since Skull canonnically ranks pretty high in his family and is shown to have a number of subordinates- direct subordianates even iirc. I've just been thinking really hard, I wonder what their dynamic looks like. becasue we've seen Skull with a number of people, but the kind of casual disrepect he gets from a lot of those he interacts with (ex the arco or adelheid) isn't a suitable way to treat your superior. And on the flip side; Skull's interactions with people aren't usually ones where he is 100% in charge. Him convincing Enma to help him does mean him bossing Enma around a fair bit, but it's a bit different from a formal organisational structure and Skull spends a good amonut of time being more or less obviously insecure that the deal with Enma will fall thru.
I could absolutely see Skull acting similarly-ish as a comander though, but what I'm most of all wanting to figure out is how his subordinates/minions/underlings would treat him in return. This got pretty long lmao but I wanted to toss out my own view first and see if you had anything to bounce off of it. much love <3
hi vanya! hope you're doing well too and are having/had a good day. <3 thank you for the ask!
i think you hit the nail on the head when you said the way skull is treated by most characters in the manga isn’t the way one would treat a superior, because the thing is we rarely see skull interacts with people he is superior to, one way or another. it’s like you said, “Skull's interactions with people aren't usually ones where he is 100% in charge”, and i’d add they aren’t usually ones where he’s in charge at all either (namely with the arco). so as much as the casual disrespect they give him is unfortunate and absolutely not needed just because they’re superior to him, it’s also casual for a reason, you know. because they don’t owe him respect, and if anything he’s the one who owes it to them. and because they’re all mafia and only experienced human connections through a mafia lens, it’s actually a testament of the fact they still like him, value him and think he has worth despite seeing him as under them that they’re only just casual with their disrespect, without ever really meaning it to sting, as sad as it is to say it (and despite how, as we all know it, skull still absolutely does, and has always taken issue with that disrespect.)
and when he should be the ones in charge in his interactions like with enma and the shimon, it just doesn’t work because of his appearance as a baby that just doesn’t let anyone not in the know of the arco (and arco curse) take him seriously (the poor guy just can’t win lol). so it’s a bit hard to think about what the reverse looks like because we have little to go by to do so, but i think it's still manageable! like you said there’s the fact he ranks pretty high in the carcassa family, being their military commander, and does have direct subordinates under his command, yeah. even if we only see them in action like, twice if we include the arco trials arc? whatever lol.
there’s also the things skull says, like how reborn is the only one who treats him as an errand boy, how he isn’t the same person he used to be back when he was chosen as an arco, how he couldn’t think of anyone to ask to be his representatives despite aforementioned high rank in his family and direct subordinates under his command, and how he isn’t great at making friends.
and finally there’s the way other people see skull, like the background characters during the mafia land attack or the varia when they fought against him. (wait i feel like i’m digressing and i haven’t even said anything relevant yet?? but i’m going somewhere with this, i swear lol.)
(also i’m going to use the arco trials arc as a reference for this post even if i know it’s not canon, but i’d have very little to go by otherwise lol, so we’ll all just have to deal with it. <3)
i want to first focus on how skull acts when he is the superior to someone, because even if it’s not necessarily always a hard-and-fast rule, the way he’d be treated in turn would be a reflection of that, right? and i have to disagree that he acts the same as when he’s on the other side of the power balance! like yes he gets flustered at times and forgets to keep being professional about it when he does, but he still never forgets he is the one in charge even then. and more interestingly, he seems to never question the fact everyone else knows too he’s still the one in charge and will act accordingly even then.
and based on that i’d say it’s because skull knows without a doubt he earned to be the one in charge, and like, he would know that, wouldn’t he? like skull’s a hard-worker full stop. and for how much he may at times speaks highly of himself and does think highly of himself, it’s because it’s all based on facts that give him the ground to do so. and it may make it appear to others like he takes things for granted, like the fact people will naturally show him respect, but it’s actually that he knows he earned and deserves to get these things.
i mean, the world’s greatest stuntman? no way in hell there’s a lazy/easy way to get there even if skull wanted to take it, and no way in hell he managed to get this far by not solidly and fully working to have the actual skills to get there. so even if we say the carcassa family took him in just because of his title as an arco, so they could use it as a political tool and a, like, “better think twice before messing with us, because just look at who we have on our side” tool (< can’t find the succinct words for that lol), they wouldn’t have gone as far as give him such a high position with the means and men and authority and influence that come with it if he hadn’t first proven himself worthy and trustworthy and capable to have them.
skull is also very respectful of his subordinates. not sure if it’s the right way to put it lol, but like he clearly cares about the fact they’re people who have things they care about and would like to come back to too, just like him. he sees them as people first before he sees them as his subordinates he has full power over, which he could abuse at their expense if he wanted. and it doesn’t translate here to him trying to keep them out of danger, what with him leading them to attack mafia land knowing full well colonnello would be the enemy even if he didn’t know reborn would be there too, and making them attack vongola decimo in the arco trials arc, etc, but it’s because danger just comes with the job as mafiosi, and he can hardly make them avoid it without making them all lose their job entirely lol.
so instead he goes on the front-lines with them, and fights with them, and even makes a point to put himself right where there’s the most danger so to do the hardest part of the missions himself. during the mafia land attack he’s the one who ends up fighting against reborn, and presumably he ended up there because he was on his way to personally deal with colonnello. and during his arco trial, again he’s the one who fights against tsuna with oodako. so skull’s effectively always telling his subordinates “seeing as you’re bound by duty to risk your lives following my orders, the least i can do is to be there with you making sure those orders won't fail you. and should they fail you, then i intend to be there with you too to take the fall with you”. and on the note of him valuing the lives of his subordinates and trying to keep them safe when he can, he’s also ready to risk his life to do that like we saw with enma.
but before i add more to this particular scene because it actually says something interesting about skull as a superior, let me make my next point first about skull also being very dutiful when it comes to the responsibilities he’s given and agreed to take. all the missions we saw him lead failed, but he never even once seemed to have considered not seeing them to the end anyway. like he may or may not have thought he had his chances against colonnello during the mafia land attack, but as soon as he realized reborn was there too, he must have known they weren’t going to win no matter what. same thing with tsuna, when he immediately realized he wasn’t going to win against him (btw irrelevant but i just rewatched that fight, and skull is fucking hilarious and we don’t talk enough about it). yet in both cases he still sticks it through to the end, and tries his best to do what he was there to do and agreed to do, instead of ordering a tactical retreat or something.
re: him saving enma from the varia tho, because that dutifulness of his doesn’t always go to his mission, but also to his subordinates. and going by what happened with enma, he seems to put his duty to his subordinates first.
and i really find it interesting because it’s not just about how he values people’s lives before any kind of mission, even one that could end up with him getting free of his curse. and it’s not just about how he values even more people’s lives when they’re under his responsibility and end up at risk to begin with because they were following him. i think i already said it in another post of mine, but the way i see it his reasoning goes something like this: skull commits to the things he signed up for and resolves himself to see them to the end no matter what, but only as long as they remain the things he signed up for.
so reborn unexpectedly being at mafia land when he attacked it? and tsuna being a lot stronger than he expected him to be? well too bad and it sure made his job a lot harder, but ultimately the parameters of his mission stayed the same, taking over mafia land and testing tsuna on his charisma, and so he sucked it up and followed through to the end. but a very interesting thing he says before he goes to help enma iirc is something like “i didn’t know this would be a matter of life and death”. because until then his understanding of the representative battles was that they just needed to destroy the other boss watches, and that’s what he intended to hold up enma to from the moment he agreed to become his representative.
so when the varia seemed about to kill him? all bets were off instantly and he immediately stepped up to stop it, and at that moment it had nothing to do with the fact that enma losing would mean he wouldn’t get freed from the curse. it was solely about how enma didn’t sign up for that, and how skull himself didn’t sign up for making anyone risk their life to free him from his curse.
and the representative battles were of course a very unique situation, but taking them as a basis, what i’m trying to say here is that when it comes to the rules of the mafia, which skull presumably agreed to sign up for once he made peace with the fact he was now mafia, he did not, in fact, signed up for them, and in fact couldn’t care less about them.
i said once that for skull being mafia is nothing more than a part-time job (lol), and i still very much stand by it tbh. and whether he made peace or not with the fact he’d be mafia for the rest of his life, independently from whether or not he’d ever end up free from the curse, he still evidently makes it a point to make it happen on his own terms as much as possible. so he commits to it and compromises with it and plays along with its rules, but only in the way you’d do with a job you agreed to do, because he has to see the mafia like that at the very least if he wants to survive in it. but it’s also the way he sees it at most, because unlike almost all the other characters in the manga, he absolutely refuses to let the mafia and the fact he’s a mafioso become a lifestyle to him.
which means, to get back to the point, when you put him in a position where he has power over other people’s lives, not only he makes part of his duties coming from that position about keeping those people safe, but he also makes it his first priority too without a second thought, making it take precedence over everything else. over his duties to his pride as a mafioso (< which he doesn’t give a shit about anyway, or at least not in the way where he’s ever going to let people die for it if he can help it at all), over his duties to his family by doing everything to complete his missions so it can benefit it even if it means casualty, and over his duties to the loyalty that binds all mafiosi to the mafia and to whatever, wherever or whoever in the mafia they chose to lay down their loyalties for.
idk if that was very comprehensible lol? but basically what i’m saying is that because he’s a former civilian, skull’s able to not give a shit about what he’s being told and is witnessing everywhere mafiosi should care about and how they should act, which lets him put the most value in having a very small scale, spontaneous and individualistic sense of duty so to speak. it lets him decide and stay true to his resolve that yes, the safety of the people he can see right there in front of him is the most important factor he needs to keep in mind, and even more so if he’s the one responsible for it. and whatever consequences that might come from that, he can deal with it later.
so based on all that, how do i personally think skull’s subordinates treat him in return? honestly the first words that come to mind is deep respect and trust.
respect because they must have seen him putting in the work to work his way up the ranks and earn it every step of the way until he became their boss, and so they know without a doubt he has the skills to pull it off, on top of knowing he’s capable, reliable, trustworthy and hard-working. and tho it wouldn’t be hard for skull to impress them and earn their respect like that because they’re playing in entirely different leagues, and on that note the mere fact he’s an arco can only play a part here too, we know it’s all also objectively true. because for how much the arco don’t like or want to say or show it to his face for whatever reason lol, so skull himself doesn’t think they do because of that, they still clearly have no doubt he deserves to be an arco and has what it takes to be one. and the varia also acknowledged his abilities and called him a monster back in the rainbow arc because he quite literally walked off their strongest attacks combined like no big deal. and of course seeing those undoubtedly big shots recognize skull would only make his men respect him more.
deep trust, and i’d even say unwavering trust too, because of aforementioned knowledge he has what it takes to be their boss, but i mean it here more in the sense that not only they know skull has the skills to be their boss, but they also know he cares that he is their boss. that he’s responsible for them, for their safety, for their lives. and he constantly proves to them that not only he values them, but also prioritizes them above everything else, which absolutely wouldn’t be something expected of him or something people would bat an eye at if he didn’t, because the mafia is just cruel like that. so being valued by the people above you isn’t necessarily uncommon by no means, but i think for most, if not all of skull’s men, it’s actually a first that they’re the first priority. because as mafiosi there are just other things you’re expected to prioritize first, and the more high ranked you are, the more true it is.
but skull doesn’t do that, and is so committed to not do that, he even fights alongside them on the front-lines, which also tells them that all the orders he gives them, all the courses of action he decides they’ll take are ones he truly believes will lead them to success while keeping them as safe as possible. which of course makes it even easier to trust him, and to not let place to any doubt about whether he’s just using them as bait or throwing them away by sending them into suicide missions to make his job easier. basically they’re not just a means to an end to him, and he constantly proves that to them.
for me they also feel a deep and unwavering loyalty to him. like on the note about them being able to be certain his orders are always given in good-faith, you’ll also notice they literally never question them at all. like they’re so incredibly ride or die for skull, it’s honestly impressive when you consider the only other times we see that same kind of loyalty is within the guardians/sky or mafia boss/family members dynamics. (WAIT actually there’s mukuro and the kokuyo gang too, and there’s definitely something to say about that but idk what lol, and it’s not the point here anyway.) but under skull’s command they were meant to be the enemies of three arco (reborn, nello and verde) and vongola decimo of all people (poor guys lmao), and they still didn’t bat an eye about it. so it seems wherever skull goes they go, and whatever he orders them to do they do, no questions asked.
and if they feel that way it’s simply because skull is loyal to them too and has consistently remained so, re: him prioritizing them first and foremost, and making his sense of duty be about them first and foremost. and it’s kind of wholesome actually, i love that for all of them. <3
another angle of the way they might treat him that’s more supposition here than anything else, but i feel like they’d feel secure and safe in being casual and comfortable with him, and would know they’re allowed to be. if for no other reason than i just know skull wouldn’t care about his subordinates always “remembering their place”, by bowing to him whenever they see him and stuff like that, and in fact would be super uncomfortable with it. so i can see them be lighthearted with each other and crack jokes together and such.
now i feel like i described a very deferential way they’d treat skull, and like, yes i do believe they treat him exactly like that, but i’m not saying skull is the perfect superior by no means. like he doesn’t think things through, and doesn’t plan for the unexpected, or not as much as he should anyway, and also gets flustered easily by said unexpected things happening. and tho like i said i don’t agree he’d let his insecurities get the best of him when in business mode so to speak (he does do that with enma and the shimon, but like discussed it’s because he isn’t fully in charge with them even if he should be), i totally believe he’s goofy and fucks up and makes stupid mistakes at times. i mean, it’s skull, you know lol.
but he always pulls through when push comes to shove, even if it doesn’t necessarily mean success. and when it comes to the way he treats his subordinates, despite them not being his guardians or them being--as far as we can tell--no-names in the family and thus expendable? i WILL say that is as close to a perfect superior as you can get in the mafia. so yes i do think they see skull that highly and treat him with that much high-regard, because skull’s simply consistently and constantly going out of his way to earn it from them.
(it’s the same for tsuna btw. their situation aren’t exactly similar of course, but just throwing this out there, don’t mind me.)
but okay, now get this because this is where it gets interesting yet again, and really interesting in this case, because that wholesome relationship they have? it’s strictly professional. like, it has to be when even after--what? a couple of years at least, if not a decade or so, right? he still doesn’t consider them as friends, and/or doesn't think they consider him as a friend even if he does. and either he didn’t consider them at all as potentially willing to be his representatives, or did consider them and assumed they’d refuse.
and it really stands out when we know the mafia in khr is all about family and binding closeness and loyalty to your family. and skull and his men are that too, but seemingly in the “we’re all part of the same family and so act with each other and treat each other as such” way, and not in the “i call and see you, specifically, as family too. you the individual, and not just you as someone else who just so happens to be part of the family too” too.
idk if you get what i mean here?? but for how close they are as mafiosi doing their part as members of the same mafia family, there’s no emotional closeness there, no attachment to the person as well as the mafioso, and more importantly, no attachment to the person independently from the mafioso. which again is so unique because in all the other hierarchical dynamics we were shown, off the top of my head anyway, the two always overlapped. but skull, by his own admission, always seems to come short to make it happen.
so it seems skull is incredibly good within a formal organizational structure like you said, is incredibly good at understanding the standards in place and then making it so he rises to them, but only when it comes to the professional/public aspects of his life. when it comes to the emotional/private ones tho? he struggles to be acknowledged and recognized, let alone to connect with people, let alone to grow close to them, and seems to have always struggled to do so. and idk if it’s because he’s not so good at knowing what people expect him to be instead of what they expect him to be able to do, or if he is just as good as doing that too, but then doesn’t manage to rise to those expectations for whatever reason.
and i really do think it’s interesting, because it puts other things we know about him into a different perspective. namely the way he’s so hell-bent in making the arco explicitly acknowledge and recognize him and show him respect. because he could just not care that they don’t, right? it’d just be seven people who don’t, while the rest of the world isn’t so difficult about recognizing he deserves to be given that.
but maybe he just needs them to recognize it too, because getting acknowledged for the things he’s able to do and puts in the work to be able to do is the closest to an emotional bond he’s ever managed to have, let alone a close one. and so, unbeknownst to the arco, it hits him somewhere raw and already hurting that they just keep refusing to give him that no matter what he does.
it’s also even more interesting when you think about how the shimon, especially adel, just gave him zero chance to be the one in charge in their relationship lol. and given no choice but to emotionally bond with them on equal ground, he actually managed to do that so successfully he stayed with them post the rainbow arc, and they agreed to take him in. so it seems skull just can’t manage to both do things people want him to do and be the things they want him to be at the same time? or he just can’t do both full stop, for whatever reason. and i just realized that right now so idk what to make of it yet, but there’s definitely something to say about that.
anyway, new side of skull unlocked, so thanks for that van. <3 also this ended up being long, and hopefully not by being entirely irrelevant to the matter at hand zesdghghg. hope it gave you some food for thought at the very least, and much love to you too! 💖
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Title: cloud day
Author: cloudspark[AO3]
Rating: T
Pairing: Skull/Bermuda von Veckenschtein
Prompts: painter/model AU
Tags/Warnings: No Archive Warning, Work features multiple days and as such contains an index for potential triggers in each day
What I enjoy about your writing? Messy af essay incoming lol
Ok ok ok ok. So I will say right off the bat that you write every other character amazing too, of course, holy hsit I love everything you do, hashtag my idol fr. BUT ARCOBALENO wfgjjjkr! Ok so basically the arco are side characters except for Reborn. This means that you have to fill in a lot of info if you want to write extensively about them, and the source material hasn’t got a ton of info to start off with (moreso with some, like especially Fon gets jack shit lol). and even Reborn remains extremely enigmatic and chaotic in the way he acts no matter how much he shows so he is hard to nail in the first place imo. Well, basiclly this is my longass way of saying how amazing i find the way you retained just enough vibes of their OG, so it does feel like this could be exactly what we’d find if we got more of them in canon y’know, except that you managed to do all of that while ALSO sorta making it less gag-manga series but ALSO still be super funny, just the way that all of the serious moments still have this tension and all of that emotional impact and you add some really amazing depth in ways that just flew into their characters SO NATURALLY and yeah just. WOW.
And ALSO can I just say that I am so in love with the way you don’t shy away from their flaws. Like of course the temptation seems to be that when you’re adding to the personalities bc you want to extend the universe with the little arco we get to see, most want to sorta gloss over it a lot but you DONT and you're just SO EPIC for it. Like for example bc it’s the easiest lol, yes Skull really is That Obnoxious ™ and honestly he is so distinctive and funny for it and like YES, you do that. And you balance the glaring flaws with really really making them so funny and chaotic and likable and it all just serves to make an incredibly interesting characterisation that is so so enjoyable and feels super duper natural. (and ofc I said skull here but this goes for every single one of them!!)
And also Luce!!! SHE! she deserves a part of her own ok? Justice for my homegirl. I love you, the Luce apologist we all need. You just do her so well! Luce is just this person who has always been expected to carry the world and she could have been bitter and sharp for it but NO she CHOOSES to be as soft as she will ever be allowed to and it’s actually so so strong of her to wake up every morning and still WANT to be kind when she knows that one day it won’t ever matter how kind she has been. She has so little time and she still wants to GIVE it all to the world that will take everything from her in the end. And she is still SO RESOLUTE. She’s got all of this love she doesn’t know what to do with, and she just wants the best for everyone but she wants the best for Everyone with a capital E yaknow.
And also like ofc I barge in screaming about these specific things but literally all of your writing is so so good ok!?
I just love your stuff hopeeee T_T (and you. ily you're always so sweet and a pleasure to share fandom with!!!)
BAWLING MY FUCKING EYES OUT THANK YOU I LOVE YOU. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
[SCREAMS SOME MORE] zfsrdgchgfd??!!??!!!!??? i absolutely did not expect this holy shit, you always spoil me so much with your kind words, ily. okay okay, sorry but i just had to gush over this for a bit, but i'm functional again now (< bald-faced lie).
okay so, i AM an arco writer, and like, i know that of course, but precisely because of that it means everything to me to know i’m doing it right. and it’s also very relieving because it’s like, 80% of what i write lol. i do think there’s still some of them i have yet to get the hang of (verde STILL comes to mind first 😭), but i do try to keep them in character, so i’m glad it comes through.
you know what i never realized it before but i DO tend to tone down the gag-side of their characters, that’s so interesting!! and not only theirs, but i think unless i’m expressly going for it like with my crack fics, i tend to do that with every khr character i write? that’s probably because i’m all about characters and their Feelings (tm), and as much as i love the gag side of khr too, well, you can’t just have it there too much when you’re trying for emotional impact lol.
also you said you don’t think i shy away from their flaws, and you have no idea how glad i am to hear it because i actually really think i do the opposite? well, not entirely the opposite, because i love their flaws too and they wouldn’t be half as interesting as they are without them, but again unless i’m expressly going for it like with my angst fics, i feel like i do always shy away from fully leaning into the conflict bits of my stories. from really letting them blow out to their worst. i feel like i do anyway? because ultimately i’m a big softie and i want the characters i love to get along with and kiss and be happy with each other lololol, but yeah, thank you for saying that.
AND I AM A LUCE APOLOGIST LMAO YES I AM!!!! no but for real, i LOVE this, and i’m bound to use it as my blog title eventually!! it’s like, i’ve been called a luce apologist, this is it, this is the peak of me writing luce and the superior compliment letting me know i’m writing her RIGHT. as she deserves because yes, JUSTICE FOR HER GODDAMMIT!!!!!!
and i love the way you put it too, about her loving Everyone with a capital E, because i really feel like this is the thing most people don’t get which makes her easy to dislike/hate in their eyes. and it’s so sad because they get it all wrong!! it’s not that she didn’t care about the arco, that she didn’t want to save them, that she didn’t feel guilty she couldn’t save them for the rest of her life, but she cared about them AND literally everyone else!!! she cared about the whole world too!!! and even if she had chosen the arco instead, because she would have still cared about both it would still have been just as bitter and painful a story, and that’s the tragedy of this all!!!! WHATS NOT CLICKING PEOPLE!!!!!!!!
🥺🥺🥺🥺 thank you so much. 😭😭😭🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 (and right back at you!!!! you really make my day every time you pop up in my notifs, and i’m just so grateful and happy we’re in the same fandom.
also irrelevant, but how should i call you? sorry but it’s been bugging me lol. tho tbh i always read your url wrong so i’ve been calling you scrip in my head zefsdgdws but like???)
hi hope lots of love from me, hope you're doing great! (i've been re-reading some of your fanfics and DAMN they slap i ended up being awake at 3 am half-sobbing more than once this past week...❤️😄) ANYHOW here's a silly question but what is your favourite dumb costume of Reborn's?
hi vanya, lots of love to you too! i'm doing great, thanks for asking, and i hope you are too. 💖 (aww thank you so much, i’m always happy to hear that. 🥺🥰🥰🥰)
tbh i really love his master pao pao costume!! i just find it so adorable, from his shorts, boxing gloves, elephant helmet to his little beard. and like, this might be weird to say lol, but i think he really pulls that costume off somehow. tho of course i’m really biased here as i love the first appearance of master pao pao because of that scene where he calls ryohei impressive, but for getting a look at all his different costumes on the wikia, even objectively speaking master pao pao is still the superior costume, sorry not sorry. <3
that said, i MUST honorably mention his cherub costume when they go to mafia land. like, the way he was shameless about going BUTT-naked for it even knowing he was a whole ass grown man in the body of a baby? that’s what you really call committing to the bit, but also it’s hilarious to think about him having to deal with tsuna and co remembering that once he gets his adult body back lmao. not that i don’t think he still wouldn’t be just as shameless then, but still.
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Title: rain day
Author: cloudspark[AO3]
Rating: T
Pairing: Skull/Arcobaelno(+Colonnello)
Prompts: Gamer AU
Tags/Warnings: No Archive Warning, Work features multiple days and as such contains an index for potential triggers in each day
You're so epic and a tresure, not only to the fandom with all of your genius but also as a friend and arelly cool person! No matter what energy you have or don't have, you are loved here <3
it was so soo nice to wake up to this. 🥺🥺😭 you always spoil me with your kindness and your love vanya, these surprise asks always make my day and i appreciate them a whole lot for real.
MWAH kissing you on the forehead and sending you all the love right back!!! the fandom absolutely wouldn't be the same without you either, and i'm so glad you're here and that we could have become friends. 🥰🥰🥰
Ack— 3 day’s have passed and it feels like one! Honest to goodness, I meant to answer this so so much sooner than I actually did D: but ngl, I didn’t expect Drosy to be popular hehe But I’m glad all you like him 💖
That’s him! He’s gorgeous right? It’s a little old (and I’m working on a new better version of this picture). This one was a tad quick and messy as I did it in a very big hurry (and also my digital art skills just aren’t that great anyway…)
So, Drosy, like all OCs didn’t start off as he was xD He was the lazy genius archetype that was always sleepy so he didn’t often leave his house and the only real way to talk to him was online. It was because Drosy was one letter away from ‘drowsy’ so it was a whole pun xD but he didn’t stay that way! The more I tried to write him, the more I wanted him to be outside doing stuff until he was like he is now: outside doing stuff. It was pretty fun to see him change (and he originally had sun flames :0 )💛
In universe, the reason he’s nicknamed Drosy is because he used to be a surfer (and technically still is but his list of activities has vastly expanded) and once injured himself with the dorsal fin of a surfboard. It wasn’t a bad injury but it was a funny one! xD
It was at a spot he’d always come to, so he could be a little lazy safety-wise, so when it was time to roll out and catch a couple waves, he was a little absentminded. A pretty fish caught his eye (it was yellow and glistening–) and he absentmindedly leaned down to grab it and BAM he completely crashed with the board hitting his nose and wrecking it. His mom bust out laughing and he tried to laugh, but the blood kept getting in his mouth D: His dad freaked out when he got home though.
If there’s anything more you wanna know, just ask! Always happy to talk about lovely Drosy <3
