i have brainrot from my own ocs read below for backstory on kurumi because they're sweet and broken.
has a handful of crafting hobbies, currently into cross stitching and some of their stuff is hanging up around the house. favorite content genre is video game horror, like games that go meta and use that as part of their plot, also mild gore is good.
autism and adhd, has a chewy necklace on almost always and carries a stim toy around to be safe. struggles with ptsd, depression/anxiety, dissociation, and insomnia.
doesn't speak the best english, knows much more chinese (sinnoh language) than they know english, is learning kanto sign on top of english and the family is learning chinese best they can. calls jessie and james by their names but they dont mind it, its just easier for kurumi to use instead of parental names.
their best friend is a pokemon named mazie (galar corsola); named because the texture of its coral looks like a maze. spends most of their time with pokemon, they bring their switch or a sketchbook or a book outside and just sit on the tree while pokemon roam around and interact with them, mazie is always with them.
warning for child abuse/neglect, mentions of alcoholism, and cptsd
kurumi has scars from their birth parents and when james saw those scars, he actually threw up because they were scars from a belt and its all over their back.
they're missing the tip of their left ring finger because their father cut it off at some point not sure why or how
hates showers because they were punished with extremely hot/cold water showers, they had a panic attack when jessie showed them how the shower worked because they thought she was going to make them get in.
their dad drank a lot, both parents smoked heavily so some of kurumi's clothes still smell vaguely of cigarettes but james washed those clothes so intensely they barely smell anymore. their parents would also put cigs out on their clothes or skin as warnings so they've got a bunch of little circle scars on their forearms and stuff.
their mom was worse than their dad, she was a lot louder and quicker to act out, but their dad had the tendency to explode with anger and those always resulted in physical damage of some kind.
learned to care for themselves at a very young age, had to figure out how to feed and bathe themselves because nobody else taught them (jessie and james have to do some extra teaching for certain hygeine and self care things because they just never were taught how to).
either growlie or meowth ""stand guard"" for kurumi when they're having paranoia at night, which doesn't happen as often as it used to but its not rare. on really bad nights, they go into jessie and james' bed with mazie and sometimes they wake one of them up because they're stuck in a thought loop.
had tried to run away a couple times but never could get the courage to leave the town, so they'd spend nights outside and only with mazie because they would rather sleep on a cold bench than be at home. they'd be found by morning and taken back home, usually by their mother as she actually paid attention to kurumi's actions, their dad was forgetful and shitty as hell when he remembered they were around. one night an officer jenny found them sleeping on a playground at a park and when the cope woke them up to take them home, they had a full meltdown because they were too scared to go back home and the jenny was like yeah i'm not taking you home, but i'm definitely going to talk to your parents and then kurumi ended up at an adoption center that week.
few months later and they were adopted by jessie and james, they dealt with a bit of bullying from other kids for being mostly nonverbal and ""weird"", some workers weren't that nice either but it wasn't something that stuck with then as hard as the way their parents treated them.
these are my takes for rocketshipping fankids! all are mine except the little menace in the bottom left corner, that belongs to @helmarok and i love it with every fiber of my being
[keep reading for a brief summary of each of the kids!]
technically first, but also the middle child at age 11. joplin and scrimblo have been best friends since she was a newborn, she's usually the one who takes a picture of scrimblo in the pantry instead of getting it out of the pantry. the pokemon in her overalls is a vullaby named veevee that she shared goldfish crackers with once and then it imprinted on her so she caught it and now it's her little egg baby.P
the eldest child at 13 years old, was adopted from the sinnoh region when they were 9 years old. they have a really rough past and is rather close with james because of how they were treated in their birth home. they have autism and adhd, in the image they're infodumping to mouth about one of their hyperfixations (acnh). they also have a galarian corsola named mazie but i forgot to draw it so i'll show it another time sdfkjsldf. please use they/them in reference to kurumi!
maiko (top right)
the youngest child at age 5, one of two biological children! she got a majority of james' features, mainly his hair and skin. maiko has some struggles with seperation anxiety and just generally dislikes being by himself, so nine times out of ten, there will be a pokemon following him around or in his arms because that's his little buddy for the day. please us she/he in reference to maiko!
scrimblo (bottom left)
joplin (bottom right)
technically first, but also the middle child at age 11. joplin and scrimblo have been best friends since she was a newborn, she's usually the one who takes a picture of scrimblo in the pantry instead of getting it out of the pantry. the pokemon in her overalls is a vullaby named veevee that she shared goldfish crackers with once and then it imprinted on her so she caught it and now it's her little egg baby. please use she/her in reference to joplin!
