QUIRKY

I go by Quirky! I run this blog for fun, and to share my interests with peers—though I mostly like to smash my favorite characters together in my Canon sandbox.

Making art is strictly a hobby that I share with you all. (edit my commissions are open if you reeealllyyyy want one). Also I am a multishipper so don’t expect me to stick to one pairing if I draw ships at all. (“Why did you block me?”)

(P.S. I go by any pronouns and I am an adult.)

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well. the version of Rigel that I like is intentionally mischaracterized (read: conceptualized before we got any canon material beyond the initial voicelines) to work with what I want him to be. so. anything I say would be meant to be separated from canon.

For TOY, it’s still under development. I want to see where canon takes him a little bit before I decide anything concrete.

Hmm. I couldn’t begin to answer this for every single one, but I’ll give examples and an overall explanation.

The whole point of it being an AU is to explore how a world and circumstances affect a character’s development, what would have had to happened for them to resemble the character they are in canon, or for relationships to happen how I want them to. I ask myself about what needs to happen in order for them to be familiar enough to still be that character, but different enough to be interesting in a fresh way. What happens next entirely depends on what my intent is with the AU.

For example, in monster hunter (EAPS group), Ruin is trying to get Eclipse to be cooperative with him so they A. Don’t get themselves killed in the wilderness due to miscommunication and grudges and B. So they don’t hate their jobs and burn out. My intent with this specific AU is to explore what Ruin and Eclipse’s relationship could have looked like if they actually were able to collaborate and have a good relationship in early-mid EAPS. Ruin and Eclipse don’t have the same history together that they do in canon, it’s impossible to accomplish in this AU, so instead I give Eclipse reasons to genuinely dislike Ruin that maybe aren’t exactly ruin’s fault at all. Maybe for his attitude, how chipper he is all the time, maybe eclipse doesn’t like to be led by the hand or to be the one who doesn’t know what he’s doing. Maybe Eclipse hasn’t gotten over the reasons why he accepted the expedition offer to the forbidden land in the first place; because he felt unwanted at home, like he was a guest. Like how eclipse was before he left TSAMS to go to EAPS. Maybe he didn’t get along well with his previous team, so his team decided to just leave him out. Or eclipse decided they didn’t need him first, before they could decide that for themselves, to save himself that hurt of rejection.

That’s me setting the stage for in-AU-universe reasons for characters to be the way they are.

Some characters look closer to their canon counterparts than others. In my most recent viva piñata au, Dahlia is different; he’s never seen war. That world doesn’t have a lot of physical conflict in general, like that. Instead, I amplify his history with Willow and Nightshade, I give him regrets and lasting consequences and an empty home with physical, painful reminders of what used to be. He still has Dahlia’s core personality traits, but his upbringing is different because the AU can’t exactly supply an equivalent that makes sense.

However, in that same AU, Carme is closer to canon in a specific way. He used to be part of a merchant’s fleet, helped around wherever needed, with Rigel. He got off the ship one day and never got back on. He and Rigel are still on talking terms; the ship comes to town every now and then, but Carme avoids Rigel because Rigel keeps suggesting Carme come back, come sail the seas and see new places with him again. But Carme wants to settle down and be on his own. That conflict is similar to what they are in canon, just scaled way down and more personal. It’s about finding what parts of a character can be switched out and what needs to be a constant. Like for Carme, the circus part doesn’t matter so long as the “I left so I could have freedom and autonomy but Rigel wants me to come back” conflict is there, so he’s instantly more familiar because that’s how he is in canon.

Nooot really? I think he has CPTSD because his time alive before the virus outbreak was so so short and most of it was interacting with his Monty. I don’t think he had a lot of time to really develop into his own person, on his own, during that time.

When will I be freed?