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Things about creatures under the cut because I love to talk, I love to talk.
The first SIX are a group (technically) and I'd already introduced them; The salvaged. But! we changed their designs a little and all that. so im just gonna talk about em again
Belén
Abby's estranged (half) sister. Her animal is a lyrebird! so she can do freaky stuff with voice mimicry or whatever to directly paralel deuz's way of fighting, muscle and brawn VS weird mental games.
She lived all of her life inside a cult until she was 11. Her mouth scar is a tally they gave men, she has scars on the palms on her hands (that you cant see in that drawing oops) because they used to cut those regularly, put everyone's blood on a pot and drank it.
She’s obsessed with individuality while also being extremely hung up on never being alone. The cult she was in denounced the idea of people being individuals and instead promoted the idea of everyone being a piece on a bigger puzzle, everyone copied each other everyone felt what the other did, no one can alone and no one can celebrate by themselves, all must be done in groups and all must be felt as if they were a single entity. She thinks thats gross and wants people to be different and be selfish, do whatever they want forever. Thats why she's scared of being a follower, she doesn't want to fall back into being some weird zombie
Anyways, SHE got out but she sort of assumed her parents were just fully into the whole thing (after all they made her be BORN in it you know.) but actually!!!!!! her mom also got out. And she made a whole new life without her!!! Fun!!! She's like scrap! Left behind and replaced with another kid (in her eyes), so yeah, she kinda has issues with Abby, lol.
Raquel
She's a golden pheasant! and also surprisingly the most normal one of this group
Nothing really went wrong with her (she was born half blind so there's not like any story behind that one), a bad habit just snowballed real bad.
As a little kid she was the type to steal little things, first it was classmate’s erasers, then pencils, then scissors, then their pencil case, and it just kept getting bigger and bigger. And no matter how much she got reprimanded she kept doing it and doing it and it kept just getting worse, and she’s a hoarder on top of that so she’ll take a bunch of stuff she doesnt need and put it on a pile and it’s legitimately suffocating.
She kept stealing her parents and other people’s money, kept making her living space just a pile of everything, and kept getting defensive over said pile as if it wasn’t just clutter, because of this her parents kicked her out with the intention of her getting better while living away, they call her regularly to make sure she’s ok. Surprise! Belén is an enabler! So she got worse!
She met Bélen when she was straight out of her hell, and they've been together ever since. She helps her a lot with how to be a bird, since Belén grew up insanely detached from animal specific stuff (cogs in a machine all have to be the same so animal specific behaviours were bad). They have mathinc bracelets! yay!
She used to date onyx fun fact! But they broke it off cause she stole a necklace that held a lot of emotional weight to him and refused to give it back like to this day. girl stop being a hoarder.
Mar and Lake
Dont tell anyone but Mar is kind of my favorite oc after red LOL. These two are another set of weird shadow siblings! but unlike Fred and Freddy and their very complicated/ antagonistic at times relationship, these 2 actually get along really well
They are a bandy-bandy snake! They had a really bad home situation since forever and mostly just had eachother (+ avani but ill talk about that beetle later).
Mar goes only by mar, she HATES being called Marisol since her really abusive mom always called her by her full name. She is the one who pilots the body 99% of the time without any resistance, mostly since their childhood has left Lake really scared of most things, she only ever goes out when she's at the shared house their group has, but when they go out it's just Mar. Both of them are suprisingly very kind and nice and normal and it's sort of a contrast to Onnie. While Onnie wishes he killed his dad and takes it out on everything and everyone. Mar actually killed her mom!!! lmao, blah blah blah she was a drunkard and neglectful at worst and abusive at best, so they (mar, lake, and Belén because of course she got involved) kind of just turned on her kitchen and left her passed out in there to get carbon monoxide poisoning. Perfectly believable way for that mf to die! so no one really questioned it
Lake really does not want to be reminded of anything regarding any part of their childhood so Mar renamed her, haha get it the sea and a lake.
Mar is STUPID attached to Avani, best friend forever, girl who patched me up and took care of me my bestest friend forever, they drive me insane.
Avani
I love how she looks absolutely fucking nothing like her animatronic I think it's the funniest thing ever (and in our defense, loon doesn't exactly look or behave like balloon boy either). Her animal is an asian ladybeetle (since those are often regarded as the "evil" counterparts to ladybugs)
She’s a genius in the most objective sense of the word. She skipped a bunch of grades and graduated at 14, fucked around for a year (and deeply regretted it) and then got into med school and is currently in her 4th year! has a full scholarship and is invited back to her school to talk about herself since like hello she graduated at 14? She has never gotten a mark lower than 90. She has had jobs in many high demand and high effort companies, It’s deranged. How are you an office lady and also a med student how do you sleep?
The answer is that she doesn't! The only reason she hasn’t kicked the bucket yet is because she takes unprescribed ADHD medication (Adderall) to increase her productivity, surprise! Taking meds that you don’t need is bad! She has become dependant, she hallucinates, has anxiety, etc. This habit of hers was born from a toxic work environment where literally everyone did the same to be at the top of their game.
Her parents are Indian immigrants, she is first generation, they moved countries when she was barely 1 to try and give her better opportunities. This in her brain translated as “i tore them away from their home, i can’t afford to not pay that debt off with them, I have to make the most with what they gave me through sacrifice” meaning she’s kinda crazy about being the best and always pushing herself further and further and further.
She has known Mar since she was roughly 5 years old and Mar was 6, she witnessed the poor kid be abused first and forefront, she saw her be all injured and they were unable to go to a hospital because they might contact her mom, AKA the person who did that. And Mar begged and cried for Avani to not tell other adults because she obviously didn’t trust them. This fucked up situation is what pushed Avani to going into medicine, and she was the one who patched up Mar for the most of her life. However, she was a literal kid, so she did mess up a lot of places, left Mar with glaringly obvious scars and stitched her hand wrong, so wrong it keeps hurting even now that she’s 20. Because of this she feels like she also has a debt to pay off with Mar, and often beats herself up for not being knowledgeable enough when she was little to not fuck up so badly. (she's insane)
She has no hobbies, she doesn’t watch tv, she doesn’t watch any media, she doesn’t do anything for fun. If she had to pick one, her “hobby” is probably talking to Mar, she's codependent, she’s insane. Dear god. She doesn’t naturally emote that much, but she is a copycat in the most literal sense i could mean that. She can smile and cry and emote on command by remembering how other people doing it, she is quite literally, copying people, and in most cases, it’s most likely she’s copying Mar in specific. It’s pretty clear she isn’t fully feeling what her face says whenever she pretends though, since her antena, which normally move a lot, always lay completely limp and dead.
She is quite the people pleaser, not in the sense that she will act polite and small and whatever with people, but rather that she feels like she needs to make herself be of any and all use to people she starts considering close to her, which also implies not making them uncomfortable, this makes it so that even though she can deduce a lot of stuff about people really easily, she tends to keep it to herself and pretends to not know stuff she definitely knows, example one, Mar killing her mother. Example 2, Belén being from a cult. Normal things to know and notice as you can see.
God i hate her i can add more probably but ill leave it here for now, oh she uses mirror pronouns btw but shes a cis woman, epical i love when pronouns and gender are different (i dont know how to use mirror pronouns when talking about her in third person)
Scarlet
Lamb for the slaughter! literally!!! She's a sheep
Sickly child (illness tbd) who got hurt easy and frequented hospitals, her parents couldnt keep up with medical bills, both because they were crazy expensive bt also setting time aside to spend time with scarlet meant taking time off from work, which they could hardly do but did when they could. Both of them loved her, and felt bad of for her , that their child was unable to do all the normal kid thingsand was consantly confined to hospitals.
Her mom grew frustrated with scarlet never getting better, turned to faith and as she continued to see 0 progress in scarlet she got more and more agitated from the stress and grieved the child she wished she had, the one she thought she had when scarlet was born, as her thoughts of “this ilness took my child from me” “this illness robbed my child of a normal life” (which were always there, just less prominent) consumed her mind and made her vengeful and angry and she thought that Scarlet was both a weight on her own life, and that her child would be better off dead than suffering. So on one visit she just tried to kill her !!!!!!!!!!!! fun.
both of her parents got arrested! Her mom for trying to kill her and her dad for getting into an altercation with her mom, you cant just ‘assault’ someone even if its for your daughter, I hate the justice system
She's extremely anxious and clingy and sad and also! a bit of an alcoholic! which surely meshes awesome with Mar (it doesn't)
Done with the salvaged! I wish they shut the fuck up i hate them all! uhm whats up with the rest of the kids:
Leslie
Mai and Pup's cousin!!!!!!! Her animal is a black-and-white ruffed lemur and She is a trans girl! Her family is very good about it and also already sort of had experience with it thanks to puppet. She lost one of her eyes to cancer and wears a fake one, she's completely cancer free now though! She is mostly just an unwilling participant of whatever the hell those twins gets up to. Comedically negative girl paired up with the dumbest clowns in the world
She has a weird little mental relationship with her cousins, she hung out with them a lot when she had cancer and with no one else, but because of that closeness she can kinda recognize they don't work very correctly, and sort of feels like a (bad) caregiver who has to babysit them.
Lennard
He goes by Len because “Lennard sounds like an old man,” he is Leslie’s boyfriend! yay! He’s an amblypygi (weird little arachnid) and a laid-back, optimistic guy. He's more of a willing participant in the twins’ escapades, though he’s not as high-energy as they are; he’s more of a go-with-the-flow type.
He’s also narcoleptic and a huge horror fan, but he struggles to engage with most of it because the abundance of jump scares can trigger his cataplexy (a sudden loss of muscle control). Mai has accidentally scared the life out of him more than once (not on purpose!), triggering his cataplexy, and while she feels terrible about it, she just can’t tone herself down. RIP.
Michelle
Michelle :3 my beautiful daughter my ray of sun my little weird bird, she's a roseate spoonbill! Total social butterfly who flows socially perfectly on a surface level casual type deal, but has a hard time figuring out who she is without people beside her! She bases her whole self on talking to people and being with people and hurrah people and nothing without it, she contrasts with her stupid partner in that way (abby) since she has like ZERO hobbies and Abby is SUPER into a bunch of stuff.
She kinda follows the crowd and does whatever her friends want to do, her fear of "having nothing" sounds materialistic but it's mostly about being devoid of any purpose and anything to like at all aside from very surface level stuff :P
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