hello, skills lover extraordinaire here :] you can call me voli, chemi, or volta. im 25, i use he/him pronouns, im aroace and transmasc. big skills fan, my favorites are shivers, empathy, electrochemistry, and of course volition, but i love all of them so much. welcome to skill fixation central, population me.
my art tag is #voliart, my talking tag is #chemi chats, and my ask tag is #volta transmissions!! i prefer asks/replies more than DMs!!
may post suggestive or nsft stuff, will tag accordingly.
more tags and things under the cut!!
signature skill userbox made by my starbright, others by me
#ency ref - things i want to keep for some reason
#inland drabbles - my writing snippets
#suggestion recommendation - something someone has suggested to me, fics or games or songs!
#concepts canvas - things i want to draw eventually
#drama scripts - disco elysium canon text because it was filling up my ref tag lmao
#esprit: [x] - tags for mutuals and friends, their art or asks!
#savvy's styles - my very sparse fashion tag
And my fic tags, labeled as tasks!
#task: unstoppable force - The Unstoppable Force Kisses the Immovable Object, an volistry fic about them getting together.
#task: meet the parts - Meet the Parts that Make You, a kim-gets-introduced-to-the-skills fic
#task: let's make it a home - Let's Make It (a) Home, a skills fic set during martinaise as they rebuild a home together
#task: swept up - Swept Up in the Feeling, a empathy-centric skills fic as an excuse to do character studies and better understand each of the skills
#task: sunrise momentum - The Sunrise Momentum, a volition-centric fic about the Holy Vow of waking up at 7:30
#task: message please survive - known in my documents as Message to all Bitches: Please Survive, a look into the skills perspective during the martinaise blackout.
#task: who are you if not - Who Are You, If Not..., an esprit-centric fic about what happens to the RCM skill if Harry left the RCM
#task: furies at home in the gymnasium - The Furies are at Home in the Gymnasium, is a crack-fic focused on humanized teen skills who make up a bickering class of students who share Harry's fifth period gym class, and are trying to set up their coach with one Lieutenant Kitsuragi.
#task: when two skills love each other very much - Well, When Two Skills Love Each Other Very Much..., an accidental baby acquisition skill fic, focused on a fan skill named Solace. Volistry-centric, but all the skills are important.
i loveee plural harry so much. anyway. spell of thinking abt kim and the skills interacting
OUUUU FUCK IVEW BEEN HIT WITH DA SPELLS 🪄✨
hello there, i also love plural harry <333 i usually depict harry as more of an orbital system; the skills tend to layer over him as opposed to clean switches, and they'll usually let Harry do most of the fronting and stick in co-consciousness to provide advice and assistance, which feels more like how the game depicts it!! all depictions of plural harry are so delightful though <33
in my usual headcanons, it's rare for a skill to front (Savvy does it once canonically) it's usually a special occasion kind of thing, when a skill takes over as main fronter!! i love thinking about them doing so comfortably around kim :3
🔵 Conceptualization [voice is airier when (co-)fronting, lofty hand motions] drawing all of their inner appearances out for Kim to have as reference in his notebook, and Kim watching her draw fondly. (i still maintain that the Skill Portraits are all Conceptualization's art style!!)
🟣 Volition [voice is usually serious and direct, stands stalwart] doing his job and Kim recognizing and praising him for it and Volition getting flustered by it, i LOVE whenever this happens, it's such a funny fucking trope, NOT SO NONCHALANT NOW, ARE YOU CROWNHEAD??? (volition doesn't get enough credit in canon honestly, i think he's overdue the appreciation, it's so cute when he gets bashful about it, "I was uh- was just getting us back on track… not a big deal." "You're doing good work. Thank you, Volition." "the- it's- uh-! of course, i'm… I'm at your service, lieutenant…" RATTLES HIM. I LOVE HIM.)
🔴 bad chronic pain day for the body and Pain Threshold [most tired, pained voice you can imagine, slumped posture] answers the door in the morning looking absolutely miserable, "...Lieutenant. No one wanted to front. Give us a few more minutes to get ready." "…Would you like assistance?" "No." "…" "..." "...Threshold." "…Okay. Yes."
🟡 Interfacing [matter-of-fact, jargon-heavy dialogue, and fingers always tinkering/fidgeting] IMMEDIATELY fronting or at LEAST co-fronting for any Kineema discussion, they talk at LENGTH. they're so good at keeping up with each other when it comes down to mechanics talk, it is EXTENSIVE, they are TORQUE DORKS!!
anyway, on that note, have you read I'd Rather Be Whistling In the Dark? really good plural/DID harry with distinct individual skill switches interacting with Kim, VERY interesting depictions of it!! (can be a bit heavy but in a cathartic way, very emotional)
24 skills in a trenchcoat also a banger, it's been a while since i last reread it but i have it saved in my bookmarks which means it has my seal of approval :o
(and whenever the author's ready, i'll eventually have another fic to recommend for Kim interacting with the Skills, @ my newest mutual YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE <3333)
i also have like, my own Meet the Parts That Make You rambles (a "kim gets introduced to the skills" fic), but it's one of my more neglected fic wips, back when i first started this blog, so it's a bit sloppily done hgkjh i know "two cakes!" and all but i think the concept has been better executed by other people <33 still, i do like the silly little things i do have written :>
your love for DE is making me wanna revisit my skills designs tbh. pray tell who should i draw first...........
HEHE HIII!! sniles at you lovingly!!!! <333 <222 questions like these are always very funny to me, like yes, of course tumblr user volivolition is going to suggest Volition. again. for the thousandth time 😭
blinks sweetly. can you talk about your fics please please please. I MISS THEM!!!! (the skills)
blinks back also soooo sweetly!!!! i can always talk about my fics :3 <333 I MISS THEM TOO!!! THE SKILLS WAAHHHHH!!!! <333
let's see, let's see, what can i give you…. oh, can i offer you this snippet from Visual Calculus's chapter of Swept Up?
first of all: my Conceptualization/Visual Calculus agenda. Vis's chapter is directly after hers, they are lovers united by the Square of Creation (the little dice thing they both have in their portraits!!) VisCal loves their wife bro hgkjhg
second of all: VisCal! i am still trying to understand them, i think, so this is just gonna be a ramble space for me to figure them out a little more <33
a lot of my VisCal fondness comes from my mutual (@/gay-victorian-astronomer) who used to run the VisCal skill rp blog! i deeply enjoyed that they used their background of astrophysics while playing the role and VisCal will forever have a touch of astronomy/starcoded vibes to me :>!!
and of course, im very fond of everyone's favorite Pleasure Wheel check from the game. it's such a good moment... they're so proud of themself for recreating it too <33 i gotta replay that check bro but the chapter's premise is based on this moment specifically!
in general i think VisCal is so impressive. their checks are literally visual, showing holographic depictions on top of the actual real world, i don't think any other skill plays with the environment at all the way VisCal does!! GOD it's so cool what the fuck hjkghg
VisCal is a pretty passive, quiet skill to me. They do their job, they project what images they need to, they find quiet beauty in things. They prefer "Show, don't tell" in contrast with Ency, who they bear resemblance to!! Ency likes to talk your ear off with lore and knowledge of the past, VisCal likes to show you what they see and analyze the present, and possibly the future!
i love the idea of Concept catching them off guard with affection and all their holographics fizzling due to them getting flustered. i feel like they're not the type to get sheepish by being flustered, others can tease them about it and they'll admit to it fully
i originally wanted VisCal to be a later chapter. Beginning chapters all have some exposition to them. Physical Instrument is my planned start, to introduce the premise, and Conceptualization introduces Empathy's design details, but Visual Calculus doesn't really introduce any concepts. they're a pretty lighthearted chapter!! maybe i can use their chapter for mindspace world building...
this is making me feel like encyclopedia's chapter should be moved up... but i can't separate conceptualization and viscal, they directly lead into each other lmao?? i like the idea of having the "tell don't show" skill before the "show don't tell" skill but also if i do LOVE LOSES?? /j
im sure i'll figure out the depth of viscal's character while writing them, they just seem so chill lmao <33 empathy and viscal hang out quietly and do fun things together man. that's my premise hakjha
no more fics where the furies disappear/leave temporarily and harrys relieved, write fics where the furies disappear and he immediately starts panicking because its so *quiet* and he doesn't know how to handle it. where he feels achingly, devastatingly alone. where he starts really struggling to do basic tasks because he can't even conceptualize that other people can just Do Things
New Disco Elysium fic up: Shelter-in-Place - a Harry Du Bois/Kim Kitsuragi one-shot
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Red Checks and Orange Bombers (UC41) universe.
Rating: Mature
Pairing: Harry Du Bois/Kim Kitsuragi
Format: one-shot, complete
POV: Kim 🧡
Words: 10.2k
Read it on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/88835486
Forty kilometres from shelter, the Kineema dies and the snow closes the road behind them. Kim Kitsuragi knows exactly how cold kills a man. What he does not know is how to survive one regulation blanket, Harry Du Bois's arms around him, and the professional metre between them disappearing by degrees.
Shared body heat is procedure.
Harry's heartbeat under his cheek is not.
Kim would have fixed the coil. For the record.
Excerpt:
His gloves had soaked through and gone stiff, so he took them off. Only these two hands and the long self-taught fluency of a boy who'd learned machines where other men learned doctrine — alone, and young, because machines didn't let him down and people had.
He set the bare hands against the cold metal and worked.
The cold went through pain quickly and out the far side of it into the worse thing, which was absence. He'd written the stages into exposure reports from the dry side of a warm desk — erythema, then numbness, then the waxy pallor — in the flat vocabulary he kept for other people's bodies. He read them off his own fingers now, in order, and kept working.
He set the spanner to the bracket, and his hand wouldn't close around it. He instructed it — in the calm interior voice he used for everything — to grip. It declined. These were the hands he had, his sole qualification, the one part of himself he'd never thought to doubt, and they'd stopped answering.
"Okay. That's it. That's enough." Harry was out in the wind, one big hand closing around his elbow, then his shoulder. The grip was not a suggestion. "Inside, Kim. Right now."
...
Harry folded him onto the back seat and swung in after him.
"Hands," Harry said. "Give them here. Both of them."
Kim gave them.
Harry took both ruined hands and swallowed them whole, folded into a single warm dark space that smelled of engine grease and cold air. He bent his head and breathed. A long warm exhale Kim felt travel the entire length of his frozen fingers. Then again.
"Your hands," Kim tried. "You'll lose the heat off your own. Keep them in your—"
"My hands are fine. Yours are the colour of a fish. We're doing yours." A pause; the dryness gentled all the way down.
...
"And before you start: I outrank you. This is technically an order, Lieutenant. So sit still. Let someone else do the holding, for once."
what if my perceptive cloud and your infodumping smoke mingled while we talked and we were both skills 😳😳😳???
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hi cedar sorry this took one thousand years lmao <33 they are so cute, you ALWAYS have to consider a "talks too much/listens" pair, im very endeared <33
