#it’s literally all headcanons that i’ve made up but it slots in very nicely with him so. yeah

[6footeel]

haven’t made any decisions about his colors yet so i kind of just had fun with it lol

[sunnysviolin]

Just wanted to say that I’ve been seeing a lot of your stuff in the tags recently and I love your writing!! It always makes me smile to read your headcanons :)

If you don’t mind me asking, do you have any for Kimbrey? (Aubrey/Kim) I have big brainrot for them.

Awww thank you nonnie!! You’re so sweet and kind I hope you’re having a good day! I am doing my best but this semester is brand new. I am happy tho because the way it’s looking I’m going to have two headcanons a day for you guys for this week! one in the mornign and one at night, and maybe one somewhere in the middle if any of you send something particularly striking as an anon! It’s always nice to hear from you all!! Making you smile makes me smile. So here! Take some Kimbrey

Kim and Aubrey have each others initials etched onto their scooters. They did it when they were just friends, but after they start dating they add a heart around the letters. Yeah it’s cheesy but whatever they both like it and no they will not elaborate fuck you

Kim and Aubrey are definitely the couple who like angrily confess their feelings to each other. I’m talking both of them realizing how they feel and avoiding the topic until there’s a big confrontation which ends with one of them shouting that they have a crush on the other and both blushing like fools but also holding hands

They start dating about half a year before the game canonically starts in my hc so they’re pretty established as a couple by the time everything goes down. Established, but literally only the hooligans know. 

90% Hooligans are not shocked when they start dating. Vance and Charlie expected it and Angel was told by Charlie to expect it. Then there’s Maverick who literally never knows anything ever. As a joke Aubrey and Kim didn’t tell him they were dating they just waited to see how long it would take him to realize

But listen Mav is a sheltered child from a highly religious family (he’s also definitely gay but I digress) so it takes a comically long time for him to realize. When he does it’s very much like that scene in friends where Phoebe just jumps up and down and screams CHANDLER AND MONICA over and over, but it’s Mav shrieking AUBREY AND KIM AUBREY AND KIM!!!!!

They were a little worried that Mav might actually not be super cool, but turns out he’s just very excited and slightly offended they didn’t just tell him?? Why is he always the last person to know things >:O

Kim and Aubrey don’t really like go on dates per say. They mostly just hang around with their group of friends, and have sleepovers together just the two of them. It’s very much one of those first relationship things where they say they’re in a relationship and they do special things, but a lot of it is performative because that’s how it is in your teens a lot of the time. 

They both know that they like each other, and they both know that they enjoy being gfs, but they don’t really like fall in love until almost a year into their relationship. 

It isn’t even something significant that Aubrey did. She was just over at Kim’s dad’s house helping her dad with a pipe issue once again. Kim wasn’t really watching, she was reading a book and waiting for her girlfriend to be done messing around with her dad, when she saw it. 

They had finally fixed the pipe, and her father was elated. He gave Aubrey a pat on the head and told her he was proud of how helpful his “favorite assistant” was, then he made a joke about how Kim should bring her around more often. Aubrey’s good natured grin had dropped off, and she seemed almost shell shocked. She made an excuse to go into the other hallway, and Kim on instinct followed her

Aubrey was standing against the wall, her head leaning against the plaster and her eyes closed. She was crying, her shoulders hitching up and down with sobs and her bottom lip wobbling. But she wasn’t making a sound. Kim had never seen someone cry without making noise before, and it was eerie to see now. She wasn’t sure what to do, but on instinct she walked over and slotted herself into Aubrey’s arms, burying one hands in hot pink hair and the other flat against her back. Aubrey nearly collapsed into her arms and buried her face into her girlfriend’s neck. 

As Kim held her still silently crying girlfriend a rush of strange protective emotions came over her. She had always been pretty protective of Aubrey, but this was different. It was deeper, almost all consuming. She knew that she would never let anyone make Aubrey feel like this again, and if anyone made her cry they would have Kim to answer to. 

Kim didn’t know what love felt like to anyone else. She didn’t know if it was soft or light or kind. For her it was thunderous, lightning hot, exactly like Aubrey. It hurt with how much it demanded to be felt, and how much it pushed her to impossibly do more. She didn’t know what else she could do, so she just held Aubrey even closer and breathed into the new facet to their relationship. 

[rainbowcarousels]

FFVII Fic Recs

I’ve been in the fandom now for almost six months and over that time, I have read quite a lot of fics. It occurred to me that it might be nice to do a list of a few of them. I will probably add others at another time, because no one wants to see the state of my bookmarks and most of these I even started pre-ao3.

#1. Just One by SharkbaitSekki (Zakkura)

This was the first fic in the fandom I read and thoroughly enjoyed. I had just finished Crisis Core and was all about the Cloud and Zack feels when I saw this and it fit the bill perfectly for what I wanted. Well characterised, sad, funny, felt like it could almost just be slotted into canon and was a beautiful character showcase for Zack. It also provided me with the answer of how Cloud got dragged around for a year without dying and I kind of went “Oh, yeah. Headcanoned.”.

#2 I’d cheat destiny just to be near you by Luddleston (Zakkura)

This began my love affair with Cloud Strife vs his terrible self esteem. It’s incredibly well written, again it just absolutely nails characterisations and Aerith to the rescue for these idiots in love. I just saw it now has a porny sequel too if you’re into that sort of thing.

#3 we are no heroes by hellbeast

Probably one of my first instances of reading Sephiroth centric work and it’s got such good characterisation of a Saner Sephiroth meets time travel. It was one of the things that made me think ‘hey I really like the trio and Zack, I should read more of them’ which I did. A lot. It’s fun, it feels very in character for the CC world and is an interesting what if?

#4 Divine Comedy by aimeelouwrites

Speaking of time travelling Sephiroth, if you want something that will just fuck you up, this is the fic for you. I’ve reread it three times already and the first time I literally had to get up and walk around to process it. It has demigod!Sephiroth dragging Cloud from the future into his tiny self and all of the fallout. I have to give this one extra credit because I find Angeal really difficult to nail in terms of his voice and this was the series that made me feel like I understood him better. Go check out their other works as well, because while I will do a proper rec for Hey Asshole! next time, it has literally left me in tears laughing.

#5 To Stem the Tide by corvidkohai

I was not expecting this to hit me as hard in the feels. It’s not the first fic of theirs I read, I read several early on without realising it was all the same person writing them (Again, I'll likely include these in later lists but the first I think was The Friendly Ghost and then Smile for the Camera was probably the first time I got really into Cloud/Genesis, with Lights Camera Action being one of my favourite things right now) but I love time travel so much and this is so fun and then it just hit me unexpectedly in the feels.

#6 Angel in the Rafters by skadren (Sefikura)

Featuring MagicalGirl!Cloud and so much whump that is perfectly balanced out with humour. Did I mention I had a thing for time travel fics? I love how long suffering Cloud is in this, like he was all geared up to just take Sephiroth down and then the whump got him. I don't want to spoil this too much but it's just all fun misconceptions, fun characterisations and I am also a sucker for a wingfic.

#7 Cadetship Calamity by AMournfulHowlInTheNight

Possibly the only other thing I enjoy as much as time travel is outsider perspective and this explores the fallout of Cadet Strife who knows way more than he should. Another one which makes me laugh so much. Feral baby time traveling Cloud needs to be it's own section honestly. I don't want to spoil it, but it's just ridiculously fun.

#8 Ghost in the Machine by Zenthisoror

This may have been abandoned, but it was without a doubt one of the most formative takes on Genesis as a character for me. AI Cloud goes back in time is excellent enough as a premise, but even if it's never finished, what's there is worth your time reading.

#9 5 Times Cloud Helps Avalanche (+1 Time They Help Him) by janazza

I think I read this when all I knew was the Remake, but it absolutely holds up. Lovely character study, well written, fun as hell. Cloud trying to pretend he's a merc who Absolutely Does Not Care and totally failing.

#10 Cloud and Sephiroth's Adventures in Time Travel by Interstella

Ever wanted Cloud and Sephiroth as a time travelling buddy comedy? This is for you. Another one of those extremely laugh out loud fics, sassy Cloud and the two of them basically having all the banter. Oh, and at one point, a baby chocabo uses Cloud's hair as a nest and Sephiroth has a cat called Khat, so the adorable factor plays into this too.

[zosonils]

top six fandoms/hyperfixations c:

i thought this was gonna be really fucking hard but it turns out i actually don’t shift hyperfixations as fast as i thought i did so it was only the specific ordering that was tricky hjdnkvjg let’s a go

6. homestuck - a fucking disaster in retrospect [both the fandom and the comic itself], but my experience honestly could have been a lot worse. i think getting into homestuck is where i started learning to really deconstruct media as i consume it, and nowadays i pretty much can’t read/watch/play anything without tearing the writing to pieces in my head, so i guess that’s something good i got out of it. i absolutely would not recommend homestuck fandom to anyone, it’s very high-risk mediocre-reward lmao, but between aus and rampant headcanoning and actually learning to fucking read it’s shaped how i enjoy media whether i like it or not so it gets a cursory last-place mention. also classpecting is still fun as hell

5. professor layton - another fandom i’ve sorta fallen out of, albeit in more of a ‘politely packs my bags and leaves’ way than a ‘fuck this shit i’m out’ way, but it was really nice overall. it’s a small enough fandom that everyone kinda knows everyone else [at least in the queer/neurodivergent corner that i frantically search for and sprint to every time i get into something new lmao] so i really felt like a Part of it while i was there. it’s just such a nice welcoming community and it felt good to be there and i wish all fellow luke stans and/or kinnies a very pleasant evening

4. undertale - i’ve blocked out all memory of my initial hyperfixation on it when i was like 13 because thinking about being 13 makes me violently retract into a perfect icosahedron but i’ve managed to find a nice little pocket this time that i can only assume is a sharp improvement over whatever the hell i was doing back then. i’m only in the baby stages of this hyperfixation, but i think now that the initial hype has died down and [presumably] a larger percentage of the fandom knows how to fucking read i’m going to enjoy myself a lot since the game has basically everything i like in media - it’s funny as fuck, it’s got hidden depths on an unimaginable scale, it tricks you into thinking it’ll be a fun little wacky brightly-coloured adventure and then it is that but it also punches you in each rib individually with emotions you weren’t prepared to have, papyrus is in it

3. sonic - sonic’s gotta be on here because i’ve been into it for literally a decade and it would not be an exaggeration to say that getting sonic colours on the nintendo ds for christmas when i was 7 changed the course of my entire life. like if not for sonic i very possibly would not be an artist and/or know that i am queer as hell and fuck. while i mostly observe these days rather than participating [one day i’ll pick up sa2 again or that sonic colours hd rerelease will be real and the hyperfixation will kick the fuck back in i’m sure] it really does seem like a lovely place to be now that i’ve slotted into the usual nd/queer section rather than blindly stumbling through the aggressively heteronormative masses on fanfiction.net

2. mother - mother 3 is my absolute favourite video game of all time, this coming from someone who doesn’t even like rpgs a whole lot. on the more serious side of things it’s helped me process a lot of things i otherwise wouldn’t have had a good reference point for, and on a more lighthearted note it’s led me to make so many great friends, including my now-girlfriend [cypress if you read this i love you]. it’s kinda hard to articulate but mother 3 is something that’s genuinely been so important to me for all sorts of reasons. this blog is and always will be a claus mother 3 stanning zone

1. phineas and ferb/dwampyverse - i’ve made like a million posts already about how pnf is really good comfort media for me so i’ll spare the details lmao but i think getting into pnf fandom was really good for my mental health for a bunch of reasons. not only is the show itself just a nice positive thing with no complicated emotions or heavy themes but the fandom is full of such nice people?? like i mentioned earlier with pl since it’s a relatively small fandom it feels really close-knit and friendly, which in conjunction with me posting about it A Lot makes me feel like i’m a really tangible part of things rather than just an outside observer who occasionally offers something up. i feel seen and heard and it’s just nice to be around people who care about my thoughts as much as i care about theirs y’know? it’s good. really good. i love it here. thank y’all

[kitkatopinions]

Accidentally deleted my Tyrian and Watts asks while I was trying to fix a mistake so... Sorry about that, everyone! Here they are! Tyrian and Watts for the RWBY character asks!

Let’s do Tyrian first, because I have less to say about him, I feel like.

My top three ships for the character

Tyrian/Watts. Dysfunctional villainous romance of the century, no one knows how they’ve managed to make it to their tenth anniversary without killing each other, including them. Tyrian/Salem is my second top ship for him. Major Bellatrix/Voldy vibes with this one, but I could see it. Tyrian/Hazel is my third ship for lack of options. Does this one make sense? No. But I can at least see Tyrian being super flirty and Hazel being endlessly tired, but never really stopping it. (Also I hate Hazel so much lol.)

My three least favorite ships for the character

Tyrian/Qrow sucks for me. Like... I kinda feel like two people fighting each other just gets shippers, which is fine and totally understandable. But for me, Tyrian poisoning Qrow and almost killing him and calling his beloved niece a bitch and then killing Clover is a big no from me, dog. On that note! Tyrian/Clover is also one big no from me, since Clover murdered him. And Tyrian/Ozpin is another really big no from me. Tyrian and his crazy Salem worship can stay five hundred and fifty feet away from my son.

My biggest criticism for the character

They went a little too much on the crazy in the fourth and fifth season and it made him feel annoying. Like, I don’t mind the Bellatrix vibes, but I do mind the movie version Bellatrix vibes, sometimes. It just got kinda annoying. I wish his crazy was always more on the dangerous side and less on the kooky side, but that’s just personal opinions.

My favorite thing about the character

The way people are so uncomfortable around him. Whenever Tyrian talks to Emerald or Mercury, he’s honestly freaky. Like both me and the characters are waiting for him to snap. That’s a great quality in a villain that we’re meant to hate or love to hate. He has a real presence and it’s enjoyable.

A headcanon I have about them

Tyrian doesn’t often try to act normal, but he can, and he’s got a great ‘respectable, cool guy’ act that’s actually a little reminiscent of Qrow or Clover. He’s even passed himself as a Huntsman here and there.

What I would change about them if I was making a re-write

More involvement in volumes 4 and 5, and I’d treat him a bit more seriously and make him a bit more dangerous. Maybe I’d have him wound a member of Team RNJR in his attack as well as poison Qrow (maybe give Jaune a reason to unlock his semblance in season 4 and in response to the pain of a member of his team. Also, his ‘Tyrian purple’ color should be more than just the color of his eyes. Like, how come so many RWBY characters season 4 and onward have such boring colors? I’d give Tyrian some strong purple and pink.

What I I think of their character allusion and what (if anything) I would change about it

Tyrian alludes to the animal fable ‘the Scorpion and the Frog,’ and that’s... really in name only, I think. A part of me wants to give them some kind of points for having Qrow work with him against Clover, only for Tyrian to kill Clover, which lines up with his ‘its just my nature’ scorpion stinging the frog so that they’ll both drown and die. But they didn’t mean for Qrow to really be wrong! They didn’t mean for the lesson to be ‘Qrow shouldn’t have trusted the poisonous villain’ it was ‘wowza does Qrow’s semblance hurt him. :( Too bad Clover got himself killed.’ Which makes the whole allusion kind of suck.

Now for Watts, the single best villain in my opinion.

My top three ships for the character

Tyrian/Watts. See above. This ship would be a dysfunctional mess, but it’d be a wild ride. Watts/Villain!Ironwood. I kind of hate this ship when it’s ‘fallen hero turned villain’ Ironwood. But if he actually had been written as a secret villain or obviously headed that way from the start, I can see him and Watts also being a dysfunctional mess of a wild ride ship, only with way more ‘evil power couple’ vibes than Tyrian and Watts would have. Also my favorite version of this features Watts having been the one to build Penny (maybe by stealing the plans from Pietro) and him and Ironwood raising a still bright and cheerful, still innocent and trusting, villain Penny who will attack to kill with a smile on her face and a ‘it was nice meeting you!’ And this is very weird and niche but Watts/Evil Stepsister (specifically the one with the sharp bangs and highlights.) Someone sent me an ask saying the Evil Stepmother and stepsisters should’ve been connected to Salem and gotten Cinder involved and I totally agree with this. I then started envisioning a world where the step sisters competed with Cinder and all three of them were raised in Salem’s circle. In this version of things, I could totally picture one of the step sisters having a romantic tension driven connection with Watts and the two of them subtly flirting sometimes (and bonding over their mutual hatred of Cinder.) I picked the sister with bangs for no real reason except that I like her look more.

My three least favorite ships for the character

Watts/Cinder. Watts thinks of her like a bratty little girl, and Cinder kills him. Watts/Lionheart. Kinda really hate this one because of how clearly Lionheart was terrified of him. Just a bit uncomfortable for me to see that in a relationship. Watts/Hero!Ironwood or Watts/HeroTurnedVillain/Ironwood. Sorry, but Ironwood in canon got such a bad, bad portrayal in season 8 and the end of season 7, and I just can’t help but blame Watts for quite a bit of it. I only like them as a ship if Ironwood is an antagonist from the start.

My biggest criticism for the character

They shouldn’t have killed him! He was one of Salem’s best followers and one of the best villains and it was such a big mistake to kill literally one of the only actual loyal followers. It threw off any character development for Cinder and it was a big mistake. I really wanted the Cinder / Watts / Neo team up to keep going! I’m so disappointed it got thrown away.

My favorite thing about the character

Watts is an entitled, petty bastard, and I think that’s so good for a villain that isn’t meant to be social commentary (because tbh, RWBY never should’ve tried to be social commentary.) Watts isn’t sympathetic, he’s an Atlas born and raised guy in a three piece suit, he’s posh, he’s upset because he wasn’t given exactly what he wanted. Most of the villains in RWBY are either victims of abuse, systemic oppression, or poverty, and that’s... Not fun in a show that’s never handled social commentary well and is about magical girls destroying Voldemort/Satan with the power of friendship (Ruby literally never says anything about Faunus rights iirc.) Watts is refreshing because he’s exactly the type of villain that you can expect in a show like what RWBY should’ve been, and he flourishes as that. Why would we be sympathetic to Watts when he’s just doing this all because he wasn’t picked first for his tech? Why would we feel soured towards conflicts with Watts and Team RWBY? He’s just a petty bastard being evil because he was snubbed. Why would we be frustrated that incredibly significant problems are being shoved to the side with Watts? He’s a fun villain, he’s not meant to be more, he’s not meant to make you emotionally invested only to then be gutted for it. You can hate to love him without it feeling bad. Maybe that’s why he’s just my favorite non-kid villain (other than Roman.)

A headcanon I have about them

Watts has been trying to build his own AI robot like Penny, in his spare time. He wanted it to be done in time to become a Maiden, but it wasn’t, and Salem gave that slot to Cinder and got after Watts for not contributing enough. He of course thought this was deeply unfair (especially after being made to contribute a lot to Cinder’s Beacon success without getting any credit for it.) And this just fueled his hatred of Cinder, his hatred of Pietro and Ironwood, and by extension, his hatred of Penny.

What I would change about them if I was making a re-write

I would keep him freaking alive and keep up the pair up he had going on with Cinder and Neo! But also I’d increase his relationships with Emerald, Mercury, Tyrian, Hazel... Just some more Salem’s Inner Circle moments to flesh out their characters. Other than that, I wouldn’t change much. He’s a pretty good character.

What I I think of their character allusion and what (if anything) I would change about it

Okay, I’ve talked about his character allusion in a very long post awhile ago, but I’m not scrolling down that far to tag it. To sum it up... I hate his allusion. XD I loved the Sherlock Holmes books and read most of them, and I didn’t realize he was supposed to allude to John Watson until I read someone else’s post saying so, and I started freaking out about how awful it was. Watts has so little in common with Watson, he’s essentially the anti-Watson. Which basically means he’s Sherlock Holmes, the opposite of Watson in almost every way, up to and including freaking faking his death which is one of the most iconic Sherlock Holmes thing ever. Watts is everything Sherlock Holmes is on his worst days, arrogant, callous, consumed with his projects, petty, smug, over the top - as well as being hyper intelligent and a genius who often just gets passed over. He has rivalries with his colleagues like Holmes did. And like I said, he faked his death, only to reveal himself to an old friend later on the cusp of carrying out a scheme. He’s evil Holmes! He has nothing to do with John Watson - caring, humble, down to earth, not brilliant like his friend but content to be ordinary and special because of his emotional depth and devoted heart, medical former doctor who spends quite a lot of time chronicling the successes of someone else because he’s content to live in the background. Don’t get me wrong, a ‘Watson’ character who is evil could work - Watson himself indulged in crime for the sake of Holmes sometimes in the original works and if he worshipped Salem or one of her followers and did everything for her while still being a more humble, more friendly, not brilliant person he could be good - but Watts is not that person. Even the gimmicks Watts is given are stupid and don’t make it obvious he’s Watson. Boy’s got a moustache and a revolver and they thought that’d be enough. Idk why they thought 'we’ll make him Watson’ when he’s clearly a Holmes! Also, he’s supposed to be ‘Watson if he’d met Moriarty instead of Holmes,’ and to that I say boo! Watson wouldn’t turn into a super genius just because he meets a different mastermind!

...That’s summing up my feelings, yeah. Because I have so many feelings about his warped, weird character allusion. If I was changing it, I’d just make him Holmes like I think he was clearly supposed to be.

[1863-project]

I’m at the end of my first-ever Omega Ruby run, and I’ve honestly had a great time getting to know Hoenn. I just have to evolve some Pokemon and catch the Regis and Deoxys before I move along (I’m waiting to trade with folks to finish the Dex properly, but I can do that at any point), but I think it’s worth doing a retrospective on the characters and Pokemon I met along the way.

As a region, Hoenn is unique in that it has a LOT of water routes. You spend a large portion of the second half of the game traveling via Surf. The Azumarill in my party, Pikablue, ended the game knowing Waterfall, Surf, and Dive (it also carries Play Rough), and it was one of the most crucial members of my party for transport purposes.

When I won the Hoenn League, the team May (named ‘Hatshepsut’ in my playthrough because we love cool historical figures in this house) had with her was her evolved starter, a Blaziken named Cluck You, along with Pikablue the Azumarill, Pangaea the Groudon, Charles II the Shiftry, Friendo the Latios, and the team anchor, Bastet the overleveled Skitty. I beat Steven because Bastet dodged a Zen Headbutt from Metagross and gave me the time I needed to revive both Blaziken and Groudon in the back, and their fire moves handled the rest. Bastet went on to become the first party member to reach level 100, way ahead of everyone else. She was absolutely incredible and I love her. Her final moveset: Heal Bell (surprisingly useful, especially in Doubles), Thunder, Ice Beam, and Play Rough. She’s a Dragon Slayer.

As soon as I got my hands on the Eon Flute I started running around to check every Mirage location that came up in the hopes that it would be a Mirage Cave. I knew that was where Tynamo was, and I needed Eelektross to complete the Submas team I was building (the other nine members are in SwSh at the moment; Eelektross will hopefully someday join them). On November 30th, my persistence paid off, and I went and caught three Tynamos so I could have the entire evolutionary line in my National Dex in Pokemon HOME. As it turns out, Eelektross still hasn’t been added to HOME because Third Rail has become a vital member of my party in postgame and I love him and he loves me. (I’m just Emmet, really.) The Eon Flute is also really nice in that using it allows you to literally fly in real time over the entire region, and I prefer doing that to using Fly because it’s just so aesthetically nice. Friendo just swoops down and picks me up, and we have a nice time exploring together. It’s especially pretty at night when everything is all lit up. It’s a lovely little feature exclusive to Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, and it’s so great.

Character-wise, Hoenn has produced some notables. Magma and Aqua are two of the most beloved villain teams in the entire franchise, and the reboots gave them so much more personality and gave the leaders and admins some excellent updated designs. (Years ago, when the remakes were first released, my dash was filled to the brim with Hardenshipping.) I had OR, so I had Magma to contend with, and one of the single most entertaining things in the entire game is Maxie’s losing animation. It’s perfect, it suits his character so well, and it’s just really funny. Also, shout-out to the Team Magma grunt that I met in the Extremely Obvious Hideout who told me how proud he was of kicking his soda habit whilst standing next to the vending machines. I love that guy. In terms of reformation, Magma and Aqua come around very easily when they realize that they’ve had a very bad idea - they ultimately were well-intentioned but made a really horrible mistake and set out to set things right (with the player’s help, of course). It ultimately makes both teams very likeable.

In terms of other characters, not every Gym Leader from Hoenn is a complete standout, but a few are very, very popular. Flannery is a perfect time capsule of 2003 fashion and I love that so much, and I don’t think I need to say much about Wallace. He’s just Wallace. He’s so freaking entertaining. Steven is also a very popular Champion, and he plays a pretty big role in the plot, so you see a lot of him throughout the game. (He and Wallace are also a very popular ship, with Originshipping - named for the Cave of Origin which Wallace has to grant you access to - actually being referenced in Pokemon Masters on, of all days, Valentine’s Day. Make of this what you will, but I’m here for it.) The Gym Leaders all received redesigns as well, with a lot of them benefiting greatly from it - I like Roxanne’s new school uniform so much better than her old one, for example, and once again, Wallace outshines everyone with an ensemble that would go wonderfully at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade. I wish we got to know the Gym Leaders a bit more as people, because they don’t get to stand out as characters as much. Galar actually did this very well by allowing us a lot of interactions with the Leaders outside the Gyms and as teammates and rivals in the Galarian Star Tournament. A big part of the reason Wallace is so popular as a Gym Leader here is that you see him outside the Gym multiple times and can even compete with him in Contests. You get to know him as a person more and not just as the eighth Gym Leader, and it makes him a much more interesting character.

In short, here’s how the League stacks up for me:

Roxanne: Benefited massively from her character redesign, which gives her a lot more personality. Would like to see her and Steven interact since they’re apparently friends, which I imagine revolves around going out and licking rocks together or whatever geologists do with their geologist friends.

Brawly: He still isn’t very distinct. He’s a surfer who trains Fighting-types, which is a bit of a subversion since you’d expect Water-types from someone like that, but nothing about him really pops for me.

Wattson: Gives off Grandpa Vibes. Wattson actually gets a lot of expository development via his work on New Mauville and Sea Mauville, where you find out he halted the projects to protect the Pokemon ecosystems in both locations. A lot of employees were angry about this and he was even investigated briefly for stopping the projects, even being called a traitor to the company (which appeared to overwork its employees and prevent them from unionizing), but it was apparently evidently clear that he did things out of environmental concerns, and the employees were able to find work on other projects elsewhere. This actually slots nicely into the themes of the game involving environmentalism and how to ensure the livelihoods of people and nature both.

Flannery: Time capsule from 2003! I was, of course, around in 2003 (I turned 14), and Flannery was at the peak of fashion back then. Flares were in, and I miss that trend so much. For that alone, she’s one of my favorite Gym Leaders in this generation, but I also appreciate that she’s shown trying to find her footing and figure out who she is instead of pretending to be someone else. There’s a certain performative aspect to being a Gym Leader, but it needs to come naturally from them and be an extension of their own personality, not be artificial. I would, however, love to know who her grandfather is. It’s still never been confirmed. (As a side note, a lot of people headcanon her to be Kabu’s niece, since he’s from Hoenn, which is cute.)

Norman: A Dad. More specifically, the player character’s dad. There’s really nothing that stands out about him except for that damn Slaking, which gives a lot of people trouble. I did, however, appreciate the conversation he had with Wally’s father as Wally and the player character departed together, because I’m actually pretty close to my own father (who I’m very similar to in many aspects). I’m 31 years old and I still get emotional every time my parents tell me they’re proud of me. Notably, Norman is the only player character father we have ever seen in Pokemon, though, which is odd.

Winona: In-game, she doesn’t feel like she has much of a personality, although she goes off on aesthetics pretty well. It just weirds me out that that’s her hair coming out from under the helmet and not wings attached to it. She could have been really cool but she gets the short end of the development stick.

Tate and Liza: The two of them intentionally playing up the ‘weird twins’ angle by completing each other’s sentences actually comes across really cutely because they’re kids. You can also run into them in the Lilycove Department Store being children and buying toys, a good reminder that they’re still very young and evidently very skilled for their ages. Battle-wise, my Azumarill knew Surf by this point so I ended things quickly because I’m into Doubles as it is and like using spread moves when I can.

Wallace: I’ve discussed him a lot above, so I don’t need to say much else, but he really is the most notable Gym Leader in the region, and not just because he’s the last one you face. He has a lot of personality and development, you meet him outside the Gym several times, his niece Lisia is also out and about in the game and the family resemblance is notable, and you find an old magazine in Sea Mauville featuring a woman on the cover who looks like Lisia - likely Wallace’s older sister, Lisia’s mother. The entire family gets more development than a lot of the other Gym Leaders in this region.

Sidney: The first member of the Elite Four you face...I’d actually like to know more about him. He seems like an interesting person, and I personally enjoy Dark-types myself so I always appreciate seeing Dark-type users not being portrayed as evil. His upbeat nature is nice, and it’s a pleasant surprise to run into him at the Battle Resort, even if he was only there to track down Steven.

Phoebe: I love how much her appearance contrasts with her Pokemon typing. She’s a Ghost-type trainer and you’d never guess that from her outfit! Her grandmother is the old woman on Mt. Pyre, which is why Phoebe has an affinity for Ghost-Types, and I’d love to see more interactions involving them together. You can run into Phoebe on Mt. Pyre after you beat the League and talk to her briefly - she was likely visiting her grandmother - but sadly she doesn’t get much development outside of that.

Glacia: An Ice-type trainer who we learn next to nothing about. Glacia is mentioned outside of the context of the Elite Four by an NPC in the Mauville Food Court who says she was slurping down ramen so intensely that she broke a sweat, but that’s all we know about her aside from that she’s originally from a different region, and she tells us that herself. Not very memorable.

Drake: Yet another Dragon trainer late in the game, and not one of the more notable ones. Lance and Clair are remembered for being cousins and for being the first Dragon trainers you really come across in the series, and later Dragon-type trainers like Iris (who becomes Champion of Unova in B2W2) and Raihan are carried by their personalities and distinct looks. Drake is just an old sea captain with Dragon-types, and he doesn’t really jump out at me much either.

Steven: A major player in the plot - one of the most active Champions we’ve had in the franchise - and a perpetually popular character. I never minded running into Steven out and about in Hoenn, even if it meant I’d have to listen to an infodump about rocks, and his Champion battle was actually fairly difficult for the team I brought in despite having two team members with Fire-type attacks to handle the Steel. As I mentioned above, it was my Skitty that made the decisive dodge to allow me to bring in the team member I needed to deliver the final blow, meaning this is now the second time in my life I’ve beaten the Champion with an unevolved house cat. (Rick Pratt the Purrloin is a vital member of my beloved Young Ones Galar Championship Team.) Overall, Steven’s a very likeable Champion, and I did enjoy the little detail of the rocks on display in his home - he has them labeled so you can see where he found them, and they’re from every region featured in the games up to that point.

Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire also have the Delta Episode, which features Rayquaza (which you’re forced to catch) and a character named Zinnia, who isn’t in RSE at all and is new to ORAS. Besides being named after my favorite flower, Zinnia’s personality is actually very interesting because although she comes across as cheery it’s clear she feels the weight of a massive responsibility and that the cheeriness is covering a lot of pain. Her Whismur named Aster is evidently named after someone important to her who is no longer around, and it’s never revealed in-game who the original Aster was. Whoever Aster was, though, Zinnia misses her deeply. In a 2015 interview, Ohmori Shigeru stated that the original Aster was the person who held the position of Lorekeeper before Zinnia, but we don’t know anything more than that - a shame, really, because that makes for some interesting backstory.

Overall, I had a lovely time in Hoenn, and I’ll be moving on to Kalos in the next few weeks once I finish up this Dex business first. I just wish I got to get to know so many of the characters I’ve met a little better, but I adore the team I put together and I’m super proud of them and all they’ve accomplished.

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Being Loki and Thor’s sister headcanons, please?

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what even is dating lmao

u don’t know

And don’t think about sneaking around behind their backs and doing it

Loki is the literal god of mischief you won’t make it

Nice try tho

The one guy who didn’t flee bc Loki threatened him went rUNNING bc he realized that your other brother was literally Thor

It just wasn’t an easy dating life okay

But they made up for it by being super cool brothers :’)

Like you had a midnight craving for some ice cream

You are escorted to the store and you get to choose like 497528975487254 flavors

Bc why not

This one time

You were meeting a friend for lunch

And this guy kept hanging around your table

And he got a little too close

He was escorted out by two vERY angry brothers :’)

And beat up shhhhhh

You were taken home and a Disney movie night commenced

Both of them secretly cried during Lion King shhh

You are never allowed to fight with the rest of them

And you always get upset when the rest are mad at Loki

“He’s really not evil, please guys!”

“Y/N, this is beyond our control, we have to do something”

You try to stop them from fighting among themselves as much as possible

But it’s hard

“TONY ATE MY SANDWICH”

“BUCKY KILLED MY PARENTS

“TOO FAR STARK

“SHUT UP BOTH OF YOU”

“Sorry Y/N!”

“Oh god Y/N, I didn’t know you were there”

SMH

Thor and Loki use you a lot to watch sappy movies

“She’s making us watch the notebook again.”

“She’s not even here?”

“She’s here in spirit.”

“God, titanic again Y/N?”

“You’re the one choosing the dvd?”

“Titanic again?!?!”

“I don’t even like titanic!!!”

“Hush Y/N, the movie is starting.”

sMhHhHhHhHhH

Anyways

Everyone loves you tbh

Whenever you get to visit the tower

Everyone always fights over who gets to have you first

“dIBS”

“NO I WAS FIRST”

“I’VE HAD FIRST SLOT SINCE HER LAST VISIT”

“You have sLOTS FOR ME?!?!?!”

“We have an entire schedule, it’s laminated on the fridge next to Peter’s grades.”

“I’m important enough to be laminated?”

“Absolutely Y/N.”

^awh

Thor is the big brother who offers love advice when you don’t need it but then threatens the boy behind your back

“So that spider kid…”

“nO”

“BUT IF YOU JUST-”

“NO STOP”

And then

“Stg I’ll kill you if you hurt her”

“We’re not dating???”

“Shhhhh”

And Loki is the one who threatens the guy in front of everyone and makes everyone hella uncomfortable and ruins the entire night

He also grills him

“And you do good in school? Got a job?”

“He’s a year younger than me and I don’t have a job!”

“Yeah, but you’re different.”

“You’re not good enough for her”

“loKI CAN I SPEAK TO YOU IN THE KITCHEN FOR A MOMENT”

“Why the kitchen? The laundry room is closer.”

“The kitchen is where all the kNIVES ARE”

The guy is usually half way home by then

I’m so sorry you have so many people into you but no love life

“You can’t hate everyone I go out with..”

“Watch us”

You are so freaking spoiled like it’s not even funny anymore

Not even just material wise either, like, emotionally as well

You always feel so loved and supported

Abfkbeajfknfbakjfd

Lowkey need this woop

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MY B O Y S.  I love them so much you guys.  So much.

Send me a character and I’ll write 10 headcanons for them!

Merle is a hit in most places they go–he’s irritable and rude and has a weird plant Thing and Taako and Magnus can’t really see why everyone seems to think he’s some kind of late-middle-age dwarven silver fox.  It gets even weirder when they’re wandering around Goldcliff and someone sidles up to Magnus to ask if Merle’s single and Magnus yells without thinking “GROSS THAT’S MY DAD” and Taako whips around and doesn’t even question what’s going on before he launches into a rant about it.  It all makes so much more sense once they get their memories back.  

On the one hand, I like the headcanon I’ve seen that Magnus is either illiterate or just very bad at reading and writing, but come on, y’all, he was part of Fantasy NASA too.  I propose Magnus Burnsides who everyone assumes to be illiterate, the standard muscleheaded tank, resulting in kind of an awkward moment when the Director doesn’t hesitate to order the three of them to read up on the Relics.  Merle’s the one who blurts it out, can Magnus even read, and Magnus is good-natured about it, of course I can read, Merle, what the fuck, but it’s a confusion that happens again.  And again.  And again.  

(It makes Lucretia remember the way Magnus read up obsessively on the engineering functions of the Starblaster and all the mechanics he needed to get there and the way he was second only to Davenport in understanding the ship, and she hates herself for taking that from him.)

Taako’s the one to kill Governor Kalen, eventually.  He and Merle hear word of him off in a town near Goldcliff and Merle plays lookout while Taako levitates himself right through the goddamn unlocked fourth-floor window.  Guards can kiss Taako’s fine, fine ass.  Guards ain’t shit.  Taako does it without magic, because he thinks that’s how Magnus would do it–with a knife, which is maybe not how Magnus would do it, but not with magic.  Kalen is asleep, and Taako shakes him awake first because he made a fucking promise, and he’s a little surprised by how normal and almost harmless the man looks, blinking up at him in surprise.  And then Taako says, “This is for Julia” and casts Silence with one hand while he brings the hand with the knife down on Kalen’s throat.  It’ll be morning by the time the guards show up, because an orc and a dragonborn are inexplicably rumbling with the local dryad demigoddesses in the town square and taking up everyone’s attention.  Taako and Merle corner Magnus and Taako says, you need to trust us, you’ll understand someday, but we swore we would do a thing for you and we did the thing and you can’t know what it is but it’s done and we did it just like you asked us to so THERE.  Because Taako still doesn’t really like the whole feelings bit.

All efforts to get Taako to train in the Icosagon are pretty much abject failures.  Magnus spends 90% of his free time there, and even Merle will swing a warhammer around once or twice a week if someone bothers him into it, but the closest Taako will come is sitting on Magnus’ back while he does pushups and Taako talks shit.  Look at him, Magnus.  Look.  Does Taako look like the kind of elf who runs around doing fucking jumping jacks and suicide runs.  No.  No he does not.  Remember it, Magnus, or he’ll burn a spell slot on your ass.  Do twenty more pushups, Magnus, for your FUCKING SINS.

One time Magnus thought it would be a nice sentiment to get Merle a houseplant, because their dorms could use a little life.  He buys some nice amaryllis (according to the elf who sold him the thing) and ties a bow around it and gives it to Merle.  It lasts three days before Taako reaches his threshold for Merle’s plant Thing and incinerates it–to put both the plant and the rest of the Reclaimers out of their collective misery.

After the whole debacle with the three of them showing up for a mission briefing in their pajamas with 90% of Merle’s ass hanging out and Magnus electing to actually change clothes mid-briefing, they start a private bet to see who can ruffle the Director.  They know that she can be unprofessional (”hot diggity shit, Taako, she said hot diggity shit” Magnus hisses under his breath), but the first person to make her actually yell at them for their shenanigans wins everyone’s Fantasy Gochapon tokens at the end of the next mission.

Naturally this is unsuccessful, because, over the course of a  century, Lucretia completely lost the ability to be more than mildly surprised by anything the three of them can pull.  She’s perfected the art of being unimpressed with them.  Merle one time sprinted into the cafeteria buck-ass nude on a dare and Lucretia stared at him with the expression of someone who puts up with the insufferable, year after thankless fucking year, and dares him to top that shit.

The three of them act like they have literally never heard the words ‘personal space’ or ‘privacy’ in their entire goddamn lives.  Even Taako, who’s prickly with everyone he meets, is physically all over Magnus and Merle at all times without regard for any sort of personal bubble.  Taako can’t see over the crowd?  Magnus has got that shit, pop that elf on his fucking shoulders like it’s the most normal thing in the world.  Magnus not sure what to do re: looking presentable?  That’s fine, Merle and Taako know every detail of every item of clothing he owns and their Unique fashion senses basically cancel out until Magnus looks normal.  Merle not moving fast enough?  Taako doesn’t have time for ‘permission,’ cast Featherfall and let Magnus sprint down the street with Merle under one arm and Taako under the other like a Fantasy Quarterback.  Merle naps on Magnus’ floor.  Taako wanders around in Magnus’ clothing.  Merle braids Taako’s hair.  Fucking status quo, my dude, this is How It Is.  None of them even notice, at first, it’s just…normal.  It’s like they’ve been living right on top of each other for a hundred years.  (Ha.)

All three of them have nightmares.  Magnus’ are always about Ravensroost, pulling the bodies out of the wreckage, looking, searching for something he doesn’t want to find, until his hands are bloody to the elbows and he’s crying and–the blood was dry, by the time he got there, but it’s always fresh and red and awful in his dreams.  Taako’s are usually about Glamour Springs, his body as useless as a mannequin, his mouth unmoving while he screams no, no, please, no, it’s poison, but sometimes it’s just loneliness and someone who isn’t there and he doesn’t understand why those are the ones that make him sob when he wakes up.  Merle’s are fewer and farther between, and he never remembers anything about them, he just remembers darkness and sunset and the knowledge that he’s going to die, and die, and die, and it will never do anything to help anyone.  There are a lot of three-in-the-morning insomnia nights in the kitchen, is the point here.  Sometimes if Taako can bring himself to do it, he makes hot chocolate and mutters something halfhearted about none of that powdered shit, milk in a pan or death, because Taako will stuff his face with junk food until he’s dead but he will never half-ass hot chocolate.  It’s more reassuring than almost anything else, listening to Taako mutter and bang around in the kitchen while Merle and Magnus sit there silently and recover.  On the other side of the base, they don’t know it, but Lucretia is doing the same thing, with chamomile tea from a recipe that Lup taught her.

All three of them would literally rather die than admit it, but there’s real-facts combat about what happens to Angus after everything.  Obviously he can’t go home, kid’s grandfather kicked it and his parents sent him off to live with his grandfather, so the battle royale comes down to this: who gets to keep the boychik.  After the dust settles, it turns out that actually Angus has a scholarship to go study some fucking Fantasy Forensics shit and the agreement comes down that he’ll stay with Magnus on breaks, because Magnus is closest, and that Taako has visiting/teaching rights whenever Taako wants because Taako says so, and Merle has permission to come up with bullshit excuses to be around at the same time as the kid sometimes.  Obviously Taako is a package deal with Kravitz, who Angus likes perfectly fine now that he knows Kravitz isn’t in the market for any Reclaimer souls, and also with Lup, who comes fully equipped with a Barry, and Lucretia comes to sit with Magnus and drink and pet his dogs sometimes, and Davenport comes to see her from time to time, so basically the battle royale was pointless and Angus upgrades from being mostly alone in the world to having eight parents plus his lesbian aunties who like to teach him to shoot stuff.

After Refuge, Magnus and Taako and Merle all get fucking blasted together.  It’s not celebratory.  It’s sitting on the floor with bottles of hard liquor because they’re too tired to sleep and they feel like death and it’s only two in the afternoon, they’ve literally only been back for an hour and a half.  Taako tells the story of what the Chalice showed him almost offhandedly, like it’s a good joke, hey, Taako’s riding high, totally innocent, my dudes, but then he takes a slug of Fantasy Tequila like it’s his fucking job and sits there staring at the bottle for a good few minutes before he says anything else.  Magnus is halfway through his bottle of Fantasy Gin before he slowly, so slowly, like every word costs him, tells them about what happened to Ravensroost, and about Julia, and the two of them sit and listen silently in what might be the only moment of tact that the world will ever see from them.  Merle’s mostly drinking in solidarity, here, and so he’s the one who muscles Taako into the nearest bedroom (Merle’s, in fact) when the elf kind of droops, and who manages, with no small amount of effort, to drag Magnus onto the couch–Magnus is easily twice Merle’s height and built like a fucking brick house, this is a minor miracle.  He makes sure they’re lying on their sides and leaves water by their heads and clatters around loudly in the morning to cover up the fact that he’s cast Cure Minor Wounds in an attempt to lessen their hangovers.  

[foundcarcosa]

cxc.

1. Your first OC ever? >> Technically, my first ever OC was probably a teenage girl named Clarissa, or an Earth-loving (in the time of moon habitats) young man named Eden, or a moon-dwelling girl named Deirdre Halloran, or Aidan Quinn or any of the other characters from my Beauty and the Beast rewrite... because I made up all these guys when I was still in single-digit age and continued to develop them throughout middle school. Although that development didn’t get very far, because back then I knew way less about how to write humans than I do now.

2. Do you have a personal favourite among your OCs? >> I have too many OCs to have an actual favourite.

3. Have you ever adopted a character or gotten a character from someone else? >> Darya, a friend from my early RPing days, let me ‘adopt’ one of the lesser-known (amongst our circle) members of her Katin clan -- Mikhail -- once. I don’t think I got to play him much at all, but it was still flattering enough to be entrusted with one of them in the first place.

4. A character you rarely talk about? >> All of them????? Except the fandom ones.

5. If you could make only one of your OCs popular/known, who would it be?  >> Eh, that’s quite all right.

6. Two OCs of yours that look alike despite not being related? >> A lot of my characters probably look alike because I gravitate towards certain physical traits. I can’t think of two particularly stellar examples off the top of my head, though.

7. Are your OCs part of any story or stories? >> Some of them are. The Bayou Devils crew is part of a kinda urban fantasy-ish nWOD-based thing I was going to write. The Anathema was part of a very formulaic urban fantasy story I’d written last decade that I sometimes fantasise about overhauling and rewriting... except I’m not sure I can take the Anathema out of that particular formulaic urban fantasy mold without having to do away with everything about them.

8. Do you RP as any of your OCs? If you do, introduce one of your RP OCs here! >> I roleplay a fandom OC, Anand, who’s based in the Dragon Age fandom but is meant to be compatible with a wide array of fandoms. He’s not really fully formed. I’d planned on fleshing him out during the act of RP.

9. Would you ever be willing to give any of your OCs to someone else? >> Sure. I’m a storyteller, not a hoarder.

10. Introduce an OC with a complicated design?  >> Er... I’m not sure how to answer this.

11. Is there any OC of yours you could describe as a “sunshine”?  >> Like, someone with a really sunny disposition? Dax Kessler is a bit like that. But he’s a mutant, so there’s also the fact that if he’s attached to you, he will literally hulk out and destroy anything that even looks like it’s trying to hurt you. ...That’s ideal, right? An attentive, good-humoured six-foot-seven genetically-modified mutant? Hell, I’d take it.

12. Name an OC that isn’t yours but who you like a lot >> Dmitri Katin. He’s Darya’s and I love him to death. I love him like I love my own self. I would kill for Dima.

13. Do you have any troublemaker OCs?  >> Do I have any OCs that aren’t troublemakers...? They pretty much all are, in some way or another. I’ll pick one, though... Severin Sane. He runs a bar called the Church of Ill Repute, where everyone calls him ‘Reverend’, and he’s a vampire. That all just sounds like trouble, doesn’t it. Well, it totally is.

14. Introduce an OC with a tragic backstory  >> Siobhan Caine was born of an archangel and an archdemon, making her a very potentially-powerful nephil but also making her incredibly cursed by both factions. She was under a spell of forced celibacy for a good few centuries. It sucked. At some point she became the Mistress of a faction of darkling creatures in a particular region, House Umbra, and after some time she met this one particularly powerful and particularly determined darkling who was determined to break her curse. He did, long story short, and the Seraph who’d cursed her punished them both, but it was a short-lived punishment, and so they got complacent. Until the Seraph came back and took her away from House Umbra, and the region it was a part of was destroyed... presumably by archdemons.

Like, her story was so fucked that it’s mostly the reason I don’t use her anymore. Where do you even go from there...?

15. Do you like to talk about your OCs with other people? >> Of course. Let’s share.

16. Which one of your OCs would be the best at biology (school subject)? >> Oh, I don’t know. 

17. Any OC OTPs?  >> Logan Iritian’s first and strongest love is always gonna be Siran Kezerian, who’s another one of Darya’s. We had a lot of OTPs amongst our children.

18. Any OC crackships?  >> I don’t know.

19. Introduce an OC that means a lot to you (and explain why) >> Man. I don’t know. They all mean a lot to me. I guess I’ll go with Doyle... well, he’s not Doyle anymore, he’s Rhys mac Keltar, because he got all his memories back and he doesn’t have to live by a borrowed name anymore. He was the first character I played in Legion of Darkness, the RP group that I met Darya in way back in 2009, and he’s gone through so much in that group. He was very loved, though, by everyone. I remember I killed him off because I needed to free up a character slot for a Faction Leader I wanted to introduce... and I immediately realised what a mistake I made because I was so distraught afterward. So the staff all made an executive decision to increase the number of character slots for staff, and thereby enable me to get Doyle back. <3 Good times. Real good times.

20. Do any of your OCs sing? If they sing, care to share more details (headcanon voice, what kind of songs they like etc)? >> A lot of them do, yeah. For example, Danny Aubrey, whose musical style (and personal aesthetic, honestly) is based on Volbeat. He’s also part divine, so his voice can project to an astounding degree. That’s very helpful.

21. Your most artistic OC >> Just gonna do what I’ve been doing and name an OC at random (I have so many that inevitably there are multiple that fit a question, ok, and I’m not even using fandom OCs for this!). 

22. Is there any OC of yours people tend to mischaracterize? If yes, how?  >> No? I don’t know how they would get an opportunity to do that.

23. Introduce OC that has changed from your first idea concerning what the character would be like? >> Mistral Vane was originally a formidable giant of a demigod, a physical representation of the eternal storm... but I had him sacrifice a piece of his divinity to become human-passing, so I could use him in more RP groups. There just wasn’t a lot of playing room for a freakishly huge avatar of electricity, you know?

24. If you could meet one OC of yours, who would it be and why? >> Any of them. All of them.

25. The OC that resembles you the most (same hobby, height, shared like/dislike for something etc?) >> I really don’t think I have any blatantly obvious self-inserts.

26. Have you ever had to change your OC’s design or something else about them against your will?  >> Why on earth would I have to do that?

27. Any OCs that were inspired by a certain song?  >> Danny Aubrey, whom I mentioned earlier, was inspired by Danny & Lucy (11PM) by Volbeat. Part of his backstory reflects it, as does the fact that his musical style is based off the same band.

28. Your most dangerous OC?  >> Logan Iritian is pretty dangerous, considering he’s the avatar to the pure undistilled entity Ira, or Wrath (hence his name). The thing is, he hates being the Iritian. He was the Avaritian (when he hosted Avarice) once, and that was only marginally better. I think if I write him again, he’ll probably be the Luxurian (give you a hint what sin-entity that’d make him the host of), which was kind of fun to write him as for the brief time that I did.

29. Which one of your OCs would go investigate an abandoned house at night without telling anyone they’re going? >> Dane Skjöld. He’s always been a shade too curious. That’s how he got trapped in a house ‘haunted’ by one of my more frightening OCs, VII, who almost eviscerated him. Luckily, Dane’s twin, Thorin, came through and saved his bacon. He got away with just a brand (the numeral “VII”, of course).

30. Which one of your OCs would most likely have a secret stuffed animal collection?  >> Seth. Ramesses Set Khaldun is very sensual, as in they love being touched and touching nice things. He’d love being surrounded by stuffed animals. Just one nude blissed-out incubus buried in a mountain of enormous plushies from F.A.O. Schwartz. <3

31. Pick one OC of yours and explain what their tumblr blog would be like (what they reblog, layout, anything really) >> Domenico Sauvageon would have one of those dolce-vita-lifestyle type blogs, with the fancy foods and luxury items and headless men in suits. He’d have a three-column layout with a Louis Vuitton-inspired background and his own face as his icon. But he’d also sometimes make really useful and informative posts about fashion and makeup and how to pair your wines and shit, and he’s only a snob in that he prefers the finest things -- he doesn’t snub people who can’t access those things. In fact, he loves to share. He’ll spoil you until you end up a snob just like him.

32. Which one of your OCs would be the most suitable horror game protagonist and why?  >> I don’t know enough about horror games to answer this. VII would make a great horror game antagonist, though, I’m sure. It’s got a bit of a Silent Hill vibe about it.

33. Your shyest OC? >> Rhys mac Keltar. Or Silas Carmichael, who can’t speak and who is very self-conscious about it.

34. Do you have any twin characters? >> Thorin and Dane, mentioned earlier. They’re... uh, also quite Lannister about it. But I’ll just leave it at that...

35. Any sibling characters?  >> Danny Aubrey has a sister, Lydia. Acheron Cruor Dane has a sister, Isolde -- but I don’t use Isolde much as an OC in her own right.

36. Do you have OC pairs where the other part belongs to someone else (siblings, lovers, friends etc)?  >> I can’t remember any that were made specifically for that, but I have plenty that turned out that way after the fact.

37. Introduce an OC who is not quite human  >> Oh my god, almost every character I’ve discussed in this survey has been nonhuman, or at least augmented-human.

38. Which one of your OCs would be the best dancer?  >> Seth. He’s a very good and very hypnotising belly dancer.

39. Introduce any character you want  >> I’ll introduce one if someone sends me an ask with a letter in it. I’ll pick a character whose name begins with that letter or the closest letter.

40. Any fond memories linked to your characters? Feel free to share! >> This whole survey is fond memories, lol.

41. Has anyone drawn fanart of your OCs? If yes, maybe show a picture or two here (remember sources & permissions!) >> People have drawn fandom OCs of mine, but none of these guys.

42. Which one of your OCs would be the most interested in Greek gods?  >> Well, Danny -- Daniel Apollonius Aubrey, whose lineage includes a Greek god. Also, Zion. He’s fascinated by mythology, despite the fact that he’s a Judaic angel.

43. Do you have any certain type when you create your OCs? Do you tend to favour some certain traits or looks? It’s time to confess >> Sure. I like ‘em tall, dark-skinned, long-haired, and nonhuman/superhuman.

44. Something you like about your OCs in general >> I don’t know. I’m very attached to them all. They were so much fun to conjure, and they hold so many possible stories in their existence.

45. A character you no longer use? >> There are a lot of those-- OCs I created specifically for a certain RP group that have no real use elsewhere, OCs that never got developed enough for me to care about keeping them, OCs that were just too tropey for me to even bother with. There’s a veritable OC graveyard in the back of my mind.

46. Has anyone ever told you that you treat your OCs badly? >> I don’t think so, no. Sometimes I did, though. I try to be fairer to them these days.

47. Has anyone ever (friendly) claimed any of your OCs as their child?  >> Probably.

48. OC who is a perfect cinnamon roll, too good for this world, too pure >> No such thing. I make monsters. Gods and monsters, one and all. Even my nice guys are monsters (Logan, for example, who’s the most affable and loyal guy imaginable, is a high-ranking demon).

49. Which one of your OCs would most likely enjoy memes >> Logan would fucking love them. Except he’d be the obnoxious guy to send you memes you’ve already seen a thousand times, but he just saw for the first time. Because he’s slow on the uptake.