#earth-502

[nouveaumoon]

mr. icky yucky

[happyhounddeliveries]

i want to be your first customer! i will take... anything you want to write. we have talked so i know you have a few ideas, feel free to pick any of them :] -t-zone

**You hear the tip tap of paws at your door, and a muffled WOOF announces your delivery!** @t-zone

Hi Levi! Reed here, just checking in and thought the good old fashioned letter might have a better chance of reaching you…wherever you are. We noticed you haven’t been around lately and, admittedly, we got a little worried! New York has been oddly quiet with you not around.

I know of course you need your alone time, but previous experiences reminded us how tense you sometimes get if you’re gone too long. All of us here at the Baxter building are hoping you’re doing alright and not…Well, you know…planning to attack us like last time. We’re still working on the repairs from the laser drones. Franklin and Valeria are well! They miss you plenty, and after a thorough check of your last package, wanted me to extend their gratitude to you for the very creative puzzle toys. Admittedly, the one that clicks worries me a little bit, but it’s all in good fun. Presuming this finds you well—we hope you’re enjoying your mandated time off from your Latverian diplomat duties. We workaholics sometimes struggle with that, don’t we? Haha, well, take care! All the best,

Dr. Reed Richards

[moldwood]

whatever. go forth

[t-zone]

in bed fully clothed and armored because you can never let them know your next move

[nouveaumoon]

1 hr trend redraw

[nouveaumoon]

good doggy

[t-zone]

hello t, i realized i know nothing about your guy named levi, can you please tell me a bit (or a lot) about levi 🙂‍↕️

sniffs sneetly 🥺.... here is a post from my main where i give a VERY basic bit of information. i do realize now that that post doesn't make the most sense so here it is rephrased:

He is my marvel insert/oc from when I was 14 who I brought back for the sole purpose of being Doom's little henchman, and then to kiss Doom, but he can't even do that. He was used in evil science experiments by space aliens that messed up his body really bad so he's actually just a brain in a jar piloting a robot (made by doom, ty doom :D). He devoted the next chunk of his life to getting revenge at any cost! So he learned a lot about guns and fighting, a little about magic, and made a deal with Mephisto (that he kept secret for a very long time). The saying "He who seeks revenge digs two graves" held true and he died, but he was able to be brought back through science and magic! And then he kept making more mistakes for a very long time, but we love him anyway. I was just talking about sorry we're closed earlier, so here is "matilda" from the ost that is him at his worst, and then "nature boy" which i have linked before is him at his best

Personality wise, I would say that he is a lot of contradictions. He is a cynic who really does believe that a better world is possible. He can come off ummm like a quirky jerk let's say because he does things like laughs at inappropriate times and seems blasé and seems dismissive, but really he cares a lot about people and is very thoughtful + protective with those he loves. He is incredibly loyal. He doesn't even hide that he cares, he just can come off brusque with how he goes about it (especially in public. when he's alone with someone, he can be really sweet + gentle. it's a bit of a coin flip, a bit dependent on the situation). Sometimes he seems like he is trying to ragebait you to death. At other times, he comes off as masochistic. And sometimes alone in private (but where the viewer can see him in panels), he comes off as very vulnerable/scared. It's a bit of a thought experiment in how emotions might affect you/how they manifest when you can't actually feel them in your skin and muscles to express/regulate!

anywayy here is the optional longer part, the super abbreviated Levi Torres loredoc/timeline. this will not seem abbreviated but it is. i kind of want to make a carrd that has a mini summary of each arc or something, because this doesn't even mention the trial. TLDR; my little gun nut, bullets are magic

Something to keep in mind is that this is Earth-502, not the the main 616 universe, meaning most events happen a little differently than in canon. It is a marching linear line and has consequences that lead to character/world development, for better + for worse. aka characters age. There is wayyy more stuff going on with friends' ocs and changes to the world we've collectively written that are not mentioned here 🤞

it's not meant to be all about how he and doom affect each other, they very much have their own lives and the majority of levi's daily life and struggles don't center around him, it's just that these impetus moments are tied to him on account of his massive pull in levi's story. also i mostly laid out the facts but there are emotional reasons for everything #trust. okay enough we start now

Part 1

This part is longer because it sets up a lot of why's, but it is the shortest part of Levi's actual story. Levi first gets noticed by Doom when he intervenes with something going on (i never decided exactly what..eehh) and risks his life to make sure something goes according to Doom's plan. This is very suspicious for an American immigrant to be doing in Latveria, combined with the fact he has a suspicious lack of history (no degree 🗿 minimal internet presence 🗿 hardly any traceable purchases 🗿 claims to be an artist but has practically no portfolio 🗿 this is a fake identity if Doom has ever seen one) (also these are just traits about me). Doom suuuuper thinks he is a spy, and hires him to paint his portrait in order to keep him under surveillance and too busy to do obvious spy work. Levi is so very much not a spy. During these portrait sessions, because Levi insists having his model there for at least a few of them -- and promises to reveal how he can tell the bots from the genuine article once the portrait was finished -- they have some good talks. They bond in a very human way, which is something Doom doesn't do often at all. Doom likes the portrait and certainly not the portraitist but he still wants to keep this guy around. For reasons. Hasn't proved that he's a spy yet, totally. (Levi's a good + genuine hater and gets his cynicism, but still understands that there is a want for a better world behind it. He really sees the best in Doom without the "performance" of Dr. Doom and it makes Doom feel a little good.) So he is brought on to stay as a "communications officer"/"press secretary" -- a glorified social media manager and propagandist, because let's be real Doom would NEVER let anyone write a speech for him. Since they were in each other's proximity, they talked whenever time allowed, and Levi got to be as good a friend as anyone could be to someone that self obsessed, paranoid, and busy. One day, Levi gets abducted by the Skrull (who are not yet known to Earth) and used in their experimentation. A hostage negotiation happens, and he is returned, but the experiments resulted in his cell replication becoming unstable. He ossifies and splinters off and it's gross. Doom tries to save him, but it cannot be reverted in time. In the end, only his brain and eyes were salvageable before they could be affected by the serum™. They are kept alive and active, but his heart and body are gone.

Part 2

Doom rebuilds Levi a robotic body to house his remaining organs utilizing science and sorcery. His appearance and voice are illusions of his past self. After coming out of his (understandable) depression, he only cares about getting revenge on those who did this to him. He spends a lot of time learning about weaponry, beginner magic, and fighting, but he is not a genius by any definition of the word. This stretch of time includes picking fights with various heroes, studying under Doom, becoming brief friends with the Punisher before that of course falls apart, and making a deal with Mephisto. When the Skrull eventually return to Earth years later to make a fake peace treaty, Levi seizes the opportunity, stealing Doom's ship and taking it to commit a massacre in the Skrull scientists' craft. This jumpstarts what would become the Secret Invasion arc of Earth-502. The Skrull declare war, Doom declares Levi exiled, and Levi wants to disappear. He is brought in after a large attack on NYC (where else?) and it is discovered that his genetic stuff is being used in the Skrull's serum as a stabilizer. Through some bullshit via Reed Richards and Dr. Strange working together, Levi gives himself up as a willing sacrifice -- by erasing his physical matter from existence, it would take it out of the serum, and the fighting Skrull would be messed up. It works, and the Skrull's serum is now more unstable like it is in 616 canon (i think), and Levi dies again -- or maybe it's more apt to say the rest of him is finally dead? It doesn't win the war by a long shot, but it makes it winnable because the Skrull are no longer practically invincible.

Part 3 + so on

Thanks to the wording of his deal with Mephisto, Levi spends the next year in hell. The invasion is dealt with in this time. Doom, in one of his moments of clarity on matters like this, sees that he was wrong, and that Levi was not betraying him, and that he failed him by not stopping him from dying (again), and maybe realizes he misses the guy + that he's not better off without him, and gets his soul out of hell. (there will be a full comic about this eventually yayyy.) Through even more bullshit, his brain and eyes are able to be regrown and put back in another new robot body, and now additional runes bind his soul to it as well. (He's like a 50 year old car that Doom keeps putting parts in. Just let it go, buddy.) Levi has to learn what it means to be alive again now that he has no more clear drive with his revenge having been carried out. He makes some friends, kills some Nazis, but is ultimately restless and dissatisfied. This is unfortunate, given that everything that has transpired has lead to Doom growing + being more content than Levi has ever seen him. It makes him feel like things changed too much while he was obsessed with his self imposed mission/dead. Levi makes a lot of mistakes in this time too, and ultimately, he and Doom decide it's for the best if Levi leaves his side for a time -- Levi feels like he is influencing Doom for the worse and Doom feels that Levi can't find happiness in the same menial tasks and conversations that he used to (projecting a bit from his own history of fucking off to the Himalayas).

They proceed to have the messiest separation arc possible in which Levi is contacted by a Doom from another universe -- one more camp and cruel like the way his Doom used to be -- and attempts to help that one further his plans along to merge the two worlds under the assumption it would give him back his body and that he would be doing something good for the world for a change. An arc of Levi being a miserable little henchman later and the good guys winning, Levi learns to find value in this life with what he does have + that he's not the bad person he thinks he is + that he likes his Doom's newfound sense of self better (and that the other Doom killed his Levi so there was nothing to merge with in the first place). 502 is forever sealed off from multiverse fuckery at the end of this arc just because me and my friends don't love it, so we're getting any necessary multiverse stuff done at once/before this point :P. Doom and Levi are reunited and well they don't kiss because neither of them actually have lips but they are open with themselves and each other about how they like to have the other in their life now. after like 10 or 15 years.

They're not like... good perfect people. they still have bite + camp + conflict with the status quo and are willing to do things that aren't the best for their idea of greater good, they're just more open to Not Only Hating things forever. but a real hater never is off their game. i have no story past this point so the end

okayy yayyyy that's a lot! levi is sooo nice and can be trusted with confidential information. i hope this isn't too much 😭 part 2 alone is the 20+ page document that linked post mentions.

[nouveaumoon]

doom's is barebones but they're up in time.... they're up..............