#lenavee yuim

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A tiny sad Lenavee doodle.

[Image description: Black-and-white pen portrait sketch of a pale Girn woman with long, thin ears laid out flat from her head, one antenna drooping, and tears welling in her eyes. Her horns are filed down to short spikes. Her long hair is tied off to one side. Her dress is asymmetrically colored, with the portion covering her right arm being dark and the rest being white, with a patterned yoke collar.]

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Find the Word Tag Game

I got a couple of tags for this one -- Thanks!

@whumpsday gave me the words Please, Thank, Hardly, and Softly.

@soheavyaburden gave me the words Burn, Damn, Wince, and Silent.

So, here goes!

Please (Kohat RP with @soheavyaburden):

"The first day that Zail been able to walk without stumbling, even while still leaning against the wall in order to do so, the guards had come to his cell and hauled him, quite easily, by the elbow into the bolted-down chair in the corner of the room without explanation. Before he even could ask what was happening, he heard a snip, and felt the sudden cold of the room against the back of his neck as the hair covering it fell to the floor. He’d broken down completely the first time he'd felt a cut directly to the side of one of his antennae, thrashing wildly even as he realized the danger in doing so. "NO! No! STOP! Please! I'll - I'll tell you anything," he'd promised. 'I'll do anything! Whatever you want, let me -'

The guards paused briefly, as if considering, as he lost the ability to continue speaking, but in the end pulled him back against the chair as he sobbed mutely."

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Thank (Enclave RP with @skinofafish):

"Topher nods, still looking uncomfortable at the way Richardson describes subjects. However, he figures that, unlike Fletcher (hopefully), the director is too set in his ways to be convinced on this. 'Thank you. I’ll take good care of… of Clay. That’s what he prefers to be called, right?' It would take some adjusting. Alaric and the others generally referred to him by spitting his last name out like an epithet."

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Hardly (The Scavenger & the Forgotten, Part 6):

"'Nice try,' the man said casually, ignoring Clee as she sputtered to defend herself against the accusation, right before one of the soldiers fired a shot directly into the other woman's head. She collapsed to the ground with hardly a sound, while Radu yelped and jumped back, his clothes now coated in blood."

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Softly (Kohat RP):

"Lenavee went to Sid’s cell. After a brief look toward her own cell, confirming Erukah wasn't there, she knocked softly on the door."

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Burn (Enclave RP):

“Barclay stared at Zail warily, half-expecting that this stranger was part of another of Katie’s sick games. When Zail briefly met his eyes, he looked away, his face burning."

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Damn (Enclave RP):

"'DON’T!' Harlowe yelled. She knew how this ended, when they didn’t play by the rules set by the guards. Seeing her warning was pointless, though, and seeing Koutoujian raising her gun, Harlowe charged the senior guard, bracing for the worst. She took one shot, two shots, three shots, and felt none of them. Not yet. She jumped over the low partition separating the guards from the Scrap Heap and flung herself at Koutoujian, head butting her, taking her to the floor, and then sinking her teeth into Koutoujian’s shoulder.

Koutoujian already had her at point-blank range, though, and shot her to the chest. Damn. Less precise than she’d like, but the labby would bleed out fast enough, even if she hadn’t hit anything vital."

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Wince (Kohat RP):

"Harlowe abruptly tore off toward Wes Madaus’s apartment building. She could get into the building easily enough. That was a bad sign.

A better sign, though not for her, was that when she picked the lock, she promptly got a fist to the face.

Rather than stopping there, Fiona Madaus kneed her hard to the gut. 'YOU COULD’VE FUCKING KNOCKED,' Fiona fumed.

Harlowe shook her head with a wince. 'Needed to check.'"

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Silent (Kohat RP):

"'Now let's see,' Kageki said, moving slowly and deliberately through the crowd of stunned and panicked onlookers. 'I can only spend so long here. Lots of things to see, lots of things to do before my time's up. So, apologies, but I can only spend my time on the people important enough to be worth killing.' He pulled a gun out of his coat with his offhand and pointed it at the head of the other barista. 'How about you,' he said, just loud enough to cut through the sound of screaming. 'How many people will miss you when you're gone?'

The crowd went nearly silent, and people looked to one another, whispering, trying to figure out what to do. The barista whimpered and looked around for support, and her fearful expression intensified into a look of betrayal. She wailed."

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@skinofafish @wolfeyedwitch @kira-the-whump-enthusiast

Not sure if any of you have already done this one (in the recent past...), but if you have time, spoons and interest, here are four words for you to find!

Tear, Hold, Miss, Bury

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Lenavee and Koutoujian

- @soheavyaburden

Thanks for the ask! And ooh, this could be interesting!

TW: Mention of a strip search

If we’re talking about Lenavee being arrested and interrogated on Ganymede, this is incredibly AU, because Lenavee’s never been there. But there’s really no canonically-consistent way to get them around each other for any length of time, at least in the Kohat continuity.

If she’d ended up detained on Ganymede before the government collapsed, she would be to be very outwardly respectful to prison staff, and put on her ditzy act. She’d pick up pretty quickly on the fact that playing innocent wouldn’t work. Coming off as a clueless follower in a criminal enterprise, though, would be worth a shot. In that case, she’d also be speaking in (already heavily-accented) Sol Standard, and stare blankly at anyone who tried to address her in Ganymedean.

Koutoujian would automatically code as a threat to Lenavee, even if Koutoujian were trying to trick her into thinking otherwise. As a general rule, Lenavee would therefore try to stay as uninteresting as possible to Koutoujian, very respectful and compliant, giving Koutoujian useful information (or information that seems useful) that doesn’t implicate anyone she cared about.

On Koutoujian’s end, she could go either of two ways. There’s a good chance she buys Lenavee’s act, especially if she’s got more appealing targets on her mind, and would therefore contemptuously think of Lenavee as typical xeno gutter trash. She’d be more verbally abusive than physically in that case, except to physically degrade her by slapping and invasive strip-searching.

However, Koutoujian’s not stupid; she’s been interrogating people, including career criminals, for decades upon decades by the time Lenavee would’ve been old enough to end up in front of her. The biggest risks of her realizing Lenavee is trying to pull one over on her is if A) she catches Lenavee following a conversation in Ganymedean, or B) if Lenavee tries to manipulate her into doing something she (Lenavee) wants. It would absolutely enrage Koutoujian to have someone like that trick her, and she’d retaliate with massively disproportionate physical violence. She wouldn’t bother with mind games; she’d just go straight for the all-but-literal kill.

Things change a lot if Lenavee has friends or family in there as well. A signature Koutoujian move is to play people off against each other. Sadistic choices, forced to watch, things like that. Turns out this is pretty much the most effective way to torture Lenavee. Koutoujian would enjoy seeing Lenavee’s meek façade break down into utter panic and despair at someone she cares about either betraying her or coming to harm because of her.

Then again, Lenavee is extremely patient, while Koutoujian would barely remember her. If Koutoujian hurt or manipulated her into betraying one of her loved ones, there’s a good chance that Lenavee destroys Koutoujian’s life without Koutoujian seeing it coming as soon as she has the opportunity.

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OC Picrew Masterlist

Here are all my OCs in one place! More details on each will be added if and when they appear.

Topher Farley (he/him)

Role(s): Whumpee / Caretaker

Continuities: Sci-Fi Whump Series

[Image description: White man with messy teal hair, darker blue eyes, and glasses. He has a plain white shirt and a brown coat. He has a shy smile.]

Clee Dternás (she/her)

Roles: Caretaker / Whumpee

Continuities: Sci-Fi Whump (The Scavenger & the Forgotten)

[Image description: Pale green woman with long pointed ears and fangs. She has bright blue eyes, freckles, and large, bushy hair light brown hair. She has a baggy brown coat over a white shirt. She looks skeptical or frustrated. Antennae and broken horns not pictured.]

Radu (E2218R7) (he/him)

Roles: Whumpee

Continuities: Sci-Fi Whump (The Scavenger & the Forgotten)

[Image description: A grey-skinned man with pointed ears and long, stringy grey hair. He has exoskeloton/horns and yellow-ish eyes. He has a blanket draped over a white shirt. His expression is frightened/disoriented. Not pictured are his larger size, older age, and wings.]

Harlowe (she/her)

Roles: Caretaker / Whumpee

Continuities: Sci-Fi Whump (Prisoners of War)

[Image description: Brown-skinned woman with short, dark brown hair and a yellow eye. Her other eye is covered in an eye patch. Her face is splattered with blood, and she has a scar along her face and a black eye. She's wearing a black t-shirt. She has a displeased or challenging expression.]

Byron Hackett (he/him):

Roles: Whumpee

Continuities: Sci-Fi Whump (Prisoners of War)

[Image description: White man with short, messy blonde hair, pale blue eyes, and glasses. He's wearing a black t-shirt over a long-sleeved white shirt. He's bandaged up on the side of his face, his nose, and his neck; has dark circles under his eyes; and is blood-spattered. His expression is frightened, and he's holding his hands up defensively in front of him.]

Samantha Koutoujian (she/her):

Roles: Whumper

Continuities: Sci-Fi Whump (Prisoners of War)

[Image description: A white woman with shoulder-length brown hair and brown eyes. She's wearing a collared white shirt and a grey collared uniform jacket. She's smirking.]

Barclay Fletcher (he/him):

Roles: Whumpee / Carewhumper

Continuities: The Enclave

[Image description: A young white man with almost shoulder-length dirty blond/light brown hair and odd eyes - the left green and the right a neutral color. He has freckles and dark circles under his eyes. He's wearing an off-white collared shirt. He has a smirk with large prominent front teeth.]

Other characters:

(From left to right):

Alina Maddox (she/her) [Pale white woman with long neon green hair and pointed ears. She has tinted orange lenses, and fangs. She's wearing partially unbuttoned blue overalls over an orange sweater over a black t-shirt. She's grinning or laughing with an open mouth. Not pictured: Yellow eyes with oblong horizontal pupils.]

Zail Quendatt (he/him) [Green-skinned man with unkempt brown hair and yellow eyes. His ears are long and pointed. He has a coat over a white shirt. He looks indignant. Not pictured: Antennae, left one bent/broken.)

Lenavee Yuim (she/her) [Green-skinned woman with horns and long pointed ears. She has long white hair and bright blue eyes. She's wearing earrings, a sleeveless black shirt, and a floral-patterned shawl of sorts. Not pictured: Antennae.]

Alaric (he/him) [Tanned-skin man with pointed ears, shoulder-length dark red hair, and red eyes. He has a beauty mark on the right side of his face. He's wearing a white shirt with a baggy brown coat. He looks unimpressed.]

Kethry (she/her) [Green-skinned woman with long, dark red hair in a pony tail and long, pointed ears. She has bright blue eyes. She's wearing a green coat over a white shirt. She has a shit-eating grin. Not pictured: Antennae.]

Paul Waldrop (he/him) [Middle aged white man with wavy grey hair and grey eyes. He has rectangular glasses, and is wearing a grey suit with a striped collared shirt and a blue tie. He has an uncertain look on his face.]

Sarah Kyzer (nee Maddox) (she/her) [White woman with shoulder-length pink hair, pointed ears, and yellow eyes. She has a grey bow in her hair, and is wearing a dark red and grey capelet. She's smirking and licking blood off her right hand.]

Usalmy Shem (she/her) [Green-skinned woman with long, pointed ears, dark purplish hair, and dark blue-grey eyes. She's wearing a lilac cardigan over a pink collared shirt. She has an unpleasant smirk on her face. Not pictured: Antennae.]

Jas Knossos (he/him) [Light tan-skinned man with pale grey eyes and black hair kept in a pony tail. He's wearing a light grey button-up coat. He's holding up a bloodied fist and looking quite unimpressed.]

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For Lenavee:

💔 - Does forgiveness come easily or with difficulty to this oc? Can they forgive others? What about themselves?

💛 - Are they ‘good with children’, or more awkward?

🚷 - Tell one difference between yourself and this oc!

-@soheavyaburden

Thanks for the asks!

Does forgiveness come easily or with difficulty to this oc? Can they forgive others? What about themselves?

Lenavee is one of my rare OCs who is much more on the forgiving side than not. This is especially true where she already has a relationship with a person… sometimes to an extreme degree. She can, though, forgive people she started off on the wrong foot with unless they REALLY fucked up (e.g., repeatedly sexually harassing her or treating her loved ones like shit).

She’s more or less at peace with the worst things she’s done and the traits that allow that, though she wouldn’t describe it that way. She owns them, and she’s confident in her ability not to let them leak out into other parts of her life where they don’t belong.

Are they ‘good with children’, or more awkward?

Lenavee is great with kids! Unfortunately she gained that ability through supporting fellow captives younger than her when she was a teenager, knowing first-hand what they were going through while not being able to stop it. One of the things that makes her good with kids is that she doesn’t have any illusions about “childhood innocence,” knowing/remembering full well that kids can and do go through, come to understand, and even do some really fucked up things.

Tell one difference between yourself and this oc!

Lenavee is terrified of cats… as Girn tend to be, given that cats treat antennae as toys.

Me? I fear no cat.

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For Lenavee and Harlowe:

Morbid: How do they feel about death? Their own or others?

Lewd: What’s the worst thing they’ve done for selfish reasons?

Sizzle: Do they have/want a relationship? Are they capable of a healthy one at the moment?

- @soheavyaburden

Thanks for the asks!

TW: Mentions of suicidal ideation and child trafficking

Morbid: How do they feel about death, their own or others’?

Harlowe and Lenavee both expected to die young, Harlowe being a lab subject and Lenavee being a child trafficking victim at the mercy of brutal criminals.

Harlowe has had a harder time adjusting to the fact that her life has gone on longer than she thought. She doesn’t have a death wish, though it can seem like that given how reckless she is. She has an attitude of, if she dies, then she dies, it just better not be a stupid death after all she’s been through.

Now that she’s got a future that’s her own, meanwhile, Lenavee’s planning to live a long time. Earlier in life, though, during the worst of her abuse, she was passively suicidal at times.

They would both be gutted if their loved ones died alone or by unnatural causes, and will pretty much do anything to prevent that. Both of them, though, know that one or more of said loved ones (Drulović especially, for both of them) are very likely to die before they do. Harlowe is resigned to this, and Lenavee tries not to think about it.

Lewd: What’s the worst thing they’ve done for selfish reasons?

For both of them, I’m not going to count thieving, especially because it was usually low-level and for survival (or just about, in Lenavee’s case).

They also both have a quasi-selfish tendency to help other people (including each other!) despite what said people might want at points. It’s more selfish on Harlowe’s part, in that it’s about attempting to get it right this time and successfully protect someone more vulnerable than herself where she failed as a child. Harlowe is more obvious about how she goes about it, though, and Lenavee is better at controlling this impulse.

Outside of that…

Harlowe doesn’t have a single incredibly selfish act, but she does have the tendency to ghost her friends for months at a time only to break into their house unannounced and crash, usually while very injured and requiring emergency medical care. Not malicious, but still a dick move.

Lenavee, though… in the Kohat continuity, she has a pattern now of setting people up as a way of getting them out of the picture, for one reason (protecting someone else) or another (spite). The worst one was when she was about 15. Her closest friend/first crush(?) - a fellow trafficking victim - betrayed her in some way that got her extremely hurt. She knew some of the other kids were acting as informants to law enforcement, and found one who’d been careless enough to keep evidence of it around. She took said evidence and planted it on her former friend, and made sure their captors found out before he could discover and hide it.

She never saw him again. She still feels somewhat guilty - enough that she’ll never tell anyone in her life about it now - but she can’t bring herself to regret doing it either.

Sizzle: Do they have/want a relationship? Are they capable of one at the moment?

Lenavee and Harlowe are both people who act as caretakers to members of their found family - including each other! - while keeping their distance. Harlowe seems more obviously remote, whereas Lenavee is an extremely warm person but not very forthcoming about her thoughts or her life. They both have a tendency to idealize the people they care about.

As far as romantic relationships go, though… this is one of the biggest ways they differ.

Lenavee actively wants a romantic relationship with a guy. In the Enclave continuity, she has a very cute relationship with an absolute cinnamon roll of a guy named James. In the Kohatverse, she’s had a thing for Morton for years that she’s kept under a tight lid, and she’s pretty resigned to the likely possibility that it won’t work out. Apparently, her type is abused autistic older men.

Despite her secretive personality, she is capable of having a healthy relationship. It will be very difficult for her to become more open and straightforward in any sort of relationship, but given that the guys she tends to be drawn to are also extremely traumatized but gentle people, there’s a good chance that she would be able to slowly build mutual trust with her partner. The biggest challenge she has, though, is idealizing a person and being unable to grapple with or even acknowledge his flaws, and that may never fully change.

Harlowe, meanwhile, is an arospec lesbian who doesn’t really know what she wants as far as relationships go. Her healthiest relationships - with people like Mizner in the Kohat continuity and Jinn in the Enclave continuity - could be better described as comrades, siblings-in-arms, or partners in crime than romantic partners. She also gets attached to all the sad puppy whumpees she collects, but drops them like rocks when they don’t live up to her image of them as completely innocent.

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For Harlowe:

☀️ SUN - are they a morning person? what is the first thing they do in the morning?

🙉 HEAR-NO-EVIL - what is the worse thing your oc could hear from someone?

For Lenavee:

✂️ SCISSORS - what is the "last straw" for them to cut someone out of their life? how easily do they let go of people?

🚆 TRAIN - what is their answer to the trolley problem?

For Topher:

🌪️ TORNADO - what is the biggest change you've ever made to them? how have they changed from their original version?

For Koutoujian:

🎭 MASKS - do they act differently around certain people? what's different between the way they act around friends, family, strangers, etc.?

Sorry I have a lot of questions!

- @soheavyaburden

No problem! Thanks for the asks!

Harlowe

☀️ SUN - are they a morning person? what is the first thing they do in the morning?

Harlowe may or may not be a morning person by nature, but she didn’t really have a choice for the majority of her life, so she adjusted. It helps that she doesn’t need much sleep as a general matter. All that being said, when she’s been going and going for a while, she’ll sometimes sleep for 16+ hours at a go… usually after breaking in to one of her friends’ homes through the window.

🙉 HEAR-NO-EVIL - what is the worse thing your oc could hear from someone?

As a general matter, people justifying what happened in the labs as good or necessary will piss her right off, and will likely get her to tell some stories that will give the person saying this nightmares. From a friend or found family member, though - particularly someone she’s protected before - saying or implying that they still think she’s dangerous is devastating to her.

Lenavee Yuim

✂️ SCISSORS - what is the "last straw" for them to cut someone out of their life? how easily do they let go of people?

Lenavee will do Olympics-level mental gymnastics to avoid cutting friends, family members, and other loved ones out of her life (much to many of their dismay in regards to one another). Given that things such as being a known war criminal or literally leaving her to die aren’t dealbreakers when it comes to her closest people, it’d have to be something like one of them directly physically hurting her or one of the others, badly and on purpose, in front of her and with no possible good explanations.

🚆 TRAIN - what is their answer to the trolley problem?

If it was just a bunch of randos, she’d pull the lever to save the five, but kill the other one. She’d feel immense guilt, though, and hold other people even more at arm’s length lest they find out that she’s capable of that.

Once we make it specific, though… if she knows the one person she’d otherwise kill in a positive sense, those five people are fucked. Same if those five were some of the few people she actually outright hates.

Topher Farley

🌪️ TORNADO - what is the biggest change you've ever made to them? how have they changed from their original version?

In his very short-lived first appearance, he was kind of snarky. The other roleplayer in that thought he was an adorable little nerd though, and I started playing him as more of a cinnamon roll when she and I started a new continuity.

Meanwhile, he’s become less outwardly jumpy and more quiet and withdrawn… which makes him a harder character to write for.

Samantha Koutoujian

🎭 MASKS - do they act differently around certain people? what's different between the way they act around friends, family, strangers, etc.?

The only person in her personal life she treats the same way as the people she interrogates is her visibly disabled and genmod sister, as the living proof (as she sees it) of her family’s outcast status. Their parents are gone, so she punishes her sister in their place.

With her friends… it’s a matter of (a much lower) degree than of kind. Friends would generally describe her as fun to hang out with, but she’s the kind of person who will tease her friends in a mean way and will be an asshole toward them while calling it “brutal honesty” or something.

At work, her subordinates (at least the ones who stick around) suck up to her, and everyone else avoids her, either rolling their eyes at her or actively hating her guts.

To strangers outside of work in ordinary life… eh? She’s occasionally impatient and can come off as demanding, but on a scale of 1 to Karen, she’s still only at a 6 or so. Most people won’t be all that bothered by her, though.

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I put this one into my drafts and then forgot 👉👈

If you still want an ask, for anyone you want:

🌅 (sunrise) - What does your oc look forward to every day? Do they have something to look forward to in the first place? What makes them wake up in the morning? Why do they want to be alive?

Thanks for the ask! I’ll give a few characters here who show up a lot. Mind you, these answers are sometimes specific to certain times in their lives, as a couple of the continuities they’re in span 20 years or more.

Topher

He’s pretty much a workaholic, so he gets up to do whatever medical work (being a lab technician who smuggles subjects out, being a field medic in a civil war, being a medic on a space ship, and working at a health clinic for refugees, depending on the continuity and time within it) he’s doing at the time. There’s definitely been times where that’s the only thing keeping him going, especially when he isolates himself from his friends.

Harlowe

In general, pure spite keeps her getting up. She wasn’t built to last, so every new day is a “fuck you” to the people who created - and badly abused - her. She also always has people to protect (one of her best friend’s kids, among others, in one continuity) or rescue (finding her partner who was disappeared, in another). It’s not exactly looking forward to something as much as knowing she’s needed.

Lenavee

Primarily it’s looking forward to seeing her loved ones. In one continuity, it’s primarily her partner, his kids, and their two housemates later on in the story. In the other, this is especially true for the person she’s in love with while they’re working together. She also looks forward to playing and performing music, which eventually becomes her career in one form or other in both stories. Finally, she knows she needs to keep getting up because the people around her need someone to be supportive of them - especially those who otherwise have few if any positive connections.

Barclay

He keeps getting up to prove himself, first to his abusive boss, and much later to his found family who rescues him from captivity. The second one is much more fulfilling - even if a lot of the time it’s just feeding and caring for their many animals - though he struggles more with doing it because he’s extremely traumatized and depressed at the time. During the period of time he was in captivity, though, he had nothing to look forward to, and often had no sense of time so he wouldn’t have even known it was morning.