#smiyhtob

October 2016 - October 2017

expression memes are a fantastic way to practice staying on model for your ocs

so anyway here’s some maia doodles :D

14. Introduce an OC with a tragic backstory 

Thank you

A little background, in the NAASF universe, there’s these people called royals. A royal is someone who has the ability to grant powers to other people, and therefore being in power in the mythic realm (but not the mortal realm because of bullshit elf politics). And currently there’s four of them, Dorandin, Morinaxis, Raiadexin, Ratekniel. So, Dorandin is kind of an asshole, and he essentially goes “Fuck all of you guys I’m leaving” because of a whole bunch of different politics and also because Ratekniel is a huge asshole. He goes and sets up shop and works on a plan for conquering the mortal realm, which, he isn’t even allowed to be in the mortal realm so that shit is kinda illegal for many reasons. Now, Cecil baker, the Oc with a tragic backstory, was the child of two of Dorandin’s closest friends and advisors. Around the same time as Dorandin went int he mortal realm, Cecil’s parents ended up dead, in around 2007 when Cecil was like ten, he never figured out exactly why, but he knew that they had been murdered. Because they were so close to Dorandin, Dorandin took Cecil in. About three years later, Cecil decides, with encouragement from his new best friend Victoria, who is also a chargem that he to wants to become a charge of Dorandin like his parents had been, and get powers from him. This is when shit goes sideways.

Now, Dorandin gives soul based powers, right, with the added bonus of hypnotism on the side, so Cecil’s new super power manifests as him becoming psychic. Soul based powers do weird ass shit to a persons soul, almost damaging it in a way. Dorandin is like “Hmm hey here’s an interesting thing Soul powers do, and hey! It’s possible to generate energy from that! That’s so cool I can use that to fund my word conquering or whatever the fuck, Does any one wanna help?” and Cecil is like “Haha sure” Then everythings going okay, right. They’re refining the technology, They figure this can be a pretty harmless things to the test subject. 

Then someone fucks up and they rip Cecils entire fucking soul out, and every one’s panicking and whatever until Victoria , Cecil’s dear friend, pops up and says “We have hypnotism powers guys, he can’t do jack shit to resist whatever we tell him to do he doesn’t have a soul, what if instead of like, making an army of people with thoughts and feelings and basic human morals we do this shit to them? Then, look, see his soul even tries to take bits of other peoples souls to restart itself if we hone that he can take specific parts of peoples souls, like their powers and mimic them! It’s perfect!” Then Dorandin is like “That isn’t what we intended to do but that also works yeah, yeah okay I like your thinking! Great idea!” 

They use Cecil in this state to kidnap other people to test this out on, and for killing quite a lot of people. This goes on for seven years because they can’t quite figure out how they did it in the first place, and they end up killing everyone that they try to replicate the results on. He spends this whole time  trying to do something about him being like this and not being able to, seeing everyone he knew and cared about give him orders to do terrible things and use him and he can’t do anything about it. Well, he gets very passive aggresive about it, but only when he’s actually stolen someone else’s powers and therefore his soul works enough for him to actually do that and Victoria, who now functions as his handler can’t do jack shit about that and it pisses her off to no end.

20. Do any of your OCs sing? If they sing, care to share more details (headcanon voice, what kind of songs they like etc)?

Avery (SMIYHTOB) Sings, Avery sings a lot. They actually have like, three canon scenes where they burst into song. They aren’t that bad when they put effort into it, it’s usually pop or punk pop songs. A lot of Imagine Dragons and Panic! at the disco mostly. A little bit of Twenty one pilots, but only when they have their ukelele. 

Aquarium sings, and they hum little tunes sometimes when they’re working.

Carrie (NAASF) can rap like tomorrow isn’t a thing, Tom tries to sing but he fails. He damn well sings anyways. Harriet Has the best singing voice of the lot. Victoria has a whole music thing going on, of course she sings. Jessie would be good at singing but they haven’t sung of their own free will since they were like 8.

Avery: You didn't raise any kind of son lmao

Avery's mom: What