#rev1999 oc

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yaaay yaaay yaaay yaaay shes finally here!! if you're familiar with my r1999 oc ceciliano, allow me to now properly introduce beatrice, his older sister and biggest cheerleader. her design is finally done!! give her a warm welcome <3 she tolerates pavia (she likes him. in her own...strange way!)

ok2rb!!!

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Reverse 1999 OC Ask Game

i feel like we could maybe use some conversation starters? so here's an ask game!

📅: What time period/where are they from? How do they feel about that place of origin? 🧠: What was their original character concept? Do they have any specific theming? 🏛️: Are they aligned with any specific groups? If so, why? 👾: What would their Udimo and/or casting medium be? 🌠: What is their Afflatus? Why are they associated with that Afflatus? 🎮: How would they play? What canon units would they synergize well with? 📖: What would an event/story featuring them be like? 💭: What is their Insight 2 costume like? Is there any significance behind that change? 📞: Are they associated with any canon characters? Who and why? 👥: What units would be featured alongside them on a gacha banner? 🛝: What do they do in their free time, if they have any? 💕: Do you ship them with any characters, canon or otherwise? Who and why? 🎉: What thing(s) in the 21st century would they really like or enjoy? 🎶: What's a song you associate with them? (And why?) ❓: Free space! Make up any question you want, or just say a fun fact about them!

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...Something's wrong.

There's someone else in the room with K -- it knows this before it turns around, it knows what being watched feels like. It turns only slightly, enough to catch them in its peripheral vision and no more.

It knows who this is, on a practical level. Lock has a habit of referring to his "boss" sometimes, and K has picked up enough about what being Lock's boss entails to come to the reasonable conclusion that whoever they may be, they're not human. It'd resolved to leave well enough alone -- it didn't mind him metaphorically working two jobs, and clearly neither did his boss.

Now, though, there's a little more uncertainty than before. Whoever this is, they don't quite seem like an arcanist either. Something about them feels out-of-place, and-

"Ah, calm down," the other person says, head tilted slightly to the side as they lean back against the desk. "I'm just here to check in on ████, there's really no need to panic."

... ████? Who's ████ -- why can't it remember that name? K's memory is far from eidetic, but that's different from not being able to remember something it knows it was aware of a minute ago. It can feel the blank space where information used to be. It does its best to maintain its composure. Grips the side of its coat with one hand tightly to stop from digging its fingernails into its palm.

"Hm." A small smile flits across the other person's face as they narrow their eyes to look over K again. K recognizes that kind of smile from itself. The hole in the pit of its stomach grows slightly, but it forces that fear down. It's dealt with worse, it tells itself.

"You are really quite interesting," they say, straightening up and walking past K. They put one hand on its shoulder sympathetically. "We should talk sometime, K. Though -- not now. I seem to have caught you off guard."

How the hell do they know its name -- no, there's no need to panic, it's because ████ probably told them, only it can't remember who ████ is. K stares as ████'s boss leaves the room, making damn sure they're gone before it finally drops its shoulders in relief.

Maybe it should've asked... Lock... a couple more questions about his boss. It gets the sinking feeling that might be too little, too late.

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rev19 oc drawings! this is K, a 6☆ Intellect unit that would deal heavily in buffs/debuffs -- like, super heavily, it's a Counter-based unit that doesn't deal any damage with incantations at all!

might color this later! for now, there's some info on its story below the cut.

K's excellent at getting people where it wants them, but it's more of a card shark than it is a chessmaster. not that it can't play chess, it just prefers a different sort of game. (a lot of its moves are named after solitaire variants, including its Insight titled Sham Battle.)

it's neither Manus Vindictae nor Foundation aligned and takes great pleasure in tearing down both of them and basically getting them to destroy each other whenever possible, as its goal is essentially the dissolution of all hierarchy. a noble endgame, but it has no issues with blackmailing and/or murdering its way into getting there!

period-wise, K is based in the mid-1980s to early 1990s during the height of the culture wars surrounding the AIDS crisis -- it's also gay/aro, it's partially inspired by the protest movements at that time and especially the idea of incendiary counter-rhetoric spread by artists like Wojnarowicz and Gran Fury. (you can tell i came up with its original concept during an art history class, ehe...)

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(...and we'll all be the weak and the weary sometime...)

Eyes, 5☆ Spirit caster. Not an arcanist. Definitely not a human. Something older, then. Something stranger and wilder. (Fair Folk. They're fae.)

They're Lock's nominal "boss," really the two are more just friends but they'll occasionally check up on him to see how he's doing. Pinion and K are both suitably unnerved by them, which really, is just funny, you know? They don't mean any harm. If they did, they'd have done something about those two by this time.

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Design notes:

I did a lot of research to try and get Eyes's kilt vaguely correct! It's not perfect, and their hairstyle is probably anachronistic as hell, but it's something. Wish I could say the same for the sword, but zweihanders are German/Swiss and Eyes is more definitively Gaelic (mixes a few legends, but mainly Scottish with some general pulls from Wild Hunt mythology all over the place).

I really should've drawn them with a claymore instead, but I was so caught up in my love for how cool-looking someone using telekinesis to one-hand a zweihander would be that I forgot about historical accuracy. At least the zweihander itself... actually looks like a zweihander? So that's something. I guess.

Since you read this far, I should probably mention that I'll have a bit of a different art post up next. I wrote a character interaction! Just OC-to-OC for now but if I can get 37's character voice down I have an idea for her and... someone else.

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another pencil sketch of K, it's being very on-the-nose about its theming this time. probably that means someone pissed it off