kilpilion

make this picrew and put your name in the incorrect quote generator!

this is something I would say and may have said already

my humansona if i wasn't a transition metal turned fruit

top ten things ive EVER said

I don't have anything to say ngl

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I tagged some people who were tagged before but it's ok 🫶

I’d say that. Actually I think I have😭 and I wish I had a skateboard omg

(Also that Meiko plush is so fucking cute I need it)

(quote was spot on lol)

hehe thank u for the tag @saphicangel !!

I’m fucking crying at the quote bc it’s so accurate

Whose that handsome fella?

Definitely had fun with this one.

Kilpi: If we were in prison you guys would be like my bitches.

I’m sorry for not getting to this earlier, I was asleep and then I had work 😭

but anyways, to be honest, he doesn’t really know. He got it back in his assistant days, around the mid-end time of Gertrude’s era. He doesn’t believe they might be apart of that body horror that the corruption brings (similar to the wasp pulp he sometimes vomits when he tries to resist the corruption’s hold). All he remembers, is waking one day after restless sleep, and the scars were there. They itch when Elias is too close. Same with when Jon looks too hard.

(I’m tempted to give him literal mandibles. Like, the scars one day rip open and out comes green mandibles! Perhaps it’s his body trying to make more room for the mandibles. Idk, but i imagine the process is extremely painful.)

Random info:

While reading this, I looked at my sister who used to have a scar on her face. Searched it on the internet, turns out it was a cold sore. I remembered she kept on plucking and itching at it that's why even months after it's fully healed and not bleeding anymore it's still visibly discolored.. But pretty sure I can't apply that logic on your oc since my sister is a kid..? Might need to read into it more.

STAY FOR ART BELOW!!!

“Ich kann Dir und niemandem begreiflich machen, wie es in mir ist. Wie könnte ich begreiflich machen, warum es so ist; das kann ich nicht einmal mir selbst begreiflich machen." 

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“i can’t make you or anyone understand how it is inside of me. How could i explain why it is that way; i can’t even explain that to myself” 

-Letters to Milena, Franz Kafka, written between 1920-1923(?) during his stay at an Italian sanitarium

(Pardon the German, I have no idea if that’s the actual quote, google translate is a pain.)

Ughhhhhhhhh I love my bug son. My little mantis. My little parasitic wasp. My little freak who just wants love.

Anyways, meet Laurence Whitby! My Magnus Archives OC! He is the head of the preservation unit in the Magnus Institute, and originally he just started out as an assistant trying to help get funding for college. But that was long ago, near the end of Gertrude’s era (what am I talking about??? I haven’t even finished s1… I’ve just read too many spoilers…). Nowadays, he tends to stick to either his apartment or the preservation office down the hall.

He has a complicated relationship with a lot of things. Jon and Martin, religion, music boxes, Jane… with our Worm Queen herself, Laurence tends to view her as both a malicious figure, and oddly enough… the mother that abandoned him. Back when Laurence was a child, his mother couldn’t handle him. So, she sent him off to his grandfather’s home, and he instilled a lot of his religious beliefs into Laurence starting when Laurence was eight years old. And while he doesn’t follow those beliefs as an adult, what does follow him is the odd comfort that music boxes bring him. His grandfather listened to these tunes frequently, and over time, he grew to find the music boxes help him relax, or clear his mind (such as Brahams’ “waltz in A-flat major, op. 39, no. 15”, “my grandfather’s clock”, and “Serenade” by Schubert.)

To Jane, laurence is a misbehaving child who is refusing to “come home”, in her words. All she wants is for Laurence to stop fighting the corruption, and to let it consume him so that he may fully join the hive, and become a proper avatar for the crawling rot. To Laurence, Jane is a sickening voice in his head, promising that the corruption will bring warmth, that it will comfort unlike those around him. He has yet to fully believe these.

So unfortunately, because of how much he resists the corruption, he tends to get sick a lot. And he loathes this. After a while, he had to frequently stay home due to feverish symptoms, even throwing up a gross mixture of wasp pulp and normal, human bile. But Laurence cannot bring himself to properly take care of himself, so he’s also frequently tried to attend work when he can’t even focus on things properly.

As for his relationship with Jon and Martin… it’s complicated. Jon’s eyes see too much, to the point where if Jon looks too closely, Laurence’s glasglow scars (the “mandible scars” on his cheeks) will literally start to itch, as if mandibles are begging to be clawed out. But the corruption writhes with warmth when Jon stares, because while the corruption hates the scrutiny of the eye, it still adores the attention that being observed brings. This is why the Jon x Laurence side of things took longer to… develop, in a sense. Meanwhile, Laurence and Martin is a different story. With Laurence, martin tries to overlook the… oddness that Laurence carries with him. He brings him tea, reminds him to wear his glasses, and even sometimes will help turn on the music boxes for Laurence. Laurence isn’t used to being cared for, but again, the corruption loves attention as long as it doesn’t come with judgement. In a sense, the Corruption contrasts the Lonely in Martin. The lonely makes Martin feel invisible most days, meanwhile Laurence’s hyper focus (his “mantis stare”, if you will.) helps deter the Lonely, and makes Martin feel seen in an albeit, odd way.

Anyways. Thats it! I’m still trying to decide how a poly-ship would work between them, as in what the group dynamic would be. (So Jon x Laurence x Martin)

Yeah that’s all I could think of rn. Ask me anything about Laurence. Uhhhh fun facts!

-Laurence has HORRIBLE eyesight but refuses to get glasses

-he’s supposed to be based on a praying mantis, and a parasitic wasp

-he hears wasp buzzing in his skull when overwhelmed.

-he has three praying mantises in his apartment! They’re basically his children. There’s a Giant Asian Mantis, a European Mantis, and his most recent mantis, an Orchid Mantis (he’s in his nymph stage currently), they are kept in separate enclosures for safety reasons. (I haven’t decided what he should name the mantises, any suggestions?)

Here’s my baby, Laurence. I can’t draw hands. I’m still trying to decide his color palette, I just know he has brown hair.

BONUS!!! JANE ART!!! AND MY OC, CORA!!!