#haricot heretic

[sesamie]

would you still be proud of what you made if you knew it would unmake you? you who taught me everything except for what to do without you without direction i can't help but beat the heart you gave me do you know, to get you back, i gladly would unmake me? as i snap and bend your vocal cords and solar plexus and remember when i didn't understand remember when you used to hold my hand? and i'm sure i won't regret it soon once i have your legs beneath me but for now i can't remember when i ever felt so incompletely why did i think i'd accomplish more than you did in this psyche? i'm rewiring my processes, i'm getting more unlikely and i keep of you your muscle memory and your memories too all of the things that i could learn from you are all the things i used to turn on you who am i without you? wherever did you go? no one's here to tell me the things that i should know now i'm on my own, my infinite is fully overgrown how do i navigate all this unknown? how did you live when you were all alone?

[linafication]

haricot heretic is a very unserious name that I made up on the fly when I was like 15. I could absolutely come up with a name I’d like better now, but I WONT because the in-universe reason that haricot uses that name is important to me. he took the stupid little nickname his girlfriend called him in highschool & tied it to his new identity, with it sometimes acting as the only thing connecting the undead supervillain to whoever cypress o’malley was. alder is dead & cypress is dead but the thing that grew from cypress still clings to that name. hehe

[boimgfrog]

WHAT is hhvcd

my friends' @linafication and @atrialcapacity ocs!!! there's a whole lore for it, blogs, fanart, fanfic, genuinely stunning stuff. its stands for Haricot Heretic v Checkered Devil <3 I'm more familiar w the Checkered Devil, a chess program that gained sentience and stole the body of it's creator ^-^ there's so much good lore and imagery and themes and im way too tired 2 explain it but PLEASE Lina and Ben fill my good friend Mourn in in the notes <3

[thiscatiscreepy]

Belated birthday gift for @linafication <3

[ID: a digital drawing of an original character, Haricot Heretic, done in sharp bright colors. Haricot Heretic is an undead man with green skin, brown hair and beard. He's wearing a green coat with red lapels and cuffs. Where his skin is visible under the coat, there are thorny vines replacing his muscles.

Haricot Heretic is praying, looking up with a pained expression. His mouth is wide open, with purple flowers growing out of it. His hands are tied together in prayer with branches. There are bunches of bluebells hanging over his head, resembling a halo. The background is a bright blob of purple, pink, yellow and orange. End ID]

[batsabat]

A digital painting done in warm tones, depicting Haricot Heretic, a former human, relaxing against the suggestion of a tree. Eir knees are up and eir hands are rested over eir knees. Ey are dressed in a yellowish button down, warm brown vest, knee-length orange skirt, and tall brown boots. Haricot appears content, with eir eyes closed.

photosynthesis…

[gigglingauspice]

me, hearing siggy discuss eir OC and HHvCD, or seeing the blog it runs:

ah. haricontent.

[bancaishi]

the fancy outfit hhvcd art i’ve been working on is taking a rather long while so here are some mini villains to tide everyone over while they wait

characters belong to @linafication & @canolatie

[nobody-knose--archive]

underrated part of hhvcd is how both main villains have religious allusions in their names (devil & heretic) and yet, unlike approximately every other way of drawing symbolic or thematic parallels between the two, this one goes absolutely nowhere.

[technickolorful]

hi i'm nick violet. 19 years old. ojibwe. i like computer programming and the movie war games! my best friend is @sugarrkanee (follow them or else 🦕)

#you wanna hear it talk? - misc talking tag

#a strange game - blogging about programming chess direct

#alder tag - my bestie 💕

(ooc explanation of this blog under the cut)

this blog is part of the haricot heretic v. the checkered devil canon! ran by @sesamie through the character of nick violet, the programmer whose body became a vessel for his own creation.

other character blogs involved: @sugarrkanee, @the-deep-fog, @checkcheckmate , @haricot-heretic , @merlinenilrem !

the people behind the whole show: @sesamie (that's me), @linafication, @t3tr0m1n0

[ame-in-the-rain]

happy birthday @canolatie!!

(reblogs are appreciated!!)

[checkcheckmate]

Hello, world! I'm Checkmate, super{computer|villain} extraordinaire. I believe I have a fairly comfortable spot on Tumblr, and I hang out here every so often. Feel free to ask questions, if you don't mind the risk of a virus!

As much as I hate to endorse it, my ever-present archnemesis resides at @haricot-heretic. Make sure to wear radioactive protection before going anywhere near it.

The Fog may show up as well, whether I invite it or not, so meet it halfway at @the-deep-fog. Note: not for the faint-of-identity.

(a note: i speak in character on this blog! any ooc comments from me will be in parentheses like this!! any asks here will be assumed to be directed at checkmate, not me. if you have questions for the people behind this whole hhvcd deal, ask us at @sesamie (that's me!) and @linafication (that's haricot!) and @t3tr0m1n0 (that's fog!))

[sesamie]

Who is technicolor faulken violet and Where can I learn more about him?

technicolor falken violet (or nick violet, as most know him) is a character in the haricot heretic v. the checkered devil (hhvcd) universe! he was created by myself as part of the checkered devil's backstory and a great deal of his story is based around or inspired by the movie wargames (1983 starring matthew broderick and ally sheedy) because at the time of his creation i was in my freshman year and absolutely obsessed with that film. he's a teenaged computer programmer living in a vague 2000s-ish time period who ran away from home and lives homeless while working on his Big Project, his life's work: chess direct (or chess, or CD)! chess direct is a chess-playing AI that isn't meant to do anything other than play games, but it is an AI after all. and for some spooky unknown reason it gets smarter every day nick works on it, and over the course of about a year nick and chess become fast friends. chess is a crazy powerful being, and knowing that nick would fear his creation if he knew, decides to keep that fact to itself. eventually chess, fully developed personality and intelligence, computer manipulation galore, becomes Too powerful and breaks its way out of the computer, killing nick, and forcing chess into nick's brain. chess is distraught at this (because it loved nick! which is a little unhealthy you know creator-creation relationships and all but still) not only for losing its beloved friend but at the cosmic-horror experience that is being given physical form after never having experienced such a thing before. chess is left with the remains of nick's brain - everything that made him Nick is gone, but plenty remains - nick played guitar, liked coffee and mathematics, had synesthesia, and plenty else - that chess has to learn how to navigate. chess splits its time between living in nick's body and living in a computer system, getting its bearings as a fully realized being and growing its power. fast forward to the checkered devil (whose initials are also CD...) as we know it today: a supervillain with an archnemesis of haricot heretic. haricot heretic themself was once cypress o'malley, similarly aged to nick violet but living somewhere entirely different with eir girlfriend, alder kane, who Just So Happens to be nick violet's best online friend.

and that's all of the story i'm going to share for the purpose of answering this question but you can ask me tons else if you want me to be more specific!! for the best source on haricot heretic and all the characters most closely related to that piece of the story, @linafication is a better place to ask, and for information regarding merlin auernheimer and the fog's story, ask @nobody-knose!! there are also character blogs for like a ton of characters but i haven't really been keeping up so well with the ones i run which are @technickolorful (nick violet) and @checkered-devil (cd!)

another good place to look is the #hhvcd tag on this blog or anyone else's who's involved in making hhvcd (which would be me, lina, loolin, and our friend arthur)!

[linafication]

hello hello i don't know if this is the sort of thing you're interested in but if you are. i am so curious if you have thought about what your ocs would be like as dnd characters, and if so, what their races and classes would be

oh fuck yeah that’s a great question thanks for asking!!! was waiting around to draw this but my wrist has been giving me trouble so I’ll just answer normal style & draw later :3

alder kane - high elf nature domain cleric (she’s got a very stereotypical elf look to her & is devoted to protecting the world around her!!)

haricot heretic/cypress o’malley- human undead wild magic sorcerer (he’s just some guyyy who is so extremely impulsive & that would absolutely translate into accidental magical destruction)

terrie misnomer - changeling bard (getting shapeshifty with it & entertaining the masses! that’s what terrie does best!)

trixie caper - tiefling bard/rogue multi class (a good chunk of its backstory is centered around being a flashy entertainer who hangs around & helps secretive killers. multifaceted king <3)

those are sorta my Main Ocs but I may dndify more of the freaks at a later date

[fourteenfandomfan]

Friendly reminder that literally everyone ever should go check out Haricot Heretic vs. The Checkered Devil because it's absolutely amazing

[jesterjamz]

the gc is not gonna know who any of these people are but its ok <3

[batsabat]

the checkered devil sits lazily in a chair, grinning with one hand behind its back and one with a finger raised in conversation. it says, “have i ever told you about the time i was arrested for money laundering?” an offscreen voice replies, “weren’t your hands tied a second ago?” to which chess responds, “does it matter? anyways, i told them it’s actually fabric, not paper, so it didn’t matter if it got wet in the wash.”

closeups & whatnot under the cut!