#oc: lanius

[limesquares]

Dragon Mages

[briarwickart]

> sister lanius has entered the field.

[creamyandrich]

New guy! Vamp rich boi that loves to eat and be rich and mean :3

[crowned-ladybug]

The result of sitting on the ground painting with @marshmallowlalo

Lanius, this time with the right colours, more functional feet, and a tail for extra Creature Points

[space-ninja-fashion-show]

Pride syandanas for the OC gang (ft having to get creative and include ephemera and energy colour too for Darius to get anywhere close to a rainbow)

[somethingaboutmint]

Stim vs that bitch of the east

[absolutly-not-an-alien]

Who would win? A warlord with a huge fucking sword and a full suit of metal armor? Or some ghoul with a brain injury? The answer will shock you!

I still pride myself in beating the Legate with Love and Hate (spiked knuckles), no chems, and a strength stat of 4

[ghostfacedbat]

Courier de Parchment dies in 3

Courier thinks it was worth it.

They're completely mute! Courier "speaks" using a handy little text-to-speech device, which my friend @t00thpasteface designed! They do really awesome shit go check them out right now

[thebigolbee]

Your ass is GRASS, soldier boy

[klowntoon27]

Meet Marina

She can be shy and quiet

She loves squishmallows just like the painter

Just a little doodles of the painter and marina are painting together

[rampagemagpie]

Ram is smoll'. And she's useing the stronger ones to be able to talk back... to anyone. #main trouble maker I tried a 'slimmer' style to sketch em' up, but man, i can't.

[what-inthe-goddamn]

I will let you down/I will make you hurt

2271, near the Arizon/Nevada Border. A pre-New Vegas Six reflects on the loss of her family.

[superspunkus]

avenging the forebears

[esmeralda-juniper]

so what do we do now boss?

I commissioned the amazingly talented @whataboutbugs-art to draw my courier Lucia and I’m so in love with how gorgeous everything looks!!! Thank you so much Bugs!! 💖💖💖

[crowned-ladybug]

My hand is in hell, but! Say hi to Lanius :)

I might poke their colours more in the future (probably switch the black to brown bc I want the cute piebaldism, but they ended up looking too close to Default Nidus Prime Colours) but I'm also just glad to have any drawing of them at all

[space-ninja-fashion-show]

Eventually Higgins grows tired of not having a past. All the other frames remember their past lives, and by the time he arrives Ordis has remembered his too, and North may have forgotten a lot but didn't lose all of it, didn't start over as a blank slate

So Higgins grows tired and despite his hate for Deimos begins digging for his past. It's an excursion he makes without North, bc North is not a fan of the whole idea and Higgins can tell no matter how hard they try to hide it (and the reasons for their dislike of this i'll lay out in another post properly), so Higgins doesn't tell them where he's going, doesn't contact the Entrati either, just recruits Lanius and Keiko for potential help and leaves for the Cambion Drift

It's a whole lot of wandering around and tearing open Isolation Vaults and listening to Lanius infodump about infested evolution when nothing interesting is happening. Some of the data recovered ends up as the foundation of the group's archives on the warframe project that's expanded by a Lot when they find Kodiak later on. Lanius is conflicted about whether to share the found data with the Entrati or to inform them about their operations at all bc they don't much like the Entrati. Higgins on the other hand fuckin hates them so he enables Lanius into keeping all of it a secret. Keiko greatly approves

Logically Higgins is v aware that they might not find anything but he also refuses to accept this as a possibility

And eventually they do find files that seem to be it. At least, the project details check out. The physical description, the theming, the envisioned combat capabilities. The images, more concept art to sell a project than blueprints, look almost exactly like Higgins, even if it feels uncanny for him to see himself pictured as whole

Except the human subject used for this alleged warframe is listed as a woman. It takes a lot of disbelief and a lot more digging to feel convinced that yes, this is the project that had created Higgins. And the gender marker is consistent across dozens of documents. Unlikely to have been a typo

There's a lot of other things that Higgins' mind catches on ofc. It's not easy like he had thought, not even all that satisfying, to be handed just the fraction, just a clinical description of an entire human life with the knowledge that it had been his. It doesn't feel like his. This is a stranger. The files rattle off credentials and employment details and horrific injuries, but none of them tell him what this person's favourite colour was or if they liked kavats or how late they'd stay up on the weekends

But the gender thing is one of the ones that sticks with him the worst. The moment he had started being a person, the moment he had to at all decide on gender, even without conscious thought to it he knew he was a guy with full certainty. He considered other options afterwards bc he's not just gonna half ass becoming a person, but turned up with his first instinct being very right and very comfortable

And now there's files proving to him that he had been wrong. That he has been lying to everyone all this time, bc here's everything about how he was created and it all tells of a woman who was turned into a warframe

He doesn't know what to do about this

Logic and decency demands he should swap to using the "correct" gender now, surely, but everything in him recoils at the thought. But he feels like he's lying. To himself and to everyone he's ever met. He has written proof now that his comfort zone is blatantly incorrect

He keeps this to himself for a while. Not just the gender thing, all of it. It's troubling him in a million different ways, it doesn't feel good and correct like he thought it would to read about who he used to be, and it didn't change the fact that he doesn't remember anything of his old life. His human self is a stranger and that's not something that should be allowed to happen, in his mind

Ofc North can tell that something is wrong and is Worried, but Higgins is stubbornly hiding it from them as best he can bc he doesn't wanna be perceived about this and he doesn't know what to do but he Does know that North never wanted him to go digging and he did anyway and it just made everything worse

I'm not sure how things exactly get solved but it does involve a lot of comforting talks with Lanius about past lives and what you choose to keep from them and also about gender. And much later down the line they can joke about Higgins doing trans things in a very unique order

And eventually he makes peace with his past life being nothing more than a tragic stranger to who he is now