So a round from my brain cause I love music, are there any songs that instantly remind you of your OCs?
Would any of them like broadway musicals? Which is their favorite?
Do your Catians, Lukoroh and V'eiss like music? What kind?
Brain round!!! :D 🍹 🍸
So a round from my brain cause I love music, are there any songs that instantly remind you of your OCs?
Yes!!!!! I've wanted to do one of those "one song per oc" type deals but I don't have one for everyone yet (and it doesn't feel right to do one without everyone named), so this is the perfect excuse to share what I do have! XD
Ceicive: Broken Machine (Nothing but thieves) and Love Like You (from Steven Universe)
Ceicive and Wilvous together: Fallin' For You (Colbie Caillat) early on, and Still The One (Orleans) later down the line <3
Toka: Pay Me My Money Down (Bruce Springsteen)
Captain Vasilios gets two: World (5 for Fighting) and A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan) (feels kinda weird to give her that given as she's very much neither, but I really like the poetic aspects of the lyrics)
D'Hrava and T'Pril together: Isn’t It Love? (from the Steven Universe movie), We are in Love (Shannon Hurley), and The Warrior (Patty Smyth)
Kirev and the Denobulan Bartender lady get Brandy (Looking Glass) because that was kind of their inspiration a little bit tbh XD (theirs is definitely healthier given communication and species cultures, but still worth a mention XD)
Aerelai gives me such strong Sam Smith song vibes in general, I think most especially I'm Not Here to Make Friends and Diamonds, and I'd also have to say Escapism (Raye)
R'aahs gets two: Run Boy, Run (Woodkid) and Runaway (AURORA)
Bloodline by Jellyroll fits for R'aahs and Wilvous both honestly
Vorta OC: My Back Pages
and for V'eiss and the Bad Luck Vulcan: Silly Love Songs (Paul McCartney) You Are the Best Thing (Ray LaMontagne)
Would any of them like broadway musicals? Which is their favorite?
Omg Aerelai would absolutely love musicals (and sometimes make it everyone's problem that they do). I could see them really liking the energy and outfits of Chicago! I've got to think doctor D'Hrava would like some too, maybe Les Misérables for its discussions of honor, bravery, tragedy, and rebellion.
Wilvous likes the stage production and how the music can convey narrative, but I don't know that he'd have one true favorite. He'd probably like debating the meaning of certain musical scores and costume/set choices and their impact on the piece as well.
The Bad Luck Vulcan finds Little Shop of Horrors more fascinating than he'd maybe care to admit outright.
Lukoroh would like them too for reasons I'll talk about in just a minute.
Do your Catians, Lukoroh and V'eiss like music? What kind?
Yes I think they do! It's time for SPECULATIVE WORLDBUILDING! (aka shit I just made up!)
The Calico Pilot maybe has a soft spot for call and response type songs because it's something he would do with her siblings growing up when they were out walking or when they were doing chores/helping in the shop.
The Lion Therapist would like deeper Didgeridoo type instrument
Lukoroh: Ok so I think he'd like stuff like musicals, ballads, operas, anything that tells a story! He'd have to relisten sooooo many times just to get a little of the narrative, but I don't think that bothers him, it's sort of how he feels about art!
V'eiss: I think he'd like more traditional Vulcan lyre music, it's something his adoptive father played a lot, and his grandmother would sometimes too. I don't think of him as ever really having learnt but a handful of melodies he could play sort of ok-ish himself, but he deeply respects the art form as a whole and thinks it's very beautiful.
I have an idea for what I want to try drawing next in the big sketchbook (no spoilers in case it doesn't end up turning out), but for after that, what should I draw next?
CHOOSE:
Finish the janky sketch of R'aahs in the spiral sketchbook
Index card drawing of Padaka (the Calico Caitian Pilot)
Big sketchbook drawing of Wilvous
Big sketchbook drawing of Aerelai
Big sketchbook drawing of Bhea and Muna together
''you should draw my oc instead'' (fine but give me pics/good description)
[two of my ocs scenario idea] (submit your idea in comments/rb, no promises)
Stop being a coward and draw Vasilios' index card pic
Voting ended onMay 4
(I draw people I haven't drawn before on index cards first so people can sit next to each other bc obviously I don't have any little Playmates style action figures of any of these guys (gn) </3) I'm perfectly willing to draw y'alls Ocs out of love/for practice but the quality is ✨debatable✨.
(also I'm fr so so scared to try and draw captain Vasilios, I can picture her, but I'm worried I can't do her proper justice at my skill level :/ )
[ 🫳 ]ㅤ.ㅤwho do they feel they owe, but never paid back ?
Captain Vasilios
[ 🌒 ]ㅤ.ㅤdo they have a dream or goal they have given up on ?
Toka
[ ⛓️ ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat does guilt feel like to them ?
Oohp ouch shots at the ask bar! That's a house specialty! XD 🥃🥃🥃
R'aahs: [ 🫳 ]ㅤ.ㅤwho do they feel they owe, but never paid back ?
Ah that would be the older Breen who he met during one of his prison stints! He was always grateful to him for getting him out of danger that time and would kind of tag around behind him when he got the chance to while they were locked up r whenever they'd both happen to be in the same area between jobs later.
He just kind of never really saw him again after one of the overlaps and I think he's always wondered what happened to him and kind of wishes he could properly let him know what his random compassion, whatever the cause of it might have been, meant to him.
Captain Vasilios: [ 🌒 ]ㅤ.ㅤdo they have a dream or goal they have given up on ?
When she was younger I think she used to dream of becoming an Admiral or a famous explorer like she liked to read about in her educational holloprograms. I think she could have done it really, but once she got into a place within her career where she was more primed to do it she came to realize that she wanted to appreciate the world more than she wanted to discover it. Like she wouldn't turn down the chance to situationally of course, but I think she backed up a lot from chasing novelty and glory as she saw more and saw what was getting left behind for that.
Toka [ ⛓️ ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat does guilt feel like to them ?
I think for him it feels almost sort of cold and creeping, with a pressure on his lungs and throat. A ringing in his ears that makes the world buzz and swirl. Like drowning.
Toka (but in a platonic way with his security team)
What was a moment that made one of them think, ‘Oh no… I actually care about them’?
Kirev and the Denobulan bartender
What do they usually do when they reunite after long missions?
And two for V'eiss
What's their favorite comfort food that they eat when they're sad?
What's an item that is deeply important and special to them? What makes it so special?
Alright!!! :D 🍹 🥂
Toka (but in a platonic way with his security team): What was a moment that made one of them think, ‘Oh no… I actually care about them’?:
Agh that's so cute honestly omg!!!! <3 (and it got longer than I expected lol XD)
I think ironically R'aahs is probably the first among them he sort of softens towards first even though he starts out the harshest with him (because he was his most personally vouched for investment out of them all). He kind of starts feeling guilty about it after realizing (the first layer level) of R'aahs' history, but pushes it down at first.
It's the time when R'aahs gets sick that I think he drops his bastard act a bit in talking calmly and very firmly to him to get him to understand that he needs to go to sickbay. It's also in doing this that he kind of tips his subconscious hand and reveals he cares about his other subordinates as well, motioning the Vulcan/Romulan to stand back and contact doctor D'Hrava and actually getting between R'aahs and Buff Human Lady himself because she'd been trying to help him before it became clear he was so distressed as to be dangerous. [also jfc I need to name these people XD]
I'd say that's definitely a big factor in the friendlier relationship he comes to have with her; She's had some pretty bad bosses before and I think had always been sort of guarded that he'd be the same especially given his species, and his hardass tendencies, but that was a complete inversion of her expectations and even though he's not really one to ever come out and say it he'd absolutely hate for one of his people to get hurt when he could have prevented it. not like he has a big chip on his shoulder about stuff like that or anything./s
(That's probably also why, down the line, he doesn't hesitate to tell off the V/R when he's cagey about doing what D'Hrava says because he "has concerns" (read: is fucking terrified) that the practices will cause him to act erratically. I'll admit that Toka might could have been more diplomatic about the phrasing of his rebuttal, but the end result was decidedly effective XD)
I don't think h'ed pay R'aahs too many visits while he's recovering in sickbay, but he does check in with D'Hrava every few hours (on the, not entirely fictitious grounds, that R'aahs was a major high-risk investment on his part and that it's reasonable to want to keep apprised of any major updates.)
His reassurances to R'aahs when he does finally visit may be cloaked in similar language "What kind of an idiot do you take me for? Of course you're not fired, I expect you to report for duty the moment she says you're cleared. When you earn your keep I earn mine." (but it'd be a lie to say that it didn't send a sharp pang of pity through him to hear the question)
Within the Ivy and Brad AU: I'm kind of picturing them coming in later on than a lot of the other people, so Toka's probably softened a bit by then overall, and seeing how much Brad works hard and fights against his own stereotypes and usually manages to deescalate a situation and clear up misunderstandings, I think he'd see a lot of easily overlooked savvy in him and he'd warm up to him through that.
Kirev and the Denobulan bartender: What do they usually do when they reunite after long missions?
It depends where they are in their relationship! At the earliest points it's really just a long visit to her bar where they talk about whatever's been going on for the two of them, then one of the times she offers to show him a little bookshop that popped up on the station that month (it's perhaps a bit of a niche specialty shop given Trek Tech, but it's a busy little space port, so there are always some people interested in their wares I think). He could just replicate his audiobooks, but I think there's a certain charm in going to pick them out so that becomes something they do together each time, which progresses to that and having dinner together at one of the other little places.
One of the times they end up talking for too long in the little bookshop and by the time they're kicked out the other shops have closed so she offers him back to hers if he doesn't mind a bit of a clunky replicator. He certainly doesn't. The next time he brings her something that he made as a thank you an she marvels at the precision of the vegetables cut so beautifully. This pattern continues a while.
Sometimes she manages to arrange a bit of live music acts to come and play at her bar sort of like the day they met, though they're admittedly seldom any good, but Kirev likes to come and hear them anyhow. One of the times some of her other partners are in port as well and he gets to meet them. On those nights it's usually much more casual; They'll all have drinks and sometimes play cards and the like. I don't think he's been interested in being anything more than friends with any of her partners thus far, but he definitely befriends them!
He starts becoming more and more attracted to her and things start to progress from intimate but platonic to more overtly romantic and sexual as well. The first time he has a pain flare he's extremely embarrassed and would probably have left never to return if he could have gotten down the stairs in one piece. He can't though and so they spend their few days together staying in, and honestly they have a really nice time Eventually He starts staying over more regularly on trips, and there's also less pressure to get in quite as many activities since there's the quiet certainty of cyclical return.
Once they're solidly in a relationship they usually make their walkabout rounds through the station, see her other partners if they're visiting too, and they're basically almost always at her apartment above the bar overnight since the Omelas is at port to be serviced, and guests at the temporary port quarters are usually frowned upon at least officially. She has at least seen his quarters on the Omelas and the art from his homeworld though, and when he gets the chance to he brings her to see the hydroponics bays; they may not exactly be much in the way of beauty, but they're more natural growing plant life than she usually gets to see at the port <3
And two for V'eiss: What's their favorite comfort food that they eat when they're sad?:
I think there's probably a fruit of some kind that his adoptive grandmother grows that he really likes; Maybe something almost like grapes but a little more bitter and extremely hydrating. He likes to add them to salads or boil them into tea with spices and honey.
and What's an item that is deeply important and special to them? What makes it so special?:
He has a lute from his adoptive father that was passed down through his family across multiple generations. He can only really play a couple of songs at all, but it means a lot to him that he has it because 1. he just deeply appreciates all of the history surrounding it and the people who made it and who studied it and meditated with it and so on, and 2. it's kind of an unspoken (as that would be illogical) reminder of his abject acceptance within the family, as a major part of that particular lute's significance *is* the fact that it's passed down through the family <3
Lion therapist (i don't remember if he got a name)
17. Are they good at cooking?
Alright!! :D
D'Hrava 7. Neat or messy hand writing?:
Pretty neat honestly! I doubt it would look that way to non klingons, but to them it would almost have a historical quality because she used to be so obsessed with ancient houses and their customs and she picked up some writing quirks from the immersion
R'aahs 9. Are they good or bad at making handicrafts?
It depends on what kind they are! He can carve stuff pretty well if it's decently dense material, but if it's too thin he'll end up piercing it too hard or crushing it. He can also do stuff with beads pretty well, though again a strong material prevents accidental crushing.
Not good at painting (though he has tried a little. It's just not an intuitive material for his species I think), and not really good with cutting paper for stuff (it tends to shred), but he can actually fold it into shapes kinda well if it's a thicker material like cardstock.
I think folding leaves, bark, or bits of hide trimmings into little shapes to throw into the wind to let them dance or to chase could be a pretty common thing for Nausicaan children! He was always a little uncoordinated to do it well as a child, so his father (and then later, for a while at least) his siblings would usually end up doing it for him </3
Padaka 14. How are their table manners?;
Well she could probably keep it together semi decently for a really really important event through just like out of sheer survival mode forcing themself into a freeze response. Normally though? Feral little thing
(fun fact: I picture them as sort of like a genderfuck calico Muta lol)
Lion therapist (i don't remember if he got a name) 17. Are they good at cooking?:
(Sadly he does not yet XD)
Yes when it comes to meat! He could grill, stew, or smoke, but his specialty would probably be something like open fire cooking with a lot cooking at once, almost like this :
he probably wouldn't really know what to do with fruits and vegetables beyond cutting them up raw though XD
For any 2 OCs -- ☕ americano – what’s their brutally honest opinion about something that can go for hours?
Yay, a surprise order!!! :)
R'aahs has decidedly strong opinions on different kinds of weaponry and the best ways to maintain them! He only got to start actually using it at all once he was older and had started to take on jobs off-planet, so he used to sort of jump at the chance to use anything other than brute force, but after getting experience and developing techniques beyond just imitating what he'd seen he became a bit of an aficionado and loves to talk about them and show them off!
Wilvous would, if he ever got the confidence, have arguments with other Tellarite artists about paint ingredient gradients and the texture qualities they instill that would borderline come to blows!
I think Nausicaans tend to have a kind of (borderline literal) pecking order within their social structures (pain an injury are games to them, and, I would think, points of communication as well depending upon what degree is permissible to inflict and/or return) and while ofc the exact dynamic would never be permissible aboard a Starfleet vessel I do think R'aahs probably has a rough structure of one that fits within a species cultural variance permissable overlap aboard an already atypical vessel:
Head tier is Captain Céline Vasilios; Full superior no question. She defeated him in combat upon their meeting but chose to spare him and incorporate him into her crew. She is in full command and anything less than full cooperation from him would be a disgusting offence. Too high above for any form of playful behavior.
Second tier is interesting in that they're all roughly of equal authority to his mind within a social hierarchy (though he does recognize the difference within the technical structure of command).
Kirev, moreso from a standpoint of getting to act/speak on behalf of the captain, though he does have some degree of unexpected physical strength due to Aenar physiology. Might give him a tap with his cane, but R'aahs recognizes this is a deliberate act of congeniality towards him. He may be more actively friendly towards him than he may be to the captain, but recognizes him as too far of a superior to be fully friendly towards
Toka: Considers him his most direct superior within his immediate day to day interaction. Toka is fairly willing to use a bit of physical directive with R'aahs given their notable difference of size, and not always with as friendly of an intention as R'aahs takes it, but it does actually ultimately serve fairly well to denote an authority while maintaining a decent sense of camaraderie to him (which eventually evolves into a more genuine one on Toka's part as well)
Doctor D'Hrava: superior, stronger, but enjoys a bit of playful roughhouse in casual social settings. She won't hesitate to put him back in his place if he gets too rough, but they can have a bit of a back and forth dynamic with it.
Third tier is kind of separate, with those who aren't quite as high ranking technically, but he isn't about to fuck around with them. He likes when he can be friendly with them, but that's fully at their discretion.
T'pril: (and Tbf he takes that kind of approach towards most Vulcans unless he knows them really well because their limits are harder to read). She doesn't really interact with him much beyond directives and brief interactions in the mess hall, where he is polite and subdued.
Aerelai: A bit different in that they're friends, but he'll give them a wide birth when they're angry or the minute he gets the idea he's crossed a line with them. They don't ever really physically strike but they will let forth a small neural pulse when those things happen and it's a much scarier little "back the fuck off".
Fourth tier is about level with him though it can vary just a little situationally. Friendliest tier overall:
Muna. She knew about Nausicaans when she met him and ran over his foot with her powerchair, then later shared some of her lunch with him (another indicator, in that resources are shared with those below you, taken by above). She'll give him a friendly swat sometimes that he can return lightly.
Wilvous. (seemingly) stayed stoic and (accidentally) cut his face pretty badly with one of his tusks the first time he met him.
Himself! :)
Bhea. His best friend right after Muna! She's pretty sturdy, They get into a lot of hijinks together and playfight. He's ultimately stronger than her but she'll put up a really good fight and recognizes that he's being friendly doing it! Sometimes they share the braincell.
Fifth tier is specifically under him, can push them around a little bit and they can't take his stuff (they very much don't try, but regardless they can't), but it also means they're deliberately under his scope of protection barring Weird Shit Happening or something.
[Arachnid Xenoanthropologist] (she actually could be a lot more dangerous if she chose to be, but use of venom is highly taboo and is only to be done in outright peril, so she's fine letting him see her as this level). He doesn't have much cause to interact with her, but letting her remain largely unchallenged while still on a protective tier is an attempt of a sort to respect her privacy while still seeing through his worldview filter.
[Bajoran/Cardassian engineer]. He likes them, thinks they're very smart and (with him) scrappy. They sometimes try and rise up a teir when they'll play around with him, but largely he just views it as cute that they try and stays protective of them
Ceicive. He threw Ceicive across sickbay the first time he met him. In all fairness he was having a really bad time medically and thanked the sickbay team afterwards. He and Ceicive are friends now; he was mildly concussed, but not really angry about it. He thinks of Ceicive as extremely sweet, patient, and fragile tbh.
Ryn. Withdrawn, skittish, still getting used to the new adaptive equipment, prone to a freeze response and only ever actually tries to fight back when he's extremely stressed and it's clear even to R'aahs that if it gets to that point it is way too far. Tries to help him feel safer but isn't always very good at it. (Has "guarded" him during panic attacks before though and that actually was helpful <3)
[I'll probably edit and add new people to the list as I come up with them, but this is as current a version as I have of the crew!]
Is there one particular food that your OC absolutely loathes and would never eat, unless all other options were unavailable?
R'aahs
Does your OC prefer the sensation of cooling down in hot weather (perhaps with a cool breeze and icy drink), or the sensation of warming up in cold weather (perhaps wrapped in a cosy blanket with a hot beverage)?
And for off menu- im super curious about Aerelai and their spirituality. I may have asked before but what exactly is their spiritual beliefs? How do they practice their religion on the ship?
Another round!!! 🫖 ☕
Toka: Is there one particular food that your OC absolutely loathes and would never eat, unless all other options were unavailable?:
Gummi worms XD (honestly he probably wouldn't terribly dislike ones that were made with fruit juice and less sugar, but he hates them on principle at this point since the first time he wasn't expecting them to be sweet)
Plus while it's not quite to the same level, I think he doesn't really like the bug snacks that are flavored like bacon, but mostly just because he can't digest the pork well (since Rom makes a comment in one episode that bacon didn't agree with him)
(which really is a shame bc they're kinda good!)
R'aahs: Does your OC prefer the sensation of cooling down in hot weather (perhaps with a cool breeze and icy drink), or the sensation of warming up in cold weather (perhaps wrapped in a cosy blanket with a hot beverage)?
So I don't think the actual temperature of it matters quite as much to him as much as there having to be airflow of some kind for him to be comfortable (bc Nausicaan biology), but I guess I'd say he has a bit of a preference for cooling off! He's got pretty thick dermal layers so he doesn't need much help staying warm most of the time, so cooler airflow typically feels a bit nicer to him in most environments (but if he does get really cold it can take him a long while to warm back up)
(interestingly he actually dislikes eating and drinking cold things, because Nausicaans evolved to be able to drink from hot springs most reliably, so it's actually pretty hard for him to swallow things below a certain temperature and it can even cause temporary spasming of the muscles in his throat)
And for off menu- im super curious about Aerelai and their spirituality. I may have asked before but what exactly is their spiritual beliefs? How do they practice their religion on the ship?:
So I mentioned it a looong while back, but they worship the four deities of Betazed (moon/tide/ocean/mind) goddesses, with their quarters having four little shrines where they make small offers of salt, scented oil, [something very akin to] honey, and small stones to each dish of water as appropriate and they track the phases of the moons back on Betazed to make sure the stones offered are the correct shape to align.
The salt is usually collected from seawater or from scraping off one's skin (Betazoids' bodies can filter out excess salt through their sweat more effectively due to their planet's ecology), and the stones are typically collected from beaches and discarded back into the ocean after an offering once the water has evaporated from the shrine.
The scented oils and honey-esque substance can just be made/harvested/replicated, but the oil used in offerings is traditionally the same blend used in bathing by the person making the offerings. (technically this is more of a practicality in that it's what someone would have in the home, but there is an aspect of it being sort of linked to the self, kind of like how the salt is often of the body)
Aerelai probably tries to collect some stones when they go planetside, but does sometimes end up having to just replicate them.
Within their belief The Four Goddesses helped to shape Betazed and its people together and guided their creations from the sea to the land, and now more indirectly help to lead them through the stars.
Through the shrines offerings of thanks are made, guidances requested, and thoughts, hopes, fears, & concerns voiced. Candles are lit and extinguished at the rituals beginning to symbolize the night, as that is when the Goddesses symbols (the moons) can best be seen.
If possible the little shrines are usually kept near a point of moving water like a river or out on a balcony if one lives near the sea, but Aerelai probably has more of a small tabletop fountain type deal bc starship kinda like this
