#hurdygurdywizard

Her original design (from 4 years ago) was closer to a standard Rubbery! It's been rendered noncanon since I redesigned her, so it's the perfect design for her apocryphal counterpart. The same goes for apocryphal Shale, though they still had the cosmogone spectacles.

A Dark Place For Somewhere Beautiful by Nova Twins for Ockham!

aye aye capn 🫡 grace first!

So knives out, Catch the mouse Don't look down, Shove it in your mouth

I want you to know He's not coming back He's bloated and frozen Still there's no point in letting it go to waste

i probably don't need to explain why this one goes on his playlist i'm still real impressed i found an ice cannibalism song by accident tho. what are the odds

Nobody has ever seen his face, But fear his smile I heard he'll drink your blood just for the taste Then laugh, and spit it out (Whoa-oh-oh!)

Everybody tends to disagree, On just how evil A single human being should ever be And all your bones, they scream for more

And at the trial, there'll be no jury And all the dead are gonna play witness Not too late to say you're sorry It's too late to truly mean it

real different one for twitch! this one went in bc it makes me think about their reputation as a feared murderous pirate. there's gotta be some wild new sequence rumours out there like they drink blood for fun. i don't think anyone can sink 700 ships without becoming some kinda new sequence boogeyman

but also, at this point, they can't stop, and they Definitely couldn't apologise. they've kinda stuck themselves right in this position for good. i guess the real question is would they even Want to stop???

12. Do they have any self-destructive habit?

Well they sold a piece of themselves to basically any non Master, non monarchy power in the Neath and engage in permanent death duels on the regular. Only a Gift from a Goddess is keeping them alive

(although not all in one piece. Gem-like, solid light tissue is slowly replacing all the parts that got too badly damaged or are lost. They are aware. It's a secret known only to them and their Surgeon).

16. A Song that reminds me of them.

Gira - BarbascuraX

5: Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Will they give one, and what about? Ooooohohohoho, he'd talk about the subtler forms of the Correspondence. Correspondence written in ways that can slide under the radar: cricket matches, duelling footwork, metaphors. This is the sort of subject that gets him super animated, too: he'd be all over the lecture theatre, he'd be up on the desks, he'd be having a great time. And then at the end, he'd reveal that he'd been slowly crafting a series of sigils with the words of the lecture and his motions throughout – and then perform an elaborate bow and flourish a Starstone Demark, at which point every pair of eyebrows in the room would suddenly catch alight and Briar would be thrown out of the University again.

20: What do they like that nobody else does? Mr Stones.

if your vibes are feeling it: a very silly eel.

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failure: What's your OC's greatest failure? Have they been able to move past it? Does anyone else know about it?

does getting the wrong memories and escaping alone instead of with other captives from the honey gardens count as a failure??? hm. they weren't entirely twitch at that point yet so maybe it doesn't count. plus it wasn't really their fault

so another big failure instead! ssea's sigil ridden eaten navigator! twitch met siggy back in their early piracy days & recruited him because he was a damn good navigator & twitch was curious about him. he's quiet but i think they got on well

it happens like it does in ssea: he's missing memories because of the correspondence tattoos, and when he asks his captain to help recover them, he feels so guilty about what he learns that he asks to be put on an island and forgotten forever.

but twitch had a better idea!

take him to kingeater's, surgically remove the bad correspondence sigils, cut in new sigils to make him forget what he doesn't need. they've seen something similar done before! and it means he doesn't need to leave for a miserable island. the ship's surgeon refuses to do it, but it's fine, twitch can do it themselves! it goes about as well as you could expect.

"The thing that follows you back to your ship is not the Navigator. But it has his skills, and his face (though the right half is blotted by the sprawling sigil). The crew edge away." [ssea ssource]

he's never quite the same after that, and neither is the crew as a whole. it takes a while for them to accept what happened (accept might be a strong word, though).

twitch keeps him around, of course, the weird shambling corpse of the guy who used to be their navigator,,,,they can't just throw him out after doing that to him. and he's still a damn good navigator

they were trying to help, in some way. in the weirdest way possible, but they were.

their other big regret is the ending of evolution. they think they made the best choice they could have-the naturalist didn't want to be the boatman. they couldn't have done that to him. so even if it ended in his weird, paradoxical nonexistence- letting him choose his own fate, in some kind of way, is the only thing that felt right to them

but fuck, do they miss him.

torture: Has your OC ever been tortured? Would your OC ever torture someone else?

and for grace...does torturing himself via guilt count-no, he's not been tortured! one tiny grace win, i think? 🎉

not that i know of, anyway. there's plenty of gaps in his timeline yet---

as for him torturing someone else...i don't think so? definitely not under any kind of normal circumstances. but i also don't feel like i can rule it out 100%. i don't know why though

whatever would cause that to happen, it'd have to be so, so extreme but i can't think of any specifics. that feels like something i'm gonna have to try and unpack at a later date, huh

Power of the Sun by Charming Disaster for Roberts/Nite!