Would you like some more propaganda for Chae-Yeong Vermeil in the @original-character-championship? Well do I have the almost 150k ongoing fic for you!
Art by @choco-bunni/@choartsu on here (also Choartsu on twitter!)
Chae-Yeong is one of the main characters of my rwby age swap au (read it here!), which basically lets her be a little more unhinged than usual bcs she's not as mature and in her control of herself at 18 as she is in her 40s. She gets to be in a fight club and also go stop crimes to avoid addressing her trauma. And she gets to have a little bit of female bonding and a guy thinking she's the most incredible person in the world too <3
i updated the dreamyverse /nature page the other day
lelele was one of the first characters i designed for dreamyverse, and she got scrapped, so i designed her a friend, chae-yeong!
neither of them are gonna show up in dreamyverse, but i kinda like the idea of them existing outside of it. they can have some mischief
facts:
lelele used to run a smoothie & slushee stand in the dream world
chae-yeong enjoys haute couture and avant-garde fashion. she used to create outfits for other dreamborns that were too ahead of their time, and never got worn. now, a chae-yeong piece is a rare find and well-enjoyed
chae-yeong and lelele haven't been spotted in the dream world in quite some time... i wonder why that is? what are they up to?
Here’s a look at the original concept I did for Chae-Yeong in the age swap! I drew this on my phone, so I didn’t include her head/hair since there was no way I was gonna be able to make that look good lol
Hello everyone, with my beloved Chae-Yeong in the @original-character-championship it's time for me to make some propoganda for her (and then you should go vote for her here!)
Chae-Yeong is a rwby oc I made originally for a ttrpg that I'm running. I said it in the submission, but she's an autistic ace-pan milf. Since rwby uses a lot of fairy tale allusions, her allusions are to the Paper Ballerina from the Steadfast Tin Soldier, the Scarlet Pimpernel, and I like to joke also to the mythical ethical billionaire
Currently she's the CEO of Vermeil Industries, a company that largely produces vehicles. Aware that she has far more money than anyone ever should, Chae-Yeong created the Vermeil Foundation, which is designed specifically to help people who are struggling financially by providing free shelter and resources to help them get to a more comfortable situation. She's a firm believer in rehabilitative justice and is known to hire people released from jail to help try to give them a more legitimate means of supporting themselves, and in general her company pays very well and has great benefits regardless of what you're doing there
But Chae-Yeong is also aware that sometimes rehabilitative justice on its own isn't enough, so combining that with her anger issues in need of direction, she became a vigilante called the Scarlet Shepherd. At night she fights against people who are trying to take advantage of others, meaning she's often dealing with people hired by the rich and powerful. Again tying into the Batman joke, she's very anti-killing, so a lot of her goals with being the Shepherd are to provide some immediate justice by physically stopping others from doing harm. But when the day comes and she goes back to her normal life, she then focuses on getting people the help they need to change for the better and grow
If you want more info for her and her overall vibe, check out her character tag on my blog (easy access to it in the tags of this post!). I also have multiple fics featuring her on my ao3 (most of them really lol), so you can read about her there. This one is just under 700 words and a character study from the pov of someone who dislikes her, so imo it's a good place to start learning more about her. And this one is longer, but it's written to be like a newspaper article talking about her so it's another good look at her public image
And here's a character sheet I made for her for my age swap au! Art from it is by @snnuysideup
10) a description of your OC by someone who hates them
I don’t think I’ve mentioned Crystal before, but here she is in all her hater and classist ex energy
There are few people who know Chae-Yeong Vermeil as well as Crystal Gorman does. It’s true that they had only dated when they were teenagers, but Crystal still thinks that puts her in a unique position to say she knows her well. Granted, there are too many people who have also dated Chae-Yeong, but they never had a relationship with the same depth as Crystal and Chae-Yeong did. They don’t understand the problems with her the way that Crystal does.
The main problem with Chae-Yeong is that she’s too perfect. She’s effortlessly poised and liked by just about everyone. But that’s just lending to the idea of Crystal being the only person who really sees Chae-Yeong.
It’s been about thirty years since the two of them dated, but Chae-Yeong has had the luck or the money to age gracefully. The fringe that frames her face is gray now, left undyed like some kind of statement Chae-Yeong’s trying to make about how she still manages to be hot as she creeps closer to forty. There are crow’s feet at the corner of her eyes too, but she otherwise has seemed to escape most of the physical signs of age that come inevitably over the years.
Crystal is sure there has to be something wrong with her hands, though. She didn’t used to wear gloves, but now she does constantly.
There are still constants with Chae-Yeong, of course. Her canines are still sharper than they should be, and she still twists and weaves the loose hair by her face between her fingers. She still dresses up far more than she needs to for any event, she still wears clothes that show off more of her sizable bust than is respectable. She’s still too damn tall too, and she still somehow manages to have the same muscle to her arms she did as when she was a Huntress, something entirely unnecessary for a CEO to have for any reason but vanity.
And that’s just her appearance. Crystal could pick apart every annoyance she has with Chae-Yeong’s personality too.
She’s naive and too convinced that people care about each other. She sees everyone as someone that can grow to be something better, not realizing like Crystal does that there are some people who will never be more than tools to be utilized by their betters. She wastes her money and time on people who don’t deserve it, who are so beneath her she shouldn’t even acknowledge them. Between that and how airheaded she can be, Crystal doesn’t know how Vermeil Industries keeps its position as one of the most successful companies in Remnant.
But another constant is that Chae-Yeong has always been strange. Once it was endearing, but time has bittered Crystal’s perspective on those eccentricities.
Chae-Yeong still moves with the same dancer’s grace she always has too. At least she does when she isn’t drunk and galavanting around, flirting with someone she can’t even remember the name of, the alcohol making the obnoxious hiss-like quality of the way she pronounces S sounds even more prominent. And while she’s plastered at a high society event, Ironwood is always plastered to her side like an angry guard dog waiting to attack anyone who gets too close.
Crystal doesn’t get why Ironwood obsesses over her the way he does. He’s another of Chae-Yeong’s many former lovers. Maybe he still holds a candle for her, even though they broke up more than twenty years ago. Maybe he realizes that she’s the only person who could ever love a man as damaged as he is, though that ship has long since sailed.
But in some ways, Crystal understands Ironwood’s fascination with Chae-Yeong. Another flaw of hers is that she’s hard to move on from. She haunts Crystal even though she wishes that she didn’t, and every now and then she thinks about if things had been different.
But that’s just another thing to hate Chae-Yeong Vermeil for.
