#down-thedrain

[cultivatingyourfuture]

grins. haha

33 for cherry fizzle vallen neil holly, 49 for cherry vallen paige, 28 for toni emily, 15 toni, 10 pierre, 37 scott (can be answered separately ik this is a lot. LOL)

GOOD LIRD..... okay i can work with this. Ok

33. Do they play ttrpgs? If so what kind of characters do they play? Or are they more likely to GM?

fizzle - YES probably since she was super super young. has moved on to GM'ing and writes the most batshit plots featuring the silliest of gags ie bard npc first name oingo last name boingo. loves when her players go off the rails because it means she gets to pull out the craziest stops that may or may not derail the story but who cares there's no time to remember that this was a by the numbers save-the-princess plot fight these 3 bean bag mimics you found in the forest NOW

cherry - no, not really. they've tried but they dont quite get the appeal. but they do like to watch and sometimes helps fizzle gm (super handy to have a friend who is a calculator/randint generator during dnd)

holly - nnno? not unless someone ropes her into it first but then she is ALL in. makes a """mary sue""" (i use that in the best of terms i hate when its ever used as a form of criticism) oc with 13 boyfriends and rainbow hair and flame hands and has the time of her goddamn life. shed forget when her turn is / what's going on in the story all the time though lmao

vallen - would pretend like he's not interested. would join and pretend like it's just to make fizzle and/or cherry happy. would get super invested about 20 minutes in and make an impressively in-depth character and then either make it to every meeting after that or never show up again

neil - YES lol ttrpgs are right up his alley. itd probably love writing stories to gm but would hate gm'ing himself. has multiple preestablished characters that he just pulls from whenever it needs them for a campaign. deliberately brings the silliest things it can find to act as makeshift minifigs (legos, action figs, thimbles, board game pieces he just Took, rocks, whatever. anything can be a player character if u use yr imagination <3) and gets really into his characters, especially the gag ones

49. Do they have trouble keeping their enemies and their friends straight?

cherry - no. cherry knows who he loves and who loves him and who he hates and who hates them, and theyre content with that and its changes, for the most part. he makes an effort to understand everyone but that isn't always enough to make her like them in some circumstances it just makes her hate them more

paige - It's Complicated. people tend not to like her since, yeah, she's not very graceful or charming and she sure as hell comes off as abrasive at times, but that's compounded by the fact she's very bad at reading or predicting people so she never knows what to make of certain behaviors towards her. is this person being genuinely nice, or do they want something out of me? is this person rude because they're having a bad day, or because they're just a rude person? is this person kind, or just a pushover? you could be the nicest person ever to her and she'd still bend herself into knots trying to figure out Why, if you're just too weak willed to say no once in a while or if you're just trying to suck up and get something out of her. and she tries sooo hard to not need anyone, to stay in her own self-sufficient bubble where she can leverage her own power over people to get what she wants out of them that she kids herself into thinking any kind of relationship would just slow her down as if the fact of the matter is that she just doesnt know how to connect with others on a meaningful level and would rather stay that way then ever admit she needs help. so she just stays like that, viewing everyone as either adversaries or assets or sometimes both, if youre her brother. having friends does not agree with paige jensen and having enemies is a hell of a lot easier, so making enemies it is. toni is a slight exception but let's not worry about that

vallen - ohh boy. yeah. yeah. they have so much trouble fathoming ideas like [checks smudged writing on hand] Genuinely Likes Him, or Has No Ulterior Motives. fizzle and cherry throw them the fuck off because no they're just sorta generally kind, understanding people who don't expect much and he does not understand that. like yeah ok they Get what has brought those three together I Guess but its still like. why are you inviting me over for fucking movie night. why do you want to hang out with me. what do you want? and cherry will outright say "I like you. I like spending time with you." to his FACE and theyll be like ???? ok. whats the catch motherfucker. spoiler alert there is no catch and vallen has to come to terms with the fact that they are deserving of genuine love even if he thinks he isnt lmao get CARED ABOUT YOU IDIOT 💥💥💥💥 <- this goes totally fine for cherry btw vallen is not an (unknowingly on his part) well laid trap at all. it's ok. they're ok❤️ (they are)

28. Are they a #gamer?

LMAO? toni spent a lot of time in and out of hospitals and would have dreamcasts and nintendo 64s wheeled in during the times she was bedridden. she's played a few very specific games back to front forwards backwards 100 percent completion any% WHATEVER because the hospital only had starfox and super mario 64 and by god was she going to make the most of that

emily has a shitty little nokia that can play snake and tetris. helps when she can't sleep. gives her horrible Tetris Effect and the stupid song gets stuck in her brain at work which is just great

15. What kind of sense of humor do they have? Or do they have one at all?

she tends to joke about things no one wants to talk about. will make jokes about paige turning people into cyborgs to her face and will bring up that one families lawsuit who swear up and down your company is responsible for their daughters disappearance and will do it in the most chipper, sweetest voice and then will move on just as fast as she's said it to some entirely new topic rather than let the other person even process what she's said. her humor operates on saying the quiet part out loud and making people uncomfortable with it lmao

10. Do they have any regrets?

you think you're so funny dont you

pierre spends roughly 10 years in that company which means 10 years to reflect on how he got there and what person-- whose sacrifice all of this research and development is all built upon and it kills him every single day. he will never stop thinking about the what ifs, about what he did when he was young and stupid and thought he could get what he wanted in the end if he pulled the strings just right. and now he's here and he's loved and revered, sure, but it's not how he wants and it's all built off of her. which i find interesting, because even in death* eveline is less a person in his mind and more of an escapism. something to mourn, lament over, not something to remember as it was but as it could have been.

37. Are they religious? If so do they have a strong sense of faith, are they uncertain, or are they somewhere in between?

oh this one's interesting. scott gives me the vibes of someone who was raised in the church which was then used to supplement his own abuse, became really bitter toward religion as a whole for a good chunk of his youth, and then grew up a little and met people and thought about how people use and misuse it and reconsidered it and is just overall very chill and respectful about it now. never sent his kids to any kind of church, never pointed them in the direction of any religion, but never discouraged them for exploring that sorta thing or asking questions or coming to their own conclusions as long as it stayed in the range of 'be kind to people'. scott marshall is an ex hippie who had to buckle down and work and find time for his family but he never really grew out of the ideals of it so he really is more respectful towards other people's dispositions than a lotta ppl wouldve been in georgia circa 1998. that being said i think that guy probably hotboxed his old churches basement when he was 17 and spraypainted stupid shit on the walls there and like, 20-30 years later he's still hearing the local urban legends about the pentagrams that mysteriously appeared on the church walls drawn in blood back in '71 and he sooo badly wants to say "that's ridiculous! i could barely afford the can of paint back then, let alone blood!!" but he cant. and it kills him

#strawb? actually answering codes asks? its more likely than youd think #ask games #asks #down-thedrain #ok. i can tag all these chars. hangon #neil #holly #paige #pierre #cherry #vallen #toni #emily #scott #fizzle #ty for sendin this in thorne ^_^ my brother in autism

[teethr0t]

you are a fundamentally broken person

actually. went to the doctors the other day and after a few hours of being there we came to the conclusion that medically im karkalicious.

#asks #down-thedrain #and yes i do have about 2 more months to live

[spamtons]

please don't do this to me

no promises. you got the Curse now. rock your world forever

#ask #down-thedrain

[ortly]

erm . avatar the last airbender. sure

oh I’ve actually watched a few episodes but not all of them so here I go

13 year old boy who is actually 100 years old who is the last person who can pretty much harness the power of wind teams up with water girl and funny comic relief(my favorite character comic reliefs my beloved) to beat up the fire guy who is actually just emo and they meet a sassy earth child along the way who everyone routinely forgets is blind

#ask #down-thedrain #atla

[joelhersheysofficial]

are you down-the drain. no one else pronouns their characters that much

(( honestly this is a pretty damn good legacy to have. thank you anon

#ooc #(( yeah cats out of the bag. im thorne down-thedrain LOL! #(( that's not a surprise i've reblogged shit to cesar's acc on accident like 83748383957 times now

[strawberrycircuits]

you like tmc right.

er.m idont knkw at this point. im too scareds to eatch the series but all my fwends are into it so i have a helluva lot of secondhand knowledge and i like 2 support their brain wurms when i can which is why i rb the art b stuff. tmc is like my fandom in law 👍

#why whats up #if u need ppl to talk to abt it! go check out the following ppl!; #b0nkcreat down-thedrain localvoidcat colestyle and any1 they tend to rb tmc stuff from :^) #soryr brains occupied by pretty much one thing and one thing only rn. maybe ill get into tmc one day but. gestures to the everything.

[ananas-pineapple-thing]

this is the best comment ive ever gotten on my art im retiring now

#tumblr user down-thedrain hiii hi hiiiiiii hii

[down-thedrain]

id love to redraw the first ever art piece i posted to (this) tumblr but im not super into madcom anymore and i completely forgot how to draw sanford and deimos. massive L on my part

#posts in a drainage system #old down-thedrain lore no one knows. my oldest pfp/banner were miku trans/lesbian edit #and that frame introducing tricky as 'the clown' from madcom 5

[ctorres74]

hey violet. violet. are you. down the drain

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#{ holy shit is that a thorne down-thedrain reference }

[catsharkie]

posting this 2 tumblr as well and blasting thorne down-thedrain with agonies (click for better quality!!)

@mustangsart

#mandela catalogue #mark heathcliff #cesar torres #alt cesar #htb mark #htb alt!cesar #hail true body au #sharkie art :3

[localvoidcat]

Finally got around to making an updated reference sheet for him after three months of working on this AU! The others will be made soon, just figured this would be good to post first.

(taglist for the ml!au enjoyers)

@fluffyfurry6663 @b0nkcreat @down-thedrain @official-bps @catsharkie @woahiskoal @lattekatte @simplybrooklyn

#mark lives au #his old ref was horrendous so i had to made him a brand new one hehe #i was going to put notes under it but. i think yall know enough about him at this point #sam draws

[cultivatingyourfuture]

grinning emoji. you know which guy im thinking abkut rn. how well does he deal with being a catch and release

ok originally i had paragraphs upon paragraphs about why vallen is what he is but it got too complicated and far away from the og question so. sorry it took me a while 2 answer this LOL !!!

anyways. pretty well actually? like of course the nature of what they are BOTHERS him, why wouldn't it, but it's not like its their fault what happened happened. being made into what they were for the reasons they were is on the people who did it. vallen, at least by the end, knows what he wants and that the only persons whims he's to be beholden to are their own. he's not going to feel guilt on behalf of what another person used them to do, and they sure as hell aren't going to spend the rest of their life questioning why they are where they are because he knows why-- because he wants to be. and that's all that matters

vallens kind of ended up being a bit of a narrative foil for cherry (gay as fuck in my opinion) the more i focus on him because you know how i love my parallels and contrasting personalities , and one big way this manifests is how they regard their memories. obviously cherrys very attached to and fixated on what little they can gleam from the vaguest hints of whatever they lost and is very bothered by this lack of answers for where they came from or why. vallen, meanwhile, is characterized by a need to forget-- to bury their memories, not think about it, distract himself or erase it through any means necessary. it's only when that lack of memory becomes a problem that it starts to bother them-- when he starts noticing that something is very, very different and they cant pinpoint what happened or why, only a terrible sense of dread and a vague idea that something awful has happened. the one time hes spared the burden of remembering is the one time he, you know, **needs** to remember what happened-- to figure out whats going on with themself and, later, to help someone he does actually end up really caring about. (i also, sometimes, wonder if there's some resentment to be gained from knowing someone who got the chance to leave it all behind and start over in the exact way you'd want to. food for thought.) it's a wake up call to how he's been living-- do they really want to live their whole life pushing these things down, not confronting it on a meaningful level, just letting what happens to them happen and praying they'll black out before the worst of it? probably not. it obviously doesn't fix everything but it does get them asking some difficult questions that they've been ignoring for a long while now.

anyways when they're first confronted with this stuff he pretty much wants nothing to do with it-- he doesn't know anything about why theyre like this and wouldn't be able to help otherwise, and besides that he's not getting involved in something that seems like someone else's problem to deal with. he does kind of come around but it's less out of a desire to find out what's wrong with him and more of a desire to figure out why it's such a big deal for cherry because they just. Dont get it. she's lucky not to remember anything, after all, and why waste your time on something that's probably going to hurt you in the end when you can live your damn life and move on with it. and learning those answers does kind of actually endear them to each other and whoops they're friends now toooooo fucking bad

fizzle does find that vallen has technology within him that suggests remote piloting and this does IMMENSELY bother them and he does get it deactivated as soon as he can. the idea that he's been used in a way that negates any part of his will or wants makes him feel sick and angry and does motivate him to be involved with the story but he comes to make peace with it because. whatever he was used for, it. wasnt him. and they are not going to let someone give them the guilt that THEYRE supposed to possess. (more parallels. being made into something for the purpose of what someone else wants. continuation of the themes of "you are not responsible for the shit other people do to you" etc) which also baffles cherry bc if it was him she'd have a crisis of conscious . vallens good for making them calm the hell down sometimes i think but that's another post

the literal concrete reasoning for why vallen is what he is only comes out during that stretch of time where cherry is dead and that reasoning does initially throw him for a loop-- the idea you were made to find someone else and that not only did it work but it's the pretext for Why you came to care about them is unnerving-- but those people are gone now, and he's not controlled by them or anyone else anymore, and he still stays up at night to watch diagnostics flicker and to see if anything at all comes back online outside of their input, and he's sick of other people defining what he's supposed to feel or want and god damn it, they're the closest they've been to being happy in a while, and he refuses to let that be defined by anything else. he cares about people because he chose to and that's all that matters, and anyone who thinks that's a weakness to be utilized is not only wrong but fucking stupid. they're here because they want to be; if they didn't then they wouldn't. he's not going to let that define what he feels or thinks because that's up to them and not someone else.

anyway he's still not quite to the point where i want them, obviously, but i am trying to take the initial idea of their character-- someone who isn't impacted the way others were by this singular event partly because theyve already been through so much that this just. doesn't faze them the way it probably should-- and trying to extend it in new ways. vallens really bad about fitting into the molds other people make for them and letting other people tell them what they feel or what they are and i do like the idea that they end deciding to prioritize their wants and needs and feelings after Not Doing That.

there's some interesting themes here about the nature of autonomy and how that feeds into things like addiction and objectification but ill spare you the analysis on that. blows the fuck up

#this is disjointed and potentially nonsense but its fiiine #vallen #down-thedrain #asks #ive been rotating them in my mind for a while now. thinking of how they ended up like this and the usual . #and i like that i get to do an inverse of the eveline/cherry plot where instead of 'who am i -> oh my god nevermind i know who i am' #its 'i know who i am -> no the fuck i didnt thats what other people either wanted out of me / convinced me to do. fuck that' #also having fun with the fizzle / cherry / vallen dynamics (and i mean that separate of any pairings) #ok enugf tags. explorge s

[teethr0t]

WHY DO I HAVE 2 TEA HATER MUTUALS. WHY DO YOU HATE LOVE AND LIFE AND ALSO LOVE

FUCK YOU AND YOUR TEA. IM SORRY DO YOU LIKE LEAVES PISSING IN YOUR MOUTH BC THATS WHAT IT IS. I AM A MAN

#asks #down-thedrain #EXPLODES U. #THE DAY I LIKE TEA IS THE DAY WHERE I BLOW MYSELF UP ALONG WITH THE REST OF YOU PEOPLE

[ortly]

the face i think ... the line eyes n mouth r iconic

hehe :) I like doing that kind of face, mostly because I struggle drawing eyes lol

#asks #down-thedrain

[strawberrycircuits]

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hi hi hello! my name is strawberry (or strawb)! (i also use the name roz sometimes!) im queer, trans, 19, and neurodivergent, and this where i scream about robots and gay little nintendo characters. i use he/him, it/its, ze/zem/zeir/zemself, and co/code/codes/codeself pronouns! itd be so so sooo cool if you could please interchange these. thanks!

i dont know what my gender is and honestly i dont care (and neither should u)! just dont call me 'she' please! if i had to label it id say my gender is whatever the hell nintendo was doing with all those see-through consoles in the 2000s. look at these sexy sexy boys

my art tag is #strawberryscribbles, my tag for cool art made by friends or made for me is #talented ppl tag, and thats about all i consistently tag anymore (aside from content warnings. if you need something content warned, lmk!). my art blog is @strawb-artfolder and my oc blog is @cultivatingyourfuture (though that project is on an indefinite hiatus due to signifigant rewrites, lol). im not great at art but i like growing and improving and showing you all that process, so im going to keep posting it anyhow! cringe culture is dead and its decomposing slowly in my backyard.

heres some things about me!!

my main interests are computers, old electronics, adventure time, portal 2, and nintendo (particularly mario, splatoon, and the legend of zelda!). i also reblog half life, tf2, and mlp stuff from time to time. i am, in fact, critical of all of my media interests. fuck nintendos business practices and fuck the way they fetishize arabic cultures 👎👎👎

send me asks!!!! about whatever!!!! it makes my day every time!!!!!

im not a linked universe fan or a linkverse fan in general. i might engage with that content because i like the designs and want to support artists but dont ask me about it i dont go there lmao (bonus links fucks hard though i will say that)

i dont tag spoilers. sorry! youre free to unfollow or block me at any time :)

wanna know what music ive been listening to? heres my main playlist! maybe youll find something new!!! (and if you shoot me an ask saying u found a new song u like bc of me.... tell me! itll make my day!)

ive had people ask me a couple of times, so let me go ahead and say-- i like to refer to characters i have specific pronoun headcanons for WITH those pronouns! i usually garner confusion about this when i talk about oot zelda (he/she), botw link (she/he/they), and oot link (she/her). theres not really a reason, i just like to! (when i talk to people about their specific interpretations, i use whatever hcs theyve assigned them instead). if you wanna know how i hc any other characters, 🔫 me an ask!

im not going to sift through every blog that interacts with me or apply widely misused terminology to give an idea of what i do or dont want in my circle. im just going to say these things outright. i believe in radical queer acceptance (yes, even for whatever "weird" identity youre about to pull out as a gotcha), all transgender people and asexuals and aromantics and xenogenders and neopronouns are all valid, otherkin/therians are cool as hell, objectums are my friends, i want all pedophiles to die by my hand, youre weird as shit if you romanticize incest or pedophilia in any context, and i believe in reclaiming words like queer, fag, dyke, and tranny, which i will not content warn for. ok cool 👍

im a stupid broke college student and i can barely afford to feed myself most days so if you wanna help out heres my CA.

ermm i think thats all. heres a bunch of people i think are so so cool that you should go visit: b0nkcreat down-thedrain seagullcharmer syntheticspades trashedump basillica-gel dykevirgo cherrylavendertea localvoidcat thebleedingeffect gardnwater our-reality mackthecheese angstyvylene-i three-bunnies-in-a-trenchcoat unironicallycringe idiot-synergy michpat6 korokposting effervescentleaf pidgefudge avidcollectorofdust merriclo

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[dyk3-on-a-byk3]

@down-thedrain FELLOW WOMANLIKER I SEE

#me 🤝 you #wanting this woman to fucking crunch us