Filling out this questionnaire for @sonic-oc-showdown so that everyone can know a little more about Ely!
(Questions under the cut)
✨- How did you come up with the OC’s name?
Chuggaconroy's playthrough of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 was fresh on my mind at the time, so I decided to pull a name from there! I first thought of naming it Aegis, but because I saw another OC who had that name already, I decided on Elysium instead, and I think that's for the better. (Plus I'd end up using the name Aegis for an original project later on, so naming it something else made things less confusing lol)
Elysium is a sort of heaven in Greek mythos, so I think it's pretty fitting for a character who's searching for a purpose as well as inner peace in life.
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🌼 - How old are they? (Or approximate age range)
He's an android, so he's technically ageless. He's modeled after Shadow, who is 15 years old, so you could consider that his age as well.
If you wanna go chronologically, though, he's only existed for a little less than a year.
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🌺- Do they have any love interest(s)?
Nope! No interest in romance. They don't really know what that feels like.
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🍕 - What is their favorite food?
She doesn't have taste receptors or the ability to eat, unfortunately. She wishes she could try flan though, it looks so yummy...
Maybe one day...
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💼 - What do they do for a living?
Thanks to Sonic's world being the way it is, it doesn't have to worry about working for money in the slightest.👍
It does wander the world and occasionally fight against Eggman, if that counts.
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🎹 - Do they have any hobbies?
They have quite a few! They take up a lot of different hobbies trying to find what sticks. They like to study a lot of things, mostly culture, biology, astrology, and mythology, as well as travel the world with Livewire. They also really enjoy landscape photography, birdwatching, going to Chao Gardens, literally anything that allows them to study and learn about the nature around them.
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🎯 -What do they do best?
For a good while, he didn't know what he was good at. Being discarded for his inability to fight like other Shadow Androids (among other imperfections) tore his self-esteem to shreds. It took a long time for him to feel like he could be good at anything.
In spite of that, he's got pretty good aim, even if he's unwilling to shoot anyone or anything. He also has near perfect memory (for better or for worse), and is a pretty good photographer.
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🥊 -What do they love to do? What do they hate to do?
She loves to wander and explore new places, seeing new sights and listening to the world around her. She could sit outside for hours upon hours simply watching and hearing people pass by, birds fly overhead, plants shifting in the wind, anything she can notice in her environment. It's her favorite thing to do.
She absolutely hates fighting, even against Eggman's forces, though she knows she's doing the right thing by standing up against him. She hates having to draw her weapon against another and wishes she'd never have to. She also hates speaking. Her voicebox is faulty, so most of the time her voice comes out glitchy and wrong, if it comes out at all.
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❤️ - What is one of your OC’s best memories?
Its best memories are often some of the most mundane. Waking up and stepping outside to a cool morning shower, watching the sunrise or the sunset, spending the day lazing around on the couch with Livewire and Nebula watching movies, traveling to new places...
The best out of all, though, is seeing the night sky for the first time. It had never seen it before during its short time with Eggman, but when it got to see it for the first time, lying on the grass and gazing up to the cosmos above, it was overcome with a feeling of awe, and of relief, too. It was the most beautiful thing it had ever seen.
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✂️ - What is one of your OC’s worst memories?
Shadow Androids are put through a series of tests before they're considered suitable for deployment. Many of these are combat-based, or speed-based. Defeat a certain amount of enemies under a time limit, reach the goal in a certain amount of time, etc.
Elysium failed all of these.
Those who fail are to be torn apart by the other Shadow Androids, before being thrown out into one of Eggman's personal scrap yards.
They remember all of it, up until the moment their energy reserves ran out, and they completely shut down lying in a pile of scrap metal, completely unable to move.
Good thing Livewire eventually found them, huh?
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🧊 - Is their current design the first one?
Yup! He hasn't gotten any redesigns yet, and I don't see him getting any in the foreseeable future.
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🍀 - What originally inspired the OC?
I saw other people's Shadow Android OCs and Ely eventually popped into my head! I wanted to do something a little more unique with her, though. Most of the ones I've seen either still work for Eggman or rebelled against him, so I decide to make her defective from the start instead since I hadn't seen that before.
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🌂 - What genre do they belong in?
Slice of life :]
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💚 - What is your OC’s gender identity and sexuality?
It's agender and uses any pronouns! It hasn't figured out what it's sexuality is, though. Probably aroace.
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🙌 - How many sibling does your OC have?
Do the hundreds of thousands of badniks currently online count as siblings? If so, they're all disowned by him.
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🍎 - What is the OC’s relationship w/their parents like?
Eggman kiiiiiiinda counts as a parent right?
Yeah they hate him. Also disowned.
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🧠 - What do you like most about the OC?
Her backstory. I love when robots who typically don't have any autonomy break away from their creators and original programming and find their own purpose <3
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✏️ - How often do you draw/write about the OC?
Not enough 😔
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💎 - Do you ever see yourself killing off the OC?
God no. If I ever do that I, I want you to shoot me in the head.
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💀 - Does your OC have any phobias?
It has a crippling fear of failure, confrontation, and abandonment, due to its past experiences.
It also hates seeing dismantled robots. That's like gore to it. It begins to panic at the sight of it.
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🍩 -Who is your OC’s arch-nemesis or rival?
Eggman is definitely their arch-nemesis. He's probably the only person out there they're willing to hurt, given the chance.
As for rivals, they don't have any. They're just not good rival material. They're way too nice and too avoidant of any kind of confrontation.
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🎓 - How long have you had the OC?
Over a year now! I made him in June 2022 :]
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🍥 - What age were you when you created the OC?
I made her just before my birthday in 2022, so I was almost 17! Time flies, huh.
