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dusk & dawn! dca ocs. this has been sitting in my drafts forever GO NOW. details beneath cut

they're from the same wip fic/au as the oc in a previous post, dog. 'flipscreen' or 'flip' can be used to refer to both of them at once.

dusk and dawn function similarly* to the original sun/moon. they attend the daycare at a strangely-themed sci-fi/fantasy fazbear location. (kind of a starwars-ripoff-type-place?)

they're able to change the touchscreens on their face/chest to practically anything - like video or security feeds.

dusk likes to use simple, kiddish graphics and pictures. his expressions are incredibly varied and exaggerated. it's easy to tell what's going on in the bot's head - everything he's thinking is more or less displayed on the screens. he can't really help it.

dawn doesn't emote quite as much, usually sticking to a static smile. he has a much tighter control on his displays and body language, and is much harder to read. he'll use text emoticons, but - (typically) - only when he's doing some sort of a bit.

they speak with a kind of oddly-clipping and artificial voice, similar to a vocaloid. dusk is higher-pitched and quick-speaking, and dawn is slower and 'breathier' sounding.

both are pretty boisterous and hammy! very clownish on first introduction, being little kid's mascots from the get-go and all. flip plays up this kind of childish and naive persona, but there's more behind it.

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a quick sketchy comic just 2 flesh out my dca ocs a bit :]

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heyy, ur secret valentine again! had a couple of questions

do dawn/dusk have a colour scheme/base colour?

and is their switch also triggered by light? i thought it probably was but i wanted to make sure! :D

excuse the quick ugly sketches. info under the cut again.

aragb AUGh. im so sorry but dusk/dawns color scheme is something ive been agonizing over for a while. you can take liberties with it. im still not fully sure, but: - the face/chest screens are gray, the plastic parts of em are white. dusk has yellow details on his display and (maybe blue clothes?) while dawn has blue details on his display, yellow rays and (maybe yellow clothes?) - the switch was supposed to be light-activated, but its broken. they have to manually crank their head into place to initiate it. the rays slide in/out, and the sleeves/pant legs reverse to reveal the patterning on the other side.

they're a very issue-ridden bot. their developers tried making a 'sleek, futuristic, efficient' take on the dca and ended up with not that. they're like a fucking c*ybertruck lmao

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hi! secret valentine here! i have a question; between ur OCs, Dog/Sirius vs Dusk/Dawn, who would win in a fight against the other?

also i would love to hear more about ur OCs in general if you wanna share anything about them :D

here's MY question. what's 'updog'? (actual answer + info below the cut lmao)

you've given me an excuse to talk about em so here it fuckin comes

(i like to refer to both dusk/dawn together as flipscreen or flip. i've had an intro post for them sitting in my drafts forever now. gotta finalize and publish it. soon.)

they (probably) wouldn't fight. dog has no animosity towards flip, and flip's not (usually) the type to be outright aggressive.

dusk is a coward and a pacifist. dawn, on the other hand... may very well throw himself at someone in a fit of rage if he's pushed past a tipping point.

dog's been rebuilt over and over, refined and trained... specifically for bot fights.

flip is like half of dog's weight, and their only experience with fights is prying screaming children off each other as a daycare attendant. they don't have, uh, 'security protocols'.

dog would fucking obliterate flip </3

i'll give you a basic rundown on their personalities! i wanted to withhold most of the info until i published my fic at first, but i've decided idgaf.

dog: quiet. comes off as rude or irritable, but. honestly he's just fucking weird and can't interact with others outside of a 'performance' situation. in fights he's loud, cocky and quick-witted with taunts, but its just a part he's playing.

dusk: pretty fussy and nervous, excessively eager to please. a little too eager - he might get overbearing! fucking chill out man. he's undyingly curious about the world but doesn't really have an outlet for that hunger. optimistic. and he likes... hyperpop and vocaloid...?

dawn: very good at keeping up a cheery, bright front. professionally kind and courteous. and an absolute nuclear-meltdown-level of a hater. never to a person's face; but he is so full of pent-up rage he is practically boiling inside at all times. hates the world and everything in it. pessimistic.

dusk is actually a 'sun', and dawn is actually a 'moon' - but due to some programming issues, the personalities were put on the wrong sides. dusk deals with quiet-time activities when he'd rather be running in circles and yelling, and dawn has to deal with the yelling-circle-running kids.