#izzy durante

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Disco Elysium Skills for my OCs: Beat

The pulse. The power. The pain.

Cool for: Drummers, Fighters, Those Who Refuse To Be Victims

Beat. The world has a heartbeat and you can hear it. Beat. You feel it in your veins, in your ears, in your skull. Beat. It drives you forward like a cadence. Beat. Beat. When your sticks strike the drum, that's Beat. When your fists strike their face, that's Beat. When their blows rain down on you, that's Beat, baby. Beat. Beat. Beat. BEAT.

At high levels, you are a force of unrelenting aggression. Whether in a street fight or behind your kit, your pulse, their pulse, the world's pulse, it all becomes one, marching to the implacable drums. That aggression can get you into trouble though, making you as immune to mollifying words as you are physical abuse. At low levels, you flinch at every raised hand or sharp noise, too afraid to raise your own hand and make some noise yourself.

(art by @thefaiao, words by me)

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Character who acts low-key transphobic because she's literally the only one who treats the crossdressing femboy like a boy, but at the same time, is also the only one who is respecting his stated gender since he has repeatedly insisted he is a boy and not a girl.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Time for Act 2 of my Sburb fan session! They just got in the Medium and things are already starting to go off the rails.

Chapters: 1/5 Fandom: Homestuck Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Colt Graham (OC), Kate Labelle (OC), Izzy Durante (OC), Haru Arakawa (OC), Goro Arakawa (OC) Additional Tags: Original Character(s), Major Original Character(s), Guns, Snipers, Blimps & Dirigibles, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Past Child Abuse, Gender Identity, Gender Confusion, Original Character-centric, Vomiting, Illnesses, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Smoking, Underage Smoking, Canon-Typical Violence Series: Part 4 of Sburb² Summary:

The Sburb² players have made a rapid and smooth transition into the Medium. Probably the smoothest transition in the history of Paradox Space. Can they keep up this winning streak?

No. No they cannot.

Updates Saturdays.

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Chapter 3: Stop Calling Everything an App

Chapters: 3/5 Fandom: Homestuck Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Colt Graham (OC), Kate Labelle (OC), Izzy Durante (OC), Haru Arakawa (OC), Goro Arakawa (OC) Additional Tags: Original Character(s), Major Original Character(s), Guns, Snipers, Blimps & Dirigibles, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Past Child Abuse, Gender Identity, Gender Confusion, Original Character-centric, Vomiting, Illnesses, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Smoking, Underage Smoking, Canon-Typical Violence, Bullying, Underage Drinking, Gender Dysphoria, Asian Character(s), Elsewhere Fic, Sburb Fan Session (Homestuck) Series: Part 4 of Sburb² Summary:

The Sburb² players have made a rapid and smooth transition into the Medium. Probably the smoothest transition in the history of Paradox Space. Can they keep up this winning streak?

No. No they cannot.

Updates Saturdays.

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Izzy Durante, aka Goregrind (though she rarely uses the name). Technically a Red Lantern, but her constructs are made from her own blood. Also, the ring is counterfeit, originally a class ring belonging to a bouncer who questioned her fake ID. She took a swing snd got her ass beat, but stole his class ring in the process and called that a victory. Brainiac's Exobytes decided this was a good opportunity and imbued it with Rage. Unfortunately, it started slowly killing her as it was feeding on her life energy instead of a power battery. As a result, she died in a fight with [Superman?] because she refused to give up, expending the last of her life.

However, turns out she was carrying genes from an unknown alien species that activated when she died, causing her to revive and permanently grow wings. She thinks they're wicked sick, but they can get uncomfortable at times, especially with shirts (which is why she doesn't wear them).

If you actually read all that, I want you to know she's loosely based on a Homestuck OC.

Ignore the minor differences in character design, artists have been very inconsistent with her mask and wings

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Human Homestuck OCs

Colt Graham (M): Mage of Rage. CanuckCowboy

Kate Labelle (F): Thief of Mind. CameraAffliction

Izzy Durante (F): Bard of Blood. ToweringClam*

Haru Arakawa (M?): Sylph of Doom. GyaruCross

*(don't read too much into this lol)

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Izzy Durante: Demon Child

My study of Classpects has been very informative already and has been helping me improve my OCs. I'm still working on Act 3 Act 1 of Sburb­­², but I think I'm gonna rewrite Izzy's arc a bit.

Something I've alluded to and will continue to allude to is Izzy's status as a "demon child." She's a Bard of Blood, and when last I left her, she had contracted a deadly disease from drinking something she shouldn't. Literally inviting destruction of her blood.

But until I really did my deep dive on the Bard, I didn't get why she was a Demon Child. Now I understand that Bards have a Story, and that is hers. The narrative she follows is that she is uniquely tainted in some way, a demon born in the skin of a human.

I've decided now that the reason she believes this is because, after she did something bad at elementary school (maybe sent a boy to the hospital or something), her Old Man called her a demon child. He only ever said it once, but that's the sort of thing a child only needs to hear once to change the entire course of their life.

She started to believe she really was a demon. She doesn't look like her Old Man, and she doesn't look like the woman in the pictures who he never talks about who she assumes is her mother. She dreams of a dark planet where she gets to be one of the bad guys and have fun doing it. Maybe that's where she's really from. It would explain a lot. She grows to like the idea, makes it a core part of her identity that she is just inherently rotten.

Her Old Man loves Izzy and tried to raise her well, but his every action was tainted by the knowledge of who her real father was, and what her real father did. The woman in the picture is the woman he loved, murdered by Izzy's real father. He resented her because of it, even as her sworn Guardian.

The culmination of her arc hasn't changed at all. She will, eventually, realize the story in her heart and become the "Demon Child" she always knew she was. It's not what you think though. The disease is not killing her, it's changing her into something else...

(NOT A TROLL)

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My Sburb players accidentally represents the Four Horsemen.

Izzy Durante (Bard of Blood): Pestilence. Shortly before entering, she drank the "bowl of God's wrath," giving her an illness that is slowly "destroying her blood."

Colt Graham (Mage of Rage): War. Haven't done much with him yet because he's spent Act 3 Act 1 dead, but when he comes back his prophecy says he will "beat plowshares into swords."

Kate Labelle (Thief of Mind): Famine. This one is a bit of a stretch, but scales are a Mind symbol and that's what the third Horseman wields.

Haru Arakawa (Sylph of Doom): Death. The classpect says it all tbh