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Your mystery question is here :)

🐉Dragon: What is one thing your character would protect at all costs?

I'm behind on these! Ah! I think the reason I stalled on this one is because the answer is relatively stock standard for most of my OCs.

The Siblings would all protect each other and what they each consider family. The specifics of that "Family" group may vary, but that's the overall theme. The *lengths* also differ (gun to Thomas' head, does he pick Anna (who's caused him immesurable pain and is still currently ruining his life, but is his sister) or Eliza (beloved fiance he can't commit to because of Anna, love of his life, just sopping wet adoration of this woman). I think he'd just explode!!

The one who doesn't have an easy answer is Juni. He doesn't tend to *care* about much. He doesn't have family other than Anna, and generally she can take care of herself and rescues him from his own problems. No real possessions to take care of, no strong values to defend. He's a husk of a person floating on the breeze as far as wants and desires go.

If it *did* come down to it, and Anna was absolutely In Trouble, I thiiiink he'd defend/protect her at all costs? He certainly wouldn't live with himself if he didn't. The question is if the Freeze response would allow him to.

...I now have some interesting things to think about. Many thanks!!

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[boonasaurusrex]

For @flashfictionfridayofficial FF301 "Talk To Me"!

Juni has some night terrors :>

Word count: 434

Anna stirred from sleep to the sound of breathing, harsh and raspy and coming so fast the breaths nearly blended into each other. She blinked in the darkness, the red numbers on the bedside clock the only light in the room. Tossing the blankets off herself and swinging her legs onto the floor, she padded across the room to the closet. He'd insisted on it, when they first moved to this house. Her brother had spent weeks finding a two-bedroom cheap enough for them to afford, but Juni refused to sleep alone. The walls - the confinement - made him feel safer, he'd said.

Familiar, maybe - better to know the danger than to have to guess.

The sliding door was slightly ajar, and in the darkness she could just make out his curled up form, knees up against his chest, hands fisted against his head. His teeth were clenched so hard they'd chip eventually, eyes screwed shut.

Still asleep.

She knelt down near his feet, his muscles twitching against some unseen assault. 

"Juni? Juni..." she called softly, to no avail.

"Juni, Juniper, come on, you're okay," she said, a little louder. She hated to startle him. All that coiled tension had to go somewhere.

After a minute of calling his name, all the way to a speaking voice, he still lay coiled, twitching, breathing so fast he was going to hyperventilate. She frowned and scooted closer to him, reaching out a hand to touch his leg, bracing herself.

At once his eyes shot open. He lunged upwards, hands flying out, connecting with her lip. She cried out and fell backwards as he scrambled over her, getting to his feet and scrambling out the door.

"Juni!" She cried, getting to her own and running after him. He was already down the hallway, crashing into the front door and scrabbling against the lock.

"Juni- Juni, no!" She grabbed him by the shoulders, trying to pull him away.

"Talk to me! Juni, you're okay!"

He managed to flip the deadbolt and yank open the door, the flying wood narrowly missing her forehead as he slid down the front steps.

She was out after him in a second but he was faster, blind survival-driven panic sending him down the sidewalk and quickly out of reach. She watched him disappear into the distance, bare feet on the cold cement. She swore, loud enough that the worry of waking the neighbors briefly crossed her mind.

She glanced in the direction he had gone, then at the empty carport. She swore again and hurried inside. She needed to call her brother.

[i-write-for-myself]

"--besides, I don't know any love songs."

"Yes, you do!"

Thomas blinked, looking away from his quiet conversation with his kind host to his sister in the street, game of Pirates suspended entirely. Fenagr lowered his stick sword in confusion.

She plowed ahead, counting on her fingers.

"I Had Some Help, Morgan Wallen-"

He frowned. "Not who sings that-"

"- Akido/Neurotic -"

"Not a love song."

" - I Like It, I Love It, Tim McGraw -"

He hemmed. Looked around the sleepy fishing village, removed from time, his and his sister's presence alone a vivifying shock to the routine.

"I don't know if this is the place for Tim McGraw."

She paused, breath caught in preparation to list off another song that mentioned a person at all.

"If Tim McGraw isn't welcome here, neither am I."

[boonasaurusrex]

Happy Blorbo Blursday!

What's your favorite thing about your character, what makes them Blorbo? Is it a personality thing, a design thing, something in their backstory or character arc? Please elaborate on the things you love!

Hello!!

Something I've noticed that's the throughline through all my favorite characters is that -- they have such good intentions. They always just want to help, just want to be supportive, just want to make the world a better place, and either through their own misguidedness or from the world being more complex and immovable than that, things go wrong anyways!!

Like, Anna. She wants to help and protect people. At all times (unless you're in the Bad Person Category), she just wants the world to be safer, the people cared for, everything to be kumbaya.

Except. She was raised by a fascist authoritarian. She only knows how to solve things through violence. You punch the problem until it yields, and staying still and waiting to see what happens is for cowards and incompetents. Her issues arise when she acts before she has all the information, or gets so excited with her own plan that she bulldozes over a better one.

The government is corrupt? Better kill those guys! Oh, the rot spreads further than you anticipated? I bet more assassinations and violence will solve that. Except now everything that made your city/country tick and function is a bloody husk and there's nowhere to get food and no leadership and also your political enemies are licking their chops.

She does her best!! But she doesn't know how to not make things worse :3

[boonasaurusrex]

Happy Blorbo Blursday!

What is your favorite romantic relationship that exists within your cast (main characters or otherwise). What is it like and why do you love it so much?

Bonus: will it work long term, or is it destined to end in tragedy?

I'M FINALLY ANSWERING THESE!! My favorite romance is Thomas and his girlfriend/fiance/wife Elizabeth!!

When I was first making ocs, I liked the idea of a guy who's just *clenches fist* so in love with his wife. He was constantly running off to see her or being upset that he's getting dragged into some other shenanigans and couldn't be with her.

As he developed, he became very devoted to his siblings. He became the one to make dinner when the single parent was away, walk the younger siblings to school, chase everyone around and make sure they're staying out of trouble. He's incredibly devoted to his family, which doesn't make it easy to have a relationship elsewhere from that.

His younger sister is constantly getting into trouble and needing bailed out. She drags him into illegal things and he follows her because he wants to make sure she's safe. He pays her rent because she refuses/can't get a job (only kicking her out to her own place after she jacked the car insurance up $500/month).

And Elizabeth!! Is supportive! He's been that way the entire time they've known each other, it's one of the things she loves about him. But if he's constantly away or constantly picking up extra shifts to bankroll his siblings, they can't super have a relationship. His devotion to his family is getting in the way of starting a family.

She'd never sit him down and go "okay, it's me or your siblings" but if something doesn't change, it will come to that. They're not really in a relationship, they're people who care very deeply about each other but can only grab 10 minutes of coffee every once in a while or text throughout the day.

In some worlds, he is able to put his foot down and go "no, you're an adult, I love you and want to support you, but I need to live my own life," and then he and Elizabeth have a very wholesome loving relationship. They have a kid or several, they support and respect each other, it's great.

(Of course, the Shenanigans don't stop just because you have a kid)

The fathers of my ocs (my ocs who are fathers) tend to be doomed by the narrative a lot. They do their absolute best, they make good decisions and do what's right, but the universe conspires to drag them away from where they're needed. Business trips or fascist governments or sisters who cannot grow up and settle down.

Matthew (Thomas' dad) loved him very much but was always away. He often dies or disappears in the middle of Thomas' childhood. He wanted to be there and he wanted to support his son, but there are so many fires to put out and Thomas was a very self-sufficient kid. His attention was drawn elsewhere, his loyalties split.

And...you know. Like father like son.

[boonasaurusrex]

OC rambles ahead

I need to figure out Abigail's whole deal.

As an adult, she lives in the Canadian Rockies in a cabin she built herself, eating vegetables she grows herself and eating meat she hunts herself (all of which is...questionably legal).

How does a person become like that? Her mom died horrifically when she was (between 8 and 11 depending on the universe), and that could definitely put someone off human connections for a while, but she would then legally have to stay with her parent and siblings for another `7 to 10 years, and that would soothe that urge to reject all people and live alone.

Unless!

Abigail's sibling, Anna, is my main oc. I made her first, and most things are about her. If that continues into the oc verse, I could see that adding onto the trauma for Abigail.

Like. Mom burns to death in a fire, and all their dad cares about is her sister. (I'm super into Grey's Anatomy right now, so Anna has a brain tumor that takes up most of their dad's time).

So far, the dad (Matthew) has been Super Dad who always does everything right, handles Anna's Main-Character-ness with grace and clever solutions. Things fit together better (and are more realistic) if he's not. He's overwhelmed, managing seven children by himself, one of whom needs dangerous and expensive surgery and is constantly getting into trouble about it, of course the quiet and convenient child slips through the cracks.

(Most of the children leave as soon as possible, actually. I'm realizing now.

Anthony goes to law school. Alexander goes to med school. Thomas joins the peace corps, micheal (who is also underdeveloped) goes to MIT I think (oh he could work on the robot dogs for the military, the rest of the family would HATE that), Steele is a music prodigy and goes early admission to Juliard, Anna stays home, Abigail leaves for the forest, and Maia just. Cannot with all of them. (she needs a life ambition.) )

Anyway. Abigail. Loses her mom and then retreats from the rest of her family and No One Notices.

:)

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