#oc: nicole zhu

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OC PRIDE MONTH CHALLENGE 2023. week three: LGBTQIA+ artists. day twenty-one - june 21st.

My LGBTQIA+ OCS + Halsey's 'Badlands' Album. Halsey identifies as bisexual and uses she/they pronouns! 'And there's an old man sitting on a throne That's saying that I probably shouldn't be so mean'

Unfortunately guys there is only so many weeks in a month, and therefore we’ve dropped AU week (although look out for a special edition of it in the valentines challenge of this year), but we are keeping our favourite LGBTQIA+ artists around! You know the drill, promote your favs with an edit/drabble to one of their songs or poems!

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Thoughts on Hollows and Ether Corruption

What We Know Canonically (So Far)

Almost anything can experience ether corruption when inside a hollow, whether a living being or inanimate object

Those with high ether aptitude can stay in Hollows for longer periods of time without worrying about being corrupted, while those with low aptitude have anti-ether equipment that can help protect them. Ether aptitude tests are common

Artificial intelligence (androids, bangboo, smart machines, etc) are vulnerable to corruption if they pass the Forbidden Fruit test— which we don’t have specifics on atm, but presumably marks when an AI has become fully sentient like a person. This corruption is likely referring to ethereal mutation rather than the crystals that form on inanimate objects. Or perhaps even both! Ouch.

People who have been in Hollows for “too long” are susceptible to cognitive corruption syndrome (CCS), which is essentially a dementia/alhzheimer’s-esque disease that causes memory regression

Inferences (and/or Assumptions)

Living beings (humans, thirens, sentient ai, etc) presumably have their corruption levels “reset”/scale back down after exiting a hollow. I’m taking it as a similar situation to blot in Twisted Wonderland, where accumulation naturally decreases with enough time outside the hollow, and can be sped up with proper health maintenance (eating, sleeping, etc).

Corruption only really becomes a concern based on if you can leave (hence why proxies and carrots are so important), and if you stay in the hollows for extended periods of time. I think the threshold for “too long” starts at about maybe 2-3 hours??? Most commissions, including story events, take nowhere near as long as that in real time, I’m sure. I think the longest we might’ve gotten was about 75-90 minutes with the Cunning Hares in the prologue.

That’s the case for those with high ether aptitudes though. Lower aptitudes will experience effects much faster. Red Fang Gang’s Miguel Silver had to have practically zero ether aptitude for his mutation to be so instant.

Coming into contact with ether as an element/material (crystals, Nicole and Zhu Yuan’s shots, etc) won’t immediately cause high corruption levels/mutation (it’s likely everything in the ZZZ verse has in-world increased durability, given players and enemies alike can take bullet shots, burns, freezing, electric shocks, etc without dire consequences). Ethereals are often the most affected by other ether attacks— like ghost or dragon type being super effective against itself from Pokemon

Ether-tipped blades and other melee weapons have got to be a thing (I already have some ocs with this in mind for their weapons), and I don’t think it’s inherently dangerous to get hit by/wield them. You just gotta keep them covered when not in use, and be mindful/intentional of where you hold them (as you already would be with blades of any kind). The material used for weaponry (melee and firearms alike) is probably diluted a significant amount compared to the original crystals?

When actually harvesting ether crystals and other material, it’s highly recommended (often required) to handle with as much caution and protection as possible. The main thing being proper containment and coverage like gloves and stuff.

If there are more gradual effects to Hollow exposure, it’s likely not well known at the time of ZZZ’s main story. CCS could potentially be such, but it’s probably more susceptible if someone stays in hollows for about/longer than 2-3 hours in a single period of time.

Rapidly entering/exiting a hollow back and forth doesn’t count as a “reset”

Inanimate objects, overall, have significantly higher resistance against corruption. Specific levels can vary depending on material rates of corrosion/erosion/decay, quality and handling of the item, how deep it’s located in the hollow, etc. Time-space warping could also be a potential factor, but it’s probably difficult to test logistics for that.

As a general rule of thumb, buildings and infrastructure are usually the most durable things within a hollow. If you stay inside a building within the hollow (such as the Ballet Towers in Ch 3), you can stay inside for much longer (the threshold increasing up to 5-6 or even 7-8 hours, hence why Victoria Housekeeping could do their maintenance checks in the Ballet Towers without endangering themselves). Of course, if ethereals are able to access the building, that will naturally cause interior and/or exterior corruption mainly if hit with ether itself)

Understandably, artificial intelligence has far more resistance to (physical) corruption than organic beings, given they often house mechanical bodies. Though mental capabilities are still vulnerable from potential damage to processing units and such. But that takes about the same threshold as organic beings (~ 2-3 hours outside, 5-8 hours inside).

Unknown (As of Now)

Corruption effects on vegetation (plants/fungus), along with non-sentient animals and/or robotics.

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Muse Mood:

OCs in general. Shipgirls come under this; Mainly Michishio, Nagato and Kashima. Bremmy too.

ZZZ Girls like Nicole, Zhu Yuan and Koleda.

Other muses: Stocking Anarchy, Koabyashi, Mahiru Koizumi, Sonia Nevermind, Minerva Mink, Judy Hopps, Blaze the Cat, Haru Okumura

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Incomings, WiPs and Doll Plans Update!

Here it is... I made up my mind regarding some plans, some current dolls, I got updates in for almost all my Incomings and ... well let's start. (What will happen with my Past!Allen Doll ... if you are curious ... scroll to the end).

First of all, I can announce the newest additions:

Asleep Eidolon Klaus will be Lavi's new shell. I am set on this idea, the head is super close to what I originally wanted for him and I feel better with this decision already.

As AE has an event ongoing in which you can add a head to your order ... Asleep Eidolon DingDang was on the list to be my choice for Johnny! I'm excited to build up the range of supporting characters.

Along with that I have new plans what resin will come in the next months...

Of course Johnny needs a body, for now I have my eyes set on the V1 from Fatemoons as it's a rather small MSD body and Johnny is smaller than Allen.

Then I fell for Xagadoll Nicole and Xagadoll Luca (both MSD variants) ... I will yet keep for myself for which characters I want to have them in case I change my mind. But I very rarely saw a doll and was "Okay, YOU ARE MOVING IN" within seconds in the last months, so I will take this motivation. Kinda feels nice to have someone on my wishlist again.

Then updates on Incomings/WiPs:

Howard Link - Charmdoll LaiKa

For Link there is none, Charmdoll is around 6 months so he has time.

Level 4 & Ling Tai Zhu Hong (Lavi's old Shell)

Level 4's head has arrived and the body was ordered, I decided for Coral Reef and here is the other announcement... I will keep Lavi's former shell. And will try my hands on it to turn it into a Level 3 Akuma. I know this is a quite insane project but building an Armor for a doll is a challenge that is not only sewing and I will gladly take it. I was pondering around how to make a Level 3 doll or sculpture anyways. I have to come up with a design for the Akuma though and I will keep the Doll as Lavi until his new shell is here & done so far.

Maple & Janet - LenaRuiiz Pallu

Maple got her body in, working on her is pushed back though as Kanda had priority and next I want to start on the biggest Cosplay Project I have left, but when that is roughly done I will see when I can fit her in. It's possible that I push her back even further as I want to redo Lenalee's uniform badly and there is another doll in progress... I will come to that in the last part.

Then Janet... long story short, the current Pallu batch is stuck in the mail since November and Lena now have her casted again, I am not even sure if I am in that batch (but as I paid her off I might be?) so, she will maybe happen this year, we will see.

Ally (Past!Allen) & Adam - Conarium Wuhan

You maybe have read my former entries about this certain character and the dilemma I am in right now. To be honest he is my absolute favorite doll because of the fanfic I am writing, and still working on DAILY(!). Being crushed by the fact this character basically doesn't exist was hard. Well, there is a past version of Allen but he looks completely different (and there is too much open about him so I will refer from making the "new" Past!Allen into a doll or plan anything regarding that as I have some doubts, I have to wait until details are clearer).

I have Allen from that AU as doll. I have the Millennium Earl (healed) variant from that AU as Progress doll and I still love the character...

so I will - for now - keep him as my AU Variant, he is now more OC than a true character from the series but I just love him too much as character to scrap him.

For the Earl/Adam (aka healed Mana), I got the head last year and ordered the body in November. I have asked Stacy yesterday if there is an update and Conarium just got back to her and the body will shipped next week.

So for now after the cosplay (or maybe inbetween) Adam will get priority in doll regards as I want my AU Family to be complete as soon as possible.

Long story short:

My current incoming List updated :)

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OC HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE 2023. day twenty-one - october 21st. I Want To Play A Game.

What if 'The Boys' was a horror game series?

Some of the most recent hits in horror history have been not movies, books, or shows, but video games. From Dead By Daylight to Until Dawn, horror fans have been able to experience immersion at a whole new level by trying to make all the right choices as a character. Now, it's time to put your oc into a horror game AU. Will they live, or will they die? Only their stats and choices will tell.

TEMPLATE

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I'm so intrigued by your The Boys OC talk. Anything you care to share? 👀

I have 3 ocs rn and more will appear…

Warnings for literally anything in The Boys lol because I’m keeping the ocs um…authentic with the show? Also mentions of child death.

Nicole Zhu is genetically a supe, but is more of a vigilante. She ends up working with the boys. Probably an Annie and Hughie ship?

Christine Ross, ‘Christie’ is a supe and is Homelanders ex, previously was a part of the seven. She wants Homelander and Vought to burn to the ground. Works with Mauve and Starlight mainly. She needs a hero name, I’m working on it djkdkd.

Katherine Bond. ‘Kate’ is British and is a Billy ship because GOD THAT MAN. She’s a member of The Boys, has been since it started. Her problem with supes is that she dated one when she was young, like 19. She got pregnant and had a kid with the supe. He then shook their daughter ‘Lilly’ as a baby and she died (might change how she died into something more gory but y’know), causing Kate to spiral into a spiteful woman who’s kinda iconic. “I wanna shake the fucker, scramble his brains and stomp on his dick. I want him to suffer, I want him to die scared and without his mother, like Lilly did"

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VIGILANTE SHIT

Katherine Bond was 24 when her life was destroyed, by her own boyfriend nonetheless. She was 24 when her superhero partner picked up their babygirl and shook her so hard she couldn’t move, and Vought never cared. They gave her money, and therapy and never spoke of it again. Her superhero boyfriend? Never had any consequences and 6 years later he’s still on TV, smiling, talking about children’s charities. Grace Mallory has a solution for her, one which ends badly. When the team Grace created disbands, Kate returns to her ‘normal’ life, rage boiling under her skin, and just as things finally relax, Billy Butcher is stood at her door with Frenchie, M.M and some skinny bloke. Seems The Boys were back together, this time with some extra help.

Christine Ross, known as ‘Celestia’ to the public, was kicked from The Seven when Homelander decided he’d had enough of her. A brief relationship between the two caused Christie lifelong trauma and nightmares. When Starlight joins The Seven, Christine feels angry, sad, vulnerable. She wasn’t jealous, no, she was worried, about what her old colleagues would do to this bright young girl, who was so much like her.

And Nicloe Zhu? Well she was just a girl who didn’t know how to sit quietly, not after what she’d seen, what she’d done.

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You know I have to... "i’m on my vigilante shit again." for Nicky?? 🖤🖤🖤

warnings: mild swearing, mild s3 spoilers for The Boys

a/n: thank you for sending this in! I know that you can't really read this until you finish the show lol.

Annie can’t sleep, she never can when Hughie’s with The Boys, when Butcher is the one telling him what to do. Tonight however she doesn’t have Nicole next to her, she’d been acting strangely lately, technically never lying because she’d say she was ‘going out’ and would be out the apartment before anyone could question further. 

“Shit,” Annie sits up when she hears the front door go, it was Hughie and Nicky’s apartment, but Annie was there enough to know what was hidden in each crack and cranny. She gets up, wrapping a pink dressing gown around her, tiptoeing to the kitchen where she finds Nicky, pouring herself a large glass from whatever bottle she’d picked up from the corner shop down the road.

“Hey,” Annie greets her softly and Nicole’s eyes widen when looking up, she doesn’t hide her shock.

“Annie,” she sighs “I didn’t know you were here tonight, is Hughie back?”

“No,” she comes around the counter, grasping Nicole’s hand and spinning her around, their eyes meet and Annie notices a drop of blood coming from her girlfriend’s nose “Nic..” she wipes it off and gulps “Where have you been going?”

Nicole looks away, giving Annie’s hand a squeeze “I think you know,” she bites her lip, tears forming on her waterline, she didn’t want to lie to her, but didn’t want to even admit to herself what she’d been doing.

“Why?” Anger seeps into Annie’s words “Why would you go out there? The Seven know who you are! The public know who you are! Why would you risk your life like that?”

“Like you don’t risk yours every day you go to the tower,” Nicole scoffs “ Like Hughie doesn’t when he goes out with The Boys or even appears somewhere publicly with you…just wanted to do some good. I wanted to- “

“You wanted to make up for what you’ve done,” Annie nods, she knew Nicole, knew what she thought of her own past “Let’s get some rest yeah? We’ll talk about this tomorrow with Hughie,” 

As if the gods were listening, the front door opens once again and Hughie himself enters, he drops a bag on the floor and kicks his shoes off next to Nicky’s heeled boots and turns towards the kitchen, seeing his girlfriend’s stood, tears in their eyes. 

“What the hell happened?” he asks softly, clearly concerned, especially by the blood on Nicole’s face (Annie can see he has his own cut, right above his eyebrow, although it’s obviously been patched up by M.M).

Nicky sighs, turning and taking a gulp of rum “I’m on my vigilante shit again,”. 

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Nicole Zhu moodboards

"Everyone get your shit together before I go beat someone,"

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OC PRIDE MONTH CHALLENGE 2023. week two: LGBTQIA+ tropes. day nine - june 9th.

Nicole Zhu and the 'Criminal Found Family' trope. Nicole is in a polyamorous relationship! 'Many queer-coded villains can be found in one of these since the Family of Choice is often associated with queer culture and criminals with villainy. The popularity of the found family trope, however, is likely to cast them sympathetically or at least in a way that appeals to the audience.'

Tropes are a ton of fun, and there’s a trope for basically everything! This pride challenge as something new but exciting (hopefully!), we are doing LGBTQIA+ tropes week! Take a look at this list (or come up with your own) and apply them to your ocs!

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Nicole and Zhu yuan mood mainly.

But Koleda, Kashima, Rivet and Chie are also moods.

And of course

OCs.

And

THE BWEM BWEM

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Big mood for Ocs and ZZZ girls (Nicole, Koleda and Zhu Yuan)

Also Fu Xuan <3

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☆NEW OCs☆

OCs which haven't quite made their way to the main masterlist yet.

The Sandman

Deciet

Love

The House of Dragon

Elcella Lannister

Alysanne Velaryon

Jaehaeryll, Viserra & Vaella Targaryen

Game of Thrones

Rhaeanna Targaryen

Helanna Hightower + her 6 children

Doctor Who

Stephanie Pond

Marvel

Myra Sharma

Jessica Lang

Danni Green

Clara We

Aurora Mars

Shadow And Bone:

Faina Belova

Dahlia Kiseleva

Yara Kipp

Star Wars

Kayla June

Lydia Amidala

Max Sanstre

Faye Amidala

Don’t Worry Darling

Mary Summers

Benjamin Summers

Unnamed OC

Unnamed OC

Unnamed OC

Unnamed OC

Bones

Sadie Smith

Criminal Minds

Amber Davis

Skyrim

Roxitte Virmeton

Ingrbbi Arrow-Child

Amelnette Yscalla

The Boys:

Katherine Bond

Christine Ross

Nicole Zhu

YOU:

Laura King

Maria Lewis

Unamed OC

Disney Descendants:

Charlotte Charming

Genevieve W-G

Ruby Fitzherbert

Ethan Fitherbert

Joanna Porter

Meribeth

Harry Potter:

Lucy Porter

Freyja Trelawney

Victoria Marsh + her 8 children

Once Upon a Time:

Odette Charming