"just necessary" is Theia's understanding of every horrific, manipulative, merciful, and heroic thing she ever did
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Adelaide Hawke:
This one's not as on the nose as Theia's (few things could be) but there is potential there, never empty; and I do like her as that pause, that desperate moment of trying to find balance before everything shatters. Compassion, quiet and eternal and maybe nothing changes, but at least it was there, seems very like an Adelaide-as-Goddess sort of thing.
The picrew's fun too, I enjoyed trying to figure out Theia & Adelaide, but both more and less, gods but lost, power sleeping. (I find it hilarious I went back and forth on Adelaide's eyes & eyebrows and then covered them up. 😅)
no-pressure tagging: @shadoedseptmbr @jadesabre301 @brennacedria @fancytrinkets @genginger and anyone else who would like to blame me 💕
so average-mako-enjoyer made this post about Shepard being forced to have a social media account for morale and only posting hamster pictures and like
I read that and immediately had four different Shepards yelling at me in my head (I blame @shadoedseptmbr's Aedan tags) 🤣🤣🤣
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Weaver would in fact include hamster pictures, but they'd be macro pictures of like, whiskers and toes only.
The whole account would all only be macro photos. No tags, no comments, no explanations, no definitions. No time stamps or metadata, all expertly wiped, no location cues beyond maybe the quality of the light... which isn't that hard to manipulate after all, if you've got an omnitool and some good flashlight/spotlight blueprints.
It's all just exquisite close-ups of pieces of gravel and seeds and leaves and pollen or fractions of circuit boards and weird screws or clamps or the odd pattern of wear on a [redacted but clearly the Mako for those in the know] tire.
She and Aeden would clearly get along great.
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Ngaio would flat out refuse. (She would've done it if she'd met Traynor sooner, because she can refuse Traynor nothing, but that was too late, on several levels.)
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Ella would be asked to make an account after she gets her N7 status and starts showing up in the news periodically; she's told to try and soften the public image of the infamous Butcher of Torfan.
She does set something up, posts some generic pretty Alliance Training Stock Photos, the kind you get in a recruiters office, but that's it for ages.
And then she posts five separate in-depth tutorials in a row, three on astronomy and two on France of all things, one specifically about the language, one about cooking.
Then nothing again.
And then a three-part series on astral navigation, and how different species figured out the math for measuring where the fuck they were in space.
Then a thing on baking with chocolate, including how to convert levo recipes to dextro (and vice versa) and which things were more likely to translate into something that might still taste good.
She never shows herself however, so it does fuck all to counter all the pics and videos of her stalking around heavily armed and armored in full gear, occasionally with a bit of a blue halo from biotics usage, generally glaring or scowling as she avoids reporters trying to get a comment.
Most people don't connect her socials to the Butcher of Torfan at all, and those that do assume someone else is running the account in her name in a failed Alliance PR stunt.
After the Battle of the Citadel, there are enough recordings of her helping with clean-up efforts and being polite at formal ceremonies to make it clear that the Butcher and the Shepard-who-goes-on-weird-tangents-on-social-media are actually the same person, who is also POSSIBLY a galactic hero, so the whispers about Torfan finally start to fade out a little...
And then she dies.
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Ward would be some terrifying (but delightful once you got past the scowl) combination of Adam Savage and Mercury Stardust because he would legit show people how to take things apart and upgrade and fix them (and which bits are 'legal-ish' depending on whether they technically own them or not) but also things probably explode sometimes (or at the very least spark A Lot™️) and Tali guests wearing glorious (flame-retardant) Turian fashions and ALSO sometimes PROPRIETARY TECH THAT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE and no one ever bleeps ANY of Jack's swearing and sometimes the three of them are gleefully trying to make something that probably shouldn't exist and some poor Alliance PR officer cries in their office sometimes because they are actually spectacular PR and GREAT for morale and also they break so many TOS's but it's Commander Fucking Shepard so who's gonna tell him to stop?
So hey. I distracted myself from my suffering last week via new OC!BB for @seraphinitegames' Wayhaven games now that Book 3 is out. (Have I actually even made it thru book 1 with them yet? No, because I keep restarting and making more picrews as I tweak them in my head, instead.) Meet Ellington Ruskin, they/them.
When they were young & curious & annoyed that adults seemed to think they were adorable, (and that Ellie was an acceptable nickname, which it was not) they went by their full name, Ellington. (That did absolutely nothing to counter the adorable? It did successfully dissuade any lingering attempts at Ella or Ellie tho 🥰)
[carrotkake's / nyurei's / Wervty's Murmur]
They were Much Too Tired™️ (and living off cigarettes & hair dye) when they over-did college-type-nonsense and it was too hard to hold onto all those dumb syllables and dropped it down to just Ell:
[hunbloom's / Bright's Picrew Hell / djarn's]
(Ellington has a ridiculous collection of grandmother-reading-glasses/blue-light-blockers as they are slightly farsighted and also spend way too much time on assorted computer screens.)
They can be very appealing, not so much because they've figured out "charming" (tho they're better with people than any version of @angstmongertina's poor Lia) but because if they're interested they're completely focused, on the book, the technology, the news... or the person who has caught their eye. (Though they might very well just make you feel like they're daring you to try and keep being interesting?)
[Wervty's Chime / Black Centered Picrew / KZ's dolls]
They are Very Smart & kinda too intense for small-town-life & maybe a little intimidating. Just a little!
(ok probably more than a little?)
[toon me! / lulljevic's / baydews']
Ell is not quite sure why that means everyone wants them to be in charge of things, but competency apparently cannot be denied? Ugh.
If they're gonna be forced into this job, they're going to do it well (and look good while doing it).
You've been visited by the random OC question fairy! :D ~☆
Does your character daydream? What do/would they usually daydream about? Do these daydreams say anything about them or their goals?
Oh, hello there fairy! ❤️❤️❤️ It's nice to see you again. 😘
Anyways
Alessandra of Corval daydreams much in the same way Parker from Leverage *plans*, she turns problems around in her head, like 3-d locks, and if she pushes this tumbler the world goes *that* way, but if she lets that one slide we end up over *here*...
What's interesting about her daydreams is that they're almost never about a goal, but the *options*. She's not daydreaming about the treasure hidden at the center of a maze, but all the different ways the path might twist and turn and split apart around her.
She daydreams about how someone she loves might respond to bad news, until she thinks she knows the best way to soften the blow, how someone she despises would revel in success until she can figure out how to add a twist of a knife so their victory becomes, at best, slightly bittersweet.
(In contrast, Their Hawke, who seems at first glance a similarly manipulative type, does in fact daydream about being able to *stop*, at having a refuge, a moment of peace sitting next to a friend or a lover and not having to worry about what they're thinking, about what she's going to have to do next, about the consequences five steps further along whatever paths she's on.)
Ella Shepard / Maia Ryder / Adelaide Hawke / Erana Lavellan (yes, all four for the headcanon meme) ♡ - romantic headcanon ♥ - family headcanon ☮ - friendship headcanon (And three headcanons for each!) <3
ooooh, sapphy <3
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Ella Shepard:
Ella sort of had a girlfriend before the Raid, they were at the adorable puppy-eye stage, and were attempting to figure out how to word at each other well enough to actually go on their first date the day before she died.
(Her boyfriend after the Raid was a very unhealthy-fuck-buddies/distract-from-pain kind of thing, and he ended up joining a gang and trying to recruit her and she almost killed him when he didn’t want to take no for an answer, but hey! Biotic flare = Alliance recruitment so it all worked out. Eventually. Most of her other flings were pretty shallow, and an awful lot of them were assholes; she likes the snarky, and sometimes gets fooled by someone who’s legit that selfish & cynical rather than someone who’s exhausted and sarcastic about it.)
Her parents didn’t really have any family left when they ended up on Mindoir, so Ella didn’t have any family post-Raid, and she and Joker never do have kids, but they foster a lot? I think? I never have figured out their life post-games.
For friends... she has a lot of acquaintances, but before ME1 I’m not sure she had a lot of people she could call really close friends. (Outside of AU Lex & Meg obviously.) She gets there with the Normandy and all three of her crews, though.
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Maia Ryder
Did I ever tell you about Maia’s Complicated Introduction To Angaran Family Structure Because Polyamory? (Basically Jaal of all people is forced to point out that if she trusts Reyes then he’ll trust Reyes and why is she trying to cut out her own heart, at which point Maia attempts to explain monogamy and Jaal is horrified.) Angara have Mothers and Fathers and Cousins and there are a lot of different words they have to differentiate degree of connection that English just doesn’t get and the translation and interpretation of that takes ages. There’s a different word for your husband’s wife who you are also married to vs your wife’s husband with whom you have a platonic relationship and siblings with the same parents vs siblings of siblings that all have overlapping parents, and your biological sister vs raised by the same group of mothers even if your biological parents are different sister vs your spouse’s sister (and which version of sister it is over on that side) and if she didn’t have a SAM keeping track Maia would have wandered around with flashcards or a notebook or something for like, five years before she got it all mostly figured out.
Evfra and Keema grumpily show up to Maia and Jaal’s wedding as Reyes’ cousins because he can’t very well stand there without a family web at all when his fiance’s getting married and it gets very weird for awhile for the humans. (Reyes and Jaal are never really friends but they do eventually make good family.)Jaal convinces the entire Tempest Crew to stand up as Maia’s & Morgan’s extended family, not that it took much effort.
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ADELAIDE AND SEBASTIAN never really fell in love with anyone before each other, or after. Which is perhaps a little sad? They had lots of children, which helped them both get over some of their Family Issues, but also gave them both a few panic attacks because every other family either of them ever tried to have is dead.
They never call Isabela or Fenris family, and won’t let the kids call them Aunt or Uncle or anything like that, not because they don’t love them like family, but because of the aforementioned all my family dies weirdness in their heads.
Uh. Like. My interpretation of bit-parts & NPC’s is almost OC-ing? And then there’s the literal video game protags. SO MANY OF THEM. HOW DO I CHOOOOOSE? There’s even a couple very neglected original fiction people.
I’m gonna stick with the video games I think.
Adelaide Hawke
Theia Hawke
Ella Shepard
Nathalie of Revaire? MAaaaybe. Uh. Crap, I never did get around to putting the briagde of problem-princesses from 7kpp on my OC page. You have reminded me that my OC page is a disaster, thanks ever so much
Nalini Springward! Who is the only really active OC at the moment because she’s from the Pathfinder Game. And is a delight. Just ask her. (Also give her gold. Pretty please.)
I love all of your characters. All of them. They are so dynamic like you captured real people and put them on a page for our amusement. It is glorious and I want to hug them.
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thank you nonny
most of them would love that, the world needs more hugs
though obviously ask first, a not insignificant proportion would punch someone who attempted to glomp them without warning
/and maybe not Theia at all? Not that she does not DESPERATELY need more hugs, but she won’t admit that, and you could get into trouble. No one needs Theia trouble
Except Merrill, who finds it invigorating and also can hold her own
or distract her with sex. or blood magic. or both at once?
they have a really (hot) dysfunctional relationship, they’re delightful
