#fred zhang

[astrophysician]

Fred Zhang, a recent commission for @iamdeltas! she was super fun to draw and i'm proud of the result :D

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[iamdeltas]

Hello! I love OCs. Spill the deets for questions 4 & 42

Sorry for responding so late! Also I decided to answer the questions for all my OCs because I like talking about them all! 😁

4. What is their relationship with their parents? What’s a good and bad memory with them? Did they know both parents?

This is a fun one since my OCs have fairly different relationships with their parents.

Suhailah was very close with her mom. Her mom encouraged her interest in building stuff and especially magitech, particularly since Suhailah's ability to create magitech is inherited from her mom. One bad memory she has is when one accident caused by a teleportation ray that Suhailah made resulted in her mom being teleported away to some unknown place on Suhailah's eighth birthday. A good memory with her mom is when she and her mom built a birdhouse together. Her relationship with her dad on the other hand is strained. Her relationship with her dad was never great, as her dad was always overly critical and controlling, but after her mom was teleported away, her dad tried his best to ignore Suhailah's existence out of fear, now that he saw what she could do. He provides for her financially but is emotionally very distant.

Parvati, on the other hand, was close to both her parents. She was a bit more of a daddy's girl, but she loves her mom a lot too. Some good memories Parvati has with her parents is the times she and her dad would hang out in the local forest shapeshifted as local wildlife, and the times she'd watch Kannada serials with her mom and comment on all the crazy plot twists and drama. A bad memory is when her dad got shot by hunters back when she was 12. That's traumatized Parvati more than she's willing to admit. After this, since her mom was in such grief, Parvati felt the need to keep up a happy face for her sake even though she was also devastated by this loss. She also wanted to avoid thinking about it as much as possible anyway, so her methods of trying to distract her mom from her sadness was secretly also a way for Parvati to avoid dealing with any of that pain. Her mom also started working longer hours since she was the sole breadwinner for the family now, and as a result, Parvati spent a lot of time on her own during her adolescence. She treasures every single moment she's able to spend with her mom because of this.

Fred has a good relationship with both her moms. She loves them and her siblings a lot. But because her family is so big and she's the oldest sibling, a lot of the time she's had to act as almost a third parent, and that's put a lot of pressure on Fred growing up. A good memory she has with her moms is hiking with them on challenging trails. Fred's a very outdoorsy person and a lot of that is because her moms are, and because of the good memories she associates with the wilderness and nature. A bad memory is the first time she got to be in charge of the family store for the day and almost everything went wrong, and her parents were very disappointed in her.

Ash has a decent relationship with their parents. They haven't visited their parents in a while but they keep in touch. Though part of the reason she hasn't visited is because they also feel inadequate compared to their parents and siblings--her parents and siblings are all very respected in their fields and meanwhile, Ash is kinda blacklisted from pretty much every laboratory because their former boss is vindictive and awful and also unfortunately well-respected in the magical science community. They love their family but they also feel like an embarrassment, so they're not as close to their family as they could be.

This has gotten very long and also I haven't put a lot of thought into what Katherine's and Sarah's parents are/were like (Sarah's parents are definitely dead, seeing as Sarah is in her 60s), so I will skip them for now, unless I'm asked about them specifically for this question in the future lol.

42. What are their goals? What would they sacrifice anything for? What is their secret ambition?

Ooh, this is a tough one. Suhailah's goals are to get her mom back, but she hadn't tried anything to accomplish this until college when Parvati forced her into it. The problem with Suhailah, among many things, is that she's paralyzed with indecision and really doesn't trust herself with... anything. She also tossed her teleportation ray into a river after the incident so she really couldn't do much even if she wanted to until she found it again inadvertently during her college sophomore year.

Parvati doesn't really have any goals for herself. She's mostly focused on helping Suhailah find her mom again because she knows what it's like to lose a parent and if there's a way to get a friend's parent back, she's willing to take it. Parvati isn't even really sure what career goals she has either--so many different things interest her, it's hard for her to decide, and she's also terrified of locking herself into one path that she might get tired of eventually.

Fred's goals are to keep her family and the people she cares about safe. She sees herself as a protector, and she would sacrifice anything for her family's well-being. But secretly, she wants to explore the world, or at least, go outside her family's forest town. She feels held back from this secret desire by her duty to her family, so she's squashed this longing and wanderlust down. No point in being selfish, right? Her family needs her!

Ash's goals are many. Their overarching goal is simply to learn as much about the mechanics of magic as she can. Currently they're interested in learning more about portal magic and the multiverse, which was what brought them to their former employer. Their more immediate goal is to, well, get to work in a lab again, and also to expose her former employer's nefarious plans to the world at large/prove to everyone that they're dangerous.

Sarah's goals are mostly to do what she can to help others and go on some epic quests on the way. She keeps an eye out for news of imprisoned people, lost valuables, or requests for vengeance, so that she and her friends can help in whatever way possible. For the most part, though, she stays in her cave house in the middle of the woods, working as a potion-maker.

Katherine's goals are mostly to fuck with people as much as possible. Currently she's having fun tricking people with a damsel-in-distress routine, attracting heroic types who fall for her story of a dead husband attacked by a terrifying monster, and then when they're busy trying to hunt this "monster," she'll shift into a large cat and attack them herself. She finds this an entertaining challenge, and it gives her dinner and a show. Lately, they've grown bored of this, though, and she's trying to find some new and exciting way to challenge herself and satisfy her bloodlust. Ask me about my OCs!

[iamdeltas]

Fred Zhang 🎵 🎁 🎷

🎵 ~ song for said oc It's funny, as much as I love songs and listening to music, it's so hard for me to come up with songs that suit characters. I've never been able to make character playlists and absolutely not OC playlists because I'm so bad at figuring out what songs even just fit their vibes. That being said, I'll give this the old college try. I think a good song for Fred would be "The Call of the Mountains" by Eluveitie. Mostly because, while she's a good deal better with people than people like Suhailah (who'd rather not deal with them) or Parvati (who love people but suffer from a severe lack of social skills), she feels most at home in the wilderness. Yeah, I know the song is more specifically talking about the Alps but I think it works. Mostly.

🎁 ~ something they really want What Fred wants, more than anything else, is to be able to keep the people she cares about safe. She sees herself as a protector and considers herself responsible for her family's and friends' wellbeing. This is why, while she readily helps Suhailah and Parvati navigate the forest (that I have not named yet RIP) to the next stop on their journey, she's much more hesitant when it comes to accompanying them all the way on their quest to find Suhailah's mom, because she's torn between wanting to protect her newfound friends (Suhailah and Parvati, if that wasn't clear lmao) on their perilous journey and staying with her parents and siblings and helping to continue to keep them safe.

🎷 ~ instruments they play (or listen too) She plays the guitar, mostly when she wants to tell a story she made up through song.

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[iamdeltas]

Which OC ends up in jail and which OC do they call to bail them out

Also why did OC 1 end up in jail and what does OC 2 do upon the news

Hmm. Ash is probably the one who ends up in jail. My first instinct was to say she gets in jail for accidentally blowing a building up because of a science experiment gone wrong... but said building would probably just be her own house and I don’t think you get jailed for accidentally burning down your own house. So probably she ended up in jail cuz she really needed some materials for an experiment she’s working on, and also she’s pretty low on money, so she just figured she’d just. “borrow” said materials. She thought she’d be sneaky enough to pull it off. She was not.

She’d probably call Fred to bail her out. Fred has the best people skills and is the most charismatic... plus she actually has money. Suhailah’s conversation skills are piss poor due to her lack of interest in even trying to exercise them, and Parvati might be the most enthusiastic about talking to people, but she’s not actually very good at it, realistically. Also Suhailah and Parvati are college students, and Fred does actually have a job. So really, Fred’s the best choice.

Fred has two different reactions upon hearing the news. Or, rather, she has the same reaction twice but for different reasons. She’s first disappointed at Ash for, y’know, ending up in jail. But then when she finds out why Ash ended up in jail, she’s disappointed because she was expecting/hoping for a more exciting reason than just stealing shit for some science experiment. (Look, Fred might pride herself on being the Responsible One(TM) but she still enjoys occasional chaos.)