uhh sorry for disappearing? uni been crazy this semester so ive been in and out lately lol also working on some art and hopefully i will get em out soon so hi guys!!! im back for maybe a month :P
valentines art of my Shadow OCs with their partners~
sharing this on tumblr as well bc i love sharing angst <3
Graves' POV below :3 (copy pasted from discord with slight tweaking so pardon the horrific format)
warning for possible mischaracterization of Graves? idfk i just see him a specific way gsjshshh
First of all, the Graves that I have in my mind is someone who puts up act after act after act, to protect himself and to protect his men. He is a private and thorough person even though he displays himself to be cocky and confident which some might say is careless. His true emotions only come out when he really can't contain it.
During Milk Run, especially when the request for back up was asked, some of his emotions did slip through (especially when he was talking with Shepherd) and when he tried to call for the trio to respond to him.
Going into uncharted territories now bc i barely remember what happened in and after Milk Run bc wtf i hate that so im now Running with my own headcanon + canon divergence universe for SC (at least for the trio)
Shepherd told him to leave his men, to leave their bodies because they need to figure out how to right their wrong (the missiles, that bald headed mf—) and he did not comply, he sent Shadows (probably more than needed, he cant have milk run 2.0) to find them, to find the bodies, to find survivors because as stoic as he looked whenever he lost his men, even if nothing in his body language (his Shadows know. no matter how much he kept it to himself, they always know) indicates his grief, he focused them into making sure they receive proper burials and/or send offs, making sure their families (for those who have them) wont be left to grapple for that empty space they left behind.
That was how he found the trio, it fucked him up how they looked and how they were left behind like garbage by those bastards. (My Graves hates Shepherd with a burning passion 🦅🦅🦅🦅)
He had no hope that any of them lived, he waited as the medic confirmed their deaths one by one. Vance. Erikson. Dipao— what? They're still...? Why are you still talking to me?! Do whatever it takes to keep them alive, stabilise them! Whatever the fuck you need to do! Money ain't the problem here! Do your fuckin' job right now!
feeling angsty so my ocs are my target to dump it on as usual :3 not sticking to anything other than angst(?), im just yapping ehdgsjdh
Orion, who is always laid-back and (mostly) endorses the Shadows' shenanigans, getting strict and more prone to snap at others when it's his parents' death anniversary. One says that grief is the unexpressed love towards the one lost but for Orion, it's the unexpressed rage and frustration that he never got to resolve with them before they passed away. Of course, there's his siblings still and he knows that they are still hoping that he's alive and not dead as the newspaper said years ago but he sees no point in giving them any closure. Call him petty but he holds no love for them, if they are really remorseful then they can find him themselves. He won't be the one to return to them. He has a new family that he needs to take care of, if isolating himself when the date nears is the least he could do to not hurt them, then so be it.
Zachary does check on his sperm donour biological father whenever his Mother's death anniversary neared, making sure his half-siblings are taken care of by the man. He would take a week or two of leave to return to Malaysia and visit his Mother's grave, cleaning it and making sure it's taken care of even when he's not there. He would spend day after day at her grave, telling her about his life now and how much he missed her. Oftentimes, Orion would pull some strings and follow him. His friend was basically adopted by his Mother when they first met afterall. How unfair Life is, taking the person he loved most from him and putting the other one through unimaginable pain the minute he turned his gaze away from them.
Dipaolo never said it outloud but he misses being on field; the feeling of uselessness would grip at him whenever he sees Shadows gearing up, unable to join them no matter how skilled he is. That's the price he, Vance, and Erik paid, the price that Phillip paid, the price that the Shadows paid, for being Shepherd's attack dogs. Oh, how he wished he could get back at that General, wishing that time could be reversed so that they could prevent that mission. When he woke up from his coma—the last of the three to wake up too—it was as if he was in another world, a reality that he couldn't accept. He said nothing (what's the use of a dog that lost its bark and bite?) to his brothers friends about the sinking feeling that he kept feeling in his stomach when he finally recovered enough to return.
Aethio had no such grievances as the others, they prefer to keep their head up and never think about their past for too long lest they want to forfeit their life. Whatever happened, happened and they even met Ro who helped them out with that aspect of their life. Though, it doesn't seem like they value their life that much—Ah, yes, no more about them. Quite a secretive person, this one is.
Meet Dipaolo Ventura or also known as Shadow 2-3. Yes, that Dipaolo. One of the Shadows that died in canon. Since Insomniac ( @/insomniacsystem ) snatched Vance up (see my prev post, that absolute lovely giant of a man)
We decided to also snatch Erikson and Dipaolo back to life!! I RP as Dips and im actually loving him more than i expected so that means i also gave him extra trauma in that cutscene teehee
Picrew of Dipaolo that Insomniac did:
My redraw of him after the event! Hes now blind in his right eye and has a bullet scar to the head as according to canon (other than the fact hes supposed to be dead)
Picrew of Erikson (Shadow 2-1) ( @/justasmolbard )
some days, i get the feeling that i should give my OCs some break but honestly being in SC is their break (other than Dipaolo, his trauma happened during his time in the company but we ignore it yes yes)
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