#Getting them enrolled as marines would have been literally the only way to ensure and convince the Government they were ''safe''

[moongothic]

Hey so what are your thoughts on the theory that Dragon might actually the biological son of Xebec? I think it's pretty interesting to think about considering the implications it has (depending on what ends up being canon).

For example, if Crocodad is real and Dragon is Xebec's son, that would imply that Garp's biological child is... Crocodile.

Also, I think it works well with the idea that Roger knew Garp would protect his child... because he saw him do that exact thing during the God Valley incident for the son of Xebec. Another child born from a man deemed an extreme by the World Government.

It's an interesting idea but the only reason people keep on suggesting that theory is just that the really vague silhouette of Xebec we have seen kinda vaguely resembles Dragon on the hair-department (and people want Xebec to connect to some other character somehow somewhere, thus we have also have people ALSO suggesting Xebec is related to (or straight up just is) Croc, Buggy, Blackbeard and god knows who else)

And I just personally don't buy it.

Main thing is that Garp has made it explicitly clear that Dragon is his child, his very own son, multiple times (and as recently as in the brief Aokiji flashback where he complains about his son becoming a revolutionary).

The other thing is that Garp and Dragon look alike

Finding good panels to do comparisons is a bit hard, and the art can fluctuate a little bit (especially the hairlines for both characters) and when the characters aren't even doing the same expression it messes with the proportions a bit But generally speaking, they have similarly shaped hairlines and the same nose-shape. Hair texture too though it's less obvious since Garp has gone gray;; I would make a comparison to Young Garp but his nose is a different shape, but that just makes Young Garp look resemble Luffy so much more

Of course, I wouldn't put too much money on similar faces meaning things due to Oda's Same Face Syndrome, but really the only major differences between how Dragon and Garp look are Dragon's lack of eyebrows (or if he has eyebrows they're just really thin compared to Garp's bushier ones) and more hooded brows in general. In my mind, they look more alike than different and that very specific nose-shape alone says a lot

So I personally no doubt about Garp and Dragon being related, just as I have no doubt Garp and Luffy are related (and thus, by extension, Luffy and Dragon too)

It's also the fact that I see no point in Oda telling us who Luffy's dad is THROUGH GARP if they're not actually related, AND SO MANY YEARS AGO. Like, it'd just feel like a pointless lie, an absolutely useless plot-twist because like, while it would tell us a bit more about Garp, it wouldn't do anything to change Luffy and Dragon's non-existant relationship with each other, nor Luffy and Garp's. Like it'd be a twist for the sake of having a twist, throwing out nearly two decade old lore for what?

And I feel like Crocodad would make that even worse. Because suddenly we'd have to ask many uncomfortable questions about what kind of a relationship Garp has with his transgender pirate son. And if he considders his son-in-law more like his own family than Crocodile... fucking yikes, man. Like Garp is a flawed human being but I don't want to add that to the list of shit he's fucked up. Like despite everything, Garp is still understandable and likable (for me at least) and I just don't want him to get pushed over the edge like that

One last thing is that Dragon would've been 17 at the time of the God Valley incident (and Crocodile was 9). Like sure Garp could've lowkey adopted a 17 year old or just taken him in as a student, but still... He's a bit old to be taken in like that and for Garp to start considdering Dragon his own son

I just don't buy into the theory at all personally

#Moon posting #OP Meta #OP Spoilers #Asks #There's also stuff like Garp Dragon and Luffy all having the same Blood Type (F) #Like yes one could argue that if his child became a pirate then he'd have a reason to why he wanted Ace and Luffy to become marines #But he already had a reason for two to become marines #Both were considdered enemies of the Government for the crime of being born. For carrying ''evil blood'' #Getting them enrolled as marines would have been literally the only way to ensure and convince the Government they were ''safe'' #Garp just wanted to protect the two. He wanted them to be safe. #That's reason enough #Also Dragon being a revolutionary adds spice and personal trauma there already so like. Yeah #I just don't like most Xebec theories tbh #He's just the most overhyped character in my mind right now. Like everyone wants him to be a big deal and I just don't cares dfghjkgh #The concept could make for a good AU fanfic though if nothing else

[tiredvibehours]

[Gonna infodump the heck out of Whisper and all the lore with them so be forewarned under the cut.]

[Seriously, it’s a lot of content]

OG Hale let’s gooooo

Hale-0’s just a normal Golden-Age kid, she’s 14 at the time and headed on her way to the Eventide Colony, her mom’s a Braytech scientist and while she was away working, Hale grew up with her grandma.

She wanted to be a marine biologist when she grew up. “Not really a scientist, but biology’s a science right??”

One of the things that runs in her family is that every girl is named after some variation of “Hayley” so her grandma’s “Heighleigh”, Hale’s mom is “Hailee”, and so forth. It was a sort of solidarity thing at first, but now it’s more of a haha funny joke.

Despite this, Hale introduces herself as “My name’s Hale, like Shale.”

Hale gets enrolled at the small school in Eventide, which isn’t much. It’s literally a classroom with like 30 other kids of varying ages. The only kids her age are the 5 kids who sit in the back of the room.

You know the dropoff scene from Finding Nemo? That’s all six of them during the ‘field trip’ where they dare eachother to get closer to a nearby trench. Like one of the deeper ones. Hale gets pretty close to the edge before a chaperone finds them and they get detention for a week.

Hale actually made an ‘exosona’ based on the exos she’d seen while on Europa- and it looked pretty close to Whisper.

Whether or not that was coincidental or just a weird case of fate is anyone’s guess.

Things are kind of rough with Hale and Hailee. Hale has spent so little time as is with her mom that it’s kinda weird?

Hale remembers her mom and has warmer memories of her, but Hailee hasn’t been there that long recently. Last she had an extensive amount of time with Hale, her daughter was, maybe, five. Now it’s been ten years and Hale’s a teenager who left behind her home, family and friends. Hale’s kinda bitter at the moment.

Yeehaw y’all time for Pre-rezz Exo-Hale

After Hale-0 is turned into an exo, Hale-1 starts to exist, along with all the man-made horrors beyond their comprehension.

Suffice to say, Exo-Hale does not have a good life for the first couple of run-throughs. If it’s not the active experimentation, it’s the crushing isolation. Everytime Hale comes back, they’re curious, trusting, and impressionable, but it’s always to their detriment.

However, interestingly, a deep-seated fear of vex and the clinical design of Braytech’s labs develops in Hale’s psyche, nomatter the amount of resets, regardless if they’ve never seen it in their new iteration’s life.

On top of that, bad things just happen to Exo-Hale for hardly any good reason. They wander constantly, they fall into places and are often hurt. You would think that caution would carry over, but it doesn’t.

Hale-14 shows hardly any growth, and eventually Braytech just huffs, goes “Okay, FINE” and dumps Hale-14 in Eventide as a way of giving them something to do and acclimating the other colonists to the exominds. Braytech promises and ensures that Hale-14 is there for protection, and if any threats were to show up, which they won’t, Hale would be there to protect Eventide’s denizens.

During the vex invasion while evacuating the other colonists, Hale-14 gets badly wounded by a vex goblin’s slap rifle. They get pulled in at the last possible second, and succumb to their wounds shortly after.

Aaaand now we’ve gotten to Whisper’s guardian lore.

Angel, a lone ghost, raises Hale-14 up from the dead, however due to a miscommunication, Hale-14 inherits the name “Whisper-14”

Okay so buckle up cause this is during the events of Beyond Light and things are gonna get a little bumpy.

Whisper is still curious, trusting, and impressionable. And hoo boy, it still does not do them any favors. The first four or five deaths are when they gave the gun or blade back to a House Salvation eliksni dreg/vandal who dropped it upon seeing Whisper.

Whisper has no clue what an exo is. To them, they, themselves, are just a talking robot, a talking robot built by a lonely scientist, and risen in the name of a wandering entity known as the Traveler to protect the remnants of humanity. Makes as much sense as they know, and Angel’s too much of a soft-hearted ghost to tell them otherwise.

While exploring, Whisper stumbles upon Braytech Exoscience, it’s eerie despite the well-lit and non flickering lights. In fact, given the cleanliness and general well upkeep of the facility, Whisper thinks there might be a ship somewhere.

Climbing through the bowels of the facility for a day atleast, Whisper and Angel make their way to a cut off part of the lab, the security AI activates and scans Whisper, calling them an exo and welcoming them home. Whisper’s confused but assumes ‘exo’ is just another word for robot or something, no big deal.

Eventually they find The Giant Exo Head and Angel immediately is like “ohhh no no no we are leaving” but Whisper’s like ‘hey man wake up’ and TURNS THE AI ON.

“Who in the hell do you think you are?”

“That’s what I wanna know!”

Surveying the internal damage Whisper caused while climbing around in his precious compound’s guts, AND the shit the guardians are doing to DSC Clovis AI is pissed and just starts berating Whisper like “You come into MY HOUSE-” and Whisper- not even batting an eye- takes off their helmet and is like “I just want a ship, sowwy” 🥺

Angel steps in and is like “hey man, that’s a fucking baby you’re yelling at”

Clovis AI considers his options and proposes a deal, if Whisper goes around as reconnaissance against the fallen trespassing on his property, he’ll give them a ship. Whisper’s out of options and unaware of them, and Angel’s tied to the hip so she isn’t going anywhere, so they reluctantly agree.

After a month of just- existing and trying to work off Old Man Bray’s ‘debts’ so they can get a ship, Whisper meets Duchess, a human gunslinger, and Sokit, an awoken nightstalker.

Whisper-14 gets their first taste of being in a fireteam and actually has a good time for probably- the actual first time- in the month they’ve been alive.

Yeah this doesn’t fix anything when during a confrontation where Duchess is like “Hey dude, wtf are you doing to this guardian” and Sokit agrees, Angel just about screams in solidarity.

During all this, Sokit mentions the absolute horror of ‘stuffing human minds in a robotic human-shaped corpse’, Clovis goes to dispute her and uses Whisper as an example;

Clovis AI: I saved your friend from a decaying body and blessed them with immortality and possibilities beyond their comprehension

Angel, Duchess and Sokit: No you didn’t! You traumatized a whole ass person, look at them, they have anxiety and escapism tendencies!

Whisper still hasn’t clicked things together and when clarifying that they aren’t a human, Clovis is taken aback and- almost playfully- asks “Well what do you think you are, then?” like he’s teasing one of his granddaughters

Whisper responds, almost too quietly like they just now realize how silly it sounds “A talking robot?”

The AI laughs and Whisper feels sick.

Through threatening to “twine his circuitry like spaghetti” from Duchess and Sokit both, they eventually bully Clovis into telling the fireteam where they can find a working ship so Whisper can leave of their own accord.

A lot happens between here and now, I didn’t mention it earlier but Whisper did make friends with one of the dregs who’s guns Whisper returned.

Riksis, a Salvation dreg, was confused at the way the guardian quickly returned her own gun to her, then watched them skitter back in the same bow given by Captains to well-met opponents.

The way its eyes glimmered like the atmosphere’s of Nessus and stayed concentrated on her, not with malice or violent intent, but pacifism and a wish for no harm. It reminded her of the servitors from her former house.

She didn’t know the two would meet again after joining House of Light during the events of Season of the Splicer

During the endless night, Whisper meets another incarnation of Hale, a future war cult attendant named Hale-15.

Spoiler alert; Hale-15 despises guardians and the light itself, thinking the concept of light is like using a gun in a knife fight, then acting like you’re so high and mighty for using a gun.

She’s super tough on Whisper, constantly teasing them and egging them into acting of their own accord. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it’s just the part of leaving Angel behind that Whisper’s taken aback by.

Things kinda come to a head when Hale-15 tries to fucking kill Angel and convince Whisper to fuck off out of Sol because “let’s be real, this shit sucks, humanity’s literally begging to get annhilated, your god is dead, and you’re not even strong enough to protect, wtf are you even gonna do??”

Whisper denies Hale-15’s invitation, and while Hale fucks off into the unknown, Whisper’s left clutching Angel, wondering “what next?”

Suffice to say, again, the damage is done and this time instead of hopping into Vangard or guardian affairs, Whisper takes a solid 6 month absence just to learn how to cope.

But anyways, ding-dong, surprise!

The trauma from Whisper realizing they were an actual person with feelings and an actual identity that could’ve morphed into a real piece of shit come rearing back full force with Season of the Haunted, and Whisper’s faced with Nightmare of Hale-0 (yeah, remember her?)

Electric 2 boogaloo, Hale-0 is an asshole like Hale-15, but is more like “you’re not gonna get any better and you know it. You’re losing the game, and you’re not even a player.” and just generally eating away at any confidence Whisper has.

Somehow, someway, Whisper gets their closure with Hale-0, pulling the nightmare into an embrace and agreeing that Whisper isn’t a strong guardian yet, but promises that they’ll grow into that guardian, and grow up for the both of them.

After that, up until the end of the season, Whisper and Hale’s memory are like two peas in a pod, with Hale making jokes to keep Whisper’s spirits up.

Season of Plunder, Whisper reunites with Riksis and the two go stealing relics together. Things seem pretty good for the time being.

Season of Seraph is where things go sideways, Duchess and Sokit are in the know-how with Ana and her deal with the Warmind, Whisper kinda is too, but not to the extent where they bring Clovis to the Last City for his help

Angel begs them not to let Whisper find out, but things don’t go quite the way she plans, and Whisper finds out anyway.

In a strange turn of events, Whisper actually volunteers to help with the warmind, believing they’ve made growth- and also wanting to rub it in the old bastard’s face

Clovis even gets their goat and dangles the carrot stick of their OG memories and database, linking back to Hale-0’s original mind-core back in Infinity on Europa, all they have to do is find it.

“Guardian. Welcome to my private channel. :)”

Scouring through the guts of a now open-house Braytech Exoscience, Whisper stumbles into the former office of Clovis and out of some benign curiosity finds something of great interest.

Remember Hailee? Hale-0’s mom?? Yeah turns out she’s the lovechild of a certain scientist and nobody notified Hale. Apparently.

After a nasty spat with Clovis’, Angel puts her metaphorical foot down and tells Whisper that they’re both forfeiting their aid, but just to really dig salt in the wound, Clovis gives Whisper the memory bank, anyways.

It goes about as bad as you imagine, with Whisper being struck violently by the traumas they experienced in many previous lives.

It brings to the forefront this deep-seated anxiety Whisper had where they had this belief that if they could escape their exobody, they’d escape the influence of the very people who hurt them.

Except not really! Because it turns out that meat-body or not, their blood runs deep with the sins of their predecessors, whether they like it or not.

Suffice to say, Whisper is not okay after this, especially with the Traveler beginning to leave

For a brief second they think “o-oh okay, the Traveler’s moving away from the city so the debris doesn’t crush us”, as some flimsy rationale for the impossible.

So season of the defiant comes into play, Whisper (and Angel too) are disillusioned but still clinging to some kind of hope

Definitely more TBA because Whisper is a little blorbo and I’m not done developing them

#Destiny 2 #destiny oc #oc: Whisper-14 #gonna put them on a microwave dish on display and spin them at full speed

[dino-writes]

In depth bio

Simon and Perla Ruiz had two boys in their small home in East LA.  They never planned to have more, and even though they were both devout Catholics, they did take precautions to ensure their boys were the only children in their lives.  Well, you can imagine the shock and surprise when Perla found out she was pregnant again.  They’d be careful and cautious, yet here she was--growing their third baby.  They were relieved when they found out he was a boy, glad that they could just stick him in the second bedroom with his brothers and not have to worry about moving to a bigger home.

The name Oscar was decided on early, but it was when he was born that Perla decided she should name her baby after the surprise miracle from God that he was.  Oscar Jésus just didn’t have the right ring to it, and so he was instead christened Oscar Maria Ruiz.  

Oscar grew up in East LA, and a lot of his childhood was spent trying to be close to his brothers.  However, the severe age gap between them meant that they really didn’t want their little brother hanging around them, snitching on shit they got into or getting in trouble himself.  He’d turn to his mami frequently for affirmation, and she would remind him how special he was, and that he had many friends his own age he could spend time with.

He was twelve at the time of his confirmation, taking the name Pablo.

As he got older, Oscar started to get pulled into trouble with people he considered friends.  He’d never been involved in gang activity himself, but he skirted on the edges of the life, and knew plenty of boys growing up who were involved and had dreams of moving up the barrio 18 ranks.  In middle school, he was already sneaking off to smoke weed with friends after school; he’d been encouraged to shoplift from a local convenience store, and had seen plenty of his friends caught and sent off to juvi schools, and a couple more get gunned down by police.  

It was when he was a junior that he had his epiphany that maybe his friends weren’t that great.  He’d been hanging out with his friend Jaime all night, smoking and playing video games when they decided to go to 7/11 for snacks and slushies.  It was innocent enough up until they left and Jaime noticed a car parked just at the edge of the lot.  He busted the window; Oscar protested; he started rifling through the glove compartment and under the seats; Oscar protested but kept lookout.  Only good thing Jaime could find to take was a gun, and just as a man was walking out of the store, the boys took off running.  The rest of the night was spending talking about how bad ass that was and debating how much they could sell the gun for. 

Three days later, Oscar found out Jaime had been shot while walking home from school.   The event shook him, especially as paranoia and selfish self-preservation set in.  That could have been me, he repeated over and over.  He was almost certain it was whoever’s car they’d broken into that gunned him down, but the details were never confirmed. 

As the end of the school year came up, the administration brought in recruitment officers who told the kids how great the military was, what you could do in it, and how you could be a better you and have a better future.  

Oscar was weak, and still scared after Jaime’s death that joining the military sounded like the best idea he’d ever heard.  He didn’t tell friends or family, but that summer he go in touch with local recruitment officers from the Navy, Marines, and Army to discuss the details of enlistment and what to expect further. 

He was persuaded into joining the NJROTC during his senior year of high school as opposed to committing to the NROTC right off the bat.  A week after his 18th birthday, he walked back in to the recruitment office to enlist.  He went with the standard contract: 4 years active, 4 years inactive; starting DEP.  The recruitment officer talked with him for a while, going over what tracks he may be interested in once he graduated basic.  Oscar talked about how he’d always had an interest in the ocean life, conservation efforts, and had wanted to work in the aquarium since he was little. 

The officer gave him some ideas to look into that would get him technical and hands on skills that may aid him in those fields.  

That fall, Oscar started at USC.  He majored in Marine Biology and minored in Computer Science, and he made it one semester before his DEP was up and he was deployed to San Diego for basic training that January.  He graduated in March and was sent to Chicago for Electrician Technicians Apprentice training and came back that summer for on-shore duty.  

He enrolled at UCSD and NCPACE to continue his degree while apprenticing in navigation and oceanography  

When the 2004 tsunami hit, Oscar was one of many seamen put into action the following January for a relief tour to the Philippines and Indonesia.  Though he wasn’t on the Mercy, he worked on a ship nearby that partnered with her.  He had the opportunity to see all the doctors and medical officers in action--treating the wounded, curing the ill, and even checking on the seemingly healthy.  It was a whirlwind that changed his complete view of the Navy and what he wanted to do with his life.

He wanted to help people. 

As soon as he got back, Oscar changed his major from Marine Biology to Pre-Med.  Thankfully, since they were both science-based majors, it didn’t put him behind too much.  Though that December he was sent back to Chicago for his A levels in ET-NAV.   He got back just in time to be assigned to the Mercy for her first Pacific Partnership run.  Though he still didn’t have any involvement with the medical operations aboard, Oscar didn’t waste any time asking about it, what it was like to be a doctor, did they love it?  Was he making the right choice? 

This was his last off-shore assignment.  When the Mercy returned to San Diego, Oscar finished what was left of his active duty on-shore.  With all the delays from ET-NAV training and off-shore duty, it took him an additional year to complete his undergrad degree once he went on IRR.  He took two, very full semesters and an entire summer of courses.  He worked his ass off.  But it was worth it.  With his degree and MCATs under his belt, Oscar moved on to UCSD’s med school.  

Without active duty pulling him every which way, he was able to focus, and he was able to graduate in a much more timely manner without over-stressing himself like he did his final undergrad year. 

When it came to residencies, Oscar didn’t match to the Navy.  Yes, it made him incredibly sad.  He was actually hoping to be aboard more Pacific Partnership missions where he could actually be of some help.  But he did match back home, and after being away for so long (other than the occasional short visit before he went back to San Diego), Oscar was glad to be back.  

He truly did miss his friends and his family--especially his ma.  

And some of his friends would joke about how the navy changed him.  Oscar didn’t think so.  He thought it just brought out the better qualities he’d always had; and gave him the confidence not to hide them--like how smart he was, or how caring about people and wanting to help wasn’t weak.  The navy gave him a direction in life that he never knew he was destined for until confronted with it.

Oscar is currently still a general surgery resident, but his favorite rotation has always been trauma/ER.  He loves the adrenaline, the pressure, and thrives in that environment.  He also loves knowing that someone could be so close to death, and there are skilled people out there who can bring them back.  Oscar wants to be one of those people.  He plans to get a trauma fellowship once his residency is completed.  His least favorite rotation, that he’ll often lament over with friends, is pediatrics.  Seeing sick kids who are so scared about the idea of surgery literally shatters his heart every time.  He could never do it as a full career.

Among friends, he often talks about going back into the Navy.  But he’s more interested in disaster relief than actual warfare, so he also brings up Doctors Without Borders from time to time.  He never discusses these possibilities with coworkers though.  Oscar doesn’t want to jeopardize getting that fellowship at all.  

#development #ch: oscar ruiz