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Autumn & Vernon | Cy & Newton | Winter
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✨- How did you come up with the OC’s name?
Yule Helfeather's name I had picked out for a while because my corny ass wanted to pick a name that evoked "Winter" without being Winter, because I already have one of those in-universe.
Sleikir (usually stylized as SLEIKIR, all-caps) comes from the Yule Lads tale because after watching the Hilda episode about it, I wanted to play with the symbolism more. Her familiar is named Grila to parallel the hag, and she's Sleikir because that's a common suffix on a lot of the Yule Lads' names. It means "licker" in kind of a thievery sense and feels appropriate for a fantasy hacker.
🌼 - How old are they? (Or approximate age range)
This varies a lot. In her appearances in Prophecy she was 14-15, but in her own standalone story she starts it at 15 and then finishes it in her 20s, with most of the action happening when she's 19 or so.
🌺- Do they have any love interest(s)?
A few! I honestly want to give her even more exes because a messy love life really suits her.
The current one she's with (that I envision being endgame) is a nudibranch/slime alien gamer girl named Dwem Glop (her gamertag is GLAEVA). She's a bit of a mess, but she and Yule both are fishes out of water and generally a little coarse, so it works well.
Before that, she was in a longer relationship with a vampyre (fire pun intended) names Piotyr who was ultimately rather unhealthy for her. He got her into doing various vigilante scenes but it turned out he was just setting her up as a fall guy while he had a richboy tantrum against his father (The Winter King), and eventually he left her for dead.
Before that, the only major love interest she had was when she was a kid, a girl in the woods that moved away after a few years, but was enough for a bisexual awakening. (This was originally @cervicrazed 's Bambi, as we used to ship them in n au, but as she's more of a cameo and not overly important to Yule's overall story, I haven't felt the need to strictly canonize or decanonize anytime as arcs have changed.
🍕 - What is their favorite food?
Greasy fast food. Milkshake with fries. Pizza with extremely melty cheese.
💼 - What do they do for a living?
Officially speaking she's currently a warehouse worker but she's had a lot of jobs and gigs, including delivery and retail. Unofficially she's a hacker with questionable methods but ultimately noble intentions.
🎹 - Do they have any hobbies?
Lotta competitive video games. She also likes coding and making amateur electronic music. Unfortunately her taste in a lot of things except music is pretty basic, though she has room for growth.
🎯 -What do they do best?
She's very good at moving unseen, especially getting into places and listening to people that she really shouldn't be, facilitated by her ability to turn into/jump from shadow to shadow. She's actually not all that knowledgeable about computer systems, as she talks to devices directly as a shadow.
🥊 -What do they love to do? What do they hate to do?
She loves being showered in affection and attention by her partner. She also hates being complimented and especially corny shit. It's fine.
She also loves indulging in her vices unabated, of which there are several.
❤️ - What is one of your OC’s best memories?
When she met Dwem, it was in the post-honeymoon phase when she was with Piotyr but things were starting to go stale. They were both blowing off steam playing some trash MMO and Dwem was a mid-level player showing Yule's newb ass the ropes. Turns out, this was an alt account and she was actually one of the top ranked player of this game, but this way she could let off some steam and be herself too.
✂️ - What is one of your OC’s worst memories?
Lying on the ground of a condemned building, lower half of her right arm mangled beyond repair all over the room, freshly betrayed/dumped/left to die/left for the cops by her shitass ex-boyfriend.
🧊 - Is their current design the first one?
It's pretty close. The jacket design changed and she got progressively chunkier in design the more I drew her. She also started taking on some ferret vibes at some point.
🍀 - What originally inspired the OC?
She made her debut in the Sims 4 as a fankid in like 2019, but she's mostly a mixture of fairy tales (namely the Yule Lads and Peter Pan's Shadow), Tulip from Infinity Train, and Harley Quinn from Breaking Glass.
🌂 - What genre do they belong in?
Cyberpunk dystopian sci-fi. She also kind of needs a slight fantasy flavor to feel like herself though, so he WIP is perfect for her.
💚 - What is your OC’s gender identity and sexuality?
Female, bisexual, could be talked into a polycule, she/her. Could be gnc if she worked at it.
🙌 - How many sibling does your OC have?
1, her twin brother Log.
🍎 - What is the OC’s relationship w/their parents like?
She's got a kind of lovingly contentious relationship with her mom, Autumn. Autumn was raised in a really neglectful household, so Yule grew up with a lot more parental supervision and presence that she found a bit stifling as a tween. Her dad, Vernon, she's much closer with because he grew up in a more helicopter-y environment so he tends to advocate for her independence. She also has her auncle Cy, who has been teaching her all kinds of bad habits as she learns how to use her powers.
She accidentally got herself stuck thousands of years in the future and now she just wishes she could take back every stupid thing she's ever said.
🧠 - What do you like most about the OC?
I like how she sucks. I also like how rough around the edges she is, unapologetically, because she's just kind of a bastard! She takes up space and she's not going to be ashamed of that, despite her ability to literally fade away into nothingness where needed.
✏️ - How often do you draw/write about the OC?
Decently often, but most of the time I'm just bullshitting lore about her because I'm currently putting off designing Dwem because nothing I've sketched has been speaking to me especially.
💎 - Do you ever see yourself killing off the OC?
I can see a fakeout, possibly even changing her beyond recognition, but not killing her, no. It just is never the interesting option for me really.
💀 - Does your OC have any phobias?
Mostly interpersonal/intimacy oriented, in that she's super clingy but also independent. But that's less of a phobia than a particular way she's wired.
🍩 -Who is your OC’s arch-nemesis or rival?
100% Piotyr. Once her armless ass rolls up on Dwem's doorstep and she gets herself put back together the rest of the story is going to be about introducing him to the woodchipper.
🎓 - How long have you had the OC?
Wanna say 2019ish. In her current version though, something like 2021. So 3-5 years.
🍥 - What age were you when you created the OC?
Somewhere around 19-21.