique idea, but since team Spunk was already at the max member capacity, nothing really changed about their group of friends.

Then again, Skadi & Edan wound up being assigned to a different team last year, and there’s everything he has going on with Mateo.

Brooks currently sat atop the dorm rooftop, an area that not much students would head to considering everything the dorms themselves had to offer, but Brooks mostly wanted time to himself to think about a myriad of things.

Brooks sensed someone flying by through the levitating silhouette of a soul within his vision, a soul all too familiar to him.

Mateo landed right beside where Brooks sat, summoning a magical prosthetic to help him stand.

“Hey.”

“…Hey.”

This feels awkward, it feels like they want to say something but just can’t for some reason, and the same can frankly be said for him.

Mateo nervously began a conversation, “What… happened to us?”

Brooks sat in a silence over his question before replying back, “I dunno. I don’t even understand why we decided to slowly distance ourselves from each other in the first place when we were the closest with each other compared to everyone.”

“Exactly! That- …This whole idea was stupid! I… honestly miss when we were kids. Nostalgia’s such a double edged sword, right?”

Brooks smiled, “Tell me about it, Mat.”

Mateo was startled over that nickname, “Huh, it’s… been a while since you’ve called me that. I honestly missed it.”

“Well, if we’re being sincere right now, I missed you.”

Mateo could feel the smile on their face grow over his statement as they lent out their hand towards his old friend, “I missed you too, Brooks.”

Brooks happily took his hand. The moment he did, an abundance of magic emitted from their clasped hands which flowed throughout his and Mateo’ body.

The magic of the energy felt unnerving, scary even.

Though above all else, it felt comforting.

More importantly to them, it feels as if the emanated magic that’s flowing throughout their body made their own magic stronger. Brooks especially noticed Mateo’s silhouette slowly became more clearer in his vision, with him now being more able to make out his appearance.

Mateo on the other hand was more focused on something else that they peered into Brooks’ soul, which not only glowed brighter,

But also bore a glowing thread that connected it towards his own.

Turns out they’ve always been connected to each other after all, even if they were too somewhat repulsed about the thought of being more than friends, they were written in the stars to be soulmates.

“Holy shit.”

“Do you see the-?”

“Yeah Brooks, I-I see the thread connecting our souls together- how did we not notice this?!”

Brooks started to blush, “I don’t really care about that much over what this makes… us. I mean, I wouldn’t say we’re as romantic as Chrome or Terra… or Rowan & Leo. But I wouldn’t say we’re queer-platonic in a similar vain as Sage & Melody.”

Mateo’s grin returned to his face as he gently took both of Brooks’ hands into his own as he gently brought him up,

“Well, I don’t know either, or honestly care for that matter. It’s practically unique to us. And above all else,” Mateo let go of the grasp they had in Brooks’ hand to gently hold their face,

“I love you, and that’s all that basically matters, doesn’t it?”

Brooks smiled, “Yeah, it does. I love you too.”

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Been thinking about rehashing the OC timeline, mainly when Amos joins Postmythical & the whole first day at Arcana Academy

I’ll probably end up rewriting my 5-6 part Arcana Academy story into an arc but the main gist of it is that;

• Mercy, Geno, & Amos enrol in the Academy on the first day rather than joining in at a later date

• Amos ran away instead of getting saved, and is accepted & given shelter in the Academy after explaining themselves to the Dean

• Salvage arc still ends up happening, but instead of Amos helping save Dylan & Kai… wait why am I telling you what’ll happen? You’ll find out later! Edan still loses an eye tho lol

• Mercy, Geno, Nova, Ro, Dylan, Kai, & Amos learn about Marcus & Liam’s reincarnation on complete accident

• Jadeyn is the first person in Chaosmos to find out about the latter, but Lance, Aaron & Cameron still find out about it in later stories, and all before shit goes down in the caverns

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OC Story: Codependency

(I planned this out for Lesbian Visibility week, but at least. I got it out for Macy’s birthday instead I guess)

Lilith & Clover are pissed off & have a lot of questions, mainly the former.

And the pent up rage from being pissed off means that a trail of mangled bots, and knocked out students is being left behind by them.

“I’m surprised you haven’t sucked out any blood from the students that’ve tried to ambush us.”

Lilith shrugged whilst twirling one of her daggers, “Dunno why, but I don’t feel like drinking some right now. Plus I’ve noticed that my thirst kinda goes away whenever I feel upset.”

“Yeah I get where you’re coming from Lil.” Clover sighed, “We could’ve went on that shopping district double date with Macy & Iris, but noooooo, some dipshit adult decided to chuck us into a labyrinth!”

“You think they’re handling this well? ‘Cause then again, this is like the second time they’ve had to deal with something like this.”

“Yeah, probably. They definitely must’ve found each other by now.”

*CRASH!*

“You’re godamn right, Magie!”

Lilith & Clover turn to greet Macy with her trident in hand, standing over rubble caused by her busting through the labyrinth wall as Iris stood to her right.

“So what were you guys talking about?”

Lilith chuckled, “Nice to see you too, I guess. We just finished talking about how we should’ve went on that double date we’ve been planning & started talking about how your team’s probably taking this whole thing.”

Iris worryingly sighed, “Hopefully they’re taking it fine, but even if it’s been months most of them still haven’t seem to recovered. Mercy & Geno practically got out of it scot-free, Cameron’s changed physically but other than that is practically fine, but everyone else’s clearly still traumatized by what happened.”

Clover shrugged, “Kinda understandable coming from their perspective; Aaron lost an arm, Lance watched that happen, Jadeyn saw the former AND saw Cameron nearly die, Tae got injured badly to the point of losing consciousness, Zac watched that happen, and Marcus & Liam nearly died…again. And them all coming out of the whole thing basically becoming more clingy & codependent with each other is definitely… something.”

“It’s not like your team’s any better if we’re being honest.”

“Macy!”

“You gotta admit, it’s kinda true Iris.” Lilith sighed as she continued, “Postmythical’s like a big found family, but even we have secrets that we hold from each other. Neither of us even brought up what happened before Brio & Orion met us in the forest.”

“That whole leaving a gang of fascists to die rumour?”

“Mhm, and it’s clear that things that’ve happened in the past are what molded them into the codependent people they are. Parker lost their mother, which is definitely what made them become a parental figure to honour her memory, Brio & Orion nearly died trying to defend a weak village against an entity horde, Edan & Skadi clearly haven’t recovered from what happened in March, and the same thing’s true for Dylan & Kai, Ro & Nova are frankly doing fine, but they’re definitely mortified over everything that’s happened, Amos is still readjusting to life outside of his asshole family, and Clover & I aren’t frankly any good either considering out past.”

Clover exhaled, “We’ve all been through fucked up shit, & it’s made us dependent on eachother, but if we want to heal, we might as well do it all together.”

Iris smiled, “That’s a lovely way to put it.”

Macy’s ArcPhone rings immediately after Iris’ remark, and as she opened it, her eyes shot up with excitement and a grin immediately appeared on her face,

“Knew that friend-tracker app would come in handy!”

———

Cameron slouched down, leaning on a wall in the labyrinth area they were in all whilst loudly exhaling out of sheer exhaustion as everyone looked concerned for them.

“Uhm… why’s their skin glowing?”

“It kinda looks cool though, you gotta admit that Dyl.”

“Kai!” Ro and Nova snarled at him over his reply.

“What?”

Emmet cleared their throat, “What’s happening to Cameron right now is a result of them overusing their mana. Mages like them have a large but limited amount of mana that’s connected to their stamina. So if one runs out, so does the other. And it’s all physically depicted through patches of their skin glowing with some visual illustration relating to the element a mage was born with.”

Chrome joined the conversation with a quick inquiry, “I thought you guys would know this considering you have Clover on your team.”

“Y’know her?”

“Course I do space witch, we both study nature.”

“It’s Nova, but space witch sounds like a cool nickname. But Clover never really ran out of mana before considering the fact that she prefers fighting using physical attacks.”

Terra shrugged at Chrome, “She really does love that gigantic knife of hers.”

“Greatsword.”

“Gigantic knife sounds funnier, Chrome.” Terra snickered. “But speaking off, we do have a Sound & Fire Mage with us in Spunk & we’ve both seen them run out of mana before. They both just wanted to see who could last longer in a fight between me & Chrome and themselves so I bet you could guess the winner.”

“I’m still here, you guys forget that?” Cameron hoarsely replied.

“Dude, you should get some rest. Remember what happened the last time you ran out of mana?”

Cameron scoffed at Ro’s concern, “C’mon, it’s not like I’m horribly injured like last time. I’ll be fine!”

Emmet instantly replied back to his statement, “Excuse me?!”

“It’s nothin to worry about Emm. Trust me.”

“Wh- you’re telling me to not be concerned over the fact that you nearly died?! Was the week break back in October some form of cover up for that?!”

Cameron sighed, “News Flash, Alegria, it was! There’s so much shit that our team & probably Postmythic by proxy don’t want people to find out about. Kinda a shame that you & everyone else here’s finding that out via me barely hanging on the consciousness.”

The area went silent immediately following Cameron’s retort, as a result of shock; and in the case of Nova, Ro, Dylan, & Kai, confusion over how Cameron gladly revealed this situation upfront to Emmet, Terra, & Chrome.

The silence was only broken by the arrival of Macy, Iris, Lilith, & Clover, with the former two rushing towards Cameron over his current state

“Cameron?! What happened?!”

“Dude, Jadeyn’s gonna be pissed when they find you like this.”

He chuckled, “I’m fine guys. Got jumped by some other students, but I got out of it scot-free thanks to these guys.”

Lilith & Clover brought the four other Postmythic members into a tight hug

“You all ok? Lill & I were worried for you guys.”

“I’m ok!”

“We’re good.”

“We’re fine.”

“Those two girls tried shooting us.”

Clover pulled out of the hug over Kai’s remark as she turned to greet Chrome & Terra,

“You two what?!”

Emmet shrugged over Clover’s question whilst Chrome defended herself

“Cmon, y’know me & Terra like shooting stuff! Also we didn’t know if underwater bots were a thing.”

“…alright then. You guys were told about the Arcana Triad right?”

Emmet replied, albeit somewhat confused, “The alliance between Chaosmos, Postmythical, & Spunk, right? Cameron did say something about Em & Parker confirming the whole thing before we got attacked.”

Lilith nodded as she brought out her phone to showcase the prior conversation of it, “I mean, Cameron suggested considering… y’know, and they both seemed chill with it-”

Terra shoved Emmet out of the way with Chrome right by her side to get a glance of Lilith’s screen, “WAIT, DID THOSE TWO CONFIRM THE WHOLE REINCARNATION THING?!”

Chrome smirked, “Knew it.”

Clover sighed, “Yeah, get over it. But yeah, we’re all in an alliance, Cardinal boy & Ouranos’ offspring are in fact reincarnated, & also a bunch of other stuff I don’t feel like repeating.

Also if you four are wondering where Amos is, they’re with two other members with Spunk, & one of them made cookies.”

“So now what?” Cameron asked while being tended to.

Emmet sighed, “I… guess we just wait. There’s twelve of us now, and most of us are exhausted from a fight. Resting here seems like the best idea and there’s no way this whole thing isn’t ending soon.”

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OC Story: Duet

(QPRs go brrrrrr. Also happy birthday Melody)

Love is weird, romance is weird, relationships are weird, sex is weird,

and Melody doesn’t really want any part in any of that stuff.

So they mostly keep to themselves most of the time, playing video games and creating & remixing music.

Nonetheless, the large group of friends they’ve had since childhood have always been nice forms of company.

Especially Sage…

Not in a romantic way though, they’ve made it pretty clear to them & the rest of their friend group that they aren’t interested in that kind of stuff.

Either way, Sage was Melody’s first friend.

Nobody really wanted to befriend Sage due to their hip dysplasia, a birth defect that caused them to limp whenever walking. Melody still decided to befriend them anyways, leading to them bonding over technology, and ultimately being brought into their friend group turned Arcana Academy team.

The two enbies had a close bond, and there was nothing that could change it.

…for the most part.

———

“I uh… I’ve got something to tell ya, Mel.”

Melody turned their face to greet Sage’s. The two were in the latter’s room, tinkering with their respective devices as Melody replied back,

“What’s up?”

Sage took a nervous deep breath as they sat up,

“I know… that you aren’t interested in romance; or sex for that matter, which is something I’m not into either. But like… I’ll still wound up getting some form of feelings for you. They don’t feel romantic, they don’t feel sexual, but they still feel like… feelings.”

Melody was surprised, but at the same time, they knew where Sage was coming from,

because they felt the same way too.

“Huh, I… didn’t realize those feelings were mutual.” Melody opened out their hand, reaching out to Sage, “So what do ya say, you wanna see where this’ll lead us, partner?”

Sage chuckled, Sage grinned, and Sage gently clasped their new partner’s hand,

“Sure thing, partner.”

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Marcus: Dude we just had the weirdest fucking dream

Jadeyn: Ok..? Why are you two bringing this up to me

Liam: It’s cause of that fuckass RPG you showed us. My memory of the dream’s a bit foggy, but it entailed me & Marcus after he & 3 other guys saved my face from Cerberus, and I said that I loved him and-

Jadeyn: Oh, THAT game. Yeah I still can’t believe how much you two fit into that game really well.

Marcus: Considering the whole relationship gimmick, why not put yourself & C into the game. Heck, Lance & Aaron seem like a good fit!

Jadeyn: I was considering those two options, but considering the whole… y’know, romantically reincarnating together thing you two have going on, you two falling for each other in every universe makes a lot of sense

Marcus & Liam: …

Marcus & Liam: true

I’m so happy to have them all back (especially Kirby & Corrin lol) but if this cutscene were up to me & put all my current companions into consideration; Marcus would’ve tackled Liam into a hug, both of them would start crying tears of joy, and then started making out; while I brought Copper, Kirby, & Corrin into a group hug.

Also autism/TBH is watching this all happen with joy because of everyone being happy while Great Sage Miitopia 3DS Cartridge is legitimately confused over everything lmao

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Jadeyn was gifted Miitopia as a joke a couple weeks after learning about Marcus & Liam being reincarnated lovers and they decided, “yeah no, these two are definitely falling in love in every universe. I’m adding these two into the game & speedrunning them to max relationship status”

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OC Story: Solar System

(Space girlllllll)

The labyrinth seems… quiet.

And considering all the things they’ve seen & heard about the trials, this all seems unusual to Chrome & Terra;

Natural disasters happened every couple of minutes, hostile robots roamed throughout the entire place, other academy students were supposed to be everywhere.

But the labyrinth they both walked through felt empty.

Chrome pondered, “Considering the history surrounding the summit trials; whoever’s in charge of this must’ve toned down all the labyrinth events because of all the students, regardless of if they are or aren’t academy group leaders, that got teleported here.”

“I mean, that sounds logical, but the bots still feel a bit difficult to defeat. That last bot we fought took a bunch of ammo out of us.”

Chrome chuckled over Terra’s reply, “Well you were pretty eager to unload a bunch of bullets onto it rather than blasting it with-.”

A loud sound emitted from the large body of water, alerting them to glance at the certain area of the water that emitted splashes.

Terra could feel the grin on his face as she brought out his gun whilst reloading it, “You thinking what I’m thinking?”

Chrome smirked as she similarly brought out her twin pistols, “Yup, let’s blast whatever emerges from this into smithereens.”

———

Dylan & Kai were both teleported into an area of the labyrinth that was flooded from the artificial disasters that first begun during phase 2, quickly finding each other within the underwater area.

The two tightly embraced with tears of joy on their faces once they found each other, and Creator knows how long that embrace was until they pulled away so that Dylan could immediately bring Kai into a soft kiss that he quickly reciprocated.

“You okay, doubloon?” Dylan gently held Kai’s face as he asked him that question.

Kai smiled over Dylan’s concern, “I’m fine, Dyl. Have you seen the others?”

“I haven’t. I got teleported into a nearby underwater area & immediately went looking for you. ‘m not expecting any of them to take a swim during this whole thing.”

Kai giggled, “Yeah, doesn’t-“

A loud noise rippled throughout the waters, alerting the two of them towards the surface.

They both nervously glance at each other, as a way to ask one another if they should swim up & proceed towards the surface hand in hand. Nonetheless; Dylan & Kai swim up, growing more & more frantic as more noises, which were revealed to be bullets, fell down from the surface.

The two burst onto the water’s surface with loud gasps as Dylan hugged Kai’s neck with his arms. But more importantly, there stood Terra & Chrome, with their respective weapons in hands, as Kai had a realization as he & Dylan swam towards the land the other 2 were both standing on,

“What the- Why the hell were you two shooting us?!”

Terra took a small glance at Chrome, “Should we introduce ourselves?”

“Yeah sure, might as well.”

Terra cleared their throat as they glanced back at Dylan & Kai as they both emerged from the water, “ ‘Kay then; I’m Terra, this is my girlfriend Chrome. Both of us are somewhat sorry about shooting you guys, but then again we have a bunch of fun shooting stuff! Also you never know if an underwater hostile bot’s a thing.”

Kai glanced at a just as confused Dylan before replying to Terra’s half-assed apology, “That apology kinda sucked, so we don’t forgive you.”

Chrome scoffed as she reloaded her pistols, “Do you guys wanna come out of this interaction unscathed or not?!”

Dylan sighed as he pulled out his club, “I’m getting tired of being shot at, so I’m gonna answer that with a hard no.”

“Well, now that we’re in a rough patch, I’d now like to take the time to say that dolphin boy’s snorkel goggles look pretty stupid.”

Kai instantly pulled out his cutlass over Terra’s insult, “Excuse me?! Your entire fit looks MORE stupid!”

Terra instantly pointed her gun at Kai, “You fucking take that back… uh, what’s your name again?”

Kai scoffed, “Kai. If you think it’s a weird name for someone like me because of some fictional character with the same name that happens to be a fire ninja, it’s actually a name that translates to water.”

“What-”

Chrome & Terra’s confused reply was halted from a starry blast that emerged from above, and as Dylan & Kai looked up to view the magical source, they could feel the smile on their face continue to grow,

As the sight gave way to Nova & Ro riding atop Nova’s broom as they flew down to join their battle,

“Y’know I’d be ecstatic to meet someone else with galactic ancestry, but you’re picking on two good friends of mine right now.”

Ro chuckled as she unsheathed her short sword, “Couldn’t agree more, plus a 4 on 2 sounds pretty fun if you’re on the advantage.”

Chrome sighed, “And we’d also be ecstatic to be introduced to some of Edan & Skadi’s new Postmythic teammates, if it weren’t for the fact that y’all were jumping us. Could’ve sworn there was 5 of you first years though…”

“Chrome, I thought Atlas & Maddi said the fifth one was with them.”

“I know!”

“Can you two stop having a domestic argument right now? I’ve honestly been waiting a while to finally fight off something or one with Iceberg.”

“‘Iceberg’? What kind of weapon name is that?”

“Says the green girl that’s named after a search browser.”

“IT’S A PERIODIC ELEMENT, YOU FULL-BLOWN IMBECILE.”

———

[Cameron has created a new chatroom]

[chatroom has been named to ‘Arcana Triad’]

[35 people have been added to ‘Arcana Triad’]

Jadeyn > Cameron with all due respect, what the fuck is this

Iris > I’m honestly more surprised over the fact that they have everyone’s numbers to make this happen

Macy > true

Parker > he probably ended up in group activities & stuff with everyone at some point & needed them now that I think about it

Emily > yea, I do remember a bunch of my besties bringing up the fact they had to work with them anyways

Jadeyn > ._.

Emily > plz don’t ask us about me & Parker being a thing. Both of our teams have been bombarding us w/ questions

Jadeyn > :(

Tae > Am I seeing this correctly?

Zac > did JADEYN of all people just use a sad emoticon

Jadeyn > 🖕

Mateo > pretty dope chatroom name tho

Brooks > ye

Brooks > wait what’s a triad

Tae > C probably picked out that word because it meant a trio of people or things, but my mind just flashes back to how it was used in tlok

Leo > NO WAY YOU WATCHED THAT SHOW TOO

Tae > YEAH, IT’S AWESOME

Leo > YEAAAAAAAAA

Rowan > I still don’t get why this huge chat room is a thing

Cameron > our teams are basically in a huge alliance, duh. Chaosmos & Postmythic’ve been in an alliance since the second month of the school year, & Spunk’s basically joined it because of what happened between Em and Parker

Cameron > also congrats. am happy for you guys :D

Parker > okay fine. it’s a three-way alliance. You cool with that Em?

Emily > sure lol. The more the merrier

Cameron > yippee :DDDDD

Atlas > so does this mean we get to finally learn about whatever the fuck Cardinal boy & Ouranos’ offspring have going on

Brio > language

Orion > language

Atlas > you two r no fun >:(

Liam > Ouranos’ offspring is a dope nickname ngl

Madeleine > isn’t that your surname?

Atlas > it’s also the name for the Greek primordial diety prior to Zeus becoming a thing.

Atlas > also Zeus low-key sucks & Liam’s far beyond that asshole

Liam > thanks

Marcus > do u wanna know if me & Liam are actually reincarnations of dead academy students from the 50s or not?

Atlas > did u just casually confirm that? I thought you’d just keep it a secret from us!

Madeleine> I mean, it’s understandable if they’d to keep it a secret. Creator knows how much people would be gossiping over you two once it’d get out

Marcus > I really don’t want a repeat of that. That stuff was rough to deal with in the past

Atlas > we all good you 2 dw

Atlas > now y’all owe me 10 bucks lmao

Jadeyn > did you actually bet some fucking money over that

Amos > srry to join at a bad time, but how did they make their text look like that

Atlas > I mean, 5 bucks were technically from me betting that Em & Parking lot would be a thing & the other half was just a joke

Parker > bruh

Emily > .-.

Jadeyn > You do realize we don’t tell other people our personal business for a reason. Y’know that?

Skadi > Jadeyn, Atlas was just joking. You have to calm down

Edan > he usually gets people the wrong way don’t get mad at him for this

Edan > no offence btw bro

Atlas > k

Jadeyn > this is why I don’t go out of my way to talk to other people & the same could be said for a good majority of my friends when it comes to personal stuff

Jadeyn > All the shit we’ve gone through isn’t anyone’s business & we’d rather keep it to ourselves

Jadeyn > IT’S NOBODY FUCKING BUSINESS THAT WE’VE BEEN THROUGH SHIT. NONE OF US WANT TO HAVE A BUNCH OF EYES DIRECTED TOWARDS US BECAUSE OF OUR TRAUMA

Emily > …

Parker > …

Mercy > did me & Geno join at a bad time

Geno > y’know it serious when the last 2 messages in the group chat are a bunch of dots

Jadeyn > it’s nothing dw

Jadeyn > managing my emotions gets harder during times like this & lashing out at others is just a bad habit that’s a part of it

Jadeyn > in all seriousness… I honestly respect all you guys for a myriad of reasons

Zac > Aw, including me?

Sage > for anyone that isn’t with me, Melody, Jadeyn, Zac & Tae rn. They just glared into Zac’s immediately after sending that in the chat

Melody > THEY JUST DECKED THEM IN THE FACE LMAOOOOOOO

Emily > ok now that you mentioned it, can everyone mention who’s with who?

Parker > from my last recollections; the split up groups were Amos, Atlas, & Madeleine; Jadeyn, Zac, Tae, Melody, Sage, Brio, & Orion; and Marcus, Liam, Edan & Skadi.

Parker > have there been any updates? I still haven’t gotten into contact with Nova, Ro, Dylan & Kai

Rowan > What about Emmet, & those two chaosmos co-leaders?

Emily > a rockslide separated the five of us. Parker’s with me, but i haven’t heard anything from the three of them

Emily > but I have this feeling that Emmet’s somehow alright

Clover > oh damn, when did this chatroom become a thing?

Edan > oh hey Clover. How are you & Lilith?

Lilith > we’re ok. Sorry we didn’t drop in sooner, we’ve been looking for the other 4

Cameron > oh, theyre busy getting into a fight with Terra & Chrome

Emily > WHAT

Parker > WHAT

Cameron > well I mean they can’t see me obviously (illusions go brrrr) but the insults Kai & Dylan are throwing at the other two are brutally hilarious lmao

Clover > omg rlly? I’m so proud of them

Lilith > we taught them so well fr

Madeleine > y’all are terrible influences onto those two

Clover > depends on the topic

Cameron > uh, they’re all pointing their weapons at each other. Should I stop the 4v2 fight that’ll probably happen?

Cameron > I mean, I missed out on Marcus & Edan’s beef over who had the better boyfriend which was honestly sad, so I guess this’ll make up for it :>

Parker > CAMERON

Emily > CAMERON

Cameron > k fine. y’all are no fun :/

[Cameron is now offline]

Atlas > that fight low-key hits different after learning about the whole reincarnation thing

Edan > yeah

Skadi > yeah

———

As much as Cameron doesn’t want to get in the way of the really awesome fight that would occur between 6 of their acquaintances, they might as well if he wants everyone to at least emerge from this whole situation with minor injuries at the least-

*BOOM!*

A flash of light emits from out of nowhere, catching Cameron, (& likely; Chrome, Terra, Nova, Ro, Dylan, & Kai) off guard.

As the light fades away, Emmet emerges standing between the two quarrelling teams, tightly grasping his bo-staff glaring daggers into Chrome & Terra,

“WHAT IN THE NAME OF THE CREATOR ARE YOU TWO DOING?!”

Silence fills the room, Terra & Chrome have no idea what to say; the other four are looking at Emmet in confusion while murmuring about who Emmet is, and Cameron’s still spectating the whole thing with intrigue.

“Hey uh, I dunno what your name is but-”

“Emmet.”

“Oh, ok. Uh, those two girls shot at me & Dylan first.”

“I can validate that, when we emerged from the water, those two had their guns out.”

Emmet blankly glares at them in confusion before turning back to Chrome & Terra, “Ok, y’know what, you two shooting something out of self-defence kinda seems on brand.”

Chrome replies back in confusion, “Thanks..? I can’t tell if that’s a compliment. Also those two underwater fellas shit-talked me & Terra’s fashion sense, which is honestly hypocritical considering what they’re wearing; I mean, the space witch & the hacker girl have great aesthetics going on for them, meanwhile-”

“Can we maybe continue this whole argument until AFTER we get out of this labyrinth? I mean, I had a epiphany like 2 minutes ago over solely beating a huge hostile bot in one-shot, which basically got rid of most of that imposter syndrome thing Em’s been worried about, but like-”

“YOU DID?!” The six of them immediately interrupted Emmet’s monologue over what he said.

“Uh, yeah. I’m pretty surprised over it too.” Emmet glanced back at the four younger students in front of them, “Oh! I never got the chance to introduce myself, but I’m Emmet Alegria. One of the co-leaders of Team Spunk alongside my twin sister Emily. Edan & Skadi’ve told me a lot about you four, but I feel like every time they mention your names I always forget them, no offence.”

“Well; I’m Nova, this is my girlfriend Ro, that’s Dylan, & Kai’s the one that essentially started this argument the more I think about it.”

“HEY!”

“She’s kinda right if ya think about it.”

“…ok fine, you do have a point.”

Ro cleared her throat to continue Nova’s sentence for her, “There’s also Amos, but we haven’t been able to find him.”

“Amos? I think…” Emmet glared above to see Cameron stalking the entire conversation, “Lumikha, what the hell are you doing up there?!”

Ah shit, he’s been spotted

“Spectating.” Cameron said with a small chuckle in their voice

Terra whispered to Chrome over what Emmet called Cameron,

“The fuck is a Lumikha?”

“I’m pretty sure that’s his surname, Terra. & besides that, did you notice how Emmet feels… happier?”

“That “epiphany” thingy he had must’ve done WONDERS for his self-esteem. I’m honestly pretty happy for them.”

“Epiphanies are always good things after all.”

Emmet sighed, “I don’t usually get the vibes of you; and honestly the rest of your team for that matter, no offence by the way. But this somehow feels like something that isn’t up your alley.”

Cameron shrugged with a small look on their face, “Well, I already said this in the alliance group chat, but-”

“Alliance?!”

“Oh wait, I forgot you weren’t there.” Cameron pulled out his ArcPhone to show the groupchat he created to unveil the conversation he & many others had prior,

“Uh, I already thought my team, Postmythic, & Spunky were basically in an alliance with you, your sister, Parker, Lance, & Aaron all teaming up during the trials, & when I asked Parker & Em about it, they were like ‘what the hell, sure’. So yeah, it’s like some form of alliance.

Also I kinda called Em & Parker being a thing. No offence by the way, I’m sure you’ll find a bitch soon.”

“Please don’t use that word.”

“Why not-”

“Uhm, sorry to interrupt, but did you say something about knowing where Amos is, Emmet?” Dylan nervously interrupted the conversation

Emmet quickly responded, “Yeah, they’re with-

*CRASH!*

“We got a bunch of targets here, team! Let’s take ‘em out!”

A large group of students crowded around the eight of them, catching them all off guard in the midst of their conversation.

Terra brought out her gun once again with a smirk on his face, “Sooooo, what’s the plan Emm? I mean, you’ve only got some form of control over just me & Chrome if we’re being technical, but I feel like ya already know the answer.”

Emmet playfully sighed, all while still holding their staff, “Yeah, sure, let’s teach these guys a lesson.”

“Ya still need to work on your one-liners man.” Cameron snarky replied as they brought out their rods

“Not now, Lumikha.” Emmet scoffed

“ ‘m just pointing things out. What about you four? You still itching for a fight?”

He glanced at Nova, Ro, Dylan, and Kai. The four of them happily nodded with their respective weapons still in hand.

“Alright then. Let’s do this!”

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Aaron offhandedly joked about wanting his own prosthetic arm to Lance a DAY before losing his right forearm.

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OC Story: Malapropos

(WHY THE FUCK IS IT SNOWING IN CANADA. ITS FUCKING APRIL. whatever fluff story be upon ye)

As someone born & raised around the rivers of the Amazon Rainforest, Kai was always fascinated by concept of winter.

The environment’s humid weather meant he never got to experience the season he’s heard & learned so much about.

Water gets turned into ice crystals? Within clouds? And then it all falls from the sky to cover the ground & make a cool winter wonderland? Literally?

That sounds awesome!

And what Dylan said about winter whenever he asked about it out of curiosity made his excitement to experience winter for the first time.

———

Yeah, it was really awesome… besides the fact that it was really cold.

Kai was ecstatic when it snowed for the first time. Everyone else was happy to see his excitement, and were also disgusted over Dylan eating snow. It’s just water, so Kai doesn’t get their disgust. And the frozen-over environment of Arcana City’s Botanical District was genuinely one of the best things he’s ever gotten to see.

But the only caveat about the season was that it was cold. Kai never was used to the cold because of his humid homeland.

So imagine his surprise when, it was snowing… during April.

Even if the Academy dorms had heaters, Kai still felt like he was dropped into a freezer unprompted without any protection.

He was currently in his and Dylan’s bedroom, sitting on their shared bed shivering out of sheer confusion.

Why is it snowing in April? It’s supposed to be spring! There should’ve been warmer weather compared to what was happening right now. And-

“Uhm… you doing okay, Kai?”

Dylan entered their room to see Kai shivering. He’s wearing his usual attire; a headband overlapping with his hair which was loosely tied into a bun, his selkie coat comfortably worn as a jacket, pants with a cloudy pattern around the bottom, & winter boots.

Kai could feel himself blush over the sight of him before answering his question, “I-I’m fine Dylan.”

He sighed over Kai’s reply, “I can hear your stuttering, Kai. You’re probably freezing over the cold weather, are you?”

Kai was somewhat surprised over Dylan’s comment before replying back, “…I don’t get how it still feels like it’s Winter. It does feel nice to see snow again, but I really don’t like the coldness of it all-.”

A sense of warmth interrupted Kai’s monologue.

It felt comforting, loving in a way; and- oh my god, Dylan took off his own coat so that he could be warm again. He’s also sitting beside him right now.

“Wh- Dylan! You didn’t have to give your coat!” Kai could feel a blush quickly grow on his face.

Dylan chuckled, “It’s ok Kai, I trust you with it.

We first met thanks to it, & I never really got to return the favour after you returned it to me when I lost it back when we first met.”

Kai smiled over the thought of their first memory together as he leaned onto Dylan’s shoulder, “I’m glad I decided to do that. You’re one of the loveliest people I’ve ever met, y’know that?”

Dylan smiled as the wrapped an arm around Kai, “The feeling’s mutual Kai. ‘Love you too-”

A loud flash emitted from the entrance from their room, alerting the two to Amos tampering with their new phone,

“Shit- the flash was still on. I thought it was turned off! & how do you turn off the clicking noise?!”

“Amos, what are you doing?”

“Getting some… what has the word Lilith & Clover taught me an hour ago again? …Oh! Blackmail! I wanted to get some blackmail of you guys!”

They both looked at him with a deadpan appearance on their faces.

“…you guys wanna see me beat Nova in a game of Uno? I bet 5 dollars on it.”

Amos skittered away as Dylan & Kai looked at each other,

“She’s definitely beating them in a game in Uno.”

“Mhm, you still wanna spectate it, Kai?”

“Yeah sure. Let’s go!”

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OC Story: Self-Improvement

(Emmet has some character development pog. Also Kung Fu Panda truly is a cinematic masterpiece)

“You’re always so hard on yourself Emm! Ya gotta lighten up, & take pride in your own accomplishments!”

“…”

“What? Did I say something wrong or-”

“It’s nothin’ sis, don’t worry about it.”

———

All things considered, Emmet’s always been hard on himself. And even though it’s unintentional, it’s because of their twin sister.

She’s more popular, more talented, and just more better then him at everything overall.

As a whole, Emmet wound up hating a part of their sister as a result of years worth of being compared to Emily, and whenever they gave him any form of encouragement, it just made him hate Emily even more.

So part of them felt glad when they got separated from their sister as a result of being teleported into the summit labyrinth…

Again.

———

“I’m… kinda getting worried Emm. Talking down on your own accomplishments’s been getting more apparent ever since the Academy year started. Is it like some form of imposter syndrome?”

“…What?”

“Y’know; it’s when you doubt your own skills, accomplishments, or intellect. Apparently it’s common in high-achieving people & has some form of roots in a person’s personal history, and considering everything… I think you might have it in a way… & it might be my fault.”

“…”

“L-look Emmet, I’m actually starting to get worried about you & all this stuff. It’s actually becoming more apparent that you might be suffering from this imposter stuff, & I want you to get better and learn to be proud of yourself in a way.”

“…I don’t want to talk about this right now.”

“Wait! But-.”

“Just leave me alone right now, Emily.”

———

Now that Emmet’s fully on their own for the first time within the caverns, he’s simultaneously anxious as hell, yet finally feels some sort of peace.

(Because what happened prior to meeting up with Parker didn’t count, because Emily basically found him minutes after they woke up in the labyrinth)

He slowly but surely stepped through the labyrinth with his hands tightly gripping his bo-staff, prepared to fight off any other student or hostile bot.

*CRASH!*

A cautious idea, instantly proven right as a hostile bot crash through the wall in-front of them, blocking his path.

Emmet is (understandably) terrified of the technological marvel in front of them;

It’s ginormous, the blank face on its head showed zero emotion, the overall build of the body implies that this bot could tank a lot of hits, and most prominently of all, defeating all the bots prior to this one took a lot of physical AND magical power, alongside the added support of 2-4 other people.

But part of Emmet wants to try & fight it.

Part of Emmet wants to see what kind of power’s found within him.

Part of Emmet wants to prove himself without the added support or the added chance of being overshadowed by his sister.

So with a deep breath, both a heart & soul that steadily began to overflow with optimism, Emmet charged towards the menacing bot in front of them.

He could feel his magical power overflow throughout his entire body, out from his own horn, and onto his bo-staff.

And as he landed a powerful blow onto the bot, a large magical flash filled the area.

———

“…”

“You good, Em?”

“You ever get that feeling that someone close to you just did something?”

“Positive or negative?”

“I’ve no clue, but I have a feeling that Emmet did something, or something happened to him.”

“Well, either way, I also get those feelings too, a lot. ‘m sure they’ll be okay, Em.”

“Yeah, I hope so Parker.”

———

If there was one somewhat positive trait about Emmet, it’s that he’s very cautious, having set up a barrier that encircled himself as the magical flash overflowed the area as the attack he landed on the hostile bot.

But out a myriad of surprise, the bot in front of them was in shambles,

They managed to defeat a bot that he alongside his friends & allies had difficulty,

all on his own,

with one single attack.

Emotions began to overflow Emmet over his sole accomplishment. Obviously they felt shock over the fact they managed to do what they did & the power they didn’t they had within them,

But he primarily felt joy and pride for himself over what happened.

All this time, they’ve been hard on themselves over not being able to over their sister’s shadow, that the thought of being his own light to brighten that shadow’s darkness eclipsed him.

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Also now that we’re here, Jadeyn’s art style is pretty similar to the artstyle used in official Splatoon artwork because I think it’s awesome & fits Jadeyn so well

The more I think about it, Jadeyn’s whole character arc is low-key kinda… I don’t got the words, read through this post & come up with one for me lol

Like this dude got bullied to hell and back over their ethnical AND species heritage, which led to them hating themselves & not thinking they’re worthy of any type of love, ended up retaliating so hard onto their bullies to the point of both their parents deciding to move to another country to have a fresh start, solely stayed alive so that their moms wouldn’t be upset for being at fault of their death & to see their favourite gaming & comic franchises continue, ended up meeting & falling in love with one of two of the characters that are the closest things to my self-inserts (FYI I decided to make Jadeyn & Cameron a couple prior to me deciding to make him a self-insert lol), and still thought their love would be unrequited; got proven wrong once their crush took them out on a date, gave them their first AND second kiss, & told them that he found the very same species-related traits that THEY WERE BULLIED FOR beautiful, which basically undid a good majority of their past emotional & mental trauma, made them accept the part of themselves that they hated for more than half a decade, and made them realize that despite everything about themselves, they deserve love & there’s someone that fully loves them for who they are.

Also they emerged out of this whole backstory as someone lying in between true neutral & chaotic neutral alignments, and someone that can be perceived as an asshole at first glance despite being a total sweetheart

& in their free time, they do a bunch of street art and also part-time vigilante work because they like Spider-Man & look up to him a lot

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Let’s see, we have *checks notes*

2 different pairs of soulmates (one of which’s angstier than the other), 2-3 strangers to lovers, “unrequited” love with the heaviest quotations known to mankind, “if loving you was a sin I’d gladly become a sinner” type shit (/pos), angsty reincarnated lovers, 5 different childhood friends to lovers pairings, 2 cute QPRs thrown in there for good measure, a good majority of these pairings are some form of opposites attract and/or involve hurt/comfort

And to top it all off; all of these pairings are gay.

My mom dragged me to watch this one Filipino movie with some relatives (they’re all Filipino, were born in the Philippines, & could speak Tagalog, but I can’t because I was born & raised in Canada), and it was… fine, I guess

It was some sappy rom-com, they played some somber piano & violin music during the sad moments, there were captions so I could understand all the tagalog, and it was alright ig

Rom-cons aren’t really my thing as a whole, kinda ironic if you know about my OCs :v

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YESSIR

Make that oc more gnc now. Btw