a small vote for a lil hc + fanart for pride month with my top 4 cities and if ya wanna, ya can write/reblog with what state i should do one too, since am bad at choices </3 (b n cal are already going to happen so)
So, which one :D
San Diego
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Oakland
Voting ended onJun 3, 2023
Also,, about the two shot am working on:
"Maybe B doesn't love everyone, but he sure does love Cal...
Maybe Cal doesn't love himself, but that won't stop him from loving everyone."
Cal's a whiner. Not sexually like, when he's annoyed or smth doesn't go his way, he whines in this specific type of voice and does that even sometimes to himself, just to get it out.
Texas's a pouter. Most states pick up on him going to pout before he fully does it. California fully laughs out loud at it, he thinks it's one of the funniest things ever.
South Carolina is so much like Florida sometimes in the terms of fighting people with words that people tried to use it as an insult against him, thinking he'd stop. He ended up making a few of them cry.
Louisiana always starts a "what's the best ice cream flavor?" debate over and over again because his taste changes practically daily - he's never been picky with food.
Alaska doesn't hate heat, but he hates sweat, which comes with mentioned heat.
Gov absolutely loves to sometimes hide away and use his power to make sure he's unrecognizable, just to fuck off and swim in the sea, because states have that sixth sense when it comes to ending up near him on his free days.
PA talks a big game about how he hates swimming, and he can handle heat without a pool or anything alike, but the truth be told, he actually sometimes feels that the sea is just staring back at him, so any water is bad.
It's B, every time. He watches the man every time he visits California's beaches, and it's mostly because he looks so close to San Francisco that it bothers him.
San Francisco can't see it, but he thinks it's better than being called New York.
Tw. Very slight gore; mentions of fights, blood and weird teeth thing.
Since I'm finally writing smth small about Beach California - here's my hc about his relationship with Gov/Congress.
They hate each other, they both get feral if left tougher in a small space. Gov has some scars from the cryptid, while B makes sure that nothing stays forever on him, since he shares the body.
There's not many states that actually seen them fight, since Gov is good at staying as professional as he can, while B usually enjoys making others miserable, but when it finally happens, when they finally break, both of them end up bloody.
Gov had his nose broken way too many times to count, while B lost so many teeth that if not his cryptid part, he'd end up without them by now.
PA n Mass, after finally dating Congress, are so confused, because he would never explain himself, just come home bloody and take a nap, dirtying the whole couch.
Cal on the other hand is tired of waking up back in his body, just to see a mess and have his teeth regrow.
The worst scar that Gov has from B is one going trough his whole left ear, where he had a piercing before. Older cryptid tried to rip off the piercing mid fight and ended up ripping his ear in two. Even if it's technically better now, the whole thing is still very sensitive.
Kinda sad that my boi SF didn't win or Oakland since I didn't make anything of him before, but!! LA it is (and for the people who wanted San Diego, there's smth small under the cut, tho remember that's how I see him)
LA, since he's not built like Austin, has his own body. He suffers a lot for beauty, since he fully believes that he has to. Him and San Francsico are totally different that way, since he doesn't care how people see him and still ends up being usually beautiful.
Things that LA did for beauty: he dyes his hair blond, since he got Cal's hair color (like most cities); he keeps his hair long and spends hours taking care of it, usually loosing his sleeping time; he uses different online diets and it gets bad enough that Oakland gives him a visit with an actual dietishan(?) so he has a proper one; he keeps himself smooth, so he shaves a lot since all of the cities are prone to have some body hair.
I am a firm believer that LA doesn't exercise that much, he usually likes to keep himself skinny, not buff. A lot of his beauty standards are very female beauty standarts, which does come from the fact that ma Cal is trans! When none of the cities ended up being female (how I see it - there's a version of male and female states and their cities and some of the versions disappear (("male" Hawaii exsisted, but was removed for obvoius reasons; since My Cal is trans, his "male version" would be B!))), people who were "watching" them didn't know what to make of it and the more popular cities (San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles) were being "pushed" toward the female stuff, but with SF they failed, SD was used as "male California" since he couldn't get a word in at that time (ignoring the when he went full cryptid few times and ended up killing Gov. men :D), somehow Los Angeles was a very easy target.
California still feels guilty that he couldn't keep him safe, though he shouldn't have to in the first place.
BUT, SINCE THOSE HC WERE SUPPOSED TO BE MORE "PRIDE"
LA is pansexual, he never really questioned it much, which is the only thing he never questioned, even if he's an overthinker. He realized at his first Pride Parade when he saw how he loved everyone, he was actually overwhelmed by how he found so many people attractive, since he tried his best at distancing from people for years.
I feel like LA, from all the cities, would be the one to like and feel good with They/Them pronouns, but he also doesn't fully care about them! He believes more into catching people with his looks than catching people with who he is.
He is lowkey poly, but he doesn't actually realize that, since he believes that it "comes with his sexuality" that he loves a lot of people. Not fully his fault, since he actually likes to say that "he is still learning about himself and who knows, stuff might change!" (it will.)
San Francisco knows. He was the one who mentioned to him the "pansexual" stuff, since he's questioning himself all the time (the only thing he overthinks.)
From other cities n stuff, those are the ones that he had/has a crush on:
Austin, because he's the only reason he actually can survive Texas without trying to skin him (SF is holding a rock, a very sharp rock.); he ADORED NYC for a while, but it was only because of the idea of him, not actually because of him; he's aroused and scared every time he sees any city from Alaska or the bearman himself; flirted with a lot of fem NY cities, not proud of it because it made him like B (who still flirts with every fem state that is interested in men in one way or another); he did like Mom and he still believes that her father was a dilf (he was).
Since I believe that B is like the sun and Cal is like the moon, LA would make a good polar star, wouldn't he? He shines the brightest, still believes that it's not good enough. And like a star, one day the fire - the thing he feels he needs more of - will be his end. (I believe that my boi would absolutly wear glasses too, but i hid most of his face anyway)
Now!! Some stuff for the San Diego fans:
He is the one I see as most likely not minding he/she pronouns, he believes that since Cal is both versions, then he must be too!! But that comes from the fact that he's very very queer, he doesn't know any specifics nor does he care about them. He likes the good vibes and colors, but he'd like it more if people wouldn't try to get him into "a box", even if he's okay with being called "queer", he likes how it sounds, doesn't really care about it much more.
He likes pretty peope and he has a lot of body art (tattoos) made by pretty people ;) do the math yourself.
If Cal is the moon, B is the sun, LA is the star and SF is the eclipse then San Diego is the earth.
He is us, he is our love and he is everything that we love. He looks at us with softness that one isn't born with, but that one made by seeing us at our lowest. He is the one thing that would stay if it could, for us, but it only depends on us. (am sorry that sky is so fuckin bad I just suck at 'em).
He's also one of the only California's cities with natural blond hair!! I usually imagine him looking closely to Florida - shirt with no sleeves to show off his tattoos, sunglasses n messy blond hair - he's every "stereotypical surfer" combained.
Back to slacking bc I don't wanna learn even though I have to <3
Two hc in one, special offer ;D also some more in-AU lore, bc I do love the idea of states not always being states. Bad eng ahead probably, cuz that's a fast work
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California has a sketchbook, old one, made by hand and covered in worn out leather. It smells like coffee because of that one time he spilled it on about three pages.
He sketches a lot in it, just to erase all and because of that, it's empty. But even though it looks empty, it feels full for him.
He looks at the page nr. 7 and remembers that sketch of Alaska making angels in snow, man's face as still as always, just the light shine in his eyes showing how happy it actually made him.
Page number 9 is one of those that have a coffee stain on them, it has also one sharp line because he used too much srenght and couldn't erase it fully. Sometimes, if he'll look long enough, he can see Nevada's eyes staring at his soul with disgust, just like when he saw the quick sketch of himself on said page.
He knows some states stole his sketchbook before, their hands destroying pages and their thumbs rubbing on the leather, leaving light marks that you can't notice unless you look for them. He knows they never found anything, just few old pages.
And, on the last page, there is him. His golden eyes looking bad in grey, hidden behind sunglasses and in them is hatred.
B hated him, hated people that were him and people that he let in. He hated his boyfriends and girlfriends, he hated the friends that he ended up loosing with time one way or another. He hated states.
New York would always leave a bad taste in his mouth, Texas made his voice louder, sometimes even on a verge of screaming, Florida would make him poke around his nails, sometimes making his fingers bleed.
He was full of hate and California wondered, how was he before they got tied as a one being, as one and the same creature.
He wondered if his eyes could ever be as warm as sand on a beach, if he could talk without having poison hidden in his voice.
If he could love as he loved then, when that one human was around and made his heart actually beat, not just lay there.
