#bageltalks

ohhh my goodness I have so many iterator OCs I need to think about it’s so many and they’re so interesting since when were my own creations so fascinating (probably ‘cause I haven’t thought of them in a while so they’re like strangers with vague but expandable lore now)

like my very first group! There’s five of them and one of them decides that she wants to go mobile (my little term for off-the-string or outside the superstructure or whatever) but her senior doesn’t like that. She keeps going anyway and he forcibly collapses her structure using tools built by the other guy who didn’t consent to his inventions being used that way. Then some OTHER guy saves the collapsed one and they get revenge or something I don’t remember. The lore is so weird and scuffed because why would a senior blast their junior’s legs off and sink them? Definitely a lot of rebuilding to do and I’m so excited

but then I also have this whole other group of Iterators that were built specifically to represent the karmic sins, virtues, and one more for ascension, eleven in total. They’re all on an island. The sins were built to research and better understand their respective sin, the virtues can use that research and their own to help with understanding how to effectively avoid sin, and the eleventh who’ll I’ll call Absolute for now basically is just Ascension. They’re worshipped more than the others, and basically run everything on top of their task. I’m not going to go too in detail, but basically Absolute brings a shit ton of void fluid to the surface in an attempt to ascend everyone but nobody wants that so it really just ruins the ecosystem and they all collapse and get weird cancers and stuff. I should mention that many of my characters are Iterator Logs (by Daszombes) inspired in some way, especially Twisting Roads’ situation where some sort of organism(s) gets out of control.

While I do have many groups, I tend to make them with a main focus of a certain few within the group, so I’ll point out some Iterators that are more interesting on their own than with the group lore.

One of them is literally just alone, though. She’s built way out over a desert-encompassed lake, specifically to extract void fluid and help deliver it to other Iterators that have their functions more focused on just the Great Problem, or other specialized tasks that would’ve made fluid extraction too inefficient. Her Benefactors didn’t treat her too well, they didn’t really want to be there either, but she still didn’t realize how quiet it would be when they disappeared over the course of about a week. Her details aren’t clear, but I imagine that she, being in a rather tricky region to maintain herself in, both physically and mentally deteriorated quicker than most Iterators. That’s about as much as I got. Perhaps she mobilized and threw herself into the void sea, perhaps she went out and wandered aimlessly until she was found by Dawn’s Civilization (a whole other thing, part of my favorite group’s lore, I like to imagine that most, if not all of my groups exist in the same world, so the Civilization is a nice way to bring them together when I don’t know what else to do and provide a nice ‘what if’ scenario for everybody.)

One of them sees things. They just straight up perceive a different version of the world, as if looking through a different lens than everyone else. It’s real, it’s all there and these sensations attached to past and future events, colors, and intangible presences are all actually a real phenomenon, but nobody else can even detect any of it. Everyone thinks they’re just crazy or attention-seeking, and it drives them mad that they can’t prove themself wrong no matter how hard they try. They’re fun to think about and I really wanna expand their lore to get some sort of story in.

I’m very hesitant to talk about my current favorites because of how much they (specifically the two) mean to me and such, so I’ll yap about the slightly less emotionally devastating ones for now. I think it’d be cool to do one of those things where I post art or text about lore over time, I don’t want to reveal everything immediately but I have like 20 followers and I doubt they’re here to hear about my angsty idiots. So mb y’all idk

I could definitely talk more about more of my Iterators, I have plenty, but I think this’ll do for now. Much of the other ones are either tied to the guys I’m gatekeeping or pretty generic, I probably have one wild group left where extra crazy shit goes down. I have every one of my idiots’ names in a note on my Notes app so I don’t forget them because there’s just that many lol