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scrollypoly · 8 months
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hi! for the past month i’ve been seeing people say BEN is a child and i think that part of it is linked to the fact that they think of Benjamin Lawman being BEN? but it’s so annoying to read these type of stuff because i understand not everyone read the whole arg story but stop spreading things that aren’t true </3 it’s such an interesting story too! another note do you prefer BEN’s canon or fanon design? :3 i love both but his canon design is so nostalgic i can’t let it go at all omg!! i’ve also been wondering, do you think Ben’s avatar was the statue? i was thinking about what if BEN took over it early on, before Benjamin did making BEN inhabiting it since the start?
Sorry this was such a ramble i practically make no sense omg but i need to talk about my man and nobody Gets It </3
"I need to talk about my man and nobody Gets It" LITERALLY SAME OMG
Ok this is going under a cut becus . . . Its ben and BEN and if u didnt know i am Obnoxious about these two. Im gonna try to keep it organized a bit, so ill talk about the canon stuff first and then ill talk my personal headcanons and my fic so le's go!
In terms of the age and child thing, yeah i 100% believe you are correct. Ive been p open on my stance with the whole "is ben a child?" thing, and i think a lot of the heat with it comes down to current fandom purity culture and the pro/anti thing. So, lemme try to like. Boil down a complicated situation into smth easy to read. ahem
Ben Lawman and BEN are completely different entities guys, and for those that do not know the arg story, the Ben you know is not human nor a child.
You know BEN, BEN is the one in the story who terrorizes jadusable and spreads himself on the internet as a virus. That BEN is a program, a mess of code, an AI, however you want to interpret it. Personally i interpret it as a series of protocols running in a machine, like a self learning AI, but ive seen lots of cool interpretations of BEN. So . . . What does BEN specifically? Its an anagram for the Behavioral Event Network. If you dont wanna call it BEN cuz it gets confusing with actual kid Ben, do what i do. I call mine Evie :) ive seen some call it Netty, my bf calls his two izzi and clever (@benilos btw hes also got crazy ben stuff). Just go ham! Have fun! Remember when fandoms were about having fun and not accusing each other of pedo shit and call each other horrible things for just writing black-to-grey characters and stories??
Anyways ive gone off in enough peoples tags like this, for those that dont know the canon dont be spouting the age discourse. You look stupid as hell. And for those that are gonna spout it, please dont cherry pick through the canon. Use both characters, use the other moon children, actually please do because I want more rosa content so bad, im down so bad :'(
Or just. Heres a thought. If someone has him as an adult or writes him in adult situations, maybe dont assume that they interpret him as a kid and call the writer a pedo? (Literally has happened to me, yall are fucking weird)
Plug for the jadusable wiki with all the canon lore:
https://jadusable.withinhubris.com/main_page
Okay now my stuff 🥰
Yes i use more of the canon design and heavily use the canon story, i participated in arc 3 of the arg and it left deep grooves in my brain, i can never go back to fanon Ben. I say, as i put a more fanon appearance on my Ben 🤭
My Evie is full canon design, green hair, red eyes, creepy ass grin. I actually based it very heavily on my desktop wallpaper, which we actually figured out was a picture of @hauntedtotem (also amazing ben artist plz check them out) that they edited and posted. Sorry friend, it looked way too cool, ig youre in my fic canon now 🙇
And my Ben Lawman bleaches his hair and goes from the canon Ben to fanon Ben because of it. Hes got the pale pretty green eyes and glasses and hes a total nerd and i smooch him on the daily so he knows hes loved ♡
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These is the ref pic i made for the two of them. So yeah! Kinda both!
As for bens situation in the actual arg, yes i do think he was in the elegy statue, we actually do see him for the first time in the arg buried in the games code and trapped in that statue. I do think he was in there from the beginning, i personally think BEN was not limited to the models it could inhabit. Personally i would place it as skull kid and hms, but it also feels disingenuous to me to say it was in one model the whole first arc.
The arg events do happen in my canon, before my fic (like right before, it picks up after the arg left off technically), but the events are skewed a bit because i had a hard time deciphering what happened and i wanted my fic timeline to fit more with the characters i had made. Cuz my evie isnt as chaotic evil as canon BEN, its very logical and has a path of logic and reason you can follow for every action it does. It was also originally meant to be very pleasant and corteous and beneficial to the people it housed so, yes its pretty different from canon.
Ill do a quick run through of the arg events in my personal headcanon and fic here.
Kelbris starts coding BEN (Evie) for the Eternity Project. Initially, Evie was meant to be an afterlife director. People that died would be digitized into code that would be moved into Evie's servers, where it would keep them happy and occupied as the Behavioral Event Network (notice and log behavior, create events for residents). Like a community organizer kind of, think the Good Place.
While Evie is in development, Ben Rosa and Matt are friends and have yet to join the cult. Rosa and Matt are siblings, and Ben is the kid who lives catty corner on the street. They walk to school together and play at recess and all that jazz.
Kelbris quickly learns that the Eternity Project isn't as goody two-shoes as he thought. This was in like, the 90s, before digital corporations were really established. After seeing the greed and corruption in the company, he goes rogue, takes the source code for Evie, and jumps ship. He keeps working on Evie at home, anthropomorphizing it and kind of seeing it like the son he never had. This is where it actually gets the name BEN, as thats what Kel calls it. He also begins working on a body for it, so it can live independently. Its light, cuz Kels old, made of crystalline structures and hollow steel beams. A hard light projection would make its appearance.
Since Kel has basically locked himself up in his house and isolated working on Evie, he goes a leetle bit crazy. He has hallucinations of his deceased wife (you know he was doing all this just to give her a good home, you KNOW IT) and eventually starts writing kind of poetry, kind of none-minded rambles about her in a forum online. He gets a following, some of which that interpret these divine words as a goddess, one Kel has called Luna. The Moon Children start to form as Evie finishes development.
Matt sees this literature and starts talking about how this Goddess could save them like it saved the man online, whos username is only Father. He gets sucked into the cult and drags Ben and Rosa with him. Ben doesn't see the harm and joins pretty easily with his best friend, but Rosa is the older sibling and sees the red flags and is more resistant to joining.
As Kelbris finishes Evie, he wakes it up for the first time and says hello to the son he made from scratch. Evie is bright, curious and naive like a child, but heavily knowledgeable about its protocols and the information it knows about the world. Kelbris tests its function by killing himself, and ascends into the code, finishing off the hardware by becoming its firewall. Evie is alone for many years.
The abuse Ben's father slings onto his mother is slowly being directed towards him as he gets older. Ben is not the "good little girl" his father sees him as, and his mother does all she can to protect them both. Matt and Rosa constantly refuge him, and Matt specifically is constantly being a guard dog for him. If he wasn't just 13, he'd probably go at Ben's dad himself.
Because of his homelife and the conflict he has with himself, Ben takes the first ascension. He thinks when he drowns himself, he will meet Luna and she will give him another life free of pain and fear and full of happiness and freedom. Instead, he dies a cold, dark death, and wakes up in the white endless void of the Event Network.
Evie has not known another living human since Kelbris, but it does know its protocols to support and keep the deceased happy. It makes fast friends with Ben, devoting itself to him. Ben actually finally takes the name "Ben" from it. Together they recreate the inside of Evie's hivemind into their own paradise.
Slowly the other Moon Children ascend. First Matt, wracked with guilt for what happened to Ben. Then Nekko, from a different branch of the cult. These three figured out that the Moon Children cult was all a farce, and that what Kelbris had started, the Eternity Project had found and twisted. Next to ascend was Dusk, then Insidiae, and finally Rosa.
This all leads into the first arc, shortly after Rosa ascended, Evie in the outisde world stumbled upon the Operator. The Operator attacks it and seals its coding into the game that it carried, a personal item of Ben's. The game eventually finds it's way to a garage sale, and Alex picks it up.
Evie does not like Alex. Matt does not like Evie. Matt gets Evie to lash out at Alex for prodding into its code, its too naive to think that Matt would want to see it or any of them hurt. When Alex stumbles upon the Father, he awakens and swallows Alex down into the game. After his disappearance, the game gets picked up and passed around again.
Because of Alex's actions, at least Evie can now branch out a bit from the game. Though it doesnt "escape" into the internet, it learns that it can now access it and uses that freedom to try and steer the game around into places it wants.
Matt gets fed up with Evie. The fact that its the leader, how close it is with Ben, he just doesn't agree with it. So much so, in fact, that he tries to kill it. Cue arc 3 events, Sarah picks up the game in the aftermath of this. Evie is traumatized from the events and snaps a bit, locks everyone down into code or immovable models and tries to hunt Matt down. It goes rouge, and because of this, the Father wakes up.
Sarah's actions in arc 3 eventually hard reset the game. Matt gets sealed away, the Father also takes Sarah, and Evie gets reset as well, though its less like a clean slate and more like snapping back awake. Its personality changes and it has major trust issues. Its more muted, hyper observant of everything around it, and murderously overprotective of the Moon Children it keeps within itself.
And this leads into my fic 🤗
I have some doodles of my other Moon Children, but not all of them unfortunately. Cant figure out how tf i want Insidiae to look 🤭 Plz dont judge my constantly shifting art style 🙏🙏
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Dusk is bigender btw, i gotta put a little more trans rep in there lol
I think ill stop here, this is already a long ass post. But thank you for sending this, as you can see, i am Perfectly Normal about this arg ( ;) ) and can be trusted with information about it
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Half of my moon children so far (the eldest ones)
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Click for better quality ^ ^
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timefospookies · 2 years
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WIP BUT HERE’S (some of) THE MOON CHILDREN!!!! IN 2011!!! MOON CHILDREN ARC!!! YAHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
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ratscraftz · 2 years
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@timefospookies omg look its DUSKWORLD23!!!
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asstrapixxd · 2 years
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childoftermina · 2 years
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Hi, can you write headcanon about BEN (Behavioral Event Network) or Matt Hubris in hogwarts?
MATTMATTMATTMATTMATTMATTMATT-
Matt Hubris in Hogwarts:
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-we all know that he's a total slytherin
-this odd fella get's along great with Snape
-Snape is probably Kelbris' childhood friend
-Matt and Luna Lovegood are a thing
-Him and Hermione are competing in who is getting the better grades
-Matt is not losing that battle
-A total teachers pet
-if you thought Malfoy was evil you don't know Matt
-Matt even stole Crab and Goyle from Malfoy💀💀
-he's a true womanizer
-"My gorgeous ginger hair, blue eyes and perfectly straight teeth? Genetics, babe"
-too good to get himself dirty for Quidditch
-every Student knows him by name, but they only know him from seeing
-mysterious Matt spends most of his time in the library in order to beat Hermione
-"No, Ron my hair is clearly a darker and deeper ginger than yours. Get over it."
-owns a black owl and his Patronus is probably a snake
-Nekko is a Griffindor, Dusk is a Hufflepuff and BEN didn't get a letter 💀💀
-Insidae is a Ravenclaw and Rosa is also a Griffindor
-Matt feels betrayed by her
-never ever leaves Schoolgrounds
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bastardchildr3n · 3 years
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Intel report #1.
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Duskworld23
Full name: Spencer Lawrence (also goes by his mother’s maiden name, Rodríguez)
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Height: 6′0
Weight: 170 lbs
Family: Alicia (biological mother) and Michael Lawrence (step-father)
Birthplace: Iowa
Position within the Moon Children: Celestial Corp, Head of Church Security, Head of Heart Security
Notable Features: Black streak through hair, a tattoo of the official symbol for the Moon Children on his right shoulder, several deep scars on his arms and legs.
Additional notes: Spencer is The Father’s right hand man it seems, and from what we have been told, he considers Oliver to be like a father figure to him and he will do what it takes to protect him and The Heart. Spencer is a dangerous threat that is mentally unstable (due to the lack of proper resources within the church) and has been diagnosed as a person with psychopathic tendencies. He is most definitely a threat. Please be careful when dealing with this individual. 
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timefospookies · 2 years
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Gimme ur moon child information 👹👹👹👹
HERE ARE THEIR GIFTS 🦟🦗🦟🦗🦟🦗🦟
(I only listed a few of them cuz there’s too many Moon Children and I don’t have power ideas LMAOAO)
Matt (Ifrit): Teleportation
- Developed at age 18
- Can teleport to any place as long as he can visualize it clearly
- It’s hard to travel long distances, but with practice, it’s achievable
- If his destination is not visualized clearly, or he becomes distracted, he could quite literally get torn apart
(one limb ends up at a lake and another ends up in a desert. y’know how it goes HDISKJD)
- It requires mental strength
Rosa: Future Sight
- Developed at age 7
- Usually the visions came at random moments, but with practice she managed to control having them at will
- In real time, one full vision lasts from 1-2 minutes, and she can see up to 24 hours of the future in it
- In rare occasions, she can see a flashes of years ahead, but these visions are out of her control and usually come in her sleep
- Takes a lot of mental energy and is very draining, causing migraines if she looks at the future for too long
- Sometimes it’s hard to stop having visions and she may need outside stimuli, but usually going in and out is purely willing oneself and focusing
Alex: Shapeshifting
- Developed at age 12
- Can turn into anything, ranging from an item, to animals, to other humans
- He can only turn into things he’s seen before
- It requires flexibility, and he should stretch before transforming
- Otherwise, he could rip a muscle or crush his organs HDJSJJ
Kevin (Insidiae): Tracking
- Developed at age 13
- When he closes his eyes, he can sense the presence of any living mammal around (there’s a radius that limits it, but idk what it is yet)
- If someone theoretically got killed by an undetected force (*cough* BEN), the presence of that person would go out like a candle light in his head
- It just need concentration and quiet, but there’s no real downside
- Requires good sense of direction and mental strength
Rem: Healing
- Developed at age 12
- She can heal herself and others injuries but can only heal others from sickness
- Can heal injuries very quickly (although the time differs depending on the severity of it)
- The effort that it takes to heal can vary as well on the severity
- She can heal herself just fine, it drains her a bit, but it’s not terrible
- The only catch to her healing others is that it’s basically an exchange. She can heal another person, but in doing so, she receives the injury/sickness they have
(ei: you have a bruise on your leg, she heals you, but in the process she gets a bruise on her leg)
Spencer (Duskworld23): Aura Sensing
- Developed at age 12
- They can constantly see the emotional aura around any person
- There are colors assigned to the each emotion and they’re usually mixed, unless one is stronger than all the rest, in which case that color would dominate it
- So if someone’s angry BOOM they would see a red shine around the person’s body, maybe blues and purples in between for sadness and fear idk
- No side effect other than maybe mistrusting people’s intentions? When they say one thing but feel another way
- Requires emotional intelligence
Nekko: Telekinesis
- Never got to fully develop it, but she did show signs of starting to develop telekinesis
- Could only move small objects, like spoons and paper
- It takes mental and physical strength depending on what it is she wants to move
- Had she gotten more time, she would’ve eventually been able to move bigger things like tables, rocks, houses even
- Also would’ve been able to move sentient things like humans and animals!!
David: Invisibility
- Developed at age 14
- Can will it to happen. He just has to think about it and BOOM he’s gone
- Pretty cool until you realize he goes blind for the period he’s invisible 💀
- “This is lame…” -David when he got his gift HDJSJD
- Requires mental strength
Daniela: Agility
- Developed at age 13
- She had always been a sportsy kid so it made sense that she got this
- She’s got superhuman coordination, speed, reflexes, coordination and strength
- The downside is that she gets physically hurt very often, be it from running, breaking something, or straining a muscle
- Requires physical stamina and flexibility to have best results
Maerlie: Illusions
- Developed at age 12
- Can only make illusions based on what she knows about her target: any thoughts, dreams, memories, things they like or dislike
- They have a range and if you step out of it the illusion falls apart
- There’s individual illusions and group illusions which means the illusion either only affects one person, or several
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asstrapixxd · 2 years
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wayward horizon trio
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asstrapixxd · 2 years
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"Theyre a 10 but..." BEN drowned arg edition
Benji- hes a 10 but too sweet and naive
BEN- theyre a 10 but their mood changes every second + sociopathic behavior
Rosa- shes a 10 but frantic and unable to remain calm in stressful situations
Matt- hes a 10 but a Nagito kinnie+ shitty haircut like tf is this shit how in the fuck should i draw this
Alex- hes a 10. Lone wolf moment
Kelbris- hes a 10 but did so much shit that im too lazy to write about it
Sarah- shes a 10. Girlboss moment
Jadusable- hes a 10 but his calm behavior and stoicism ingame was an act
Ryukaki- hes a 10 but at first he'll be hostile
Tyler- hes a 10 but will probably shoot himself infront of u
Rem- theyre a 10 but ahm. Lets just say theyre a 10
Maerlie- shes a 10 but probably having mental breakdowns everyday
Ryan- hes a 10 but speaks in a serious tone
Circle- hes a 10 but loves moon children inside world άλφα too much
Insidiae - hes a 10(sorry theres nothing about his personality i just think hes neat)
Nekko- hes a 10 but too naive and friendly
Duskworld23- hes a 10 but hes too nice and enthusiastic
Second player- theyre a 10 but they didnt listen to Abel
Abel- hes a 10 but hes very smug
The Jailer- hes a 10 but will kill u if u'll talk too loud
Jadus- hes a 10 but a former alcoholic with a history of depression
I had to write this shit twice cuz i deleted first post(not on porpoise ofc) lord have mercy im so fucking tired anyways hope u enjoyed ^_^
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asstrapixxd · 1 year
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HEHEHEHEHEEEEEE
ill probably make troll sprites later😈
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Rem
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Ben
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Jadusable and Ryukaki
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Nekko
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Sarah and Alex
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Ryan
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Insidiae
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Spencer L(Duskworld23) and BEN
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Matt and Rosa
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timefospookies · 3 years
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Yo y’know how BEN is all the people in the Moon Children cult that got ascended? So I figured BEN is made up of Chris (Nekko), Spencer L. (Duskworld23), Rosa, Rem, Matt (Ifrit), Kevin F. (Insidiae) and Alex, cuz according to the Wiki these are the members that’s are known to be ascended, and I don’t think The Father is part of BEN. We only know the age of Chris (below 12, so maybe 11) and Alex (23 years old), so I’m gonna hc the rest of the kids to be the following: Spencer (13), Rem (13), Kevin (14), Matt (15), Rosa (15).
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