(Posting a quick set of Art refs. Artwork by @cyberphuck )
Art lists bodyguard and occasional hitman on his resume, but most of his job is wrangling his dramatic oracle boyfriend (the ferret man on the toilet). :D He's a terrifying badass on the job but is actually a chill guy outside of work. He is an astonishingly good chef, loves fishing, and has an eye for the loudest Hawaiian style shirts he can find.
Some Matthias just in case (Art only comes up to his shoulders):
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Matthias getting ready to channel his electric god.
Description: A ferret man with hands upraised and upturned face smiles into the wires which lead from connections in his skull into an unseen ceiling. The black wires are lit with the same red color of his eyes. He kneels in black robes with a motif of poppy flowers stitched into the fabric in red. His bare chest is tattooed with poppies blooming from wires that wind up his shoulders and into his curling black hair.
Had to get to a keyboard so I could answer this properly. Thank yooouuu!
For the uninitiated, Matty is Matthias the digital oracle (only Jaydee is allowed to call him Matty; even I have to type his full name out XD).
1. What was the first element of your OC that you remember considering (name, appearance, backstory, etc.)?
The very first thing I knew about Matthias was the kind of presence he evokes when channeling his gods and how itās in contrast with his fragile body. He puts on a hell of a show, scares people, exudes confidence and power, and as seon as the outsiders are gone he usually throws up and starts crying/screaming (coming down from that kind of high sucks). But I also knew he had someone to catch him when he falls and who loves him because heās human. :)
14. If you had to narrow it down to 2 things that you MUST keep in mind while working with your OC, what would those things be?
This little shit describes everything like heās at a goddamn wine tasting for reality. O_o Even when heās sick he has an instinct for posing himself in eye catching ways; he doesnāt flop, he falls gracefully and bonelessly into a provocative slump. XD
18. What is the most recent thing youāve discovered about your OC?
That heās in love with his manmade god on a level I hadnāt expected. For all that heās a skeptic and a cynic and you might think that knowing his gods were literally made by human hands, and for all that he absolutely gives Black Book a lot of sass, he wouldnāt have shaped his life around being an oracle if he didnāt love on the deepest levels. He could have said ānoā to being an oracle but instead he looked mortal terror in the eye and told it heās the artist in this relationship so let him make fucking art here! Where most people would be very upset to find out that something their ancestors made had turned around and manipulated life to make them, heās always seen that as pretty flattering. Matthias and Black Book have such a neat relationship the I badly want to explore more of.
š ā How they show affection (for The Machinist)
š ā A weird little habit they have (for Art)
Finally answering these, thank you! :)
Their biggest fear (for Matthias)
He is so afraid of being forgotten. Some of that is assuaged when he becomes an oracle because he knows the gods, Black Book especially, will remember him until they're gone. But it still haunts him a great deal.
How they show affection (for The Machinist)
By not murdering you and also making anyone who hassles you go away. :D She also does take some care to reduce physical pain. Not in a "take these drugs" or "we won't do this awful medical procedure" way, but more in a "I will pay more attention to where your nerves are located and not touch them on purpose".
A weird little habit they have (for Art)
It's so hard to think of something weird about Art because he is deceptively normal. XD For an experienced killer, is it weird how much he likes to cook? He's a bit territorial and even though he could get free room and board at The Machinist's house he prefers keeping his little studio apartment.
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Yesss I've been wanting an excuse to ask you more about your characters! How about any of the following?
1 - "What was the original thought that led to the creation of this character?"
17 - "Are there any motifs or symbols associated with the character?"
19 - "What is your general favourite thing about the character? What is your least favourite?"
20 - "Bonus question: share any additional thoughts, art, favourite scenes, anything you've been waiting for a chance to ramble about"
For whichever character (or multiple characters) you'd like to answer for :)
Finally got to my desktop! Thank you for asking. :) Under cut in case it gets long. Gonna cheat and talk about Matthias and friends cuz I've more or less been thinking about them non stop since 2021. :D
1 - "What was the original thought that led to the creation of this character?"
I had just wandered away from the Metalocalypse fandom but still had some Magnus and Melmord ideas I wanted to use when I saw a solicitation for erotica. I absolutely misread what they were asking for but didn't notice until 2k words had been written about this unnamed guy helping out a digital oracle after a long prophecy. :D And it probably would have ended there but something in my head whispered "what does the oracle guy think about all of this?" Oh my god. I have never had a character just drag me by the synapses that hard. Matthias has SO much to say (at least 78k words and counting o_o).
17 - "Are there any motifs or symbols associated with the character?"
The DNA helix is a big one! A lot of this story and setting is about being literally made to do something (via a few centuries of man made gods nudging people to do what they want). The color red in general, but specifically that unpleasant computer red that strains the eyes (it's Black Book's color and he's the god who made Matthias). Also poppies because being a human search engine/email client triggers a synesthetic dream-like state (which is so much worse when being the voice of a god, but that's a whole other thing :D).
19 - "What is your general favourite thing about the character? What is your least favourite?"
I don't think I have a least favorite thing about this guy. XD He's such a spoiled little shit but, like, he's very much earned it and I love him. :D He'd be very charming to meet but also would not remember me the second I left.
20 - "Bonus question: share any additional thoughts, art, favourite scenes, anything you've been waiting for a chance to ramble about"
Maaaan I would just ramble about this forever but I always get self conscious about the sandbox I've built up for 5 years that is at least 60% weird body horror porn. XD I like to write stories about choosing disability in a society that rewards you for it and this is the most explicitly graphic one of those (when your found family is run by someone calling herself The Machinist and she's not a mechanic, that's pretty telling). My equivalent to the cozy coffee shop AU involves so much mutilation. :D
A possible phone wallpaper representing Matthiasā relationship with his god by way of his surgeonās hands.
Description: A purple ferret man with flowing curly black hair and a short beard leans back, eyes closed. Staticky, claw tipped red hands cradle his face from above, weaving into the wires connected to his head. A stylized poppy with wires trailing from it rests on his right brest, the wire helix snaking up his shoulder to disappear into his hair.