#boov oc

[eayennn]

Good day people! Coming to announce that I'm alive and semi-well. My Kirby phase has come to an end but don't worry, I still cook up art!🌸

[lil-pink-coupe]

What if a reformed!Smek...

...In addition to becoming the official DJ for the Boov, sort of acted as a mentor/father figure to the younger Boov? 

Like, I’ve had this idea for a little while about how Smek could be DJ-ing for a dance on the moon, and he happens to notice a young female Boov with criss-crossing pink and purple ribbons around her nostricles take a break from dancing to sit down...and she seems to be having some trouble catching her breath. Smek’s not sure he likes what he sees, and he gets someone to fill in for him while he goes over to make sure this little girl Boov is all right.

“Hello, there, my dear,” Smek greets her kindly as he poddles over to where she sits. “My name is Smek...what’s yours?”

“My...name...is...Kiki, sir,” the little Boov pants.

“Kiki! That’s a lovely name,” Smek smiles. He clears his throat. “Now, Kiki, I could not help but notice you seem to be having some trouble catching your breath...Is everything all right? Does this happen often?”

“It only...happens...once in a while...sir,” Kiki explains. “I first...noticed it...when the weather...got...warmer...and the flowers...and...trees started opening up...and became...alive.” (a sort of hint towards her problem being related to some kind of allergies). She gives a few congested sniffles. 

Smek’s eyebrows knit together. “Hmmm, I see. Kiki, can you do me a favor and maybe take those ribbons down from your nostricles? Once you do that, I’ll have a better idea of what we’re dealing with, here.”

At this, Kiki claps her hands protectively over the ribbon-bedecked nostricles curled against the sides of her head. “N-no!” she protests. “My humansfriend Natalia...tied them...around my nostricles...special for me. It took...her a long time...and she said they...looked very pretty.”

“And they DO look very pretty, indeed,” Smek says sympathetically. “...But I am worried that they might be tied too tightly and are to making it difficult for you to breathe. Humanspersons do not breathe through their ears the way Boov do, so maybe she was not as careful as she should have been.” 

“Oh, all RIGHT,” Kiki says resignedly, and she lets Smek undo the ribbons from her nostricles. Once that’s taken care of, Smek gently presses a nostricle against Kiki’s chest to hear how her lungs sound. He does not like what he hears.

“Oh dear, Kiki, you sound a little “tight” to me.” Smek tells her. “Do not to worry, though; I am calling a medic Boov to come help you, and I will be right here with you the whole time.” Smek pulls Kiki onto his lap and requests a medic Boov to come immediately via his tablet. 

Once there, the medic Boov administers a hair dryer (”inhaler”) breathing treatment to Kiki, then demonstrates how to use a hair dryer and gives her one of her own. He also emphasizes how important it was that Smek took action and summoned him right away.

“...And I can help you learn to use your inhaler until you get the hang of it, Kiki,” Smek offers kindly. “I use one of these from time to time, myself.”

Kiki’s eyes grow wide with admiration. “YOU, Mr. Smek?”

“Sure I do,” Smek replies. “And I had to learn how to use one, too, as well as how to avoid the things that make it hard for me to breathe. But I’ll be here to help you. I will not leave you until I am sure that you are all right.”

Kiki gives Smek a hug. “Thanking you for helping me, Mr. Smek...you are a good friend.”

************** IDK if this is a feasible enough scenario or not (Smek turning over a new leaf to the extent that he becomes a sort of father figure towards the younger Boov) but I just think this is sweet. I think it’s partly because I love anything to do with a caretaking theme and partly because I only recently found out that Steve Martin (Smek’s VA) became a father himself a year or two ago. Hope you guys like this! :)    

[lil-pink-coupe]

Oh’s young Boov friend Vera

Here’s a fanfic plot bunny...thing I’ve been mulling over for some time, ft. a Boov OC. This is looooooooonnnnnggggg..... 

This would take place in- movie, immediately after Oh went looking around the other Boov apartment to see if any of them wanted to attend his “Warming-of-House party” (when everyone was hiding from him and he was all sad). Oh returns to his apartment with the vague, uncomfortable feeling that he’s being avoided (just beginning to realize that maybe the other Boov don’t like him very much), and he’s just about to take down the decorations, put away the food (the toilet paper, the nuts and bolts, the cooked cookbook xD) and turn out the lights, when...he hears a soft, shy knock at the door. 

He slowly “poddles” towards his door and opens it, and sees a short - statured, shy, young female Boov looking as sad and lonely as he does. But when Oh sees he has a guest, he breaks into a huge, welcoming smile; orange stripes ripple over his body rapidly, and he greets the young Boov with, “Why, hello! What is your name being, little Boov?”

The young Boov girl turns a light shade of yellow, draws a circle in the carpet with one of her front pods, and says, “M...my name is...is..Vera.” 

Now, a little background on Vera, inasmuch as I have figured out: She really is a young Boov; probably was only “discharged” from the warming ovens that the Boovlets are kept in just a year or two prior. She was actually the oldest Boov in the warming ovens for a long time, and won the affections of the infants by playing with them, engaging them and anticipating their needs (basically acting as a surrogate mom), unlike the supervisor Boov who mostly just looks at his tablet while he’s on duty.  When Vera finally was “discovered” and was abruptly shuffled in with the other adolescent and adult Boov, it was devastating to her; the warming oven/nursery unit was the only home she’d ever known, and the Boovlets were the only friends and family she’d ever had. Even more devastating was the fact that, much like Oh, Vera found herself mostly igmored or shunned by the other Boov for not being able to fit in or conform, no matter how hard she tried. 

...Anyway, back to the story...Oh happily invites Vera in to his apartment, to which Vera gives only a halfhearted smile. Oh offers his young friend some snacks and drinks, and they play a few games like charades and “pin the nostricles on the Boov,” but Oh can tell that Vera’s heart isn’t in it. As the “party” winds down, the two Boov end up on opposite sides of a room, sitting in easy chairs and playfully hitting a balloon back and forth to each other. Finally, Vera asks, “Mr. Oh, when are we to going back to OUR planet? Did Captain Smek say, yet?” 

Oh pauses, then poddles over to where Vera is sitting, and squeezes in next to her. “Why, Vera,” Oh says gently, “Smekland (Earth) is to being our home now...did you not to knowing that, my dear?” 

At this, Vera turns blue all over and her sweet brown eyes grow wide. “Y-you mean...we are to staying on this scary and different planet FOREVER and never to going back to our REAL HOME?” 

“Yes, Vera,” Oh replies gently. “Do you not like it here? I thought it was very excitement that we were to moving to a new planet.” 

“Well, I DON’T,” Vera retorts, sounding as if she’s going to cry. She scoots away from Oh and buries her head into the collar of her tunic. “Every time I am finding a place where I am feeling safe and okay about things, I am having to move! I HATE IT! Alsos too, I thought that maybe in this new home, I would to finally having some friends, but I am just as alone in this place as I have been in all our OTHER homes! I never has any friends, nothing ever does the changing, the grown-up Boovs do not liking me and I just want to GO HOME!” Vera’s rant ends with a heavy sniffle and she begins to tremble. 

“Aaawww,” Oh coos gently as he scoots over to Vera and carefully draws her into his lap. “Little Vera, I knows that you are missing our home planet...I am missing it, too. But, we cans not to return there, no matter how much we are wishing we can. The Gorg destroyed everything; it was no longer safety. Captain Smek maked the best decision he coulds in moving us here to Smekland, where the Gorg will never to finding us.”*

Vera slowly raises her head from the collar of her tunic and looks up at Oh. “Yes. I am knowing that,” she says in a small voice. She wraps her arms around Oh’s middle and begins gently nuzzling into his tummy.

Oh hugs Vera tighter. “But if you are just to giving it some time, you might to finding out that you are to liking this new planet just as much as our old one. Well, maybes not “as much,” but it will still to seeming more like “home.”

Vera manages a barely perceptible smile. “Okay.”

“And, would you liking to know a secret?” Oh asks her, gently lifting her chin up to look into his eyes.

“What?” Vera asks in a hushed voice.

“I does not having that many friends here, either.” Oh reveals; trying to keep the catch of emotion out of his voice. “So far, you are being my only one. Would you liking to be my friend? I woulds certainly liking to be yours.”

“Oh, yes!” Vera squeals, turning bright orange and giving Oh an even tighter hug. “Now we are BOTH having a friend in our new home! Who is caring that the other Boov do not liking us, as long as WE are liking each other!” 

Oh grins from nostricle to nostricle. “Yes, that is right,” he chuckles, returning Vera’s hug. “We were to having a very nice “Warming -of-House” party with just the two of us, were we not?” 

“Yes, we were! Thanking you for the nice time, Oh!” Vera exclaims. Then, she starts to blink sleepily and yawn.

Oh looks up at the clock on the wall. “Goodness me!” he gasps. “Look at how late it has become! Time for little Boov to be going to sleeping! Coming on now, little Vera, I will takes you home and tucking you in.” He reaches out to take her hand to lead her back to her apartment; yet Vera pulls away.

“Cans I just stay here with you, Oh?” Vera asks. “I does not really liking my apartment that much. It is too very big and theres are things in there that are the scary.” 

Oh would feel perfectly happy having Vera spend a night or two with him, but he also knows that the sooner Vera gets used to her new home, the sooner she will adjust to life on Smekland. “I knows your new apartment is strangeness and newness to you, Vera,” Oh says kindly, “But I really does think you will likes it if you gives it a chance. Come with me.” 

So, the two of them return to Vera’s apartment, and Oh helps her get ready for bed. Since the apartment’s previous occupants had small children, Oh and Vera manage to a find a room that formerly belonged to a little girl, which piques Vera’s interest. Oh gently tucks Vera into a bed with a canopy over it; and arranges some leftover stuffed animals next to her as she snuggles in. Oh selects a book from a nearby bookcase and reads Vera a bedtime story as she slowly drifts off to sleep. 

Before he tiptoes out of the room and turns out the light, Oh sits and watches Vera slumbering. He feels that Vera really does need someone to look after her, but since the concept of “family” is alien to him (pun not intended) until Tip comes along, he is unsure of what that “someone” could be. He reaches out and gently strokes the top of Vera’s head, and she smiles gently in her sleep.

“Good night, little friend Vera,” Oh whispers as he tiptoes away. “We hads a good time tonight, you and I. I will coming back tomorrow to seeing how you are doing.” 

....And then that brings us to the scene where Oh is sitting on the porch of his own apartment eating an LP record; turning blue partly out of concern for Vera’s adjustment and partly due to loneliness because she’s no longer there and he’s alone again.

*= Keep in mind that this supposedly takes place earlier in the movie, before Oh began to see through Captain Smek and came to the realization that Smek was “the wrongest” for invading Earth.  

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