#CHEMZEE HITS US AGAIN WITH THE ROADRUNNER ASK

[avielex]

✂️ 🍥 🎹 for babyboy(/hj) Alex! :3

CHEMZEE I SWEAR. Man they rly did keep these asks coming /lh

So... Alex! Another Roadrunner baby, and not just any baby. He's the protagonist!

He jumps on the Roadrunner bus to find some other place he could start a new life in, but his worried brother keeps texting him...

✂️ What is one of your OC's worst memories?

Thank you for specifying one, because otherwise, we'll be here all darn day. slaps Alex, "this baby can fit so much trauma in him!"

His actual worst memory is a spoiler scene in Roadrunner, so I'll go with another one that happened in his backstory. Some years before Roadrunner (about a year after his and Ace's mom was arrested for domestic violence), the mutual feelings he and a friend named Emberlynn grew into something they attended to for a while, and they dated. But only so much can be fondly remembered from a relationship between a guy with a bad parent and a foggy sense of love, and a girl who befriended him mostly because of a need to save or fix him. You can guess what happened next.

It's one of his worst memories because it came at such a bad timing (first your mom was arrested and you're left with just your bro trying to make ends meet, and now someone you loved seems to not wanna stick with you at all?), and it split the friend group he was in while leaving him reeling in the pain of the chaos. Yep, the breakup was that bad and sour, both parties were screaming the hell outta each other. In Roadrunner, his memory of the event is really murky, due to it having been somewhat modified or corrupted by his own feelings... and then he saw that three of his formerly close friends are gonna be in the bus with him.

Lyric's close to Emberlynn, and his finding out that Alex is joining the bus becomes a spark of curiosity for him, because he still wants the other side of the story. Lyric regrets standing by, not taking charge, and letting everything happen while he froze in his own indecision — so when Alex came in, he thought that he finally has his chance.

🍥 What age were you when you first created the OC?

I was 14! He was the first guy out of the many OCs I had for this little story I made, and his design being kind of generic was kind of the point. He's the guy everyone else would label "ordinary" while everyone else had something else going on for them.

(See why I called early Lyric a token character? Yeah. Not a moment I'm proud of.)

It's actually fascinating how close this first design is to his current rendition. A lot of his final details were faithful to his original description too: Dark hair, indigo eyes (made a darker blue now), and some sort of darker, simpler fashion with the occasional scarf. In Roadrunner, the scarf is from Ace, but the story behind him having it for himself (it's even in his official full-body) can be saved for another time.

🎹 Do they have any hobbies?

Not a lot before Roadrunner, but he slowly regains some bit of himself during the story. In one scene, Lyric proposes to take him on a night walk around the city they were stopping by in, after a particularly bad nightmare, and that's when Alex finds out just how much he likes observing stuff from afar, walking around and watching things unfold before his very eyes. In the epilogue, he'd go out often (this time, after telling Ace!) and just take walks around his town, going to the convenience store to grab a small and cheap snack and eating it while people-watching.

Little slip of gay here: One of the first persons he observed closely that night was Lyric himself, who had his mask down to eat. His bright smile rivaled the blinding fireworks they were watching, booming over the bay's horizon.

Alex, his shoulders relaxing by the slightest bit: "Maybe this walk wasn't so bad after all."