on the one hand I love my fucked up codependent duo blorbos Ry and Red, because the dynamics are fascinating, and I can throw so much bullshit at them as long as I keep their core traits consistent, and it allows me to itch any angst-related scratch I want
on the other hand, if you trace back the extremely skewed family AU tree to its worksona roots and squint at the added subtext, you realize that Red's violent evolutions come from a place of-
⚠️ If this oc came with a warning sign, what would it be?
👁️ How do other people perceive this oc? How close do their first assumptions come to the truth? A very tired (and possibly lazy) person who doesn't give half a shit. Only one of these things is true.
👁️🗨️ Eye contact: good or bad for the OC? They hate it, but they'll do it. Not stellar.
💙 Describe their bedroom! Is it personalized, unchanged? Messy, neat? It's a very personalized depression nest, if one can call such a thing personalized. (This is, of course, assuming it's a Ry with a place to live...)
🧁 When is their birthday? How do they celebrate it, if at all? They don't celebrate, but it's... (*looks up when I made them*) September 19th. If they do celebrate, they take charge of the planning and do it all themself, but the last time they did something intensive, they were like... 12. Every year after it's chill, if anything.
🧠 What is their stress response: fight, flight, freeze, or fawn? Freeze as a first response. Fight as a second.
☕️ What is their preferred beverage(s)? Monster nitro.
❗️ What are the highest priorities to this oc (at a point in their life of your choosing)? Keeping Red in check and maintaining what shreds of a normal life they can keep... for however long they can. These are not compatible goals. They need a break and aren't allowed to take one :(
🔆 How does this oc deal with physical pain? Ry deals with physical pain? (On a serious note, typically they don't stay conscious for that. If they're a civilian, badly; if they're a fighter of any kind, better.)
🐺 How does this oc deal with solitude? How does this self-isolating, socially awkward, estranged, mentally ill person deal with solitude? ("Pretty well", if they don't think about the horrors. So kinda shit.)
🚷 Tell one difference between yourself and this oc! At least half of them are dead, most of them are possessed if they're not the possessor, and all of them are stuck in a job that doesn't help them.
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Red
⚠️ If this oc came with a warning sign, what would it be?
👁️ How do other people perceive this oc? How close do their first assumptions come to the truth? Most of the time, as a very VIOLENT sort of creature, and an asshole. This is the surface level truth. Deep down, they're first and foremost a child. A very violent jackass of a child, but still a child.
👁️🗨️ Eye contact: good or bad for the OC? Oh they love eye contact- they have so many eyes to see you with! (they make too much of it, if anything.)
💙 Describe their bedroom! Is it personalized, unchanged? Messy, neat? If they have a room, they call it "organized chaos". It's just a mess that they know how to navigate, and they don't see a point in cleaning.
🧁 When is their birthday? How do they celebrate it, if at all? Technically it's November 2nd. They don't actually have one most of the time*.
(*unless they're a human variant that's not a twin.)
🧠 What is their stress response: fight, flight, freeze, or fawn? They ARE the fight response :)
☕️ What is their preferred beverage(s)? They don't drink! Ry does that. But they think alcohol is very funny for the effects on the human body, and they agree with Ry on "sweet" being fuckin TASTY.
❗️ What are the highest priorities to this oc (at a point in their life of your choosing)? Protect Ry and make chaos. In neither order.
🔆 How does this oc deal with physical pain? What pain? They just turn off the nervous system.
🐺 How does this oc deal with solitude? HATE it. Hate hate HATE it, they are a despicably outdoor creature and need enrichment NOW. Ry, punch out right now, they need to blow something up. Ry please. Ry-
🚷 Tell one difference between yourself and this oc! Most of the time, they're inhuman, if they ever were in the first place. They also typically don't care about property damage, ever. As for the one outlier, they have actual consistent pressure to get better and can't squirm out of the responsibility.
