#freya wren

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Lowkey might do this post for all of my olnf ocs at some point but also if someone wanted to send like numbers for specific ones for whichever mcs that would also be cool perchance

Freya Wren - Tamarack Romancer

Trixie Callegari - Qiu Romancer

Noeul 'Sunny' Park - Poly Romancer

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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me facts about Freya.. I've been really into developing my own (not so subtle) self-insert the past few weeks..

Do you have any concrete ideas of the step 1-2 lore yet? What are the relationship dynamics between Freya and Tamarack + Freya and Qiu in step 1? (And 2 if you've figured out lore for that yet)

i still gotta stalk through your profile to see how much information you've already given so i can ask more questions hehe :3

Hi !!! Freya is so so fun to think about but I don't have a ton of step two lore for her-

(I use He/Him for step one Freya specifically, but she uses she/her for the rest of the time so if I mess up excuse me)

In Step One he only talks to her Mama, and OCCASIONALLY Tamma. Tamma does learn some basic sign language to talk to him easily, but Freya carries communication cards for basic ideas as well.

Tamarack is Freya's person. While he loves his Mama, he gets overwhelmed easily and has had a habit of running away. The forest is a safe space because it's where he can be alone, but he finds he doesn't mind Tamarack being there.

While he likes Qiu, his forward nature makes him uncomfortable because he thinks he's being sarcastic. When he finds out how popular Qiu is, he feels like hanging out with him is risky. Other people will be around all the time, ones Qiu probably likes a lot better than he likes him.

In general, Freya is just scared. Of like. Everyone. He'd rather just read about people better than him, about people better than everyone around him. He ends up pushing people away, and then being confused why it hurts to bad to be alone.

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I am hopefully going to be posting some of my Our Life fics soon and if you care my main canon x oc relationships have ship names and thats pretty silly.

Aurora and Baxter are Second Draft

Felicity and Derek are Waiting Game

Freya and Tamarack are Secret Garden

Trixie and Qiu are Love Trial

Just yk if you care

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I imagine Tamarack would not really understand Freya's selective mutism. Not in a malicious way but in a way where like Qiu asks why Tamarack is always talking for them at first and she's like "He doesn't like you 😁😁"

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OMG TAMA MCS!!! how do tam and freya get together? whats their dynamic like? who fell first and who fell harder? :D

Hi !!! So my favourite thing about these two is they were 'together' long before they really knew that.

Freya and Trixie's lore is not something I have set in stone. As the game comes out I write my characters to fit the settinf and events and such, so I can't say for sure but I see Freya and Tamma getting together officially in either late step 2 or early step 3. But they were each others' people long before that. Freya has ALWAYS favoured Tamarack because she was the first person who didn't think it was weird that she didn't talk. (Not that Qiu did, but the amount of people that flock around him scares her.) She loves Tamma, she's just too awkward to bring up dating.

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OUR LIFE / XOXO DROPLETS OC MASTERPOST

Baxter Route:

Aurora King: Most Developed, author, nervous personality preset, 2 kids

Oline Whitlock: Obligatory "got pregnant in step 3" OC, fashion designer, direct personality preset, 1 child

Derek Route:

Felicity Druan: Obligatory Artist OC, Cove's sister, direct personality preset, she got heart issues 🤞

Tamarack Route:

Freya Wren: Lowkey a self insert, selectively mute, maladaptive daydreamer, journalist, nervous personality preset.

Qiu Route:

Trixie Callegari: Resident Baby Punk, Emotionally Unstable, Prone to Fighting, Protective, Cosmetologist, Direct Personality Preset.

Shiloh Route:

Vanity Franklin: Fake Goth, Argumentative, Anti-Social, Easily Flustered.

Fan Kids:

Eliza King-Ward: Firstborn Child of Aurora and Baxter, spends arguably too much time with the jerksquad.

Autumn King-Ward: Secondborn Child of Aurora and Baxter, idolizes Qiu.

Sasha Whitlock: Only Child of Oline and Baxter, highkey attached to Nico and adores Derek.

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do yap about your OCs i am very much interested (Esp the Derek one i automatically love all Derek mcs)

I love all the Derek love omg-

Okay so fun facts ab each of them !! A big thing with my ocs is that each one of them is built around one of my own personality traits. (They're still their own people- Freya is the closest one to an actual self insert.)

Aurora's trait is tragic idealism. She always wants to think the best of people, even if the proof of the opposite is staring her in the face. She also has published about 5 books by Step Four, all of which she finds in Baxter's apartment (to his mortification).

Felicity's is the fact that she draws all of her opinions about herself from her ability to do things– The main source of her insecurities is the fact that her disability is always going to disable her. She also painted the wall around her window when she was 16. It was part of a theraputic project.

Oline is self-isolation. She finds that every time she lets herself get close to anyone who isn't a childhood friend, it turns out bad for her, which only gets worse when she has Sasha. She also is my only oc that punches Jeremy.

Freya is maladaptive daydreaming. With reality being so inconsistent, it's easier to just think about the ways things could be. If she can convince other people that things could be good too, then no one would have to be sad anymore. She exists in the same timeline as Aurora, and actually helps in the editing process of Aurora's books.

Trixie is emotional instability, specifically difficulty controlling anger. Things aren't fair, and they don't feel like they should need to pretend they are. I actually originally wrote him to be an invesitgative journalist in crime cases, but I felt like I had too many writing-based career ocs so I had to scrap the idea, and he is now a cosmetologist.

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Yet another OC introduction post !!! The olba ones will have their dolls for all 4 steps bc I haven't decided on future looks for Freya and Trixie-

ANYWAYZ-

Aurora King !! She is part of my main Baxter line- There's a LOT of posts ab her on my blog with more info, but here's like a basic (?) rundown.

Step one Aurora is (like every version of her), very emotionally driven. She has always drawn her inspiration from fairytails, prefering to stay inside whenever the others go to the beach due to her hatred of sand. She has the nervous preset, and though others call her shy, she's really just cautious and soft-spoken. She gets attached to Cove because he's also quiet, and she thinks he's a lot nicer than he first appears, like some of the people in her stories.

She's willing to put up with the beach for him, enjoying his ideas about mermaids and other mythical possibilities below the waves. She also really likes Shiloh, though she's upset that he always seems to like Lizzie more, when Lizzie isn't even nice all the time like she is. (No offense of course, she adores her sister.)

She has sensory issues, making some things harder than necessary, like the fireworks moment. She thinks rules are important, and though Cove has a bit of a bad influence on her, she mostly sticks to that, keeping close to her moms and sister.

Above all else, she is determined that she can be just as happy as the princesses in her books- She just has to believe.

Step Two pushes her idealism to a hard point. Life was so great, she doesn't understand what went wrong. It's like suddenly her moms are too busy for her, her sister HATES her, and Cove isn't exactly the easiest to talk to. Not that she would want to bother her best friend with something silly like that, though.

She pretends, mostly. Smiles at her mothers and waves happily as her sister ignores her attempts at hanging out for the nth day in a row. She knows now that this anxiety- This knawing feeling in her gut clawing at the back of her throat won't go away. Her meds help, but she's having trouble coping with it. The first time Cove sneaks into her bedroom window, she almost pushes him back OUT in her panic.

She likes Derek a lot- He seems a lot like her, optimistic and loving and just kind in a way she admires. She's not oblivious, she notices the way he treats her compared to Cove. For a bit, she thinks this might be the fairytale she's been wishing for, but they're both so unsure about themselves, and the moment passes.

She enjoys going outside more due to Cove constantly dragging her to the beach, but she swears if he wakes her up before at LEAST 10 one more time, he's getting locked out. She copes with the sand by stubbornly wearing thick stockings under her dresses, insisting she isn't suffering in the california heat.

And then there's another boy- One filled with the same hatred of the world and scorn towards others that Cove had, and he makes Aurora smile. She's done this once before, she wants to help him too. He refuses, but she stays consistent, offering him reassurance until he's walking out of her life.

Life is hard when you're 13- she thinks -but the storybooks always have happy endings.

Alright, she's about done with the waiting now. Highschool flew by easily, and she displays her acomplishments with pride. She's also finished the rough draft of her first official book- The Obsidian Crown.

She's going to college, something that both excites and scares her. It might not be far to most people (a six hour drive north, still in California), but the thought of being that far from the only place she's known makes her feel nauseous.

But she did it- She made it to the age where anything is supposed to be possible. This summer is about celebration and looking forward instead of back.

Of course, life is never that simple.

Whatever forces exist beyond her have apparently decided to take the phrase 'Small World' to the extreme. She has her sister back, which makes her happier than her 13 year old self would've expected. She has Shiloh, who makes her feel bittersweet, but in coming back into her life brought Jeremy back with him.

Aurora latches onto Jeremy immediately, declaring their reunion an act of fate. ("We have the same last name, we're basically siblings!") She calls him almost weekly, insisting that being forced to talk about his day is good for him. His reaction the first time she introduced him to Terry and Miranda over video call as her brother is the most emotion she's ever seen from him, even if it was negative.

Then, to her astonishment, there's Baxter. Her panic fires up when the mystery prince from the dance recognizes her, but she somehow manages to not lose her breakfast on the sidewalk. Cove teases her relentlessly, disappoving in the nicest way he can when the two start dating. At one point, Aurora gifts him the handwritten copy of her book. He requests she sign it, which she does, although embarrassed.

Aurora is happy. She has her big sister, she has her little brother, even if he likes to pretend they don't know each other. Her friends, her parents, her prince. Her story is almost at its happily ever after.

Until it isn't.

She had tried to ignore Baxter's promise of only being with her for the summer. It didn't fit into her fairytale idealism. So it manages to catch her off guard when he dumps her. She leaves him at his door, turning and going not home but to Cove. Cove comforts her in whatever ways he knows how, and looking back, she would say he did a damn good job. But she was vulnerable, and Cove has always had a habit of resorting to humour, so she should've seen it coming when he points out that he said it was a bad idea to get involved with the victorian emo nightmare.

It's the only time she ever actually hit someone.

In the end it's Miranda who gets her out of her room, convincing her to eat and wash her hair after days of surviving off the snacks stashed in her desk.

She turns back to her stories, using her experiences as inspiration for her next two books: "A Still Ocean" and "Shattered Silence: A Poetry Collection".

She goes to her brothers graduation, giggling at the way his face goes red and he makes a quick exit, making sure to stay as far away from her as possible. She meets his best friend- Pran is a nice girl, she thinks, she just needs time.

She gives up dancing- It reminded her of him too much.

She goes to college, where she meets a girl who also had the displeasure of knowing Baxter, and the two laugh, comparing old pictures of him and confirming his fashion sense has never been any less funny.

She smiles, and for now, she decides, that's enough.

The summer of 2021 is... eventful to say the least.

June brings her back to the city, where Derek is, smiles and all. It brings his brothers, who look as adorable as ever. It brings his parents, who fawn over her as if she's one of their own.

July brings resolution. It brings her family together. It brings jumping onto Cove out of a taxi, making fun of the fact that he never seems to stop getting taller. It brings Lizzie, who pretends to not know how Shiloh is doing even though Aurora definitely saw a text from him on her sisters' phone. It brings a cool wind, a promise of colder weather to come.

August... brings Baxter. It brings heartbreak and anger and messages never sent. It brings the discovery that not only does Baxter STILL HAVE the handwritten draft she gave him, but every other book she's published- Lined up on a shelf in Baxter's apartment that he rushes to explain away. It brings tears. It brings dances years too late. It brings forgiveness. It brings NEW promises- Ones to stay in touch, to talk, to tell the truth. To love. It brings another disapproving look from Cove that she sees melt away as he watches them dance.

It brings an end, and a beginning.