#object oc yapping

[dustyaardvark]

No. Inside YOU there are two wolves. Inside me it’s just these buffoons.

[gears-electric]

Mother’s Day! You know what that means? An excuse to talk about Pink Alarm Clock!!!

PAC is an interesting of my OCs because she has existed as a concept since 2018 but didn’t actually have her own design until 2021/2022! All her family members had their designs before her (Analog’s in 2020, Timey’s in 2019, and PC’s in 2018!) She has been a character for almost as long as Pink Clock though, thanks to her mention in “Smells like home,” the first pc camp entry from 2018!

She loves to bake, parent, and the color pink. She is usually very cheerful and sweet, but also tends to be a bit impulsive or agitated from time to time!

She grew up on an orchard with her parents (Service Bell and Chimey) and two sisters (Tock and Alarmy? I think?) She rings every morning when she wakes up, and sometimes if she’s scared or excited as well! (She has an overactive hammer)

Her dream is to open her own bakery some day, but with all the chaotic happenings in her life, it seems to be taking a while to get there… in the meantime, she works as a waitress!

She is the biological(?) mother of Pink Clock and Timey, but she also eventually takes care of Boxey and Floating Crown later on as well!

She full of love and passion and determination . Yippee🎉 happy Mother’s Day Pink Alarm Clock!

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One thing I like about object characters is I can project stuff onto them in a really disconnected and metaphorical way so people can’t tell as much that I’m projecting something. Especially clocks I love projecting onto clocks

Clocks “normally” being on time is important to me because it means I can make them off time as a metaphor for “not being normal”. I use being off time mostly as a metaphor for mental illness/disability, though not necessarily anything specific. Some days I use it to project autism experiences, some days I use it to project PTSD, some days it’s stuff like masking and abuse. It just works perfectly to me. Losing track of time, feeling frozen in time, wishing a moment would just be over, feeling like you have to present a certain way to be accepted by society- it all just works really well with clocks.

It is also just a really fun thing to mess around with. In my more full pieces of art, I often DO pay attention to what time I’m giving my clocks.

-After Ring dies, Pink Clock gets stuck at 3 o’clock, the time “it” happened. However, even before the incident, Pink Clock always seems to struggle a bit with staying on time.

-in a lot of art I will put two clocks with one another with different times, to show that at least one of them is wrong.

-Different clocks feel different levels of shame around being on-time. Timey I imagine is much more ashamed/embarrassed of being off-time than Pink Clock is overall

-(though Pink Clock hates it for the reminder, like a physical manifestation of the guilt stained on his conscience 😇)

It’s just so fun to mess around with I wanted to share .

You can find comics about my fucked up clocks @gearselectriccomics (#o’comics tag has the most about all this)

BUT besides that this comic here is how it works!

Yeah. Some art examples (family🩵 for better or for worst 😭)

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what gifts do you think timestrawgear would give each other for christmas or birthdays and stuff? 😼

OMG GOOD QUESTION !!!!

Metal Straw would probably get Timey anything bird related (as Timey likes birds) orrrrrr maybe art supplies because Timey is a doodler.

Gear would probably get them BirdBots merchandise … n probably similar ideas as MS

Timey would get Metal Straw lava lamps. MS I imagine rlly likes the visual aspect of them and ends up collecting lava lamps (which also keeps her from catching things on fire . 👍)

Gear would probably get it like stuff to learn piano . I imagine MS would want to learn piano.

Both of them in general I think would get things supporting MS’s hobbies yeau. I actually made a comic in 2023 abt it actually kinda

For Gear anything related to saws/carpentry/construction as those are his hobbies/interests… so probably tools n stuff 😭 maybe some books . Timey might get him BirdBots stuff too because they both like it (though for different reasons.)

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hii um. I wanted to ask if you take asks about your ocs who are these guys I want to know about them 😭

I DO YES!!!

These are some of the most well known objects in Aadshend! (Where most of my focus object OCs live)

The first character here is Mayoresident Necktie, or just Mayor Necktie, or even just Necktie. He is the leader of Aadshend! He is also friends(?) with Timey’s dad, and as shown here, one of the three hosts of Bear Cave. The society of Aadshend has mixed opinions on him, but probably overall, many dislike him for different reasons.

Second is TimeLamp! TimeLamp is the host of his own show, “The Winter Winner,” and also just generally a performer of sorts, and has been almost his entire life! He is also one of Timey’s cousins ? He also goes missing at some point. But he is found later.

And last but not least is Blue Top Hat (not to be confused with his brother, Red Top Hat) who is basically a famous scientist guy who lives outside of Aadshend on the Island of Technology which he owns. While to the public he is viewed as a Great Guy (due to “inventing” things for the good of society ) (most of his inventions are him taking credit for things other people made) he is actually not a good guy at all . He creates things that would probably be useful if they weren’t horrendously overpriced. I imagine he makes himself out to be this guy who’s making all these great things for society only to make them cost one zillion dollars . Nevertheless, the society of Aadshend puts him on a pedestal, and the only people who see the more sinister side of him are the people who end up working for him.

YEAH I hope these explanations are okay ! If you have any other questions feel free to ask =]

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analog clock's childhood/early lifeee?

HELLO ANONYMOUS ASKER… who could this be… my ponder.

BUT I WILL SHARE!!!! Analog grew up with his dad (Green Clock) and an older brother (Gray Clock). He had a mom too who was a watch but she was kind of off doing Magic Mission Things (related to a whole other plotline.) and eventually died during one. So she was mostly absent in Analog’s life.

Anyways his dad loved her and decided to make a watch business because he was just very much in love with her (?)

Anyways his dad is kind of Greedy. And wants his watchmaking business to be SUCCESSFUL!!! So he comes up with a last name for marketing purposes and pushes the idea that clocks should be on time or else they’re unreliable, mainly so he could sell more watches but also to show that He is reliable because He is on time and that means he Must Sell Good Watches.

Gray (O’)Clock is older than Analog and kind of more aware that their dad is just doing this to sell more watches, but I don’t think Analog fully realizes it’s mostly a marketing thing, and I imagine Green (O’)Clock uses this to his advantage- basically convincing Analog that being off-time is a personal failure of a clock rather than a normal thing every clock experiences. I imagine due to being more anxious than his brother is, that Analog (in childhood) struggles a lot more with having the correct time.

Anyways. Analog grows up with his family giving him a rlly hard time (time?) about being off-time (TIME?!). His dad treats him especially bad. And Analog internalizes this a lot.

And as a result when he meets other clocks who DON’T care about being the correct time he just views them as unreliable/irresponsible, and even going into adulthood he still kind of has those ideas (which he then pushes onto his own kids.)

Oh yeah he was also apparently friends with the mayor before he became the mayor . I think they might’ve had a band HELP 😭 I’ve not developed that much though. I imagine a lot of clocks end up being a little pretentious but not all of them are like that .

Some bits and pieces from a story I wrote abt him a whiiiile ago .

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whats 15 minutes and horseys lore?? if they have anyyy i like them they r very sillay

OO okay so basically . They’re in a separate universe than most my object OCs actually . Just because the other one is kind of cluttered HXBDN.

15 Minutes wakes up in a lab and basically finds out she is some sort of “revival”. And that his body (a modified alarm clock basically. Alarm clock with robot parts) used to belong to?? A former version of herself?? Idk but she doesn’t have any memories at all.

Lab scientist person brings them to their former parents and they basically don’t recognize 15 Minutes as who they were before, and 15 Minutes has no memory of them either. Their former parents suggest lab scientist person resets her and tries again, which 15 Minutes is NOT up for (like. Erasing their brief existence to try and get whoever she was before back??? Didn’t sound fun! And they also kinda didn’t give an eff abt these people at all 😭) so they basically run away ! And become kind of WANTED like. Impulsive runaway robot oh no!!!

Anyways 15 Minutes becomes kind of an explorer and basically finds stuff and then sells it. They are kind of a criminal and like “hehehe I’m so evillll” but she doesn’t actually do much they just intimidate people

At some point she explores a dungeon and things start seeming weird. He assumes his technology might be acting up or smth but eventually discovers Horsey, who is chained down there. Horsey is kind of mysterious and seems to have some sort of reality-bending ability. It basically is like “pleeeease take off this shackle 🥺 I’ve been in here since forever 🥺” and 15 Minutes doesn’t really gaf and is kind of curious so she unshackles him (which was very easy. His leg is a stick it just popped off)

15 Minutes tries to like go her own way but Horsey kinda just follows him. 15 Minutes becomes increasingly aware of Horsey’s weird powers as time goes on and is a little freaked out but also intrigued and wants to study it.

As time goes on 15 Minutes also begins getting memories from the life her body lived before, most which are unpleasant, but overall he still feels pretty disconnected from them.

Horsey also has no memories from before 15 Minutes found it, saying he’d been in the dungeon for a really long time

I think 15 Minutes kind of tries to figure out both of their pasts at the same time. Yeah.

Most of their dynamic is just them exploring and hanging out thouugh neither of them rlly do evil things nor even have much desire to. 15 Minutes I think just likes the aesthetic of being an Evil Robot while Horsey just doesn’t realize he isn’t normal

That’s like most the story but a lot of it is kind of blurry/messy right now because I don’t have a proper outline of it yet 😭 (that I currently know of..)

Most of my art of them I made for a competition maybe I could add some of my captions from Instagram lemme fetch those… I’ll probably rewrite them to not be challenge entries but. They get some of the plot down

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13 😁😁.. for timey or gear

OO ?! TBH I’m not sure if either of them have like a serious competitive type rival ? LIKE they do have people they dislike and they do have playful rivalries but in terms of long-term rivalries neither of them are rlly ones to hold grudges I think !

HOWEVER! In terms of playful rivalry I imagine both of them probably play games with each other and with Metal Straw ! Gear also has playful rivalries with his younger sister at times

In terms of more enemy type relationships uhhhhhh. Maybe Timey and E (Timekeeper E) in the sense E is basically the evil robot Metal Sonic type character in comparison to Timey but like. I don’t think Timey takes it nearly as seriously as E does .

ITS ALSO POSSIBLE IM FORGETTING SOMETHING THOUGH. There is also a period of time where Timey and Football have kind of a Weird friendship (due to opposing views on certain things) but idk if I’d call it a rivalry per se because they weren’t rlly competing ????? IDK maybe I’m thinking too hard abt it JFHHDND

I hope I answered this okay!!!