hey so OC & canon is based as hell actually. here is my guy Hound interacting w/ edgar + poe. more oc stuff under the cut
these are my freak OCs, the left is salt (any prns), the right is hound (he/they), and i took them and aged them down and threw them into the plagueround and now they're experiencing the horrors. please look at my children please please please. btw they come in a pair you CANNOT SEPARATE THEM!!!! even if theyre ripping each other to bloody bits
if they had D&D mechanics salt would be a warlock + hound would be a paladin or maybe a cleric. by the btw. please talk to me about OCs. yours or mine or whoevers i love ocs so much <- guy who is abnormal about characters
actually i want to show off M i love M so much everyone should look at M right Now. sketchier stuff + rambling under the cut
her ref was made in 2023 please dont @ me i've IMPROVED. anyway M is a mermaid i originally created to be a tragic love interest for my persona aur and then they took over my brain and now th. they. they're. i'm fine and normal about my own original character M
semi-unofficial, old art to keep u reading pspspsps (i need 2 redraw them</3)
salt and hound are two OCs of mine that i am woefully attached to!!! they started out as cookie run kingdom inserts, but then i got uncomfortable with the community and separated myself from it. now they're sort-of just existing?? but i still miss their old stories bc it explains why i'm insane over them </3
big cookie run kingdom related rambling under the cut
these characters were a huge story about isolation and the expectations of "gifted" children/teens growing up into emotionally unregulated adults: salt and hound met each other through this paladin academy (i swear i made them before i knew about rfth), and became codependent on each other in a weird rivalry where no one else Got It(tm). they're catty, spiteful and constantly trying to one-up each other because they're both the Best in their class and they both want to be the Best to bring honour to their family and prove themselves the better paladin. despite "hating" each other though, they're still the closest they've ever gotten to anyone else, and they form a genuine emotional dependency as they become basically inseparable. like they still hate each other's guts but also no one else will listen to them cry over a bad assignment score, or how much pressure their parents put on them, or how its so difficult to interact with other people when theyve been told theyre better than them their entire life through praise and alienation
there's also themes of religious guilt/trauma i was heavily unpacking when writing them (i SWEAR i made them before i knew about rfth). bc they're paladins, their faith is important to them and is what gives them power. they go about it in such different ways though, because while salt and hound are so similar in their competitiveness and spoiled bratty natures, theyre so different in how they show it
salt (any prns) wants validation above all else. she runs off of external validation: compliments and praise, good grades, high status, which pairs well with her extremely affluent family who've hammered into her this need for being Powerful since a young age. being able to harness "the light" and being chosen as a paladin (cookie run was vague as shit w/its worldbuilding dont question it too much) was physical proof to him that he was Better; he was Different; he was destined for Greater Things (than you). they're a huge social butterfly and can appear very genuinely nice to your face, but they have no actual respect for you or anyone around them unless you're a figure of authority they can fawn over. they are a bit scared of authority in this sense! but only bc they know punishment can strip them of what they've worked hard for: it doesn't come from a place of genuine respect.
hound (they/he) on the other hand leans a lot more into the religious aspect. their parents were heavily involved with the church (same faith system as the paladin stuff), and hound internalised this to hell and back, terrified of being a sinner and always striving to do Good and be Pure and Devout, especially when their parents would threaten them with punishment and the Doom of Sin and Hell and all that. they accepted becoming a paladin because they very genuinely believe in their faith and in doing good, and when they're terrified of bad, and good grades = being good, of course that translates into them becoming a perfectionist over their performance at the paladin academy. he struggles being as social as salt, though, being very shy and uncertain of himself and trying to make himself seem as small and unobtrusive as possible, in this weird superiority-inferiority complex where they feel morally vindicated picking apart other people's flaws and quietly letting his own good traits shine.
there's literally So Much and i fear i am running out of time to get ready to meet with friends tonight but something something a huge argument breaks out between them, salt runs the fuck away to join a cult (I SWEAR I MADE THESE CHARACTERS BEFORE I WATCHED RFTH), hound graduates the academy w/o his best friend and becomes super fucking depressed where not only did he not graduate top of the class (mortifying for him) but also he blames himself for his and salt's argument, can't stop seeing himself as forever doomed (he obsesses over 'good' and 'bad'; being bad to him is like the end of the world), so he ditches the paladin title and refuses to show his face to his family out of shame
then hound finds proper community in the Lower City (context: poor, starved, fucked over by the Upper City) who helps them rebuild themselves back up to a Functioning Person who isnt reliant on validation from some bullshit dichotomy of good vs. bad from their faith, purely thru showing him that he's worthy of living regardless, showing him unconditional support, showing how they uplift each other in the community regardless of where people are in life, regardless of what they've done. everyone deserves a good life hound included and hound looks around @ ppl who've been nothing but kind to him and is like "..damn..maybe ur right...maybe there's a point to all this after all....maybe the real god-provided good was the friends we made along the way". one thing leads to another and he takes back his "paladin" title, still able to harness the powers it gave him, but refuses the status that comes with it, preferring instead to help the community that saved his life
(paladins in this world are also less actual paladins and more glorified celebrities so this is the best case scenario but we wont get into all of that rn)
salt on the other hand is having a rough time in Cookie Catholicism Cult. i wish i was joking but no thats what the in-game cult is based off of and it's great. he wanted validation through the promises this cult's missionaries spoke of: the "community" that saves him is dead-set on breaking his ego and making him a good loyal soldier for them, bc while salt is extremely skilled as a fighter and can be extremely disciplined, they know he's doing it to get praise from the clergy and climb the ranks for his own validation rather than out of actual belief. good news though!! the baptism ritual is so traumatising they manage to break her spirit and make her depressed as fuck with no hope of actually fighting back. if she doesn't truly believe in them, but wants validation, they'll just keep her around and make sure she stays in line. and they do so by making the fellow cult members keep an eye on him and make him slip up so they can report it to the elders who can issue punishment, enforcing the paranoia that the cult is always watching and knows when they slip up, even through seemingly-supernatural means, that keeps them unquestioningly faithful
most of that was headcanon but also if u play the game it feels very possible to what actually goes on so lmfao
i rly rly have to go but this is genuinely only like half of their story and i would love to ramble more..if anyone is interested maybe.....let me know heh.............
i rambled about M being inserted into st. churnley's (i should be studying)
long post, tw: animal death, gore, transphobia, violence. putting it under the cut just in case
going a tiny tiny tiny bit insane over her icl. projecting all my weird edgy interests i had back then. shoutout to all the sad 11 year olds who felt more monster than human when they were in school
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I’m never going to stop thinking about Salt and Hound. This is It for me. It’s Over.
They’re so character!!!! Ahghhhhh!!!
Please give us more lore when you feel like it, I’m gonna be insane about them forever <3
EFDSKJGDSGFNDKJGD THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU i am so glad i can inflict them upon Others as well
more lore. i love encouragement. i love enablement. more rambling under the cut (u have made my absolute day thank you thank you thank you)
OK SO hound is living his best life while salt is going thru The Horrors. as far as hound knows, salt may as well be dead; they disappeared in the middle of the night, no note, no anything, and because salt's a very emotionally volatile person who has threatened doing drastic things before, hound has immediately assumed the worst. it's VERY easy to jump to worst-case scenario and blame yourself for everything when you've been made to feel responsible for being, and maintaining, goodness and purity and all that bs in the world
a lot of hound's story "takes place" (ie. i collaborated with others during this and this is the 'era' of him we spoke the most about) at this in-between stage where he doesn't know what happened to salt, and he jsut has to keep living with that uncertainty. u know that grief you feel for lost friendships/relationships/etc where you couldn't get closure, and can't get any closure now, and ur caught between blaming urself for everything vs. forgiving urself and moving on to the next part of ur life? this is hugely hound (nodding emoji).
he even starts a dog rescue shelter in this time, bc in this universe, dogs and animals and non-intelligent life are discriminated against through literal demonisation, being seen as hellspawns and the like. hound finds comfort in comparing himself to them; they're living beings, just like him, and yet they're demonised...why? questioning that and choosing to show compassion to these "unholy" creatures is a huge grounding factor for his internal complex over good vs. evil. They're Literally Just Dogs. and he loves dogs :3 ("hound" is a nickname! same as salt. i literally just dont have other good names for them lol) if they're evil, maybe he doesn't want to punish things for being evil - including himself. maybe being good isn't all it's cracked up to be in the first place. maybe he's just as evil as them, for existing the way he does, and maybe that's ok. idk it's a lot of "inherent sin" and guilt i was trying 2 unpack here lol
salt isn't dead though. salt's been training with his fellow cult members to prepare for doomsday or whatever the fuck that cult was doing i don't remember lol. she's been doing so well that the elders send her alongside the missionaries to her old city, as a guard, to help protect them and ensure nothing goes wrong :)
then she bumps in to hound in the streets. hound doesn't recognise her, scarred and unkempt and devoid of all the life that made her Her, especially with the large cloak hiding her features. salt recognises hound, though, and salt sees how hound isn't suffering, like they are; that he's not only fine, but happy, and living life as if none of it ever mattered. she starts watching him from then on, staying in the shadows, neglecting the mission she was assigned to, and her rage grows stronger as she realises not only has hound also deviated from the path they were both set up for, but is genuinely successful and happy in accepting *less than perfection*
and the grief of what's happened to her overcomes her, alongside the betrayal that their shared suffering of needing to be perfect holy warriors all of the time seemingly meant Nothing to hound in the end. that they can just accept their status disgraced like that, and still be loved and supported by people who don't care. it sickens her anddddd she ends up defecting from the cult and tries to get back at her situationship ex by summoning monsters from beyond
like i kid but also i'm not kidding. collaborative storytelling is great, someone had like some space monstrosity demon character who ended up getting summoned, controlled and gaslit by salt into doing his bidding. JUST so he could get back at hound. he's insane and i love him <3333
something something big confrontation happens, the end of the world almost happens but doesnt bc salt didnt actually want to end the world, they just wanted to one-up hound and see him suffer as much as they have. they start taunting him in front of his broken home and almost-dead friends, trying to cut into old wounds they knew would have made him cry at the academy, and instead of rising to the bait hound jabs him in the fuckin face lmao
the collaborative storytelling bit died off around here but i had vague ideas about this being about redemption and healing: originally salt was supposed to die off after hound graduated from the academy, but i really wanted to write some sort of closure hound would find eventually, even if just for myself. bc of this redemption and slow progressive healing is a huge part of their story. i like to think salt runs off and tries to die on his own somewhere in the woods but hound finds them and, after everything, refuses to let them give up. he was given a second chance by people who proved he could be loved: he wants to find that for salt, too
it's a fun back-and-forth between them from thereon where hound is just so happy to have his best friend back and is looking @ everything with rose-tinted glasses of "look, i healed, u can heal too, and everything will be ok again". meanwhile salt sees the vitriol other people look at her with and is so insanely traumatised from her parents, the academy, the cult, the shit they did to themselves... she insists on living in whatever abandoned building she found to die in, away from society. it's so hard to believe she can be saved, let alone if she's /worthy/ of it
hound looks at him with such hope and admiration though. even after everything he's done. and when it's just him and hound and the trees around them, and hound insists no one's watching them, and they haven't been found by the other cult members, or hound's friends that salt hurt, or anyone else he's hurt over the years... sometimes salt thinks maybe he's okay
AND THEN THEYRE BACK TO BEING CODEPENDENT BUT IN FUN NEW WAYS HELL YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!
its actually a lot sweeter than i make it out to be. there's just only so much i can put into a tumblr post when this story has been brewing across multiple discord servers, dms, sketchbooks and abandoned clip studio canvasses over the past year or so LOL. theres so many little details about them and fluff and angst and gdfskjlhgasddf
im so sad i don't have any good ideas on how to fully divorce them from the cookie run universe without just changing the names of things. their story of dismantling their perfectionism, dehumanisation from an early age with expectations that are beyond them, hurting each other because they don't know how else to function, finding ways to redeem themselves on their own terms rather than basing their morals on what they've been told, and offering grace and compassion to forgive the other... accepting theyre not actually perfect but are both deeply deeply flawed, and maybe only the other person can understand and accept this, and maybe that's ok because they can learn to love themselves through each other. and by extension they can be confident to reenter society, as a team. theyre so. theyre sooooo. they mean genuinely the absolute world to me and i CAN'T DO THEM JUSTICE!!!! they just live in my head until i explode
theyre more concepts atp than anything. theyre characters with an established fucked dynamic and themes that drive their story, and instead of taking these things and writing an actual story with them i just chuck them into AUs as inserts and see what happens :PP i've done it with the plagueround they make me sick there too i love them
idk if any of this post was coherent. i got carried away with how much i love them. i have a habit of seeing an empty text box and rambling until i burn out. i feel like i need to collapse and explode i just love my ocs so so much
thank u again for asking abt them and thank u if u read this far<33333 the world needs more ocs
blorboposting to cope before i have to leave for exam
this is aur (they/he), taken from another OC universe. i also inserted them into the plagueround and their curse is they have fire powers inversely proportional to their emotional state. like you know the trope where someone gets really really angry and their emotions bring their fire powers out? that but the opposite. they have to be constantly in some sort of high-emotional state, often to their detriment, or they'll end up catching on fire and burning everything around them. i love them so much
