#much less one in a kids game!!!!

[glassrunner]

video games + “what it means to be”

#soma game #night in the woods #what remains of edith finch #gamingedit #dailyvideogames #soma #nitw #wroef #~soma #~nitw #~wroef #~ #i love. these games. so much. #i cried at every single one of these moments #it's so rare to find a game (much less multiple) that echo some of the most private thoughts you've had since you were a kid #and it's amazing that i found each of them at such pivotal moments in my life #reminders that no matter what... no matter how much i may hurt... i never want to take life for granted #the opportunity to feel and perceive and be is just unspeakably precious #:')))

[spacedlexi]

it honestly frustrates me when i see people reduce the ericsons cast down to "just some teens in the woods" acting like theyre no different than any other group of lone teenagers from other existing properties and treating them like an overused trope

it is sooo important to acknowledge the "troubled youth" aspect of the whole equation. theyre not just some random teens in the woods clem stumbles across. these kids were abandoned by their families for their various "difficulties" and fucked up by The System before the outbreak even began. and then once zombies started roaming the streets their familes never came back for them and the adults that were in charge of taking care of them just left them there to rot in that old boarding school (except for ms martin who was like their lee 🥺 the only person who ever saw them as the scared traumatized kids they were and died protecting them)

the whole aspect of them already being fucked up by the adults that controlled their lives is like.....kind of important when discussing the whole "delta is stealing kids to force them to fight in a war they have no real part in and want nothing to do with" aspect of the season. and its important when comparing them to clem and her journey of also suffering at the hands of the adults around her forcing her to become self reliant. AND its important when discussing the "just trying to build a safe home (and future) worth fighting for in this world that wants them dead" aspect of the season as well

these kids were forced to come together to survive. and a Lot of them didnt... theyre the only family they have left and you can tell that even when they argue with each other theyre still a close knit group who looks out for each other. theyre a Real family before clem even gets there (and its why what really happened with the twins and brody and marlon hits them all so especially hard)

all of this is what REALLY makes ericsons such a perfect home for clem. its a Real community of her True peers. theyre not Just teens. they mightve had a layer of safety clem never had by at least having walls to keep them safe. and having the benefit of the school being hard to find. its the only reason theyre still alive when clem shows up. but theyre also some of the only people who can Truly understand where clem and aj are coming from. and its why it hurts so much when they vote to kick them out. but its also partially why she merges back into the fold so easily when she returns. plus the fact that shes Really the only one who has any idea what shes doing. shes their rock and she makes them feel safe because underneath it all theyre still just those scared traumatized kids ("EVERYONE is scared, clem..." vi was Definitely including herself in that 'everyone'), and on some level, so is clem

they saved clementines life. and she saved theirs. "the school was supposed to help them with their trauma, now they help each other" its about the LOVE the COMMUNITY the SUPPORT!!!! and thats the shit that makes good zombie media honestly 👌

#it speaks #twdg #there i go again writing another essay but i will Always defend the ericson cast theyre one of the strongest out of all 4 seasons #complaints ive seen about s4 typically include mentions of the teens as a trope being overused and im like.......did you even pay attention #the fact they were branded “troubled youth” and basically thrown away by everyone who was supposed to take care of them is SO IMPORTANT #these kids are Fucked Up but theyre Trying to make a kinder world #nobody talk to me i fucking love the ericson cast 😭😭😭 theres not a single one of them i dont like im serious #them using poor pilgrim of sorrow in ep3....ericsons is heaven to clem 😭 all the comments she can make about feeling safe there 😭😭 #clem being everyones rock but violet being clems rock back 🥺😭💕 waaaaahhh thats why it was over for me when vi stood up for them in ep 2 #vi having the courage to stand up to her group for aj........... yeah she had me in a vice grip after that. she fought for them so hard #and if it wasnt for her advocating so hard for them to stay they ALL would have been taken or killed #vi cared about clem so much she undoomed them all #and aj loved clem so much he undoomed her :') #s4 is just the perfect ending to clems story truly itll make me happy for the rest of my life im so happy for u clem 🥺 #tfw the media you like gets a good ending and the main characters are respected and it feels like it was made from a place of love #instead of being like...actively hostile to its fanbase and destroying its own characters for the Laughs #and when i say “good” i dont necessarily mean “happy” i just mean “competently written" #i wouldnt call it perfect but it survived both a cancellation AND the financial collapse of a major game studio. its perfect to Me #for what it is (and what it originally almost was with the clems house plot) we truly lucked out so fucking hard #truly a return to form of season 1 but with less despair and more hope which i appreciate :') #all the things ive liked over the years that were destroyed for me by bad or weird writing decisions... clutches onto twdg like a lifeboat #god i love s4 so much nothing has ever been More Specifically Written For Me Personally

[theguardianace]

🐸💞

🐸 describe your aesthetic

honestly i don't know if i have one but i do love me some colors and silly things!

💞 @ your favorite blog

i love all my mutuals so much but im going to @ my beloved boygirlfriend @soleiltido <3

#ace answers an ask: game edition! #i love noemi so much !!!! shes super cool and hardworking and talented #hes one of the best artists ive ever seen ever so talented with music and paint #shes soooo handsome yall #and so sweet with kids and theres so much love in his heart <333333 #fjakdsjfklas she's been a lot less active lately but! fun fact for the new mutuals i do have a platonic partner!

[obsessivefangirl]

"Stan favors Mabel and Ford Dipper" WRONG!!!

#We see them interact less due to their personalities. #Mabel is attracted to Stan much quicker #due to her nature of getting on other's good sides and wanting to be friends #as well as outgoing. #While Dipper was still unsure about his feelings of this for all intents and purposes stranger #Mabel would have squeezed her way into his life already. Dipper is not good with people #and insecure #so he takes Stan's jabs seriously just like he does with Mabel. Mabel and Stan have a love language #that include a few insults that have no real feelings in it. #He wouldn't catch on and participate or (depending on when) tell him straight up he doesn't like it. #Dipper is in it for the mysteries and locks himself up while focusing on it. It's on his mind the entire show. #Ford wasn't meant to talk to the kids. He was even avoiding Dipper until an accident happened and he got caught up in the game of ddmd. #Not to mention that the episodes almost always contribute to the story #even filler ones. They may not progress the plot but they will reveal sides of characters or show them growing or changing. #Ford was in it so little that they needed to squeeze the most out of the time which led to little Mabel and him filler. #He didn't have any problems with Mabel unlike how Dipper had some problems with Stan so that wasn't an issue to address #they love each other ur honor #gravity falls #my ramblings

[meirimerens]

i know the Willow Mellow lore gets worse the longer you dig inside of it + it reflects even Worse on the writers when you put the actual words on her situation but let's not forget Darlings she is a child. she is 15 to 17yo depending on what piece of documentation we refer to, too young to consent to sex and therefore does not fit the category of "sex worker", and instead falls under the definitions of "sexually exploited youth", more specifically "sexually exploited child", as UNICEF, UNESCO, Convention for the Rights of the Child, [...] and general common sense all define "child" as "person under the age of 18".

she is the victim of kidnapping by her """adoptive father""" and of sexual exploitation by her (presumably adult) "clients" (as she does not appear to have a pimp, and is instead written saying she loves what she does and such giddy teehee fun. [powerful side-eye through someone in the writing team.] [she's not a Real Person I have to stress, so someone wrote her like this, wrote this kid like this.] [it is all part of a narrative in which she is struggling to shake off her "father's" exploitation, an inherently tragic one, but she still was written that way, and could have been written any other way, with any other "rebellious" act]). calling her a sex worker as a child who is basically the same age as P2 Capella or Grace is putting her in a Grown-Up category especially harmful considering we are supposed to read her as an indigenous girl, member of the Kin (even if her lore is Mysterious and Hazy) and indigenous women and girls are sexualized in racialized ways which often paint them as more ~~~naturally~~~ sexually liberated, or docile, or submissive, or [insert racist x sexist stereotype promoted by colonizers to excuse the mistreatment of indigenous women and girls].

tldr yes it's worse when you actually call her what she actually is, and worse tenfold when you read what the writers make her say about it [even as an inherently tragic situation that we can recognize and put words on (hence this post), she could have been written any other way, with any other rebellious act, but you know.] but you know x2 (SIDE-EYES SOMEONE ON THE WRITING TEAM VERY HARD TIL ME EYES POP OUT ME SKULL)

#/!\ POST ABOUT SEMANTICS. POST ABOUT SEMANTICS ALERT. /!\ #this is not pointed or written with wicked intents btw ^ i've seen it a few times from different people and it's just that if we want to be #able to talk about these things within the narrative and how the depictions of the Kin impact the around-game/critique this game in general #game (esp. p1 which is very much about. words and wording and navigating webs of words among so many other things) #we have to be able to name these things. especially in relation to. d*bowski do you mind coming to the mic and telling us #what was behind your head. no pressure sir #protecting this kid from the writing with my entire body like that one soldier meme #ooh d*bowski you are not making it out alive i'll tell you that much. #in the same way you wouldn't call mcdonalds hiring 14yo ''employment'' you'd call it. exploitative child labor. #but it's even worse because <3 aw the misogyny oozing through the pores of a lot of the patho narrative #because of maybe perhaps allegedly the head writer. allegedly! #how the fuck am i supposed to tag any of this #csa / #willow mellow #willow pathologic #pathologic #it'd be Less Worse if she was an adult bc at least she could consent [in a vacuum; if we ignore the fact that she's a kidnapping victim; #if we ignore the fact that the Kin who she merges with sees its women be sexualized and its ways of life crushed by the colonizers #and assimilated in ways they might not like; etc] but yknow. detailed herb brides bodies and whatnot.

[sonknuxadow]

its kinda strange to me how people act like movie sonic is a little kid compared to other versions of sonic and have the other sonics like. baby him. in crossover stuff. yeah movie sonic is a little guy hes like 13-14. but most other sonics are 15 so theyre also little guys and theres really not a big age gap here. and they also have friends who are younger than them that they dont treat like that. so idk why they would be acting like movie sonic is a little 5 year old if they ever met him

#i guess people act like this with movie sonic because of his personality? #but his different personality and behavior isnt the result of a big age difference #its because hes much less experienced with the going on adventures stuff #as well as other differences in the life experiences of him and other sonics. idk how to word that hopefully you get what i mean #also there are very very few sonics who deviate from the default sonic age of 15. only like 3 i think including movie sonic #and most of them are younger. the only one whos older is pre reboot archie sonic whos only older by a year or two #and hes not even one of the sonics whos included in stuff like this and given that weird dynamic with movie sonic im talking about #its always game sonic or boom sonic that people do that with. who Again are not much older than movie sonic at all #and have friends the same age as or younger than movie sonic that they dont treat like little kids. so it feels. off

[novorehere]

I deep fried them in cartoon juice and Google translated them fifteen times, but here’s my rendition of your homemade blorbos. Enjoy @thefanciestborrower

#op #I was thinking about how it would be funny if after their homecoming game #it was tradition for the football team to celebrate by eating the marching band #and thus this silly thing was born #everyone knows clarinetists are the tastiest members of a marching band #source: I played the clarinet #if there’s one group you do NOT wanna eat it’s the drumline #who would win: Brick ‘Stomach of Steel’ or three hyperactive band kids in funny hats #the verdict is… well you know what happened #pictures of the incident were later posted to Ben’s instagram which went viral in less than an hour #anyway hopefully I did not massacre your boys TOO badly ;) #this was really fun to draw btw #this is like the second thing I’ve ever drawn with an Apple Pencil and I love it #anyway I love these nerds very much and thank you for letting me use them for my silly goofy whims #looking very forward to learning more about them! #my art #soft vore #safe vore #other people’s ocs #half size vore

[tgirljoker]

feeling things about morgana. need to talk about him or ill die

#if im being so real i think a lot of people dislike morgana because they literally just dont think about his age 😭 #he literally cant be older than 3 during the events of p5 and while i dont think he has the mindset of a literal toddler #theres a reason why he acts noticeably less mature than the other thieves at times!! hes just a kid!! just a little baby man #hes also the only thief that doesnt join the party to change the heart of someone specific #he joins the thieves as part of a DEAL in which he gives the thieves info about the metaverse #and in return they help him get to the depths of mementos #as opposed to the other thieves who have all suffered injustices at the hands of one of the palace rulers #morgana doesnt have any reason to fight besides his ethics and the hope that he might have the chance to be human #on top of the fact that he feels inherently useless and lesser because hes a cat he also feels like he doesnt belong!! #he feels like he doesnt belong with the thieves!! a group of outcasts with no one else that he feels he doesnt have a place in!! #sigh #sorry he has so so so much potential and genuinely couldve been one of the best characters in the game had his arc been executed well #AND ANOTHER THING ACTUALLY #contrary to popular opinion i actually think the start of the okumura arc shouldve been longer to give adequate spotlight to mona AND haru #because theyre integral to eachothers character arcs and no one sees that for some reason!! #morgana gets someone who relies on him for metaverse knowledge again giving him feelings of usefulness that hes lacked #since makoto and futaba took his roles as advisor and navigator for the thieves!! #people think his outburst during okumura arc was solely due to his and ryujis bickerings #when its not!! he consistently feels undervalued by all the thieves!! #even akira doesnt notice anything is wrong with him until hes already run away #respect if youve read this far but the tags on this post are already long enough lmao 😭 #um. sorry hes everything to me #persona

[spring-lxcked]

genuinely was thinking abt william in his SB verse still cooking meals generally considered to be family meals because that's what he was accustomed to cooking, got sad, and then remembered that i can not feel bad for this dude

#—— ✧ ooc » #william will sit in his empty ass family home cooking halved family meals looking all sad and lonely #as if he like. didn't cause all of this. i love/hate him so much. #also YES will can cook i can't headcanon him (by default) raising the kids with full custody from a young age #and pretend he can't cook. he's actually p good at it. gets better over the years. #does NOT have hang ups regarding it (due to toxic masculinity i mean) because the man already like #willingly pushes boundaries as it is. not to imply he's 100% immune to his upraising but y'know. #but also i still love him being the annoying fucking. 'we ALL eat at the table. no one leaves until we're done. #tell me about your day GET OFF THE GAME & WATCH. THIS IS FAMILY TIME' #like yes this gets less frequent as he like. y'know. loses his fucking mind. but early on he is fkjdfsald actually sorta trying to be a dad #me when i saw the family table in SB one time and was like 'i could make that a whole character trait' #˖ ✧ headcanon » ( the demon to his demons ) #<- HERE WE GO AGAIN

[infizero]

also his drawings. make me insane. im pretty sure ive made a post about this before a while ago but i just love looking at his silly little drawings it adds so much to his character. even after everything he's been through he's still got some humor and lightheartedness in him. and he's really good at drawing too!! so it's likely something he's been doing since he was a kid

#will always believe in closeted art kid michael who became a bully so he wouldnt get bullied himself <- REAL TO ME! #anyways all his drawings are fun but i still cant get over the little hearts he scribbled in the margins of that one page #theyre just so simple and....... human. i dont know ToT #this guy is literally an undead purple zombie and he's doodling little hearts in a book #it just reminds you that michael IS a Real Guy. like canon fnaf kind of sucks ass when it comes to actually attaching any people or real #human emotion to the events of the games (very much focuses more on What Happened over actual character stuff) #(which is fine but not what i rlly look for in media usually lol.... which is why i love stuff like og fnaf vhs #which is much more character-driven) #but anyways. i think his comments and drawings in the logbook work wonders in making michael feel more real #and less like just unseen protagonist who we know about vaguely #thats why i cling so hard onto little things like his habit of chewing gum. or just him liking to draw in general #usually i dont like when fandoms make One Trait of a character super prominent/their whole personality #but with michael we know SO UNFATHOMABLY LITTLE about his character/personality that these little scraps of info are rlly all we have #in terms of his character beyond The Things That Happened To/Around Him #OH also. his love of that stupid fucking vampire show is SOOOO near and dear to my heart #another thing that makes him so painfully human. yes he is serious protagonist guy who goes thru the most unimaginable shit ever #but at the end of the day. he like many of us enjoys a stupid cartoon that he probably takes way too seriously for what it actually is #his comment about it in the logbook still makes me laugh THIS MF IS PROJECTING ONTO A FICTIONAL CHARACTER IN HIS LITTLE SHOW #HE JUST LIKE ME FR #ANYWAYS holy fucking shit i did NOT mean to go on this long of a rant #i just fucking love michael afton so much im sorry #serena.txt

[fourteenthz]

Balthier remains, in fact, altering every single chemical reaction from my brain.

#i can't believe I'll enter 2024 being obsessed about BALTHIER??? in this economy ??? yes this is a fxii update SIT DOWN EVERYBODY #i slowed down a bit bc i was doing too much hunts and got overwhelmed 👍 but that talk he has with ashe #on the coastskdkkddk wtf? HELLO? My child brain from 10 years ago did NOT retain that he was a judge MUCH LESS CID'S SON? #i was like. catoon character reacting to that scene. covering my mouth and giggling going “oh he is SO INTERSECTING” #OBSESSED WITH THIS coming right after fran's arc of “i can no longer hear the woods woods my past is cut off me forever” #vs him going “i need to cut this past now and forever” OBSESSED WITH THEM and how they story just conects like that #not in a “im obsessed abt balfran” way (i am still) but in a “obsessed with xii writing” way #he is so. emotionally intelligent. idk how else to describe it but i LOVE this kind of character SO MUCH #hes genuinely so aware of everything and himself. the way he explained to ashe how he run away from the nethecite #and how he came to find it again and how it keeps bringing him trouble. the whole realization of him not being able to cut ties #and then also this vs ashe genuinely seeing the ghost of her dead husband all the time ARE U KIDDING ME #this game... this game. its soo much about resilience and overcoming and letting go of things we love an things we shouldn't love #and things we hate and :(((((((((((( I'm obsessed every time a character has a talk time with ashe. this balthier one #the one with basch about shame/war and the one with vaan and discovering they way together #they all mean. so much to her. im gonna throw up. #every time someone approaches ashe im already like bawling my eyes. babiest of them all. #also OBSESSED with the fact balthier was a jugde and how he must have been born into this midst #and how his education was all about it and still.... despite it all..... what makes him leave was seeing his father like that . #im gonna throw myself out of this window this mf i swear #absolutely insane about how extra he is. leading man this leading man that. and in the end the mf just wanted to be free from the horrors^tm #he could've it all.... ashe could just take the power and have it all..... fran and her sisters being eruyt leadership could have it all.... #vaan and penelo could just go home and let the adults deal with it and basch could just be free and forget abt everything that #caused him pin and larsa could just accelt the empire and not be on death's way all they and still STILL.... THOSE GUYS MAN... AUAGHH #kissing all of them specially balthier that mf im still in shock with how much i like him #10 yo!kelly did NOT realize one of her very first video game crush would be so much of her 20 yo!kelly taste #AND STILL. AAUUAGGGH i need to write an essay on balthier and all the themes this man encapsulated #writing them down until i finish ffxii sorry xiv followers this one is not a fast phase like bg3 was. I'm ill. #kelly plays xii #kelly says #dl

[aria0fgold]

The more I look back in the past, the more I sound like a grandma ngl. Cuz yeah sure nowadays there are more advanced stuff, but times back then were a lil simpler.

Like, a certain magical moment of my childhood is coming out of school, seeing the many shops right outside that can get crowded during the afternoon. Each shop sells toys, candy, trinkets, and whatever thing a kid might like for something cheap that anyone can buy. It's like magical in a way cuz after such a stressful day at school, I get to pass by the shops, look at the stuff they're selling, and actually get to buy a thing or two without worrying about the price.

#aria rants #as someone thats taught bout the value of money ever since i was young cuz my mom is hella strict with money #i was really frugal and careful with the money i was given. so much so id end up returning that money to my mom after the school year #and that was in the past around like 2009 before inflation inflated too much #like sure its knockoff stuff. with some painted wrong and the ones painted right got some of their paint over the line #and its completely made of plastic #but the model itself looks good enough for a kid who only cares to have a toy of their favourite game #even if it isnt smth so high quality. and also the fact that i get to buy that with money given to me? #it made me feel so good and excited cuz in my mind it was a toy that i got with my own hands #same with when i got my first pet! it was two hamsters (boy and girl) + their wheel and i bought em using my birthday money #when converted to usd all it costed me was 9 dollars. and the lil knockoff toys? convert to usd it'll literally be less than a dollar #now tho? thats impossible #those shops right out my old school? last i walked along that route. half of the shops were gone and that was #around years before covid happened cuz there were new regulations added that made it hard to set up stalls like that #its been years since i last visited a pet store but with how everything's prices had gone up unreasonably high #i wouldnt be surprised if there isnt anything that you can get for 9 dollars there anymore

[arolesbianism]

Wendy and Abby fuck me up so bad just like in general but what keeps coming back to haunt me is wondering how long they had to go through it all just them two. How many times did Wendy die, how many times did Abby watch the light fading from the eyes of her twin. How many times was it slow, how many times was it in a split moment, how many times were they together when it happened, how many times did Wendy die completely alone. It's just like god damn no wonder Wendy talks Like That not only did Abby die but poor kid has been forced to become accustomed with death in a much more direct way than even adults are built to handle

#rat rambles #dst #and like if I may read more into these characters than was probably intended #I feel like a lot of abby's in game behavior just clicks once you look at her from a oh this kid has watched her sibling die a Lot #like no wonder shes so protective #also love how abby's constant wandering and twirling also adds up like yeah shes a bored kid with too much energy #but yeah I think ppl tend to not realize just how big a part being stuck in the constant is in regards to hashtag wendy depression moments #although its reasonable since not everyone has read all of this brats dialogue like me <3 #dont read all of wendy's dialogue you will feel your brain melting like 5 minutes in #but yeah wendy brings up the whole being stuck in the constant thing a Lot #and wendy is under no illusion that death is an escape in fact he brings up the fact that its not quite a bit too #oh and I think ppl get the flavor of wendy's suicidal thoughts wrong most of the time #hes currently much more in the go to sleep and not wake up flavor than the I want to be with my lost loved one flavor #its less abt wanting to die and more abt wanting to stop being able to be in pain #luckily thing have technically gotten better for the both of them #like ofc theyre still fucked up and traumatized and still Being traumatized but at least theyre not alone #theres some sense of normalcy. wendy has friends now and in theory so does abby. #they can afford to just be kids again. not always unfortunately but much more than before #shit still sucks but at least they have the other survivors now

[perenlop]

its so funny being a pokemon and kirby fan bc of fanservice like pokemon fans will bite and growl when gen 1 gets preferential treatment over and over again while kirby fans hear green greens remastered for the 60th time and collectively shout with joy

#im both btw #tbh tho they do feel very different #bc with kanto pandering it takes the attention off of regions that are good in their own right and never get acknowledged #beyond maybe the starters getting a shoutout #also if a kanto mon you love isnt a fan fave then go fuck yourself too bc only early game pokemon and starters and fan faves get noticed #but with kirby fanservice it feels less like ‘’hey 30 year olds remember when u were a kid?? do you??? do you??? fuck everyone else tho’’ #and genuinely like a nice little throwback. its not invasive or obnoxious about anything #like kanto pandering was so bad in swsh that they tried to dodge a ton of galar mons and had npcs even say kanto had better ones basically #but if you play planet robobot or something then youre very much getting a ton of planet robobot and a game thats confident in itself #that cares abt its story and its new characters and its gameplay and lean into everything new #and the stickers you can put on your mech of past characters in no way overshadows that #the remakes never feel lacking or anything either like even rtdl dx which i didnt think NEEDED to exist #was still really worth buying and has a ton of stuff to appreciate and doesnt feel like a cash grab #even star allies which is very fanservice-heavy still has its own clear identity and storyline #and the fanservice isn’t something to complain abt bc its an anniversary game anyways #like the only complaint ive seen people have is that ‘’its alienating to newcomers to have so much fanservice’’ #but even then i don’t necessarily think thats bad #like the masks in rtdl. you dont need to know all the masks to have fun with em and theyre not required #maybe youll also just like a cute snowman keychain in triple deluxe #idk kirby just has fanservice down to a T #echoed voice #then again. i am the fan being serviced

[monstrsball]

me when i think about hanazawa teruki for more than five seconds

#top 10 silly characters who are pretty sad when you actually think about them #rambling incoming -> #he's been living on his own since he was 12... he hasn't really seen his parents since he was 9 #do his parents even know about claw? i don't know which answer is worse #the beach omake. #WAHHHHH #his q&a saying that he actually doesn't hang out with mob that much... i reject it. sorry ONE you wrote an excellent story full of #wonderful characters but i can take it from here #reigen is constantly tricking teru into letting him care for him and teru has dinners with the kageyamas #and he and mob get together a few days a week to study together #and they go shopping on the weekends to expand mob's horrible wardrobe #and he plays video games with all of the other kids + sometimes serizawa #they have sleepovers at his apartment and it feels a little less empty when everyone's there #he's never alone EVER again #the more i think about how lonely he seems the more im sold on the idea of him and mob going to the same high school #like i was on the fence before but now i'm like hmmm.... #i think it would actually be really good for him...

[spotlightstudios]

Hihi! Oc post here about Kere and Oveah because I've been meaning to post about them anyways, and @dyson-the-vacuum asked me about them so of COURSE I'm going to oblige ♡

(More Below Cut)

So, Kere and Oveah are two young adults (no one kept track of their ages, but like, 19/20) who were raised in Space in a place that humans usually aren't found.

To cut the story very to-the-point, Kere and the aliens who raised him land on the planet where Oveah has lived all his life. Oveah acts as ambassador for the new aliens since he's the only sentient thing there, and after some shenanigans Kere and Oveah end up in love.

To go more in-depth:

Kere Kcora, Age 20(ish), 6'1", He/They

Kere was a young child when the space-exploration crew he was with was captured by hostile forces. The crew was killed or sold off into lavor/expetimentation/etc for species who weren't friendly with Earth. Kere, as a baby, ended up with the Kcora. (A race that has a tech-based hivemind that absorbs other species into itself to learn.)

The Kcora decided that he was too young to fully absorb into the hivemind, so instead they partially connected him and left him be somewhat independent. It was originally a study that wasn't meant to last, but somehow the hive as a whole decided that leaving Kere as a half-hive would suffice.

As he grew older, Kere started acting as a mediator between species on planets and his own people, since he had free will at all times it made things easier. Kere rarely connects to the hivemind unless he's in distress, and he's very brash and unapologetic. He has his entire hive behind him, so what's to fear?

Kere's design is actually lacking tech in comparison to the rest of the Kcora. His right arm was only replaced after he asked for it to be (He didn't look enough like his family.) and his chest has that glowing target shape which monitors his emotions and physical wellbeing (the center ring pulses with his heartbeat, the outer ring glows brighter/dimmer based on his mental state) and was placed on him when he was young. He'd never let these devices be taken from him willingly.

Oveah Eden, Age 19(ish), 5'9", (He/It/They)

He also has a lot of wires and glowing implants just beneath his skin that mimic an android body without having to actually replace parts, hense the lines along his legs and the slight glow/color given off by his hair. They don't harm him at all, just look a bit more pleasing and make him blend into tye vibes better.

Oveah was born on Earth, but as an infant his family was chosen to move to a new colony. On the way there, the ship crashed into a planet known as Eden. There were very few survivors, but Oveah's parents and himself were among them. His parents cared for Oveah the best they could, they outlasted the other settlers at least, but they too died due to the hostile environment and wilds on Eden.

Having said that, the planet had sentience. Just enough to decide to keep Oveah alive. Incubate him in a plant pod until he was old enough to comprehend language and do basic survival tasks. He was about 11 perhaps when Eden woke him from the incubation, and he already had the understanding and teachings beyond an average 11 y/o might (same way the Planet understood what the settlers were saying/doing despite not ever having seen humans before. Understanding chemical energies and subtle things that happen subconsciously to convert it into sonething recognizable w/o any thought).

Oveah was given a rock (which can be seen in his headband) that Eden uses to communicate directly with Oveah through. Hid whole life he was very self-sufficient with executing tasks, but without the advising of Eden in his ear, he had no curiosity or personal drive to accomplish things. Often if Eden ignored him for a day, it would find him slumped in its sleeping nest where it was that morning. Very rarely does Oveah find sonething that interests them outside of Eden's guided suggestions. The planet trues to socialize him, but with no other living sentience to communicate with, there was nothing to be done.

Oveah's design is very lightly colored. His jacket is made of left-over material from a space-suit he found tucked in a stump once, and the rest of it he weaved/sewed himself. His hair is tinted pink thanks to the incubation period slightly altering his DNA.

The Kcora are a traveling species that will mine for ores from older planets, though they've learned to only take from one section at a time as to not deplete resources. They've been to Eden before, Millenia before the boys were born, buy they return to the planet with the hopes of once again mining that protected section of the planet.

Kere is sent with a small group to meet Eden's representative (in all the recent centuries Eden has been abandoned in the record books) and that's how they meet.

Kere is the first thing in a long time that genuinely interests Oveah, meanwhile Oveah is adorable in Kere's eyes while also being extremely unsocialized which bothers him. From their first few meetings onwards, Kere is insistent on Oveah trying out new experiences, while Oveah is working through his interest in Kere.

The first time Kere sleeps on Eden he unintentionally plops sideways onto Oveah and the poor planet-boy is never away from Kere's side ever again. Touch (whether that be soft like swiping hair away or sitting beside eachother, or it's rough-housing and tumbling around in the mud) is what ultimately brings them together.

The Kcora are notorious for their closeness, but only mentally. Because their minds are linked, their bodies rarely have time for affections like humans. Only because they realized Kere would thrive in a more touch-based environment did they start hugging him or giving him head pats or sparring. He never went a day w/o friendly touch. Meanwhile Eden was full of dangerous and untamed creatures that Oveah could never tame, so he was utterly alone all his life. The first time Oveah asked to rest in the same space, Kere was happy to smother him in cuddles (platonic, at the time) simply because he rarely got the opportunity with the Kcora. It wasn't the same.

And eventually, when Pveah had to move off-planet for a while to let the surface shift and do things that definitely would've killed him, he rarely left Kere's side. They were practically the same entity for the week or so that they had.

#light's spot #my art #oc #sketch #wip #Kere #Kere Kcora #Oveah #Oveah Eden #the Kcora are basically the Borg from startrek but a lil more curious and a lot less destructive #and Eden is a sentient planet that speaks to specifically one (1) kid who is also its son #Kere is basically the extrovert and Oveah is the introvert #best-socialized human in the universe vs. worst socialzed human in the universe #(spoilers they kiss) #these guys were actually versions of Dream + Killer (as in snas aus) back in the day meant for personal fics #but I ended up liking them too much and made them humans recently :) #it always comes back to that goofy game lmao