@blackberreh-art and I are mushing our Barbie dolls together :)))
Miriam Dean stopped aging somewhere in the mid-80’s, but she doesn’t really remember who she was before. She just sort of woke up at the bottom of the ocean, in the cold and the dark and crushing pressure, the empty void all around her. She spent years drifting under there, letting the faint wisps of her past life’s memory waft away in the currents. A decade later she surfaced into an unfamiliar world. The sun was too bright. The dry world was too small compared to her huge, dark undersea fissure. And she was *hungry*.
She spends most of her time in her monstrous Vast Avatar form, trolling the ocean for victims. Giving people who are afraid of deep water something to fear. Giving divers a taste of the depths they wanted to explore so badly.
(MAG 51 High Pressure? That was her!!)
But on land, Miriam is a shy, retiring personality. It’s easy to fluster her. She has a stammer and has a hard time standing up for herself against people like the Fairchilds, who look down on her for her embodying an impure aspect of the Vast, which sits too closely to their enemy, the Buried
(Because seriously. What is the deep ocean but a secret rendezvous for the Vast and the Buried to make out sloppy style?)
Lucky for her, she’s got Evie!! 😃 Who does not know or care what a social norm is!
Evie & Miriam meet cute + Miriam’s monster design are in the works :)
I'll. Stick to just one cast of ocs from one single wip or else we gonna stay in here all week. ;)
(this got a bit long. cws for fantasy eugenics and conditioning under the cut)
♤ Polaris!
Living weapon/child soldier <3 The first one I ever created, actually. One of my oldest ocs in general. I used to daydream ab him in bed as a kid.
He lives in a world where everything and everywhere is taken by war. It's the grand thing of the story; there are multiple human-like races, very similar between each other, and somewhere over the course of history they started fighting over the right calling themselves the 'true and only humans'. Each one wants to dehumanize the others and come out on top of the war. This has been going on for a while.
Polaris is born and raised amidst all of this. He is a lab baby (i ❤️ lab babies who were "made for this") and was genetically engineered to have the 'best' (arbitratrily decided) characteristics of each race, in order to be a human weapon for the nation he was created in. As such, by their standarts, he is not Human like them; he's an hybrid. A "mulatto". Subhuman. He was raised with these ideas shoved in his head, growing determination to fight for the True, Worthy Humans ("its a privilege to do so! he is immensely grateful of being allowed to") and end this war on their side, to bring the others, worthless beings like him, down.
He was trained to be a soldier and a killer from the start, but he hates killing. Human or "not-human", it drives him up the walls when he tries to sleep. Polaris has been carved and primed to perfection, sure, but he deeply despises it. But it doesn't matter, he thinks. It doesn't matter, because he is not even human. He was given the privilege of fighting for the true cause, of stopping all the killing and dying. the sooner the humans win, the sonner he can stop killing. god, he just wants to stop please let him stop of helping end the war! And that's all he truly wants, at the end of the day.
Part of his arc is focused on overcoming his conditioning and his self-hatred, working with the other protagonists to end this mindless eugenics war :) He is also blond, because I love blond characters. I've considered making him black with a nice fade undercut, which i'm still over the fence about, but for now he is blond.
♤ Miriam :)))))
She is of a different 'race' than the one Polaris "serves". She is from a military academy, training to serve her nation in the war; and she is good. Miriam is a star student at Solaria, the best academy in the Amirah country. She is similar to Polaris, in a way. Also brainwashed by the eugenics kool-aid, believing she is doing the right thing by fighting in the war.
She is, at the start of the story, what you could call a... "benevolent racist". Miriam wants the war to end. And for it to end by their hands, the Humans (TM), because the other races would turn the world into havoc if they won. But them? No, they would be good. They would rule above with a kind hand. They would provide all the races everything they needed and lead them into an era of peace and prosperity; if any other people won, they would enslave or kill the remaining, but them, being humans, would not. They deserve to be at the top, and when they do, all will end well amd nobody will have to be hurt.
THANKFULLY her arc is also around overcoming that view 😭😭 Miriam is really nice and kind. She really believes in that tho. She also has red hairrr. And when I said she was a star soldier I wasnt kidding.
♤ Zaire
The star! The protagonist! He is actually the only one from the main trhee who doesn't buy the eugenics.
Why?
Why, he was raised outside of it all.
Zaire's homecountry, Itarja, is (was) a little isolated island where people could live without divisions of "humans" and "nonhumans". A safe haven amongst the war. Most people are "mixed", like Polaris.
One day, a certain nation invades and "purges" them.
Zaire (whose nickname is Zai, also hes transmasc! yippieee) is one of the few dozens who manage to flee to a neighbourhooring country (Amirah!!! Miriam's!!!) who accepts to welcome them as quasi-citizens if they can serve. Zai is put with some others into the military, because he has a bit of the genes of the people in Amirah. He meets Miriam there, who protects him from more cruel bullies (she does see him as a friend and worthy of respect, because she isn't as radical in her eugenic beliefs as most the others, because Miriam is a very compassionate and passionate person st heart) and their first contact is mostly focused on changing the other one's views.
Zaire has white hair (i LOVE white hair. along with pink, black and blond its my fav hair color EVER) and i associate him with the color lilac. He is soft, although a bit harsh around the edges since he is not very good at dealing with emotions, and being shoved into this war out of a sudden is very painful to him. He looks like a pessimist, but he is also very passionate and wants to end this war as soon as he can. In a way, his, Miriam's and Polaris's goals, although their motivations vastly differ, are mostly the same
♤ Honorable mention: Aalyah
Aalyah is Miriam's younger brother!! :DDDD He is younger my maybe two years or three, and he looks up to her a lot. When Miriam goes "missing" and is assumed dead in field, he is devastated. This leads to his revenge arc, where Aalyah starts to grow a never-ending hate for the Non-Humans (filthy, cruel, undeserving) and joins the military as well, following Miriam's footsteps, becoming one of the most brilliant agents of his time, all to avenge her and honor her memory in the only way he thinks is worth it:
Corruption arc :))))
Needless to say, he gets a blast when they finally meet again
Ty sm for the ask!!!! I love talking about them :)
If you ever want to check them, I have picrews for Zai and Miriam, and a few drabbles with Polaris (here/and here/also here, trigger warnings listed at the top)
(Also fun fact: for the reasons mentioned above, the name of the story is twotht: "the war of the human throne")
She'll bring flowers and food to them. She might put herself and the person she likes in the same situation so they can see how ""powerful and cool"" she is
Miriam is kind of daddy's girl and she doesn't receive a "no" in a light way, but she won't push said person anymore
