#whybc

[spooky-cryptid-friend]

ooh ok new elia lore

so ive known that she has a star similar to maelstrom, but never actually gotten anywhere designing or making a personality for them. which sucks!

but i decided wait i can just make pleiades again. it can have TWO teenagers to be in charge of

so pleiades is inhabiting/is maelstrom, but is also in elias consciousness as a separate being than herself. while elia is trying to make friends with maelstrom, pleiades is trying to keep her as far away from them as possible because maelstrom kinda hates it. ("kinda" they tried to kill pleiades twice)

and max is uhhhhh also there ig. i need to make more lore for him T-T

[spooky-cryptid-friend]

pleiades having a panic attack in a school bathroom. for the soul.

You can't breathe. You can't breathe and there's something wrong and oh stars, there's something wrong isn't there?

You shouldn't be here! It's horrible! You should be-

You think about greyscale and black and white and a shine of lavender and a place uou've never been, what is happening to you? You don't know. You don't know you son't know you don't know. This whole day has been horrible and you're only halfway through! Come on, you never struggle with thi-

You think about cycles curled into your own orbi-

And those words mean nothing to you! So why do you keep thinking them!! your head hurts. It's unfamiliar, for some reason. You want to bang it against the stall door until all the pain goes away but that would be a bad idea. Someone could hear you, and then what would they think? Oh, Maelstrom, yeah I knew them. Almost killed themself having a breakdown at school, what a freak. If they were going to kill themself- their breath hitched, they had just started living-what did that mean?- and no way were they going to take that now- they would at least do it in a cooler way. At least.

Get it together. Biology next. This should be fun.

[spooky-cryptid-friend]

oh shit i just realized all 4 of my main protagonists align with the fight/flight/freeze/fawn thing

mael is fight, they will chase you down and do anything to stop you.

pleiades is flight, it will run and run until the stars burn out, even knowing if it can never get away

max is freeze, eyes wide and staring as he struggles to speak. he wants to yell, to scream and shout and run, and he will never be able to.

elia is fawn, smiling and glancing for exits. she politely declines and leans in closer. she doesn't know whether she wants to or not.

[spooky-cryptid-friend]

anyone want to see my picrews of elia........i love her....

i need to draw/make her dress like NOWWWWW

its inspired by 60's box dresses and has a pattern of orange/yellow circles on an orange background. its so pretty you have to trust me on this ok. ok. ok.

the collar is square though, but this is the closest ive gotten to her dress!

she usually keeps her hair in a ponytail/buns, but keeps some locs out to fidget with

her glasses are orange. also they're shaped like hexagons. where did she get these? no one knows. she's just always had them

i love her so so muchhhhhhhugh. my everything. she deserves the world holy shit. i need to figure out her plotline immediately

i also need to make picrews for her brother (max) because i dont have any

[spooky-cryptid-friend]

guys NEVER make placeholder names for your ocs. they never go away

anyways welcome to the club maelstrom!!

i need to get max a better name because his is so boring oh my god. like "elia" "pleiades" "maelstrom" and then theres just max. come on

[spooky-cryptid-friend]

goodbye michelle, my trusted one

you gave me love and helped me find the sun

and every time when i was down

you would always come around

and get my feet back on the ground

goodbye michelle, it's hard to die

when all the birds are singing in the sky

now that the spring is in the air

with the flowers everywhere

i wish that we could both be there

[spooky-cryptid-friend]

saw ur "send me asks" post six hours late but whatever. gimme some fun facts about pleiades

these are kinda seperated into "pleiades things" and "eris things that came from pleiades" so i bolded the pleiades-only ones

his favorite flavor is strawberry

it doesnt use many human social customs (very polite to other stars but that doesnt translate well)

scared of its own reflection after everything. its funny but also none of the parts of eris recognise themself anymore...

doesnt like rain but loves lightning

hums while doing things. it cant stand complete silence anymore

shitty depth perception. just... so bad

really bad balance. that plus not being used to having human legs makes walking a challenge

avoids looking at itself at all costs

...yeah so a lot of the ways you view this character are more "how x changed" and not "how pleiades is". the depth perception didnt carry over because humans have 2 eyes

[spooky-cryptid-friend]

came onto ur account for more cool erin ruunaser takes but the big button says ask me about my comic now im intrigued. what's with the comic

for more erin ruunaser... i really dont have any. i made a longpost at 1am and thats it. i have a fic about him but yeah

for the comic, all the info about the characters is under #starling silver or #whybc for the more recent stuff, i dont have the energy to make a full post about it, but a masterpost will come eventually!