hi! welcome to my blog! not much on here at the moment ^^;
i'm calcite! or... uh, just number 28, really! he/they pronouns! just a regular pippins working in the design department of TV World. not really anything else about me... but uh, hi!! hello!!
haha oh geez i have no idea of what to even type
but uhm. yeah! this is my blog! look at my posts if you want ^^;
((general info below! check it out for more :D ))
this is just ooc information!
quick introduction for myself here! i'm callum, they/he pronouns, and i can be found at @shrimpfriedspine ! i also run @mikedetector-offical, which is the blog this au is based on :D mainly just started out as "haha what if battat was cursed with detector gimmick speech" and it spiraled from there after i threw my characters at some of my friends. NOTE: mikedetector isn't a lore blog! just a for fun gimmick blog!
connected to @michael-phone-offical :3c ask the mikes of this au questions over there!!
Lore stuff! Just to keep track of things!
Basic Rules :D
- bullying the characters is allowed! especially Basepips :3 just please stay courteous toward me though
- magic anons allowed! encouraged even! mess with these guys and be silly :D
- No NSFW or heavily suggestive stuff. flirting with the characters or trying to get them together is allowed, but a few of them might just not react (my aroace creatures Calcite and Eighth)
Tagging System!
The basics, of course :D
shrimp behind the stage - ooc posting :3
penned by the architect :) - important lore posts! can be both in character and out of character!
woah... thats a lot of words - in-betweens of reblog chains. end posts in a chain will not be tagged as such
from script to stage - rp stuff that happen canonically in-person for the characters
formerly blank pages - art posts! anything with art!
straight from stage left - reblogs of stuff on other blogs involving my characters
CHARACTERS
sketchbook sidenotes! - posts with Calcite! awkward little guy who is totally completely normal
just a new invention - The Architect. it/he :)
pale machine zapper! - Rece!! a Zapper who's one of Calcite's friends. really his only friend, but nobody tell them that. they/he pronouns
that one youtube apology pippins - Basepips. a really loud and sort of angry Pippins who Calcite tries to avoid. he/they/it and maybe more to discover...?
property destruction shadowguy... - Float. a destructive Shadowguy who doesn't seem to get along with others. Calcite also tries to avoid them. it/they pronouns
that one purple slacker - Ebi. A really really unhelpful Pippins who Calcite doesn't really like since they keep trying to steal from people. they/them
all art on here is by me unless stated otherwise! :3 have a full happy Calcite as a treat. it won't last long :)
(aaaa sorry about the continued hiatus! working on stuff for the blog, but! sharing this one attack i got on artfight of calcite from StinkingBark91 on there! if you have artfight, i encourage you to go check out his work!)
i feel like i’ve sort of answered this, but i would say that i am ^^
((ehehe first time with a comic ^^ anyways, here's the text: am i happy? i think i am... at least. i have a job i like, my daily routine isn't too bad even if it's kind of repetitive, and i don't mind being in the background. there's not much to complain about! i'm ok with how my life goes! i'm used to it! at least, i'm mostly sure i'm happy. that's good enough to tell myself! that's what i believe!))
What do you think of the others of the studio Calcite?
what do i think about the others? that's a question i haven't really even asked myself ^^;
getting the basics out of the way, there's mike! i think they're cool ^^ ignore that there's tons of mike doodles in my sketchbook haha... just a bit of a fan ^^; then, there's also jongler, pluey, and battat, who i occasionally see hanging around mike more often than the others (almost like they're all friends or something). i'm pretty sure that pluey's like... a stunt double for mike haha ^^; jongler is cool, from what i've seen. they do a ton of stuff around the studio. same with battat! except people are more obvious about thinking that he's weird. he's alright actually, but sometimes he seems like he's trying not to say something whenever someone brings up mike. sometimes you can hear him randomly say "mike mentioned" out of nowhere and he tries to pretend it doesn't happen
now onto some of the others (only a few though since i don't know many people ^^;) there's rece! my zapper friend! he's a bit awkward, but they're nice and we became friends after they saw me... uh.... sitting in the corner of the green room on my own. he's been busy recently trying to track down a scammer possibly in the studio's basement and that's where the next person, float comes in. they're a shadowguy working with rece on the same job, but it's much less friendly. i don't really know much about them outside of that and the fact that it keeps destroying parts of the studio. if someone makes a dramatic, explosive entrance, everyone knows it's instantly them. they... scare me a bit, but i'm also kind of curious about it ^^; plus, rece really likes hanging out with them
okay okay last two here! ebi and basepips... they're both... eh. i don't think i've ever seen ebi do any work. usually they're either napping on one of the green room couches or trying to steal something (and failing). i don't like them :/ basepips is kind of similar. somewhat? he sometimes does work, but he keeps disappearing at times and seems a bit richer than the other pippins. i'm pretty sure it has a different name, but everyone calls them basepips because we're pretty sure he's the scammer rece and float are tracking down ^^; (also ebi got him to record some ridiculous apology that people keep making fun of)
aaaaa sorry!! i just realized how much i wrote ^^;
So how do you feel about what you caused to be revealed Architect?
Regarding that one Pippins... Poppy, was it?
...my role is to progress events. I served as a catalyst for something to happen.
It would have come up eventually. That is all I have to say.
Even if I felt regret, I would be unpermitted to express it. I'm not allowed to. Emotion is the bringer of failure. Failure is not something that can happen.
A reminder of why there is red on Poppy's gloves and boots.
And finally, a memory unlocks itself, this isn't going to be pretty. Poppy freezes, and then, makes a shallow, shallow, shallow noise of a whine, small and keening and ringing out through the room, beginning to curl up on himself. Tail thrashing before it just goes limp, and he goes silent, frozen as if hoarfrost froze through his veins of water.
That bit of curiosity is still fairly significant, in my view!
With red, color theory gives such wonderful context.
Red on gloves is decorative. Red on boots is a coincidence. But, isn't that coincidence enough to want to know more? Even if not there, those regrets still weigh down until it reaches an end.
Once again:
Are you still not curious?
- The ARCHITECT
@blanksketchbook
Curiosity is curiosity in the end no matter how much is felt I suppose, a little bit is still quite a lot in the end! Color theory is such an interesting thing! Wonderful and superb!
His tail begins to wag so slowly, Poppy is having a decent time here talking with someone so much, chattering away and away and away. It is always nice to have a friend to talk to, even, with the subject done.
That is quite a coincidence there! The way the red on my apart from the poppy flower is for my boots and gloves I suppose! Decorative and something more to know again!
The last sentence earns a slight pause. Then Poppy says his response.
I'd, think I'd like to know, and, I'm still curious.
What about the regrets left forgotten, left in a past seemingly distant?
Red is a curious color, is it not?
Attributed to romance, vitality, warmth, yet also danger and violence.
Are you not curious about what is missing?
- The ARCHITECT
@blanksketchbook
Oh! There's more to be said! It's been a bit since he had this many questions in one day! It's nice, to not be alone, to have others around. Even as what is being said stays the wag of his tail from starting up from the company. Poppy however, is cheerful as always as he responds with a Chirp.
Regrets left forgotten in the past? Well, that would be something I think! Something truly, truly strong! I, think, it would be something truly horrible for that.
Poppy plays with the buttons of his poncho, spinning them over and over and over as much as he wants, until the nerves trying to manifest are squashed, no reason to be feeling that way! Not at all! And so it isn't felt! He's smiling!
Red is a curious color! It can mean so much! Love and passion! Warmth and all the other things that you have mentioned! All colors are wonderful in their own way! Both positive meanings and negative ones!
Apologies if this is perhaps an odd ask, but if I may know...
Have any regrets been consistently present? Is memory a struggle on days?
Simply curious if such experiences are common. Consider this part of a survey, if you will.
Thank you in advance,
- The ARCHITECT
@blanksketchbook
Poppy pauses at this ask that comes through, it takes a decent moment for him to reply, only a few seconds, but with how immediate he usually is, that is quite a long pause there. Tail flicking a bit as he thought.
Well I think you are fine to ask this! People have asked much more odd things to me and I loved answering some! It's part of the experience to be asked things!
There's a brief pause as he takes a moment and smiles where the voice of the Asker here is coming from, may not be actually the Architect but still a nice thing to do!
I, do have regrets that linger in my mind, a lot of them, but I won't let that keep me down! My memory is pretty good on most things! I remember well! Though for some things it's a bit difficult.
Poppy does a small movement, playing with his red gloved hands beneath his poncho and causing it to shift a bit.
You are welcome, the Architect! I hope this helped! And I wish you a good day!
My part of the art trade with @blanksketchbook or @shrimpfriedspine!!! Their blogs absolutely deserve to be checked out! And also! This is Lirc! One of their Zapper OCs! Our Zappers are wonderful...
(And the other part of the art trade! My guy Lirc who technically isnt in this AU, but also kind of is. the lore gets complicated in some areas ehehehehehe)
...correct choice. Wonderful choice even! We want the script to be entertaining, don't we? A new addition will surely add intrigue, and that new addition will be myself.
i don't think that's how it goes- okay okay actually. nevermind! i'm not questioning this because you probably might have sent this to the wrong person ^^;
so, uh. sorry you got the wrong guy. but i really do not understand this.
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Someone Something in the dark has been alerted. Continue?