trying a new lipstick color!!! looks like it does the trick :)
wanted to draw a silly selfie pic inspired by a cute piece @/the-w4cky-compound made me <3 plus i wanted an excuse to draw lou out of costume hehe. two birds one stone situation
side note but i hc lou and arnie are both somewhere in their 30s and actually went to school together! they never spoke, but arnie had crushed on a cute blond boy from afar for literal years... in her adult age she initially assumed it was sydney beetles when encountering him in public, but then she learned lou had a twin who grew up in australia while lou grew up in the states, and next thing you know arnie's putting together that she's now close to the exact boy she first crushed on. antics ensued!
god i'm a little mad at how cute the sketch it OURGH i tried my best to capture the magic
thinking of arnie-related fics to write houghhhhhh
currently in progress we got
arnie gets hired by father and eventually figures out that the KND and adult villains schtick is not expensive neighbourhood-wide LARPing which makes her accidentally fumble a mission
arnie finds out about delightfulization and it gets angsty (happy ending somehow) (father gets vulnerable and talks about his feelings, not clickbait!?)
also thinking of
father's up to something secretive and the knd try to crash this big unknown meeting of his just to accidentally crash his wedding instead. toiletnator got to be maid of honor btw don't ask
arnie and the toiletnator becoming bestest friends ever :) they meet at a villain meeting or whatever and arnie immediately latches onto lou because he's just so pleasant to be around and also is not really that villainous of a guy so she vibes with him. qpr type shit btw
side episode where numbuh 13 takes sector v on a trip somehow and arnie is their chaperone and they're convinced she's up to something bad the whole time just for it to be revealed that she really does not take her job as a villain seriously and is fine just chilling with the KND sometimes (mainly because she refuses to actually lay a finger on her nephew)
Name: Arnie Treize
Pronouns: She/Any
Age: (somewhere in her 30s)
Relationships
Father / Benedict Wigglestein-Uno [husband]
Delightful Children From Down The Lane [stepchildren]
Jenkins [friend]
Numbuh 13 [nephew]
Toiletnator / Lou Pottingsworth III [queerplatonic partner]
Timeline Lore
(under readmore)
arnie treize is a tomboy who self-describes as "washed up" and "unlucky"
she would work a few low-wage jobs and every single time she'd get fired for an otherwise ignorable mistakes somehow becoming comically tragic accidents
being in the same family as numbuh 13, arnie believes that the bad luck the two face is actually a gene across their entire family tree
she lands a job as a cleaning lady for father because quite literally everybody else applicable either quit within a week or was too scared shitless of father to get the job to begin with
initially father thinks she's kind of annoying but he's desperate for someone this willing to have a job with him. he honestly assumes she's going to quit within the first week but at the very least her interview went best out of everyone else
when father asks arnie about the knd (specifically to weed out if she'd be a willing member of his evil team) she agrees to help him out with this endeavor
father is most pleased with this new minion. arnie is however 100% under the belief that the knd are simply roleplaying, and she assumes that now part of her job is larping with father's five very peculiar children and their "friends"
father is known to have a horrible temper. the whole household thought father's first temper tantrum around arnie would cause her to quit, but actually she ended up handling it fairly well and even managed to shut it down quicker than usual
the two do talk a little on the off-hours since father has a baking lifestyle going on. arnie likes spectating whatever father has going on, considering his baking style is "perfection isn't enough" and arnie's baking style is essentially "fuck it we ball"
at some point arnie figures out that the knd aren't just roleplayers, and that they were now actually caught in a crossfire between petty adults and wacky children. if father hadn't otherwise been very satisfied with arnie's dedication to the bit, she would have been in a world of trouble with father (it did somewhat embarrass him tbh to find out that his worker thought she was playing pretend with him this whole time)
what causes arnie and father to eventually start getting closer is after one of the missions against the knd failing catastrophically. father was sulking by the fire and arnie decided to bring him ice cream with the excuse "ohhh i wanted some for myself but you seem like you might want some too" and thus it opened up the perfect window to get father to talk about what's going on in his head
this turns into a tradition. father feels upset about something? ice cream by the fire! arnie saw a weird bug when cleaning and needed to complain? more dessert! both of them just needing a reason to socialize? you know where to find them
both of them are very lonely people deep down. the difference is that arnie is the one who takes steps to do something about it, while father was willing to accept he probably wouldn't form meaningful relationships ever
the delightful children (and jenkins) also end up attached to arnie, since she makes an effort to extend kindness to them (and has been taming father's crazy anger issues with this hit new ice-cream-and-chill trick)
the reason they end up together is probably because one night they're hanging out in the kitchen talking about their pasts together and the topic of exes comes up. arnie hasn't dated since college, and father hasn't dated period, so they get to bicker about how much they crave some form of romance......and then it clicks with them. they can date each other, can't they?
arnie ends up getting promoted from "cleaning lady" to "loving member of the house" because of this. even though arnie no longer gets a paycheck from father, he still covers all of her financial needs and more
he's probably above and beyond about it as well. she saw a cool outfit at the store today? he'll have it hand-tailored by professional fashion designers, made to fit her perfectly. she wants to take a trip to a theme park? he'll privately rent the whole place out to ensure the lines are short. it's his love language, and he has his ways of pulling it off
the first time arnie saw father's true form was shortly before the two got engaged. it was something he was frankly very embarrassed about, but arnie did not think it was that big of a deal. like.....oh no, he's still my boyfriend who is also attractive? the event let father feel more comfortable being himself around arnie, although he still does bottle up that side of him a lot for comfort reasons
father ended up proposing at the end of an all-day date just under a year after the two started dating. they had spent the sunlight at the beach, and the evening was spent at a high-end restaurant near the water. dessert got brought out, and right on top of the delightful cake treat was the ring. arnie took way too long to process what was happening and genuinely almost ate that damn ring
the wedding was fairly unpopulated, since all arnie had was immediate family, and father had like.......his delightful children, jenkins, and maybe a few random villains. however, it was still quite grand and they made the most out of what they had
the delightful children sometimes try to play pretend-restaurant at home to treat their parents. they do none of the cooking (at least not after the first time) but they always looove getting all fancied up and presenting things super formally. arnie gets way more of a kick out of it than father does, but they both appreciate the efforts
i'm sure i'll think of more but WAUGH. arnie lore dump. good fucking night it's quarter to 3am
(10.june.2023) EDIT i have more because i'm a toiletnator stan now
arnie would eventually start tagging along to the villain meetups, so that she could see exactly what she needed to learn as a new "villain"
at these meetings is where she met the toiletnator, lou, who managed to get sat at father's table. arnie and lou started to chat it up during the meeting, where lou really hyped himself up as an incredibly competent villain
when father brought arnie home that night, he explained the toiletnator is certainly not competent, much less good at what he does. this only made arnie more intrigued by him
eventually, arnie and lou bonded over feeling like the odd ones out in the group. lou found himself at father's mansion a whole lot more often now that arnie would bring him over to hang out. he was the only friend she could hang out with besides father or jenkins, so after a while he became a fairly big figure in the house. much to father's distaste, of course
lou and arnie also bonded over both having nephews in the knd (lou had numbuh 4, and arnie had numbuh 13)
the two of them becoming qpps wasn't made official in a super fancy way, similar to arnie's romantic relationship with father. lou and arnie were watching a movie, and they started talking about their feelings. arnie tried explaining that she had a weird crush on lou, but it wasn't anything romantic. like a friend crush. lou exclaimed he felt the same way, and then the two agreed on calling what they had going on "friend-dating", like platonic soulmates!
this was ran past father, who didn't judge the type of relationship but rather with whom it was with (he just thought the toiletnator was kinda lame, as kind-hearted as lou was). he ultimately was fine with it though, given how happy it seemed to make arnie (and also kept her entertained when he wanted his alone time)
