Blog O’ Randomness

So I got the refs for my yandere and darling OCs but in my more "official" artstyle.

Deiya Park is a 20 year old woman working as a freelance editor. For the most part she's unaware of her yandere's attempts at breaching her privacy. The encounter she had with him made her think that he's simply still that awkward kid that doesn't understand how to approach people. While she is underestimating him, she's not stupid. Something feels odd about him and she can tell that his looks aren't the only things that've changed through the 4 years they were apart.

Still, she wants to rebuild what they once had so she chooses to gently inform him about the red flags he shows rather than taking them as warnings.

Sunny D. (aka Rin Jeong) has two main modes. It's basically the Yan and Dere sides of the Yandere whole.

On his Dere side, he's sweet, loyal, a bit clingy and somewhat childish. Very much a golden retriever boy that wants nothing more than to make his darling Deiya her favorite meals, enjoy her cooking in turn, cuddle on the couch and never leave her. Unfortunately as an Idol, the opportunities to actually do any of those things are very limited and every day that passes by post-reunion makes Sunny skew more and more to the Yan side of his yandere personality.

On his Yan side, he is deathly loyal. Emphasis on death. He's somewhere in the venn diagram overlap between a yandere and a menhera as he is both capable of harming other and self destructive tendencies. These tendencies get worse the longer he's away from his darling. It was manageable when he had no idea where she was for he would focus more on his performance to increase the likelihood that they'd find each other but, now that he has succeeded, he's switched his main goal to attempting a balance between his love and his job... it's not working.

It's really only a matter of time before he starts seriously attempting to monopolize her time through less than savory means... well even less than what he's already done.

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What does one do when their childhood friend turned idol seems to show some massive red flags? That's the question Deiya must ask herself.

That moment in the alleyway, when she uttered the name "Rin" at the blond man that more resembled a K-Pop Star than her old friend, was the moment she seemingly sealed her fate.

His eyes lit up, crazed and manic.

"You do remember me!" He seemed so happy he even teared up, "I was worried for a second there."

And somehow this encounter where she was backed into a corner ended with her taking him to her apartment under his request. His justification was about his secret identity. It's better to not be in the open. She... probably should have asked more questions. How did he know she had an apartment before she mentioned it?

She opened the door to her slice of the world, warning him about her cat, Luna. Luna tends to hate new people, swatting at them and hissing with no exceptions... well except Rin apparently since Luna seemed unbothered by him, even rubbing up on his leg.

Welp, so much for Luna being a guard cat.

She had him settle on the couch as she made dinner over the stove. If her memory served her correctly, he really liked rice, peas and chicken but he liked it in a certain way. The rice was far too sticky for her liking, the chicken overcooked, the soy sauce being low sodium but it's how she remembered him liking it.

Muscle memory from years of preparing this dish for the very picky Rin seemed to serve her well as his face went from a nervous stiffness to relaxed, "You remembered." He sounded relieved.

"I made that thing for how many years? Of course I remembered."

Tensions seemed to fade just that little bit as they started talking like they used to when they were kids. Catching up on all the little details of each other's lives. Turns out, he joined Chime D-Side about a year ago and all the time between joining the brand at 15 and his debut at 18 was spent enhancing his skills and looks.

Looks... it was still so hard to believe. Rin still had the eyes she remembered and the general face shape but everything else. His skin was lighter... like a noticeable amount, his hair was dyed blond with only the tiniest bit of roots showing, his nose is straighter with a defined nose bridge that he definitely didn't have before, he's thinner and more toned than she remembered and of course taller. She had to wonder, how many of these changes were required by the company he works for and how many were just him growing up? She couldn't tell.

"You've changed a good bit."

He looked at her, a notable look of longing in his eyes.

"So have you. You've gotten taller."

Has she? She didn't notice.

He chuckled, "No fair! You grew up without me." Says the guy who went through basically metamorphosis without her. "Well you won't be doing that anymore."

Leaning over, he grabbed her by her waist and gently, though firmly, pulled her over to his side of the couch. Her back was against his chest, his free hair wrapping strands of her hair through his fingers.

"I won't let you."

That feeling of tension returned as something dark seemed to take over his eyes. The flickering, dimming lightbulb she forgot to replace only aided in the unease. He muttered something she didn't hear despite nearly having her ear at his lips.

Now he has a idol group!

I swear one day I will draw them in my not chibi style but chibi is easier for concepts.

Anyways. Chime is not a new group, they've been around for a while but over time they've opened new branches. Each brand is a side of the whole Chime brand. The fourth and newest branch as of late is Chime D-Side, noted by every idol having a vague weather or season theme ending in D. We've got:

Flare D- The Leader Lunar D- The Group Dad Misty D- The Gruff Silent Type Spring D- The Nerdy Wild Card Sunny D- The Sweetheart

Each having a strong and dedicated fan base, even Sunny who shot up quickly in popularity due to his much needed addition of lightheartedness to this group. D-Side adds youth and a modern touch to this long standing and strong going brand. They shine bright.

But the brightest lights cast the longest shadows.

Every boy here was picked from desperation. Locked into predatory contracts that nothing but incredible popularity could help them escape without ending up worse than when they started. Every boy has a reason to desperately seek success. Maybe this is why they tolerate their subpar treatment... And each other.

In reality almost none of them are the way they act on stage.

Flare D (Ha-yun Kim) Is the boisterous leader of D-Side. He's haughty, flamboyant, and overall a leader type. He values all of his teammates, goes out of his way to assist others and is the most affectionate with the fans. He's truly a stage presence type. Or at least, that's how he acts. In reality he's very annoyed by everything and incredibly power hungry. He wishes to be the most popular idol group and works himself and his teammates to the bone for it. Though there is a reason outside of power or fame. His signature pale blue eyes are actually from a medical condition and every year his sight gets worse and worse. In a couple of years, he'll go legally blind if no treatment is given. His parents couldn't afford the surgery but this company seemingly can. If D-Side can remain popular he'll be able to convince the higher ups at the company to foot the bill for the surgery. His desperation to stand out from both the other idol groups and his peers comes from that.

Lunar D (Gyeong Lee) Is the second in command and the dad type for the five man band. He's soft spoken, kind hearted and patient to a fault. Always helping a teammate if they're struggling. Always there to lend a helping hand or listening ear. Always cooking nice snacks for his team. The perfect husband. People tend to love his relaxing nature. And for once, it actually matches his nature beyond the camera. In reality, he is just as patient and reasonable but it's to an unnerving degree. He learned how to be quiet and a perfect lady's man from his abusive home life. His father was always out with friends. He came home late just to yell at his wife and kid or to harm them. As a result his mother was a perpetual drunk who heavily gaslit and manipulated Gyeong into following whatever orders she gave. Beaten and groomed into submission, he was exposed to so many things that Sunny's behavior later on won't even phase him.

Spring D (Ago Becker-Shin) Is the shy one with his nose always in a book. He keeps his head down and minds his own business but seems sweet when you get to know him. Well, that's his main persona at least. He has a secondary, almost split personality that happens when he pulls his bangs back making his hair look a bit more western. That seems to unlock a much flirtier and seductive side to him. This isn't an actual split personality, it's an act. In reality he's pretty rude and uncaring of the people around him, unable to take anything too seriously. He's stuck in his own head and his past. When he was a child, he was heavily bullied for being mixed (German-Korean) his features were always made fun of. So he gained an ironic and nonchalant personality to cope. It especially angered him that he was bullied so much only to be seen as exotic and attractive now that he was tailored to what people believed a mixed person should look like. As an example of this, he doesn't have naturally blue eyes. His eyes are a darker, more gunmetal color. But blue and green are 'pretty' mixed eyes so here we are.

Misty D (Seon Lee) Is the gruffy, nonchalant one with bad boy energy. He's never actually done anything crime worthy but his icy outer layer sends the fan girls and shippers alike insane. Especially when he started wearing the neck tie that Flare got for him. You could say he's a lancer to Flare's leader persona. At least, he is when he's acting. His actual personality is more nervous and jittery. He's always distrusting and on edge, not really shy though. This comes from his bad home life. If you can even call homelessness a 'home life'. When some of their names leaked, people speculated that Seon and Gyeong are related due to their last name and the two deny it stating that Lee is a common surname. But they are actually related. Half-Brothers on their father's side. Gyeong's father was no better to the mistress he knocked up or the illegitimate child he made so Seon ran away and lived on the streets but as part of the deal for Gyeong to join, Chime had to find and bring in Seon too. Gyeong meant well, he just wanted to get his brother off the streets; but this would turn into hell for them both.

Sunny D (Rin Jeong) Is the newest and youngest member of D-Side, joining officially at 18 years old. Sunny is the sweet, lighthearted one with a boyish charm and an adorable sense of innocence. In this group of generally mature personalities, Sunny brought some well needed brevity. However behind the scenes, he ends up being the most disturbing. Found from a video of his dancing and singing skills, it was immediately noticed that Rin was an orphan boy. His parents had given him up citing financial turmoil as the reason. With seemingly no one, he was easy pickings and was picked up by the agency at 15 years old. Rin is an obsessive person. He was never truly a mentally well child and that was part of the actual reason his parents left him but due to their actions he gained severe abandonment issues and attached himself to the only person willing to reach out to him. Deiya, a fellow orphan. For a while, his obsession with her was simply deemed 'creepy' by his fellow teammates. How he rambled on and on about her despite not seeing her in 4 years or how he clung to the bear she gave him so desperately that Chime needed to incorporate it into his theme or he'd scream and bite them.

But again, this was simply deemed creepy behavior… nothing more.

TL:DR- Rin or Sunny-D is an orphan turned K-Pop Star and Deiya is his fellow orphan/childhood best friend. It took years to find her after getting scouted and losing all contact. But not that she's been found, he won't let her go a second time.

Some of Deiya's oldest memories were from within the orphanage she found herself in after her parents' deaths. She wasn't disliked per se but she always knew she looked different. Darker skin, curlier hair. She had the right eyes and around the right nose but everything else was different. She looked nothing like her mom but when you saw her dad, it made sense. In the capital of Korea, Seoul, she knew she stood out. Her behavior didn't help as she wasn't very social but she didn't really care much.

She remembered the day she first met him. Three years into her stay, she found a boy about a year younger than her crying outside the facility as his parents dropped him off. They said something she didn't hear then the boy shuffled inside, sniffling. No one really wanted to interact with a guy who cried so much and so loudly so they left him alone to weep. But she felt bad for the kid so she went up to him.

He pushed her. Rude but it's fine. Plopping her beloved teddy into his lap, she told him that he could play with it for as long as he was careful. She sat next to him, not saying much as she twiddled with her fingers to occupy herself. And after a while, it seemed her plan worked. He hugged the teddy, slowly stopped crying and turned to her.

Turns out, his name is Rin.

Rin was a picky kid. He wouldn't eat certain things or let anyone touch his hair and hated any clothes he didn't personally bring with him. Only his parents knew how to handle him and even they didn't seem to perfect it or he wouldn't be here. But hey, Deiya was older so it was her task to take care of the little kids. She couldn't do much about the clothes but food was just a matter of asking and learning to cook and hair was just earning his trust enough to let her touch it and more importantly wash and brush it. For the most part, he'd deal with the brushing as long as he got to hold Teddy.

But for how picky he was, how angry he could get, how many tantrums he would throw, he was ultimately a good kid. He helped others when they were hurt, tried to deal with Deiya's hair (something the ladies of the orphanage had long since given up on), and when she was sick, he would try to make something for her, no matter how much he would burn his hands. He was a good natured kid. Throughout his years at the orphanage, he was always convinced that his parents were going to come back for him. That's what they told him after all. He would always tell her that he'd get his parents to find her new parents too so that they could always stay together.

It was wishful thinking, and Deiya knew that. But she was a big kid, as she told herself; she got to know these things because she was older and wiser. Rin can stay hopeful.

Years passed in what felt like months. And suddenly, Deiya was sixteen watching the fifteen year old Rin pack his bags because that old video he recorded (With Deiya's help on editing) went viral enough to get him scouted by some agency. He told her that when he was rich and famous, he'd come back and take care of her like she's always done for him. He promised that. And for a while, Deiya let herself believe that. She even gave him Teddy as a sign that she trusted him. He'd just give it back when he returned.

Then years passed and now she was twenty. She aged out two years ago and now rents a shitty one bedroom apartment. She considered herself lucky, she was very talented editing wise. For film in particular but books also. She could afford to be a freelancer even if only barely. One day, her friend invited her to a concert where Chime Season... or just Chime? Eh, she didn't know. A popular idol group was performing. She got VIP tickets and everything so... why not?

Who would have thought that those tickets would lead to her conveniently getting called up on the random audience selection for their game show where they had to guess her birthday? She heard who seemed to be the leader guess May 9th, close. The quiet one guessed September 24th, Waaaay off the mark. January 1st from the group dad type, December 18th from the grump and-

"June 15th," Said the one in yellow with youthful vigor. Sunny-D was he called? Huh, up close he looks... familiar.

Deiya blinked in surprise. He was spot on. How did he know that? He claimed it was a lucky guess in that overly childish tone. He was known as the group's lucky charm after all. Deiya took it as a coincidence and walked off stage to go sit down. What an odd day.

But from that day onwards, she felt a shiver up her spine. It was as if someone was watching her but she couldn't find out who. The police did nothing even as she called and called feeling as if she was being stalked. They hardly did anything for actual stalker cases, much less ones you couldn't prove.

Maybe about two weeks after the feeling began, she was walking home in the rain when she finally saw him. A newly cleaned window reflexed a hooded man that followed at a distance. She attempted to walk faster, he kept up. She ran, he did as well. He was taller, faster. She couldn't lose him. She took a sharp turn and found a wall staring back at her. She went the wrong way!

Turning back she was faced with the hooded man, a tuff of dyed blond hair and those olive green eyes standing out against the darkness of his outfit... Sunny D?

"DeiDei..." A familiar nickname in a familiar tone. Only one person has ever called her by that nickname. But the man looked so different. Paler, taller, deeper voice when he wasn't faking that overly cutesy voice. Not to mention the blond hair. This couldn't be...

"I found you. Do you remember me?"

...Rin?

I mean, he cooks. He'd probably make you something to eat. Something with fast acting carbs to help you get your energy back. He's also lightly scolding you for not taking your health seriously and trying to sleep off low blood sugar symptoms.

"You're older now so you can't always rely on me to help you."

Yall. I beg of you, English branch.

Do not let Valko, the fictional man, be the reason you're so angry at his removal.

The true reason, the one that should be focused on and not sidelined and barely added to a post or video, is the sheer lack of integrity this points towards. How many hours, dollars, voice lines, animation, jobs were lost and wasted because of this.

Not the fictional man that isn't capable of caring on whether or not he is removed.

If you let yourself blindly hate or boycott, it will simply start a pattern of a feature making people in the Chinese branch angry so people get bullied until it gets removed. Then the removal makes people in the English branch angry so people get bullied until it gets reinstated.

If you think and then act harshly with your preferences, you will become no better than the alleged people who harassed Infold into shelving Valko to begin with.

It's more than just a character thing, that's wasted time. And if this was a creator of LADS choice, that's one thing. Negative press can get to people and they don't feel like getting harassed. However if this is an Infold thing and not a writer thing, that's where things get infinitely shittier. It means the story can be gutted, torn apart and then lazily sown back together because some people have issues with a character.

How much marketing has been wasted? How many hours of Chinese, Japanese and English voice acting has been for nothing? How many storylines need to be changed? Which highly animated and probably very expensive future five star animation was lost?

It's also so petty and trivial. This is a video game. I don't like Valko, I feared the arrival of Valko for I knew the omegaverse would most likely follow. But my complains with the character can be solved easily and for free by simply blocking certain search terms. Meanwhile LADS lost a story and Infold lost god knows how much money.

In this objectively terrible place to live, what would he do with a child?

I do think he would try to keep them alive but he's still a mob boss in hell on earth, there will probably be moments where he will or is forced to put the kid's life at risk just by way of the setting. Regardless, I can see this softening him as he tries to strike a balance of keeping the child's innocence alive while exposing them to enough of reality to keep them cautious.

Well.. hate is a strong word. Teresa doesn't hate Sylus but he makes her incredibly uncomfortable. She already has so much social anxiety, Sylus's generally aggressive attitude when you meet him would put her in a constant state of fight or flight.

Viola doesn't really hate Zayne either. She just finds him unbearably boring. Total white bread. She likes her men exciting. She doesn't know what Teresa sees in him.

...She straight up hates Caleb though. And the feeling's very mutual. He sees her as a nuisance trying to push him and Teresa apart. She thinks he's insane. A ticking timebomb just waiting to explode. She thinks Caleb is going to get Teresa killed if not kill her himself. It's just a matter of time.

Generally Teresa and Viola get along but they don't talk about their men for this reason.

Mainly for one single event that I would argue would drastically change the story going forward.

What if MC was the one that entered the house when it exploded instead of Caleb?

That would completely switch MC (Imma call her Teresa for the rest of the concept) and Caleb's role. We are also assuming that the Farspace Fleet/Dr. Lucius's people found Teresa instead of Caleb. Starting with the more obvious character to be changed, Caleb. He would still be in Deepspace Aviation Administration though I'm pretty sure that means he would be in Skyhaven regardless. The N109 zone arc would either be skipped or Sylus wouldn't be involved. If we were following Caleb's journey, that also means that Gideon and Tara basically switch roles.

Let's be perfectly honest here, seeing how much Teresa spiraled after losing her entire family, Caleb is crashing and burning. Maybe he seems fine to his colleagues in the DAA but in his free-time, he is hunting down the person that turned his life upside down. Vengeance is all he seeks after losing Teresa again. And eventually, it takes him to the rival aviation organization: The Farspace Fleet.

And then there's Teresa. Assuming she had the same injury, she now has a robotic arm that she will have to manage. Like canon Caleb, she would probably be in a high ranking position but I would argue that it wouldn't be the exact position. Caleb only became a colonel because of his prior experience in flying. With Teresa having experience as a Deepspace Hunter, she would probably be whatever their equivalent is of a Chief of police. We'll just call her a chief. She handles more ground work against wanderers to keep Skyhaven safe.

But what happens when they get reunited? Honestly? While I can definitely see Teresa going in the same direction as Caleb in the whole possessive thing, that's boring. Instead I would say that she does the exact opposite. Vaguely aware of how shady Lucius is and how shady she's become, she wants Caleb to have nothing to do with it. She put in the effort for the organization to not know who Caleb is and she will not have that ruined. She comes off as cold and uncaring of Caleb's feelings in the beginning to try and get him to give up on her and leave but she heavily underestimates how insanely possessive loyal he is. He lost her too many times, never again. She can't even put her all into the act anyways. She misses him too much. Something in her desperately wants him to stay.

This did make me wonder if Lucius and his people would even be interested in Caleb. After all, we know that they're using canon Caleb as a stepping stone to their ultimate goal which is the protagonist. If they skip to her, would he be needed? And I have two possible answers for that. Yes or No.

In the case of no, maybe they're making slow progress on her using the toren chip and so Caleb's role as a stepping stone is not necessary. This would make him more of a nuisance, as he's actively trying to figure them out and take their plan apart while also destabilizing their star subject. He would need to be... "removed".

In the case of yes, maybe the Toren chip is just not effective. We never saw the effects of it on canon Teresa so, for all we know, her aether core completely overrides the mind control. But they don't know why so the best thing they could do is test on the next best subject to see what they can do to get the mind control right. They don't know about Caleb yet but if they learned about him, they may seek him out under guise of being one big happy family so they can experiment on him.

Either way, Teresa has a motive to not want Caleb to get involved.

So first thing, I need to ask for help from the fandom again. What are their Chinese names? Like I know Caleb's is Xia Yizhou (dunno what it is in Hanzi, just the english alphabet spelling) but I don't know the others.

Aka complete satire because I feel like bullying my MC.

How the hell did she think she could get away with impersonating an officer? Someone was gunna notice the difference eventually. Though it being Caleb was just bad luck. She didn't expect Caleb to be alive much less a prominent member of the Farspace Fleet.

And that is the only grace I can give my personal MC, Teresa. Caleb was going to spot her right off the bat. She could look like anything and anyone and he was going to clock her ass.

That doesn't excuse literally everyone else that should have recognized that she was off. Like regular MC I kind of understand because, and I mean this with peace and love, she is the most basic looking pretty girl alive. For as long as there are women in the Farspace Fleet, she will find one that looks close enough to her face to impersonate.

...Then there's my girl Teresa who isn't more noticeable because she's "special", she's noticeable because she's in futuristic China while being fucking brown with unusually long hair and a blue eye so blue that it is purposefully unnatural. Even if I make her specifically a brown asian (I haven't really chosen her race imma be honest) the other two factors more than make her stand out.

Odysseus!Caleb and Penelope!MC.... I am becoming more and more mentally ill over them. Specifically the song "Would You Fall in Love with Me Again".

The yearning, the loyalty, that little bit of doubt before MC (Teresa in my case) proves that she earned her title as queen! I am SICK!

I made a draft of it. I'll clean it up and finish it someday.

I need to make official designs for these fuckers but sometimes before I give them big boy designs, I like to sketch some little concepts first. In this case, it's going back to the whole Succubus!Teresa/Wrath Demon!Caleb AU.

Fun fact: So due to me wanting to stay relatively true to their OG personalities, in this universe, being a type of demon or from a ring of hell doesn't really determine your personality. It can affect your emotions to things if your powers are connected to those but it's not in the way you might be thinking.

For instance, Wrath demons actually tend to be the most chill. Since their powers are powered by well... wrath, it's important to have a strong sense of conviction. Lest you be controlled by your emotions. This is to match Caleb generally chill persona but also allows some occasional wrath based incidents. In universe, Caleb's conviction is -of course- Teresa. He doesn't want to scare her.

Another example of a person's powers having little to do with their personality is Teresa herself. Sure, she's a succubus but she is deathly afraid of humans and can be quite scared of her fellow demons too. So while it's not for the same reasons as Caleb, she also tends to defy what her ring would say she's "supposed to be like". This, unlike Caleb, actually works against her as she doesn't have as much experience with using her powers.