#taken nonbinary skeleton

[bravenewolympus--hq]

𝒉𝒆𝒑𝒉𝒂𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒔, 𝒈𝒐𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒆, 𝝂𝒐𝒍𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒆𝒔, 𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒔, 𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒓𝒈𝒚, 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒔, 𝒔𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒔. 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒏.

ʙʀᴀᴠᴇ ɴᴇᴡ ᴏʟʏᴍᴘᴜꜱ : ᴀ 21+ ᴍᴏᴅᴇʀɴ ɢʀᴇᴇᴋ ᴍʏᴛʜᴏʟᴏɢʏ ᴅɪꜱᴄᴏʀᴅ ʀᴏʟᴇᴘʟᴀʏ. athens, new york: an island city, all trees and marble, glass and steel and highrises set against an ocean skyline. bustling and loud, crowded, but not without a bizarre sense that it must have sprung up overnight, somehow, when surely it must have always been here, no? on a clear night, you might even be able to see the lights of its more famous cousin, new york city, across the water…if you squint hard enough. it may not get as much attention as the shiny apple across the hudson, but those not so blinded by the lights must certainly have been coming here for years. is there something in the water here, too? no one leaves, not in any meaningful way anyway. feels like it has a special way of pulling you back in, if you try. they, that is anyone who was anyone or paid even an iota of attention to the evening news, called him the minotaur. the media does love a catchy nom de guerre, doesn’t it? sells newspapers like hotcakes in the morning. ambrosia, whether it’s the latest designer drug trend or the latest pestilence sweeping the streets of athens, just depends on how tightly you clutch your pearls on sundays. must infuriate the police, don’t it? that without fail, by the time they arrive to any crime scene at all, all that’s left is the heap of little cream-coloured business cards, the red lines of a labyrinthine logo more taunting than they are helpful. between an epidemic of pearlescent powder, neatly parceled out in small plastic baggies, a tide of crimson bull graffiti, casinos and bordellos and the nightlife (oh my!), it’s no small wonder they call this an atlantic sin city. it’s a vice eat dog world, ain’t it? and anyone who calls athens home is just living in it. powerless, with no memory of their past lives, what's a god gotta do to survive?

[yensidhq]

NAME :// YUMI ISHIYAMA ORIGIN :// CODE LYOKO AGE :// TWENTY-SIX PRONOUNS :// THEY/THEM JOB :// GAME DESIGNER FC:// LYRICA OKANO

☾ ✦ ⋆＊✩ ║▌║█║▌│║▌║▌█  AESTHETIC :

there is nothing quite like the feeling of knowing your own body, what it is capable of. all your life you've been the mom friend but meaner, ready to bite someone's head off if they don't take care of themselves. you are at your most comfortable in combat boots and ripped jeans - the exterior matches the interior. your days are filled with scribbled down notes like the world's most tragic diary - can't forget, can't afford to.

☾ ✦ ⋆＊✩ ║▌║█║▌│║▌║▌█   BIOGRAPHY:

yumi ishiyama was always the best they could possibly hope to be. or, rather, they tried to be. they strived for good grades and good standing with teachers. they dedicated themself to various sports, picking them up naturally and wearing themself down with practice. but such behavior didn’t make them any friends, until the day they met odd, ulrich, and jeremie. they can’t remember exactly if they pushed their own way into the friend group or if they just pulled them in, but they were inseparable from that point on. their parents weren’t always fond of the boys, but they never said anything too disparaging to their face. they wanted to be a game designer after they graduated, despite their parents pushing for them to become a lawyer or some equally respectable, well-paid, but boring job.

they were only twenty-three when everything in their life turned on its head. lyoko was meant to be an adventure between friends, a chance to explore and have fun without actually leaving too far from their family. a chance to escape after an argument with their parents about them wanting to go to college for design, not pre-law. but then the codes got lost and jumbled and suddenly it was not just a game- it was survival, it was war, it was their own worst nightmare. they clung desperately onto their faith in jeremie like a lifeline, held onto odd and ulrich as their fellow warriors. they nearly got themself thrown into the digital void more times than they likes to recall, nearly cost their friends their lives just as many. they're far more indebted to odd and ulrich than they're sure they realize.

Xana was good at making one let their gaurd down though, especially when it seemed jeremie finally had everything fixed, that they could come home. but instead, they fell into a sub-world, one that looked like home, but glitched in ways that made everything seem unreal, like a bad dream you couldn't wake up from. friendly faces easily slid into roles of enemies, and they had to defend themself, morals be damned. it was surreal when they finally managed to break back through to lyoko itself, a unfamiliar setting far more welcome than the psuedo-reality they were forced into.

lyoko shook them apart, ruining the walls they spent such a long time building up. their parents couldn’t figure out how to interact with their child, who disappeared for two years without warning, only to return a shallow husk of what they once were. the ishiyamas made the only decision they could - offer their oldest child a getaway, a place to restart in hopes new scenery would bring their old yumi back. they allowed yumi to drag her friends along, something that would have at one point been a far harder negotiation point than it was. their father told them to pursue whatever they wanted, that he trusted their judgement. it was something they wanted to hear their whole life, but the words somehow left them feeling hollow. they left for yensid in the middle of the night, a move that felt like they were sneaking away.

yensid provides a strange sense of normalcy to them now; they can cling to the people they care about, no matter how harsh they can be on the surface. they work on character design for games, even have their own private project they work on when they can't sleep. but no one will ever see it; it looks more and more like lyoko with each passing day, and they're not ready for others to see how they cope.

☾ ✦ ⋆＊✩ ║▌║█║▌│║▌║▌█   CONTACTS:

Aelita Schaeffer: a threat, and a friend at once. Jeremie Belpois, Odd Della Robbia, & Ulrich Stern: friends, family.

☾ ✦ ⋆＊✩ ║▌║█║▌│║▌║▌█   THOUGHTS:

Yumi has had problems with their anxiety since pretty much the day that they were born, though it took them a lot longer to figure out that anxiety was the issue that they were dealing with. On the asteroid, most of their anxiety comes from spats with friends or being too overprotective; their job helps with that, keeping them busy, but it is not a permanent solution.

YUMI IS ___________________ TAKEN BY CADEN

[vinxwatches]

fallout (2024)

WARNING: i did not finish this. i didn't want to finish this. do not read or watch if you like happy stories. do not read or watch if you like the darkness in the fallout games. this show is dark in gruesome, permanently damaging ways. fuck this. the show may fucking nail the aesthetic of fallout, it doesn't get the vibe of fallout. fallout is set in a serious world where video game characters go through a video game plots in a world that's also often goofy. an equivalence would be if the mario movie had a serious burial of Luigi half way through and he just stayed dead. a clear sign that it doesn't get it.

trigger warning: gore, dismemberment of the living and dead. the dog dies.

as a big fan of fallout 4, even fallout 76, and a letsplay of Fnv this is very hype. and the references they are putting in straight is so cool to see. and damn, that's how you start a fallout. and now jus the references, seriously the vault hallways looks straight up lifted from fallout 4 (with high definition mods)

a vault having connections with a different vault? so that either is a process of kicking people the fuck out, or the evil experiment from vault tech... probably both. also love that they don't avoid the fucked up lore that really makes fallout fallout.

oh yea, this is how you start a fallout part 2, the personal angle. kind of bummed that she doesn't start with the classic bulky 10mm. and of course there's something about the protaganists family, because this is bethesda fallout (not derogatively, just perfect adaptation)

me, out loud: "ohhh, that's the pridwin, that's so cool" if you get me to talk out loud you did good. petty power politics? how very fallout of you. "i'm bringing him home". i'm very sorry but that's not how fallout works.

also loves that bethesda continues with inclusivity. Dane is nonbinary, played by a trans actor. it's so small, it plays no role (at least i find it HIGHLY unlikely that it will. nb people are just part of reality, and so they are now (finally) entering media.

the fucking junk jet made it in?

just "the ghoul". i wonder if we'll get more info on what ghouls are. i mean i know. i've probably heard more false things then there's true stuff about ghouls to know. but if you're new to fallout i think the vault is relatively obvious, and the brotherhood is pretty well explained. but the concept of a ghoul? practivally nothing outside of them being scary, can go "feral", and are weird. but it is only the first episode.

02

it wouldn't be fallout without skeletons in strange positions and/or environmental story telling. did they use fallout sound effects for the weird man drinking water? it may not be but that is diamond city. at least based of it. it looks so fallout that i can't even remember which of the places i've had a shootout in it reminds me of, it's too many.

not a fan of living gore. like fallout game gore is fine. shooting limbs of completely mindless things? fine. but not on a person, espcially not one that's then crudely taken care of. i'm way too terrified of something happening to me, it tends to roam in my mind anyways, even more so now that i've a reason to give a shit about my body, so the dismemberment of the living... ew, please, no more. at least it doesn't stick around too long (in which case why? just to be gross?)

"cyanide was the most humane product vault tech ever made"... accurate yet horrifying.

03

oh... so that's who the ghoul is. and that, well it'll create drama, and i'm curious how close it's to the story of nuka break. haven't seen that show in too long.

me, out loud, after wondering what that monster was "oh of course it was a gulper. wait, no, those are east coast, this was west coast." not really a plothole, monsters from one side often make their way to the other. harder for a water based creature. unless the same thing evolved twice.

oh, those eyes weren't just more human then expect. that thing was human... once.

the golden rule is severely lacking. don't do onto others as you'd have them to onto you. if i was into bondage and often horney how do you think it'd treat people if the golden rule was. a good rule is "treat others how they want to be treated" or "treat others how you can reasonably expect they want to be treated". the golden rule of the wasteland is pretty accurate though: "thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit every goddamn time". this rule is, in fact, recursive.

of course the waterchip is broken. this is fallout after all.

04

ok, no, i'm done. no dismemberment of main characters. fuck you. even if she does get it back. i'm done.

[silverchronicler]

Prime Report for January 2024

Hello, good fellows. Maybe at this point I should just wait until after the devstream, but I refuse. Let's predict what the future holds.

Prime Access

Gauss Prime has taken over Prime Access with Acceltra Prime and Akarius Prime, and there he should stay until April. Garuda Prime's relics are now in the vault, and Khora Prime (and Hystrix and the Dual Keres Prime with her) will be next up in April when Gauss leaves.

So, who will take over when Gauss leaves in April? As of today, we don't yet know. Will they be likely to tell us who it will be in friday's devstream? Almost certainly! But they may wait a while. So let's see who it SHOULD be.

With the pairing of Grendel and Gauss Prime, the male-male rotation is finished, meaning that next rotation should be female-female. But, the next batch of warframes will likely have a fun shake up.

After Gauss and Grendel, the release order of warframes goes:

Protea Xaku Lavos Sevagoth Yareli

While Xaku is nonbinary, they fill the second slot in the female release rotation, and likely will in the Prime rotation as well, with two male frames between them and Yareli. (Also, it would be QUITE a shake up for Yareli to jump the queue, and would mess up the timing quite a bit for future expected Primes as well.) But, Xaku can fill whatever slot they like.

Most likely we will be getting Protea first and Xaku after, unless the team decides they'd like to tackle the skeleton first. I find this unlikely, and people have been wondering how they'd go about Xaku Prime for a while, so Protea as our next Prime would make plenty of sense.

When we do see Xaku Prime though, they will give us an interesting look into how the lore may adapt for future Warframes of strange origin as well. Does Caliban, a warframe created seemingly by the sentients, have a Prime? Or was he created by the orokin and simply inspired by the sentients, and it wasn't clear before? Who knows! It may also allow us to eventually get prime trailers with voice overs by characters other than Ballas, which would be very fun. Maybe we will get Mother or Grandmother to tell us about Xaku Prime? The possibilities are endless and I will warmly welcome our new skeleton overlord.

Then, after Protea and Xaku figure out their order, they will be followed by Lavos and Sevagoth. Protea and Xaku should be released in spring and summer this year, with Lavos and Sevagoth taking the slots for autumn and winter of this year/early next year.

And then, if all goes well, next spring should bring Yareli Prime (to be followed shortly by Gyre Prime).

Obviously these warframes should all be accompanied by their signature weapons, but what other weapons do you think they'll have? What do you WANT them to have? What weapons will we never get primes of no matter how much we beg?? Some of these questions may never be answered (unless you want to).

Prime Resurgence

This week as part of the Prime Resurgence event, Varzia is selling Saryn, Valkyr, Atlas, and Vauban Prime and their associated weapons (Cernos, Venka, Spira, Nikana, Tekko, Fragor, and Akstiletto Prime). They will be in for another week until Feb 1st.

Starting Feb 1st and going until Feb 15th, all the Prime Warframes that showed up during the event will return, plus Rhino and Nyx Prime. This means that all of Mesa, Hydroid, Ivara, Oberon, Volt, Loki, Nova, Trinity, Saryn, Valkyr, Atlas, Vauban, Rhino, and Nyx Prime and their associated weapons will be in Varzia's shop for two weeks. At the moment it isn't clear what we will be getting after that, starting Feb 15th. Hopefully the devstream will give us some hints.

(Titania Prime would be a good answer I think.)

In the mean time, don't forget: January Devstream on Friday, Jan 26th at 2 pm ET! Twitch drop will be an Umbra Forma Blueprint, so make sure to tune in for the first Devstream of the year!

Any predictions for what topics we might get news about, other than the time traveling elephant in the room? Echoes of the walls??? Void Angels 3: The Revengening? Is the Krios Signa soon to be lost to time???? Feel free to tell me your thoughts.

See you on Friday!

[mamamittens]

I'm supposed to be sleeping but nah.

Here's some AO3 statistics on my stories instead!

Under the cut of you're a nerd like me and morbidly curious as to what hits big in my fics specifically.

So, from my first fics on AO3 all the way back in 2016 to 2023, here's my top stories from kudos, which is a harder metric to hit compared to well, hits.

Btw, just realized that the by year filter is based on update not when it's written, so as long as it was updated in that year it makes the list.

As you can see this is also the year I got into Undertale. "We Are Falling" being my first Undertale fic with the zanny OC 'Tumble', AFAB nonbinary older sibling to Frisk. Mostly a story of crack taken more or less seriously.

Not at all surprised the HP crossover fic "Determined Magics" tops it cause well... It's HP and also written when the crossovers were very few and mostly drabbles. "Hopeful Magic" is the dropped sequel because I had no idea how to continue the story at a decent length and eventually forgot what little plans I did have. It was very hard to decide to officially drop it and I'm still upset it had to be done to this day.

Similarly, "It's going Tibia A Cute Time" was dropped for similar reasons because i started including more details I had no idea how to close out than when I first started. This one featuring an OC essentially raising the skeleton brothers. It was a whole thing.

"Sketchy as Hell" is actually my first romance fic and stars an OC named "Anna" in the AU verse "Underfell", which for the uninitiated is basically edgy Undertale. Wild times. "Colorful as Hell" is the sequel. It is in fact totally finished.

"Shadows in the Ice" just didn't have enough story and nothing I thought of would pad it out into an acceptable length for me, so it was also dropped after a very long time and much reluctant deliberation. At best, this story would be more of a short story. It is based off of a movie after all. Not a lot of plot to start with.

And this is for only this year alone!

Unsurprisingly it's mostly my One Piece one shots for the most part (specifically smuts).

But Sweet Child tops all of them, which honestly tracks, being a reader insert with different romantic/platonic ending with a few different characters. Some of which are still pending. A little surprised the Child AU version "How our Seeds Grow" also made it onto the top area of my list! Especially given how it's just one chapter but I guess folks love child inserts with platonic yanderes idk.

Quite surprised the FNAF fic "A Friend of Charlotte" is on here given how poorly OC fics tend to do in general but given the public nature of kudos and the way the filter works by year, I suppose this teen rates fic had a better shot. This one is about Blaire, teenage medium discovering the secrets of the pizzaplex from Security Breach before, during, and after the games events.

"Fireworks" made it to #2, which is mildly surprising but it is a smutfic about Ace and a reader insert so... Not that surprising.

"Twice Bitten (But not Shy)" being a sequel to a vampire Crocodile with AFAB reader insert smut so zero surprise that it's here.

"Sugar on Your Tongue" is another smutfic for One Piece but this time with Marco, Ace, Zoro, and Sanji in a foursome. Spicy. Zero surprise it's here.

And last on this singular screenshot (there are fics with less kudos under it) is "A Lone Melody" doing alright considering it's an OC centric fic in a massive fandom. All about Melody (half human half fishman) growing up with Arlong (and sometimes Jinbe) as she realizes not everything is as she thought it was and Arlong realizes there are consequences to being a racist prick with yandere-esque protective tendencies. Mostly. It's more about Melody though.

Just for fun, here's last year, 2022.

Unsurprised "Hopeful Magic" tops it, this is the year I dropped it and left a chapter explaining what little plans I could recall.

But yeaaaahhh... All of the 'new' entries are One Piece smut to my absolute non-shock.

"Aloe Kisses" Sabo smut with AFAB reader, "The Only Choice" yandere Ace smut with AFAB reader, "Riptide" yandere Jinbe smut with female reader, and "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" werewolf Ace smut with AFAB werewolf reader. Zero shock and awe here lol.

I... Wrote a lot of smut in 2022. It's easier to get a high word count than fluff, ngl, and I did several events that year with smut as an option that I cross posted. The werewolf Ace fic is one such smut specifically for the Halloween/horror themed event if memory serves!

If I had to say which one I had the most fun writing it would probably be "We Are all Falling" cause I was literally pumping out a chapter everyday after classes in college with my roomie (still bestie) reading over it. It was dumb, stupid fun. A real treat with a random, aggressive sense of humor that if you read it, you'd recognize my trademark writing starts real early. Including having unexpected villains, body horror, dramatics, and side eyes references to anime I've seen. Tumble was me totally uninhibited by anxiety and fear with a good dose of angst and the best of intentions. Also absolutely fed up with bullshit but strangely optimistic.

After that? I'd have to say my second favorite that's on any of these 'lists' would have to be "A Friend of Charlotte". I spent what had to be weeks crafting Blaire and her backstory. Her story is also the only one that I can more or less consistently hit a pretty high word count for chapters without feeling bloated, which is quite satisfying. A bit more mature of a story with some fun taken crafting a middle ground between the ludicrously dangerous setting of literally any location in FNAF with something that could actually maybe exist without getting shut down for being... Ludicrously dangerous for literally anyone in, around, or even thinking about. Definitely a little more kind to upper management than canon FNAF management who seem to view OSHA violations as a checklist and a challenge. Seriously, how the hell do you make body snatcher animatronics without a little bit of pause??? Why?? Why would you do that?!? (The amount of haunted animatronics is also a problem but arguably not usually a feature until Funtime)

[grollow]

Okay I think I've already sent one, but just to be safe, I'm sending this one too. Gotta give all the mutuals all the asks

27. Name a character and I’ll give you a headcanon! Miq, LITTLE GUY!

20. If you were put into one of the games, what do you think you would be?

29. What are your 3 favourite non-boss enemies?

34. What are your favourite views in the games? (E.G: entering Leyndel for the first time)

HAVE A GOOD ONE, AND HAPPY FRIDAY!!

YOU DIDNT AKSHULLY I WAS SURPRISED <3

but I think Tumblr's been eating asks lately tbh (did you get mineeee)

27. Name a Character and I'll give you a headcanon -- Miquella the Unalloyed

Like everyone, I headcanon that Miquella is St. Trina. I also headcanon him as nonbinary as fuck, using every pronoun interchangeably and swapping them within their own sentences (IE, calling themself she/her/he all within the same sentence, figure it out). I also headcanon that the lilies with the properties of aiding sleep were discovered by him in order to help his sister find peace. (This is also where almost everything attributed to St. Trina came from -- his desire to help Malenia.)

20. If you were put into one of the games, what do you think you would be?

One of the snail women in the Fishing Hamlet, unironically.

29. What are your 3 favourite non-boss enemies?

To avoid this being littered by invader-type enemies, I'm only going to pick general mobs. I greatly enjoy the weeping women in Cainhurst, I think because I just found Cainhurst absolutely enchanting the first time I went there. I get a huge kick out of the jars in Elden Ring too, because I've got no brain and I'm like HEHE POT MAN. The last is probably the wheel skeletons who are absolutely evil but like, they're just a vibe, I also wanna ball myself up and roll into something until it reaches an untimely demise, get stun locked bitch

34. What are your favourite views in the games? (E.G: entering Leyndel for the first time)

I have a note on Elden Ring with over 3000 likes, and it says something like gorgeous view. I can't remember the exact wording and I'm too lazy to log in to check, but it's on the steps as you descend from Loretta's platform and take in Elphael for the first time. I would die for Elphael.

There's something incredibly haunting about the Fishing Hamlet, too, when you realize that if you look down you are above the rest of the Hunter's Nightmare.

The third one I'd pick is the first time you enter Irithyll. I love icy/cold tones and the aesthetic over that place is just magnificent.

If I have to pick one of these three, though, Elphael wins it handily because it was the first time in any Soulsborne title that I stopped and actually went "Holy shit this is gorgeous." (Granted, I think Irithyll would've taken it if Elden Ring wasn't the second game I played after Bloodborne, but STILL.)

[actualhumanyes]

I posted 1,682 times in 2022

That's 1,378 more posts than 2021!

54 posts created (3%)

1,628 posts reblogged (97%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@corvuscoronecornix

@a-small-batch-of-dragons

@tooaceforthisspace

@the-dragon-invasion-is-near

@svenskjavel

I tagged 198 of my posts in 2022

#kaos i alvik - 14 posts

#skeleton war - 11 posts

#wizards - 9 posts

#pride - 8 posts

#lgbt - 7 posts

#lgbtqia+ - 6 posts

#art - 6 posts

#bird art - 6 posts

#lgbtq - 6 posts

#anyways - 5 posts

Longest Tag: 128 characters

#i should bot be allowed internet communication anymore this is so incomprehensible and weird and i just want to go back to sleep

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

has anyone seen around the world in eighty days with david tennant? it’s so good i think i might cry a bit please everybody go watch it

also no spoilers i’m not done yet

13 notes - Posted May 25, 2022

#4

why is hayloft the nonbinary theme song? dont get me wrong, the song slaps, but im just so hay-lost

16 notes - Posted January 28, 2022

#3

[id: An image taken from the Mazm Jekyll and Hyde game showing two characters in a dimly lit room. The dialogue bar reads ”I can swear with my hand on the bible.” Another text box beneath it, this one from snapchat, comments ”Good for you”. End id]

damn past me, no need to be so salty???

59 notes - Posted June 20, 2022

#2

dr henry jekyll creating an entirely new identity just to be gay and do crime

thats some quality 19th century writing right there

87 notes - Posted April 11, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

yes im aroace and swedish and worried what about it

177 notes - Posted April 18, 2022

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[thisis70s]

“ 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐫𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐰𝐛𝐨𝐲, 𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫-𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐨. “

𝐁𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐒:

name: jess hinkley age: twenty-six birthday: april 1st faceclaim: brigette lundy-paine gender: nonbinary (they/them) occupation: clerk at rockin’ n rollin’ positive trait: idealistic negative trait: gullible song skeleton: rhinestone cowboy by glen campbell

𝐒𝐊𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐎𝐍:

Born and raised in a small southern town, you had grown used to a close knit community and charming people with your southern hospitality. It’s all you had ever known for a good portion of your life. Rodeos and cowboy boots were staples in your life until you decided to commit to moving to Los Angeles. It came as a shock to your family. As much as you loved the south, you loved the idea of the City of Angels even more. You had big dreams! You didn’t know what kind of big dreams you had, but you knew you wanted to do something bigger than just living in a podunk town. You haven’t been in L.A. for long, but you’re soaking up every minute of the sun and the people in it.

𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒:

BORN TO RUN (friends with benefits): Born to Run never expected to hook up with a person like Rhinestone Cowboy. The pair had met in a bar one night and talked about their similarities. Both were new to California and didn’t really know anyone, so they took a chance on one another. That chance led to friendship, but also a friendship with some strings attached. It was hard being alone in a city and they’ve just found comfort in one another.

YOU’RE SO VAIN (best friend and roommate): Rhinestone Cowboy hasn’t been in Los Angeles for long, but after meeting You’re So Vain, they decided to trade numbers and hang out. Then You’re So Vain dropped that Piano Man had moved out and that they needed a roommate if they were going to be able to afford their apartment. Rhinestone Cowboy needed a place to live and had money to contribute, so it seemed like the most logical choice to move in.

THIS SKELETON IS TAKEN.

[theheartbrokensystem]

💔Alter post💔

Meet the alters of the 'Heartbroken system, or 💔 sys for short. (We'll update this as time goes on, doubles are also welcome to interact with us.)

Troy, He/They, NB Bisexual, 20

Source: "Not comfortable telling you where I'm from." - Troy

Role(s): Trauma holder, Protector, Caretaker, Main host

Likes: Reading, being alone (sometimes), sleeping, experiments, and making gadgets

Dislikes: Assholes and receiving physical touch w/o permission

Interests: Science, stuffed animals, video games, reading, and macabre things

Sign on/off or when talking w/o Pluralkit: ⚛️

BYI:

My social battery is low, but I'll try my best to talk whenever I can.

Apologies if responses sound dry, I speak in a blunt manner.

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June "Sweetheart" Angelic, Any + Bun/Buns/Bunself, 11

Source: An oc created by Joey

Role(s): Little, Protector

Sign in/off: 🐇

Likes: My friends/family, toys, coloring, spaghetti, the color pink, toys, and video games

Dislikes: Long eye contact (depending on who it is), being yelled at, loud noises, jerks, creepy people, and being underestimated

BYI:

Like Chara, I'm also a little! Don't be mean to me or I'll kick your shit in.

I'm very silly, very chatty, but I do swear sometimes.

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Mac, He/They, NB Queer, 22

Source: "Not comfortable saying it." - Mac

Role(s): Trauma holder, Protector, Organizer

Likes: Messing with Troy, the color red, keeping myself busy, dark places, peace and quiet

Dislikes: Assholes, time wasters, bright places

Interests: True crime, technology, video essays, video games

Sign on/off or when talking w/o Pluralkit: ⚙️

BYI:

My voice tends to sound raspy/robotic, so I use a phone to communicate.

Like Troy, I also speak in a blunt manner; I hope you understand.

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Clyde "Cyclops" Von Volger, He/They, NB Queer, 34

Source: LISA: The Hopeful

Role(s): Trauma holder, Protector

Taken by Liam and Benny <3

Sign on/off or when talking w/o Pluralkit: ❤️

Likes: Video games, napping, and men <3

Dislikes: Assholes

Interests: I go along with what my bfs are interested in :)

Note: I am detached from my source, as the creator wrote me off a racist stereotype. Gross.

BYI:

I make sex jokes, but if you're a minor I won't make sex jokes around you.

I'm Hypersexual, so I tend to be uncomfy with sexual stuff sometimes, depending on how I feel at the moment.

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Sindy Gallows, He/They, NB Bisexual, 36

Source: LISA: The Joyful

Role(s): Co-host, Trauma holder, Guardian

Likes: Sleeping whenever I can, that's it.

Dislikes: Assholes

Interests: Knitting, archery, and writing stories

Sign on/off: 💚

BYI:

I'm slow to anger, don't push my buttons thanks.

I make self-deprecating jokes or not alive myself jokes to cope with my Depression.

I'm patient towards people with speaking issues, such as stutters. I won't make fun of you, take your time.

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Chara Dreemurr, They/It only, Nonbinary, 13

Source: Undertale

Role(s): Little

Likes: Flowers, toys, coloring, chocolate, playing outside, reading, and rainbows

Dislikes: Jerks and white chocolate

Interests: Playing with toys, stuffed animals, and the outdoors

Sign on/off: 🍫

BYI:

I'm a minor, don't act weird around me. I'm also semi-verbal, I don't talk much.

If you misgender me, Frisk, and Kris or don't wanna refer to our pronouns which is They/Them only. I don't like you, sorry.

If you portray me as a "heartless monster who only wants to destroy humanity", I'm literally a traumatized child that's mean. :(

I'm squeamish when people touch me without asking, ask me first.

Any Asriels can interact, hi Azzy! :D

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Sans The Skeleton, He/She, Genderfluid Gay, 26

Source: Undertale

Role(s): Trauma holder, Guardian

Likes: Making friends, jokes, food, and sleeping

Interests: Reading and comedy

Dislikes: Jerks

Sign on/off: 💀

BYI:

Unlike my source, I ain't that good at makin' puns. Like that Sindy guy, I'm slow to anger too.

Papyrus's alters are cool, hi Pap.

Any of those AUs versions of me are allowed to talk to us, I'd like to meet ya too.

If you ship me with my lil bro, don't talk to me.

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Fluffy, She/Her, Ageless

Source: A irl plushie we've had since childhood

Role(s): Comfort

Likes: Making friends and cuddling

Dislikes: Meanies

Sign on/off: 💌

BYI:

Fluffy is just a lil baby, don't be mean.

Doesn't understand other languages, but can understand simple phrases and sentences.

Says "Ba", "Bwa", or "Baba" a lot.

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Rantaro Amami, He/They, NB Queer, 25

Source: Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony

Role(s): Caretaker

Likes: Making friends, taking care of kids, and goofing off

Dislikes: Jerks

Interests: Gardening and traveling

Sign on/off: 🌻

BYI:

Don't be mean to me or I'll be mean back, that's it.

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("My form is beyond your comprehension." - KO)

KO [Pronounced "Kay-O"], Eldritch being, He/It, He's old

Full name: Koulk Ovruthroxz [Pronounced "Colk Over-ruth-ox"]

Source: Brainmade

Role(s): Prosecutor

Likes: Knives, death, and dark stories

Dislikes: Assholes

Interests: Morbid things

Sign on/off: 🔪

BYI:

Don't be a dickhead, that's it.

I am unhinged to a degree. If you can't handle that then leave me alone.

I like morbid things like death. If that upsets you, then I won't discuss it around you.

Despite my prosecutor role, I'm chill but still learning right from wrong.

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Ermac, They/He, Nonbinary, 38

Species: Edenian

Source: The Mortal Kombat series

Role(s): Protector, Guardian, Observer

Likes: Tea, learning about new things, and watching over others

Dislikes: Annoying people Interests: Training our body, meditating, and reading

Sign on/off: 👻

BYI:

We don't speak, but we'll speak our mind only if we wish to.

Unlike our source, we're alive.

We speak in 1st person, as our source officially speaks like that.

We like to observe those around us; even if you don't see us, we see you.

We're not repulsed by the concepts of romance, we don't like it when others do it towards us forcefully.

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Garcello, He/Him only, Pansexual Trans guy, 25

Source: Smoke Em' Out Struggle (fnf mod)

Role(s): Comfort, Protector

Likes: Making friends and goofing off

Dislikes: Jerks and smoking

Interests: I'm unsure what my interests are, but I'd love to hear about yours.

Sign on/off: 🚭

BYI:

Don't be mean, okay?

I love hearing people infodump to me, talk away.

I can't find the words to say anything sometimes, please don't take that as me being rude.

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Oleander, She/He/It, Dardowffin (Xenogender), 30

Species: Unicorn (I have an Anthro form too.)

Source: Them's Fightin' Herds

Role(s): Protector, Guardian, Organizer

Likes: Donuts, coffee, puppies, goth fashion, studying, nature, the dark, peace and quiet

Dislikes: Idiots, being underestimated, and close-mindedness

Interests: Magic stuff, the occult, the supernatural, learning and trying new things

BYI

I take things seriously, not in the mood for nonsense.

My tone may sound stern, but I try to be nice.

I'm brutally honest and sarcastic.

[retiredhq]

STATS

Full name: Tango

Codename: The Creature

Age: Unknown

Gender:  Agender

Pronouns: he/him

Species: Mutant (unknown)

Alignment: Chaotic good.

Threat Level: 4

FC: The Beast from Attack the Block

Availability: Taken (Established)

ABOUT

The Creature doesn’t know their history and no one dares to ask. They have always been a force of destruction, and their memory before their time with the team is fuzzy. Some would say that they are a liability but The Creature knows their limits and in actuality would never hurt anyone innocent. The foaming at the mouth and wild eyes in all part of the act. They loved their team like a family and was devastated the day it was disbanded. In addition to that, The Creature has spent the last twenty years locked up in a government facility. The accommodations were nice but it was still a cage. Now they are glad to be let out and while they harbor a grudge against the bureau, their ray of hope is the thought of seeing their family again.

FIGHTING STYLE

The Creature doesn’t use weapons. They just use their hands and teeth. Known for their extreme strength they can tear apart their targets without exerting much effort. They have an unfocused and savage way of fighting enemies and can be easily distracted or rerouted during battle. They will go after whatever draws their immediate attention and they will leave a path of destruction in their wake. Brute force is their main tactic and it tends to work well when taking out hordes.

PERSONALITY

loyal, strong, resilient

gruff, unintelligent, reckless

CONNECTIONS

TALLAHASSEE - Tallahassee has been The Creature’s best friend and greatest advocate from the start. Tallahassee doesn’t seem to fear anything and thus had no problem treating The Creature like a friend from the beginning. The Creature is glad to have someone on their side that just treats them like a pal and delights int he more freaky aspects of the The Creature’s afflictions.

GECKO - If there is anyone on the team that understand what The Creature has been through it’s Gecko. Gecko knows what it’s like to be ostracized and ogled at. There is a sense of comradery between the two oddities. Gecko is understanding about The Creature’s failings and desires. The Creature is glad to have someone on the team that doesn’t fear them.

PRICE - The Creature can’t help but resent Commander Price. The person who for five years promised The Creature that their time on the team would earn them their freedom. But when the team disbanded Price went back on their word and allowed The Creature to be locked up again by the Bureau. The Creature knows that Price probably attempted to argue with the Bureau, but clearly they didn’t try hard enough to get results.

[intergalacticrp]

NAME :// AXEL FLYNN ORIGIN :// KINGDOM HEARTS AGE :// TWENTY-NINE GENDER :// QUESTIONING (HE/HIM) JOB :// RANK VII IN ORGANIZATION XIII FC :// DOUGIE POYNTER

There’s something in your way         And now someone is gonna pay                    And if you can’t get what you want                            Well it’s all because of me

BIOGRAPHY ://

Axel did not grow up in the organization. He grew up with parents who collected his baby teeth and held his hands and made sure he looked before crossing the street, parents who loved him, loved him, loved him, right up until they didn't. He was twelve when his mother started losing her mind, deteriorating right in front of him, and she left him while sitting right on the couch; his father ran out in a much more physical sense, one much more controllable. He was taught to never depend on anyone with zero words at a time, an unteachable lesson that was pressed into his temples by the time he taught himself how to steal. He worked hard to make sure that he and the body that once housed his mother stayed well fed, kept it together just enough so that he would never have to lose everything. He'll never forgive his dad for making him like this.

The organization recruited him just after his fourteenth birthday. He had been starving for almost three days, stumbling around as he was still sure that the one guy from that one stall was still following him, was ready to kill him over a loaf of bread - he hadn't eaten for two days already when he tried for the bread. When asked, he would say that he wouldn't remember who recruited him, and he would stick to that story until the day the person owned up to it themself. He was put in charge of another group of people pretty soon after his recruitment, promoted to leader and director of assassins by the time he was sixteen. The organization helped him bury his mom’s body that year. When he was seventeen, he was given rank xiii, Roxas, as a charge. and that's when everything started going to shit.

Axel was good, when he pretended he didn't have feelings and was able to kill without regret or remorse and often with a smile, that was when he was the best at his job. Roxas had to come in and make him soft all over again, take apart the walls that Axel had worked so hard on building with his own distrust and tears, just so easily as if they were made of nothing at all. He was the first real friend that Axel ever had after actually getting problems. Axel had Demyx before Roxas, but Demyx never asked questions, never wanted to know anything about who Axel was before everything. Axel didn't even want to know who Axel was before everything most the time.

After Roxas, and then Xion, Axel could have said he was happy and maybe even actually meant it for a little while. Roxas left nearly just after the day he turned eighteen, and Axel would never admit that it broke his heart, that his best friend destroyed him, that his abandonment issues only metastasized after Roxas decided that the brother he had never met was more important than the best friend who had had his back for years. Axel didn't care. He did his job, and he turned himself into stone again, and he didn't care.

He's got himself back now.

AESTHETIC ://

fire flowing off your fingertips, a snap of delicate fingers, long hair let loose over your shoulders, all you taste is destruction, you don’t know how to hold nice things without breaking them, a sense of satisfaction, bright eyes, a welcoming grin, protecting your best friends with your life, overzealous overconfidence, hiding your hurt with anger, a forest fire, barely held in and never held together.

MISC ://

Has had more near death experiences than literally any other person he knows. Has fallen off of a building, been electrocuted, been lit on fire multiple times - only like half of them his own fault. He once got into a fight with a bear from a zoo. They ended up friends. Doesn't know how he gets into these situations.

Probably depressed. Probably has some unresolved anger issues. Probably has paranoia problems. Will he get any of them checked out by an actual professional? God, no.

Lost count of how many people he's killed when he was eighteen. He used to try to renew his count every year, but he doesn't know whether to count kills he commissioned for the organization or not.

When he was a kid, he wanted to be a painter or something, maybe a model for painters even, because he just loved art so much, Wanted to be a part of creation so badly that it hurt. His mom liked art, he thinks. He doesn't remember.

Works out more than is likely healthy. Has taken every self defense and martial arts class offered by the dojos and gyms yensid's. Has had his ass kicked an inordinate amount of times.

CONNECTION ://

Roxas Strife & Xion Aster : axel’s best friends. Demyx Ryan : a friend from work. Xemnas Alexander : his boss. Sora Leonhart : roxas’s friend. 

AVAILABILITY :// OPEN || TAKEN BY MER

[bravenewolympus--hq]

𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒂, 𝒈𝒐𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉.

𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒏.

ʙʀᴀᴠᴇ ɴᴇᴡ ᴏʟʏᴍᴘᴜꜱ : ᴀ 21+ ᴍᴏᴅᴇʀɴ ɢʀᴇᴇᴋ ᴍʏᴛʜᴏʟᴏɢʏ ᴅɪꜱᴄᴏʀᴅ ʀᴏʟᴇᴘʟᴀʏ. athens, new york: an island city, all trees and marble, glass and steel and highrises set against an ocean skyline. bustling and loud, crowded, but not without a bizarre sense that it must have sprung up overnight, somehow, when surely it must have always been here, no? on a clear night, you might even be able to see the lights of its more famous cousin, new york city, across the water…if you squint hard enough. it may not get as much attention as the shiny apple across the hudson, but those not so blinded by the lights must certainly have been coming here for years. is there something in the water here, too? no one leaves, not in any meaningful way anyway. feels like it has a special way of pulling you back in, if you try. they, that is anyone who was anyone or paid even an iota of attention to the evening news,, called him the minotaur. the media does love a catchy nom de guerre, doesn’t it? sells newspapers like hotcakes in the morning. ambrosia, whether it’s the latest designer drug trend or the latest pestilence sweeping the streets of athens, just depends on how tightly you clutch your pearls on sundays. must infuriate the police, don’t it? that without fail, by the time they arrive to any crime scene at all, all that’s left is the heap of little cream-coloured business cards, the red lines of a labyrinthine logo more taunting than they are helpful. between an epidemic of pearlescent powder, neatly parceled out in small plastic baggies, a tide of crimson bull graffiti, casinos and bordellos and the nightlife (oh my!), it’s no small wonder they call this an atlantic sin city. it’s a vice eat dog world, ain’t it? and anyone who calls athens home is just living in it. powerless, with no memory of their past lives, what's a god gotta do to survive?

[yensidhq]

NAME :// HIKARI YAGAMI ORIGIN :// DIGIMON AGE :// TWENTY-THREE PRONOUNS :// THEY/THEM JOB :// VET TECH FC:// SHIRASHI SEI

☾ ✦ ⋆＊✩ ║▌║█║▌│║▌║▌█  AESTHETIC :

don't hesitate, snap the picture - you don't want to forget this moment. vanilla ice cream sits sweet and cold against your tongue, a memory of hot summer days. the silver whistle hangs around your neck just the same as it always has, a just in case measure. the ferris wheel keeps right on turning, bright carnival music just background noise, and you can see for miles. enjoy it.

☾ ✦ ⋆＊✩ ║▌║█║▌│║▌║▌█   BIOGRAPHY:

(tw: pregnancy complications, minor death mention, near death mention)

.the first ray

She is born to one Susumu Yagami and one Yuuko Yagami. Little sister to one Taichi Yagami. She is frail. She is small. She is weak. She is two months too early when she first enters the world.

Her mother enters labor abruptly, unexpectedly, one midafternoon when the family is out on a picnic. No one foresaw their child coming this soon. The destined day is still months away, yet everyone foresaw the complications of a fetus that had not yet fully developed being born. The sunlight wavers in the delivery room, descending into the evening night. Yuuko holds strong, though there is a sense of fear and trepidation that creeps in.

Her husband and son wait out in the hallway. Taichi, too young to really understand what is happening. Susumu trying to keep a level head.

The moon watches and listens as the nurses and doctors begin the operation. The unborn child too small and fragile to be removed naturally. It is a risky operation, but it is the only option they have.

As the sun rises, they pull the child out. As the sun rises, they realize the child is not breathing.

.the sun rises

Their child is kept in the ICU for a long time, days and weeks longer than Susumu or Yuuko would have liked. Would have wanted. But they could only hope and pray for the betterment and health of their child. That she would recover and she would be able to come back home.

There is a lot of discussions with doctors and specialists. Lots of talks with family and friends to keep themselves sane and rational and hopeful. There are a lot of days of staring at their child through a window. It tests them. It tests them in ways they wished no one has to experience.

Yet, they endure.

As well as their child. Through the tests, the incubations, the multitude of things that no infant needs on their first days, weeks, months of life. They endure. It is a slow, steady progress. Miniscule at first, till the small things pile up into big things and then it becomes obvious that their child is healing.

It takes a long time, but eventually Hikari Yagami does come home.

At long last, Hikari Yagami is able to come home.

.the shining star

She is still sickly growing up, but she perseveres. She is a sweet, humble child that only a parent could dream about having. She adores and preens and constantly uplifts Taichi, because there is no one more admirable than her older brother. Anyone can see how she idolizes Taichi. It’s cute. It’s heart-warming.

Until it hurts her and Taichi. Without her even trying to- without her meaning to.

It starts and ends with a game, a simple game. It can’t be helped that she is sick at the time and it can’t be helped that Tai wants to play his favorite sport. So she does what she always does, what she always wants to do- she wants to help him. She wants to make him happy. So she plays the game, even though she shouldn’t.

She really shouldn’t.

Hikari doesn’t realize the full catastrophic risks and neither did Tai. Until she is hospitalized yet again. Pneumonia she hears.

She stays in the hospital again for a few more days, before she is in the clear and she is able to come home. She sees the way her parents are fearful and frustrated, and she sees the way Tai looks apprehensive. She apologizes. It’s the first thing she tells him, because she is so terribly sorry that she could not kick the ball. That they couldn’t finish the game.

It does not have the effect she wants.

It takes a long, long, long time for the memory to lose its vividness over the years. The sight of her brother crying. It takes her deep in her core, rattling and unnerving. She never forgets it. Hikari doesn’t think she ever will.

.the eternal light

Things change over the years since that core memory. Hikari still goes by Hikari, but now they use different pronouns. Something about it feels better- atleast for the moment. They find some passion in caring and looking after animals. It’s a driving force, leading them to a career in vet tech. It is an empowering, and humbling experience all the same.

They meet people, make friends. Some lasting a short amount of years, and others Hikari knows will transcend lifetimes. Some people are just other parts of your soul as they say.

They grow taller, older, more mature. Still as sweet and good natured. They grow wiser- having a better understanding of themselves and the world around them.

They hold their secrets closer to their chest. Some memories tainted by darkness and eerie voices. Sometimes haunted by the ghosts of those who wished to see an angel fall. Those times are hard to forget and they follow them to this day. They never spoke a word about it, and maybe it is something they will keep hidden till it is forced out of their lips. Hikari never plans to tell, but maybe life has a way of humbling them further.

Still, despite all the changes, there is one consistency. Something is missing. There is a piece of their soul that they have yet to discover. Hikari has tried to figure it out, tried to find what it is that calls to them. Yet, it stays elusive hiding away from them.

One day, they hope to find them. Whatever missing piece it is. They know once they do, they will finally feel whole. Hikari can finally bask in the light.

☾ ✦ ⋆＊✩ ║▌║█║▌│║▌║▌█   CONTACTS:

Taichi Yagami: brother. Takeru Takaishi: best friend.

☾ ✦ ⋆＊✩ ║▌║█║▌│║▌║▌█   THOUGHTS: 

Hikari has always loved animals, and working with them can sometimes feel like a dream come true. There are hard days of course, days where they can't believe that this was something that they chose for themself, but those days are few and far between. More often is the feeling that they are missing something, that they are lost, that they are half full, and they don't know where to find that other half.

HIKARI IS ___________________ TAKEN BY BLAIRE

[movedonhq]

MOVED ON HQ PRESENTS:

FULL NAME: Paris Angelique Miller

AGE: 24

GENDER IDENTITY: Nonbinary

PRONOUNS: She/Her or They/Them

STATUS: Rogue

DESCRIPTION: Subject is approximately 5′10″ with hazel eyes and dark brown hair and is of mixed ethnicity. Any family relations is unknown. Subject is known to be standoffish, rude, and untrustworthy. Subject refused to take the pill once at Bunker 34 and escaped guards who tried to stop them. Interacting with subject is not advised. 

UNFORTUNATELY, PARIS IS TAKEN, POTRAYED BY ZENDAYA, AND IS PLAYED BY DEV.

[nola-unchained]

Name: "Alexis" Species: Witch/Warlock Occupation: UTP Suggested Age Range: 25-33 Suggested Face Claims: UTP

While many of the Dragoumis family clan in the past have been known to be dark "Alexis" tends to take that to a different level. Often volatile and unpredictable "Alexis" is watched carefully by their dark witch family to make sure they don’t expose themselves to the rest of the city. And while most of them don’t mind- even embrace- when a witch from their clan embraces their dark side? "Alexis" is the one that they all keep a close eye on.

MENTIONED CONNECTIONS:  Jezebel Dragoumis { cousin }, Malachai Dragmous { cousin }, "Virginia" { cousin }, "Tia" { cousin }, "Claudia" { cousin }, "Taylor" { cousin }

[reputablehqs]

L I B E R T Y.

(noun). | ˈlibərdē |

the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life, ,behavior, or poltiical views

the power or scope to act as one pleases

NAME: noah becker

AGE: twenty-three

PRONOUNS: he/they

OCCUPATION: museum docent in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

SECRET: back in their hometown, Noah was arrested for possession and abuse of heroin and spent 6 months in a rehabilitation center in secret.

FC: miles heizer

R E L A T I O N S H I P with S T E L L A

Noah has been working in the Metropolitan museum for a little over three years and that’s where he had met Stella. She was very enthusiastic about the art and she was present for the majority of the educational tours he gave around the museum. She gradually started to strike conversations with them, asking them about the art and how they had gotten their job; Noah had admired her curious, enthusiastic nature and that was how they had become acquainted with Stella. Sometimes they would even go out for coffee or a snack together after Noah was done with their day and they would just talk. He never really opened up to her because he didn’t trust her—he doesn’t trust anyone—with his past but he did tell her a bit about his hometown and the environment he had grown up in.

They didn’t know she disappeared; they merely noticed that she had stopped coming to the museum but because Noah was never sure where they stood, they didn’t bother to make contact with her. They assumed she was out there doing her own thing. Until one day, they received a text from her number with a photo attached to it; it was a photo of Noah’s personal file from the rehab center. The text from Stella hinted that she knew about his criminal record as well.

Just as they used to be restricted by their family, now they are being restricted by Stella and Noah is disgusted by what she is doing; mainly because they don’t understand what they had ever done to her to deserve this. He was stubborn at first; didn’t do what she asked and didn’t respond to her messages and all that did was make her threats grow more and more daunting until Noah couldn’t risk it anymore. They do what Stella tells them to do but they don’t bother to do it with great attention and care; because they refuse to give all the control to her. They struggle with the weight of Stella’s blackmail but at the same time, they refuse to roll over and beg.

L I B E R T Y is currently closed.        BIOGRAPHY FOUND UNDER THE CUT.        tw: drugs, drug abuse

Noah was born into a conservative family in a small town with a population barely exceeding 3000 people. Growing up, they were a spitfire of a child; their voice would always be heard in the house, they were always playing and moving in random bursts of energy. Their spirit was too bright for the limited, reserved space of the Becker household; their voice was always too loud for the quiet atmosphere that usually dominated the home. Their parents weren’t religious or anything but they were very traditional people; they only knew what was passed on to them from previous generations and never thought to broaden their horizons past the vicinity of the house in which they lived.

As a child, Noah was taught to be obedient and to always follow the rules; that it was of utmost importance that he remain polite and represent the family in the best form when it came to his behavior at school and in other social environments. They ought to do as they were told and do their best to be recognized as an exemplary child.

As an adolescent teenager, right before high school, Noah was starting to rebel. It started with small things; he would talk subconsciously loud if he was annoyed about something and not care if his mother called him out on his ‘attitude’ or he would not listen to his father when he told him to go upstairs and do his homework. Simple things that made his parents frustrated with him but not to the point where they noticed the growing change in Noah’s mindset.

Going into high school, that was where their rebelliousness and desire to break free from their family’s restrictions came to life. They still studied, maintained good grades, and had lots of friends but at the same time, they were getting into the party scene, mixing up with the wrong crowd and indulging in every bad influence they could ever expose themselves to.

His parents’ frustration transformed into scorn when Noah reached a point where they no longer even bothered to listen to their parents at home. All those years of repressed freedom and living under rules and regulations, it all culminated into a rebellious streak that would soon grow detrimental to Noah’s mental and physical health. They continued to embrace their new-found role of ‘rule breaker’ until their senior year of high school when they got hooked on heroin. And that was the beginning of the end.

At first, it was all in good fun; they weren’t doing it alone, they were always with friends and they didn’t consider themself dependent because they rarely thought about it until it was the reverse. It got bad enough that they were caught in their car one night by a patrolling police officer and arrested.

He couldn’t handle his parents’ shame as they bailed him out and berated him before sending him away to a rehab center in the city—in secret, of course; no one in their small, little town could ever find out what their son had done.

After leaving rehab, Noah was different. They couldn’t bear the thought of the sgame they had brought onto their parents but at the same time, they couldn’t bring themself to regret anything—yes, they regretted letting it get so far but they didn’t regret breaking free from their parents’ hold. They made the decision to use the money they had saved from their days of selling drugs on street corners and move to NYC to start a new life on their own; free to be whatever they wanted to be.