The Council

Beholder | 1984 | Garage: BDA | OCs Eng | It/its | 🇵🇦🇵🇷 Please do not repost ! PFP: @mwahahalima

[thecouncilreturns]

🖤Introduction🖤

OUR STRAWPAGE! SEND US STUFF! Name(s): The Council, Blurry (for additional names, please check below in the link!!)

Pronouns: It/Its (Esp: Él/Éllo + Other languages I prefer masculine pronouns if there’s no neutral option available 🫶)

Age: 25

Languages: English (Native), Spanish (Can read) For users that speak different languages, let me know so I can make my writing easier for translators, sometimes we write like I’m on crack sorry 💔

Media We Enjoy: Beholder (Mainly 2), 1984 (and other dystopian books), Garage:BDA, NINAH, HnK

Tone Tags: Please use tone tags for us if possible! I try to use them as well, but often forget so remind me or ask me if I’m unclear in my tone! 🫶

BYF: Please be aware I may interact with content containing darker themes and artistic gore/body horror. If I post anything in that realm, I’m happy to TW it and do my due dilligence for everyone’s comfort! Please send an ask if there’s anything I post that should require a TW.

DNI: Please do not interact if you support or produce AI art, glorifying/fetishizing depictions of pedophilia, incest, and/or zoophilia. General other DNI follows as well (Homophobes, racists, transphobes (TERFS INCLUDED), and people who identify as Proshippers.

Additional Info: I try not to be, but I can be a little overwhelming and overly excited about a lot of stuff, don’t be afraid to tell me if I am being too much! Also, I may occasionally refer to myself in the plural sense, it Happens and I prefer if it’s not pointed out! Additionally- I’m happy to be DM’d!!!

Forgive us if I don’t respond to every reply / only like them, I get super excited to the point of being overwhelmed and don’t know what to say sometimes but do know I love interactions! I just scream and explode when I get them x3 /pos

For those curious, here’s our pronouns cc:

The Gløriøus Øne (@OneofNine)

@OneofNine goes by Keøns, Sacarver , Lisden , Nills, Andre, Reisdrø, Beatty, Listø and uses It/Its pronouns.

Requests welcome!

My current focus is Beholder 2, but don’t be afraid to send requests about whatever the hell you want lol. Just no NSFW please.

Tags

#The Council Ponders (general/collective yap)

#The Council Creates (art tag!)

#the dog BARKS (Jay/???’s specific yap tag

[mwahahalima]

“I set fire again To the bridges behind me As they burn, they illuminate The road ahead of me”

a few weeks ago, @thecouncilreturns and I had a DM yap about how James most likely cannot sleep sometimes and he goes for nighttime walks around the neighborhood to calm down and make dark thoughts related to his job go away. If there is any kind of curfew in Helmer... well, he’s able to get out of trouble easily, for obvious reasons. There are a few other layers and elements to this headcanon, but my interpretation of James’s character is already quite counter-fanon to say the least, so I’ll spare you the details lol

[lgbtqiatext]

[leighlew3]

ALL. OF. THIS.

[halondrus]

[cutecipher]

can you put that thing on a leash?

[halondrus]

ok

[lilcowzia]

why is it that ppl hear "fetish" and immediately think "devoid of morals" like ur genuinely not making sense. ppl dont actually become inhuman and beast-like when theyre turned on, thats something we are told bc it aligns with christian patriarcal values, u know that right? desire isnt actually bad. it doesnt make you evil, or incapable of having/respecting boundaries

[lilcowzia]

i got a response to this abt how men get horny and "lose their minds" and "causes" them to behave vile. i rlly rlly neeeeed ppl to understand that men behaving inappropriately when turned on is something they are *choosing* to do, and when you equate that to human nature you are enabling them and diminishing the seriousness of that choice

[mwahahalima]

Are requests okay? There is an exquisite absence of Hank and Rabindranath fan pieces I do say

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(Only if you’re up for it thank you :3)

how do I make them not look like De Salvo has been cloned

[thecouncilreturns]

We are a little... "freaked out" about Organ Grinder...

im gonna fucking kiss that parasite filled corpse (also i really like the hc that some mewgenics characters have cat parts so-! LOL also trying out a more detailed style to convey details i feel like i cant in the simplistic style. forgive the inconsistent style on our blog!) -jay

[giuleye-art]

Goodbye Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026)

[gumy-shark]

sometimes my Beloved Mutuals will rb a post about a certain character archetype and i will have to physically restrain myself from saying “yeah you would say that wouldn’t you”

[gumy-shark]

jasper you don’t get to get away with this that easily.

new ask game: what’s the character archetype that makes you go “of course you would say that” when i post about it?

[thecouncilreturns]

god I’m not some weirdo into corpses but something about organ grinder makes me wanna plant a fat kiss on its stupid lips >:(

and maybe a little more… ok I’m a freak for this character specifically and that’s it, send help😭

-jay

[thecouncilreturns]

while trying to figure out a style for mewgenics stuff i kinda ended up drawing beholder 2 faves of our partner's and oc/canon ship for a friend!

Horatio and Weinberg (for @burnthesuckerup - NOT a ship!)

James and Aliya (for @mwahahalima)

and a surprise under the cut for a steven lover friend on discord lol

[avatarmerida]

Happy pride month to the tiny cowboy and tiny Trojan man from Night at the Museum

[futurakid]

[leg-stealing-bee]

[closetedguyy]

[knitordeath]

This hands down the best comment in the notes, I will not be taking criticism.

[song-of-sea-and-sky]

happy pride month 2021 I ain’t quittin’ you…

[msue0027]

[maxstarfall]

[gengaritez]

[pumpkin--rabbit]

[minyicho]

[mwahahalima]

bad cop, good cop

I usually don’t like crossovers and fandom fusions, but I like these two guys

I am surprised that no one has tried to write a full-blown Papers Please + Beholder universe fusion yet, actually. One has a chunk of good wide-scale worldbuilding (more countries and cities mentioned, more consistent information about historical events like wars, pandemics, economical hardships etc.), while the other goes in depth with internal affairs of a totalitarian country, like bureaucracy and propaganda. Sounds like a good complement.

hear me out:

The Great State ↔ Arstotzka, obviously. The Great State of Arstotzka lol

Helmer ↔ Grestin, but the West/East Grestin division would need some more worldbuilding

Valverde ↔ Kolechia (as the main long-time enemy of the country which the story is set in)

South Borea ↔ Obristan (yeah, I know that TGS wages war against South Borea and Arstotzka doesn’t have any animosity towards Obristan, but... close enough, both South Borea and Obristan are depicted as well-developed countries, good places to live. Not everything would be a 1:1 equivalent, obviously)

New Tomorrow ↔ EZIC (their “work methods” are very similar anyway)

the ministries and other state institutions could be easily “imported” and merged if needed, no collision here

Beholder technologies like cloning and brainwashing/mind control could also exist as they are

same with little flavorful details like the directives, TGS salute, propaganda slogans and other dictatorship-typical crap.

I hope I haven’t forgotten anything.

now to my blorbo fixation i.e. James Cunningham & M. Vonel (btw I headcanon his first name to be Mortimer or something like that). Aghhh I could draw a bunch of parallels between them. They work in the same “industry”, they’re made to seem suspicious and intimidating to the player, we know virtually nothing about their private lives and their past (“More space for headcanons that don’t collide with canon!” my inner fic writer squeals), both are very loyal to the state they serve, both are dutiful and composed. Both would make interesting unreliable narrators in a story. They seem similar attitude-wise and personality-wise, imho, judging by the few dialogues from their respective source media. Vonel feels like the type who would consciously build his authority on fear and intimidation, though— Cunningham is more kind-hearted, but still strict. They would get along. Don’t change my mind, you can’t. :D

[stuurman]

oh boy i've been thinking of this one for a while long story short - my obsession with Beholder overlapped with the release of "Severance" series and I really wanted to somehow mix them because y'know... evil megacorporation… identity erasure… bureaucracy… all that stuff…

couldn't come up with anything more clever, so I just lazily redrew the series poster with Evan

but bro I really loved the series. the topic of memory loss itself really scares me. and the idea of ​​voluntarily going through that, even to skip the boring workdays? idk. i think i wouldn't agree on that

[thecouncilreturns]

hey guys whats up, unfortunately we got really into mewgenics and i tripped into some garbage and fell in love with organ grinder. send help. -Jay

[thecouncilreturns]

damn you ever see art of a fave and you’re like “damn I kinda hope someone steps on him and makes him squirm!” me with James rn. cough -jay