I make things sometimes

Consider this; it's a coven of witches.

Martyn awakening as a witch, the chaotic gremlin flavor, and his blood possibly tasting bad if not outright harmful to the vampires (thanks to his ancestor's magical experiment on their bloodline, which is very much meant as a middle finger aimed at their vampiric nemesis lol) thus accidentally giving him immunity (cause none of the vamps want to bite him now)

v!Apo and v!Cherri's first date as an official couple was at the Spring festival. The pair had a great time even if nothing really went as expected. They have made sure to go every year after that.

I imagine they wear outfits that have matching flowers on them to the Spring festival each year.

because the thing about vsmp is that its full of characters who've caused mass amounts of death. Scott, Owen, Legundo, Cleo, Abolish

They all have varying reactions to it. Some feel guilt, others decidely do not

Scott doesn't care at all and wants to do more violence for fun, Owen feels justified and like he's right to murder more people. Abolish's job is violence, and he won't think twice.

Cleo feels horribly guilty despite not having any say in actually killing anyone, and Legundo has spent decades attempting to help as many people as he can because he has to try, even after all of his sins

And then there's Apo.

Apo hasn't killed anyone, further distancing her from other characters like Pearl, Avid and (kind of) Pyro

But Apo's seen death. So much death.

It's hard to understand the context and depth of the atrocities these characters have committed. For most of them, all we have are numbers. Hopes and dreams and livelihoods reduced to digits.

For characters like Shelby, these are distant horrors. Owen can look her in the eyes and talk about the slaughter of murderers and innocents alike, but Shelby can ignore it till someone she knows is dead. Only then does it become real, and it doesn't last.

But Apo?

Apo's lived it.

We don't know how well she knew all of the people who died, but considering they were likely her unit, she must have ate, slept, trained and worked alongside them for months to years. They were her friends, her community! She heard them talk about family back home, about dreams for the future, watched them open letters from childhood sweethearts. They did the same for her.

And if you know anything about Apo, you know how deeply they cared for the people of Oakhurst. Caring is in Apo's nature, no matter how much grief and pain and trauma.

It's been a little over one year since I got into POW.

Thank you, Apo and Owen, for the lovely series and for allowing me to meet new creators I hadn't seen before.

Her rich boss who doesn't really care about the safety of the workers. 

A ginger who they keep getting into arguments with. 

Some writer who keeps talking about other things instead of just signing the package form so they can leave. 

A tall lady who left her very territorial dog loose out in the front yard and won't answer the door. (Pearl had left her dog in the backyard, but it got out and she hadn't realized it. She had loud music playing and was busy doing chores, so she didn't hear the frantic knocking.)

Some blond guy who keeps trying to steal the packages she is trying to deliver. 

A strange man who lives suspiciously remotely that ordered a strange package and yelled at them when he received it…. suspiciously. (This was Rouge’s idea.)

Her ex-roommate from college that she parted in bad terms with. It's still awkward.

And a lot more other people. 

IF YOU INTENTIONALY BREAK THE BOUNDARIES OF A CC! DO NOT INTERACT.

I do not like boundary breakers and i do not care if the boundary is considered "silly" or "stupid" or "put in place out of no where" it is a boundary. these are not our characters, they are the cc's characters.

as an artist who has alot of characters and oc's, the way tumblr especially, treats cc's like they aren't also artists making and playing their oc's, is crazy. These are not our creations, these content creators are not big huge productions. They are artists, individual artists. Just like us. And if i made a character and wanted people to, lets say, not ship them, and people decided to ignore that, and ship them anyways. I would be pissed too. They're allowed to not like that. Hell! They're allowed to change and say that they don't like it anymore!

The Boundaries that cc's put in are just rules. We need to stop pretending they aren't rules. They are the rules for depicting their character as a fan.

I do think using the term "Boundary" is misleading, but it's what the FANS wanted them to use for awhile, so they use it. Yes it's not technically the right term, but it's what people wanted them to use. When you nickpick that it's not actually the right term, your just being silly imo. People wanted cc's to use this word! They're doing what the people wanted!

I think for content creation, and especially on the mcyt side of things, A boundary has a different type of definition that basically just means a rule.

And when people act like cc's aren't allowed to have rules, it basically says to me "i don't care what you want! I want this! and i'm more important then you!"

I think there's something to be said about how certain viewers stop thinking of cc's as people, and more as just, things to watch. They stop viewing them as people who have opinions and thoughts and wants and feelings and more as just, another show to watch.

Deliberately disrespecting a person, even a person who has gone about setting boundaries in a hurtful way, doesn’t help the situation or anyone involved in it.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I've been trying to figure out roughly where everything is around Oakhurst and this is what I've more or less come up with?

I could be so wrong though, especially when it comes to the beacons that are further away (especially the pale oak forest one)

Also for reference:

This is from Pyro's discord:

And that's from Maddy's twitter:

I will NOT, however, be “a bird in the woods” or however he put it. If I see anyone deliberately breaking Pyro and Maddy’s boundaries (such as shipping art posted after the date of this post), I will not engage with the post, and instead quietly mute, block, unfollow or otherwise curate my home feed not to include that person. “Reporting” such posts to Pyro, Maddy or their mods does NO ONE any good; it harasses the artist, brings more of the shipping Pyro and Maddy don’t want to see to their attention, and I have better things to do with my time than policing what other people make.

I also will not accuse Pyro of homophobia for what he said on stream. There were threats of harassment and censorship which I do not deny, but not wanting a specific subgroup of masc-presenting characters AND a specific subgroup of fem-presenting characters (those played by Pyro and Maddy respectively) to be shipped with ANYONE, including hetero pairings, is not discriminating against masc/masc or fem/fem shipping as a whole.

I also do not support gatekeeping in either direction. Entire platforms cannot be made “safe spaces” for both sides of a conflict of needs—in this case, creators who will not find a space safe if it contains content shipping their characters, and fans who will not find a space safe if they are not allowed to ship said characters. Fortunately, Tumblr allows users to block specific tags and thus create smaller “safe spaces” within the platform. If everyone—creators and fans alike—is responsible with their use of tags, filtering, and blocking, then these spaces can remain safe for all who need them to without anyone getting harassed.

chatter: I'm choosing to read this as "don't @ me or send me content that makes me uncomfortable, and I won't go looking for it in spaces (like tumblr or w/e)."

but later on, it seems like once you get to a higher level you're stuck looking like that? scott after turning pyro and going up to level 2 just has to hide his eyes because hes stuck with his level 2 skin

Like, he’s absolutely going “you have to mind control someone to do your bidding? Cringe”

But the moment Apo’s claws struck that white spot on a warm-toned background, the crest she designed to mimic the same beacons keeping everyone captive…it felt just like flying into that wall. A smooth, flat barrier, between her and love…and home…and everything beyond Oakhurst…and for the rest of that fight Apo no longer saw the humans of the Militia as her friends, but as the obstacles Owen told her they were.

Endless fun possibilities with assumed relationships based mostly on proximity to each other when waking + shared aesthetics and such

How many of them would reasonably have identifying information on their person (signed letters or notebooks, business cards, monogrammed handkerchiefs or smth) and how many would need to settle for more or less silly nicknames

What would they assume about the fact that most of them seem geared up for war

Who among the vampires would accidentally poof into a bat first and lose their absolute shit

A weirdly cheerful side of Owen, now that he isn’t tormented by memories of the past (but something’s naggingly missing all the same)

Same deal with Legs and Cleo, actually

Martyn’s behavior doesn’t change much because he was making his past up as he went anyway, maybe he even fools people into thinking he didn’t lose his memories (or got his back first)

Ren stumping everyone as to where he’s from, now that no one has the context of his accent(s) being the result of a curse