#ckat

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I created a species. And just so you know, they’re not ones you’d like, unless they have an Emotion Alter. They’re really rude, violent and just... Not nice... In case it wasn’t obvious... Ik this technically ain’t roblox related but.... I just wanted to share them. (I don’t have access to my art blog ;v;)

Yes, you may use these refs to make a Ckat OC, but PLEASE tag me in the post. Not only for crediting use, but also bc I’m curious and want to see. (:3

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For the Record, I’ve recently accepted that I have DID, multiple personalities. There’s... 8? In total so far, and I’m pretty sure that’s it. I’d like to introduce them all, in the order they made themselves known, as that is how we like to be approached! 1: Conrad (He/Him) Conrad is a short, anxious black and white tuxedo cat. For the longest time, Conrad took care of a lot of the main responsibilities of existing day to day, like going to work and managing finances, things like that. He’s on something of a forced vacation, after a panic attack that lead to a breakdown, Conrad is taking a back seat to everything to recover from the stresses of dealing with unemployment and covid. 2: Sirj (He/They) Sirj is the one in my icon, a large purple and black fox bear with pink hair. It’s hard to nail down Sirj’s personality and relationship to the greater whole. but he’s kinda closer to being another “main” personality. If you’ve interacted with me before, chances are it was Sirj.

3: Red (He/Him)  Red is a fox, uh, he’s less connected to his physical manifestation in the room so far, but basically, he’s a hot headed Alter who’s very good at controlling our body physically, which is probably why he’s more interested in representing himself in the meat space than online or conceptually.

4: Cecil (Faunette) Cecil is a plant/fruit based creature, who struggles very much with communication. Cecil can’t speak or type, and can only be understood by using gestures and pointing to things, or by being translated for by another Alter or even another friend who can understand Cecil’s unique “Cecil Language”. Cecil very much identifies with the fact that Faunette is Autistic, and accepts that’s part of why Faunette can’t talk. Still, Cecil is very expressive and loves being part of conversations, even if Faunette is a little nervous about how much extra work it can be to communicate with Faunette.

5: Ckat (She/Her) Ckat is a sparkledog Sergal, she knows she has dark but colorful fur, and is very fond of her appearance conceptually. She’s very talkative, but isn’t very good at doing so online, her preferred medium is speaking orally. She’s very present for voice chats, but has recently experimented with texting. She also sleeps a lot! and is difficult to summon, usually only coming out when a conversation gets particularly lively

6: Soleil (She/???) Soleil is a long haired rabbit girl, with glasses and a gentle smile. She is very adept at speaking with and for the other personalities, and is Cecil’s go to for when Faunette needs someone to translate a particularly wordy thought. She is doing her best to not define herself based solely on her relationship to the other Alters, and to come into her own. She likes the old school emoticons, especially ^w^

7: Glenn (He/Him) Glenn is a maned wolf who is very authoritative, and honestly sometimes borders on Problematic. He is also the one writing all this, and is getting better at getting along with the other Alters and accepting that this is a real change in our lives and that we’re no longer going to be pretending we’re not a bunch of different personalities in one body’s head. I’m a little sour that the main body gets to be called Sirj, but we all agree it’s a cool name it’s how we’d like to refer to our physical form. (EDIT FROM THE GOBLIN, GLENN LIKES TO TALK LIKE HE’S A LORD OR SOMETHING, LIKES THAT FLOWERY ANTIQUATED LANGUAGE SHIT AND HE’S REALLY WORRIED HOW IT COMES OFF)

8: The Goblin (He/Her) The Goblin is a 3 foot tall bat with green fur, and is not in fact /actually/ a goblin. Much like how Cecil can not speak or type, The Goblin can not speak or emote, and can in fact only communicate online via texting. She envisions herself in a room filled with computer monitors and wires, but like Soleil is very good at speaking for some of the other alters, in an online capacity. She also prefers to type in all caps!

 @fieryanqel​

It was one of those days... Hayley’s morale wasn’t exactly at its highest point, but rather than wallow, she’d decided to take matters into her own hands, and wanted to do something normal for a change. So she’d decided that a trip to the bakery & patisserie for some sweet delights would cheer her up. She couldn’t remember if the place also made beignets, but if they did, she’d also be able to buy some for Hope. Maybe there’d be enough room left for her to sit down with coffee and a croissant.

The plan seemed to be working, the moment she strolled in, as her highly developed sense of smell took account of the enchanting world of sugar, fruit, honey, milk, cream, eggs and flour she had entered. The array of pastries and even breads was dizzying and her eyes hungrily darted around in trying to keep up with her nose, so as to sort through all the different scents and identify the different items. 

However, as she got up to the display to get a better look, something else caught her eye. It took her a second to be sure, but she recognised the young woman that stood there, and smiled slightly, nearing a little closer to a say hello. “Hey... Katrina, right?”

This man also tries to kill literally every character who appears in a scene with him with the exception of one guard, including columbo. It's not a particularly clever murder considering the crazy amount of evidence he leaves, to the point in the deconstruction scene, columbo flat out calls the killer an idiot. His motive was obscenely easy to glean (evidence of his affair was in the victim's home, already bad enough but then he tries to steal them and gets caught in the act), his method for training the dogs was obvious and his only way to cover for that was to say "uh no I wasn't doing that"

It's got me thinking, both in the micro and macrocosm of the show. Throughout Columbo many of the killers are psychologists, I'd need to double back to check but I feel like there's at least 1 per season, and notably the original pilot featured a psychologists as the killer.

Between this episode and the last one I watched (whether they were one right after the other isn't completely clear) there was a heavy theme presented in that both cases involved a previous murder going unsolved. In the previous episode, a famous author's beloved niece is killed by her husband, and because the killer was never caught, the author takes matters into her own hands and kills him herself. In this episode, the fact that his murder of his wife goes unsolved leads directly into him being able to kill again. In the first episode, the author laments at the end after she's been caught "if only you'd been the one to investigate my niece's death, then we wouldn't be here." Obviously saying that she felt that if columbo had done that investigation, her own victim wouldn't have gotten away with his crime. It goes unaddressed on this episode, but I couldn't help thinking the same thing. He'd already killed once, and it wasn't caught, and as stated in another recent episode, murder begets murder, "even when you don't know it, you start to think it."

Perhaps it's a subtle sadness and recognition of the fantasy of columbo. It's easy to think that you can't commit a murder in LA in this world because if you do, Columbo will show up much like a vengeful specter and hound you til your crimes see the light of day, but these episodes are a grim reminder, he's just one man, and even a case as obvious as this one still took so much time and effort for columbo to actually be able to PROVE what was so inherently obvious.

Perhaps read uncharitably, that could be read as a nugget of copoganda at the core of columbo. "Isn't it stupid that it's so hard to convict someone who it obviously just feels guilty? It shouldn't be so hard to arrest people like that!" Which is a terrible stance to take, and I'm sure one that, intentional or not, many people in the 70s and beyond probably took as the gospel of Columbo.

Personally I don't think that was the writer's intentions, at least not from how they talk about the stories they wrote in interviews (a quote from one of them went along the of "people love to see capitalists pay for their crimes") personally I think it's just a bitter sweet element that poked through the fantastic veneer of columbo, a sad reminder that columbo ISN'T a cop in the true sense. He doesn't carry a gun, he doesn't say a thing until he's ready to say it and not a moment before. He refuses promotions and prosperity because that would hinder his work.

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