i was like woah the latverian flag colors then realized it was probably not intentional. cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see
❤️ - Do you have any headcanons about your f/o? Are they common or not? What inspired them?
there is the one we have mentioned about his mask helping with his daily needs! another physical headcanon i have along those same lines is that he is prone to phantom pains on his face from the accident. those are both inspired by a speaker who came to my school a long time ago with a major wound of a similar nature that impacted most of the bottom half of his face.
other than that, i think he is a lot meatier than the comics + movies depict him as, and that is inspired by well i just like big guys + he's carrying around easily 60 lbs of armor and another 20 in his stupid heavy cloak and furs?? he needs to be decently strong okayyyy
one last one is that i don't think he likes to listen to music while he works. i feel like he starts to dissect the track unbidden as it plays and the history of it and the history of the composer and so on and it can be overwhelming/overstimulating when he's trying to focus on such delicate work already. that's inspired by the animator milt kahl: when asked if he listened to classical music while he worked like everyone else was in the studio, he went “i’m not smart enough to think of more than one thing at a time!” which doom would not ever say ever but that's the inspiration.
💚 - Do you own any merch? If you don't, is there any that you would like to own? (Can be made up! If your f/o doesn't have merch, what kind of merch would you want them to have?)
my noble statue my mother got me for my birthday that didn't arrive until two weeks ago and a humble pin that says "you are doomed." i'm not much of a merch collector, so two pieces is saying something! if i ever get one million dollars i would buy one of those 4000usd watercolor pieces of him
🖤 - If your f/o has any friends / colleagues / family, how do you feel about them? Would you get along? What's your relationship with them like?
this part got lonnnng so it goes under the cut
LEVI LOVES VALERIA!! levi loves valeria and franklin both a lot, valeria is just around more, but he is very proud of both of them. he encourages their mischief but still panics if it goes too far. he seems like an irresponsible person, and he is with his own safety, but not with others'. fighting for johnny with "the fun uncle" title despite having more limited time with them.
levi also loves boris, doom's sort-of father figure turned royal advisor (? i don't know if he has an official title... i don't think so). their history is a little sad on account of the whole dying thing. i imagine while boris has all the love in the world for victor, he might not love every change he has gone through since he was a child, so back when levi was just a human and the two of them talked, it was probably very grounding to be able to talk with someone from time to time who would make a lowbrow joke and just be a normal/pleasant person. they saw each other a lot less after levi died, but then got back on better terms again after several years + levi mellowing out.
kristoff isn't quite in a settled position in 502 yet -- his story is pretty much the same, but he's not a directly adopted son. still a ward of the state and cared for, just less directly because victor was young and afraid and angry and busy (but kristoff did still bring out the best in him at that time). But levi probably would feel similarly to him as valeria + franklin ("i love this kid and so for his own good i must take every opportunity i have to humble him.")
levi is scared of magneto even though in 502 he is going through a lot of character development. it is still understandable though, he's 95% metal and 100% reliant on the metal not imploding. doom says the alloy wouldn't be affected by his powers but like... you never know. he doesn't show it outwardly and treats erik like just another person and can actually see through him pretty decently. this was nice until it wasn't. they get along just fine! as long as they're not around each other for more than 20 minutes and get to talking... there's this aspect that hasn't been fully explored yet in that levi reminds magneto a bit of his son and wanda can tell so that's nice and means only good things
namor hmmm they don't get along the best but not the worst. namor doesn't get why levi respects doom's ego but not anyone else's. levi is definitely interested in the culture and horticulture of atlantis, but namor probably sees that as intrusive, until levi shows up at the bottom of the ocean one day detained by his guard because he was really wanting to admire the gardens. they can gossip cuntily. levi will not be passing along any of the messages to sue.
cynthia...................... oh boy. levi feels a lot of different things about cynthia, but knows it's really not his place to make judgements or assumptions about her + her impact on victor's life, so he keeps that all to himself. they did meet in hell just for a little bit before her soul was finally won. it didn't make his view of her any clearer. levi holds a lot of regard for both her and werner, naturally.
enemies are a colleague of sorts so: the four... oh boy. they would need a post of their own. tldr; he thinks reed is a (very kind, too kind) coward, susan is lovely, relates to ben more than he would like to admit, and can only be left alone around johnny for 5 minutes at a time but they used to be closer. levi wishes he hates them more than he actually does, which is minimally, but don't tell him i told you. he does genuinely hate looking at reed though that's real and that's forever
that's enough for one post + all that i can think of right now, but i can always talk about levi forever. ohhhh no i just realized i never made a post explaining his lore. i've just been talking about him dying like people know what i'm talking about. i... will fix that.... eventually.
im curious do you have any thoughts on levi and dr strange 🤔
FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK FOR HIM. strange hates levi a little bit, but also feels bad for him, but also likes him a little bit. levi is wary of strange but also grateful. it changes over the years so here it kind of is chronologically
levi studied the very most basic magic, the only stuff he was allowed to read in doom’s library (and he couldn’t understand all of it lbr), and god does he misuse it. there is the time he opened the door to hell to let demons out to get strange out of his house to rob him. there is the fact levi made a deal with mephisto. strange hates that his spells work. you know those photos
this is what levi’s spells look like to strange. there is an odd bit of respect that he is able to get them to work at all, but mostly horror at the execution. they usually fly under his mystic alarm radar in the way you don’t know you have an anthill in your yard until you see a lot of them.
strange helps levi bypass the protections doom put on him to sacrifice himself in an “it must be done” situation, but levi wanted it to be done so he has no qualms with strange for that. then, the year he was in hell was the same year strange helped doom free cynthia’s soul. he was busy with his own stuff so there was no interaction between those two storylines, but he was aware it happened (maybe he could have seen it. that would be cool) and is so so grateful that he helped doom be rid of that burden. he sends him an anonymous gift once he’s, you know, alive again.
because of the fact strange had to examine levi (academically + medically) to do the previously mentioned sacrifice, after that point strange knows how he works and what happened (how he lost literally his entire body), and though he doesn’t take any personal responsibility in helping him because they don’t know each other like that, he does feel bad. mostly levi is still an annoyance mystically, but i think strange is surprised at how pleasant and subtly funny a person levi can be when he’s not scared for his life.
+ because of levi’s friendship with magik through his friend teagan, he kind of inherited the viewpoint of stephen as an overbearing teacher. he thinks strange can be a bit pompous, but concedes that it is deserved, so it doesn’t bother him. what does bother him is that he doesn’t know how his own body works, just that it involved doom’s usual combination of sorcery and science, and so before allowing stephen to examine him, was like “what if he can just rip my soul from my body. let’s just not mess with him” and still thinks that sometimes afterwards because he’s just prone to that type of thinking. i don’t think strange corrects him on this lmao
i give them harper lee by suzanne vega, but in an obviously sarcastic way
🎀 Do any canon characters - excluding your F/O(s) - have crushes on your S/I?
HEEHEE. levi gay trapped bruce banner once in an imaginary issue that takes place in madripoor. he likes his crossdressing disguise lillian. it's actually a very emotional night where it's clear levi is desperate for a friend, but it goes wrong, of course. other than him, johnny used to, but that's been gone for a while. they kind of both liked each other. things could have been so different.
oh boy, there's a few situations before levi and doom get together where there is a reciprocal "crush" that's not acted on now that i think about it? johnny storm, frank castle, and rocket i think are all of them. they were situations where it was hard for anyone to tell if they wanted to be together or if they just needed a friend.
anyway here's a lillian drawing from a few months ago (bruce is just in his rival's skin. i didn't feel like coming up with a new design shhh)
🪄 Which canon character is the closest to being the complete opposite to your S/I?
oooooh this is a really good one. i think ultron, off the top of my head. ultron tries to be as removed from humanity as possible, but at the end of the day, still gravitates towards it despite despising it + was based off of a human's scan, and he hates his creator hank but needs his approval (i think. if my sources are correct) vs levi who tries to stay connected with humanity as much as possible because he really does love it so deeply, but can't help but veer away from it after it was forcibly taken from him, and he loves his "creator" doom. he doesn't care so much if doom approves of anything, he just cares about doom's own happiness.
💎 What's your S/I's most prized possession? (Other than your F/O)
his biiiiig gun. he is very proud of making it (even if it was mostly just following instructions and then customizing it), and it makes him feel very safe. his second most prized possession is his little gun.
14: Who would win at arm wrestling? (Fair and square or using tricks?)
stalemate until the earth explodes and then even after that if fair. they would both just lock their elbow joints and then nobody can do anything. levi is a LOT stronger than doom but doom's armor is built to withstand So much. and levi doesn't have muscles to tire out or anything. if doom was out of armor for whatever reason though, levi wins easily. but he never is. so, stalemate.
using tricks, levi, but only once. ("ah, damn it, my elbow locked up." "impossible, it can withstand a rotational force up to several tons. let me see.")
17: Who is the first to apologize after a fight?
definitely mostly it's levi (+ i feel like doom has such a hard time apologizing if he's ever in a heat of the moment situation). they aren't capable of fighting about normal things because neither of them are concerned by that type of stuff, so it usually ends up being about one of doom's laws that levi broke/resources he used assuming he had the authority to. one time he "borrowed" stole a spaceship on a quest for revenge and accidentally kickstarted an interplanetary war. that was their worst fight everrrr and levi got exiled.
there are times where levi will go not against one of doom's plans but outside of what the plan was because he sees the situation has changed and/or just wants to do his own thing, and doom doesn't like it and he'll get stern about it, but i don't think either of them see those as fights.
now, who feels more sorry? doom absolutely.
(i do try to think of the types of stupid fights + disagreements that happen in comics just for the sake of tension between allies, but like... tf do doom and levi disagree on? doom wants to strip mine for resources and levi's punching the ground and wailing because he's an environmentalist?)
22: Who is more likely to accidentally get hurt (and get treated by the other)?
ten million percent levi, it happens all the time. it's the crux of his backstory. and then for a long time, levi very regularly throws himself at problems physically and tanks everything he can because he knows he can just be rebuilt (for the most part). i don't think either of them mind the time they spend together during those moments, unless doom was particularly busy or levi was particularly embarrassed about how it happened.
