idk if you’ve answered any of these before, so sorry if you have, but 9. 12. and 16. for the boss ask meme
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Boss ask meme
Thank you for asking. I really wanted to do some more asks for inspiration but didn't take into account that my brain is all over the place at the moment so I hope my answers are adequate 😅
9. What family does your Boss have or if they have a lot, what family are particularly important to them?
Blood family... yikes is all I can say. I have written about her parents elsewhere (i will find and rb the post soon) but the only person who is particularly important as in she still misses/is upset about once the earth blows up is her older sister Phoebe, who was more or less responsible for raising her when her mom went off the rails. They lost touch after Phoebe left home and Casey regrets that deeply. Matt made the time text/voicemail thing primarily because of seeing her go through this.
She has an uncle on her dad's side who taught her to shoot and fight, and cousins she doesn't know. She realises her mom might have kept that side of the family away from her.
Anything else I say in this regard is massive spoilers for written but unposted!
Of course she finds familial connections elsewhere, her friend Mori's mom is more like a mom to her than her own parents, Johnny is very much like a brother to her and Julius was a poorly chosen father figure.
She sees Kinzie as a sister, and that actually mirrors her experience with her blood sister: they have a 4 year gap, the oldest has a lot of responsibility on them but can be a little silly and comes across as quite carefree, the youngest comes across as more intelligent, more socially awkward, more highly strung but overall they are not under the same amount of pressure. Might make a longer post on this at some point. I noticed when they meet they even have some physical resemblance since Casey had red hair and wore a purple hoodie near-permanently.
12. One or more ways your Boss is different to you.
I seem to recall I put a few for reasons she's the same, so... I'm going to do a few for ways she's different, especially because I find that more interesting!
She's a woman, she's American, she's anti-love whereas I'm a hopeless romantic.
More interestingly, once she gets over her teenage awkwardness she's quite friendly and sociable but doesn't much like the side of fame that comes with her wealth and power whereas I'm shy and socially anxious but secret(ish)ly an attention whore! I like public speaking, performing etc. but can't make friends for shit!
Pretty much her entire family/backstory is considerably different. And she likes Jane Austen and other period romance type authors! I've just never been interested in that kind of thing. Had to do some serious research there!
I'd consider myself a "grown up but not grown out of it" goth so I'm pretty lazy with it now, whereas Casey was always interested in that aesthetic but only really has a chance to get into it later in life. I'm a decent cook and I'm not completely hopeless with tech, though I do have my moments! But I can't brag too much because put me in any sort of gang battle and clearly I'd be dead within 5 seconds.
16. Is there anything from the games you've drastically avoided or downplayed in your headcanon?
Ooh so as many people will know, I tend to swing towards using the canon so I needed some time to think about this one and I'm still struggling!
I'm going to go with the obvious: she's a cis woman (though I often wish I'd made her trans because narratively that makes so much sense!). Although percieved as a boy, her voice was never any of the SR1 voices and I doubt she could be made effectively on SR1's character creator, even though the events of the game are canon to her. This is my attempt on SR2 but when you compare to her SR4 self it doesn't really look like the same person:
Sorry, any excuse to use that adorable shot of her in the hoodie 😊
There are some lines by 'her' voice about being in college and being in a co-ed curling team, and she definitely didn't make it to college, but I can see her doing some form of online study during some of the downtime/gaps between big in-game events.
She is a SR4 Boss at heart and because of where her story starts, I feel like her SR1-3 history is pretty downplayed in my fanfic, in a 'we already know this so I'm not going to talk about it too much' kind of way. But I'm sure over time I will get into it more on here. I might even write some oneshots, I'd like to get one about the familial bond she felt with the original Saints because it's really very sweet.
ANYWAYS EXTRA BITS!!!! So. Yeah. I wasted exactly 27 hours and 29 minutes of my life making this over a period of like. ~a week and a half LMAO????? I THINK IT WAS LONGER?? Yeah all of these are completely redrawn from the Og “panels”, replicating the dungeon meshi style is. MISERABLE I don’t know why I did this to myself holy fucking shit, all of you blame @squiffer-salad for this monstrosity she’s the reason why this exists in the first place /silly
anyways, I highly recommend looking at the panels individually because I put a lot of fun extra bits in them and just. A LOT of effort in general, any likes, reblog’s, or comments are insanely appreciated since this did take such a long time :’DDD, everything in these minus the backgrounds are completely redrawn/shaded/and colored by hand, this includes mid/screen tones as I used specific layers for those! anyways thank you for coming to my period cramp projection ted-talk I’m going back into my Everglade hole.
"Hard fought definitely. I apologised to Pierre after the race. I was like, sorry I couldn't talk that much today. I was pretty locked in. It took a lot of concentration and effort. We were a bit more on the defence, a bit more of mirror-watching today. We were hanging on to the points. At the end, the last few laps, we had DRS to Magnussen , so we had a little bit of pace probably with the tyres getting a bit older but, for most of the stint, I didn't felt we were not a very fast car in our group. We were just hanging on by the skin of our teeth, is that what they say?
The strategy, we used the two hards, pitting early to secure our position to the alpines. That was important. At the end, it took some clean laps - Gasly was quite quick on the mediums but, we got some points. A bit of damage limitation.
The last three [races] have definitely been better. Leaving a Sunday feeling like we got pretty much out of it, it's always going to be areas where I can do better, but as whole we can swipe out of the paddock with a smile and feel like we ticked most boxes. It's a nice feeling to fight and drive a clean race. I think, deep down, we'll look back at our pace and say, yeah maybe we didn't belong in the points today. I feel like in some parts we overachieved and maybe give ourselves a pat on the back."
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As I woke up this morning a sourceless voice was assuring me, “Not many people know this but carnosaurs were actually the ones responsible for the extinction event, through a combination of guerrilla tactics and overhunting.”
As I gained consciousness I was like, wait, that’s just nonsense.