OC question: Has anyone ever claimed any of your OCs as their child? How'd your OC feel about that?
thank you sm anon! Imma answer this for my One Piece oc, Marionette Mari so tagging the op girlies @daughter-of-melpomene, @supermarine-silvally, @auxiliarydetective, and @starcrossedjedis
minor spoilers for the live action!
although it’s never said explicitly, it’s common knowledge in the Buggy Pirates that their captain sees Mari as his responsibility. even if she bluntly states she wants to see him dead and he retorts that she’s nothing without him, Buggy would (and has) kill people that look at Mari in the wrong way, and Mari saved his head from falling into a seawater pond after Luffy sent it hurtling out the circus tent, claiming that she'll be the one to bring him down, so until then, "don't you dare get yourself killed."
(For those of you unaware or wondering, this here is Mari or "The Marionette". They are from the carnival au @sm-baby made, and only stand up to about 3 ft. Even so, you do not want this plushy smacking you with those big clawed paws. I went with a "Fox in Bunny's clothing" idea when I figured out I wanted to do a cotton tail)
Okay okay okay so new ocs / characters / whatever really
Puppeeteerie, fishkabob, then a butterfly character called “Marionette” who goes by Mary, and an insane cat called Krazy Kat who I think I want to be the villain of the story?? Or at least one of them because I think it would be funny haha. read more about Mary under the cut ;)
So I decided to make eerie a trap door spider! Or well a trap door spider person?? Anyways, they are only carnivorous so they drag or trap or literally anything to get anything with a good amount of meat on their bones in their trap! This is also includes “human” beings (hint hint wink wink) and how they do that is by trying to invite them into their little hidey hole! They happen upon Mary, the child of a rather influential man and try the same song and dance but Mary eventually leaves without going anywhere near the trap (bummer). Mary tells her father about this weird child and the guy is like “oh shit people eater who tried to eat my daughter” so he sends guards to go and burn down and destroy the hidey hole, trapping Eerie in their own trap and making them lose their arm in the fire (the arm that they eventually replace with Drake the Dragon!)
Mary turns out to not be entirely human (her father *got around* in his early 20s okay?) and she’s so,e sort of butterfly fae or whatever haven’t decided yet. She ends up blaming Eerie, who is completely unrelated to her “monster” awakening, and only to kill and dissolve her insides to eat. Perfectly normal behavior. Anyways Mary gets this whole “main character” phase where she goes out and kills all the “monsters” she can so no one else “has to go through what happened to her” until she happens upon Eerie and Fishkabob! Mary tries to kill Eerie without provocation, only focusing on Eerie and mostly ignoring Bob (or Fish if you’re Eerie.) eventually Eerie is on the ground and Mary has this whole hero speech planned out until Eerie literally just does not remember her. Mary is all like “I bet you didn’t think I’d come back! Isn’t that right Eerie?” And Eerie is all like “…who the fuck are you???” And Mary gets to be like. “I’m… Mary? Y’know the girl you turned into one of your kind?” And Eerie is like “hmm…. Marie? No…. Mari?? No no I just… no I don’t remember you I talked to a lot of people like you over the years”
And then Mary gets all huffy like “we were children? You were letting me talk about how annoying my dad was and then I left? And then that night I turned into this.. this monster” which makes eerie confused because Eerie’s bites don’t do that? They just melt your insides until the being is a glorified milkshake. And then they snap thier fingers or something and they’re like “OOOOOHHHHH you’re the girl that got away! Haha yeah I was trying to literally kill and eat you but then you somehow got out of my trap! I thought I set everything up just perfectly but then you fluttered away and then got my home burned down! I remember now! And I remember that I hate you! Isn’t that nice? I hate you too my beloathed :)” and Mary’s sitting there gobsmacked like. Shit. They’re horrible for an entirely different reason! I must now have a break down about my entire philosophy and shit so they do and Eerie and Fishkabob run! Eerie got almost marked so they’re on Fishkabob’s shoulders as they walk away and leave her to do. Whatever really and I’m just imagining this scene apologies for my horrid writing skills:
Eerie sit upon Fish’s mechanized shoulders, being lulled to sleep by the gentle swaying of the mech. Their none existent arm burns like the night hey lost as they think over the conversation between them and Marionette over and over. Eventually they break the silence that had fallen over the friends.
“Do you think I was too blunt?” Eerie asks the fish “man”. He is silent for a moment thinking of how to reply.
“Not at all friend. But I always did appreciate how blunt ya are friend. Makes it easier to talk to ya,” says Bob. Eerie just hums finally falling asleep to the sound of a ticking heart surrounding them.
Anyways I really can’t fucking think of how Mary should look like. At all. So time to look up cool butterflies maybe :)
here's my take on the oc verse trading cards by @auxiliarydetective!! starring my current muses obviously, I've got some editing notes under the cut so feel free to just ignore it bc most of it is just rambling
first, I cannot thank you enough for making this guide Evie, I was so stuck on the numbers before I remembered that you literally gave me a guide to figure them out. Kenji's number (58) is a combination of 5 (ka) + 10 (ji) + 8 (ya), aka kajiya, the word for blacksmith in Japanese; I couldn't find any pun-related numbers for Mari, so I just used her symbolic number (13), I'll elaborate on this when the time is right ;)
it doesn't show up much, but I successfully changed the bg color for both of my cards! I have Single Child Syndrome and I Refuse To See Reason and I regretted it when after finishing it I realized that the original color looked best... ah well, at least they're more in line with their colors
the stats are both of them post OPLA s1, Mari is strong but she doesn't get a big fight scene so it's not obvious (but not better than the monster trio, hence the middle-ish placing), she does get an unhinged scene talking about her dream though; Kenji is himbo coded and I felt like I should make that Very Clear, he's slightly stronger than Usopp & Nami, but he doesn't train as hard as the fighting trio + Mari, so he's below average. both of them get to be a little stupid because it's the Strawhats, you aren't a crewmate if you're not a bit silly and unhinged amirite
and that's about it! thank you sm for reading if you did, and I hope you have a lovely day/night wherever you are!! now if you'll excuse me, I have a giveaway to work on <3
the enablers' call: @arrthurpendragon, @bibaybe, @daughter-of-melpomene, @auxiliarydetective, @starcrossedjedis, @fakedatings, @supermarine-silvally -- want to be added?? shoot me an ask!!
This is my version of a humanized female version of Marionette! Who I think I’ve never posted a full drawing of her normal look. Huh, I’ll need to do that.
I mostly based her design on a mix of a few things. Namely her original design, a circus performer outfit, Sun, and Moon. Because I had the idea that she works in the Daycare, though I have not figured out as what yet.
I honestly really like this, though I may tweak the design a bit if I do more with her in the future.
mari's outfits :3
casual {left} and explorers uniform {right}
made via picrew {links down below}
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a/n: since i cant draw their outfits properly, ive resorted into using picrews. i was planning on using gacha but i remember being made fun of for being a gacha kid -w-