Eternal City divider (the white one) by @suupersonic ;
Jade's divider (the orange one) by @strangergraphics
Every other divider by @uzmacchiato
Hello! Please call me Theo or Corsé! I'm a plural, slavic snake therian who likes to draw! Under the cut you can find some info about the OCs I'll hopefully be posting about in the future!
I generally like to troll/ragebait people on the interwebs, but I'll try my best to behave myself this time around. I change blogs fairly often (just bc I don't like how they end up looking), so if I disappear that's probably what happened.
Most of my posts will be art focused, but be warned!! I rarely put image descriptions/alt text!
After trying to usurp heaven and kill god, the queen of hell, Jade, and her 6 most powerful warriors are all killed. Fortunately, Jade had a fallback plan for this exact situation; she crafted a potion that would reincarnate her and her demon lords into human bodies upon death. Now reborn, Jade is trying get her 7 deadly sins back together and attempt another coup (this time taking Earth down in the process)
The tag for this would be #jadethedemon
Life in the Eternal City
This would just be an anthology series, following the harsh lives of people in a massive isolated polis called the Eternal City. The three main stories would follow the characters Pouriketa (who just got to the Eternal City), Lola (a maid serving the queen of the Eternal City), Topaz/Catherine (a grumpy middle-school teacher) & a trio of kids who have connections to all "three" women
The tag for this would be #litec
For Her love
A nonbinary knight ventures to lands forsaken and abandoned by gods to try and save it wife. To achieve this it pledges its allegiance to the shady Exiled Queen Mariana.
The tag for this would be #fhrl
Joinery
A story about a 14 year-old girl named Kristin Savić, who travels to London alone to find a girl she met 5 years prior. She ends up living with multiple unsavoury people, but also meets some new friends. The strangest ones being a pair of living dolls.
The tag for this would be #joinery story
LOLITA (Title wip)
A story about a rich narcissistic serbian girl and the three people she hires to help her collect antient magical artifacts. The name of the story comes from the fact they all wear lolita clothes, not from the book.
The tag (for now) is #lolita griffith
FULL-TIME MAGICAL GIRL
Same basic premise as PPPIDWBAM. A magical girl who really hates her fucking job. Princess Anette Koee comes to Earth after a villain destroys her palace and steals one of the crystals used for transforming into a magical girl.
Most of the art I've seen of Kindquest/Carlquest has him in normal cishet man clothes, which is fine, nothing against those artists 😭, but I think his style would lowkey be ass. Like an awful combination of pastel goth and guro (I guess candy gore??)
Like just because Carl doesn't murder people anymore doesn't mean he suddenly started hating gore. He's just ethical about it, he looks guro manga and medical photos to get his fix :)
This one's name is Taliyah Ba'Ad Verde. She's from the same story as the previous OC I submitted.
She is the reincarnation of Leviathan, representing envy, and is actually a rather typical interpretation of the sin 😅
Taliyah has a girlfriend called Selen/Seluvis. They used to run a sports-themed channel together, but since coming out they post much more sporadically there and instead focus on their individual tiktoks, where Sel is slightly more successful. Taliyah is envious of Selena's success and throughout the story her resentment grows as their channels do.
Now as she starts falling to her sin, Taliyah starts transforming into her monstrous demon form. Scales start appearing on her arms legs, lower jaw, and she gets a little tail. While cute, these cause her immense distress, which only worsens her mental state.
And then one day, while out for a drive, Seluvis starts complaining about his tiktok account, which Taliyah takes as him passive-aggressively rubbing his success in her face and she snaps. A huge argument ensues which ends with her completely transforming into her demon form.
As Leviathan, Taliyah is only half-conscious and much more animalistic. She doesn't know what's exactly happening, but since Selena is associated with the Moon, Leviathan also becomes obsessed and jealous of the Moon's beauty. She tries to eat it to destroy it, but other character's manage to restrain her and Seluvis talks her down, transforming her back into a human.
-Also Seluvis is a transmasc butch woman who uses both he and she
-Taliyah is a trans woman (just she/her)
-Both of them are very sporty people. Taliyah actually won a gold metal in an international swimming competition as a teenager (specifically it was a competition for South East Asian youth & Tal was repping the Philippines).
-There is a Filipino mythological creature, the Bakunawa, which is a massive serpent who tries to eat the moon. According to Wikipedia, some in some versions the Bakunawa is jealous of the moon.
-Taliyah is Cebuano
A giant monster trying to eat the moon is sick. That idea goes so hard.
Sometimes when picking surnames for my ocs i just randomly pick a country for them to originate from so I can go surfing on behind the name easier, just like "yeah, ok, you can be welsh"
My magical girl OCs! After the evil bad guy, Rosas (design still a wip) steals one the most important magical artifacts of the Motlé Kingdom and runs away to Earth, Princess Anette Koee is sent to capture him.
On Earth, Anette meets two other kids and recruits them to be magical girls and try to stop Rosas and the evil goons he keeps creating.
More about the characters under cut :>
Marija Muzičar
Marija is a 15 year old orthodox Romani girl. She's the most well-adjusted out of the three, but after finding out that she isn't as straight as she thought she was she still has a crisis.
Marija is also the smartest in the cast, so while the other two are angsting, Marija is actually doing plot stuff, solving mysteries, finding Rosas in his human disguise, crushing in him, all that good stuff (Rosas is like 30 and does not reciprocate, he views Marija as a little sister/daughter).
Anette Koee
Anette is... so done dude. She's so over this. Motlese children spend a few years in school, but once they reach 8-9 years old they become magical warriors and are expected to remain as one until they reach adulthood.
Usually these positions aren't that dangerous for the kids, but it seems Anette has witnessed something a lot me upsetting during her time on the job.
In any case, Anette is sick of this job and, while she does love the Earth people she's befriended, she really just wants to go home.
Staša Marković
Staša is... better described as a man-shaped pile of issues and self-hatred. He's a Chinese-Serbian boy, though he spends a lot of the story thinking he's a girl. An ugly girl at that.
There's very little Staša likes about his appearance. He is aware he likes to be perceived as masculine, but doesn't quite realise he just straight up wants to be a boy, partially because he does genuinely enjoy his magical girl persona. Staša also really dislikes his poc features. Despite being mixed, he's very obviously Asian and was bullied for it during middle school.
He's internalised a lot the racist shit that the kid's and teachers spewed and now regurgitates it back as self-deprecating jokes. Which would be "fine" if he was hanging out with racists, but becomes a bit of an issue when your main friend is a brown girl very much darker than you.
Fear and hunger is genuinely a hilarious game if you think about it.
"Now I know you aren't a human of darkness, you just said you loved me, because that's what I wanted to hear"
I look up from my monitor. Half a dozen pictures of Pocketcat stare back at me from my wall.
I look to my left. One of the two Pocketcat paper dolls fell down, so I put him back up.
I look to my right, just to make sure the third Pocketcat paper doll didn't also fall (he's fine dw)
I turn around to grab my phone and write this post. My lockscreen is is Pocketcat. I open Tumblr, type "p" and Pocketcat is the first word autocorrect offers.
I turn back to my monitor. My characters name is IluvPocket
The pride flags here are Ethiopia, astrolligender and lesbian respectively!
Marye is an incredibly intelligent coder, but ka can't be fucked to do any more work than she absolutely needs to to keep her sites up. Instead, buzz prefers to make Schien clothing hauls and makeup tutorials.
Az gender is very closely related to being a Homestuck trollkin. Buzz doesn't kin any particular character, but moreso the ka feels ka belongs to the species.
Marye is beasties with my a-spec boys Ethan Elliot and Bell. They're the cunty trio of the seven deadly sins.
It's 1am and I'm denying the Horrors that await me.
Please remember: If you REBLOG from someone, SEND THEM AN ASK (not applicable to me, please don't ask me my own questions /lh)
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How sheltered was your OC from the idea of LGBTQ+ relationships when they were younger? How has it impacted their relationship with themselves?
Does/has your OC struggle(d) with internalized homophobia? How have they learned to cope, if at all?
When did your OC realize that they may be different from other people?
Who was your OC most comfortable talking to about their feelings?
Is your OC out? How did their parents/guardians handle it? Siblings? If they're selectively out, who are they out to?
Does your OC celebrate pride? How? Would they ever buy pride merch?
How much of your OC's identity is reliant on their gender identity/sexuality?
What's a stereotype about your OC's orientation that they hate? What's one they (accidentally) live up to?
What/when was their first queer relationship? How did it go? If they're aro, have they tried a romantic relationship before? Or only QPRs?
What's something your OC knows now, (in regards to their sexuality/orientation), that they wish they could have clarified or guided their younger self through?
How would your OC handle someone coming out to them?
How would your OC deal with a homophobe? Would this reaction be different if the person was targeting someone else?
What pronouns does your OC use? If someone (accidentally) misgendered them, would they correct them?
How would your OC describe their sexuality/gender to a kid?
How long did it take for your OC to accept themselves? What factors played into it?
Is your OC an activist for LGBTQ+ rights? How engaged are they?
Would your OC ever participate in drag? What would their stage name/personality be?
Was there a significant impact on emotional/mental/spiritual health after your OC realized they were LGBTQ+?
Does your OC deal with body dysmorphia? How do they cope?
How much does your OC know/understand about the gender/sexuality spectrum?
Has your OC ever had a friend of the same gender that they had feelings for, but never admitted to? (or been rejected after admission?)
Has your OC's fashion sense changed since coming out? How so?
How does your OC's ideal body differ from the one they currently have?
Did your OC identify differently when they first came out as opposed to how they identify now?
Does your OC celebrate their "coming out" anniversary? How so?
Has your OC made any non-surgical body modifications to help embrace their identity? (Piercings, tattoos, hair dye/cut, etc.)
Did your OC ever get jealous over other people before coming out? How did that translate into their day to day lives?
Is your OC more likely to want a QPR or a romantic relationship?
If your OC plans on getting married one day, what are they, (and their partner(s)) wearing on their special day? (Feel free to elaborate on the whole event if you want to)
Does your OC ever deal with guilt for their "decision" to identify as they do? How do they cope with it?
Sorry if any of these are repetitive lol again its like 1am. Happy pride month lmao
I'm just answering all of these at once for my OC Travelling Knight Oleg
1. How sheltered was your OC from the idea of LGBTQ+ relationships when they were younger? How has it impacted their relationship with themselves?
Oleg was born into a world similar to our medieval christianity, so where homophobia and heteronormativity were very prevalent. But at the same time Oleg's mother was a spinster, incapable of romantic love.
In buns youth, Oleg was pretty conflicted on non-heterosexual people, whether they were all freaks (including buns mother), only some, or if all were unfairly persecuted like it. However this never impacted its view on itself much, because bun is intersex and therefore, in its mind, bun can be attracted to both men and women without it being weird.
2. Does/has your OC struggle(d) with internalized homophobia? How have they learned to cope, if at all?
Kinda? Like I said it never thought of itself as disgusting, but buns opinions had been constantly shifting when it was younger. But after travelling the world and coming into contact with different cultures, bun finally settled on thinking that queer people were chill.
3. When did your OC realize that they may be different from other people?
It was raised knowing bun was different. Its mother couldn't guess its sex at birth and raised bun gender neutrally (that's also why it uses it/its pronouns, she didn't want to use he or she). She also explained to it that its body was different from other people's that others might judge bun for that.
4. Who was your OC most comfortable talking to about their feelings?
As a child/young adult, with its mother and the children of the Duke buns mother worked under (as a seamstress).
As an adult, with its wife.
During the story, with the two friends bun makes throughout the story (Fulvia and Lishka).
5. Is your OC out? How did their parents/guardians handle it? Siblings? If they're selectively out, who are they out to?
Oleg is out to everyone it meets. Bun will not be misgendered (now not even by the police anymore). Buns mother was its only family and, perhaps she ever asked it once if it wanted to be a girl or a boy, Oleg probably just replied that it loves the gender neutral way bun was raised the most. (And its mother would be happy that she picked the correct option when raising it).
6. Does your OC celebrate pride? How? Would they ever buy pride merch?
It's living in 1452. There is no pride merch. Only untreated bubonic plague. /j
7. How much of your OC's identity is reliant on their gender identity/sexuality?
Gender wise? Not a lot. You could make Oleg a perisex cis man and it would change nothing about the main plot (he'd still use bun/buns pronouns as well lmfao).
Oleg liking women is, however, is very important to the plot, because the point of the story is bun rescuing its wife.
8. What's a stereotype about your OC's orientation that they hate? What's one they (accidentally) live up to?
Uhhh, at one point they meet someone who is basically a nonbinary lesbian and she assumes Oleg is one too. Which Oleg denies and isn't comfortable being called that.
Other than that standard queer stereotypes (being predators, being sinful sex fiends who hate God, ect.) piss Oleg off a lot too. It doesn't fall into any notable (in-universe) stereotypes tho.
9. What/when was their first queer relationship? How did it go? If they're aro, have they tried a romantic relationship before? Or only QPRs?
Any relationship is queer when you're nonbinary! Their first "relationship" was with the Duke's daughter (from question 4) when they were like 11. They dated for two weeks and then broke up because they couldn't decide whether they'd serve pork or lamb at the wedding. No QPRs tho.
10. What's something your OC knows now, (in regards to their sexuality/orientation), that they wish they could have clarified or guided their younger self through?
It would probably just tell its younger self to leave their home lands wayyy earlier, because there are people who'll accept their nonbinariness and intersexuality. Would've saved them sooooo many runins with the gendarmes.
(using they/them here because it's 2 different versions of the same person)
11. How would your OC handle someone coming out to them?
If that someone was aro Oleg would be excited because "Omg they just like my mom, fr fr!". If that someone was nonbinary Oleg would be excited because "Omg they just like me, fr fr!"
For other identities bun would just be happy that person trusts it with its identity.
12. How would your OC deal with a homophobe? Would this reaction be different if the person was targeting someone else?
In the past, Oleg would probably just ignore the comment, maybe make a witty/sassy remark at the expense of the homophobe.
Current story Oleg would either threaten the homophobe with buns sword or try to get the victim away from the bigot and comfort them.
13. What pronouns does your OC use? If someone (accidentally) misgendered them, would they correct them?
For a long while Oleg used it/its, but started using bun/buns as well later in life. As a child it would correct the people at the Duke's estate, but not any visitors or the Duke himself (not that the Duke cared enough about Oleg to discuss it in third person).
As an adult Oleg would just let the people use whatever, because it didn't want to get in trouble for "cross-dressing".
Current story Oleg threatens to stab anyone who misgenders bun.
14. How would your OC describe their sexuality/gender to a kid?
Not to a kid but bun does describe buns gender like this when it meets one of the characters "I'm neither a man nor a woman and my body is not that of a man or a woman. Therefore you will use the pronoun 'it' when referring to me. You may also use the word 'bun' as a pronoun, if you so prefer".
"Girls... Pretty. I wanna hold their hand."
15. How long did it take for your OC to accept themselves? What factors played into it?
It's always accepted itself. Factors: awesome mother who raised bun to love itself and to think other people are rude for judging bun.
16. Is your OC an activist for LGBTQ+ rights? How engaged are they?
No. It just wants buns wife back 😭
17. Would your OC ever participate in drag? What would their stage name/personality be?
Oleg has had to deal with strangers hating it for supposedly cross-dressing, and I think doing drag would just remind bun of those times where the the cops followed it home to make sure it changed into the clothes the they thought it should wear.
Oleg has nothing against drag, but I don't think it'd personally be interested in participating.
18. Was there a significant impact on emotional/mental/spiritual health after your OC realized they were LGBTQ+?
Oleg never realised bun was lgbtq. There is no concept of the lgbtq community in this world.
19. Does your OC deal with body dysmorphia? How do they cope?
Nuppers. Bun only hates when strangers try to assign buns body a gender.
20. How much does your OC know/understand about the gender/sexuality spectrum?
By the start of the story, Oleg has already realised that gender is a social construct and human rules are bullshit.
It also knows that humans can be attracted to any gender (including none), but it doesn't really click for it that sexuality can be fluid until later in the story.
21. Has your OC ever had a friend of the same gender that they had feelings for, but never admitted to? (or been rejected after admission?)
No Oleg has never met someone who is the same gender as it.
22. Has your OC's fashion sense changed since coming out? How so?
Didn't have a traditional coming out.
23. How does your OC's ideal body differ from the one they currently have?
Four arms to hug big wife better.
24. Did your OC identify differently when they first came out as opposed to how they identify now?
Didn't have a traditional coming out.
25. Does your OC celebrate their "coming out" anniversary? How so?
Didn't have a traditional coming out. (People do this??)
26. Has your OC made any non-surgical body modifications to help embrace their identity? (Piercings, tattoos, hair dye/cut, etc.)
No, it has done so to appease others tho.
27. Did your OC ever get jealous over other people before coming out? How did that translate into their day to day lives?
Didn't have a traditional coming out.
28. Is your OC more likely to want a QPR or a romantic relationship?
"A real romance IS a QPR, because it places more importance on the happiness of the involved individuals rather than societal labels."
Probably some shit Oleg would say idk
29. If your OC plans on getting married one day, what are they, (and their partner(s)) wearing on their special day? (Feel free to elaborate on the whole event if you want to)
Oleg got married without a ceremony, because they (it and its wife) had just gone through something traumatic and were living in a village where they didn't know anyone.
30. Does your OC ever deal with guilt for their "decision" to identify as they do? How do they cope with it?
1. What's your oc's gender identity? What's their relationship to their gender?
2. What's your oc's orientation? (Romantic/sexual/platonic alterous ect) Do they have opinions about it?
3. How did your oc discover themself? Did something cause them to question, or did they always know?
4. Is your oc's environment supportive about their identity? How does this impact them?
5. How did you figure out your oc's identity?
6. How does your oc feel about labels? Theirs, or in general?
7. Is there something that could cause your oc to question their identity? What?
8. Have they had struggles with their identity, be it due to internal or external reasons?
9. Are there cultural or lore specific aspects to their identity? If applicable, does their species affect it?
10. Does your oc celebrate Pride? How?
11. Is your oc open about their identity? Are they more lowkey or more blunt about it? Why or why not?
12. Does/did your oc ever wish they could change the way they are? Why? If it's in the past, how did they get over the feeling? (this can be about internalized homo/transphobia)
13. Would your oc be open to a poly relationship? Why or why not?
[Not aimed at a specific character] / [Aimed at creator]
14. Do you have ocs on the aro or ace spectrum?
15. Do any of your ocs use neopronouns? Which ones?
16. Did you ever change an oc's identity when they were already established? Why?
17. Do you share identity with any of your ocs? Which ones?
18. Do you prefer to give your ocs specific labels, or keep it unspecified? Why? If applicable, do you change their labels depending on circumstance?
19. Do you have preferences about depicting homo/transphobia in your stories? What, and why? Does it vary by story?
20. Have your ocs helped you in self discovery? How?
1. What's your oc's gender identity? What's their relationship to their gender?
Alice is a demiangelgender girl! She doesn't have any strong feelings towards her gender. She knows it's a bit strange for human standards, but she's not human! So it's fine.
2. What's your oc's orientation? (Romantic/sexual/platonic alterous ect) Do they have opinions about it?
Okay so. Alice is actually the angel Moroni (pronounced moroneye) taking human form. So technically her sexuality changes based on her form. Right now she's lesbian.
3. How did your oc discover themself? Did something cause them to question, or did they always know?
Alice has always known. Ever since she was made, her status as an angel was more important than her gender (and obviously Sex is just a suggestion when you can shape-shift). She now just has a specific label to apply to herself.
Like I said, her sexuality does vary, but she's also always just liked women. It was a nobrainer for her and she didn't consider dating men until much later in human history.
4. Is your oc's environment supportive about their identity? How does this impact them?
Yuppers. She's surrounded by queers 100% of the time. All of her friends are angels so don't operate on human standards of gender and sexuality either. And the humans she interacts with are either her girlfriend, the girlfriend's also queer sister and the sister's pride parade of servants. As a result Alice doesn't have much exposure to homophobia, it's more of an abstract concept to her.
5. How did you figure out your oc's identity?
Idk. I have soooooo many female OCs, if I want to write a romantic relationship it's gonna have to be gay 9 times outta 10.
As for gender, I was putting pride flags next to my OCs and realised I had many more cis women than anything else, so I randomly assigned her a xenogender that fit.
6. How does your oc feel about labels? Theirs, or in general?
She thinks it's refreshing to have a label for her gender and holds the person who made it in high regard. She also loves xenogenders in general, how creative they can get. She's definitely shaping her next vessel into one that uses another xenogender (so instead of being a demiangelgender girl she'd be a demiangelgender gender faun).
7. Is there something that could cause your oc to question their identity? What?
Sooooo much of Alice's identity revolves around being an angel... Sooo if she were to fall from heaven... 😀😃😄
8. Have they had struggles with their identity, be it due to internal or external reasons?
Not really. She's fine with identifying as a cis man/woman and anyone tries to bother her when she's out with her girlfriend she can just drop 90kg tomb made out of solid gold on their head.
9. Are there cultural or lore specific aspects to their identity? If applicable, does their species affect it?
Already said this, but her species makes up about 60% of her gender identity. Other than that, not really no.
10. Does your oc celebrate Pride? How?
Alice doesn't, but she will gift her girlfriend flowers and chocolates in the color of the lesbian flag (and lavender. So much lavender)
11. Is your oc open about their identity? Are they more lowkey or more blunt about it? Why or why not?
She's more lowkey about it. She only uses she/her pronouns and the only time she'll actually bring her identity up is when asking new people she's met to refer to her as an angel more often than girl.
12. Does/did your oc ever wish they could change the way they are? Why? If it's in the past, how did they get over the feeling? (this can be about internalized homo/transphobia)
She did! So she did! Angels have one set angelic form that fits them, but their human forms change every lifetime. They can slightly influence their next vessels (which usually spawn in as adults), but they don't have complete control over their creations, only WHERE they spawn. Like Fortnite!
13. Would your oc be open to a poly relationship? Why or why not?
She was super poly in the past, but ever since JS did the whole "making a cult for grooming and trafficking his foster daughters" thing, she's felt disgusted by the thought of dating two girls at once.
(Seeing polyam people in the streets or on TV does make her extremely uncomfortable, but she keeps that to herself).
[Not aimed at a specific character] / [Aimed at creator]
I'm just going to be answering for the story where Alice is from.
14. Do you have ocs on the aro or ace spectrum?
Yuppers. This story (#jadethedemon) has two aces in it. Clara and Ethan Elliot.
15. Do any of your ocs use neopronouns? Which ones?
Yuppers. My embodiment of Greed, Marye, uses neos, but I'm deciding whether to make her into a homestuck troll or a fly in terms of gender (or both) so the pronouns might change.
16. Did you ever change an oc's identity when they were already established? Why?
The embodiment of envy, Taliyah was originally cis, but I made her a transbian. She originally has a trans girlfriend, but then I made the gf transmasc butch, but then I didn't want to shrink the number of trans women in the cast (1) so I made Taliyah trans.
Yes, Alice and Marye were just women, but I have so many cis woman characters I needed more variety in my cast.
17. Do you share identity with any of your ocs? Which ones?
I'm also acearo, like Ethan (tho that fluctuates) and I'm xenogender like Mari.
18. Do you prefer to give your ocs specific labels, or keep it unspecified? Why? If applicable, do you change their labels depending on circumstance?
For this story, I like to have specific labels (except the MC. Jade is literally unlabeled, sexuality-wise), because it is set in modern day and I don't have to contrive pride flags and modern labels into the setting. I want them to have specific identities for the sake of rep. It's one thing to see a masculine person kiss a woman. It's another to hear him call himself a butch dyke.
19. Do you have preferences about depicting homo/transphobia in your stories? What, and why? Does it vary by story?
I do not want to focus on queephobia in this story. For one, most of the cast can take on a small group of humans with ease. And two this story is more personal than political (more accidentally hurting someone you love because you're jealous of them and less oppression)
20. Have your ocs helped you in self discovery? How?
Nope. I'm normal, I have low empathy and high self-esteem, I just switch labels when something feels off, I don't ponder it.
My aspec boys! I don't usually add alt text, but I did it this time since I'm tagging @aspec-ocs (just FYI there's 1 mention of sex in the paragraph below)
Grady Bell (right) is the reincarnation of the demon of pride (here called Asmodeus) and he's cishet, BUT aplatonic. He's one of the only sins who still has some loyalty to the queen of hell (mostly because they're banging, but shhhh don't let her hear that), but of course, he always puts himself first. He's a college student, majoring in costume design, but he prefers styling hair.
Ethan Elliot Scott (left) is acearo and the reincarnation of wrath demon Satan. He's an up-and-coming rock artist. Does he have any interest in alt music or fashion? Nooo... But he gets to rage and scream (and maybe even beat up some neo nazis) so he continues doing gigs.
These two make up a trio with the demon of Gluttony(not pictured because she's big lesbo). They really shouldn't get along well, but they're the only ones who are somewhat politically aware and are all on the same leftist wavelength, so they find common ground there.
