the more i roll the aliit boys around in my mind the more disorders i pile on those fuckers. comet and boost are autistic, sinker's got adhd (comet might also idk), but now i'm thinking about:
- bipolar sinker who has manic and depressive episodes, who needs help making decisions, who can barely sleep most nights
- borderline comet who splits on people, whose anger comes from nowhere and consumes everything, who has no idea who he is, who's never really able to trust his own feelings and who's so so afraid of being left behind
- both of them feel things so deeply and can shift so rapidly that it causes them to clash, even though they mean more to each other than anyone else (+ boost, who often mediates between them -- brings them back down to earth and helps them see reason)
- obsessive compulsive boost who has to check the locks and the stove knobs again and again because what if he missed something the first-second-third time, who still gets random flares of panic because what if he did leave the stove on and their apartment is burning down right now? who gets horrible, vivid flashes of the people he loves getting hurt and has to call them to know they're alright
i probably won't actually add these things because that feels like. a lot of work. and idk. but y'all should know that in my mind? yeah.
i'm physically unwell thinking about aliit sinker getting the chance to do this (for some reason). he's a dancer and a skater and he did pole vaulting, he's got athletic grace down to an art. but boost is watching and his heart is RACING and every time sinker shifts into a new position, every time he's holding on a little less, boost lurches forward with a sharp gasp and him and comet are squeezing the shit out of each other's hands. because holy fucking shit what if sinker FELL, but they also believe in him and he looks so so beautiful and incredible and WAAAAAAAHH
and then sinker comes down and boost BARRELS into him and crushes him in a hug because he was so SCARED the whole time but sinker was so AMAZING and he's so PROUD OF HIM
my favorite thing about aliit boost is that he really is just some guy.
sinker is a pole vaulting ballerina who does photography, drag, and professional modeling. he's a theater kid. he does piercings at the shop. he's got insomnia and a severe sugar/caffeine addiction. his alcohol consumption borders on concerning. his favorite color is pink and he's throwing it back to todrick hall and kesha.
comet is a chameleon. he's got the most eclectic sense of style, music, art, everything. he can be your scary guard dog or your pretty boy. he's batting his eyelashes and keldabe is falling to its knees to give him whatever he wants. he's snarling with blood in his teeth. he's a disaster in the kitchen and an angry crier and your best friend.
and boost is just. a guy. he's in college, he's working full time, he's eating a lot of noodles. like don't get me wrong - he's an amazing guy. but you put him next to these two and you understand why he's the meme of that guy smoking while looking bedraggled.
been trying to think up some lore on aliit boost's parents because i know so little about them. matiu (dad) and mohi (mom) were probably high school sweethearts. his mom became a bank teller and his dad was a librarian.
if you've seen leverage redemption, robert blanche (the librarian from the bucket job episode), is a good frame of reference for him.
matiu was a hero in their little town, hiding kids from bullies and sheltering them from their weird families. showing them through book recommendations that better worlds exist than the one they felt trapped in. giving them something tangible that sparked hope.
he'd been a fixture in that library since he was a boy himself - always had his head buried in a book or three. it was his favorite place in the world, right up until he made a home with mohi. it still remained a close second after that.
their house wasn't a large one, but there was an extra room that very quickly became a library of his own. he had a system for sorting his books that only he could make sense of, and by the time boost was in middle school he had so many of them that the shelves were full and they had started to collect in stacks on the flat surfaces.
he read boost to sleep most nights, and when comet and sinker were over, he liked to read to all of them. they'd drift off several times, but try valiantly to keep peeling their eyes back open to hear what happened next.
he liked to write notes in the margins of his books - something that drove little boost crazy. he couldn't believe the audacity of scribbling inside a perfectly good book. matiu would reach for a pen while reading to him (sometimes to underline parts boost really liked, or make notes of how he changed the story to be more suitable for him), and boost would narrow his little eyes. matiu would squint right back and they would pause like that, in a standstill, until matiu inevitably lowered the pen to the paper very slowly. he was so endeared by the way boost would huff at him.
matiu made tapes of himself reading all kinds of books (children's books were his favorite, i think, because he got to do lots of voices) and they were kept in a special part of the library for those who couldn't or didn't want to read the physical copies. when he died, the library offered all of the tapes to boost. he took a few of them, but he asked them to keep the rest; he couldn't think of a better way to honor his father and ensure his legacy lived on than allowing him to continue to read to people.
sometimes, the pack still huddles together in their apartment in keldabe, piled under mounds of blankets, and puts on one of matiu's tapes so he can read them to sleep again.
kissing you on the mouth about this, if i may. long post ahead, i imagine.
starting with comet:
starry night tattoo - comet is a painter and his favorite artist/main stylistic inspiration is van gogh. i think this is one of the first real tattoos boost did after beginning his apprenticeship in keldabe
honeycomb - this is the testosterone symbol! it's also a matching tattoo with his ori'vod thorn, who was (likely) the first other transmasc he ever met and whose non profit helped pay for comet's top surgery.
art is the weapon - a reference mcr's danger days album and a quote by either frank or gerard: art is the weapon, your imagination is the ammunition, stay dirty and stay dangerous, create and destroy as you see fit. i think that speaks to comet both as an artist and as a queer person, and i think the whole pack is insane about mcr. boost probably gave him this one in high school.
trans symbol - this commemorates his first hrt injection! boost did the injection and the tattoo a week after comet turned 18.
phoenix - this is a huge part of comet's character, and is done in out of the ashes. it's a cover up that helped him let go of an abusive relationship and reminds him of what he's capable of. it's also dedicated to/inspired by @brokenphoenix99, who's been around for comet since day one.
cowboy star - sinker gave him this tattoo under boost's very careful supervision!!
flowers - suggested by phoenix when i didn't like his old chest tattoo, these accentuate his scars rather than distract from them. they're something he's very proud of, so that makes much more sense for him. the flowers represent growth, new beginnings, and him finding the comfort in himself he needed to embrace his femininity. the butterfly is for change/transition.
pack tattoos (dog, sun moon stars, swords) - i'd say all of these are probably from high school if not very soon after. the wrist tattoo was the first tattoo any of them ever got and the first boost ever did. it was a stick and poke and they were around 14-16. sinker's given name means sun ray, boost has always been caught in his orbit (yes, we're excluding earth for this metaphor) and is the more quiet/reserved, so has always been his moon. idk yet when comet chose his name or whether he was already their star at the time, but this became Their Thing. the dog is because they were so rabid/feral in high school (and because comet drew blood biting another kid in a fight) that they were dubbed a pack of wild animals/dogs. they took that and ran with it, calling themselves a pack. the swords are an all for one and one for all kind of deal.
i am creation & lightning bug - i am creation is a lyric from creature by half alive which is transgender To Me. the lightning bug was just cute and comet likes bugs.
sinker:
moths: obligatory sun and moon tattoo to symbolize him and boost. these were really fun to do, i just feel like he's a moth tattoo kind of guy, you know?
darasuum: mando'a for eternal/eternity. this is in boost's handwriting, over his heart.
snake: much like with the moths, he just gives me snake man vibes? i think he likes snakes a lot, as he's a friend to all creatures. the snake has a pattern of suns, moons, and stars.
hip star: i think comet probably did this one! either way, it's dedicated to him.
baby/doll: boost calls him babydoll sometimes. they both have other partners (mostly hook ups for boost, sinker goes on a lot more dates/has other relationships), but babydoll is something just for them. the baby tattoo spends a lot of time under collars (or boost's hands).
others: he's got a lot of random ones because he's been boost's practice body for almost a decade!
boost:
his tattoos would need their own fucking post, and some of them can be explained by comet and sinker's, so i'm just gonna hit a few.
dinosaur: sinker did this one!
"i'm here" star: comet did this tattoo! i'm gonna say maybe in high school.
lighter: "ni partayli gar darasuum" is mando'a for "i remember you, so you are eternal", which is part of the mandalorian death remembrance. this is a memorial for his parents. they died right before the pack started high school, and he was adopted by sinker's parents, who were already his godparents.
molotov cocktail: lyric from baby, i'm an anarchist by against me.
tic tac toe board: this is for sinker to play with when he's board. sometimes boost plays with him, sometimes comet.
gregor:
tallies: coric gives him a new one every time he does something stupidly risky that lands him in medical (which gregor generally just considers victory tallies, much to the medic's chagrin).
212: for his battalion!
bicep tattoo: foxtrot squad symbol framed by the words "jatnese be jatnese", mando'a for "best of the best". i'm gonna say his whole squad probably has this one!
waaaaait 😫 i made boost a bass player but brooo i just saw a video of someone playing everlong on the drums and all i could think was ohh boost would enjoy this..
