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masonscig · 2 months

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Chop Shop is strictly 18+ for language, themes, and potential explicit content.

🔗 - Game Intro | Bug Report | Ko-Fi

Episode Three is now available! (+ 86,000) - PLAY HERE

Get your first taste of the underground car scene.

Meet some other players in the game.

Be made an offer.

5 achievements up for grabs!

And more!

AN: thank you so much for the patience - i've been dying to put this update out. lots of new characters and lots of variation!! there are 3 major paths to choose between in this ep, i recommend trying them all out! and thank you to my betas for keeping me sane lmao

This update comes with a patch and UI refresh (Version 1.1.2) Notes are under the cut. If preferred, you can access them in game in the start menu.

STORY

EPISODE 01:

MC should now be able to smoke! Buying cigarettes at the shop was not triggering correctly. If playing with an old save, you DO NOT have to restart as code at the beginning of EP 03 has resolved the error. Player will need to restart if they wish to read smoking related scenes in previous episodes.

Updated MC Name selection. Player can now choose from a list of names instead of having to input one to proceed.

Player can now give Taha their chocolate bar if it's in their inventory.

When asking Maz about their scars, the second choice 'You want to ask about it but you're going to keep your mouth shut.' should now take you to the correct response.

Extended and updated 'End Game' scenes.

EPISODE 02:

If MC is faint after exiting the car, but also drunk, they should now get the fainting scene, followed by Dilani helping the MC in the bathroom.

UI + TECHNICAL

SETTINGS:

Autoname Save is now defaulted to ON. This is to add ease and flow to gameplay, especially for mobile, tablet, and app users, instead of calling for an inputted saved name. If player wants to input save names, toggle Autoname Saves to OFF.

Autoname Save previously only used the forename of the MC but now includes the surname as well.

Removed the Fullscreen toggle as it is only intended for desktop use. Player can still toggle fullscreen function via the UI bar on the desktop interface.

Added a choice indicator toggle. (This probably won't come into effect until EP 04 or 05)

Changed serif font from Vollkron to EB Garamond.

OTHER:

Changing the MC's pronouns via the Dashboard has been updated. Additionally, after confirmation will take player back to the Dashboard and not close the dialog boxes entirely.

Hovering over 'Personality', 'Motives', and 'Skills' titles in the Dashboard will now display an information box with a definition. Mobile and tablet users will need to tap on the title.

'Resume Game' now only appears on the main menu when there is an autosave in the saves log.

Choices styling changes.

General UI and button style changes.

Fixed errors with the text message styling.

Added styling for reading text off of a page in game.

Darkened blue in light theme 'Skyline' to reduce eye strain.

CREATE A SAVE

Introducing Create a Save! This feature allows players to quickly manufacture a save file and start at a later point in the game.

Set your identity, appearance, history, and statistics; including personality, motives, and skills. Continue to set key decisions made in previous episodes.

Randomise options available for creating a PC and key decisions.

OTHER

Fixed gaps and spacing issues.

Minor phrasing and sentence structure changes.

Grammar and typo fixes.

whew -- that's a lot of patch notes! apologies for so much that needed to be fixed.

this update shouldn't break/ mess with saves but as a disclaimer i will say, if you spot anything funky, broken, or you don't think things are triggering correctly, try starting a new save. the new create a save feature is incredibly code heavy, and it's been tested relentlessly, but i wouldn't be surprised if something crops up.

if starting a new save doesn't resolve your issue - please submit to bug report or just send me an ask/message.

some things have been meaning to get fixed for Some Time - thank you to everyone that is using the bug report form!

apologies if there are typos and/or bugs - this was a long one to edit and my lovely betas did an OUTSTANDING job reading so much for ep 3 - thank you so much again!!! this time i am going to give it a bit more time before i put together a patch so i can grab more error responses haha.

create a save has also added a wee chunk to the word count, somewhere around 6k, but i'm not including it in the episode 03 word count as it's purely code. so, if you think the total wc is off, that's why!

if you've read this far, happy reading and thank you so much for the continued support!! :) - becky <3

#GO READ THIS DEMO NOW!!!!!!!!! there are SO many options to explore its incredible !!!!!#and when you’re done leave a nice message in becky’s inbox 🔫#i can’t wait to post my fav moments finally !!!!! LETS GOOOOOOOO #chop shop

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masonscig · 2 months

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art things!

#it's been a while since i've rb'ed becky art and screamed in the tags but best believe the megaphone is charged and ready to go #if becky's characters' noses have zero fans then i'm dead !!!!!!!!!!#dilani aimee pit hair what if i died.#also i need to grab sunny's waist and squeeze it till his head explodes #and all the new characters yeah it's actually proof that only hot people exist in this universe #except for jonno </333 sorry #i looooooove how these characters have evolved so much since you started this project !!!!!#they become more and more real with every update :') i love them all SO much #chop shop

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masonscig · 2 months

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writer in the dark

pairing: m!seven lawless x f!mc (arabella aveiro)

word count: 2.2k

warnings: swearing, two arguments, and arabella being a big fat meanie!

tags: @masonscig @farahhauville @agentdumortain @getyourselfaunicorn

notes: so i’ve had this idea of “rewriting” the late night bus scene with seven in @infamous-if for a while now and actually had most of it written down and just… stopped for whatever reason! but i dusted her off and she's here in all her glory <3 for a mc like arabella specifically, i just wanted her to be a tad bit meaner and madder than what was allowed and i love venting my frustrations with seven in fic form! this fic wasn't inspired by the lorde song i just thought the title was literally perfect for it <3 without further ado…

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arabella flips through the pages of her songwriting notebook, procrastinating on what she set out to do before bed. any other time lyrics would be pouring out of her but… well, she doesn’t exactly know where to start.

the past month has been overwhelming, to say the least. winning the last spot for battle of the bands, getting accused of cheating for said spot, finding a new drummer, practicing for hours on end everyday, figuring out what to pack, orion telling her she can’t bring her entire wardrobe on tour.

she finally has time to herself, which she’s begun to realize is going to be a luxury moving forward, but she can’t get her thoughts to come out onto the page.

she sighs, clicking her pen incessantly, as if doing that is going to give her the breakthrough she needs. maybe she just needs a change of scenery. who knew her incredibly small bed wouldn’t offer up any inspiration besides a joke song she wrote with devyn earlier about how badly the tour bus smells.

she sits up and pulls the curtain back before slipping out and trudging to the main area, notebook and pen in hand. she stifles a yawn before she opens the divider that separates the beds from the living room.

one look around and she instantly wishes she had stayed in her bunk.

she sees seven sitting at the table. because, of course, who else would be up at this time of night? his back is to her, but it looks like he’s… writing. or, writing something and then immediately crossing it out.

she almost laughs but stops herself.

he lets out a sigh before running his hands through his hair, and she’s hit with a wave of… deja vu? nostalgia? nausea?

her hands clench at her sides, fingers twitching as she resists the urge to walk over to him and push the strands of hair away from his face, something she used to do so often when they were together. she wonders if he ever thinks about it, when she would tease him for wearing a bandana but was seemingly never able to contain his hair within it.

the overwhelming feeling subsides and she has control over her body again. she walks over to the other end of the table, avoiding seven's intense gaze as she feels him staring at her, doing what feels like trying to burn a hole right through her.

she doesn't say anything as she sits on the couch, getting comfortable as she reopens her notebook. she still feels him staring at her.

she came here to write. seven being here shouldn't be a hindrance, but as she tries and fails for the millionth time to put words on the page, she wonders why it feels this way. she used to be so comfortable in his presence, almost always being joined at the hip. they would always be up at odd hours, trying to figure out lyrics to the new songs they were working on.

together. always together.

she can't succumb to that type of thinking right now. not when he's the closest he's been to her in nearly three years and yet so far away. he put that distance between them, and she understands why, but sometimes she wishes the never ending ocean of separation where he ends and she begins wasn't so wide. she just wishes this wasn't the way things were.

but they are. and for the past three years she's tried coming to terms with that, failing miserably at every turn because as much as she wants to hate him, and a part of her really, really, does, she can't bring herself to commit to it fully. how ironic, she realizes, when giving all of herself to him came as easy to her as breathing.

she shakes her head and puts her focus back to her notebook. she's barely written two lines when she hears his voice.

"aveiro."

she grimaces at the way he says her last name. is that really all she is to him now? he can't even call her arabella? there was once a point in time when all she loved hearing was the sound of her name coming from his lips because she knew it was safe there. safe from the people in her life and on the internet who told her she was too arrogant, too rude, too bitchy to survive in the industry they’re in. but she never cared about that, and neither did seven.

she knows, and she's known for a while now, that she won't ever have that sense of safety again. and maybe that’s why he won't call her that.

"what made you choose me?"

she wants to laugh. three years apart, a dozen songs between them clearly about one another, and that's the question that's eating away at him? she knows it's been bothering him because she can feel the uneasiness coming off him in waves. no matter how hard she tries, she'll never be able to just see him. she'll always see the emotions underneath everything he says and does.

"choose you?" she asks.

"when it came down to it, you chose my band. why?"

she decides it's best to be logical in this situation. he can't get mad about that, can he?

"i just thought it made the most sense. underground wastebasket are unpredictable and volatile, if you haven't noticed."

he makes a face and she realizes that was probably the wrong thing to say. but what does he want her to do? admit that she's still so pathetically in love with him? admit that given the choice, of fucking course she's picking him? she would pick seven over anything and anyone, and despite everything, that'll never change.

"what?" she asks, but it comes out as more of a demand. he’s the one asking stupid questions in the middle of the night. he should be grateful she was coherent enough to give him the response she did, the exhaustion and their close proximity taking a toll on her brain.

"nothing about you makes sense to me, but alright."

it used to, she wants to say. i used to make more sense to you than i did to myself.

she scoffs instead, which makes him grimace. good. "does it really matter who i chose?"

"yes."

he says it so quickly it makes her want to laugh, but the sound dies in her throat. she’d rather die than let him hear a genuine laugh from her.

"i'm just trying to figure out what you’re planning."

it takes her a second to realize he’s being dead serious. "what… i'm planning?"

"this is a competition and i'm not clueless, aveiro."

she’s changing her last name by the end of this tour. she rolls her eyes as far back into her head as they can go before laughing pitifully. "you caught me. i'm currently on a mission to ruin your life.” she reopens her notebook and clicks her pen. ”any big allergies since we last spoke? i have to make sure what to spike your food with."

he glares at her. "you're not funny."

which is seven speak for ‘that was funny, but i hate you so it's not.’ she's getting pretty good at this. at this rate, they'll be back together again in no time.

ha.

“you used to laugh at every fucking thing i said.” she blurts out, sudden anger surging through her.

“and look where that got us,” he replies, not even sparing her a glance as he doodles in his notebook. seriously?

“yeah, my humor definitely explains the stick up your ass and why you left-”

he looks up at her now, barking out a dark laugh, his face full of nothing but contempt for her. “we are not discussing that shit tonight.”

she shrugs. he wants to treat her like a villain, she’ll gladly accept the role. “seems as good a time as any. i can tell chuck to park and we can hash this shit out tonight. because i, for one, am tired-”

“oh, you’re tired? how do you-”

“think you feel?” she scoffs. even now, he's minimizing how she feels because how could she possibly understand. “you’re forgetting that i know you. and don’t fucking interrupt me.”

“i’m not doing this with you. you’re acting like a child-”

“oh, that’s fucking rich-”

they stop talking over each other once they hear the sound of someone clearing their throat. they both turn to look and see avina standing in the doorway looking extremely uncomfortable, rubbing the back of their neck.

arabella realizes that seven wasn’t writing alone after all. he was writing with avina. she doesn’t understand why it hurts the way it does, but it makes her stomach drop and makes her feel stupid all at once.

“um,” avina starts, attempting to break the tension still in the air, “maybe we should-”

“don’t worry, i was just leaving.” arabella interjects, quickly grabbing her things from the table. she wants to look at seven before she leaves, but decides better on it. she doesn’t think she could stomach seeing the all too familiar look of hurt on his face. the look he always wears in her dreams before she snaps awake, sweating and shaking.

she knows she shouldn’t, but her body moves against her wishes and her head swivels to look back at the table. seven’s back is to her and avina has their arm wrapped around his shoulders, comforting him in the aftermath. claiming a job that was once hers.

a rage bubbles up inside of her and before she can think better of it, her mouth starts moving, calling out, “have fun writing another song about me. good luck!”

she quickly climbs into bed so she doesn’t have to hear any kind of response, pulling the curtain closed with as much force as she can muster.

her head is throbbing now, and she groans softly as her face hits the pillow. she feels hollow. arguing with seven when they were friends always made her feel uneasy, and that feeling only amplified when they started dating.

three years later and that same anxiety creeps its way back into her heart and leaves her utterly exhausted, hands shaking, with tears pricking the corners of her eyes. god, she feels pathetic. they're not even through the first night on this bus and she's breaking down over an interaction that she escalated.

she wants to blame this all on seven, but she knows deep down she brought this on herself. when they were together, arabella thought that seven only brought out the best in her. three years later, and she knows he’s capable of bringing out the worst in her too.

her phone buzzes beside her in bed and she checks the notification. it's from rowan.

open up.

she rolls her eyes, wanting to text back that he could just open the curtain on her bunk if he really wanted to talk. but she knows he's doing it so she can hide the fact she's been crying before she faces him.

and she hates that. she fucking hates that he knows how she gets dealing with seven, and yet ignored her feelings so blatantly earlier.

she quickly wipes her eyes before sitting up and pulling back the thin curtain to reveal rowan standing there, if a little awkwardly. he's in his pajamas, hands in his pockets.

“hey,” he starts, not exactly sure what to say. “you... okay?”

he grimaces as soon as the words leave his mouth, and if looks could kill, arabella would have just struck him down.

“right,” he chuckles nervously. “stupid question.”

she feels that rage from before, quietly simmering and now back to boiling, face growing hot. “yeah, a stupid ass question, rowan.”

his eyes widen. “i’m sorry, i-”

“can you just leave me alone?” she interrupts, voice cracking at the end of her question. “i know you're trying to be helpful, but i really don't want to talk to you right now.”

“arabella-”

“no,” she says, tone sharp and laced with venom, “you got what you wanted earlier, and now i’m cashing in my favor. we’ll talk later.”

he looks like he wants to protest, but he sighs instead. “okay.” he gives her one last look before walking back to his own bunk.

she groans in frustration before pulling the curtain back closed again. she's going to have it ripped off and they haven't even been on this bus a full day.

tears prick her eyes again and it takes everything in her to not succumb to how awful she feels.

this is all she's ever wanted. she should be happy to be on tour with her best friends, competing in battle of the bands. making a name for herself. finally achieving her dreams.

so why does she feel so bad? why does the past, it seems like, always come back to haunt her?

she glances at her songwriting notebook again and picks it up, along with her pen. she opens it to the first blank page she can find and quickly starts writing down lyrics, her brain going a million miles a minute.

this tour better be fucking worth it, she thinks to herself as she keeps writing.

it has to be.

for everything she's been through, something has to finally work out in her favor. something to make up for everything she's lost and overcome.

and this tour is just the beginning.

#arabella getting the last laugh and then immediately almost crying.. she's so real.#arabella exploding on seven and on rowan in the same five minutes </3 someone please save her from herself #i don't even remember my organizational tags but idc #i love this fic and i love arabella and i love you !!!!!!!!!!!!!#i will rb with more cohesive thoughts later <3

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masonscig · 3 months

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wip wednesday

i haven't joined in one of these in forever but i've been working on something that i can hopefully share soon – i'm not tagging anyone but if you see this and want to share, tag me! cw for mentions of an injury (predictably this is mason x sofía)

He tears his hawk-like stare away from the calm monotony, tries to soothe his rising temperature. Shreds of his favorite burgundy thermal cling to him by a thread. It’s not worth saving. In a swift yank, what’s left of his shirt is abandoned at his feet. He’s nearly healed now. He rotates his arm, watches the remainder of his wounds close up. From red, to pink, to a scarred tan – and finally, his freckles bloom. It’s not punishment enough.

self flagellating mason anyone

#trying to slowly get back into fandom stuff but it's been very hard #any time i'm like yep i'm ready to sit down and read a new if or read mutuals' fics or write or whatever –#something insane happens in my life that puts me in a funk for like 3-6 months #i haven't had much desire to write t/w/c in like a year (besides long form wips that may never see the light of day)#but this one hit me like a truck and i HAD to write it.. it has to do with sofía's rook lore #wips #tw injury #cw injury

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masonscig · 3 months

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why did book 3 obliterate ms characterisation?

i promise this isn't me copping out but i haven't played book 3 since it dropped in april '23, so i couldn't give you a 100% accurate answer even if i tried

i spent multiple days analyzing issues with characterization when it dropped and then my life started falling apart – if i could remember + repeat what i remember from those conversations i would

what i will say of what i remember, is that a lot of my issues stem from being led to believe that the romance would develop a certain way and it going in a completely different direction – obviously, i know and respect an author's vision, but the dip in quality from the demo to the actual finished product made me step back and view b3 differently. instead of a fully realized story that i could see building on itself and leading to something much bigger, it was painfully obvious that this is a game with stats that had to satisfy requirements.

i only played one full route (m's of course) and after a while the scene/mood changes were so disjointed it took me out of it – lighthearted to heavy with no time to unpack or discuss, i.e. big relationship moments sandwiched between research/combat scenes and conversations with random side characters.

ultimately, just felt like a checklist of scenes being ticked off as the story progressed rather than a natural buildup with a solid plot progression like b1 and b2 imo.

i know i haven't gotten to specific instances of m's characterization being obliterated, which i said as an exaggeration, bc m is still m at timesin b3, but other times is an actual stranger in text – i don't think i can give you specific examples, but i can at the very least say that the above issues were what led to the issues of m feeling ooc.

#also the flippancy of the human tr*fficking plotline. and m's joke about it. absolutely disgusting btw!#i started a b3 rewrite and had a fully fleshed out story that would be about 20+ chapters but...#i wrote a couple thousand words and then decided it wasn't worth it (also my life started falling apart so)#and it kind of is still rn! i don't wanna trauma dump on this post but i also don't want to sound like i don't care #i'm dealing with an unexpected loss of a local friend so being 'accurate' in this ask really isn't a priority to me rn #i still love m VERY deeply like they're one of my comfort characters but... i'm just going to have to explore what could've been on my own #speaking of that! i started writing a very cathartic mason x sofía fic that goes into some oc/rook lore #it's also me unpacking my own feelings bc of course i put a piece of myself in my writing KMSDMKFDM typical!#asks

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masonscig · 5 months

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oomfies showing up to the red carpet premiere of the way/haven holiday game knowing we despised book 3 and that her spending the majority of her time on it will delay book 4 until 2028

#oomfies meaning people who Get why book 3 obliterated m’s characterization #ok bye again

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masonscig · 5 months

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happy birthday to sofía :’)

#i was going to surprise everyone with a fic but it’s not even remotely finished yet despite it being a 2+ year wip #anyway thank anyone who’s ever showed her (and me) love i truly appreciate u so much #she would never celebrate thanksgiving and would be appalled at her bday falling on it this year tbh #jade.txt

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masonscig · 6 months

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i have zero desire to come back to this account right now, in fact, it's been months since i've touched this blog, and it will continue to stay that way, especially now.

i've been active on my personal blog, @parm4carm, so please don't take my silence here as complicity. i unequivocally support palestinian liberation. i'm reblogging as many updates and resources as i can on my personal blog, same with twt, informing people in my life, etc.

you should be, too. don't look away.

#and if you choose to look away i hope that guilt weighs on you for the rest of your life.#it's a privilege to unplug. the people of gaza are not afforded that luxury.#prioritize informing yourself and boosting palestinian voices now more than ever

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masonscig · 11 months

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thank you for the tag my love @veeples !! sorry this is so late ! i’m tagging @trystanthorne @farahhauville and @agentdumortain please tell me ab ur if oc’s as well as ur choices mc’s <3 i think that counts and if it doesn’t idc i’m still counting it

FAVORITE OC: sofía :) it’s not a surprise! i’ve just put way more time into fleshing her out so she’s just more real to me than my other oc’s – i love all my children equally, but only one of them calls on mother’s day yfm?

NEWEST OC: benni! i made her for twc (eyeroll bc even a new oc couldn’t bring me back to b3) but she is thriving in infamous !!

OLDEST OC: this is where my choices mc’s come in <3 i think the first character i spent time fleshing out was either my tfs mc claudia or my open heart mc spencer! those were the first two i vividly remember giving personalities outside of whatever was canon

MEANEST OC: flor :/ they’re maladjusted! what can i say!

SOFTEST OC: my roc mc raquel! she was a soft pushover before becoming a criminal overnight and even though she’s definitely changed, she is hands down the softest of the bunch and i love her for it (you’d think i’d say sofía, but she’s a lot stronger than both she and i give her credit for)

MOST ALOOF OC: part of me wanted to say flor again, but tbh i think it’s dom – a choices mc from the book platinum, now turned oc for infamous! she was hungry for success but jaded by the fame, and her experiences are the reason she has to actively choose to treat singing like a profession instead of a passion! something something, this isn’t what she thought it would be

DUMBEST OC: this is so fucking funny bc i actively choose to make two of my oc’s dumb as fuck so shoutout to gg and benni <3 they’re definitely tied for first but ramona is a close second LMAO i love my dummies they are all stupid in their own way and i kiss them for it

SMARTEST OC: sofía has the book smarts, del has the street smarts, and carrie has the survival instinct! i consider them experts in their own way :) but sofía definitely is the smartest in the traditional sense

OC I'D BE FRIENDS WITH: ramona <3333333 she’s a girl’s girl, like in the purest definition of the sense <3 zero jealousy. always supportive. the perfect hype girl. will be the best friend you ever had (but the problem is that she’s everyone’s best friend so she’s no one’s best friend cough cough cough). honestly the only ocs i think i wouldn’t vibe with are dom and flor LMAO i’d get along w everyone else !!

#tag games #i don't feel like tagging everyone so i'm gonna make a general oc tag now LMAO #my oc's

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masonscig · 11 months

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oc’s as poisonous plants

rules: create one (or more) of your oc’s using this meiker and then take this uquiz and share their results

i’m so late to this but ty for the tag @cadetzarneki and @solarisrenbeth <33 this was as fun as it was painful <3 LMAO i’m not sure who’s done this, but i’m tagging @veeples, @possumgeist, @losingface, @sevlawless, @farahhauville <333

**this got long so i’m going to put the rest under the cut!**

sofía olmos – twc, chop shop, fernweh, ylaf – lily of the valley

This is the poison of giving too much. You feel yourself emptying out, dizzying, discoloring -- until you fear you will fade entirely and wither away. You have always had to give. You never had a choice before. They pluck your flowers for their beauty, they trample your leaves carelessly, they pull out your roots by the fistful and berate you for daring to grow. And now that you have a grove to spread out in, your rhizomes tangle and curl in on themselves. When cruelty is all you've ever known, thriving seems impossible. But the answer is not to make yourself small and offer every lovely thing you are to the world in the hopes it will have mercy on you. The answer is to let yourself dare to thrive for thriving's sake, to grow in the wild ways you wish to -- and to do that for yourself for once.

carrie travesía – body count, infamous – hemlock

This is the poison of intense fear. Your body trembles, your flesh burns. Your limbs won't respond to you. You convulse. You can't seem to control the fear. It seems that it has always lived within you. You hesitate, you agonize, and that breeds regret. Sometimes it threatens to overwhelm you, and that frightens you more than anything. But panic is survival mode in overdrive, and something within you knows you must live. Creation seems to be the only balm for you. Perhaps you survive so stubbornly because you have stories that must be told, songs that must be sung. Soothe your stage fright. The path from surviving to thriving is having a good garden to grow in. And you can't do that completely alone.

flor majano – twc, chop shop, infamous – oleander

This is the poison of stagnation. You grow drowsy. Your heart rate slows, and when you do move you can't seem to stop shaking. It may seem to others that you're lazy, or reticent. Like you avoid hard work on purpose, like you always take the easy way out. But you know deep down that it wouldn't be like this if you weren't so tired, so deeply tired. If you weren't crushed under the weight of sorrow like a mile of water over your head. Nothing brings you peace, except rest and-- though you can hardly dare to ask-- having someone tend to you gently and sweetly. A good gardener speaks to their plants, sings to them, waters them, fertilizes their soil, prunes the dead parts, nurtures the new growth. You yearn to be cared for like that, even though you feel you don't deserve it. The secret is that you do. You always have. And someday, you'll learn that, and receive that care, and the exhaustion won't keep you from growing strong and lovely anymore. You were never the problem. These are simply poor growing conditions for you.

dom avalos – infamous, platinum (choices book) – belladonna

This is the poison of falling in love. You taste it and your heart beats fast. Your eyes dilate, you fall into deep delirium. You may be a bit dramatic and impulsive, and it gets you into trouble sometimes, but you just can’t help yourself. It’s in your blood. You love because it’s the truest beauty you’ve found in this harsh world. Even when it’s hurt you before, when it’s poisoned you, you still find a way. They may call you naive for still believing in it, or vain for making yourself and your surroundings so meticulously lovely. But to love like this is brave and noble, and I hope you find the beauty you seek. Chances are, it’s within and all around you already, if you know where to look.

ramona guerrero – twc, chop shop, infamous – doll’s eyes

This is the poison of unchecked vices. You slip into hallucinations. You are wracked with convulsions. The delirium threatens to overwhelm you. What are you running from? You look in every direction, wild-eyed at every turn, seeking some reprieve from what torments you. Each vice brings new consequences, and the price of escape seems too great, and yet you cannot seem to face things head on. If you aren't running from yourself, I hope you find a true way to freedom soon. And if you are running from yourself, perhaps you would do well to realize your pain is not something you can simply escape by avoidance. You deserve healing just as much as the ones you love. Someday, soon I hope, you will know this and feel it and reach inward to grant yourself all the kindnesses you offer others. That is the only true way to peace for ones like us. Oh, and if the pain of it seems too great? I hope that you realize you don't have to do it alone.

benni soza – twc, infamous – belladonna

#tag games #oc: sofía olmos #oc: carrie #oc: flor majano #oc: dom avalos #oc: ramona guerrero #oc: benni soza #yes i color coordinated the bgs what ab it #also the versions of sofía/ramona/flor u see up there are their twc versions !!#i actually used this meiker a week or so ago to make my infamous oc's so i may post that soon #flor and benni both have buzzcuts but that wasn't an option </3 benni's is really overgrown – not flor's tho #benni's hair is really shittily bleached and her roots are overgrown unless she does her stage trick aka letting others dye her hair #they're all very different and i love them all sm <3

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Hiiii 3, 9, 25 and 26 for the Wahaven ask please? 😇

HI SOSO <3 TYSM FOR THE ASK !!!! <3333

3. do they have any piercings/ tattoos/scars?

sofía just has her ears pierced! she's happy enough with those piercings – when she was younger she wanted a lot more piercings but as she's grown up she's comfortable with just one set hehe

as for tattoos... in the book 3 rewrite im planning i wrote down that she gets a small easy to hide tattoo (her first) to get out of the blood drive (it was either that or admitting to her coworkers that she's sexually active and she would rather die than do that) – and in another oc ship i've written that she got a little tattoo on her butt/hip area so i think in the wayhaven verse there's something there! probably something plain like a heart outlined in red :) (or in her oc ship's case... a candy heart that says "bite me" w fangs)

and scars – her weight's fluctuated her whole life (chubby kid, skinny adolescent, put on weight in her early 20's, lost it again) so she has quite a few stretch marks! she was v insecure ab them for a while but mason thinks her tiger stripes are sexy :) (they're concentrated on her thighs, stomach, and boobs – huge part of why her clothing combo of choice is pants + turtleneck) i actually wrote a lil drabble for waysum where i mention some of this (cw for body image issues)

ALSO NECK SCAR FROM MURPHY. LMAO HOW COULD I FORGET !!!!!!!!!

9. what is their relationship with their mother like?

not great that's for sure! LMAO yeah by book 2 she slowly climbed to a nearly 30% stat w rebecca but then went back down during book 3 DKMKMFDKMDF rebecca makes her feel inferior and hasn't done anything that makes sofía want to open herself up to rebecca again. also her very idealized version of rook is infinitely better than rebecca could ever be in her mind

25. how do they handle the reveal of the supernatural?

very calmly and coolly MKDKDMKDM even though she's an anxious person who's definitely afraid for her life since ub came to town, she's also very rational so.. i think she compartmentalizes in order to avoid her fear LMAO pushes down her stress and anxiety instead of facing it so. she is very accepting bc otherwise she'd be at rock bottom (yes this is unhealthy KMDFMKDM)

26. if given the choice, would they become a vampire?

answered here! :)

twc ask game

#asks #oc: sofía olmos #THESE WERE GREAT TY FOR THE PIERCING/TATTOO/SCAR ONE IN PARTICULAR #I WAS EYEING THAT ONE WHEN I RBED THE ASK GAME DKMMKDFKMDF

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masonscig · 11 months

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29 for the twc ask game 🫶

HI ZOE TY FOR THIS <333 I LOVE THIS QUESTION

29. if they could have chosen a different profession, what would it be?

so my gal sofía had huge aspirations before joining wpd – she planned on going to med school, but at the last minute, she psyched herself out AND bobby convinced her out of it. he was going back home to work in wayhaven, so he suggested she take a gap year! their relationship was already on the rocks, and sofía didn't want to make it worse with distance ESPECIALLY bc she was so unsure of committing to four more years of school (even though she'd dreamed about it since she was a kid). in that gap year, bobby dumped her :(

anyway, if she would've gone to med school, i see her as working in a fast paced hospital in the city for a while, choosing to stay an attending physician instead of rising in the ranks, before eventually opening up her own small family practice in wayhaven or somewhere like it! but if she didn't go to med school, like in her canon, then she'd go the forensics route and have taken a lab job instead :) it's a big reason why verda is her canon bestie hehe

i also think it's a huge possibility that if verda had gotten the lab position first before she was stuck in wayhaven she'd opt for teaching biology in at the local middle/high school <3

twc ask game

#asks #oc: sofía olmos #any of these would work for her and she'd be happy tbh !!!!#insert that photo of k!m k wearing that 'i love nerds' shirt <3 that's me w my girl <33333 #she wouldn't have kids of her own but damn does she love teaching awkward middle schoolers #TY AGAIN ZOE FOR THE ASKKKK I LOVE THINKING AB SOFÍA IN AUS LIKE THIS

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For Sofía please!

22. Did they have a relationship before meeting UB (Bobby/ others)?

24. Do they have any keepsakes from their father?

26. If given the choice, would they become a vampire?

AHHH TY SO MUCH FOR THIS ASK !!! I LOVE THESE !!!! you have activated my brainworms oh my GOD...

22. did they have a relationship before meeting ub (bobby/others)?

sofía has two exes! one is purely headcanon and the other is bobby. both were long term, committed relationships that had a significant impact on her – it's part of the reason she's convinced herself that she can handle a casual relationship with mason. she doesn't want to get hurt again because she gave her all and it wasn't enough you know? her first boyfriend was her best friend from her preteen years – they dated all throughout high school! because they were both huge overachievers with big dreams, they amicably split, even though it was devastating for her. she really thought that she'd marry him! she knew that he was better suited for her than bobby that's for sure – but bobby was still very dear to her (she used to care about marriage a lot but since that possibility has been stripped from her twice already she doesn't think about it much anymore). also i wrote a fic ab her first ex LMAO you can read it here <3

24. do they have any keepsakes from their father?

sofía has plenty of keepsakes from rook. rebecca leaving her alone and being purposefully elusive about him led sofía to taking matters into her own hands – she spent a lot of time exploring the attic and rummaging through old boxes to try to find anything that could give her closure.

she has old photos, but one particular pic she keeps in her wallet is a polaroid of the three of them on vacation, and she's sitting on his arm grabbing his face in true toddler fashion <3 she has his old library card and community college id in her wallet, too, but all his information is scratched out.

she has a small shelf full of old books he loved too – full of chicken scratch margin notes, highlighted passages, some torn because of how frequently dogeared they were, shreds of paper as bookmarks – but her favorite one is a mystery novel that he took notes on while reading. he wanted to crack who the killer was and did it by the halfway point, so the rest of the book was full of little jokes about how obvious the reveal is. she reads it a lot.

26. if given the choice, would they become a vampire?

HEHE i wrote a fic about this actually! you can read it here if you want <3 as of right now, no she won't turn. she has a very complicated relationship with her mortality – honestly, it takes her a long time to really settle into her own skin and be fulfilled by the life she's living! it takes her a while to get to a point where she can call herself truly happy, and tl;dr for the fic i wrote, she knows that if she chose to turn, it wouldn't really be for her. it'd be for someone else's happiness (mason's), so in choosing to not turn, she's putting herself first. it's the one situation she knows she can't people please her way out of :/

twc ask game

#asks #oc: sofía olmos #mason x sofía #<- it's kind of present here so tagging so i can find it easy hehe #this was a three hit combo anon u literally could not have picked a better set WOW #sorry im slow to answer these !!! i've been binging a show and keep forgetting to finish these and post LMAO

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masonscig · 1 year

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7/8/21 for your ask game! i'd love answers for both of them buuuuuut if i have to pick 8 and 21 for sofia and 7 for mason?

(if you like children i'd love to see your answer for 23 (for mason especially) too! but i know it's a topic some people feel strongly about so absolutely no pressure there <3)

- cami

CAMIIIIIIIIIII MY LOVE when i saw this in my inbox i was so giddy over it <3 MWAH kisses to you !!!

7. do they have any fears?

oooh this is such a good one... this question begs another one tbh, if you're fearless, then what truly scares you? when you're not used to processing feelings, because things don't bother you, what happens when they do? i think for mason, he's scared of the weight of his own feelings. it's not one that he's aware of at all – i think that's what adds to the scariness of it. it's a fear that creeps up on him when he doesn't expect it – it's subconscious. like why does he care so much that sofía is constantly in harms' way? why does he feel like his world crumbles when he sees her injured in b3? (we all know the answer to this but ofc he doesn't. dummy)

8. what do they think of unit bravo?

I LOVE THIS okay so sofía is getting closer and closer to admitting that they're her family and that she loves them – at first, she was welcoming and friendly with them like she is with everyone else, but it's kind of a customer service-esque facade. not a lot of people get to see past the professional mask she presents! individually, she definitely had a bit of a crush on nate and felix at first but quickly quelled those feelings in exchange for friendship – she's not very close to adam, but they're growing on each other. her first impressions of adam and mason were very similar – she didn't really like them. but by book 3 she considers felix and nate close friends, adam a respected teammate, and mason... it's too complex!

21. what does their apartment look like?

sofía's apartment is definitely her sanctuary! she never really felt at home in her mother's house, so she's bent over backwards to make her space home-y. dark interior, lots of bookshelves, and is always clean. with the bookshelves and the framed art + wall decorations, it can look a bit cluttered, but it's intentional! not quite maximalist, but it could be that someday LMAO (mason is very at home when he comes over KMDKDFD)

also 23 under the cut since this is getting long !!

23. how are they with children?

sofía is great with kids! moreso tweens than toddlers, because she spent a lot of years tutoring (all the way up till she was promoted to detective, actually), but if she had to choose an age group to babysit, it'd be 10-13 year olds. she's babysat for verda and eric before a couple times before, though, and they warmed up to her quickly! sofía also doesn't babytalk kids, bc she'd hate for them to think she was talking down to them (she remembers it happening too often when she was young by rebecca) so most kids in her life confide in her like she's their cool aunt KMDKDMKF for mason, i think that if he were tasked with taking care of a kid against his will, he would get it done, but he wouldn't be happy about it. i can't imagine that mason has been around anyone under 18 for a long time – his job doesn't call for it, so why does he need to be skilled in childcare – so it's a learned skill imo. i don't think he's malicious towards kids, he's just indifferent LMAO he's not awful with them, it's just that when you barely understand adult human needs... how on earth could he anticipate the needs of a child yk? this isn't part of the question but i wanted to specify anyways KMDFKMDFKM but i don't see mason and sofía having kids at all – they're happy with being godparents, and babysitting friends' kids at any time, but neither of them feel equipped enough to become parents tbh. plus, they don't feel like they're missing out on anything by not having kids, and... i don't want to get too into mortality talk since i'm dragging this ask out (SORRY), but as of rn sofía doesn't turn so... i don't think she would want to put that on potential kids yk? making the loss more painful than it has to be

twc ask game

#asks #mason x sofía #oc: sofía olmos #i owe you like a million paragraphs bc i am so thankful for you !!!!#also can we talk about that fic now. can we. can we talk about it. because i'm in shambles #look if you're following me i'm begging you to read the fic i rb'ed today. mason lovers please.#do it for me <- im stealing that from brick shithouse idgaf it's mine now #also these were such good questions TY TY TY <33333

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