So… tell me about 007n7 please.
(I hunger for content on this man)
Ooh yay!! 7n7 ask!! I honestly think about 7n7 a lot more than you’d think considering how little I’ve posted about him on this blog but then again do I really post about anyone other than 1x? /silly
anyway, it’s a little late for me, so this is gonna be a rambly mess rather than anything properly formatted or with bullet points
Okay so part of the reason I love 7n7 is because when I was a kid, I was OBSESSED with Roblox myths and hackers, and a huge part of my fixation was c00lkidd/007n7. So when I got into Forsaken and learned about their character counterparts, I was ECSTATIC! But also, funny enough, that actually makes some parts of headcanoning 7n7 REALLY hard
For one, I’m honestly not sure how old he is. For the past while I’ve been writing him off as being 25-28, just a little bit younger than Elliot. A lot of Elliot/7n7 stuff paints Elliot as younger and 7n7 as older, but I’ve always kind of envisioned it as the opposite way around. I really don’t think 7n7 would be 30+ and letting his kid act that way and be so destructive, especially if he’d been trying to reform after the incident with Noli and the Void Star. I always imagined him as a young father who got handed a, like, 2 year old and had no clue what to do. I really, really don’t see him as neglectful or careless enough to just let his kid do fuck all. Another reason I’ve been seeing him as younger is because of real-life hacker influence. I REALLY think he was just a stupid teenager in his prime of terrorizing Elliot and Builder Brother’s, and that he and Elliot were close friends at the time. This kind of delves into my thoughts about Elliot, where he doesn’t really make friends easily and clings onto the few people he has, so I think he was super clingy to 7n7 and resistant to letting his parents ban 7n7. I also really think that 7n7 and Elliot are scarily similar people, just presenting a bit differently. I like exploring that dynamic a lot in creative works, where two people are INCREDIBLY similar but seem super different because of how they present themselves. Forsaken set them up to have a really fascinating dynamic anywayyyy imo…
Soo yeah um. Usually I start these posts off with generic/basic information but I genuinely haven’t settled on any of that for 7n7 yet, other than bigender truthing him. That general stuff just really isn’t something I’ve explored much in depth with him yet. 🤔
I think about him a lot more in the sense of history and dynamics with other characters. I’ll focus there and start this off with my hot take that c00lkidd is actually biologically related to him but in a fucked up way. I think c00lkidd is the result of Roblox’s systems not being able to process alt accounts, which made 7n7’s teenage alter ego funnel into a new person, c00lkidd. However, c00lkidd only came to existence after 7n7 put that alter ego down and tried to become a better person, which happened after the incident with Noli and a car wreck that killed his older brother 7e7 but left 7n7 with insane survivor’s guilt. Sorry for immediately going into this with horrible angst. The survivor’s guilt relates to why he’s a survivalist ingame. He’s scared of being in groups and sees himself like a bad luck charm, scared that if he sticks around the others too long in a fight, that they’ll get killed and he’ll survive again. I think that 7n7 has always had a weird survival streak his whole life and has survived a lot of things that should’ve killed him. Anyway, getting back to him and c00lkidd. 7n7 did his best but it was subpar. To be fair, he was barely a legal adult when c00lkidd entered his life, and his only parent (single mom) had died a couple years prior. I think he was orphaned when he was 15? 16? And managed to bide his time and live alone without suspicion being raised. As for his brother 7e7, he was considerably older and let’s just say they weren’t on talking terms. They were only in that car together because they were trying to catch up and rebuild their bond. Anyway, I keep getting off track. When 7n7 was in his teenage prime, he lived with Noli, who was early in college. They had a really weird and hard to describe relationship where it was kind of brotherly/cousinly, partners in crime sort of schtick. For sake of understanding, I’d guess that 7n7 was like,,,16? And Noli’s mental age around 19-20 at the time? Myths function really weirdly with age and are usually completely exempt from age unless they have something specified about them. 7n7 was really clingy to Noli and constantly wanted to impress him so I think that’s what led to the incident with the Void Star…they only had a few more months together before the Void Star started truly consuming Noli. I think 7n7 was older when that happened, and I don’t really know yet where c00lkidd comes in here. A little before? A little after? I love the dynamics I’ve seen others make where Noli knew c00lkidd pre-VS but I think it’s a lot more interesting to explore the dynamic of Noli only meeting c00lkidd in the forsaken realm and projecting his hate and pain onto c00lkidd instead of 7n7.
Oh goddd I’ve already been writing for 40 minutes. Auughh
Umm, another dynamic that’s really important to me is 7n7 and Guest 1337. This one’s really hard for me to put into words because it really just makes me super emotional, but it’s the fact that Guest is really the only survivor who’s giving 7n7 an meaningful chance…he knows how easily it is to be ostracized based on your race (guests, exploiters) and he’s really set on assessing 7n7’s character purely from his own eyes and experiences. I think he gets upset with the other survivors for avoiding and distrusting 7n7, maybe even to the point of full blown verbal fights. He really doesn’t tolerate any form of racism and will lose his shit on survivors that make racial comments about 7n7. The good thing is that this hasn’t happened in a long time, because they’ve been seeing new perspectives of 7n7. I think Guest really contributed to 7n7 developing a better sense of worth, even with all his insecurities and low self esteem. 7n7 respects Guest a lot and Guest loves the guy as a friend. They talk about their kids a lot, and Guest has been showing 7n7 how to cook, since the guy never properly learned. Guest gives him a lot of parenting advice I think. In my mind they are best friends and spin around in circles. I dunno this doesn’t feel like I’ve done justice for how important their friendship is to me,,,I had to be careful typing this out so that I didn’t start crying because tbh I project onto their dynamic because even though the racism I’ve experienced isn’t nearly to any of those extremes and has mostly just been verbal aggressions, I have been treated horrifically for being disabled, and outcast a lot, so I take a lot of comfort and projection onto dynamics where characters are chronic outcasts and bond together and one defends the other to others too and ausurjgsjldjdgdkvddkdb ;;;
Umm for some more light hearted things, I’m a doggy AND demon 7n7 truther lol. I think he has floppy dog cheese ears that stick out from his burger and I think he has a doggy tail ;; he has little red horns too but they’re just itty bitty and his bangs can cover them well. He’s a lot more “domesticated” than when he was a teen, when he was a teenager he really sucked and was def an incel redditor type of guy but nowadays he’s more reserved. Tbh he was always the reserved and anxious type, his alter ego just gave him a crazyyy ego boost. I also like playing around with the idea that 7n7 is a bacon, I think he dyes his hair and stuff to obscure it because “it’s already bad enough that I’m an exploiter” and he’s worried about Guest not liking him anymore but Guest already has his mind made up about 7n7 and it’s positive thoughts. Sorry that got a bit sad for a sec when I said it’d be more light hearted 😭
Anyway :3 have a little doodle of the guy while I figure out his design