thinking about a very specific scenario of a grace with no video logs, with no xenonite failure, who comes back to earth as rocky comes back to erid, heart full but missing a very distinct piece. ten, twenty years go by, and grace is not malnourished nor does he look even half his age, but there's a deepset something in his eyes that has nothing to do with stratt's actions being revealed or the press or adjusting to earth again. about earth getting news of a ship coming down, whose atmosphere is fundamentally different now and causes trouble for that ship. damages sustained on that ship. a red light in the sky. suspected eridian contact as confirmed by dr ryland grace. thank you tom, anna temple here and we're live at nasa's makeshift landing pad, ready to receive, watching- oh, my- a row of officials that cannot pin down ryland grace this time as he, live on air, tears apart every country's anxiety of eridians by ripping from the crowd and jumping the fence into the launching area. a camera pan that judders from dr grace sprinting, the most energetic he's been in years, to a brown eridian kareening towards him in a xenonite suit. prepared to catch ryland's tackle and embrace him properly, there on the green grass, for the very first time. first contact.
If you are a white person in a racialized person’s life, especially as a partner or close friend, you should go out of your way to ask regularly “hey is there anything you have been holding on to that I did?” and critically both fix it and NOT DO ANYTHING TO PUNISH THEM FOR TELLING YOU.
As a white person raised in a white supremacist society, you’re gonna fuck up sometimes. That’s just a fact. But racialized people often aren’t able/comfortable speaking up when y’all do some shit because of the power imbalance/not feeling up to educating when you may be resistant/don’t think the “fight” will be Worth It.
Show initiative without making it A Struggle or playing the white guilt card. Show you actually care about them, their struggles, and the way you interact with them BEFORE they have to have a bigger Conversation with you, beyond when they need to yell about someone else being racist.
And for fucks sake if they’re making/showing you something from their culture fucking act like you realize the importance of that, that they’re showing you shows they grew up with or making you food they made with their families, that they’re letting you in and trusting you more than other whites in their life.
I thought it would be fun to make an oc just for background noise or an extra love interest for Burn The Midnight Oil. I think it would be interesting if Dante had an RO that was also a hellhound, reflecting him in some sort of way but not too much.
His name is Lowell Hyde and he works for the SSF. None of his coworkers suspect he’s a hellhound, everyone just thinks he’s edgy.
I read that it’s unusual for hellhounds and werewolves to wear collars from Melli but I had to commit, maybe I’ll go back and change it later. I also made his jacket similar to Abraxas’ because of the SSF association I’d think Lowell would really like his personal space, Abraxas’ I mean lol.
I’ll toss around ideas undercut:
I can imagine him working as a cadaver “dog”, but I definitely think of that more as police work than secret agent. Lowell has mastered imitation from observing werewolves and their behaviors, and he claims the “lone wolf” omega story, to explain his way out of why he isn’t involved with a pack. He hides his identity because of the previous retaliation.
Personality: Lowell is energetic and is quite talkative so much so that he tends to say off the collar things; he also likes to share his curiosities. He tends to read other personalities quite well, necessary for his job. He tries to keep busy to stifle his loneliness and the excessive sadness surrounding his amnesia. Lowell can be impulsive, and tends to run away from some of his issues because he's scared to try to remember some of the things he went through and can be highly anxious and aggressive when questioned, cornered, or triggered. He sometimes struggles to find a sense of self and feels out of touch and out of place with other people, though he tries to hide it. When he becomes friends with someone, he can become very clingy, so as a partner he’d be of course head over heels. He also has a jealous streak.
Hobbies: In Lowell’s spare time, he likes to cook, and he likes to hunt outside of the city as risky as that is. He also tinkers and fixes vehicles. If he finds himself thinking too much, he will journal about events that happened in his day and how he felt about them to avoid confronting any part of his past. He’ll also doodle a little on the page, connecting to what he’s writing about.
backstory : Lowell was born as a premature puppy to hellhound parents, gaining his affectionate name “Lowell”.
As a child, he was stalked by a wizard and eventually abducted. He was able to survive the brutal attack but ended up traumatized because of the event and developed amnesia. His mother retaliated afterwards and mauled the wizard. Years later, a much broader revenge campaign against his parent was launched amongst different wizards, taking both of their lives, leaving a teenage Lowell behind. His parents' deaths worsened his amnesia, and he struggled to remember when, where, and how they died. After Lowell became stable years later he started working with the SSF in hopes of finding other hellhounds, despite hiding his own identity as one. I can imagine he struggles with retrograde (not being able to remember events that occurred before events/trauma) and Dissociative (blocking out important information about oneself after trauma, memory gaps) amnesia.
Here’s just some things I went off of based on the demo. This was fun, I always love making ocs
okay i'm gonna write full on analyses about BTMO later, but for NOW I would just like to appreciate the most important character....
ALICE!!!!
Look at her!!
My evil little niece; she is too good for this world, too pure. Orion is lucky he's a good father, because I would adopt her in a heartbeat otherwise. Dante may be a dick to everybody else, but even he can't bear to hurt this absolute ANGEL'S feelings. He just lets her cling to him. Like. Aughsjwhd??!?!, Danteeee??!?!?!? How sweet????
Her little pout kills me oh my god. I would go broke just buying her bows and ribbons and hair clips. She is so cute and so mischievous. A resourceful little gremlin who has no sense of self preservation (noticing a theme with the humans in this game HMMM.)
More Alice interactions I beg. More uncle Dante scenes. I BEG....
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