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okay yeah yeha if you're actually interested in my oc dev stuff, this may be the place for you if you don't mind my shitposting
does anyone even still follow this blog?? ?? i'm kind of thinking about doing those stupid oc facts of the day again, especially since this blog has almost entirely lost its purpose given that i post 99.9999% of my oc/headcanon stuff on my shitposts blog at this point ;;
needs hierarchy chart things for my magical kids at the start/early on in canon! some of these priorities change—meiya’s is almost completely different, and some of shiho’s shift, but these are overall good views of what’s important to each person. i’ll do more of these for other casts if people are interested, since they’re an easy and fun exercise. notes!
meiya: i put sex high up because even before he’s actually aware of his sexuality, meiya is definitely the innocent fanservice character—of course, this is presented as being an uncomfortable thing (because it is), but to put it in context, he’d be that one character who has oodles of promo art where he’s in weird positions or fanservicey clothes. he’s otherwise pretty average, though his high drives for approval and attention are initially focused on basically everyone around him. he has a very straightforward and one-dimensionally saccharine personality in the beginning, so he’s very eager to buddy up to everyone. eventually, though, this shifts almost entirely to youichi, to the point where almost everything meiya does is in a bid for youichi’s attention/approval. as a note, i put family fairly high because meiya’s quite close with his dad, and by proxy has been his hometown’s little darling verging on a town mascot for years dfksjh
himeko: this girl just does not give a fuck. like i’ve said, himeko has a very nihilistic attitude towards her own life because she’s so detached from it in favour of fiction. don’t do love, don’t do friends, i’m only after success, etc etc is really her thing—if in one exercise, the class was asked “to live is to ____”, she’d be very blunt and draw a comparison to the creepy stereotype of a hikkikomori abstaining from suicide because their favourite anime hasn’t finished airing yet. she’s not suicidal, but she places very little value on her own life because it means about as much to her as a random stranger’s would. i put high priority on purpose because she’s sort of passively seeking that—she goes through the motions and is wildly successful in pretty much everything she does in spite of her personality, but she doesn’t actually care about any of her accomplishments beyond seeking to be entertained by getting to them.
shiho: shiho’s is pretty self-explanatory, appreciation being her highest priority because that’s what she wants to get out of protecting people, as opposed to a sense of satisfaction for having done the right thing for its own sake. this is a very subconscious desire of hers that doesn’t really come to the surface until ibuki calls her out on it. family is rock-bottom because she never knew hers—she was given her name by the orphanage she lived at until she ran away at age 14. so self-sufficiency is really important to her, especially since she has since been able to acknowledge that running away because she thought there was “something more for her” was a really selfish move. she does live in her own flat and pay for everything between what she saves for herself in fight winnings and doing odd jobs, something she’s pretty proud of.
sys: sys, on counterpoint to himeko, cares about pretty much everything. at their very core, they’re just someone who naturally exudes that care—the whole impetus for their development of free will and subsequently their magic was because they came to sympathize with the plight of the students struggling through the time loops. they feel a terrible distance between themselves and the rest of the class because being an ai who knows the system would set them apart from everyone else, so even as they see themselves as vastly inferior to humans, they desperately want to be a part of the group. this stops them from intervening in things they know are wrong for the sake of trying to maintain harmony/their fantasy of everyone getting along, but they do eventually get over that hurdle and take a more proactive role in trying to help the other students again.
enma: a lot of his priorities are really weird because they’re not actually his so much as they are what’s expected of him. strength isn’t something he cares about a lot—part of it is the oblivious vantage point of someone who’s never been anything but ridiculously powerful, but he doesn’t particularly enjoy that power. he’s not the beleaguered “oh if only i hadn’t been born so speshul” type so much as he has enough separation from the way his magic influences his personality to realize that there’s absolutely nothing redeeming about it. interpersonal things like love/sex/friendship/etc do mean more to him under very specific conditions—it’s just that usually, he finds his relationships to be pretty one-sided in the other person’s favour, even when he tries to make himself get more invested. his want for approval is still high because he takes the whole “social link go” approach to others to try and be whatever they want of him and solve all their problems. in general, enma’s just neutral or flat-out apathetic to a lot of stuff because it doesn’t end up being too relevant to him unless someone else wants it to be as such.
now with 100% more shujinkou-kun
[enma intensifies]
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obakemono/touhou-esque/japanese mythology fantasy world desu 2 au? kind of like that dr au that’s been getting popular lately, where p much everyone is some sort of mystical creature
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quietly puts this here as well b/c i spent all afternoon on it and i'm actually really proud of this au??
horsetower! the twins’ family rating is simultaneously high and low as possible because while they’re pretty damn resentful towards the rest of their family, to each other, they’re more or less the most important thing in the world.
leander: insecure teenage boy desperately wants to live up to standards of conventional masculinity: the leander hightower story. he spends a lot of time fretting about his appearance and his mannerisms for fear that they’re not manly enough to the point where it’s honestly kind of obnoxious—thankfully, nadine and marcel are (fairly) tolerant even as they both poke fun at him for the fact that he would look like shit with a Manly Beard anyways. sex, friendship, and approval are all closely intertwined given how much his relationship with marcel impacts his personal growth—i don’t want to say it’s an unhealthy relationship, because it really isn’t, but since leander really doesn’t have much of a purpose in life even as he’s heading into adulthood in his society, marcel’s been a really strong formative influence on him and is basically his ideal everything. intimacy was kind of a weird one, since while he likes some forms of it openly (he spends an awful lot of time resting his head on nadine’s lap don’t even look at me it wasn’t supposed to be subtext), but when it comes to espousing any level of feelings, he’s very quick to shy away because that’s Unmanly (tm). it’s really hard for him to be up-front about his deeper feelings, especially the clusterfuck of devotion and admiration and love and boner he has for marcel, so he’ll try to sweep it under the rug whenever he can and insist he’s still being completely normative when he’s routinely touching dingles with another dude. in modern terms, pretty much anything intimate he does with marcel has an implicit “no homo” behind it until he starts begrudgingly coming to terms with himself.
nadine: strength was a weird one for her, but i guess it ties into respect and self-sufficiency? she doesn’t give a shit about physical power aside from the fact that she was never even given a shot at it as a young woman, but social power is absolutely everything to her, especially since she’s constantly denied that as well. belongingness is really high despite the fact that she sets herself apart from others very harshly just because as the narrative goes on, part of her desperately wishes she could be satisfied with capitulating to the same shit countless other noble ladies have accepted as their lot, and even though she couldn’t care less about 99.99% of other people, there’s definitely a part of her that’s scared she really is a frigid, heartless bitch. it kind of feeds back into the sex bit, too—she has absolutely no way of knowing that she’s demisexual, and so she assumes that her “failure” to return stephen’s romantic interests (with the implication of sex because her parents are hellbent on her marrying him and putting them on the throne as puppet rulers) confirms that there’s something warped and dead about her emotionally. on the flipside, though, she also comes to consider sex a way to demand absolute power and actually be given it for once. i s2g i’m not going to dip into hightowercest because it’s not actually canon, but it’s all about nadine taking absolute control and leander ceding it to her tbh.
marcel: marcel’s is a bizzare chart in general because a lot of the traits the twins (and thus the reader) come to think of as staples of his personality are feigned—you just don’t know which ones until shit hits the fan. those three really high rankings are definitely sincere things to him—when marcel commits to something, he honest to god commits to it, and so his sense of purpose is very strong and direct. i can’t say a whole lot about self-sufficiency without spoilers, but he’s really more or less been raising the twins since he was 15, and he was definitely forced to grow up way, way too fast. belongingness is rock-bottom for a variety of spoilertastic reasons, but i will say that belonging with the twins is very sincerely important to him, tying into love/friendship. whatever else is going down with him, the twins are probably the only people he’s ever wholeheartedly cared about (not that he’s a Gritty Antihero—he just hasn’t had the luxury of time to be even a little bit honest about himself with many people), and he loves them both immensely, albeit in different ways. it’s hard to see with leander as the narrator, but marcel is actually just as embarrassingly in love with him as vice-versa—he has to step around it a lot, though, given how wildly mercurial and insecure leander is. with acceptance, i guess let’s just say that when [spoilers] do happen, it breaks his heart to have to [spoilers] leander and run the very real risk of losing all his trust for the greater cause of [spoilers].
and i want to teach you a lessoooooooon in the worst kind of waaaaaaayyyy
[beyonce voice] skian’s angels
i’m going to address a few points for the group as a whole, since they are a team—strength is obviously a high priority for all of them given that they’re gijinka of an e4 team. friendship is a weird one that i wasn’t sure how to place, since their friendships with one another are really important to them, but they generally keep their relationships with others p shallow. skian, sov, and joss especially—they’ve been together since they were all very young, and so really they think of each other like sisters more than anything else. family is low for everyone because 3/4 of the team grew up on the streets, and kirika was more or less excommunicated from her family in favour of her younger sister.
skian: sex is important to her because she likes to get laid, yeah, but it’s kind of a double-edged sword for her because her whole gimmick (aside from being the strategic driving force of the team) is a gamble on attract, so genuine attraction is a wishy-washy thing. appearance feeds into that a bit, too—most of it is her self-consciousness over that massive scarring on her chest, though. i think her family score is actually the lowest of the low even though she’s the only one with any constant contact with a relationship, since she’s peripherally bitter about having darcey foisted off on her just because she’s famous, and the two of them just don’t get along at all.
kirika: yes, she’s the only one with a last name, though she’s technically not even allowed to use it anymore—i put it in western order b/c she’s only half japanese, and even then her father’s side of the family thinks of itself as japanese-american (kanto-unovan?????). since she was the last addition to the main four, belonging to the group in spite of her intimacy/trust issues and crippling levels of subservient shyness does mean a lot to her. appearance isn’t so much about looking good as it is her deep embarrassment over the fact that she has a very soft, curvy, and classically feminine figure underneath her armour, so she’s constantly wearing really poorly-fitted clothing outside of battle in a desperate attempt to cover herself up.
joss: i gave her the highest friendship rating because she’s sort of the glue that holds everyone together—i wouldn’t call her the team mom, but maybe the team cool big sis figure? she is not actually that cool. definitely the flashiest member of the team, so attention’s pretty important to her, but she otherwise has the most laid-back and untroubled worldview in spite of having gone through some real shit with sov and skian. she’s the type who overcomes things with relative ease and rarely ever dwells on them.
sov: this makes her look so apathetic omg—she really does care, even if she spreads a thick layer of sarcasm over it. it comes from a lifetime of being the tsukkomi to joss’ boke, probably. the stuff relating to love/sex/relationships outside the team is kind of a weird thing with sov—it’s not like she’s wholly uninterested in those things, but she’s very leery of them, especially when it comes to dudes and the fact that she’s half fighting. her expectation has come to be that she’ll either not be taken seriously because she’s female or she’ll get side-eyed for the dark half of her typing like it makes her a more disreputable person when fighting types are generally supposed to be very straight-laced. all in all, though, she’s the core of emotional stability in the group, but also the one who pushes for further emotional growth, especially when it comes to skian’s sensibilities taking a turn for the almost hypocritically cynical.
overthinking gijinka: the blog the movie the bootleg dvd with weird english subtitles
hte sakitaes! i’m going in reverse order of my canons or something here dfkjdf maybe this will actually inspire me to do those revisions so i can finish the story?? 6k of revisions is suffering tho
sakie: not much to say here—sakie is a pretty average girl, for all the weird extra shit she does. she’s really a community person, so a lot of the things most important to her are centered around the way she feels like she contributes to the groups of people in her life, from her family’s bootleg exorcist trade to the robotics club in school to the hardware store where she works her part-time job.
taeko: p much all of this is based on the fact that in spite of her natural pride, she feels like her entire existence is nothing more than a burden to the family retainers who stayed faithfully with her for the 23 years since her death. she went through a really long phase where she desperately wished she’d just died properly and hated herself for being a coward and thus getting herself stuck in purgatory, but by the time she meets sakie, she’s shifted towards a much more proactive attitude. she still feels like she’s wasted the lives of her retainers, but she’s determined to find a way to take herself off their hands, so she’s surprisingly proactive in instigating a friendship with sakie.
my ghost girlfriend can't possibly be this oujosama
needs hierarchy chart things for my magical kids at the start/early on in canon! some of these priorities change—meiya’s is almost completely different, and some of shiho’s shift, but these are overall good views of what’s important to each person. i’ll do more of these for other casts if people are interested, since they’re an easy and fun exercise. notes!
meiya: i put sex high up because even before he’s actually aware of his sexuality, meiya is definitely the innocent fanservice character—of course, this is presented as being an uncomfortable thing (because it is), but to put it in context, he’d be that one character who has oodles of promo art where he’s in weird positions or fanservicey clothes. he’s otherwise pretty average, though his high drives for approval and attention are initially focused on basically everyone around him. he has a very straightforward and one-dimensionally saccharine personality in the beginning, so he’s very eager to buddy up to everyone. eventually, though, this shifts almost entirely to youichi, to the point where almost everything meiya does is in a bid for youichi’s attention/approval. as a note, i put family fairly high because meiya’s quite close with his dad, and by proxy has been his hometown’s little darling verging on a town mascot for years dfksjh
himeko: this girl just does not give a fuck. like i’ve said, himeko has a very nihilistic attitude towards her own life because she’s so detached from it in favour of fiction. don’t do love, don’t do friends, i’m only after success, etc etc is really her thing—if in one exercise, the class was asked “to live is to ____”, she’d be very blunt and draw a comparison to the creepy stereotype of a hikkikomori abstaining from suicide because their favourite anime hasn’t finished airing yet. she’s not suicidal, but she places very little value on her own life because it means about as much to her as a random stranger’s would. i put high priority on purpose because she’s sort of passively seeking that—she goes through the motions and is wildly successful in pretty much everything she does in spite of her personality, but she doesn’t actually care about any of her accomplishments beyond seeking to be entertained by getting to them.
shiho: shiho’s is pretty self-explanatory, appreciation being her highest priority because that’s what she wants to get out of protecting people, as opposed to a sense of satisfaction for having done the right thing for its own sake. this is a very subconscious desire of hers that doesn’t really come to the surface until ibuki calls her out on it. family is rock-bottom because she never knew hers—she was given her name by the orphanage she lived at until she ran away at age 14. so self-sufficiency is really important to her, especially since she has since been able to acknowledge that running away because she thought there was “something more for her” was a really selfish move. she does live in her own flat and pay for everything between what she saves for herself in fight winnings and doing odd jobs, something she’s pretty proud of.
sys: sys, on counterpoint to himeko, cares about pretty much everything. at their very core, they’re just someone who naturally exudes that care—the whole impetus for their development of free will and subsequently their magic was because they came to sympathize with the plight of the students struggling through the time loops. they feel a terrible distance between themselves and the rest of the class because being an ai who knows the system would set them apart from everyone else, so even as they see themselves as vastly inferior to humans, they desperately want to be a part of the group. this stops them from intervening in things they know are wrong for the sake of trying to maintain harmony/their fantasy of everyone getting along, but they do eventually get over that hurdle and take a more proactive role in trying to help the other students again.
lmao gomen this is so tl;dr but i'm trying to actually put content on this blog again
okay buttnerds let’s talk about magical kids (this is an infodump)
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gently delivers this here as well
otomedia marriage interviews for my magical kids because i’m a piepce of shite
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current student roster ft. my terrible sense of aesthetics
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putting this here so i don't have to keep slogging further and further back into my pee from my butt tag to update it lmao
cut my life into purses, this is my last owner
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my desire for p2 is intense but i'll be honest i have still not played a purse owner game
terribad
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i’m still not as good with tarot yet as i am with the zodiac, but i still think these are all reasonable assignments? i especially feel like i have to justify paprika’s, though dfksfh
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okay i guess it’s just sidereal night because let’s talk about the yumise-faizel (libra)-scorpio triangle of morality, now featuring smt alignment shit because it fits the theme i’m trying to convey with these three perfectly.
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some old sidereal q and as from my formspring
it never saw much use, so i'll just preserve the info here. fair warning, this is pretty long?
Q: Also on a more serious note about actual things, how ideal is the sidereal universe, like compared to ours?
A: in a lot of ways, it's better--the world was so devastated by what was basically wwiii that there became a huge stigma around overt conflict, and general veneration of ophiuchus keeps a lot of people/countries/factions in check. where that influence stops, however, is in more underhanded circles--the political underworld is absolutely ruthless, even if things rarely come to bloodshed, so things like human trafficking, embezzlement, and extortion are much more common. yumise, scorpio, and libra sort of form a trio against this--yumise keeps the politicos in check, scorpio's jurisdiction is law enforcement, and libra's is, fittingly, judgement. so while the three of them do accomplish a lot to make the world more "ideal" (along with things like cancer working within countries and leo defending places in need of protection), they don't always work terribly well together.
scorpio is fanatically devoted to ophiuchus, and as such, gets carried away in his duties and tends to get very militant/black-and-white in his enforcing of what he sees as "ophiuchus' justice". yumise thinks he's full of shit, and often slides into his jurisdiction (and aries', but he doesn't really mind) to monitor things herself--she does a lot of digging when she smells corruption, and tiriaq (indus) is pretty much her personal spy, so she has a lot of down and dirty info. meanwhile, libra's "justice" is kind of weird--he's partly based off of the code of hammurabi, but while stern, he's determined to take things on a case-by-case basis. he will freely admit that the idea of "blind justice" is a load of tripe, since every living being is shaped and shapes in turn the events and moral circumstances around them. so while he tries to balance out yumise and scorpio, he also tends to do things to the beat of his own drum, meaning the justice system still isn't as perfect as it could be. but anyways, things are overall "better", i think, especially in terms of privileges/stigmas. worldwide, class is usually the most divisive factor, since nobody's figured out yet how to make everyone economically equal (though not for a lack of trying from pisces). race is still definitely an issue, but because the constellations are literally drawn from every corner of the world, ophiuchus has been able to exert their influence to kind of grind down the social stigmas and turn stigmatizing based upon race into a stigma itself. of course, this hasn't worked perfectly, but many multicultural areas/cities are very much racially/culturally accepting and diverse--for instance, there's a segment taking place in what we would think of as london where yumise disguises herself as a man to get in on a crime ring, and nobody bats an eyelash at the idea that a person from a japanese background could be a native of the city. poc are definitely in positions of power and respect without bilgesniping and nonsense outside of countries/areas where they are the majority. i won't say everyone holds hands and is hunky dory, because part of what caused wwiii in the first place was institutionalized racism in one country turning into this cancerous monster that impacted places everywhere. also, since i have a woc lead, a lot of poc main characters, and a world/cast that is very emphatically supposed to reflect the diversity of cultures/ideas in the world, it would just be wrong of me (a white woman) to sweep the tablecloth and say "nope nobody's racist see isn't this nice"--as awesome as that would be, it's trivializing, and that's not my goal with sidereal. lastly, though, gender rights are across the board. virgo hirself (i think i'm going to use that pronoun set, but it's pending), is constantly chilling in genderqueerness, swapping around pronouns and names as ze pleases, but plenty of places across the cultural spectrum are still very austere about gender/gender identity/sexuality. since both yumise and cancer went through a lot of shit as humans because they were women, both of them work in tandem quite a lot around the world to fight ingrained gender prejudices and give women a hand up in life while still respecting culture--for example, they're not going to make muslim women stop wearing hijab and other head coverings because it's "bad" from a eurocentric standpoint or something--their whole thing is making sure every woman has the freedom to choose whatever the hell is best for her and makes her happy/secure in life. they have made a lot of progress together, but both of them acknowledge at several points in the story that there's so much more that could still be done. so overall, the world of sidereal is "better" than ours, i would say--they've solved or made progress on a lot of issues that plague our world, but new ones have certainly cropped up to take their place, no matter how hard the constellations work to ensure that the world runs smoothly, they can only do so much.
Q: ALSO, does any actual ~~outer space~~y stuff have any play in the Sidereal universe? Or is it just in the personifications of the constellations?
A: it does! i can't say exactly what for a lot of it, since it's major endgame (and beyond!) spoilers, but the whole world is based around our solar system/galaxy transformed into a flat planet. so for instance, sedna in our world is one of the furthest-out objects in the solar system, so in sidereal, it's a sea towards the end of the world, feeding into the tundra wasteland equivalent to the oort cloud. yumise was an astrophysicist as a human (remember what i said about this world being full of anachronisms?), so it plagues her a lot as someone who studies space (their solar system/galaxy is, accordingly, a microcosm of ours, with certain other galaxies as planets, etc.) that the world should logically be impossible to live in. a lot of the spacey stuff is what goes between yumise and ophiuchus--she's constantly trying to understand, whereas they're trying to show the world to believe (though not blindly). the further along the series goes, the more "space" stuff comes into play, increasingly intertwined with that empirical/faithful dichotomy.
Q: Do those chosen for each zodiac sign have similar personalities pertaining to the zodiac signs?
A: sometimes! the initial concepts were definitely supposed to mirror the "typical" zodiac, but as my concept for yumise evolved, i realized i was going to have to break out of the box more. so they're all an amalgam of sign traits, things pertaining to the symbolism of their sign, and just their own individuals. so while gemini is very chatty and diversely talented (both typical gemini traits), she's not cocky, glitzy, or obsessively involved with the lives of others (also typical gemini traits). she's got the "duality" motif--she's biracial, and is literally two colours at any given time due to being the top air sign, which gives her the most of the "malleability" attribute--for most of sidereal, she's literally half black and half white (ftr she's actually black/hispanic) in the cast of a yin-yang sign, though at the end, she switches to pink and purple for no reason at all--but it's done in her own little way.
the zodiac "opposites" are pretty pertinent, though, as opposite signs usually either get along very well or rub each other the wrong way. the exception, of course, is yumise and scorpio, who rather overtly loathe each other.
xy protag shit mark 2.0 ft kind of sort of but not really parallel universe counterparts serena and calem
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puts this here too?? i guess??
okay no it’s time to talk about yuurei oujo and witness once more how fuckin real my thirst for the yuris is
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okay you know what here is a thing because i should really start using this blog for stuff instead of being a chickenshit and putting it all on my nonsense blog