#declan ferics

1. What kind of person is your OC in a crisis? Are they calm and collected? Do they panic? Or are they chronically the cause?

Oh boy, Ferdogg, bluebell, mold blood prime. I assume this is about Ferics from beforus, the rogue of time who paps somati, but this could also be about Declan, their altself on Alternia, or Diazni, their co-descendant on Beforus.

Ferics is Ice Cold. that motherfucker fixes problems. The adrenaline doesnt make them panic, its only when theres uncertainty, or something they cant do shit to improve their chances on that they start to panic.

heehee i love these

Does forgiveness come easily or with dificulty for them...

Ferics - In general Bluebell is extremely petty, once they know someone and start to like them that goes away, exception: Miyers (Ferics keeps a mental scoreboard of every tiny thing they can spite him for). If it's something serious, their trust is easy to wound and hard to heal.

Dlicti - She does not forgive. Her trust is fragile and when it shatters the cracks are sharp and draw blood easily. Dlicti is pretty chill, but she has a strict set of rules and does not tolerate encroachment on them. You get maybe three strikes with her, a fourth one is broken glass.

Calixtus - Cali is... hmmm... Cali does not feel like they have much of a self. This probably comes from being the /neutral/ master class, along with the aspect of mind. For the Judge of Mind forgiveness isn't really a concept that comes to them naturally. its not a strict set of rules so it's hard for them to grasp, and thus hard for them to trust. If you pressed them hard enough to tell you if they forgive you, not if the scales are balanced and debts are equalized, but if they Calixtus forgives you, they might break down entirely.

Something that makes them happy

Ferics - Somati. There's nothing like a good shooshsesh for them, either side. They also fucking love conceptualizing things and then making them. one of their favorite things in their workspaces is their 3d printer. They have intense empathy, as stoney as their facade may be, and it itches for them to know there are problems out there they aren't solving, so solving any problem feels great to them, the more important the better. Some are too important though...

Dlicti - Flowers. Also that dinky little violet that comes around to bother her all the time. She gets a very high amount of satisfaction from aligning things in a proper order, whatever that order might be. She loves seeing organisms thrive and orderly systems. It's why she's so fond of gardening.

Calixtus - Seeing the scales balanced. Once they managed to have three seperate conscious periods before they had to be tilted again, that might have been the most at peace they ever were. Cali also feels a really intense melancholy from drawing the three of them happy and alive together. Those drawings are hidden like theyre the nuclear launch codes. They have no idea what they'd do if they had another "hateful embrace" conversation with Calfuray or god forbid Calafay. This green little bastard just wants a stable system.

I can't tell if thats the cookie or the moon... ill do both

If they were an animal, what animal would they be?

Ferics - Donkey, easy. Maybe a mule, but probably a donkey.

Dlicti - hmmm... She gives me the energy of a big old dog. Or a cat. Or a bear?

Calixtus - mmm Snaske :-)

Favorite scents!

Ferics - Somati. Somati is their favorite scent. Nothing beats moirail smell. They do like the smell of rubber cement though... even though they Really shouldn't.

Dlicti - Flowers. Hyacinths probably to be specific, but any flowers are hella. I think some of their favorites are honeysuckles, jack in the pulpits or voodoo lillies, and columbines

Lets get stoned with moimma!

do Declan Ferics now

thanks, me, really thoughtful of me to do that for me, it means the word.

Helpless. Narratively impotent. 'Retarded.'

Incompetent.

Does that sound like a stupid thing for Ferics to worry about? absolutely. They're just about the most narratively significant troll we have. The only comparable trolls to them are Miyers, Sphinx, and Lykoii, and I think they might have at least two of those beat, not sure which two, and it might be more, but yeah. The only characters i think fully outpace them are the three Cherubs, all equally story shaping in their narrative force. Calfuray outpaces them in narrative influence through her machinations in the void, their ripple effects intentional and otherwise spawn entire narratives. Calixtus sculpts both other cherubs in a way unprecedented in cherubkind, and is directly responsible for a lot of the unnecessary strife between them in their attempts to just make things ok, Calbhach literally preserves the entire A session with the sprite fence. He ends the conflict with a pull of a trigger. I think, from a story reader's perspective that Calbhach would absolutely be the one to illuminate the audience to the majority of hidden information too. Be it through direct communications to the audience through his fourth wall aware thoughts, or through explanations to the trolls who ally with him.-- shit, the Cherubs are so narratively dense that they make everything about them god damn hold on, Declan thoughts.

Their fear of impotence is spawned in the same way Locust's is. I havent finished that post yet because that bug is a rats nest who has life-sucks-disorder, but it will be absolutely relevant. Declan is a cullee, they have chronic discomfort due to their slurryspaying scar, theyve had some Bad Cullers. Their best culler Also Sucks. Their whole life has been defined by their reproductive impotence and their physical inability. Where Locust fails, though, Declan succeeds. It, however, is extreme levels of overcorrection, I think.

While the session absolutely Did need an absurd amount of life support to not fully 100% softlock, they didn't need to bear the entirety of that weight. Maybe they wouldn't have needed to Scratch if they did share that weight. Maybe if they shared the burden so many horrible things would be averted. I feel like Respit would have helped so much more than he did at the drop of a hat if Ferics ever gave him the opportunity to ask. Even if something could Only be done by a time player, Ferics isn't the only one. I think their ruthless self sufficiency is their biggest flaw. I think it sounds like a bit of a fuckin mary sue flaw, the shit youd put on an employment questionaire 'i just love too openly and care too much' but it is a real flaw. (so are those two by the way)