A proper introduction to my BB OC!! He gets turned into a Great Potoo Bird <3 and his animal form is pillow-sized! Large bird <3
^^ the bird and the sprite drawings are NOT mine -- my friend drew them for me!!
More info below the cut!
Liu is on the Aromantic/Asexual spectrum.
I ship him with Aki!!
Great Potoo birds are nocturnal, and Liu's sleep schedule is quite. Awful.
His best friends are Dmitri and Lotus!! He's like a weird cryptid cousin to them <3
╰─•𖣂•─ link to post -- also contains blank templates for this chart!!
Liu works part-time as a tour guide at a museum.
He loooves learning about the past
He's an Unbothered King; almost nothing annoys or fazes him.
Lake from Crush Crush is his cousin!!
He's pretty active!! Which makes sense because he lives alone in the middle of nowhere; he can't exactly afford to be lazy. He occasionally joins Kelby for morning jogs and accepts his invites to go skiing or swimming!!
Liu comes off as an aloof "cool guy" -- but when you get to know him, it's like... Gosh you are SO weird. Who are you.
His coffee order disgusts Dmitri and Lotus. Liu is generally capable of consuming things that aren't normally consumed (e.g. spoonfuls of pure wasabi; acrylic paint; cinnamon)
He has a tic that involves waggling his head whenever he feels whimsical.
Liu's love language is gift-giving and acts of service. If someone wants to be friends with him, he'll reciprocate by ominously leaving artworks at their door, or offering to paint something for them (he painted murals on Nimh's fence!!)
He has 0 idea how to operate any kind of tech. And he's never seen a movie before. Anon once tried to ask about his favourite movie, and Liu responded with like. A stage play from the early 1900's.
Eli likes to keep him in business by commissioning artworks of himself, like paintings or marble statues. This jumpscares Iro whenever she visits Eli and sees some new bs decorating his walls.
Liu's other friends consist of Anon, Eli, Nimh, and Kelby.
Pondering my Blush Blush/Crush Crush Hunger Games AU
Looooong post ahead, basic knowledge of the Hunger Games franchise is recommended!!
(I'm NOT an expert; I haven't read the books/seen the movies in a hot minute, nor have I played through all of Crush Crush -- also note that this is a work in progress)
Updated 09.06
! WARNINGS -- War themes, graphic violence, death, attempted trafficking/sexual violence (not explained in detail), governmental oppression, psychological torment !
Avoxes -- Ginger (Capitol), Wasabi (Capitol), Lake (District 4), Nova (District 6), Poe (District 8), Felix (District 12)
╰─•𖣂•─ An "Avox" is a person (can be from the Districts or the Capitol) captured by the government and rendered mute by having their tongues cut out, now functioning as slaves/civil servants after a period of being tortured to strip away their sense of self.
(^^ Almost all of these characters' placements are subject to change!!)
Headcanons established:
Cole and Ayeka are siblings
Anon and Nina are siblings
Cashew is related to the Valentines
Bonus: Vanna x Bonnibel and Liu x Aki will somehow exist. I'm making sure of it.
Adjustments:
The timeline adheres with BB/CC, excluding the semantics from Hush Hush
In canon, only one girl and one boy are Reaped from each District -- in this AU, two people are Reaped from each District without regard for their gender, and anyone identifying outside of the gender binary will be treated as such. This also means that a girl may Volunteer for a boy, or vice versa. (<- Implementing this change just to make up for the disproportionate ratio of CC/BB characters)
Past Victors:
38th Games -- Dorian Reed (District 1, 17 years old)
39th Games -- Marybelle (District 11, 15 years old)
40th Games -- Shibuki (District 12, 13 years old)
41st Games -- Bonnibel (District 11, 14 years old)
42nd Games -- Nina (District 3, 17 years old)
43rd Games -- Volks (District 7, 15 years old)
44th Games -- Kelby (District 4, 15 years old)
45th Games -- Sawyer (District 7, 17 years old)
46th Games -- Babybelle (District 11, 15 years old)
47th Games -- Iro (District 4, 16 years old)
48th Games -- Scale (District 2, 16 years old)
49th Games -- Cole (District 10, 18 years old)
Others of note:
25th Hunger Games -- Saji Kawase (District 4, 19 years old)
26th Hunger Games -- Honey (District 6, 16 years old)
By the 50th Hunger Games, all the characters should be in-line with their ages in their respective canon games!! In case anyone notices that the Victor's ages seem like they don't really match up with that timeline -- the Reaping takes place on July 4 so I had to account for whether their birthdays came before/after that day aaaargh
37th Hunger Games -- Luna (District 2, 14 years old)
36th Hunger Games -- Rosa (District 10, 16 years old)
Trivia:
The Valentine sisters are practically famous for their victories. They use their wealth gained from the Games to help the people of their district and keep their black market up and running.
District 11 has the highest armed Peacekeeper presence, mostly to monitor its residents and ensure they don't keep any of the crops for themselves, and to monitor the Valentine Sisters and their cousins (Peanut and Cashew) -- even the most minor offenses are punishable by public execution.
Cole hid it well, but he was LIVID that he got Reaped when he did. Only children from the ages 12 - 18 are eligible for the Games, so if he survived the Reaping just this one more time, he never would've had to worry about the Games again.
^ Cole is one of the most popular Tributes/Victors amongst the Capitol audience for his intelligence and charisma. Those in the Districts are more skeptical of him, since District 2 is close with the Capitol and they wonder if he'll eventually be used as a mouthpiece for them.
^^ Cole was one of many tributes seen as "desirable" within the Capitol and thus became a target of potential trafficking, wherein he would be forced to sell his body to the highest bidder, or else his loved ones would be killed. So far, Cole has managed to stall this process.
The Valentine Sisters were also subjected to this pressure, as was Shibuki, Volks, Kelby, Sawyer, and Scale,
It's theorised that Nina bartered with the overseer of her District's Reaping procedure to ensure that she got chosen instead of Anon, as he was caught with contraband earlier that year, and consequently the Capitol would have rigged his name into the upcoming pool of Tributes.
There were notable tensions between Dorian Reed and his Capitol Escort, Fuyu. Despite their mutual attempts to maintain appearances in front of the cameras, it was clear they did not get along. Dorian's performance and subsequent victory in the arena was a disturbing sight to behold, and people wonder how Fuyu might've contributed to this.
^ No one else knows, but Dorian's heinous display and utter brutality in his Games was what drove Fuyu into further disillusionment, and led him to quietly join the Rebels as an important set of insider eyes.
Despite the Hunger Games serving as a reminder of the Dark Days (the uprising of the Districts against the Capitol which led to the Games' creation) -- bringing up the names QPernikiss, Natsu, and Itharion will very likely result in punishment.
Lake was taken and turned into an Avox for her "degenerate art" that was Anti-Hunger-Games and therefore Anti-Capitol in nature, thereby deemed an act of treason. She was dragged away from District 4 at sixteen years old. By far she's the most "obedient" Avox due to the threat of having her hands cut off if she dared to pick up any kind of artistic implement again, whether it was a fountain pen or a stick of charcoal.
Nova was captured from District 6 by the Capitol and turned into an Avox from repeated misdemeanours that involved graffiti, sneaking into prohibited areas, and backtalking Peacekeepers, even after two "warnings" where she was shot in the arm and leg after being caught sneaking over an electric fence past curfew.
Felix was turned into an Avox the moment he publicly questioned/defied the Capitol's ideology and the Hunger Games as a whole -- he was confident that the people of District 12 would back him up, but he stood alone.
Poe was turned into an Avox because of his repeated attempts to access forbidden literature through District 8's black market. Like the other Avoxes, he can now only communicate through timid nodding or hand gestures -- although occasionally, the people he serves might be kind enough to lend him a journal or scrap of paper to convey his thoughts or write poems.
^ Whenever he's caught, he's dragged into a room of Jabberjays (genetically-engineered birds that mimic human speech) and forced to listen to them rewind his cries and wails from his torture for an hour. This is likely the same punishment for other Avoxes.
More to be added soon!!
I don't have the guts to ACTUALLY commit to subjecting characters into forced prostitution :')
╰─•𖣂•─ update: well. Now that the world is more developed, I kind of feel more "assured" in my idea to commit to this. I'll do my best to handle the topic with grace.
good morning because im assuming you’ll see this when you wake up. i come bearing gifts
had to use some creative liberties for liu’s hybrid form since i drew the other blush blush guys that way lol. also it’s a little funny that the first crush crush character ive ever drawn is vanna lmao
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ARE YOU SERIOUS IM FROTHING AT THE MOUTH WHAAAT WHAT HELLOILO
THE LITTLE CUTOES WHAT OHHHHHHMY GOD NO WAYYY YOU MADE THEM LOOK SO GOOD THESE ARE MY KIDS NY CHILDREN WHATTTT
I'M. KEEOING GHESE FOREVER. WHAT. I'M NOT NORMAL WHATT. XEN?? THANK YOU??
Great Potoos look cute until they open their gigantic mouths and release that unholy noise (/aff) -- Liu comes off as this serene androgynous "Cool Guy" until you actually speak to him and realise he's this weirdo who eats paint (/also aff)
Great Potoos are shy/solitary and nocturnal. Liu lives alone in the middle of nowhere and sleeps at like. 6am. And he comes off as a bit aloof too, although it's just that he's an artist with his head in the clouds.
Liu stares a lot -- he's a listener more than a yapper. And he's an observer overall!! And Great Potoos have these big ol' eyes <3
Sadly we don't know much about Potoo birds -- Liu likes to mind his own business and cruise through life on his lonesome, so he's a little similar.
Potoo birds are capable of "seeing" with their eyes closed, and Liu is like. Incapable of being stunned or truly surprised by anything. He'll witness something earthshattering and he'll simply go "Wowee!"
Lil Potoo birds imitate their parents at a young age and quickly adopt their camoflage habits -- Liu was always a bit precocious and moved out to live on his own at an early age.
Potoo birds are nicknamed "poor-me-ones" because of their haunting and mournful howl, which kind of clashes (but also compliments) their goofy/creepy appearance -- For Liu, he seems like a lonely person since his parents have always been out of the picture, and he's always on his own. This hasn't stopped him from being Silly and Strange. But even to his closest friends, he's kind of a cryptid who's a lil shrouded in mystery.
I just don't think either of them care. They see a bug and go "oh, a little guy!!"
Liu lives in the middle of nowhere, so he comes across a lotttt of bugs. And a lot of people are squeamish with bugs, so I wouldn't be surprised if Aki uses them in his lil pranks.
Can't Cook For Shit/Makes Dinner
Liu lives on his lonesome, so he kind of HAS to know how to cook. Aki,, I mean, I doubt he's totally inept. Like certainly he can at LEAST do some campfire cooking action right? Maybe? But anyway, people are supposed to be giving HIM offerings of food and such, so it's not like he has much of a reason to be doing it himself.
Has More/No Relationship Experience
Liu is totally new to it. Aki... I have no idea. At the very least, he's confident in himself!! His sexual appetite def shows that. I wouldn't be surprised if he's had some fleeting crushes in the past, given that it's implied he was already attracted to Marshmallow before the "Awkward Besties" stage. At the same time, Aki's been around for a while!! Certainly he's picked up a few things throughout his life!
