23: how would you describe their voice? can they sing?
caseidae's voice is melodic and a little breathy, more typically "masculine" but is higher pitched than erin's. erin's voice is more boyish but is lower, nasally and incredibly raspy. caseidae can sing a little but more in a blues way, erin can say words in a mild tune and thats all he got
26: how do they move? are they clumsy? light on their feet? do they use mobility aids?
caseidae's need for mobility aids (as an adult) comes from standing up idly, so he's someone who likes pacing around or shifting his weight on his feet even when using his crutches, also more relaxed and fluid in his movements
erin has a case of mixed type adhd but also soldier. he can be incredibly regimented and stiff in his movements due to training and his augment encompassing both fine and gross motor, but as much as he Can be very precise and stiff, its Not Fun and he likes having big movements and full body turns even when it’s not necessary
they both fidget with their hands a lot, but caseidae’s more in the “cracking and popping his knuckles repeatedly” way while erin will start idly doing knife spinning tricks using a protein bar.
33: if applicable, how would your other characters describe them? i mean specifically the people around them.
caseidae’s friends say he’s someone very good at seeming like the most normal one of their trio. too many minute facts saved up he’s physically shaking to share and surprising recklessness and impulsivity when the pursuit of knowledge that gets his ass for him to be normal.
erin’s friends are not my characters so i’m speaking on their behalf (sorry @starlit-miasmas heelp) and the behalf of the five million people he talks to on the daily. when he's not forced to restrain himself, erin’s passionate and reliable, but the passion part hits you in the face first. he's at 200% in all directions, but is still responsible and good at following through on his million promises and outlandish claims. the energy he brings to everything sometimes is infectious, sometimes you become collateral damage.
HELLO we are not looking at how long this took for me to respond okay! this is for the torturing ocs ask game a while back. i am answering this also with my own oc stor(y/ies), out with a bang + you belong here, besides the teenexo world. softlaunching ocs.
“torturing ocs ask game” should explain it enough but mental distress + some injury and violence is mentioned
3. Who do you put through the most emotional turmoil?
erin really doesn’t need to have that many external stressors before he starts going through it. he kind of does it to himself more than anything. life would be so much less stressful for him if he (in OWAB/YBH especially) didn’t experience ages 0-18 with such a Fucked perspective of the world. there’s a short thing i wrote he gets the sweater of the guy he likes and genuinely starts having a moral debate about if the fact there’s a part of him that likes this is something he is allowed to have or if that fucks up his role in society. is his still a morally good person if he wants to bury his face in one (1) sweater or is he a lost cause and a lesser form of human being. maybe even going down this train of thought means he’s a bad person because even being conflicted in the first place is unbecoming of him. he is 16 years old in this. do we see what his possible issue is. he just does it to himself unprompted.
for the teenexo version, a lot of my ocs have a lot more internal conflict with just, the environment they live in in general. kei has a more external source of conflict though; spending far too much time in his early teens / late childhood genuinely fearing for his father’s life due to two dif hospitalization incidents and sticking with his only parent 24/7 while his brother seems to move on after far too little time. the entire colony seems to move on without him sometimes. something something immovable object something something the more you love the harder you grieve
7. Who do you put most into stressful situations or other drama?
im constantly putting erin in the shredder. my other ocs are also going through peril but a lot of the conflicts i go for usually in ocs is like underlying environmental issues / having a naturally stressful state of being than an outright Situation. in teenexoverse it’s erin simply for the year (one year) he had that was “severely injured in an emergency situation + no longer seen as an adept soldier even though that’s all you had going for you so you’re pushing your physical limits to get back to where you are + dead dad and mom is experiencing such extreme levels of grief she can’t be a mother to you anymore + permanently discharged from service both on lashing out at peers AND residual physical difficulties bc you are 7 months out from terrible injuries so your attempts of kicking and screaming and clawing to get back to where you were actually made things worse for you.” the rest of his time is him shaking the bars of his enclosure trying to develop a sense of self + find new intrinsic motivation. at least he makes good soup post canon? in some timelines?
8. Who ends up in survival situations the most? How do they fair in them?
HOWEVER. etsuo ends up in the shredder more than most of my guys do in terms of physical injury. the reason why i gave him a mobility-related disability in OWAB/YBH is because it became a recurring motif in aus for me to constantly do themes of “guy with a theme of fleeing as soon as he can and i put him in life threatening survival situation where his physical ability to run from adversity is fucked in some way” and there’s only so many times a guy has to do self amputation in a musty abandoned building / gets shot in the leg literally / etc before i decided i needed a tribute to that in canon somehow
i’ve yet to put etsuo into a whole full like . “plane crash into an island / got stranded in the woods” kind of survival situation but i’ve got post apocalypse + alice in borderland au + cyberpunk au as my main ones off the top of my head. and also he used to be in some 80s last-one-standing horror movie esque aus due to my brief interest in the quarry/until dawn. in post-post apocalypse he ran away from his nomad colony because he accidentally fucked up and got got by his own hunting trap, is scared he is literally becoming part of the woods through his injury, and now lives in a convenience store. i think that sums his usual experience up p well
12. What kind of health repercussions has your oc experienced through intense stress? How do they manage them?
(et)suo experiences hypersomnia and has a natural Prey Animal Awareness to him. erin has insomnia and, ironically, his heightened coordination augment ends up partially affected by a tremor that comes and goes. his fine motor skills fluctuate. in OWAB/YBH etsuo deliberately works freelance so he can schedule and pace out each of his contracts to prevent fatigue from kicking his ass (his deadlines have enough pressure for him to not procrastinate but it’s enough time that having an Off Morning will not doom his workload. he refuses to work in the mornings.) erin kind of just rawdogs it tbh but he decidedly does not work on anything requiring sharp objects or preciseness if the tremors are getting his ass during a moment.
