#olba liz

[adventuresofeme-sea]

The optional phone call to Derek in Baxter’s route really cements Derek’s continuing regard for the MC regardless of route, imo.

When you call Cove or Liz and tell them the shocking news about meeting Baxter once again, they both are a little slow to catch on. Cove had to think a minute to figure out how he knew that name, and Liz straight out was like who’s that?, before you remind her.

Not to say that once Liz and Cove are reminded of who exactly Baxter is that they are not appropriately concerned for you. What with Liz calling Baxter “That Loser”, and all that.

But Derek? Nah, he knows exactly who Baxter is, despite not seeing the man for 10 years. In fact, his absentminded (and quite funny) musing about how Baxter appears in your life in 5 year increments is incredibly telling in how much weight the name Baxter Ward has in his own mind. Of course Derek would remember every time the man came into your life. This weird little man ends up dating his dream partner! Derek must be incredibly indignant that this, guy, managed to do the very thing he himself longed to do, but would never dare to allow himself. But instead of cherishing the incredible opportunity granted to him, Baxter squanders it and breaks your heart instead. Oh, yes, he must remember Baxter Ward very well.

#our life beginning and always #our life derek suarez #baxter ward #cove holden #olba Liz #our life baxter

[ignacia-redhead-vampire]

I love this game

#our life beginnings & always #olba cove #olba baxter #olba derek #olba lee #olba elizabeth #olba liz #olba lizzie

[onedreamaday]

Once again, this is all @im-pure's fault, based on this post. They enable my angsty side so much.

They are the worst enabler /jk

I had this song on repeat while writing.

Can be seen as a follow-up to this, which takes place a few months later.

This was supposed to be an introspective kind of fic, but Liz sorta bullied her way into being here. Then it turned into Bax and Liz being catty in-laws. (but not really, they just mostly snark at each other- it's out of love)

TW 's apply here: character death and mentions of depression/depressive episodes. Remarks of implied alcoholism (Liz accuses, Baxter denies, but nothing is confirmed.)

Sidenote: Liiy didn't bother changing her last name when she and Bax married. One, she kinda doesn't see the point in changing her last name. Two, she found out how much of a hassle it was to do if she did change it and wanted nothing to do with that paperwork.

Elizabeth Last, Baxter is starting to truly realize, is an unstoppable force of nature when she wants to be. Case in point, she has apparently made it her life's mission to show up unannounced whenever she's in town.

Since she doing some type of job near Prima Vista, that means he's been seeing her a distressing amount.

Liz does, at least, knock first before she opens the door, using a key Lily gave her years ago. The light spills into the room and it's do bright, Baxter involuntarily lets out a curse. It's way too early for her presence. He checks the time on his phone, which reads 10:54 am.

There's the smell of food and even better, coffee. A peace offering, then. He'll take it. And mentally prepares of whatever uncomfortable topic she feels she needs to talk to him about.

He groans inwardly. Lily, he imagines, would find all of his hilarious. She was always far more patient with her sister's antics than he could ever be.

“Really? All you've been doing is drinking?”

Ah, an old topic it is then.

Baxter rubs eyes and sighs. “I didn't drink that much,” he says.

Liz hums. “That bottle of whiskey is suspiciously empty.” The tone is light, but the accusation heavy. It sets Baxter on edge.

“It was over the course of a few days,” he replies bitingly. “After work, and never excessively.”

“Oh great, you're back working. I was worried you'd be living on the couch, growing mold.” Liz places the food on the table. A veggie omelet with toast. Simple but decent.

“Unfortunately, my rent and bills don't care if my wife is gone and my depression refuses to go away.” He surprises himself with how flippant he can say that, and going by the look on his sister-in-law's face, perhaps she has the same thought.

There’s silence as he eats, and he notices Liz's eyes keep drifting to a stack of papers.

Or rather, the letters he's written to Lily since her passing. They help, sometimes. On the days where the grief is all-encompassing. Where he watches old videos on her phone just to hear her voice. There’s a voicemail on his phone from her on his phone he refuses to delete.

“You can read them,” He tells her. “It's not as if there anything particularly embarrassing written there.”

He flashes a grin; it feels weak on his face. “There's nothing to blackmail me with, I'm afraid.”

Liz hands lingers, as if she's unsure before she takes the topmost letter. “Other than that monstrosity dyed hair you had when you first moved to Sunset Bird.”

“Lily found it charming.”

“She had terrible taste. How she liked it, I'll never know.”

“I might add, she wished I never stopped dyeing it that way.” He finishes eating and takes the plate to the sink. There’s not much to wash, but Baxter cleans the dishes anymore, moreso to give him something to do.

There’s silence between them, but it’s not tense or heavy, despite their banter earlier. Eventually: “You have the most flowery writing I’ve ever read.” Liz pauses, her eyes softens as she reads. “She fell in love with such a dork.” She returns the letter back to the stack, but doesn’t reach for another. “She would talk about you a lot, after that summer.”

That surprises Baxter; the way she acted after they met in the restaurant three years ago, he suspected she wanted nothing to do with him. “I honestly thought she hated me for a while there.”

Liz smiles. “Lillian Last actually hate anyone? I highly doubt that. If she was willing to give Shiloh and that Jeremy guy a second chance, she definitely was gonna give you one. She was just being dramatic. She’s good at that.” A pause. “Was good at that. Sorry.”

Baxter nods his head. He understands completely. There are days when he thinks of Lily in the present tense; sometimes he expects her to come walking through the door, talking excitedly about her job. He misses those moments when they cooked together (or attempted to, in Lily’s case. She was a bit of a disaster in the kitchen.)

He misses the floral perfume she would wear, the way she would laugh when he swept her up into an unprompted dance, her snuggling up next to him even if it was absolutely sweltering from the summer night.

Liz leaves with a well-meaning snark, telling him she will beat his door down if anyone hasn't heard from him in a few days. Entirely unnecessary, but he understands all the same, and it's well deserved. His attempt to go no contact had everyone thinking the worst and the last thing he wants to do is put his friends and family through all the stress again.

Baxter looks at his stack of letters; his fingers itching to write another is too hard to ignore.

Giving into temptation, he sits and writes, pouring out feelings he can't get himself to say out loud. He finishes it with

"In the afterlife, or wherever you are, do you miss me as much as I miss you?'

#oddy writes fic #olba fic #olba baxter #olba liz #our life beginnings & always

[akiacia]

social call at the Montgomerys'

#akia art #olba #baxter ward #cove holden #elizabeth last #olba mc #i wanted to see baxter interact with more of the family (be bullied by liz #so i did it myself!! at the expense of everyone being ooc LOL #like cove turned into a friendly jock but i don't think that comes across 🤣 #so while i was going to do a page for cliff i figured i'd spare them both further bastardization

[covesdadappreciation]

Cove: No one knew where you were! Derek: And your phone was off! MC: I texted Liz!

Cove:

Derek:

Liz:

Liz: I’m sorry for not responding to like ONE TEXT, MC. 

#our life #cove holden #our life: beginnings & always #incorrect quotes #olba derek #derek suarez #liz #olba cove

[sheynchankawaiiuwu]

I hate how Shiloh acts in the DLC(I've never played it but I read the wiki) but happy birthday to him ig

@gbpatchupdates happy birthday to Shiloh!

#olba #our life #happy birthday #our life beginnings & always #our life mc #olba mc #our life shiloh #shiloh fields #xoxo droplets #xoxo droplets shiloh #liz #our life liz #our life elizabeth #elizabeth last #our life elizabeth last #our life step 3 #god damn it man I was just vibing until I saw the calendar #gb patch #gb patch games

[nikiswonderland]

Cove and Cillian got a bit bored, and found Elizabeth’s skincare…

#our life #olba #cove holden #olba cove #i love cove holden <3 #elizabeth last #last family shenanigans #moody teen liz 😭

[gracjananas]

Liz has it tough sometimes

#olba #our life #our life beginnings & always #liz last #elizabeth last

[bitemegamer]

Me, from the future: I should have seen this coming, tbh

#our life beginnings & always #beginning and always #olba #olba mc #run for the HILLS #i love that i have the option to just be NNNNNN right away with him #he would have driven me crazy as a kid #and then that WHOLE reveal when you meet him again #UggghH #i am so glad someone like cove comes into my life that way i have a real pal #i just feel so bad for liz because she cared about him so deeply

[sunbloomdew]

WOOOOOOOO step 4 Haru (and Liz) doodles!!

the last one is the oldest, so their facial features are a bit different (and their head is so wide ksjfhskksdfksjf bruh)

meeting haru or liz in step 4 comes with inevitable sibling stories sharing and if you can't accept it you simply aren't the chosen one

#thinking about step 4 haru living their (mostly) best life #i love familial dynamics so i want liz and haru to have a layered relationship #only two of those have black outlines cause imma cut them out and glue them into my oc notebook <3 #i NEED to figure out how to style their eyebrows #i want them to be thick but also less dense at the ends and dense in the middle #i like that their ears are slightly pointy <3 #posting pencil drawings feels kinda awkward?? idk lol #sunbloom draws #olba mc #olba oc #mei's kids #olba elizabeth #elizabeth last #olba #our life beginnings & always #our life beginnings and always

[rui-drawsbox]

olba x dumenshi lets goo

little ramble about the worldbuilding cuz it my favorite thing abt dumenshi jkdsfh

besides Ruri and Cove, everyone meets as adults. Derek meets them when Cove s 16-17, Terri and Randy when he's 19-20 and Baxter comes into picture when he's 23

Yeah i'm using Cove's age as the standard lmao, i also made Ruri a half gnome so they could grow up together like in the game lol (i mean at least that's the case with half elves but i just assumed it was something universal haha)

dwarves aaaare super hairy but i wasnt sure about giving derek a full-beard so lets just say he shaves (?)

since baxter meets the gang once he's an adult, to me he spent half his lifetime with the olnf cast but went to the elves continent with his parents and since he didn't liked how dismissive they were toward others races (specially his parents, istg theyre like peak traditionalists lol) he ran off and joined our little group yay

cove is like laios but the "sea creaures" autism instead of the "all kind of monsters" autism

Ruri (and mom, shes also a gnome to me) teached a little magic to Cove, specifically water and healing spells

since gnome magic and elf magic is different, sometimes Ruri and Baxter teach magic to each other haha

dont ask me about their roles in the dungeon i dont play dnd

to me. baxter was this super classy elf, and he shows that classy-ness with expensive elf-like delicate outfits lol

Ma is a drawf (mabye?) and Mom is a gnome, which makes Lee also a gnome! Liz is still a human/tallman. Intentionally didn't make anyone a halfoot bc of their super short lifespan (mabye shiloh or jeremy)

cove suffers when they have to kill mermaids

#rui draw smth #our life: beginnings & always #olba #our life #baxter ward #cove holden #derek suarez #olba mc #our life mc #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dumeshi #dunmeshi

[differenteagletragedy]

The self-indulgent urge to make OLBA gang millennials instead of Gen Z lol

-- Cove has to come over when you're little kids because Liz won't get off the internet and the phone line stays busy.

-- You keep in touch with with Derek over AIM (AOL Instant Messenger, you had to be there). Sometimes you put lyrics in your away message to try to hint that you like him but he never gets the hint.

-- Baxter is a full-on scene kid. He has a hair straightener. He does eyeliner. He's blasting Panic! At the Disco on the way to find the ice cream truck.

-- Btw, Cove had to print out mapquest directions to get to the suburbs.

-- Derek's favorite movie was "Bend It Like Beckham" and it might still be.

-- Baxter is the only one with a cell phone in Step 3. It is a Blackberry. Cove thinks it's wild.

-- He'll tell you he doesn't have a Myspace account because he doesn't want to keep in touch, but he does, it's just he doesn't use it for friends, he does it to keep up with bands/listen to music/practice his coding so he can make the most scene profile ever.

-- Derek with frosted tips lol

#our life beginnings and always

[now-and-4ever]

Some relationship and child headcanons for OLBA side characters.

Terry and Miranda do not end up getting kids. However, they do give tons of gifts to Cove's kid every Christmas.

I am almost certain that Liz is somewhere on the aroace spectrum. She never gets a boyfriend or married, but Shiloh becomes her platonic life partner.

If Lee's singing career takes off she gets together with an actor while working on a song for a film. They have a wonderful relationship and have two kids.

After Liz and the MC leave home Pamela and Noelani seriously consider adopting a third kid because they miss having one in the house. They ultimately decide against it, but when the MC has a kid they become the ultimate grandmas.

Jude and Scott adopt a kid one day. You better believe they raise that kid to be a gamer.

Nicolas ends up being part of a polycule. It just feels right.

Jeremy eventually gets together with JB. If I knew more about XOXO I'd be able to elaborate.

#olba #terry brook #miranda eckert #elizabeth last #shiloh fields #leandra last #pamela last #noelani last #jude eckert #scott adam #nicolas suarez #jeremy marion king

[akiacia]

gummies

#akia art #olba #baxter ward #goofy gifs from warmup chibis #i've Unsolicited Animal Associations too (word soup ahead) #i think gray tuxedo baxcat is thematically appropriate but i'm fond of solid gray too..i'll probably draw them interchangeably #maggie has lovebird kisses but secretarybird of prey energy and legs so the audience can decide which suits better #cove's a sea turtle based on the ingame convo #derek's a livestock guardian dog of an undecided breed #lizard liz doesn't do much for me sans 🐉 but i subscribe to 🐍 #lee gives squirrel?? but maybe she's more of a songbird #bunny miranda and ferret terry based on vibes #i could see shiloh being a chameleon or a weasel or an octo (i guess what i'm saying is he's ditto to me

[sugar-omi]

My our life character is like, a gay red head who's name is Bailey, I just like to think Cliff taught he was a girl — that his son cove is having a small crush on such a cute girl that doesn't hide the fact SHE'S into cove. Only to find out on his birthday that he is infact, a boy.

Accidentally gifting him a dress, Bailey looking up at him and asking if he mistook his birthday for liz's birthday, Cliff then having his ass laughed at by our two queens of a mother and apologizing for getting his gender wrong.

I don't know why i Ranted to you about my olba character 😭 anyway, do you have something to say about your character in olba? :3

:3 Anon maybe??

haha that'd be so funny for everyone but cliff lol!!! he'd be so embarrassed for days...

n it's all good! i don't mind yall ranting about your MC's, i like to hear about it!!! my MC is just.. self-insert so. i feel like it'd be weird to rant about myself haha

i've always inserted myself in games if possible, or at least used a character that looks like me

[cocogoat]

just bc ik i have at least one moot who likes olba : derek dlc step 2 spoiler !

CRYING IF U DID THE BOARDWALK MOMENT BEFORE THE SLEEPOVER LIZ HAS U SAY HI TO THE BOYS WHEN YOU GO BACK TO THE SLEEPOVER ND NICO CALLS HER LIZBETH AGAINNNN,,,,

#◯ ༚ 。🍓 valentine.times #only tagging bc its still new lol