Um you know, im not sure. Sounds like if Michelle Rodriguez smoked a few packs a day. Valya's voice is rough and gravely but it isnt sexy gravely if you know what I mean. Normal guy enough sounding voice, dont mind how often they clear their throat
👀 : Does your OC believe they are attractive? Do they use that to their advantage?
Lmao absolutely not 🤣
Valya hates themself too much for that shit. And they're covered in regene tats. Being attractive is physically impossible
Brother(gn) i got like, several sidesteps on a single leash and they're all trying to run in different directions 😂 so! I will answer for Cheshire on this one since eck and ain got a good number of asks!
Chess A's:
👃: Chess smells good! Rotates through several colognes and perfumes depending on how ze feels. Mostly floral scents, but there's a few spirits-inspired and more fantastically nebulous concept scents in zir repetoire.
👂: Chess has a voice attractive voice, very smooth and honey-like, moderately feminine. Part of it is from harassing the doctors who did zir chest surgery to make the vocal chords closer to zir expression of gender, and part of it is intentional voice speech and pattern practice. Ze speaks more short, curt, think kind of germanic/slavic pace and intonation by default, but ze puts effort into zir voice to sound more poetic and smooth.
🔥: hmmm, flustering Chess? Be genuine. So completely and utterly genuine when enjoying time with zem and making it known that you like zem- ze can't handle that and becomes a flustered, huffing, smiley mess.
for Beck and for Caine? regrettably dont know much about either yet
💘 : Is your OC a very good flirt? Are they charming?
💞 : Do they treat sex casually or do they view it as something with a lot of emotional weight?
🥵 : Is your OC perceived as physically attractive to others? Is it at first glance or is it something that takes more time to reach fruition?
First of all thank you so much for putting the Q's the emojis are asking for i suck at squinting back and forth between the asks and the post 🤣😭 im an old man with regrettably short memory retention
Beck A's:
💘: Ok here's the thing. Flirting? No. Terrible. Walking up to someone with the intention of getting their interest and affection? They would rather just be shot, thanks. Charming? Yes. Absolutely. Charming they can do. That's just flirting while being extra with it, isn't it? Acting is fun. They're trained for that. They can smile, they can be witty, fun, enchanting for a while, and they can even enjoy and have fun with it. Flirting while being genuine... now that's just asking for them to undergo a trial in public humiliation.
💞: Nine out of ten, sex has a lot of emotional weight for them. Sex means a certain measure of trust and belief that it's more than just a casual fling, or is their way of showing how much someone means to them. Sometimes, unfortunately, Beck CAN use sex as a means of hurting themself, but even then, there is gravitas to the concept of sex. They're very much not a casual sex-er, unless it's just enjoying the moment with a partner for fun, but even then they'd consider that to be emotionally involved to be at a point in a relationship where they can enjoy casual sex with someone.
🥵: Attractiveness is something a bit difficult for me to grasp at times, but from what I know of people and conventionally attractive features, I would say that most people wouldn't be into Beck at first glance. They're scruffy and a bit unkempt, and have a somewhat sour expression that seems torn between boredom and distrust, and while their manner is somewhat polite, it's distinctly quiet and unfriendly to those who meet them for the first time. I think it takes time to see the attractive qualities in them... and the haunted victorian child green eyes don't help lmao. The scars are possibly a big turn off for some people. I think they think that their hair is nice though! Shiny and soft, that might catch people's eyes at first glance.
Cain A's:
💘: Cain can flirt, and can do it pretty well in a casual, blasé manner, but would I consider them charming...? No, I don't think so. Cain isn't a smooth talker in that way where you can sweep someone off their feet, he's much more in tune with easygoing questions and compliments when he wants to, accompanied by a bit of flirtatious touches like a casual brush of hands together, a long look in the eyes when sipping a drink... Cain's just a bit too sharp with their words and disinterested in high effort to have a honeyed tongue.
💞: I think it's a mix for Cain. They try to separate emotion from sex, and have had partners when they needed an itch scratched, but even then it's less about having a partner and more needing a hand with a bodily function; it almost didn't even feel like sex for the most part during those times with emotionally uninvolved partners. With someone he cares about, though, someone who's actually part of his life and wants to be more than just a tool to fix the ache in his gut... there's definitely a good chunk of emotion invloved. So a somewhat casual sex view with emotional caveats.
🥵: I think that most people would consider Cain conventionally attractive at first sight! They have a slim, but muscular build, handsome face, and unique hair with a rustic style of clothes. The shine wears off when you're confronted with their harsh personality but hey, even the death ray that's the sun looks pretty from a distance!
Hey bestie ❤️❤️ remind me that we gotta put vakya and cain together in the pickle jar at some point and shake them... >:) thanks for the ask!!!
Cain A's:
🔥: Pulling them on top... on top of your lap, on top as you're falling down together, backwards until their arms are pinned around you, anything that gets them face-to-face with you will make Cain get flustered as hell. Otherwise they're pretty hard to fluster, I think, unless you keep complimenting them as they nerd out on mechanic stuff. That will also get them.
💌: I think Cain's a very casual dater, just likes the usual of going out to eat and chatting about something, maybe doing some activity together for fun, like street racing... they love the heart-pounding adrenaline dates, that's their idea of a romantic night out.
🧸: Hmm, I don't think that Cain likes PDA much. Won't push it away for the most part, but you really won't get much of a response when showing affection to them in public nine times out of ten. That's between their partner(s) and him. Very overt displays of affection are a big No and will get you iced out and chewed out later (that means you, Ortega).
Beck A's:
🔥: Neck kisses. Neck kisses are the recipe for Beck Butter. Fastest melting butter on the planet, some have even called it food-grade mercury. Neck kisses turn that fucker into goop so fast. Pinning them to a wall will also do that.
💌 (copypaste, with extra :3)Hmm exact details of dates depend on who they're taking out! Beck tends to adapt based on what they know about their partner's preferences, liking to try and find common ground. They like to try and end romantic evenings with a 'bang' though, if the vibe feels right... if given the choice themself, they enjoy casual driving together, or doing something relaxing like chess or movies. They like to learn and make things too, so I could see them wanting to have a date with something like learning to mix drinks or cook something new. They miss the ranch horses and dogs and would love to ride with them for hours...
🧸: Beck doesn't mind some displays of affection in public so long as they don't think they're being watched. Holding hands, being close, some subtle touches or a quick kiss is nice. But being held or longer kisses or cuddles might result in a bite (metaphorical or actual, you decide). They haaaaate being grabbed or hugged especially. Too constricting in case of emergency. Take it to a more private location if you're wanting to get more handsy (this is mostly directed specifically towards ortega lmao).
👙: What kind of underwear does Eden use? Is it functional or pretty?
Most of the time it’s just the bottom of the underwear. Hates bra’s with a burning passion. Sometimes boxer briefs for pajamas. The classic shorts with the red hearts you use to see all the time on Saturday mornjng cartoons. (Is that even still a thing? Saturday morning cartoons?)
she’s got maybe 3 pairs of fancy lingerie (one of them is defiantly charge themed)
Not that she has much use for them. But hey, you never know who gets lucky.
But if any poor fool actually gets close. She’d pull some shenanigans like this.
Howdy Howdy! How’s it going? Good luck with your tumblr active attempt 🫡
always a pleasure seeing ya.
Oc ask: for Cerrisa this time. Since I think the last time I asked about Cain
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Howdy!! Thank you im hoping it sticks this time qwq
Cerrisa/Beck A's!:
💌: Hmm exact details of dates depend on who they're taking out! Beck tends to adapt based on what they know about their partner's preferences, liking to try and find common ground. They like to try and end romantic evenings with a 'bang' though, if the vibe feels right...
💐: Beck's courting style is VERY subtle and roundabout to the point of just not knowing how to be normal 🤣😭 it mostly consists of a long series of weird stares and cracking an innuendo or two, and some weirdly charged marks (i.e. ortega apt demo "that's just one of the things i love aboit you" and chen date "what would you do if i laid down and refused to move" svdudbshs. I'm so sorry they really don't know how to flirt or court, in canon things just HAPPEN to it without it being an initiator they're honestly so spoiled for that, they could not genuinely pull to save their life
👙: Beck's underwear is unfortunately not very sexy, and primarily functional; boxers, tape or binders or sports bra, depends on how tolerant their body is of binding that day. Their boxers do tend to be nice flexible sportswear brands though, so they're pretty snug against the skin!
8: shielding the other one with their body for Sal!
8: shielding the other one with their body for Sal!
How did it make them feel, Sal wondered, when other people claimed they moved without thinking? That they acted on instinct. Their body moving and making its own decisions before their brains could interrupt. Must have been nice; why else would it be such a popular excuse for dumbassery?
He didn’t have that comfort. Oh sure, he could shift the blame if anyone asked, but the truth of the matter was he never got to indulge in the luxury.
No. When he did shit like this it was all on his own accord, so he may as well do his best to reap the greatest reward for it.
Steel was about to get shot in the head.
Everyone could see it. Or, at least, everyone that mattered. Everyone that would need to see it. The angles were perfect—Julia positioned just ahead of the group, taking the brunt of the questions away from Steel, Daniel floating just a foot off the ground, bobbing like a plastic bag on the surface of the ocean. Argent was lingering behind, the sunlight reflecting off her shoulders and threatening to blind onlookers, her foot planted squarely between the shoulder blades of a truly suicidal modded thug.
It was quite the tableau Sal had stumbled on during his latest visit to HQ, and a quick dip through the surrounding thoughts revealed that the grounded woman had apparently tried to turn her body into a bomb, and then took that body bomb and walked right into the lobby.
It also revealed that the woman was working on freeing her trapped hand and, with it, a palmed pistol that she intended to aim directly into Marshal Steel’s fragile, unhelmeted, cranium.
A part of himself that Sal didn’t feel like naming wondered morbidly if he should let it happen. See if anyone else would react quickly enough. See if Steel had any plates in his skull thick enough to keep out a .10mm round.
But it wouldn’t be worth it. Worth more alive than dead with every new revelation Chen offered up.
Losing Steel—a blushing voice murmured something sly and wholly unwarranted about losing Wei Chen—would cost Sal more than it could earn him at the moment, especially when there was a much juicier cut of meat on the table to sink his teeth into.
Very few people enjoyed owing a public debt. Chen, in Sal’s experience, enjoyed it very little indeed. Probably because he was so fucking sincere about the gratitude. It must get grating to genuinely appreciate when people literally stuck their neck out for him.
So, a living Steel and a Wei in his debt. Win win. Not to mention all that delicious guilt. Did the man you left for dead save your life? Sal could do more than work with that. Sal could build cathedrals with leverage like that.
Simply make it seem instinctive—muscle memory. Oh him? He couldn’t do anything except throw himself in the line of fire to save dear old Steel. They had history, after all.
And now that he knew Wei Chen had had wondering, wanting eyes, he had a bruise he could press on.
Moving his body into the path of the bullet was thusly two things: completely calculated and comically easy. The woman on the ground barely had time to get the gun raised high enough before Argent reacted, pinning her forearm to the asphalt, daggered fingers plunging straight through the meat between the two bones and lodging in the earth beneath.
The shot would have gone wide of Wei’s skull anyway, but everyone assembled could see how quickly Sal moved. Almost on instinct unless one knew where to squint, but no one was looking that closely just yet.
Everyone could also see the bloom of brilliant vermillion just at the outer edge of his white suit covering his shoulder. A grazing wound—it did more damage to the jacket than his flesh. Sal bit back his disappointment. If it had hit his bicep more fully, there would have been more blood. More drama.
But it was enough. It was more than enough in the aftermath, while Julia fussed over him and Argent and Herald dealt with the shooter more thoroughly, to have Chen’s stare heavy on his neck.
The temptation to slide into Chen’s brain and get his honest opinion was acknowledged and then pushed back. Sal could let him have his paranoid privacy. He’d be expecting the intrusion anyway—if Sal held back, it made it seem all the more sincere.
“Why did you do that?” Firm and stea—no? Not as firm and steady as Sal had predicted. A lightness to it. Almost a? The waver was his imagination. But there was softness to the question that the action didn’t warrant. Wouldn’t have warranted in the past. But now? Oh ho.
That fleeting thought about pretty smiles was more than just a passing fancy, eh? Oh, caviar and champagne.
Sal rebalanced his brain, hating how Julia was now much too close for comfort. Always harder to focus on two moving targets, after all. And she was so….always so.
“Why wouldn’t I?” It was an open challenge, curiosity allowed to bleed just as easily into the words as Chen’s gentle confusion.
“I thought you said you were retired,” not accusatory. The lack of malice was expected but still prickled the back of his neck. Wei sounded genuinely touched. Aw.
Sal fought down a grin, and thumbed through a few mask options before selecting ‘petulant’. He curled his upper lip, let the snarl get ugly and shifted out of Julia’s range, filing away her look of pained concern. “I am. I don’t see why that also means I’m supposed to let you get shot just because Argent can’t secure a perp properly,” the seed wouldn’t take root, he knew, but it never hurt to till some soil.
Chen’s expression went stern, the looming sweetness of the moment expertly dodged. Sal preened for a half second before gathering himself. “Anyway, it’s not like I stopped to think about it beforehand, is it?”
Bait. Dangling just below the glittering waves.
Wei was always too cautious, so perfectly cautious. Even with the shields up, Sal could feel him nudging at the line without nibbling. It had happened so quickly, though, hadn’t it? And not only was Sal actually injured for it, when he could have just kicked the gun away, his suit was ruined.
“Knowing you?” Chen’s voice was measured and slow, but the doubt was crawling up the edges like a cockroach, and Sal couldn’t help but beam. He forced it back into a snarl.
“Only you could make me getting shot into something to accuse me of,” and there was Julia, back in focus, and firmly on his side, rising from her crouched position to give Chen a piece of her mind. But beyond it, another nud—a bite.
The guilt.
Deliriously sweet. The damn guilt pushed Chen’s eyes to relax, his voice going rounded.
“I’m not accusing you of anything, Salvatore. But we both know you had plenty of time to make a choice,” oh did he now? And what choice did he make? Sal raised his eyebrows expectantly. Enough for Chen to know and as the revelation hit, it was like a clap of thunder. Julia was saying something to the both of them, but Sal felt like he’d just done a shot of adrenaline.
Don’t have to say it loud, do you, but, oh, you’ve realized I made the choice to get shot for you.
questions can be found here if anyone else would like to play.
18) What does victory look like to them?
Ortega laying on his back. Beaten and bruised with their shirt off. While she cackles maniacally, as she stands on top of a comically large pile of gold coins and sparkle jewels.
probably watching the farm get put under demolition while the rest of her kind get integrated into human society.
28) What’s something totally mundane that stresses them out?
Passing Girlscout troops without using her telepathy.
After her escape; once she was stable enough to hobble through crowds of people. She made her way to a convenience store, to get her hands on some pain killers, grocery, and maybe a candy bar. But lo and behold, what awaits her at the sliding doors? A table of cookies being sold by cute little girls. And with a strong sweet vice, she gave them her last $70. She adjust the parent’s memory. And hobbled home with her goods. Why would she need to erase the memory of little children? They already have terrible memories. Surely they’ll forget all about her. Right?
cut to weeks later. Same convenience store, just need some pain killers. What could go wrong?
boom. Girl Scouts. Hate them. Like little mobsters. Doesn't matter if you payed protection once.
I once saw a Girl Scout shake down a construction worker in a hardware store. Thats like trying take a bikers last cigarette.
Even in retribution the little sugar slinging gangster know or her sweet tooth. And Eden’s not going to use her telepathy to advert their attention. That means they won, right?
oh look at the big bad evil guy. Having to use mind control tricks so they don’t get shook down by a bunch of ten year old girls.
Doesn’t sound good, does it?
thought it would be fun to make this so. assorted pics of famous-ish people i think match the vibes of the main cast, some of them are a lot closer to the mark than others and don't actually match the ethnicity of the character in question b/c of what i've been able to find, and most of them i need to add more bodyfat in post when i use them as refs, but they do kind of get the energy i'm going for)
the abelards/dr. mortums
mirlene - danai gurira (a little more rounded and she'd be perfect! <3)
merle - tongayi chirisa (similar to mirlene's fc)
the ortegas/charges
julia - becky dee (a little bit younger than i see julia and a few shades too pale but the bodytype and the swagger/smile is right on)
ricardo - young davey lopes (found just today by @kidhellion ty! <3 guy isn't latino but damn he does match up perfectly)
the other rangers
argent - quannah chasinghorse (credit to @uncreativeboxdraws for finding her <3 I read argent as indigenous mexican latina, because of her name ximena being a v popular name in mexico)
chen - young(er) jet li (again, needs more bodyfat, but the rounded cheeks and squareish jaw do sell it)
daniel - heath ledger (i like his smile lines/dimples a lot, they feel very daniel and just generally he has just enough youthfulness to read as a guy in his mid twenties and not a baby)
bonus: my steps
sura - vineeta maruri (who also happens to be nb which is nice!). very very loose fc ref tho, their nose and lips and such aren't as pronounced as sura's, and they are pretty young, but it's the closest i've been able to get and i can sometimes use them as a baseline
kat - roberta collindrez (used her likeness when making kat so he pretty much looks like her)
surendra - either akshay khanna (left, similar to his origins as an offshoot of original sura, still south asian) or bilal hasna (right, diverging more from original with a SWANA guy)
🧪 Cain, if you *had* to reveal the tattoos to one person past or present, who would you trust the most with that information?
Cain groans, leaning forward on the chair, covering their face in despair.
"I would rather eat a box of coals, thanks," they snip, before grumbling something under their breath that you cannot hear. "But if anyone HAPPENED to glimpse them... ugh... Herald, I think. He's too naïve to know what they are, probably, and he's too... like THAT to tell anyone if I swore him to secrecy. I may not like him but I think I've got a decent read on that guy."
Hi hello yes im so capable of remembering to hit "post" i swear--
Beck: a lot of things... *sigh*. I guess getting my hopes up on thinking I could belong... somewhere, I guess. If not with someone. I've learned that it's just not possible with what and how I am, though. And by this point, I don't know if I care to try anymore.
