#I love codebreakers

[okaioh]

good morning, hope your day is going well, anyways do you ever think about -

"For you, the world, phil"

and

"I'll be your arms"

[c1c3da]

IM GIGGLINGHH

code breakers

[becauseplot]

qPhilza perching on people because bird

qFit: Mans is built like a brick shithouse—he can totally balance Phil’s additional weight. The first attempt is a bit shaky, sure, but nowadays Phil swoops down or hops up onto Fit’s shoulder and all Fit really has to do is jut out his elbow to give his friend a little more space for his talons to work with. Bam, he’s perched. Works out about 9.9 times out of 10, though Phil delights in trying to catch him off guard.

qEtoiles: He doesn’t have Fit’s bulk on his side, so he’s not as sturdy, but he is strong. The landing is usually a little rough since Etoiles has to work a bit harder to counterbalance the additional weight, but he always finds that center of gravity in no time flat. Phil usually perches with one talon on each of Etoiles’ shoulders since he’s not as w i d e, just so Phil can have a little extra grip. At some point, Etoiles tries fighting a mob while Phil is perched on him, and that goes exactly as well as you would expect.

qForever: Honestly, with all of the hard labor Forever does for his big builds, Phil was expecting him to do better, but the first (several) attempts end up with Forever stumbling over and knocking Phil off of him from his wild arm-pinwheeling. They eventually figure out it’s more doable if Forever himself has something to lean on (a wall, a chair, the butt of his pickaxe) and Phil puts one talon evenly spaced on each shoulder. Phil learns some new swears in Portuguese in the process.

qMissa: Flattened. Full-on face in the floor, mouth full of grass, wind knocked out of his lungs at Mach 5 the first time Phil tries. Phil apologizes profusely, but Missa—once he can breathe again—just rolls over onto his back and asks Phil if they can give it another try. It takes a long, LONG time, but they figure out that if Phil plants his talons on Missa’s shoulder pads and leans forward while Missa leans back, they have a small little window of time where they achieve balance. The best part? Phil gets a perfect view of Missa’s goofy little grin every single time.

[kristiliqua]

etoiles hyping phil up at every chance he gets will never Not be funny to me

[lucienff]

the leader and his bloodhounds

[c1c3da]

AHHHHHHHH THEM!!’n

I hope this hasn't been done yet

[royalarchivist]

Etoiles: Phil, how are you, Phil?

Phil: I'm good, I'm good. How are you, how are you?

Etoiles: Did you have a good day, Phil? Did you have a good day?

Phil: I did! I had a good day. It's always a good day when you show up, king. 😊

Etoiles: No more it's a good day because you went in front of the mirror and you remember who you are!

Phil: [Cracks up]

Etoiles: It was a good day, man! [Punches him] Well played for the good day! Well played, well played!

Phil: Well played, well played!

[rakkuntoast]

your honor-

[tosh1trash]

There isn’t enough codebreaker duo art out there so I’ll do it myself >:)

[ppendragonns]

haven’t posted in a little bit but here you all go. feast

etoiles design heavy inspired by kasirvox ‘ design

[lilythelitten]

I’ve mentioned a few times that the Detective Club doesn’t seem to have any named members outside Logico and the Murdle Jr. kids (Irratino, I HC as an associate instead of a full member, and I sincerely doubt they’d let any of the suspects save maybe Obsidian in :P). So! Have some OCs to fill out the ranks.

More about each under the cut:

Journalist Jade

5’5, Right-Handed, Brown Eyes, Black Hair, Aquarius

Jade is a 30-year old investigative journalist, taking to the streets to look for headliners and expose crimes for all the world to see. She’s passionate and can be a bit reckless in her pursuit of a big story, but she’s overall a nice person. She’s also the one who originally invited Logico to the Detective Club (in my mental list of Stories I Want To Write Someday, one of them is how Logico became part of the Detective Club—TL;DR, he wound up working with Jade to expose some criminals and she gave him the invite shortly thereafter), and might have had a bit of a crush on him—he’s fairly handsome despite his overall scruffiness, and they worked well together—but obviously, that went nowhere on account of Logico being both not into women and also a major-league jerk pre-Volume 1 :P

Overall, I’d say Jade’s drawing turned out the best; the design was nice, and translated into my artstyle rather well. I accidentally drew her hair a lot shorter than I’d originally intended, and I completely forgot the camera until I was already outlining and had to hastily add it in, but I’d say it all worked out in the end. Her style suits her ^^

Forensic Analyst Bella

5’3, Left-Handed, Brown Eyes, Red Hair, Gemini

Bella is 26, yet in many ways, she acts like a high school popular girl; chatty, fashionable, gossipy, phone-obsessed, and just a bit mean. One would think someone like that would have no place in the Detective Club, but Bella graduated valedictorian of her college and is a known forensics expert. She can tell you when someone died and what poison was used to kill them as easily as she can tell you whether or not your shoes are “in” this summer.

Bella was actually the first Detective Club OC I designed; the forensics part came later, to give her more an identity beyond “Detective Club member”. I like her sunglasses, and her being the only one who carries a walkie-talkie in addition to a phone; ya gotta be prepared when solving crimes. (Oh, and in case you’re thinking I broke the color name rule…I didn’t. Yeah, maybe using a color named by a paint company is cheating, but oh well. I was originally going to use magenta, but then I figured I should probably pick a color less likely to be given to a canon character ^^;)

IT Guy Auburn

5’8, Right-Handed, Brown Eyes, Red Hair, Virgo

Auburn used to work for TekCo, before leaving the company following an “incident” he doesn’t talk about; at 29, he’s just a year younger than its current CEO. While introverted and socially awkward at the best of times, he’s a whiz with computers; if the mystery leaves some digital footprints behind, you go to him. (That his skills are upstaged by a detective in the junior group—the daughter of that aforementioned CEO, no less—is something Auburn awkwardly avoids acknowledging.)

Okay, so I found quite a few color codes for “auburn”; I wound up picking the most common two and using them for his headphones and jacket respectively, which is probably the best compromise I could’ve made ^^; I think I got the “tech guy” look down pretty well, even if he does look a bit more like a gamer than anything else. (I’m sure Olivia would beat him in that regard too :P)

Socialite Vanille

5’0, Right-Handed, Blue Eyes, Blonde Hair, Pisces

At 23, Vanille is one of the Detective Club’s younger members, and also one of its few wealthy members. She comes from high society, and looks and acts the part. Some look down on her as just a rich kid with no actual skills. Vanille simply smiles, because social skills—telling people what they want to hear, getting them to trust you, figuring out who you can and can’t trust yourself—get you very far in an investigation. (Someone should let Logico know that :P)

Vanille’s design admittedly didn’t translate as well as everyone else’s did, mostly because I didn’t actually realize the color of her hair and jacket were so close. And also because after three drawings of decent hands, I got cocky and thought I could do a complicated pose with her hat. Don’t be like me, kids :V I do still like her, though. She’s the first character I’ve ever drawn in a skirt or dress XD And yes, as her name implies, she is French. You can get a surprising amount of OCs through translating colors into foreign languages (looks at Logico’s maternal relatives).

Codebreaker Clover

5’6, Left-Handed, Gray Eyes, Blonde Hair, Scorpio

Clover is 31 (though you’d be forgiven for thinking he was younger), brilliant with cryptography, and kind of a wreck. No one really knows what made him so twitchy and paranoid, or where he learned his codebreaking skills, though some believe the two things are connected. Clover himself thinks everything is connected; everything has a purpose, everything is part of some plan, and everyone is somehow involved. His conspiracy theories are legendary throughout the club, and most of them are known to be complete nonsense. (The rest…well, maybe it’s best not to dig too deep.)

Like Bella, Clover originally had another name—Cyan—before, again, I changed it to one less likely to be used in canon. He also had a couple different titles—first Conspiracist when I wanted to emphasize the “wild paranoiac conspiracy theorist” thing, then Cryptographer when I settled on what he actually did, then Codebreaker because Cryptographer was too similar to Cloud’s title :P He also has the most complicated pair of glasses I’ve ever drawn. I think they came out nicely ^^

Parapsychologist Pitch

5’5, Left-Handed, Green Eyes, Black Hair, Sagittarius

Nobody’s quite sure what Pitch does. Or, frankly, what they’re doing here. 27 years old, they have a love for the macabre and a fascination with the paranormal, and every case they take is some flavor of spooky. One would think they’d fit in better with the Investigation Institute, but they just say they like hands-on experience more than sitting in a chateau doing experiments. They’re fairly chill outside that, if enigmatic at the best of times; they might be playing up their strange behavior to spook people, though. You can never really tell with Pitch.

Pitch originated as an Investigation Institute OC, before I decided I liked the Institute’s actual characters better and repurposed them for the Detective Club :P I do really like their design, though. I love their dyed hair and eyeliner (yes, the points on their eyes are meant to represent eyeliner) and goth outfit. Fun fact: The words on their shirt, if you can’t read it, are “Cinematic Anarchy”. Yes, it is a band shirt. Yes, I came up with that name myself. And yes, it is very edgy :P

Anyway, that’s my characters, they aren’t Logico’s friend group because Logico barely has any friends but they do fill empty space where the rest of the Detective Club is, so. There’s that :P

[barbietoiles]

You know what i like about phil ships. He is just soooooo obsessed with the other person.

Pissa = old man crying over seeing skull. Old man sobbing over missa mention. Old man excitedly running towards husband when he shows up, then proceeds to declare his love at the end of every sentence. "kiss me right now, on the lips" 👈 LOVESICK WET BIRD

Codebreakers = have you seen how much he brings etoiles up. Every chance he gets hes babbling on about how cool and capable etoiles is. When they meet, ANY chance he gets to interact with him he WILL. Spots a pixel of etoiles in a crowd must approach must call him the goat. Theyre both so enthuasiastic about praise, they simply keep stacking compliments. Phil just wants to play around and have a praise battle in a loop forever

Fitza = to be fair fit is instigating things more but they just keep piling weird and genuine compliments higher and higher. Every chance at praising fit he gets, he takes it. Every chance at showing off to fit, he takes it. Fit showing off to him he loves and vocalises this love in peculiar ways. Whatever fit says phil is nodding along to. So true bestie.

Philhalo = Another guy he talks about often when capable and cool people are brought up in conversation. Phil respects badboy but he also wants to antagonise him sooooo bad. He sees badboy he NEEDS to punch him. One manditory swear word drop per interaction BUT after that he will respect the language policy (as best he can, he is very bad at it). I need them together more i need phil trying so hard not to swear and also praising badboy and also being a bastard about it.

[mademoiselle-cookie]

Étoiles' favorite animal is crows

[becauseplot]

q!etoiles warrior “i didn’t kill it :(” vs q!phil survivalist “you lived :)”

[found-wings]

i don‘t think i‘ll ever finish this, so i‘ll throw this here :D

[cornerdreams-txt]

etoiles qsmp agere hcs?

ah, the beloved troublemaker /aff

• "no, man, you can't go fight the code or do dungeons while you're tiny. bad ff- bad idea, dude." "BUT PHIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLL" (<- conversation that occurs while etoiles is regressed on a regular basis)

• needs to be reminded to eat and drink, or use his insulin. will feel nauseous and dizzy and weak and gets distressed about it and won't realize until someone asks if he needs to test his blood sugar that "oh, yeah, that's probably what it is, isn't it?"

• gets nervous when unarmed - even regressed, he feels best when he's holding the best gear he can get his hands on. not having a weapon at least in a backpack of his makes him anxious, and it doesn't subside until he has something he can defend himself with close by

• will sleep the whole day away if his loved ones aren't awake - he refuses to be alone. not because he's scared, or because he needs help while regressed, no. not at all. rather: he misses his loved ones SO much it ACHES when he's little. he wants to be close to the people he loves, if nothing else.

• he doesn't like telling people about his regression, but if you know etoiles well, it's very obvious when he's regressed. he's so much more social, more clingy, less focused on pushing himself. he wants to have fun!! he wants to be with you!! he loves you, did you know that? he loves you!! you're the COOLEST!!! ....yeah it's really obvious when etoiles is little

• LOVES a good playfight. LOVES doing dungeons. loves adrenaline and fun and being with people, but gets very competitive. he and chayanne take their games of tag very, very seriously (which phil finds adorable, and sometimes joins in on)

• once it got installed, lucky ducks became little etoiles' FAVORITE thing to do. a safe way to fight stuff AND get cool things? um, YES please??

• so bad at forgetting to sleep when he's spending time with loved ones. it's usually phil that grabs him when he's tired, dragging him into a nest he keeps in a side room of casa bonita's property, and lays on him to force him to rest. being wrapped in cozy blankets and soft things with the weight of his big brother sprawled over his chest always knocks little etoiles out cold.