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[thirteensome]

shut the fuck up already. do you even realize how fucking pathetic you look?? sitting there kissing her ass like it’s your full-time job, acting like ur special just cuz you reblog her shit. newsflash: ur nothing. ur not a writer, ur not funny, ur just her dumb little echo. you bark when she barks, you laugh when she laughs, like a fucking trained dog on a leash. it’s embarrassing to watch.

uhhh… hi?? wrong inbox maybe?? (ノ-_-)ノ~┻━┻

Attention: lost cockroach spotted in my ask. Whoever owns it, come pick it up 🪳✨

#can't believe my first hate comment wasn't for me

[loominggaia]

razzek Whoa holy shit I am rereading this with this mental image of these two now because damn! Roach looks terrifying and Deanne looks like someone who will kill a mofo without a second thought, omg! 

Sorry it took me a million years to post decent refs of these characters! I could imagine them in my head, but I had a bad case of stupid-hands that couldn't translate the designs to drawings for the longest time. I'm still not 100% satisfied with their designs here, but I think it's the closest I'm going to get any time soon.

Roach looks as sinister as he acts in his pirate captain fit, and Deanne will absolutely rip a bitch to shreds if they get in her way lol. I actually really like Deanne as a character, I think she's a total badass. Maybe kinda misguided, but her heart is in the right place. I would like to see her break free from Roach's influence one day and be her own master.

Thank you so much Razz, you always make my day. <3

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[loominggaia]

razzek Holy shit. Mr. Roach, the ends do not justify the means here o_o Talk about making things worse in the long run o_o 

Yeeeep...this is exactly the kind of shit Mr. Ocean was trying to warn him about in "Supply and Demand". In one ear and out the other. 🤦

[loominggaia]

Looming Gaia is my new comfort series. I'm rereading it for the 3rd time and still noticing details I missed. Just curious, are/were Mr. Ocean and Roach lovers? Maybe I'm just dumb but it seemed that way in Supply and Demand.

I'm so happy to hear this series brought you some comfort, Anon. That means a lot to me, thank you for reading and taking the time to tell me so! I really appreciate it.

Also that's a good question. Mr. Ocean and Roach are...a lot of things. They have several different dynamics to their relationship: Chief and commander. Sorcerer and apprentice. Patient and caretaker. Friends. Confidants. Both descend from royalty, were estranged from their people and share the same goal: to stop Sovereign. They have a lot in common.

But were they lovers? In "Supply and Demand", Mr. Ocean said that he can't do harm to anyone he loves, insinuating that he can't hurt Roach even if he wanted to. So he does canonically "love" Roach, but the nature of this love isn't clear. Platonic love? Romantic love? Familial love? If it's romantic, it's most likely one-sided, as Roach has said in multiple stories that he's on a mission to rescue his beloved wife from Sovereign, so I can't imagine he'd go through all that trouble just to cheat on her--especially with someone like Mr. Ocean. No shade (okay, a little shade) but Roach could do a hell of a lot better than Ocean...

Romance is complicated for cecaelia because they're totally asexual creatures. There's no element of lust/sexuality even between breeding pairs, so the way they treat their romantic partners really isn't much different from how they treat other people they love, like their best friends and family.

That said, I think they do observe some kind of distinction between these different relationships. Roach, for example, cares about Mr. Ocean. That much is clear by the end of "Supply and Demand". But he's still willing to throw Mr. Ocean under the bus to save his wife, and at times really treats him like shit in ways that he'd never treat his wife, so...there's that.

TL;DR: They probably weren't lovers in a romantic sense, and any romantic feelings between them were most likely one-sided (Mr. Ocean loved Roach romantically, Roach loved Mr. Ocean too but just platonically).

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[loominggaia]

I probably missed something but how does Mr. Ocean expect Roach to stop the Soveraign without violence? I take it he's just going to make a monster army to fight for him now?

Well, first things first: Mr. Ocean didn't say anything against violence. He understands that sometimes violence is necessary. He just said that exploitation of the dorikori isn't necessary because he was trying to make the point that if the cause was worth fighting for, then people would join it willingly. The fact that Roach had to start luring new soldiers in with drugs and buy them as slaves was a big sign that he'd lost sight of what he was fighting for in the first place.

Roach wanted revenge against the Sovereign for exploiting his people...and he started exploiting people himself to get that revenge. Mr. Ocean was trying to make him realize that he wasn't solving anything, he was just continuing the cycle of oppression. Roach was already becoming a small-scale version of the Sovereign. If he continued on his path and succeeded, he would just replace the Sovereign completely and become a full-blown tyrant.

And yes, I think Roach will start dabbling in monster-forging now, which is a scary thought considering he already admitted he's not very good with magic. Mr. Ocean made him promise not to exploit people...but he never said anything about exploiting monsters. We'll see what happens next!

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roaahch pour meanotHheR, kid. i ain't gettinenuff of your sahltytdogs

Here, have a couple!

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This, my dears, is what Zat looks like (and yours truly!)

Picture drawn by my second oldest friend, Roach.