As of right now, the only characters would be Fay, Isla, and Piper as these three had religious/spiritual upbringings. The new character that we're creating and will post for Halloween talks of spiritual trends, like fortune telling, but for that character's sake, it's more of them making references to current events and trends as they're a bit obnoxious and very attuned to internet culture.
Fay's mother is very spiritual, into astrology, tarot, "Spirit", and shit- think of practices from the Church of Spiritual Awareness but just without the community or actual physical location of a church. Fay actually is a medium, but it's more to her detriment as her mother convinced her she's just mentally ill, resulting in Fay trying to tune out the voices and visions via drugs and whatnot. Evie often pops up around her, increasing her guilt and desperate attempts of escapism.
Isla grew up around a mix of different types of Christian and Catholic influences, mainly the former as that's how her grandparents identified as. She went to a few different churches when she was in the system and used to go to a Christian church with her grandparents when she was younger before their mobility issues caused them to essentially become couch-bound.
As an adult, she's not super religious per say but she does believe there's a God and that all the awful things that have happened to her is for a reason. This is largely a coping mechanism for her to somewhat process and cope with the abuse she has endured. She doesn't like the concept of Hell as she thinks it's cruel and she is deeply terrified of somehow ending up there.
Piper grew up with very loose Catholic undertones and influences. For her family, it was more generational where her father's parents and their parents and overall community had Catholicism as a large part of their daily life. While she and her brothers were dragged occasionally to church when they were younger by extended family, her father identified as a Catholic but never actually went through with any of the traditions or customs. She and her brothers are baptized and celebrate common holidays but it's more out of tradition rather than religious practice (they don't do Good Friday, Lent, or any actual prayer or observation of Jesus Christ and whatnot).
Essentially, she doesn't identify or label herself as Catholic unless she's with her family or it's in a community sense where she wants to feel a sense of pride and belonging with said group. Hell, she couldn't even give you the name of the Pope. The best comparison I can give is how some white Americans occasionally identify as "Irish-American" when they're reminded or the situation calls for it, like around St. Patrick's Day but it's not necessarily a major part of their identity.
And lastly, to answer the opposite of your question, Irene is a strong Athiest despite having some Christian undertones growing up and Evie is Agnostic, with having no spiritual or religious influence in her household (her parents were very science-based).
is the christmas shopping basket girl canon or nah
She is a character that we wanna incorporate more in the future but my god, is she a mess. We're not very satisfied with that audio and when we do bring her back, she'll be pretty revamped. She does have a design and we started her second script awhile back but I'm really dreading relistening to her audio so I'll probably just redo her voice in general.
If you asked Isla what her preferred rope knot was, she'd get all flustered and say a "bow tie" because she's stupid and will assume you're referring to how she'd like the ribbons tied on a gift you're wrapping for her.
To actually answer your question, I had to consult fatal on this and since her apartment is crappy and shit, when she moved in she had some blinds but most of the plastic strips were either damaged or missing. Since she's a paranoid little psycho with dead animals in her freezer, she hand sewed her own curtains with old sheets. Do to that, she'll have an appreciation if you know how to create a curtain tie-back knot, even if it's not for her curtains ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Before Evie's death, she treated Fay like shit. She never really took Fay seriously and in the friend group dynamic, respected Evie and not her. If Fay did something, she'd get pissed off but if Evie did the same thing, she'd think Evie was cool, kind, smart, or whatnot. Piper feels like her and Fay's relationship was forced due to their parents trying to make them friends but deep inside, she does care for Fay and views her like a younger, dumber, naive little sister (despite them being the same age; Evie is a bit older).
After Evie's death, she begins to appreciate Fay more and begins to try and get her act together. Before the death, Piper was pretty reckless and destructive. She has a weak spot for more vulnerable people, so for Fay she views as childish and therefore more prone to being manipulated (even though Fay is smarter than her; she just doesn't act like it). This is why she had a hard time with Dunning. She really wanted someone to blame for the car crash but canonically, Dunning is written to be more gentle and timid in comparison to her.
She has an instinctual need to protect those she perceives as weaker than her (think classic enneagram 8 if you're into that stuff- I sometimes use it to help me write characters and with her being a tsundere, I wanted to give her an actual motive for why she acts the way she does and typecasting her as an 8 helped me with that). While she has a history of getting into relationships fast and them burning quickly due to toxic dynamics, Dunning is healthy and good for her, resulting in her staying since once again, Evie's death was a bit of a wake up call for her. This is the opposite of Fay, who becomes even more self-destructive and is falling towards rock bottom.
Piper feels guilty and partially responsible for Fay's downfall. She begins to distance herself away from Fay as she's becoming sober and wants to be around healthier people but will help Fay in a heartbeat, hence Fay's frustration and jealousy towards Dunning in her pt.2.
if the Isla listener gave her a cat would she leave it alone or would it be number 2 in the fridge
So we haven't really had a chance to share too much of Isla's childhood but essentially, she isn't purposely killing animals. A quick synopsis would be at the core, she is a caretaker. She wants to care for others because it makes her feel wanted and useful. She has a tremendous amount of guilt and self-loathing, believing that she is only redeemable if she can improve someone else's life while she, herself, is unworthy of being cared for.
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During her childhood, she would find sick and vulnerable small animals and sneak them home to try and revive them. She would be forced by her maternal grandparents to put these small critters back, despite her feeling guilty and being terrified of the idea. Young Isla would later walk past these animals after putting them back, finding them deceased. Her grandparents would blame her, stating it was her fault the animals died.
This would be a similar trend throughout her childhood, with her grandparents blaming Isla for her mother's declined mental state, drug abuse, and disappearance (resulting in her living with them) and later, her grandmother blaming her for her grandfather's death. Isla would internalize all of this, resulting in her clutching to anything that appeared to be in need of assistance to try and make up for all of the times she wasn't able to in the past. As an adult with her own place, albeit small and run-down, she would resume bringing small, vulnerable animals home, usually those on the brink of death. With the freedom to take care of them, Isla would desperately try to save them. However, due to these animals' critical condition and her own lack of resources, the unfortunate result would be the same as before, with the animals passing away.
Due to extreme denial, Isla is unable to accept the fact that these animals have died. As a response to protect her psyche, she places them in the freezer to preserve them. While her pt.2 only shows one animal, her freezer is actually packed with them. She places them there and never bothers to open the freezer unless it's to add another animal, adding to her delusion that everything is okay and since these animals aren't decomposing, they're not actually deceased. The listener opening the freezer door and their panicked expression challenged this delusion of hers while exposing numerous old wounds, causing her to become violent when in actuality, she seldom is.
Now if the listener gave her a cat (assuming they're not tied up in her bathtub), she would cherish it. She would take care of it to the best of her abilities, despite the limited resources. If it was in critical conditional and she couldn't save it, then yes, into the freezer it'd go. Her current landlord doesn't allow pets so she would try and keep it a secret from her neighbors, despite many of them having pets of their own and majority of her neighbors being too high to even notice her. She does often take care of the neighborhood cats and strays, such as feeding them and administering flea medication if she can but the listener purposely giving her her own kitten would give her a bit of confidence and strengthen her feelings of the listener.
Can I ask what their love languages are? thought it would be cute to know and because I don't wanna accidentally mischaracterize them
I had to harass Fatal Watal for some help on this one. Thanks boo~ 🦵
Evie's 'giving' would be gift giving (think small, meaningful memorabilia) while her 'receiving' would be acts of service. As an only child of upper middle class parents, she's not very materialistic and
instead prefers gifts that could give her memories rather than tangible objects, such as new or thoughtful experiences. However, in relationships, she's pretty laidback but likes it to feel mutual or ~50/50 in terms of effort put in from both parties.
Both of Fay's revolve around quality time. We haven't had the chance to showcase her as much as the others in this list but she's pretty secretive and selective with who she lets in. She's hypocritical in the sense that she wants others to open up to her but refuses to do so herself. Before she can even begin to let her walls down, she must truly understand the person in order to anticipate how they'll respond to her authentic self and even then, she won't entirely let them in.
I should really do an info dump on Isla's character since she has the most thorough and fucked up backstory but her 'giving' are acts of service while her 'receiving' are words of affirmation. Girl has a lot of insecurity and repressed negative feelings towards herself and she tries to make up for it a bit by taking on a caretaker role. That paired with her loneliness and exclusion/subtle harassment at work results in her barely receiving meaningful interactions or kind words.
Piper's 'giving' would be physical touch with her 'receiving' being quality time. Girl has had way too many relationships, jumping into them with rose colored lenses and a ride-or-die mentally. Of course, after a few weeks or several months, there's a nasty breakup with her being in denial and claiming that she never liked them to begin with before repeating the cycle with someone new.
What was the inspiration for the exhausted coworker? I'm asking because her little info dump at the start reminded me a lot of Asa's rant in the aquarium from CSM lol
Yaaaaay another one! 🥰
With each character, I try to pick an archetype (tsundere, yandere, etc) or temperament, how it can connect to the listener, in addition if the audio is going to be dramatic, light-hearted, violent, or romantic. You might have noticed that romance is one genre that I haven't incorporated a lot of and originally, the script for this one was going to be my first attempt at a confession audio. Originally, she was going to freak out (but not in a killer fish babe way) when the listener told her they were switching jobs, resulting in her confessing her true feelings.
She was intended to be a kuudere that's extremely socially awkward/unaware, resulting in her not being popular. This was me wanting to do a more aloof character in contrast to my more emotional/outgoing ones and I loosely based her off of two coworkers I have had that are incredibly logical and intelligent but very, very, socially unaware, resulting in one of them not being allowed to deal with customer haha.
Initially, her whole thing was her family favoring her brother over her and her not being allowed to be an official employee at the aquarium. However, she would still periodically swing by just to roam it and there she would meet the listener who would actually listen to her and be respectful, resulting in her becoming attached and distressed when discovered they were switching jobs.
Unfortunately, the script was kind of all over the place and Fatal and I weren't feeling it so I switched it up to her family having her work behind the scenes and doing the dirty work because they felt like she was more reliable due to her logical/aloof nature. At that time, I was binging Alice Schach and the Magic Orchestra's "QUEEN FLY" mv and that's where I got the idea for the aquarium to "sacrifice" humans to their animals.
In regards to how I thought of an aquarium, I had the week off for Thanksgiving from school and work and decided to do some solo traveling and I went to a really nice aquarium and it's been stuck in my head ever since haha. Lastly, her tangent at the start about sea cucumbers and sea slugs was because around that time at my job, I had to identify and categorize some images of different marine animals. I don't have any background in science but the place I work for has an emphasis in it so sometimes they have me do some cooky things like that. I used this as her tangent to show how she's socially unaware and because I thought it'd be funny for her to accidentally make a kid cry and be unaware.
I actually have never watched Chainsaw Man. I just looked up the scene you're talking about and watched a dude read it from the manga and omg, THE POOR DUDE JUST WANTS TO SEE THE PENGUINS😭 I totally get why you'd think of this; the parallels are uncanny. This is hilarious, thanks for sharing 😂
Hii! Ignore this if this isn't the right place to ask
but in the exhausted coworker video what was the name being said when the audio glitched?
Hehe, no, this is the perfect place! Thanks for asking :]
Honestly, when I was writing the script for the "Merciful Nurse", I was originally going to give the hospital staff their own names (like the cook) but then that felt excessive. I only really want to include names that are important to the story so originally, instead of the nurse saying a name, it was just supposed to be the glitch sound. As a reminder for myself to include the effect, I said "no one" with the intention of cutting that out but when I began audio editing, it sounded odd with just the glitch sound and her not speaking. I played around a bit and decided to include the audio of me saying "no one" and liked how it turned out.
It's a bit edgy and there's no real lore behind it, just me goofing off while editing. This carried over into the "Exhausted Coworker" audio and it'll probably happen again in another one. Thank you for your curiosity and always feel welcome to ask or say something :>
Cause I don't ever stfu lol. Anyways we got another one coming by the end of this week. In the meantime, I'm bored af so feel free to harass me @lilladylegs
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