OCs, AUs, and Overthinking

Since it's been two years, it's time to bump the ko-fi link again! For a minimum of 3 USD, you can support me and all that I do!

From cobbled together interactive fiction games, to miniature photography, I just want to make some side change to do what I love most: telling stories.

I mean, look at this nightmare:

It's enough space for your channel name, maybe what content you do, and then a whole lot of dead space around it. If you draw or have a lot of channel memes, you could frame it with that. But otherwise? Yuck. TV width does NOT need to exist fr.

Anyways, here's my new (current, urg) banner:

✨Getting TPU on my face and bed✨

But also wonder what you think Aero would look like, reploid I'm guessing

Alright, prepare for a long talk because Aero's been around for 11 years and not going anywhere, but things have played with as they please me.

Let's start from the absolute basics and go from there. Because, like I said, it's quite a bit after a decade.

My Aero started life as being based on (the abandoned) Legends 3's Aero. I pull mostly from the winning/canon design by Komaki, but her physical appearance lends itself more to Kaji's design. The outfits I've given her Sim-self reflect the other design choices too, but these are the main inspirations.

And her design using assets from the defunct gacha game, Kingdom Hearts X (chi, not actual X, lol) still borrowing from Kaji and Komaki.

She is 100% human. A relative to Dr Cain on her mother's side (Cain and her mother are cousins), and a very distant relative to Kalinka on her father's side (Aero's grandmother is Kalinka's daughter). When X took hiatus from the Hunters before X7, he actually left in my stories instead of self-demoting to R&D or whatever happened there. Aero was who he ended up staying with. (There's two versions of this: finding each other accidentally which is 'main', and the alternate of 'Cain showed X to Aero early' so X found her just to discuss where'd he go. This is the one I mess with the most as of late.) Aero was then used by Sigma to make X fight again. Whatever Sigma did to Aero, she dies young from it shortly before X8. (I try to be vague with it, but it's generally accepted that she is bleeding out at a rate that can't be stopped, and requires a wheelchair in her last few months due to dizziness.)

The Guardians are activated after Copy X was in my fics- which means neither of the five knew her personally, but had heard of her influence on X. There was a rumor that Leviathan got her facial genetics from Aero (there was a design contest for the Guardians in Neo Arcadia, undertook by school aged children- heavily monitored still, of course), but there's no confirmation. The council of Neo Arcadia approved and registered the Guardians' names.

Moreover, Aero's consciousness was brought in to help activate the Mother Elf. (My X and Zero timelines are shorter than canon, so Aero ends up being an assistant to Doctor Weil before X7/death. Weil was very fond of Aero, and her death caused by Reploids also helped cause his betrayal to the Mother Elf and starting the Elf Wars.) But even she knows she's not truly Aero in that state. At most, giving the Guardians nicknames (Siren, Griffin, Lycan, Tulpa) is something that was carried over from Aero herself, who liked giving people nicknames every so often.

Even in human!AU, Aero does not meet X until after he's had the Four Guardians. She had no influence over Leviathan's legal name, but will dub her Siren as a loving joke. They're amicable over there, in a 'dating dad while his kids are teens and very protective of him because he's been single for so long' kinda way.

Elle Warring. Lives in San Myshuno but operates a small spa business in Magnolia Promenade (modeled after The Corner Shop in Bluewater Village).