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genuinely something so delightful about getting obsessed with your own characters. what do you MEAN I can turn my headcanons for my characters into Official Real Lore. that's so fucking cool are you serious

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so embarrassing to get obsessed with your own oc but it doesn't fuel you creatively or motivate you at all you just sort of sit there. like yeah I've been thinking a lot about blorbo from my mind. no images of them exist in the world and they have maybe 3 personality traits so far. I would rather die than attempt to write about them. I've spent the last 48 hours rotating them in my brain though

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i think its so awesome that ocs exist. u can just make up some girl and put so many problems in her head

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THE TITANS,

also known as The Giants, The Corpse Kings, or Dead Tillers.

Vast dead bodies- each county is centred around one. They have domains- they are titans of certain things, but outside of how that effects the general nature of the county and the rituals used to caretake them, that’s not as important anymore as you’d expect. The only other use is in the practice of Titan Symbology- a form of divination based on the Titan’s historical associations and symbolism.

Dithipeytd (Dith County)

A Titan of flowers, poisons, toxins, associated with bats.

Symbolically, it’s a Titan of neglect and ignorance- representing a lack of knowledge where it should be: either knowledge of where to go, where they are, or where they’re from. A Titan of harm brought upon someone, at least in part, from their own poor judgements.

Charyfon (Char County)

A Titan of smoke, ash, fire, associated with horse-flies.

Symbolically, it’s a Titan of destruction and no return- representing the loss of a bond, a place (in life or physical), a purpose; and in all these cases, never being able to get it back. A Titan of harm, from which there is no absolute recovery

Llystelck (Llys County)

A Titan of floods, rain, moors, associated with thrushes.

Symbolically, it’s a Titan of depression and wallowing- representing an acceptance of ills, taken all the way to the extreme of embracing them. A Titan of harm that is simply accepted as a fact of life and deemed unavoidable far in advance.

Notably, there is not as much difference between Llys and Dith as Ivy likes to think.

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a low effort shitpost i made with my own ocs.

there are four of them, they're monochrome... it just felt right

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people might think creating OC lore involves a lot of thinking & planning, but in my personal experience, OC development is more like a divine vision from a god slamming you over the head with a mallet while ur doing the fuckin dishes or folding laundry

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If my ocs were real and I walked into a room with all of them I'd immediately get jumped

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You could reach out and touch them.

With hands. (No, they’re too far away.) With acts (No, what could you offer.) With words. (Yes.

But what would you say?)

Maybe they’re a rose. Beautiful, but best not to handle too often, best to handle with care lest the thorns dig in, prick or tear. (Think how bad it could be to do wrong. So wrong.)

Maybe they’re a nettle. Still beautiful, (Damn others who would say otherwise, damn them twice if they won’t do it themselves.) but best not to handle without precaution, best to treat slowly lest the needles leave their sting, burn and itch. (Think how long that pain could last for. Stick with you.)

Maybe they’re not a flower. A person. Something that may not even mind the contact, that could even welcome the touch themselves. Something that may even want to read your words, hear your voice, praise your acts, accept your reciprocation, see your eyes, hold your hands, be there.

They could reach out and touch you.

Too busy. (Unlike you.) Too many friends. (Unlike you.) Too scared (Like you.

But that’s an impasse.)

Then again, what kind of flower are you to them? What flower lacks in beauty and purpose and does little but wilt?

Then again, would something as great as them disparage you so? Isn’t it a whole new cruelty to assume such a thing of them?

Then again. Maybe not a flower. A person. Just one that still struggles to face the sun, struggles to bloom, struggles to reach out. (Yes,

But what does knowing help?)

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NEVER STOP BEING OBSESSED WITH YOUR OCS 🫵

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my OCs are sooo cool you guys don't know what you're missing. if you could see the show i'm watching in my head rn you'd go so crazy i'm telling u

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“our ocs should kiss” “our ocs on a double date” i think our ocs should try to kill each other

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I can do 3 & 4 on here!

Kill Caesar to start… because in the case of almost any character of mine dying, practically no-one would notice, and only a few more than that would care, though only a little. Let’s not read into that.

All my Lancer OCs are fairly disposable in the eyes of their employer and co-workers, and lack other meaningful relationships. My CAIN OCs are destined for an ignoble death, and while I haven’t transcribed anything about him here yet, my AGON OC is already considered dead by most who know him, and those people prefer it that way. The character I’ll focus on in the next bit, Hemlock, would get a half-arsed funeral by their parents and Ivy would feel bad for a few days about not knowing them well enough to attend. Then everyone would shrug and move on.

Become a dictator: I’m going to be focusing on something you may see a LOT of here in time, that being ALDW4PYH. I won’t reveal the acronym’s meaning right now, it’s not necessary, but as for what the world would look like with Hemlock in charge:

Honestly? Better. But not as much better as they think they would make it.

Hemlock has enough knowledge of social problems (and definitely enough animosity towards their current society) that he’d want a total cultural and political overhaul: without really knowing what it should look like, or thinking to ask the people who do, stuck in her own head as they are. Overall, a kinder but unwittingly far more individualistic (to its detriment) world, especially for the young and queer and disenfranchised (i.e, Hemlock itself).

Also? The plot would not happen with any stakes. Hemlock does know enough about the Titans to understand what it means to fuck up taking care of their effects. So the story would just end up being perfectly chill, with no more stakes than a normal day.

Which would be nice for everyone involved, really.

Ides of March Writing Challenges:

🗡️ Stab it: Write 23 words (or 23 sentences if you're playing on hard)

🗡️Settle a debt: Finish an old unfinished work

🗡️Become a dictator: Outline a version of your narrative world where your protagonist has complete control. What would they want the world to look like?

🗡️Kill Caesar: Outline a version of your story where the main character dies. What would all the supporting characters do?

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Peri.

CASE FILE: PERILOUS “PERI” SCAE-CYRUS

(“Why? Because I was meant to, because I thought I had to. Why… what kind of a question is that? Have you ever met soldiers before? When we ask ‘why’, we get demoted, and I liked my pay in my fucking pocket with a loosened leash around my neck. On the subject of which, you cu-.”)

RISK LEVEL: High

DIAGNOSIS: Antisocial personality disorder, post traumatic stress disorder. Patient refuses to engage with psychiatric classification.

SUBJECTS OF RISK: Self, Others, Property.

CONFINEMENT PROCEDURES: Solitary cell. Full surveillance. Amenities kept to a minimum. No sharp objects. Any meeting with others requires the presence of at least one officer.

(“Me? A threat to others? Oh, whatever would make you think that? No, clearly I couldn’t hurt a fly, unless scores of dead soldiers and civilians count for shit. Which one are you writing? You have choices, don’t you. I mean how you can say ‘capable of violence’, which is most people. Or ‘violent tendencies’, ‘belligerent’, ‘physically confrontational’. Those all tick the same fucking box.”)

AUTHORISED ITEMS:

[updated following incident PERILOUS-07]

Bandages to be supplied regularly regardless of cooperation, else patient cooperation seriously deteriorates. Requests for candles can be authorised as reward for good behaviour. Usage must be fully monitored.

PATIENT HISTORY: Found, heavily and freshly bandaged, in an unauthorised hangar raided after an anonymous tip. Possible suicide attempt, which subject denies.Records designate them as a member of a partially unidentified military group, responsible for the massacre of Fesyne.

Subject testimony is unreliable.

(“My history? About as rote as a black ops soldier gets. Don’t give me shit like i’m the first traumatised sod from that background to show up here. Fine. Born, then something, trained to kill, then did. Made into a demon, acted like it, went too far and after that a few failed attempts at doing something good lead to this. No, I won’t say. The only thing i’ll tell you is who I killed the most for, but if I do you won’t write it down.”)

NOTES FROM PRIMARY THERAPIST: Peri is inherently untrusting of our institution, and while he exhibits signs of genuine remorse and has expressed past desires to make amends, she refuses to cooperate with our methods in any way.

My main concern is her isolation. She is kept in solitary confinement, given her prior history and numerous altercations with other prisoners. However, looking through the incident reports, he has never dealt any more than superficial injuries, if any, in these cases. Worryingly, it would seem that he wants to be fought and lose, for what reason I cannot discern.

It is my opinion that a spectrum of medications could resolve this. However, getting her to ingest them, or accept injections, is an issue. I recommend alternate methods of administering them to him.

(“Don’t try that shit again. I choose what goes in my body. It’s mine now, you hear me? Yeah, I know the concept of medicine. I just don’t trust your shit. Look, I know a lot more chemistry than you think I do. And you’ll always underestimate me on that, just because I had to pick warfare over some noble’s college.”)

NOTES FROM PATIENT

[patient refused to submit notes except in hand writing. Two days on from this, against the patient’s wishes, patient’s old bandages were taken. They had writing on them, which has been transcribed further below.]

I’m not taking any drugs I can’t identify, I’m never cooperating with your therapists, I don’t want a single fucking thing to do with the corps that fund you. Oh, and if you make it worth my while, say, by holding things back from me- I will be a problem.

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I did not expect it to be so absent of fire.

A billowing black cloud, spread by wind down what would be called a battlefield. Genetrace gas. Can’t be made in large quantities. Not yet, I hope. Tiny machines, two ifs and an else.

If biological, isolate the nucleus then autosomes. If approved, end program. Else: burn through.

Like fire, more like acid.

They don’t look like people after. Too much of the shape is gone, doused in the blood it ignores, as if only to remind you this thing was once alive. Most everything else is untouched, but you can’t see it. You can’t see anything else.

Just a stream of blood and ash.

Let me light another candle.

In theory, I could not die there. In theory, I had been granted a pass. Even now, they don’t know if I still have it.

Them not knowing what is still in my flesh and what I have pulled out screaming (it or me), is a satisfaction. They don’t get to choose who I kill anymore.

Though, do I, really?

The processes lined me with circuits, lessons, DNA, conditioning. Cut out, extracted, relearned what I could. But I’m the shadow of those not-corpses, now. I look like people. But where they would have a soul, I don’t.

Just ash and blood, in its shape.

Let me light another candle.

When a body is ill, it heats up. Tries to burn away the pathogen. It’s destructive, but not just a lesser, it’s scarcely an evil.

The diaspora is a map of pyres: of heat caused by or boiling out the evils that infect it. When I fire, each trigger pull, the only memory still in my muscles: it used to be for the greater evil.

Now; the scarce one.

I had assumed fire was death, here. But no. Fire is life. Fire proves that the fight is still going on, that there’s still light on cruelty.

Fire is the hatred of death. They’re bedfellows, not synonyms.

I’m out of blood, I’m fucking done with ash.

All I have left is fire.

Let me light another candle.

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(“Let me free to fix things, or leave me here to rot. Your choice, not mine.”)

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[about my own oc, who i created] in theory its possible she would say that, but we just dont know for sure

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hhhhhhhgg ocs,,,,

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OC questions

60 questions that can be made into an OC ask game, or you can just fill everything out yourself to get to know your character a little better :)

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[1] What first impression do they typically make? Are they likeable from the get go, or take time to grow on people?

[2] How does their social personality differ from how they act when they’re alone?

[3] What emotion is the hardest for them to deal with?

[4] How physically and emotionally affectionate they are?

[5] Are they good at keeping secrets?

[6] How direct are they in conversations, do they speak in hints and riddles or bluntly say what they think?

[7] Are they a good liar, and what would they probably lie about?

[8] How open they are about their true feelings, both positive and negative?

[9] What is their love language?

[10] How quickly do they fall for someone?

[11] What are small things that make them happy?

[12] How high is their self-esteem?

[13] What kind of sense of humor do they have, if any?

[14] What does it take to make them laugh, and what does their laugh sound like?

[15] How do they act around people they don't like?

[16] Do they easily rely on others to help them out, or prefer doing everything themselves?

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[17] What is their biggest struggle that no one around them is able to understand or believe?

[18] Do they ever have to hide their identity and for what reason?

[19] If they could change one thing about their past, what would they change?

[20] When they’re sad or upset, do they need company or some time alone?

[21] When they’re sick, would they want others to visit and take care of them, or they would rather prefer not to be seen at not their best?

[22] Do they have nightmares, and if yes, when did they start and what are they usually about?

[23] What was the worst, the darkest period of their life that they have been through?

[24] How hard it is for them to not allow their emotions to cloud their judgement?

[25] Do they have fears and phobias, and if they do, do they usually keep it to themselves or talk about it openly?

[26] Do they have any physical or mental ilness, how do they handle it and how open they are about it?

[27] Do they have any scars, how did they get them and how do they feel about them?

[28] What is something that they will never be able to forgive?

[29] How do they deal with loss, stress and anger?

[30] What are their most healthy and most unhealthy coping mechanisms?

[31] How hard it is for them to own up to their mistakes and wrongdoings?

[32] Is there something they've done in the past that they deeply regret till this day?

[33] What are one of their fondest and most treasured memories?

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[34] Do they have vices they don't want others to know about?

[35] Do they like their own appearance, and what do they do, if anything, to alter it in any way?

[36] Do they own items that have sentimental value?

[37] How would they spend a lazy day when they have nothing specific to do?

[38] What do they usually do or where do they go when they need to feel comfortable and safe?

[39] What is their sleeping habits and favorite sleeping position, either alone and with someone?

[40] How picky they are with food, do they have specific dietary requirements based on their health or culture?

[41] What’s their usual morning routine?

[42] What is their idea of a perfect friendly hangout and/or romantic date?

[43] Do they enjoy flirting or being flirted with?

[44] On a party, where would you find them?

[45] For an event, would they dress like they typically do, or go all out?

[46] Would they rather dress to look attractive or to feel comfortable, and what would they never wear?

[47] Do they drink alcohol, and if they do, how much and how often?

[48] Are they, or were they at some point in their life, a part of any subculture?

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[49] Do they possess any unexpected skill or knowledge that surprises others, and otherwise, what is something anyone would assume they know or can do, but in fact they don’t?

[50] What are they really good and really bad at?

[51] How good are they with money?

[52] Do they speak any other languages aside from their own?

[53] Do they like to sing and how confident they are with their singing?

[54] Do they like giving gifts, and how good are they at picking good gifts?

[55] How long does it take for them to make a new place feel like home, and what do they need for it?

[56] How would they react to hearing a dirty joke?

[57] What was the most stupid or dangerous thing they have ever done?

[58] In the situation where they had to choose, would they rather stay loyal to their morals or to people they love?

[59] What would they want to be remembered for?

[60] If they were to commit a crime, what kind of crime would it most likely be?

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some of these question were written myself, some are the courtesy of my friend, and some were brought from my questionnaires in my old fandom. if you use them, please reblog or link back to this post

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Morgana Barrat.

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RECORD OF BODILY MODIFICATIONS: MORGANA B.

RANK: LEGATE

CLASSIFICATION LEVEL: JUPITER

BIONIC | REPLACEMENT

Right foot-ankle-lower shin

Installed by HA medicus legionis Brimesent

Field triage IV, Border planet Samos, 4900u

Patient’s notes: Takes time to adjust to. Improves kicks and fine pedal control. Overall, a worthy replacement. I will be able to carry on fulfilling my role at the same level of ability.

BIONIC | REPLACEMENT

Right shoulder

[Lower, organic segment reattached]

Installed by HA medicus legionis Brimesent

Field triage XII, Border planet Samos, 4903u

Patient’s notes: The work of Brimesent is efficient and effective. Total removal of the shoulder has allowed for a replacement that has better range of motion, less fatigue, and the certainty in performance that cybernetics provides. It is not a shame to have lost the biological original.

GENETIC | SUPPLEMENT

Blood cell production booster

Installed by HA medicus cohortis Elaine

Lugdunum forward station, 4929u

Patient’s notes: Should not be marked as a supplement. This is a weakness in my body I have had for a long time and only just been able to expunge. My efficacy and efficiency in all matters will be far improved now I am rid of this.

GENETIC | SUPPLEMENT

Bone strengthening

Installed by HA medicus cohortis Elaine

Lugdunum forward station, 4930u

Patient’s notes: Took too long to access. Where I had to fear injury, I now possess greater strength than most. The ability with which I can now carry out my work is far superior to before- my weak body is now closer to what it should be.

BIONIC | REPLACEMENT

Eyes

Installed by HA medicus cohortis Brimesent

Command centre triage, Border planet Thule, 4932u

Patient’s notes: Medical stay extended far beyond what was necessary, psychiatric treatment an insult: these new eyes are a gift. Like my prior therapies, this has made me a better solider with less flaws. I am not as weak as I was- I do not need to spend weeks dwelling on identity.

GENETIC | TREATMENT

Bionic rejection suppressant

Installed by HA medicus legionis Albagia

Field triage XVI, Border planet Thule, 4932u

Patient’s notes: Emergency treatment. It was necessary, as my body struggled against the prior improvements applied to it. This serum puts those insufferable pains and points of sickness to rest. The parts of my body I was born with are merely trying to spite me now. Luddite limbs.

BIONIC | REPLACEMENT

Left abdomen-kidney. Pancreas. Part intestine

Installed by HA medicus cohortis Blasine

Field Triage II, Border planet Chryse, 4938u

Patient’s notes: This was major repair work. It goes to show how little my weaker body can withstand. The steel resisted the shrapnel that tore through flesh. Having new steel, to patch it up, to truly resist the next- it is progress.

GENETIC | TREATMENT

Antibody production booster

Installed by HA medicus legionis Albagia

Field Triage III, Border planet Chryse, 4938u

Patient’s notes: All the ways in which my feeble born body lacked, and lagged behind the default, are dealt with. The parts that are still vulnerable are now at least able to resist infection.

BIONIC | SUPPLEMENT

Left foot-ankle-shin

Installed by HA medicus cohortis Brimesent

Miletus forward station, 4943u

Patient’s notes: A vast improvement to my balance- having both feet be made of steel means there is no longer a weaker one between the two. The Armoury resisted permitting this. My surely increased efficacy in the field will display its necessity.

BIONIC | SUPPLEMENT

Left arm exoskeleton

Installed by HA medicus cohortis Brimesent

Miletus forward station, 4944u

Patient’s notes: Not a full replacement. Such an operation could not be sanctioned and allusions to severing my own arm were taken as jokes. The higher ranks will see the light in time. For now, these enhancements to my arm will suffice.

GENETIC | SUPPLEMENT

Blood cell production booster

Installed by medicus Orcades

Shakdvipa forward station, 4961u

Patient’s notes: The last treatment of this nature should have been enough, but the soft parts of me have objected to the mere passage of time and undone the work. It’s shameful, and with my will, not something that I will need to seek again.

BIONIC | SUPPLEMENT

Spinal exoskeleton

Installed by medicus Brimesent

Patient’s notes: Improves reaction speed, improves armouring, is seen as threatening. If more of my fellow legates understood the strength they were unwilling to accept, the Armoury would not have to fear defeat again.

GENETIC | SUPPLEMENT

Sub-dermal metallisation

Installed by medicus Orcades and medicus Brimesent

Patient notes: Finally, even those parts of me that cannot be replaced with their betters can be strengthened, can withstand violence. I am approaching my full potential as a weapon. Killing me is harder than ever. Let me see how many unimproved cowards can even approach me now.

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