"Velocity" Gully, utility fighter, scout, thief, and close bestie of Kid Pirate's sniper, @thamaris
He/Him
Name: "Velocity" Gully "Best Wings on The Grand Line" (Self-declared, crew-endorsed)
Age: 21
Summary: Gully is a dangerous, Zoan-Type devil fruit user, and notable member of The Kid Pirates.
Shortly after entering The Grand Line with The Kid Pirates, their sniper, Thamaris, spotted a single lifeboat with a strange figure in it drifting into the Victoria Punk's orbit. Kid was "convinced" to let the crew investigate, and a half-dead birdman in a ragged marine recruit uniform was hauled up onto the boat. Roused from his fugue state, the stranger lashed out at the pirates, shifting rapidly between hybrid and human forms to avoid being held in place, and deliriously cursing out them, the marines he wished he'd killed, and the world that had left him to die. As the crew murmured that killing him now seemed boring, Kid asked the stranger his name.
"'s Gully, Captain."
Gully is skittish, self-loathing, and paranoid, hidden by a veneer of cocky laziness and casual violence. He's outwardly arrogant and careless, fighting with a kind of vindictive, mocking cruelty and no regard for his own safety, snatching weapons from his enemies hands and hauling them up into the skies only to ask "Do ya know what the terminal velocity of a human is?"
Around his crew, however, Gully is almost a different person. A laid-back class-clown, guard dropped to something worlds away from the aggression he shows the rest of the world, even if his deeply ingrained anxieties remain. As the first people in his life to keep him around, he's developed a possessive, protective loyalty to The Kid Pirates, who've become the only people to witness him as soft and affectionate in turn.
The desire to keep them safe is the only thing to temper his spite in combat, swooping in to guard, or fly his crewmates from danger like a pirates guardian angel.
Incapable of accessing Haki, Gully has trained his zoan powers into accessing additional and more powerful forms.
█ 𝚊 indie, private, & selective 𝐃𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐃 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐙 of cyberpunk: edgerunners - 2077. minors/personals (non-roleplayers), dni. black-american adult. in college. low activity by default.
affiliates: @spectredge (lucy)
graphics credit: halo coms/ezekiel.
𝙸𝙽𝚂𝙿𝙾 : meat and metal, mind and machine, a devouring city, the currency of flesh, dreaming in neon and dying in the gutter, the slow erosion of sanity, humanity corroding around the blind, romance is a battlefield, survival is not living, the disposable generation, the weight of an unfulfilled legacy, love in the wake of death, the god of the new age bleeds oil, the ghosts in the circuitry, built to burn out, a ouroboros system.
world-building is comprised of elements from the following:
the matrix, blade runner, ghost in the shell, elysium, altered carbon, akira, terminator, outside the wire, mad max, crank, tetsuo: the iron man, the substance, electric state, etc.
RULES / DISCLAIMER BELOW.
creative choices: in the last couple of years, I've peeped people jackin' my hcs, writing, alternative face claims for the same muses (very specific choices, i might add, because i like being in my own lane and i don't care to look like everyone else). it's high-key corny, especially when some of the same mutuals sit on my blog. this happened one too many times, but all i can say is ya'll need to develop your individuality and stop the nonsense.
mutuality "contract": if we're mutuals, great! do not attempt to force me to write with one of your muses, oc or canon, if you're a multi-muse blog. if i choose to interact with a particular muse(s) you have, it is not because your other muses are necessarily uninteresting; it just means you have a muse that holds my attention and i want to direct my energy with.
drama: i just want to point this one thing out: it is very obvious when people send themselves anon hate. tactics like that, just to garner attention? just rile people up and set off a domino effect and now everyone in the fandom is responding to vitriol that you send yourself? i despise it. i do have "ooc" tag filtered, but to know that you're setting yourself and people up when they should be enjoying the hobby aggravates me, and I'll unfollow you. if it is organic anon hate.. well, i can't tell you how to run your blog, but my suggestion is to delete it and move on?
black muses: in the past, i've been biased against non-black writers writing black muses, because of the lack of respect that gets shown toward their characterization, and it was an old rule of mine, that i will not follow a sole black muse blog [if it's multi, then i would prefer to interact with the non-black muses.], if the writers weren't black themselves. i still have those biases, but i will take my chances on people if the portrayals seems promising. it's a case-by-case basis, i'm not interested in delving in any further than that.
update 3/10: real talk, there's two things specific things that's been irritating to me. 1) ya'll need to look into what colorism is. 2) the fetishization of black muses be killing me. i'm tired of weird ass portrayals on here. all shade, because the community is very small, so there's no need to really ask me who. ya'll know who. get it together.
my general rule of thumb: you are the master curators of your own safe space. do what thou wilt. if the aforementioned themes aren’t to your liking, I am not the writer for you. if you cannot stand the thought of being unable to tone police a thirty-year-old man, i will never be the ideal writing partner for you. if low-activity blogs do not suit your preferences, please feel free to block me.
i have no personal issues with anyone, so do not inquire about me to a mutual or personally contact me regarding what you may perceive as '"beef". the only beef i have is with people who perpetuate what i already established above.
many of us say this until we're blue in the face, but yes, all i care about is writing and creating connections with great writers.
ooc interactions: discord is available, but i am a slow responder at times. i'm hesitant on this as of recently because people show weird energy, but we'll see.
