#five asks

[54625]

Can i get a gacha as well? I have 1 coin 🪙

why of course ! you got a divus in drag :) !!

[vi-not-violet]

I figure it is only fair to pass it along. Vi is now 5 feet tall for however many asks the mod deems appropriate

…Holy honeysuckle…

IM MASSIVE!

WAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!

[lovelyhsiao]

Hsiao your art is so awesome and cool and pretty and you are so awesome and I wanna put you in a labyrinth and watch you solve puzzles and riddles to get out

this is such a compliment..... escape room KWW style LOL

thank you:) 💕♡ Obviously I love your work a ton, so....

[dingoat]

SOME ASKS. For 5: alone, betrayal, bound, break, failure, fear, guilt, secret (but NOT his SISTER). 8)

Wow this is all going behind a read more because holy cow there's a lot. Five. How. How did you come to be like this. You were never meant to survive the first act.

alone: How does your OC deal with loneliness? Have they ever been completely alone before? How do they act when there’s no one around to see them?

Historically, Five has been very good at being alone, considering that was his preferred way to exist for much of his life. He withdrew completely from wanting or needing anyone else after losing his sister, and managed to thrive on his own. And during those years of his life, pretty much every moment he spent in public was an act of some sort; every bit of charm, everything polite and formal and proper, whether in the office reporting to Keeper or the latest Sith meddling in Intel, whether out actively winning over the Kaas public as Lord Highbridge, or working in any one of his numerous other cover identities, every interaction he had was carefully considered, fabricated, manipulated. Who he was beyond these acts was irrelevant, though he would definitely make sure to seek complete solitude for a couple of explicit purposes; to express his grief, and to engage in his preferred methods of target practice.

Nowadays his life is a little more full, a little more complicated, and finding himself alone for reasons not of his design is very unpalatable. He'll do almost anything to keep his mind busy to avoid spiralling into unwelcome emotions.

betrayal: Has your OC ever been betrayed by someone they thought they could trust? Has your OC ever betrayed someone who trusted them?

I'll start with the latter because that's easy. Yes, absolutely, all the time, a lot ahahahaha. Taking advantage and betraying the trust of people around him quite literally made him the success he was, both as a celebrity and an Imperial agent. Almost everyone who's ever crossed his path has likely been betrayed by him in some way or another, though he's also been pretty good about covering his tracks and never taking the blame for the repercussions. He did an absolute number on Blakk, but eventually pushed things so far that his hubris definitely got the better of him and that might still come back to bite him further one of these days.

And for the former? I think it could be said that Thirteen's amazing vanishing act the night Ahuska got away was a distinct act of betrayal. Good thing Five is a master of denial and quite a pro at not asking questions he'd rather not have to face the answers to.

bound: Has your OC ever been imprisoned or captured? What happened? How did they get out? Did the experience leave any scars?

The thing about the early part of Five's life is that it was designed to be the setup for a man who had always succeeded, who had always won at everything he put his mind to. He was built as the villain of the piece, the big bad, and I didn't want a shred of humility about him. So, up to the point that he's actually been fully written, no, he's certainly never been captured against his will, though I wouldn't rule out instances of manufacturing a 'capture' as part of a cover scenario in his early Intel days.

However, since Five did not in fact die during the dramatic culmination of many plot points, and he's been given the chance to start seeing some new perspectives, explore new ideas for the future, and step aside for fresh villains to start stirring the pot, there's a lot of room for things to go wrong for him now. And of course, there's the whole five years in carbonite in store for him, which he will be broken out of and is absolutely going to mess him up just that little bit more.

break: What would cause your OC to break down completely? What do they look like when that happens? Has anyone ever seen them at their lowest?

Well, his childhood trauma definitely broke him, and when the people who were supposed to support him through it gave him effectively nothing, he vowed to never allow anyone to see him that low ever again. And he was pretty much able to hold himself to that vow until he lost his arm to Ahuska's Force rend, which definitely broke him for the short term. I'm still not over the absolutely graceful, beautiful way Thirteen handled him through that period of being quietly shut down in his hospital bed.

Five is also going through a bit of something right now, where events have lead him to start studying mental health, therapy and treatment options. What he's learning is definitely causing him to crumble, but at this stage all of his ugly crying has been very private.

Something that is absolutely going to make him snap, though, and completely break in the semi-fleshed-out kotfe era, is when he attempts to reach out to Thirteen after a string of disagreements, and Thirteen shuts him down and walks away. This is going to cause a very brutal regression of so much character development and it's gonna hurt.

failure: What’s your OC’s greatest failure? Have they been able to move past it? Does anyone else know about it?

Currently, Five's greatest failure is definitely his total, abysmal failure to contain and tame 'his' werewolf. Had he not been of such a gloriously egotistical, infallible, bigoted mindset, had he actually made more of an effort to understand his team emotionally and to see Ahuska as a person, things might have gone very very differently. She might have even wound up a willing member of his squad. But as it was, all of those unsavoury qualities caught up with him in one fell swoop, and all his team knows that he was unable to hold things together. However, thanks in large to the combined efforts of Crow, Ulfran and even Thirteen to keep the rest of the galaxy off Ahuska and Blakk's backs, they were able to completely cover for the incident and have both escapees officially recorded as dead; Blakk heroically so, and Ahuska as ultimately out of control.

Five was forced to step away from his obsession and turn his focus to other things, otherwise he would have to own up to the lie and admit to a far more grave failure than Imperial records would believe. And so he did, and it has been very, very good for him, and the other Ciphers under his command.

fear: What is your OC’s greatest fear? What do they do when confronted with it? Are they open with their fear, or do they hide it away?

Once upon a time, Five's greatest fear would probably have been something along the lines as dying as a nobody, being unremarkable and forgotten to time.

Now, though? I think losing Thirteen is probably what strikes very real terror into him. He wouldn't be open about it, not something so very deep and real to him, though he may elude to it in gestures and roundabout whispers, in little romantic comments that don't at all feel like an admission of fear in the context they're given.

When truly faced with it, though, as mentioned above- it breaks him.

In another context, say if Thirteen's life were threatened rather than Thirteen himself choosing to walk away, I can see Five going into overdrive. Cold, ruthless, violently protective, and not even thinking about resting until every hint of that threat was obliterated.

guilt: What is your OC guilty about? How do they handle their guilt? Do they try to avoid guilt, or do they accept it?

Ha, Five does not handle guilt well. Of course there's survivor's guilt with regard to his sister, which he handled by growing up into a monster of a human being. There's the guilt he feels over 'the flagpole incident' which he deals with by refusing to ever actually acknowledge it aloud but allows himself to be completely wrapped around Thirteen's little finger to make up for it.

More recently and very gravely though, he's feeling a very intense, unpleasant guilt over his failure to properly address and help Thirteen through his phobia and related traumas, the repercussions of which recently got dragged through Intel's internal justice system in a very ugly fashion. Five has actually taken very heavy, serious responsibility for it and is actively working at bettering himself, determined not to let indulgence and denial get the better of him and Thirteen again.

secret: What’s one secret your OC never wants anyone to know about them?

I want to say something about how deeply emotional he really is... but honestly, he adores Thirteen and actually does want Thirteen to know the full extent of how loved he is.

So, failing that.... hmm, there's at least one cover identity he enjoys that he never wants anybody to link to him.

He also definitely doesn't want anyone to know his usernames in certain spaces of the holonet.

He also absolutely definitely very much never ever ever wants anyone to find the folder of commissioned artwork he keeps on his personal computer hahaha.

[uprising-trolls]

if you remember back when Odasha was first introduced you have been here way too long

[54625]

the holy trinity of smp plots

1) government bad

2) evil block corruption

3) homosexuality

oh boy can't wait for another beautiful day as a 2020's mcrp character ! I'm so excited to fight against the evil government again today! oh no, there's a creepy block spreading around the server, and it's crawling up my arm! where's my vaguely queerbait-y homoerotic situationship?

[54625]

Extra one for Vitra cause she's my favorite and i forgot to put it on the other ask

38. What is a very sentimental item your OC has?

:D

She was gifted a beautiful glass flute dyed green, by her parents, for I'd say her fifth birthday - before her nose was bent or her adult teeth grew in snagged at the front. It came in an ornate mahogany box, packaged alongside a piece of parchment that read "for our beautiful daughter, Vitra" in her mother's flowy handwriting. She took it with her when she left. She keeps it open on her side of divisa III's lounge, and takes it out to play it only very rarely. The boys, unable to read, have asked her what the note says, and she tells them it's some boring information about where the glass was produced. But even in their limited knowledge of Ulora script, they swear it looks like her name written at the bottom. They don't press.

[54625]

do you have any idea for what types/sizes of dragons? I love the idea of dragons, (and probably wont say no) BUT! info? ideas? :3

I was thinking about your classic European dragon : big , can fly ,lizardy , a little bit smarter than an average animal , spits fire . Type shit . Id like them to be capable of spitting various different elements not just fire . I would probably personally swap scales out for feathers out of personal aesthetic preference .. then they would look more like dinosaurs ! Which is really cool now that I'm thinking about it . They could even look more birdlike in general. What if they had the faces of owls or something ... Idk I really like making mythical creatures a little different from the Obvious. Feathers which are flammable would mean possible self-immolation which is actually kinda awesome. Imagine a dragon about to be taken out by hunters so it lights it's own feathers on fire as a last attempt to take the hunters down with it . Oh yeah.

Due to my magic system rules I have this lore about big animals technically being magi (because their souls are huge) but just not being smart/introspective enough to USE the magic. What if dragons were the exception and were actually able to use magic? An explanation for being able to "spit" fire and also some added cosmic horror elements to them because they could also theoretically do the same Turning-your-body-into-playdough thing that human magi do .

I was also thinking about how I've done a lot of worldbuilding for various places (especially xiruin) without dragons being canon yet so to not cause conflict I could have them only live in the continent of Feruin. And then there's this gravitas to seeing one fly over Xiruin where people feel like it's the end of days. And they'd have so many old folk stories about that shit from people not knowing what they were .

I also love a classic dragon rider story .. armies in Feruin fighting down on the ground while dragon dogfights tear up the sky above them . Metal

But then I could have this thing where bonding with a dragon is SUPER dangerous because of their magic. Because it's basically like being right next to the most powerful magi in the world who could turn your still conscious being into a flesh apple in one second - except that magi has the instincts, temper and intelligence of a wild fucking animal .

I don't know there's a lot of ideas bouncing around in my head for things I could do if I made them canon . Much to think about and fully open to cool suggestions

Thanks for asking as always !!