#darkfire1177

[jack-o-bells]

Hiya! Songwriting, change and Seven for jackie and the infamous asks if you're still taking them :] (love your art btw! Jackie is GORGEOUS and I adore how you draw Sev so much!)

HELLOOOO!! you are so nice thank you for the compliments and the ask!! (this is late bc i had 3485774845 things to do, ive been slowly chipping at this ask at work tho!!)

songwriting: jackie really likes words so she starts with there. in school (highschool + college) i like to think she took some poetry classes that she LOVED where she had to keep a journal of words she liked. she kept the habit alongside owning like a million thesaurus so every song starts with a word or a set of words. then she links those words to memories or feelings or experiences and consults her band on the proper instruments for it. like what chords really make you FEEL like you’re returning home for the first time in months and it’s blizzarding outside. really specific stuff. w seven her process was basically the same except when seven was still with the band they’d bounce words and stories off of each other. a lot of their songs would basically be made up as they built worlds together. jackie now writes pretty close to home (her own emotions, relationships, problems) with her songs.

change: in part jackie has become more confident and less anxious. tbh her codependency w seven was doing nothing for her anxiety and overthinking. like with him she could manage herself but she never addressed the root issue yk? she said in her "at least seven love me!!!" bubble while hating herself and thinking everyone else hated her too. those three years without seven she went through some serious growth with her self-image both physically and mentally. she still defaults a little to people pleasing and has her bad days with anxiety attacks but she really is better.

seven: oh baby. i get to talk about duckbelle even MORE?? YAY!

so. seven and jackie were only friends before the fallout but there’s always been a tension neither of them wanted to address. jackie always thought (being a large, nerdy, blk girl) seven would never in a million years find her attractive so she disregarded any thoughts before they could start. seven would rather DIE than be the one to ruin the friendship (and also still thought jackie was out of his league lolol) so he never said anything either.

my favorite tid-bit about them is that when jackie graduated highschool her hair was FRIED as fuck from relaxer and bleach and poor maintenance so she decided to do a big chop and had to rock a buzzcut for a while. she felt so awful and insecure about it but seven was like "i got you twin" and buzzed his hair too! they literally are such cutie pies with buzzcuts ill probably draw it later lol.

[link to the ask game if anyone else wants to play!]

[b33tlejules]

Challenger deep and rhan? :]

this guy and their sinister nosebleeds i swear to god

[butchselkie]

5&32?

(From this ask game!)

Thank you, both of you!! 💙💙

5: Second favorite food

Other than biscuits and gravy, Sierra also loves hashbrowns. Potatoes in general, really, but she has a particular love for diner hashbrowns. Especially when they’re super greasy and just a little undercooked, she likes them soft. :)

32: Habits that they would stop if they could

If she could, she’d give up smoking—she knows it’s bad, but whenever she thinks about it, she justifies her habit with a “well, it could be something worse, so it’s actually okay.”

[kidhellion]

Nikki questions! 20&30?

30.What would they do if they knew it would be forgiven?

if he could justify it he would kill more

[brella-boi]

Happy Spring! May I request a Valya? They're a hero turned villain, that is. Just the worst at being the "bad guy"

(Also good luck with the Dango suit building! I love their design and am excited to see it come together!)

hes so cringefail he cant even tie his own shoes

[tag-that-oc]

Could I have a ship name for Orion and Orlando?

orindo or orlion!

[xx-sushi-xx]

@darkfire1177

[lesbianoctoling]

🖊 🖊 thatcher and angel?

Meme

Thatcher -

The daughter of Toni Kensa and an Octoling. It's hard to tell that he's part inkling at first glance, but his ears give him away. He grew up not knowing who his father was and was raised as a soldier, but after discovering the secret through a magazine (without much proof, though) he came to the surface to become a nuisance and try to take over his father's company.

Thatcher is such a fun character for his premise alone. I want to write a short story about him one day. He actually hardly has any solid evidence of his heritage when he first comes to the surface other than 'we look alike and you vaguely mentioned your previous love life in a magazine interview once', but his father's reaction to him when they meet is enough. There's big daddy issues here.

He loves the surface though, and company aside Thatcher wants to become a fashion designer or something eventually. He also bothers Ava like, a lot. Ava and Callie were the ones to help him in the first place!

Thatcher's mom also kind of hates Toni Kensa too. I want to write Toni Kensa as an epic divorce man. I should honestly think about it all more one day, but it's really a story for another day.

Angel -

oh my god angel i can go on about her for literal hours and hours and hours . After I got a bit stuck writing WPW i kind of ended up focusing on her and her story. My poor little meow meow. My absolute garbage of a woman. I have a ton of human art of her too, because her human counterpart is similar but a little more grim and in a sci-fi universe. If I were to ever take my ocs out of Splatoon she's where I'd start with a unique universe, but I'm happy with her having two versions.

Trying to figure out what to say about her without spoiling story stuff I also want to share on day is a little hard - though a lot can be pieced together through some art too tbh.

Her morals are awful but she doesn't think so. Angel is an unreliable narrator, and why I want to write about her so bad one day. She's awful, but in a way where I can't really say where she stands on 'worst to least worse' of my villain ocs. She's willing to kill anyone in her way under the guise of making her world (The Deepsea Metro City) better, but she'd never ever hurt a child. She's consumed by this, but she thinks she's in the right. She hates the Telephone so much. So much.

But her plans for revenge take years. She's around 25 when her villain arc starts, and 37 during Octo Expansion (I think 42 at the start of Splatoon3). She's a chemist with the odd job of stealing memories and making mem cakes out of them. I haven't figured out how this makes sense yet, I have to research it, so this could change in the future. But her stealing memories is pretty important - about every test subject in Kamabo has gone through her for it.

Tartar has tried to sanitize her a few times but her body's tetrodotoxin combats it. He gave up and gave her her current job instead. She's experimented on herself with sanitization before, though, over the years - to try and see if it was possible to sanitize an octoling and keep their free will. This resulted in the scarring on half her body and sanitized eye. Sara was eventually the first successful attempt at this. i don't have a smart in universe scientific explanation for all of this but I want to do my research eventually to make sense of it. If ur a scientist and this doesn't make sense I am so sorry.

Post story is weird. She isn't forgiven for most of the damage she's done and I think it's important to point that out. I hesitate to say she gets 'redeemed'. I was actually originally going to kill her off, because I didn't know what to do with a villain like her without somehow saying her actions were ok. I decided not to, though, because not only had I become really attached to her, but it also felt extremely cruel - she's evil, sure, but she's also very very traumatized and a pretty sad woman. She can live, but has to forever live with the guilt of what she's done.

Oh and some of the people she's killed still want revenge on her years later so she has to deal with quite a few metaphorical bounties on her head.

i like to joke about it sometimes though because i am guilty of making her a little silly....

She has two girlfriends by Splat 3 (post story), Idunn who belongs to @herosplatling-replica and Rivera who belongs to @inkbwush . They're all a fucking mess and their family gets big and complicated because polyamory and found family does dat.