#dandy's ocs

[dandelionofthanatos]

lmao I know the BOMBASTIC ENTHUSIASM for a thing (in this case Deltarune) is in full tilt when OCs start just popping into my head like strudels launched from a possessed toaster in reaction to THE ODDEST SHIT.

in this case, my brain went:

I wonder what the Hometown Libraby ethernet/LAN/whatever runs on/with

they've got a server closet so

LMAO back when I was a kid the school library network was TOKEN RING

how does it work now? wireless or LAN or...

LAN PARTY LAN PARTY

*cough* focus, nerd

I wonder how they'd keep computers relatively free of bullshit

Probably a network monitor something like Little Snitch

...

hi?

...Who is the NEW BIRD NOISE COMING FROM????

oh dear

SO hello "Mona" the network-monitor OC that Campanella knows; you kinda look like a swiftlet, and you appear to be sliiiightly calmer than Undyne but only slightly.

please don't try to throw down with the eldritch cat and get murked. it doesn't matter if you're backed up and can pop in anew. you're gonna traumatize the kids.

(Mona is more of a community-support-staff type than a cop. Doesn't stop Spamton from calling her [THE FUZZ, THE HEAT, JOHN Q. LAW] but that's semi-affectionate - he doesn't think she's an asshole, just a mother hen of doom. thanks for the coffee, island teal, now go away thx. i can take care of my damn fool self. shut up yes i can.)

also, please stop making stupid jokes about packet sniffing. you'll make Queen choke on her beverage

[infernalslice]

i went to an art party recently and this glam fucked

[dandelionofthanatos]

A BUNCH OF STUFF ABOUT THE MONITORS IN MY RIDICULOUS DELTARUNE AU THING:

They work in pairs; usually the duos consider themselves as siblings or cousins

If they suffer critical-stop-level damage, they go 'poof' and then reload at specific points that act as HQs.

-Their memory doesn’t retain their “death”, but it’s normal for them to have a lingering creepy feeling upon reawakening.

Some kinds of damage do leave “scars” if the cause of it is gnarly enough. Matterly’s right calf and left shoulder are scarred from a kernel panic and device_friend respectively, and Giko’s got a scar across his nose courtesy a stampede of panicky Virovirokuns that blew up the program he was scanning.

The monitor duo who Matterly and Giko are closest to is Bakarne and Hattoshin. They work together as a quartet often these days.

If one Monitor is angry at someone, ALL THE MONITORS ARE ANGRY AT THAT SOMEONE.

They forgive pretty easily, but their memories are L O N G

They get along well with Addions because Addisons are honest about what they do. What you see is what you get - they're gonna try their damnedest to sell you a thing.

They and the Swatchlings are kind of mutually tense around one another. Hattoshin's theory is that they're too similar in some ways and too different in others: It's not personal, and they all CAN work together, but there's liable to be a lot of gettin' real poofy and stancing up and LOUD AVIAN NOISES in the process.

You can't bribe them.

If a Lightner user lets something in, they have to allow it too. Sometimes this leads to mishaps. See: Giko and the Virovirokun Rush.

They tend to be blue-to-green colours.

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we went for it and she’s happy XD

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Which NPC are they the most similar to?

I WILL ANSWER THIS FOR...

*rolls dice*

YSHANDRE :D

He's got strong similarities to Stephanivien (technologically-inclined, sense of justice, wanting to level the playing field, "lol classism is for scrublords", gregarious) and Hythlodaeus (a little self-deprecating, WILDLY-SKILLED archer/bard, perceptive as fuck and just as supportive, heart-seer type, very charismatic and friendly, encouraging). He also has traits VERY in common with Nero Scaeva (ambitious, snarky, lacking in impulse control somewhat, a little sensitive about his hick origins).

His things-in-common with Hythlodaeus actually sends Emet-Selch into a brief state of tsundere overdrive during the events of Shadowbringers. XD While Yshandre's turns of phrase, body language, and bardic inclinations aren't really in the same..."genres" as Hyth's? There's enough familiarity at the root to make Emet-Selch somewhat grouchy, as he is quite certain Hydaelyn is fucking with him on purpose. This leads to some physical altercations of the pants-free sort...

Similarly, what he has in common with Nero makes Nero REALLY NOT TRUST HIM AT ALL at the start. Nero is convinced for a while that Yshan is mimicking him for shits and giggles. Over time, he learns that's not the case; rather, it's that Yshan has quite a few latent dragon-y instincts and dragons will mirror like cats to show acceptance and put someone at ease. If Yshan is punning back at Nero, it's not mockery or an effort at one-upmanship for the purpose of a burn. It's meeting Nero on Nero's territory. Yshan answering a pun with a pun is meant to embellish Nero's wordplay and invite him to do some more! It doesn't take Nero TOO long to work this out; when Yshan is comfortable around someone, his polite poker-face vanishes and his "play???!?!?!?" smile is so bright and ridiculous it can't be mistaken for anything BUT friendship. Nero is wary, yes, but Yshan is excellent at putting him at ease!

Stephanivien picks up on this genuine friendliness instantly. His ease around the type of noble skull-diggy antics common in Ishgard hasn't left him overly jaded or cynical, and he sees Yshan's bright-eyed fascination with his work for the real thing that it is after five minutes in his presence. Steph is optimistic and idealistic, but he's rooted in reality; he can tell when someone's trying to mess with him, and Yshan is absolutely NOT that kind of guy. He's not some douche-yacht paid off by somebody-or-another, trying to cause a ruckus to impress whatever High House broski has a bug up his nose today. Yshan is a decent guy and a guy with a hunger for knowledge and a love of NEAT NEW THINGS!

Steph really doesn't care that Yshan was an exile, either. There are some people who WILL NOT TALK TO OR ACKNOWLEDGE YSHANDRE AT ALL because he voluntarily yeeted himself from Ishgard to atone for unpleasant conduct as a teenager. (He beat the everloving snot out of someone who behaved HIDEOUSLY, but who had powerful connections. Since it was his first offence he avoided a worse fate, but he had to leave Ishgard for a time.) Steph could not give less of a donk if Yshandre is "supposed to be" persona non grata. He's a kind man and a hard worker and a brilliant engineer,s o there.

Yshandre's a fascinating guy. XD

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emotionally constipated men in armour

Otho van Helvus of the VIIth is a really cold, detached, weird guy. Similarly to the Raen Hootenanny and Livia, he lost his parents at a young age.

He never really had a chance to recover or heal from what he witnessed or from the whole experience, and he keeps himself emotionally sequestered. Connections are inevitable and mentorship is important, but let’s not get all mushy about it--loss is an inevitable part of life, and while we should work to prevent it, it WILL HAPPEN. Don’t get too close, don’t hold on, or you will be destroyed from within.

Basically imagine a really fucking emotionally-disconnected Vulcan and you’ve got this guy. Where Livia got overly attached, Otho refused to connect at all. He’s like a non-creep Yui-free Gendou Ikari.

While he does have that fixation on “being of worth to the greater good” and on refusing to let go of ZOMG VALUABLE COMBAT DATA HOLY FUCK (because data, unlike those who provide it, is pure...so he believes) he’s not a fucking gross fuckhead. He admires Gaius as a capable soldier, but thinks Gaius lets his heart get the better of him and that this led to his utter downfall. He thinks Livia’s badly misinformed. Loyalty should be a function of reason. Everything is overdrive-pragmatism. Emotional responses lead to That Eikon Shit; get rid of it. People need connections as a function of society, and empathy is necessary to that, but you can’t get too close. That’s dangerous.

Otho, that’s not how non-attachment is supposed to fucking go. You are emotionally constipated, and your distance and coldness and strict rules-lawyering screwed up those kids. 

...He’s kind of an STEMwad ZOMG TECH IS PURE Bro. But he’d hate enn eff tee stuff: “Oh, you cannot tell me that’s not a religion at the core. Illogical...” He takes everything way too fucking far, and does have that pompous Rand-ass streak to him, but he’s less of a MARRIED TO MY IDEAS BECAUSE EGO smug-case than one would expect.

Ultimately, as a character, he’s a manifestation of a particular kind of war-related trauma. He’s a foil to Gaius as well, in that where Gaius GENUINELY GIVES A HUGE FUCK AND IS PASSIONATE Otho thinks the empire is the most logical conclusion to anything etc.

Needless to say, Anima fucking terrifies him. 

ALSO needless to say the way the WEAPONs are terrifying is different. Over Soul mode doesn’t eat the pilot but it DOES have a kind of “hard enrage” timer to it in that it overclocks everything, heats up like mad, locks the pilot out of most control, and...its auto-shutoff is fucked because of how much control is given over... Thus, it becomes a situation where you have to smash the WEAPON to save its pilot AND THE SURROUNDING AREA from a catastrophic explosion.)

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💚: how does my muse feel about love? about falling in love? about being in love? AND 💛: does my muse believe in love-at-first-sight? in soulmates? in fate? (for Iyddreh and/or Vikki owo)

EEE :D

I shall do both of 'em because they're both loud this evening. 💚 Iyddreh: She DOES like love, and being in love, and falling in love! even in spite of the survivors'-guilt-born creeping anxiety that her brain likes to conjure up! Even when she's CONVINCED 99% OF THE WAY that she's a complete curse and a karmic plantar wart and etc. etc. etc. (her mind is as creative with her insults for her as it is with insults for others) she can haul that fear back with: "If I wasn't supposed to love then I wouldn't." All of her partners know her past; she's very matter-of-fact about the shit she pulled, and stubborn about not pulling it again, and open about everything. She DID try to kind of sidle away from Dell once post-Carteneau when they were reconnecting, but Dell just said, "Look, we both want to be in love, and we are in love, and we want to keep doing the thing; if it all goes to fuck again, then we'll fix it."

💚 Vikki: Very similar to Iyddreh, but with much less trepidation. XD Vikki is sentimental and open-hearted and loves all kinds of love, imperfections and all. If love changes shape, that's cool--it still remains! if love fades, that's okay--she has the memories. It took her a long while to come to this point (and a lot of literal divine aid; she and Jherr's past incarnation was...let's say A ROUGH ROAD to the point that significant sacred intervention was required to unfuck things properly), but now that she's here, she's comfy? Losing love will always sting some, and unrequited love is always bittersweet...but if she hadn't taken any risks in her PRIOR life, she wouldn't have THIS one. So she'll love without fear.

💛 Iyddreh: Yes, mostly? She believes in lust at first sight, for sure. Íde of the Thirteenth fell ass-over-teakettle for Ferdiad; Iyddreh Lycopersica of Mhach walked into a door the first time she saw Cessair Blackwing, and then centuries later fell into a pond when she first set eyes on Adellinde Eoghan. All of these people are people she later did fall in love with as she was dear friends with them! She doesn't want to call things "love" until she's really certain--there's that "oh don't say it until you know, don't up and JINX IT you pigeony bastard*" self-critical voice in her head a lot. The tl;dr of it is "sort of, friendship and attraction are the foundation".

💛 Vikki: Kind of optimistically agnostic about it! She doesn't DISBELIEVE it's a thing. She's never experienced it herself, but she doesn't doubt it can happen. She's been told it happened with other people regarding her, and that makes her blush and flail around some because she's aware that first impressions of her can be in the "MA! THERE'S A WEIRD CAT OUTSIDE!" line of experience. She definitely believes in ATTRACTION at first sight (and that’s a potential beginning point of love for sure), and doesn't doubt others' immediate-heartmark experiences! It's just not a thing she's personally familiar with--so it's kind of like like bungee jumping, or feeling capsaicin! (Neither Jherr nor Vikki can be affected very much by billionty-eleven scoville unit peppers. They get a tingle, but not a burn. it makes them a little sad. :C)

(* “pigeony bastard” became her snark at herself because someone once compared her to a homing pigeon. Her sense of direction is impeccable, and she DOES kind of tend to scare people in abandoned buildings and perch in rafters. So. XD)