Keepin' it Whimsical - Fighting the Yuri Shortage

This is a secondary blog I created to post original works (and some fanfiction) including written work, comics, animations, and just art in general.

Profile drawn by me. Background found here.

@semisentient-entity is my main but it's just reblog hell really.

I'm an adult so keep that in mind.

RULES:

Don't be a jackass

Don't repost my art. Reblogs are appreciated!

Original Works:

Sharpshooter - Angel and Demon shenanigans

Wanderlust - Alien and Human shenanigans

No Strings On Me - Paranormal shenangans

The Night Shift - Sci fi dystopian future shenanigans

Rogue Gallery - Superhero/villain shenanigans

Some random eldritch diana (mostly) stuff I hadn't posted :p

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hey guess what it's movie night ;w;

um!! what! kind of video games would the sharpshooterlings (or any of your ocs reallly) play. if they would / had the time / etc etc

unrelated: put them in a coffee shop au perhaps... ponder this......

YOU'RE GOOD DON'T WORRY THE REQUEST WAS NOT MANDATORY!!

Character hobbies and interests are the bane of my existence uhm uhh

Tabbris: I feel like he'd enjoy puzzle games. I'm thinking Harbomania bc why not. Also cozy games. Get that man playing Wanderstop- actually he'd probably start crying o_0

Viktor: Ironically enough he might like first-person shooters. Or anything fast-paced really.

Martina: She would like story-driven games but I can also see her playing Minecraft or something for hours whenever she gets off work.

Penelope: Horror games just cuz. Girl's playing Look Outside because I said so

The Secretary: Tetris

also☝️I am pondering the coffee shop au... EXTRA YAPPING YIPPEE

Tabbris is a tired, underpaid barista trying to sell coffee and shitty pastries and go home. As soon as his shift ends that customer service facade immediately becomes a huge grimace regardless of who's looking.

Viktor is going around doing odd jobs, coming into the coffee shop daily. He always orders a different item off the menu until he's tried everything. He claims to come in for job-searching/working on his resume/whatever but most of the time he's talking with Tabbris and getting yelled at by the manager for distracting staff.

Martina is either Tabbris' coworker or working at a competing coffee shop down the street. She also gets scolded for flirting with Tabbris and Viktor, and being "unprofessional" overall.

Alternatively, Marty could be a local doctor who's forced to work extra hours and sometimes ditches her shift to go to the coffee shop.

Penelope is still a nerdy 16 year old who does her homework at the shop. And occasionally breaks in at night to steal shitty pastries. Tabbris cuts the security footage. I can see them sitting in the back just eating stuff that wasn't sold and complaining about life.

Penelope's whole friend group is pretty much the same as is canon. They still go on ghost hunts. Just without any real demons this time. Helena and Eddie aren't breaking into the coffee shop but Penelope does bring them stolen food when she can.

The Secretary is in charge of security. They see all this shit go down and are not paid enough to care.

Elliot Whitman isn't his given name. His old one(s?) have been long forgotten.

He was human. He still kind of is. But he's been tangled up in the paranormal for so long it's hard to tell where the entity ends and he begins.

Maybe he was scared when it all started. When he felt his personhood slipping away. Pieces of his mind being ripped away. When he found a way to stop it, at least briefly. Maybe he felt guilty before he forgot about that too.

Maybe, MAYBE he's given enough that his condition is stable enough for now. That he can stop. For now.

It's selfish, he knows, to be doing this over and over again. But it's lasted him this long, and there's no one to mourn.

What about hobbies? I feel like Avery tried crochet and quickly realized they can’t count (canon event I fear)

oh shit worldbuilding my arch nemesis °m°

Some of the eldritch ba that happens later could count as vices ig. If we're drawing from TMA logic. Haven't given much thought to hobbies but I can try.

Judith probably smokes. Idk she gives that vibe to me. And chugs black coffee like it's water. Maybe before everything went to shit she liked singing karaoke. Totally not because of the phm karaoke scene noooo >_>

Not really a vice but Mariana is lactose intolerant and powers through it anyway bc she's stubborn like that.

Mari also works out. Less so now that she's worrying about Plot, but she's still pretty strong. Not body builder level but def has a sleeper build.

I'm making Aubrey's inability to count canon now that's hilarious. Can't knit, can't crochet, can't sew, nothing. Just a mess of string and yarn and misery.

Dante is a freelance photographer but he also does it for fun. Mostly random landscapes and animals or whatever he finds interesting. He did the photos for Mari and Claire's wedding too.

Claire plays both violin and piano. She used to be a dancer before she developed problems with her leg. Though she still likes dancing now.

Percy's over here having reluctant adrenaline rushes bc these fuckin entities won't leave him alone. Maybe he drinks to take the edge off sometimes.

Nathaniel definitely smokes. Probably drinks too. Maybe he's really good at crochet just because. It's harder now that he lost an arm and got a bunch of mobility issues, but he's persistent.

Judith is largely inspired by Gertrude yes, but also a little bit of Elias/Jonah which comes in much later in story

She is studying all of these eldritch entities to try and keep them at bay. She lost a lot of things in the process, especially much of herself, but she's an "ends justify the means" kinda person.

She has a cold and unsettling demeanor most of the time and doesn't have a lot of friends anymore, but she does have happy moments from time to time. I don't have a specific answer for the last time but she gets very happy to see Nathaniel again once she shows up.

Also 👆 she has blown things up and committed arson at some point I just need to give her an excuse to do it.

Um. Kinda spoilery yap sesh while I still have wifi.

When she was younger she used to be a field researcher of some sort and used to work closely with Elliot. They were also joined by Nathaniel and another friend. Kind of like a little group of weirdos interested in the paranormal.

Judith was unlucky enough to be chosen as the eldritch eyeball god thing's new plaything, and the group scrambles to find a way to free her. Elliot a bit less so, since he's more focused on his own eldritch stuff, but Judith's condition is inconvenient for him.

Elliot ends up sacrificing that aforementioned Other Friend to his memory-eating entity. Shit goes down and Judith sets aside the idea of being free and instead tries to use her new connection to recover her friend.

However, the group keeps getting dragged into more and more paranormal nonsense, and Judith doesn't know nearly enough to properly deal with it. So she ends up in a downward spiral as she wrangles with Elliot's betrayal, Nathaniel's disappearance, and the loss of a friend she's quickly forgetting.

She fails. She takes too long and is left with no memory of her friend. It was like They were never there to begin with. The worst thing is, she feels nothing for Them. No sadness, no anger, no grief. Just frantic notes and scribbles in a desperate attempt to hold onto Them. She doesn't dare get rid of those.

She KNOWS They're gone, and she feels nothing for Them, and she hates it.

She's sick of living at the whim of whoever/whatever is pulling the strings.

She dedicates her life to learning as much as she can about these entities. Sacrifices had to be made, but she's lost everything anyway, what's a bit more?

The library thing is mostly a facade. An excuse to be alone with her work while also serving as a source of information for those who need it. Not many people come to her since, again, her cold and unsettling demeanor, but I don't see her as heartless. A jaded recluse, yes, but not heartless. Which is why she takes Aubrey under her wing, and why she helps the other characters with their situations.

After being fed to an eldritch horror she absolutely has some degree of thalassophobia/limnophobia/whatever. If No Strings on Me ever had a beach episode she'd probably hate it.

I also had the evil idea of her only taking cold showers because the steam from hot ones reminds her of the fog from the lake.

As I've said before, Mari and Aubrey are both in a "serve this entity or die" situation. Early on after being brought back, Mari does feel the entity trying to pull her back, but it gradually just. Lessens. And I can't say WHY yet because I wanna keep it a surprise :} I can say that she's not aware that she's doing it until a little later, then gets better at doing it deliberately. (though not without guilt)

Once she's recovered some of her memories and adjusts a bit more, she starts trying really hard to be who she was before. Unfortunately this doesn't work well because neither she nor anyone else remembers her past self enough for reference. That doesn't stop her from trying.

Going back to the guilt thing. Mari is the catalyst for a lot of other paranormal bullshit happening to her friends and family. Aubrey with the eyeball god thing, Dante losing his grasp on reality, Claire struggling to maintain control of her life (<- all of those are a whole other yap session that will reveal that NSOM is basically a knockoff version of TMA.) Mari is very much aware of this and hates it.

Unrelated note -- wink wink nudge nudge -- Mariana is definitely the type to try and sacrifice herself to try and help her loved ones, but the time where that might have worked has long since past.

My goal with writing Mari is to have her sort of haunt the narrative despite being right there.

I'm having a lot of fun exploring her relationships with the other characters. Not just her family but also people she met after the human sacrifice thing.

There is of course an inherent strain on her relationships with Claire and Dante because they KNOW each other, but they don't know each other. Mari does try to be her old self for their comfort, which again doesn't work very well. I can also see a few arguments starting over this. They're worried about Mari's well being, they want that familiarity, they miss her so much, they barely remember her.

On top of that there's the fear that she's not even Mariana at all. That she's some impersonator toying with their minds and emotions. This applies more with her and Dante, especially with his side of the eldritch bs (that I still need to work on). Both say and do things they regret during this time :))))

Explaining the eldritch entity stuff would be a lot easier if I actually listed the names I gave them, but doing that would reveal just how much NSOM is a knockoff version of TMA.

Her relationship with Elliot is less complicated for now since she literally just hates him. He was her boss and they weren't quite friends but she did have a level of respect for him, then he goes and leaves her to die.

Mari and Judith bond over their hatred of Elliot. They do kind of become friends the more they meet and Judith helps out with the aforementioned eldritch bullshit. Judith's side of things is yet another yap session that I will do eventually. maybe.

Percival deserves to have some infodumping too bc I've been neglecting him. He was originally just gonna be Gideon Gleeful 2.0 with his friendship turning into obsession, but I got bored with that plotline, so now he and Mari and Doomed Friends™. Mari found him refreshing because he never knew her past self so she has no expectations to live up to. Mayyyybe Percy still catches feelings for her but if so, I'd keep him a lot more chill about it. Regardless, they are both dealing with different entities but neither of they don't talk about it until later on. I'm still working on that part but they're prob gonna be doomed by the narrative.

Mari and Aubrey do have a similar relationship as Mari and Percy, given that Aubrey didn't know Mari for long before she disappeared. Their relationship gets more strained when Aubrey's paranormal stuff kicks in more.