is omari basil still a delinquent
(and side note here id LOVE to hear you ramble all about your Omari au)
Ahem,,,, if it is alright with you then,,,,,, I will talk about my OMARI Basil then,,,,
To answer your question, he was planned to be the delinquent of the group (as per typical swap aus), though over time, I really began to sit down and think about it the more swap aus began to pop up around the fandom. I didn't really like the idea of being a carbon copy of various other omari aus in specific, so during the time I have been absent on here I began to slowly revamp the AU over time. I had to start over with what I originally had in the first place since a lot of the au things in my take on it also had contributions by followers as well!
For Basil, his first concept was initially a delinquent take... but the thing that caused a problem with that was the fact that I had planned for him to also play a sort of "detective" role in this universe, as I had written a short snippet on Basil having caught on to something suspicious going on between the older siblings and Sunny's sudden disappearance.......
Frankly, as much as a delinquent Basil is my darling concept of all concepts, I had to, unfortunately, push it to the side and alter his role in this AU to fit with the revamped look I was going for him... therefore fully integrating him into his "detective" role. In a way though, looking through Mari's perspective, he's sort of a clashing force with her and is equivalent to an antagonist in her own story (but! Keep in mind, Mari in this AU isn't the Mari who you should be sympathizing for.... an unreliable narrator who happens to be a wolf in sheeps clothing....).
As for the emotions, while a lot of people tend to view the emotions being assigned to the characters as their possible role in RW (the happy-go-lucky, the perfect student, the delinquent), for mine I ended up making it were each friend had 2 main emotions.... Basils would be anger and sorrow (Aubrey and Kel tend to have anger as their second emotion, though that is still up for debate! I still have a few things to work out :3). So, in a way you could say that in Headspace they were only ever seen as a one-dimensional character by Mari/Hikkiko, while in the real world, they had a even bigger "mess" of emotions that they all dealt with. In turn, Basil's concept strayed further away from the path of delinquent and more into a path which.... ehehe..... obsession as a concept is such a fun thing to play around with, don't you think?
Just as much as he plays the "investigator", he also is meant to be a parallel of what Mari/Hikkiko is. Obsession has always been a part of his character, and in doing so, you could say I played around with it until I found quite a nice concept with this. Mari/Hikkiko both have a need to keep Sunny around as the perfect brother and therefore paint his Headspace counterpart to their own liking.... while Basil in turn has, on some level, a need to imitate Sunny as closely as he can. Both are a form of obsessions I have given them, and in a way, the only reason Basils is a more "lighter" version of this is because Aubrey, Kel, Hero (sort of), Polly, his grandmother, and Faraway Town as a whole have been there to guide him on a better path. Though his obsession to keep Sunny's memory alive by becoming like him is still there, it's not to say that he doesn't have people to talk some sense into him-- meanwhile Mari does not have that type of support.
Obsession stems from love, at least, in their case. And in the end, it really depends on whether or not they have people who are willing to reel them back into a state of sanity. Basil was, at least in terms of my omari lore, viewed as a delinquent at one point, though he never acted out aggressively towards others unless provoked enough and only ever kept to himself.... eventually the town residents accepted the fact that this was just his way of grieving and treated him with patience and respect, especially with the fact he took it upon himself to go around town and helping around with the little things, though especially with gardening and photography.
it's not to say though, that he doesn't have some... worrying habits. That as in, most of his plants being replaced with tulips and most of the heads of certain plants being chopped off with garden shears, left to rot. While Basil mimics his best friends habits, he isn't exactly the best at fully hiding his feelings and emotions as Sunny was able to. No amount of masquerading will change the fact that once he's laid his sights on you, it'll only be a matter time before he seeks for your head on a silver platter.
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I'm convinced Steve would warn the kids about their language but only in the 'I don't need your parents blaming me when you dipshits won't stop fucking swearing' way.
It's never serious and he doesn't really care about them swearing, he's just not going to take the blame for it.
LMAO SAME the scenarios where he cares about language:
They're swearing around not just him but one of the Adults (because he just knows he is going to get blamed for that)
When he says something in front of them that is particularly creative or that they clearly have never heard before (once again, if they repeat THAT it's gonna get back to hopper and he doesn't need hopper pissed at him. Again.)
If they are just like, dropping cusses left and right willy nilly to an extreme. This is the one older sibling thing I'll accept because sometimes kids just go ham on cursing and you're just like "okay you know I don't care about an occasional f bomb but you need to calm the fuck down". Like there is definitely a limit to how much cursing you will tolerate from a younger sibling 😂
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What songs could you imagine as the theme songs for the painter and bruteforce?
ANON IM SO GLAD YOU ASKED THIS QUESTION
and thats because this question got me working on respective playlists for these two that i'll hopefully finish soon, but to answer your question:
painter's would probably either be "The Golden Age of Grotesque" by Marilyn Manson or "PAINT YOU WITH MY LOVE", also by Marilyn Manson (can you tell i really love Marilyn Manson's work LMAO)
annnnd bruteforce's is either "Dangerous Tonight" by Alice Cooper or "WOW" by Marilyn Manson (im so sorry for the overabundance of Marilyn Manson i just think his music fits particularly well with these two goobers :'D)
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me writing about magnus' armenian heritage in my fics: i know i'm coming to this as an outsider, but the best i can do is research and hope i'm being as respectful as possible. oh hey maybe i can study the language too, wouldn't that be fun :)
me writing about trindle's korean heritage in my fics: if i don't get every detail 100% right, my ancestors are actually going to kill me. is this word spelled with a ㄱ or a ㄲ? if i don't get this right i'm going to fail...at being korean, i guess.
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some facts about Miles that are sorta canon adjacent in that they were presented by red barrels but aren’t immediately accessible if you haven’t spent years brainrotting over this dipshit like I have:
His status as an independent journalist is implied to be the result of him publishing something that cost him a staff job. A draft of the whistleblower email -- the one Waylon writes and Miles reads in his car in the game intro -- shows that Waylon knows of Miles and considers himself a fan, and that he thinks “You getting fired for what you posted on Afghanistan is absolute bullshit.” I’ve sorta vaguely figured he discovered and exposed a military adjacent scandal during an assignment there, but it could have easily been a Murkoff related article that got him canned because...
He was writing about Murkoff before the asylum. As promotion for the game, RB released a document / article written by Miles about some shady company dealings. By the time he gets to the asylum he’s already very familiar with how Murkoff does its business, and in his first note upon arrival he notes that they’ve never tried their charity scams “on American soil” -- which he knows because he’s already chased leads and traveled the world trying to expose them.
Not as plot relevant but still interesting: the comics had him living in DC in 2013! He lived somewhere on Potomac Ave, which is a street that exists in a couple places because DC is a grid system with diagonals for some godforsaken reason. He presumably lived alone with his red string conspiracy wall.
Also from the comics, a scrap of paper shows all of his passwords. If you mirror the image and translate the l33t speak because you’re a huge nerd, you will discover that Miles is also a huge nerd. Every one of his passwords is a reference to either a famous journalist, or a famous investigative case:
m4rkf3ltd33p = ‘Mark Felt Deep’. “Deep Throat” was the (unfortunate lol) pseudonym that was used by the press to identify a major source of insider info during the Watergate scandal, later revealed to be FBI agent Mark Felt
gr4h4mk4th4r1n = ‘Graham Katharin’ or Katharine Graham, the publisher of The Washington Post who oversaw the paper while the Watergate scandal was being broken by its journalists
b3rnst31nc4rl = ‘Bernstein Carl’ --> Carl Bernstein, along with Bob Woodward did a huge portion of the Watergate reporting and revealing
69hunt3rth0mps0n69 = Hunter Thompson, a journalist and writer famous for his style of “gonzo journalism” -- a style that relies on a first person narrative to draw the reader in. The numbers in that password were definitely a choice though, Miles :/
j1mmck4ymun1ch = ‘Jim McKay Munich’ --> Jim McKay was a sports journalist who reported on the 1972 Olympics, including the Munich massacre. He stayed on air for hours straight on his off days to keep reporting on the incident.
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