#ceicive

[the-maddened-hatter]

@autistictrekky I finally got the OC playdate colored in! :) I'll try and get a picture in the morning when there's natural light, but here's one for now!

(you can't see it here, but I tried to get Kirith's leg braces as well)

Also they've got their own art now! Kirith's is a sketch of something that looks really well detailed if you're an Andorian, Ceicive is struggling™ but has some geometric type art, and Ialott is drawing a bug of some sort as a gift for Syfic! <3

[the-maddened-hatter]

Another round my friend!!!

Toka

🍫 caffè mocha – what’s their guilty pleasure?

V'eiss

🔥 spicy lemonade – what makes them snap or lose their temper?

Ceicive

🍓 pink refresha – what’s something refreshing/new in their life?

Another round at the coffeehouse! :D

Toka 🍫 caffè mocha – what’s their guilty pleasure?

If he can afford a pleasure he doesn't feel guilty about taking it XD

But kinda within that: Taking duty leaves when they're not more pre-sanctioned like a repair stop or planetside leave would be. A spontaneous trip or period of rest makes him feel anxious about his billable hours, but they're also something that affords a lot more control of his activities than what's more of routine a pit stop for the ship, so he tends to enjoy them more aside from that aspect.

V'eiss🔥 spicy lemonade – what makes them snap or lose their temper?:

The way the Bad Luck Vulcan's family treats him. They see him as a disappointment and they've never really hidden that. They don't hate him or anything, but they're dismissive, overbearing, and needlessly sharp, and V'eiss just really can't stand it; He can feel their attempts to smother irritation from the moment they greet BLV and just feels it build and build and build throughout the visit and it feels so terrible, especially if they actually do manage to hide it from the BLV and V'eiss can feel his hope build.

Ceicive: 🍓 pink refresha – what’s something refreshing/new in their life?:

Well you mean aside from like, everything that isn't being in the collective? XD

Ok but honestly even Borgs aside, I do think this period of life is way more social than it was growing up, and there's just like really a lot more culture being explored by Cardassians as a whole in regards to art, music, spirituality, self expression, community, everything that was previously so clamped down on by the government. Granted he had some degree of insight into them from Aikalaein, but never this degree of freedom, especially in not even being on Cardassia anymore.

I doubt he feels that shift as strongly as his family does just given Borg occurrences and neural dampeners and such, but like he falls in love with a painter (a man, something that would have been something if not forbidden at least never acknowledged outside of an extremely private setting) and their (debateably) first date is in an art museum program openly on the hollodeck where they freely discuss as much as they can about everything they see, and I don't think that degree of full freedom is lost on him despite everything <3

[the-maddened-hatter]

So a round from my brain cause I love music, are there any songs that instantly remind you of your OCs?

Would any of them like broadway musicals? Which is their favorite?

Do your Catians, Lukoroh and V'eiss like music? What kind?

Brain round!!! :D 🍹 🍸

So a round from my brain cause I love music, are there any songs that instantly remind you of your OCs?

Yes!!!!! I've wanted to do one of those "one song per oc" type deals but I don't have one for everyone yet (and it doesn't feel right to do one without everyone named), so this is the perfect excuse to share what I do have! XD

Ceicive: Broken Machine (Nothing but thieves) and Love Like You (from Steven Universe)

Ceicive and Wilvous together: Fallin' For You (Colbie Caillat) early on, and Still The One (Orleans) later down the line <3

Toka: Pay Me My Money Down (Bruce Springsteen)

Captain Vasilios gets two: World (5 for Fighting) and A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan) (feels kinda weird to give her that given as she's very much neither, but I really like the poetic aspects of the lyrics)

D'Hrava and T'Pril together: Isn’t It Love? (from the Steven Universe movie), We are in Love (Shannon Hurley), and The Warrior (Patty Smyth)

Kirev and the Denobulan Bartender lady get Brandy (Looking Glass) because that was kind of their inspiration a little bit tbh XD (theirs is definitely healthier given communication and species cultures, but still worth a mention XD)

Aerelai gives me such strong Sam Smith song vibes in general, I think most especially I'm Not Here to Make Friends and Diamonds, and I'd also have to say Escapism (Raye)

R'aahs gets two: Run Boy, Run (Woodkid) and Runaway (AURORA)

Bloodline by Jellyroll fits for R'aahs and Wilvous both honestly

Vorta OC: My Back Pages

and for V'eiss and the Bad Luck Vulcan: Silly Love Songs (Paul McCartney) You Are the Best Thing (Ray LaMontagne)

Would any of them like broadway musicals? Which is their favorite?

Omg Aerelai would absolutely love musicals (and sometimes make it everyone's problem that they do). I could see them really liking the energy and outfits of Chicago! I've got to think doctor D'Hrava would like some too, maybe Les Misérables for its discussions of honor, bravery, tragedy, and rebellion.

Wilvous likes the stage production and how the music can convey narrative, but I don't know that he'd have one true favorite. He'd probably like debating the meaning of certain musical scores and costume/set choices and their impact on the piece as well.

The Bad Luck Vulcan finds Little Shop of Horrors more fascinating than he'd maybe care to admit outright.

Lukoroh would like them too for reasons I'll talk about in just a minute.

Do your Catians, Lukoroh and V'eiss like music? What kind?

Yes I think they do! It's time for SPECULATIVE WORLDBUILDING! (aka shit I just made up!)

The Calico Pilot maybe has a soft spot for call and response type songs because it's something he would do with her siblings growing up when they were out walking or when they were doing chores/helping in the shop.

The Lion Therapist would like deeper Didgeridoo type instrument

Lukoroh: Ok so I think he'd like stuff like musicals, ballads, operas, anything that tells a story! He'd have to relisten sooooo many times just to get a little of the narrative, but I don't think that bothers him, it's sort of how he feels about art!

V'eiss: I think he'd like more traditional Vulcan lyre music, it's something his adoptive father played a lot, and his grandmother would sometimes too. I don't think of him as ever really having learnt but a handful of melodies he could play sort of ok-ish himself, but he deeply respects the art form as a whole and thinks it's very beautiful.

[the-maddened-hatter]

Another Ceicive! This is the first one of him done in the big sketchbook and the first drawing done on the new-used drafting table!

[the-maddened-hatter]

I got an art commission of Ceicive done by @gemteeth !!! Look at my lizard guy!!!!! :D

Isn't he just precious?!?! His scales were hand drawn!!! <3 <3 <3

[the-maddened-hatter]

I think there should be a slight running gag of Ceicive getting mildly (in the sense that crazy shit can be repaired rapidly) hurt in the course of his sickbay duties.

R'aahs, confused and agitated from the effects of a dermo-vascular bacterial infection throws him across sickbay and he gets a concussion and dislocates his shoulder

A Vulcan science researcher gets some chemical exposure, sits quietly in sickbay for about 30 minutes after being brought there for observation, then goes loopy AF and ends up halfway nerve pinching him (it's not very effective given his ridges, but it's certainly not pleasant)

The Arachnid xenoantrhopologist lady getting sick and producing some noxious immune response substance that's sticky as all hell and has to get carefully removed from his implants and scales

Ferengi COS getting treated for one of his worse neural radiating migraines and, because he's doing really bad that time around and PTSD is a bitch, ends up biting the shit out of him when the shrill chirp of the scanner gets too close.

Helping Muna onto a biobed (because she doesn't like to use the transporter method when she can help it) along with Bhea and his neuromuscular issues flare up afterwards (but it ends up giving Muna and Bhea a chance to chat ;) <3)

Doctor D'Hrava doing some kind of vigorous maintenance to a malfunctioning scanner (because her wife is busy today dammit and she has repair skills!) and sending a piece flying catching him right in the face

And Ryn accidentally ends up fracturing some bones in his arm with a reflexive clinging response while he's being treated for a raging infection in his antenna nubs and trying to cope with crazy-ass futuristic medical/torture trauma.

And like you could almost make the argument that it's some kind of indirect self flagellation for his actions as a Borg, or some weird half acknowledged metaphor for the disconnect he feels between a physical form that has been altered so many times that it seems like a completely separate component to him versus his actual self as displayed by his relative apathy to its condition, but technically all it ever really effectively boils down to is "tiny cheerful lizard repeatedly has bad luck while doing his favorite job in the world"

[the-maddened-hatter]

I think Nausicaans tend to have a kind of (borderline literal) pecking order within their social structures (pain an injury are games to them, and, I would think, points of communication as well depending upon what degree is permissible to inflict and/or return) and while ofc the exact dynamic would never be permissible aboard a Starfleet vessel I do think R'aahs probably has a rough structure of one that fits within a species cultural variance permissable overlap aboard an already atypical vessel:

Head tier is Captain Céline Vasilios; Full superior no question. She defeated him in combat upon their meeting but chose to spare him and incorporate him into her crew. She is in full command and anything less than full cooperation from him would be a disgusting offence. Too high above for any form of playful behavior.

Second tier is interesting in that they're all roughly of equal authority to his mind within a social hierarchy (though he does recognize the difference within the technical structure of command).

Kirev, moreso from a standpoint of getting to act/speak on behalf of the captain, though he does have some degree of unexpected physical strength due to Aenar physiology. Might give him a tap with his cane, but R'aahs recognizes this is a deliberate act of congeniality towards him. He may be more actively friendly towards him than he may be to the captain, but recognizes him as too far of a superior to be fully friendly towards

Toka: Considers him his most direct superior within his immediate day to day interaction. Toka is fairly willing to use a bit of physical directive with R'aahs given their notable difference of size, and not always with as friendly of an intention as R'aahs takes it, but it does actually ultimately serve fairly well to denote an authority while maintaining a decent sense of camaraderie to him (which eventually evolves into a more genuine one on Toka's part as well)

Doctor D'Hrava: superior, stronger, but enjoys a bit of playful roughhouse in casual social settings. She won't hesitate to put him back in his place if he gets too rough, but they can have a bit of a back and forth dynamic with it.

Third tier is kind of separate, with those who aren't quite as high ranking technically, but he isn't about to fuck around with them. He likes when he can be friendly with them, but that's fully at their discretion.

T'pril: (and Tbf he takes that kind of approach towards most Vulcans unless he knows them really well because their limits are harder to read). She doesn't really interact with him much beyond directives and brief interactions in the mess hall, where he is polite and subdued.

Aerelai: A bit different in that they're friends, but he'll give them a wide birth when they're angry or the minute he gets the idea he's crossed a line with them. They don't ever really physically strike but they will let forth a small neural pulse when those things happen and it's a much scarier little "back the fuck off".

Fourth tier is about level with him though it can vary just a little situationally. Friendliest tier overall:

Muna. She knew about Nausicaans when she met him and ran over his foot with her powerchair, then later shared some of her lunch with him (another indicator, in that resources are shared with those below you, taken by above). She'll give him a friendly swat sometimes that he can return lightly.

Wilvous. (seemingly) stayed stoic and (accidentally) cut his face pretty badly with one of his tusks the first time he met him.

Himself! :)

Bhea. His best friend right after Muna! She's pretty sturdy, They get into a lot of hijinks together and playfight. He's ultimately stronger than her but she'll put up a really good fight and recognizes that he's being friendly doing it! Sometimes they share the braincell.

Fifth tier is specifically under him, can push them around a little bit and they can't take his stuff (they very much don't try, but regardless they can't), but it also means they're deliberately under his scope of protection barring Weird Shit Happening or something.

[Arachnid Xenoanthropologist] (she actually could be a lot more dangerous if she chose to be, but use of venom is highly taboo and is only to be done in outright peril, so she's fine letting him see her as this level). He doesn't have much cause to interact with her, but letting her remain largely unchallenged while still on a protective tier is an attempt of a sort to respect her privacy while still seeing through his worldview filter.

[Bajoran/Cardassian engineer]. He likes them, thinks they're very smart and (with him) scrappy. They sometimes try and rise up a teir when they'll play around with him, but largely he just views it as cute that they try and stays protective of them

Ceicive. He threw Ceicive across sickbay the first time he met him. In all fairness he was having a really bad time medically and thanked the sickbay team afterwards. He and Ceicive are friends now; he was mildly concussed, but not really angry about it. He thinks of Ceicive as extremely sweet, patient, and fragile tbh.

Ryn. Withdrawn, skittish, still getting used to the new adaptive equipment, prone to a freeze response and only ever actually tries to fight back when he's extremely stressed and it's clear even to R'aahs that if it gets to that point it is way too far. Tries to help him feel safer but isn't always very good at it. (Has "guarded" him during panic attacks before though and that actually was helpful <3)

[I'll probably edit and add new people to the list as I come up with them, but this is as current a version as I have of the crew!]

[the-maddened-hatter]

And what if I told you the first person to really, genuinely, lastingly get it through Ceicive's head that people being assholes about finding his Borg issues creepy are the ones being assholes, not him for having the mannerisms, is a fucking Pakled?