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[coldduckweaselkid]

christopher korkian i want to save you

[eriisaam]

Breaching tag containment for this cuz this one has layers to it that I don't mind rambling about. (Although I realize maybe I should breach containment on tags for this anyways from now on, hmm...)

The big reason why is that a lot of my OCs tend to already be in a romance-option-inclined genre to begin with (glaringly, Enoli and his group, but also many others who aren't established or settled enough to be established yet, who also have similar plans of being part of dating sim/relationship-building esque projects to begin with). Those OCs I'm a lot more vague on between 'this will spoil huge components of them before you can get all their context' and 'I'm not sure how consistent this point will be now compared to when they finally debut in public', but they are usually available straight away and around the same time (after establishing themselves to give you an idea of them first) to let you either make an informed pick all at once, or reach out to them at your own pace (while being accessible around the same time), with very few exceptions that usually have pretty big plot-heavy reasons why you couldn't access them right away by comparison. (That being said, some also DO have early access to them, but less directly.)

The only OCs who weren't initially part of a project like this still flirted on the idea and concept, and for those, the summoner OCs, they're a lot more varied depending on their contexts.

As summoner OCs as they are currently? I've toyed with the idea on making even a 'let's practice how to make a visual novel with this for exercise sake' with just running their lore into a VN, with a new player character stand-in as an OC unique to this version, but had always been torn otherwise to keep it true to the lore, make adjustments (for instance the summoners abandoning their relationships in favor of the MC, or shrinking it heavily to be mostly summoner-isolated or even determinant), just as much as I've debated on whether or not to separate from their fandom roots altogether for a new storyline entirely (especially since an idea of the MC being present, making hugely-impactful choices potentially changing the summoner OCs' relationships among other things, and even bonding with them whether romantically or otherwise, already heavily changes things as it is from their original story roots to begin with).

By default, Erin, Kyo, Teru and Sparrow are the only ones of the four who are readily available as-is because those four are the earliest arrivals in their group. Ephrel spent much of the time dead and heavily casting a shadow over Sparrow's story (and route), but doesn't actually become available as someone you could've interacted with until quite a while later on, when they resurface and are fully rescued. Eclair, meanwhile, is also a late addition by virtue he didn't even exist right away, and it wasn't until much later (around or earlier than Ephrel's return) where he was created, rescued, and became a permanent party member likewise, and while doesn't cast such a heavy shadow over Kyo as Ephrel did for Sparrow, he's still pretty significant to Kyo's route likewise in his own way.

This also gets muddled by the fact that while Erin and Teru are usually the most isolated in terms of romantic relationships among the six (except in AUs I toyed with where Erin has leanings alongside Sparrow and Ephrel while Teru has leanings with Kyo and Eclair), Teru was already Kyo's ex from the start, Eclair and Kyo are already close and eventually got together, and Ephrel and Sparrow eventually got close together likewise, so the paths end up splitting more like: Erin, Teru, Kyo & Eclair, Sparrow & Ephrel as it is.

There were also very specific circumstances that happened to lead to certain incidents to play out as they had, meaning that if it didn't stick to their strict canon, the aforementioned floated idea of the MC significantly changing course of their lives could either end up with the aforementioned merged paths after all (Erin/Sparrow/Ephrel, or Teru/Kyo/Eclair), or might split them all even further apart (individually rather than mixed). And all of this is only factoring in those specific OCs, not even their not-so-OC supports/friendships/other romantic partners.

In a fully original plot? It's much more possible to bring back that mostly-consistent design rule as the other not-as-focused OCs I brought up earlier. Circumstances could change to make all of the six much more immediately, readily available, rather than hidden in one another's plots, or merging or splitting in ways that you'd have to rewrite massive chunks of their story lines to adjust course on to get. (Since this in itself just throws out all the pre-establishments to start over with something way more malleable now.)

Barring the six still having certain leanings, and some of those leanings being much more flexible this time, this can bring up more layers to them of all of them gradually opening up to the MC just as much individually as they can in a group that bounces off to one another.

All of which is to say... It's been something I've been thinking about and considering for a good while, but wasn't sure whether or not to explore more (and in better specific detail than this vague dancing-around-the-point way as to not go too off-topic or waffling on in probably-boring stuff), I just wasn't sure on the best approach to it between whether or not to keep them as-is, whether or not to use what I got to springboard something more flexible, or whether or not to just take them into a new world and story entirely to start anew with (now that I have a somewhat broader idea of where to go with this compared to when I started). Or if it's better time to put into making a new cast to go into a new setting, rather than the summoners who have so much already developed, people might get tired of, and would just annoy people to push into outright projects of that kind over just moving on with new OCs.

Food for thought I guess...

If your OC were a romance/friend option in a game, how would their route be unlocked, and how difficult would it be to complete their route successfully?

[prawn-haunted]

...somehow

[tillydouspart]

ive been thinking of an au of hermitcraft but following their in-universe lore ! so scar is a zookeeper that travels the multiverse on his magic train, and one day he lands on magic mountain...!

second part! | third part!

[misswifi]

Tag game🎉

Tag your moots and ask them where they got the idea for their tumblr accounts name!

For my name it was a nickname I was giving back in middleschool! One of our teacher had a system where we worked with 'wifi' eachtime we talked in class we lost a bar of the "wifi" (was a weird joke and we never held count on that) All the kids usually joked if they needed 'wifi' , they would borrow mine if they wanted to talk more. (I was incredibly shy in middle school, I only talked to like 3 people at school;^;)

They called me Ms. Wifi because of that. I just thought it would be funny if I put 'miss' instead of 'ms' because of my terrible actual wifi connection I have at home lol.

That's my story! Now moots, only if you guys want to, tell us your story.

Tags-> @slipping-lately @firequeenofficial @noagskryf @twinklstarrrr @halfbakedspuds @polterwasteist @rokushi-san @mygedagtes +anyone that sees this and wants to do this as well

[eriisaam]

Short answer: Yes. Quite a few, but Kyo in particular did, even with regard to his origin world (as his summoner variant).

Long answer: With the preface this AU has legendaries be common-place and grow up along side other species like more common pokemon...

Kyo would run away from home a lot through a combination of neglect, wanting to get away from his sister (he's the black sheep to his golden child sister, and this dynamic is the source of a lot of the aforementioned neglect), or even some part of him doing it for attention (in a sense a kid in the single digits ran away to places out of town in a way he knew would be dangerous without coming of age to be a proper trainer or at least having a pokemon to properly escort him, but was hoping someone, anyone, would give a damn enough to notice he was gone and go look for him), and as this was in Galar, specifically the general area near Postwick, Wedgehurst, and the Slumbering Wealds, that last part is where he often ran away to.

To also give context, Slumbering Wealds is usually the den of not just wild pokemon in general, but often the place where (in this AU at least) zacians and zamazentas who were still in their puppy and/or adolescent phases will usually make dens in and grow up and train from, before they themselves grow up big, strong, and capable enough to roam off to carve their own adventures out and make their own legends, much like a lot of their inspo-sakes in the zacian and zamazenta pair who became historical figures who shadowed the galarian kings of old.

Kyo running away thankfully led him to run into two examples of either wolves - an adolescent zacian (eventually called Ringel) and a puppy zamazenta (eventually called Grond) - found him and Ringel simply protected and dotted on him alongside her brother, until Kyo was old enough to qualify to go off as an official trainer, and then left Galar outright for a time.

By the time he came back to Galar - now older, full of trauma-imbued power, and debatable how better or worse he's been since - did reunite with Ringel and Grond - themselves having grown far bigger but also riddled with things like scars, chunks of suspicious bald-patch lines, and missing chunks of their ears each in their own journeys - and he reunited with and kept both of them, albeit giving Grond to Eclair while Ringel stayed with him.

did your oc ever run away when they were a kid?

[companionquest]

good morning to 40 year olds who act 80, bisexual terrorists, autistic empaths, insomniac assassins, and everyone else who’s got the spirit

[sherlockggrian]

congratulations joel, massive W for smallishbeans lovers :D

[the-scrombler]

Origins

[solargeist]

running out of time

[baba-is-blog]

Baba like dragons?

DRAGON IS FAVORITE

[tillydouspart]

second part of this! hermitcraft but following everyone's in-canon lore, featuring: grian the totally normal fisherman

third part

[stealingpotatoes]

Do you like any other video games? If so, do you like Zelda and whats ur favourite game?

i like LOTS of games!! i’ve only played a bit of BOTW but i got bored once i’d fully upgraded my house in that village and never defeated any of the divine beasts

[aetherial-slumber]

Fun sideblog fun fact: Khorloo has an incredibly good eye for free pouring. If he’s shown how to make a drink he can fairly accurately recreate it with small margins for error uvu Shame he got fired.

First day as a bartender vs 1 week later after getting fired because it rained so much at the usually idyllic sunny vacation hot spot that they couldn't keep you on for lack of funds and you just know its cos you're cursed.

But also I just wanted to make some stupid eye candy so enjoy some Khorloo Thot Tummy

Shaders used are [Neneko's Absolute] and [Fairy's Essence Of Sadness]

bonus Pretty boy under the cut-

(and also Khorloo's identical twin brother, Enkhtagtaa) You can tell them apart by the way they style their hair- and Tagtaa has a shade darker orange in his hair, and purple eye makeup as opposed to the reds in Khorloo's. They've grown apart in recent years but I like posing them together while I feel stuff out uvu

[keferon]

More Mecha pilot Jazz AU. Because I have read and reread like ten fics about them in one day