#a plicate

the older/senior addisons are NOT named after their colors, i wrote those down before i colored them in so i wouldn't lose track

are these guys family members? a company? friends? lovers? enemies? some kind of flock? the answer is, they're addisons! all they do is advertise!

...but yeah these 8 are some ambiguous collective at the very least, and familiar with one another. the junior addisons are very much adults here, it's just that the senior addisons are older + have seniority. they're their industry mentors and generally try to look after and over them, but have been mostly letting them fly free.

the senior addisons are far more established. comfortable i think is the best word to describe them: their advertising style is calmer, more elegant, and they don't feel as though they always need bright colors to make a statement. (they've also naturally lightened up with age--not that being lighter is specifically a trait associated with aging. coughs at you-know-who.) junior addisons are very comparable to how you see the in-game addisons behave lol

i don't have... too many ideas on individual facts on all of these guys.

i don't have gender/pronoun headcanons on these guys in general, EXCEPT that junior pink addison uses he/him.

if anything the senior addisons didn't/don't have much of a concept of gender outside of the newfangled "targeted ads" trend, senior pink is kinda masc and senior orange is kinda fem but even then they're all gender neutral tbh

though they weren't the closest, i'd like to think junior pink & spamton were like brothers. all the junior addisons miss spamton a lot but they are not going to talk about that

i'm torn on where i want spamton to stand here; i like the idea of him being the "oldest" junior addison, or the "youngest" senior addison. either way he's older than the juniors but younger than the seniors

senior pink is the best magician. senior orange is the best socializer. (and probably loves drinks/is kind of an alcoholic...) senior yellow probably focuses on apps and that's why s!yellow wasn't around much c2. senior blue was visually inspired off of sans so make of that what you will

the color pairs look similar because of the same reason gems of the same species in steven universe look the same. they're just formed with similar templates. all that said i love the idea of s!pink and j!yellow being definitively related

oldest to youngest: Pink Sr > Blue Sr > Orange Sr > Yellow Sr; then Spamton > Pink Jr > Yellow Jr > Blue Jr > Orange Jr

the 8 (once 9) of them are a collective, but aren't in a formal company or business together. the seniors are all independent, and the juniors figured that they needed to do the same (though they've all done their fair share of working with each other/under the seniors)

they're... ambiguously but not quite a family. Pink Sr is seen as the collective's patriarch/matriarch--having raised basically all of them but Blue Sr in various ways and lengths of time--but even then relationships on a definitional front are vague and messy. It doesn't help that the seniors don't bother defining them, aside from Yellow Sr self-declaring as the big sister of the collective.

Through adoption or through shared code--it's uncertain--Pink Sr and Spamton considered each other father and son. (Pink Jr was jealous of that relationship, despite being very close to the both of them.)

i like to imagine pink sr & blue sr started out in paper ads (outside of Cyber World) as junior addisons, then later got digitized/naturalized in Cyber World. they were also around before tenna popped up so they're oooold farts. they look as "young" as they do because "advertising doesn't age" or something.

a junior addison can become a senior addison after time, experience, and """other factors""". i imagine them being similar in nature/relationship as upgraded enemies, i.e. hathys & head hathys, werewires & werewerewires, so on. maybe it's pokemon evolution or something?

(yellow sr used to try and cheer spamton up about his size, as yellow sr used to be around his height before becoming a senior.)

you'll notice i refrained from giving any of the senior addisons pronouns (or even names). i have a dumb hc where none of the seniors started out with a grasp on being "personalized" outside of their jobs. pink sr in particular is the most old-fashioned, thus doesn't use a name or pronouns even now. the others think it's fun, though, and picked up on it from the juniors. (blue was the first to do it after the juniors.)

feel free to use whatever pronouns you have in mind for the other seniors, i sure as hell don't know what to refer to them with

even just one of the senior addisons lingering around tends to make the junior addisons behave more--they don't want to come off as unprofessional around their mentors/superiors. however the senior addisons take advantage of their kissing up to just play around with them. (the seniors are successful enough to not feel the need to tear each other apart: that, and ever since spamton disappeared, it really put things in perspective...)

in C4 they're trying to help raise the juniors' spirits during the internet outage by moonlighting their stand. however they also set up the ralsei rancher for fun and profit because they thought it'd be funny

while the seniors have their own complicated web of histories, arguments, and biases... they're all very close and loyal friends now at this point. pink & blue in particular. they worry that their juniors won't be able to pull through, but aren't entirely sure how to talk to them about it. no one junior addison is incredibly close to another one, especially after spamton left.

didn't have names for the junior addisons, in part because i really like the headcanoned names other people gave their own addisons haha. because of @manofthepipis's fanfic ouvre the blue addison will always be named Survey to me (sorry for the tag it's the most convenient way to link to you). [Color] Jr/Sr is not any of their names!!!

i'm incredibly entertained by the popular headcanon that the yellow addison is chronically unemployed or in-between jobs so i'm employing that here. he wants to evoke yellow sr's whole deal but he is, um, doing his best.

pink jr has a severe case of chronic tryhard syndrome , and it is terminal

orange jr is a bit of a shrinking violet, but is trying to keep up with everyone else. i like people headcanoning the orange addison as being a seamstress of some kind so that ties in here; but this addison isn't confident enough yet to model their own fits. a bit of a copycat