#oc: fig

[the-oc-king]

I finally unlocked the movie theater in Fig's save file recently, and of course the first thing I had him do was take his platonic husband on a date. You will find that his reaction to Krobus's outfit is about the same as my real life one

[troutpaws]

fig, post death + rebirth. he/she ⭑ ☆

[rhincoart]

one of my newer ocs, fig! (it/its)

ID: A fully rendered digital drawing of the artist's OC, Fig. It is nude, drawn from the waist up, and has brown skin, long curly reddish-brown hair that reaches to its waist, and pink eyes. It also has cervidae features; long, pink horns, deer-like nose, ears and tail, and fur on its chest and lower stomach. It has pink stripes on its face and shoulders, and a soft pink glow emanates from under the skin on its sternum. It is holding a small wooden figurine of a dog in its hands that is animated, and smiling softly at it.

[mangominnow]

[vulturereyy]

Outer wilds nation I hit a certain point last night and the Nomai brainrot has kicked in. Please no spoilers still even if I'll get my lore wrong here, but everyone say hello to Fig :)

Copy pasting my discord ramblings under the cut. Outer Wilds spoilers are a given.

because i cant not project on characters: what if Fig is dyscalculic/dyslexic imagine being in such a writing and precise numbers based society but everything blends together for you

I think she may have been among the first generation born on ember twin. Like her poor parents were already pretty much ready to have her when they had to hop in the escape pods and such, so she was born very shortly after the crash by a few months. And i say that this is important because i think the nomai would have been a very accessible race imo, Solanum didn't even think twice about offering alternate communication methods. But the fact that Fig was born while they were rebuilding their society meant that she likely didn't have the same resources at the time/there were a lot of other stressors to focus on Perhaps Fig is even partially the reason why alternate communication methods sort of come around, at least in the society on ember twin, though that's headcanon territory

Anyway, she grew up not really doing… the best. No one could understand why she wasn't grasping very basic reading and numbers milestones, she was getting angry and feeling stupid because she wasn't getting them, it was a whole thing. She could speak into logs and record them, but when it came to reading them back, she struggled even with her own words. (for a while she was able to practice and memorize what she was going to say, but they learned that's what she was doing when they secretly swapped out the log and she confidently recited her own words instead)

And she kind of slipped through the cracks with the whole 'literally needing to rebuild our society' thing. By the time the high energy lab was starting up, she was an embittered teen, and kind of relegated to the black sheep of the clan. Not quite outcast, but it was very clear to her how different she was to everyone else. She fetched water, she tended crops, she swept out sand, but no one ever invited her to the forums or the lectures or the scientific meetups that are so pivitol to their culture.

Maybe Hickory, one of the older scientists at the new lab, was a friend to Fig's parents. And they kind of begged her to take Fig in, even if it just meant having her sweep the floors free of sand, because it would give her something to do that wasn't putting cactus spikes on people's seats.

And so Hickory did. And Fig was Very Mad about her new job. She hated science. She hated numbers. Why is she in a lab. Is this some kind of a joke? Putting the one Nomai that can't do research on shit in the lab as a cleaner. fuck off about that

But then Fig got to see Hickory testing out the new warp cores. And feel the miniature black hole's gravity tug at her and make her fur stand on end even as she was across the room. She watched Hickory take her notes. She watched her toss something into it, take more notes. The entire lab is thrumming with the force of the power needed for this experiment. Hickory looks over her shoulder. She's noticed the sound of sweeping has stopped. Fig tries to scowl and go back to doing her job as if she never stopped, but then Hickory says, "We only have a few more minutes before I have to return the power to the city. Would you like to see before I do?"

And Fig can't help herself. She tries to play it off but yes she really wants to see. She clip clops herself over to Hickory cautiously and peers into the testing chamber. The Black Hole is like a void, staring back into her. She doesn't know what to feel about it. It's the gravity that makes her shiver, she thinks. Hickory is trying very hard not to smile as she calmly explains what she's testing. The lab is supposed to be getting a white hole core soon, she explains. The black hole connects to the white, an input and an output. She's trying to see if she can still get readings off of the sensors she's sending into the miniature black hole while it does't have an endpoint yet.

Fig asks if Hickory thinks that when they open up the white hole from the core, everything Hickory threw in is gonna come spewing out at once, like a backed up pipe. Hickory's brows go up. She looks back to the black hole, considering, and writes something down. She tells Fig she thinks that's an excellent question.

Fig throws her broom into the black hole. Hickory doesn't stop her. More importantly, she doesn't scold her.

Because she just confirmed this ragamuffin little nomai still has her spark of curiosity :) She lets Fig be the one to reroute the power back to the city. It's just a simple crystal ball switch, but it feels very powerful to do.

Hickory becomes the one to give Fig the patience and culturally unorthodox teaching that she needs. It's a combination of Hickory's personality, but also the fact that the clan is settled now -- they are now out of survival mode and imminent death, and able to… relax, mentally, a lot more. And Hickory, through a few arguments that eventually turn more into very vulnerable conversations, finally learns that Fig struggles with their script and the numbers and letters all jumble together.

She carves stones together, and pictures, and symbols at first, so they make their own 'script' together that is pictography in nature. Fig starts taking her notes in it.

Eventually this would evolve into her own form of script, but there were a lot of baby steps involved before that point. And Fig, instead of being just the lab cleaner, very readily becomes Hickory's star apprentice on black hole theory and warp technology. She hopes one day she can even be a shuttle pilot, or operate the white hole station herself i think it would be neat if in game on ember twin you'd find those pictograph scripts and the translator can't pick them up. but then in the high energy lab in a side room that's more like a study you could find a notice from hickory on fig's picto-script, and the key for deciphering it (and also a notice, purposefully written close together so fig won't parse it, saying that if anyone has a problem with fig's script they can take it up with hickory personally) (a little thread underneath this from someone else suggests that their questions on its scientific integrity was met with the most scathing dressing down theyve ever had in their life)

So from then on you are able to translate her scripts and find her little notes everywhere :) she may even 'help' lead you to shortcuts, because she explored alot of ember twin in her youth when she wasn't doing anything else, so she went back and marked all her hidey holes and shortcuts Design wise, she has a black and white hole tattood on the back of her hands. One, because she thinks they are fucking cool, and two because it helps her distinguish her right from her left

[ghoul--doodle]

Can we hear some more about some of Lychee’s family? I know you’ve mentioned them before but I don’t know if we’ve gotten any details or backstory :3

Yeah absolutely!!

I’ve mentioned a few times that Lychee is the youngest of his siblings but did you know he has 7 of them

While the family has no particular last name they do refer to themselves as the Bayberry family!

Each of the Bayberry kids have a specialised psychic ability- mind reading, teleportation, telekinesis, cyrokinesis, hydrokinesis, clairvoyance, astral projection and empathy! They can all do a little of each, but they all have a specialisation.

Bayberry herself is a bit of a jack of all trades, and Cranberry specialises in elemental types of psychic powers

Every member of the Bayberry family has a necklace with a heart pendant and a pair of bracelets that help boost their psychic abilities

3 of the Bayberry family are deaf (Cranberry, Fig and Snowberry)- Bayberry and Cranberry made an active effort to teach their kids sign language as a second language growing up, so they can all speak in sign. This also helps Rambutan communicate, since he’s selective mute.

Their family home is big enough to comfortably house all of them! Technically only Bayberry, Cranberry, Rambutan and Lychee live there full-time, but the others visit so often it’s like they never left lol

Lychee does have a home of his own but he doesn’t use it just because of rough memories he has there- he also doesn’t have the heart to sell it

As far as jobs go here’s what each Bayberry does!:

Bayberry (therapist and psychiatrist), Cranberry (retired, ex-guard), Dragonfruit (Linguistic Professor), Pomegranate (Archaeologist), Grapefruit (singer/songwriter), Fig (veterinarian & teacher), Snowberry (Sculptor & Architect), Raspberry (Fashion Designer, also a streamer), Rambutan (Author), Lychee (ex-guard)

Also! While not all licensed therapists or psychiatrists most of the Bayberry’s have an extensive knowledge of psychology :}

Outside of that! Some silly facts:

Bayberry can be incredibly excitable and impulsive and she sometimes makes rash decisions as a result

Cranberry very much has I love my wife so much disease, utterly smitten

The bayberry kids are incredibly chaotic when put in the same space

All the older kids bully Lychee (lovingly) for being the baby

Lychee swears anyway, but he swears like a sailor around his siblings

Multiple members of the bayberry family are intersex

It’s a dead 50/50 split of who is left handed and right handed in the family

Raspberry and Rambutan are twins!

[anchorust]

[sunflowers-son]

A few thumbnail drawing I made for art fight! :D

[avidraws]

i don’t draw fig enough </3

[cansofbees]

fursona drop

[dyrdeer]

Xmas gift for my friend @micecakes!!

[mrpuzzle]

THROWS THEM SEEDS VIOLENTLY ON THE GROUND

Harpy designs I did for fun but now I'm kinda attached to them so they're OCs now??

[beebundt]

figgy puddings

[wombywoo]

a much-needed cuddle 💛

[gatoburr0]

For me to make fan CHILDREN for a ship I like there’s gotta be like a stage beyond decomposition in my brain.

[starlingfawn]

kgatlw bearded vulture furry.... reference for artfight