#tyratone

Firemite is amazing at mining- he brings in the most materials from a caving trip out of any of them, and he’s always eerily good at sensing nearby threats. Razormane is the best out of all of them with a sword and is fantastic at pvp and keeping them all safe. Aquafinity is able to establish good communications with those around them, even scoring a few good trades here and there between groups, and he’s the best mapper they’ve got because he’s always able to find his way back home without a fuss.

Tyratone… can’t really do any of that. Sure, she technically could, but her sight doesn’t hold a candle to Fire’s hearing, which might as well be better sight honestly, and her pvp skills are godawful, and she’s too socially awkward to trust herself to try negotiating and she got lost one too many times trying to map places out before. What can she even do? She has a small indoor farm that she collects by hand (she doesn’t know redstone- tried learning once and it went disastrously), and she has a family of cats she takes care of, and while it’s nice it’s not really helpful. She can try tagging along with one of the guys when they go to do something, and the company’s always good, but she never really feels like she’s contributing, and it really weighs on her. She likes her friends, and she would do anything in the world to be able to feel like she’s not dragging them down.

She would do anything in the world to not feel like they may decide at any time that she’s more deadweight than she’s worth.

Story idea:

I'm thinking for her! She tries to do something really really not smart to try to prove herself. Maybe she tries going to the deep dark, since she knows it's something that Firemite stays away from! And if Fire can't do it, maybe she can be useful and that can be the thing she does! She can go in the deep dark! This would of course go terribly wrong, possibly resulting in her getting infected with sculk because i reblogged a poll about characters getting infected a while ago and i want to do something with that idea. Because this can also!!! Go into Fire's story as well!!!! But her takeaway from the whole thing would, i think, be that she doesn't really have to prove herself. The group's gonna stay with her regardless, so the only person she was having to convince the whole time was herself, and she's gotta accept that she is enough as she is, and she doesn't have to try to be someone else or be better than someone else.

But i defo wanna play around with that idea because i am, at my core, someone that loves throwing angst onto my ocs, and sculk infection is a perfect way for there to be lots of angst for all four ocs in this crew :V

Debating on whether i'd want her to come out of it perfectly ok, or if she permanently has sculk in her system (possibly leaning on one of the sculk-related origins out there? possibly making up my own stuff for it) :3c i think it'd be very fun to explore either way

Her helsmet

Eventually, all of her self-esteem stuff gets to her enough that she spawns a hels counterpart- one that is super useful, and one that will do whatever she needs to in order to stay useful. Will it put her in danger? Hey, if she goes down, at least she goes down doing something. She doesn’t stay still, and she can’t hardly rest- unless in resting she’s helping someone for a job, of course. But she’s gotta be doing, constantly, all the time, or else she’s useless. Slow down and enjoy life? Nah, she’s got places to be, and too much to do.

She knows the lava lakes of hels like the back of her hand and can traverse them easily. After all, she’s a Strider. Makes it real easy for her to get around, and ironically enough, traversing lava lakes is safer than walking on land to get anywhere. She’s had to outrun ghasts a few times, but they’re really the only threat out here! So she has a job running around resource gathering for folks- and over time slowly ends up taking on more things, too: helping someone set up shop for the day, running errands for another, heck, sometimes she plays messenger. As long as she gets paid and knows that she’s putting in her effort to be worth the time she’s taking up by simply existing.

(ft. @doyouknowthemossinman's eight!)

She’s not against making friends doing so- as a matter of fact, making friends helps! The more people that she’s friendly with are the more people that have a higher opinion of her and are more likely to recommend her to anyone else that may need her help. Friendship establishes trustworthiness, too, which makes it even more likely that whoever she’s recommended to would actually choose her for the job.

SO FIREMITE

He was like the first one (maybe second??) that i came up with an idea for, and it was actually the redesigns that did it! i mentioned that he kept his more sculk-y eye and half of his face hidden bc it could freak ppl out and then also i realized that i'd kinda visualized him as a happy ray of sunshine all the time and it perfectly opened the door to! suppression. like if he's perfect beam of sunshine all the time then he's gotta be suppressing/hiding A Lot Of StuffTM, both physically (hiding as much of his warden influence as possible) and emotionally (only showing others his happiness), so i made his helsmet based off that! :V it's also kinda what firemite is afraid to be seen as i think, bc if he saw his helsmet all he would see is what about himself would scare ppl.

Tyratone was my second!! I'm pretty sure! she might've been first. but Tyr looks around at her friend group and sees that everyone else contributes- fire brings up resources from underground, aqua makes connections to other folks to keep them on good terms, and razor keeps the group protected from physical threats. She just.. has her little indoor farm. Collects crops every so often. Mostly keeps her cats alive. Messes around with firemite n tags along with razor to scout out sometmes. Like what does she even do. (She provides for the group but thinks it a task that any of them could do and that she's not really needed, even tho they do all rely on her to keep them going. Any of them *could* step into that role alongside what they do, it's simple enough, but they all appreciate having her around bc she's fun and enjoys simple things, and keeps the group together.) She thinks it only a matter of time before she's kicked out bc she's not really doing much, and so her helsmet is based around proving her worth through what she can do for other people!

Aqua took me a bit to fully realize; i had a vague idea for a while but it was toeing the line of similarity to tyr's and i didn't want repeats, so i sat and thought for a bit. in his original bio, i'd put that he kinda missed only having two ppl in the group, and that he thinks he's the leader but isn't. ok, so throwing these two things together, i can kinda figure that maybe he missed only having two people bc it meant that his opinions carried more weight, because it was only ever up against one other, instead of three others. he gets ideas of what he thinks is best and what he thinks they should do at any given time and the others tend to go with razor's ideas more than his, and it gets to him. he feels like they don't really listen to him at all, which they do and give consideration to his input, but he gets jealous and upset that razor's ideas are gone with more. so his hels is someone that constantly strives to be heard and to be listened to and to be viewed as important! i'm not actually sure if how i ended up implementing that works or not, but that's what i was able to come up with :V (the cane is just to look neat, and also it's netherite so heavy bonking stick as well should he need it sdklfj)

and then razor! razor. good night he gave me trouble. i wanted to draw him so badly and could not for the life of me figure out what his hels would be of. like i knew he'd be a fighter, but like. why would he exist in the first place?? i kinda thought about how i'd designed him and what personality traits i'd given him- he wears a lot of layers, most of his face is covered, long sleeves, it's a kinda closed-off wardrobe. and he's phlegmatic, so he goes with the flow a lot. maybe his thing is that he's doing what he can to keep the group safe, sure, but he also wants to try to stay a little closed-off, so that if he fails one day to keep them safe, it won't hurt as much and would be easier to move on. tossing around the idea that maybe that had happened with folks he was previously with- before he and fire met aqua and tyr, and maybe even before he met fire. not sure yet, (still not entirely certain on his hels concept at all tbh) but that's the fun of being in the middle of developing characters and their stories!! trying stuff out and seeing if it sticks!!

Razor, I don't think, even knows he has one

And his hels doesn't care to let him know he exists and given that he doesn't want to make friends or be attached to literally anyone is perfectly fine with his easy existence in the coliseum until he stops existing bc what's the point when all he and anyone else are gonna be in the end is names on a wall at best. He does well enough in the coliseum to keep on there, but he doesn't put in a particular amount of effort y’know. ppl like that he can throw sparks sometimes- bc like his counterpart he’s part blaze- n that’s easy enough

Changing course to aqua!!! And his hels- mostly his hels actually bc I haven't really. thought of much for player aqua yet 😅😅 or how they. view / interact with each other.

But I had a stray thought cleaning a couple days ago that if his hels is working his way up in influence, that probably also comes with money, and the coliseum is like. A Big Thing n u must be big and important if you're sponsoring someone there, right? He wants all the status he can get so he should sponsor someone!!

This bit is guesswork tho bc I. Don't remember much about like. How the sponsors work. But I was thinking like maybe all the best Bigger Fighters were taken/spoken for or smth? So he's stuck having to pick an underdog, or maybe is just wise enough to know he doesn’t rly have the status to support someone big, so he’s gotta gamble a bit, which. Now that I type that out I do like that one better actually I’m gonna go with that

My multiple stories of Minecraft characters has them all find each other in some way, so I like the thought of he ends up picking razor!

Well shoot, now razor had someone he has to like. Actually try for. Bc now he's sponsored, now he's representing the coliseum, now he has to put in the effort, and oh god what if he does poorly now that he’s sponsored would he get kicked out he has to try better now and suddenly his easy existence is not easy for him dsfghj he’s got a touch of anxiety, don’t mind him

So that may go interesting places :V

Ty!!!! Tyratone n her hels!!

I was thinking abt how they would view each other n realized like. They'd be jealous of each other. Ty would see her hels being ten different ways of productive n useful and thinks man she's like Got Her Spot In The World, nobody thinks she's useless n she always pulls her weight, she’s so good at everything?????

Meanwhile her hels would see her n be like man she's got a close circle of friends and she doesn't have to even try for it????? Her hels doesn't have time for friends bc she's too busy trying to run around and do things for people to try to find some sort of purpose for herself

So they don't like each other fjshfkdj

I can kinda see her ending up connected to the other two by way of just that she runs errands. She’s bound to do something for someone and likely multiples someones at the coliseum at various points right :V maybe atl

N then fire!!! Fire okok

So his hels is essentially the qualities of himself that he's afraid of- his hels is a more 'monstrous' version of him that he's terrified other ppl might see him as if he's not constantly trying to cover up his warden self

My thoughts of how they might would see each other was mirrors bc he's refusing to look at himself for who he really is but also that's tango n tanguish n I Don't Wanna Recycle

Then I thought well. His hels' existence is literally his nightmare. What if they visit through dreams? :V

N it's kinda vague if they're like Actually With Each Other or not but they've never wanted to do anything to each other or themselves to find out

So they both think they're just having like. Really Vivid Dreams

It’s not every time they sleep tho like only sometimes when fire falls asleep does he suddenly find himself faced with his other self and vice versa

Fire's hels, I think, is the easiest one for me to accept that he would be eventually poofed to nothing, if only because their story would be kinda similar to the game Celeste, where it's a story of acceptance of yourself and loving who you are (fire’s hels is defo not as antagonistic as badeline tho sldkfjsd)

And also bc it's still up in the air RNS-wise of what really happens to a hels once they are gone, so it's kinda being viewed for me through a lens of the two becoming whole again instead of like one character fading to nothing bc the other fixed an issue y’know

The others are kinda harder for me to be like 'welp they're hels they're gonna be gone eventually' gksjfkk

Especially Nora now that I've gone and written about her qvq whICH is. I haven’t done much more thinking about her yet buT I have realized that she and ty might connect bc if ty’s an errand runner then nora may hire her at some point :V