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Happy birthday Odile!!!!

mostly just WIPs / art variants ive never posted

Unfortunately when I was a teenager I deleted everything I wrote about it because I held a deep shame with everything I created (I, now still a teenager, have moved past this shame so I've started posting again)

TL;DR nativus is my OC world/story I've been working on for like. a little over 11 years now? I plan to turn it into an animated comic someday! (Think Ava's demon, if that's smth you know abt) It's surrounding the idea of a world with two key features:

Gods are real, and they can die. They have chosen people called "Nativi" (singular is nativus) who have formed their societies around the function of their god eventually taking over 1 persons body and continuing the cycle of immortality

Time was shattered about 2-3 years ago, causing everything to be fucked up, from how long it takes for people to die, to how long things take to happen when outside of "human" decision (like the flow of water from a river, or how long something takes to fall).

The main story surrounds the protagonists (distinctly, I didn't want to write it around 'heros' and 'villains') trying to find out how Ash, despite killing themself 2 years ago, is somehow walking around very much so alive and allegedly without any memory of what happened leading up to their death and subsequent revival.

Callise is Ash's former partner, and the three others are tied to them either through Callise's grief or through having known them personally before they died. They work as helpers, travelling around the world to solve conflicts and deal with stray spirits turned eldritch horrors.

They work for Darius, a glass-man mogul who has monopolized all functions of employment and, thus, the economy. Which leads me to my next point:

The antagonists, as you can imagine, actually have very little involvement w the protags at first beyond Darius (I'll die before any story of mine stops being a character study), but the one unifying trait that the audience will always be aware of is these 3 are all "false gods" (people who are either worshipped or acknowledged as a diety despite not being actual gods).

Shi (real name being Izanami) is the 'grim reaper', and is the reason these stray spirits turn into eldritch horrors because (for some reason or other OoOooOO) they have not been doing their job with the same efficiency for the past couple of years. It definitely has nothing to do with the spirit of their dead brother that only they can see.

Their close connection to spirits and dying make them a person the protags would love to ask about everything to, but they are notoriously asocial, busy, and 15 years old, so you can imagine how tracking them down while being in your early to late 20s and having a job goes.

Ultimately, Nativus is a horror story about grief, so it's got a lot of heavy discussions about trauma, mental health, abuse and interpersonal relationships. No one at all in this whole story is completely stable and has good relationships w the people surrounding them. Callise sees their dead partner come back to life and frame 1 tries to just blow their brains out like we're not dealing with ok people here.

This is such a cool(and accurate) read on him. Can you elaborate?

I mean, it's kind of hard to elaborate on because the venn diagram of Women Chase Is Actually Interested In is a circle.

We first see this with Cameron, perhaps incidentally. The two have always gotten along on a superficial level; they are at a minimum Work Friends. Chase is definitely vaguely interested in her (as his flirty comments in S1/2 make clear), but he doesn't really try to pursue her or take any initiative... until Hunting. As soon as Cameron is put in a stressful situation, where her health/wellbeing are at risk, Chase becomes very proactive: he checks on her repeatedly, and, while House suggests it's fake, we really have no reason to think so. Chase's initial check-in could be performative, but he asks Cameron for drinks when it's just the two of them, and offers to do overtime so she can get some rest after that. Compare Foreman, who asks once and then drops it, or House, who doesn't care or worry at all.

I don't think Chase had an agenda here, because it's pretty par for the course where he's concerned: he drops his apathetic act for a sort of protective/big brotherly one reasonably frequently, usually when kids are involved. He has a protective streak, you know? He checks in on people, he reaches out.

When the two start dating, we see this pattern again and again. Cameron will be upset, and no matter how unreasonable or justified Chase's upset is... he always drops it to check on her. Act Your Age? He's pissed, she just dumped him... but she's upset and he stops acting pissy to ask her why, and later reaches out again. The Itch? He's upset, feels shut out, but doesn't want to push Cameron and communicates his boundaries in a helpful way. Saviors? Both Sides Now? Lockdown? Cameron starts crying and he drops everything to comfort her. He offers to move out, no questions asked.

All this makes Chase sound like he's maybe a bit of a doormat, or passive, but I don't think it's quite that, because... he really isn't. He actually breaks up with Cameron repeatedly. He's supportive of her, but he lays down some pretty clear lines and holds to them. Instead, it's more that he supports her. He gives her space and patience but also pushes her (gently!) when she needs it.

And it's also a pattern we see again.

His next Serious Relationship, even if it isn't romantic, is with Thirteen. Thirteen's damage isn't exactly a secret, although by the time she and Chase become friends she's in a much better place. But we see the same pattern again: they're friends, they get along, but the moment Thirteen is a broken mess in After Hours, Chase falls all over himself to help and support her. He doesn't let her brush him off, even though she tries; he tells her quite firmly she needs help and keeps offering it and pushing gently until she finally does open up.

But three times is a pattern, and... what do you know, here comes Moira. And it's the same thing. Chase sees she's struggling and wavering, and he immediately commits to trying to fix her, solve all her problems, make her life better and easier. He wants her to open up to him, he wants to support her. It's a messier example, as he's going through his own issues and definitely projecting onto her a bit -- but it's the same pattern. Chase sees a woman struggling, and Chase becomes desperate to help and support and take care of her.

And of course, this echoes with everything else we know about him, too. How he was forced to take care of his mother, and she died anyway. How he feels about his sister (another addict, another failure). Hell, you could even make a case about Chase and Mary the Groundkeeper's wife in this context -- he was lonely, he was struggling; was she lonely and struggling too? Hell, you can even throw in things like Sister Augustine in Damned if You Do -- he makes a big show of disliking her until the minute she gets upset -- or how Chase will and does put aside his antipathy of Foreman to reach out with support at times (House Training, Family). Chase's main method of care is trying to take care and support others, and every love interest he is serious about (I am counting Thirteen, as even though they did not get together they were very much set up as romantic), he treats in this same way.

Day 277: car

Their direct neighbour is The guy who froze the entire country, whom they knew was coming well in advance, and these people 1) didnt run away and 2) are so used to this at this point that they just casually make sarcastic comments about their impending doom. Go on their little business like normal. Plan a party for the end of the world.

Theres the argument that this is their home and they have nowhere else to go. Theres the argument that perhaps the curse had already spread too much. Still, I want to believe most people fled and the ones remaining are the odd ones. The stubborn ones.

In my mind, the people who stayed in Dormont are the "goes out to look at tornadoes when the siren rings instead of taking shelter" kind of people.

This is a list of prompts (similar to Arcadiatober) that you can engage with in any way! The goal is to spread some activity in the lead up and past Khionis 5 and 6.

Sorry the announcement for this is so late, we came up with the idea literally two days ago.