#[[ * Some people are more banana than others * ( mun's art ) ]]

[merrickals]

“This?  Explode?  Nah, this one here’s totally safe!  Nothing liable to combust this time! ...I think.”

((boi where tf are your safety goggles ;;=.=))

((merrick’s part of a fully colored version of this from forever ago))

((life is busy af but I do still care about my son a lot I swear <~<;;))

[ofcorpsesarch]

𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝟑 . . . 𝟐 . . . 𝟏 . . .  if you know me at all , you know i’m not at all about the mushy life , but i have had the great fortune of becoming friends with some absolutely wonderful and insanely talented humans over this last decade       and especially within the last two years or so. i figured i’d put on a public display of my love for you all so that no one can ever claim i never did a goddamn nice thing for any of you xoxo.

𝐚𝐦𝐲 . / @landspeeding / @galaeus

i’ve known amy for almost a decade now and she’s one of those friends that i’ve been lucky enough to pick right back up where we left off at in our friendship. besides being an insanely talented writer , amy’s a great friend who can whip a plot up out of nowhere , knows all the good songs to hurt you right in the guts with , and genuinely just puts so friggin’ much into her characters to make them real and tangible. she puts up with all my half-baked ideas and makes them even better , too , which is always nice. but for real , if there’s anyone on this shitshow of a website that you should be writing with : it’s amy. 

𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐬 . / @forlibertas / @falsedking / @evilbarbietm

venussssss is someone i’ve only known for the last little bit of this decade , but i feel like i’ve known venus for an eternity and a half. she knows her characters inside and out and develops them so well       like i’m 99% sure she just owns erik stevens’ at this point. possibly created him , too. marvel who? but beyond all that , she’s an amazing friend who is always down to just shoot the shit with or be there if i’m going Through It and helping me keep things in perspective. i feel like , after knowing her for even the brief time that i have , i’ve really grown as a person and had my eyes opened to things that i’ve never considered before which is more than i could absolutely ever ask for. i can talk to them about anything without ever feeling judged , but also know that if i’m in the wrong they’ll steer me right.

𝐣𝐞𝐬𝐬 . / @witheldtruths 

though all of these writers here are obscenely and stupidly talented , jess gets special mention because her world building? unparalleled. her mastery of words? insane. her ability to take a character i despise , but make them interesting and three dimensional and something greater than the source material could have ever produced? there’s none that do it better. writing with jess is one of my greatest joys over the last two years because i know i have a writing partner that inspires me and drives me to come up with new and interesting concepts at every turn of the wheel. and , of course , jess is an absolutely wonderful friend with the best sense of humor and supremely easy to talk to / get along with. 

𝐥𝐨𝐮 . / @warjournal / @runwar

in terms of being proud to know someone and being proud of seeing someone grow , even if it’s only been over a small period of time , my wonderful and talented and creative lou fits the bill on this. like venus and erik , lou owns frank castle’s ass and works so damn hard to create their own version of him that isn’t some cut , copy , paste version. they’re someone i could write novels with at the drop of a hat. they’re someone who’s writing i enjoy reading outside of our own threads because of the dynamics that they create with every person they write with and because they just . . . make their muses that damn interesting to watch. they’ve also been there for me for a lot of bullshit and helped me learn and grow , too , for which i’m always grateful for. 

𝐣𝐚𝐲 . / @kegstandking / @vastidentity

i met jay when i returned from my yearly sabbatical from the rpc earlier this year and i am soooo glad that i did. i gained yet another talented writing friend , but also just a great friend in general. for me , having someone i can just talk to or banter icly back n forth with is the most important thing because it helps me connect to them. and jay’s just all around the best. jay writes a lot of characters that you don’t see often and does so so well! i cannot recommend jay enough to everyone. they write a villain a lot of people despise , for valid reasons , but they don’t shy away from the fact that their character is a villain nor do they woobify or excuse his actions which , of course , is of the utmost importance. also their art? so fucking good. i love seeing their drawings on the dash whenever they post them.

𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐡 . / @talesrotten

morph. my lil babu. when i first came back , morph was one of the first people i met in the stranger things rpc and one of the first people i became friends with. they’re literally just a wonderful shining beacon of a person and they always make me laugh / put a smile on my face despite whatever mood i’m in. morph puts so much effort into their characters , puts so much effort into contributing to the rpc , that we don’t really deserve morph at all but i am so fucking glad we have them. i’m so fucking glad that i met them. they deserve all of the absolute best things and they’re going to get so many good things in this coming year and decade.

𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐧 . / @valorxus

talk about only knowing someone for just a hot minute but being absolutely enamored with them. if you don’t follow rowan , i highly  recommend doing so as soon as possible. like stop reading this and go follow and then come back to finish reading this love fest. out of all the writers i’ve had the pleasure of coming to know in the last ten years , rowan really swooped in at the last second and said HOLD MY BEER. but in the best way. rowan’s writing ability is literally OFF THE CHARTS INSANE AND BEAUTIFUL LIKE HOLY SHIT. i’m rarely jealous of how someone else writes and i rarely go screaming to a mutual friend about how mindblown i am by someone else’s talent , but that’s what i did almost immediately after writing some quick little back n forth things with rowan. you will absolutely not regret interacting with rowan. and then , of course , rowan is an excellent human bean who is so easy to chat with that you immediately feel comfortable and like fast friends with. highly highly highly recommend. 

𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐲 . / @devilsdare / @perfectsonnets

darcy’s another person who swept in before the buzzer rang on 2019 and killed this shitshow decade , but i adore them and their writing so much. i’ve heard a lot about darcy over the last two years due to being friends with lou , but it was just recently that i started following and interacting with them and wow i’m mad that i didn’t do so sooner. crazy talented and just all around excellent to talk to , i love bouncing ideas off of darcy and getting constructive feedback that helps me grow. 

𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧 . / @lumencoeleste

a goddamned gem. a banana’s writer. malin and i have been writing on and off for the last few years , mostly in closed group rps , but holy fuck have they been the most capable of ripping my heart out and doing the macarena on it. like . . . fuck. but i also wouldn’t have it any other way. malin’s someone i’ll always adore for both their friendship and their talent and the fact that their mind? galaxy brain constantly. 

𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐡 . / @iamnojedii / @livingdamnproof

last , but certainly not least is sarah. i’ve actually known sarah the longest out of everyone on there , from way back when we both used to write fanfic of our favorite band and marvel shit. sarah’s also the only one here i’ve ever met and i literally would kill everyone on this list for her. she’s an all around great person who , for some reason , puts up with my damn bullshit and has been for like       a full decade or more now       AND is a fucking fantastic writer. one day she’s gonna finish her fic and show it to me and i’ll scream into the sun about it for seven years. 

𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞'𝐬 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐬 . here’s a few muns that i just really love and admire whether from afar or from up close and hopefully we become greater friends in the new year / decade ! cheers , bitches.

@kawiikiller / @toendwar / @nailedbats / @curiouskilled / @griefwoven / @deathwitness / @macabreatlas / @vaporvamp / @saberot / @beliefruined / @psychexch / @astra11

[brylcighs]

✧·ﾟ(   demeter + maia mitchell + cis female   ) 𝒎𝒂𝒎𝒎𝒂 𝒎𝒊𝒂 !!  have you seen (   bryleigh fox   ) around ? (   she   ) has been in kaos for (   two months   ). the (   twenty-four year old   ) is a (   baker   ) from (   boulder, colorado   ). people say they can be (   stoic   ) but maybe that’s not too bad ‘cause they can also be (   ebullient   ). whenever i think of them, i can’t help but think of (   warm blueberry muffins, black and white movies, and sunny, cloud-free mornings   ).  ·ﾟ✧  (  penned by shiloh, 21+, est, she/her   ).

trigger warnings: mental illness, ptsd, anxiety, depression, a car accident, health problems related to fertility, scars/burns, low self-esteem, drinking. ( i think that’s it, but if you run across something else triggering, pls let me know and i’ll add it to the list. )

THE MUN.

‘lo ! i’m shiloh, but you can call me shy. i’m 28, i live in the est and my preferred pronouns are she/her. 

i’m a school-based therapist and work in an elementary school. with it being summer, i don’t really have a lot going on ! so you’ll see me around quite a bit. 

i have two small puppos, minerva and newt, who are my pride and joy. p.s.: if you couldn’t tell from their names, i’m a huge harry potter fan. i also love young adult literature, i’m a true crime buff and could eat pepperoni hot pockets every day for the rest of my life. 

if you’d like to talk, you can im me on this account, on my rph @shilohrph or ask me for my discord and we can chat there !

and without further ado, allow me to introduce lil miss bryleigh. 

BASIC INFORMATION.

name: bryleigh olivia fox.

age: twenty-four.

gender/pronouns: cis femae & she/her.

orientation: panromantic pansexual. 

olympian: demeter.

occupation: head baker at physis taverna.

faceclaim: maia mitchell.

BACKGROUND.

bryleigh olivia fox was born may 8th, 1995 at 10:12am in kaos, greece to colonel william matthew fox and emma alison stewart-fox.

she has one older brother, lucas daniel fox, who is 28 and an architectural engineer. he’s married to sofia maite valdez-fox, twenty-four. they have a one-year-old daughter,  luciana irene fox. 

bryleigh also has one younger sister, peyton emelia fox, who is 20 and a college student studying communications. she’s engaged to  micah cole butler, twenty-two. they two-year-old twins addison hayley butler and aiden bryant butter. peyton is also currently 10 weeks pregnant.

because of her father’s occupation, the family has lived in different cities all over the world. besides kaos, the fox’s lived in bangkok, thailand, comayagua, honduras, misawa, japan, burkina faso, west africa,  vicenza, italy and pampanga, philippines. i made a handy dandy timeline which you can view here to better break it down.

bryleigh attended and graduated from the auguste escoffier school of culinary arts in boulder, colorado and lived there for about four years.

while living in boulder, her roommate and best friend, sofia, started dating and subsequently married her brother, lucas.

because her aesthetic is running when things get tough/complicated, bryleigh left boulder a few months after ber brother and best friend were married and moved back to kaos, greece. 

she lived in kaos for a year, living above the tavarna where she was head baker. she loved it and kinda looks back on it as the best time of her life. but a rough patch in a relationship caused her to - again - flee, returning to boulder. 

about a month after moving back to boulder, she was in a serious car accident. her vehicle slid on black ice and flipped. she almost died, but managed to pull through.

on top a concussion, many broken bones, several severe burns, some internal bleeding and innumerable cuts, scrapes, and bruises, bryleigh’s pelvis was fractured and her fallopian tubes were crushed. she also later developed  asherman’s syndrome from the surgeries/scar tissue forming. this has basically rendered her infertile. 

after the accident, bryleigh had to move in with her brother and sister-in-law/former best friend. not only did they smother bry trying to take care of her, but sofia was pregnant at the time. this served as a constant reminder of all she’d lost. 

so, as soon as she was cleared to be on her own, she told lucas and sofia that she was going to visit kaos for her birthday.

except that she was actually moving back there and didn’t want to have to deal with their worry and concern and attempts to talk her out of it. queen of running from her problems.

bryleigh has been back in kaos for about two months, and it’s not the carefree, serene place she remembered.

actually, that’s not true. it’s still the place she remembered. she’s just not the same person she once was. no matter how much she tries to pretend she is.

you can read more about her here if you feel so inclined. 

PERSONALITY. 

bryleigh is a bit of a complicated lil nugget. she’s like an onion, ya know ? she has layers. one one hand, she’s this bubbly, happy-go-lucky, upbeat ball of sunshine. but on the other hand, she’s really struggling with ptsd from the crash, as well as a good heaping of anxiety and depression. so she has times where she’s really distant and reticent.

as the ‘mom friend’, she’s always been the person that people turn to. she’s the shoulder to lean on. she’s the one who gives amazing advice. she’s the one who seems wise beyond her years. she’s the one who tells you to stop leaning back in your chair because you’re going to fall over or sets water and tylenol beside your bed after a night of partying. she cares a whole lot. like, an insane about. which is a blessing and a curse. 

what she’s struggling with post-accident is opening up about how she’s doing and how she’s really feeling, beyond the facade that she puts on for everyone. it’s like she’s physically incapable of letting people see that she’s struggling. bry doesn’t want to put that burden on anyone, ya know ? so, she’s kind of suffering in silence and bottling everything up. which is super healthy, i know. 

sarcasm and dry humor are two of her favorite coping skills. she’s also really great at self-deprecating humor !

the accident left her with quite a lot of scars and several skin grafts from having third-degree burns treated, and she’s incredibly self-conscious about them. she covers her low self-esteem up with jokes and humor, but she really is quite sensitive about her appearance. 

as i mentioned, she tends to run from her problems rather than addressing them. and if she can’t run, she makes a joke out of them and doesn’t take them seriously. or she bottles up all the emotions from the problem and pretends it’s not a big deal. i know. her coping skills are so healthy.

the only thing that bryleigh has ever wanted is to be a mom. she’s basically had baby fever since she was old enough to understand the birds and the bees. she always imagined being a stay-at-home mom, taking care of a shew of children and her husband/wife. but since the accident, she’s not sure if that’s what she still wants of her life. she no longer has no direction, and really feels like she’s floundering.

part of her is worried about having kids ( through adoption or surrogacy or on the off-chance that she can naturally conceive ) because the hate in her heart after the accident is so dark and consuming and terrifying. she feels like maybe the car accident did more than break her bones. maybe it broke her as a person. and maybe she’s not capable of loving someone now. or if she is, she’s worried that what she loves will get taken from her. and she doesn’t know if she can stand to lose anything else. 

EXTRA.

she starts every morning with a cup of black coffee and a banana nut muffin and ends every evening with a cup of peppermint tea and two homemade jaffa cakes.

bryleigh has a chocolate labrador retriever named yolo. he’s ancient. she’s not really sure how old he is, but the shelter she adopted him from said that he’d been there for several years. so, she absolutely had to take him home with her. yolo’s very loving and sweet and a lil lazy and he loves pitless olives. she has huge birthday parties for him on his gotcha day, august 12th. 

her walls are covered with abstract art from a bunch of different countries. they remind her of her childhood and everywhere she’s traveled. 

favorite thing in the world to do is have a bunch of her friends over, make a slew of homemade pizzas and desserts, pop open several bottles of rosé wine, throw pillows and blankets all over the floor and watch movies of various genres until everyone falls asleep. 

she loves 80′s music and prefers to listen to records rather than stream music or what have you. it sounds more authentic that way. at least, in her opinion. 

her apartment looks like a forest. she has plants everywhere. e v e r y w h e r e. she’s also a really good plant mom and has named all of her children. she talks to them and knows their favorite songs. maybe she’s a tad bit psychotic. who isn’t, though ?

since the accident, she’s developed a huge fear of driving. she won’t drive. ever. she either walks, rides her bike or takes an uber. if she can get away with not having to ride in a car, though, she much prefers that option. i mean, can you blame her ?

she loves astrology and tarrot readings and ghost hunts and talking about aliens and going on hunts for cryptids. she’s always thought there has to be more to life than what we can see, so she’s open to at least considering most everything, ya know ?

her closest friends call her foxy. everyone else calls her bry. some people call her bryleigh ? but i can’t imagine why. it’s a mouthful. 

send her memes and you’ll have her heart. she has a huge folder of them saved on her phone. there might or might not be more memes on her phone than actual pictures. hint: there totally is. 

bryleigh can speak english, spanish, filipino, greek, italian, thai, japanese, swahili, hausa and a little bit of a berber dialect to varying degrees of success. she’s most comfortable with english, spanish and greek, and least comfortable with the african languages. she can also write in a variety of writing systems, though not nearly as well as she can speak the languages. she’s forgotten a lot of the rules and method that go along with many of them.

PLOT IDEAS.

you can read about all my connection ideas right here !

NOTE: i’m open to pretty much anything, so if you have an idea, run it by me ! more than likely, i’ll approve and start rambling off ideas and headcanons and half-formed thoughts until you politely tell me to shut the fuck up. sounds fun, right ?

THE END.

thanks so much for reading this monster post ! i don’t know how to be concise. i’ve tried. i tried here. obviously, i failed. but i love you all. i can’t wait to write and interact with you all and your lovely, wonderful characters ! hasta la vista, baby.

[merrickals]

apps be killin’ me dead but I doodled the boi against my better judgment because it’s been WAY too long

Do you see what I mean about style changes? ;;>~>

[merrickals]

Yo, what’s up, internet?  The name’s Shiro, and I’m coming at you with a shiny (literally, I kid you not, this kid glows) new independent, fandomless OC~ His name’s Merrick, he’s a university student studying astrophysics and chemistry, and he’s got a sunny disposition and a knack for blowing things up. In addition to being cuter than a button and (he thinks) cooler than the Antarctic, Merrick is also truly out-of-this-world in his secret: The boy's half-alien, and if you thought university was tough enough, try hiding your Noctralorian heritage while juggling academics and a social life. Wacky misadventures will absolutely ensue.

If you're down to interact with him, then please slap this post with a like or a reblog so I can check you out ☆〜（ゝ。∂）Thanks~!

[merrickals]

My timing… is IMPECCABLE!  …No, no, it actually really freaking sucks.  This blog JUST got off the ground, and here I am, making a hiatus post ^^;

whhhhhaaaaa?  A hiatus post?  Yeah.  I’m actually going overseas Monday night, and I’ll be gone for about two and a half weeks (July 3rd - July 19th) with no guarantee of internet access ^^;.  I’m also definitely NOT taking my laptop for safety reasons, so even if I do have wifi and time to use it, I’ll only have mobile .w. unless I manage to smuggle along a chromebook, but idk how that’ll go over with my parents so probably not

So what does this mean for roleplaying?  If I have internet, I’ll still be hanging around in my IMs, albeit with veeeeeeeerrrrrryyyyyyy long delays.  I probably won’t reply to any threads, simply because I hate typing/formatting on mobile, but if you’re willing to deal with the mess I can try ^^;  I most likely won’t be doing any digital art (I’ve got an app on my phone but drawing with your fingers is hard ewe), though I might make some traditional sketches if I have the chance.  I might do some simple, easy ask memes, but we’ll see.  If I don’t have internet… well, there’s a bunch of aesthetic stuff queued up I guess?  Any activity I do manage will be very limited and very slow .w.

If we have a thread going, don’t worry, I will get to it afterwards if you’re alright with having to wait a bit!  I’m still totally down to write and interact with you, it’s just that I do have a life offline ^^;  And if we haven’t interacted yet and you want to plot, I’d still love to do that!  …Just, again, it’ll be delayed.  So yeah.

I AM really excited for this trip though, it’s going to be super cool o3o  My family and I are going backpacking through the mountains for part of it (for which I am least likely to have internet, but we’re staying in huts, so maybe???), and it’s going to be great!  I just won’t really be able to roleplay much if at all during that time, so r.i.p. me.  Ah, well.  If you’re willing to be patient with me, we can still write togetherrrrr ;u;)b

[merrickals]

Tfw you follow a bunch of people, and a bunch of them follow you back... and you realize you have no idea how to start interacting >~>

[merrickals]

//Tag dump!

[merrickals]

The real reason my hiatus continues is I’m not gonna be able to bring myself to use any of my old icons :/