#steampocalypse verse

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AH YES! it is time for! the GIRLS. let's be real my original characters peaked with these two. lesbian disaster duo. bad idea queens. thomas says "hey let's do 'x'!" and vaska says "SOUNDS GREAT! SHALL WE IMMEDIATELY?"

vaska is a werewoof in this one because OF COURSE. thomas is.... mostly-human. possibly some faerie or similar blood. slightly fragile and slightly telepathic, you know how it is.

i spent a long time in the development of this verse trying to think my way around costuming a society that may have reverted to various historical-esque forms of dress simply because a lot of trade that enables mass-manufacture has been stopped (by video-game esque levels of constant monster attack, you know how it is), but also has been through the modern era and like, remembers our forms of dress as ALSO history

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AT LAST, THE (by some metric) MAIN CHARACTERS

lithi (my flagship oc, by the way, ask me about my au's (don't ask me about my au's, by last count there's something like 20+ of them) is a postmodern (god? demigod? immortal? something-) of (un?)reality. he's old. he's cranky (this has never changed once in his life). he has yet to meet the love of his life who will finally make him tolerable to be around (chlorine, sir not-appearing-in-this-ref-list, on account of i ran out of steam before i got to him. also belongs to @bonyfish ). he's the only surviving person (as far as he knows) from the century 2000. (filora is probably also about that old but uh. he would rather not know her)

aaren is a half-elf who is about as empathetic as a particularly non-empathetic human, which sucked growing up in a community based around all of them being magical empaths! luckily for her, lithi is so dysfunctional he actually projects his bad moods until she can "hear" them, which unfortunately for him, she thinks is just ~neat~!

some of the first writing i did for this verse can be found here (part one, part two) for them!

[catwif3]

repostober day 18

unknown date-- started ????, finished 2019?

interrupting my gaia avi art beginning because i wanna talk about FILORA

mentioned her offhand back in steampocalypse because she is the queen of hell! is she, therefore, a demon? NO she's a fire spirit // arguably? a god? of fire?

she just took over hell because she was bored. and now she has all this fucking? bureaucracy???? to deal with? HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TO HER, SHE MADE NO MISTAKES~♪ etc

she's also married with children, by the way. in no way should this terrible creature be trusted with children. zangan (the husband) raised the one and the other raised.... her own feral self, really

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repostober day 11

november 2020, march 2019, march 2019, ??? 2018, december 2019

the twins! (shhh they are also descendants of lithi a la the renae post) i genuinely forget what i was doing with them in the story that had me excited enough to draw them.

various early sketches. flare drawing for fun.

murder meme proving that uhhhh. nobody in this cast is ok except dmitri. rip dmitri. he's having a hard time (that's in his universal character description, though)

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repostober day 11

february-march 2020 once again

chlorine is here! it's TRUE licl time! (since i have. neglected to explain. lithi and chlorine originally come from a universe based on high school chemistry where atoms combine (have sex) to "form molecules." thus, lithium chloride being their ship name (catch rbf- rubidium fluoride- from the dmitri and riou post!)

hope...fully.... that middle one isn't too spicy for tumblr nowadays???????

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repostober day 10 !

BACK TO STEAMPOCALYPSE (almost done with these! am i gonna have enough art to make it through october? am i gonna have to start posting shawls? WE SHALL SEE)

originally dated february-march 2020

ANYWAY whenever lithi is immortal he starts collecting cats. in this verse he's already gone through his first and second cats (they are the same in every universe just like every other character, don't at me) apricot and arsenic, so meet amaretto! amaretto is a BIG (supposed to be a 20-pound-maine-coon-in-there-somewhere chonker, accuracy of depiction may vary) raggedy boy who just wants to be carried like a baby. and will in fact yell until this takes place. also cuddles nicely. draws the line at being part of a hug though. oh my god let him out.

(also first appearance of chlorine for this verse!!!!!! he's a sweet witchy baby who is uhhhh NOT prepared for lithi's bullshit but he's GONNA GIVE IT HIS ALL by god)

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repostober day??? 8??? i forgot to label these for a while and i' scheduling them for the first week or so from the 30th of september because i'm gonna be BUSY next week

anyway refs are from december 2019 + jumping a bit to november 2020 for the trio pic

yes yes yes these two are some of my faves. also high-school era characters. (lithi dates to ? 2007 and rbf are from ? 2008-2009?)

also introducing the classification concept for humans: null, sensitive, witch. based on how much magic they can use (usually related to nonhuman ancestry, not allllways though). sensitives are normal humans who can perceive and interact with magic around them. witches are humans or mostly-humans who can USE magic in whatever way. nulls are SOMEHOW a pure mundane bloodline who cannot often perceive subtler magics (they resist mindreading etc, as skin that is dry resists electrical current more than when wet) and do not generate ANY magic of their own. thus, they are HIGHLY coveted to work on electronics of the far past that are still preserved/manufactured in certain locations where the raw materials for computer parts, etc are produced.

riou and lithi have a longstanding enemies-who-fuck dynamic that dmitri (slightly kidnapped by riou) gets suddenly dumped into when lithi hitches a ride on riou's ship

(riou, by the way, is a huuuuuge smuggling operation, but everyone thinks he's soooo sweet and normal!!!!! eris hates this.)

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what is a story without supporting characters? (psych, from what i wrote back in the day, all of these have been supporting characters, but the great thing about pulling all of them from old stories is they come PRE-COOKED with lots of FILLING)

kaare is another early high-school expy who got a uh,,,, serious makeover back in like.... 20....14???? when i needed her for. hm. how do i explain. a whole other universe without getting sidetracked. suffice to say i needed a participant for a threesome and she fit the bill but it was a universe where her being named "kaname" (fully pulled off a japanese names list back in the day!) no longer fit. SO

she and her partner, lark, run a wayhouse in an area considered HIGH DANGER so they're the only place around (no competition! --which is good because their customer service could be considered? whimiscal? if not non-existant.)

eris runs a ship that everyone thinks is a pirate ship???? she has no idea why!!! it's a perfectly legitimate operation????? she just has one of those personalities. best friends with aaren (soon to come).