OC ASKS: Your OCs are in a room and suddenly lights are turned off. Who are they reaching for first? Will they reach to hold someone at all?
OOH THIS IS A CUTE ONE THANK YOU!! Answering for the characters on my Toyhou.se, but feel free to follow up with any specific characters you might remember from my past blogs if I didn’t mention them :D
In most cases the characters would just reach for whoever is closest to them rather than anyone specific (since I use them across various settings and their interactions change from AU to AU), under the pretense they’re familiar with their company. This is kinda long also, so I’m putting it under a read-more o7
OCs who are more likely to reach for someone than not:
Eve, using it as an excuse to grope the nearest well-built man (often Velo since they work together)
Rex, also using it as an excuse to grope the nearest cute and petite girl 🤦 I think he would get reached for by his FWB (later boyfriend), Kais, though
Dimitri, who’s equal parts protective over whoever is with him due to a strong sense of responsibility and wanting to make sure they don’t fuck anything in the room up; Minkyu comes to mind, though Xero is an exception since he trusts them to take care of themself and stay out of the way
Reis… but with malicious intent :((( He is absolutely using the blackout as an opening to infect someone near him with an otherworldly pathogen/parasite :(((
Tarou, with similar reasoning as Dimitri, but he’d also make sure to grab Reis so he does NOT give hapless people the Alien chestburster experience
Luca, mostly just being silly and dramatically pretending to be scared, though if it’s a more perilous scenario he’d reach for someone to ground himself, not wanting to be alone
Navid, not wanting to be separated from his friends
OCs who are less likely to reach for someone:
Kee, who doesn’t want to burden others so she’s more likely to just curl in on herself—though if it’s a dire situation and she thinks she can help keep the other party from harm, she might make an exception
Velo, since he usually does NOT gaf about the people around him—they can take care of themselves!—but he would make an exception for people/creatures that are so pathetic/defenseless he’d feel guilty about leaving them in the lurch (such as Haruki)
Junta, since I imagine this scenario with him would be a silly one more often than not; he wouldn’t be concerned about the blackout, though he might sneak up and scare his friends
Verrine is probably just turning the lights off herself to wish one of her sons (or “playthings”) goodnight… It’s hard to imagine her being caught off-guard; if the blackout is malicious she probably expects it and is either alone or with protection 🤔
Cherry would rather go for a weapon than grasp for a friend, though against his survival instinct he would feel more comforted holding onto someone (particularly Ram’s OC Harris, whom he has an unspoken crush on)
V. Aster (who people are probably more familiar with under the name “Vivie” aha) is another character who’s indifferent to the safety of those around them—reaching for someone or being clung to would just hinder their mobility; they can see in the dark and they’re going to be productive about it
OCs who don’t reach for anyone, but get reached for:
Xero can see in the dark (and beyond that is an otherworldly entity), so they wouldn’t be bothered even if the blackout is a precursor to danger; by default, their eyes glow like embers, so they’d be a visible beacon for nearby company to cling onto for protection (especially Minkyu…)
Ein is a renegade bioweapon with lowlight vision—he’d be kind of excited for danger to spring out and have a toussle! But otherwise he’s being reached for by a cautious Lavender (his mostly-human roommate who sometimes is sucked into his and Acheron’s nonsense)
Lillie would reach for a weapon and get reached for by her gooner roach of a NOT-boyfriend, Oswald (erectroswing’s OC), much to her chagrin cuz she KNOWS his ass is not scared and he’s just using it as an excuse to wrap around her and scream and squeal
Jet would just stand there in confusion (bro has the survival instinct of a middle-aged corporate worker who wants to kill himself, cuz he is LMAO), but Zeta would take the opportunity to grope grab him for fruity reasons
Anyway, thank you so much for sending this in—OC asks genuinely make my whole day ;w; <3 !!!
I never really talk about Aster’s siblings, so. Here’s some stuff with Freesia!
WIP art! They spent most of their time together, with Aster being the reckless one. He climbed trees and even started fights with other kids. Freesia’s more withdrawn, but she never hated what he did and she was always there to either call for their mom or help him herself.
They both used to enjoy looking exactly the same until Aster came out as a boy, after which he’d usually get angry since people always thought his stoic sister is the twin brother,,,
(also, a lot of people assumed Aster simply dressed up/wanted to dress up as a girl when he was younger, which was certainly way more convenient for a trans boy, haha.)
They both also spent almost all of their time with their mom instead of their dad. After a certain incident with Aster, they were forced to live with him and their mom could only visit (or they could visit her) and so, Aster ended up staying more with their mother while Freesia began spending much more time with their father.
He cut his hair as another act of rebellion and because he clearly wouldn’t listen to his father or grandmother, the latter disowned him. His father, for his own sake, asked their mom to live with them together again. Aster felt a bit betrayed that Freesia got along with their dad so well, which resulted in them being on worse terms. However, Gladio and their mom kept them together and they never resented each other.
For a long while after the incident, Aster couldn’t go to school and always cut his hair short. Eventually, as a way to get closer to him again, she cut her hair as well.
They went around pranking people together when Aster was feeling well and grew closer again. But this time, it was Aster choosing their style and of course it was way more boyish. This continued until they were 16, after which they agreed to maybe do this again once in a while, but for now they’re going to focus on school, have their own styles and make new friends on their own.
M,, maybe I’ll talk about Gladio soon too, he deserves spotlight as well gjdfh.
